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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>,
	Eduardo Pereira Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>, H Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: [PATCH 00 of 11] x86: separate pmd lifetime from pgd
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:23:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <patchbomb.1201296189@localhost> (raw)

Hi Ingo,

This series addresses various cleanups in pagetable allocation in the
direction of unifying 32/64 bits (that's still a while off yet).

The significant change in here is that I'm separating the lifetime of
a pmd from its pgd in the 32-bit PAE case.  This makes it logically
the same as 64-bit pagetable allocation, and it overall simplifies the
code.

The patches are:
 - A pure Xen fix I tacked on for convenience
 - Use the same pgd_list mechanism for 32 and 64 bits
 - Add an mm parameter for paravirt_alloc_pd, for consistency
 - Some fixes to early_ioremap to make sure the right paravirt
   hooks are called appropriately
 - de-macro asm-x86/pgalloc_32.h
 - make mm/pgtable_32.c:pgd_ctor a single function
 - dynamically allocate pmds rather than always allocating
   them with the pgd
 - Add Xen bits for dealing with pmd allocation
 - Preallocate pmds to avoid excessive tlb flushes
 - Allocate and initialize kernel pmds when they're not shared
 - Avoid excessive tlb flushes when pulling down pmds.

I've done a number of randconfig test builds to shake out various
configurations on 32 nd 64 bits.

One caveat: in order to demacro pgalloc_32.h, I had to rearrange some
headers in asm-generic/tlb.h, as it was including asm/pgalloc.h for no
good reason.  As a result, any other file which was expecting to
implicitly pick up asm/pgalloc.h when including a asm/tlb.h header may
get header file problems.  I have not done any cross builds to try and
track down any non-x86 fallout from this.

Thanks,
	J



             reply	other threads:[~2008-01-25 21:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-25 21:23 Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2008-01-25 21:23 ` [PATCH 01 of 11] xen: fix mismerge in masking pte flags Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25 21:23 ` [PATCH 02 of 11] x86: use the same pgd_list for PAE and 64-bit Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25 21:23 ` [PATCH 03 of 11] x86: add mm parameter to paravirt_alloc_pd Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25 21:23 ` [PATCH 04 of 11] x86: fix early_ioremap pagetable ops Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-31 19:01   ` Ian Campbell
2008-01-31 19:52     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-31 20:37     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-31 20:41       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25 21:23 ` [PATCH 05 of 11] x86: demacro asm-x86/pgalloc_32.h Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25 21:23 ` [PATCH 06 of 11] x86: unify PAE/non-PAE pgd_ctor Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25 21:23 ` [PATCH 07 of 11] x86: don't special-case pmd allocations as much Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25 21:23 ` [PATCH 08 of 11] xen: deal with pmd being allocated/freed Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25 21:23 ` [PATCH 09 of 11] x86: preallocate pmds at pgd creation time Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25 21:23 ` [PATCH 10 of 11] x86: allocate and initialize unshared pmds Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25 21:23 ` [PATCH 11 of 11] x86: defer cr3 reload when doing pud_clear() Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25 21:37   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-25 22:54     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25 23:38       ` Keir Fraser
2008-01-25 23:44         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-26  0:11           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-26  0:20             ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-26  5:57             ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-26  6:03               ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-26  0:10         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-26  0:57           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-26  1:09             ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-28 15:17 ` [PATCH 00 of 11] x86: separate pmd lifetime from pgd Ingo Molnar
2008-01-28 15:39   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-28 15:41   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-28 15:47     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-28 16:20     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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