Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] mm,drm/ttm: Block fast GUP to TTM huge pages

[Thomas Hellström (Intel)]

On 3/24/21 5:34 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 3/24/21 3:05 AM, Thomas Hellström (Intel) wrote:
> > Yes, I agree. Seems like the special (SW1) is available also for huge
> > page table entries on x86 AFAICT, although just not implemented.
> > Otherwise the SW bits appear completely used up.
> Although the _PAGE_BIT_SOFTW* bits are used up, there's plenty of room
> in the hardware PTEs.  Bits 52->58 are software-available, and we're
> only using 58 at the moment.
>
> We also have not been careful at *all* about how _PAGE_BIT_SOFTW* are
> used.  It's quite possible we can encode another use even in the
> existing bits.
>
> Personally, I'd just try:
>
> #define _PAGE_BIT_SOFTW5        57      /* available for programmer */
OK, I'll follow your advise here. FWIW I grepped for SW1 and it seems 
used in a selftest, but only for PTEs AFAICT.

Oh, and we don't care about 32-bit much anymore?

/Thomas