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

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Tue Apr 22 2008 - 02:45:31 EST


On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 03:51:24PM -0500, Jon Tollefson wrote:
>
> 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.

Thanks, I've fixed that and found (hopefully) the rest of the ones
in the hugetlb.c code.

Thanks,
Nick

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