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Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:44:27 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/35] x86: make 64 bit use early_res instead of bootmem
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On 02/09/2010 02:33 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> err, crap, yeah.
> 
> It would be nice to fix all this up, and get the private round_up()
> stuff out of x86 and into kernel.h.
> 
> The present naming scheme is ghastly:
> 
> ALIGN
> DIV_ROUND_UP
> roundup
> round_up
> round_down
> 
> Where round_up and ALIGN are kinda maybe the same.
> 

Yes indeed.  It seems to be something for a separate patchset, though,
since it will touch stuff across a lot of code.

	-hpa

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