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Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 14:10:23 +0200
From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 08/16] powerpc/8xx: Rework support for 8M pages
 using contiguous PTE entries
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On Sun, May 26, 2024 at 11:22:28AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> In order to fit better with standard Linux page tables layout, add
> support for 8M pages using contiguous PTE entries in a standard
> page table. Page tables will then be populated with 1024 similar
> entries and two PMD entries will point to that page table.
> 
> The PMD entries also get a flag to tell it is addressing an 8M page,
> this is required for the HW tablewalk assistance.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>

I did not look close into KSAN bits, and I trust you with the assembly part,
but other than that looks good to me, so FWIW:

Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>

Just a nit below:

> +#define __HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_PTEP_GET
> +static inline pte_t huge_ptep_get(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)
> +{
> +	if (ptep_is_8m_pmdp(mm, addr, ptep))
> +		ptep = pte_offset_kernel((pmd_t *)ptep, 0);

Would it not be more clear to use pmd_page_vaddr directly there?


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Oscar Salvador
SUSE Labs