Re: [patch 01/17] hugetlb: modular state

From: Jon Tollefson
Date: Mon Apr 21 2008 - 16:50:45 EST



On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 03:02 +1000, npiggin@xxxxxxx wrote:

<snip>

> Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ extern int sysctl_hugetlb_shm_group;
>
> /* arch callbacks */
>
> -pte_t *huge_pte_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr);
> +pte_t *huge_pte_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, int sz);

<snip>

The sz here needs to be a long to handle sizes such as 16G on powerpc.

There are other places in hugetlb.c where the size also needs to be a
long, but this one affects the arch code too since it is public.

Jon
Tollefson


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