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Helge Deller
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Change HUGEPAGE_SIZE to become 4 MB on 32-bit kernels, which leads that kernel code and kernel data will start on 4 MB boundaries. Although a 32-bit kernel does not support huge pages, most machines have support for Block-TLBs (BTLB) which allow to configure the system to use large pages (block TLBs) to minimize the TLB contention. This is done through calls to PDC and the 32-bit kernel can then call BTLB PDC functions to tell the machine to optimize the TLBs. Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
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