linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: huge_memory: use !CONFIG_64BIT to relax huge page alignment on 32 bit machines

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Message-Id: <20240719134601.d9c0a61e5a58680868e39ae4@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 13:46:01 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@...ian.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang@...amperecomputing.com>, willy@...radead.org,
 jirislaby@...nel.org, surenb@...gle.com, riel@...riel.com, cl@...ux.com,
 carnil@...ian.org, ben@...adent.org.uk, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: huge_memory: use !CONFIG_64BIT to relax huge page
 alignment on 32 bit machines

On Fri, 19 Jul 2024 11:19:24 +0200 Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@...ian.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2024-07-12 at 08:58 -0700, Yang Shi wrote:
> > Yves-Alexis Perez reported commit 4ef9ad19e176 ("mm: huge_memory: don't
> > force huge page alignment on 32 bit") didn't work for x86_32 [1].  It is
> > because x86_32 uses CONFIG_X86_32 instead of CONFIG_32BIT.
> > 
> > !CONFIG_64BIT should cover all 32 bit machines.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've noticed that the patch was integrated into the -mm tree and next/master.
> It's not yet in the first half of the merge window for 6.11 but do you know if
> it's scheduled for rc1?

I put it in the mm-hotfixes branch since it's cc:stable.  I expect to 
send the hotfixes to Linus next week.