Am 11.07.23 um 14:36 schrieb Matthew Wilcox:
On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 11:07:06AM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
Am 10.07.23 um 22:43 schrieb Matthew Wilcox (Oracle):
This patchset changes the API used by the MM to set up page table entries.
The four APIs are:
set_ptes(mm, addr, ptep, pte, nr)
update_mmu_cache_range(vma, addr, ptep, nr)
flush_dcache_folio(folio)
flush_icache_pages(vma, page, nr)
flush_dcache_folio() isn't technically new, but no architecture
implemented it, so I've done that for them. The old APIs remain around
but are mostly implemented by calling the new interfaces.
The new APIs are based around setting up N page table entries at once.
The N entries belong to the same PMD, the same folio and the same VMA,
so ptep++ is a legitimate operation, and locking is taken care of for
you. Some architectures can do a better job of it than just a loop,
but I have hesitated to make too deep a change to architectures I don't
understand well.
One thing I have changed in every architecture is that PG_arch_1 is now a
per-folio bit instead of a per-page bit. This was something that would
have to happen eventually, and it makes sense to do it now rather than
iterate over every page involved in a cache flush and figure out if it
needs to happen.
I think we do use PG_arch_1 on s390 for our secure page handling and
making this perf folio instead of physical page really seems wrong
and it probably breaks this code.
Per-page flags are going away in the next few years, so you're going to
need a new design. s390 seems to do a lot of unusual things. I wish
you'd talk to the rest of us more.
I understand you point from a logical point of view, but a 4k page frame
is also a hardware defined memory region. And I think not only for us.
How do you want to implement hardware poisoning for example?
Marking the whole folio with PG_hwpoison seems wrong.
