Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 07:10:50 +0100 (BST)
From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com>,
       yanok@emcraft.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, prodyuth@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] powerpc: allow 256kB pages with SHMEM
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On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Hugh Dickins writes:
> 
> > Now that shmem's divisions by zero and SHMEM_MAX_BYTES are fixed,
> > let powerpc 256kB pages coexist with CONFIG_SHMEM again.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
> > ---
> > Added linuxppc-dev and some other Cc's for this 3/3: sorry
> > if you didn't see 1/3 and 2/3, they were just in mm/shmem.c.
> 
> Looks OK - what path are you using to get the series upstream?
> (I.e. should I be putting 3/3 in the powerpc tree or are you going to
> push it along with the others?)

If it's OK with you (and you're saying it is), I think the best
would be for it to sit alongside 1/3 and 2/3 in Andrew's tree,
hopefully get an Ack from Yuri (I don't have any powerpc 256kB
pages myself to test it fully), and then go on into 2.6.30.

Hugh
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