[PATCH v5 02/32] x86/mm/hotplug: Don't remove PGD entries in remove_pagetable()

* [PATCH v5 02/32] x86/mm/hotplug: Don't remove PGD entries in remove_pagetable()
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@ 2016-07-11 20:53 ` Andy Lutomirski
  2016-07-11 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 05/32] mm: Track NR_KERNEL_STACK in KiB instead of number of stacks Andy Lutomirski
  2016-07-11 20:53 ` [PATCH v5 06/32] mm: Fix memcg stack accounting for sub-page stacks Andy Lutomirski
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Andy Lutomirski @ 2016-07-11 20:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: x86, linux-kernel
  Cc: linux-arch, Borislav Petkov, Nadav Amit, Kees Cook, Brian Gerst,
	kernel-hardening, Linus Torvalds, Josh Poimboeuf, Jann Horn,
	Heiko Carstens, Ingo Molnar, Andrew Morton, Andy Lutomirski,
	Denys Vlasenko, H . Peter Anvin, Oleg Nesterov, Peter Zijlstra,
	Rik van Riel, Thomas Gleixner, Waiman Long, linux-mm

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

So when memory hotplug removes a piece of physical memory from pagetable
mappings, it also frees the underlying PGD entry.

This complicates PGD management, so don't do this. We can keep the
PGD mapped and the PUD table all clear - it's only a single 4K page
per 512 GB of memory hotplugged.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Message-Id: <1442903021-3893-4-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org>
---
 arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 27 ---------------------------
 1 file changed, 27 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
index bce2e5d9edd4..c7465453d64e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -702,27 +702,6 @@ static void __meminit free_pmd_table(pmd_t *pmd_start, pud_t *pud)
 	spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
 }
 
-/* Return true if pgd is changed, otherwise return false. */
-static bool __meminit free_pud_table(pud_t *pud_start, pgd_t *pgd)
-{
-	pud_t *pud;
-	int i;
-
-	for (i = 0; i < PTRS_PER_PUD; i++) {
-		pud = pud_start + i;
-		if (pud_val(*pud))
-			return false;
-	}
-
-	/* free a pud table */
-	free_pagetable(pgd_page(*pgd), 0);
-	spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
-	pgd_clear(pgd);
-	spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
-
-	return true;
-}
-
 static void __meminit
 remove_pte_table(pte_t *pte_start, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 		 bool direct)
@@ -913,7 +892,6 @@ remove_pagetable(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, bool direct)
 	unsigned long addr;
 	pgd_t *pgd;
 	pud_t *pud;
-	bool pgd_changed = false;
 
 	for (addr = start; addr < end; addr = next) {
 		next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end);
@@ -924,13 +902,8 @@ remove_pagetable(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, bool direct)
 
 		pud = (pud_t *)pgd_page_vaddr(*pgd);
 		remove_pud_table(pud, addr, next, direct);
-		if (free_pud_table(pud, pgd))
-			pgd_changed = true;
 	}
 
-	if (pgd_changed)
-		sync_global_pgds(start, end - 1, 1);
-
 	flush_tlb_all();
 }
 
-- 
2.7.4

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