System and method for concatenating discontiguous memory pages

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to segmenting and reassembling message transfer units (MTU) and placing them in a memory, and more particularly to a system and method for concatenating and reassembling discontiguous MTUs via virtual memory address reassignment.
2. Description of Prior Art
One way for improving the performance of computer networks is through the use of DMA (Direct Memory Access) based protocols which automatically segment and reassemble ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) cells and place them, in sequence, in memory segments or pages which are typically discontiguous in a host computer's memory. This technique eliminates the need for system software to copy data to and from the host memory to the communications card during data transmissions, yielding effectively a zero-copy interface.
However, this technique is ineffective when the system software receives network message transfer units (MTU) that exceed the size of a single hardware page. One adhoc solution is to use pre-allocated MTU-sized buffers of contiguous pages to store incoming data from an I/O card, e.g., a communications card. This solution, however, puts a strain on the operating system for memory resources, since it has to allocate contiguous physical memory for the incoming data. A resource-efficient solution is to reassemble discontiguous pages by copying them into a contiguous virtual region of memory. This technique solves the resource problem, but is plagued by being a slow memory copy (memcopy) operation, which limits its performance.
Accordingly, a need exists for a system and method which uses existing virtual memory systems to allow for a zero-copy transfer for MTUs larger than the memory page size and which is faster than traditional memcopy re-assembly.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention provides a system and method for Virtual Memory MTU Reassembly (VMMR) which avoids the resource demands of pre-allocated contiguous buffers and the slow performance of memcopy operations. In the VMMR procedure, discontiguous pages are concatenated and reassembled via virtual memory address reassignment. The present invention includes a method for concatenating discontiguous memory pages in a processor. The method includes the steps of receiving a block of data that exceeds the size of a system page; writing portions of the block of data to two or more system memory pages to store the entire data block using two or more system memory pages; and assigning contiguous virtual addresses to the two or more system memory pages.
The present disclosure also relates to a system for concatenating discontiguous memory pages in a processor. The system includes a receiver for receiving a block of data that exceeds the size of a memory page within the processor; a physical storage area having a plurality of physical addresses each identifying the location of a physical memory page, where the block of data is stored within two or more physical memory pages; a virtual storage area having a plurality of virtual addresses each identifying the location of a corresponding virtual memory page, where the block of data is stored within two or more virtual memory pages; and a page table having virtual-to-real address mappings for tracking the location of the block of data in the virtual storage area.
Advantageously, the system and method of the present invention as mentioned above is faster than the traditional memcopy approach. The system and method of the present invention can also be used to allocate large contiguous buffers on demand, since the hardware page table can be used to locate a block of unused virtual memory to serve as the contiguous buffers.
Many other objects and purposes of the invention will be clear from the following detailed description of the drawings.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
In the drawings:
FIG. 1 is a graph which compares a traditional memcopy and a Virtual Memory MTU Reassembly (VMMR) procedure of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an implementation of VMMR within an operating system.
FIG. 3 is a graph of a system implementation in which an illustrative VMMR procedure according to the present invention is used.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
The system and method of the present invention rearranges discontiguous physical pages by manipulating virtual page pointers in a hardware page table. Although physical pages remain discontiguous in physical memory, they are made contiguous in virtual memory. The page table provides any necessary virtual-to-real address translation. A system describing a page table configuration is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,109,496 issued on Apr. 28, 1992 to Beausoleil et al. the contents of which are incorporated herein by a reference.
FIG. 1 depicts an illustrative chart comparing times required by the traditional memcopy approach and the VMMR procedure to concatenate, for example, from 1 to 6,144 hardware pages (4 kB each). For the memcopy approach the times rise exponentially (shown linearly on the log-log graph in FIG. 1) from approximately 200 usec (1 page) to 1 sec (6,144 pages). The VMMR curve reports the times required to re-assemble a non-contiguous MTU of 1 to 6,144 pages. At small message sizes (32 pages or less), VMMR speedup over memcopy ranges between 6 and 80. For larger message sizes (greater than 32 pages), VMMR speedup is constant at approximately 82. Therefore, the VMMR procedure of the present invention is faster over traditional memcopy operations, since it utilizes the host computer's virtual memory and a hardware page table to map the real address of an MTU to its virtual address without copying the MTU to the virtual region.
