On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 06:53:50PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> > > +/* Defines used for sync_start */
> > > +#define SKIP_GENERIC_SYNC 0
> > > +#define SYNC_START_ERROR -1
> > > +#define DO_GENERIC_SYNC 1
> > > +
> > > +typedef struct vma_map
> > > +{
> > > + struct vma_map *next;
> > > + unsigned int vma;
> > > + unsigned int size;
> > > + unsigned int offset;
> > > + unsigned int guard_ptr;
> > > + unsigned int guard_val;
> > > +} vma_map_t;
>
> I haven't had time to look in details yet but in that context, what does
> "vma" stands for ? There's already an important vm data structure in
> linux routinely called "vma" and thus I suspect this is a poor naming
> choice as it will cause confusion.
It looks like it actually is dealing with vma to me. But then again:
- please don't use typedefs for structures
- there might be a more descriptive name for this than just vma_map
-
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