On Fri, 3 Jul 2015 14:46:05 +0200 Dominik Dingel <din...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Heiko noticed that the current check for hugepage support on s390 is a little > bit to > harsh as systems which do not support will crash. > The reason is that pageblock_order can now get negative when we set > HPAGE_SHIFT to 0. > To avoid all this and to avoid opening another can of worms with enabling > HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE I think it would be best to simply allow > architectures to > define their own hugepages_supported(). > > Thanks > Dominik > > Dominik Dingel (4): > Revert "s390/mm: change HPAGE_SHIFT type to int" > Revert "s390/mm: make hugepages_supported a boot time decision" > mm: hugetlb: allow hugepages_supported to be architecture specific > s390/hugetlb: add hugepages_supported define > > arch/s390/include/asm/hugetlb.h | 1 + > arch/s390/include/asm/page.h | 8 ++++---- > arch/s390/kernel/setup.c | 2 -- > arch/s390/mm/pgtable.c | 2 -- > include/linux/hugetlb.h | 17 ++++++++--------- > 5 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) To have an architecture override for hugepages_supported is imho the cleaner approach compared to the HPAGE_SHIFT tricks. I would have preferred to use a __weak function but the #ifndef solution is fine with me as well. Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidef...@de.ibm.com> -- blue skies, Martin. "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
