Re: [PATCH 1/1] hugetlbfs: handle pages higher order than MAX_ORDER

[Andi Kleen]

Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> But the memmap is contiguous in most cases. FLATMEM, VMEMMAP etc. Its only
> some special sparsemem configurations that couldhave the issue because they
> break up the vmemmap. x86_64 uses VMEMMAP by default. Is this for i386?

i386 doesn't support huge pages > MAX_ORDER. I guess it's for ppc64,
but they should probably just use vmemmap there if they don't already.

-Andi
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