[PATCH -V10 00/15] THP support for PPC64

Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Jun 6 16:05:47 EST 2013


Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:31:06 +1000 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 20:58 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>> > 
>> > This is the second patchset needed to support THP on ppc64. Some of the changes
>> > included in this series are tricky in that it changes the powerpc linux page table
>> > walk subtly. We also overload few of the pte flags for ptes at PMD level (huge
>> > page PTEs).
>> > 
>> > The related mm/ changes are already merged to Andrew's -mm tree.
>> 
>> If I am to put that into powerpc-next, I need the dependent mm/ changes as well.
>> 
>> Do you have them in the form of a separate git tree that is *exactly* (same SHA1s)
>> what is expected to go upstream via Andrew ?
>> 
>> Andrew, are they fully acked on your side and ready to go ?
>
> Not being on linuxppc-dev I'm at a bit of a loss here.
>
> I assume we're referring to
>
> mm-thp-add-pmd-args-to-pgtable-deposit-and-withdraw-apis.patch
> mm-thp-withdraw-the-pgtable-after-pmdp-related-operations.patch
> mm-thp-withdraw-the-pgtable-after-pmdp-related-operations-fix.patch
> mm-thp-dont-use-hpage_shift-in-transparent-hugepage-code.patch
> mm-thp-deposit-the-transpare-huge-pgtable-before-set_pmd.patch
>

There is one more:

mm/THP: Use the right function when updating access flags

mm-thp-use-the-right-function-when-updating-access-flags.patc

-aneesh



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