Re: [PATCH v3 20/34] sparc: mm: Add p?d_large() definitions

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On 27/02/2019 18:38, David Miller wrote:
> From: Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 17:05:54 +0000
> 
>> walk_page_range() is going to be allowed to walk page tables other than
>> those of user space. For this it needs to know when it has reached a
>> 'leaf' entry in the page tables. This information is provided by the
>> p?d_large() functions/macros.
>>
>> For sparc, we don't support large pages, so add stubs returning 0.
>>
>> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: sparclinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Sparc does support large pages on 64-bit, just not at this level.  It
> would be nice if the commit message was made more accurate.  

Yes you are right, I fear I only looked at the 32 bit changes when I
wrote the commit message. I'll clarify the difference between 32/64 bit.

> Other than that:
> 
> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,

Steve




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