With reference to FIG. 2 there is shown a flowchart of an illustrative implementation of a Virtual Memory MTU Reassembly (VMMR) process of the present invention within an operating system. When an application or user process makes a system call to the operating system notifying the operating system to attach the application to a network device, a kernel locates a set of free pages within physical memory (Block 1). These free pages need not be contiguous and/or adjacent. The operating system allocates these pages for the user process requesting them (Block 2), and the operating system notifies the communications card of available physical pages that can be used by the operating system to receive or store the arriving MTUs into memory (Block 3). The process then polls the communications card or awaits an interrupt notifying that one or multiple fragmented MTUs have arrived and have been written to memory (Block 4). When this step has been completed, the kernel invokes the VMMR routine to reassemble each MTU in virtual memory (Block 5) and the physical pages are left untouched. The VMMR then returns a virtual memory pointer which represents the starting location of a contiguous MTU that is passed on to a protocol stack (see FIG. 3) for further processing. In a high-performance parallel processing interface, VMMR reassembles MTUs received as discontiguous pages and forwards them to an awaiting application, bypassing the protocol stack.
FIG. 3 is a graph of a system implementation in which an illustrative VMMR procedure according to the present invention is used in conjunction with an operating system. The operating system manages a number of user processes at any one time, and each process has a set of virtual pages 10 which translate to appropriate physical pages 12 in the main memory 14 through the page table 16. The page table 16 may include mappings for the currently executing process. When an MTU is received at 18 and stored into physical memory 14 from the communications card 22, the memory 14 storing the MTU is usually discontiguous 20. An area of unused virtual memory 24 for the process awaiting the MTU is then declared and used by the VMMR routines to remap the physical pages 12. The process reads the MTU by reading the virtual memory pages 10 in a sequential order. It is completely unaware that the VMMR has updated the page table 16 to provide mappings from virtual memory space 24 to physical memory space 14.
During context switching, the table is usually paged out to memory or swapped to a disk or hard drive and a new page table for the scheduled process is placed in the system area before the switch is completed. In many traditional UNIX-based operating systems, a VMMR may be done after a context switch has occurred. This is because the process that was waiting for an MTU has usually been placed on an operating system sleep queue by the time the MTU arrives. The operating system may then swap out the currently executing process, brings in the sleeping one (and its page table) from the appropriate disk location, and subsequently performs the VMMR.
For a VMMR to work, an operating system has to maintain some pool of free contiguous virtual pages. In the illustrative implementation described herein, a bitmap 26 is used to represent pages in some reserved area of virtual memory set aside by the operating system, for example during bootup or at application runtime. Generally, the executing process receives a set of physical pages as an operating parameter. The executing process then searches for a starting bit within the bitmap 26 of a contiguous set of unallocated bits equal to the number of pages requiring re-assembly. Once this bit has been found, it is converted to a starting virtual memory address (this is later returned to the application), and appropriate page table entries are added or modified to provide a transparent re-assembly. An example is provided and compared to memcopy further below.
The VMMR procedure can be optimized by reducing the bit search time. This is done by managing several bitmaps 26 of various sizes; each bitmap 26 has bits representing some fixed number of pages. Therefore, one bitmap 26 may include bits, each of which represent one page; another bitmap 26 includes bits, each of which represent two pages; and so on. When the optimized VMMR routines are called, the number of physical pages requiring re-assembly is determined, and an appropriately sized bitmap 26 is used. The free set search time drops dramatically because a set could be represented by a single bit. FIG. 1 illustrates a performance curve derived from this optimization technique.
An example illustrating and comparing the memcopy approach and the VMMR procedure follows, where a communications card has filled four pages of 4096 bytes each in the main memory in the following sequence: 1000.sub.16, 7000.sub.16, 5000.sub.16 and 3000.sub.16. The memcopy approach and the VMMR procedure relocate this 16 kB MTU in a single block starting at hex address 100000.sub.16. It is noted that steps 3 to 6 of the VMMR procedure are faster than steps 3 to 6 of the memcopy approach.
Memcopy
1. Wait for an MTU to arrive (1000.sub.16, 7000.sub.16, 5000.sub.16 and 3000.sub.16).
2. Find a free address region for reassembly (100000.sub.16).
3. Copy the region 1000.sub.16 -1FFF.sub.16 to 100000.sub.16 -100FFF.sub.16.
4. Copy the region 7000.sub.16 -7FFF.sub.16 to 101000.sub.16 -101FFF.sub.16.
5. Copy the region 5000.sub.16 -5FFF.sub.16 to 102000.sub.16 -102FFF.sub.16.
6. Copy the region 3000.sub.16 -3FFF.sub.16 to 103000.sub.16 -103FFF.sub.16.
7. Inform application that a new MTU has arrived and is located at starting location 100000.sub.16.
VMMR
1. Wait for an MTU to arrive (1000.sub.16, 7000.sub.16, 5000.sub.16 and 3000.sub.16).
2. Get a 16 kB area of contiguous virtual address space for reassembly (100000.sub.16).
3. Assign virtual address 100000.sub.16 to reference memory at the region 1000.sub.16 -1FFF.sub.16.
4. Assign virtual address 101000.sub.16 to reference memory at the region 7000.sub.16 -7FFF.sub.16.
5. Assign virtual address 102000.sub.16 to reference memory at the region 5000.sub.16 -5FFF.sub.16.
6. Assign virtual address 103000.sub.16 to reference memory at the region 3000.sub.16 -3FFF.sub.16.
7. Inform application that a new MTU has arrived and is located at starting location 100000.sub.16.
The appendix attached hereto includes source code for implementing a VMMR procedure according to the present disclosure.
