On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 01:21:42AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.ku...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> THP code does PTE page allocation along with large page request and deposit 
> them
> for later use. This is to ensure that we won't have any failures when we split
> hugepages to regular pages.
> 
> On powerpc we want to use the deposited PTE page for storing hash pte slot and
> secondary bit information for the HPTEs. We use the second half
> of the pmd table to save the deposted PTE page.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.ku...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

So far so good.

Reviewed-by: David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

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