From: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
To: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
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Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] Clean up hugetlb boot command line processing
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 16:02:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200421160201.0ddb9763@thinkpad> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200417185049.275845-1-mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 11:50:45 -0700
Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> wrote:
> v3 -
> Used weak attribute method of defining arch_hugetlb_valid_size.
> This eliminates changes to arch specific hugetlb.h files (Peter)
> Updated documentation (Peter, Randy)
> Fixed handling of implicitly specified gigantic page preallocation
> in existing code and removed documentation of such. There is now
> no difference between handling of gigantic and non-gigantic pages.
> (Peter, Nitesh).
> This requires the most review as there is a small change to
> undocumented behavior. See patch 4 commit message for details.
> Added Acks and Reviews (Mina, Peter)
>
> v2 -
> Fix build errors with patch 1 (Will)
> Change arch_hugetlb_valid_size arg to unsigned long and remove
> irrelevant 'extern' keyword (Christophe)
> Documentation and other misc changes (Randy, Christophe, Mina)
> Do not process command line options if !hugepages_supported()
> (Dave, but it sounds like we may want to additional changes to
> hugepages_supported() for x86? If that is needed I would prefer
> a separate patch.)
>
> Longpeng(Mike) reported a weird message from hugetlb command line processing
> and proposed a solution [1]. While the proposed patch does address the
> specific issue, there are other related issues in command line processing.
> As hugetlbfs evolved, updates to command line processing have been made to
> meet immediate needs and not necessarily in a coordinated manner. The result
> is that some processing is done in arch specific code, some is done in arch
> independent code and coordination is problematic. Semantics can vary between
> architectures.
>
> The patch series does the following:
> - Define arch specific arch_hugetlb_valid_size routine used to validate
> passed huge page sizes.
> - Move hugepagesz= command line parsing out of arch specific code and into
> an arch independent routine.
> - Clean up command line processing to follow desired semantics and
> document those semantics.
>
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20200305033014.1152-1-longpeng2@huawei.com
>
> Mike Kravetz (4):
> hugetlbfs: add arch_hugetlb_valid_size
> hugetlbfs: move hugepagesz= parsing to arch independent code
> hugetlbfs: remove hugetlb_add_hstate() warning for existing hstate
> hugetlbfs: clean up command line processing
>
> .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 40 ++--
> Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst | 35 ++++
> arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 30 +--
> arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 30 +--
> arch/riscv/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 24 +--
> arch/s390/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 24 +--
> arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c | 43 +---
> arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 23 +--
> include/linux/hugetlb.h | 2 +-
> mm/hugetlb.c | 190 +++++++++++++++---
> 10 files changed, 271 insertions(+), 170 deletions(-)
>
Looks good and works fine for s390, thanks for cleaning up!
Acked-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> # s390
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-21 14:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-17 18:50 [PATCH v3 0/4] Clean up hugetlb boot command line processing Mike Kravetz
2020-04-17 18:50 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] hugetlbfs: add arch_hugetlb_valid_size Mike Kravetz
2020-04-17 18:50 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] hugetlbfs: move hugepagesz= parsing to arch independent code Mike Kravetz
2020-04-27 5:04 ` Sandipan Das
2020-04-27 17:25 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-04-27 19:09 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-04-27 20:18 ` Andrew Morton
2020-04-27 20:31 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-04-28 4:17 ` Sandipan Das
2020-04-17 18:50 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] hugetlbfs: remove hugetlb_add_hstate() warning for existing hstate Mike Kravetz
2020-04-20 19:41 ` Anders Roxell
2020-04-22 10:42 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-04-22 16:56 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-04-17 18:50 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] hugetlbfs: clean up command line processing Mike Kravetz
2020-04-20 15:34 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] Clean up hugetlb boot " Qian Cai
2020-04-20 18:20 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-04-20 19:45 ` Will Deacon
2020-04-20 20:29 ` Anders Roxell
2020-04-20 21:40 ` Mike Kravetz
2020-04-20 22:53 ` Anders Roxell
2020-04-21 6:58 ` Will Deacon
2020-04-21 14:02 ` Gerald Schaefer [this message]
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