From: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>
To: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>,
Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>, Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
Christophe Leroy <chleroy@kernel.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/11] Documentation/mm: update DAX vmemmap deduplication docs
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2026 17:29:34 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cc7003c6-9be6-430e-a37b-e43a08402825@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260908030335.96549-12-songmuchun@bytedance.com>
On 9/8/26 11:03 AM, Muchun Song wrote:
> Device DAX now uses the common per-zone shared tail page for vmemmap
> deduplication. The old documentation still described a DAX-specific
> layout with a separately populated tail vmemmap page and half the HugeTLB
> savings.
>
> Update the generic and powerpc documentation to describe the shared layout.
> In the powerpc document, keep the radix and 64K-specific details, drop the
> duplicated 4K PUD arithmetic, and replace the repeated device-dax diagrams
> with a single parameterized PMD/PUD diagram.
>
> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
> ---
> v2:
> - Clarify the commit message to state that the 4K PUD arithmetic is
> intentionally dropped reported by Sashiko.
> ---
> Documentation/arch/powerpc/vmemmap_dedup.rst | 90 ++++----------------
> Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst | 32 +------
> 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 101 deletions(-)
Acked-by: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>
Thanks,
Qi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-08 9:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-08 3:03 [PATCH v2 00/11] mm: Switch device DAX to section-based vmemmap optimization Muchun Song
2026-09-08 3:03 ` [PATCH v2 01/11] mm/sparse-vmemmap: introduce CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_OPTIMIZATION Muchun Song
2026-09-08 3:03 ` [PATCH v2 02/11] mm/sparse-vmemmap: factor out shared vmemmap tail page allocation Muchun Song
2026-09-08 3:03 ` [PATCH v2 03/11] mm/sparse-vmemmap: open-code init_compound_tail() Muchun Song
2026-09-10 7:50 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-09-08 3:03 ` [PATCH v2 04/11] mm/sparse-vmemmap: prepare DAX vmemmap population for section orders Muchun Song
2026-09-08 3:03 ` [PATCH v2 05/11] mm/sparse-vmemmap: set section order for device DAX Muchun Song
2026-09-08 3:03 ` [PATCH v2 06/11] mm/sparse-vmemmap: switch device DAX to shared tail vmemmap pages Muchun Song
2026-09-08 4:09 ` Muchun Song
2026-09-08 7:46 ` Qi Zheng
2026-09-08 8:34 ` Muchun Song
2026-09-08 3:03 ` [PATCH v2 07/11] mm/sparse-vmemmap: move HVO helpers to a public header Muchun Song
2026-09-08 8:19 ` Qi Zheng
2026-09-08 3:03 ` [PATCH v2 08/11] powerpc/mm: switch device DAX to shared tail vmemmap pages Muchun Song
2026-09-08 3:03 ` [PATCH v2 09/11] mm/sparse-vmemmap: drop the extra tail page from device DAX reservation Muchun Song
2026-09-08 9:09 ` Qi Zheng
2026-09-08 9:12 ` Muchun Song
2026-09-08 3:03 ` [PATCH v2 10/11] mm/sparse-vmemmap: drop unused section_nr_vmemmap_pages() arguments Muchun Song
2026-09-08 9:23 ` Qi Zheng
2026-09-08 3:03 ` [PATCH v2 11/11] Documentation/mm: update DAX vmemmap deduplication docs Muchun Song
2026-09-08 9:29 ` Qi Zheng [this message]
2026-09-09 1:45 ` [PATCH v2 00/11] mm: Switch device DAX to section-based vmemmap optimization Andrew Morton
2026-09-10 6:48 ` Muchun Song
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