Patch series "mm: remove quicklist page table caches".
A while ago Nicholas proposed to remove quicklist page table caches [1].
I've rebased his patch on the curren upstream and switched ia64 and sh to
use generic versions of PTE allocation.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190711030339.20892-1-npiggin@gmail.com
This patch (of 3):
Remove page table allocator "quicklists". These have been around for a
long time, but have not got much traction in the last decade and are only
used on ia64 and sh architectures.
The numbers in the initial commit look interesting but probably don't
apply anymore. If anybody wants to resurrect this it's in the git
history, but it's unhelpful to have this code and divergent allocator
behaviour for minor archs.
Also it might be better to instead make more general improvements to page
allocator if this is still so slow.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1565250728-21721-2-git-send-email-rppt@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Add support for fast mremap".
This series speeds up the mremap(2) syscall by copying page tables at
the PMD level even for non-THP systems. There is concern that the extra
'address' argument that mremap passes to pte_alloc may do something
subtle architecture related in the future that may make the scheme not
work. Also we find that there is no point in passing the 'address' to
pte_alloc since its unused. This patch therefore removes this argument
tree-wide resulting in a nice negative diff as well. Also ensuring
along the way that the enabled architectures do not do anything funky
with the 'address' argument that goes unnoticed by the optimization.
Build and boot tested on x86-64. Build tested on arm64. The config
enablement patch for arm64 will be posted in the future after more
testing.
The changes were obtained by applying the following Coccinelle script.
(thanks Julia for answering all Coccinelle questions!).
Following fix ups were done manually:
* Removal of address argument from pte_fragment_alloc
* Removal of pte_alloc_one_fast definitions from m68k and microblaze.
// Options: --include-headers --no-includes
// Note: I split the 'identifier fn' line, so if you are manually
// running it, please unsplit it so it runs for you.
virtual patch
@pte_alloc_func_def depends on patch exists@
identifier E2;
identifier fn =~
"^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
type T2;
@@
fn(...
- , T2 E2
)
{ ... }
@pte_alloc_func_proto_noarg depends on patch exists@
type T1, T2, T3, T4;
identifier fn =~ "^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
@@
(
- T3 fn(T1, T2);
+ T3 fn(T1);
|
- T3 fn(T1, T2, T4);
+ T3 fn(T1, T2);
)
@pte_alloc_func_proto depends on patch exists@
identifier E1, E2, E4;
type T1, T2, T3, T4;
identifier fn =~
"^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
@@
(
- T3 fn(T1 E1, T2 E2);
+ T3 fn(T1 E1);
|
- T3 fn(T1 E1, T2 E2, T4 E4);
+ T3 fn(T1 E1, T2 E2);
)
@pte_alloc_func_call depends on patch exists@
expression E2;
identifier fn =~
"^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
@@
fn(...
-, E2
)
@pte_alloc_macro depends on patch exists@
identifier fn =~
"^(__pte_alloc|pte_alloc_one|pte_alloc|__pte_alloc_kernel|pte_alloc_one_kernel)$";
identifier a, b, c;
expression e;
position p;
@@
(
- #define fn(a, b, c) e
+ #define fn(a, b) e
|
- #define fn(a, b) e
+ #define fn(a) e
)
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181108181201.88826-2-joelaf@google.com
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Suggested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is the third version of the patchset previously sent [1]. I have
basically only rebased it on top of 4.7-rc1 tree and dropped "dm: get
rid of superfluous gfp flags" which went through dm tree. I am sending
it now because it is tree wide and chances for conflicts are reduced
considerably when we want to target rc2. I plan to send the next step
and rename the flag and move to a better semantic later during this
release cycle so we will have a new semantic ready for 4.8 merge window
hopefully.
Motivation:
While working on something unrelated I've checked the current usage of
__GFP_REPEAT in the tree. It seems that a majority of the usage is and
always has been bogus because __GFP_REPEAT has always been about costly
high order allocations while we are using it for order-0 or very small
orders very often. It seems that a big pile of them is just a
copy&paste when a code has been adopted from one arch to another.
I think it makes some sense to get rid of them because they are just
making the semantic more unclear. Please note that GFP_REPEAT is
documented as
* __GFP_REPEAT: Try hard to allocate the memory, but the allocation attempt
* _might_ fail. This depends upon the particular VM implementation.
while !costly requests have basically nofail semantic. So one could
reasonably expect that order-0 request with __GFP_REPEAT will not loop
for ever. This is not implemented right now though.
I would like to move on with __GFP_REPEAT and define a better semantic
for it.
