From 66aad4fdf2bf0af29c7decb4433dc5ec6c7c5451 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xunlei Pang Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 09:42:50 +0800 Subject: x86/mm: Add support for gbpages to kernel_ident_mapping_init() Kernel identity mappings on x86-64 kernels are created in two ways: by the early x86 boot code, or by kernel_ident_mapping_init(). Native kernels (which is the dominant usecase) use the former, but the kexec and the hibernation code uses kernel_ident_mapping_init(). There's a subtle difference between these two ways of how identity mappings are created, the current kernel_ident_mapping_init() code creates identity mappings always using 2MB page(PMD level) - while the native kernel boot path also utilizes gbpages where available. This difference is suboptimal both for performance and for memory usage: kernel_ident_mapping_init() needs to allocate pages for the page tables when creating the new identity mappings. This patch adds 1GB page(PUD level) support to kernel_ident_mapping_init() to address these concerns. The primary advantage would be better TLB coverage/performance, because we'd utilize 1GB TLBs instead of 2MB ones. It is also useful for machines with large number of memory to save paging structure allocations(around 4MB/TB using 2MB page) when setting identity mappings for all the memory, after using 1GB page it will consume only 8KB/TB. ( Note that this change alone does not activate gbpages in kexec, we are doing that in a separate patch. ) Signed-off-by: Xunlei Pang Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Dave Young Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: Eric Biederman Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Yinghai Lu Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1493862171-8799-1-git-send-email-xlpang@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/power/hibernate_64.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/power') diff --git a/arch/x86/power/hibernate_64.c b/arch/x86/power/hibernate_64.c index 6a61194ffd58..a6e21fee22ea 100644 --- a/arch/x86/power/hibernate_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/power/hibernate_64.c @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ static int set_up_temporary_mappings(void) { struct x86_mapping_info info = { .alloc_pgt_page = alloc_pgt_page, - .pmd_flag = __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE_EXEC, + .page_flag = __PAGE_KERNEL_LARGE_EXEC, .offset = __PAGE_OFFSET, }; unsigned long mstart, mend; -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b