Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: Get rid of NODEMASK_ALLOC

From: Oscar Salvador
Date: Tue Apr 02 2019 - 16:16:35 EST


On Tue, 2019-04-02 at 13:01 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> It took a bit of sleuthing to figure out that this patch applies to
> Mike's "hugetlbfs: fix potential over/underflow setting node specific
> nr_hugepages". Should they be folded together? I'm thinking not.

Sorry Andrew, I should have mentioned that this patch was based on
Mike's "hugetlb fix potential over/underflow" patch.

Given said that, I would keep the two patches separated, as that one
is a fix, and this one is a cleanup.

> (Also, should "hugetlbfs: fix potential over/underflow setting node
> specific nr_hugepages" have been -stableified? I also think not, but
> I
> bet it happens anyway).

I am not sure of the consequences in older branches, but if it is not
too much of a hassle, it might be worth? Mike might know better here.

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Oscar Salvador
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