Re: [PATCH 1/7] Introduce the pagetable_operations and associatedhelper macros.

From: Adam Litke
Date: Mon Feb 19 2007 - 14:31:48 EST


On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 19:41 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 10:31 -0800, Adam Litke wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > include/linux/mm.h | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> > index 2d2c08d..a2fa66d 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> > @@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ struct vm_area_struct {
> >
> > /* Function pointers to deal with this struct. */
> > struct vm_operations_struct * vm_ops;
> > + struct pagetable_operations_struct * pagetable_ops;
> >
>
> please make it at least const, those things have no business ever being
> written to right? And by making them const the compiler helps catch
> that, and as bonus the data gets moved to rodata so that it won't share
> cachelines with anything that gets dirty

Yep I agree. Changed.

--
Adam Litke - (agl at us.ibm.com)
IBM Linux Technology Center

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