linux/arch/powerpc/mm
Aneesh Kumar K.V 5c1f6ee9a3 powerpc: Reduce PTE table memory wastage
We allocate one page for the last level of linux page table. With THP and
large page size of 16MB, that would mean we are wasting large part
of that page. To map 16MB area, we only need a PTE space of 2K with 64K
page size. This patch reduce the space wastage by sharing the page
allocated for the last level of linux page table with multiple pmd
entries. We call these smaller chunks PTE page fragments and allocated
page, PTE page.

In order to support systems which doesn't have 64K HPTE support, we also
add another 2K to PTE page fragment. The second half of the PTE fragments
is used for storing slot and secondary bit information of an HPTE. With this
we now have a 4K PTE fragment.

We use a simple approach to share the PTE page. On allocation, we bump the
PTE page refcount to 16 and share the PTE page with the next 16 pte alloc
request. This should help in the node locality of the PTE page fragment,
assuming that the immediate pte alloc request will mostly come from the
same NUMA node. We don't try to reuse the freed PTE page fragment. Hence
we could be waisting some space.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2013-04-30 16:00:07 +10:00
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40x_mmu.c memblock: Remove rmo_size, burry it in arch/powerpc where it belongs 2010-08-05 12:56:08 +10:00
44x_mmu.c Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC 2012-03-28 18:30:02 +01:00
dma-noncoherent.c powerpc: remove the second argument of k[un]map_atomic() 2012-03-20 21:48:14 +08:00
fault.c powerpc: Hardware breakpoints rewrite to handle non DABR breakpoint registers 2013-01-10 17:01:44 +11:00
fsl_booke_mmu.c powerpc/fsl-booke: Fixup calc_cam_sz to support MMU v2 2012-03-15 12:12:19 -05:00
gup.c powerpc: Switch 16GB and 16MB explicit hugepages to a different page table format 2013-04-30 15:59:56 +10:00
hash_low_32.S powerpc: Use CURRENT_THREAD_INFO instead of open coded assembly 2012-07-11 14:18:22 +10:00
hash_low_64.S powerpc: Don't hard code the size of pte page 2013-04-30 15:59:46 +10:00
hash_native_64.c powerpc: Remove tlb batching hack for nighthawk 2012-09-27 12:51:06 +10:00
hash_utils_64.c powerpc: Try to insert the hptes repeatedly in kernel_map_linear_page() 2013-04-18 16:00:00 +10:00
highmem.c mm: fix race in kunmap_atomic() 2010-10-27 18:03:05 -07:00
hugetlbpage-book3e.c powerpc/book3e: Change hugetlb preload to take vma argument 2011-12-07 16:26:24 +11:00
hugetlbpage-hash64.c powerpc: Split the code trying to insert hpte repeatedly as an helper function 2013-04-18 15:59:59 +10:00
hugetlbpage.c powerpc: Switch 16GB and 16MB explicit hugepages to a different page table format 2013-04-30 15:59:56 +10:00
icswx.c powerpc: Fix typo "CONFIG_ICSWX_PID" 2013-04-18 13:03:54 +10:00
icswx.h powerpc/icswx: Fix race condition with IPI setting ACOP 2012-03-07 17:06:09 +11:00
icswx_pid.c powerpc: Split ICSWX ACOP and PID processing 2011-11-25 14:11:27 +11:00
init_32.c Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC 2012-03-28 18:30:02 +01:00
init_64.c powerpc: New hugepage directory format 2013-04-30 15:59:53 +10:00
Makefile powerpc: Build kernel with -mcmodel=medium 2013-01-10 17:00:31 +11:00
mem.c powerpc: place EXPORT_SYMBOL macro right after declaration 2013-04-18 13:03:49 +10:00
mmap_64.c powerpc+sparc64/mm: Remove hack in mmap randomize layout 2011-11-28 11:42:09 +11:00
mmu_context_hash32.c powerpc: include export.h for files using EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE 2011-10-31 19:30:38 -04:00
mmu_context_hash64.c powerpc: Reduce PTE table memory wastage 2013-04-30 16:00:07 +10:00
mmu_context_nohash.c powerpc: use clear_tasks_mm_cpumask() 2012-05-31 17:49:29 -07:00
mmu_decl.h powerpc/fsl-booke: Fix setup_initial_memory_limit to not blindly map 2011-10-11 23:30:41 -05:00
numa.c powerpc/pseries: Correct builds break when CONFIG_SMP not defined 2013-04-30 15:59:35 +10:00
pgtable.c powerpc: Hugetlb for BookE 2011-09-20 09:19:40 +10:00
pgtable_32.c Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC 2012-03-28 18:30:02 +01:00
pgtable_64.c powerpc: Reduce PTE table memory wastage 2013-04-30 16:00:07 +10:00
ppc_mmu_32.c memblock: Remove rmo_size, burry it in arch/powerpc where it belongs 2010-08-05 12:56:08 +10:00
slb.c powerpc: Remove FW_FEATURE ISERIES from arch code 2012-03-21 11:16:11 +11:00
slb_low.S powerpc: Rename USER_ESID_BITS* to ESID_BITS* 2013-03-17 12:45:44 +11:00
slice.c mm: use vm_unmapped_area() on powerpc architecture 2013-04-30 11:05:17 +10:00
stab.c powerpc/mm: Remove uses of abs_to_virt() and virt_to_abs() 2012-09-05 15:19:31 +10:00
subpage-prot.c powerpc/mm: Match variable types to API 2012-09-10 14:37:31 +10:00
tlb_hash32.c powerpc: include export.h for files using EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE 2011-10-31 19:30:38 -04:00
tlb_hash64.c powerpc: Update kernel VSID range 2013-03-17 12:39:06 +11:00
tlb_low_64e.S powerpc/booke64: Use SPRG0/3 scratch for bolted TLB miss & crit int 2012-09-05 15:35:52 +10:00
tlb_nohash.c powerpc/fsl-booke: Support detection of page sizes on e6500 2013-03-05 17:10:27 -06:00
tlb_nohash_low.S powerpc/47x: Use the new ppc-opcode infrastructure 2012-11-15 12:59:24 +11:00