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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 20/36] powerpc, thp: remove infrastructure for handling splitting PMDs
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    "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> writes:

    > With new refcounting we don't need to mark PMDs splitting. Let's drop
    > code to handle this.
    >
    > pmdp_splitting_flush() is not needed too: on splitting PMD we will do
    > pmdp_clear_flush() + set_pte_at(). pmdp_clear_flush() will do IPI as
    > needed for fast_gup.
    >

    Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>



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