linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] Fix free/allocation of runtime gigantic pages

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Message-ID: <875e6287-9528-45ec-788c-9c785e548942@intel.com>
Date:   Wed, 13 Mar 2019 09:41:58 -0700
From:   Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
To:     Alexandre Ghiti <alex@...ti.fr>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
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        Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>,
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        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] Fix free/allocation of runtime gigantic pages

On 3/7/19 5:20 AM, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
> This series fixes sh and sparc that did not advertise their gigantic page
> support and then were not able to allocate and free those pages at runtime.
> It renames MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION || CMA condition into the more
> accurate CONTIG_ALLOC, since it allows the definition of alloc_contig_range
> function.
> Finally, it then fixes the wrong definition of ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE config
> that, without MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION || CMA defined, did not allow
> architectures to free boottime allocated gigantic pages although unrelated.

Looks good, thanks for all the changes.  For everything generic in the
set, plus the x86 bits:

Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>