- 26 5月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 Chris Metcalf 提交于
The change adds some infrastructure for managing tile pmd's more generally, using pte_pmd() and pmd_pte() methods to translate pmd values to and from ptes, since on TILEPro a pmd is really just a nested structure holding a pgd (aka pte). Several existing pmd methods are moved into this framework, and a whole raft of additional pmd accessors are defined that are used by the transparent hugepage framework. The tile PTE now has a "client2" bit. The bit is used to indicate a transparent huge page is in the process of being split into subpages. This change also fixes a generic bug where the return value of the generic pmdp_splitting_flush() was incorrect. Signed-off-by: NChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
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- 22 3月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 Andrea Arcangeli 提交于
In some cases it may happen that pmd_none_or_clear_bad() is called with the mmap_sem hold in read mode. In those cases the huge page faults can allocate hugepmds under pmd_none_or_clear_bad() and that can trigger a false positive from pmd_bad() that will not like to see a pmd materializing as trans huge. It's not khugepaged causing the problem, khugepaged holds the mmap_sem in write mode (and all those sites must hold the mmap_sem in read mode to prevent pagetables to go away from under them, during code review it seems vm86 mode on 32bit kernels requires that too unless it's restricted to 1 thread per process or UP builds). The race is only with the huge pagefaults that can convert a pmd_none() into a pmd_trans_huge(). Effectively all these pmd_none_or_clear_bad() sites running with mmap_sem in read mode are somewhat speculative with the page faults, and the result is always undefined when they run simultaneously. This is probably why it wasn't common to run into this. For example if the madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) runs zap_page_range() shortly before the page fault, the hugepage will not be zapped, if the page fault runs first it will be zapped. Altering pmd_bad() not to error out if it finds hugepmds won't be enough to fix this, because zap_pmd_range would then proceed to call zap_pte_range (which would be incorrect if the pmd become a pmd_trans_huge()). The simplest way to fix this is to read the pmd in the local stack (regardless of what we read, no need of actual CPU barriers, only compiler barrier needed), and be sure it is not changing under the code that computes its value. Even if the real pmd is changing under the value we hold on the stack, we don't care. If we actually end up in zap_pte_range it means the pmd was not none already and it was not huge, and it can't become huge from under us (khugepaged locking explained above). All we need is to enforce that there is no way anymore that in a code path like below, pmd_trans_huge can be false, but pmd_none_or_clear_bad can run into a hugepmd. The overhead of a barrier() is just a compiler tweak and should not be measurable (I only added it for THP builds). I don't exclude different compiler versions may have prevented the race too by caching the value of *pmd on the stack (that hasn't been verified, but it wouldn't be impossible considering pmd_none_or_clear_bad, pmd_bad, pmd_trans_huge, pmd_none are all inlines and there's no external function called in between pmd_trans_huge and pmd_none_or_clear_bad). if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) { if (next-addr != HPAGE_PMD_SIZE) { VM_BUG_ON(!rwsem_is_locked(&tlb->mm->mmap_sem)); split_huge_page_pmd(vma->vm_mm, pmd); } else if (zap_huge_pmd(tlb, vma, pmd, addr)) continue; /* fall through */ } if (pmd_none_or_clear_bad(pmd)) Because this race condition could be exercised without special privileges this was reported in CVE-2012-1179. The race was identified and fully explained by Ulrich who debugged it. I'm quoting his accurate explanation below, for reference. ====== start quote ======= mapcount 0 page_mapcount 1 kernel BUG at mm/huge_memory.c:1384! At some point prior to the panic, a "bad pmd ..." message similar to the following is logged on the console: mm/memory.c:145: bad pmd ffff8800376e1f98(80000000314000e7). The "bad pmd ..." message is logged by pmd_clear_bad() before it clears the page's PMD table entry. 143 void pmd_clear_bad(pmd_t *pmd) 144 { -> 145 pmd_ERROR(*pmd); 146 pmd_clear(pmd); 147 } After the PMD table entry has been cleared, there is an inconsistency between the actual number of PMD table entries that are mapping the page and the page's map count (_mapcount field in struct page). When the page is subsequently reclaimed, __split_huge_page() detects this inconsistency. 1381 if (mapcount != page_mapcount(page)) 1382 printk(KERN_ERR "mapcount %d page_mapcount %d\n", 1383 mapcount, page_mapcount(page)); -> 1384 BUG_ON(mapcount != page_mapcount(page)); The root cause of the problem is a race of two threads in a multithreaded process. Thread B incurs a page fault on a virtual address that has never been accessed (PMD entry is zero) while Thread A is executing an madvise() system call on a virtual address within the same 2 MB (huge page) range. virtual address space .