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s390/mm,vmemmap: use 1MB frames for vmemmap
authorHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:18:05 +0000 (12:18 +0200)
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:47:28 +0000 (12:47 +0200)
commit23e55f034a8fda694e007c9ba0d1ee5554ed079a
tree56effb26edd20ced072e7be416b13024a55c7094
parentaa9cd423240ab415de95935e116fe6bc6c4117ff
s390/mm,vmemmap: use 1MB frames for vmemmap

Use 1MB frames for vmemmap if EDAT1 is available in order to
reduce TLB pressure
Always use a 1MB frame even if its only partially needed for
struct pages. Otherwise we would end up with a mix of large
frame and page mappings, because vmemmap_populate gets called
for each section (256MB -> 3.5MB memmap) separately.
Worst case is that we would waste 512KB.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
arch/s390/mm/vmem.c