Re: [PATCHv4 15/24] mm, thp: remove infrastructure for handling splitting PMDs

From: Aneesh Kumar K.V
Date: Sun Mar 29 2015 - 12:11:20 EST


"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> With new refcounting we don't need to mark PMDs splitting. Let's drop code
> to handle this.
>
> Arch-specific code will removed separately.
>

Can you explain this more ? Why we don't care of PMD splitting case even
w.r.t to split_huge_page() ?

-aneesh

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