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    arch/tile: support multiple huge page sizes dynamically · 621b1955
    Chris Metcalf authored
    
    
    This change adds support for a new "super" bit in the PTE, using the new
    arch_make_huge_pte() method.  The Tilera hypervisor sees the bit set at a
    given level of the page table and gangs together 4, 16, or 64 consecutive
    pages from that level of the hierarchy to create a larger TLB entry.
    
    One extra "super" page size can be specified at each of the three levels
    of the page table hierarchy on tilegx, using the "hugepagesz" argument
    on the boot command line.  A new hypervisor API is added to allow Linux
    to tell the hypervisor how many PTEs to gang together at each level of
    the page table.
    
    To allow pre-allocating huge pages larger than the buddy allocator can
    handle, this change modifies the Tilera bootmem support to put all of
    memory on tilegx platforms into bootmem.
    
    As part of this change I eliminate the vestigial CONFIG_HIGHPTE support,
    which never worked anyway, and eliminate the hv_page_size() API in favor
    of the standard vma_kernel_pagesize() API.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
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