• [$] Better hugetlb page-table walking

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Thu Apr 3 15:30:07 2025
    [$] Better hugetlb page-table walking

    Date:
    Thu, 03 Apr 2025 14:15:05 +0000

    Description:
    The kernel must often step through the page tables of one or more processes
    to carry out various operations. This "page-table walking" tends to be performed by ad-hoc (duplicated) code all over the kernel. Oscar Salvador
    used a memory-management-track session at the 2025 Linux Storage,
    Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit to talk about strategies to
    unify the kernel's page-table walking code just a little bit by making
    hugetlb pages look more like ordinary pages.

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/1016011/


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