| Message ID | 200901112142.31003.yur@emcraft.com (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | Superseded, archived |
| Delegated to: | Josh Boyer |
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On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 09:42:30PM +0300, Yuri Tikhonov wrote: > >This patch adds support for 256KB pages on ppc44x-based boards. > >For simplification of implementation with 256KB pages we still assume >2-level paging. As a side effect this leads to wasting extra memory space >reserved for PTE tables: only 1/4 of pages allocated for PTEs are >actually used. But this may be an acceptable trade-off to achieve the >high performance we have with big PAGE_SIZEs in some applications (e.g. >RAID). > >Also with 256KB PAGE_SIZE we increase THREAD_SIZE up to 32KB to minimize >the risk of stack overflows in the cases of on-stack arrays, which size >depends on the page size (e.g. multipage BIOs, NTFS, etc.). > >With 256KB PAGE_SIZE we need to decrease the PKMAP_ORDER at least down >to 9, otherwise all high memory (2 ^ 10 * PAGE_SIZE == 256MB) we'll be >occupied by PKMAP addresses leaving no place for vmalloc. We do not >separate PKMAP_ORDER for 256K from 16K/64K PAGE_SIZE here; actually that >value of 10 in support for 16K/64K had been selected rather intuitively. >Thus now for all cases of PAGE_SIZE on ppc44x (including the default, 4KB, >one) we have 512 pages for PKMAP. > >Because ELF standard supports only page sizes up to 64K, then you should >use binutils later than 2.17.50.0.3 with '-zmax-page-size' set to 256K >for building applications, which are to be run with the 256KB-page sized >kernel. If using the older binutils, then you should patch them like follows: > >--- binutils/bfd/elf32-ppc.c.orig >+++ binutils/bfd/elf32-ppc.c > >-#define ELF_MAXPAGESIZE 0x10000 >+#define ELF_MAXPAGESIZE 0x40000 > >Signed-off-by: Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com> >Signed-off-by: Ilya Yanok <yanok@emcraft.com> Thanks. I particularly like the additional option you have to disable before 256K pages is an option. I'll do a bit of testing, and barring any unforeseen problems, I'll queue this up for 2.6.30. josh
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com> wrote: > > This patch adds support for 256KB pages on ppc44x-based boards. > Hi Yuri, Do you still need the mm/shmem.c patch to avoid division by zero? I looked at the mm/shmem.c latest git code, and I see that it doesn't have the needed patch for 256KB page. I think another option would be to make 256KB compile only if CONFIG_SHMEM=n Thanks Prodyut
Hello Prodyut, On Monday, January 12, 2009 you wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com> wrote: >> >> This patch adds support for 256KB pages on ppc44x-based boards. >> > Hi Yuri, > Do you still need the mm/shmem.c patch to avoid division by zero? Yes. > I looked at the mm/shmem.c latest git code, and I see that it doesn't > have the needed patch for 256KB page. Right. We proposed the work-around for this (which just simply increased the sizes of variables which hold the overflowed values) to LKML here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/19/20 If I understand Hugh right, then such a fix is acceptable, but much far from the best, so Hugh is about to implement the correct fix for the problem as soon as he'll find some time (big thanks to him for this). > I think another option would be to make 256KB compile only if CONFIG_SHMEM=n Agree. For the current situation it seems the better solution. I'll update, and re-post the patch shortly. Regards, Yuri -- Yuri Tikhonov, Senior Software Engineer Emcraft Systems, www.emcraft.com
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig index 84b8613..ceb402c 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig @@ -443,6 +443,19 @@ config PPC_64K_PAGES bool "64k page size" if 44x || PPC_STD_MMU_64 select PPC_HAS_HASH_64K if PPC_STD_MMU_64 +config PPC_256K_PAGES + bool "256k page size" if 44x + depends on !STDBINUTILS + help + Make the page size 256k. + + As the ELF standard only requires alignment to support page + sizes up to 64k, you will need to compile all of your user + space applications with a non-standard binutils settings + (see the STDBINUTILS description for details). + + Say N unless you know what you are doing. + endchoice config FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER @@ -455,6 +468,8 @@ config FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER default "9" if PPC_STD_MMU_32 && PPC_16K_PAGES range 7 64 if PPC_STD_MMU_32 && PPC_64K_PAGES default "7" if PPC_STD_MMU_32 && PPC_64K_PAGES + range 5 64 if PPC_STD_MMU_32 && PPC_256K_PAGES + default "5" if PPC_STD_MMU_32 && PPC_256K_PAGES range 11 64 default "11" help diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/highmem.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/highmem.h index 04e4a62..a290759 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/highmem.