[PATCH v5 1/7] powerpc/mm: update ptep_set_access_flag to not do full mm tlb flush

Paul Mackerras paulus at ozlabs.org
Fri Nov 25 13:48:43 AEDT 2016


On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 04:39:57PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> When we are updating pte, we just need to flush the tlb mapping for
> that pte. Right now we do a full mm flush because we don't track page
> size. Update the interface to track the page size and use that to
> do the right tlb flush.
[...]

> +int radix_get_mmu_psize(unsigned long page_size)
> +{
> +	int psize;
> +
> +	if (page_size == (1UL << mmu_psize_defs[mmu_virtual_psize].shift))
> +		psize = mmu_virtual_psize;
> +	else if (page_size == (1UL << mmu_psize_defs[MMU_PAGE_2M].shift))
> +		psize = MMU_PAGE_2M;
> +	else if (page_size == (1UL << mmu_psize_defs[MMU_PAGE_1G].shift))
> +		psize = MMU_PAGE_1G;

Do we actually have support for 1G pages yet?  I couldn't see where
they get instantiated.

> +	else
> +		return -1;
> +	return psize;
> +}
> +
> +
>  static int __init radix_dt_scan_page_sizes(unsigned long node,
>  					   const char *uname, int depth,
>  					   void *data)
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
> index 911fdfb63ec1..503ae9bd3efe 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
> @@ -219,12 +219,18 @@ int ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
>  			  pte_t *ptep, pte_t entry, int dirty)
>  {
>  	int changed;
> +	unsigned long page_size;
> +
>  	entry = set_access_flags_filter(entry, vma, dirty);
>  	changed = !pte_same(*(ptep), entry);
>  	if (changed) {
> -		if (!is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma))
> +		if (!is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma)) {
> +			page_size = PAGE_SIZE;
>  			assert_pte_locked(vma->vm_mm, address);
> -		__ptep_set_access_flags(vma->vm_mm, ptep, entry);
> +		} else
> +			page_size = huge_page_size(hstate_vma(vma));

I don't understand how this can work with THP.  You're determining the
page size using only the VMA, but with a THP VMA surely we get
different page sizes at different addresses?

More generally, I'm OK with adding the address parameter to
__ptep_set_access_flags, but I think Ben's suggestion of encoding the
page size in the PTE value is a good one.  I think it is as simple as
the patch below (assuming we only support 2MB large pages for now).
That would simplify things a bit and also it would mean that we are
sure we know the page size correctly even with THP.

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h
index 9fd77f8..e4f3581 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@
 #define _PAGE_SOFT_DIRTY	0x00000
 #endif
 #define _PAGE_SPECIAL		_RPAGE_SW2 /* software: special page */
-
+#define _PAGE_GIGANTIC		_RPAGE_SW0	/* software: 1GB page */
+#define _PAGE_LARGE		_RPAGE_SW1	/* software: 2MB page */
 
 #define _PAGE_PTE		(1ul << 62)	/* distinguishes PTEs from pointers */
 #define _PAGE_PRESENT		(1ul << 63)	/* pte contains a translation */
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-book3s64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-book3s64.c
index f4f437c..7ff0289 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-book3s64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-book3s64.c
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ pmd_t pfn_pmd(unsigned long pfn, pgprot_t pgprot)
 {
 	unsigned long pmdv;
 
-	pmdv = (pfn << PAGE_SHIFT) & PTE_RPN_MASK;
+	pmdv = ((pfn << PAGE_SHIFT) & PTE_RPN_MASK) | _PAGE_LARGE;
 	return pmd_set_protbits(__pmd(pmdv), pgprot);
 }
 
Paul.


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