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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] x86: Change get_max_mapped() to inline
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:42:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D1BC77C.3040205@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=NU1UM3N6bbPSqqS+7UbvTY6YDNyn2s4tKURMY@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/29/2010 03:37 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> or could just use unsigned long instead.
> 
> on 32bit it will be under 4g
> on 64bit unsigned long  is 64bit already.
> 

This is true, although it seems fragile -- the whole terminology and the
differences between 32 and 64 bits are just a huge headache.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-29 23:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-18  0:58 [PATCH 0/3] memblock related top down Yinghai Lu
2010-12-28  0:47 ` [PATCH 0/6] memblock related further cleanup for x86 Yinghai Lu
     [not found] ` <4D19320B.7030007@kernel.org>
2010-12-28  0:47   ` [PATCH 1/6] x86: Change get_max_mapped() to inline Yinghai Lu
2010-12-29 23:05     ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-12-29 23:30       ` Yinghai Lu
2010-12-29 23:37         ` Yinghai Lu
2010-12-29 23:42           ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-12-29 23:45     ` [PATCH -v2 " Yinghai Lu
2011-02-16  8:50     ` [tip:x86/mm] " tip-bot for Yinghai Lu
2010-12-28  0:48   ` [PATCH 2/6] x86, 64bit, numa: Allocate memnodemap under max_pfn_mapped Yinghai Lu
2011-02-16  8:50     ` [tip:x86/mm] x86-64, " tip-bot for Yinghai Lu
2010-12-28  0:48   ` [PATCH 3/6] x86, 64bit, numa: Put pgtable to local node memory Yinghai Lu
2010-12-29 23:46     ` [PATCH -v2 " Yinghai Lu
2010-12-29 23:50       ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-12-30  0:11         ` Yinghai Lu
2010-12-30  0:39           ` David Rientjes
2010-12-30  0:58             ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-12-30  1:07               ` David Rientjes
2010-12-30  1:53                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-12-30  9:06                   ` Ingo Molnar
2010-12-30 10:28                     ` [boot crash] " Ingo Molnar
2010-12-30 10:30                       ` Ingo Molnar
2010-12-30 12:01                         ` [build failure] " Ingo Molnar
2010-12-30 18:53                           ` David Rientjes
2010-12-30 18:54                             ` [patch] x86, numa: Fix CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS without NUMA emulation David Rientjes
2011-01-06 20:39                               ` David Rientjes
2011-01-06 21:25                                 ` Yinghai Lu
2011-01-06 23:58                                   ` David Rientjes
2011-01-07 15:32                               ` [tip:x86/numa] " tip-bot for David Rientjes
2010-12-30 21:18                         ` [boot crash] Re: [PATCH -v2 3/6] x86, 64bit, numa: Put pgtable to local node memory Yinghai Lu
     [not found]                           ` <AANLkTimpyRXS9dNFATh4GqtA46uynutAvK7Qb5S7WPFO@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]                             ` <20110105134434.GA22816@elte.hu>
2011-01-05 21:24                               ` Yinghai Lu
2011-01-07 20:41                               ` [PATCH] memblock: Don't adjust size in memblock_find_base() Yinghai Lu
2011-01-10  5:56                                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2011-01-10  6:59                                   ` Yinghai Lu
2011-01-12  1:35                                   ` Yinghai Lu
2011-01-29  0:37                               ` [PATCH - resend] " Yinghai Lu
2011-02-03 20:25                                 ` Andrew Morton
2011-02-03 20:37                                   ` Yinghai Lu
2011-02-16  8:51     ` [tip:x86/mm] x86-64, numa: Put pgtable to local node memory tip-bot for Yinghai Lu
2010-12-28  0:48   ` [PATCH 4/6] x86: Use early pre-allocated page table buffer top-down Yinghai Lu
2010-12-28  0:48   ` [PATCH 5/6] x86, 64bit: Move out cleanup higmap [_brk_end, _end) out of init_memory_mapping() Yinghai Lu
2011-02-16  8:51     ` [tip:x86/mm] x86-64: " tip-bot for Yinghai Lu
2010-12-28  0:48   ` [PATCH 6/6] x86: Rename e820_table_* to pgt_buf_* Yinghai Lu
2010-12-30 21:54     ` [PATCH -v2 " Yinghai Lu
2010-12-28 20:21 ` [PATCH 0/3] memblock related top down H. Peter Anvin
2010-12-28 21:36   ` Yinghai Lu
2010-12-28 22:09     ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-12-28 22:25       ` Yinghai Lu

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