Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Oct 2014 12:47:48 -0700 | Subject | Re: [GIT] Sparc | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:32 AM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote: > > It's really idiotic to have a weak symbolled fallback that just > returns zero, and causes this kind of bug. There should be no > backup implementation and the link should fail if the architecture > fails to provide __get_user_pages_fast() and supports transparent > hugepages.
Agreed. I think the weak fallback is for the "no hugepages support" case, but that does sound very annoying and fragile.
Linus
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