Re: [patch 3/3] arch_rebalance_pgtables call

Martin Schwidefsky
2007-11-14T09:26:45Z

On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 23:33 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 November 2007 01:30, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com wrote:
> > From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
> >
> > In order to change the layout of the page tables after an mmap has
> > crossed the adress space limit of the current page table layout a
> > architecture hook in get_unmapped_area is needed. The arguments
> > are the address of the new mapping and the length of it.
>
> Can you comment what this is supposed to be fore somewhere?

This hook is going to be used by the dynamic page table patch for s390:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=119333667710539&w=2

That patch allows processes to have different number of page table
levels, 31 bit processes have 2 levels (2GB), normal 64 bit processes
have 3 levels (4TB) and really big 64 bit processes can have 4 levels
(8PB). The downgrade of a page table to use less levels than the parent
process is done in arch_pick_mmap_layout. The upgrade is done by using
the arch_rebalance_pgtables call. I've considered using the
arch_get_unmapped_area but got scared by the indirection in
get_unmapped_area:

get_area = current->mm->get_unmapped_area;
if (file && file->f_op && file->f_op->get_unmapped_area)
get_area = file->f_op->get_unmapped_area;
addr = get_area(file, addr, len, pgoff, flags);

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Martin.

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