From: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
To: chengkaitao <pilgrimtao@gmail.com>,
davem@davemloft.net, andreas@gaisler.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@kernel.org,
lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com, Liam.Howlett@oracle.com,
vbabka@suse.cz, rppt@kernel.org, surenb@google.com,
mhocko@suse.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: kevin.brodsky@arm.com, dave.hansen@linux.intel.com,
ziy@nvidia.com, chengkaitao@kylinos.cn, willy@infradead.org,
zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] sparc: Use vmemmap_populate_hugepages for vmemmap_populate
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:07:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ad2695a5-e696-4f40-9d66-3d46bb911e4b@gaisler.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260201063532.44807-2-pilgrimtao@gmail.com>
On 2026-02-01 07:35, chengkaitao wrote:
> From: Chengkaitao <chengkaitao@kylinos.cn>
>
> 1. In the SPARC architecture, reimplement vmemmap_populate using
> vmemmap_populate_hugepages.
> 2. Allow the SPARC arch to fallback to vmemmap_populate_basepages(),
> when vmemmap_alloc_block returns NULL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chengkaitao <chengkaitao@kylinos.cn>
> ---
> arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c | 47 ++++++++++++++---------------------------
> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c b/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c
> index df9f7c444c39..f1981adc99ac 100644
> --- a/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c
> +++ b/arch/sparc/mm/init_64.c
> @@ -2581,8 +2581,8 @@ unsigned long _PAGE_CACHE __read_mostly;
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(_PAGE_CACHE);
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
> -int __meminit vmemmap_populate(unsigned long vstart, unsigned long vend,
> - int node, struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
> +void __meminit vmemmap_set_pmd(pmd_t *pmd, void *p, int node,
> + unsigned long addr, unsigned long next)
> {
> unsigned long pte_base;
>
> @@ -2595,39 +2595,24 @@ int __meminit vmemmap_populate(unsigned long vstart, unsigned long vend,
>
> pte_base |= _PAGE_PMD_HUGE;
>
> - vstart = vstart & PMD_MASK;
> - vend = ALIGN(vend, PMD_SIZE);
> - for (; vstart < vend; vstart += PMD_SIZE) {
> - pgd_t *pgd = vmemmap_pgd_populate(vstart, node);
> - unsigned long pte;
> - p4d_t *p4d;
> - pud_t *pud;
> - pmd_t *pmd;
> -
> - if (!pgd)
> - return -ENOMEM;
> -
> - p4d = vmemmap_p4d_populate(pgd, vstart, node);
> - if (!p4d)
> - return -ENOMEM;
> -
> - pud = vmemmap_pud_populate(p4d, vstart, node);
> - if (!pud)
> - return -ENOMEM;
> + pmd_val(*pmd) = pte_base | __pa(p);
> +}
>
> - pmd = pmd_offset(pud, vstart);
> - pte = pmd_val(*pmd);
> - if (!(pte & _PAGE_VALID)) {
> - void *block = vmemmap_alloc_block(PMD_SIZE, node);
> +int __meminit vmemmap_check_pmd(pmd_t *pmdp, int node,
> + unsigned long addr, unsigned long next)
> +{
> + int large = pmd_leaf(*pmdp);
>
> - if (!block)
> - return -ENOMEM;
> + if (large)
> + vmemmap_verify((pte_t *)pmdp, node, addr, next);
>
> - pmd_val(*pmd) = pte_base | __pa(block);
> - }
> - }
> + return large;
> +}
>
> - return 0;
> +int __meminit vmemmap_populate(unsigned long vstart, unsigned long vend,
> + int node, struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
> +{
> + return vmemmap_populate_hugepages(vstart, vend, node, NULL);
> }
> #endif /* CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP */
>
Tested-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
I assume this goes through the mm tree.
Cheers,
Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-18 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-01 6:35 [PATCH v6 0/2] Generalize vmemmap_populate_hugepages to sparc chengkaitao
2026-02-01 6:35 ` [PATCH v6 1/2] sparc: Use vmemmap_populate_hugepages for vmemmap_populate chengkaitao
2026-03-18 15:07 ` Andreas Larsson [this message]
2026-02-01 6:35 ` [PATCH v6 2/2] mm: Convert vmemmap_p?d_populate() to static functions chengkaitao
2026-02-02 9:09 ` David Hildenbrand (arm)
2026-03-31 3:16 ` Chengkaitao
2026-03-31 3:54 ` Andrew Morton
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