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powerpc: function to allocate gigantic hugepages
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powerpc-function-to-allocate-gigantic-hugepages.patch
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Subject: powerpc: function to allocate gigantic hugepages
From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
The 16G page locations have been saved during early boot in an array. The
alloc_bootmem_huge_page() function adds a page from here to the
huge_boot_pages list.
Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jon Tollefson <kniht@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+)
diff -puN arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c~powerpc-function-to-allocate-gigantic-hugepages arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c~powerpc-function-to-allocate-gigantic-hugepages
+++ a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -29,6 +29,12 @@
#define NUM_LOW_AREAS (0x100000000UL >> SID_SHIFT)
#define NUM_HIGH_AREAS (PGTABLE_RANGE >> HTLB_AREA_SHIFT)
+#define MAX_NUMBER_GPAGES 1024
+
+/* Tracks the 16G pages after the device tree is scanned and before the
+ * huge_boot_pages list is ready. */
+static unsigned long gpage_freearray[MAX_NUMBER_GPAGES];
+static unsigned nr_gpages;
unsigned int hugepte_shift;
#define PTRS_PER_HUGEPTE (1 << hugepte_shift)
@@ -104,6 +110,21 @@ pmd_t *hpmd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm,
}
#endif
+/* Moves the gigantic page addresses from the temporary list to the
+ * huge_boot_pages list. */
+int alloc_bootmem_huge_page(struct hstate *h)
+{
+ struct huge_bootmem_page *m;
+ if (nr_gpages == 0)
+ return 0;
+ m = phys_to_virt(gpage_freearray[--nr_gpages]);
+ gpage_freearray[nr_gpages] = 0;
+ list_add(&m->list, &huge_boot_pages);
+ m->hstate = h;
+ return 1;
+}
+
+
/* Modelled after find_linux_pte() */
pte_t *huge_pte_offset(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
{
_
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vt-fix-vc_resize-locking.patch
linux-next.patch
spufs-convert-nopfn-to-fault.patch
mspec-convert-nopfn-to-fault.patch
mspec-convert-nopfn-to-fault-fix.patch
mm-remove-nopfn.patch
mm-remove-double-indirection-on-tlb-parameter-to-free_pgd_range-co.patch
hugetlb-guarantee-that-cow-faults-for-a-process-that-called-mmapmap_private-on-hugetlbfs-will-succeed-build-fix.patch
hugetlb-factor-out-prep_new_huge_page.patch
hugetlb-modular-state-for-hugetlb-page-size.patch
hugetlb-modular-state-for-hugetlb-page-size-checkpatch-fixes.patch
hugetlb-multiple-hstates-for-multiple-page-sizes.patch
hugetlb-multiple-hstates-for-multiple-page-sizes-checkpatch-fixes.patch
hugetlbfs-per-mount-huge-page-sizes.patch
hugetlb-new-sysfs-interface.patch
hugetlb-abstract-numa-round-robin-selection.patch
mm-introduce-non-panic-alloc_bootmem.patch
mm-export-prep_compound_page-to-mm.patch
hugetlb-support-larger-than-max_order.patch
hugetlb-support-boot-allocate-different-sizes.patch
hugetlb-printk-cleanup.patch
hugetlb-introduce-pud_huge.patch
x86-support-gb-hugepages-on-64-bit.patch
x86-add-hugepagesz-option-on-64-bit.patch
hugetlb-override-default-huge-page-size.patch
hugetlb-allow-arch-overried-hugepage-allocation.patch
powerpc-function-to-allocate-gigantic-hugepages.patch
powerpc-scan-device-tree-for-gigantic-pages.patch
powerpc-define-support-for-16g-hugepages.patch
fs-check-for-statfs-overflow.patch
powerpc-support-multiple-hugepage-sizes.patch
x86-implement-pte_special.patch
mm-introduce-get_user_pages_fast.patch
mm-introduce-get_user_pages_fast-checkpatch-fixes.patch
x86-lockless-get_user_pages_fast.patch
x86-lockless-get_user_pages_fast-checkpatch-fixes.patch
x86-lockless-get_user_pages_fast-fix.patch
x86-lockless-get_user_pages_fast-fix-warning.patch
dio-use-get_user_pages_fast.patch
splice-use-get_user_pages_fast.patch
mm-readahead-scan-lockless.patch
radix-tree-add-gang_lookup_slot-gang_lookup_slot_tag.patch
mm-speculative-page-references.patch
mm-lockless-pagecache.patch
mm-spinlock-tree_lock.patch
powerpc-implement-pte_special.patch
powerpc-lockless-get_user_pages_fast.patch
vmscan-move-isolate_lru_page-to-vmscanc.patch
vmscan-mlocked-pages-are-non-reclaimable.patch
vmscan-handle-mlocked-pages-during-map-remap-unmap.patch
vmscan-mlocked-pages-statistics.patch
reiser4.patch
likeliness-accounting-change-and-cleanup.patch
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