From: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 13:16:11 -0700 > On 03/08/2016 12:57 PM, David Miller wrote: >> From: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 14:06:43 -0700 >> >>> Good questions. Isn't set of valid VAs already constrained by VA_BITS >>> (set to 44 in arch/sparc/include/asm/processor_64.h)? As I see it we >>> are already not using the top 4 bits. Please correct me if I am wrong. >> >> Another limiting constraint is the number of address bits coverable by >> the 4-level page tables we use. And this is sign extended so we have >> a top-half and a bottom-half with a "hole" in the center of the VA >> space. >> >> I want some clarification on the top bits during ADI accesses. >> >> If ADI is enabled, then the top bits of the virtual address are >> intepreted as tag bits. Once "verified" with the ADI settings, what >> happense to these tag bits? Are they dropped from the virtual address >> before being passed down the TLB et al. for translations? > > Bits 63-60 (tag bits) are dropped from the virtual address before > being passed down the TLB for translation when PSTATE.mcde = 1. Ok and you said that values 15 and 0 are special. I'm just wondering if this means you can't really use ADI mappings in the top half of the 64-bit address space. If the bits are dropped, they will be zero, but they need to be all 1's for the top-half of the VA space since it's sign extended. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>