1. 07 11月, 2008 1 次提交
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      hugetlbfs: handle pages higher order than MAX_ORDER · 69d177c2
      Andy Whitcroft 提交于
      When working with hugepages, hugetlbfs assumes that those hugepages are
      smaller than MAX_ORDER.  Specifically it assumes that the mem_map is
      contigious and uses that to optimise access to the elements of the mem_map
      that represent the hugepage.  Gigantic pages (such as 16GB pages on
      powerpc) by definition are of greater order than MAX_ORDER (larger than
      MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES in size).  This means that we can no longer make use of
      the buddy alloctor guarentees for the contiguity of the mem_map, which
      ensures that the mem_map is at least contigious for maximmally aligned
      areas of MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES pages.
      
      This patch adds new mem_map accessors and iterator helpers which handle
      any discontiguity at MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundaries.  It then uses these to
      implement gigantic page versions of copy_huge_page and clear_huge_page,
      and to allow follow_hugetlb_page handle gigantic pages.
      Signed-off-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
      Cc: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.27.x]
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      69d177c2
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