From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>,
Eduardo Pereira Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>, H Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: [PATCH 00 of 11] x86: separate pmd lifetime from pgd
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:23:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <patchbomb.1201296189@localhost> (raw)
Hi Ingo,
This series addresses various cleanups in pagetable allocation in the
direction of unifying 32/64 bits (that's still a while off yet).
The significant change in here is that I'm separating the lifetime of
a pmd from its pgd in the 32-bit PAE case. This makes it logically
the same as 64-bit pagetable allocation, and it overall simplifies the
code.
The patches are:
- A pure Xen fix I tacked on for convenience
- Use the same pgd_list mechanism for 32 and 64 bits
- Add an mm parameter for paravirt_alloc_pd, for consistency
- Some fixes to early_ioremap to make sure the right paravirt
hooks are called appropriately
- de-macro asm-x86/pgalloc_32.h
- make mm/pgtable_32.c:pgd_ctor a single function
- dynamically allocate pmds rather than always allocating
them with the pgd
- Add Xen bits for dealing with pmd allocation
- Preallocate pmds to avoid excessive tlb flushes
- Allocate and initialize kernel pmds when they're not shared
- Avoid excessive tlb flushes when pulling down pmds.
I've done a number of randconfig test builds to shake out various
configurations on 32 nd 64 bits.
One caveat: in order to demacro pgalloc_32.h, I had to rearrange some
headers in asm-generic/tlb.h, as it was including asm/pgalloc.h for no
good reason. As a result, any other file which was expecting to
implicitly pick up asm/pgalloc.h when including a asm/tlb.h header may
get header file problems. I have not done any cross builds to try and
track down any non-x86 fallout from this.
Thanks,
J
next reply other threads:[~2008-01-25 21:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-25 21:23 Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2008-01-25 21:23 ` [PATCH 01 of 11] xen: fix mismerge in masking pte flags Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25 21:23 ` [PATCH 02 of 11] x86: use the same pgd_list for PAE and 64-bit Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25 21:23 ` [PATCH 03 of 11] x86: add mm parameter to paravirt_alloc_pd Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25 21:23 ` [PATCH 04 of 11] x86: fix early_ioremap pagetable ops Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-31 19:01 ` Ian Campbell
2008-01-31 19:52 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-31 20:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-31 20:41 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25 21:23 ` [PATCH 05 of 11] x86: demacro asm-x86/pgalloc_32.h Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25 21:23 ` [PATCH 06 of 11] x86: unify PAE/non-PAE pgd_ctor Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25 21:23 ` [PATCH 07 of 11] x86: don't special-case pmd allocations as much Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25 21:23 ` [PATCH 08 of 11] xen: deal with pmd being allocated/freed Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25 21:23 ` [PATCH 09 of 11] x86: preallocate pmds at pgd creation time Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25 21:23 ` [PATCH 10 of 11] x86: allocate and initialize unshared pmds Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25 21:23 ` [PATCH 11 of 11] x86: defer cr3 reload when doing pud_clear() Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25 21:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-25 22:54 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25 23:38 ` Keir Fraser
2008-01-25 23:44 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-26 0:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-26 0:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-26 5:57 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-26 6:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-26 0:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-26 0:57 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-26 1:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-28 15:17 ` [PATCH 00 of 11] x86: separate pmd lifetime from pgd Ingo Molnar
2008-01-28 15:39 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-28 15:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-28 15:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-01-28 16:20 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
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