---------------------. | | | | .-|---------------------| | | | | | |<-- B(fault) | | | 2 MB | |/////////////////////|-. huge < |/////////////////////| > A(range) page | |/////////////////////|-' | | | | | | '-|---------------------| | | | | '---------------------' - Thread A is executing an madvise(..., MADV_DONTNEED) system call on the virtual address range "A(range)" shown in the picture. sys_madvise // Acquire the semaphore in shared mode. down_read(¤t->mm->mmap_sem) ... madvise_vma switch (behavior) case MADV_DONTNEED: madvise_dontneed zap_page_range unmap_vmas unmap_page_range zap_pud_range zap_pmd_range // // Assume that this huge page has never been accessed. // I.e. content of the PMD entry is zero (not mapped). // if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) { // We don't get here due to the above assumption. } // // Assume that Thread B incurred a page fault and .---------> // sneaks in here as shown below. | // | if (pmd_none_or_clear_bad(pmd)) | { | if (unlikely(pmd_bad(*pmd))) | pmd_clear_bad | { | pmd_ERROR | // Log "bad pmd ..." message here. | pmd_clear | // Clear the page's PMD entry. | // Thread B incremented the map count | // in page_add_new_anon_rmap(), but | // now the page is no longer mapped | // by a PMD entry (-> inconsistency). | } | } | v - Thread B is handling a page fault on virtual address "B(fault)" shown in the picture. ... do_page_fault __do_page_fault // Acquire the semaphore in shared mode. down_read_trylock(&mm->mmap_sem) ... handle_mm_fault if (pmd_none(*pmd) && transparent_hugepage_enabled(vma)) // We get here due to the above assumption (PMD entry is zero). do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page alloc_hugepage_vma // Allocate a new transparent huge page here. ... __do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page ... spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock) ... page_add_new_anon_rmap // Here we increment the page's map count (starts at -1). atomic_set(&page->_mapcount, 0) set_pmd_at // Here we set the page's PMD entry which will be cleared // when Thread A calls pmd_clear_bad(). ... spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock) The mmap_sem does not prevent the race because both threads are acquiring it in shared mode (down_read). Thread B holds the page_table_lock while the page's map count and PMD table entry are updated. However, Thread A does not synchronize on that lock. ====== end quote ======= [akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch fixes] Reported-by: NUlrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Acked-by: NLarry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Acked-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [2.6.38+] Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 05 3月, 2012 1 次提交
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由 Paul Gortmaker 提交于
If a header file is making use of BUG, BUG_ON, BUILD_BUG_ON, or any other BUG variant in a static inline (i.e. not in a #define) then that header really should be including <linux/bug.h> and not just expecting it to be implicitly present. We can make this change risk-free, since if the files using these headers didn't have exposure to linux/bug.h already, they would have been causing compile failures/warnings. Signed-off-by: NPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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- 16 6月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Nicolas Kaiser 提交于
Signed-off-by: NNicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net> Reviewed-by: NAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 23 5月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
The page_clear_dirty primitive always sets the default storage key which resets the access control bits and the fetch protection bit. That will surprise a KVM guest that sets non-zero access control bits or the fetch protection bit. Merge page_test_dirty and page_clear_dirty back to a single function and only clear the dirty bit from the storage key. In addition move the function page_test_and_clear_dirty and page_test_and_clear_young to page.h where they belong. This requires to change the parameter from a struct page * to a page frame number. Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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- 01 3月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Ben Hutchings 提交于
Commit e2cda322 ("thp: add pmd mangling generic functions") replaced some macros in <asm-generic/pgtable.h> with inline functions. If the functions are to be defined (not all architectures need them) then struct vm_area_struct must be defined first. So include <linux/mm_types.h>. Fixes a build failure seen in Debian: CC [M] drivers/media/dvb/mantis/mantis_pci.o In file included from arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h:460, from drivers/media/dvb/mantis/mantis_pci.c:25: include/asm-generic/pgtable.h: In function 'ptep_test_and_clear_young': include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:29: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type Signed-off-by: NBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 17 1月, 2011 1 次提交
