linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sparc64: Fix mapping of 64k pages with MAP

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Message-Id: <20170517.150856.2126069972913896228.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 17 May 2017 15:08:56 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     nitin.m.gupta@...cle.com
Cc:     sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sparc64: Fix mapping of 64k pages with MAP_FIXED

From: Nitin Gupta <nitin.m.gupta@...cle.com>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 16:28:17 -0700

> An incorrect huge page alignment check caused
> mmap failure for 64K pages when MAP_FIXED is used
> with address not aligned to HPAGE_SIZE.
> 
> Orabug: 25885991
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <nitin.m.gupta@...cle.com>

Applied, but I had to add an appropriate "Fixes: " line, please
do this in the future, like so on the line right before the
first signoff or ack:

Fixes: dcd1912d21a0 ("sparc64: Add 64K page size support")

Thanks.