From: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
To: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	dave.hansen@intel.com, paulus@samba.org,
	aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 02/12] powerpc: Free up four 64K PTE bits in 64K backed hpte pages.
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 16:25:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170620232507.GG17588@ram.oc3035372033.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ff6fe458-6539-e237-4556-41872385815a@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 04:21:45PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> On 06/17/2017 09:22 AM, Ram Pai wrote:
> > Rearrange 64K PTE bits to  free  up  bits 3, 4, 5  and  6
> > in the 64K backed hpte pages. This along with the earlier
> > patch will entirely free up the four bits from 64K PTE.
> > 
> > This patch does the following change to 64K PTE that is
> > backed by 64K hpte.
> > 
> > H_PAGE_F_SECOND which occupied bit 4 moves to the second part
> >         of the pte.
> > H_PAGE_F_GIX which  occupied bit 5, 6 and 7 also moves to the
> >         second part of the pte.
> > 
> > since bit 7 is now freed up, we move H_PAGE_BUSY from bit 9
> > to bit 7. Trying to minimize gaps so that contiguous bits
> > can be allocated if needed in the future.
> > 
> > The second part of the PTE will hold
> > (H_PAGE_F_SECOND|H_PAGE_F_GIX) at bit 60,61,62,63.
> 
> I still dont understand how we freed up the 5th bit which is
> used in the 5th patch. Was that bit never used for any thing
> on 64K page size (64K and 4K mappings) ?
yes. it was not used. So I gladly used it :-)
RP
next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2017-06-20 23:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-17  3:52 [RFC v2 00/12] powerpc: Memory Protection Keys Ram Pai
2017-06-17  3:52 ` [RFC v2 01/12] powerpc: Free up four 64K PTE bits in 4K backed hpte pages Ram Pai
2017-06-20 10:20   ` Anshuman Khandual
2017-06-20 23:23     ` Ram Pai
2017-06-21  5:35       ` Anshuman Khandual
2017-06-21  6:34         ` Ram Pai
2017-06-21  6:41   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2017-06-21  9:30     ` Ram Pai
2017-06-22  9:07   ` Anshuman Khandual
2017-06-22 16:20     ` Ram Pai
2017-06-17  3:52 ` [RFC v2 02/12] powerpc: Free up four 64K PTE bits in 64K " Ram Pai
2017-06-20 10:51   ` Anshuman Khandual
2017-06-20 23:25     ` Ram Pai [this message]
2017-06-21  6:50   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2017-06-21  6:54   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2017-06-21 20:14     ` Ram Pai
2017-06-17  3:52 ` [RFC v2 03/12] powerpc: Implement sys_pkey_alloc and sys_pkey_free system call Ram Pai
2017-06-19 12:18   ` Michael Ellerman
2017-06-20 22:45     ` Ram Pai
2017-06-17  3:52 ` [RFC v2 04/12] powerpc: store and restore the pkey state across context switches Ram Pai
2017-06-17  3:52 ` [RFC v2 05/12] powerpc: Implementation for sys_mprotect_pkey() system call Ram Pai
2017-06-21  7:16   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2017-06-17  3:52 ` [RFC v2 06/12] powerpc: Program HPTE key protection bits Ram Pai
2017-06-20  8:21   ` Anshuman Khandual
2017-06-20 23:26     ` Ram Pai
2017-06-17  3:52 ` [RFC v2 07/12] powerpc: Macro the mask used for checking DSI exception Ram Pai
2017-06-20  8:14   ` Anshuman Khandual
2017-06-20 23:28     ` Ram Pai
2017-06-21  7:25   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2017-06-21  9:17     ` Ram Pai
2017-06-17  3:52 ` [RFC v2 08/12] powerpc: Handle exceptions caused by violation of pkey protection Ram Pai
2017-06-20  7:24   ` Anshuman Khandual
2017-06-20 23:43     ` Ram Pai
2017-06-21  3:54       ` Anshuman Khandual
2017-06-21  6:26         ` Ram Pai
2017-06-17  3:52 ` [RFC v2 09/12] powerpc: Deliver SEGV signal on pkey violation Ram Pai
2017-06-20  6:54   ` Anshuman Khandual
2017-06-20 23:56     ` Ram Pai
2017-06-21  3:18       ` Anshuman Khandual
2017-06-21  6:10         ` Ram Pai
2017-06-17  3:52 ` [RFC v2 10/12] powerpc: Read AMR only if pkey-violation caused the exception Ram Pai
2017-06-19 11:06   ` Michael Ellerman
2017-06-19 17:59     ` Ram Pai
2017-06-20  6:46       ` Anshuman Khandual
2017-06-20 23:58         ` Ram Pai
2017-06-20 23:56     ` Ram Pai
2017-06-17  3:52 ` [RFC v2 11/12]Documentation: Documentation updates Ram Pai
2017-06-20  6:18   ` Anshuman Khandual
2017-06-21  0:04     ` Ram Pai
2017-06-17  3:52 ` [RFC v2 12/12]selftest: Updated protection key selftest Ram Pai
2017-06-19 11:04   ` Michael Ellerman
2017-06-20  6:26   ` Anshuman Khandual
2017-06-21  0:10     ` Ram Pai
2017-06-20  5:10 ` [RFC v2 00/12] powerpc: Memory Protection Keys Balbir Singh
2017-06-20  6:05   ` Anshuman Khandual
2017-06-20  9:56   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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