Free large chunks in ggc v2
This implements the freeing back of large chunks in the ggc madvise path Richard Guenther asked for. This way on systems with limited address space malloc() and other allocators still have a chance to get back at some of the memory ggc freed. The fragmented pages are still just given back, but the address space stays allocated. I tried freeing only aligned 2MB areas to optimize for 2MB huge pages, but the hit rate was quite low, so I switched to 1MB+ unaligned areas. v2: Hardcode free unit size instead of param gcc/: 2011-10-18 Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> * ggc-page (release_pages): First free large continuous chunks in the madvise path. From-SVN: r180648
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