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/highmem.h @@ -39,15 +39,15 @@ extern pte_t *pkmap_page_table; * chunk of RAM. */ /* - * We use one full pte table with 4K pages. And with 16K/64K pages pte - * table covers enough memory (32MB and 512MB resp.) that both FIXMAP - * and PKMAP can be placed in single pte table. We use 1024 pages for - * PKMAP in case of 16K/64K pages. + * We use one full pte table with 4K pages. And with 16K/64K/256K pages pte + * table covers enough memory (32MB/512MB/2GB resp.), so that both FIXMAP + * and PKMAP can be placed in a single pte table. We use 512 pages for PKMAP + * in case of 16K/64K/256K page sizes. */ #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_4K_PAGES #define PKMAP_ORDER PTE_SHIFT #else -#define PKMAP_ORDER 10 +#define PKMAP_ORDER 9 #endif #define LAST_PKMAP (1 << PKMAP_ORDER) #ifndef CONFIG_PPC_4K_PAGES diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu-44x.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu-44x.h index 27cc6fd..3c86576 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu-44x.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu-44x.h @@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ typedef struct { #define PPC44x_TLBE_SIZE PPC44x_TLB_16K #elif (PAGE_SHIFT == 16) #define PPC44x_TLBE_SIZE PPC44x_TLB_64K +#elif (PAGE_SHIFT == 18) +#define PPC44x_TLBE_SIZE PPC44x_TLB_256K #else #error "Unsupported PAGE_SIZE" #endif diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h index 197d569..32cbf16 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h @@ -19,12 +19,14 @@ #include <asm/kdump.h> /* - * On regular PPC32 page size is 4K (but we support 4K/16K/64K pages + * On regular PPC32 page size is 4K (but we support 4K/16K/64K/256K pages * on PPC44x). For PPC64 we support either 4K or 64K software * page size. When using 64K pages however, whether we are really supporting * 64K pages in HW or not is irrelevant to those definitions. */ -#if defined(CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES) +#if defined(CONFIG_PPC_256K_PAGES) +#define PAGE_SHIFT 18 +#elif defined(CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES) #define PAGE_SHIFT 16 #elif defined(CONFIG_PPC_16K_PAGES) #define PAGE_SHIFT 14 diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page_32.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page_32.h index 1458d95..a0e3f6e 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page_32.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page_32.h @@ -19,7 +19,11 @@ #define PTE_FLAGS_OFFSET 0 #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_256K_PAGES +#define PTE_SHIFT (PAGE_SHIFT - PTE_T_LOG2 - 2) /* 1/4 of a page */ +#else #define PTE_SHIFT (PAGE_SHIFT - PTE_T_LOG2) /* full page */ +#endif #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__ /* diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h index 9665a26..e04286f 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/thread_info.h @@ -12,8 +12,10 @@ /* We have 8k stacks on ppc32 and 16k on ppc64 */ -#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64 +#if defined(CONFIG_PPC64) #define THREAD_SHIFT 14 +#elif defined(CONFIG_PPC_256K_PAGES) +#define THREAD_SHIFT 15 #else #define THREAD_SHIFT 13 #endif diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_booke.h b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_booke.h index fce2df9..17803ad 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_booke.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/head_booke.h @@ -10,6 +10,15 @@ mtspr SPRN_IVOR##vector_number,r26; \ sync +#if (THREAD_SHIFT < 15) +#define ALLOC_STACK_FRAME(reg, val) \ + addi reg,reg,val +#else +#define ALLOC_STACK_FRAME(reg, val) \ + addis reg,reg,val@ha; \ + addi reg,reg,val@l +#endif + #define NORMAL_EXCEPTION_PROLOG \ mtspr SPRN_SPRG0,r10; /* save two registers to work with */\ mtspr SPRN_SPRG1,r11; \ @@ -20,7 +29,7 @@ beq 1f; \ mfspr r1,SPRN_SPRG3; /* if from user, start at top of */\ lwz r1,THREAD_INFO-THREAD(r1); /* this thread's kernel stack */\ - addi r1,r1,THREAD_SIZE; \ + ALLOC_STACK_FRAME(r1, THREAD_SIZE); \ 1: subi r1,r1,INT_FRAME_SIZE; /* Allocate an exception frame */\ mr r11,r1; \ stw r10,_CCR(r11); /* save various registers */\ diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/44x/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/platforms/44x/Kconfig index 3496bc0..d02e8c8 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/44x/Kconfig +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/44x/Kconfig @@ -214,6 +214,18 @@ config 440SPe bool select IBM_NEW_EMAC_EMAC4 +config STDBINUTILS + bool "Using standard binutils settings" + depends on 44x + default y + help + Turning this option off allows you to select 256KB PAGE_SIZE on 44x. + Note, that kernel will be able to run only those applications, + which had been compiled using binutils later than 2.17.50.0.3 with + '-zmax-page-size' set to 256K (the default is 64K). Or, if using + the older binutils, you can patch them with a trivial patch, which + changes the ELF_MAXPAGESIZE definition from 0x10000 to 0x40000. + config 460EX bool select PPC_FPU