From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, dwg@au1.ibm.com,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH -V7 06/10] powerpc: Update gup_pmd_range to handle transparent hugepages
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 01:21:47 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1367178711-8232-7-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1367178711-8232-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c
index 4b921af..3d36fd7 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/gup.c
@@ -66,9 +66,20 @@ static int gup_pmd_range(pud_t pud, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
pmd_t pmd = *pmdp;
next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
- if (pmd_none(pmd))
+ /*
+ * The pmd_trans_splitting() check below explains why
+ * pmdp_splitting_flush has to flush the tlb, to stop
+ * this gup-fast code from running while we set the
+ * splitting bit in the pmd. Returning zero will take
+ * the slow path that will call wait_split_huge_page()
+ * if the pmd is still in splitting state. gup-fast
+ * can't because it has irq disabled and
+ * wait_split_huge_page() would never return as the
+ * tlb flush IPI wouldn't run.
+ */
+ if (pmd_none(pmd) || pmd_trans_splitting(pmd))
return 0;
- if (pmd_huge(pmd)) {
+ if (pmd_huge(pmd) || pmd_large(pmd)) {
if (!gup_hugepte((pte_t *)pmdp, PMD_SIZE, addr, next,
write, pages, nr))
return 0;
--
1.8.1.2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-28 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-28 19:51 [PATCH -V7 00/10] THP support for PPC64 (Patchset 2) Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-28 19:51 ` [PATCH -V7 01/10] powerpc/THP: Double the PMD table size for THP Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-05-03 3:21 ` David Gibson
2013-04-28 19:51 ` [PATCH -V7 02/10] powerpc/THP: Implement transparent hugepages for ppc64 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-05-03 4:52 ` David Gibson
2013-05-03 8:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-05-03 11:54 ` David Gibson
2013-05-03 13:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-05-03 18:54 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-05-04 19:14 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-05-04 21:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-05-06 1:28 ` David Gibson
2013-04-28 19:51 ` [PATCH -V7 03/10] powerpc: move find_linux_pte_or_hugepte and gup_hugepte to common code Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-04-28 19:51 ` [PATCH -V7 04/10] powerpc: Update find_linux_pte_or_hugepte to handle transparent hugepages Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-05-03 4:53 ` David Gibson
2013-05-03 18:58 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-05-04 6:28 ` David Gibson
2013-04-28 19:51 ` [PATCH -V7 05/10] powerpc: Replace find_linux_pte with find_linux_pte_or_hugepte Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-05-03 4:56 ` David Gibson
2013-04-28 19:51 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2013-05-03 4:57 ` [PATCH -V7 06/10] powerpc: Update gup_pmd_range to handle transparent hugepages David Gibson
2013-04-28 19:51 ` [PATCH -V7 07/10] powerpc/THP: Add code to handle HPTE faults for large pages Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-05-03 5:13 ` David Gibson
2013-04-28 19:51 ` [PATCH -V7 08/10] powerpc/THP: Enable THP on PPC64 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-05-03 5:15 ` David Gibson
2013-05-03 18:49 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-05-05 8:59 ` David Gibson
2013-04-28 19:51 ` [PATCH -V7 09/10] powerpc: Optimize hugepage invalidate Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-05-03 5:28 ` David Gibson
2013-05-03 19:05 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-05-03 21:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2013-04-28 19:51 ` [PATCH -V7 10/10] powerpc: disable assert_pte_locked Aneesh Kumar K.V
2013-05-03 5:30 ` David Gibson
2013-05-03 19:07 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
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