Re: [PATCH 00/45] hugetlb pagewalk unification

[Oscar Salvador]

On Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 06:30:47AM +0200, Oscar Salvador wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> During Peter's talk at the LSFMM, it was agreed that one of the things
> that need to be done in order to further integrate hugetlb into mm core,
> is to unify generic and hugetlb pagewalkers.
> I started with this one, which is unifying hugetlb into generic
> pagewalk, instead of having its hugetlb_entry entries.
> Which means that pmd_entry/pte_entry(for cont-pte) entries will also deal with
> hugetlb vmas as well, and so will new pud_entry entries since hugetlb can be
> pud mapped (devm pages as well but we seem not to care about those with
> the exception of hmm code).
> 
> The outcome is this RFC.

Just dropping the git tree, in case someone finds it more suitable:

https://github.com/leberus/linux/ hugetlb-unification-pagewalk 


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Oscar Salvador
SUSE Labs