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<title>Merge branch 'parisc-4.4-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux</title>
<updated>2015-11-22T20:50:58+00:00</updated>
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<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2015-11-22T20:50:58+00:00</published>
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Pull parisc update from Helge Deller:
 "This patchset adds Huge Page and HUGETLBFS support for parisc"

Honestly, the hugepage support should have gone through in the merge
window, and is not really an rc-time fix.  But it only touches
arch/parisc, and I cannot find it in myself to care.  If one of the
three parisc users notices a breakage, I will point at Helge and make
rude farting noises.

* 'parisc-4.4-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
  parisc: Map kernel text and data on huge pages
  parisc: Add Huge Page and HUGETLBFS support
  parisc: Use long branch to do_syscall_trace_exit
  parisc: Increase initial kernel mapping to 32MB on 64bit kernel
  parisc: Initialize the fault vector earlier in the boot process.
  parisc: Add defines for Huge page support
  parisc: Drop unused MADV_xxxK_PAGES flags from asm/mman.h
  parisc: Drop definition of start_thread_som for HP-UX SOM binaries
  parisc: Fix wrong comment regarding first pmd entry flags
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Pull parisc update from Helge Deller:
 "This patchset adds Huge Page and HUGETLBFS support for parisc"

Honestly, the hugepage support should have gone through in the merge
window, and is not really an rc-time fix.  But it only touches
arch/parisc, and I cannot find it in myself to care.  If one of the
three parisc users notices a breakage, I will point at Helge and make
rude farting noises.

* 'parisc-4.4-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
  parisc: Map kernel text and data on huge pages
  parisc: Add Huge Page and HUGETLBFS support
  parisc: Use long branch to do_syscall_trace_exit
  parisc: Increase initial kernel mapping to 32MB on 64bit kernel
  parisc: Initialize the fault vector earlier in the boot process.
  parisc: Add defines for Huge page support
  parisc: Drop unused MADV_xxxK_PAGES flags from asm/mman.h
  parisc: Drop definition of start_thread_som for HP-UX SOM binaries
  parisc: Fix wrong comment regarding first pmd entry flags
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<title>parisc: Map kernel text and data on huge pages</title>
<updated>2015-11-22T11:23:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
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<published>2015-11-21T23:07:44+00:00</published>
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Adjust the linker script and map_pages() to map kernel text and data on
physical 1MB huge/large pages.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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Adjust the linker script and map_pages() to map kernel text and data on
physical 1MB huge/large pages.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<title>parisc: Add Huge Page and HUGETLBFS support</title>
<updated>2015-11-22T11:23:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
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<published>2015-11-21T23:07:06+00:00</published>
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This patch adds huge page support to allow userspace to allocate huge
pages and to use hugetlbfs filesystem on 32- and 64-bit Linux kernels.
A later patch will add kernel support to map kernel text and data on
huge pages.

The only requirement is, that the kernel needs to be compiled for a
PA8X00 CPU (PA2.0 architecture). Older PA1.X CPUs do not support
variable page sizes. 64bit Kernels are compiled for PA2.0 by default.

Technically on parisc multiple physical huge pages may be needed to
emulate standard 2MB huge pages.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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This patch adds huge page support to allow userspace to allocate huge
pages and to use hugetlbfs filesystem on 32- and 64-bit Linux kernels.
A later patch will add kernel support to map kernel text and data on
huge pages.

The only requirement is, that the kernel needs to be compiled for a
PA8X00 CPU (PA2.0 architecture). Older PA1.X CPUs do not support
variable page sizes. 64bit Kernels are compiled for PA2.0 by default.

Technically on parisc multiple physical huge pages may be needed to
emulate standard 2MB huge pages.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<title>parisc: Use long branch to do_syscall_trace_exit</title>
<updated>2015-11-22T11:23:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
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<published>2015-11-20T10:22:32+00:00</published>
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Use the 22bit instead of the 17bit branch instruction on a 64bit kernel
to reach the do_syscall_trace_exit function from the gateway page.
A huge page enabled kernel may need the additional branch distance bits.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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Use the 22bit instead of the 17bit branch instruction on a 64bit kernel
to reach the do_syscall_trace_exit function from the gateway page.
A huge page enabled kernel may need the additional branch distance bits.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<title>parisc: Increase initial kernel mapping to 32MB on 64bit kernel</title>
<updated>2015-11-22T11:22:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
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<published>2015-11-20T10:17:27+00:00</published>
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For the 64bit kernel the initially 16 MB kernel memory might become too
small if you build a kernel with many modules built-in and with kernel
text and data areas mapped on huge pages.

