Re: [PATCH v5 02/18] mm: Define __pte_leaf_size() to also take a PMD entry

LEROY Christophe
2024-06-13T16:44:02Z

Le 13/06/2024 à 09:19, Oscar Salvador a écrit :
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 07:00:14PM +0000, LEROY Christophe wrote:
>> We have space available in PMD if we need more flags, but in PTE I can't
>> see anything possible without additional churn that would require
>> additional instructions in TLB miss handlers, which is what I want to
>> avoid most.
>>
>> Bits mapped to HW PTE:
>>
>> #define _PAGE_PRESENT 0x0001 /* V: Page is valid */
>> #define _PAGE_NO_CACHE 0x0002 /* CI: cache inhibit */
>> #define _PAGE_SH 0x0004 /* SH: No ASID (context) compare */
>> #define _PAGE_SPS 0x0008 /* SPS: Small Page Size (1 if 16k, 512k or 8M)*/
>> #define _PAGE_DIRTY 0x0100 /* C: page changed */
>> #define _PAGE_NA 0x0200 /* Supervisor NA, User no access */
>> #define _PAGE_RO 0x0600 /* Supervisor RO, User no access */
>>
>> SW bits masked out in TLB miss handler:
>>
>> #define _PAGE_GUARDED 0x0010 /* Copied to L1 G entry in DTLB */
>> #define _PAGE_ACCESSED 0x0020 /* Copied to L1 APG 1 entry in I/DTLB */
>> #define _PAGE_EXEC 0x0040 /* Copied to PP (bit 21) in ITLB */
>> #define _PAGE_SPECIAL 0x0080 /* SW entry */
>> #define _PAGE_HUGE 0x0800 /* Copied to L1 PS bit 29 */
>>
>> All bits are used. The only thing would could do but that would have a
>> performance cost is to retrieve _PAGE_SH from the PMD and use that bit
>> for something else.
>
> I guess that this would be the last resort if we run out of options.
> But at least it is good to know that there is a plan B (or Z if you will
> :-))
>
>> But I was maybe thinking another way. Lets take the exemple of
>> pmd_write() helper:
>>
>> #define pmd_write(pmd) pte_write(pmd_pte(pmd))
>>
>> At the time being we have
>>
>> static inline pte_t pmd_pte(pmd_t pmd)
>> {
>> return __pte(pmd_val(pmd));
>> }
>>
>> But what about something like
>>
>> static inline pte_t pmd_pte(pmd_t pmd)
>> {
>> return *(pte_t *)pmd_page_vaddr(pmd);
>> }
>
> I think this could work, yes.
>
> So, we should define all pmd_*(pmd) operations for 8xx the way they are defined
> in include/asm/book3s/64/pgtable.h.
>
> Other page size would not interfere because they already can perform
> operations on pte level.
>
> Ok, I think we might have a shot here.
>
> I would help testing, but I do not have 8xx hardware, and Qemu does not support
> 8xx emulation, but I think that if we are careful enough, this can work.
>
> Actually, as a smoketest would be enough to have a task with a 8MB huge
> mapped, and then do:
>
> static const struct mm_walk_ops test_walk_ops = {
> .pmd_entry = test_8mbp_hugepage,
> .pte_entry = test_16k_and_512k_hugepage,
> .hugetlb_entry = check_hugetlb_entry,
> .walk_lock = PGWALK_RDLOCK,
> };
>
> static int test(void)
> {
>
> pr_info("%s: %s [0 - %lx]\n", __func__, current->comm, TASK_SIZE);
> mmap_read_lock(current->mm);
> ret = walk_page_range(current->mm, 0, TASK_SIZE, &test_walk_ops, NULL);
> mmap_read_unlock(current->mm);
>
> pr_info("%s: %s ret: %d\n", __func__, current->comm, ret);
>
> return 0;
> }
>
> This is an extract of a debugging mechanism I have to check that I am
> not going off rails when unifying hugetlb and normal walkers.
>
> test_8mbp_hugepage() could so some checks with pmd_ operations, print
> the results, and then compare them with those that check_hugetlb_entry()
> would give us.
> If everything is alright, both results should be the same.
>
> I can write the tests up, so we run some sort of smoketests.
>
> So yes, I do think that this is a good initiative.
>

I can test whatever you want on my 8xx boards.

I have two types of board:
- One with MPC866 microcontroller and 32Mbytes memory
- One with MPC885 microcontroller and 128Mbytes memory

Christophe