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authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>2013-11-14 14:31:07 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-11-15 09:32:15 +0900
commite009bb30c8df8a52a9622b616b67436b6a03a0cd (patch)
treeaf36a8ea7ff8acb0bcc22130b28c3dd38cfa35d0 /mm
parentmm: convert the rest to new page table lock api (diff)
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/Kconfig3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index c28d247e524a..7aa02def4666 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -222,6 +222,9 @@ config SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS
default "999999" if !64BIT && GENERIC_LOCKBREAK
default "4"
+config ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK
+ boolean
+
#
# support for memory balloon compaction
config BALLOON_COMPACTION