Many changes and modifications in the above-described embodiment of the invention can of course, be carried out without departing from the scope thereof. Accordingly, that scope is intended to be limited only by the scope of the appended claims.
Appendix__________________________________________________________________________VMMR Bimap Search Code (bitmap.s) .glob1 ..sub.-- searchBitmap..sub.-- searchBitmap: li 9, 0 # useless words = 0 li 0, 0 # make sure r0 = 0getNextword: lwzx 8, 4, 3 # get last accessed word addi 9, 9, 1 # increase count of useless words cmpwi 9, 0x1000 # has the number of useless words exceeded the number of # words in the bitmap? bge error # if so, report back an error condition cmpwi 8, 0 # is last accessed word = 0? (i.e. is it full?) bne beginSearch # if not, we need to begin a search addi 4, 4, 4 # add four to the current word offset (about to get next # word) andi. 4, 4, 0x1FFC # offset wraps around at 2K b getNextWord # fetch next worderror: li 3, 0xFFFFFFFF # otherwise, let caller know there was an error. blr # return to callerbeginSearch: cntlzw 10, 8 # get count of leading zeros in current wordsavePosition: mr 6, 4 # save pointer to contiguous (?) block word mr 7, 10 # save pointer to starting bit of contiguous (?) block cmpwi 10, 0 # does the word have no lesding zeros? bne contCheck # if not, continue the check not 12, 8 # if so, then r12 gets an inverted copy of r8 b contCheck2 # ...and we jump to another pointcontCheck: addi 11, 7, -1 # get absolute bit pos of last leading zero maskg 12, 0, 11 # mask out leading zeros not 12, 12 # invert mask andc 12, 12, 8 # invert current word and mask out leading zeroscontCheck2: cntlzw 10, 12 # get count of leading zeros in masked end inverted word subf 11, 7, 10 # lz count 2 - lz count 1 = # of consecutive ones after # leading zeros cmpw 11, 5 # is the current ones count >= number of needed pages? bge updateBitmap # if it is, we have found a contiguous section -- update the # bitmap cmpwi 10, 32 # is second leading zeros count = 32? (i.e. have we examined # a whole word?) beq needMoreWords # if so, we need to check additional words for contiguous # onesprepForNewSrch: li 11, 31 # place the number 31 into reg. 11 (which is going to be # reused anyway) maskg 12, 10, 11 # generate a mask that will protect bits we haven't looked # at yet and 8, 8, 12 # clear bits we already looked at in current word cntlzw 10, 8 # get count of leading zeros (to see if there are no more # ones bits left) cmpwi 10, 32 # are there any ones bits left? bne savePosition # if there additional ones bits left in the word continue # search addi 4, 4, 4 # otherwise, add 4 to word pointer andi. 4, 4, 0x1FFC # offset wraps around at 2K b getNextWord # get another wordneedMoreWords: addi 4, 4, 4 # increment word pointer andi. 4, 4, 0x1FFC # offset wraps around at 2K lwzx 8, 4, 3 # get new word addi 9, 9, 1 # increase number of useless words cmpwi 9, 0x1000 # have we checked through more words than are in the bitmap? bgt error # if so, error| not 8, 8 # if not, invert current word (inverting makes leading ones # to zeros) cntlzw 10, 8 # get the number of leading zeros add 11, 11, 10 # add the number of leading zeros to the current contiguous # ones count cmpw 11, 5 # have we found a suitable block? bge updateBitmap # if so, update the bitmap cmpwi 10, 32 # if not, then have we read through a complete word? beq needMoreWords # if so, then get another word not 8, 8 # invert (and therefore restore) current word b prepForNewSrch # prepare for a new searchupdateBitmap: mr 10, 6 # copy word pointer reg. lwzx 8, 10, 3 # get word with Start of contiguous block subfic 9, 7, 32 # get number of bits right of (and including) starting bit # in word capw 9, 5 # are the number of bits in reg 9 >= tbe number of required # bits? bit notDone # if it's less, then we need another word addi 11, 5, -1 # otherwise, get the number of bits needed