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| From | Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCHv2 13/28] thp: support file pages in zap_huge_pmd() |
| Date | 2016-02-12 19:40 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <r1qNm-2ew-65@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <r10pQ-1zg-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <r10pQ-1zg-11@gated-at.bofh.it> |
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On 02/11/2016 06:21 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > For file pages we don't deposit page table on mapping: no need to > withdraw it. I thought the deposit thing was to guarantee we could always do a PMD split. It still seems like if you wanted to split a huge-tmpfs page, you'd need to first split the PMD which might need the deposited one. Why not?
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[PATCHv2 13/28] thp: support file pages in zap_huge_pmd() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-11 15:30 +0100
Re: [PATCHv2 13/28] thp: support file pages in zap_huge_pmd() Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> - 2016-02-12 19:40 +0100
Re: [PATCHv2 13/28] thp: support file pages in zap_huge_pmd() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> - 2016-02-16 11:10 +0100
Re: [PATCHv2 13/28] thp: support file pages in zap_huge_pmd() Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> - 2016-02-16 16:40 +0100
Re: [PATCHv2 13/28] thp: support file pages in zap_huge_pmd() "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> - 2016-02-18 13:20 +0100
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