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From: cpandya@codeaurora•org (Chintan Pandya)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/3] arm64: Implement page table free interfaces
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:36:10 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <be70a3da-be35-cdee-97a4-ca4e867ca7fb@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1521487759.2693.224.camel@hpe.com>



On 3/20/2018 12:59 AM, Kani, Toshi wrote:
> On Mon, 2018-03-19 at 18:10 +0530, Chintan Pandya wrote:
>> Implement pud_free_pmd_page() and pmd_free_pte_page().
>>
>> Implementation requires,
>>   1) Freeing of the un-used next level page tables
>>   2) Clearing off the current pud/pmd entry
>>   3) Invalidate TLB which could have previously
>>      valid but not stale entry
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chintan Pandya <cpandya@codeaurora•org>
>> ---
>>   arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>>   1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
>> index da98828..c70f139 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
>> @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
>>   #include <asm/memblock.h>
>>   #include <asm/mmu_context.h>
>>   #include <asm/ptdump.h>
>> +#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
>>   
>>   #define NO_BLOCK_MAPPINGS	BIT(0)
>>   #define NO_CONT_MAPPINGS	BIT(1)
>> @@ -975,10 +976,35 @@ int pmd_clear_huge(pmd_t *pmdp)
>>   
>>   int pud_free_pmd_page(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr)
>>   {
>> -	return pud_none(*pud);
>> +	pmd_t *pmd;
>> +	int i;
>> +
>> +	pmd = __va(pud_val(*pud));
>> +	if (pud_val(*pud)) {
>> +		for (i = 0; i < PTRS_PER_PMD; i++)
>> +			pmd_free_pte_page(&pmd[i], addr + (i * PMD_SIZE));
>> +
>> +		free_page((unsigned long) pmd);
> 
> Why do you want to free this pmd page before clearing the pud entry on
> this arm64 version (as it seems you intentionally changed it from the
> x86 version)?  It can be reused while being pointed by the pud.  Same
> for pmd.
Noted.
> 
>> +		pud_clear(pud);
>> +		flush_tlb_kernel_range(addr, addr + PUD_SIZE);
> 
> Since you purge the entire pud range here, do you still need to call
> pmd_free_pte_page() to purge each pmd range?  This looks very expensive.
> You may want to consider if calling internal __pmd_free_pte_page()
> without the purge operation works.
I completely missed that. Sure, will fix this.

I will upload v4 fixing all 4 comments.
> 
> -Toshi
> 

Chintan
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-20  7:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-19 12:40 [PATCH v3 0/3] Fix issues with huge mapping in ioremap for ARM64 Chintan Pandya
2018-03-19 12:40 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] ioremap: Update pgtable free interfaces with addr Chintan Pandya
2018-03-19 19:01   ` Kani, Toshi
2018-03-20  7:04     ` Chintan Pandya
2018-03-19 12:40 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] arm64: Implement page table free interfaces Chintan Pandya
2018-03-19 19:29   ` Kani, Toshi
2018-03-20  7:06     ` Chintan Pandya [this message]
2018-03-19 12:40 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] Revert "arm64: Enforce BBM for huge IO/VMAP mappings" Chintan Pandya

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