On 11/04/2019 22:53, Rob Herring wrote:
> Add support for 2MB sized pages. This will improve our map and unmap
> times and save a bit of memory by avoiding 3rd level page tables for
> contiguous allocations.
> 
> As we use shmem for buffers and huge page allocations for shmem are off
> by default, there isn't an improvement out of the box and userspace must
> enable THP for shmem.
> 
> It's not clear if the h/w can support 1GB page sizes which standard
> ARM long format descriptors support. In any case, it is unlikely we'll
> see any contiguous 1GB allocations on current h/w.
> 
> Cc: Tomeu Vizoso <[email protected]>
> Cc: David Airlie <[email protected]>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <[email protected]>

LGTM, and I see a nice speed up too!

Reviewed-by: Steven Price <[email protected]>
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