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author | Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> | 2012-12-12 13:51:05 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-12-12 17:38:31 -0800 |
commit | 78ca0e679203bbf74f8febd9725a1c8dd083d073 (patch) | |
tree | 6b2541d8cb1ee2697eb12a299447e5afc78f830c /COPYING | |
parent | 80371957f09814d25c38733d2d08de47f59a13c2 (diff) |
thp: lazy huge zero page allocation
Instead of allocating huge zero page on hugepage_init() we can postpone it
until first huge zero page map. It saves memory if THP is not in use.
cmpxchg() is used to avoid race on huge_zero_pfn initialization.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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