How to handle PTE tables with non contiguous entries ?

[Christophe LEROY]

Le 17/09/2018 à 11:03, Aneesh Kumar K.V a écrit :
> Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr> writes:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm having a hard time figuring out the best way to handle the following
>> situation:
>>
>> On the powerpc8xx, handling 16k size pages requires to have page tables
>> with 4 identical entries.
> 
> I assume that hugetlb page size? If so isn't that similar to FSL hugetlb
> page table layout?

No, it is not for 16k hugepage size with a standard page size of 4k.

Here I'm trying to handle the case of CONFIG_PPC_16K_PAGES.
As of today, it is implemented by using the standard Linux page layout, 
ie one PTE entry for each 16k page. This forbids the use the 8xx HW 
assistance.

> 
>>
>> Initially I was thinking about handling this by simply modifying
>> pte_index() which changing pte_t type in order to have one entry every
>> 16 bytes, then replicate the PTE value at *ptep, *ptep+1,*ptep+2 and
>> *ptep+3 both in set_pte_at() and pte_update().
>>
>> However, this doesn't work because many many places in the mm core part
>> of the kernel use loops on ptep with single ptep++ increment.
>>
>> Therefore did it with the following hack:
>>
>>    /* PTE level */
>> +#if defined(CONFIG_PPC_8xx) && defined(CONFIG_PPC_16K_PAGES)
>> +typedef struct { pte_basic_t pte, pte1, pte2, pte3; } pte_t;
>> +#else
>>    typedef struct { pte_basic_t pte; } pte_t;
>> +#endif
>>
>> @@ -181,7 +192,13 @@ static inline unsigned long pte_update(pte_t *p,
>>           : "cc" );
>>    #else /* PTE_ATOMIC_UPDATES */
>>           unsigned long old = pte_val(*p);
>> -       *p = __pte((old & ~clr) | set);
>> +       unsigned long new = (old & ~clr) | set;
>> +
>> +#if defined(CONFIG_PPC_8xx) && defined(CONFIG_PPC_16K_PAGES)
>> +       p->pte = p->pte1 = p->pte2 = p->pte3 = new;
>> +#else
>> +       *p = __pte(new);
>> +#endif
>>    #endif /* !PTE_ATOMIC_UPDATES */
>>
>>    #ifdef CONFIG_44x
>>
>>
>> @@ -161,7 +161,11 @@ static inline void __set_pte_at(struct mm_struct
>> *mm, unsigned long addr,
>>           /* Anything else just stores the PTE normally. That covers all
>> 64-bit
>>            * cases, and 32-bit non-hash with 32-bit PTEs.
>>            */
>> +#if defined(CONFIG_PPC_8xx) && defined(CONFIG_PPC_16K_PAGES)
>> +       ptep->pte = ptep->pte1 = ptep->pte2 = ptep->pte3 = pte_val(pte);
>> +#else
>>           *ptep = pte;
>> +#endif
>>
>>
>>
>> But I'm not too happy with it as it means pte_t is not a single type
>> anymore so passing it from one function to the other is quite heavy.
>>
>>
>> Would someone have an idea of an elegent way to handle that ?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Christophe
> 
> Why would pte_update bother about updating all the 4 entries?. Can you
> help me understand the issue?

Because the 8xx HW assistance expects 4 identical entries for each 16k 
page, so everytime a PTE is updated the 4 entries have to be updated.

Christophe