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From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
To: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux•vnet.ibm.com>,
	benh@kernel•crashing.org, paulus@samba•org, mpe@ellerman•id.au,
	Chris Smart <csmart@ozlabs•au.ibm.com>,
	Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s•fr>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/mm/hugetlb: Don't panic if we don't find the default huge page size
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 22:12:32 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ziirx8g7.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4f38a92d-353f-d505-43c3-a2d752d22657@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux•vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> On 12/13/2016 07:34 PM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>> generic hugetlbfs can handle that condition correctly. With HPAGE_SHIFT = 0
>
> Need to add some context here. "That condition" refers to something without
> first mentioning it.

It is the conditinal statement that gets removed as part of this patch.
The next line also explains what the generic code does for that condition.
>
>> we get
>> [0.241333] hugetlbfs: disabling because there are no supported hugepage sizes
>> 
>> bash-4.2# echo 30 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages
>> bash: echo: write error: Operation not supported
>> 
>> Fixes: "powerpc: get hugetlbpage handling more generic"
>
> Dont we need the commit SHA for the "Fixes" header ?

When I wrote the patch, the commit was not upstream. Hence i didn't had
an SHA1 to put there.

-aneesh

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-16 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-13 14:04 [PATCH] powerpc/mm/hugetlb: Don't panic if we don't find the default huge page size Aneesh Kumar K.V
2017-01-04  0:18 ` Michael Neuling
2017-01-16  6:55 ` Anshuman Khandual
2017-01-16 16:42   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2017-01-18 12:10 ` Michael Ellerman

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