[PATCH 4/4] arm64: tlb: set huge page size to stride for hugepage

Kefeng Wang wangkefeng.wang at huawei.com
Mon Jul 31 04:27:14 PDT 2023



On 2023/7/31 19:11, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 03:48:29PM +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:
>> +/*
>> + * We cannot use leaf-only invalidation here, since we may be invalidating
>> + * table entries as part of collapsing hugepages or moving page tables.
>> + * Set the tlb_level to 0 because we can not get enough information here.
>> + */
>> +#define flush_tlb_range(vma, start, end)				\
>> +	__flush_tlb_range(vma, start, end,				\
>> +				((vma)->vm_flags & VM_HUGETLB)		\
>> +				? huge_page_size(hstate_vma(vma))	\
>> +				: PAGE_SIZE, false, 0)
> 
> This won't work if we use the contiguous PTE to get 64K hugetlb pages on
> a 4K base page configuration. The 16 base pages in the range would have
> to be invalidated individually (the contig PTE bit is just a hint, the
> hardware may or may not take it into account).

Got it, the contig huge page is depended on hardware implementation,
but for normal hugepage(2M/1G), we could use this, right?
> 



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