RE: [External] Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm: pgalloc: support address-conditional pmd allocation

2024-02-21 Thread Maxwell Bland
> On February 21, 2024 3:27 AM David Hildenbrand wrote > On 21.02.24 08:13, Christophe Leroy wrote: > > Le 20/02/2024 à 21:32, Maxwell Bland a écrit : > >> > >> While other descriptors (e.g. pud) allow allocations conditional on > >> which virtual address is allocated, pmd descriptor allocations do

Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm: pgalloc: support address-conditional pmd allocation

2024-02-21 Thread David Hildenbrand
On 21.02.24 08:13, Christophe Leroy wrote: Le 20/02/2024 à 21:32, Maxwell Bland a écrit : [Vous ne recevez pas souvent de courriers de mbl...@motorola.com. Découvrez pourquoi ceci est important à https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification ] While other descriptors (e.g. pud) allow allocat

Re: [PATCH 2/4] mm: pgalloc: support address-conditional pmd allocation

2024-02-21 Thread Christophe Leroy
Le 20/02/2024 à 21:32, Maxwell Bland a écrit : > [Vous ne recevez pas souvent de courriers de mbl...@motorola.com. Découvrez > pourquoi ceci est important à https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification ] > > While other descriptors (e.g. pud) allow allocations conditional on > which virtual ad

[PATCH 2/4] mm: pgalloc: support address-conditional pmd allocation

2024-02-20 Thread Maxwell Bland
While other descriptors (e.g. pud) allow allocations conditional on which virtual address is allocated, pmd descriptor allocations do not. However, adding support for this is straightforward and is beneficial to future kernel development targeting the PMD memory granularity. As many architectures