Balbir Singh <bsinghar...@gmail.com> writes:
> On 26/02/16 14:53, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>> This enables us to share the same page table code for
>> both radix and hash. Radix use a hardware defined big endian
> ^uses
>> page table
>>
>> Asm -> C conversion makes it simpler to build code for both little
>> and big endian page table.
>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.ku...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> ---
>> Note:
>> Any suggestion on how we can do that pte update better so that we can build
>> a LE and BE page table kernel will be helpful.
> Ideally this should not break software compatibility for VM migration,
> but might be worth testing. Basically a hypervisor with BE page tables
> and software endian older kernel instance. Also look for any tools
> that work off of saved dump images with PTE entries in them -
> crash/kdump/etc
I will check this.
>> arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hash.h | 75 ++++++++++++--------
>> arch/powerpc/include/asm/kvm_book3s_64.h | 12 ++--
>> arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h | 4 ++
>> arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-be-types.h | 104
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> arch/powerpc/mm/hash64_4k.c | 6 +-
>> arch/powerpc/mm/hash64_64k.c | 11 +--
>> arch/powerpc/mm/hugepage-hash64.c | 5 +-
>> arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage-hash64.c | 5 +-
>> arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-hash64.c | 42 +++++------
>> 9 files changed, 197 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)
>> create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-be-types.h
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hash.h
>> b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hash.h
>> index 9b451cb8294a..9153bda5f395 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hash.h
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/hash.h
>> @@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
>> #ifndef _ASM_POWERPC_BOOK3S_64_HASH_H
>> #define _ASM_POWERPC_BOOK3S_64_HASH_H
>> #ifdef __KERNEL__
>> +#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
>> +#include <asm/cmpxchg.h>
>> +#endif
> Do we still need PTE_ATOMIC_UPDATE as 1 after these changes?
yes. we are not changing anything with respect to _PAGE_BUSY handling.
>>
>> /*
>> * Common bits between 4K and 64K pages in a linux-style PTE.
>> @@ -249,27 +252,35 @@ static inline unsigned long pte_update(struct
>> mm_struct *mm,
>> unsigned long set,
>> int huge)
>> {
>> - unsigned long old, tmp;
>> -
>> - __asm__ __volatile__(
>> - "1: ldarx %0,0,%3 # pte_update\n\
>> - andi. %1,%0,%6\n\
>> - bne- 1b \n\
>> - andc %1,%0,%4 \n\
>> - or %1,%1,%7\n\
>> - stdcx. %1,0,%3 \n\
>> - bne- 1b"
>> - : "=&r" (old), "=&r" (tmp), "=m" (*ptep)
>> - : "r" (ptep), "r" (clr), "m" (*ptep), "i" (_PAGE_BUSY), "r" (set)
>> - : "cc" );
>> + pte_t pte;
>> + unsigned long old_pte, new_pte;
>> +
>> + do {
>> +reload:
>> + pte = READ_ONCE(*ptep);
>> + old_pte = pte_val(pte);
>> +
>> + /* If PTE busy, retry */
>> + if (unlikely(old_pte & _PAGE_BUSY))
>> + goto reload;
> A loop within another? goto to upward labels can be ugly..
>
> do {
> pte = READ_ONCE(*ptep);
> old_pte = pte_val(pte);
>
> while (unlikely(old_pte & _PAGE_BUSY)) {
> cpu_relax(); /* Do we need this? */
> pte = READ_ONCE(*ptep);
> old_pte = pte_val(pte);
> }
>
> The above four lines can be abstracted further to loop_while_page_busy() if
> required :)
I will check this.
>> + /*
>> + * Try to lock the PTE, add ACCESSED and DIRTY if it was
>> + * a write access. Since this is 4K insert of 64K page size
>> + * also add _PAGE_COMBO
>> + */
>> + new_pte = (old_pte | set) & ~clr;
>> +
>> + } while (cpu_to_be64(old_pte) != __cmpxchg_u64((unsigned long *)ptep,
>> + cpu_to_be64(old_pte),
>> + cpu_to_be64(new_pte)));
>> /* huge pages use the old page table lock */
>> if (!huge)
>> assert_pte_locked(mm, addr);
>>
>> - if (old & _PAGE_HASHPTE)
>> - hpte_need_flush(mm, addr, ptep, old, huge);
>> + if (old_pte & _PAGE_HASHPTE)
>> + hpte_need_flush(mm, addr, ptep, old_pte, huge);
>>
>> - return old;
>> + return old_pte;
>> }
-aneesh
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