Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759608AbZDJJIO (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:08:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758456AbZDJJH4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:07:56 -0400 Received: from extu-mxob-2.symantec.com ([216.10.194.135]:34326 "EHLO extu-mxob-2.symantec.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754449AbZDJJHz (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:07:55 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:58:07 +0100 (BST) From: Hugh Dickins X-X-Sender: hugh@blonde.anvils To: Andrew Morton cc: Yuri Tikhonov , Paul Mackerras , yanok@emcraft.com, prodyuth@gmail.com, jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] powerpc: allow 256kB pages with SHMEM In-Reply-To: <20090409163403.e82ec1c3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <20090409163403.e82ec1c3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 993 Lines: 25 On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 22:01:15 +0100 (BST) > Hugh Dickins wrote: > > > 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 > > --- > > 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. > > Do we think these patches should be in 2.6.30? I think so - 2.6.30 will have the rest of Yuri's 256kB page support. But it would be nice to have an Ack from Yuri before sending these on through. 2/3 is a bugfix justified even without 256kB pages - I should have inverted the ordering. Hugh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/