CXL: Boot To Bash

Overview

CXL on Linux: Boot To Bash

Device Reference

Overview
Devices Types
UEFI Data

Platform Configuration

Overview
EFI Configuration Process
ACPI Tables
Example Platform Configurations

Linux Kernel Configuration:

Overview
Linux Init (Early Boot)
CXL Driver Operation
DAX Driver Operation
Memory Hotplug

Memory Allocation

DAX Devices
The Page Allocator
Reclaim
Memory Tiering
Huge Pages
- Contiguous Memory Allocator
- HugeTLB
  - 2MB Huge Pages
  - 1GB Huge Pages

Use Cases

Memory Expansion
Dynamic Capacity
Virtual Machines
Shared Memory

CXL: Boot To Bash

Huge Pages
Edit on GitHub

Huge Pages

todo

Contiguous Memory Allocator

todo

HugeTLB

todo

2MB Huge Pages

todo

1GB Huge Pages

todo

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