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SubjectRe: [RFC] [PATCH] virtual memmap on sparsemem v3 [1/4] map and unmap
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006 16:28:19 -0800
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

> Generally we prefer to simply *require* that the function vector be filled
> in appropriately. So if the caller has no special needs, the caller will
> set their gen_map_kern_ops.k_pte_alloc to point at pte_alloc_kernel().
>
> erk, pte_alloc_kernel() is a macro. As is pmd_alloc(), etc. Well, let
> that be a lesson to us. What a mess.
>
> I suppose we could go through and convert them all to inlines and then the
> compiler will generate an out-of-line copy for us. Better would be to turn
> these things into regular, out-of-line C functions.
>
> What a mess.
>

Thank you for review. I'll remove this default action.

-Kame

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