Re: [PATCH v7] mm: Add PM_THP_MAPPED to /proc/pid/pagemap

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On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 04:01:02PM -0800, Mina Almasry wrote:
> Add PM_THP_MAPPED MAPPING to allow userspace to detect whether a given virt
> address is currently mapped by a transparent huge page or not.  Example
> use case is a process requesting THPs from the kernel (via a huge tmpfs
> mount for example), for a performance critical region of memory.  The
> userspace may want to query whether the kernel is actually backing this
> memory by hugepages or not.

But what is userspace going to _do_ differently if the kernel hasn't
backed the memory with huge pages?



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