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由 Andrea Arcangeli 提交于
pmdp_get_and_clear/pmdp_clear_flush/pmdp_splitting_flush were trapped as BUG() and they were defined only to diminish the risk of build issues on not-x86 archs and to be consistent with the generic pte methods previously defined in include/asm-generic/pgtable.h. But they are causing more trouble than they were supposed to solve, so it's simpler not to define them when THP is off. This is also correcting the export of pmdp_splitting_flush which is currently unused (x86 isn't using the generic implementation in mm/pgtable-generic.c and no other arch needs that [yet]). Signed-off-by: NAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 14 1月, 2011 2 次提交
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由 Andrea Arcangeli 提交于
Some are needed to build but not actually used on archs not supporting transparent hugepages. Others like pmdp_clear_flush are used by x86 too. Signed-off-by: NAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Andrea Arcangeli 提交于
These returns 0 at compile time when the config option is disabled, to allow gcc to eliminate the transparent hugepage function calls at compile time without additional #ifdefs (only the export of those functions have to be visible to gcc but they won't be required at link time and huge_memory.o can be not built at all). _PAGE_BIT_UNUSED1 is never used for pmd, only on pte. Signed-off-by: NAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 25 10月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
Improve performance of the sske operation by using the nonquiescing variant if the affected page has no mappings established. On machines with no support for the new sske variant the mask bit will be ignored. Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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- 24 8月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Shaohua Li 提交于
In x86, access and dirty bits are set automatically by CPU when CPU accesses memory. When we go into the code path of below flush_tlb_fix_spurious_fault(), we already set dirty bit for pte and don't need flush tlb. This might mean tlb entry in some CPUs hasn't dirty bit set, but this doesn't matter. When the CPUs do page write, they will automatically check the bit and no software involved. On the other hand, flush tlb in below position is harmful. Test creates CPU number of threads, each thread writes to a same but random address in same vma range and we measure the total time. Under a 4 socket system, original time is 1.96s, while with the patch, the time is 0.8s. Under a 2 socket system, there is 20% time cut too. perf shows a lot of time are taking to send ipi/handle ipi for tlb flush. Signed-off-by: NShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <20100816011655.GA362@sli10-desk.sh.intel.com> Acked-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Andrea Archangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 23 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Paul Mundt 提交于
Most architectures now provide a pgprot_noncached(), the remaining ones can simply use an dummy default implementation, except for cris and xtensa, which should override the default appropriately. Signed-off-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
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- 30 3月, 2009 2 次提交
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由 Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
Impact: fix lazy context switch API Pass the previous and next tasks into the context switch start end calls, so that the called functions can properly access the task state (esp in end_context_switch, in which the next task is not yet completely current). Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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由 Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
Impact: simplification, prepare for later changes Make lazy cpu mode more specific to context switching, so that it makes sense to do more context-switch specific things in the callbacks. Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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- 14 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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Impact: cleanup Change the protection parameter for track_pfn_vma_new() into a pgprot_t pointer. Subsequent patch changes the x86 PAT handling to return a compatible memtype in pgprot_t, if what was requested cannot be allowed due to conflicts. No fuctionality change in this patch. Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 20 12月, 2008 1 次提交
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Impact: Cleanup and branch hints only. Move the track and untrack pfn stub routines from memory.c to asm-generic. Also add unlikely to pfnmap related calls in fork and exit path. Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 19 12月, 2008 1 次提交
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Impact: New mm functionality. Add pgprot_writecombine. pgprot_writecombine will be aliased to pgprot_noncached when not supported by the architecture. Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 16 7月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Sebastian Siewior 提交于
