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Re: [RFC 6/9] powerpc/hugetlb: Enable ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB for BOOK3S 64K

From Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC 6/9] powerpc/hugetlb: Enable ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB for BOOK3S 64K
Date 2016-03-10 06:20 +0100
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On 03/10/2016 01:28 AM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> 
>> > [ text/plain ]
>> > This enables ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB for BOOK3S 64K in Kconfig.
>> > It also implements a new function 'pte_huge' which is required by
>> > function 'huge_pte_alloc' from generic VM. Existing BOOK3S 64K
>> > specific functions 'huge_pte_alloc' and 'huge_pte_offset' (which
>> > are no longer required) are removed with this change.
>> >
> You want this to be the last patch isn't it ? And you are mixing too

Yeah, it should be the last one.

> many things in this patch. Why not do this
> 
> * book3s specific hash pte routines
> * book3s add conditional based on GENERAL_HUGETLB
> * Enable GENERAL_HUGETLB for 64k page size config

which creates three separate patches ?

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[RFC 1/9] mm/hugetlb: Make GENERAL_HUGETLB functions PGD implementation aware Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-09 13:20 +0100
  [RFC 4/9] powerpc/mm: Split huge_pte_alloc function for BOOK3S 64K Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-09 13:20 +0100
    Re: [RFC 4/9] powerpc/mm: Split huge_pte_alloc function for BOOK3S 64K "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-09 21:00 +0100
      Re: [RFC 4/9] powerpc/mm: Split huge_pte_alloc function for BOOK3S  64K Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-10 06:40 +0100
  [RFC 6/9] powerpc/hugetlb: Enable ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB for BOOK3S 64K Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-09 13:20 +0100
    Re: [RFC 6/9] powerpc/hugetlb: Enable ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB for BOOK3S 64K "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-09 21:00 +0100
      Re: [RFC 6/9] powerpc/hugetlb: Enable ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB for  BOOK3S 64K Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-10 06:20 +0100
  [RFC 5/9] powerpc/mm: Split huge_pte_offset function for BOOK3S 64K Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-09 13:20 +0100
    Re: [RFC 5/9] powerpc/mm: Split huge_pte_offset function for BOOK3S  64K Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> - 2016-03-10 00:00 +0100
      Re: [RFC 5/9] powerpc/mm: Split huge_pte_offset function for BOOK3S  64K Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-10 04:40 +0100
  Re: [RFC 1/9] mm/hugetlb: Make GENERAL_HUGETLB functions PGD implementation  aware Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-03-11 04:10 +0100
    Re: [RFC 1/9] mm/hugetlb: Make GENERAL_HUGETLB functions PGD  implementation aware Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> - 2016-03-14 21:30 +0100

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