Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:03:28 -0300
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
       linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PPC64] Remove LARGE_PAGE_SHIFT constant
Message-ID: <20040917170328.GB2179@logos.cnet>
References: <20040917011320.GA6523@zax>
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On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 11:13:20AM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> Andrew, please apply:
> 
> For historical reasons, ppc64 has ended up with two #defines for the
> size of a large (16M) page: LARGE_PAGE_SHIFT and HPAGE_SHIFT.  This
> patch removes LARGE_PAGE_SHIFT in favour of the more widely used
> HPAGE_SHIFT.

Nitpicking, "LARGE_PAGE_xxx" is used by x86/x86_64:

#define LARGE_PAGE_MASK (~(LARGE_PAGE_SIZE-1))
#define LARGE_PAGE_SIZE (1UL << PMD_SHIFT)

Wouldnt it be nice to keep consistency between archs?
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