linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] mm: Introduce pXX_leaf

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Date:   Thu, 26 Nov 2020 12:43:49 +0000
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     kan.liang@...ux.intel.com, mingo@...nel.org, acme@...nel.org,
        mark.rutland@....com, alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] mm: Introduce pXX_leaf_size()

On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 01:01:16PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> A number of architectures have non-pagetable aligned huge/large pages.
> For such architectures a leaf can actually be part of a larger entry.
> 
> Provide generic helpers to determine the size of a page-table leaf.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>

Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org>