Commit 1ea0704e aka "mm: add a ptep_modify_prot transaction abstraction" caused: | CC init/main.o |In file included from include2/asm/pgtable.h:68, | from /home/bigeasy/git/linux-2.6-m68k/include/linux/mm.h:39, | from include2/asm/uaccess.h:8, | from /home/bigeasy/git/linux-2.6-m68k/include/linux/poll.h:13, | from /home/bigeasy/git/linux-2.6-m68k/include/linux/rtc.h:113, | from /home/bigeasy/git/linux-2.6-m68k/include/linux/efi.h:19, | from /home/bigeasy/git/linux-2.6-m68k/init/main.c:43: |/linux-2.6/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h: In function '__ptep_modify_prot_start': |/linux-2.6/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:209: error: implicit declaration of function 'ptep_get_and_clear' |/linux-2.6/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:209: error: incompatible types in return |/linux-2.6/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h: In function '__ptep_modify_prot_commit': |/linux-2.6/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:220: error: implicit declaration of function 'set_pte_at' |make[2]: *** [init/main.o] Error 1 |make[1]: *** [init] Error 2 |make: *** [sub-make] Error 2 on my m68knommu box. Acked-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NSebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 25 6月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
This patch adds an API for doing read-modify-write updates to a pte's protection bits which may race against hardware updates to the pte. After reading the pte, the hardware may asynchonously set the accessed or dirty bits on a pte, which would be lost when writing back the modified pte value. The existing technique to handle this race is to use ptep_get_and_clear() atomically fetch the old pte value and clear it in memory. This has the effect of marking the pte as non-present, which will prevent the hardware from updating its state. When the new value is written back, the pte will be present again, and the hardware can resume updating the access/dirty flags. When running in a virtualized environment, pagetable updates are relatively expensive, since they generally involve some trap into the hypervisor. To mitigate the cost of these updates, we tend to batch them. However, because of the atomic nature of ptep_get_and_clear(), it is inherently non-batchable. This new interface allows batching by giving the underlying implementation enough information to open a transaction between the read and write phases: ptep_modify_prot_start() returns the current pte value, and puts the pte entry into a state where either the hardware will not update the pte, or if it does, the updates will be preserved on commit. ptep_modify_prot_commit() writes back the updated pte, makes sure that any hardware updates made since ptep_modify_prot_start() are preserved. ptep_modify_prot_start() and _commit() must be exactly paired, and used while holding the appropriate pte lock. They do not protect against other software updates of the pte in any way. The current implementations of ptep_modify_prot_start and _commit are functionally unchanged from before: _start() uses ptep_get_and_clear() fetch the pte and zero the entry, preventing any hardware updates. _commit() simply writes the new pte value back knowing that the hardware has not updated the pte in the meantime. The only current user of this interface is mprotect Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 17 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 提交于
Current ia64 kernel flushes icache by lazy_mmu_prot_update() *after* set_pte(). This is too late. This patch removes lazy_mmu_prot_update and add modfied set_pte() for flushing if necessary. This patch flush icache of a page when new pte has exec bit. && new pte has present bit && new pte is user's page. && (old *ptep is not present || new pte's pfn is not same to old *ptep's ptn) && new pte's page has no Pg_arch_1 bit. Pg_arch_1 is set when a page is cache consistent. I think this condition checks are much easier to understand than considering "Where sync_icache_dcache() should be inserted ?". pte_user() for ia64 was removed by http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/12/67 as clean-up. So, I added it again. Signed-off-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 12 8月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Greg Ungerer 提交于
There are some parts of include/asm-generic/pgtable.h that are relevant to the non-mmu architectures. To make it easier to include this from them I would like to ifdef the relevant parts. Without this there is a handful of functions that are referenced in here that are not defined on many non-mmu architectures. They could be defined out of course, as an alternative approach. Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 18 7月, 2007 2 次提交
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由 Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
Nobody is using ptep_test_and_clear_dirty and ptep_clear_flush_dirty. Remove the functions from all architectures. Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
