On Mon, 26 Jul 2021 16:35:46 +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
> A while ago, Willy and Sean pointed out[0] that arm64 is the last user
> of kvm_is_transparent_hugepage(), and that there would actually be
> some benefit in looking at the userspace mapping directly instead.
>
> This small series does exactly that, although it doesn't try to
> support more than a PMD-sized mapping yet for THPs. We could probably
> look into unifying this with the huge PUD code, and there is still
> some potential use of the contiguous hint.
>
> [...]
Applied to next, thanks!
[1/6] KVM: arm64: Introduce helper to retrieve a PTE and its level
commit: 63db506e07622c344a3c748a1c06293d48780f83
[2/6] KVM: arm64: Walk userspace page tables to compute the THP mapping size
commit: 6011cf68c88545e16cb32039c2cecfdae6a32315
[3/6] KVM: arm64: Avoid mapping size adjustment on permission fault
commit: f2cc327303b13a70311e823bd52aa0bca8c7ddbc
[4/6] KVM: Remove kvm_is_transparent_hugepage() and PageTransCompoundMap()
commit: 205d76ff0684a0b4fe3ff3a283d143a47439d191
[5/6] KVM: arm64: Use get_page() instead of kvm_get_pfn()
commit: 0fe49630101b3ce23bd21a2788440ac719ec868a
[6/6] KVM: Get rid of kvm_get_pfn()
commit: 36c3ce6c0d03a6c9992c3359f879cdc70fde836a
Cheers,
M.
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