Re: [PATCH v2 01/13] mm/Kconfig: CONFIG_PGTABLE_HAS_HUGE_LEAVES

From: Peter Xu
Date: Mon Jan 22 2024 - 03:25:41 EST


On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 01:37:37PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 05:14:11PM +0800, peterx@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Introduce a config option that will be selected as long as huge leaves are
> > involved in pgtable (thp or hugetlbfs). It would be useful to mark any
> > code with this new config that can process either hugetlb or thp pages in
> > any level that is higher than pte level.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > mm/Kconfig | 3 +++
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> So you mean anything that supports page table entires > PAGE_SIZE ?

Yes.

>
> Makes sense to me, though maybe add a comment in the kconfig?

Sure I'll add some.

>
> Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for your reviews and also positive comments in previous versions,
Jason. I appreciate that.

I'm just pretty occupied with other tasks recently so I don't yet have time
to revisit this series, along with other comments yet. I'll do so and
reply to the comments / discussions together afterwards.

--
Peter Xu