From: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
Christophe Leroy <chleroy@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>, Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>,
Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>,
Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>, Baoquan He <baoquan.he@linux.dev>,
Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>,
Youngjun Park <youngjun.park@lge.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Sayali Patil <sayalip@linux.ibm.com>,
"Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 2/3] mm, swap: allow archs to override SWAP_NR_ORDERS via ARCH_MAX_PMD_ORDER
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2026 10:10:58 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eda4e51ee9f1270582fbb2823ec5873e769de089.1781843449.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1781843449.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com>
SWAP_NR_ORDERS sizes a few small bounded arrays inside THP swap
allocator code (nofull/frag cluster lists, percpu_swap_cluster's
si/offset arrays, next array for rotational device). This currently
expands to PMD_ORDER+1, which only works when PMD_ORDER is a compile
time constant.
However on architecture like PowerPC Book3S64, PMD_ORDER is a runtime
variable which depends upon which MMU is selected (Radix / Hash), so in
that case, PMD_ORDER cannot be used to size the static arrays.
This patch provides an optional ARCH_MAX_PMD_ORDER (upper-bound)
override for such architectures. The memory overhead on enabling this
override is negligible. Even if we make SWAP_NR_ORDERS runtime alloc,
default slab padding could cause some memory waste. Also we lose the
per-cpu cacheline benefits (for percpu_swap_cluster) because it might
cost an extra cacheline indirection overhead in swap_alloc_fast() for
fetching si[order]/offset[order]. Note that a fully runtime
SWAP_NR_ORDERS was considered in previous version but was dropped for
this reason [1]
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/pl1zdksc.ritesh.list@gmail.com/
Suggested-by: YoungJun Park <youngjun.park@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h | 7 +++++++
include/linux/swap.h | 12 +++++++++++-
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h
index e67e64ac6e8c..7f22d5d5fbdf 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h
@@ -204,6 +204,13 @@ extern unsigned long __pmd_frag_size_shift;
#define MAX_PTRS_PER_PGD (1 << (H_PGD_INDEX_SIZE > RADIX_PGD_INDEX_SIZE ? \
H_PGD_INDEX_SIZE : RADIX_PGD_INDEX_SIZE))
+/*
+ * Compile-time upper bound on PMD_ORDER across hash and radix MMUs.
+ * Used by THP SWAP code. Check include/linux/swap.h
+ */
+#define ARCH_MAX_PMD_ORDER ((H_PTE_INDEX_SIZE > RADIX_PTE_INDEX_SIZE) ? \
+ H_PTE_INDEX_SIZE : RADIX_PTE_INDEX_SIZE)
+
/* PMD_SHIFT determines what a second-level page table entry can map */
#define PMD_SHIFT (PAGE_SHIFT + PTE_INDEX_SIZE)
#define PMD_SIZE (1UL << PMD_SHIFT)
diff --git a/include/linux/swap.h b/include/linux/swap.h
index 8f0f68e245ba..317168aa2db5 100644
--- a/include/linux/swap.h
+++ b/include/linux/swap.h
@@ -229,11 +229,21 @@ enum {
*/
#define SWAP_ENTRY_INVALID 0
+/*
+ * ARCH_MAX_PMD_ORDER is an optional arch hook: a compile-time upper bound for
+ * PMD_ORDER across all possible MMU configurations of that arch. It is used to
+ * size SWAP_NR_ORDERS on architectures (e.g. powerpc book3s64) where PMD_ORDER
+ * is selected at boot rather than at compile time.
+ */
#ifdef CONFIG_THP_SWAP
+#ifdef ARCH_MAX_PMD_ORDER
+#define SWAP_NR_ORDERS (ARCH_MAX_PMD_ORDER + 1)
+#else
#define SWAP_NR_ORDERS (PMD_ORDER + 1)
+#endif /* ARCH_MAX_PMD_ORDER */
#else
#define SWAP_NR_ORDERS 1
-#endif
+#endif /* CONFIG_THP_SWAP */
/*
* We keep using same cluster for rotational device so IO will be sequential.
--
2.39.5
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-19 4:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-19 4:40 [PATCH v4 0/3] mm, swap: Enable THP SWAP for PowerPC Book3S64 Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-06-19 4:40 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] mm, swap: make SWAPFILE_CLUSTER runtime Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
2026-06-19 4:40 ` Ritesh Harjani (IBM) [this message]
2026-06-19 4:40 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] powerpc: Kconfig: Enable THP_SWAP on Book3S64 Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
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