linux-kernel - Re: powerpc/hugetlbpage: Rmove unhelpful HUGEPD_*

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Date:   Tue, 24 Jul 2018 01:11:19 +1000 (AEST)
From:   Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@...erman.id.au>
To:     David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>,
        aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, paulus@...ba.org
Cc:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: powerpc/hugetlbpage: Rmove unhelpful HUGEPD_*_SHIFT macros

On Tue, 2018-07-17 at 04:24:30 UTC, David Gibson wrote:
> The HUGEPD_*_SHIFT macros are always defined to be PGDIR_SHIFT and
> PUD_SHIFT, and have to have those values to work properly.  They once used
> to have different values, but that was really only because they were used
> to mean different things in different contexts.
> 
> 6fa50483 "powerpc/mm/hugetlb: initialize the pagetable cache correctly for
> hugetlb" removed that double meaning, but left the now useless constants.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@...son.dropbear.id.au>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/fdf743c5c51d5b45db4dada3910954

cheers