From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
To: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, borntraeger@de.ibm.com,
davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [v3 9/9] s390: teach platforms not to zero struct pages memory
Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 13:36:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170508113624.GA4876@osiris> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1494003796-748672-10-git-send-email-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 01:03:16PM -0400, Pavel Tatashin wrote:
> If we are using deferred struct page initialization feature, most of
> "struct page"es are getting initialized after other CPUs are started, and
> hence we are benefiting from doing this job in parallel. However, we are
> still zeroing all the memory that is allocated for "struct pages" using the
> boot CPU. This patch solves this problem, by deferring zeroing "struct
> pages" to only when they are initialized on s390 platforms.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@oracle.com>
> ---
> arch/s390/mm/vmem.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/vmem.c b/arch/s390/mm/vmem.c
> index 9c75214..ffe9ba1 100644
> --- a/arch/s390/mm/vmem.c
> +++ b/arch/s390/mm/vmem.c
> @@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ int __meminit vmemmap_populate(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int node)
> void *new_page;
>
> new_page = vmemmap_alloc_block(PMD_SIZE, node,
> - true);
> + VMEMMAP_ZERO);
> if (!new_page)
> goto out;
> pmd_val(*pm_dir) = __pa(new_page) | sgt_prot;
If you add the hunk below then this is
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
diff --git a/arch/s390/mm/vmem.c b/arch/s390/mm/vmem.c
index ffe9ba1aec8b..bf88a8b9c24d 100644
--- a/arch/s390/mm/vmem.c
+++ b/arch/s390/mm/vmem.c
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ int __meminit vmemmap_populate(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int node)
if (pte_none(*pt_dir)) {
void *new_page;
- new_page = vmemmap_alloc_block(PAGE_SIZE, node, true);
+ new_page = vmemmap_alloc_block(PAGE_SIZE, node, VMEMMAP_ZERO);
if (!new_page)
goto out;
pte_val(*pt_dir) = __pa(new_page) | pgt_prot;
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-08 11:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-05 17:03 [v3 0/9] parallelized "struct page" zeroing Pavel Tatashin
2017-05-05 17:03 ` [v3 1/9] sparc64: simplify vmemmap_populate Pavel Tatashin
2017-05-05 17:03 ` [v3 2/9] mm: defining memblock_virt_alloc_try_nid_raw Pavel Tatashin
2017-05-05 17:03 ` [v3 3/9] mm: add "zero" argument to vmemmap allocators Pavel Tatashin
2017-05-13 19:17 ` kbuild test robot
2017-05-05 17:03 ` [v3 4/9] mm: do not zero vmemmap_buf Pavel Tatashin
2017-05-05 17:03 ` [v3 5/9] mm: zero struct pages during initialization Pavel Tatashin
2017-05-05 17:03 ` [v3 6/9] sparc64: teach sparc not to zero struct pages memory Pavel Tatashin
2017-05-05 17:03 ` [v3 7/9] x86: teach x86 " Pavel Tatashin
2017-05-05 17:03 ` [v3 8/9] powerpc: teach platforms " Pavel Tatashin
2017-05-05 17:03 ` [v3 9/9] s390: " Pavel Tatashin
2017-05-08 11:36 ` Heiko Carstens [this message]
2017-05-15 18:24 ` Pasha Tatashin
2017-05-15 23:17 ` Heiko Carstens
2017-05-16 0:33 ` Pasha Tatashin
2017-05-09 18:12 ` [v3 0/9] parallelized "struct page" zeroing Michal Hocko
2017-05-09 18:54 ` Pasha Tatashin
2017-05-10 7:24 ` Michal Hocko
2017-05-10 13:42 ` Pasha Tatashin
2017-05-10 14:57 ` Michal Hocko
2017-05-10 15:01 ` Pasha Tatashin
2017-05-10 15:20 ` David Miller
2017-05-11 20:47 ` Pasha Tatashin
2017-05-11 20:59 ` Pasha Tatashin
2017-05-12 16:57 ` David Miller
2017-05-12 17:24 ` Pasha Tatashin
2017-05-12 17:37 ` David Miller
2017-05-16 23:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2017-05-12 16:56 ` David Miller
2017-05-10 15:19 ` David Miller
2017-05-10 17:17 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-05-10 18:00 ` David Miller
2017-05-10 21:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-05-11 8:05 ` Michal Hocko
2017-05-11 14:35 ` David Miller
2017-05-15 18:12 ` Pasha Tatashin
2017-05-15 19:38 ` Michal Hocko
2017-05-15 20:44 ` Pasha Tatashin
2017-05-16 8:36 ` Michal Hocko
2017-05-26 16:45 ` Pasha Tatashin
2017-05-29 11:53 ` Michal Hocko
2017-05-30 17:16 ` Pasha Tatashin
2017-05-31 16:31 ` Michal Hocko
2017-05-31 16:51 ` David Miller
2017-06-01 3:35 ` Pasha Tatashin
2017-06-01 8:46 ` Michal Hocko
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