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Ian Campbell
1431559200 x86, mm: Allow highmem user page tables to be disabled at boot time
Distros generally (I looked at Debian, RHEL5 and SLES11) seem to
enable CONFIG_HIGHPTE for any x86 configuration which has highmem
enabled. This means that the overhead applies even to machines which
have a fairly modest amount of high memory and which therefore do not
really benefit from allocating PTEs in high memory but still pay the
price of the additional mapping operations.

Running kernbench on a 4G box I found that with CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y but
no actual highptes being allocated there was a reduction in system
time used from 59.737s to 55.9s.

With CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y and highmem PTEs being allocated:
  Average Optimal load -j 4 Run (std deviation):
  Elapsed Time 175.396 (0.238914)
  User Time 515.983 (5.85019)
  System Time 59.737 (1.26727)
  Percent CPU 263.8 (71.6796)
  Context Switches 39989.7 (4672.64)
  Sleeps 42617.7 (246.307)

With CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y but with no highmem PTEs being allocated:
  Average Optimal load -j 4 Run (std deviation):
  Elapsed Time 174.278 (0.831968)
  User Time 515.659 (6.07012)
  System Time 55.9 (1.07799)
  Percent CPU 263.8 (71.266)
  Context Switches 39929.6 (4485.13)
  Sleeps 42583.7 (373.039)

This patch allows the user to control the allocation of PTEs in
highmem from the command line ("userpte=nohigh") but retains the
status-quo as the default.

It is possible that some simple heuristic could be developed which
allows auto-tuning of this option however I don't have a sufficiently
large machine available to me to perform any particularly meaningful
experiments. We could probably handwave up an argument for a threshold
at 16G of total RAM.

Assuming 768M of lowmem we have 196608 potential lowmem PTE
pages. Each page can map 2M of RAM in a PAE-enabled configuration,
meaning a maximum of 384G of RAM could potentially be mapped using
lowmem PTEs.

Even allowing generous factor of 10 to account for other required
lowmem allocations, generous slop to account for page sharing (which
reduces the total amount of RAM mappable by a given number of PT
pages) and other innacuracies in the estimations it would seem that
even a 32G machine would not have a particularly pressing need for
highmem PTEs. I think 32G could be considered to be at the upper bound
of what might be sensible on a 32 bit machine (although I think in
practice 64G is still supported).

It's seems questionable if HIGHPTE is even a win for any amount of RAM
you would sensibly run a 32 bit kernel on rather than going 64 bit.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
LKML-Reference: <1266403090-20162-1-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-02-25 10:28:19 +01:00
Jan Beulich
6abf655109 x86, 32-bit: Fix double accounting in reserve_top_address()
With VMALLOC_END included in the calculation of MAXMEM (as of
2.6.28) it is no longer correct to also bump __VMALLOC_RESERVE
in reserve_top_address(). Doing so results in needlessly small
lowmem.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A71DD2A020000780000D482@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-04 16:27:29 +02:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
9e1b32caa5 mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb()
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>
2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
Vegard Nossum
9e730237c2 kmemcheck: don't track page tables
As these are allocated using the page allocator, we need to pass
__GFP_NOTRACK before we add page allocator support to kmemcheck.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-15 12:40:11 +02:00
Masami Hiramatsu
3b3809ac53 x86: fix set_fixmap to use phys_addr_t
Use phys_addr_t for receiving a physical address argument instead of
unsigned long.  This allows fixmap to handle pages higher than 4GB on
x86-32.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-09 16:41:45 -07:00
Gustavo F. Padovan
fd862dde18 x86, fixmap: define reserve_top_address for x86_64
Impact: new interface (not yet use)

Define reserve_top_address for x86_64; only for later x86 integration.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <gustavo@las.ic.unicamp.br>
Acked-by: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-02-27 20:57:47 -08:00
Jan Beulich
17b746278d x86: pgd_{c,d}tor() cleanup
Giving pgd_ctor() a properly typed parameter allows eliminating a local
variable. Adjust pgd_dtor() to match.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: "Jeremy Fitzhardinge" <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-06 19:47:09 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
cf3e505012 x86: work around gcc 3.4.x bug
Simon Horman reported that gcc-3.4.x crashes when compiling
pgd_prepopulate_pmd() when PREALLOCATED_PMDS == 0 and CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO
is enabled.

Adding an extra check for PREALLOCATED_PMDS == 0 [which is compiled out
by gcc] seems to avoid the problem.

