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The kernel maintains leaf page table entries which contain either:
The kernel maintains leaf page table entries which contain either:
- Nothing ('none' entries)
- Present entries*
- Everything else that will cause a fault which the kernel handles
* Present entries are either entries the hardware can navigate without page
fault or special cases like NUMA hint protnone or PMD with cleared
present bit which contain hardware-valid entries modulo the present bit.
In the 'everything else' group we include swap entries, but we also
include a number of other things such as migration entries, device private
entries and marker entries.
Unfortunately this 'everything else' group expresses everything through a
swp_entry_t type, and these entries are referred to swap entries even
though they may well not contain a... swap entry.
This is compounded by the rather mind-boggling concept of a non-swap swap
entry (checked via non_swap_entry()) and the means by which we twist and
turn to satisfy this.
This patch lays the foundation for reducing this confusion.
We refer to 'everything else' as a 'software-define leaf entry' or
'softleaf'. for short And in fact we scoop up the 'none' entries into
this concept also so we are left with:
- Present entries.
- Softleaf entries (which may be empty).
This allows for radical simplification across the board - one can simply
convert any leaf page table entry to a leaf entry via softleaf_from_pte().
If the entry is present, we return an empty leaf entry, so it is assumed
the caller is aware that they must differentiate between the two
categories of page table entries, checking for the former via
pte_present().
As a result, we can eliminate a number of places where we would otherwise
need to use predicates to see if we can proceed with leaf page table entry
conversion and instead just go ahead and do it unconditionally.
We do so where we can, adjusting surrounding logic as necessary to
integrate the new softleaf_t logic as far as seems reasonable at this
stage.
We typedef swp_entry_t to softleaf_t for the time being until the
conversion can be complete, meaning everything remains compatible
regardless of which type is used. We will eventually remove swp_entry_t
when the conversion is complete.
We introduce a new header file to keep things clear - leafops.h - this
imports swapops.h so can direct replace swapops imports without issue, and
we do so in all the files that require it.
Additionally, add new leafops.h file to core mm maintainers entry.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c879383aac77d96a03e4d38f7daba893cd35fc76.1762812360.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Janosch Frank <frankja@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mathew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <nao.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Cc: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Linux kernel
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