Re: [PATCH 4/4] arm64: tlb: set huge page size to stride for hugepage

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Mon Jul 31 2023 - 09:18:32 EST


On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 07:27:14PM +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:
> On 2023/7/31 19:11, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 03:48:29PM +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:
> > > +/*
> > > + * We cannot use leaf-only invalidation here, since we may be invalidating
> > > + * table entries as part of collapsing hugepages or moving page tables.
> > > + * Set the tlb_level to 0 because we can not get enough information here.
> > > + */
> > > +#define flush_tlb_range(vma, start, end) \
> > > + __flush_tlb_range(vma, start, end, \
> > > + ((vma)->vm_flags & VM_HUGETLB) \
> > > + ? huge_page_size(hstate_vma(vma)) \
> > > + : PAGE_SIZE, false, 0)
> >
> > This won't work if we use the contiguous PTE to get 64K hugetlb pages on
> > a 4K base page configuration. The 16 base pages in the range would have
> > to be invalidated individually (the contig PTE bit is just a hint, the
> > hardware may or may not take it into account).
>
> Got it, the contig huge page is depended on hardware implementation,
> but for normal hugepage(2M/1G), we could use this, right?

Right. Only the pmd/pud cases.

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Catalin