$ git grep __GFP_REPEAT origin/master | wc -l
111
$ git grep __GFP_REPEAT | wc -l
36
So we are down to the third after this patch series. The remaining
places really seem to be relying on __GFP_REPEAT due to large allocation
requests. This still needs some double checking which I will do later
after all the simple ones are sorted out.
I am touching a lot of arch specific code here and I hope I got it right
but as a matter of fact I even didn't compile test for some archs as I
do not have cross compiler for them. Patches should be quite trivial to
review for stupid compile mistakes though. The tricky parts are usually
hidden by macro definitions and thats where I would appreciate help from
arch maintainers.
[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461849846-27209-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
This patch (of 19):
__GFP_REPEAT has a rather weak semantic but since it has been introduced
around 2.6.12 it has been ignored for low order allocations. Yet we
have the full kernel tree with its usage for apparently order-0
allocations. This is really confusing because __GFP_REPEAT is
explicitly documented to allow allocation failures which is a weaker
semantic than the current order-0 has (basically nofail).
Let's simply drop __GFP_REPEAT from those places. This would allow to
identify place which really need allocator to retry harder and formulate
a more specific semantic for what the flag is supposed to do actually.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464599699-30131-2-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> [for tile]
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org>
Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With compilers which follow the C99 standard (like modern versions of gcc and
clang), "extern inline" does the opposite thing from older versions of gcc
(emits code for an externally linkable version of the inline function).
"static inline" does the intended behavior in all cases instead.
Description taken from:
"staging, rtl8192e, LLVMLinux: Change extern inline to static inline"
(sha1: 6d91857d48)
The patch removes compilation warnings W=1:
./arch/microblaze/include/asm/delay.h:18:20: warning: no previous
prototype for '__delay' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
extern inline void __delay(unsigned long loops)
./arch/microblaze/include/asm/delay.h:46:20: warning: no previous
prototype for '__udelay' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
extern inline void __udelay(unsigned int x)
./arch/microblaze/include/asm/pgalloc.h:63:22: warning: no previous
prototype for 'get_pgd_slow' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
extern inline pgd_t *get_pgd_slow(void)
./arch/microblaze/include/asm/pgalloc.h:73:22: warning: no previous
prototype for 'get_pgd_fast' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
extern inline pgd_t *get_pgd_fast(void)
./arch/microblaze/include/asm/pgalloc.h:87:20: warning: no previous
prototype for 'free_pgd_fast' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
extern inline void free_pgd_fast(pgd_t *pgd)
./arch/microblaze/include/asm/pgalloc.h:94:20: warning: no previous
prototype for 'free_pgd_slow' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
extern inline void free_pgd_slow(pgd_t *pgd)
./arch/microblaze/include/asm/pgalloc.h:149:20: warning: no previous
prototype for 'pte_free_fast' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
extern inline void pte_free_fast(pte_t *pte)
./arch/microblaze/include/asm/pgalloc.h:156:20: warning: no previous
prototype for 'pte_free_kernel' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
extern inline void pte_free_kernel(struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t *pte)
./arch/microblaze/include/asm/pgalloc.h:161:20: warning: no previous
prototype for 'pte_free_slow' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
extern inline void pte_free_slow(struct page *ptepage)
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
It will fix NR_PAGETABLE accounting. It's also required if the arch is
going ever support split ptl.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Compilation warning:
mm/memory.c: In function '__pte_alloc':
mm/memory.c:421: warning: assignment makes integer from pointer without a cast
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Remove section mismatch - based on ppc aproach.
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x64834): Section mismatch in reference
from the function __pte_alloc_kernel() to the function .init.text:early_get_page()
The function __pte_alloc_kernel() references
the function __init early_get_page().
This is often because __pte_alloc_kernel lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of early_get_page is wrong.
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb()
Upcoming paches to support the new 64-bit "BookE" powerpc architecture
will need to have the virtual address corresponding to PTE page when
freeing it, due to the way the HW table walker works.
Basically, the TLB can be loaded with "large" pages that cover the whole
virtual space (well, sort-of, half of it actually) represented by a PTE
page, and which contain an "indirect" bit indicating that this TLB entry
RPN points to an array of PTEs from which the TLB can then create direct
entries. Thus, in order to invalidate those when PTE pages are deleted,
we need the virtual address to pass to tlbilx or tlbivax instructions.
The old trick of sticking it somewhere in the PTE page struct page sucks
too much, the address is almost readily available in all call sites and
almost everybody implemets these as macros, so we may as well add the
argument everywhere. I added it to the pmd and pud variants for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> [MN10300 & FRV]
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> [s390]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: John Linn <john.linn@xilinx.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Neuendorffer <stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com>
Acked-by: John Williams <john.williams@petalogix.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Nicholas Piggin