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

From Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] mm: Define KB, MB, GB, TB in core VM
Date 2017-05-23 13:20 +0200
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On 05/23/2017 02:41 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, warning reports started coming in. Will try to change
all of those to follow the new definitions added.

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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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