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      [S390] Virtual memmap for s390. · f4eb07c1
      Heiko Carstens 提交于
      Virtual memmap support for s390. Inspired by the ia64 implementation.
      
      Unlike ia64 we need a mechanism which allows us to dynamically attach
      shared memory regions.
      These memory regions are accessed via the dcss device driver. dcss
      implements the 'direct_access' operation, which requires struct pages
      for every single shared page.
      Therefore this implementation provides an interface to attach/detach
      shared memory:
      
      int add_shared_memory(unsigned long start, unsigned long size);
      int remove_shared_memory(unsigned long start, unsigned long size);
      
      The purpose of the add_shared_memory function is to add the given
      memory range to the 1:1 mapping and to make sure that the
      corresponding range in the vmemmap is backed with physical pages.
      It also initialises the new struct pages.
      
      remove_shared_memory in turn only invalidates the page table
      entries in the 1:1 mapping. The page tables and the memory used for
      struct pages in the vmemmap are currently not freed. They will be
      reused when the next segment will be attached.
      Given that the maximum size of a shared memory region is 2GB and
      in addition all regions must reside below 2GB this is not too much of
      a restriction, but there is room for improvement.
      Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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