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    x86: define _PAGE_NUMA by reusing software bits on the PMD and PTE levels · c46a7c81
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    _PAGE_NUMA is currently an alias of _PROT_PROTNONE to trap NUMA hinting
    faults on x86.  Care is taken such that _PAGE_NUMA is used only in
    situations where the VMA flags distinguish between NUMA hinting faults
    and prot_none faults.  This decision was x86-specific and conceptually
    it is difficult requiring special casing to distinguish between PROTNONE
    and NUMA ptes based on context.
    
    Fundamentally, we only need the _PAGE_NUMA bit to tell the difference
    between an entry that is really unmapped and a page that is protected
    for NUMA hinting faults as if the PTE is not present then a fault will
    be trapped.
    
    Swap PTEs on x86-64 use the bits after _PAGE_GLOBAL for the offset.
    This patch shrinks the maximum possible swap size and uses the bit to
    uniquely distinguish between NUMA hinting ptes and swap ptes.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
    Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
    Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
    Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
    Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
    Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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