Christophe Leroy wrote:

> I can help with powerpc 8xx. It is a 32 bits powerpc. The PGD has 1024
> entries, that means each entry maps 4M.
>
> Page sizes are 4k, 16k, 512k and 8M.
>
> For the 8M pages we use hugepd with a single entry. The two related PGD
> entries point to the same hugepd.
>
> For the other sizes, they are in standard page tables. 16k pages appear
> 4 times in the page table. 512k entries appear 128 times in the page
> table.
>
> When the PGD entry has _PMD_PAGE_8M bits, the PMD entry points to a
> hugepd with holds the single 8M entry.
>
> In the PTE, we have two bits: _PAGE_SPS and _PAGE_HUGE
>
> _PAGE_HUGE means it is a 512k page
> _PAGE_SPS means it is not a 4k page
>
> The kernel can by build either with 4k pages as standard page size, or
> 16k pages. It doesn't change the page table layout though.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201126121121.364451610@infradead.org