On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 06:39:53PM +0000, Alexandre Ghiti wrote: > From: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@xxxxxxxx> > > On systems without CMA or (MEMORY_ISOLATION && COMPACTION) activated but > that support gigantic pages, boottime reserved gigantic pages can not be > freed at all. This patchs simply enables the possibility to hand back > those pages to memory allocator. > > This commit then renames gigantic_page_supported and > ARCH_HAS_GIGANTIC_PAGE to make them more accurate. Indeed, those values > being false does not mean that the system cannot use gigantic pages: it > just means that runtime allocation of gigantic pages is not supported, > one can still allocate boottime gigantic pages if the architecture supports > it. > > Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@xxxxxxxx> > --- > > - Compiled on all architectures > - Tested on riscv architecture > > arch/arm64/Kconfig | 2 +- > arch/arm64/include/asm/hugetlb.h | 7 +++-- The arm64 bits look straightforward enough to me... Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Will
