From: shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com>,
Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: [patch 3/6] powerpc: Define flags for Strong Access Ordering
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:32:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080618223329.166670421@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20080618223254.966080905@linux.vnet.ibm.com
This patch defines:
- PROT_SAO, which is passed into mmap() and mprotect() in the prot field
- VM_SAO in vma->vm_flags, and
- _PAGE_SAO, the combination of WIMG bits in the pte that enables strong
access ordering for the page.
NOTE: There doesn't seem to be a precedent for architecture-dependent vm_flags.
It may be better to define VM_SAO somewhere in include/asm-powerpc/. Since
vm_flags is a long, defining it in the high-order word would help prevent a
collision with any newly added values in architecture-independent code.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
include/asm-powerpc/mman.h | 2 ++
include/asm-powerpc/pgtable-ppc64.h | 3 +++
include/linux/mm.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
Index: linux-2.6.26-rc5/include/asm-powerpc/mman.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.26-rc5.orig/include/asm-powerpc/mman.h
+++ linux-2.6.26-rc5/include/asm-powerpc/mman.h
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
* 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*/
+#define PROT_SAO 0x10 /* Strong Access Ordering */
+
#define MAP_RENAME MAP_ANONYMOUS /* In SunOS terminology */
#define MAP_NORESERVE 0x40 /* don't reserve swap pages */
#define MAP_LOCKED 0x80
Index: linux-2.6.26-rc5/include/asm-powerpc/pgtable-ppc64.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.26-rc5.orig/include/asm-powerpc/pgtable-ppc64.h
+++ linux-2.6.26-rc5/include/asm-powerpc/pgtable-ppc64.h
@@ -94,6 +94,9 @@
#define _PAGE_HASHPTE 0x0400 /* software: pte has an associated HPTE */
#define _PAGE_BUSY 0x0800 /* software: PTE & hash are busy */
+/* Strong Access Ordering */
+#define _PAGE_SAO (_PAGE_WRITETHRU | _PAGE_NO_CACHE | _PAGE_COHERENT)
+
#define _PAGE_BASE (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_COHERENT)
#define _PAGE_WRENABLE (_PAGE_RW | _PAGE_DIRTY)
Index: linux-2.6.26-rc5/include/linux/mm.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.26-rc5.orig/include/linux/mm.h
+++ linux-2.6.26-rc5/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void
#define VM_CAN_NONLINEAR 0x08000000 /* Has ->fault & does nonlinear pages */
#define VM_MIXEDMAP 0x10000000 /* Can contain "struct page" and pure PFN pages */
+#define VM_SAO 0x20000000 /* Strong Access Ordering (powerpc) */
#ifndef VM_STACK_DEFAULT_FLAGS /* arch can override this */
#define VM_STACK_DEFAULT_FLAGS VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS
--
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-18 22:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-18 22:32 [patch 0/6] Strong Access Ordering page attributes for POWER7 shaggy
2008-06-18 22:32 ` [patch 1/6] mm: Allow architectures to define additional protection bits shaggy
2008-07-01 8:53 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-01 13:54 ` Dave Kleikamp
2008-07-07 5:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-07 21:11 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-07-07 22:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-08 6:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-08 13:00 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-07-08 13:35 ` Dave Kleikamp
2008-06-18 22:32 ` [patch 2/6] powerpc: hash_huge_page() should get the WIMG bits from the lpte shaggy
2008-06-18 22:32 ` shaggy [this message]
2008-06-18 22:32 ` [patch 4/6] powerpc: Add SAO Feature bit to the cputable shaggy
2008-06-18 22:32 ` [patch 5/6] powerpc: Add Strong Access Ordering shaggy
2008-06-18 22:33 ` [patch 6/6] powerpc: Dont clear _PAGE_COHERENT when _PAGE_SAO is set shaggy
2008-07-03 23:39 ` [patch 0/6] Strong Access Ordering page attributes for POWER7 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-07 14:05 ` Dave Kleikamp
2008-07-07 21:23 ` Joel Schopp
2008-07-07 22:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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