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powerpc/64s/radix: Enable HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP

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This sets the HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP option, and defines the required
page table functions.

This enables huge (2MB and 1GB) ioremap mappings. I don't have a
benchmark for this change, but huge vmap will be used by a later core
kernel change to enable huge vmalloc memory mappings. This improves
cached `git diff` performance by about 5% on a 2-node POWER9 with 32MB
size dentry cache hash.

  Profiling git diff dTLB misses with a vanilla kernel:

  81.75%  git      [kernel.vmlinux]    [k] __d_lookup_rcu
   7.21%  git      [kernel.vmlinux]    [k] strncpy_from_user
   1.77%  git      [kernel.vmlinux]    [k] find_get_entry
   1.59%  git      [kernel.vmlinux]    [k] kmem_cache_free

            40,168      dTLB-miss
       0.100342754 seconds time elapsed

  With powerpc huge vmalloc:

             2,987      dTLB-miss
       0.095933138 seconds time elapsed

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Nicholas Piggin 2019-06-10 13:08:18 +10:00 • committed by Michael Ellerman
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