[PATCH -V7 10/18] powerpc: Reduce the PTE_INDEX_SIZE

Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Apr 29 05:37:31 EST 2013


From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

This make one PMD cover 16MB range. That helps in easier implementation of THP
on power. THP core code make use of one pmd entry to track the hugepage and
the range mapped by a single pmd entry should be equal to the hugepage size
supported by the hardware.

This also switch PGD to cover 16GB. That is needed so that we can simplify the
hugetlb page walking code so that we have same pte format for explicit hugepage
and THP hugepage.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64-64k.h | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64-64k.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64-64k.h
index be4e287..45142d6 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64-64k.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64-64k.h
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
 #include <asm-generic/pgtable-nopud.h>
 
 
-#define PTE_INDEX_SIZE  12
-#define PMD_INDEX_SIZE  12
+#define PTE_INDEX_SIZE  8
+#define PMD_INDEX_SIZE  10
 #define PUD_INDEX_SIZE	0
-#define PGD_INDEX_SIZE  6
+#define PGD_INDEX_SIZE  12
 
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 #define PTE_TABLE_SIZE	(sizeof(real_pte_t) << PTE_INDEX_SIZE)
-- 
1.8.1.2



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