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

From Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM
Date 2017-05-22 23:20 +0200
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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.

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[PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-05-22 13:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2017-05-22 23:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-05-23 09:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> - 2017-05-23 10:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-05-23 10:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-05-23 13:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-05-24 08:50 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-05-24 16:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2017-05-23 13:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2017-05-23 08:50 +0200

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