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From: "Burakov, Anatoly" <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mem: Fix anonymous mapping on Power9.
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 10:49:10 +0000
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On 14-Nov-18 8:40 PM, David Wilder wrote:
> Removed the use of MAP_HUGETLB for anonymous mapping on ppc64.  The
> MAP_HUGETLB had previously been added to workaround issues on IBM Power8
> systems when mapping /dev/zero (see: commit
> 284ae3e9ff9a92575c28c858efd2c85c8de6d440).  In the current code the
> MAP_HUGETLB flag will cause the anonymous mapping to fail on Power9.
> Note, Power8 is currently failing to correctly mmap Hugepages, with and
> without this change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Pradeep Satyanarayana <pradeep@us.ibm.com>
> ---

Can't test it (obviously), but LGTM

Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>

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Thanks,
Anatoly