On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 22:26:18 +0000 "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Memory fails me. Why do some architectures (arm, arm64, x86_64) want > > huge_pmd_[un]share() while other architectures (ia64, tile, mips, > > powerpc, metag, sh, s390) do not? > > Potentially laziness/ignorance-of-feature? It looks like this feature started on x86_64 and then spread > to arm*. Yes. In 3212b535f200c85b5a6 Steve Capper (ARM person) hoisted the code out of x86 into generic, then made arm use it. We're not (I'm not) very good about letting arch people know about such things. I wonder how to fix that; does linux-arch work? -- 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>