Hi James,
On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 10:58:22AM +0100, James Morse wrote:
> On 22/08/18 10:54, Jun Yao wrote:
> > WRITE_ONCE(*pmdp, pmd);
> > dsb(ishst);
> > }
> > @@ -480,6 +511,19 @@ static inline phys_addr_t pmd_page_paddr(pmd_t pmd)
> >
> > static inline void set_pud(pud_t *pudp, pud_t pud)
> > {
> > +#ifdef __PAGETABLE_PUD_FOLDED
> > + if (in_swapper_pgdir(pudp)) {
> > + pud_t *fixmap_pudp;
> > +
> > + spin_lock(&swapper_pgdir_lock);
> > + fixmap_pudp = (pud_t *)pgd_set_fixmap(__pa(pudp));
>
> I see this called 68 times during boot on a 64K/42bit-VA, 65 of which appear
> to
> be during paging_init(). What do you think to keeping paging_init()s use of
> the
> pgd fixmap for swapper_pg_dir, deliberately to skip the in_swapper_pgdir()
> test
> during paging_init()?
I find that the __create_pgd_mapping() is used to set up the page table
during paging_init(). And there are six functions calling it with
different pgdps:
update_mapping_prot() init_mm.pgd(swapper_pg_dir)
create_mapping_noalloc() init_mm.pgd(swapper_pg_dir)
__map_memblock() pgdp(swapper_pg_dir)
map_kernel_segment() pgdp(swapper_pg_dir)
create_pgd_mapping() !(init_mm.pgd)
map_entry_trampoline() tramp_pg_dir
In order to skip the in_swapper_pgdir() test during paging_init(), We
need a way to determine if we are currently in paging_init(). The way I
can think of is to create a function similar to __create_pgd_mapping().
And it is used to create the page table during paging_init(). It differs
from the __create_pgd_mapping() only in that it calls
p?d_populate_without_test(). However, in this way, I'm worried that I am
reinventing the wheel.
Thanks,
Jun
