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  1. 16 12月, 2008 1 次提交
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      powerpc: Check for valid hugepage size in hugetlb_get_unmapped_area · 48f797de
      由 Brian King 提交于 
      It looks like most of the hugetlb code is doing the correct thing if
hugepages are not supported, but the mmap code is not.  If we get into
the mmap code when hugepages are not supported, such as in an LPAR
which is running Active Memory Sharing, we can oops the kernel.  This
fixes the oops being seen in this path.

oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
SMP NR_CPUS=1024 NUMA pSeries
Modules linked in: nfs(N) lockd(N) nfs_acl(N) sunrpc(N) ipv6(N) fuse(N) loop(N)
dm_mod(N) sg(N) ibmveth(N) sd_mod(N) crc_t10dif(N) ibmvscsic(N)
scsi_transport_srp(N) scsi_tgt(N) scsi_mod(N)
Supported: No
NIP: c000000000038d60 LR: c00000000003945c CTR: c0000000000393f0
REGS: c000000077e7b830 TRAP: 0300   Tainted: G
(2.6.27.5-bz50170-2-ppc64)
MSR: 8000000000009032 <EE,ME,IR,DR>  CR: 44000448  XER: 20000001
DAR: c000002000af90a8, DSISR: 0000000040000000
TASK = c00000007c1b8600[4019] 'hugemmap01' THREAD: c000000077e78000 CPU: 6
GPR00: 0000001fffffffe0 c000000077e7bab0 c0000000009a4e78 0000000000000000
GPR04: 0000000000010000 0000000000000001 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000001
GPR08: 0000000000000000 c000000000af90c8 0000000000000001 0000000000000000
GPR12: 000000000000003f c000000000a73880 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000010000
GPR20: 0000000000000000 0000000000000003 0000000000010000 0000000000000001
GPR24: 0000000000000003 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 ffffffffffffffb5
GPR28: c000000077ca2e80 0000000000000000 c00000000092af78 0000000000010000
NIP [c000000000038d60] .slice_get_unmapped_area+0x6c/0x4e0
LR [c00000000003945c] .hugetlb_get_unmapped_area+0x6c/0x80
Call Trace:
[c000000077e7bbc0] [c00000000003945c] .hugetlb_get_unmapped_area+0x6c/0x80
[c000000077e7bc30] [c000000000107e30] .get_unmapped_area+0x64/0xd8
[c000000077e7bcb0] [c00000000010b140] .do_mmap_pgoff+0x140/0x420
[c000000077e7bd80] [c00000000000bf5c] .sys_mmap+0xc4/0x140
[c000000077e7be30] [c0000000000086b4] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40
Instruction dump:
fac1ffb0 fae1ffb8 fb01ffc0 fb21ffc8 fb41ffd0 fb61ffd8 fb81ffe0 fbc1fff0
fbe1fff8 f821fef1 f8c10158 f8e10160 <7d49002e> f9010168 e92d01b0 eb4902b0
Signed-off-by: NBrian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      48f797de
  3. 01 12月, 2008 1 次提交
  5. 16 9月, 2008 1 次提交
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      powerpc: Clean up hugepage pagetable allocation for powerpc with 16G pages · 0b26425c
      由 David Gibson 提交于 
      There is a small bug in the handling of 16G hugepages recently added
to the kernel.  This doesn't cause a crash or other user-visible
problems, but it does mean that more levels of pagetable are allocated
than makes sense for 16G pages.  The hugepage pagetables for the 16G
pages are allocated much lower in the pagetable tree than they should
be, with the intervening levels allocated with full pmd and pud pages
which will only ever have one entry filled in.

