Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 55/68] powerpc/mm: VMALLOC abstraction

From: Balbir Singh <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 16:20:43 +1000

On 23/04/16 13:29, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Michael Neuling <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>> Aneesh,
>>
>> I'm not sure why we need this patch.
>>
>> It seems to be moving the initialisation of some global variables into
>> init functions from the definitions.  And renames some things.
> 
> 
> because the value to which it is getting initialized is no more a
> constant.
> 

Isn't it still a constant depending on the type of page table? Or is it a run time value depending on the chosen page table type?

Balbir Singh