linux/arch/powerpc/mm/mmu_context_64.c
Paul Mackerras bf72aeba2f 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>
2006-06-15 10:45:18 +10:00

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/*
* MMU context allocation for 64-bit kernels.
*
* Copyright (C) 2004 Anton Blanchard, IBM Corp. <anton@samba.org>
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
* 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
*/
#include <linux/config.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/errno.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/idr.h>
#include <asm/mmu_context.h>
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(mmu_context_lock);
static DEFINE_IDR(mmu_context_idr);
int init_new_context(struct task_struct *tsk, struct mm_struct *mm)
{
int index;
int err;
again:
if (!idr_pre_get(&mmu_context_idr, GFP_KERNEL))
return -ENOMEM;
spin_lock(&mmu_context_lock);
err = idr_get_new_above(&mmu_context_idr, NULL, 1, &index);
spin_unlock(&mmu_context_lock);
if (err == -EAGAIN)
goto again;
else if (err)
return err;
if (index > MAX_CONTEXT) {
idr_remove(&mmu_context_idr, index);
return -ENOMEM;
}
mm->context.id = index;
mm->context.user_psize = mmu_virtual_psize;
mm->context.sllp = SLB_VSID_USER |
mmu_psize_defs[mmu_virtual_psize].sllp;
return 0;
}
void destroy_context(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
spin_lock(&mmu_context_lock);
idr_remove(&mmu_context_idr, mm->context.id);
spin_unlock(&mmu_context_lock);
mm->context.id = NO_CONTEXT;
}