Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] Reimplement huge pages without hugepd on powerpc 8xx

On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 03:55:53PM +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:

This series reimplements hugepages with hugepd on powerpc 8xx.

Unlike most architectures, powerpc 8xx HW requires a two-level
pagetable topology for all page sizes. So a leaf PMD-contig approach
is not feasible as such.

Possible sizes are 4k, 16k, 512k and 8M.

First level (PGD/PMD) covers 4M per entry. For 8M pages, two PMD entries
must point to a single entry level-2 page table. Until now that was
done using hugepd. This series changes it to use standard page tables
where the entry is replicated 1024 times on each of the two pagetables
refered by the two associated PMD entries for that 8M page.

At the moment it has to look into each helper to know if the
hugepage ptep is a PTE or a PMD in order to know it is a 8M page or
a lower size. I hope this can me handled by core-mm in the future.

There are probably several ways to implement stuff, so feedback is
very welcome.

I thought it looks pretty good!

Thanks,
Jason