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There are lots of little >> x86_64 VMs sitting around and 2MB might be significant to them. > > This is the feedback I wanted. I will make it optional. > >>> +config ARCH_WANTS_STATIC_PMD_ZERO_PAGE >>> + bool >>> + >>> +config STATIC_PMD_ZERO_PAGE >>> + def_bool y >>> + depends on ARCH_WANTS_STATIC_PMD_ZERO_PAGE >>> + help >>> + Typically huge_zero_folio, which is a PMD page of zeroes, is allocated >>> + on demand and deallocated when not in use. This option will always >>> + allocate huge_zero_folio for zeroing and it is never deallocated. >>> + Not suitable for memory constrained systems. >> >> "Static" seems like a weird term to use for this. I was really expecting >> to see a 2MB object that gets allocated in .bss or something rather than >> a dynamically allocated page that's just never freed. > > My first proposal was along those lines[0] (sorry I messed up version > while sending the patches). David Hilderbrand suggested to leverage the > infrastructure we already have in huge_memory. Sorry, maybe I was not 100% clear. We could either a) Allocate it statically in bss and reuse it for huge_memory purposes (static vs. dynamic is a good fit) b) Allocate it during early boot and never free it. Assuming we allocate it from memblock, it's almost static ... :) I would not allocate it at runtime later when requested. Then, "static" is really a suboptimal fit. -- Cheers, David / dhildenb