Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267939AbUJON7m (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:59:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267776AbUJON6F (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:58:05 -0400 Received: from run.smurf.noris.de ([192.109.102.41]:664 "EHLO server.smurf.noris.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267904AbUJONzr (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:55:47 -0400 From: "Matthias Urlichs" Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:55:21 +0200 To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel Cc: Andrew Grover , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 4level page tables for Linux II Message-ID: <20041015135520.GA25999@kiste> References: <1097638599.2673.9668.camel@cube> <20041013092221.471f7232.ak@suse.de> <20041015132823.GA26048@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041015132823.GA26048@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i X-Smurf-Spam-Score: -2.8 (--) X-Smurf-Whitelist: +relay_from_hosts Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1390 Lines: 45 --7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, J=F6rn Engel: > Please don't. Current names may be odd, but at least they are > sufficiently different from one another. 4 names that only differ in > a single number are an invitation for typos, thinkos and similar > confusion. >=20 Right now, so are the existing names: you have to remember which is which. Levels numbered 1..4 are much simpler: you only have to remember that the actual pages are level zero. The solution of your typo problem is typechecking in the compiler; presumably it'll warn me if I try to store a pgd3 pointer in a pgd2 entry. --=20 Matthias Urlichs | {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de | smurf@smurf.noris.de --7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBb9bI8+hUANcKr/kRAjPnAJ4njfs2YJPasvJrsLOW2uGrCmltLwCeM1bB d+ToU7VlRDDQXAKYleFXNDg= =RALR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7JfCtLOvnd9MIVvH-- - 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/