On 32-bit architectures PAGE_ALIGN() truncates 64-bit values to the 32-bit
boundary. For example:
u64 val = PAGE_ALIGN(size);
always returns a value < 4GB even if size is greater than 4GB.
The problem resides in PAGE_MASK definition (from include/asm-x86/page.h for
example):
#define PAGE_SHIFT 12
#define PAGE_SIZE (_AC(1,UL) << PAGE_SHIFT)
#define PAGE_MASK (~(PAGE_SIZE-1))
...
#define PAGE_ALIGN(addr) (((addr)+PAGE_SIZE-1)&PAGE_MASK)
The "~" is performed on a 32-bit value, so everything in "and" with
PAGE_MASK greater than 4GB will be truncated to the 32-bit boundary.
Using the ALIGN() macro seems to be the right way, because it uses
typeof(addr) for the mask.
Also move the PAGE_ALIGN() definitions out of include/asm-*/page.h in
include/linux/mm.h.
See also lkml discussion: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/11/237
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_queue.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix v850]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arm]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mips]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-dvb.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/mtd/maps/uclinux.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The goal of this patchset is to support multiple hugetlb page sizes. This
is achieved by introducing a new struct hstate structure, which
encapsulates the important hugetlb state and constants (eg. huge page
size, number of huge pages currently allocated, etc).
The hstate structure is then passed around the code which requires these
fields, they will do the right thing regardless of the exact hstate they
are operating on.
This patch adds the hstate structure, with a single global instance of it
(default_hstate), and does the basic work of converting hugetlb to use the
hstate.
Future patches will add more hstate structures to allow for different
hugetlbfs mounts to have different page sizes.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The double indirection here is not needed anywhere and hence (at least)
confusing.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: (25 commits)
mmtimer: Push BKL down into the ioctl handler
[IA64] Remove experimental status of kdump
[IA64] Update ia64 mmr list for SGI uv
[IA64] Avoid overflowing ia64_cpu_to_sapicid in acpi_map_lsapic()
[IA64] adding parameter check to module_free()
[IA64] improper printk format in acpi-cpufreq
[IA64] pv_ops: move some functions in ivt.S to avoid lack of space.
[IA64] pvops: documentation on ia64/pv_ops
[IA64] pvops: add to hooks, pv_time_ops, for steal time accounting.
[IA64] pvops: add hooks, pv_irq_ops, to paravirtualized irq related operations.
[IA64] pvops: add hooks, pv_iosapic_ops, to paravirtualize iosapic.
[IA64] pvops: define initialization hooks, pv_init_ops, for paravirtualized environment.
[IA64] pvops: paravirtualize NR_IRQS
[IA64] pvops: paravirtualize entry.S
[IA64] pvops: paravirtualize ivt.S
[IA64] pvops: paravirtualize minstate.h.
[IA64] pvops: define paravirtualized instructions for native.
[IA64] pvops: preparation for paravirtulization of hand written assembly code.
[IA64] pvops: introduce pv_cpu_ops to paravirtualize privileged instructions.
[IA64] pvops: add an early setup hook for pv_ops.
...
This patch enables coalesced MMIO for ia64 architecture.
It defines KVM_MMIO_PAGE_OFFSET and KVM_CAP_COALESCED_MMIO.
It enables the compilation of coalesced_mmio.c.
[akpm: fix compile error on ia64]
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
"idle=nomwait" disables the use of the MWAIT
instruction from both C1 (C1_FFH) and deeper (C2C3_FFH)
C-states.
When MWAIT is unavailable, the BIOS and OS generally
negotiate to use the HALT instruction for C1,
and use IO accesses for deeper C-states.
This option is useful for power and performance
comparisons, and also to work around BIOS bugs
where broken MWAIT support is advertised.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10807http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10914
Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
"idle=halt" limits the idle loop to using
the halt instruction. No MWAIT, no IO accesses,
no C-states deeper than C1.
If something is broken in the idle code,
"idle=halt" is a less severe workaround
than "idle=poll" which disables all power savings.
Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
This converts ia64 to use the new helpers for smp_call_function() and
friends, and adds support for smp_call_function_single().
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Fix build error in CONFIG_IA64_SGI_UV config. (GENERIC builds
are ok).
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Introduce pv_time_ops which adds hook to steal time accounting.
On virtualized environment, cpus are shared by many guests and
steal time is the time which is used for other guests.
On virtualized environtment, streal time should be accounted.
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
introduce pv_irq_ops which adds hooks to paravirtualize irq related
operations.
On virtualized environment, interruption may be replaced by something
virtualization friendly. So the irq related operation also may need
paravirtualization.
This patch adds necessary hooks to paravirtualize irq related operations.
Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
add hooks to paravirtualize iosapic which is a real hardware resource.
On virtualized environment it may be replaced something virtualized
friendly.
Define pv_iosapic_ops and add the hooks.
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
define pv_init_ops hooks which represents various initialization
hooks for paravirtualized environment. and add hooks.
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Make NR_IRQ overridable by each pv instances.
Pv instance may need each own number of irqs so that
NR_IRQS should be the maximum number of nr_irqs each
pv instances need.
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
paravirtualize ia64_swtich_to, ia64_leave_syscall and ia64_leave_kernel.
They include sensitive or performance critical privileged instructions
so that they need paravirtualization.
To paravirtualize them by single source and multi compile
they are converted into indirect jump. And define each pv instances.
Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: "Dong, Eddie" <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
paravirtualize minstate.h which are hand written assembly code.
They include sensitive or performance critical privileged
instructions. So that they are appropriate for paravirtualization.
Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: Akio Takebe <takebe_akio@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
introduce pv_cpu_ops to paravirtualize privleged instructions
which are defined by ia64 intrinsics.
make them indirect C function calls by introducing function
tables, pv_cpu_ops.
Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This patch adds a setup hook in the very early boot sequence
before start_kernel() to initialize paravirtualization stuff.
The hook will be set by each pv loader code or by using multi entry point.
Signed-off-by: Qing He <qing.he@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
introduce pv_info which describes some randome info about
underlying execution environment.
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
__local_irq_save() and local_save_flags() are used to mask interruptions.
They read all psr bits that requres whole bit emulation.
On the other hand, reading only psr.i, the single bit, can be virtualized
cheaply.
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
make kernel paravirtualization friendly by introducing
ia64_set_rr0_to_rr4().
ia64/Xen will replace setting rr[0-4] with single hypercall later.
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Move the LOAD_OFFSET definition from vmlinux.lds.S into system.h.
On paravirtualized environments, it is necessary to detect the
execution environment. One of the solutions is the multi entry point.
The multi entry point allows a boot loader to start the kernel execution
from the entry point which is different from the ELF entry point.
The non standard entry point will defined as the specialized elf note
which contains the LMA of the entry point symbol.
The constant, LOAD_OFFSET, is necessary to calculate the symbol's LMA.
Move the definition into the public header file to make it available
to the multi entry point support.
Cc: "He, Qing" <qing.he@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
remove extern declaration of handle_IPI() in irq_ia64.c.
Instead, declare it in asm-ia64/smp.h.
Later handle_IPI() will be referenced from another file.
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Problem: An application violating the architectural rules regarding
operation dependencies and having specific Register Stack Engine (RSE)
state at the time of the violation, may result in an illegal operation
fault and invalid RSE state. Such faults may initiate a cascade of
repeated illegal operation faults within OS interruption handlers.
The specific behavior is OS dependent.
Implication: An application causing an illegal operation fault with
specific RSE state may result in a series of illegal operation faults
and an eventual OS stack overflow condition.
Workaround: OS interruption handlers that switch to kernel backing
store implement a check for invalid RSE state to avoid the series
of illegal operation faults.
