Re: [PATCH -mm] clean up duplicated alloc/free_thread_info

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On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 8:02 AM, FUJITA Tomonori
<fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is there a reason we duplicate alloc/free_thread_info defines on many
> platforms?

No. The patch looks good.

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 8:02 AM, FUJITA Tomonori
<fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Note:
>
> - I don't like __HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR name much. I chose
> that name just because we define __HAVE_ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR in
> the same place.
>
> - frv, m32r, mips, mn10300, and sh uses kmalloc/kfree instead of
> __get_free_pages/free_pages. I let them alone but it could remove more
> code if __get_free_pages/free_pages works for them.

Yeah, I too have wondered why some architectures use kmalloc() whereas
others use the page allocator. Is THREAD_SIZE significantly smaller
than PAGE_SIZE for those?
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