On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 12:20:07PM -0700, Ralph Campbell wrote: > hmm_range_fault() returns an array of page frame numbers and flags for > how the pages are mapped in the requested process' page tables. The PFN > can be used to get the struct page with hmm_pfn_to_page() and the page size > order can be determined with compound_order(page) but if the page is larger > than order 0 (PAGE_SIZE), there is no indication that the page is mapped > using a larger page size. To be fully general, hmm_range_fault() would need > to return the mapping size to handle cases like a 1GB compound page being > mapped with 2MB PMD entries. However, the most common case is the mapping > size the same as the underlying compound page size. > Add a new output flag to indicate this so that callers know it is safe to > use a large device page table mapping if one is available. Why do you need the flag? The caller should be able to just use page_size() (or willys new thp_size helper).
