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authorAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>2023-07-25 00:37:57 +0530
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2023-08-18 10:12:55 -0700
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powerpc/book3s64/radix: add support for vmemmap optimization for radix
With 2M PMD-level mapping, we require 32 struct pages and a single vmemmap page can contain 1024 struct pages (PAGE_SIZE/sizeof(struct page)). Hence with 64K page size, we don't use vmemmap deduplication for PMD-level mapping. [aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com: ppc64: don't include radix headers if CONFIG_PPC_RADIX_MMU=n] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87zg3jw8km.fsf@linux.ibm.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230724190759.483013-12-aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@oracle.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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ultravisor
vas-api
vcpudispatch_stats
+ vmemmap_dedup
features
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+==========
+Device DAX
+==========
+
+The device-dax interface uses the tail deduplication technique explained in
+Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst
+
+On powerpc, vmemmap deduplication is only used with radix MMU translation. Also
+with a 64K page size, only the devdax namespace with 1G alignment uses vmemmap
+deduplication.
+
+With 2M PMD level mapping, we require 32 struct pages and a single 64K vmemmap
+page can contain 1024 struct pages (64K/sizeof(struct page)). Hence there is no
+vmemmap deduplication possible.
+
+With 1G PUD level mapping, we require 16384 struct pages and a single 64K
+vmemmap page can contain 1024 struct pages (64K/sizeof(struct page)). Hence we
+require 16 64K pages in vmemmap to map the struct page for 1G PUD level mapping.
+
+Here's how things look like on device-dax after the sections are populated::
+ +-----------+ ---virt_to_page---> +-----------+ mapping to +-----------+
+ | | | 0 | -------------> | 0 |
+ | | +-----------+ +-----------+
+ | | | 1 | -------------> | 1 |
+ | | +-----------+ +-----------+
+ | | | 2 | ----------------^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
+ | | +-----------+ | | | | |
+ | | | 3 | ------------------+ | | | |
+ | | +-----------+ | | | |
+ | | | 4 | --------------------+ | | |
+ | PUD | +-----------+ | | |
+ | level | | . | ----------------------+ | |
+ | mapping | +-----------+ | |
+ | | | . | ------------------------+ |
+ | | +-----------+ |
+ | | | 15 | --------------------------+
+ | | +-----------+
+ | |
+ | |
+ | |
+ +-----------+
+
+
+With 4K page size, 2M PMD level mapping requires 512 struct pages and a single
+4K vmemmap page contains 64 struct pages(4K/sizeof(struct page)). Hence we
+require 8 4K pages in vmemmap to map the struct page for 2M pmd level mapping.
+
+Here's how things look like on device-dax after the sections are populated::
+
+ +-----------+ ---virt_to_page---> +-----------+ mapping to +-----------+
+ | | | 0 | -------------> | 0 |
+ | | +-----------+ +-----------+
+ | | | 1 | -------------> | 1 |
+ | | +-----------+ +-----------+
+ | | | 2 | ----------------^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
+ | | +-----------+ | | | | |
+ | | | 3 | ------------------+ | | | |
+ | | +-----------+ | | | |
+ | | | 4 | --------------------+ | | |
+ | PMD | +-----------+ | | |
+ | level | | 5 | ----------------------+ | |
+ | mapping | +-----------+ | |
+ | | | 6 | ------------------------+ |
+ | | +-----------+ |
+ | | | 7 | --------------------------+
+ | | +-----------+
+ | |
+ | |
+ | |
+ +-----------+
+
+With 1G PUD level mapping, we require 262144 struct pages and a single 4K
+vmemmap page can contain 64 struct pages (4K/sizeof(struct page)). Hence we
+require 4096 4K pages in vmemmap to map the struct pages for 1G PUD level
+mapping.
+
+Here's how things look like on device-dax after the sections are populated::
+
+ +-----------+ ---virt_to_page---> +-----------+ mapping to +-----------+
+ | | | 0 | -------------> | 0 |
+ | | +-----------+ +-----------+
+ | | | 1 | -------------> | 1 |
+ | | +-----------+ +-----------+
+ | | | 2 | ----------------^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
+ | | +-----------+ | | | | |
+ | | | 3 | ------------------+ | | | |
+ | | +-----------+ | | | |
+ | | | 4 | --------------------+ | | |
+ | PUD | +-----------+ | | |
+ | level | | . | ----------------------+ | |
+ | mapping | +-----------+ | |
+ | | | . | ------------------------+ |
+ | | +-----------+ |
+ | | | 4095 | --------------------------+
+ | | +-----------+
+ | |
+ | |
+ | |
+ +-----------+