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From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Kunwu Chan <chentao@kylinos.cn>,
	npiggin@gmail.com, christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu,
	aneesh.kumar@kernel.org, naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/mm: Code cleanup for __hash_page_thp
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 17:07:36 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87jzmq5tjr.fsf@mail.lhotse> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f3b53f0e-58ce-4b2d-ba91-f347da73f9f3@kylinos.cn>

Kunwu Chan <chentao@kylinos.cn> writes:
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> On 2024/2/26 18:49, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> Kunwu Chan <chentao@kylinos.cn> writes:
>>> This part was commented from commit 6d492ecc6489
>>> ("powerpc/THP: Add code to handle HPTE faults for hugepages")
>>> in about 11 years before.
>>>
>>> If there are no plans to enable this part code in the future,
>>> we can remove this dead code.
>> 
>> I agree the code can go. But I'd like it to be replaced with a comment
>> explaining what the dead code was trying to say.

> Thanks, i'll update a new patch with the following comment:
>      /*
>      * No CPU has hugepages but lacks no execute, so we
>      * don't need to worry about cpu no CPU_FTR_COHERENT_ICACHE feature case
>      */

Maybe wait until we can get some input from Aneesh. I'm not sure the
code/comment are really up to date.

cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-27  6:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-01-25  9:26 [PATCH] powerpc/mm: Code cleanup for __hash_page_thp Kunwu Chan
2024-02-26 10:49 ` Michael Ellerman
2024-02-27  3:14   ` Kunwu Chan
2024-02-27  6:07     ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2024-02-27  9:32       ` Kunwu Chan
2024-02-29  3:52       ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2024-02-29  6:18         ` Michael Ellerman
2024-02-29  9:28           ` Kunwu Chan

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