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2008-02-08CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables.Martin Schwidefsky
Background: I've implemented 1K/2K page tables for s390. These sub-page page tables are required to properly support the s390 virtualization instruction with KVM. The SIE instruction requires that the page tables have 256 page table entries (pte) followed by 256 page status table entries (pgste). The pgstes are only required if the process is using the SIE instruction. The pgstes are updated by the hardware and by the hypervisor for a number of reasons, one of them is dirty and reference bit tracking. To avoid wasting memory the standard pte table allocation should return 1K/2K (31/64 bit) and 2K/4K if the process is using SIE. Problem: Page size on s390 is 4K, page table size is 1K or 2K. That means the s390 version for pte_alloc_one cannot return a pointer to a struct page. Trouble is that with the CONFIG_HIGHPTE feature on x86 pte_alloc_one cannot return a pointer to a pte either, since that would require more than 32 bit for the return value of pte_alloc_one (and the pte * would not be accessible since its not kmapped). Solution: The only solution I found to this dilemma is a new typedef: a pgtable_t. For s390 pgtable_t will be a (pte *) - to be introduced with a later patch. For everybody else it will be a (struct page *). The additional problem with the initialization of the ptl lock and the NR_PAGETABLE accounting is solved with a constructor pgtable_page_ctor and a destructor pgtable_page_dtor. The page table allocation and free functions need to call these two whenever a page table page is allocated or freed. pmd_populate will get a pgtable_t instead of a struct page pointer. To get the pgtable_t back from a pmd entry that has been installed with pmd_populate a new function pmd_pgtable is added. It replaces the pmd_page call in free_pte_range and apply_to_pte_range. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07Cleanup asm/{elf,page,user}.h: #ifdef __KERNEL__ is no longer neededKirill A. Shutemov
asm/elf.h, asm/page.h and asm/user.h don't export to userspace now, so we can drop #ifdef __KERNEL__ for them. [k.shutemov@gmail.com: remove #ifdef __KERNEL_] Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <k.shutemov@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <k.shutemov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2006-09-27Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-upstream ↵Russell King
into devel
2006-09-21[HEADERS] Fix ARM 'make headers_check'David Woodhouse
Sanitise the ARM headers exported to userspace. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-09-20[ARM] Cleanup arch/arm/mm a littleRussell King
Move top_pmd into arch/arm/mm/mm.h - nothing outside arch/arm/mm references it. Move the repeated definition of TOP_PTE into mm/mm.h, as well as a few function prototypes. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-09-18[ARM] 3815/1: headers_install support for ARMRalph Siemsen
Move kernel-only #includes into #ifdef __KERNEL__, so that headers_install target can be used on ARM. Signed-off-by: Ralph Siemsen <ralphs@netwinder.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-06-28[ARM] nommu: adjust headers for !MMU ARM systemsRussell King
Majorily based on Hyok Choi's patches, this fixes up the asm-arm header files for mmuless systems. Over and above Hyok's patches: - nommu.h merged into mmu.h (it's only a structure) - nommu_context.h is essentially the same as mmu_context.h, but without the MM switching code. so there's no point having separate files. Also, in memory.h, there's no point #ifndef'ing PHYS_OFFSET and END_MEM - both CONFIG_DRAM_BASE and CONFIG_DRAM_SIZE will always be set by the configuration scripts. Other files have minor formatting changes, but are essentially the same. Hyok's original patches were signed off thusly: Signed-off-by: Hyok S. Choi <hyok.choi@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-04-26Don't include linux/config.h from anywhere else in include/David Woodhouse
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-03-28[ARM] 3377/2: add support for intel xsc3 coreLennert Buytenhek
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek This patch adds support for the new XScale v3 core. This is an ARMv5 ISA core with the following additions: - L2 cache - I/O coherency support (on select chipsets) - Low-Locality Reference cache attributes (replaces mini-cache) - Supersections (v6 compatible) - 36-bit addressing (v6 compatible) - Single instruction cache line clean/invalidate - LRU cache replacement (vs round-robin) I attempted to merge the XSC3 support into proc-xscale.S, but XSC3 cores have separate errata and have to handle things like L2, so it is simpler to keep it separate. L2 cache support is currently a build option because the L2 enable bit must be set before we enable the MMU and there is no easy way to capture command line parameters at this point. There are still optimizations that can be done such as using LLR for copypage (in theory using the exisiting mini-cache code) but those can be addressed down the road. Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net> Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-14[ARM] 3101/1: ARM EABI: slab memory must be 64-bit alignedNicolas Pitre
Patch from Nicolas Pitre Although ARM is still using 32-bit pointers, version 5 and later versions of the ARM architecture introduced the ldrd and strd instructions to move 64-bit data which must be 64-bit aligned in memory, and the EABI includes new constraints on structure data alignment to allow for the compiler to use those instructions. This means that any slab allocation must start on a 64-bit boundary which is not equivalent to BYTES_PER_WORD, especially on those architecture versions that implements the ldrd/strd instructions. Overriding the default alignment disables some slab debug features. If those debug features are really needed then the kernel will have to be compiled for version 4 of the ARM architecture. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-09-05[PATCH] mm: consolidate get_orderStephen Rothwell
Someone mentioned that almost all the architectures used basically the same implementation of get_order. This patch consolidates them into asm-generic/page.h and includes that in the appropriate places. The exceptions are ia64 and ppc which have their own (presumably optimised) versions. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-10[PATCH] ARM: Move copy/clear user_page locking into implementationRussell King
Move the locking for copy_user_page() and clear_user_page() into the implementations which require locking. For simple memcpy/ memset based implementations, the locking is extra overhead which is not necessary, and prevents preemption occuring. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-05-10[PATCH] ARM: Add top_pmd, which points at the top-most page tableRussell King
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!