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author | Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | 2011-05-25 00:11:45 (GMT) |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-05-25 15:39:12 (GMT) |
commit | d16dfc550f5326a4000f3322582a7c05dec91d7a (patch) | |
tree | 8ee963542705cbf2187777f1d3f2b209cbda827a /include/linux/mm.h | |
parent | d05f3169c0fbca16132ec7c2be71685c6de638b5 (diff) | |
download | linux-fsl-qoriq-d16dfc550f5326a4000f3322582a7c05dec91d7a.tar.xz |
mm: mmu_gather rework
Rework the existing mmu_gather infrastructure.
The direct purpose of these patches was to allow preemptible mmu_gather,
but even without that I think these patches provide an improvement to the
status quo.
The first 9 patches rework the mmu_gather infrastructure. For review
purpose I've split them into generic and per-arch patches with the last of
those a generic cleanup.
The next patch provides generic RCU page-table freeing, and the followup
is a patch converting s390 to use this. I've also got 4 patches from
DaveM lined up (not included in this series) that uses this to implement
gup_fast() for sparc64.
Then there is one patch that extends the generic mmu_gather batching.
After that follow the mm preemptibility patches, these make part of the mm
a lot more preemptible. It converts i_mmap_lock and anon_vma->lock to
mutexes which together with the mmu_gather rework makes mmu_gather
preemptible as well.
Making i_mmap_lock a mutex also enables a clean-up of the truncate code.
This also allows for preemptible mmu_notifiers, something that XPMEM I
think wants.
Furthermore, it removes the new and universially detested unmap_mutex.
This patch:
Remove the first obstacle towards a fully preemptible mmu_gather.
The current scheme assumes mmu_gather is always done with preemption
disabled and uses per-cpu storage for the page batches. Change this to
try and allocate a page for batching and in case of failure, use a small
on-stack array to make some progress.
Preemptible mmu_gather is desired in general and usable once i_mmap_lock
becomes a mutex. Doing it before the mutex conversion saves us from
having to rework the code by moving the mmu_gather bits inside the
pte_lock.
Also avoid flushing the tlb batches from under the pte lock, this is
useful even without the i_mmap_lock conversion as it significantly reduces
pte lock hold times.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment tpyo]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mm.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mm.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index d2948af..ffcce9bf 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -906,7 +906,7 @@ int zap_vma_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, unsigned long size); unsigned long zap_page_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, unsigned long size, struct zap_details *); -unsigned long unmap_vmas(struct mmu_gather **tlb, +unsigned long unmap_vmas(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *start_vma, unsigned long start_addr, unsigned long end_addr, unsigned long *nr_accounted, struct zap_details *); |