Re: [PATCH 15/35] x86: make 64 bit use early_res instead of bootmem before slab

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On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:37:04 -0800
Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 02/09/2010 12:26 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:32:26 -0800
> > Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> >> +u64 __init find_early_area(u64 ei_start, u64 ei_last, u64 start, u64 end,
> >> +			 u64 size, u64 align)
> >> +{
> >> +	u64 addr, last;
> >> +
> >> +	addr = round_up(ei_start, align);
> > 
> > Can we use include/linux/log2.h:roundup_pow_of_two() in this patchset?
> 
> no, that is not what we want.
> 
> 
> /**
>  * roundup_pow_of_two - round the given value up to nearest power of two
>  * @n - parameter
>  *
>  * round the given value up to the nearest power of two
>  * - the result is undefined when n == 0
>  * - this can be used to initialise global variables from constant data
>  */
> #define roundup_pow_of_two(n)                   \
> (                                               \
>         __builtin_constant_p(n) ? (             \
>                 (n == 1) ? 1 :                  \
>                 (1UL << (ilog2((n) - 1) + 1))   \
>                                    ) :          \
>         __roundup_pow_of_two(n)                 \
>  )
> 

err, crap, yeah.

It would be nice to fix all this up, and get the private round_up()
stuff out of x86 and into kernel.h.

The present naming scheme is ghastly:

ALIGN
DIV_ROUND_UP
roundup
round_up
round_down

Where round_up and ALIGN are kinda maybe the same.


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