mm: shrink the page frame to !-rt size

He below is a boot-tested hack to shrink the page frame size back to
normal.

Should be a net win since there should be many less PTE-pages than
page-frames.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

2 files changed, 43 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 648bcb0..c7ebd78 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1242,27 +1242,59 @@ static inline pmd_t *pmd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t *pud, unsigned long a
  * overflow into the next struct page (as it might with DEBUG_SPINLOCK).
  * When freeing, reset page->mapping so free_pages_check won't complain.
  */
+#ifndef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL
+
 #define __pte_lockptr(page)	&((page)->ptl)
-#define pte_lock_init(_page)	do {					\
-	spin_lock_init(__pte_lockptr(_page));				\
-} while (0)
+
+static inline struct page *pte_lock_init(struct page *page)
+{
+	spin_lock_init(__pte_lockptr(page));
+	return page;
+}
+
 #define pte_lock_deinit(page)	((page)->mapping = NULL)
+
+#else /* !PREEMPT_RT_FULL */
+
+/*
+ * On PREEMPT_RT_FULL the spinlock_t's are too large to embed in the
+ * page frame, hence it only has a pointer and we need to dynamically
+ * allocate the lock when we allocate PTE-pages.
+ *
+ * This is an overall win, since only a small fraction of the pages
+ * will be PTE pages under normal circumstances.
+ */
+
+#define __pte_lockptr(page)	((page)->ptl)
+
+extern struct page *pte_lock_init(struct page *page);
+extern void pte_lock_deinit(struct page *page);
+
+#endif /* PREEMPT_RT_FULL */
+
 #define pte_lockptr(mm, pmd)	({(void)(mm); __pte_lockptr(pmd_page(*(pmd)));})
 #else	/* !USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS */
 /*
  * We use mm->page_table_lock to guard all pagetable pages of the mm.
  */
-#define pte_lock_init(page)	do {} while (0)
+static inline struct page *pte_lock_init(struct page *page) { return page; }
 #define pte_lock_deinit(page)	do {} while (0)
 #define pte_lockptr(mm, pmd)	({(void)(pmd); &(mm)->page_table_lock;})
 #endif /* USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS */
 
-static inline void pgtable_page_ctor(struct page *page)
+static inline struct page *__pgtable_page_ctor(struct page *page)
 {
-	pte_lock_init(page);
-	inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_PAGETABLE);
+	page = pte_lock_init(page);
+	if (page)
+		inc_zone_page_state(page, NR_PAGETABLE);
+	return page;
 }
 
+#define pgtable_page_ctor(page)				\
+do {							\
+	page = __pgtable_page_ctor(page);		\
+} while (0)
+
 static inline void pgtable_page_dtor(struct page *page)
 {
 	pte_lock_deinit(page);
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index 8e082f1..67689a5 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -142,7 +142,11 @@ struct page {
 						 * system if PG_buddy is set.
 						 */
 #if USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS
+# ifndef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL
 		spinlock_t ptl;
+# else
+		spinlock_t *ptl;
+# endif
 #endif
 		struct kmem_cache *slab_cache;	/* SL[AU]B: Pointer to slab */
 		struct page *first_page;	/* Compound tail pages */