and sub. 1 (prep. # for abs. addrsng) add 11, 11, 7 # add the absolute starting bit pos to get tbe absolute end # bit position maskg 12, 7, 11 # generate the appropriate inverted mask andc 8, 8, 12 # invert mask and AND it with the current word stwx 8, 10, 3 # store back the word sliq 7, 7, 16 # rotate the starting bit pos. 16 bits to form (later) a # composite start addr. or 3, 6, 7 # OR in the starting word offset and send it back to the # caller blr # return back to the callernotDone: cmpwi 7, 0 # is leading zeros word = 0? bne notDone.1 # if there are no leading zeros, clear word and proceed li 8, 0 # load reg. 8 with zero stwx 8, 10, 3 # write back a cleared word b needMoreWords2 # continue fetching wordsnotDone.1: addi 11, 7, -1 # get absolute bit pos of last leading zero maskg 12, 0, 11 # generate mask that masks out leading zeros and 8, 8, 12 # clear app. bits in word to signify that they're in use stwx 8, 10, 3 # write back word into bitmapneedMoreWords2: addi 10, 10, 4 # increment word pointer andi. 10, 10, 0x1FFC # mask word pointer in case we need to wrap around to # beginning of bitmap lwzx 8, 10, 3 # get next word addi 11, 9, 32 # add 32 to a copy of the number of already updated bits cmpw 11, 5 # are the number of already updated bits > tbe number of # reguired bits? bgt returnAddr # if so, we need to update the word appropriately and return # the start. addr li 8, 0 # if not, we need to clear the word and store it back into # the bitmap stwx 8, 10, 3 # store back cleared word (to indicate that the bits are in # use) addi 9, 9, 32 # add 32 to number of already updated bits cmpw 9, 5 # have we updated the last word on a word boundary? bne needMoreWords2 # no - - keep getting words b output # we're done -- output starting addressreturnAddr: subf 11, 5, 9 # get number of remaining bits to clear abs 11, 11 # take absolute value li 12, 31 # prepare for maskg (place 31 in r12 to make a mask that # goes to end of word) maskg 12, 11, 12 # make a mask that protects bits to the right of those # needing zeroing and 8, 8, 12 # clear out lower bits (which indicates they're in use) stwx 8, 10, 3 # write back word into bitmapoutput: sliq 7, 7, 16 # shift contiguous block bit pointer to the left by 16 bits or 3, 6, 7 # OR the shifted pointer with the 11-bit word pointer blr # return composite address to caller .globl ..sub.-- freeBmpEntries..sub.-- freeBmpEntries: li 0, 0 # clear reg. 0 sriq 7, 4, 16 # put the bit offset into reg. 7 andi. 6, 4, 0xFFFF # mask out the word offset and place it in reg. 6 mr 10, 6 # copy word pointer reg. lwzx 8, 10, 3 # get word with start of contiguous block subfic 9, 7, 32 # get number of bits right of (and including) starting bit # in word cmpw 9, 5 # are the nunber of bits in reg. 9 >= the number of required # bits? blt notDone2 # if it's less, then we need another word addi 11, 5, -1 # otherwise, get the number of bits needed and sub. 1 (prep. # for aba. addrsng) add 11, 11, 7 # add the absolute starting bit pos to get the absolute end # bit position maskg 12, 7, 11 # generate the appropriate mask or 8, 8, 12 # OR it with the current word stwx 8. 10, 3 # store back the word blr # return back to the callernotDone2. capwi 7, 0 # is leading words reg. = 0? bne notDone2.1 # if there are no leading zeros, set the word and proceed li 8, 0xFFFFFFFF # set the word stwx 8, 10, 3 # and write it back b needMoreWords3 # and continue fetching more wordsnotDone2.1: addi 11, 7, -1 # get absolute bit pos of last leading zero maskg 12, 0, 11 # generate mask that masks out leading zeros orr 8, 8, 12 # set app. bits in word to signify that they're in use stwx 8, 10, 3 # write back word into bitmapneedMoreWords3: addi 10, 10, 4 # increment word pointer andi. 10, 10, 0x1FFC # mask word pointer in case we need to wrap around to # beginning of bitmap lwzx 8, 10, 3 # get next word addi 11, 9, 32 # add 32 to a copy of the number of already updated bits cmpw 