From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Bill Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 18:18:12 +0000
Subject: Re: libhugetlbfs and sparc64 support
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On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 10:58:04PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> This patch below seems to improve the situation for me
> on my SunBlade1500, let me know if you can get farther
> on your Ultra60.
> This points out a big pet-peeve I have with all of
> these hugetlb page table interfaces, every single
> platform has the HPAGE_MASK the address parameter,
> and missing that is how I keep getting burnt with
> hugetlb bugs on sparc64.
> I really think the callers should be doing this.

Now you're fixing my hugetlb bugs, too. Thank you so much.

I'll get my sparc64 hardware situation fixed up in a bit.


-- wli