Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH] simplify slice boundary search

2014-02-22 Thread Munson, Eric
On 2014-02-19 03:49, Jan Stancek wrote: > init_slice_boundary() was meant to find 2 neighbour slices, > which are both free. It's not needed to have 2 completely > free slices as the test needs only couple huge pages around > slice boundary. > > As part of search in 32bit version it tried to mmap

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH] ARM: mark direct_syscall as a FUNC

2014-02-22 Thread Munson, Eric
On 2014-02-20 09:46, Steve Capper wrote: > direct_syscall is ARM state assembler. If libhugetlbfs is compiled for > the Thumb state it does not currently change execution states when it > calls direct_syscall, leading to unpredictable behaviour. > > This patch marks direct_syscall as a FUNC, which

Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] [PATCH] kernel-features: ignore all none -pre/-rc pre-release strings

2014-02-22 Thread Munson, Eric
On 2014-02-17 20:43, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > The current code treats everything after the x.y.z- as a pre/rc level > version, which isn't right for the following example, at least: > > 3.11.10-301.fc20.ppc64p7 > > which puts 301 as ver->pre. Ignore all non "-rc" or "-pre" suffixes. >