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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/gup: Make __gup_device_* require THP
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 16:13:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170721161322.98c5cd44b5b3612be0f7fe14@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170626063833.11094-1-oohall@gmail.com>

On Mon, 26 Jun 2017 16:38:33 +1000 "Oliver O'Halloran" <oohall@gmail.com> wrote:

> These functions are the only bits of generic code that use
> {pud,pmd}_pfn() without checking for CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE.
> This works fine on x86, the only arch with devmap support, since the
> *_pfn() functions are always defined there, but this isn't true for
> every architecture.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran <oohall@gmail.com>
> ---
>  mm/gup.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/gup.c b/mm/gup.c
> index d9e6fddcc51f..04cf79291321 100644
> --- a/mm/gup.c
> +++ b/mm/gup.c
> @@ -1287,7 +1287,7 @@ static int gup_pte_range(pmd_t pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
>  }
>  #endif /* __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL */
>  
> -#ifdef __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_DEVMAP
> +#if defined(__HAVE_ARCH_PTE_DEVMAP) && defined(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE)
>  static int __gup_device_huge(unsigned long pfn, unsigned long addr,
>  		unsigned long end, struct page **pages, int *nr)
>  {

(cc Kirill)

Please provide a full description of the bug which is being fixed.  I
assume it's a build error.  What are the error messages and under what
circumstances.

Etcetera.  Enough info for me (and others) to decide which kernel
version(s) need the fix.

Thanks.

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-21 23:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-26  6:38 [PATCH] mm/gup: Make __gup_device_* require THP Oliver O'Halloran
2017-07-21 23:13 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2017-07-22  3:49   ` Oliver
2017-07-23 21:34     ` Kirill A. Shutemov

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