Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268035AbUJOBzX (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:55:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268101AbUJOBzX (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:55:23 -0400 Received: from mproxy.gmail.com ([216.239.56.247]:26696 "EHLO mproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268035AbUJOBzV (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:55:21 -0400 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:55:20 -0700 From: Andrew Grover Reply-To: Andrew Grover To: Matthias Urlichs Subject: Re: 4level page tables for Linux II Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <1097638599.2673.9668.camel@cube> <20041013092221.471f7232.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 992 Lines: 28 On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:57:24 +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > And when you cannot remember the few names for the level you > > better shouldn't touch VM at all. > > Disagree. Rather strongly in fact. > > It's probably OK if you already know the stuff and have been hacking > Linux' mm for years already, but if you try to learn how things work by > actually looking at the code..? > > Just number them. Let pd1 point to pages, pd2 to pd1 entries, and so on. > (Level zero is the actual pages.) I happen to agree, but surely this can be addressed at our leisure, after pml4 is in. Maybe a good task for the kernel janitors, if we all agree more sensible names are desirable. Regards -- Andy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/