From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, catalin.marinas@arm.com,
will.deacon@arm.com, n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com,
kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, mike.kravetz@oracle.com,
steve.capper@arm.com, mark.rutland@arm.com,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] Support for contiguous pte hugepages
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:01:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170619150133.cb4173220e4e3abd02c6f6d0@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170619170145.25577-1-punit.agrawal@arm.com>
On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 18:01:37 +0100 Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com> wrote:
> This is v5 of the patchset to update the hugetlb code to support
> contiguous hugepages. Previous version of the patchset can be found at
> [0].
Dumb question: is there a handy description anywhere which describes
how arm64 implements huge pages? "contiguous 4k ptes" doesn't sound
like a huge page at all - what's going on here?
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-19 17:01 [PATCH v5 0/8] Support for contiguous pte hugepages Punit Agrawal
2017-06-19 17:01 ` [PATCH v5 1/8] arm64: hugetlb: Refactor find_num_contig Punit Agrawal
2017-06-19 17:01 ` [PATCH v5 2/8] arm64: hugetlb: Remove spurious calls to huge_ptep_offset Punit Agrawal
2017-06-19 17:01 ` [PATCH v5 3/8] mm, gup: Remove broken VM_BUG_ON_PAGE compound check for hugepages Punit Agrawal
2017-06-19 17:01 ` [PATCH v5 4/8] mm, gup: Ensure real head page is ref-counted when using hugepages Punit Agrawal
2017-06-19 17:01 ` [PATCH v5 5/8] mm/hugetlb: add size parameter to huge_pte_offset() Punit Agrawal
2017-06-19 17:01 ` [PATCH v5 6/8] mm/hugetlb: Allow architectures to override huge_pte_clear() Punit Agrawal
2017-06-19 17:01 ` [PATCH v5 7/8] mm/hugetlb: Introduce set_huge_swap_pte_at() helper Punit Agrawal
2017-06-19 17:01 ` [PATCH v5 8/8] mm: rmap: Use correct helper when poisoning hugepages Punit Agrawal
2017-06-19 22:01 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2017-06-20 13:39 ` [PATCH v5 0/8] Support for contiguous pte hugepages Punit Agrawal
2017-06-20 21:08 ` Andrew Morton
2017-06-21 12:32 ` Punit Agrawal
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