powerpc: Free up four 64K PTE bits in 4K backed HPTE pages
Rearrange 64K PTE bits to free up bits 3, 4, 5 and 6, in the 4K backed HPTE pages.These bits continue to be used for 64K backed HPTE pages in this patch, but will be freed up in the next patch. The bit numbers are big-endian as defined in the ISA3.0 The patch does the following change to the 4k HTPE backed 64K PTE's format. H_PAGE_BUSY moves from bit 3 to bit 9 (B bit in the figure below) V0 which occupied bit 4 is not used anymore. V1 which occupied bit 5 is not used anymore. V2 which occupied bit 6 is not used anymore. V3 which occupied bit 7 is not used anymore. Before the patch, the 4k backed 64k PTE format was as follows 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10...........................63 : : : : : : : : : : : : v v v v v v v v v v v v ,-,-,-,-,--,--,--,--,-,-,-,-,-,------------------,-,-,-, |x|x|x|B|V0|V1|V2|V3|x| | |x|x|................|x|x|x|x| <- primary pte '_'_'_'_'__'__'__'__'_'_'_'_'_'________________'_'_'_'_' |S|G|I|X|S |G |I |X |S|G|I|X|..................|S|G|I|X| <- secondary pte '_'_'_'_'__'__'__'__'_'_'_'_'__________________'_'_'_'_' After the patch, the 4k backed 64k PTE format is as follows 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10...........................63 : : : : : : : : : : : : v v v v v v v v v v v v ,-,-,-,-,--,--,--,--,-,-,-,-,-,------------------,-,-,-, |x|x|x| | | | | |x|B| |x|x|................|.|.|.|.| <- primary pte '_'_'_'_'__'__'__'__'_'_'_'_'_'________________'_'_'_'_' |S|G|I|X|S |G |I |X |S|G|I|X|..................|S|G|I|X| <- secondary pte '_'_'_'_'__'__'__'__'_'_'_'_'__________________'_'_'_'_' the four bits S,G,I,X (one quadruplet per 4k HPTE) that cache the hash-bucket slot value, is initialized to 1,1,1,1 indicating -- an invalid slot. If a HPTE gets cached in a 1111 slot(i.e 7th slot of secondary hash bucket), it is released immediately. In other words, even though 1111 is a valid slot value in the hash bucket, we consider it invalid and release the slot and the HPTE. This gives us the opportunity to determine the validity of S,G,I,X bits based on its contents and not on any of the bits V0,V1,V2 or V3 in the primary PTE When we release a HPTE cached in the 1111 slot we also release a legitimate slot in the primary hash bucket and unmap its corresponding HPTE. This is to ensure that we do get a HPTE cached in a slot of the primary hash bucket, the next time we retry. Though treating 1111 slot as invalid, reduces the number of available slots in the hash bucket and may have an effect on the performance, the probabilty of hitting a 1111 slot is extermely low. Compared to the current scheme, the above scheme reduces the number of false hash table updates significantly and has the added advantage of releasing four valuable PTE bits for other purpose. NOTE:even though bits 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 are not used when the 64K PTE is backed by 4k HPTE, they continue to be used if the PTE gets backed by 64k HPTE. The next patch will decouple that aswell, and truely release the bits. This idea was jointly developed by Paul Mackerras, Aneesh, Michael Ellermen and myself. 4K PTE format remains unchanged currently. The patch does the following code changes a) PTE flags are split between 64k and 4k header files. b) __hash_page_4K() is reimplemented to reflect the above logic. Acked-by:Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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