The core of the workaround is the RSE_WORKAROUND code sequence
inserted into each invocation of the SAVE_MIN_WITH_COVER and
SAVE_MIN_WITH_COVER_R19 macros. This sequence includes hard-coded
constants that depend on the number of stacked physical registers
being 96. The rest of this patch consists of code to disable this
workaround should this not be the case (with the presumption that
if a future Itanium processor increases the number of registers, it
would also remove the need for this patch).
Move the start of the RBS up to a mod32 boundary to avoid some
corner cases.
The dispatch_illegal_op_fault code outgrew the spot it was
squatting in when built with this patch and CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING=y
Move it out to the end of the ivt.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Guest's firmware needs an iosapic with 48 pins for ia64 guests. Needed to
get networking going.
Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
The kernel's ia64_fpreg structure conflicts with userspace headers, so
define a new structure to replace it.
Signed-off-by: Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
This patch adds the basic IA64 machvec infrastructure to support
the SGI "UV" platform.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This modifies <asm-ia64/types.h> to use the <asm-generic/int-*.h>
generic include files.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Replace TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK with TS_RESTORE_SIGMASK and define
our own set_restore_sigmask() function. This saves the costly
SMP-safe set_bit operation, which we do not need for the sigmask
flag since TIF_SIGPENDING always has to be set too.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
The declaration of dmi helper functions is a bit messy and inconsistent at the
moment:
* On ia64 they are declared in <asm/io.h>.
* On x86-64 they are declared in <asm/dmi.h>.
* On i386 they are declared both in <asm/io.h> and <asm/dmi.h>.
Fix the header files so that the dmi helper functions are consistently
defined in <asm/dmi.h>.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch silences:
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x44672): Section mismatch in
reference from the function arch_register_cpu() to the
function .cpuinit.text:register_cpu()
Changes are based on codes in arch/x86/kernel/topology.c
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Lots of asm-*/futex.h call pagefault_enable and pagefault_disable, which
are declared in linux/uaccess.h, without including linux/uaccess.h.
They all include asm/uaccess.h, so this patch replaces asm/uaccess.h
with linux/uaccess.h.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK no longer needs to be in the _TIF_WORK_* masks.
Those low bits are scarce. Renumber TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK to free one up.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Legacy HP ia64 platforms currently cannot provide
/proc/cpuinfo/physical_id due to legacy SAL/PAL implementations.
However, that physical topology information can be obtained
via ACPI.
Provide an interface that gives ACPI one last chance to provide
physical_id for these legacy platforms. This logic only comes
into play iff:
- ACPI actually provides slot information for the CPU
- we lack a valid socket_id
Otherwise, we don't do anything.
Since x86 uses the ACPI processor driver as well, we provide a nop
stub function for arch_fix_phys_package_id() in asm-x86/topology.h
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Enable the uncached allocator to allocate multiple pages of contiguous
uncached memory.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Unaligned access is ok for the following arches:
cris, m68k, mn10300, powerpc, s390, x86
Arches that use the memmove implementation for native endian, and
the byteshifting for the opposite endianness.
h8300, m32r, xtensa
Packed struct for native endian, byteshifting for other endian:
alpha, blackfin, ia64, parisc, sparc, sparc64, mips, sh
m86knommu is generic_be for Coldfire, otherwise unaligned access is ok.
frv, arm chooses endianness based on compiler settings, uses the byteshifting
versions. Remove the unaligned trap handler from frv as it is now unused.
v850 is le, uses the byteshifting versions for both be and le.
Remove the now unused asm-generic implementation.
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Change all ia64 machvecs to use the new dma_*map*_attrs() interfaces.
Implement the old dma_*map_*() interfaces in terms of the corresponding new
interfaces. For ia64/sn, make use of one dma attribute,
DMA_ATTR_WRITE_BARRIER. Introduce swiotlb_*map*_attrs() functions.
Signed-off-by: Arthur Kepner <akepner@sgi.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
psr is not a good name for local variable in macro body when it
has a good chance of being the argument of said macro (actually
is at least in one place)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Huge ptes have a special type on s390 and cannot be handled with the standard
pte functions in certain cases, e.g. because of a different location of the
invalid bit. This patch adds some new architecture- specific functions to
hugetlb common code, as a prerequisite for the s390 large page support.
