Re: [GIT] Sparc

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:32 AM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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