mm: implement split page table lock for PMD level
authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Thu, 14 Nov 2013 22:31:07 +0000 (14:31 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 15 Nov 2013 00:32:15 +0000 (09:32 +0900)
commite009bb30c8df8a52a9622b616b67436b6a03a0cd
treeaf36a8ea7ff8acb0bcc22130b28c3dd38cfa35d0
parentc4088ebdca64c9a2e34a38177d2249805ede1f4b
mm: implement split page table lock for PMD level

The basic idea is the same as with PTE level: the lock is embedded into
struct page of table's page.

We can't use mm->pmd_huge_pte to store pgtables for THP, since we don't
take mm->page_table_lock anymore.  Let's reuse page->lru of table's page
for that.

pgtable_pmd_page_ctor() returns true, if initialization is successful
and false otherwise.  Current implementation never fails, but assumption
that constructor can fail will help to port it to -rt where spinlock_t
is rather huge and cannot be embedded into struct page -- dynamic
allocation is required.

Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <robinmholt@gmail.com>
Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/mm.h
include/linux/mm_types.h
kernel/fork.c
mm/Kconfig