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Support huge (PMD-size and PUD-size) page-table entries by providing a huge_fault() callback. We still support private mappings and write-notify by splitting the huge page-table entries on write-access. Note that for huge page-faults to occur, either the kernel needs to be compiled with trans-huge-pages always enabled, or the kernel needs to be compiled with trans-huge-pages enabled using madvise, and the user-space app needs to call madvise() to enable trans-huge pages on a per-mapping basis. Furthermore huge page-faults will not succeed unless buffer objects and user-space addresses are aligned on huge page size boundaries. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com> Cc: "Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com> Cc: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom (VMware) <thomas_os@shipmail.org> Reviewed-by: Roland Scheidegger <sroland@vmware.com> Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
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