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authorDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>2009-10-26 19:24:31 (GMT)
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2009-10-30 06:20:58 (GMT)
commita4fe3ce7699bfe1bd88f816b55d42d8fe1dac655 (patch)
treeb72c982ffbb9f05d78a952288d60c4dc2d31a4d9 /arch/powerpc/kernel
parenta0668cdc154e54bf0c85182e0535eea237d53146 (diff)
downloadlinux-a4fe3ce7699bfe1bd88f816b55d42d8fe1dac655.tar.xz
powerpc/mm: Allow more flexible layouts for hugepage pagetables
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: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_callchain.c20
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_callchain.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_callchain.c
index 0a03cf7..936f04d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_callchain.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_callchain.c
@@ -119,13 +119,6 @@ static void perf_callchain_kernel(struct pt_regs *regs,
}
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
-#define is_huge_psize(pagesize) (HPAGE_SHIFT && mmu_huge_psizes[pagesize])
-#else
-#define is_huge_psize(pagesize) 0
-#endif
-
/*
* On 64-bit we don't want to invoke hash_page on user addresses from
* interrupt context, so if the access faults, we read the page tables
@@ -135,7 +128,7 @@ static int read_user_stack_slow(void __user *ptr, void *ret, int nb)
{
pgd_t *pgdir;
pte_t *ptep, pte;
- int pagesize;
+ unsigned shift;
unsigned long addr = (unsigned long) ptr;
unsigned long offset;
unsigned long pfn;
@@ -145,17 +138,14 @@ static int read_user_stack_slow(void __user *ptr, void *ret, int nb)
if (!pgdir)
return -EFAULT;
- pagesize = get_slice_psize(current->mm, addr);
+ ptep = find_linux_pte_or_hugepte(pgdir, addr, &shift);
+ if (!shift)
+ shift = PAGE_SHIFT;
/* align address to page boundary */
- offset = addr & ((1ul << mmu_psize_defs[pagesize].shift) - 1);
+ offset = addr & ((1UL << shift) - 1);
addr -= offset;
- if (is_huge_psize(pagesize))
- ptep = huge_pte_offset(current->mm, addr);
- else
- ptep = find_linux_pte(pgdir, addr);
-
if (ptep == NULL)
return -EFAULT;
pte = *ptep;