Re: [RFC PATCH] arm64/hugetlb enable gigantic hugepage

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Fri Aug 19 2016 - 06:25:59 EST


On Thu 18-08-16 20:05:29, Xie Yisheng wrote:
> As we know, arm64 also support gigantic hugepage eg. 1G.

Well, I do not know that. How can I check?

Anyway to the patch
[...]
> index 87e11d8..b4d8048 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -1022,7 +1022,8 @@ static int hstate_next_node_to_free(struct hstate *h, nodemask_t *nodes_allowed)
> ((node = hstate_next_node_to_free(hs, mask)) || 1); \
> nr_nodes--)
>
> -#if (defined(CONFIG_X86_64) || defined(CONFIG_S390)) && \
> +#if (defined(CONFIG_X86_64) || defined(CONFIG_S390) || \
> + defined(CONFIG_ARM64)) && \
> ((defined(CONFIG_MEMORY_ISOLATION) && defined(CONFIG_COMPACTION)) || \
> defined(CONFIG_CMA))

this ifdef is getting pretty unwieldy. For one thing I think that
respective archs should enable ARCH_HAVE_GIGANTIC_PAGES.

> static void destroy_compound_gigantic_page(struct page *page,
> --
> 1.7.12.4
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