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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] page table iterators
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 03:30:31PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 00:03:42 +0100
> Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
>
> > And to be honest we only have about 6 or 7 of these walkers
> > in the whole kernel. And 90% of them are in memory.c
> > While doing 4level I think I changed all of them around several
> > times and it wasn't that big an issue. So it's not that we
> > have a big pressing problem here...
>
> It's super error prone. A regression added by your edit of these

Actually it was in Nick's code (PUD layer ;-). But I won't argue
that my code didn't have bugs too...

> walkers for the 4level changes was only discovered and fixed
> yesterday by the ppc folks.
>
> I absolutely support any change which consolidates these things.

The problem is just that these walker macros when they
do all the lazy walking stuff will be quite complicated.
And I don't really want another uaccess.h-like macro mess.

Yes currently they look simple, but that will change.

Open coding is probably the smaller evil.

And they're really not changed that often.

-Andi
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