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* [PATCH 0/6] RCU get_user_pages_fast and __get_user_pages_fast
@ 2014-06-25 15:40 ` Steve Capper
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 49+ messages in thread
From: Steve Capper @ 2014-06-25 15:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-arm-kernel, catalin.marinas, linux, linux-arch, linux-mm
  Cc: will.deacon, gary.robertson, christoffer.dall, peterz,
	anders.roxell, akpm, Steve Capper

Hello,
This series implements general forms of get_user_pages_fast and
__get_user_pages_fast 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).

This series may also be beneficial for direct-IO heavy workloads and
certain KVM workloads.

The main changes since RFC V5 are:
 * Rebased against 3.16-rc1.
 * pmd_present no longer tested for by gup_huge_pmd and gup_huge_pud,
   because the entry must be present for these leaf functions to be
   called. 
 * Rather than assume puds can be re-cast as pmds, a separate
   function pud_write is instead used by the core gup.
 * ARM activation logic changed, now it will only activate
   RCU_TABLE_FREE and RCU_GUP when running with LPAE.

The main changes since RFC V4 are:
 * corrected the arm64 logic so it now correctly rcu-frees page
   table backing pages.
 * rcu free logic relaxed for pre-ARMv7 ARM as we need an IPI to
   invalidate TLBs anyway.
 * rebased to 3.15-rc3 (some minor changes were needed to allow it to merge).
 * dropped Catalin's mmu_gather patch as that's been merged already.

This series has been tested with LTP and some custom futex tests that
exacerbate the futex on THP tail case. Also debug counters were
temporarily employed to ensure that the RCU_TABLE_FREE logic was
behaving as expected.

I would really appreciate any testers or comments (especially on the
validity or otherwise of the core fast_gup implementation).

Cheers,
--
Steve

Steve Capper (6):
  mm: Introduce a general RCU get_user_pages_fast.
  arm: mm: Introduce special ptes for LPAE
  arm: mm: Enable HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE logic
  arm: mm: Enable RCU fast_gup
  arm64: mm: Enable HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE logic
  arm64: mm: Enable RCU fast_gup

 arch/arm/Kconfig                      |   5 +
 arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h |   2 +
 arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h |  16 ++
 arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h        |   6 +-
 arch/arm/include/asm/tlb.h            |  38 ++++-
 arch/arm/mm/flush.c                   |  19 +++
 arch/arm64/Kconfig                    |   4 +
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h      |  11 +-
 arch/arm64/include/asm/tlb.h          |  18 ++-
 arch/arm64/mm/flush.c                 |  19 +++
 mm/Kconfig                            |   3 +
 mm/gup.c                              | 278 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 12 files changed, 410 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

-- 
1.9.3

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2014-06-25 15:40 ` Steve Capper
2014-06-25 15:40 ` [PATCH 1/6] mm: Introduce a general RCU get_user_pages_fast Steve Capper
2014-06-25 15:40   ` Steve Capper
2014-06-25 15:40   ` Steve Capper
2014-06-25 15:40 ` [PATCH 2/6] arm: mm: Introduce special ptes for LPAE Steve Capper
2014-06-25 15:40   ` Steve Capper
2014-06-25 15:40   ` Steve Capper
2014-06-27 12:17   ` Will Deacon
2014-06-27 12:17     ` Will Deacon
2014-06-27 12:17     ` Will Deacon
2014-06-27 12:44     ` Steve Capper
2014-06-27 12:44       ` Steve Capper
2014-06-27 12:44       ` Steve Capper
2014-06-25 15:40 ` [PATCH 3/6] arm: mm: Enable HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE logic Steve Capper
2014-06-25 15:40   ` Steve Capper
2014-06-25 15:40   ` Steve Capper
2014-06-25 15:40 ` [PATCH 4/6] arm: mm: Enable RCU fast_gup Steve Capper
2014-06-25 15:40   ` Steve Capper
2014-06-25 15:40   ` Steve Capper
2014-06-25 15:40 ` [PATCH 5/6] arm64: mm: Enable HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE logic Steve Capper
2014-06-25 15:40   ` Steve Capper
2014-06-25 15:40   ` Steve Capper
2014-06-25 15:40 ` [PATCH 6/6] arm64: mm: Enable RCU fast_gup Steve Capper
2014-06-25 15:40   ` Steve Capper
2014-06-25 15:40   ` Steve Capper
2014-06-25 16:50   ` Mark Rutland
2014-06-25 16:50     ` Mark Rutland
2014-06-25 16:50     ` Mark Rutland
2014-06-25 16:50     ` Mark Rutland
2014-06-26  7:56     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-26  7:56       ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-26  7:56       ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-27 12:20       ` Will Deacon
2014-06-27 12:20         ` Will Deacon
2014-06-27 12:20         ` Will Deacon
2014-06-25 20:42 ` [PATCH 0/6] RCU get_user_pages_fast and __get_user_pages_fast Andrew Morton
2014-06-25 20:42   ` Andrew Morton
2014-06-25 20:42   ` Andrew Morton
2014-06-26  7:53   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-26  7:53     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-06-26  7:53     ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-08-20 14:56 ` Dann Frazier
2014-08-20 14:56   ` Dann Frazier
2014-08-20 14:56   ` Dann Frazier
2014-08-20 15:11   ` Steve Capper
2014-08-20 15:11     ` Steve Capper
2014-08-20 15:11     ` Steve Capper

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