Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [RFC, PATCH 4/4] Add support to OProfile for profiling Cell BE SPUs -- update

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:53:50 +1100

> > +/* 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.

Cheers,
Ben.