arm64: mm: enable RCU fast_gup
authorSteve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
Thu, 9 Oct 2014 22:29:25 +0000 (15:29 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 10 Oct 2014 02:26:01 +0000 (22:26 -0400)
Activate the RCU fast_gup for ARM64.  We also need to force THP splits to
broadcast an IPI s.t.  we block in the fast_gup page walker.  As THP
splits are comparatively rare, this should not lead to a noticeable
performance degradation.

Some pre-requisite functions pud_write and pud_page are also added.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Dann Frazier <dann.frazier@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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