Thread (8 messages) 8 messages, 4 authors, 2019-07-02

Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] arm64: mm: Add p?d_large() definitions

From: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Date: 2019-07-01 09:57:18
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, linux-mm

On 01/07/2019 07:40, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
walk_page_range() is going to be allowed to walk page tables other than
those of user space. For this it needs to know when it has reached a
'leaf' entry in the page tables. This information will be provided by the
p?d_large() functions/macros.

For arm64, we already have p?d_sect() macros which we can reuse for
p?d_large().

pud_sect() is defined as a dummy function when CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS < 3
or CONFIG_ARM64_64K_PAGES is defined. However when the kernel is
configured this way then architecturally it isn't allowed to have a
large page that this level, and any code using these page walking macros
is implicitly relying on the page size/number of levels being the same as
the kernel. So it is safe to reuse this for p?d_large() as it is an
architectural restriction.

Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Hi Nicolas,

This appears to my patch which I originally posted as part of converting
x86/arm64 to use a generic page walk code[1]. I'm not sure that this
patch makes much sense on its own, in particular it was working up to
having a generic macro[2] which means the _large() macros could be used
across all architectures.

Also as a matter of courtesy please can you ensure the authorship
information is preserved when posting other people's patches (there
should be a From: line with my name on). You should also include your
own Signed-off-by: line (see submitting-patches[3]) after mine.

Apologies to anyone that has been following my patch series, I've been
on holiday so not actively working on it. My aim is to combine the
series with a generic ptdump implementation[4] which should improve the
diff state. I should be able to post that in the next few weeks.

Thanks,

Steve

[1] Series: https://patchwork.kernel.org/cover/10883885/
    Last posting of this patch:
	https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10883899/

[2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10883965/

[3]
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#developer-s-certificate-of-origin-1-1

[4] RFC version here:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190417143423.26665-1-steven.price@arm.com/ (local)
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---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index fca26759081a..0e973201bc16 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -417,6 +417,7 @@ extern pgprot_t phys_mem_access_prot(struct file *file, unsigned long pfn,
 				 PMD_TYPE_TABLE)
 #define pmd_sect(pmd)		((pmd_val(pmd) & PMD_TYPE_MASK) == \
 				 PMD_TYPE_SECT)
+#define pmd_large(pmd)		pmd_sect(pmd)
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_ARM64_64K_PAGES) || CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS < 3
 #define pud_sect(pud)		(0)
@@ -499,6 +500,7 @@ static inline void pte_unmap(pte_t *pte) { }
 #define pud_none(pud)		(!pud_val(pud))
 #define pud_bad(pud)		(!(pud_val(pud) & PUD_TABLE_BIT))
 #define pud_present(pud)	pte_present(pud_pte(pud))
+#define pud_large(pud)		pud_sect(pud)
 #define pud_valid(pud)		pte_valid(pud_pte(pud))
 
 static inline void set_pud(pud_t *pudp, pud_t pud)
  
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