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From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>, linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	hch@lst.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] mm/memremap_pages: Introduce memremap_compat_align()
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:05:02 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875zgl3fa9.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <158041476763.3889308.13149849631980018039.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com>

Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> writes:
> The "sub-section memory hotplug" facility allows memremap_pages() users
> like libnvdimm to compensate for hardware platforms like x86 that have a
> section size larger than their hardware memory mapping granularity.  The
> compensation that sub-section support affords is being tolerant of
> physical memory resources shifting by units smaller (64MiB on x86) than
> the memory-hotplug section size (128 MiB). Where the platform
> physical-memory mapping granularity is limited by the number and
> capability of address-decode-registers in the memory controller.
>
> While the sub-section support allows memremap_pages() to operate on
> sub-section (2MiB) granularity, the Power architecture may still
> require 16MiB alignment on "!radix_enabled()" platforms.
>
> In order for libnvdimm to be able to detect and manage this per-arch
> limitation, introduce memremap_compat_align() as a common minimum
> alignment across all driver-facing memory-mapping interfaces, and let
> Power override it to 16MiB in the "!radix_enabled()" case.
>
> The assumption / requirement for 16MiB to be a viable
> memremap_compat_align() value is that Power does not have platforms
> where its equivalent of address-decode-registers never hardware remaps a
> persistent memory resource on smaller than 16MiB boundaries.
>
> Based on an initial patch by Aneesh.
>
> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/CAPcyv4gBGNP95APYaBcsocEa50tQj9b5h__83vgngjq3ouGX_Q@mail.gmail.com
> Reported-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
> Reported-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/io.h |   10 ++++++++++
>  drivers/nvdimm/pfn_devs.c     |    2 +-
>  include/linux/io.h            |   23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/mmzone.h        |    1 +
>  4 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

The powerpc change here looks fine to me.

Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)

cheers

> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/io.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/io.h
> index a63ec938636d..0fa2dc483008 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/io.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/io.h
> @@ -734,6 +734,16 @@ extern void __iomem * __ioremap_at(phys_addr_t pa, void *ea,
>  				   unsigned long size, pgprot_t prot);
>  extern void __iounmap_at(void *ea, unsigned long size);
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
> +static inline unsigned long memremap_compat_align(void)
> +{
> +	if (radix_enabled())
> +		return SUBSECTION_SIZE;
> +	return (1UL << mmu_psize_defs[mmu_linear_psize].shift);
> +}
> +#define memremap_compat_align memremap_compat_align
> +#endif
> +
>  /*
>   * When CONFIG_PPC_INDIRECT_PIO is set, we use the generic iomap implementation
>   * which needs some additional definitions here. They basically allow PIO
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-05  3:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-30 20:05 [PATCH 0/5] libnvdimm: Cross-arch compatible namespace alignment Dan Williams
2020-01-30 20:06 ` [PATCH 1/5] mm/memremap_pages: Kill unused __devm_memremap_pages() Dan Williams
2020-01-31  5:32   ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-02-03 17:08   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-01-30 20:06 ` [PATCH 2/5] mm/memremap_pages: Introduce memremap_compat_align() Dan Williams
2020-02-03 17:09   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-02-05  3:05   ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2020-02-06  5:51     ` Dan Williams
2020-02-06  6:21       ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-01-30 20:06 ` [PATCH 3/5] libnvdimm/namespace: Enforce memremap_compat_align() Dan Williams
2020-02-03 17:09   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-01-30 20:06 ` [PATCH 4/5] libnvdimm/region: Introduce NDD_LABELING Dan Williams
2020-02-03 17:09   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-01-30 20:06 ` [PATCH 5/5] libnvdimm/region: Introduce an 'align' attribute Dan Williams
2020-02-03 17:10   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V

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