[PATCH V6 4/4] powerpc/mm/hash: Don't memset pgd table if not needed

Aneesh Kumar K.V aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Mar 26 21:04:50 AEDT 2018


We need to zero-out pgd table only if we share the slab cache with
pud/pmd level caches. With the support of 4PB, we don't share the slab
cache anymore. Instead of removing the code completely hide it within
an #ifdef. We don't need to do this with any other page table level,
because they all allocate table of double the size and we take of
initializing the first half corrrectly during page table zap.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Consolidate multiple #if / #ifdef into one]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
---
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgalloc.h | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgalloc.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgalloc.h
index 4746bc68d446..558a159600ad 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgalloc.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgalloc.h
@@ -80,8 +80,18 @@ static inline pgd_t *pgd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm)
 
 	pgd = kmem_cache_alloc(PGT_CACHE(PGD_INDEX_SIZE),
 			       pgtable_gfp_flags(mm, GFP_KERNEL));
+	/*
+	 * With hugetlb, we don't clear the second half of the page table.
+	 * If we share the same slab cache with the pmd or pud level table,
+	 * we need to make sure we zero out the full table on alloc.
+	 * With 4K we don't store slot in the second half. Hence we don't
+	 * need to do this for 4k.
+	 */
+#if defined(CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE) && defined(CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES) && \
+	((H_PGD_INDEX_SIZE == H_PUD_CACHE_INDEX) ||		     \
+	 (H_PGD_INDEX_SIZE == H_PMD_CACHE_INDEX))
 	memset(pgd, 0, PGD_TABLE_SIZE);
-
+#endif
 	return pgd;
 }
 
-- 
2.14.3



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