[PATCH v1 0/2] KVM: arm64: Use folio for THP support
Vincent Donnefort
vdonnefort at google.com
Wed Sep 27 05:39:39 PDT 2023
On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 06:30:40AM +0000, Oliver Upton wrote:
> Vincent,
>
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 07:19:30PM +0100, Vincent Donnefort wrote:
> > With the introduction of folios for transparent huge pages [1], we
> > can rely on this support to identify if a page is backed by a huge one,
> > saving a page table walk.
>
> Better yet, this gets rid of a particular walk that has had some rather
> hairy bugs in the past :)
>
> > [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220504182857.4013401-3-willy@infradead.org
>
> nit: for the sake of posterity, it might be good to stick a reference to
> commit cb196ee1ef39 ("mm/huge_memory: convert do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page()
> to use vma_alloc_folio()") in the changelogs.
I'll add that reference in the following version.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Oliver
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