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Date:      Fri, 26 Dec 2014 11:53:43 +0000
From:      Andrew Turner <andrew@fubar.geek.nz>
To:        Rui Paulo <rpaulo@me.com>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r276187 - head/sys/arm/arm
Message-ID:  <20141226115343.7abbd2d4@bender>
In-Reply-To: <9F69A6CD-D352-4A91-97F6-B3E1FF638211@me.com>
References:  <201412241712.sBOHCqvW039381@svn.freebsd.org> <20141224222637.03a19e57@bender> <1419460812.1018.157.camel@freebsd.org> <8E8B7FE3-0C97-4A84-BC1D-1C5A0E732D0C@me.com> <1419471084.1018.160.camel@freebsd.org> <9F69A6CD-D352-4A91-97F6-B3E1FF638211@me.com>

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On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 18:05:47 -0800
Rui Paulo <rpaulo@me.com> wrote:

> On Dec 24, 2014, at 17:31, Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > In every architecture and every place it's used, or just arm just
> > here?
> 
> You're right, it can be found at least in MIPS and amd64.
> 
> > This appears to be an idiom, or at least something that has been
> > pasted in identical form in every arch so far.
> 
> The idiom is a bit different in amd64: the variable in the for-loop
> isn't immediately reused, but it's a global variable anyway...
> That's what I thought deserves a comment.

I agree we should add a comment here. It's non-obvious the functions
will return the same value across multiple calls.
 
> Regarding the pmap_kenter_temporary(), the first problem is the
> function name: it might be a temporary mapping, but the real use is
> for crash dumps (I wonder why ACPI abuses this mapping).  The other
> problem is the fact that a pmap function is so tied to crash dumps.
> However, that's a bigger problem.

Yes, this functions looks like it needs to be reworked a little but I
would have to think about it first.

Andrew



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