linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] powerpc: allow 256kB pages with SHMEM

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Date:	Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:58:07 +0100 (BST)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Yuri Tikhonov <yur@...raft.com>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	yanok@...raft.com, prodyuth@...il.com, jwboyer@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] powerpc: allow 256kB pages with SHMEM

On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 22:01:15 +0100 (BST)
> Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com> wrote:
> 
> > Now that shmem's divisions by zero and SHMEM_MAX_BYTES are fixed,
> > let powerpc 256kB pages coexist with CONFIG_SHMEM again.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
> > ---
> > Added linuxppc-dev and some other Cc's for this 3/3: sorry
> > if you didn't see 1/3 and 2/3, they were just in mm/shmem.c.
> 
> Do we think these patches should be in 2.6.30?

I think so - 2.6.30 will have the rest of Yuri's 256kB page support.
But it would be nice to have an Ack from Yuri before sending these
on through.  2/3 is a bugfix justified even without 256kB pages -
I should have inverted the ordering.

Hugh
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