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SubjectRe: [GIT] Sparc
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On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:32 AM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
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> 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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