This corrects this problem, at the same time cleaning up the handling
of which level 64k versus 16M hugepage pagetables are allocated at.
The new way of formatting the tests should be more robust against
changes in pagetable structure, or any newly added hugepage sizes.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      0b26425c
  7. 28 7月, 2008 1 次提交
  9. 27 7月, 2008 1 次提交
  11. 25 7月, 2008 7 次提交
  13. 01 7月, 2008 1 次提交
  15. 30 6月, 2008 1 次提交
  17. 17 1月, 2008 1 次提交
  19. 17 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  21. 12 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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      [POWERPC] Use 1TB segments · 1189be65
      由 Paul Mackerras 提交于 
      This makes the kernel use 1TB segments for all kernel mappings and for
user addresses of 1TB and above, on machines which support them
(currently POWER5+, POWER6 and PA6T).

We detect that the machine supports 1TB segments by looking at the
ibm,processor-segment-sizes property in the device tree.

We don't currently use 1TB segments for user addresses < 1T, since
that would effectively prevent 32-bit processes from using huge pages
unless we also had a way to revert to using 256MB segments.  That
would be possible but would involve extra complications (such as
keeping track of which segment size was used when HPTEs were inserted)
and is not addressed here.

Parts of this patch were originally written by Ben Herrenschmidt.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      1189be65
  23. 17 8月, 2007 1 次提交
  25. 20 7月, 2007 1 次提交
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      mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create(). · 20c2df83
      由 Paul Mundt 提交于 
      Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's
c59def9f change. They've been
BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them
either.

This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create()
completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were
about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves,
or the documentation references).
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      20c2df83
  27. 09 5月, 2007 2 次提交
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      [POWERPC] Introduce address space "slices" · d0f13e3c
      由 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于 
      The basic issue is to be able to do what hugetlbfs does but with
different page sizes for some other special filesystems; more
specifically, my need is:

 - Huge pages

 - SPE local store mappings using 64K pages on a 4K base page size
kernel on Cell

 - Some special 4K segments in 64K-page kernels for mapping a dodgy
type of powerpc-specific infiniband hardware that requires 4K MMU
mappings for various reasons I won't explain here.

The main issues are:

 - To maintain/keep track of the page size per "segment" (as we can
only have one page size per segment on powerpc, which are 256MB
divisions of the address space).

 - To make sure special mappings stay within their allotted
"segments" (including MAP_FIXED crap)

 - To make sure everybody else doesn't mmap/brk/grow_stack into a
"segment" that is used for a special mapping

Some of the necessary mechanisms to handle that were present in the
hugetlbfs code, but mostly in ways not suitable for anything else.

The patch relies on some changes to the generic get_unmapped_area()
that just got merged.  It still hijacks hugetlb callbacks here or
there as the generic code hasn't been entirely cleaned up yet but
that shouldn't be a problem.

So what is a slice ?  Well, I re-used the mechanism used formerly by our
hugetlbfs implementation which divides the address space in
"meta-segments" which I called "slices".  The division is done using
256MB slices below 4G, and 1T slices above.  Thus the address space is
divided currently into 16 "low" slices and 16 "high" slices.  (Special
case: high slice 0 is the area between 4G and 1T).

Doing so simplifies significantly the tracking of segments and avoids
having to keep track of all the 256MB segments in the address space.

While I used the "concepts" of hugetlbfs, I mostly re-implemented
everything in a more generic way and "ported" hugetlbfs to it.

Slices can have an associated page size, which is encoded in the mmu
context and used by the SLB miss handler to set the segment sizes.  The
hash code currently doesn't care, it has a specific check for hugepages,
though I might add a mechanism to provide per-slice hash mapping
functions in the future.

The slice code provide a pair of "generic" get_unmapped_area() (bottomup
and topdown) functions that should work with any slice size.  There is
some trickiness here so I would appreciate people to have a look at the
implementation of these and let me know if I got something wrong.
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      d0f13e3c
    • R
      header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used · e63340ae
      由 Randy Dunlap 提交于 
      Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed.
Suggested by Al Viro.

Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc,
sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs).
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e63340ae
  29. 08 5月, 2007 3 次提交
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      get_unmapped_area handles MAP_FIXED on powerpc · d506a772
      由 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于 
      The current get_unmapped_area code calls the f_ops->get_unmapped_area or the
arch one (via the mm) only when MAP_FIXED is not passed.  That makes it
impossible for archs to impose proper constraints on regions of the virtual
address space.  To work around that, get_unmapped_area() then calls some
hugetlbfs specific hacks.

This cause several problems, among others:

- It makes it impossible for a driver or filesystem to do the same thing
  that hugetlbfs does (for example, to allow a driver to use larger page sizes
  to map external hardware) if that requires applying a constraint on the
  addresses (constraining that mapping in certain regions and other mappings
  out of those regions).

- Some archs like arm, mips, sparc, sparc64, sh and sh64 already want
  MAP_FIXED to be passed down in order to deal with aliasing issues.  The code
  is there to handle it...  but is never called.

This series of patches moves the logic to handle MAP_FIXED down to the various
arch/driver get_unmapped_area() implementations, and then changes the generic
code to always call them.  The hugetlbfs hacks then disappear from the generic
code.

Since I need to do some special 64K pages mappings for SPEs on cell, I need to
work around the first problem at least.  I have further patches thus
implementing a "slices" layer that handles multiple page sizes through slices
of the address space for use by hugetlbfs, the SPE code, and possibly others,
but it requires that serie of patches first/

There is still a potential (but not practical) issue due to the fact that
filesystems/drivers implemeting g_u_a will effectively bypass all arch checks.
 This is not an issue in practice as the only filesystems/drivers using that
hook are doing so for arch specific purposes in the first place.

There is also a problem with mremap that will completely bypass all arch
checks.  I'll try to address that separately, I'm not 100% certain yet how,
possibly by making it not work when the vma has a file whose f_ops has a
get_unmapped_area callback, and by making it use is_hugepage_only_range()
before expanding into a new area.

Also, I want to turn is_hugepage_only_range() into a more generic
is_normal_page_range() as that's really what it will end up meaning when used
in stack grow, brk grow and mremap.

None of the above "issues" however are introduced by this patch, they are
already there, so I think the patch can go ini for 2.6.22.

This patch:

Handle MAP_FIXED in powerpc's arch_get_unmapped_area() in all 3
implementations of it.
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: NWilliam Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d506a772
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      slab allocators: remove multiple alignment specifications · f0f3980b
      由 Christoph Lameter 提交于 
      It is not necessary to tell the slab allocators to align to a cacheline
if an explicit alignment was already specified. It is rather confusing
to specify multiple alignments.

Make sure that the call sites only use one form of alignment.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f0f3980b
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      slab allocators: Remove obsolete SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN · 5af60839
      由 Christoph Lameter 提交于 
      This patch was recently posted to lkml and acked by Pekka.

The flag SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN is

1. Never checked by SLAB at all.

2. A duplicate of SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN for SLUB

3. Fulfills the role of SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN for SLOB.

The only remaining use is in sparc64 and ppc64 and their use there
reflects some earlier role that the slab flag once may have had. If
its specified then SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN is also specified.

The flag is confusing, inconsistent and has no purpose.

Remove it.
Acked-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5af60839
  31. 13 4月, 2007 1 次提交
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      [POWERPC] Make tlb flush batch use lazy MMU mode · a741e679
      由 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于 
      The current tlb flush code on powerpc 64 bits has a subtle race since we
lost the page table lock due to the possible faulting in of new PTEs
after a previous one has been removed but before the corresponding hash
entry has been evicted, which can leads to all sort of fatal problems.

This patch reworks the batch code completely. It doesn't use the mmu_gather
stuff anymore. Instead, we use the lazy mmu hooks that were added by the
paravirt code. They have the nice property that the enter/leave lazy mmu
mode pair is always fully contained by the PTE lock for a given range
of PTEs. Thus we can guarantee that all batches are flushed on a given
CPU before it drops that lock.

We also generalize batching for any PTE update that require a flush.

