Gerald Schaefer
2008-04-01T14:08:23Z

[PATCH 2/3] hugetlbfs: cleanup and new primitives for s390

A cow break on a hugetlbfs page with page_count > 1 will set a new pte
with set_huge_pte_at(), w/o any tlb flush operation. The old pte will
remain in the tlb and subsequent write access to the page will result
in a page fault loop, for as long as it may take until the tlb is
flushed from somewhere else.
This patch introduces an architecture-specific huge_ptep_clear_flush()
function, which is called before the the set_huge_pte_at() in
hugetlb_cow().

NOTE: This is just a nop on all architectures for now, there will be an
s390 implementation with our large page patch later. Other architectures
should define their own huge_ptep_clear_flush() if needed.

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
---

include/asm-ia64/hugetlb.h | 2 ++
include/asm-powerpc/hugetlb.h | 2 ++
include/asm-sh/hugetlb.h | 2 ++
include/asm-sparc64/hugetlb.h | 2 ++
include/asm-x86/hugetlb.h | 2 ++
mm/hugetlb.c | 1 +
6 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6.25-rc7/mm/hugetlb.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.25-rc7.orig/mm/hugetlb.c
+++ linux-2.6.25-rc7/mm/hugetlb.c
@@ -864,6 +864,7 @@ static int hugetlb_cow(struct mm_struct
ptep = huge_pte_offset(mm, address & HPAGE_MASK);
if (likely(pte_same(*ptep, pte))) {
/* Break COW */
+ huge_ptep_clear_flush(vma, address, ptep);
set_huge_pte_at(mm, address, ptep,
make_huge_pte(vma, new_page, 1));
/* Make the old page be freed below */
Index: linux-2.6.25-rc7/include/asm-ia64/hugetlb.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.25-rc7.orig/include/asm-ia64/hugetlb.h
+++ linux-2.6.25-rc7/include/asm-ia64/hugetlb.h
@@ -18,4 +18,6 @@ int prepare_hugepage_range(unsigned long

#define hugetlb_prefault_arch_hook(mm) do { } while (0)

+#define huge_ptep_clear_flush(vma, addr, ptep) do { } while (0)
+
#endif /* _ASM_IA64_HUGETLB_H */
Index: linux-2.6.25-rc7/include/asm-powerpc/hugetlb.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.25-rc7.orig/include/asm-powerpc/hugetlb.h
+++ linux-2.6.25-rc7/include/asm-powerpc/hugetlb.h
@@ -32,4 +32,6 @@ pte_t huge_ptep_get_and_clear(struct mm_

#define hugetlb_prefault_arch_hook(mm) do { } while (0)

+#define huge_ptep_clear_flush(vma, addr, ptep) do { } while (0)
+
#endif /* _ASM_POWERPC_HUGETLB_H */
Index: linux-2.6.25-rc7/include/asm-sh/hugetlb.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.25-rc7.orig/include/asm-sh/hugetlb.h
+++ linux-2.6.25-rc7/include/asm-sh/hugetlb.h
@@ -25,4 +25,6 @@ static inline int prepare_hugepage_range

#define hugetlb_prefault_arch_hook(mm) do { } while (0)

+#define huge_ptep_clear_flush(vma, addr, ptep) do { } while (0)
+
#endif /* _ASM_SH_HUGETLB_H */
Index: linux-2.6.25-rc7/include/asm-sparc64/hugetlb.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.25-rc7.orig/include/asm-sparc64/hugetlb.h
+++ linux-2.6.25-rc7/include/asm-sparc64/hugetlb.h
@@ -27,4 +27,6 @@ pte_t huge_ptep_get_and_clear(struct mm_

void hugetlb_prefault_arch_hook(struct mm_struct *mm);

+#define huge_ptep_clear_flush(vma, addr, ptep) do { } while (0)
+
#endif /* _ASM_SPARC64_HUGETLB_H */
Index: linux-2.6.25-rc7/include/asm-x86/hugetlb.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.25-rc7.orig/include/asm-x86/hugetlb.h
+++ linux-2.6.25-rc7/include/asm-x86/hugetlb.h
@@ -25,4 +25,6 @@ static inline int prepare_hugepage_range

#define hugetlb_prefault_arch_hook(mm) do { } while (0)

+#define huge_ptep_clear_flush(vma, addr, ptep) do { } while (0)
+
#endif /* _ASM_X86_HUGETLB_H */