Re: [PATCH v3 5/7] hugetlb: have CONFIG_HUGETLBFS select CONFIG_PADATA

From: Tim Chen
Date: Thu Jan 11 2024 - 17:49:23 EST


On Tue, 2024-01-02 at 21:12 +0800, Gang Li wrote:
> Now hugetlb uses padata_do_multithreaded for parallel initialization,
> so select CONFIG_PADATA.

Perhaps rephrase

Allow hugetlb use padata_do_multithreaded for parallel initialization.
Select CONFIG_PADATA in this case.

>
> Signed-off-by: Gang Li <gang.li@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/Kconfig | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
> index 89fdbefd1075f..a57d6e6c41e6f 100644
> --- a/fs/Kconfig
> +++ b/fs/Kconfig
> @@ -262,6 +262,7 @@ menuconfig HUGETLBFS
> depends on X86 || SPARC64 || ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS || BROKEN
> depends on (SYSFS || SYSCTL)
> select MEMFD_CREATE
> + select PADATA
> help
> hugetlbfs is a filesystem backing for HugeTLB pages, based on
> ramfs. For architectures that support it, say Y here and read