Batching is now enabled on a CPU by arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode() and
disabled by arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode(). The code epects that this is
always contained within a PTE lock section so no preemption can happen
and no PTE insertion in that range from another CPU. When batching
is enabled on a CPU, every PTE updates that need a hash flush will
use the batch for that flush.
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      a741e679
  33. 10 3月, 2007 1 次提交
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      [POWERPC] Fix spu SLB invalidations · 94b2a439
      由 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于 
      The SPU code doesn't properly invalidate SPUs SLBs when necessary,
for example when changing a segment size from the hugetlbfs code. In
addition, it saves and restores the SLB content on context switches
which makes it harder to properly handle those invalidations.

This patch removes the saving & restoring for now, something more
efficient might be found later on. It also adds a spu_flush_all_slbs(mm)
that can be used by the core mm code to flush the SLBs of all SPEs that
are running a given mm at the time of the flush.

In order to do that, it adds a spinlock to the list of all SPEs and move
some bits & pieces from spufs to spu_base.c
Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      94b2a439
  35. 24 1月, 2007 1 次提交
  37. 09 1月, 2007 1 次提交
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      [POWERPC] Fix bogus BUG_ON() in in hugetlb_get_unmapped_area() · 6aa3e1e9
      由 David Gibson 提交于 
      The powerpc specific version of hugetlb_get_unmapped_area() makes some
unwarranted assumptions about what checks have been made to its
parameters by its callers.  This will lead to a BUG_ON() if a 32-bit
process attempts to make a hugepage mapping which extends above
TASK_SIZE (4GB).

I'm not sure if these assumptions came about because they were valid
with earlier versions of the get_unmapped_area() path, or if it was
always broken.  Nonetheless this patch fixes the logic, and removes
the crash.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      6aa3e1e9
  39. 08 12月, 2006 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t · e18b890b
      由 Christoph Lameter 提交于 
      Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.

The patch was generated using the following script:

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.
	#

	set -e

	for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do
		quilt add $file
		sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$
		mv /tmp/$$ $file
		quilt refresh
	done

The script was run like this

	sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      e18b890b
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      [PATCH] shared page table for hugetlb page · 39dde65c
      由 Chen, Kenneth W 提交于 
      Following up with the work on shared page table done by Dave McCracken.  This
set of patch target shared page table for hugetlb memory only.

The shared page table is particular useful in the situation of large number of
independent processes sharing large shared memory segments.  In the normal
page case, the amount of memory saved from process' page table is quite
significant.  For hugetlb, the saving on page table memory is not the primary
objective (as hugetlb itself already cuts down page table overhead
significantly), instead, the purpose of using shared page table on hugetlb is
to allow faster TLB refill and smaller cache pollution upon TLB miss.

With PT sharing, pte entries are shared among hundreds of processes, the cache
consumption used by all the page table is smaller and in return, application
gets much higher cache hit ratio.  One other effect is that cache hit ratio
with hardware page walker hitting on pte in cache will be higher and this
helps to reduce tlb miss latency.  These two effects contribute to higher
application performance.
Signed-off-by: NKen Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Acked-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      39dde65c
  41. 15 11月, 2006 1 次提交
    • H
      [PATCH] hugetlb: prepare_hugepage_range check offset too · 68589bc3
      由 Hugh Dickins 提交于 
      (David:)

If hugetlbfs_file_mmap() returns a failure to do_mmap_pgoff() - for example,
because the given file offset is not hugepage aligned - then do_mmap_pgoff
will go to the unmap_and_free_vma backout path.

But at this stage the vma hasn't been marked as hugepage, and the backout path
will call unmap_region() on it.  That will eventually call down to the
non-hugepage version of unmap_page_range().  On ppc64, at least, that will
cause serious problems if there are any existing hugepage pagetable entries in
the vicinity - for example if there are any other hugepage mappings under the
same PUD.  unmap_page_range() will trigger a bad_pud() on the hugepage pud
entries.  I suspect this will also cause bad problems on ia64, though I don't
have a machine to test it on.

