Matthew Wilcox writes:
> PowerPC has special handling of hugetlbfs pages. Well, that's what
> the config option says, but actually it handles THP as well. If
> the config option is enabled.
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
> if (PageCompound(page)) {
> flush_dcache_icache_
On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 05:08:16PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 04:07:36PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > For example, arm64 seems confused in this scenario:
> >
> > void flush_dcache_page(struct page *page)
> > {
> > if (test_bit(PG_dcache_clean, &page->flags))
>
On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 04:07:36PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> For example, arm64 seems confused in this scenario:
>
> void flush_dcache_page(struct page *page)
> {
> if (test_bit(PG_dcache_clean, &page->flags))
> clear_bit(PG_dcache_clean, &page->flags);
> }
>
> ...
>
If your arch does not support HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE, you can
stop reading now. Although maybe you're curious about adding support.
$ git grep -w HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE arch
arch/Kconfig:config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
arch/arc/Kconfig:config HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
a
