Re: [PATCH, RESEND] asm-generic, mm: pgtable: consolidate zero page helpers

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On Fri, 7 Dec 2012, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:

> From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> We have two different implementation of is_zero_pfn() and
> my_zero_pfn() helpers: for architectures with and without zero page
> coloring.
> 
> Let's consolidate them in <asm-generic/pgtable.h>.
> 

What's the benefit from doing this other than generalizing some per-arch 
code?  It simply adds on more layer of redirection to try to find the 
implementation that matters for the architecture you're hacking on.


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