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

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Jun 19 2017 - 18:01:51 EST


On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 18:01:37 +0100 Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@xxxxxxx> 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 huge pages? "contiguous 4k ptes" doesn't sound
like a huge page at all - what's going on here?