Re: [PATCH v9 00/21] Generic page walk and ptdump

From: Sven Schnelle <svens@stackframe.org>
To: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
Cc: "Anshuman Khandual" <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, "Helge Deller" <deller@gmx.de>,
	"Mark Rutland" <Mark.Rutland@arm.com>,
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	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"James Morse" <james.morse@arm.com>,
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	"Will Deacon" <will@kernel.org>,
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	Kan" <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 00/21] Generic page walk and ptdump
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 11:27:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190731092703.GA31316@t470p.stackframe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <270ce719-49f9-7c61-8b25-bc9548a2f478@arm.com>

Hi Steven,

On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 12:32:25PM +0100, Steven Price wrote:
> 
> parisc is more interesting and I'm not sure if this is necessarily
> correct. I originally proposed a patch with the line "For parisc, we
> don't support large pages, so add stubs returning 0" which got Acked by
> Helge Deller. However going back to look at that again I see there was a
> follow up thread[2] which possibly suggests I was wrong?

I just started a week ago implementing ptdump for PA-RISC. Didn't notice that
you're working on making it generic, which is nice. I'll adjust my code
to use the infrastructure you're currently developing.

> Can anyone shed some light on whether parisc does support leaf entries
> of the page table tree at a higher than the normal depth?
> 
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/2/27/572
> [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/3/5/610

My understanding is that PA-RISC only has leaf entries on PTE level.

> The intention is that the page table walker would be available for all
> architectures so that it can be used in any generic code - PTDUMP simply
> seemed like a good place to start.
> 
> > Now that pmd_leaf() and pud_leaf() are getting used in walk_page_range() these
> > functions need to be defined on all arch irrespective if they use PTDUMP or not
> > or otherwise just define it for archs which need them now for sure i.e x86 and
> > arm64 (which are moving to new generic PTDUMP framework). Other archs can
> > implement these later.

I'll take care of the PA-RISC part - for 32 bit your generic code works, for 64Bit
i need to learn a bit more about the following hack:

arch/parisc/include/asm/pgalloc.h:15
/* Allocate the top level pgd (page directory)
 *
 * Here (for 64 bit kernels) we implement a Hybrid L2/L3 scheme: we
 * allocate the first pmd adjacent to the pgd.  This means that we can
 * subtract a constant offset to get to it.  The pmd and pgd sizes are
 * arranged so that a single pmd covers 4GB (giving a full 64-bit
 * process access to 8TB) so our lookups are effectively L2 for the
 * first 4GB of the kernel (i.e. for all ILP32 processes and all the
 * kernel for machines with under 4GB of memory)
 */

I see that your change clear P?D entries when p?d_bad() returns true, which - i think -
would be the case with the PA-RISC implementation.

Regards
Sven