Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | Re: x86: cleanup - rename VM_MASK to X86_VM_MASK | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:17:56 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 18:56 +0000, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=6b6891f9c545ccd45d6d8ddfd33ce27c22c271a7 > Commit: 6b6891f9c545ccd45d6d8ddfd33ce27c22c271a7 > Parent: 6093015db2bd9e70cf20cdd23be1a50733baafdd > Author: gorcunov@gmail.com <gorcunov@gmail.com> > AuthorDate: Fri Mar 28 17:56:57 2008 +0300 > Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> > CommitDate: Thu Apr 17 17:41:33 2008 +0200 > > x86: cleanup - rename VM_MASK to X86_VM_MASK > > This patch renames VM_MASK to X86_VM_MASK (which > in turn defined as alias to X86_EFLAGS_VM) to better > distinguish from virtual memory flags. We can't just > use X86_EFLAGS_VM instead because it is also used > for conditional compilation > > Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> --- a/include/asm-x86/vm86.h > +++ b/include/asm-x86/vm86.h > @@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ > #define IOPL_MASK 0x00003000 > #define NT_MASK 0x00004000 > #ifdef CONFIG_VM86 > -#define VM_MASK 0x00020000 > +#define X86_VM_MASK X86_EFLAGS_VM > #else > -#define VM_MASK 0 /* ignored */ > +#define X86_VM_MASK 0 /* No VM86 support */ > #endif > #define AC_MASK 0x00040000 > #define VIF_MASK 0x00080000 /* virtual interrupt flag */
This is user-visible. Yet we're changing the name and also making it depend on #ifdef CONFIG_VM86, which is not going to be set in userspace. Perhaps it should be within #ifdef __KERNEL__?
-- dwmw2
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