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Device DAX
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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 | --------------------------+
| | +-----------+
| |
| |
| |
+-----------+
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