On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 04:57:24PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 03:30:22PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > This confuses me. Why only special-case hugetlbfs pages here? Should
> > they really be treated differently from THP? If you want to consider
> > that we might be mapping a page that's twice as big as a PUD entry and
> > this is only half of it, then the simple way is:
> >
> > if (pud_leaf(pud)) {
> > #ifdef pud_page
> > page = compound_head(pud_page(*pud));
> > return page_size(page);
>
> Also; this is 'wrong'. The purpose of this function is to return the
> hardware TLB size of a given address. The above will return the compound
> size, for any random compound page, which would be myrads of reasons.
Oh, then the whole thing is overly-complicated. This should just be
if (pud_leaf(pud))
return PUD_SIZE;
