From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
x86@kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/Kconfig: Enable HUGETLBFS only if ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2025 16:15:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250712161549.499ec62de664904bd86ffa90@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250711102934.2399533-1-anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
On Fri, 11 Jul 2025 15:59:34 +0530 Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> wrote:
> Enable HUGETLBFS only when platform subscrbes via ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS.
> Hence select ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGETLBFS on existing x86 and sparc for their
> continuing HUGETLBFS support.
Looks nice.
> While here also just drop existing 'BROKEN' dependency.
Why?
What is BROKEN for, anyway? I don't recall having dealt with it
before. It predates kernel git and we forgot to document it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-07-12 23:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-11 10:29 Anshuman Khandual
2025-07-12 23:15 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2025-07-14 2:35 ` Anshuman Khandual
2025-07-14 9:49 ` Borislav Petkov
2025-07-15 0:31 ` Andrew Morton
2025-07-29 15:50 ` Christophe Leroy
2025-07-29 15:52 ` Christophe Leroy
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