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Patch series "Free some vmemmap pages of HugeTLB page", v23.

This patch series will free some vmemmap pages(struct page structures)
associated with each HugeTLB page when preallocated to save memory.

In order to reduce the difficulty of the first version of code review.  In
this version, we disable PMD/huge page mapping of vmemmap if this feature
was enabled.  This acutely eliminates a bunch of the complex code doing
page table manipulation.  When this patch series is solid, we cam add the
code of vmemmap page table manipulation in the future.

The struct page structures (page structs) are used to describe a physical
page frame.  By default, there is an one-to-one mapping from a page frame
to it's corresponding page struct.

The HugeTLB pages consist of multiple base page size pages and is
supported by many architectures.  See hugetlbpage.rst in the Documentation
directory for more details.  On the x86 architecture, HugeTLB pages of...