* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think this pretty clearly points out the need for some arch-generic
> infrastructure in Linux. An awful lot of arch hooks are for one or
> two architectures with some peculiarities, and the other 90% of the
> implementations are identical.
>
> For example, this is 22 repetitions of
> #define MIN_KERNEL_STACK_FOOTPRINT L1_CACHE_BYTES
>
> with one different case.
this just primes all the architectures so that they build. Every
architecture should then adjust these parameters. Also, since the
patches are not final yet i didnt try to widen them too much.
> It would be awfully nice if there was a standard way to provide a
> default implementation that was automatically picked up by any
> architecture that didn't explicitly override it.
that used to be the ARCH_HAS_* flags & macros - but these days we prefer
clean inline functions defined per arch, no ifdefs.
If there is something that is truly shared between all arches then an
asm-generic/*.h file can be generated for it, and included from most
arches. I dont think the changes i did will necessiate that.
Ingo
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