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With the ptep API sufficiently refactored, we can now introduce a new "contpte" API layer, which transparently manages the PTE_CONT bit for user mappings. In this initial implementation, only suitable batches of PTEs, set via set_ptes(), are mapped with the PTE_CONT bit. Any subsequent modification of individual PTEs will cause an "unfold" operation to repaint the contpte block as individual PTEs before performing the requested operation. While, a modification of a single PTE could cause the block of PTEs to which it belongs to become eligible for "folding" into a contpte entry, "folding" is not performed in this initial implementation due to the costs of checking the requirements are met. Due to this, contpte mappings will degrade back to normal pte mappings over time if/when protections are changed. This will be solved in a future patch. Since a contpte block only has a single access and dirty bit, the semantic here changes slightly; when getting a pte (e.g. ptep_get()) that is part of a contpte mapping, the access and dirty information are pulled from the block (so all ptes in the block return the same access/dirty info). When changing the access/dirty info on a pte (e.g. ptep_set_access_flags()) that is part of a contpte mapping, this change will affect the whole contpte block. This is works fine in practice since we guarantee that only a single folio is mapped by a contpte block, and the core-mm tracks access/dirty information per folio. In order for the public functions, which used to be pure inline, to continue to be callable by modules, export all the contpte_* symbols that are now called by those public inline functions. The feature is enabled/disabled with the ARM64_CONTPTE Kconfig parameter at build time. It defaults to enabled as long as its dependency, TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE is also enabled. The core-mm depends upon TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE to be able to allocate large folios, so if its not enabled, then there is no chance of meeting the physical contiguity requirement for contpte mappings. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215103205.2607016-13-ryan.roberts@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Tested-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
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Linux kernel
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