Re: [PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM

[Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>]

On 05/23/2017 09:02 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 02:11:49PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Mon, 22 May 2017 16:47:42 +0530 Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>
>>> There are many places where we define size either left shifting integers
>>> or multiplying 1024s without any generic definition to fall back on. But
>>> there are couples of (powerpc and lz4) attempts to define these standard
>>> memory sizes. Lets move these definitions to core VM to make sure that
>>> all new usage come from these definitions eventually standardizing it
>>> across all places.
>>
>> Grep further - there are many more definitions and some may now
>> generate warnings.
>>
>> Newly including mm.h for these things seems a bit heavyweight.  I can't
>> immediately think of a more appropriate place.  Maybe printk.h or
>> kernel.h.
> 
> IFF we do these kernel.h is the right place.  And please also add the
> MiB & co variants for the binary versions right next to the decimal
> ones.

Those defined in the patch are binary, not decimal. Do we even need
decimal ones?

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