Re: x86: cleanup - rename VM_MASK to X86_VM_MASK

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Wed Apr 23 2008 - 00:18:54 EST


On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 6:17 AM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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@xxxxxxxxx <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxx>
> > AuthorDate: Fri Mar 28 17:56:57 2008 +0300
> > Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> > 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@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
>
>
> > --- 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
>
>

Thanks David, will check it today evening (i'm in office now)
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