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Andrea Arcangeli 9180706344 thp: alter compound get_page/put_page
Alter compound get_page/put_page to keep references on subpages too, in
order to allow __split_huge_page_refcount to split an hugepage even while
subpages have been pinned by one of the get_user_pages() variants.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:39 -08:00
David Gibson a4fe3ce769 powerpc/mm: Allow more flexible layouts for hugepage pagetables
Currently each available hugepage size uses a slightly different
pagetable layout: that is, the bottem level table of pointers to
hugepages is a different size, and may branch off from the normal page
tables at a different level.  Every hugepage aware path that needs to
walk the pagetables must therefore look up the hugepage size from the
slice info first, and work out the correct way to walk the pagetables
accordingly.  Future hardware is likely to add more possible hugepage
sizes, more layout options and more mess.

This patch, therefore reworks the handling of hugepage pagetables to
reduce this complexity.  In the new scheme, instead of having to
consult the slice mask, pagetable walking code can check a flag in the
PGD/PUD/PMD entries to see where to branch off to hugepage pagetables,
and the entry also contains the information (eseentially hugepage
shift) necessary to then interpret that table without recourse to the
slice mask.  This scheme can be extended neatly to handle multiple
levels of self-describing "special" hugepage pagetables, although for
now we assume only one level exists.

This approach means that only the pagetable allocation path needs to
know how the pagetables should be set out.  All other (hugepage)
pagetable walking paths can just interpret the structure as they go.

There already was a flag bit in PGD/PUD/PMD entries for hugepage
directory pointers, but it was only used for debug.  We alter that
flag bit to instead be a 0 in the MSB to indicate a hugepage pagetable
pointer (normally it would be 1 since the pointer lies in the linear
mapping).  This means that asm pagetable walking can test for (and
punt on) hugepage pointers with the same test that checks for
unpopulated page directory entries (beq becomes bge), since hugepage
pointers will always be positive, and normal pointers always negative.

While we're at it, we get rid of the confusing (and grep defeating)
#defining of hugepte_shift to be the same thing as mmu_huge_psizes.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-10-30 17:20:58 +11:00
Michael Ellerman 29e5fa59e5 powerpc: Use pr_devel() in arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c
pr_debug() can now result in code being generated even when DEBUG
is not defined. That's not really desirable in some places.

With CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y:

size before:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   3252     384       0    3636     e34 arch/powerpc/mm/gup.o

size after:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   2576      96       0    2672     a70 arch/powerpc/mm/gup.o

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-07-08 13:50:23 +10:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 9e5efaa936 powerpc/mm: Properly wire up get_user_pages_fast() on 32-bit
While we did add support for _PAGE_SPECIAL on some 32-bit platforms,
we never actually built get_user_pages_fast() on them. This fixes
it which requires a little bit of ifdef'ing around.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-03-11 17:11:34 +11:00
David Gibson f5ea64dcba powerpc: Get USE_STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS working again
The typesafe version of the powerpc pagetable handling (with
USE_STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS defined) has bitrotted again.  This patch
makes a bunch of small fixes to get it back to building status.

It's still not enabled by default as gcc still generates worse
code with it for some reason.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-10-14 10:35:27 +11:00
Nick Piggin ce0ad7f095 powerpc/mm: Lockless get_user_pages_fast() for 64-bit (v3)
Implement lockless get_user_pages_fast for 64-bit powerpc.

Page table existence is guaranteed with RCU, and speculative page references
are used to take a reference to the pages without having a prior existence
guarantee on them.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-07-30 15:26:54 +10:00