[RFC PATCH v4 13/16] powerpc/e500: Use contiguous PMD instead of hugepd

[Oscar Salvador]

On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 09:58:35AM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
 
> Yes I now have :
> 
> +#define _PAGE_HSIZE_MSK (_PAGE_U0 | _PAGE_U1 | _PAGE_U2 | _PAGE_U3)
> +#define _PAGE_HSIZE_SHIFT              14
> +#define _PAGE_HSIZE_SHIFT_OFFSET       20
> 
> and have added a helper to avoid doing the calculation at several places:
> 
> +static inline unsigned long pte_huge_size(pte_t pte)
> +{
> +       pte_basic_t val = pte_val(pte);
> +
> +       return 1UL << (((val & _PAGE_HSIZE_MSK) >> _PAGE_HSIZE_SHIFT) + 
> _PAGE_HSIZE_SHIFT_OFFSET);
> +}

Great, this looks much better.

> That's what I did before but it didn't work. The problem is that 
> pte_advance_pfn() takes a long not a long long:
> 
> static inline pte_t pte_advance_pfn(pte_t pte, unsigned long nr)
> {
> 	return __pte(pte_val(pte) + (nr << PFN_PTE_SHIFT));
> }
> 
> And when I called it with nr = PMD_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE = 2M / 4k = 512, as 
> we have PFN_PTE_SHIFT = 24, I got 512 << 24 = 0

Ah, I missed that trickery with the types.

Thanks!


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Oscar Salvador
SUSE Labs