[PATCH v3 02/11] asm-generic/pgtable: Adds dummy functions to monitor lockless pgtable walks

Leonardo Bras
2019-09-24T21:25:55Z

There is a need to monitor lockless pagetable walks, in order to avoid
doing THP splitting/collapsing during them.

Some methods rely on local_irq_{save,restore}, but that can be slow on
cases with a lot of cpus are used for the process.

In order to speedup these cases, I propose a refcount-based approach, that
counts the number of lockless pagetable walks happening on the process.

Given that there are lockless pagetable walks on generic code, it's
necessary to create dummy functions for archs that won't use the approach.

Signed-off-by: Leonardo Bras <leonardo@linux.ibm.com>
---
include/asm-generic/pgtable.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
index 75d9d68a6de7..0831475e72d3 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
@@ -1172,6 +1172,21 @@ static inline bool arch_has_pfn_modify_check(void)
#endif
#endif

+#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_LOCKLESS_PGTBL_WALK_COUNTER
+static inline void start_lockless_pgtbl_walk(struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+}
+
+static inline void end_lockless_pgtbl_walk(struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+}
+
+static inline int running_lockless_pgtbl_walk(struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
+#endif
+
/*
* On some architectures it depends on the mm if the p4d/pud or pmd
* layer of the page table hierarchy is folded or not.
--
2.20.1