On Sat, May 27, 2023 at 04:09:31PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sat, May 27, 2023 at 01:41:44PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > Sorry if I wasn't clear, by "page table page" I meant the page (or memory
> > for that matter) for actual page table rather than struct page describing
> > that memor
On Sat, May 27, 2023 at 01:41:44PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> Sorry if I wasn't clear, by "page table page" I meant the page (or memory
> for that matter) for actual page table rather than struct page describing
> that memory.
>
> So what we allocate here is the actual memory for the page table
On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 01:53:24PM -0700, Vishal Moola wrote:
> On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 1:26 PM Mike Rapoport wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 11:04:28AM -0700, Vishal Moola wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 2:10 AM Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > > > > +
> > > > > +static inline struct ptdesc
On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 1:26 PM Mike Rapoport wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 11:04:28AM -0700, Vishal Moola wrote:
> > On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 2:10 AM Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > > > +
> > > > +static inline struct ptdesc *ptdesc_alloc(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int
> > > > order)
> > > > +{
> > > > +
On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 11:04:28AM -0700, Vishal Moola wrote:
> On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 2:10 AM Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > > +
> > > +static inline struct ptdesc *ptdesc_alloc(gfp_t gfp, unsigned int order)
> > > +{
> > > + struct page *page = alloc_pages(gfp | __GFP_COMP, order);
> > > +
> > >
On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 2:10 AM Mike Rapoport wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 01, 2023 at 12:28:00PM -0700, Vishal Moola (Oracle) wrote:
> > Introduce utility functions setting the foundation for ptdescs. These
> > will also assist in the splitting out of ptdesc from struct page.
> >
> > ptdesc_alloc() is
On Mon, May 01, 2023 at 12:28:00PM -0700, Vishal Moola (Oracle) wrote:
> Introduce utility functions setting the foundation for ptdescs. These
> will also assist in the splitting out of ptdesc from struct page.
>
> ptdesc_alloc() is defined to allocate new ptdesc pages as compound
> pages. This is
Introduce utility functions setting the foundation for ptdescs. These
will also assist in the splitting out of ptdesc from struct page.
ptdesc_alloc() is defined to allocate new ptdesc pages as compound
pages. This is to standardize ptdescs by allowing for one allocation
and one free function, in
