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authorSteve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>2014-10-09 15:29:14 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-10-09 22:26:00 -0400
commit2667f50e8b81457fcb4a3dbe6aff3e81ea009e13 (patch)
tree1b8aa815ef85ed7034e6cb63c0837ff75db28fc5 /mm/Kconfig
parentbaa2ef83981c71ceb00f68fbdac323253c2c3e42 (diff)
mm: introduce a general RCU get_user_pages_fast()
This series implements general forms of get_user_pages_fast and __get_user_pages_fast in core code and activates them for arm and arm64. These are required for Transparent HugePages to function correctly, as a futex on a THP tail will otherwise result in an infinite loop (due to the core implementation of __get_user_pages_fast always returning 0). Unfortunately, a futex on THP tail can be quite common for certain workloads; thus THP is unreliable without a __get_user_pages_fast implementation. This series may also be beneficial for direct-IO heavy workloads and certain KVM workloads. This patch (of 6): get_user_pages_fast() attempts to pin user pages by walking the page tables directly and avoids taking locks. Thus the walker needs to be protected from page table pages being freed from under it, and needs to block any THP splits. One way to achieve this is to have the walker disable interrupts, and rely on IPIs from the TLB flushing code blocking before the page table pages are freed. On some platforms we have hardware broadcast of TLB invalidations, thus the TLB flushing code doesn't necessarily need to broadcast IPIs; and spuriously broadcasting IPIs can hurt system performance if done too often. This problem has been solved on PowerPC and Sparc by batching up page table pages belonging to more than one mm_user, then scheduling an rcu_sched callback to free the pages. This RCU page table free logic has been promoted to core code and is activated when one enables HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE. Unfortunately, these architectures implement their own get_user_pages_fast routines. The RCU page table free logic coupled with an IPI broadcast on THP split (which is a rare event), allows one to protect a page table walker by merely disabling the interrupts during the walk. This patch provides a general RCU implementation of get_user_pages_fast that can be used by architectures that perform hardware broadcast of TLB invalidations. It is based heavily on the PowerPC implementation by Nick Piggin. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: various comment fixes] Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org> Tested-by: Dann Frazier <dann.frazier@canonical.com> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
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+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -137,6 +137,9 @@ config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP
config HAVE_MEMBLOCK_PHYS_MAP
boolean
+config HAVE_GENERIC_RCU_GUP
+ boolean
+
config ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK
boolean