[PATCH v2 0/4] ARM: mm: HugeTLB + THP support.
Steve Capper
steve.capper at linaro.org
Tue Jun 4 08:56:12 EDT 2013
On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 11:40:11AM +0100, Steve Capper wrote:
> 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
Just a polite ping on the above.
Are people happy to have this patch set merged?
Thanks,
--
Steve
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