From c46a7c817e662a820373bb76b88d0ad67d6abe5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 16:06:30 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] x86: define _PAGE_NUMA by reusing software bits on the PMD and PTE levels _PAGE_NUMA is currently an alias of _PROT_PROTNONE to trap NUMA hinting faults on x86. Care is taken such that _PAGE_NUMA is used only in situations where the VMA flags distinguish between NUMA hinting faults and prot_none faults. This decision was x86-specific and conceptually it is difficult requiring special casing to distinguish between PROTNONE and NUMA ptes based on context. Fundamentally, we only need the _PAGE_NUMA bit to tell the difference between an entry that is really unmapped and a page that is protected for NUMA hinting faults as if the PTE is not present then a fault will be trapped. Swap PTEs on x86-64 use the bits after _PAGE_GLOBAL for the offset. This patch shrinks the maximum possible swap size and uses the bit to uniquely distinguish between NUMA hinting ptes and swap ptes. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Cc: David Vrabel Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Anvin Cc: Fengguang Wu Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Steven Noonan Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed