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From: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: npiggin@suse.de
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, pj@sgi.com,
	andi@firstfloor.org, kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [patch 01/17] hugetlb: modular state
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:51:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1208811084.11866.10.camel@skynet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080410171100.425293000@nick.local0.net>


On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 03:02 +1000, npiggin@suse.de wrote:

<snip>

> Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ extern int sysctl_hugetlb_shm_group;
> 
>  /* arch callbacks */
> 
> -pte_t *huge_pte_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr);
> +pte_t *huge_pte_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, int sz);

<snip>

The sz here needs to be a long to handle sizes such as 16G on powerpc.

There are other places in hugetlb.c where the size also needs to be a
long, but this one affects the arch code too since it is public.

Jon
Tollefson



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-21 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080410170232.015351000@nick.local0.net>
     [not found] ` <20080410171101.395469000@nick.local0.net>
2008-04-10 17:33   ` [patch 10/17] mm: fix bootmem alignment Yinghai Lu
2008-04-10 17:39     ` Nick Piggin
2008-04-11 11:58     ` Nick Piggin
2008-04-10 23:59 ` [patch 00/17] multi size, and giant hugetlb page support, 1GB hugetlb for x86 Nish Aravamudan
2008-04-11  8:28   ` Nick Piggin
2008-04-11 19:57     ` Nish Aravamudan
     [not found] ` <20080410171101.551336000@nick.local0.net>
2008-04-11  8:13   ` [patch 11/17] hugetlbfs: support larger than MAX_ORDER Andi Kleen
2008-04-11  8:59     ` Nick Piggin
     [not found] ` <20080410171100.425293000@nick.local0.net>
2008-04-21 20:51   ` Jon Tollefson [this message]
2008-04-22  6:45     ` [patch 01/17] hugetlb: modular state Nick Piggin

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