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From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] prepare to remove /proc/sys/vm/hugepages_treat_as_movable
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 00:02:30 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k3k7q4ox.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1374728103-17468-9-git-send-email-n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>

Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> writes:

> Now hugepages are definitely movable. So allocating hugepages from
> ZONE_MOVABLE is natural and we have no reason to keep this parameter.
> In order to allow userspace to prepare for the removal, let's leave
> this sysctl handler as noop for a while.

I guess you still need to handle architectures for which pmd_huge is

int pmd_huge(pmd_t pmd)
{
	return 0;
}

embedded powerpc is one. They don't store pte information at the PMD
level. Instead pmd contains a pointer to hugepage directory which
contain huge pte.

-aneesh

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-30 18:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-25  4:54 [PATCH v4 0/8] extend hugepage migration Naoya Horiguchi
2013-07-25  4:54 ` [PATCH 1/8] migrate: make core migration code aware of hugepage Naoya Horiguchi
2013-07-25  6:06   ` Hillf Danton
2013-07-30 18:28   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-07-30 18:48     ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-07-25  4:54 ` [PATCH 2/8] soft-offline: use migrate_pages() instead of migrate_huge_page() Naoya Horiguchi
2013-07-25  6:09   ` Hillf Danton
2013-07-25  4:54 ` [PATCH 3/8] migrate: add hugepage migration code to migrate_pages() Naoya Horiguchi
2013-07-25  6:17   ` Hillf Danton
2013-07-25  4:54 ` [PATCH 4/8] migrate: add hugepage migration code to move_pages() Naoya Horiguchi
2013-07-25  4:55 ` [PATCH 5/8] mbind: add hugepage migration code to mbind() Naoya Horiguchi
2013-07-25  6:33   ` Hillf Danton
2013-07-25  4:55 ` [PATCH 6/8] migrate: remove VM_HUGETLB from vma flag check in vma_migratable() Naoya Horiguchi
2013-07-25  4:55 ` [PATCH 7/8] memory-hotplug: enable memory hotplug to handle hugepage Naoya Horiguchi
2013-07-25  4:55 ` [PATCH 8/8] prepare to remove /proc/sys/vm/hugepages_treat_as_movable Naoya Horiguchi
2013-07-30 18:32   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2013-07-31 20:24     ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-08-01  5:59       ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-08-02  2:43         ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-08-06  1:52           ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-08-06  4:30             ` Naoya Horiguchi
2013-08-05 20:27       ` [PATCH 9/8] hugetlb: add pmd_huge_support() to migrate only pmd-based hugepage Naoya Horiguchi
2013-08-06  1:56         ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-08-06  4:48           ` Naoya Horiguchi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-07-18 21:34 [PATCH v3 0/8] extend hugepage migration Naoya Horiguchi
2013-07-18 21:34 ` [PATCH 8/8] prepare to remove /proc/sys/vm/hugepages_treat_as_movable Naoya Horiguchi
2013-07-24  3:46   ` Wanpeng Li
2013-07-24  3:46   ` Wanpeng Li

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