On 03/10/2016 04:27 AM, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 03/09/2016 04:10 AM, Anshuman Khandual wrote: >> > Currently the 'huge_pte_offset' function has only one version for >> > all the configuations and platforms. This change splits the function >> > into two versions, one for 64K page size based BOOK3S implementation >> > and the other one for everything else. This change is also one of the >> > prerequisites towards enabling GENERAL_HUGETLB implementation for >> > BOOK3S 64K based huge pages. > I think there's a bit of background missing here for random folks on > linux-mm to make sense of these patches. > > What is BOOK3S and what does it mean for these patches? Why is its 64K BOOK3S is the server type in powerpc family of processors which can support multiple base page sizes like 64K and 4K. > page size implementation different than all the others? Is there a 4K > page size BOOK3S? It supports huge pages of size 16M as well as 16G and their implementations are different with respect to base page sizes of 64K and 4K. Patches 1, 2 and 3 are generic VM changes and the rest are powerpc specific changes. Should I have split them accordingly and send out differently for generic and powerpc specific reviews ? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>