linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] hugetlbfs: move hugepagesz= parsing to arch independent code

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Message-ID: <20200410192656.GE3172@xz-x1>
Date:   Fri, 10 Apr 2020 15:26:56 -0400
From:   Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
To:     Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] hugetlbfs: move hugepagesz= parsing to arch
 independent code

On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 11:38:17AM -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> Now that architectures provide arch_hugetlb_valid_size(), parsing
> of "hugepagesz=" can be done in architecture independent code.
> Create a single routine to handle hugepagesz= parsing and remove
> all arch specific routines.  We can also remove the interface
> hugetlb_bad_size() as this is no longer used outside arch independent
> code.
> 
> This also provides consistent behavior of hugetlbfs command line
> options.  The hugepagesz= option should only be specified once for
> a specific size, but some architectures allow multiple instances.
> This appears to be more of an oversight when code was added by some
> architectures to set up ALL huge pages sizes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@...cle.com>

This could change the error messages for a wrong setup on archs, but I
guess it's not a big deal, assuming even to capture error people will
majorly still look for error lines in general..

Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>

-- 
Peter Xu