linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm/hugetlb: Remove prepare_hugepage

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Message-ID: <e874aa09-0ab8-4d5e-80ed-515d53d794e1@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2025 20:01:19 +0200
From: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To: Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>, Zi Yan <ziy@...dia.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
 Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
 Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>, Alex Mastro <amastro@...com>,
 Nico Pache <npache@...hat.com>, Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...nel.org>,
 Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
 Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>, Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>,
 loongarch@...ts.linux.dev, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm/hugetlb: Remove prepare_hugepage_range()

> 
> But if we want to be super accurate, it's indeed different, in that the old
> hugetlb code was checking stack top with STACK_TOP, which is
> mips_stack_top() for MIPS: it's a value that might be slightly less than
> TASK_SIZE..
> 
> So strictly speaking, there's indeed a trivial difference on the oddity of
> defining stack top, but my guess is nothing will be affected.  I can add
> some explanation into the commit message in that case.

Yeah, that would be good.

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb