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* [PATCH 00/20] mm: Preemptibility -v4
@ 2010-08-28 14:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 69+ messages in thread
From: Peter Zijlstra @ 2010-08-28 14:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrea Arcangeli, Avi Kivity, Thomas Gleixner, Rik van Riel,
	Ingo Molnar, akpm, Linus Torvalds
  Cc: linux-kernel, linux-arch, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, David Miller,
	Hugh Dickins, Mel Gorman, Nick Piggin, Peter Zijlstra,
	Paul McKenney, Yanmin Zhang, Stephen Rothwell

This patch-set makes part of the mm a lot more preemptible. It converts
i_mmap_lock and anon_vma->lock to mutexes and makes mmu_gather fully
preemptible.

The main motivation was making mm_take_all_locks() preemptible, since it
appears people are nesting hundreds of spinlocks there.

The side-effects are that can finally make mmu_gather preemptible,
something which lots of people have wanted to do for a long time.

It also gets us anon_vma refcounting, which seems to result in a nice
cleanup of the anon_vma lifetime rules wrt KSM and compaction.

This patch-set it build and boot-tested on x86_64 (a previous version was
also tested on Dave's Niagra2 machines, and I suppose s390 did too when
Martin provided the conversion patch for his arch).

There are no known architectures left unconverted, although some arch code
never did see a compiler (superh and ia64 come to mind, I'll try and 
update my toolchains next week).

Yanmin ran the last posting through the comprehensive Intel test farm
and didn't find any regressions.

( Not included in this posting are the 4 Sparc64 patches that implement
  gup_fast, those can be applied separately after this series gets 
  anywhere. )

Full series (including the Sparc64 gup_fast bits) also available in -git
form from (against Linus' tree as of about an hour ago):

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-mmu_preempt.git mmu_preempt

Do people feel its ready to get added to -next?



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* [PATCH 00/20] mm: Preemptibility -v5
@ 2010-10-18 11:24 Peter Zijlstra
  2010-10-18 11:24   ` Peter Zijlstra
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 69+ messages in thread
From: Peter Zijlstra @ 2010-10-18 11:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrea Arcangeli, Avi Kivity, Thomas Gleixner, Rik van Riel,
	Ingo Molnar, akpm, Linus Torvalds
  Cc: linux-kernel, linux-arch, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, David Miller,
	Hugh Dickins, Mel Gorman, Nick Piggin, Peter Zijlstra,
	Paul McKenney, Yanmin Zhang, Stephen Rothwell

This patch-set makes part of the mm a lot more preemptible. It converts
i_mmap_lock and anon_vma->lock to mutexes and makes mmu_gather fully
preemptible.

The main motivation was making mm_take_all_locks() preemptible, since it
appears people are nesting hundreds of spinlocks there.

The side-effects are that can finally make mmu_gather preemptible,
something which lots of people have wanted to do for a long time.

It also gets us anon_vma refcounting, which seems to result in a nice
cleanup of the anon_vma lifetime rules wrt KSM and compaction.

This patch-set it build and boot-tested on x86_64 (a previous version was
also tested on Dave's Niagra2 machines, and I suppose s390 was too when
Martin provided the conversion patch for his arch).

There are no known architectures left unconverted.

Yanmin ran the -v3 posting through the comprehensive Intel test farm
and didn't find any regressions.

( Not included in this posting are the 4 Sparc64 patches that implement
  gup_fast, those can be applied separately after this series gets
  anywhere. )

The full series (including the Sparc64 gup_fast bits) also available in -git
form from (against Linus' tree as of about an hour ago):

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-mmu_preempt.git mmu_preempt

DaveM mentioned some sparc64 trouble with the -v4 posting, this turned out to
be a false positive as unpatched kernels also are having trouble on his
machines.

Linus, Andrew, Stephen, can we add this to -next for .37?



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2010-08-28 14:16 [PATCH 00/20] mm: Preemptibility -v4 Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16 ` [PATCH 01/20] powerpc: Use call_rcu_sched() for pagetables Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-31  6:10   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-08-28 14:16 ` [PATCH 02/20] mm: Improve page_lock_anon_vma() comment Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16 ` [PATCH 03/20] mm: Rename drop_anon_vma to put_anon_vma Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 15:08   ` Pekka Enberg
2010-08-28 14:16 ` [PATCH 04/20] mm: Move anon_vma ref out from under CONFIG_KSM Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16 ` [PATCH 05/20] mm: Simplify anon_vma refcounts Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 15:13   ` Pekka Enberg
2010-08-28 14:16 ` [PATCH 06/20] mm: Use refcounts for page_lock_anon_vma() Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16 ` [PATCH 07/20] mm: Preemptible mmu_gather Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16 ` [PATCH 08/20] powerpc: " Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-31  6:26   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-08-31  6:31     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-08-31  9:14       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16 ` [PATCH 09/20] sparc: " Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16 ` [PATCH 10/20] s390: preemptible mmu_gather Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16 ` [PATCH 11/20] arm: Preemptible mmu_gather Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16 ` [PATCH 12/20] sh: " Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16 ` [PATCH 13/20] um: " Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16 ` [PATCH 14/20] ia64: " Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-30 15:44   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16 ` [PATCH 15/20] mm, powerpc: Move the RCU page-table freeing into generic code Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16 ` [PATCH 16/20] lockdep, mutex: Provide mutex_lock_nest_lock Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16 ` [PATCH 17/20] mutex: Provide mutex_is_contended Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16 ` [PATCH 18/20] mm: Convert i_mmap_lock and anon_vma->lock to mutexes Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16 ` [PATCH 19/20] mm: Extended batches for generic mmu_gather Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16 ` [PATCH 20/20] mm: Optimize page_lock_anon_vma() fast-path Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:16   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:32 ` [PATCH 00/20] mm: Preemptibility -v4 Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 22:28   ` David Miller
2010-08-28 22:41     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 14:56 ` Piotr Hosowicz
2010-08-28 15:10   ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 15:17     ` Piotr Hosowicz
2010-08-28 15:23       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-28 16:01         ` Piotr Hosowicz
2010-08-29 12:46         ` Piotr Hosowicz
2010-08-29 13:37           ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-08-29 13:43             ` Piotr Hosowicz
2010-08-31 14:02           ` Piotr Hosowicz
2010-08-31 14:14             ` Piotr Hosowicz
2010-09-02 14:53             ` Piotr Hosowicz
2010-08-28 15:19 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-08-28 15:27   ` Peter Zijlstra
     [not found] ` <AANLkTikSm2Mq8hGNac9rpFH-3pvryw2kW57EP45Ny6Vp@mail.gmail.com>
2010-09-14  5:36   ` Alex,Shi
2010-09-14  7:42     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-18 11:24 [PATCH 00/20] mm: Preemptibility -v5 Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-18 11:24 ` [PATCH 19/20] mm: Extended batches for generic mmu_gather Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-18 11:24   ` Peter Zijlstra

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