Re: [PATCH -V7 01/10] powerpc/THP: Double the PMD table size for THP

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On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 01:21:42AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> THP code does PTE page allocation along with large page request and deposit them
> for later use. This is to ensure that we won't have any failures when we split
> hugepages to regular pages.
> 
> On powerpc we want to use the deposited PTE page for storing hash pte slot and
> secondary bit information for the HPTEs. We use the second half
> of the pmd table to save the deposted PTE page.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

So far so good.

Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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