On 12/20/19 4:33 PM, Dan Williams wrote: ... >> I believe there might be also a different solution for this: For >> transparent huge pages, we could find a space in 'struct page' of the >> second page in the huge page for proper pin counter and just account pins >> there so we'd have full width of 32-bits for it. > > That would require THP accounting for dax pages. It is something that > was probably going to be needed, but this would seem to force the > issue. > Thanks for mentioning that, it wasn't obvious to me yet. How easy is it for mere mortals outside of Intel, to set up a DAX (nvdimm?) test setup? I'd hate to go into this without having that coverage up and running. It's been sketchy enough as it is. :) thanks, -- John Hubbard NVIDIA