From: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
To: "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Dave Hansen" <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
"James Morse" <james.morse@arm.com>,
"Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
"Ard Biesheuvel" <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>,
"Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
x86@kernel.org, "Will Deacon" <will.deacon@arm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
"Jérôme Glisse" <jglisse@redhat.com>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
"Borislav Petkov" <bp@alien8.de>,
"Andy Lutomirski" <luto@kernel.org>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
kirill@shutemov.name, "Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/13] mm: Add generic p?d_large() macros
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 13:56:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f8bdd4b9-e078-c1fc-9b15-1ed7a844e673@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8a74c111-b099-8d18-5fb0-422909a1367a@linux.intel.com>
On 19/02/2019 03:44, Liang, Kan wrote:
>
>
> On 2/18/2019 9:19 AM, Steven Price wrote:
>> On 18/02/2019 11:31, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 05:02:24PM +0000, Steven Price wrote:
>>>> From: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
>>>>
>>>> Exposing the pud/pgd levels of the page tables to walk_page_range()
>>>> means
>>>> we may come across the exotic large mappings that come with large areas
>>>> of contiguous memory (such as the kernel's linear map).
>>>>
>>>> For architectures that don't provide p?d_large() macros, provided a
>>>> does nothing default.
>>>
>>> Kan was going to fix that for all archs I think..
>>
>
> Yes, I'm still working on a generic function to retrieve page size.
> The generic p?d_large() issue has been fixed. However, I found that the
> pgd_page() is not generic either. I'm still working on it.
> I will update you on the other thread when all issues are fixed.
>
>
>
>> The latest series I can find from Kan is still x86 specific. I'm happy
>> to rebase onto something else if Kan has an implementation already
>> (please point me in the right direction). Otherwise Kan is obviously
>> free to base on these changes.
>>
>
> My implementation is similar as yours. I'm happy to re-base on your
> changes.
>
> Could you please also add a generic p4d_large()?
Sure, I'll include that in the next posting.
Thanks,
Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-20 13:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-15 17:02 [PATCH 00/13] Convert x86 & arm64 to use generic page walk Steven Price
2019-02-15 17:02 ` [PATCH 01/13] arm64: mm: Add p?d_large() definitions Steven Price
2019-02-18 11:16 ` Mark Rutland
2019-02-18 11:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-18 13:45 ` Mark Rutland
2019-02-18 14:11 ` Steven Price
2019-02-18 14:29 ` Mark Rutland
2019-02-18 15:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-18 15:30 ` Steven Price
2019-02-18 17:04 ` Mark Rutland
2019-02-18 17:22 ` Steven Price
2019-02-15 17:02 ` [PATCH 02/13] x86/mm: " Steven Price
2019-02-15 17:02 ` [PATCH 03/13] mm: Add generic p?d_large() macros Steven Price
2019-02-18 11:14 ` Mark Rutland
2019-02-18 12:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-18 14:20 ` Steven Price
2019-02-18 11:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-02-18 14:19 ` Steven Price
2019-02-19 3:44 ` Liang, Kan
2019-02-20 13:56 ` Steven Price [this message]
2019-02-15 17:02 ` [PATCH 04/13] mm: pagewalk: Add p4d_entry() and pgd_entry() Steven Price
2019-02-15 17:02 ` [PATCH 05/13] mm: pagewalk: Allow walking without vma Steven Price
2019-02-15 17:02 ` [PATCH 06/13] mm: pagewalk: Add 'depth' parameter to pte_hole Steven Price
2019-02-18 11:23 ` Mark Rutland
2019-02-18 15:23 ` Steven Price
2019-02-20 11:35 ` William Kucharski
2019-02-20 14:10 ` Steven Price
2019-02-15 17:02 ` [PATCH 07/13] mm: pagewalk: Add test_p?d callbacks Steven Price
2019-02-15 17:02 ` [PATCH 08/13] arm64: mm: Convert mm/dump.c to use walk_page_range() Steven Price
2019-02-15 17:02 ` [PATCH 09/13] x86/mm: Point to struct seq_file from struct pg_state Steven Price
2019-02-15 17:02 ` [PATCH 10/13] x86/mm+efi: Convert ptdump_walk_pgd_level() to take a mm_struct Steven Price
2019-02-15 17:02 ` [PATCH 11/13] x86/mm: Convert ptdump_walk_pgd_level_debugfs() to take an mm_struct Steven Price
2019-02-15 17:02 ` [PATCH 12/13] x86/mm: Convert ptdump_walk_pgd_level_core() " Steven Price
2019-02-15 17:02 ` [PATCH 13/13] x86: mm: Convert dump_pagetables to use walk_page_range Steven Price
2019-02-15 17:16 ` Dave Hansen
2019-02-15 17:32 ` Steven Price
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