Thread (50 messages) 50 messages, 7 authors, 2019-04-08

Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] arm64: mm: use appropriate ctors for page tables

From: Yu Zhao <hidden>
Date: 2019-03-09 04:02:01
Also in: linux-arch, linux-mm, lkml

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 03:12:31PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
Hi,

On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 04:13:17PM -0700, Yu Zhao wrote:
quoted
For pte page, use pgtable_page_ctor(); for pmd page, use
pgtable_pmd_page_ctor() if not folded; and for the rest (pud,
p4d and pgd), don't use any.

Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <redacted>
---
 arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
[...]
quoted
-static phys_addr_t pgd_pgtable_alloc(void)
+static phys_addr_t pgd_pgtable_alloc(int shift)
 {
 	void *ptr = (void *)__get_free_page(PGALLOC_GFP);
-	if (!ptr || !pgtable_page_ctor(virt_to_page(ptr)))
-		BUG();
+	BUG_ON(!ptr);
+
+	/*
+	 * Initialize page table locks in case later we need to
+	 * call core mm functions like apply_to_page_range() on
+	 * this pre-allocated page table.
+	 */
+	if (shift == PAGE_SHIFT)
+		BUG_ON(!pgtable_page_ctor(virt_to_page(ptr)));
+	else if (shift == PMD_SHIFT && PMD_SHIFT != PUD_SHIFT)
+		BUG_ON(!pgtable_pmd_page_ctor(virt_to_page(ptr)));
IIUC, this is for nopmd kernels, where we only have real PGD and PTE
levels of table. From my PoV, that would be clearer if we did:

	else if (shift == PMD_SHIFT && !is_defined(__PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED))

... though IMO it would be a bit nicer if the generic
pgtable_pmd_page_ctor() were nop'd out for __PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED
builds, so that callers don't have to be aware of folding.
Agreed. Will make pgtable_pmd_page_ctor() nop when pmd is folded.
I couldn't think of a nicer way of distinguishing levels of table, and
having separate function pointers for each level seems over-the-top, so
otehr than that this looks good to me.

Assuming you're happy with the above change:

Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>

Thanks,
Mark.
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