[PATCH] powerpc/mm: Always use STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Thu Apr 21 16:36:02 AEST 2016


On Thu, 2016-04-21 at 14:15 +1000, Balbir Singh wrote:
> 
> On 21/04/16 13:37, Michael Ellerman wrote:

> > Testing done by Paul Mackerras has shown that with a modern compiler
> > there is no negative effect on code generation from enabling
> > STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS.
> > 
> > So remove the option, and always use the strict type definitions.
> > 
> 
> Should we wait for Aneesh's patches before merging this in.

Preferably not.

I've already rebased his patches on top of this, it's trivial, it's just
removing code.

It also makes some things we might want to do as part of his series easier
(like adding a raw accessor to get the __be64 pmd/pte val).

cheers



More information about the Linuxppc-dev mailing list