From bf72aeba2ffef599d1d386425c9e46b82be657cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Mackerras Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:45:18 +1000 Subject: powerpc: Use 64k pages without needing cache-inhibited large pages Some POWER5+ machines can do 64k hardware pages for normal memory but not for cache-inhibited pages. This patch lets us use 64k hardware pages for most user processes on such machines (assuming the kernel has been configured with CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES=y). User processes start out using 64k pages and get switched to 4k pages if they use any non-cacheable mappings. With this, we use 64k pages for the vmalloc region and 4k pages for the imalloc region. If anything creates a non-cacheable mapping in the vmalloc region, the vmalloc region will get switched to 4k pages. I don't know of any driver other than the DRM that would do this, though, and these machines don't have AGP. When a region gets switched from 64k pages to 4k pages, we do not have to clear out all the 64k HPTEs from the hash table immediately. We use the _PAGE_COMBO bit in the Linux PTE to indicate whether the page was hashed in as a 64k page or a set of 4k pages. If hash_page is trying to insert a 4k page for a Linux PTE and it sees that it has already been inserted as a 64k page, it first invalidates the 64k HPTE before inserting the 4k HPTE. The hash invalidation routines also use the _PAGE_COMBO bit, to determine whether to look for a 64k HPTE or a set of 4k HPTEs to remove. With those two changes, we can tolerate a mix of 4k and 64k HPTEs in the hash table, and they will all get removed when the address space is torn down. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras --- arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c') diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c index aa0486d552a..ff294054892 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/asm-offsets.c @@ -122,6 +122,8 @@ int main(void) DEFINE(PACASLBCACHE, offsetof(struct paca_struct, slb_cache)); DEFINE(PACASLBCACHEPTR, offsetof(struct paca_struct, slb_cache_ptr)); DEFINE(PACACONTEXTID, offsetof(struct paca_struct, context.id)); + DEFINE(PACACONTEXTSLLP, offsetof(struct paca_struct, context.sllp)); + DEFINE(PACAVMALLOCSLLP, offsetof(struct paca_struct, vmalloc_sllp)); #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE DEFINE(PACALOWHTLBAREAS, offsetof(struct paca_struct, context.low_htlb_areas)); DEFINE(PACAHIGHHTLBAREAS, offsetof(struct paca_struct, context.high_htlb_areas)); -- cgit v1.2.3