mm: hugetlb: Copy huge_pmd_share from x86 to mm.
authorSteve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:35:02 +0000 (12:35 +0100)
committerSteve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
Wed, 5 Mar 2014 07:03:01 +0000 (15:03 +0800)
commitc73e263bac89f90d65fdf42b667bb281faec7345
treef7accfc369139b4a6f86f4fd5aaecd25f1857269
parent61dde96f97bb5b1ed4c11caf9a857d55ad8f6e17
mm: hugetlb: Copy huge_pmd_share from x86 to mm.

Under x86, multiple puds can be made to reference the same bank of
huge pmds provided that they represent a full PUD_SIZE of shared
huge memory that is aligned to a PUD_SIZE boundary.

The code to share pmds does not require any architecture specific
knowledge other than the fact that pmds can be indexed, thus can
be beneficial to some other architectures.

This patch copies the huge pmd sharing (and unsharing) logic from
x86/ to mm/ and introduces a new config option to activate it:
CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_HUGE_PMD_SHARE

Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/hugetlb.h
mm/hugetlb.c