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      powerpc/mm: Allow more flexible layouts for hugepage pagetables · a4fe3ce7
      David Gibson 提交于
      Currently each available hugepage size uses a slightly different
      pagetable layout: that is, the bottem level table of pointers to
      hugepages is a different size, and may branch off from the normal page
      tables at a different level.  Every hugepage aware path that needs to
      walk the pagetables must therefore look up the hugepage size from the
      slice info first, and work out the correct way to walk the pagetables
      accordingly.  Future hardware is likely to add more possible hugepage
      sizes, more layout options and more mess.
      
      This patch, therefore reworks the handling of hugepage pagetables to
      reduce this complexity.  In the new scheme, instead of having to
      consult the slice mask, pagetable walking code can check a flag in the
      PGD/PUD/PMD entries to see where to branch off to hugepage pagetables,
      and the entry also contains the information (eseentially hugepage
      shift) necessary to then interpret that table without recourse to the
      slice mask.  This scheme can be extended neatly to handle multiple
      levels of self-describing "special" hugepage pagetables, although for
      now we assume only one level exists.
      
      This approach means that only the pagetable allocation path needs to
      know how the pagetables should be set out.  All other (hugepage)
      pagetable walking paths can just interpret the structure as they go.
      
      There already was a flag bit in PGD/PUD/PMD entries for hugepage
      directory pointers, but it was only used for debug.  We alter that
      flag bit to instead be a 0 in the MSB to indicate a hugepage pagetable
      pointer (normally it would be 1 since the pointer lies in the linear
      mapping).  This means that asm pagetable walking can test for (and
      punt on) hugepage pointers with the same test that checks for
      unpopulated page directory entries (beq becomes bge), since hugepage
      pointers will always be positive, and normal pointers always negative.
      
      While we're at it, we get rid of the confusing (and grep defeating)
      #defining of hugepte_shift to be the same thing as mmu_huge_psizes.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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