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    mm, x86/mm: Untangle address space layout definitions from basic pgtable type definitions · 186525bd
    Ingo Molnar authored
    
    
    - Untangle the somewhat incestous way of how VMALLOC_START is used all across the
      kernel, but is, on x86, defined deep inside one of the lowest level page table headers.
      It doesn't help that vmalloc.h only includes a single asm header:
    
         #include <asm/page.h>           /* pgprot_t */
    
      So there was no existing cross-arch way to decouple address layout
      definitions from page.h details. I used this:
    
       #ifndef VMALLOC_START
       # include <asm/vmalloc.h>
       #endif
    
      This way every architecture that wants to simplify page.h can do so.
    
    - Also on x86 we had a couple of LDT related inline functions that used
      the late-stage address space layout positions - but these could be
      uninlined without real trouble - the end result is cleaner this way as
      well.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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