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-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/dscr.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/index.rst1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/kasan.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/papr_hcalls.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/ptrace.rst8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/qe_firmware.rst4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/vmemmap_dedup.rst101
8 files changed, 113 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/dscr.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/dscr.rst
index 2ab99006014c..f735ec5375d5 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/dscr.rst
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/dscr.rst
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ DSCR register in powerpc allows user to have some control of prefetch of data
stream in the processor. Please refer to the ISA documents or related manual
for more detailed information regarding how to use this DSCR to attain this
control of the prefetches . This document here provides an overview of kernel
-support for DSCR, related kernel objects, it's functionalities and exported
+support for DSCR, related kernel objects, its functionalities and exported
user interface.
(A) Data Structures:
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/index.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/index.rst
index d33b554ca7ba..a50834798454 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/index.rst
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ powerpc
ultravisor
vas-api
vcpudispatch_stats
+ vmemmap_dedup
features
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/kasan.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/kasan.txt
index f032b4eaf205..a4f647e4fffa 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/kasan.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/kasan.txt
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ checks can be delayed until after the MMU is set is up, and we can just not
instrument any code that runs with translations off after booting. This is the
current approach.
-To avoid this limitiation, the KASAN shadow would have to be placed inside the
+To avoid this limitation, the KASAN shadow would have to be placed inside the
linear mapping, using the same high-bits trick we use for the rest of the linear
mapping. This is tricky:
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/papr_hcalls.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/papr_hcalls.rst
index fce8bc793660..80d2c0aadab5 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/papr_hcalls.rst
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/papr_hcalls.rst
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ privileged operations. Currently there are two PAPR compliant hypervisors:
On PPC64 arch a guest kernel running on top of a PAPR hypervisor is called
a *pSeries guest*. A pseries guest runs in a supervisor mode (HV=0) and must
issue hypercalls to the hypervisor whenever it needs to perform an action
-that is hypervisor priviledged [3]_ or for other services managed by the
+that is hypervisor privileged [3]_ or for other services managed by the
hypervisor.
Hence a Hypercall (hcall) is essentially a request by the pseries guest
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/ptrace.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/ptrace.rst
index 77725d69eb4a..5629edf4d56e 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/ptrace.rst
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/ptrace.rst
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ that's extendable and that covers both BookE and server processors, so
that GDB doesn't need to special-case each of them. We added the
following 3 new ptrace requests.
-1. PTRACE_PPC_GETHWDEBUGINFO
+1. PPC_PTRACE_GETHWDBGINFO
============================
Query for GDB to discover the hardware debug features. The main info to
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ features will have bits indicating whether there is support for::
#define PPC_DEBUG_FEATURE_DATA_BP_DAWR 0x10
#define PPC_DEBUG_FEATURE_DATA_BP_ARCH_31 0x20
-2. PTRACE_SETHWDEBUG
+2. PPC_PTRACE_SETHWDEBUG
Sets a hardware breakpoint or watchpoint, according to the provided structure::
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ that the BookE supports. COMEFROM breakpoints available in server processors
are not contemplated, but that is out of the scope of this work.
ptrace will return an integer (handle) uniquely identifying the breakpoint or
-watchpoint just created. This integer will be used in the PTRACE_DELHWDEBUG
+watchpoint just created. This integer will be used in the PPC_PTRACE_DELHWDEBUG
request to ask for its removal. Return -ENOSPC if the requested breakpoint
can't be allocated on the registers.
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ Some examples of using the structure to:
p.addr2 = (uint64_t) end_range;
p.condition_value = 0;
-3. PTRACE_DELHWDEBUG
+3. PPC_PTRACE_DELHWDEBUG
Takes an integer which identifies an existing breakpoint or watchpoint
(i.e., the value returned from PTRACE_SETHWDEBUG), and deletes the
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/qe_firmware.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/qe_firmware.rst
index 42f5103140c9..a358f152b7e7 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/qe_firmware.rst
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/qe_firmware.rst
@@ -232,11 +232,11 @@ For example, to match the 8323, revision 1.0::
'extended_modes' is a bitfield that defines special functionality which has an
impact on the device drivers. Each bit has its own impact and has special
instructions for the driver associated with it. This field is stored in
-the QE library and available to any driver that calles qe_get_firmware_info().
+the QE library and available to any driver that calls qe_get_firmware_info().
'vtraps' is an array of 8 words that contain virtual trap values for each
virtual traps. As with 'extended_modes', this field is stored in the QE
-library and available to any driver that calles qe_get_firmware_info().
+library and available to any driver that calls qe_get_firmware_info().
'microcode' (type: struct qe_microcode):
For each RISC processor there is one 'microcode' structure. The first
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst
index bdb50fed903e..a9625a2fa0c6 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/vas-api.rst
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ request queue into the application's virtual address space.
