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From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V3 03/11] arch/powerpc: Convert virtual address to vpn
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:24:37 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ipdfhvj6.fsf@skywalker.in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120722234203.GC17790@bloggs.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba•org> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 06:43:33PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>> From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux•vnet.ibm.com>
>> 
>> This patch convert different functions to take virtual page number
>> instead of virtual address. Virtual page number is virtual address
>> shifted right by VPN_SHIFT (12) bits. This enable us to have an
>> address range of upto 76 bits.
>
> Some comments inline below...
>
>> +/*
>> + * encode page number shift.
>> + * Inorder to fit the 78 bit va in a 64 bit variable we shift the va by
>       ^ "in order"
>
>> + * 12 bits. This enable us to address upto 76 bit va.
>                                          ^ "up to"
>
>> + * For hpt hash from a va we can ignore the page size bits of va and for
>> + * hpte encoding we ignore upto 23 bits of va. So ignoring lower 12 bits ensure
>> + * we work in all cases including 4k page size.
>> + */
>> +#define VPN_SHIFT	12
>
> This can't be more than 12 bits because we sometimes use 4k pages even
> in a kernel configured for 64k pages (e.g. with the subpage_protection
> system call).

Yes, I wanted to make that explicit, ie this is not a virtual page
number and hence all these BUG_ON. I actually updated few of them
to BUILD_BUG_ON() based of earlier review.

>
>> +static inline unsigned long hpte_encode_avpn(unsigned long vpn, int psize,
>> +					     int ssize)
>> +{
>> +	unsigned long v;
>> +	/*
>> +	 * The AVA field omits the low-order 23 bits of the 78 bits VA.
>> +	 * These bits are not needed in the PTE, because the
>> +	 * low-order b of these bits are part of the byte offset
>> +	 * into the virtual page and, if b < 23, the high-order
>> +	 * 23-b of these bits are always used in selecting the
>> +	 * PTEGs to be searched
>> +	 */
>> +	BUG_ON(VPN_SHIFT > 23);
>
> I don't think we need this.  If VPN_SHIFT was computed by some complex
> expression whose value is not obvious, then BUG_ON (or BUILD_BUG_ON)
> would be appropriate, but since it's just a #define, a comment at the
> site of the definition will suffice.
>
>>  static inline unsigned long hpt_hash(unsigned long va, unsigned int shift,
>>  				     int ssize)
>>  {
>> +	int mask;
>>  	unsigned long hash, vsid;
>>  
>> +	BUG_ON(shift < VPN_SHIFT);
>
> So VPN_SHIFT can be at most 12, since 12 is the smallest shift value
> possible here.
>
>> -static inline void __tlbiel(unsigned long va, int psize, int ssize)
>> +static inline void __tlbiel(unsigned long vpn, int psize, int ssize)
>>  {
>> +	unsigned long va;
>>  	unsigned int penc;
>>  
>> +	BUG_ON((77 - 65) > VPN_SHIFT);
>> +	va = vpn << VPN_SHIFT;
>
> So VPN_SHIFT has to be at least 12.  What is the significance of 77
> and 65 here?
>

It is the other way around . I updated that in 77guccfav.fsf@skywalker•in.ibm.com

       BUILD_BUG_ON(VPN_SHIFT > (77 - 65));

tlbiel says we can only ignore bits above 65 of va. hence the math of 77- 65. 

-aneesh

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-23  5:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-09 13:13 [PATCH -V3 0/11] arch/powerpc: Add 64TB support to ppc64 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-09 13:13 ` [PATCH -V3 01/11] arch/powerpc: Use hpt_va to compute virtual address Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-22 23:17   ` Paul Mackerras
2012-07-09 13:13 ` [PATCH -V3 02/11] arch/powerpc: Simplify hpte_decode Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-22 23:26   ` Paul Mackerras
2012-07-23  5:41     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-09 13:13 ` [PATCH -V3 03/11] arch/powerpc: Convert virtual address to vpn Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-09 22:41   ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-07-10  6:12     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-09 23:06   ` Stephen Rothwell
2012-07-10  6:15     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-22 23:42   ` Paul Mackerras
2012-07-23  5:54     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2012-07-09 13:13 ` [PATCH -V3 04/11] arch/powerpc: Rename va " Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-22 23:46   ` Paul Mackerras
2012-07-23  6:14     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-09 13:13 ` [PATCH -V3 05/11] arch/powerpc: remove masking top 16 bit of va in tlb invalidate Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-22 23:56   ` Paul Mackerras
2012-07-23  1:22     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-07-23  3:49       ` Paul Mackerras
2012-07-23  6:44         ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-23  6:48           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2012-07-09 13:13 ` [PATCH -V3 06/11] arch/powerpc: Make KERN_VIRT_SIZE not dependend on PGTABLE_RANGE Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-22 23:57   ` Paul Mackerras
2012-07-09 13:13 ` [PATCH -V3 07/11] arch/powerpc: Increase the slice range to 64TB Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-23  0:00   ` Paul Mackerras
2012-07-23  7:13     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-09 13:13 ` [PATCH -V3 08/11] arch/powerpc: Make some of the PGTABLE_RANGE dependency explicit Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-23  0:20   ` Paul Mackerras
2012-07-23  7:29     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-09 13:13 ` [PATCH -V3 09/11] arch/powerpc: Use 50 bits of VSID in slbmte Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-23  0:06   ` Paul Mackerras
2012-07-23  8:21     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-23  9:36       ` Paul Mackerras
2012-07-23 10:22         ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-09 13:13 ` [PATCH -V3 10/11] arch/powerpc: Use 32bit array for slb cache Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-23  0:27   ` Paul Mackerras
2012-07-23  8:25     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-09 13:13 ` [PATCH -V3 11/11] arch/powerpc: Add 64TB support Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-23  0:15   ` Paul Mackerras
2012-07-23  8:49     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-23  9:39   ` Paul Mackerras
2012-07-23 10:22     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-23 11:06       ` Paul Mackerras
2012-07-24  8:37         ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-24  9:14           ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2012-07-24 19:50             ` Aneesh Kumar K.V

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