linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 03/13] mm: Add generic p?d

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Message-Id: <20190221113502.54153-4-steven.price@arm.com>
Date:   Thu, 21 Feb 2019 11:34:52 +0000
From:   Steven Price <steven.price@....com>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     Steven Price <steven.price@....com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>, x86@...nel.org,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Mark Rutland <Mark.Rutland@....com>,
        "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 03/13] mm: Add generic p?d_large() macros

From: James Morse <james.morse@....com>

Exposing the pud/pgd levels of the page tables to walk_page_range() means
we may come across the exotic large mappings that come with large areas
of contiguous memory (such as the kernel's linear map).

For architectures that don't provide p?d_large() macros, provided a
does nothing default.

Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@....com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@....com>
---
 include/asm-generic/pgtable.h | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
index 05e61e6c843f..f0de24100ac6 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
@@ -1186,4 +1186,23 @@ static inline bool arch_has_pfn_modify_check(void)
 #define mm_pmd_folded(mm)	__is_defined(__PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED)
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * p?d_large() - true if this entry is a final mapping to a physical address.
+ * This differs from p?d_huge() by the fact that they are always available (if
+ * the architecture supports large pages at the appropriate level) even
+ * if CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE is not defined.
+ */
+#ifndef pgd_large
+#define pgd_large(x)	0
+#endif
+#ifndef p4d_large
+#define p4d_large(x)	0
+#endif
+#ifndef pud_large
+#define pud_large(x)	0
+#endif
+#ifndef pmd_large
+#define pmd_large(x)	0
+#endif
+
 #endif /* _ASM_GENERIC_PGTABLE_H */
-- 
2.20.1