linux-kernel - Re: How to handle PTE tables with non contiguous entries ?

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Date:   Tue, 11 Sep 2018 07:39:50 +0200
From:   Christophe LEROY <christophe.leroy@....fr>
To:     Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to handle PTE tables with non contiguous entries ?



Le 10/09/2018 à 23:06, Nicholas Piggin a écrit :
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 14:34:37 +0000
> Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>
>> 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 ?
> 
> I can't think of anything better. Do we pass pte by value to a lot of
> non inlined functions? Possible to inline the important ones?

Good question, I need to check that.

> 
> Other option, try to get an iterator like pte = pte_next(pte) into core
> code.

Yes I've been thinking about that, but it looks like a huge job to 
identify all places, as some drivers are also playing with it.
I'm not sure it is only to find all 'pte++' and 'ptep++', I fear there 
might be places with more unexpected names.

Thanks
Christophe

> 
> Thanks,
> Nick
>