[PATCH 1/5] arm64/mm: Drop pte_mkhuge()

[Ryan Roberts]

On 05/10/2024 13:38, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> Core HugeTLB defines arch_make_huge_pte() fallback definition, which calls
> platform provided pte_mkhuge(). But if any platform already provides custom
> arch_make_huge_pte(), then it does not need to provide pte_mkhuge(). arm64
> defines arch_make_huge_pte(), but then also calls pte_mkhuge() internally.
> This creates confusion as if both of these callbacks are being used in core
> HugeTLB and required to be defined in the platform.
> 
> This changes arch_make_huge_pte() to create block mapping directly and also
> drops off now redundant helper pte_mkhuge(), making things clear. Also this
> changes HugeTLB page creation from just clearing the PTE_TABLE_BIT (bit[1])
> to actually setting bits[1:0] via PTE_TYPE_[MASK|SECT] instead.
> 
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts at arm.com>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h | 1 +
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h       | 5 -----
>  arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c            | 2 +-
>  3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h
> index fd330c1db289..956a702cb532 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable-hwdef.h
> @@ -158,6 +158,7 @@
>  #define PTE_VALID		(_AT(pteval_t, 1) << 0)
>  #define PTE_TYPE_MASK		(_AT(pteval_t, 3) << 0)
>  #define PTE_TYPE_PAGE		(_AT(pteval_t, 3) << 0)
> +#define PTE_TYPE_SECT		(_AT(pteval_t, 1) << 0)
>  #define PTE_TABLE_BIT		(_AT(pteval_t, 1) << 1)
>  #define PTE_USER		(_AT(pteval_t, 1) << 6)		/* AP[1] */
>  #define PTE_RDONLY		(_AT(pteval_t, 1) << 7)		/* AP[2] */
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
> index c329ea061dc9..fa4c32a9f572 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
> @@ -438,11 +438,6 @@ static inline void __set_ptes(struct mm_struct *mm,
>  	}
>  }
>  
> -/*
> - * Huge pte definitions.
> - */
> -#define pte_mkhuge(pte)		(__pte(pte_val(pte) & ~PTE_TABLE_BIT))
> -
>  /*
>   * Hugetlb definitions.
>   */
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
> index 5f1e2103888b..5922c95630ad 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
> @@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ pte_t arch_make_huge_pte(pte_t entry, unsigned int shift, vm_flags_t flags)
>  {
>  	size_t pagesize = 1UL << shift;
>  
> -	entry = pte_mkhuge(entry);
> +	entry = __pte((pte_val(entry) & ~PTE_TYPE_MASK) | PTE_TYPE_SECT);

I think there may be an existing bug here; if pagesize == CONT_PTE_SIZE, then
entry will be placed in the level 3 table. In this case, shouldn't bit 1 remain
set, because at level 3, a page mapping is denoted by bits[1:0] = 3 ? Currently
its being unconditionally cleared.

>  	if (pagesize == CONT_PTE_SIZE) {
>  		entry = pte_mkcont(entry);
>  	} else if (pagesize == CONT_PMD_SIZE) {