[Devel] [PATCH 6/6] BC: kernel memory accounting (marks)

Kirill Korotaev dev at sw.ru
Tue Aug 29 07:37:17 PDT 2006


Dave Hansen wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 15:08 +0400, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> 
>> include/asm-i386/thread_info.h   |    4 ++--
>> include/asm-ia64/pgalloc.h       |   24 +++++++++++++++++-------
>> include/asm-x86_64/pgalloc.h     |   12 ++++++++----
>> include/asm-x86_64/thread_info.h |    5 +++-- 
> 
> 
> Do you think we need to cover a few more architectures before
> considering merging this, or should we just fix them up as we need them?
I think doing a part of job is usually bad as it never gets fixed fully then :/

> I'm working on a patch to unify as many of the alloc_thread_info()
> functions as I can.  That should at least give you one place to modify
> and track the thread_info allocations.  I've only compiled for x86_64
> and i386, but I'm working on more.  A preliminary version is attached.
Oh, I think such code unification is nice!
Would be perferct if all of them could be merged to some generic
function. Please, keep me on CC!

Thanks,
Kirill




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