11, 5 # are the number of already updated bits > the number of # required bits? bgt returnAddr2 # if so, we nead to update the word appropriately and return # the start. addr li 8, 0xFFFFFFFF # if not, we need to set the word and store it back into the # bitmap stwx 8, 10, 3 # store back set word (to indicate that the bits are # available) addi 9, 9, 32 # add 32 to number of already updated bits cmpw 9, 5 # have we updated the laat word on a word boundary? bne needMoreWords3 # no -- keep getting words blr # we're done - - return to callerreturnAddr2: subf 11, 5, 9 # get number of remaining bits to clear abs 11, 11 # take absolute value li 12, 31 # prepare for maskg (place 31 in r12 to make a mask that g # goes to end of word) maskg 12, 11, 12 # make a mask that protects bits to the right of those # needing zeroing orc 8, 8, 12 # set out lower bits (which indicates they're in use) stwx 8, 10, 3 # write back word into bitmap blr # return to callerAssembly Routines for VM.c and VM.h Support (VM.s) .globl ..sub.-- getSDR1 .globl ..sub.-- putSDR1 .globl ..sub.-- tlbie .globl ..sub.-- enablePaging .globl ..sub.-- disablePaging .globl ..sub.-- sync .globl ..sub.-- isync .globl ..sub.-- synchronize .globl ..sub.-- getsR1 .globl ..sub.-- getTime .globl ..sub.-- getRTCL .globl ..sub.-- getDEC .globl ..sub.-- dcbf .globl ..sub.-- dcbi..sub.-- getSDR1: mfspr 3, 25 # Return Table Search Description Register blr..sub.-- tlbie: tlbie 3 # TLB Invalidate Entry blr..sub.-- putSDR1: mtspr 25, 3 # Put into Table Search Description Register blr..sub.-- enablePaging: sync sync sync isync isync isync mfmsr 3 ori 3, 3, 0x30 mtspr 3 # Turn on instruction and data paging sync sync sync isync isync isync blr..sub.-- disablePaging sync sync sync isync isync isync mfmsr 3 li 4, 0xFFFFFFCF and 3, 3, 4 # Turn off instruction and data paging mtmsr 3 sync sync sync isync isync isync blr..sub.-- sync: sync # Synchronize pipeline blr..sub.-- isync: isync # Instruction synchronize blr..sub.-- getSR1: mfsr 3, 1 # Get contents of Segment Register 1 blr..sub.-- getTime: # Get current time mfspr 6, 4 # get RTCU mfspr 7, 5 # get RTCL mfspr 8, 4 # get the RTCU again cmpw 6, 8 # has the RTCU changed? bne ..sub.-- getTime # if RTCU has changed, we need to refetch? stw 6, 0(3) # write RTCU to pointer stored in r3 stw 7, 0(4) # write RTCL to pointer stored in r4 blr..sub.-- getRTCL: mfspr 3, 5 # get RTCL blr..sub.-- getDEC: mfspr 3, 22 blr..sub.-- dcbf: dcbf 3, 4 # Data cache block flush isync blr..sub.-- dcbi: dcbi 3, 4 # Data cache block invalidate isync blr..sub.-- synchronize: sync sync sync isync isync isync blrPreprocessor Support for VM.c and VMMR.c routines (vm.h)# include <stdio.h> /* MISC. PTE BITS ------- */# define pteValid (1 << 31)# define ptePrimaryHash (1 << 6)# define pteChanged (1 << 7)# define pteReferenced (1 << 8) /* MISC. VH MACROS ------ */# define SEGREG(la) ((la) >> 28) /* Extract segment reg. from logical address */# define VSID(sv) ((sv) & 0x00FFFFFF) /* Extract virtual seg. ID from segment value */# define API(la) (((la) & 0x0FC00000 >> 22) /* Extract abb. page index from logical addr */# define PI(la) (((la) & 0x0FFFF000) >> 12) /* Extract page index from logical address */# define PAGEOFFSET(va) ((la) & 0xFFF) /* Extract page offset from logical address */# define HTABORG() (.sub.-- getSDR1 () & 0xFFFF0000) /* Extract hash table origin from SDR1 reg. */# define HTABMASK() (.sub.-- getSDR1 () & 0x1FF) /* Extract hash table mask from SDR1 reg. */# define HASH(vsid, pi) (((vsid) & 0x7FFFF) pi) /* Create primary hash */# define HASH2(vsid, pi) .about.(((vsid) & 0x7FFFF) pi) /* Create secondary hash * /# define PTEGADDR(vsid, pi) (pteg.sub.-- t *) (((HASH(vsid, pi) & ((HTABMASK() .backslash. /* Get primary PTEG physical address * / << 10) .vertline. 0x3FF)) << 6) .vertline. HTABORG())# define PTEG2ADDR(vsid, pi) (pteg.sub.-- t *) (((HASH2(vsid, pi) & ((HTABMASK() .backslash. << 10) .vertline. 