Re: [PATCH] Fix do_mlock so page alignment is to hugepageboundries when needed

[Eric Paris]

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 10:24 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 17 May 2006, Eric Paris wrote:
> 
> > --- linux-2.6.16.14/include/asm-sparc64/page.h.paris
> > +++ linux-2.6.16.14/include/asm-sparc64/page.h
> > @@ -104,6 +104,8 @@ typedef unsigned long pgprot_t;
> >  #define HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER	(HPAGE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
> >  #define ARCH_HAS_SETCLEAR_HUGE_PTE
> >  #define ARCH_HAS_HUGETLB_PREFAULT_HOOK
> > +/* to align the pointer to the (next) page boundary when dealing with hugepages*/
> > +#define HPAGE_ALIGN(addr)       (((addr)+HPAGE_SIZE-1)&HPAGE_MASK)
> >  #endif
> 
> Could you put the definition of HPAGE_ALIGN into include/linux/hugetlb.h 
> to avoid modifying all the page.h files?

I could, I was just following the example of PAGE_ALIGN which was in all
the page.h files.  But since it really is a nonarch specific hugepage
only macro maybe that is a better place for it.

If other results come back positive I'll repost with that change if
others think it best.

-Eric

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