Re: [PATCH 3/3] powerpc: allow 256kB pages with SHMEM

From: Hugh Dickins
Date: Tue Apr 07 2009 - 02:12:36 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > 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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