1. 10 7月, 2013 1 次提交
  2. 13 4月, 2013 1 次提交
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      x86-32: Fix possible incomplete TLB invalidate with PAE pagetables · 1de14c3c
      Dave Hansen 提交于
      This patch attempts to fix:
      
      	https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56461
      
      The symptom is a crash and messages like this:
      
      	chrome: Corrupted page table at address 34a03000
      	*pdpt = 0000000000000000 *pde = 0000000000000000
      	Bad pagetable: 000f [#1] PREEMPT SMP
      
      Ingo guesses this got introduced by commit 611ae8e3 ("x86/tlb:
      enable tlb flush range support for x86") since that code started to free
      unused pagetables.
      
      On x86-32 PAE kernels, that new code has the potential to free an entire
      PMD page and will clear one of the four page-directory-pointer-table
      (aka pgd_t entries).
      
      The hardware aggressively "caches" these top-level entries and invlpg
      does not actually affect the CPU's copy.  If we clear one we *HAVE* to
      do a full TLB flush, otherwise we might continue using a freed pmd page.
      (note, we do this properly on the population side in pud_populate()).
      
      This patch tracks whenever we clear one of these entries in the 'struct
      mmu_gather', and ensures that we follow up with a full tlb flush.
      
      BTW, I disassembled and checked that:
      
      	if (tlb->fullmm == 0)
      and
      	if (!tlb->fullmm && !tlb->need_flush_all)
      
      generate essentially the same code, so there should be zero impact there
      to the !PAE case.
      Signed-off-by: NDave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      Cc: Artem S Tashkinov <t.artem@mailcity.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      1de14c3c
  3. 11 12月, 2012 2 次提交
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      x86: mm: drop TLB flush from ptep_set_access_flags · e4a1cc56
      Rik van Riel 提交于
      Intel has an architectural guarantee that the TLB entry causing
      a page fault gets invalidated automatically. This means
      we should be able to drop the local TLB invalidation.
      
      Because of the way other areas of the page fault code work,
      chances are good that all x86 CPUs do this.  However, if
      someone somewhere has an x86 CPU that does not invalidate
      the TLB entry causing a page fault, this one-liner should
      be easy to revert.
      Signed-off-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@kernel.org>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      e4a1cc56
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      x86: mm: only do a local tlb flush in ptep_set_access_flags() · 0f9a921c
      Rik van Riel 提交于
      The function ptep_set_access_flags() is only ever invoked to set access
      flags or add write permission on a PTE.  The write bit is only ever set
      together with the dirty bit.
      
      Because we only ever upgrade a PTE, it is safe to skip flushing entries on
      remote TLBs. The worst that can happen is a spurious page fault on other
      CPUs, which would flush that TLB entry.
      
      Lazily letting another CPU incur a spurious page fault occasionally is
      (much!) cheaper than aggressively flushing everybody else's TLB.
      Signed-off-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      0f9a921c
  4. 06 12月, 2012 1 次提交
  5. 23 11月, 2012 1 次提交
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      x86/mm: Don't flush the TLB on #WP pmd fixups · 5e4bf1a5
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      If we have a write protection #PF and fix up the pmd then the
      hugetlb code [the only user of pmdp_set_access_flags], in its
      do_huge_pmd_wp_page() page fault resolution function calls
      pmdp_set_access_flags() to mark the pmd permissive again,
      and flushes the TLB.
      
      This TLB flush is unnecessary: a flush on #PF is guaranteed on
      most (all?) x86 CPUs, and even in the worst-case we'll generate
      a spurious fault.
      
      So remove it.
      
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121120120251.GA15742@gmail.comSigned-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
      5e4bf1a5
  6. 18 3月, 2011 1 次提交
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      x86: Flush TLB if PGD entry is changed in i386 PAE mode · 4981d01e
      Shaohua Li 提交于
      According to intel CPU manual, every time PGD entry is changed in i386 PAE
      mode, we need do a full TLB flush. Current code follows this and there is
      comment for this too in the code.
      
