linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/5] Enable hugetlbfs for more systems.

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Date:	Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:20:34 +0100
From:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
To:	David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>
Cc:	linux-mips@...ux-mips.org, wli@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] Enable hugetlbfs for more systems.

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 05:47:45PM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> From: David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>
> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 17:47:45 -0700
> To: linux-mips@...ux-mips.org, ralf@...ux-mips.org
> Cc: wli@...omorphy.com, David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>

Holomorphy.com is unreachable since like a year.  Use wli@...nel.org.

> Subject: [PATCH 4/5] Enable hugetlbfs for more systems.
> 
> As part of adding hugetlbfs support for MIPS, I am adding a new
> kconfig variable 'SYS_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS'.  Since some mips cpu
> varients don't yet support it, we can enable selection of HUGETLBFS on
> a system by system basis from the arch/mips/Kconfig.
> 
> CC: William Irwin <wli@...omorphy.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>
> ---
>  fs/Kconfig |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
> index 9f7270f..c36d63b 100644
> --- a/fs/Kconfig
> +++ b/fs/Kconfig
> @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ config TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
>  config HUGETLBFS
>  	bool "HugeTLB file system support"
>  	depends on X86 || IA64 || PPC64 || SPARC64 || (SUPERH && MMU) || \
> -		   (S390 && 64BIT) || BROKEN
> +		   (S390 && 64BIT) || SYS_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS || BROKEN

I'm ok with this patch but it's really crying for some follup patch to
convert all the other architectures to use SYS_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS.

  Ralf
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