[patch 10/10] x86/mm/cpa: Avoid the 4k pages check completely

2018-09-07 Thread Thomas Gleixner
The extra loop which tries hard to preserve large pages in case of conflicts with static protection regions turns out to be not preserving anything, at least not in the experiments which have been conducted. There might be corner cases in which the code would be able to preserve a large page

[patch 10/10] x86/mm/cpa: Avoid the 4k pages check completely

2018-09-07 Thread Thomas Gleixner
The extra loop which tries hard to preserve large pages in case of conflicts with static protection regions turns out to be not preserving anything, at least not in the experiments which have been conducted. There might be corner cases in which the code would be able to preserve a large page