From: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>,
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Zi Shen Lim <zishen.lim@linaro.org>,
patches@linaro.org, linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org,
Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Implement get_user_pages_fast for ARM
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:07:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1382101634-4723-1-git-send-email-steve.capper@linaro.org> (raw)
This patch series implements get_user_pages_fast on ARM. Unlike other
architectures, we do not use IPIs/disabled IRQs as a blocking
mechanism to protect the page table walker. Instead an atomic counter
is used to indicate how many fast gup walkers are active on an address
space, and any code that would cause them problems (THP splitting or
code that could free a page table page) spins on positive values of
this counter.
This series also addresses an assumption made in kernel/futex.c that
THP page splitting can be blocked by disabling the IRQs on a processor
by introducing arch_block_thp_split and arch_unblock_thp_split.
As well as fixing a problem where futexes on THP tails cause hangs on
ARM, I expect this series to also be beneficial for direct-IO, and for
KVM (the hva_to_pfn fast path uses __get_user_pages_fast).
Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
Steve Capper (2):
thp: Introduce arch_(un)block_thp_split
arm: mm: implement get_user_pages_fast
arch/arm/include/asm/mmu.h | 1 +
arch/arm/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 9 ++
arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h | 1 +
arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h | 21 +++
arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h | 18 +++
arch/arm/include/asm/tlb.h | 8 ++
arch/arm/mm/Makefile | 2 +-
arch/arm/mm/gup.c | 234 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/huge_mm.h | 16 +++
kernel/futex.c | 6 +-
10 files changed, 312 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/arm/mm/gup.c
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-18 13:07 Steve Capper [this message]
2013-10-18 13:07 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] thp: Introduce arch_(un)block_thp_split Steve Capper
2013-10-18 13:07 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] arm: mm: implement get_user_pages_fast Steve Capper
2013-10-29 19:49 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] Implement get_user_pages_fast for ARM Will Deacon
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