HAVE_MOVE_PUD enables remapping pages at the PUD level if both the
source and destination addresses are PUD-aligned.

With HAVE_MOVE_PUD enabled it can be inferred that there is approximately
a 13x improvement in performance on x86. (See data below).

------- Test Results ---------

The following results were obtained using a 5.4 kernel, by remapping
a PUD-aligned, 1GB sized region to a PUD-aligned destination.
The results from 10 iterations of the test are given below:

Total mremap times for 1GB data on x86. All times are in nanoseconds.

Control        HAVE_MOVE_PUD

180394         15089
235728         14056
238931         25741
187330         13838
241742         14187
177925         14778
182758         14728
160872         14418
205813         15107
245722         13998

205721.5       15594    <-- Mean time in nanoseconds

A 1GB mremap completion time drops from ~205 microseconds
to ~15 microseconds on x86. (~13x speed up).

Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <redacted>
---
 arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 7101ac64bb20..ff6e2755cab8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig

@@ -198,6 +198,7 @@ config X86
 	select HAVE_MIXED_BREAKPOINTS_REGS
 	select HAVE_MOD_ARCH_SPECIFIC
 	select HAVE_MOVE_PMD
+	select HAVE_MOVE_PUD
 	select HAVE_NMI
 	select HAVE_OPROFILE
 	select HAVE_OPTPROBES

-- 
2.28.0.709.gb0816b6eb0-goog


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