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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/46] Based on latest mm-unstable (85b44c25cd1e).
On 01/05/23 11:47, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 05.01.23 11:17, James Houghton wrote:
> > This series introduces the concept of HugeTLB high-granularity mapping
> > (HGM). This series teaches HugeTLB how to map HugeTLB pages at
> > high-granularity, similar to how THPs can be PTE-mapped.
> >
> > Support for HGM in this series is for MAP_SHARED VMAs on x86 only. Other
> > architectures and (some) support for MAP_PRIVATE will come later.
>
> Why even care about the complexity of COW-sharable anon pages? TBH, I'd just
> limit this to MAP_SHARED and call it a day. Sure, we can come up with use
> cases for everything (snapshotting VMs using fork while also support
> optimized postcopy), but I think this would need some real justification for
> the added complexity and possible (likely!) issues.

I believe the primary use case driving this beyond MAP_SHARED would be
poisoning due to memory errors. Extending HGM seems to be the most
elegant way to start providing better support for this.
--
Mike Kravetz

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