[PATCH 0/3] Add support for free vmemmap pages of HugeTLB for arm64

[Bodeddula, Balasubramaniam]

Chen, is your testing steps documented somewhere, can you please point us to the same. I followed some steps for testing the x86 patches, just wanted to make sure I am covering your tests as well. We are actively working on building and testing these patches for ARM.

On 11/03/21, 9:44 AM, "Chen Huang" <chenhuang5 at huawei.com> wrote:

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    在 2021/3/10 15:15, Muchun Song 写道:
    > This patchset is based on the series of "Free some vmemmap pages of HugeTLB
    > page". More details can refer to the below link.
    >
    >   https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210308102807.59745-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com
    >
    > I often received some feedback (We want to test this feature on arm64) before.
    > Because the previous code has been reviewed for 18 versions and is merged
    > into mm tree, I think that it is time to release this patchset. If you want
    > to test then you can start now :-). And I also hope someone can review this.
    >
    > Thanks.
    >
    > Muchun Song (3):
    >   mm: bootmem_info: mark register_page_bootmem_info_section __init
    >   mm: hugetlb: introduce arch_free_vmemmap_page
    >   arm64: mm: hugetlb: add support for free vmemmap pages of HugeTLB
    >
    >  arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c   | 5 +++++
    >  arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 5 +++++
    >  fs/Kconfig            | 4 ++--
    >  mm/bootmem_info.c     | 4 ++--
    >  mm/sparse-vmemmap.c   | 9 +++++++--
    >  5 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
    >

    Tested-by: Chen Huang <chenhuang5 at huawei.com>

    I have tested the patch and the result is same as the last time.