1. 07 6月, 2008 1 次提交
  2. 27 4月, 2008 1 次提交
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      s390: KVM preparation: provide hook to enable pgstes in user pagetable · 402b0862
      Carsten Otte 提交于
      The SIE instruction on s390 uses the 2nd half of the page table page to
      virtualize the storage keys of a guest. This patch offers the s390_enable_sie
      function, which reorganizes the page tables of a single-threaded process to
      reserve space in the page table:
      s390_enable_sie makes sure that the process is single threaded and then uses
      dup_mm to create a new mm with reorganized page tables. The old mm is freed
      and the process has now a page status extended field after every page table.
      
      Code that wants to exploit pgstes should SELECT CONFIG_PGSTE.
      
      This patch has a small common code hit, namely making dup_mm non-static.
      
      Edit (Carsten): I've modified Martin's patch, following Jeremy Fitzhardinge's
      review feedback. Now we do have the prototype for dup_mm in
      include/linux/sched.h. Following Martin's suggestion, s390_enable_sie() does now
      call task_lock() to prevent race against ptrace modification of mm_users.
      Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NCarsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
      Acked-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAvi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
      402b0862
  3. 10 2月, 2008 2 次提交
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      [S390] dynamic page tables. · 6252d702
      Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
      Add support for different number of page table levels dependent
      on the highest address used for a process. This will cause a 31 bit
      process to use a two level page table instead of the four level page
      table that is the default after the pud has been introduced. Likewise
      a normal 64 bit process will use three levels instead of four. Only
      if a process runs out of the 4 tera bytes which can be addressed with
      a three level page table the fourth level is dynamically added. Then
      the process can use up to 8 peta byte.
      Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      6252d702
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      [S390] 1K/2K page table pages. · 146e4b3c
      Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
      This patch implements 1K/2K page table pages for s390.
      Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      146e4b3c
  4. 09 2月, 2008 1 次提交
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      CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables. · 2f569afd
      Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
      Background: I've implemented 1K/2K page tables for s390.  These sub-page
      page tables are required to properly support the s390 virtualization
      instruction with KVM.  The SIE instruction requires that the page tables
      have 256 page table entries (pte) followed by 256 page status table entries
      (pgste).  The pgstes are only required if the process is using the SIE
      instruction.  The pgstes are updated by the hardware and by the hypervisor
      for a number of reasons, one of them is dirty and reference bit tracking.
      To avoid wasting memory the standard pte table allocation should return
      1K/2K (31/64 bit) and 2K/4K if the process is using SIE.
      
      Problem: Page size on s390 is 4K, page table size is 1K or 2K.  That means
      the s390 version for pte_alloc_one cannot return a pointer to a struct
      page.  Trouble is that with the CONFIG_HIGHPTE feature on x86 pte_alloc_one
      cannot return a pointer to a pte either, since that would require more than
      32 bit for the return value of pte_alloc_one (and the pte * would not be
      accessible since its not kmapped).
      
      Solution: The only solution I found to this dilemma is a new typedef: a
      pgtable_t.  For s390 pgtable_t will be a (pte *) - to be introduced with a
      later patch.  For everybody else it will be a (struct page *).  The
      additional problem with the initialization of the ptl lock and the
      NR_PAGETABLE accounting is solved with a constructor pgtable_page_ctor and
      a destructor pgtable_page_dtor.  The page table allocation and free
      functions need to call these two whenever a page table page is allocated or
      freed.  pmd_populate will get a pgtable_t instead of a struct page pointer.
       To get the pgtable_t back from a pmd entry that has been installed with
      pmd_populate a new function pmd_pgtable is added.  It replaces the pmd_page
      call in free_pte_range and apply_to_pte_range.
      Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      2f569afd
  5. 22 10月, 2007 1 次提交