From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-f179.google.com (mail-wi0-f179.google.com [209.85.212.179]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C863E6B0038 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 11:38:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-wi0-f179.google.com with SMTP id z2so2423459wiv.6 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 08:38:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-we0-f171.google.com (mail-we0-f171.google.com [74.125.82.171]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id lt3si581102wic.86.2014.04.30.08.38.33 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 30 Apr 2014 08:38:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-we0-f171.google.com with SMTP id w62so1001425wes.16 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 2014 08:38:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 16:38:25 +0100 From: Steve Capper Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V4 6/7] arm64: mm: Enable HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE logic Message-ID: <20140430153824.GA7166@linaro.org> References: <1396018892-6773-1-git-send-email-steve.capper@linaro.org> <1396018892-6773-7-git-send-email-steve.capper@linaro.org> <20140430152047.GF31220@arm.com> <20140430153317.GG31220@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140430153317.GG31220@arm.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Catalin Marinas Cc: "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux@arm.linux.org.uk" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" , "peterz@infradead.org" , "gary.robertson@linaro.org" , "anders.roxell@linaro.org" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 04:33:17PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 04:20:47PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 03:01:31PM +0000, Steve Capper wrote: > > > In order to implement fast_get_user_pages we need to ensure that the > > > page table walker is protected from page table pages being freed from > > > under it. > > > > > > This patch enables HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE, any page table pages belonging > > > to address spaces with multiple users will be call_rcu_sched freed. > > > Meaning that disabling interrupts will block the free and protect the > > > fast gup page walker. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Steve Capper > > > > While this patch is simple, I'd like to better understand the reason for > > it. Currently HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE is enabled for powerpc and sparc while > > __get_user_pages_fast() is supported by a few other architectures that > > don't select HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE. So why do we need it for fast gup on > > arm/arm64 while not all the other archs need it? > > OK, replying to myself. I assume the other architectures that don't need > HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE use IPI for TLB shootdown, hence they gup_fast > synchronisation for free. Hi Catalin, Yes that is roughly the case. Essentially we want to RCU free the page table backing pages at a later time when we aren't walking on them. Other arches use IPI, some others have their own RCU logic. I opted to activate some existing logic to reduce code duplication. Cheers, -- Steve > > -- > Catalin -- 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