0x3FF)) << 6) .vertline. HTABORG()) /* Get secondary PTEG physical address * /#define PTE0(vsid,hashtype,api) (((vsid) << 7) .vertline. ((hashtype) << 6) /* Build the first word of a PTE * / .vertline. (api))#define PTE1(ppn, wim, hist) (((ppn) << 12) .vertline. ((hist) << 7) .vertline. ((wim) << 4)) /* Build the second word of a PTE * / /* MISC. DEFINES ------- */#define K 1024#define FALSE 0#define TRUE 1#define COMPLETED 0#define NOT.sub.-- COMPLETED -1 /* MISC. TYPEDEFS ------ */typedef struct {unsigned long pteWord0;unsigned long pteWord1;} pte.sub.-- t;typedef unsigned int uint;typedef unsigned long vaddr.sub.-- t; /* Typedef for virtual address * /typedef unsigned long raddr.sub.-- t; /* Typedef for real address * /typedef pte.sub.-- t pteg.sub.-- t�8!; /* Eight pte's to a pte group */typedef pteg.sub.-- t pageTable.sub.-- t�!;Page Table Routines (VM.c)#include <stdio.h>#include "nap.h"#include "napsys.h"#include "napglob.h"#include "nspstr.h"#include "vm.h"raddr.sub.-- t * initVirtualMemory (raddr.sub.-- t *, uint, uint, uint *,uint, uint);int addPageTableEntry (uint, uint, uint, uint);int deletePageTableEntry (uint, uint);uint getPteAttributes (uint, uint);raddr.sub.-- t * initVirtualMemory (raddr.sub.-- t *pageTableAddr, uintkernelWordSize, uint memWordSize, uint * bitmapSize,uint kernWim, uint pteWim)int i, pi, count;raddr.sub.-- t *freeMemBitmapAddr;uint freeMemBitmapWordsize, htaborg, htabmask, sdr1;htabmask = 0xFFFFFFFF;count = memWordSize >> 21;while ((count >>= 1) |= 0) htabmask <<= 1;htabmask = .about.htabmask;htaborg = (uint) pageTableAddr;sdr1 = htaborg .vertline. htabmask;.sub.-- putSDR1 (sdr1);.sub.-- sync ();for (i = 0; i < (memWordSize >> 7); i++) /* invalidate all entries in the page table * / *(pageTableAddr + i) = 0;for (pi = 0; pi < (kernelWordSize >> 10); pi++) /* virtual = real for kernel, including PT */ if ((pi >= 512) && (pi < 640)) /* page table fixed at 2MB * / addPageTableEntry (0, pi, pi, pteWim); else addPageTableEntry (0, pi, pi, kernWim);for (pi = 16320; pi < 16354; pi++) /* NAP STACK NEEDS VIRTUAL = REAL MAPPING */ addPageTableEntry (0, pi, pi, kernWim);freeMemBitmapAddr = pageTableAddr + (memWordSize >> 7);freeMemBitmapWordSize = memWordSize >> 15;*bitmapSize = freeMemBitmapWordSize;for (i = 0; i < freeMemBitmapWordSize; i++) /* clear bitmap */*(freeMemBitmapAddr + i) = 0xFFFFFFFF; /* of the page table */.sub.-- sync();.sub.-- enablePaging();return freeMentBitmapAddr;}int addPageTableEntry (uint vsid, uint pi, uint ppn, uint wim){int i = 0;uint hash, altHash, htabmask, htaborg;uint sdr1, api;pteg.sub.-- t *ptegAddr, *pteg2Addr;hash = (vsid & 0x7FFFF) pi; /* calculate primary hash */sdr1 = .sub.-- getSDR1(); /* fetch contents of table SDR1 register */htabmask = sdr1 & 0x1FF; /* extract hash table mask from SDR1 reg. */htaborg = sdr1 & 0xFFFF0000; /* extract hash table origin from SDR1 reg */ptegAddr = (pteg.sub.-- t *) (((hash & ((htabmask << 10) .vertline. 0x3FF)) << 6) .vertline. htaborg); /* calculate physicsl address of primary PTEG */do { if (((*ptegAddr) �i!.pteWord0 & 0x80000000) == FALSE) { /* is the PTE valid ? */ api = (pi & 0xFC00) >> 10; /* if not, let's add the entry here */ (*ptegAddr) �i! .pteWord0 = PTE0 (vsid, 0, api); /* write first pte word */ (*ptegAddr) �i!.pteWord1 = PTE1 (ppn, wim, 0); /* wim = xxx, history bits = 00 */ .sub.-- sync (); /* make sure updates have been written to memory */ (*ptegAddr) �i!.pteWord0 = (*ptegAddr) �i!.pteWord0 .vertline. 0x80000000; /* PTE is in place - - validate */ return 0; /* we've inserted a primary PTE - - we're done| */ }} while (i++ < 7); /* primary PTEG is not vacent - look at secondary */altHash = .about.hash; /* calculate secondary hash */pteg2Addr = (pteg.sub.-- t *) (((altHash & ((htabmask << 10) /* calculate physical address of secondary PTEG */ .vertline. 