linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] Support for contiguous pte hugepages

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Message-Id: <20170619150133.cb4173220e4e3abd02c6f6d0@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:01:33 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@....com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, catalin.marinas@....com,
        will.deacon@....com, n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com,
        kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com, mike.kravetz@...cle.com,
        steve.capper@....com, mark.rutland@....com,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] Support for contiguous pte hugepages

On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 18:01:37 +0100 Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@....com> wrote:

> This is v5 of the patchset to update the hugetlb code to support
> contiguous hugepages. Previous version of the patchset can be found at
> [0].

Dumb question: is there a handy description anywhere which describes
how arm64 implements huge pages?  "contiguous 4k ptes" doesn't sound
like a huge page at all - what's going on here?