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    powerpc/mm: Don't track subpage valid bit in pte_t · bf680d51
    Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
    This free up 11 bits in pte_t. In the later patch we also change
    the pte_t format so that we can start supporting migration pte
    at pmd level. We now track 4k subpage valid bit as below
    
    If we have _PAGE_COMBO set, we override the _PAGE_F_GIX_SHIFT
    and _PAGE_F_SECOND. Together we have 4 bits, each of them
    used to indicate whether any of the 4 4k subpage in that group
    is valid. ie,
    
    [ group 1 bit ]   [ group 2 bit ]  ..... [ group 4 ]
    [ subpage 1 - 4]  [ subpage 5- 8]  ..... [ subpage 13 - 16]
    
    We still track each 4k subpage slot number and secondary hash
    information in the second half of pgtable_t. Removing the subpage
    tracking have some significant overhead on aim9 and ebizzy benchmark and
    to support THP with 4K subpage, we do need a pgtable_t of 4096 bytes.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
    bf680d51
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