The application can then submit one or more requests to the engine by
using copy/paste instructions and pasting the CRBs to the virtual address
(aka paste_address) returned by mmap(). User space can close the
-established connection or send window by closing the file descriptior
+established connection or send window by closing the file descriptor
(close(fd)) or upon the process exit.
Note that applications can send several requests with the same window or
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ issued. This signal returns with the following siginfo struct::
siginfo.si_signo = SIGSEGV;
siginfo.si_errno = EFAULT;
siginfo.si_code = SEGV_MAPERR;
- siginfo.si_addr = CSB adress;
+ siginfo.si_addr = CSB address;
In the case of multi-thread applications, NX send windows can be shared
across all threads. For example, a child thread can open a send window,
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/vmemmap_dedup.rst b/Documentation/powerpc/vmemmap_dedup.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..dc4db59fdf87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/vmemmap_dedup.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+==========
+Device DAX
+==========
+
+The device-dax interface uses the tail deduplication technique explained in
+Documentation/mm/vmemmap_dedup.rst
+
+On powerpc, vmemmap deduplication is only used with radix MMU translation. Also
+with a 64K page size, only the devdax namespace with 1G alignment uses vmemmap
+deduplication.
+
+With 2M PMD level mapping, we require 32 struct pages and a single 64K vmemmap
+page can contain 1024 struct pages (64K/sizeof(struct page)). Hence there is no
+vmemmap deduplication possible.
+
+With 1G PUD level mapping, we require 16384 struct pages and a single 64K
+vmemmap page can contain 1024 struct pages (64K/sizeof(struct page)). Hence we
+require 16 64K pages in vmemmap to map the struct page for 1G PUD level mapping.
+
+Here's how things look like on device-dax after the sections are populated::
+ +-----------+ ---virt_to_page---> +-----------+ mapping to +-----------+
+ | | | 0 | -------------> | 0 |
+ | | +-----------+ +-----------+
+ | | | 1 | -------------> | 1 |
+ | | +-----------+ +-----------+
+ | | | 2 | ----------------^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
+ | | +-----------+ | | | | |
+ | | | 3 | ------------------+ | | | |
+ | | +-----------+ | | | |
+ | | | 4 | --------------------+ | | |
+ | PUD | +-----------+ | | |
+ | level | | . | ----------------------+ | |
+ | mapping | +-----------+ | |
+ | | | . | ------------------------+ |
+ | | +-----------+ |
+ | | | 15 | --------------------------+
+ | | +-----------+
+ | |
+ | |
+ | |
+ +-----------+
+
+
+With 4K page size, 2M PMD level mapping requires 512 struct pages and a single
+4K vmemmap page contains 64 struct pages(4K/sizeof(struct page)). Hence we
+require 8 4K pages in vmemmap to map the struct page for 2M pmd level mapping.
+
+Here's how things look like on device-dax after the sections are populated::
+
+ +-----------+ ---virt_to_page---> +-----------+ mapping to +-----------+
+ | | | 0 | -------------> | 0 |
+ | | +-----------+ +-----------+
+ | | | 1 | -------------> | 1 |
+ | | +-----------+ +-----------+
+ | | | 2 | ----------------^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
+ | | +-----------+ | | | | |
+ | | | 3 | ------------------+ | | | |
+ | | +-----------+ | | | |
+ | | | 4 | --------------------+ | | |
+ | PMD | +-----------+ | | |
+ | level | | 5 | ----------------------+ | |
+ | mapping | +-----------+ | |
+ | | | 6 | ------------------------+ |
+ | | +-----------+ |
+ | | | 7 | --------------------------+
+ | | +-----------+
+ | |
+ | |
+ | |
+ +-----------+
+
+With 1G PUD level mapping, we require 262144 struct pages and a single 4K
+vmemmap page can contain 64 struct pages (4K/sizeof(struct page)). Hence we
+require 4096 4K pages in vmemmap to map the struct pages for 1G PUD level
+mapping.
+
+Here's how things look like on device-dax after the sections are populated::
+
+ +-----------+ ---virt_to_page---> +-----------+ mapping to +-----------+
+ | | | 0 | -------------> | 0 |
+ | | +-----------+ +-----------+
+ | | | 1 | -------------> | 1 |
+ | | +-----------+ +-----------+
+ | | | 2 | ----------------^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
+ | | +-----------+ | | | | |
+ | | | 3 | ------------------+ | | | |
+ | | +-----------+ | | | |
+ | | | 4 | --------------------+ | | |
+ | PUD | +-----------+ | | |
+ | level | | . | ----------------------+ | |
+ | mapping | +-----------+ | |
+ | | | . | ------------------------+ |
+ | | +-----------+ |
+ | | | 4095 | --------------------------+
+ | | +-----------+
+ | |
+ | |
+ | |
+ +-----------+