[PATCH V2] arm64: mm: Route pmd thp functions through pte equivalents

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Mar 14 13:57:09 EDT 2014


On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 10:02:13AM +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.
> 
> This allows THP to take advantage of the new PTE_WRITE logic introduced
> in:
>   c2c93e5 arm64: mm: Introduce PTE_WRITE
> 
> To represent splitting THPs we use the PTE_SPECIAL bit as this is not
> used for pmds.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper at linaro.org>

Applied. Thanks.

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Catalin



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