Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] Support for contiguous pte hugepages

2017-06-21 Thread Punit Agrawal
Andrew Morton writes: > On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 14:39:57 +0100 Punit Agrawal > wrote: > >> >> The architecture supports two flavours of hugepages - >> >> * Block mappings at the pud/pmd level >> >> These are regular hugepages where a pmd or a pud page table entry >> points to a block of memo

Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] Support for contiguous pte hugepages

2017-06-20 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 14:39:57 +0100 Punit Agrawal wrote: > > The architecture supports two flavours of hugepages - > > * Block mappings at the pud/pmd level > > These are regular hugepages where a pmd or a pud page table entry > points to a block of memory. Depending on the PAGE_SIZE in use

Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] Support for contiguous pte hugepages

2017-06-20 Thread Punit Agrawal
Andrew Morton writes: > On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 18:01:37 +0100 Punit Agrawal > wrote: > >> This is v5 of the patchset to update the hugetlb code to support >> contiguous hugepages. Previous version of the patchset can be found at >> [0]. > > Dumb question: is there a handy description anywhere whic

Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] Support for contiguous pte hugepages

2017-06-19 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 18:01:37 +0100 Punit Agrawal wrote: > This is v5 of the patchset to update the hugetlb code to support > contiguous hugepages. Previous version of the patchset can be found at > [0]. Dumb question: is there a handy description anywhere which describes how arm64 implements hug

[PATCH v5 0/8] Support for contiguous pte hugepages

2017-06-19 Thread Punit Agrawal
Hi Andrew, This is v5 of the patchset to update the hugetlb code to support contiguous hugepages. Previous version of the patchset can be found at [0]. The main changes in this version are updating Patch 4 and 7 due to issues highlighted in the previous postings (ltp and build failure). Please u