0x3FF)) << 6) .vertline. htaborg);i = 0; /* reset PTE counter */do { if (((*pteg2Addr) �i!.pteWord0 & 0x80000000) == FALSE) /* repeat above for the secondary PTEG */ api = (pi & 0xFC00) >> 10; (*pteg2Addr) �i!.pteWord0 = PTE0 (vsid, 1, api); (*pteg2Addr) �i!.pteWord1 = PTE1 (ppn, wim, 0); .sub.-- sync(); (*pteg2Addr) �i!.pteWord0 = (*pteg2Addr) �i!.pteWord0 .vertline.0x80000000; return 0; }} while (i++ <7);return 1; /* time to evict an existing PTE (none left) */}int deletePageTableEntry (uint vsid, uint pi){int i = 0;uint hash. altHash, htabmask, htaborg;uint sdr1, api;uint currentPte, currentPteVsid, currentPteApi;pteg.sub.-- t *ptegAddr, *pteg2Addr;hash = (vsid & 0x7FFFF) pi; /* calculate primary hash */sdr1 = .sub.-- getSDR1(); /* fetch contents of table SDR1 register */htabmask = sdr1 & 0x1FF; /* extract hash table mask from SDR1 reg. */htaborg = sdr1 a 0xFFFF0000; /* extract hash table origin from SDR1 reg. */ptegAddr = (pteg.sub.-- t *) (((hash & ((htabmask << 10) .vertline. 0x3FF)) << 6) .vertline. htaborg); /* calculate physical address of primary PTEG */for (i = 0; i < 8; i++) { /* check all 8 pte's */ currentPte = (*ptegAddr) �i!.pteWord0; /* fetch pte i at ptegAddr */ currentPteVsid = (currentPte & 0x7FFFFF80) >> 7; /* extract the virtual segment id */ currentPteApi = (currentPte & 0x0000003F); /* extract the abbreviated page index */ api = (pi & 0xFC00) >> 10; /* calculate the API given the page index */ if ((currentPtevsid == vsid) & (currentPteApi == api)) { /* if the vsid AND api match those of pte i, we */ /* have a match| */(*ptegAddr) �i!.pteWord0 = 0; /* if there's a match, invalidate the pte */.sub.-- sync (); /* synchronize the 601 */.sub.-- tlbie ((*ptegAddr) �i!.pteWord1); /* invaldte any 601 TLB entries with pte i's ppn */.sub.-- sync(); /* synchronize the 601 (again) */return 0; /* operation successful */ }}altHash = .about.hash; /* calculate secondary hssh */pteg2Addr = (pteg.sub.-- t *) (((altHash & ((htabmask << 10) /* calculate physical address of secondary PTEG */ .vertline. 0x3FF)) << 6) .vertline. htaborg);for (i = 0; i < 8; i++) { currentPte = (*pteg2Addr) �i!.pteWord0; /* fetch pte i at the secondary pteg address */ currentPteVsid = (currentPte & 0x7FFFFF00) >> 7; /* extract the virtual segment id */ currentPteApi = (currentPte & 0x0000003F); /* extract the abbreviated page index */ api = (pi & 0xFC00) >> 10; /* construct the API given the page index */ if ((currentPteVsid == vsid) & currentPteApi == api)) { /* do we have a match ? */ (*pteg2Addr) �i!.pteWord0 = 0; /* YES - - invaldte the PTE in the secondary PTEG */ .sub.-- sync(); /* synchronize the 601 */ .sub.-- tlbie ((*pteg2Addr) �i!.pteWord1); /* invalidate any matching TLB's */ .sub.-- sync(); /* synchronize again */ return 0; /* operation successful */ }}return 1; /* PTE has no entry in the page table| ERROR| */}uint getPteAttributes (uint vsid, uint pi){int i = 0;uint hash, altHash, htabmask, htaborg;uint sdr1, api;uint currentPte, currentPtevsid, currentPteApi;pteg.sub.-- t *ptegAddr, *pteg2Addr;hash = (vsid & 0x7FFFF) pi; /* calculate primary hash */sdr1 = .sub.-- getSDR1(); /* fetch contents of table SDR1 register */htabmask = sdr1 & 0x1FF; /* extract hash table mask from SDR1 reg. */htaborg = sdr1 & 0xFFFF0000; /* extract hash table origin from SDR1 reg. */ptegAddr = (pteg.sub.-- t *) (((hash & ((htabmask << 10) .vertline. 0x3FF)) << 6) .vertline. (htaborg); /* calculate physical address of primary PTEG */for (i = 0; i < 8; i++) { currentPte = (*ptegAddr) �i!.pteWord0; /* fetch pte i at ptegAddr */ currentPteVsid = (currentPte & 0x7FFFFF80) >> 7; /* extract the virtual segment id */ currentPteApi = (currentPte & 0x0000003F); /* extract the abbreviated page index */ api = (pi & 0xFC00) >> 10; if (((currentPte & Dx80000000) |= FALSE) & (currentPteVsid == vsid) & (currentPteApi == api)) /* is the pte valid? do the vsid AND api */ /* match those of pte i? */ return ((*ptegAddr) �i!.pteWord1); /* if so, return the pte's attributes word */}altHash = .about.hash; /* calculate secondary hash */pteg2Addr = (pteg.sub.