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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] sparc64: Trim page tables for 8M hugepages
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From: Nitin Gupta <nitin.m.gupta@oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2016 00:54:21 -0700

> For PMD aligned (8M) hugepages, we currently allocate
> all four page table levels which is wasteful. We now
> allocate till PMD level only which saves memory usage
> from page tables.
>
> Also, when freeing page table for 8M hugepage backed region,
> make sure we don't try to access non-existent PTE level.
>
> Orabug: 22630259
>
> Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <nitin.m.gupta@oracle.com>
> ---
> Changelog v2 vs v1
> - Combine fix for page table freeing with the main trimming patch (Dave)

Applied, thanks.

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