[PATCH v3 2/4] hugetlbfs: move hugepagesz= parsing to arch independent code

Mike Kravetz mike.kravetz at oracle.com
Tue Apr 28 06:31:06 AEST 2020


On 4/27/20 1:18 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:09:47 -0700 Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> Previously, a check for hugepages_supported was added before processing
>> hugetlb command line parameters.  On some architectures such as powerpc,
>> hugepages_supported() is not set to true until after command line
>> processing.  Therefore, no hugetlb command line parameters would be
>> accepted.
>>
>> Remove the additional checks for hugepages_supported.  In hugetlb_init,
>> print a warning if !hugepages_supported and command line parameters were
>> specified.
> 
> This applies to [4/4] instead of fixing [2/4].  I guess you'll
> straighten that out in v4?

Yes.

> btw, was
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CADYN=9Koefrq9H1Y82Q8nMNbeyN4tzhEfvDu5u=sVFjFZCYorA@mail.gmail.com
> addressed?

Yes, you pulled a patch into your tree to address this.
hugetlbfs-remove-hugetlb_add_hstate-warning-for-existing-hstate-fix.patch

I'll send out a v4 with both these issues addressed.  Would like to wait
until receiving confirmation from someone who can test on powerpc.
-- 
Mike Kravetz


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