[PATCH 05/15] csky: switch to generic version of pte allocation
Guo Ren
guoren at kernel.org
Sat May 4 02:03:48 AEST 2019
Hi Mike,
Acked-by: Guo Ren <ren_guo at c-sky.com>
On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 06:28:32PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> The csky implementation pte_alloc_one(), pte_free_kernel() and pte_free()
> is identical to the generic except of lack of __GFP_ACCOUNT for the user
> PTEs allocation.
>
> Switch csky to use generic version of these functions.
Ok.
>
> The csky implementation of pte_alloc_one_kernel() is not replaced because
> it does not clear the allocated page but rather sets each PTE in it to a
> non-zero value.
Yes, we must set each PTE to _PAGE_GLOBAL because hardware refill the
MMU TLB entry with two PTEs and it use the result of pte0.global | pte1.global.
If pte0 is valid and pte1 is invalid, we must set _PAGE_GLOBAL in
invalid pte entry. Fortunately, there is no performance issue.
>
> The pte_free_kernel() and pte_free() versions on csky are identical to the
> generic ones and can be simply dropped.
Ok.
Best Regards
Guo Ren
>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt at linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> arch/csky/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 30 +++---------------------------
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/csky/include/asm/pgalloc.h b/arch/csky/include/asm/pgalloc.h
> index d213bb4..98c571670 100644
> --- a/arch/csky/include/asm/pgalloc.h
> +++ b/arch/csky/include/asm/pgalloc.h
> @@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
> #include <linux/mm.h>
> #include <linux/sched.h>
>
> +#define __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_ALLOC_ONE_KERNEL
> +#include <asm-generic/pgalloc.h> /* for pte_{alloc,free}_one */
> +
> static inline void pmd_populate_kernel(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
> pte_t *pte)
> {
> @@ -39,33 +42,6 @@ static inline pte_t *pte_alloc_one_kernel(struct mm_struct *mm)
> return pte;
> }
>
> -static inline struct page *pte_alloc_one(struct mm_struct *mm)
> -{
> - struct page *pte;
> -
> - pte = alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO, 0);
> - if (!pte)
> - return NULL;
> -
> - if (!pgtable_page_ctor(pte)) {
> - __free_page(pte);
> - return NULL;
> - }
> -
> - return pte;
> -}
> -
> -static inline void pte_free_kernel(struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t *pte)
> -{
> - free_pages((unsigned long)pte, PTE_ORDER);
> -}
> -
> -static inline void pte_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pgtable_t pte)
> -{
> - pgtable_page_dtor(pte);
> - __free_pages(pte, PTE_ORDER);
> -}
> -
> static inline void pgd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd)
> {
> free_pages((unsigned long)pgd, PGD_ORDER);
> --
> 2.7.4
>
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