This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sparc64: Kill unnecessary tables and increase MAX_BANKS. to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: sparc64-kill-unnecessary-tables-and-increase-max_banks.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Tue Oct 28 11:13:19 CST 2014 From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 21:30:57 -0700 Subject: sparc64: Kill unnecessary tables and increase MAX_BANKS. From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit d195b71bad4347d2df51072a537f922546a904f1 ] swapper_low_pmd_dir and swapper_pud_dir are actually completely useless and unnecessary. We just need swapper_pg_dir[]. Naturally the other page table chunks will be allocated on an as-needed basis. Since the kernel actually accesses these tables in the PAGE_OFFSET view, there is not even a TLB locality advantage of placing them in the kernel image. Use the hard coded vmlinux.ld.S slot for swapper_pg_dir which is naturally page aligned. Increase MAX_BANKS to 1024 in order to handle heavily fragmented virtual guests. Even with this MAX_BANKS increase, the kernel is 20K+ smaller. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h | 1 - arch/sparc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 5 +++-- arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c | 25 ++----------------------- 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) --- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h +++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h @@ -927,7 +927,6 @@ static inline void __set_pte_at(struct m #endif extern pgd_t swapper_pg_dir[PTRS_PER_PGD]; -extern pmd_t swapper_low_pmd_dir[PTRS_PER_PMD]; extern void paging_init(void); extern unsigned long find_ecache_flush_span(unsigned long size); --- a/arch/sparc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S @@ -35,8 +35,9 @@ jiffies = jiffies_64; SECTIONS { - /* swapper_low_pmd_dir is sparc64 only */ - swapper_low_pmd_dir = 0x0000000000402000; +#ifdef CONFIG_SPARC64 + swapper_pg_dir = 0x0000000000402000; +#endif . = INITIAL_ADDRESS; .text TEXTSTART : { --- a/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c +++ b/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ extern struct tsb swapper_tsb[KERNEL_TSB static unsigned long cpu_pgsz_mask; -#define MAX_BANKS 32 +#define MAX_BANKS 1024 static struct linux_prom64_registers pavail[MAX_BANKS]; static int pavail_ents; @@ -1937,12 +1937,6 @@ static void __init sun4v_linear_pte_xor_ static unsigned long last_valid_pfn; -/* These must be page aligned in order to not trigger the - * alignment tests of pgd_bad() and pud_bad(). - */ -pgd_t swapper_pg_dir[PTRS_PER_PGD] __attribute__ ((aligned (PAGE_SIZE))); -static pud_t swapper_pud_dir[PTRS_PER_PUD] __attribute__ ((aligned (PAGE_SIZE))); - static void sun4u_pgprot_init(void); static void sun4v_pgprot_init(void); @@ -1950,8 +1944,6 @@ void __init paging_init(void) { unsigned long end_pfn, shift, phys_base; unsigned long real_end, i; - pud_t *pud; - pmd_t *pmd; int node; setup_page_offset(); @@ -2046,20 +2038,7 @@ void __init paging_init(void) */ init_mm.pgd += ((shift) / (sizeof(pgd_t))); - memset(swapper_low_pmd_dir, 0, sizeof(swapper_low_pmd_dir)); - - /* The kernel page tables we publish into what the rest of the - * world sees must be adjusted so that they see the PAGE_OFFSET - * address of these in-kerenel data structures. However right - * here we must access them from the kernel image side, because - * the trap tables haven't been taken over and therefore we cannot - * take TLB misses in the PAGE_OFFSET linear mappings yet. - */ - pud = swapper_pud_dir + (shift / sizeof(pud_t)); - pgd_set(&swapper_pg_dir[0], pud); - - pmd = swapper_low_pmd_dir + (shift / sizeof(pmd_t)); - pud_set(&swapper_pud_dir[0], pmd); + memset(swapper_pg_dir, 0, sizeof(swapper_pg_dir)); inherit_prom_mappings(); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/sparc64-adjust-vmalloc-region-size-based-upon-available-virtual-address-bits.patch queue-3.14/sparc64-fix-fpu-register-corruption-with-aes-crypto-offload.patch queue-3.14/sparc64-move-request_irq-from-ldc_bind-to-ldc_alloc.patch queue-3.14/sparc32-dma_alloc_coherent-must-honour-gfp-flags.patch queue-3.14/sparc64-kill-unnecessary-tables-and-increase-max_banks.patch queue-3.14/sparc-let-memset-return-the-address-argument.patch queue-3.14/sparc64-use-kernel-page-tables-for-vmemmap.patch queue-3.14/sparc64-sparse-irq.patch queue-3.14/sparc64-fix-physical-memory-management-regressions-with-large-max_phys_bits.patch queue-3.14/sparc64-fix-lockdep-warnings-on-reboot-on-ultra-5.patch queue-3.14/sparc64-switch-to-4-level-page-tables.patch queue-3.14/sparc64-sun4v-tlb-error-power-off-events.patch queue-3.14/sparc64-increase-size-of-boot-string-to-1024-bytes.patch queue-3.14/sparc64-find_node-adjustment.patch queue-3.14/sparc64-fix-reversed-start-end-in-flush_tlb_kernel_range.patch queue-3.14/sparc64-increase-max_phys_address_bits-to-53.patch queue-3.14/sparc64-define-va-hole-at-run-time-rather-than-at-compile-time.patch queue-3.14/sparc64-fix-register-corruption-in-top-most-kernel-stack-frame-during-boot.patch queue-3.14/sparc64-do-not-disable-interrupts-in-nmi_cpu_busy.patch queue-3.14/sparc64-support-m6-and-m7-for-building-cpu-distribution-map.patch queue-3.14/sparc64-cpu-hardware-caps-support-for-sparc-m6-and-m7.patch queue-3.14/sparc64-do-not-define-thread-fpregs-save-area-as-zero-length-array.patch queue-3.14/sparc64-t5-pmu.patch queue-3.14/sparc64-adjust-ktsb-assembler-to-support-larger-physical-addresses.patch queue-3.14/sparc64-implement-__get_user_pages_fast.patch queue-3.14/sparc64-fix-corrupted-thread-fault-code.patch queue-3.14/sparc64-fix-hibernation-code-refrence-to-page_offset.patch queue-3.14/sparc64-correctly-recognise-m6-and-m7-cpu-type.patch queue-3.14/sparc64-fix-pcr_ops-initialization-and-usage-bugs.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html