From 2f569afd9ced9ebec9a6eb3dbf6f83429be0a7b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Schwidefsky Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 04:22:04 -0800 Subject: CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables. Background: I've implemented 1K/2K page tables for s390. These sub-page page tables are required to properly support the s390 virtualization instruction with KVM. The SIE instruction requires that the page tables have 256 page table entries (pte) followed by 256 page status table entries (pgste). The pgstes are only required if the process is using the SIE instruction. The pgstes are updated by the hardware and by the hypervisor for a number of reasons, one of them is dirty and reference bit tracking. To avoid wasting memory the standard pte table allocation should return 1K/2K (31/64 bit) and 2K/4K if the process is using SIE. Problem: Page size on s390 is 4K, page table size is 1K or 2K. That means the s390 version for pte_alloc_one cannot return a pointer to a struct page. Trouble is that with the CONFIG_HIGHPTE feature on x86 pte_alloc_one cannot return a pointer to a pte either, since that would require more than 32 bit for the return value of pte_alloc_one (and the pte * would not be accessible since its not kmapped). Solution: The only solution I found to this dilemma is a new typedef: a pgtable_t. For s390 pgtable_t will be a (pte *) - to be introduced with a later patch. For everybody else it will be a (struct page *). The additional problem with the initialization of the ptl lock and the NR_PAGETABLE accounting is solved with a constructor pgtable_page_ctor and a destructor pgtable_page_dtor. The page table allocation and free functions need to call these two whenever a page table page is allocated or freed. pmd_populate will get a pgtable_t instead of a struct page pointer. To get the pgtable_t back from a pmd entry that has been installed with pmd_populate a new function pmd_pgtable is added. It replaces the pmd_page call in free_pte_range and apply_to_pte_range. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/um/kernel/mem.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/um') diff --git a/arch/um/kernel/mem.c b/arch/um/kernel/mem.c index d872fdce1d7e..2627ce82e918 100644 --- a/arch/um/kernel/mem.c +++ b/arch/um/kernel/mem.c @@ -354,11 +354,13 @@ pte_t *pte_alloc_one_kernel(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address) return pte; } -struct page *pte_alloc_one(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address) +pgtable_t pte_alloc_one(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address) { struct page *pte; pte = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_ZERO); + if (pte) + pgtable_page_ctor(pte); return pte; } -- cgit v1.2.3