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The previous code assumed that if a region's first page was huge, the entire region consisted of huge pages and stored this in a large_pages flag. This premise is incorrect not only for movable regions (where pages can be split and merged on invalidate callbacks or page faults), but even for pinned regions: THPs can be split and merged during allocation, so a large, pinned region may contain a mix of huge and regular pages. This change removes the large_pages flag and replaces region-wide assumptions with per-chunk inspection of the actual page size when mapping, unmapping, sharing, and unsharing. This makes huge page handling correct for mixed-page regions and avoids relying on stale metadata that can easily become invalid as memory is remapped. Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsburskii <skinsburskii@linux.microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Anirudh Rayabharam (Microsoft) <anirudh@anirudhrb.com> Reviewed-by: Nuno Das Neves <nunodasneves@linux.microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.