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)
committerMark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
Thu, 15 May 2014 18:59:47 +0000 (19:59 +0100)
commitaee2c0d2d061df8d978c73022b48049de78e6a46
tree26fddd4a847afa96b71bb55a390463c4f1196060
parent1a4f98ef5fe1d2e9a0eb45ee03b415495d1ea406
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