[PATCH v2 4/4] mm/vmalloc: Hugepage vmalloc mappings

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Tue Apr 14 23:02:03 AEST 2020


On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 10:13:44PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Which case? Usually the answer would be because you don't want to use
> contiguous physical memory and/or you don't want to use the linear 
> mapping.

But with huge pages you do by definition already use large contiguous
areas.  So you want allocations larger than "small" huge pages but not
using gigantic pages using vmalloc?


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