1. 30 10月, 2009 1 次提交
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      powerpc/mm: Cleanup management of kmem_caches for pagetables · a0668cdc
      David Gibson 提交于
      Currently we have a fair bit of rather fiddly code to manage the
      various kmem_caches used to store page tables of various levels.  We
      generally have two caches holding some combination of PGD, PUD and PMD
      tables, plus several more for the special hugepage pagetables.
      
      This patch cleans this all up by taking a different approach.  Rather
      than the caches being designated as for PUDs or for hugeptes for 16M
      pages, the caches are simply allocated to be a specific size.  Thus
      sharing of caches between different types/levels of pagetables happens
      naturally.  The pagetable size, where needed, is passed around encoded
      in the same way as {PGD,PUD,PMD}_INDEX_SIZE; that is n where the
      pagetable contains 2^n pointers.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      a0668cdc
  2. 28 7月, 2009 1 次提交
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      mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() · 9e1b32ca
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
      mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb()
      
      Upcoming paches to support the new 64-bit "BookE" powerpc architecture
      will need to have the virtual address corresponding to PTE page when
      freeing it, due to the way the HW table walker works.
      
      Basically, the TLB can be loaded with "large" pages that cover the whole
      virtual space (well, sort-of, half of it actually) represented by a PTE
      page, and which contain an "indirect" bit indicating that this TLB entry
      RPN points to an array of PTEs from which the TLB can then create direct
      entries. Thus, in order to invalidate those when PTE pages are deleted,
      we need the virtual address to pass to tlbilx or tlbivax instructions.
      
      The old trick of sticking it somewhere in the PTE page struct page sucks
      too much, the address is almost readily available in all call sites and
      almost everybody implemets these as macros, so we may as well add the
      argument everywhere. I added it to the pmd and pud variants for consistency.
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> [MN10300 & FRV]
      Acked-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> [s390]
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      9e1b32ca
  3. 03 12月, 2008 1 次提交
  4. 04 8月, 2008 1 次提交
  5. 25 7月, 2008 1 次提交
  6. 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
  7. 06 2月, 2008 1 次提交
  8. 24 1月, 2008 1 次提交
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      [POWERPC] Provide a way to protect 4k subpages when using 64k pages · fa28237c
      Paul Mackerras 提交于
      Using 64k pages on 64-bit PowerPC systems makes life difficult for
      emulators that are trying to emulate an ISA, such as x86, which use a
      smaller page size, since the emulator can no longer use the MMU and
      the normal system calls for controlling page protections.  Of course,
      the emulator can emulate the MMU by checking and possibly remapping
      the address for each memory access in software, but that is pretty
      slow.
      
      This provides a facility for such programs to control the access
      permissions on individual 4k sub-pages of 64k pages.  The idea is
      that the emulator supplies an array of protection masks to apply to a
      specified range of virtual addresses.  These masks are applied at the
      level where hardware PTEs are inserted into the hardware page table
      based on the Linux PTEs, so the Linux PTEs are not affected.  Note
      that this new mechanism does not allow any access that would otherwise
      be prohibited; it can only prohibit accesses that would otherwise be
      allowed.  This new facility is only available on 64-bit PowerPC and
      only when the kernel is configured for 64k pages.
      
      The masks are supplied using a new subpage_prot system call, which
      takes a starting virtual address and length, and a pointer to an array
      of protection masks in memory.  The array has a 32-bit word per 64k
      page to be protected; each 32-bit word consists of 16 2-bit fields,
      for which 0 allows any access (that is otherwise allowed), 1 prevents
      write accesses, and 2 or 3 prevent any access.
      
      Implicit in this is that the regions of the address space that are
      protected are switched to use 4k hardware pages rather than 64k
      hardware pages (on machines with hardware 64k page support).  In fact
      the whole process is switched to use 4k hardware pages when the
      subpage_prot system call is used, but this could be improved in future
      to switch only the affected segments.
      
