From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mm: Pre-allocate p4d/pud pages for vmalloc area
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 13:07:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200626110731.GC4817@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200626093450.27741-1-joro@8bytes.org>
On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 11:34:50AM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> From: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
>
> Pre-allocate the page-table pages for the vmalloc area at the level
> which needs synchronization on x86. This is P4D for 5-level and PUD
> for 4-level paging.
>
> Doing this at boot makes sure all page-tables in the system have these
> pages already and do not need to be synchronized at runtime. The
> runtime synchronizatin takes the pgd_lock and iterates over all
> page-tables in the system, so it can take quite long and is better
> avoided.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
> ---
Can't we now remove arch_sync_kernel_mappings() from this same file?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-26 11:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-26 9:34 [PATCH] x86/mm: Pre-allocate p4d/pud pages for vmalloc area Joerg Roedel
2020-06-26 11:07 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2020-06-26 11:17 ` Joerg Roedel
2020-06-26 11:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-26 11:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-06-26 11:44 ` Joerg Roedel
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