Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 16:46:26 +0100
From: Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This one breaks all archs but i386 and alpha. If some arch maintainer likes me
to update its arch blindly implementing mm_arch structure as an `unsigned long
context' and fixing up the miscompilation I will do.
Can you name the mm_struct member "context" still instead of
"mm_arch"? Because many ports will simply:
typedef unsigned long mm_arch_t;
Then all the code changes will make the accesses look less
meaningful. Consider:
if (CTX_VALID(mm->mm_arch))
whereas before the code said:
if (CTX_VALID(mm->context))
which tells the reader lot more. In fact, retaining the "context" member
name allows most ports to operate with only one change, creating
the asm/mm_arch.h header. You can in fact do this for all ports
which care about MMU tlb contexts (a simple grep such as
egrep -e "m->context" `find . -type f -name "*.[ch]"`
will show you which ports care).
Later,
David S. Miller
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