linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/9] extend hugepage migration

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Date:	Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:56:28 +0100
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
To:	Simon Jeons <simon.jeons@...il.com>
Cc:	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/9] extend hugepage migration

On Thu 21-03-13 07:49:48, Simon Jeons wrote:
[...]
> When I hacking arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c like this,
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c
> index ae1aa71..87f34ee 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c
> @@ -354,14 +354,13 @@ hugetlb_get_unmapped_area(struct file *file,
> unsigned long addr,
> 
> #endif /*HAVE_ARCH_HUGETLB_UNMAPPED_AREA*/
> 
> -#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> static __init int setup_hugepagesz(char *opt)
> {
> unsigned long ps = memparse(opt, &opt);
> if (ps == PMD_SIZE) {
> hugetlb_add_hstate(PMD_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT);
> - } else if (ps == PUD_SIZE && cpu_has_gbpages) {
> - hugetlb_add_hstate(PUD_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT);
> + } else if (ps == PUD_SIZE) {
> + hugetlb_add_hstate(PMD_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT+4);
> } else {
> printk(KERN_ERR "hugepagesz: Unsupported page size %lu M\n",
> ps >> 20);
> 
> I set boot=hugepagesz=1G hugepages=10, then I got 10 32MB huge pages.
> What's the difference between these pages which I hacking and normal
> huge pages?

How is this related to the patch set?
Please _stop_ distracting discussion to unrelated topics!

Nothing personal but this is just wasting our time.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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