Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752715AbbFEWM6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jun 2015 18:12:58 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f182.google.com ([209.85.212.182]:35690 "EHLO mail-wi0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750831AbbFEWMz (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Jun 2015 18:12:55 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20150605205052.20751.77149.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> <20150605211906.20751.59875.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com> Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 15:12:54 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/9] introduce __pfn_t for scatterlists and pmem From: Dan Williams To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Jens Axboe , Boaz Harrosh , Dave Chinner , "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" , Arnd Bergmann , Ross Zwisler , "linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , linux-fsdevel , Heiko Carstens , Christoph Hellwig , Martin Schwidefsky , Paul Mackerras , Peter Anvin , Tejun Heo , Matthew Wilcox , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2754 Lines: 63 On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Dan Williams wrote: >> +enum { >> +#if BITS_PER_LONG == 64 >> + PFN_SHIFT = 3, >> + /* device-pfn not covered by memmap */ >> + PFN_DEV = (1UL << 2), >> +#else >> + PFN_SHIFT = 2, >> +#endif >> + PFN_MASK = (1UL << PFN_SHIFT) - 1, >> + PFN_SG_CHAIN = (1UL << 0), >> + PFN_SG_LAST = (1UL << 1), >> +}; > > Ugh. Just make PFN_SHIFT unconditional. Make it 2, unconditionally. > Or, if you want to have more bits, make it three unconditionally, and > make 'struct page' just be at least 8-byte aligned even on 32-bit. > > Even on 32-bit architectures, there's plenty of bits. There's no > reason to "pack" this optimally. Remember: it's a page frame number, > so there's the page size shifting going on in physical memory, and > even if you shift the PFN by 3 - or four of five - bits > unconditionally (rather than try to shift it by some minimal number), > you're covering a *lot* of physical memory. It is a page frame number, but page_to_pfn_t() just stores the value of the struct page pointer directly, so we really only have the pointer alignment bits. I do this so that kmap_atomic_pfn_t() can optionally call kmap_atomic() if the pfn is mapped. > > Say you're a 32-bit architecture with a 4k page size, and you lose > three bits to "type" bits. You still have 32+12-3=41 bits of physical > address space. Which is way more than realistic for a 32-bit > architecture anyway, even with PAE (or PXE or whatever ARM calls it). > Not that I see persistent memory being all that relevant on 32-bit > hardware anyway. > > So I think if you actually do want that third bit, you're better off > just marking "struct page" as being __aligned__((8)) and getting the > three bits unconditionally. Just make the rule be that mem_map[] has > to be 8-byte aligned. > > Even 16-byte alignment would probably be fine. No? > Ooh, that's great, I was already lamenting the fact that I had run out of bits. One of the reasons to go to 16-byte alignment is to have another bit to further qualify the pfn as persistent memory not just un-mapped memory. The rationale would be to generate, and verify proper usage of, __pmem annotated pointers. ...but I'm still waiting for someone to tell me I'm needlessly complicating things with a __pmem annotation [1]. [1]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2015-June/001087.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/