Documentation/arm64: HugeTLB page implementation
authorPunit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com>
Mon, 8 Oct 2018 10:03:55 +0000 (11:03 +0100)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Wed, 10 Oct 2018 17:08:36 +0000 (18:08 +0100)
commit0c09d4856462bf71e37ccd26d0deb53aad6cee6a
tree6fce5db6f1bf8393faf760c5ccf1b54e1ad72fb8
parent26a6f87ef596e612ab79e456155e195f2fa9b891
Documentation/arm64: HugeTLB page implementation

Arm v8 architecture supports multiple page sizes - 4k, 16k and
64k. Based on the active page size, the Linux port supports
corresponding hugepage sizes at PMD and PUD(4k only) levels.

In addition, the architecture also supports caching larger sized
ranges (composed of multiple entries) at the PTE and PMD level in the
TLBs using the contiguous bit. The Linux port makes use of this
architectural support to enable additional hugepage sizes.

Describe the two different types of hugepages supported by the arm64
kernel and the hugepage sizes enabled by each.

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Documentation/arm64/hugetlbpage.txt [new file with mode: 0644]