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authorAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>2023-07-24 21:07:57 +0200
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2023-08-18 19:12:55 +0200
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powerpc/book3s64/radix: add support for vmemmap optimization for radix
With 2M PMD-level mapping, we require 32 struct pages and a single vmemmap page can contain 1024 struct pages (PAGE_SIZE/sizeof(struct page)). Hence with 64K page size, we don't use vmemmap deduplication for PMD-level mapping. [aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com: ppc64: don't include radix headers if CONFIG_PPC_RADIX_MMU=n] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87zg3jw8km.fsf@linux.ibm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230724190759.483013-12-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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@@ -210,6 +210,7 @@ the device (altmap).
The following page sizes are supported in DAX: PAGE_SIZE (4K on x86_64),
PMD_SIZE (2M on x86_64) and PUD_SIZE (1G on x86_64).
+For powerpc equivalent details see Documentation/powerpc/vmemmap_dedup.rst
The differences with HugeTLB are relatively minor.