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In preparation of making use of hardware assistance in TLB handlers, this patch temporarily disables 16K pages and hugepages. The reason is that when using HW assistance in 4K pages mode, the linux model fit with the HW model for 4K pages and 8M pages. However for 16K pages and 512K mode some additional work is needed to get linux model fit with HW model. For the 8M pages, they will naturaly come back when we switch to HW assistance, without any additional handling. In order to keep the following patch smaller, the removal of the current special handling for 8M pages gets removed here as well. Therefore the 4K pages mode will be implemented first and without support for 512k hugepages. Then the 512k hugepages will be brought back. And the 16K pages will be implemented in the following step. Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Linux kernel
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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 Restructured Text 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.