[PATCH v1 0/3] mm: split PTE/PMD PT table Kconfig cleanups+clarifications

David Hildenbrand david at redhat.com
Fri Jul 26 08:07:25 PDT 2024


This series is a follow up to the fixes:
	"[PATCH v1 0/2] mm/hugetlb: fix hugetlb vs. core-mm PT locking"

When working on the fixes, I wondered why 8xx is fine (-> never uses split
PT locks) and how PT locking even works properly with PMD page table
sharing (-> always requires split PMD PT locks).

Let's improve the split PT lock detection, make hugetlb properly depend
on it and make 8xx bail out if it would ever get enabled by accident.

As an alternative to patch #3 we could extend the Kconfig SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS
option from patch #2 -- but enforcing it closer to the code that actually
implements it feels a bit nicer for documentation purposes, and there
is no need to actually disable it because it should always be disabled
(!SMP).

Did a bunch of cross-compilations to make sure that split PTE/PMD
PT locks are still getting used where we would expect them.

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240725183955.2268884-1-david@redhat.com

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador at suse.de>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx at redhat.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song at linux.dev>
Cc: Russell King <linux at armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao at linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross at suse.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky at oracle.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp at alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen at linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner at kernel.org>

David Hildenbrand (3):
  mm: turn USE_SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS / USE_SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS into Kconfig
    options
  mm/hugetlb: enforce that PMD PT sharing has split PMD PT locks
  powerpc/8xx: document and enforce that split PT locks are not used

 arch/arm/mm/fault-armv.c      |  6 +++---
 arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c     |  6 ++++++
 arch/x86/xen/mmu_pv.c         |  7 ++++---
 fs/Kconfig                    |  4 ++++
 include/linux/hugetlb.h       |  5 ++---
 include/linux/mm.h            |  8 ++++----
 include/linux/mm_types.h      |  2 +-
 include/linux/mm_types_task.h |  3 ---
 kernel/fork.c                 |  4 ++--
 mm/Kconfig                    | 18 +++++++++++-------
 mm/hugetlb.c                  |  8 ++++----
 mm/memory.c                   |  2 +-
 12 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

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2.45.2




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