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SubjectRe: [External] Re: [PATCH] docs: mm: Fix number of base pages for 1GB HugeTLB
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On 08/02/2023 09:51, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2023 at 11:44:56AM +0000, Usama Arif wrote:
>> 1GB HugeTLB page consists of 262144 base pages.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@bytedance.com>
>
> Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
>
>> ---
>> Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst | 3 ++-
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst b/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst
>> index a4b12ff906c4..689a6907c70b 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst
>> +++ b/Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst
>> @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
>> +
>> .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>>
>> =========================================
>> @@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ HugeTLB pages consist of multiple base page size pages and is supported by many
>> architectures. See Documentation/admin-guide/mm/hugetlbpage.rst for more
>> details. On the x86-64 architecture, HugeTLB pages of size 2MB and 1GB are
>> currently supported. Since the base page size on x86 is 4KB, a 2MB HugeTLB page
>> -consists of 512 base pages and a 1GB HugeTLB page consists of 4096 base pages.
>> +consists of 512 base pages and a 1GB HugeTLB page consists of 262144 base pages.
>> For each base page, there is a corresponding ``struct page``.
>>
>> Within the HugeTLB subsystem, only the first 4 ``struct page`` are used to
>> --
>> 2.25.1
>>
>

Hi,

Was just reading vmemmap_dedup.rst for something and realized that its
still 4096 pages for 1G, maybe this patch got missed?

Thanks,
Usama

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