Re: [RFC v5 PATCH 8/9] hugetlbfs: add hugetlbfs_fallocate()

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Mon Jul 27 2015 - 03:08:56 EST


On Fri 24-07-15 09:18:35, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> On 07/23/2015 11:25 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> >I hope this is the current version of the pathc - I somehow got lost in
> >last submissions where the discussion happens in v4 thread. This version
> >seems to have the same issue:
>
> Yes, Michal this issue exists in the version put into mmotm and was
> noticed by kbuild test robot and Stephen in linux-next build.
>
> Your patch below is the most obvious. Thanks! However, is this
> the preferred method of handling this type of issue? Is it
> preferred to create wrappers for the code which handles numa
> policy?

Yes that would be preferable. My "work around" was just to make my git
mirror of mmotm compilable. I am not sure whether Andrew picked my patch
but it will certainly get replaced by a cleaner version.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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