From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
x86@kernel.org, "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mm: increase pgt_buf size for 5-level page tables
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 13:56:23 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201216105623.e65a43mhegoqgldt@box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201215205641.34096-1-lstoakes@gmail.com>
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 08:56:41PM +0000, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> pgt_buf is used to allocate page tables on initial direct page mapping
> bootstrapping us into being able to allocate these before the direct
> mapping makes further pages available.
>
> INIT_PGD_PAGE_COUNT is set to 6 pages (doubled for KASLR) - 3 (PUD, PMD,
> PTE) for the 1 MiB ISA mapping and 3 more for the first direct mapping
> assignment in each case providing 2 MiB of address space.
>
> This has not been updated for 5-level page tables which additionally has a
> P4D page table level above PUD.
>
> In most instances this will not have a material impact as the first 4 page
> levels allocated for the ISA mapping will provide sufficient address space
> to encompass all further address mappings. If the first direct mapping is
> within 512 GiB of the ISA mapping we need only add a PMD and PTE in the
> instance where we are using 4 KiB page tables (e.g. CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
> is enabled) and only a PMD if we can use 2 MiB pages (the first allocation
> is limited to PMD_SIZE so we can't use a GiB page there).
>
> However if we have more than 512 GiB of RAM and are allocating 4 KiB page
> size we require 3 further page tables and if we have more than 256 TiB of
> RAM at 4 KiB or 2 MiB page size we require a further 3 or 4 page tables
> respectively.
>
> This patch updates INIT_PGD_PAGE_COUNT to reflect this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
--
Kirill A. Shutemov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-16 10:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-15 20:56 [PATCH] x86/mm: increase pgt_buf size for 5-level page tables Lorenzo Stoakes
2020-12-16 10:56 ` Kirill A. Shutemov [this message]
2020-12-16 18:04 ` Dave Hansen
2021-01-04 14:52 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
2021-01-04 18:29 ` [tip: x86/mm] x86/mm: Increase " tip-bot2 for Lorenzo Stoakes
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