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powerpc: Hugetlb for BookE

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Enable hugepages on Freescale BookE processors.  This allows the kernel to
use huge TLB entries to map pages, which can greatly reduce the number of
TLB misses and the amount of TLB thrashing experienced by applications with
large memory footprints.  Care should be taken when using this on FSL
processors, as the number of large TLB entries supported by the core is low
(16-64) on current processors.

The supported set of hugepage sizes include 4m, 16m, 64m, 256m, and 1g.
Page sizes larger than the max zone size are called "gigantic" pages and
must be allocated on the command line (and cannot be deallocated).

This is currently only fully implemented for Freescale 32-bit BookE
processors, but there is some infrastructure in the code for
64-bit BooKE.

Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <beckyb@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Becky Bruce
2011-06-28 09:54:48 +00:00
committed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt
parent 7df5659eef
commit 41151e77a4
20 changed files with 765 additions and 105 deletions
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arch/powerpc/include/asm/page_64.h
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@@ -64,17 +64,6 @@ extern void copy_page(void *to, void *from);
/* Log 2 of page table size */
extern u64 ppc64_pft_size;
/* Large pages size */
#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
extern unsigned int HPAGE_SHIFT;
#else
#define HPAGE_SHIFT PAGE_SHIFT
#endif
#define HPAGE_SIZE ((1UL) << HPAGE_SHIFT)
#define HPAGE_MASK (~(HPAGE_SIZE - 1))
#define HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER (HPAGE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
#define HUGE_MAX_HSTATE (MMU_PAGE_COUNT-1)
#endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */
#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_MM_SLICES