On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 01:07:22AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <[email protected]> > > On archs like powerpc that support different hugepage sizes, HPAGE_SHIFT > and other derived values like HPAGE_PMD_ORDER are not constants. So move > that to hugepage_init
These seems to miss the point. Those variables may be defined in
terms of HPAGE_SHIFT right now, but that is of itself kind of broken.
The transparent hugepage mechanism only works if the hugepage size is
equal to the PMD size - and PMD_SHIFT remains a compile time constant.
There's no reason having transparent hugepage should force the PMD
size of hugepage to be the default for other purposes - it should be
possible to do THP as long as PMD-sized is a possible hugepage size.
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