Re: [PATCH v15 11/11] KVM: arm/arm64: Add support to dissolve huge PUD

Mario Smarduch <[email protected]> Thu, 08 Jan 2015 16:42:37 +0000
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.kvm-ia64,org.infradead.lists.linux-arm-kernel,org.kernel.vger.kvm,org.kernel.vger.kvm-ppc
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On 01/08/2015 03:32 AM, Christoffer Dall wrote:
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>> Not sure myself what's the vision for PUD support.
>>
> 
> with 4-level paging on aarch64, we use PUDs but we haven't added any
> code to insert huge PUDs (only regular ones) on the stage-2 page tables,
> even if the host kernel happens to suddenly support huge PUDs for the
> stage-1 page tables, which is what I think we were trying to address.
> 
> 
> So I really think we can drop this whole patch.  As I said, really sorry
> about this one!
No problem I'll drop this patch.
> 
> -Christoffer
>