Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Oct 2018 18:08:58 +0100 | From | Catalin Marinas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation/arm64: HugeTLB page implementation |
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On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 12:50:49PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote: > On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 11:02:01AM +0100, Punit Agrawal wrote: > > Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> writes: > > > > > On 10/8/18 3:03 AM, Punit Agrawal wrote: > > >> Arm v8 architecture supports multiple page sizes - 4k, 16k and > > >> 64k. Based on the active page size, the Linux port supports > > >> corresponding hugepage sizes at PMD and PUD(4k only) levels. > > >> > > >> In addition, the architecture also supports caching larger sized > > >> ranges (composed of multiple entries) at the PTE and PMD level in the > > >> TLBs using the contiguous bit. The Linux port makes use of this > > >> architectural support to enable additional hugepage sizes. > > >> > > >> Describe the two different types of hugepages supported by the arm64 > > >> kernel and the hugepage sizes enabled by each. > > >> > > >> Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com> > > >> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> > > >> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> > > >> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> > > > > > > Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> > > > > Thanks! > > > > Catalin, Will - I assume you'll pick this up at some point? Or do arm64 > > documentation patches get routed by another tree? > > Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> > > Catalin can pick this up for 4.20.
Done.
-- Catalin
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