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| author | Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> | 2022-06-28 12:22:30 +0300 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-08-09 04:06:42 +0300 |
| commit | dff033818a06e7d0bf79271e34bda11c2d9d98d0 (patch) | |
| tree | c4eaf7a87d3f4b6a9fe321e315482139732c16b4 /Documentation/mm | |
| parent | cf5472e561133888df81d2e48f7da9ebd3299459 (diff) | |
| download | linux-dff033818a06e7d0bf79271e34bda11c2d9d98d0.tar.xz | |
mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: introduce the name HVO
It it inconvenient to mention the feature of optimizing vmemmap pages
associated with HugeTLB pages when communicating with others since there
is no specific or abbreviated name for it when it is first introduced.
Let us give it a name HVO (HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization) from now.
This commit also updates the document about "hugetlb_free_vmemmap" by the
way discussed in thread [1].
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/21aae898-d54d-cc4b-a11f-1bb7fddcfffa@redhat.com/ [1]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220628092235.91270-4-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst b/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst index c9c495f62d12..7d7a161aa364 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ A vmemmap diet for HugeTLB and Device DAX HugeTLB ======= +This section is to explain how HugeTLB Vmemmap Optimization (HVO) works. + The struct page structures (page structs) are used to describe a physical page frame. By default, there is a one-to-one mapping from a page frame to it's corresponding page struct. |