Re: [tip:x86/asm] x86/mm/xen: Suppress hugetlbfs in PV guests

From	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [tip:x86/asm] x86/mm/xen: Suppress hugetlbfs in PV guests
Date	2016-04-25 10:00 +0200
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 22.04.16 at 20:03, <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> >> +#define hugepages_supported() cpu_has_pse
> >>  
> > 
> > Please don't use the cpu_has_* macros anymore, they are going away soon.
> > 
> > In this case it should be static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PSE).
> 
> I can certainly do that, but this
> - will (mildly) harm backportability
> - imo should have been requested much earlier (when the patch was
>   still under discussion)

It's requested now as cpu_has_* is going away. So instead of making silly
arguments you should have sent a delta patch fixing this.

Thanks,

	tglx

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[PATCH] x86/xen: suppress hugetlbfs in PV guests "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com> - 2016-04-21 08:30 +0200
  [tip:x86/asm] x86/mm/xen: Suppress hugetlbfs in PV guests tip-bot for Jan Beulich <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-04-22 12:00 +0200
    Re: [tip:x86/asm] x86/mm/xen: Suppress hugetlbfs in PV guests "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2016-04-22 20:10 +0200
      Re: [tip:x86/asm] x86/mm/xen: Suppress hugetlbfs in PV guests Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2016-04-22 20:20 +0200
      Re: [tip:x86/asm] x86/mm/xen: Suppress hugetlbfs in PV guests "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com> - 2016-04-25 09:40 +0200
        Re: [tip:x86/asm] x86/mm/xen: Suppress hugetlbfs in PV guests Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-04-25 10:00 +0200
          Re: [Xen-devel] [tip:x86/asm] x86/mm/xen: Suppress hugetlbfs in PV  guests David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> - 2016-04-25 14:40 +0200

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