From: catalin.marinas@arm.com (Catalin Marinas)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH V2] arm64: mm: Route pmd thp functions through pte equivalents
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:57:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140314175709.GM18126@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1393322533-23725-1-git-send-email-steve.capper@linaro.org>
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:02:13AM +0000, Steve Capper wrote:
> Rather than have separate hugetlb and transparent huge page pmd
> manipulation functions, re-wire our thp functions to simply call the
> pte equivalents.
>
> This allows THP to take advantage of the new PTE_WRITE logic introduced
> in:
> c2c93e5 arm64: mm: Introduce PTE_WRITE
>
> To represent splitting THPs we use the PTE_SPECIAL bit as this is not
> used for pmds.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
Applied. Thanks.
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Catalin
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2014-02-25 10:02 [PATCH V2] arm64: mm: Route pmd thp functions through pte equivalents Steve Capper
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