linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/zsmalloc: include sparsemem.h for MAX_PHYSMEM

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Date:   Tue, 10 Nov 2020 13:22:20 +0100
From:   Stefan Agner <stefan@...er.ch>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
Cc:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>, Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
        ngupta@...are.org,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, gregkh <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux@...linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/zsmalloc: include sparsemem.h for MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS

[adding Russell King for ARM]

On 2020-11-10 12:21, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 10:58 AM Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > asm/sparsemem.h is not available on some architectures.
>> > > It's better to use linux/mmzone.h instead.
> 
> Ah, I missed that, too.
> 
>> > Hm, linux/mmzone.h only includes asm/sparsemem.h when CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
>> > is enabled. However, on ARM at least I can have configurations without
>> > CONFIG_SPARSEMEM and physical address extension on (e.g.
>> > multi_v7_defconfig + CONFIG_LPAE + CONFIG_ZSMALLOC).
>> >
>> > While sparsemem seems to be a good idea with LPAE it really seems not
>> > required (see also https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/567589/).
>> >
>> > There seem to be also other architectures which define MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS
>> > only when SPARSEMEM is enabled, e.g.
>> > arch/riscv/include/asm/sparsemem.h...
>> >
>> > Not sure how to get out of this.. Maybe make ZSMALLOC dependent on
>> > SPARSEMEM? It feels a bit silly restricting ZSMALLOC selection only due
>> > to a compile time define...
>>
>> I think we can define MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS in one of
>> arch/arm/inclide/asm/pgtable-{2,3}level-*.h headers to values supported
>> by !LPAE and LPAE.

Hm I see mm/zsmalloc.c really only needs to know how many bits are
potentially used to calculate how many bits it can use for object
indexing.

> 
> Good idea. I wonder what other architectures need the same though.
> Here are some I found:
> 
> $ git grep -l PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT arch | grep Kconfig
> arch/arc/Kconfig
> arch/arm/mm/Kconfig
> arch/mips/Kconfig
> arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
> arch/x86/Kconfig
> 
> arch/arc has a CONFIG_ARC_HAS_PAE40 option
> arch/riscv has 34-bit addressing in rv32 mode
> arch/mips has up to 40 bits with mips32r3 XPA, but I don't know what
>     supports that
> 
> arch/powerpc has this:
> config PHYS_64BIT
>         bool 'Large physical address support' if E500 || PPC_86xx
>         depends on (44x || E500 || PPC_86xx) && !PPC_83xx && !PPC_82xx
> 
> Apparently all three (4xx, e500v2, mpc86xx/e600) do 36-bit physical
> addressing, but each one has a different page table format.
> 
> Microblaze has physical address extensions, but neither those nor
> 64-bit mode have so far made it into the kernel.
> 
> To be on the safe side, we could provoke a compile-time error
> when CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT is set on a 32-bit
> architecture, but MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS is not set.
> 
>> That's what x86 does:
>>
>> $ git grep -w MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS arch/
>> arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level_types.h:#define MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS   36
> 
> Doesn't x86 also support a 40-bit addressing mode? I suppose
> those machines that actually used it are long gone.
> 
>> arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64_types.h:#define MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS       52
>>
>> It seems that actual numbers would be 36 for !LPAE and 40 for LPAE, but
>> I'm not sure about that.
> 
> Close enough, yes.
> 
> The 36-bit addressing is on !LPAE is only used for early static mappings,
> so I think we can pretend it's always 32-bit. I checked the ARMv8 reference,
> and it says that ARMv8-Aarch32 actually supports 40 bit physical addressing
> both with non-LPAE superpages (short descriptor format) and LPAE (long
> descriptor format), but Linux only does 36-bit addressing on superpages
> as specified for ARMv6/ARMv7 short descriptors.

Oh so, more than 4GB of memory can be supported by !LPAE systems via
superpages? Wasn't aware of that.

Since only ARM_LPAE selects CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT it really is safe
to assume 32 bits for non-LPAE systems.

I guess that would mean adding a #define MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS 32 to
arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h and a MAX_POSSIBLE_PHYSMEM_BITS 40
in arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h. Seems straight forward and
would solve the problem I had. I can prepare a patch for ARM, not sure
about the other architectures...

--
Stefan