On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 14:36 -0700, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > Zachary Amsden wrote:
> >   
> >> Yes, I don't know either - but we should be consistent about their
> >> export regardless of whether PAE is selected or not.  So we should
> >> either have 5 arg macros or not export set_pte_at* at all, even in 4
> >> arg version.
> >>     
> >
> > So can you separately control exportability independently from patchability?
> >   
> 
> Nope.  But I think we should maintain parity between PAE and non-PAE - 
> and probably also maintain parity between non-paravirt-ops and 
> paravirt-ops, which means the 5 arg macros are a good idea.  It's not 
> like they are very hard to create or maintain.

Less exports good.  Consistency with all config options isn't a hard
requirement: I'd be tempted not to export the pte functions.

Rusty.


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