1. 15 6月, 2006 1 次提交
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      powerpc: Use 64k pages without needing cache-inhibited large pages · bf72aeba
      Paul Mackerras 提交于
      Some POWER5+ machines can do 64k hardware pages for normal memory but
      not for cache-inhibited pages.  This patch lets us use 64k hardware
      pages for most user processes on such machines (assuming the kernel
      has been configured with CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES=y).  User processes
      start out using 64k pages and get switched to 4k pages if they use any
      non-cacheable mappings.
      
      With this, we use 64k pages for the vmalloc region and 4k pages for
      the imalloc region.  If anything creates a non-cacheable mapping in
      the vmalloc region, the vmalloc region will get switched to 4k pages.
      I don't know of any driver other than the DRM that would do this,
      though, and these machines don't have AGP.
      
      When a region gets switched from 64k pages to 4k pages, we do not have
      to clear out all the 64k HPTEs from the hash table immediately.  We
      use the _PAGE_COMBO bit in the Linux PTE to indicate whether the page
      was hashed in as a 64k page or a set of 4k pages.  If hash_page is
      trying to insert a 4k page for a Linux PTE and it sees that it has
      already been inserted as a 64k page, it first invalidates the 64k HPTE
      before inserting the 4k HPTE.  The hash invalidation routines also use
      the _PAGE_COMBO bit, to determine whether to look for a 64k HPTE or a
      set of 4k HPTEs to remove.  With those two changes, we can tolerate a
      mix of 4k and 64k HPTEs in the hash table, and they will all get
      removed when the address space is torn down.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      bf72aeba
  2. 09 1月, 2006 1 次提交
  3. 19 11月, 2005 1 次提交
  4. 07 11月, 2005 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] ppc64: Fix bug in SLB miss handler for hugepages · 7d24f0b8
      David Gibson 提交于
      This patch, however, should be applied on top of the 64k-page-size patch to
      fix some problems with hugepage (some pre-existing, another introduced by
      this patch).
      
      The patch fixes a bug in the SLB miss handler for hugepages on ppc64
      introduced by the dynamic hugepage patch (commit id
      c594adad) due to a misunderstanding of the
      srd instruction's behaviour (mea culpa).  The problem arises when a 64-bit
      process maps some hugepages in the low 4GB of the address space (unusual).
      In this case, as well as the 256M segment in question being marked for
      hugepages, other segments at 32G intervals will be incorrectly marked for
      hugepages.
      
      In the process, this patch tweaks the semantics of the hugepage bitmaps to
      be more sensible.  Previously, an address below 4G was marked for hugepages
      if the appropriate segment bit in the "low areas" bitmask was set *or* if
      the low bit in the "high areas" bitmap was set (which would mark all
      addresses below 1TB for hugepage).  With this patch, any given address is
      governed by a single bitmap.  Addresses below 4GB are marked for hugepage
      if and only if their bit is set in the "low areas" bitmap (256M
      granularity).  Addresses between 4GB and 1TB are marked for hugepage iff
      the low bit in the "high areas" bitmap is set.  Higher addresses are marked
      for hugepage iff their bit in the "high areas" bitmap is set (1TB
      granularity).
      
      To avoid conflicts, this patch must be applied on top of BenH's pending
      patch for 64k base page size [0].  As such, this patch also addresses a
      hugepage problem introduced by that patch.  That patch allows hugepages of
      1MB in size on hardware which supports it, however, that won't work when
      using 4k pages (4 level pagetable), because in that case hugepage PTEs are
      stored at the PMD level, and each PMD entry maps 2MB.  This patch simply
      disallows hugepages in that case (we can do something cleverer to re-enable
      them some other day).
      
      Built, booted, and a handful of hugepage related tests passed on POWER5
      LPAR (both ARCH=powerpc and ARCH=ppc64).
      
      [0] http://gate.crashing.org/~benh/ppc64-64k-pages.diffSigned-off-by: NDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      7d24f0b8
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      [PATCH] ppc64: support 64k pages · 3c726f8d
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
      Adds a new CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES which, when enabled, changes the kernel
      base page size to 64K.  The resulting kernel still boots on any
      hardware.  On current machines with 4K pages support only, the kernel
      will maintain 16 "subpages" for each 64K page transparently.
      
      Note that while real 64K capable HW has been tested, the current patch
      will not enable it yet as such hardware is not released yet, and I'm
      still verifying with the firmware architects the proper to get the
      information from the newer hypervisors.
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      3c726f8d