[RFC 6/9] powerpc/hugetlb: Enable ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB for BOOK3S 64K

Anshuman Khandual khandual at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Mar 10 16:12:07 AEDT 2016


On 03/10/2016 01:28 AM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Anshuman Khandual <khandual at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> 
>> > [ text/plain ]
>> > This enables ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB for BOOK3S 64K in Kconfig.
>> > It also implements a new function 'pte_huge' which is required by
>> > function 'huge_pte_alloc' from generic VM. Existing BOOK3S 64K
>> > specific functions 'huge_pte_alloc' and 'huge_pte_offset' (which
>> > are no longer required) are removed with this change.
>> >
> You want this to be the last patch isn't it ? And you are mixing too

Yeah, it should be the last one.

> many things in this patch. Why not do this
> 
> * book3s specific hash pte routines
> * book3s add conditional based on GENERAL_HUGETLB
> * Enable GENERAL_HUGETLB for 64k page size config

which creates three separate patches ?




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