Re: [RFC PATCH v3 08/16] powerpc/8xx: Rework support for 8M pages using contiguous PTE entries

From: Oscar Salvador
Date: Mon May 27 2024 - 08:10:42 EST


On Sun, May 26, 2024 at 11:22:28AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> In order to fit better with standard Linux page tables layout, add
> support for 8M pages using contiguous PTE entries in a standard
> page table. Page tables will then be populated with 1024 similar
> entries and two PMD entries will point to that page table.
>
> The PMD entries also get a flag to tell it is addressing an 8M page,
> this is required for the HW tablewalk assistance.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx>

I did not look close into KSAN bits, and I trust you with the assembly part,
but other than that looks good to me, so FWIW:

Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>

Just a nit below:

> +#define __HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_PTEP_GET
> +static inline pte_t huge_ptep_get(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)
> +{
> + if (ptep_is_8m_pmdp(mm, addr, ptep))
> + ptep = pte_offset_kernel((pmd_t *)ptep, 0);

Would it not be more clear to use pmd_page_vaddr directly there?


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Oscar Salvador
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