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Would it be possible to start out with a version of huge page support that
does not require the complex splitting and joining of huge pages?

Without that we would not need additional refcounts.

Maybe a patch to allow simply the use of anonymous huge pages without a
hugetlbfs mmap in the middle? IMHO its useful even if we cannot swap it
out.



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