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Michael Ellerman ba95b5d035 powerpc/mm/book3s/64: Rework page table geometry for lower memory usage
Recently in commit f6eedbba7a ("powerpc/mm/hash: Increase VA range to 128TB")
we increased the virtual address space for user processes to 128TB by default,
and up to 512TB if user space opts in.

This obviously required expanding the range of the Linux page tables. For Book3s
64-bit using hash and with PAGE_SIZE=64K, we increased the PGD to 2^15 entries.
This meant we could cover the full address range, while still being able to
insert a 16G hugepage at the PGD level and a 16M hugepage in the PMD.

The downside of that geometry is that it uses a lot of memory for the PGD, and
in particular makes the PGD a 4-page allocation, which means it's much more
likely to fail under memory pressure.

Instead we can make the PMD larger, so that a single PUD entry maps 16G,
allowing the 16G hugepages to sit at that level in the tree. We're then able to
split the remaining bits between the PUG and PGD. We make the PGD slightly
larger as that results in lower memory usage for typical programs.

When THP is enabled the PMD actually doubles in size, to 2^11 entries, or 2^14
bytes, which is large but still < PAGE_SIZE.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-05-09 19:24:23 +10:00
arch powerpc/mm/book3s/64: Rework page table geometry for lower memory usage 2017-05-09 19:24:23 +10:00
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lib mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
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tools powerpc/perf: Define big-endian version of perf_mem_data_src 2017-04-19 20:00:21 +10:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
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Linux kernel
============

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Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
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