[patch 1/1] powerpc: hugetlb pgtable cache access cleanup

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Thu Oct 30 13:03:43 EST 2008


akpm at linux-foundation.org writes:

> From: Jon Tollefson <kniht at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> Cleaned up use of macro.  We now reference the pgtable_cache array
> directly instead of using a macro.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jon Tollefson <kniht at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin at yahoo.com.au>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>

As David Gibson noted, the patch description fails to tell us why this
is a good thing to do (and it isn't immediately obvious to me why it
would be good to make this change).  Jon, please resubmit with a
description that includes the motivation for the change.

Paul.



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