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Support for userspace non-transparent superpages (largepages).

Description

Support for userspace non-transparent superpages (largepages).

Created with shm_open2(SHM_LARGEPAGE) and then configured with
FIOSSHMLPGCNF ioctl, largepages posix shared memory objects guarantee
that all userspace mappings of it are served by superpage non-managed
mappings.

Only amd64 for now, both 2M and 1G superpages can be requested, the
later requires CPU feature.

Reviewed by: markj
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24652

Details

Provenance
kibAuthored on
Reviewer
markj
Differential Revision
D24652: Non-transparent superpages support.
Parents
rS365521: Update nexthop handling for route addition/deletion in preparation for mpath.
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