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diff --git a/Documentation/arch/powerpc/vmemmap_dedup.rst b/Documentation/arch/powerpc/vmemmap_dedup.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..dc4db59fdf87 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/arch/powerpc/vmemmap_dedup.rst @@ -0,0 +1,101 @@ +.. 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 | --------------------------+ + | | +-----------+ + | | + | | + | | + +-----------+ |