[PATCH] ppc64: Fix bug in SLB miss handler for hugepages

This patch, however, should be applied on top of the 64k-page-size patch to
fix some problems with hugepage (some pre-existing, another introduced by
this patch).

The patch fixes a bug in the SLB miss handler for hugepages on ppc64
introduced by the dynamic hugepage patch (commit id
c594adad5653491813959277fb87a2fef54c4e05) due to a misunderstanding of the
srd instruction's behaviour (mea culpa).  The problem arises when a 64-bit
process maps some hugepages in the low 4GB of the address space (unusual).
In this case, as well as the 256M segment in question being marked for
hugepages, other segments at 32G intervals will be incorrectly marked for
hugepages.

In the process, this patch tweaks the semantics of the hugepage bitmaps to
be more sensible.  Previously, an address below 4G was marked for hugepages
if the appropriate segment bit in the "low areas" bitmask was set *or* if
the low bit in the "high areas" bitmap was set (which would mark all
addresses below 1TB for hugepage).  With this patch, any given address is
governed by a single bitmap.  Addresses below 4GB are marked for hugepage
if and only if their bit is set in the "low areas" bitmap (256M
granularity).  Addresses between 4GB and 1TB are marked for hugepage iff
the low bit in the "high areas" bitmap is set.  Higher addresses are marked
for hugepage iff their bit in the "high areas" bitmap is set (1TB
granularity).

To avoid conflicts, this patch must be applied on top of BenH's pending
patch for 64k base page size [0].  As such, this patch also addresses a
hugepage problem introduced by that patch.  That patch allows hugepages of
1MB in size on hardware which supports it, however, that won't work when
using 4k pages (4 level pagetable), because in that case hugepage PTEs are
stored at the PMD level, and each PMD entry maps 2MB.  This patch simply
disallows hugepages in that case (we can do something cleverer to re-enable
them some other day).

Built, booted, and a handful of hugepage related tests passed on POWER5
LPAR (both ARCH=powerpc and ARCH=ppc64).

[0] http://gate.crashing.org/~benh/ppc64-64k-pages.diff

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
index 0073a04047e4..426c269e552e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
@@ -212,6 +212,12 @@ static int prepare_high_area_for_htlb(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long area)
 
         BUG_ON(area >= NUM_HIGH_AREAS);
 
+        /* Hack, so that each addresses is controlled by exactly one
+         * of the high or low area bitmaps, the first high area starts
+         * at 4GB, not 0 */
+        if (start == 0)
+                start = 0x100000000UL;
+
         /* Check no VMAs are in the region */
         vma = find_vma(mm, start);
         if (vma && (vma->vm_start < end))