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s390/cmma: rework no-dat handling

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Rework the way physical pages are set no-dat / dat:

The old way is:

- Rely on that all pages are initially marked "dat"
- Allocate page tables for the kernel mapping
- Enable dat
- Walk the whole kernel mapping and set PG_arch_1 bit in all struct pages
  that belong to pages of kernel page tables
- Walk all struct pages and test and clear the PG_arch_1 bit. If the bit is
  not set, set the page state to no-dat
- For all subsequent page table allocations, set the page state to dat
  (remove the no-dat state) on allocation time

Change this rather complex logic to a simpler approach:

- Set the whole physical memory (all pages) to "no-dat"
- Explicitly set those page table pages to "dat" which are part of the
  kernel image (e.g. swapper_pg_dir)
- For all subsequent page table allocations, set the page state to dat
  (remove the no-dat state) on allocation time

In result the code is simpler, and this also allows to get rid of one
odd usage of the PG_arch_1 bit.

Reviewed-by: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
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Heiko Carstens 2023-10-27 14:12:39 +02:00 • committed by Vasily Gorbik
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