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authorPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2006-06-15 10:45:18 +1000
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2006-06-15 10:45:18 +1000
commitbf72aeba2ffef599d1d386425c9e46b82be657cd (patch)
treeead8e5111dbcfa22e156999d1bb8a96e50f06fef /include/asm-powerpc/mmu.h
parent31925323b1b51bb65db729e029472a8b1f635b7d (diff)
downloadlinux-bf72aeba2ffef599d1d386425c9e46b82be657cd.tar.gz
powerpc: Use 64k pages without needing cache-inhibited large pages
Some POWER5+ machines can do 64k hardware pages for normal memory but
not for cache-inhibited pages.  This patch lets us use 64k hardware
pages for most user processes on such machines (assuming the kernel
has been configured with CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES=y).  User processes
start out using 64k pages and get switched to 4k pages if they use any
non-cacheable mappings.

With this, we use 64k pages for the vmalloc region and 4k pages for
the imalloc region.  If anything creates a non-cacheable mapping in
the vmalloc region, the vmalloc region will get switched to 4k pages.
I don't know of any driver other than the DRM that would do this,
though, and these machines don't have AGP.

When a region gets switched from 64k pages to 4k pages, we do not have
to clear out all the 64k HPTEs from the hash table immediately.  We
use the _PAGE_COMBO bit in the Linux PTE to indicate whether the page
was hashed in as a 64k page or a set of 4k pages.  If hash_page is
trying to insert a 4k page for a Linux PTE and it sees that it has
already been inserted as a 64k page, it first invalidates the 64k HPTE
before inserting the 4k HPTE.  The hash invalidation routines also use
the _PAGE_COMBO bit, to determine whether to look for a 64k HPTE or a
set of 4k HPTEs to remove.  With those two changes, we can tolerate a
mix of 4k and 64k HPTEs in the hash table, and they will all get
removed when the address space is torn down.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-powerpc/mmu.h')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-powerpc/mmu.h13
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/mmu.h b/include/asm-powerpc/mmu.h
index 885397420104..3a5ebe229af5 100644
--- a/include/asm-powerpc/mmu.h
+++ b/include/asm-powerpc/mmu.h
@@ -165,6 +165,16 @@ struct mmu_psize_def
 extern struct mmu_psize_def mmu_psize_defs[MMU_PAGE_COUNT];
 extern int mmu_linear_psize;
 extern int mmu_virtual_psize;
+extern int mmu_vmalloc_psize;
+extern int mmu_io_psize;
+
+/*
+ * If the processor supports 64k normal pages but not 64k cache
+ * inhibited pages, we have to be prepared to switch processes
+ * to use 4k pages when they create cache-inhibited mappings.
+ * If this is the case, mmu_ci_restrictions will be set to 1.
+ */
+extern int mmu_ci_restrictions;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
 /*
@@ -256,6 +266,7 @@ extern long iSeries_hpte_insert(unsigned long hpte_group,
 
 extern void stabs_alloc(void);
 extern void slb_initialize(void);
+extern void slb_flush_and_rebolt(void);
 extern void stab_initialize(unsigned long stab);
 
 #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
@@ -359,6 +370,8 @@ typedef unsigned long mm_context_id_t;
 
 typedef struct {
 	mm_context_id_t id;
+	u16 user_psize;			/* page size index */
+	u16 sllp;			/* SLB entry page size encoding */
 #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
 	u16 low_htlb_areas, high_htlb_areas;
 #endif