[PATCH v2 0/6] mm/hugetlb: Fix commandline parsing behavior for invalid hugepagesize

Vaishali Thakkar vaishali.thakkar at oracle.com
Thu Mar 24 03:01:39 AEDT 2016



On Wednesday 23 March 2016 07:00 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 23-03-16 17:37:18, Vaishali Thakkar wrote:
>> Current code fails to ignore the 'hugepages=' parameters when unsupported
>> hugepagesize is specified. With this patchset, introduce new architecture
>> independent routine hugetlb_bad_size to handle such command line options.
>> And then call it in architecture specific code.
>>
>> Changes since v1:
>> 	- Separated different architecture specific changes in different
>> 	  patches
>> 	- CC'ed all arch maintainers
> The hugetlb parameters parsing is a bit mess but this at least makes it
> behave more consistently. Feel free to add to all patches
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko at suse.com>
>
> On a side note. I have received patches with broken threading - the
> follow up patches are not in the single thread under this cover email.
> I thought this was the default behavior of git send-email but maybe your
> (older) version doesn't do that. --thread option would enforce that
> (with --no-chain-reply-to) or you can set it up in the git config. IMHO
> it is always better to have the patchset in the single email thread.
>
Yes, now I have set up my git config for that. Hopefully, things will
work properly - patchset in a single thread from the next time.

Thanks.

-- 
Vaishali



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