The last user of ptep_establish in mm/ is long gone. Remove the architecture primitive as well. Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 17 6月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
Some changes done a while ago to avoid pounding on ptep_set_access_flags and update_mmu_cache in some race situations break sun4c which requires update_mmu_cache() to always be called on minor faults. This patch reworks ptep_set_access_flags() semantics, implementations and callers so that it's now responsible for returning whether an update is necessary or not (basically whether the PTE actually changed). This allow fixing the sparc implementation to always return 1 on sun4c. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fixes, cleanups] Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Mark Fortescue <mark@mtfhpc.demon.co.uk> Acked-by: NWilliam Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 27 4月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
The page_test_and_clear_dirty primitive really consists of two operations, page_test_dirty and the page_clear_dirty. The combination of the two is not an atomic operation, so it makes more sense to have two separate operations instead of one. In addition to the improved readability of the s390 version of SetPageUptodate, it now avoids the page_test_dirty operation which is an insert-storage-key-extended (iske) instruction which is an expensive operation. Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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- 09 4月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Zachary Amsden 提交于
Since lazy MMU batching mode still allows interrupts to enter, it is possible for interrupt handlers to try to use kmap_atomic, which fails when lazy mode is active, since the PTE update to highmem will be delayed. The best workaround is to issue an explicit flush in kmap_atomic_functions case; this is the only way nested PTE updates can happen in the interrupt handler. Thanks to Jeremy Fitzhardinge for noting the bug and suggestions on a fix. This patch gets reverted again when we start 2.6.22 and the bug gets fixed differently. Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 13 2月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Zachary Amsden 提交于
The VMI ROM has a mode where hypercalls can be queued and batched. This turns out to be a significant win during context switch, but must be done at a specific point before side effects to CPU state are visible to subsequent instructions. This is similar to the MMU batching hooks already provided. The same hooks could be used by the Xen backend to implement a context switch multicall. To explain a bit more about lazy modes in the paravirt patches, basically, the idea is that only one of lazy CPU or MMU mode can be active at any given time. Lazy MMU mode is similar to this lazy CPU mode, and allows for batching of multiple PTE updates (say, inside a remap loop), but to avoid keeping some kind of state machine about when to flush cpu or mmu updates, we just allow one or the other to be active. Although there is no real reason a more comprehensive scheme could not be implemented, there is also no demonstrated need for this extra complexity. Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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- 01 10月, 2006 3 次提交
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由 Zachary Amsden 提交于
Now that ptep_establish has a definition in PAE i386 3-level paging code, the only paging model which is insane enough to have multi-word hardware PTEs which are not efficient to set atomically, we can remove the ghost of set_pte_atomic from other architectures which falesly duplicated it, and remove all knowledge of it from the generic pgtable code. set_pte_atomic is now a private pte operator which is specific to i386 Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Zachary Amsden 提交于
Implement lazy MMU update hooks which are SMP safe for both direct and shadow page tables. The idea is that PTE updates and page invalidations while in lazy mode can be batched into a single hypercall. We use this in VMI for shadow page table synchronization, and it is a win. It also can be used by PPC and for direct page tables on Xen. For SMP, the enter / leave must happen under protection of the page table locks for page tables which are being modified. This is because otherwise, you end up with stale state in the batched hypercall, which other CPUs can race ahead of. Doing this under the protection of the locks guarantees the synchronization is correct, and also means that spurious faults which are generated during this window by remote CPUs are properly handled, as the page fault handler must re-check the PTE under protection of the same lock. Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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由 Zachary Amsden 提交于
Change pte_clear_full to a more appropriately named pte_clear_not_present, allowing optimizations when not-present mapping changes need not be reflected in the hardware TLB for protected page table modes. There is also another case that can use it in the fremap code. Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 26 9月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
