Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:11:56 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/9] Merge arm64/riscv hugetlbfs contpte support | From | Palmer Dabbelt <> |
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On Fri, 01 Mar 2024 03:29:18 PST (-0800), alexghiti@rivosinc.com wrote: > Hi Ryan, > > On Fri, Mar 1, 2024 at 11:45 AM Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Alexandre, >> >> I confess I haven't looked at the patches yet, but this cover letter raises a >> few quesions for me. I'll aim to look at the actual patches in due course.
Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
in case someone wants to pick them up via a generic tree. I'm happy to take them via the RISC-V tree if folk want, no rush on my end I'm just scrubbing through old stuff.
>> On 01/03/2024 09:14, Alexandre Ghiti wrote: >> > This patchset intends to merge the contiguous ptes hugetlbfs implementation >> > of arm64 and riscv. >> > >> > Both arm64 and riscv support the use of contiguous ptes to map pages that >> > are larger than the default page table size, respectively called contpte >> > and svnapot. >> > >> > The riscv implementation differs from the arm64's in that the LSBs of the >> > pfn of a svnapot pte are used to store the size of the mapping, allowing >> > for future sizes to be added (for now only 64KB is supported). That's an >> > issue for the core mm code which expects to find the *real* pfn a pte points >> > to. Patch 1 fixes that by always returning svnapot ptes with the real pfn >> > and restores the size of the mapping when it is written to a page table. >> >> Yes that makes sense to me. The intention for mTHP (!hugetlb) is to fully >> encapsulate PTEs beind set_ptes(), ptep_get() and friends, so what's actually >> written to the pgtable is arch-specific and well abstracted. >> >> > >> > The following patches are just merges of the 2 different implementations >> > that currently exist in arm64 and riscv which are very similar. It paves >> > the way to the reuse of the recent contpte THP work by Ryan [1] to avoid >> > reimplementing the same in riscv. >> >> You seem to be talking about both hugetlb (which uses the "huge" pte helpers) >> and contpte for THP (i.e. mTHP, which uses the regular pte helpers). They are >> pretty separate in my mind, so not sure why you would be modifying them both in >> the same series? > > I don't, this patchset only deals with hugetlb, I just meant that this > series was just the beginning as I'm working on moving the contpte for > THP support in the generic code for riscv to use. > > Sorry my wording was ambiguous :) > > Thanks, > > Alex > >> >> Thanks, >> Ryan >> >> > >> > This patchset was tested by running the libhugetlbfs testsuite with 64KB >> > and 2MB pages on both architectures (on a 4KB base page size arm64 kernel). >> > >> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20240215103205.2607016-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com/ >> > >> > Alexandre Ghiti (9): >> > riscv: Restore the pfn in a NAPOT pte when manipulated by core mm code >> > riscv: Safely remove huge_pte_offset() when manipulating NAPOT ptes >> > mm: Use common huge_ptep_get() function for riscv/arm64 >> > mm: Use common set_huge_pte_at() function for riscv/arm64 >> > mm: Use common huge_pte_clear() function for riscv/arm64 >> > mm: Use common huge_ptep_get_and_clear() function for riscv/arm64 >> > mm: Use common huge_ptep_set_access_flags() function for riscv/arm64 >> > mm: Use common huge_ptep_set_wrprotect() function for riscv/arm64 >> > mm: Use common huge_ptep_clear_flush() function for riscv/arm64 >> > >> > arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 + >> > arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 59 +++++- >> > arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 291 +--------------------------- >> > arch/riscv/Kconfig | 1 + >> > arch/riscv/include/asm/hugetlb.h | 2 +- >> > arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable-64.h | 11 ++ >> > arch/riscv/include/asm/pgtable.h | 120 +++++++++++- >> > arch/riscv/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 227 ---------------------- >> > mm/Kconfig | 3 + >> > mm/Makefile | 1 + >> > mm/contpte.c | 268 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> > 11 files changed, 456 insertions(+), 528 deletions(-) >> > create mode 100644 mm/contpte.c >> > >>
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