Reported-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11 18:44:02 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
d8d5900ef8 x86: preallocate and prepopulate separately
Jan Beulich points out that vmalloc_sync_all() assumes that the
kernel's pmd is always expected to be present in the pgd.  The current
pgd construction code will add the pgd to the pgd_list before its pmds
have been pre-populated, thereby making it visible to
vmalloc_sync_all().

However, because pgd_prepopulate_pmd also does the allocation, it may
block and cannot be done under spinlock.

The solution is to preallocate the pmds out of the spinlock, then
populate them while holding the pgd_list lock.

This patch also pulls the pmd preallocation and mop-up functions out
to be common, assuming that the compiler will generate no code for
them when PREALLOCTED_PMDS is 0.  Also, there's no need for pgd_ctor
to clear the pgd again, since it's allocated as a zeroed page.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 13:11:02 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
eba0045ff8 x86/paravirt: add a pgd_alloc/free hooks
Add hooks which are called at pgd_alloc/free time.  The pgd_alloc hook
may return an error code, which if non-zero, causes the pgd allocation
to be failed.  The hooks may be used to allocate/free auxillary
per-pgd information.

also fix:

> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>
>  include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function ‘paravirt_pgd_free':
>  include/asm/pgalloc.h:14: error: parameter name omitted
>  arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S: In file included from
>  arch/x86/kernel/traps_64.c:51:include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function ‘paravirt_pgd_free':
>  include/asm/pgalloc.h:14: error: parameter name omitted

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 13:11:01 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
6236af82d8 Merge branch 'x86/fixmap' into x86/devel
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/mm/init_64.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 12:24:29 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
a1d5a8691f x86: unify __set_fixmap, fix
fix build failure:

 arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c:280: warning: ‘enum fixed_addresses’ declared inside parameter list
 arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c:280: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want
 arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c:280: error: parameter 1 (‘idx’) has incomplete type

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-20 15:36:57 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
aeaaa59c7e x86/paravirt/xen: add set_fixmap pv_mmu_ops
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-20 15:09:56 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
d494a96125 x86: implement set_pte_vaddr
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-20 15:09:54 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
7c7e6e07e2 x86: unify __set_fixmap
In both cases, I went with the 32-bit behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-20 15:09:51 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
48e2395722 x86: fixup the fallout of the bitops changes
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-25 08:58:36 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
85958b465c x86: unify pgd ctor/dtor
All pagetables need fundamentally the same setup and destruction, so
just use the same code for everything.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-24 23:57:31 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
68db065c84 x86: unify KERNEL_PGD_PTRS
Make KERNEL_PGD_PTRS common, as previously it was only being defined
for 32-bit.

There are a couple of follow-on changes from this:
 - KERNEL_PGD_PTRS was being defined in terms of USER_PGD_PTRS.  The
   definition of USER_PGD_PTRS doesn't really make much sense on x86-64,
   since it can have two different user address-space configurations.
   I renamed USER_PGD_PTRS to KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY, which is meaningful
   for all of 32/32, 32/64 and 64/64 process configurations.

 - USER_PTRS_PER_PGD was also defined and was being used for similar
   purposes.  Converting its users to KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY left it
   completely unused, and so I removed it.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com>

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-24 23:57:31 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
c20311e165 x86/pgtable.h: demacro ptep_clear_flush_young
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-24 23:57:31 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
f9fbf1a36a x86/pgtable.h: demacro ptep_test_and_clear_young
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-24 23:57:31 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
ee5aa8d3ba x86/pgtable.h: demacro ptep_set_access_flags
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-24 23:57:31 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2761fa0920 x86: add pud_alloc for 4-level pagetables
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-24 23:57:31 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
6944a9c894 x86: rename paravirt_alloc_pt etc after the pagetable structure
Rename (alloc|release)_(pt|pd) to pte/pmd to explicitly match the name
of the appropriate pagetable level structure.

[ x86.git merge work by Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> ]

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-24 23:57:31 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
394158559d x86: move all the pgd_list handling to one place
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-24 23:57:31 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
5a5f8f4224 x86: move pgalloc pud and pgd operations into common place
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-24 23:57:30 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
170fdff705 x86: move pmd functions into common asm/pgalloc.h
Common definitions for 3-level pagetable functions.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-24 23:57:30 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
397f687ab7 x86: move pte functions into common asm/pgalloc.h
Common definitions for 2-level pagetable functions.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-24 23:57:30 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
1ec1fe73df x86: xen unify x86 add common mm pgtable c fix
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-24 23:57:30 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
4f76cd3822 x86: add common mm/pgtable.c
Add a common arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c file for common pagetable functions.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-24 23:57:30 +02:00