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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
	John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
	Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>,
	Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>,
	"Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 06/12] mm/gup: Drop folio_fast_pin_allowed() in hugepd processing
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 23:21:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZV79jpaeiiN2tGm/@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZV4co7wcI-_wK91F@x1n>

On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 10:22:11AM -0500, Peter Xu wrote:
> The other reason I feel like hugepd may or may not be further developed for
> new features like large folio is that I saw Power9 started to shift to
> radix pgtables, and afaics hugepd is only supported in hash tables
> (hugepd_ok()).  But again, I confess I know nothing about Power at all.

That alone sounds like a good reason to not bother.  So unless more
qualified people have a different opinion I'm fine with this patch
as long as you leave a comment in place, and ammend the commit message
with some of the very useful information from your mail.



  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-23  7:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-16  1:28 [PATCH RFC 00/12] mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, part 2 Peter Xu
2023-11-16  1:28 ` [PATCH RFC 01/12] mm/hugetlb: Export hugetlbfs_pagecache_present() Peter Xu
2023-11-23  7:23   ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-23 16:05     ` Peter Xu
2023-11-16  1:28 ` [PATCH RFC 02/12] mm: Provide generic pmd_thp_or_huge() Peter Xu
2023-11-16  1:28 ` [PATCH RFC 03/12] mm: Export HPAGE_PXD_* macros even if !THP Peter Xu
2023-11-23  7:23   ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-23  9:53     ` Mike Rapoport
2023-11-23 15:27       ` Peter Xu
2023-11-16  1:29 ` [PATCH RFC 04/12] mm: Introduce vma_pgtable_walk_{begin|end}() Peter Xu
2023-11-23  7:24   ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-23 16:11     ` Peter Xu
2023-11-24  4:02   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2023-11-24 15:34     ` Peter Xu
2023-11-16  1:29 ` [PATCH RFC 05/12] mm/gup: Fix follow_devmap_p[mu]d() to return even if NULL Peter Xu
2023-11-23  7:25   ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-23 17:59     ` Peter Xu
2023-11-16  1:29 ` [PATCH RFC 06/12] mm/gup: Drop folio_fast_pin_allowed() in hugepd processing Peter Xu
2023-11-20  8:26   ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-21 15:59     ` Peter Xu
2023-11-22  8:00       ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-22 15:22         ` Peter Xu
2023-11-23  7:21           ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2023-11-23 16:10             ` Peter Xu
2023-11-23 18:22           ` Christophe Leroy
2023-11-23 19:37             ` Peter Xu
2023-11-24  5:28               ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2023-11-24  7:03               ` Christophe Leroy
2023-11-24  1:06           ` Michael Ellerman
2023-11-23 15:47         ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-11-23 17:22           ` Peter Xu
2023-11-23 19:11             ` Ryan Roberts
2023-11-23 19:46               ` Peter Xu
2023-11-24  9:06                 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-11-24 16:07                   ` Peter Xu
2023-11-30 21:30                     ` Peter Xu
2023-12-03 13:33                       ` Christophe Leroy
2023-12-04 11:11                         ` Ryan Roberts
2023-12-04 11:25                           ` Christophe Leroy
2023-12-04 11:46                             ` Ryan Roberts
2023-12-04 11:57                               ` Christophe Leroy
2023-12-04 12:02                                 ` Ryan Roberts
2023-12-04 16:48                           ` Peter Xu
2023-11-16  1:29 ` [PATCH RFC 07/12] mm/gup: Refactor record_subpages() to find 1st small page Peter Xu
2023-11-16 14:51   ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-11-16 19:40     ` Peter Xu
2023-11-16 19:41       ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-11-16  1:29 ` [PATCH RFC 08/12] mm/gup: Handle hugetlb for no_page_table() Peter Xu
2023-11-23  7:26   ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-16  1:29 ` [PATCH RFC 09/12] mm/gup: Handle huge pud for follow_pud_mask() Peter Xu
2023-11-23  7:28   ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-23 16:19     ` Peter Xu
2023-11-16  1:29 ` [PATCH RFC 10/12] mm/gup: Handle huge pmd for follow_pmd_mask() Peter Xu
2023-11-16  1:29 ` [PATCH RFC 11/12] mm/gup: Handle hugepd for follow_page() Peter Xu
2023-11-16  1:29 ` [PATCH RFC 12/12] mm/gup: Merge hugetlb into generic mm code Peter Xu
2023-11-23  7:29   ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-11-23 16:21     ` Peter Xu
2023-11-22 14:51 ` [PATCH RFC 00/12] mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, part 2 Jason Gunthorpe

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