Re: [PATCH V3 3/5] mm/hugetlb: Enable arch specific huge page size support for migration

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Wed Oct 24 2018 - 09:59:04 EST


On Wed 24-10-18 15:56:39, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 23-10-18 18:31:59, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> > Architectures like arm64 have HugeTLB page sizes which are different than
> > generic sizes at PMD, PUD, PGD level and implemented via contiguous bits.
> > At present these special size HugeTLB pages cannot be identified through
> > macros like (PMD|PUD|PGDIR)_SHIFT and hence chosen not be migrated.
> >
> > Enabling migration support for these special HugeTLB page sizes along with
> > the generic ones (PMD|PUD|PGD) would require identifying all of them on a
> > given platform. A platform specific hook can precisely enumerate all huge
> > page sizes supported for migration. Instead of comparing against standard
> > huge page orders let hugetlb_migration_support() function call a platform
> > hook arch_hugetlb_migration_support(). Default definition for the platform
> > hook maintains existing semantics which checks standard huge page order.
> > But an architecture can choose to override the default and provide support
> > for a comprehensive set of huge page sizes.
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>

fat fingers here, should be mhocko@xxxxxxxx of course.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs