From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
aarcange@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org, minchan@gmail.com,
kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com, hnaz@cmpxchg.org, mel@csn.ul.ie,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 3/6] Fix the x86-64 page colouring code to take pgoff into account and use that code as the basis for a generic page colouring code.
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:45:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FDF5B3C.1000007@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2k3z48twb.fsf@firstfloor.org>
On 06/18/2012 12:30 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> From: Rik van Riel<riel@surriel.com>
>>
>> Teach the generic arch_get_unmapped_area(_topdown) code to call the
>> page colouring code.
>
> What tree is that against? I cannot find x86 page colouring code in next
> or mainline.
This is against mainline.
See align_addr in arch/x86/kernel/sys_x86_64.c and the
call sites in arch_get_unmapped_area(_topdown).
On certain AMD chips, Linux tries to get certain
allocations aligned to avoid cache aliasing issues.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-18 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-18 14:31 [PATCH -mm 0/6] mm: scalable and unified arch_get_unmapped_area Rik van Riel
2012-06-18 14:31 ` [PATCH -mm 1/6] mm: get unmapped area from VMA tree Rik van Riel
2012-06-18 14:31 ` [PATCH -mm 2/6] Allow each architecture to specify the address range that can be used for this allocation Rik van Riel
2012-06-18 14:31 ` [PATCH -mm 3/6] Fix the x86-64 page colouring code to take pgoff into account and use that code as the basis for a generic page colouring code Rik van Riel
2012-06-18 16:30 ` Andi Kleen
2012-06-18 16:45 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2012-06-18 18:16 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-18 19:00 ` Rik van Riel
2012-06-18 19:02 ` Rik van Riel
2012-06-18 20:37 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-06-18 22:03 ` Rik van Riel
2012-06-18 14:31 ` [PATCH -mm 4/6] mm: remove x86 arch_get_unmapped_area(_topdown) Rik van Riel
2012-06-18 14:31 ` [PATCH -mm 5/6] remove MIPS arch_get_unmapped_area code Rik van Riel
2012-06-18 14:31 ` [PATCH -mm 6/6] remove ARM arch_get_unmapped_area functions Rik van Riel
[not found] <1340029247-6949-1-git-send-email-riel@surriel.com>
2012-06-18 14:20 ` [[PATCH -mm] 3/6] Fix the x86-64 page colouring code to take pgoff into account and use that code as the basis for a generic page colouring code Rik van Riel
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