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From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:42:10 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] mm: make clear_huge_page cache clear only around the fault address
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On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 09:37:25PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 08:29:44PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 07:43:56PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > > Hm.. I think with static_key we can avoid cache overhead here. I'll try.
> > 
> > Could you elaborate on the static_key? Is it some sort of self
> > modifying code?
> 
> Runtime code patching. See Documentation/static-keys.txt. We can patch it
> on sysctl.

I guessed it had to be patching the code, thanks for the
pointer. It looks a perfect fit for this one agreed.