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Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 06:48:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@au1.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 3.10-rc ppc64 corrupts usermem when swapping
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On Thu, 30 May 2013, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 13:57 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > +               /* FIXME!!, will fail with when we enable hugepage
> > support */
> 
> Just fix that to say "Transparent huge pages" as normal huge pages
> should work fine unless I'm missing something.
> 
> Hugh, any chance you can give that a spin ? 

Sure, it's now under way.  If all goes well, I'll give you a
progress report in about 15 hours time; but given the variance in
how long it took to hit, I won't feel fully confident until this
time tomorrow, when I'll update you again.

Thank you both for the great response!

Hugh