Re: [PATCH v5 2/4] sparc: Advertise gigantic page support

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On 3/6/19 2:04 PM, David Miller wrote:
From: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed,  6 Mar 2019 14:00:03 -0500

sparc actually supports gigantic pages and selecting
ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE allows it to allocate and free
gigantic pages at runtime.

sparc allows configuration such as huge pages of 16GB,
pages of 8KB and MAX_ORDER = 13 (default):
HPAGE_SHIFT (34) - PAGE_SHIFT (13) = 21 >= MAX_ORDER (13)

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@xxxxxxxx>
Much better.

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks !

Alex



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