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Re: [PATCH] mm,hugetlb: compute page_size_log properly

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On Tue 28-03-17 10:54:08, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 09:55:13AM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> > Do we have any consensus here? Keeping SHM_HUGE_* is currently
> > winning 2-1. If there are in fact users out there computing the
> > value manually, then I am ok with keeping it and properly exporting
> > it. Michal?
> 
> Well, let's see what it looks like to do that.  I went down the rabbit
> hole trying to understand why some of the SHM_ flags had the same value
> as each other until I realised some of them were internal flags, some
> were flags to shmat() and others were flags to shmget().  Hopefully I
> disambiguated them nicely in this patch.  I also added 8MB and 16GB sizes.
> Any more architectures with a pet favourite huge/giant page size we
> should add convenience defines for?

Do we actually have any users?
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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Re: [PATCH] mm,hugetlb: compute page_size_log properly Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> - 2017-03-28 19:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mm,hugetlb: compute page_size_log properly Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> - 2017-03-28 19:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] mm,hugetlb: compute page_size_log properly Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> - 2017-03-28 20:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] mm,hugetlb: compute page_size_log properly Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-03-29 10:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] mm,hugetlb: compute page_size_log properly Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> - 2017-03-29 19:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] mm,hugetlb: compute page_size_log properly Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-03-30 08:20 +0200

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