[next-20150119]regression (mm)?

Krzysztof Kozlowski k.kozlowski at samsung.com
Wed Jan 21 02:29:11 PST 2015


2015-01-20 15:05 GMT+01:00 Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov at linux.intel.com>:
> Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 02:16:43AM +0200, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>> > Better option would be converting 2-lvl ARM configuration to
>> > <asm-generic/pgtable-nopmd.h>, but I'm not sure if it's possible.
>>
>> Well, IMHO the folded approach in asm-generic was done the wrong way
>> which barred ARM from ever using it.
>
> Okay, I see.
>
> Regarding the topic bug. Completely untested patch is below. Could anybody
> check if it helps?
>
> From 34b9182d08ef2b541829e305fcc91ef1d26b27ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov at linux.intel.com>
> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 15:47:22 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] arm: define __PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED for !LPAE
>
> ARM uses custom implementation of PMD folding in 2-level page table case.
> Generic code expects to see __PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED to be defined if PMD is
> folded, but ARM doesn't do this. Let's fix it.
>
> Defining __PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED will drop out unused __pmd_alloc().
> It also fixes problems with recently-introduced pmd accounting on ARM
> without LPAE.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov at linux.intel.com>
> Reported-by: Nishanth Menon <nm at ti.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-2level.h | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

Helps for this issue on Exynos 4412 (Trats2) and Exynos 5420 (Arndale Octa):
Tested-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski at samsung.com>

Off-topic: "Using smp_processor_id() in preemptible" still screams [1]

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/20/162

Best regards,
Krzysztof



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