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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 20/34] sparc: mm: Add p?d_large() definitions
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On 27/02/2019 18:38, David Miller wrote:
> From: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 17:05:54 +0000
>
>> walk_page_range() is going to be allowed to walk page tables other than
>> those of user space. For this it needs to know when it has reached a
>> 'leaf' entry in the page tables. This information is provided by the
>> p?d_large() functions/macros.
>>
>> For sparc, we don't support large pages, so add stubs returning 0.
>>
>> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
>> CC: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
>> Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
>
> Sparc does support large pages on 64-bit, just not at this level. It
> would be nice if the commit message was made more accurate.

Yes you are right, I fear I only looked at the 32 bit changes when I
wrote the commit message. I'll clarify the difference between 32/64 bit.

> Other than that:
>
> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Thanks,

Steve

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