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    thp: KSM on THP · 29ad768c
    Andrea Arcangeli authored
    
    
    This makes KSM full operational with THP pages.  Subpages are scanned
    while the hugepage is still in place and delivering max cpu performance,
    and only if there's a match and we're going to deduplicate memory, the
    single hugepages with the subpage match is split.
    
    There will be no false sharing between ksmd and khugepaged.  khugepaged
    won't collapse 2m virtual regions with KSM pages inside.  ksmd also should
    only split pages when the checksum matches and we're likely to split an
    hugepage for some long living ksm page (usual ksm heuristic to avoid
    sharing pages that get de-cowed).
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
    Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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