Re: [PATCHv5 17/28] mm, thp: remove infrastructure for handling splitting PMDs

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Thu Apr 30 2015 - 08:04:12 EST


On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 06:14:13PM +0200, Jerome Marchand wrote:
> On 04/23/2015 11:03 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > With new refcounting we don't need to mark PMDs splitting. Let's drop code
> > to handle this.
> >
> > Arch-specific code will removed separately.
>
> This series only removed code from x86 arch. Does that mean other arches
> patches will come later?

Initially I hoped it will be just trivial dropping dead code and can be
done later. But we need to do a bit more at least for powerpc (see
patchset by Aneesh). I will need to check other arch's code.

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Kirill A. Shutemov
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