This won't affect other architectures in functionality, but I need to add some
new dummy inline functions to the headers.
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A cow break on a hugetlbfs page with page_count > 1 will set a new pte with
set_huge_pte_at(), w/o any tlb flush operation. The old pte will remain in
the tlb and subsequent write access to the page will result in a page fault
loop, for as long as it may take until the tlb is flushed from somewhere else.
This patch introduces an architecture-specific huge_ptep_clear_flush()
function, which is called before the the set_huge_pte_at() in hugetlb_cow().
ATTENTION: This is just a nop on all architectures for now, the s390
implementation will come with our large page patch later. Other architectures
should define their own huge_ptep_clear_flush() if needed.
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch moves all architecture functions for hugetlb to architecture header
files (include/asm-foo/hugetlb.h) and converts all macros to inline functions.
It also removes (!) ARCH_HAS_HUGEPAGE_ONLY_RANGE,
ARCH_HAS_HUGETLB_FREE_PGD_RANGE, ARCH_HAS_PREPARE_HUGEPAGE_RANGE,
ARCH_HAS_SETCLEAR_HUGE_PTE and ARCH_HAS_HUGETLB_PREFAULT_HOOK.
Getting rid of the ARCH_HAS_xxx #ifdef and macro fugliness should increase
readability and maintainability, at the price of some code duplication. An
asm-generic common part would have reduced the loc, but we would end up with
new ARCH_HAS_xxx defines eventually.
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
s390 for one, cannot implement VM_MIXEDMAP with pfn_valid, due to their memory
model (which is more dynamic than most). Instead, they had proposed to
implement it with an additional path through vm_normal_page(), using a bit in
the pte to determine whether or not the page should be refcounted:
vm_normal_page()
{
...
if (unlikely(vma->vm_flags & (VM_PFNMAP|VM_MIXEDMAP))) {
if (vma->vm_flags & VM_MIXEDMAP) {
#ifdef s390
if (!mixedmap_refcount_pte(pte))
return NULL;
#else
if (!pfn_valid(pfn))
return NULL;
#endif
goto out;
}
...
}
This is fine, however if we are allowed to use a bit in the pte to determine
refcountedness, we can use that to _completely_ replace all the vma based
schemes. So instead of adding more cases to the already complex vma-based
scheme, we can have a clearly seperate and simple pte-based scheme (and get
slightly better code generation in the process):
vm_normal_page()
{
#ifdef s390
if (!mixedmap_refcount_pte(pte))
return NULL;
return pte_page(pte);
#else
...
#endif
}
And finally, we may rather make this concept usable by any architecture rather
than making it s390 only, so implement a new type of pte state for this.
Unfortunately the old vma based code must stay, because some architectures may
not be able to spare pte bits. This makes vm_normal_page a little bit more
ugly than we would like, but the 2 cases are clearly seperate.
So introduce a pte_special pte state, and use it in mm/memory.c. It is
currently a noop for all architectures, so this doesn't actually result in any
compiled code changes to mm/memory.o.
BTW:
I haven't put vm_normal_page() into arch code as-per an earlier suggestion.
The reason is that, regardless of where vm_normal_page is actually
implemented, the *abstraction* is still exactly the same. Also, while it
depends on whether the architecture has pte_special or not, that is the
only two possible cases, and it really isn't an arch specific function --
the role of the arch code should be to provide primitive functions and
accessors with which to build the core code; pte_special does that. We do
not want architectures to know or care about vm_normal_page itself, and
we definitely don't want them being able to invent something new there
out of sight of mm/ code. If we made vm_normal_page an arch function, then
we have to make vm_insert_mixed (next patch) an arch function too. So I
don't think moving it to arch code fundamentally improves any abstractions,
while it does practically make the code more difficult to follow, for both
mm and arch developers, and easier to misuse.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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