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hugetlb: add hugetlb_alloc_pmd and hugetlb_alloc_pte
These functions are used to allocate new PTEs below the hstate PTE. This will be used by hugetlb_walk_step, which implements stepping forwards in a HugeTLB high-granularity page table walk. The reasons that we don't use the standard pmd_alloc/pte_alloc* functions are: 1) This prevents us from accidentally overwriting swap entries or attempting to use swap entries as present non-leaf PTEs (see pmd_alloc(); we assume that !pte_none means pte_present and non-leaf). 2) Locking hugetlb PTEs can different than regular PTEs. (Although, as implemented right now, locking is the same.) 3) We can maintain compatibility with CONFIG_HIGHPTE. That is, HugeTLB HGM won't use HIGHPTE, but the kernel can still be built with it, and other mm code will use it. When GENERAL_HUGETLB supports P4D-based hugepages, we will need to implement hugetlb_pud_alloc to implement hugetlb_walk_step. Signed-off-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@google.com>
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