Re: [PATCH] hugetlb: Provide a default HPAGE_SHIFT if !CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE

From: David Daney
Date: Wed Nov 16 2011 - 17:09:15 EST


On 11/16/2011 01:32 PM, David Rientjes wrote:
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, David Daney wrote:

From: David Daney<david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>

This is required now to get MIPS kernels to compile with
!CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE.


Why?

I should have been more specific. The failure is in Ralf's mips-for-linux-next branch.

Apparently there's some config option you've enabled that is causing
it to fail but I can't find it. defconfig works fine on my mips
crosscompiler and allyesconfig is borked already in other ways.

Please look in the mips-for-linux-next branch.


This is definitely the wrong fix, anyway, and it would require a change to
arch/mips/include/asm/page.h instead since it's localized to mips,

No, all we are doing is supplying a dummy definition for HPAGE_SHIFT as we currently have for HPAGE_SIZE and HPAGE_MASK.


so nack.

Signed-off-by: David Daney<david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/hugetlb.h | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
index 19644e0..746d543 100644
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ static inline void copy_huge_page(struct page *dst, struct page *src)
#ifndef HPAGE_MASK
#define HPAGE_MASK PAGE_MASK /* Keep the compiler happy */
#define HPAGE_SIZE PAGE_SIZE

Why didn't you NACK the addition of these two lines too?

Following your logic, we should remove these and patch up all the architecture specific files instead.

David Daney

+#define HPAGE_SHIFT PAGE_SHIFT
#endif

#endif /* !CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE */


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