      But current code misses the multi-threaded case. A changed page table
      might be used by several CPUs, every such CPU should flush TLB. Usually
      this isn't a problem, because we prepopulate all PGD entries at process
      fork. But when the process does munmap and follows new mmap, this issue
      will be triggered.
      
      When it happens, some CPUs keep doing page faults:
      
        http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129915020508238&w=2
      
      Reported-by: Yasunori Goto<y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Tested-by: Yasunori Goto<y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Reviewed-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li<shaohua.li@intel.com>
      Cc: Mallick Asit K <asit.k.mallick@intel.com>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
      Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
      LKML-Reference: <1300246649.2337.95.camel@sli10-conroe>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      4981d01e
  7. 10 3月, 2011 1 次提交
  8. 14 1月, 2011 2 次提交
  9. 20 10月, 2010 1 次提交
  10. 24 8月, 2010 1 次提交
  11. 30 3月, 2010 1 次提交
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      include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking... · 5a0e3ad6
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
      
      percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
      included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
      in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
      universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
      
      percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
      this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
      headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
      needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
      used as the basis of conversion.
      
        http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
      
      The script does the followings.
      
      * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
        only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
        gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
      
      * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
        blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
        to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
        core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
        alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
        doesn't seem to be any matching order.
      
      * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
        because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
        an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
        file.
      
      The conversion was done in the following steps.
      
      1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
         over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
         and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
         files.
      
      2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
         some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
         embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
         inclusions to around 150 files.
      
      3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
         from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
      
      4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
         e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
         APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
      
      5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
         editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
         files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
         inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
         wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
         slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
         necessary.
      
      6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
      
      7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
         were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
         distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
         more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
         build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
      
         * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
         * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
         * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
         * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
         * s390 SMP allmodconfig
         * alpha SMP allmodconfig
         * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
      
      8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
         a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
      
      Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
      6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
      If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
      headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
      the specific arch.
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Guess-its-ok-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
      5a0e3ad6
  12. 25 2月, 2010 1 次提交
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      x86, mm: Allow highmem user page tables to be disabled at boot time · 14315592
      Ian Campbell 提交于
      Distros generally (I looked at Debian, RHEL5 and SLES11) seem to
      enable CONFIG_HIGHPTE for any x86 configuration which has highmem
      enabled. This means that the overhead applies even to machines which
      have a fairly modest amount of high memory and which therefore do not
      really benefit from allocating PTEs in high memory but still pay the
      price of the additional mapping operations.
      
      Running kernbench on a 4G box I found that with CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y but
      no actual highptes being allocated there was a reduction in system
      time used from 59.737s to 55.9s.
      
      With CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y and highmem PTEs being allocated:
        Average Optimal load -j 4 Run (std deviation):
        Elapsed Time 175.396 (0.238914)
        User Time 515.983 (5.85019)
        System Time 59.737 (1.26727)
        Percent CPU 263.8 (71.6796)
        Context Switches 39989.7 (4672.64)
        Sleeps 42617.7 (246.307)
      
      With CONFIG_HIGHPTE=y but with no highmem PTEs being allocated:
        Average Optimal load -j 4 Run (std deviation):
        Elapsed Time 174.278 (0.831968)
        User Time 515.659 (6.07012)
        System Time 55.9 (1.07799)
        Percent CPU 263.8 (71.266)
        Context Switches 39929.6 (4485.13)
        Sleeps 42583.7 (373.039)
      
      This patch allows the user to control the allocation of PTEs in
      highmem from the command line ("userpte=nohigh") but retains the
      status-quo as the default.
      
      It is possible that some simple heuristic could be developed which
      allows auto-tuning of this option however I don't have a sufficiently
      large machine available to me to perform any particularly meaningful
      experiments. We could probably handwave up an argument for a threshold
      at 16G of total RAM.
      
      Assuming 768M of lowmem we have 196608 potential lowmem PTE
      pages. Each page can map 2M of RAM in a PAE-enabled configuration,
      meaning a maximum of 384G of RAM could potentially be mapped using
      lowmem PTEs.
      
