From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/13] mm, powerpc: Move the RCU page-table freeing into generic code
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:08:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1270800511.20295.3214.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100409033532.GI5683@laptop>
On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 13:35 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 09:17:46PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Index: linux-2.6/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
> > +++ linux-2.6/include/asm-generic/tlb.h
> > @@ -27,6 +27,49 @@
> > #define tlb_fast_mode(tlb) 1
> > #endif
> >
> > +#ifdef HAVE_ARCH_RCU_TABLE_FREE
> > +/*
> > + * Semi RCU freeing of the page directories.
> > + *
> > + * This is needed by some architectures to implement gup_fast().
>
> Really? I see the comment in the powerpc code, but powerpc was already
> using RCU before gup_fast(), and AFAIKS it is indeed using it so that
> it can handle faults by getting the linux pte with find_linux_pte ?
Ah, see that is my ignorance of the powerpc mmu code, I've only been
staring at this mmu_gather piece long enough to (hopefully) make it
work.
If there is indeed more to it, then yes, that needs documenting.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-09 8:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-08 19:17 [PATCH 00/13] mm: preemptibility -v2 Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-08 19:17 ` [PATCH 01/13] powerpc: Add rcu_read_lock() to gup_fast() implementation Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-08 20:31 ` Rik van Riel
2010-04-09 3:11 ` Nick Piggin
2010-04-13 1:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-13 3:43 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-14 13:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-15 14:28 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-16 6:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-16 13:43 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-16 23:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-16 13:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-16 14:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-16 14:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-16 14:32 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-16 14:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-16 15:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-16 15:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-16 16:45 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-16 19:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-16 20:28 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-18 3:06 ` James Bottomley
2010-04-18 13:55 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-18 18:55 ` James Bottomley
2010-04-16 6:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-16 8:18 ` Nick Piggin
2010-04-16 8:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-16 9:22 ` Nick Piggin
2010-04-08 19:17 ` [PATCH 02/13] mm: Revalidate anon_vma in page_lock_anon_vma() Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-08 20:50 ` Rik van Riel
2010-04-08 21:20 ` Andrew Morton
2010-04-08 21:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-09 2:19 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-09 2:19 ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-09 3:16 ` Nick Piggin
2010-04-09 4:56 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-04-09 6:34 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-09 6:47 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-04-09 7:29 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-09 7:57 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-04-09 8:03 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-04-09 8:24 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-04-09 8:01 ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-09 8:17 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-04-09 14:41 ` mlock and pageout race? Minchan Kim
2010-04-09 8:44 ` [PATCH 02/13] mm: Revalidate anon_vma in page_lock_anon_vma() Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-24 19:32 ` Andrew Morton
2010-05-25 9:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-09 12:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-08 19:17 ` [PATCH 03/13] x86: Remove last traces of quicklist usage Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-08 20:51 ` Rik van Riel
2010-04-08 19:17 ` [PATCH 04/13] mm: Move anon_vma ref out from under CONFIG_KSM Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-09 12:35 ` Rik van Riel
2010-04-08 19:17 ` [PATCH 05/13] mm: Make use of the anon_vma ref count Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-09 7:04 ` Christian Ehrhardt
2010-04-09 9:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-08 19:17 ` [PATCH 06/13] mm: Preemptible mmu_gather Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-09 3:25 ` Nick Piggin
2010-04-09 8:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-09 20:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-19 19:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-08 19:17 ` [PATCH 07/13] powerpc: " Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-09 4:07 ` Nick Piggin
2010-04-09 8:14 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-09 8:46 ` Nick Piggin
2010-04-09 9:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-13 2:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-13 1:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-13 1:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-13 10:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-14 13:34 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-14 13:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-08 19:17 ` [PATCH 08/13] sparc: " Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-08 19:17 ` [PATCH 09/13] mm, powerpc: Move the RCU page-table freeing into generic code Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-09 3:35 ` Nick Piggin
2010-04-09 8:08 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2010-04-08 19:17 ` [PATCH 10/13] lockdep, mutex: Provide mutex_lock_nest_lock Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-09 15:36 ` Rik van Riel
2010-04-08 19:17 ` [PATCH 11/13] mutex: Provide mutex_is_contended Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-09 15:37 ` Rik van Riel
2010-04-08 19:17 ` [PATCH 12/13] mm: Convert i_mmap_lock and anon_vma->lock to mutexes Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-08 19:17 ` [PATCH 13/13] mm: Optimize page_lock_anon_vma Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-08 22:18 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-09 8:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-09 19:22 ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-04-08 20:29 ` [PATCH 00/13] mm: preemptibility -v2 David Miller
2010-04-08 20:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-09 1:00 ` David Miller
2010-04-09 4:14 ` Nick Piggin
2010-04-09 8:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-09 8:50 ` Nick Piggin
2010-04-09 8:58 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-09 8:58 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2010-04-09 9:53 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-04-09 9:03 ` David Howells
2010-04-09 9:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
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