cxl: docs/allocation/hugepages

Add docs on how CXL capacity interacts with CMA and HugeTLB allocation
interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250512162134.3596150-17-gourry@gourry.net
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
==========
Huge Pages
==========
Contiguous Memory Allocator
===========================
CXL Memory onlined as SystemRAM during early boot is eligible for use by CMA,
as the NUMA node hosting that capacity will be `Online` at the time CMA
carves out contiguous capacity.
CXL Memory deferred to the CXL Driver for configuration cannot have its
capacity allocated by CMA - as the NUMA node hosting the capacity is `Offline`
at :code:`__init` time - when CMA carves out contiguous capacity.
HugeTLB
=======
Different huge page sizes allow different memory configurations.
2MB Huge Pages
--------------
All CXL capacity regardless of configuration time or memory zone is eligible
for use as 2MB huge pages.
1GB Huge Pages
--------------
CXL capacity onlined in :code:`ZONE_NORMAL` is eligible for 1GB Gigantic Page
allocation.
CXL capacity onlined in :code:`ZONE_MOVABLE` is not eligible for 1GB Gigantic
Page allocation.

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allocation/dax
allocation/page-allocator
allocation/reclaim
allocation/hugepages.rst
.. only:: subproject and html