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Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm,hugetlb: compute page_size_log properly

From Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm,hugetlb: compute page_size_log properly
Date 2017-02-22 17:10 +0100
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On Mon, 20 Feb 2017, Michal Hocko wrote:

>I am not sure I understand.
>$ git grep SHM_HUGE_ include/uapi/
>$
>
>So there doesn't seem to be any user visible constant. The man page
>mentiones is but I do not really see how is the userspace supposed to
>use it.

Yeah, userspace is not supposed to use it, it's just there because
the manpage describes kernel internals. I'm not really a big fan
of touching manpages (and ipc is already full of corner cases),
but I guess nobody can really complain if we rip out all the
SHM_HUGE_ stuff.

Thanks,
Davidlohr

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Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm,hugetlb: compute page_size_log properly Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-20 17:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm,hugetlb: compute page_size_log properly Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> - 2017-02-22 17:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 4/4] mm,hugetlb: compute page_size_log properly Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-02-22 17:30 +0100

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