linux/arch/x86
Dan Williams 52db400fcd pmem, dax: clean up clear_pmem()
To date, we have implemented two I/O usage models for persistent memory,
PMEM (a persistent "ram disk") and DAX (mmap persistent memory into
userspace).  This series adds a third, DAX-GUP, that allows DAX mappings
to be the target of direct-i/o.  It allows userspace to coordinate
DMA/RDMA from/to persistent memory.

The implementation leverages the ZONE_DEVICE mm-zone that went into
4.3-rc1 (also discussed at kernel summit) to flag pages that are owned
and dynamically mapped by a device driver.  The pmem driver, after
mapping a persistent memory range into the system memmap via
devm_memremap_pages(), arranges for DAX to distinguish pfn-only versus
page-backed pmem-pfns via flags in the new pfn_t type.

The DAX code, upon seeing a PFN_DEV+PFN_MAP flagged pfn, flags the
resulting pte(s) inserted into the process page tables with a new
_PAGE_DEVMAP flag.  Later, when get_user_pages() is walking ptes it keys
off _PAGE_DEVMAP to pin the device hosting the page range active.
Finally, get_page() and put_page() are modified to take references
against the device driver established page mapping.

Finally, this need for "struct page" for persistent memory requires
memory capacity to store the memmap array.  Given the memmap array for a
large pool of persistent may exhaust available DRAM introduce a
mechanism to allocate the memmap from persistent memory.  The new
"struct vmem_altmap *" parameter to devm_memremap_pages() enables
arch_add_memory() to use reserved pmem capacity rather than the page
allocator.

This patch (of 25):

Both __dax_pmd_fault, and clear_pmem() were taking special steps to
clear memory a page at a time to take advantage of non-temporal
clear_page() implementations.  However, x86_64 does not use non-temporal
instructions for clear_page(), and arch_clear_pmem() was always
incurring the cost of __arch_wb_cache_pmem().

Clean up the assumption that doing clear_pmem() a page at a time is more
performant.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
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boot x86/mm: Fix regression with huge pages on PAE 2015-12-04 09:14:27 +01:00
configs Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux 2015-09-04 15:49:32 -07:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2016-01-12 18:51:14 -08:00
entry Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-01-14 11:57:22 -08:00
ia32 Merge branch 'x86-headers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-11-03 21:05:40 -08:00
include pmem, dax: clean up clear_pmem() 2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
kernel thp: rename split_huge_page_pmd() to split_huge_pmd() 2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
kvm * s390: Support for runtime instrumentation within guests, 2016-01-12 13:22:12 -08:00
lguest Merge branch 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-01-11 16:26:03 -08:00
lib Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-01-11 16:46:20 -08:00
math-emu Merge branch 'x86-headers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2015-11-03 21:05:40 -08:00
mm x86, thp: remove infrastructure for handling splitting PMDs 2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
net bpf, x86: detect/optimize loading 0 immediates 2015-12-18 16:04:51 -05:00
oprofile
pci Merge branches 'acpi-pci' and 'pm-pci' 2015-12-04 14:01:02 +01:00
platform Power management and ACPI updates for v4.5-rc1 2016-01-12 20:25:09 -08:00
power x86/pm: Introduce quirk framework to save/restore extra MSR registers around suspend/resume 2015-11-26 10:04:53 +01:00
purgatory
ras x86/ras/mce_amd_inj: Inject bank 4 errors on the NBC 2015-10-12 16:15:48 +02:00
realmode
tools
um um: Fix build error and kconfig for i386 2016-01-10 21:49:49 +01:00
video
xen xen: features and fixes for 4.5-rc0 2016-01-12 13:05:36 -08:00
.gitignore
Kbuild
Kconfig x86: mm: support ARCH_MMAP_RND_BITS 2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
Kconfig.cpu x86/Kconfig/cpus: Fix/complete CPU type help texts 2015-10-21 11:12:56 +02:00
Kconfig.debug libnvdimm for 4.5 2016-01-13 19:15:14 -08:00
Makefile Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2015-11-04 09:11:12 -08:00
Makefile_32.cpu
Makefile.um