From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx138.postini.com [74.125.245.138]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 478BD6B0082 for ; Fri, 24 May 2013 07:12:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 12:11:52 +0100 From: Catalin Marinas Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] mm: hugetlb: Copy huge_pmd_share from x86 to mm. Message-ID: <20130524111152.GD18272@arm.com> References: <1369328878-11706-1-git-send-email-steve.capper@linaro.org> <1369328878-11706-2-git-send-email-steve.capper@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1369328878-11706-2-git-send-email-steve.capper@linaro.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Steve Capper Cc: "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "x86@kernel.org" , "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , Michal Hocko , Ken Chen , Mel Gorman , Will Deacon , "patches@linaro.org" On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 06:07:48PM +0100, Steve Capper wrote: > Under x86, multiple puds can be made to reference the same bank of > huge pmds provided that they represent a full PUD_SIZE of shared > huge memory that is aligned to a PUD_SIZE boundary. > > The code to share pmds does not require any architecture specific > knowledge other than the fact that pmds can be indexed, thus can > be beneficial to some other architectures. > > This patch copies the huge pmd sharing (and unsharing) logic from > x86/ to mm/ and introduces a new config option to activate it: > CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_HUGE_PMD_SHARE > > Signed-off-by: Steve Capper Acked-by: Catalin Marinas -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org