On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 14:21:39 -0700 Ram Pai <linuxram@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Rearrange 64K PTE bits to free up bits 3, 4, 5 and 6 > in the 64K backed HPTE pages. This along with the earlier > patch will entirely free up the four bits from 64K PTE. > The bit numbers are big-endian as defined in the ISA3.0 > > This patch does the following change to 64K PTE backed > by 64K HPTE. > > H_PAGE_F_SECOND (S) which occupied bit 4 moves to the > second part of the pte to bit 60. > H_PAGE_F_GIX (G,I,X) which occupied bit 5, 6 and 7 also > moves to the second part of the pte to bit 61, > 62, 63, 64 respectively > > since bit 7 is now freed up, we move H_PAGE_BUSY (B) from > bit 9 to bit 7. > > The second part of the PTE will hold > (H_PAGE_F_SECOND|H_PAGE_F_GIX) at bit 60,61,62,63. > > Before the patch, the 64K HPTE backed 64k PTE format was > as follows > > 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10...........................63 > : : : : : : : : : : : : > v v v v v v v v v v v v > > ,-,-,-,-,--,--,--,--,-,-,-,-,-,------------------,-,-,-, > |x|x|x| |S |G |I |X |x|B|x|x|x|................|.|.|.|.| <- primary pte > '_'_'_'_'__'__'__'__'_'_'_'_'_'________________'_'_'_'_' > | | | | | | | | | | | | |..................| | | | | <- secondary pte > '_'_'_'_'__'__'__'__'_'_'_'_'__________________'_'_'_'_' > It's not entirely clear what the secondary pte contains today and how many of the bits are free today? Balbir Singh.
