Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Mar 2007 20:24:04 +0100 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/20] x86_64: Assembly safe page.h and pgtable.h |
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On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:29:20PM +0530, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > > This patch makes pgtable.h and page.h safe to include > in assembly files like head.S. Allowing us to use > symbolic constants instead of hard coded numbers when > refering to the page tables. > > This patch copies asm-sparc64/const.h to asm-x86_64 to > get a definition of _AC() a very convinient macro that > allows us to force the type when we are compiling the > code in C and to drop all of the type information when > we are using the constant in assembly. Should this file not live in asm-generic and be useable for all architectures?
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