[PPC64] Remove LARGE_PAGE_SHIFT constant

Marcelo Tosatti marcelo.tosatti at cyclades.com
Sat Sep 18 03:03:28 EST 2004


On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 11:13:20AM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> Andrew, please apply:
> 
> For historical reasons, ppc64 has ended up with two #defines for the
> size of a large (16M) page: LARGE_PAGE_SHIFT and HPAGE_SHIFT.  This
> patch removes LARGE_PAGE_SHIFT in favour of the more widely used
> HPAGE_SHIFT.

Nitpicking, "LARGE_PAGE_xxx" is used by x86/x86_64:

#define LARGE_PAGE_MASK (~(LARGE_PAGE_SIZE-1))
#define LARGE_PAGE_SIZE (1UL << PMD_SHIFT)

Wouldnt it be nice to keep consistency between archs?



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