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+HugeTLBpage on ARM64
+====================
+
+Hugepage relies on making efficient use of TLBs to improve performance of
+address translations. The benefit depends on both -
+
+ - the size of hugepages
+ - size of entries supported by the TLBs
+
+The ARM64 port supports two flavours of hugepages.
+
+1) Block mappings at the pud/pmd level
+--------------------------------------
+
+These are regular hugepages where a pmd or a pud page table entry points to a
+block of memory. Regardless of the supported size of entries in TLB, block
+mappings reduce the depth of page table walk needed to translate hugepage
+addresses.
+
+2) Using the Contiguous bit
+---------------------------
+
+The architecture provides a contiguous bit in the translation table entries
+(D4.5.3, ARM DDI 0487C.a) that hints to the MMU to indicate that it is one of a
+contiguous set of entries that can be cached in a single TLB entry.
+
+The contiguous bit is used in Linux to increase the mapping size at the pmd and
+pte (last) level. The number of supported contiguous entries varies by page size
+and level of the page table.
+
+
+The following hugepage sizes are supported -
+
+ CONT PTE PMD CONT PMD PUD
+ -------- --- -------- ---
+ 4K: 64K 2M 32M 1G
+ 16K: 2M 32M 1G
+ 64K: 2M 512M 16G