(Hugh:)

prepare_hugepage_range() should check file offset alignment when it checks
virtual address and length, to stop MAP_FIXED with a bad huge offset from
unmapping before it fails further down.  PowerPC should apply the same
prepare_hugepage_range alignment checks as ia64 and all the others do.

Then none of the alignment checks in hugetlbfs_file_mmap are required (nor
is the check for too small a mapping); but even so, move up setting of
VM_HUGETLB and add a comment to warn of what David Gibson discovered - if
hugetlbfs_file_mmap fails before setting it, do_mmap_pgoff's unmap_region
when unwinding from error will go the non-huge way, which may cause bad
behaviour on architectures (powerpc and ia64) which segregate their huge
mappings into a separate region of the address space.
Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      68589bc3
  43. 01 11月, 2006 1 次提交
  45. 24 8月, 2006 1 次提交
    • A
      [POWERPC] hugepage BUG fix · c9169f87
      由 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
  47. 28 4月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] powerpc: Fix pagetable bloat for hugepages · f10a04c0
      由 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
  49. 22 3月, 2006 1 次提交
    • D
      [PATCH] hugepage: is_aligned_hugepage_range() cleanup · 42b88bef
      由 David Gibson 提交于 
      Quite a long time back, prepare_hugepage_range() replaced
is_aligned_hugepage_range() as the callback from mm/mmap.c to arch code to
verify if an address range is suitable for a hugepage mapping.
is_aligned_hugepage_range() stuck around, but only to implement
prepare_hugepage_range() on archs which didn't implement their own.

Most archs (everything except ia64 and powerpc) used the same
implementation of is_aligned_hugepage_range().  On powerpc, which
implements its own prepare_hugepage_range(), the custom version was never
used.

In addition, "is_aligned_hugepage_range()" was a bad name, because it
suggests it returns true iff the given range is a good hugepage range,
whereas in fact it returns 0-or-error (so the sense is reversed).

This patch cleans up by abolishing is_aligned_hugepage_range().  Instead
prepare_hugepage_range() is defined directly.  Most archs use the default
version, which simply checks the given region is aligned to the size of a
hugepage.  ia64 and powerpc define custom versions.  The ia64 one simply
checks that the range is in the correct address space region in addition to
being suitably aligned.  The powerpc version (just as previously) checks
for suitable addresses, and if necessary performs low-level MMU frobbing to
set up new areas for use by hugepages.

No libhugetlbfs testsuite regressions on ppc64 (POWER5 LPAR).
Signed-off-by: NDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NZhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      42b88bef
  51. 09 1月, 2006 2 次提交
  53. 09 12月, 2005 2 次提交
    • D
      [PATCH] powerpc: Fix SLB flushing path in hugepage · 23ed6cb9
      由 David Gibson 提交于 
      On ppc64, when opening a new hugepage region, we need to make sure any
old normal-page SLBs for the area are flushed on all CPUs.  There was
a bug in this logic - after putting the new hugepage area masks into
the thread structure, we copied it into the paca (read by the SLB miss
handler) only on one CPU, not on all.  This could cause incorrect SLB
entries to be loaded when a multithreaded program was running
simultaneously on several CPUs.  This patch corrects the error,
copying the context information into the PACA on all CPUs using the mm
in question before flushing any existing SLB entries.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      23ed6cb9
    • D
      [PATCH] powerpc: Add missing icache flushes for hugepages · cbf52afd
      由 David Gibson 提交于 
      On most powerpc CPUs, the dcache and icache are not coherent so
between writing and executing a page, the caches must be flushed.
Userspace programs assume pages given to them by the kernel are icache
clean, so we must do this flush between the kernel clearing a page and
it being mapped into userspace for execute.  We were not doing this
for hugepages, this patch corrects the situation.

We use the same lazy mechanism as we use for normal pages, delaying
the flush until userspace actually attempts to execute from the page
in question.

Tested on G5.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      cbf52afd
  55. 08 12月, 2005 1 次提交