From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: x86_{phys,virt}_bits field also for i386 (v3)
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:25:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48D28EF7.4080504@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48D29554.76E4.0078.0@novell.com>
Jan Beulich wrote:
>>
>> There is no reason for this to be #ifdef'd; but it should be conditional
>> on this information not being otherwise available (which will always be
>> the case on 64 bits), I would assume. If we are setting a value there,
>> we should presumably also set 32 in the other case.
>
> It does get set to 32 first (and only for 32-bits - 64bits didn't set any
> default so far, so I didn't want to make it to now), and the code fragment
> above updates that default after feature flags have been obtained, but
> before other capabilities (including the phys/virt bit widths) are being
> gathered.
>
Set the default on 64 bits as well. It's cleaner to not leave a
pointless #ifdef in there.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-18 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-18 7:13 Jan Beulich
2008-09-18 7:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-18 9:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-18 9:31 ` Jan Beulich
2008-09-18 9:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-18 11:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-18 11:58 ` Jan Beulich
2008-09-18 12:29 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-18 18:00 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-18 18:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-19 8:32 ` Jan Beulich
2008-09-19 21:46 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-09-19 23:32 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-18 15:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-09-18 15:52 ` Jan Beulich
2008-09-18 17:25 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-09-18 7:52 ` Yinghai Lu
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-09-05 12:07 [PATCH] x86: x86_{phys,virt}_bits field also for i386 (v2) Jan Beulich
2008-09-05 15:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-08 10:50 ` Jan Beulich
2008-09-08 13:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-08 18:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-09 7:43 ` [PATCH] x86: x86_{phys,virt}_bits field also for i386 (v3) Jan Beulich
2008-09-09 7:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-09 7:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-09 8:15 ` Jan Beulich
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