[PATCH v4 00/11] hugetlb: Factorize hugetlb architecture primitives

Alexandre Ghiti alex at ghiti.fr
Wed Jul 25 17:38:57 AEST 2018


Hi Paul,

Thanks for having tested it, I remove mips from my list.

Thanks again,

Alex


On 07/25/2018 02:34 AM, Paul Burton wrote:
> Hi Alexandre,
>
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 11:07:05AM +0000, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
>> In order to reduce copy/paste of functions across architectures and then
>> make riscv hugetlb port (and future ports) simpler and smaller, this
>> patchset intends to factorize the numerous hugetlb primitives that are
>> defined across all the architectures.
>>
>> Except for prepare_hugepage_range, this patchset moves the versions that
>> are just pass-through to standard pte primitives into
>> asm-generic/hugetlb.h by using the same #ifdef semantic that can be
>> found in asm-generic/pgtable.h, i.e. __HAVE_ARCH_***.
>>
>> s390 architecture has not been tackled in this serie since it does not
>> use asm-generic/hugetlb.h at all.
>> powerpc could be factorized a bit more (cf huge_ptep_set_wrprotect).
>>
>> This patchset has been compiled on x86 only.
> For MIPS these look good - I don't see any issues & they pass a build
> test (using cavium_octeon_defconfig which enables huge pages), so:
>
>      Acked-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton at mips.com> # MIPS parts
>
> Thanks,
>      Paul



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