In-flight collision: ARCH_WANT_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP renaming

Guo Ren guoren at kernel.org
Thu May 4 23:15:55 PDT 2023


On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 5:40 PM Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Guo Ren, dear Palmer,
>
> on linux-next, I have noticed that you have submitted and added the
> commit a3c7d6b642e4 ("riscv: mm: hugetlb: Enable
> ARCH_WANT_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP"), that adds the select
> ARCH_WANT_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP to the RISCV config. As it
> seems, Aneesh Kumar K.V has concurrently renamed this config
> throughout the tree with commit 215218dddd25 ("mm/hugetlb_vmemmap:
> rename ARCH_WANT_HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP"), but your commit was
> not visible to that renaming. When both commits are merged in a common
> tree---as happens with linux-next, and will soon happen with Linus'
> tree, your commit a3c7d6b642e4 will do nothing (select no existing
> config anymore).
>
> It is easy to fix, adjust this one line to the renaming and 'select
> ARCH_WANT_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP'. For now, I am just reporting to let you
> know; probably, it is best to get a quick fix-up patch with -rc2, once
> all the changes landed in -rc1.
Thx for taking care; please fix that.

>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Lukas



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Best Regards
 Guo Ren



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