[PATCH v2 0/4] ARM: mm: HugeTLB + THP support.

Steve Capper steve.capper at linaro.org
Mon Jun 3 06:40:11 EDT 2013


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 04:31:16PM +0100, Steve Capper wrote:
> The following patches bring both HugeTLB support and Transparent
> HugePage (THP) support to ARM.
> 
> Only long descriptors (LPAE) are supported in this series.
> 
> The code has been tested on an Arndale board (Exynos 5250).
> 
> This patch set is based on 3.10-rc2.
> 
> Major changes since the Patch:
>  * LPAE code has been separated from non-LPAE code (this series
>    is the LPAE code).
>  * PROT_NONE support for HugeTLB and THP has been implemented.
> 
> Major changes since the RFC:
>  * huge pmd sharing removed from the 3-level code as this was
>    found to be very rarely, if ever?, used. This allowed for some
>    code simplification.
> 
>  * hardware pmd bits for 2-levels of paging are now taken from
>    mmu.c. Also the mapping code now uses pte/pmd bit helper
>    functions rather than the custom pre-processor logic.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Steve
> 

Hello,
I was wondering if anyone had any further comments on this series?

Russell,
Are you happy for these to go into your patch system, or should anything be
changed?

Thanks,
-- 
Steve 



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