Re: [PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM

From: Anshuman Khandual
Date: Tue May 23 2017 - 07:14:42 EST


On 05/23/2017 02:41 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 22 May 2017 16:47:42 +0530 Anshuman Khandual <khandual@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> There are many places where we define size either left shifting integers
>> or multiplying 1024s without any generic definition to fall back on. But
>> there are couples of (powerpc and lz4) attempts to define these standard
>> memory sizes. Lets move these definitions to core VM to make sure that
>> all new usage come from these definitions eventually standardizing it
>> across all places.
> Grep further - there are many more definitions and some may now
> generate warnings.

Yeah, warning reports started coming in. Will try to change
all of those to follow the new definitions added.