Re: [PATCH 0/5] remove tlb_remove_page_ptdesc()

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Sat Feb 08 2025 - 02:23:26 EST


On Fri, Jan 24, 2025 at 12:47:59PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Right, so I don't think Sparc and Power care to use ptdesc, they're
> using non page page-tables.

i think you mean s390, not sparc. all architectures _use_ ptdescs,
it's just that s390 and ppc use fractional ptdescs rather than an
entire ptdesc for an individual page table.

eventually we can change that, but we're looking out perhaps five years
before we can allocate a ptdesc for a sub-PAGE_SIZE quantity.