Parsing generic pgtable.h in assembler is simply crazy. None of this file is needed in assembler code, and C inline functions and structures routine break one or more different compiles. Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 02 6月, 2006 1 次提交
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由 David S. Miller 提交于
If we move a mapping from one virtual address to another, and this changes the virtual color of the mapping to those pages, we can see corrupt data due to D-cache aliasing. Check for and deal with this by overriding the move_pte() macro. Set things up so that other platforms can cleanly override the move_pte() macro too. Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 07 11月, 2005 1 次提交
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由 Tim Schmielau 提交于
Fix more include file problems that surfaced since I submitted the previous fix-missing-includes.patch. This should now allow not to include sched.h from module.h, which is done by a followup patch. Signed-off-by: NTim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 30 10月, 2005 1 次提交
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由 Hugh Dickins 提交于
Updated several references to page_table_lock in common code comments. Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 28 9月, 2005 1 次提交
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由 Nick Piggin 提交于
Move the ZERO_PAGE remapping complexity to the move_pte macro in asm-generic, have it conditionally depend on __HAVE_ARCH_MULTIPLE_ZERO_PAGE, which gets defined for MIPS. For architectures without __HAVE_ARCH_MULTIPLE_ZERO_PAGE, move_pte becomes a noop. From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Fix nasty little bug we've missed in Nick's mremap move ZERO_PAGE patch. The "pte" at that point may be a swap entry or a pte_file entry: we must check pte_present before perhaps corrupting such an entry. Patch below against 2.6.14-rc2-mm1, but the same bug is in 2.6.14-rc2's mm/mremap.c, and more dangerous there since it's affecting all arches: I think the safest course is to send Nick's patch and Yoichi's build fix and this fix (build tested) on to Linus - so only MIPS can be affected. Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 05 9月, 2005 1 次提交
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由 Zachary Amsden 提交于
Add a new accessor for PTEs, which passes the full hint from the mmu_gather struct; this allows architectures with hardware pagetables to optimize away atomic PTE operations when destroying an address space. Removing the locked operation should allow better pipelining of memory access in this loop. I measured an average savings of 30-35 cycles per zap_pte_range on the first 500 destructions on Pentium-M, but I believe the optimization would win more on older processors which still assert the bus lock on xchg for an exclusive cacheline. Update: I made some new measurements, and this saves exactly 26 cycles over ptep_get_and_clear on Pentium M. On P4, with a PAE kernel, this saves 180 cycles per ptep_get_and_clear, for a whopping 92160 cycles savings for a full address space destruction. pte_clear_full is not yet used, but is provided for future optimizations (in particular, when running inside of a hypervisor that queues page table updates, the full hint allows us to avoid queueing unnecessary page table update for an address space in the process of being destroyed. This is not a huge win, but it does help a bit, and sets the stage for further hypervisor optimization of the mm layer on all architectures. Signed-off-by: NZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 22 6月, 2005 1 次提交
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由 Abhijit Karmarkar 提交于
It's common practice to msync a large address range regularly, in which often only a few ptes have actually been dirtied since the previous pass. sync_pte_range then goes much faster if it tests whether pte is dirty before locating and accessing each struct page cacheline; and it is hardly slowed by ptep_clear_flush_dirty repeating that test in the opposite case, when every pte actually is dirty. But beware, s390's pte_dirty always says false, since its dirty bit is kept in the storage key, located via the struct page address. So skip this optimization in its case: use a pte_maybe_dirty macro which just says true if page_test_and_clear_dirty is implemented. Signed-off-by: NAbhijit Karmarkar <abhijitk@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 20 4月, 2005 1 次提交
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由 Hugh Dickins 提交于
ia64 and sparc64 hurriedly had to introduce their own variants of pgd_addr_end, to leapfrog over the holes in their virtual address spaces which the final clear_page_range suddenly presented when converted from pgd_index to pgd_addr_end. But now that free_pgtables respects the vma list, those holes are never presented, and the arch variants can go. Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 17 4月, 2005 1 次提交
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
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