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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

  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-08 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1IKJu-Zn-29@gated-at.bofh.it>
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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