Thread (50 messages) 50 messages, 7 authors, 2019-04-08

Re: [PATCH] arm64: mm: enable per pmd page table lock

From: Will Deacon <hidden>
Date: 2019-02-18 15:12:36
Also in: linux-arch, linux-mm, lkml

[+Mark]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 02:16:42PM -0700, Yu Zhao wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Switch from per mm_struct to per pmd page table lock by enabling
ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK. This provides better granularity for
large system.

I'm not sure if there is contention on mm->page_table_lock. Given
the option comes at no cost (apart from initializing more spin
locks), why not enable it now.

Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <redacted>
---
 arch/arm64/Kconfig               |  3 +++
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 12 +++++++++++-
 arch/arm64/include/asm/tlb.h     |  5 ++++-
 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
index a4168d366127..104325a1ffc3 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
@@ -872,6 +872,9 @@ config ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE
 config ARCH_HAS_CACHE_LINE_SIZE
 	def_bool y
 
+config ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK
+	def_bool y
+
 config SECCOMP
 	bool "Enable seccomp to safely compute untrusted bytecode"
 	---help---
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgalloc.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgalloc.h
index 52fa47c73bf0..dabba4b2c61f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgalloc.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgalloc.h
@@ -33,12 +33,22 @@
 
 static inline pmd_t *pmd_alloc_one(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
 {
-	return (pmd_t *)__get_free_page(PGALLOC_GFP);
+	struct page *page;
+
+	page = alloc_page(PGALLOC_GFP);
+	if (!page)
+		return NULL;
+	if (!pgtable_pmd_page_ctor(page)) {
+		__free_page(page);
+		return NULL;
+	}
+	return page_address(page);
I'm a bit worried as to how this interacts with the page-table code in
arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c when pgd_pgtable_alloc is used as the allocator. It
looks like that currently always calls pgtable_page_ctor(), regardless of
level. Do we now need a separate allocator function for the PMD level?

Will

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