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

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Message-ID: <20080323112829.GA1619@one.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:28:29 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.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

> this function is called once by one boot parameter, right?
> if so, this function cause panic when stupid user write many 
> hugepagesz boot parameter.

A later patch fixes that up by looking up the hstate explicitely. Also it 
is bisect safe because the callers are only added later.

-Andi
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