From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from extu-mxob-2.symantec.com (extu-mxob-2.symantec.com [216.10.194.135]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "extu-mxob-2.symantec.com", Issuer "VeriSign Trust Network" (verified OK)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 29548DE1A7 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:07:49 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:58:07 +0100 (BST) From: Hugh Dickins To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] powerpc: allow 256kB pages with SHMEM In-Reply-To: <20090409163403.e82ec1c3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <20090409163403.e82ec1c3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: yanok@emcraft.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras , prodyuth@gmail.com List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 22:01:15 +0100 (BST) > Hugh Dickins 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 > > --- > > 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