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David S. Miller 99274b818a Merge branch 'sparc64-Add-16GB-hugepage-support'
Nitin Gupta says:

====================
sparc64: Add 16GB hugepage support

SPARC architecture supports 16G hugepages but the kernel did not
support these. This patch series adds support for it and also cleanes
up some page walk/alloc functions.

Patch 1/3: Core changes needed to add 16G hugepage support: To map a
  single 16G hugepage, two PUD entries are used. Each PUD entry maps
  8G portion of a 16G page. This page table encoding scheme is same as
  that used for hugepages at PMD level (8M, 256M and 2G pages) where
  each PMD entry points successively to 8M regions within a page.  No
  page table entries below the PUD level are allocated for 16G
  hugepage since those are not required.

  TSB entries for a 16G page are created at every 4M boundary since
  the HUGE_TSB is used for these pages which is configured with page
  size of 4M.  When walking page tables (on a TSB miss), bits [32:22]
  are transferred from vaddr to PUD to resolve addresses at 4M
  boundary. The resolved address mapping is then stored in HUGE_TSB.

Patch 2/3: get_user_pages() etc. are used for direct IO. These
  functions were not aware of hugepages at the PUD level and would try
  to continue walking page tables beyond the PUD level. Since 16G
  hugepages have page tables allocated till PUD level only, these
  accesses would result in invalid access. This patch adds the case
  for PUD huge pages to these functions.

Patch 3/3: Patch 1 added the case of PUD entry being huge in page
  table walk and alloc functions. This new case further increased
  nesting in these functions and made them harder to follow. This
  patch flattens these functions for better readability.

Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org

Changelog v5 vs v4:
 - Checking at PUD level for hugepage entry during page table walk is
   patched out if 16GB hugepages are not being used.
Changelog v4 vs v3:
 - Added cover letter (patch 0/4) for patch series.
Changelog v3 vs v2:
 - Fixed email headers so the subject shows up correctly.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
History 2017-08-09 22:12:35 -07:00
arch sparc64: Cleanup hugepage table walk functions 2017-08-09 22:12:20 -07:00
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-07-11 15:36:52 -07:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-07-14 22:49:50 -07:00
Documentation This series converts a number of top-level documents to the RST format 2017-07-15 12:58:58 -07:00
drivers regmap: Fix build due to w1 header refactoring 2017-07-17 12:38:18 -07:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs binfmt_flat: Use %u to format u32 2017-07-16 09:24:05 -07:00
include Add wait_for_random_bytes() and get_random_*_wait() functions so that 2017-07-15 12:44:02 -07:00
init random: do not ignore early device randomness 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
ipc ipc/util.h: update documentation for ipc_getref() and ipc_putref() 2017-07-12 16:26:02 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-07-17 13:00:36 -07:00
lib Add wait_for_random_bytes() and get_random_*_wait() functions so that 2017-07-15 12:44:02 -07:00
mm Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-07-15 12:00:42 -07:00
net Add wait_for_random_bytes() and get_random_*_wait() functions so that 2017-07-15 12:44:02 -07:00
samples Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-07-13 12:38:49 -07:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v4.13 (2nd) 2017-07-13 13:37:57 -07:00
security KEYS: DH: validate __spare field 2017-07-14 11:01:38 +10:00
sound sound fixes for 4.13-rc1 2017-07-14 12:44:00 -07:00
tools Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-07-14 21:57:25 -07:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
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.mailmap power supply and reset changes for the v4.12 series (part 2) 2017-05-12 12:02:21 -07:00
COPYING [PATCH] update FSF address in COPYING 2005-09-10 10:06:29 -07:00
CREDITS avr32: remove support for AVR32 architecture 2017-05-01 09:27:15 +02:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: migrate all arch to the kconfig mainmenu upgrade 2010-09-19 22:54:11 -04:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2017-07-15 10:59:54 -07:00
Makefile Linux v4.13-rc1 2017-07-15 15:22:10 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.