Re: [PATCH 1/3] powerpc/32: Fix hugepage allocation on 8xx at hint address

From: Aneesh Kumar K.V
Date: Wed Jan 17 2018 - 00:24:00 EST


Christophe LEROY <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx> writes:

>>
>>> How should I split in separate patches ? Something like ?
>>> 1/ Slice support for PPC32 > 2/ Activate slice for 8xx
>>
>> Yes something like that. Will you be able to avoid that
>> Âif (SLICE_NUM_HIGH) from the code? That makes the code ugly. Right now
>> i don't have definite suggestion on what we could do though.
>>
>
> Could use #ifdefs instead, but in my mind it would be even more ugly.
>
> I would have liked just doing nothing, but the issue is that at the
> moment bitmap_xxx() functions are not prepared to handle bitmaps of size
> zero. Should we try to change that ? Any chance to succeed ?
>

How much code duplication it is to do slice_32.c?

Michael,

What do you suggest here?

-aneesh