-- t *) (((altHash & ((htabmask << 10) /* calculate physical address of secondary PTEG */ .vertline. 0x3FF)) << 6) .vertline. htaborg);for (i = 0; i < 8; i++) { currentPte = (*pteg2Addr) �i!.pteWord0; /* fetch pte i at pteg2Addr */ currentPteVsid = (currentPte & 0x7FFFFF80) >> 7; /* extract the virtual segment id */ currentPteApi = (currentPte & 0x0000003F); /* extract the abbreviated page index */ api = (pi & 0xFC00) >> 10; if (((currentPte & 0x80000000) |= FALSE) & (currentPteVsid == vsid) & (currentPteApi == api)) /* is the pte valid? do the vsid AND api */ /* match those of pte i? */ return ((*pteg2Addr) �i!.pteWord1); /* if so, return the pte's attributes word */}return 1; /* The virtual address is not mapped; ERROR| */}VMMR Routines (VMMR.c)#include <stdio.h>#include "nap.h"#include "napsys.h"#include "napglob.h"#include "napstr.h"#include "../vm/vm.h"extern int addPageTableEntry (uint, uint, uint, uint);extern int deletePageTableEntry (uint, uint);extern unsigned int getPteAttributes (uint, uint);vaddr.sub.-- t * ioBufVMemAlloc (raddr.sub.-- t *, raddr.sub.-- t �!,uint, uint, int, uint);int ioBufVMemDealloc (raddr.sub.-- t *, vaddr.sub.-- t �!, uint, uint);void ioBufVMemInit (raddr.sub.-- t *);void ioBufVMemInit (raddr.sub.-- t * ioBufFreeListAddr){unsigned long i;put.sub.-- sr1 (0x00FFFFFF); /* arbitrarily map buffers to last virt. segment */ /* in virt. space */for (i = 0; i < 2048; i++) { /* one 256 MB segment is mapped by 2K words */ *(ioBufFreeListAddr. + i) = 0xFFFFFFFF; /* clear I/O buffer free list (1=avail.0=not) */}}vaddr.sub.-- t * ioBufVMemAlloc (raddr.sub.-- t * ioBufFreeListAddr,raddr.sub.-- t ppnArray�!, uint bufSize, uint ppnArraysize, int indexReset, uint wim){static uint wordOffset = 0;uint vsid, pi. bitOffset;uint j, k, compStartAddr, pagesToAlloc;pagesToAlloc = (bufSize >> 12) * ppnArraySize; /* calculate number of contiguous pages to * / /* allocate in bitmap */if (indexReaet) wordOffset = 0; /* reset word offset if requested */compStartAddr = .sub.-- searchBitmap (ioBufFreeListAddr, wordOffset,pagesToAlloc); /* search the bitmap and get back a composite */ /* start address */if (compStartAddr == 0xFFFFFFFF) return 0; /* if there are no entries left, ERROR| */wordOffset = (compStartAddr & 0xFFFF) >> 2; /* word offset is the lower halfword of the */ /* comp. addr / 4 */bitOffset = compStartAddr >> 16; /* bit offset is the upper halfword of the */ /* comp. addr */pi = (wordOffset << 5) + bitOffset; /* page index is the word offset .times. 32 + */ /* bit offset */vsid = get.sub.-- sr1() & 0x00FFFFFF; /* get the virtual segment id */for (j = 0; j < ppnArraySize; j++) {for (k = 0; k < bufSize >> 12); k++) {if (addPageTableEntry (vsid, ((pi + j*(bufSize >> 12) + k)) & 0xFFFF, (ppnArray�j! >> 12) + k, wim)) /* add a page table entry */return (vaddr.sub.-- t *) -1; /* we can't add a page table entry - - ERROR| */}}return (vaddr.sub.-- t *) (0x10000000 .vertline. (pi << 12));}int ioBufVMemDealloc (raddr.sub.-- t * ioBufFreeListAddr, vaddr.sub.-- tvaArray�!, uint bufSize, uint vaArraySize){rsddr.sub.-- t paddr;uint vsid, pi;int i, j;vsid = get.sub.-- sr1() & 0x00FFFFFF; /* get vsid */for (i = 0; i < vaArraySize; i++) { /* check all virt. addresses in the psssed array */pi = (vaArray�i! & 0x0FFFFFFF) >> 12; /* extract page index from the virtual address */paddr = getPteAttributes (vsid, pi) >> 12; /* extract the phys. addr. from the PTE at */ /* (vsid, pi) */for (j = 0; j < (bufSize >> 12); j++) /* clear entries in the word list */ if (deletePageTableEntry (vsid, pi + j)) return -1;.sub.-- freeBmpEntries (ioBufFreeListAddr, ((pi & 0x1F) << 16).vertline. ((pi >> 5) << 2), (bufSize >> 12));vaArray�i! = paddr; /* update passed array with physical addresses */}return 0;}__________________________________________________________________________

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