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* [PATCH 00/25] mm: Preemptibility -v7
@ 2011-01-25 17:31 Peter Zijlstra
  2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 01/25] tile: Fix __pte_free_tlb Peter Zijlstra
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  0 siblings, 29 replies; 48+ messages in thread
From: Peter Zijlstra @ 2011-01-25 17:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrea Arcangeli, Avi Kivity, Thomas Gleixner, Rik van Riel,
	Ingo Molnar, akpm, Linus Torvalds
  Cc: linux-kernel, linux-arch, linux-mm, Benjamin Herrenschmidt,
	David Miller, Hugh Dickins, Mel Gorman, Nick Piggin,
	Peter Zijlstra, Paul McKenney, Yanmin Zhang


This patch-set makes part of the mm a lot more preemptible. It converts
i_mmap_lock and anon_vma->lock to mutexes and makes mmu_gather fully
preemptible.

The main motivation was making mm_take_all_locks() preemptible, since it
appears people are nesting hundreds of spinlocks there.

The side-effects are that can finally make mmu_gather preemptible,
something which lots of people have wanted to do for a long time.

It also gets us anon_vma refcounting, which seems to result in a nice
cleanup of the anon_vma lifetime rules wrt KSM and compaction.

This patch-set is build and boot-tested on x86_64 (a previous version was
also tested on Dave's Niagra2 machines, and I suppose s390 was too when
Martin provided the conversion patch for his arch).

There are no known architectures left unconverted.

Yanmin ran the -v3 posting through the comprehensive Intel test farm
and didn't find any regressions.

( Not included in this posting are the 4 Sparc64 patches that implement
  gup_fast, those can be applied separately after this series gets
  anywhere. )

The full series (including the Sparc64 gup_fast bits) also available in -git
form from (against something post .38-rc2):

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-mmu_preempt.git


Changes since -v6:

Suggested by Hugh:
 - reordered the patches
 - changed to GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN to allocate mmu_gather pages
 - s/lock/mutex/ for the spinlock to mutex conversion
 - removed all DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mmu_gather, mmu_gather) remnants
 - split the i_mmap_lock and anon_vma->lock conversion
 - removed some KSM wrappers
 - avoid tlb_flush_mmu() while holding pte_lock

Other:
 - remove the i_mmap_lock lockbreak in truncate (XXX)
 - arch/tile __pte_free_tlb() change

TODO:
 - decide if we want to actually remove the i_mmap_lock lockbreak
 - figure out if LOCK vs MB works or add a smp_mb() to patch #23
 - figure out what to do with sparc's tlb_batch lack of ->fullmm


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2011-01-25 17:31 [PATCH 00/25] mm: Preemptibility -v7 Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 01/25] tile: Fix __pte_free_tlb Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-04 20:39   ` Chris Metcalf
2011-02-07 13:55     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-23 20:59       ` Chris Metcalf
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 02/25] mm: Preemptible mmu_gather Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 03/25] powerpc: " Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 04/25] sparc: " Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 20:30   ` David Miller
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 05/25] s390: preemptible mmu_gather Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 06/25] arm: Preemptible mmu_gather Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 07/25] sh: " Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 08/25] um: " Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 09/25] ia64: " Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 20:12   ` Tony Luck
2011-01-25 20:22     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 21:23       ` Tony Luck
2011-01-26 11:01         ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 10/25] mm: Now that all old mmu_gather code is gone, remove the storage Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 11/25] mm, powerpc: Move the RCU page-table freeing into generic code Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 12/25] lockdep, mutex: Provide mutex_lock_nest_lock Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 13/25] mutex: Provide mutex_is_contended Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 14/25] mm: Convert i_mmap_lock to a mutex Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 15/25] mm: Extended batches for generic mmu_gather Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 16/25] mm: Revert page_lock_anon_vma() lock annotation Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 17/25] mm: Improve page_lock_anon_vma() comment Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 18/25] mm: Rename drop_anon_vma to put_anon_vma Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 19/25] mm: Move anon_vma ref out from under CONFIG_KSM Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 20/25] mm: Simplify anon_vma refcounts Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 20:16   ` Linus Torvalds
2011-01-25 20:31     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 20:37       ` Linus Torvalds
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 21/25] mm: Use refcounts for page_lock_anon_vma() Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 22/25] mm: Convert anon_vma->lock to a mutex Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-03  5:27   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-02-03 15:04     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-04  4:35       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 23/25] mm: Optimize page_lock_anon_vma() fast-path Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 24/25] mm: Remove i_mmap_mutex lockbreak Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 17:31 ` [PATCH 25/25] mm, arch: Ensure we never tlb_flush_mmu() from atomic context Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 18:32 ` [PATCH 00/25] mm: Preemptibility -v7 Sam Ravnborg
2011-01-25 19:28   ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-25 19:41     ` Sam Ravnborg
2011-01-25 19:45 ` Andi Kleen
     [not found]   ` <1295987985.28776.1118.camel@laptop>
2011-01-25 20:47     ` Andi Kleen
2011-01-25 21:09       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-26 13:13 ` [RFC][PATCH 26/25] mm, arch: Convert ia64, arm, sh to generic tlb Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-17 12:06 ` [PATCH 00/25] mm: Preemptibility -v7 Peter Zijlstra

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