Re: [PATCH 00/31] powerpc/mm: Update page table format for book3s 64
From: Scott Wood <hidden>
Date: 2015-09-21 21:49:11
On Mon, 2015-09-21 at 12:10 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
Hi All,
This patch series attempt to update book3s 64 linux page table format to
make it more flexible. Our current pte format is very restrictive and we
overload multiple pte bits. This is due to the non-availability of free bits
in pte_t. We use pte_t to track the validity of 4K subpages. This patch
series free up pte_t of 11 bits by moving 4K subpage tracking to the
lower half of PTE page. The pte format is updated such that we have a
better method for identifying a pte entry at pmd level. This will also
enable
us to implement hugetlb migration(not yet done in this series).
Before making the changes to the pte format, I am splitting the
pte header definition such that we now have the below layout for headers
book3s
32
hash.h pgtable.h
64
hash.h pgtable.h hash-4k.h hash-64k.h
booke
32
pgtable.h pte-40x.h pte-44x.h pte-8xx.h pte-fsl-booke.h
64
pgtable-4k.h pgtable-64k.h pgtable.h40x and 8xx are not booke. Is there a better name that can be used for this directory? Maybe "nohash", similar to arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_nohash.c? -Scott