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Re: UVM typedef struct



On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 05:43:58PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>> I think that there're many benefits by making struct vm_page opaque.
>> Its content is touched from ~everywhere including filesystem layers,
>> which violates abstraction.  I'd propose to make vm_page_t opaque and
>> make users to always use accessor routines.
>
> I would like to see NetBSD do that with ~all of its data structures.

Making data structures opaque is a completely different issue from
creating an unnecessary and misleading layer of magic aliased names
for them.

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David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost


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