linux/arch/arm64/mm
Jeremy Linton 348a65cdcb arm64: Mark kernel page ranges contiguous
With 64k pages, the next larger segment size is 512M. The linux
kernel also uses different protection flags to cover its code and data.
Because of this requirement, the vast majority of the kernel code and
data structures end up being mapped with 64k pages instead of the larger
pages common with a 4k page kernel.

Recent ARM processors support a contiguous bit in the
page tables which allows the a TLB to cover a range larger than a
single PTE if that range is mapped into physically contiguous
ram.

So, for the kernel its a good idea to set this flag. Some basic
micro benchmarks show it can significantly reduce the number of
L1 dTLB refills.

Add boot option to enable/disable CONT marking, as well as fix a
bug found by Steve Capper.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: remove CONFIG_ARM64_CONT_PTE altogether]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2015-10-08 18:44:14 +01:00
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cache.S arm64: mm: Adopt new alternative assembler macros 2015-07-27 11:08:40 +01:00
context.c arm64: mm: kill mm_cpumask usage 2015-10-07 11:56:29 +01:00
copypage.c arm64: export __cpu_{clear,copy}_user_page functions 2014-07-08 17:30:51 +01:00
dma-mapping.c arm64: dma-mapping: check whether cma area is initialized or not 2015-09-14 12:28:30 +01:00
dump.c arm64: Make the kernel page dump utility aware of the CONT bit 2015-10-08 18:39:57 +01:00
extable.c arm64: MMU fault handling and page table management 2012-09-17 13:41:57 +01:00
fault.c arm64/BUG: Use BRK instruction for generic BUG traps 2015-07-27 11:08:42 +01:00
flush.c arm64: force CONFIG_SMP=y and remove redundant #ifdefs 2015-07-27 11:08:40 +01:00
hugetlbpage.c arm64: hugetlb: remove paragraph about writing to FSF 2015-07-27 11:08:40 +01:00
init.c arm64: mm: add __init section marker to free_initrd_mem 2015-07-27 18:29:18 +01:00
ioremap.c arm64: add ioremap physical address information 2015-01-23 15:29:06 +00:00
Makefile arm64: remove another unnecessary libfdt include path 2015-07-06 17:15:14 +01:00
mm.h arm64: add better page protections to arm64 2015-01-22 14:54:29 +00:00
mmap.c mm: expose arch_mmap_rnd when available 2015-04-14 16:49:05 -07:00
mmu.c arm64: Mark kernel page ranges contiguous 2015-10-08 18:44:14 +01:00
pageattr.c arm64: mm: unexport set_memory_ro and set_memory_rw 2015-03-19 10:43:56 +00:00
pgd.c arm64: pgalloc: consistently use PGALLOC_GFP 2014-11-20 12:05:18 +00:00
proc-macros.S arm64: mm: increase VA range of identity map 2015-03-23 11:35:29 +00:00
proc.S arm64: mm: rewrite ASID allocator and MM context-switching code 2015-10-07 11:55:41 +01:00