[PATCH 2/3] arm64: mm: Route pmd thp functions through pte equivalents

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed Feb 12 05:14:23 EST 2014


On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 02:16:10PM +0000, Steve Capper wrote:
> Rather than have separate hugetlb and transparent huge page pmd
> manipulation functions, re-wire our thp functions to simply call the
> pte equivalents.

That's one thing I don't like about hugetlb, casting pmds to ptes. Do we
actually save much in terms of code clean-up by doing this?

-- 
Catalin



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