[PATCH v2 4/4] KVM: arm64: Add support for PUD hugepages at stage 2

Punit Agrawal punit.agrawal at arm.com
Tue May 15 10:12:58 PDT 2018


Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com> writes:

> On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 11:26:59AM +0100, Punit Agrawal wrote:
>> KVM currently supports PMD hugepages at stage 2. Extend the stage 2
>> fault handling to add support for PUD hugepages.
>> 
>> Addition of pud hugepage support enables additional hugepage
>> sizes (e.g., 1G with 4K granule) which can be useful on cores that
>> support mapping larger block sizes in the TLB entries.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal at arm.com>
>> Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall at arm.com>
>> Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier at arm.com>
>> Cc: Russell King <linux at armlinux.org.uk>
>> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
>> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/arm/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h         | 19 ++++++++++++
>>  arch/arm64/include/asm/kvm_mmu.h       | 15 ++++++++++
>>  arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h |  4 +++
>>  arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h       |  2 ++
>>  virt/kvm/arm/mmu.c                     | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>>  5 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> Since this patch touches a couple of core arm64 files:
>
> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>

Thanks Catalin.

I've posted a v3 with minor changes yesterday[0]. Can you comment there?
Or maybe Marc can apply the tag while merging the patches.

[0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/5/14/912



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