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    hugetlb: lazy page table copies in fork() · bcd51a3c
    Mike Kravetz authored
    Lazy page table copying at fork time was introduced with commit
    d992895b ("[PATCH] Lazy page table copies in fork()").  At the time,
    hugetlb was very new and did not support page faulting.  As a result, it
    was excluded.  When full page fault support was added for hugetlb, the
    exclusion was not removed.
    
    Simply remove the check that prevents lazy copying of hugetlb page tables
    at fork.  Of course, like other mappings this only applies to shared
    mappings.
    
    Lazy page table copying at fork will be less advantageous for hugetlb
    mappings because:
    - There are fewer page table entries with hugetlb
    - hugetlb pmds can be shared instead of copied
    
    In any case, completely eliminating the copy at fork time should speed
    things up.
    
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220621235620.291305-5-mike.kravetz@oracle.comSigned-off-by: default avatarMike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarMuchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
    Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
    Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
    Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
    Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
    Cc: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
    Cc: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
    Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
    Cc: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
    Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <naoya.horiguchi@linux.dev>
    Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
    Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
    Cc: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
    Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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