From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: yanok@emcraft.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
prodyuth@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] powerpc: allow 256kB pages with SHMEM
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:58:07 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0904100945270.2593@blonde.anvils> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090409163403.e82ec1c3.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 22:01:15 +0100 (BST)
> Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:
>
> > Now that shmem's divisions by zero and SHMEM_MAX_BYTES are fixed,
> > let powerpc 256kB pages coexist with CONFIG_SHMEM again.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
> > ---
> > Added linuxppc-dev and some other Cc's for this 3/3: sorry
> > if you didn't see 1/3 and 2/3, they were just in mm/shmem.c.
>
> Do we think these patches should be in 2.6.30?
I think so - 2.6.30 will have the rest of Yuri's 256kB page support.
But it would be nice to have an Ack from Yuri before sending these
on through. 2/3 is a bugfix justified even without 256kB pages -
I should have inverted the ordering.
Hugh
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[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.64.0904062151250.21044@blonde.anvils>
2009-04-06 21:01 ` [PATCH 3/3] powerpc: allow 256kB pages with SHMEM Hugh Dickins
2009-04-07 3:28 ` Paul Mackerras
2009-04-07 6:10 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-04-09 23:34 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-10 8:58 ` Hugh Dickins [this message]
2009-04-16 16:50 ` Ilya Yanok
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