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Re: [PATCH v5 12/12] Documentation/mm: update DAX vmemmap deduplication docs

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From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-09-29 07:43:16
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On 9/27/26 04:54, Muchun Song wrote:
Device DAX now uses the common per-zone shared tail page for vmemmap
deduplication. The old documentation still described a DAX-specific
layout with a separately populated tail vmemmap page and half the HugeTLB
savings.

Update the generic and powerpc documentation to describe the shared layout.
In the powerpc document, keep the radix and 64K-specific details, drop the
duplicated 4K PUD arithmetic, and replace the repeated device-dax diagrams
with a single parameterized PMD/PUD diagram.

Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <redacted>
Acked-by: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>
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Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>

-- 
Cheers,

David
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