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Date:      Thu, 30 Jul 1998 18:33:38 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, luoqi@chen.ml.org
Subject:   Re: using vm_page.h in userland program
Message-ID:  <199807300833.SAA05989@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>Recent change (addition of cache coloring) to vm/vm_page.h has made it
>impossible to use this header file in a userland program. It tries to
>include "opt_vmpage.h" unconditionally. IMO, "opt_vmpage.h" should only
>be included when KERNEL is defined. Would someone please make the change?

Cache coloring isn't recent, but new-style options for it are recent.
The options should not have been made new-style, since including options
headers in other headers doesn't work well.  Of course, old-style options
in headers don't work well either - there is no way to tell if the
ifdefed options in the header were actually used.

I looked at moving the options to vm_page.c.  IIRC, the only problem
was that a couple of extern arrays have size depending on the options.
Perhaps these arrays can be declared without a size.

The cache coloring options should be dynamic anyway.  I have tried a few
different values on various machines but didn't notice much difference
and didn't have time to do careful comparisons.

Bruce

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