      Even allowing generous factor of 10 to account for other required
      lowmem allocations, generous slop to account for page sharing (which
      reduces the total amount of RAM mappable by a given number of PT
      pages) and other innacuracies in the estimations it would seem that
      even a 32G machine would not have a particularly pressing need for
      highmem PTEs. I think 32G could be considered to be at the upper bound
      of what might be sensible on a 32 bit machine (although I think in
      practice 64G is still supported).
      
      It's seems questionable if HIGHPTE is even a win for any amount of RAM
      you would sensibly run a 32 bit kernel on rather than going 64 bit.
      Signed-off-by: NIan Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
      LKML-Reference: <1266403090-20162-1-git-send-email-ian.campbell@citrix.com>
      Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      14315592
  13. 04 8月, 2009 1 次提交
  14. 28 7月, 2009 1 次提交
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      mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() · 9e1b32ca
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
      mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb()
      
      Upcoming paches to support the new 64-bit "BookE" powerpc architecture
      will need to have the virtual address corresponding to PTE page when
      freeing it, due to the way the HW table walker works.
      
      Basically, the TLB can be loaded with "large" pages that cover the whole
      virtual space (well, sort-of, half of it actually) represented by a PTE
      page, and which contain an "indirect" bit indicating that this TLB entry
      RPN points to an array of PTEs from which the TLB can then create direct
      entries. Thus, in order to invalidate those when PTE pages are deleted,
      we need the virtual address to pass to tlbilx or tlbivax instructions.
      
      The old trick of sticking it somewhere in the PTE page struct page sucks
      too much, the address is almost readily available in all call sites and
      almost everybody implemets these as macros, so we may as well add the
      argument everywhere. I added it to the pmd and pud variants for consistency.
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> [MN10300 & FRV]
      Acked-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> [s390]
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      9e1b32ca
  15. 15 6月, 2009 1 次提交
  16. 11 4月, 2009 1 次提交
  17. 10 4月, 2009 1 次提交
  18. 28 2月, 2009 1 次提交
  19. 07 9月, 2008 1 次提交
  20. 12 8月, 2008 1 次提交
  21. 08 7月, 2008 2 次提交
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      x86: preallocate and prepopulate separately · d8d5900e
      Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
      Jan Beulich points out that vmalloc_sync_all() assumes that the
      kernel's pmd is always expected to be present in the pgd.  The current
      pgd construction code will add the pgd to the pgd_list before its pmds
      have been pre-populated, thereby making it visible to
      vmalloc_sync_all().
      
      However, because pgd_prepopulate_pmd also does the allocation, it may
      block and cannot be done under spinlock.
      
      The solution is to preallocate the pmds out of the spinlock, then
      populate them while holding the pgd_list lock.
      
      This patch also pulls the pmd preallocation and mop-up functions out
      to be common, assuming that the compiler will generate no code for
      them when PREALLOCTED_PMDS is 0.  Also, there's no need for pgd_ctor
      to clear the pgd again, since it's allocated as a zeroed page.
      Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
      Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
      Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
      Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
      Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      d8d5900e
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      x86/paravirt: add a pgd_alloc/free hooks · eba0045f
      Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
      Add hooks which are called at pgd_alloc/free time.  The pgd_alloc hook
      may return an error code, which if non-zero, causes the pgd allocation
      to be failed.  The hooks may be used to allocate/free auxillary
      per-pgd information.
      
      also fix:
      
      > * Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
      >
      >  include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function ‘paravirt_pgd_free':
      >  include/asm/pgalloc.h:14: error: parameter name omitted
      >  arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S: In file included from
      >  arch/x86/kernel/traps_64.c:51:include/asm/pgalloc.h: In function ‘paravirt_pgd_free':
      >  include/asm/pgalloc.h:14: error: parameter name omitted
      Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
      Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
      Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
      Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
      Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      eba0045f
  22. 20 6月, 2008 4 次提交
  23. 25 5月, 2008 1 次提交
  24. 25 4月, 2008 11 次提交