linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [2/18] Add basic support for more than one hstate in hugetlbfs

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Message-ID: <20080317204427.GA10846@one.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:44:27 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Adam Litke <agl@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	pj@....com, linux-mm@...ck.org, nickpiggin@...oo.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [2/18] Add basic support for more than one hstate in hugetlbfs

> PowerPC will have a 64KB huge page.  Granted, you do fix this in a later
> patch, so as long as the whole series goes together this shouldn't cause
> a problem.

No the later patch only supports GB and MB. If you want KB
you have to do it yourself.

But my patch just keeps the KB support as it was before.
> 
> Since mask can always be derived from order, is there a reason we don't

If there was a reason I forgot it. Doesn't really matter much either
way.

-Andi
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