This patch increases the initial mapping to 32MB for 64bit kernels and
keeps 16MB for 32bit kernels.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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For the 64bit kernel the initially 16 MB kernel memory might become too
small if you build a kernel with many modules built-in and with kernel
text and data areas mapped on huge pages.

This patch increases the initial mapping to 32MB for 64bit kernels and
keeps 16MB for 32bit kernels.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<title>parisc: Initialize the fault vector earlier in the boot process.</title>
<updated>2015-11-22T11:22:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
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<published>2015-11-20T09:50:01+00:00</published>
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A fault vector on parisc needs to be 2K aligned.  Furthermore the
checksum of the fault vector needs to sum up to 0 which is being
calculated and written at runtime.

Up to now we aligned both PA20 and PA11 fault vectors on the same 4K
page in order to easily write the checksum after having mapped the
kernel read-only (by mapping this page only as read-write).
But when we want to map the kernel text and data on huge pages this
makes things harder.
So, simplify it by aligning both fault vectors on 2K boundries and write
the checksum before we map the page read-only.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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A fault vector on parisc needs to be 2K aligned.  Furthermore the
checksum of the fault vector needs to sum up to 0 which is being
calculated and written at runtime.

Up to now we aligned both PA20 and PA11 fault vectors on the same 4K
page in order to easily write the checksum after having mapped the
kernel read-only (by mapping this page only as read-write).
But when we want to map the kernel text and data on huge pages this
makes things harder.
So, simplify it by aligning both fault vectors on 2K boundries and write
the checksum before we map the page read-only.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<title>parisc: Add defines for Huge page support</title>
<updated>2015-11-22T11:22:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
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<published>2015-11-20T14:46:52+00:00</published>
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Huge pages on parisc will have the same size as one pmd table, which
is on a 64bit kernel 2MB on a kernel with 4K kernel page sizes, and
on a 32bit kernel 4MB when used with 4K kernel pages.

Since parisc does not physically supports 2MB huge page sizes, emulate
it with two consecutive 1MB page sizes instead. Keeping the same huge
page size as one pmd will allow us to add transparent huge page support
later on.

Bit 21 in the pte flags was unused and will now be used to mark a page
as huge page (_PAGE_HPAGE_BIT).

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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Huge pages on parisc will have the same size as one pmd table, which
is on a 64bit kernel 2MB on a kernel with 4K kernel page sizes, and
on a 32bit kernel 4MB when used with 4K kernel pages.

Since parisc does not physically supports 2MB huge page sizes, emulate
it with two consecutive 1MB page sizes instead. Keeping the same huge
page size as one pmd will allow us to add transparent huge page support
later on.

Bit 21 in the pte flags was unused and will now be used to mark a page
as huge page (_PAGE_HPAGE_BIT).

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<title>parisc: Drop unused MADV_xxxK_PAGES flags from asm/mman.h</title>
<updated>2015-11-22T11:14:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
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<published>2015-11-22T11:14:14+00:00</published>
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Drop the MADV_xxK_PAGES flags, which were never used and were from a proposed
API which was never integrated into the generic Linux kernel code.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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Drop the MADV_xxK_PAGES flags, which were never used and were from a proposed
API which was never integrated into the generic Linux kernel code.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<title>parisc: Drop definition of start_thread_som for HP-UX SOM binaries</title>
<updated>2015-11-20T09:19:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-20T09:12:42+00:00</published>
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The definition of start_thread_som was planned to be used to execute
HP-UX SOM binaries. Since HP-UX compatibility was dropped with kernel 4.0
there is no need to carry it further.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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The definition of start_thread_som was planned to be used to execute
HP-UX SOM binaries. Since HP-UX compatibility was dropped with kernel 4.0
there is no need to carry it further.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<title>parisc: Fix wrong comment regarding first pmd entry flags</title>
<updated>2015-11-20T09:19:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
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<published>2015-11-20T09:09:18+00:00</published>
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The first pmd entry is marked with PxD_FLAG_ATTACHED instead of
_PAGE_GATEWAY.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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The first pmd entry is marked with PxD_FLAG_ATTACHED instead of
_PAGE_GATEWAY.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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