[PATCH v2 01/13] mm/Kconfig: CONFIG_PGTABLE_HAS_HUGE_LEAVES

Peter Xu peterx at redhat.com
Mon Jan 22 00:25:12 PST 2024


On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 01:37:37PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 05:14:11PM +0800, peterx at redhat.com wrote:
> > From: Peter Xu <peterx at redhat.com>
> > 
> > Introduce a config option that will be selected as long as huge leaves are
> > involved in pgtable (thp or hugetlbfs).  It would be useful to mark any
> > code with this new config that can process either hugetlb or thp pages in
> > any level that is higher than pte level.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  mm/Kconfig | 3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> So you mean anything that supports page table entires > PAGE_SIZE ?

Yes.

> 
> Makes sense to me, though maybe add a comment in the kconfig?

Sure I'll add some.

> 
> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at nvidia.com>

Thanks for your reviews and also positive comments in previous versions,
Jason.  I appreciate that.

I'm just pretty occupied with other tasks recently so I don't yet have time
to revisit this series, along with other comments yet.  I'll do so and
reply to the comments / discussions together afterwards.

-- 
Peter Xu




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