From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Ray Bryant <raybry@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>,
"Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>,
"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, anton@samba.org,
sds@epoch.ncsc.mil, ak@suse.de, lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: HUGETLB commit handling.
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 17:51:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040408175126.GA72736@colin2.muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40758A74.3040107@sgi.com>
> The other problem we are wrestling with is how to do the ia386 and ia64
> lazy allocation code without breaking the architectures that haven't yet
> switched to lazy allocation. There will probbaly be some
>
> #define ARCH_USES_HUGETLB_PREFAULT
>
> nonsense added to deal with the latter, if needed.
In my patch I just used weak functions: use a dummy weak function
in the high level code and overwrite from the architecture specific
code as needed. This avoids all the ifdefs.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-08 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2004-04-08 17:05 ` HUGETLB commit handling Andi Kleen
2004-04-08 17:23 ` Ray Bryant
2004-04-08 17:51 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-04-08 16:35 Andy Whitcroft
2004-04-08 21:58 ` Seth, Rohit
2004-04-08 22:47 ` Andrew Morton
2004-04-13 10:20 ` Andy Whitcroft
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