[RFC PATCH V4 7/7] arm64: mm: Enable RCU fast_gup

Steve Capper steve.capper at linaro.org
Fri Mar 28 11:01:32 EDT 2014


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.

Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper at linaro.org>
---
 arch/arm64/Kconfig               |  3 +++
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h |  4 ++++
 arch/arm64/mm/flush.c            | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 26 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index 6185f95..9f5a81a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -86,6 +86,9 @@ config GENERIC_CSUM
 config GENERIC_CALIBRATE_DELAY
 	def_bool y
 
+config HAVE_RCU_GUP
+	def_bool y
+
 config ZONE_DMA32
 	def_bool y
 
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index aa3917c..0e148ae 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -245,6 +245,10 @@ static inline void set_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
 #define pmd_trans_huge(pmd)	(pmd_val(pmd) && !(pmd_val(pmd) & PMD_TABLE_BIT))
 #define pmd_trans_splitting(pmd) (pmd_val(pmd) & PMD_SECT_SPLITTING)
+#define __HAVE_ARCH_PMDP_SPLITTING_FLUSH
+struct vm_area_struct;
+void pmdp_splitting_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
+			  pmd_t *pmdp);
 #endif
 
 #define PMD_BIT_FUNC(fn,op) \
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/flush.c b/arch/arm64/mm/flush.c
index e4193e3..ddf96c1 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/flush.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/flush.c
@@ -103,3 +103,22 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_dcache_page);
  */
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_cache_all);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(flush_icache_range);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
+static void thp_splitting_flush_sync(void *arg)
+{
+}
+
+void pmdp_splitting_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
+			  pmd_t *pmdp)
+{
+	pmd_t pmd = pmd_mksplitting(*pmdp);
+	VM_BUG_ON(address & ~PMD_MASK);
+	set_pmd_at(vma->vm_mm, address, pmdp, pmd);
+
+	/* dummy IPI to serialise against fast_gup */
+	smp_call_function(thp_splitting_flush_sync, NULL, 1);
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE */
+#endif /* CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */
-- 
1.8.1.4




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