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    powerpc: Use 64k pages without needing cache-inhibited large pages · bf72aeba
    Paul Mackerras authored
    Some POWER5+ machines can do 64k hardware pages for normal memory but
    not for cache-inhibited pages.  This patch lets us use 64k hardware
    pages for most user processes on such machines (assuming the kernel
    has been configured with CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES=y).  User processes
    start out using 64k pages and get switched to 4k pages if they use any
    non-cacheable mappings.
    
    With this, we use 64k pages for the vmalloc region and 4k pages for
    the imalloc region.  If anything creates a non-cacheable mapping in
    the vmalloc region, the vmalloc region will get switched to 4k pages.
    I don't know of any driver other than the DRM that would do this,
    though, and these machines don't have AGP.
    
    When a region gets switched from 64k pages to 4k pages, we do not have
    to clear out all the 64k HPTEs from the hash table immediately.  We
    use the _PAGE_COMBO bit in the Linux PTE to indicate whether the page
    was hashed in as a 64k page or a set of 4k pages.  If hash_page is
    trying to insert a 4k page for a Linux PTE and it sees that it has
    already been inserted as a 64k page, it first invalidates the 64k HPTE
    before inserting the 4k HPTE.  The hash invalidation routines also use
    the _PAGE_COMBO bit, to determine whether to look for a 64k HPTE or a
    set of 4k HPTEs to remove.  With those two changes, we can tolerate a
    mix of 4k and 64k HPTEs in the hash table, and they will all get
    removed when the address space is torn down.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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