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From: zhongjiang@huawei•com (zhong jiang)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [RFC] mm: Do not look up the next level table when large page exist.
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 09:51:30 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5B592922.1030204@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180725165334.4zjsenp6p3cdureq@armageddon.cambridge.arm.com>

On 2018/7/26 0:53, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 11:21:59PM +0800, zhong jiang wrote:
>> show_pte can show the kernel page table and user page table. user
>> page table is totally four level table.
> Well, you can have huge pages in user space.
 No, I have not.
>> but kernel page table can
>> be a large page. Therefore, it need to check the page table.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@huawei•com>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm64/mm/fault.c | 4 ++--
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
>> index 1b40676..a397a54 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/fault.c
>> @@ -169,13 +169,13 @@ void show_pte(unsigned long addr)
>>  		pudp = pud_offset(pgdp, addr);
>>  		pud = READ_ONCE(*pudp);
>>  		pr_cont(", pud=%016llx", pud_val(pud));
>> -		if (pud_none(pud) || pud_bad(pud))
>> +		if (pud_none(pud) || pud_bad(pud) || pud_sect(pud))
> Have you actually hit a problem with this code?
  Not yet.  Maybe I use the function mistake.  It is only used for user and vmalloc
 pagefault.  It should be not handled with large level table.  thank you for time.

 Thanks,
 zhong jiang
> pud_sect() checks that the bottom two bits of the pud are 0b01.
> pud_bad() is true when bit 1 is 0, which is the case with a section
> mapping.
>

      reply	other threads:[~2018-07-26  1:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-25 15:21 [RFC] mm: Do not look up the next level table when large page exist zhong jiang
2018-07-25 16:53 ` Catalin Marinas
2018-07-26  1:51   ` zhong jiang [this message]

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