Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] hugetlb: skip to end of PT page mapping when pte not present

[Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>]

On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 03:56:43PM -0400, Peter Xu wrote:
> Hi, Mike,
> 
> On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 03:58:47PM -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> > +unsigned long hugetlb_mask_last_hp(struct hstate *h)
> > +{
> > +	unsigned long hp_size = huge_page_size(h);
> > +
> > +	if (hp_size == P4D_SIZE)
> > +		return PGDIR_SIZE - P4D_SIZE;
> > +	else if (hp_size == PUD_SIZE)
> > +		return P4D_SIZE - PUD_SIZE;
> > +	else if (hp_size == PMD_SIZE)
> > +		return PUD_SIZE - PMD_SIZE;
> > +
> > +	return ~(0);
> > +}
> 
> How about:
> 
> unsigned long hugetlb_mask_last_hp(struct hstate *h)
> {
> 	unsigned long hp_size = huge_page_size(h);
> 
> 	return hp_size * (PTRS_PER_PTE - 1);
> }
>

+1
 
> ?
> 
> This is definitely a good idea, though I'm wondering the possibility to go
> one step further to make hugetlb pgtable walk just like the normal pages.
> 
> Say, would it be non-trivial to bring some of huge_pte_offset() into the
> walker functions, so that we can jump over even larger than PTRS_PER_PTE
> entries (e.g. when p4d==NULL for 2m huge pages)?  It's very possible I
> overlooked something, though.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Peter Xu
> 
>