linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] hugetlb: allow to free gigantic pages regardless of the configuration

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Date:   Wed, 06 Mar 2019 11:20:23 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     alex@...ti.fr
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] hugetlb: allow to free gigantic pages
 regardless of the configuration

From: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@...ti.fr>
Date: Wed,  6 Mar 2019 14:00:05 -0500

> On systems without CONTIG_ALLOC activated but that support gigantic pages,
> boottime reserved gigantic pages can not be freed at all. This patch
> simply enables the possibility to hand back those pages to memory
> allocator.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@...ti.fr>

For sparc:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>