      The subpage protection bits are stored in a 3 level tree akin to the
      page table tree.  The top level of this tree is stored in a structure
      that is appended to the top level of the page table tree, i.e., the
      pgd array.  Since it will often only be 32-bit addresses (below 4GB)
      that are protected, the pointers to the first four bottom level pages
      are also stored in this structure (each bottom level page contains the
      protection bits for 1GB of address space), so the protection bits for
      addresses below 4GB can be accessed with one fewer loads than those
      for higher addresses.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      fa28237c
  9. 02 6月, 2007 1 次提交
  10. 09 5月, 2007 1 次提交
  11. 02 5月, 2007 1 次提交
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      [POWERPC] Remove arch/powerpc's dependence on asm-ppc/pg{alloc,table}.h · f88df14b
      David Gibson 提交于
      Currently, all 32-bit powerpc platforms use asm-ppc/pgtable.h and
      asm-ppc/pgalloc.h, even when otherwise compiled with ARCH=powerpc.
      Those asm-ppc files are a fairly nasty tangle of #ifdefs including a
      bunch of things which shouldn't be necessary any more in arch/powerpc.
      
      Cleaning up that mess is going to take a while, but this patch is a
      first step.  It separates the asm-powerpc/pg{alloc,table}.h into 64
      bit and 32 bit versions in asm-powerpc, which the basic .h files in
      asm-powerpc select based on config.  We make a few tiny tweaks to the
      innards of the files along the way, making the outermost ifdefs
      (double-inclusion protection and __KERNEL__) a little cleaner, and
      #including asm-generic/pgtable.h from the top-level
      asm-powerpc/pgtable.h (since both the old 32-bit and 64-bit versions
      ended with such an #include).
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      f88df14b
  12. 08 12月, 2006 1 次提交
  13. 24 8月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [POWERPC] hugepage BUG fix · c9169f87
      Adam Litke 提交于
      On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 08:22 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
      > kernel BUG in cache_free_debugcheck at mm/slab.c:2748!
      
      Alright, this one is only triggered when slab debugging is enabled.  The
      slabs are assumed to be aligned on a HUGEPTE_TABLE_SIZE boundary.  The free
      path makes use of this assumption and uses the lowest nibble to pass around
      an index into an array of kmem_cache pointers.  With slab debugging turned
      on, the slab is still aligned, but the "working" object pointer is not.
      This would break the assumption above that a full nibble is available for
      the PGF_CACHENUM_MASK.
      
      The following patch reduces PGF_CACHENUM_MASK to cover only the two least
      significant bits, which is enough to cover the current number of 4 pgtable
      cache types.  Then use this constant to mask out the appropriate part of
      the huge pte pointer.
      Signed-off-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      c9169f87
  14. 28 4月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] powerpc: Fix pagetable bloat for hugepages · f10a04c0
      David Gibson 提交于
      At present, ARCH=powerpc kernels can waste considerable space in
      pagetables when making large hugepage mappings.  Hugepage PTEs go in
      PMD pages, but each PMD page maps 256M and so contains only 16
      hugepage PTEs (128 bytes of data), but takes up a 1024 byte
      allocation.  With CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES enabled (64k base page size),
      the situation is worse.  Now hugepage PTEs are at the PTE page level
      (also mapping 256M), so we store 16 hugepage PTEs in a 64k allocation.
      
      The PowerPC MMU already means that any 256M region is either all
      hugepage, or all normal pages.  Thus, with some care, we can use a
      different allocation for the hugepage PTE tables and only allocate the
      128 bytes necessary.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      f10a04c0
  15. 18 2月, 2006 1 次提交
  16. 09 1月, 2006 1 次提交
  17. 19 11月, 2005 1 次提交
  18. 10 11月, 2005 1 次提交
  19. 07 11月, 2005 1 次提交
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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
  20. 29 8月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] Four level pagetables for ppc64 · e28f7faf
      David Gibson 提交于
      Implement 4-level pagetables for ppc64
      
      This patch implements full four-level page tables for ppc64, thereby
      extending the usable user address range to 44 bits (16T).
      
      The patch uses a full page for the tables at the bottom and top level,
      and a quarter page for the intermediate levels.  It uses full 64-bit
      pointers at every level, thus also increasing the addressable range of
      physical memory.  This patch also tweaks the VSID allocation to allow
      matching range for user addresses (this halves the number of available
      contexts) and adds some #if and BUILD_BUG sanity checks.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      e28f7faf
  21. 01 5月, 2005 1 次提交
  22. 17 4月, 2005 1 次提交
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      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
      1da177e4