This patch series depends on dax pages not being PageReserved. Once that is in place, these changes will let KVM use huge pages with dax-backed files. Without the PageReserved change, KVM and DAX still work with these patches, simply without huge pages - which is the current situation.
RFC/discussion thread: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/ Barret Rhoden (2): mm: make dev_pagemap_mapping_shift() externally visible kvm: Use huge pages for DAX-backed files arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- include/linux/mm.h | 3 +++ mm/memory-failure.c | 38 +++----------------------------------- mm/util.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-) -- 2.19.1.930.g4563a0d9d0-goog _______________________________________________ Linux-nvdimm mailing list [email protected] https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-nvdimm
