From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V2 07/26] powerpc: Add size argument to pgtable_cache_add
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:47:25 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130313024725.GA21125@iris.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1362550227-575-8-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 11:40:08AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> We will use this later with THP changes to request for pmd table of double the size.
> THP code does PTE page allocation along with large page request and deposit them
> for later use. This is to ensure that we won't have any failures when we split
> huge pages to regular pages.
>
> On powerpc we want to use the deposited PTE page for storing hash pte slot and
> secondary bit information for the HPTEs. Hence we save them in the second half
> of the pmd table.
That much is fine, but...
> -void pgtable_cache_add(unsigned shift, void (*ctor)(void *));
> +extern void __pgtable_cache_add(unsigned shift, unsigned long table_size,
> + void (*ctor)(void *));
> void pgtable_cache_init(void);
> +static inline void pgtable_cache_add(unsigned shift, void (*ctor)(void *))
> +{
> + return __pgtable_cache_add(shift, sizeof(void *) << shift, ctor);
> +}
NAK to this (and in fact the rest of this patch).
If you need twice the size, use the next slot along in pgtable_cache,
which will give you the size you need, rather than breaking the
relationship between slot index and allocation size.
Paul.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-13 2:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-06 6:10 [PATCH -V2 00/26]T HP support for PPC64 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-03-06 6:10 ` [PATCH -V2 01/26] powerpc: Use signed formatting when printing error Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-03-06 6:10 ` [PATCH -V2 02/26] powerpc: Save DAR and DSISR in pt_regs on MCE Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-03-06 6:10 ` [PATCH -V2 03/26] powerpc: Don't hard code the size of pte page Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-03-06 6:10 ` [PATCH -V2 04/26] powerpc: Reduce the PTE_INDEX_SIZE Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-03-06 6:10 ` [PATCH -V2 05/26] powerpc: Move the pte free routines from common header Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-03-06 6:10 ` [PATCH -V2 06/26] powerpc: Reduce PTE table memory wastage Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-03-06 6:10 ` [PATCH -V2 07/26] powerpc: Add size argument to pgtable_cache_add Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-03-13 2:47 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2013-03-13 9:25 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-03-13 11:34 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-03-06 6:10 ` [PATCH -V2 08/26] powerpc: Clarify __pgtable_cache_add by renaming shift to index Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-03-06 6:10 ` [PATCH -V2 09/26] powerpc: Use encode avpn where we need only avpn values Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-03-06 6:10 ` [PATCH -V2 10/26] powerpc: Decode the pte-lp-encoding bits correctly Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-03-13 4:09 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-03-06 6:10 ` [PATCH -V2 11/26] powerpc: Fix hpte_decode to use the correct decoding for page sizes Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-03-13 2:56 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-03-06 6:10 ` [PATCH -V2 12/26] powerpc: Return all the valid pte ecndoing in KVM_PPC_GET_SMMU_INFO ioctl Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-03-13 4:11 ` Paul Mackerras
2013-03-06 6:10 ` [PATCH -V2 13/26] powerpc: Update tlbie/tlbiel as per ISA doc Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-03-06 6:10 ` [PATCH -V2 14/26] powerpc: print both base and actual page size on hash failure Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-03-06 6:10 ` [PATCH -V2 15/26] powerpc: Print page size info during boot Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-03-06 6:10 ` [PATCH -V2 16/26] mm/THP: HPAGE_SHIFT is not a #define on some arch Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-03-06 6:10 ` [PATCH -V2 17/26] mm/THP: Add pmd args to pgtable deposit and withdraw APIs Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-03-06 6:10 ` [PATCH -V2 18/26] mm/THP: withdraw the pgtable after pmdp related operations Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-03-06 6:10 ` [PATCH -V2 19/26] powerpc/THP: Implement transparent huge pages for ppc64 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-03-06 6:10 ` [PATCH -V2 20/26] powerpc/THP: Differentiate THP PMD entries from HUGETLB PMD entries Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-03-06 6:10 ` [PATCH -V2 21/26] powerpc/THP: Add code to handle HPTE faults for large pages Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-03-06 6:10 ` [PATCH -V2 22/26] powerpc: Handle huge page in perf callchain Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-03-06 6:10 ` [PATCH -V2 23/26] powerpc/THP: hypervisor require few WIMG bit set Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-03-06 6:10 ` [PATCH -V2 24/26] powerpc/THP: get_user_pages_fast changes Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-03-06 6:10 ` [PATCH -V2 25/26] powerpc/THP: Enable THP on PPC64 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-03-06 6:10 ` [PATCH -V2 26/26] powerpc: Optimize hugepage invalidate Aneesh Kumar K.V
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