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PTE_PRESENT_INVALID was previously occupying bit 59, which when a PTE is valid can either be IGNORED, PBHA[0] or AttrIndex[3], depending on the HW configuration. In practice this is currently not a problem because PTE_PRESENT_INVALID can only be 1 when PTE_VALID=0 and upstream Linux always requires the bit set to 0 for a valid pte. However, if in future Linux wants to use the field (e.g. AttrIndex[3]) then we could end up with confusion when PTE_PRESENT_INVALID comes along and corrupts the field - we would ideally want to preserve it even for an invalid (but present) pte. The other problem with bit 59 is that it prevents the offset field of a swap entry within a swap pte from growing beyond 51 bits. By moving PTE_PRESENT_INVALID to a low bit we can lay the swap pte out so that the offset field could grow to 52 bits in future. So let's move PTE_PRESENT_INVALID to overlay PTE_NG (bit 11). There is no need to persist NG for a present-invalid entry; it is always set for user mappings and is not used by SW to derive any state from the pte. PTE_NS was considered instead of PTE_NG, but it is RES0 for non-secure SW, so there is a chance that future architecture may allocate the bit and we may therefore need to persist that bit for present-invalid ptes. These are both marginal benefits, but make things a bit tidier in my opinion. Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240503144604.151095-4-ryan.roberts@arm.com Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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