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Message-Id: <20071115025940.ca1994a0.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:59:40 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: mel@...net.ie (Mel Gorman)
Cc: linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, sfr@...b.auug.org.au, linux-mm@...ck.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix boot problem with iSeries lacking hugepage support
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:52:38 +0000 mel@...net.ie (Mel Gorman) wrote:
> > Shouldn't this have been HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER?
> >
>
> As a #define, possibly but as a static inline - definitly not.
>
> In this context, the define is not used because set_pageblock_order()
> is a no-op when CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE is unset.
> pageblock_default_order() is only defined for symmetry as set_pageblock_order()
> is defined in both contexts. However, as a #define it might make more sense
> to a casual reader to see HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER even if it has no effect. I
> can send a version of the patch that does this with a comment explaining
> what is going on with set_pageblock_order() if you like.
>
> However, in a follow-up fix, you make pageblock_default_order() a static
> inline. If it tries to return HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER, it will fail to compile
> when CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE is not set.
>
> Which would you prefer?
Don't care really. Something which is fixed up ;)
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