Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC 5/9] powerpc/mm: Split huge_pte_offset function for BOOK3S 64K | From | Dave Hansen <> | Date | Wed, 9 Mar 2016 14:57:29 -0800 |
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On 03/09/2016 04:10 AM, Anshuman Khandual wrote: > Currently the 'huge_pte_offset' function has only one version for > all the configuations and platforms. This change splits the function > into two versions, one for 64K page size based BOOK3S implementation > and the other one for everything else. This change is also one of the > prerequisites towards enabling GENERAL_HUGETLB implementation for > BOOK3S 64K based huge pages.
I think there's a bit of background missing here for random folks on linux-mm to make sense of these patches.
What is BOOK3S and what does it mean for these patches? Why is its 64K page size implementation different than all the others? Is there a 4K page size BOOK3S?
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