From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx201.postini.com [74.125.245.201]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4291E6B0072 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 05:22:01 -0500 (EST) From: Mel Gorman Subject: [PATCH 01/46] x86: mm: only do a local tlb flush in ptep_set_access_flags() Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:21:07 +0000 Message-Id: <1353493312-8069-2-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <1353493312-8069-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> References: <1353493312-8069-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Peter Zijlstra , Andrea Arcangeli , Ingo Molnar Cc: Rik van Riel , Johannes Weiner , Hugh Dickins , Thomas Gleixner , Paul Turner , Lee Schermerhorn , Alex Shi , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Linux-MM , LKML , Mel Gorman From: Rik van Riel 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: Rik van Riel Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Michel Lespinasse Cc: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c index 8573b83..be3bb46 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c @@ -301,6 +301,13 @@ void pgd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd) free_page((unsigned long)pgd); } +/* + * Used to set accessed or dirty bits in the page table entries + * on other architectures. On x86, the accessed and dirty bits + * are tracked by hardware. However, do_wp_page calls this function + * to also make the pte writeable at the same time the dirty bit is + * set. In that case we do actually need to write the PTE. + */ int ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, pte_t *ptep, pte_t entry, int dirty) @@ -310,7 +317,7 @@ int ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma, if (changed && dirty) { *ptep = entry; pte_update_defer(vma->vm_mm, address, ptep); - flush_tlb_page(vma, address); + __flush_tlb_one(address); } return changed; -- 1.7.9.2 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org