[PATCH 5/7] powerpc/mm: 64-bit: don't handle non-standard page sizes

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Thu May 19 07:36:04 EST 2011


On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 16:05 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> I don't see where any non-standard page size will be set in the
> kernel page tables, so don't waste time checking for it.  It wouldn't
> work with TLB0 on an FSL MMU anyway, so if there's something I missed
> (or which is out-of-tree), it's relying on implementation-specific
> behavior.  If there's an out-of-tree need for occasional 4K mappings
> with CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES, perhaps this check could only be done when
> that is defined.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>
> ---

Do you use that in the hugetlbfs code ? Can you publish that code ? It's
long overdue...

Cheers,
Ben.

>  arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_low_64e.S |   13 -------------
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_low_64e.S b/arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_low_64e.S
> index 922fece..e782023 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_low_64e.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_low_64e.S
> @@ -232,19 +232,6 @@ finish_normal_tlb_miss:
>  	rlwimi	r11,r14,32-19,27,31	/* Insert WIMGE */
>  	mtspr	SPRN_MAS2,r11
>  
> -	/* Check page size, if not standard, update MAS1 */
> -	rldicl	r11,r14,64-8,64-8
> -#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES
> -	cmpldi	cr0,r11,BOOK3E_PAGESZ_64K
> -#else
> -	cmpldi	cr0,r11,BOOK3E_PAGESZ_4K
> -#endif
> -	beq-	1f
> -	mfspr	r11,SPRN_MAS1
> -	rlwimi	r11,r14,31,21,24
> -	rlwinm	r11,r11,0,21,19
> -	mtspr	SPRN_MAS1,r11
> -1:
>  	/* Move RPN in position */
>  	rldicr	r11,r14,64-(PTE_RPN_SHIFT-PAGE_SHIFT),63-PAGE_SHIFT
>  	clrldi	r15,r11,12		/* Clear crap at the top */




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