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Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:00:26 +0200
From: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@...ia.com>
To: ext Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>,
"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk"
<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk>
CC: "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] mm: tlb: Add range to tlb_start_vma() and tlb_end_vma()
Hello,
Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Aaro Koskinen wrote:
>> Pass the range to be teared down with tlb_start_vma() and
>> tlb_end_vma(). This allows architectures doing per-VMA handling to flush
>> only the needed range instead of the full VMA region.
[...]
>> static unsigned long unmap_page_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
>> struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>> - unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
>> + unsigned long range_start, unsigned long end,
>> long *zap_work, struct zap_details *details)
>> {
>> pgd_t *pgd;
>> unsigned long next;
>> + unsigned long addr = range_start;
>> + unsigned long range_end;
>>
>> if (details && !details->check_mapping && !details->nonlinear_vma)
>> details = NULL;
>>
>> BUG_ON(addr >= end);
>> - tlb_start_vma(tlb, vma);
>> + BUG_ON(*zap_work <= 0);
>> + range_end = addr + min(end - addr, (unsigned long)*zap_work);
>> + tlb_start_vma(tlb, vma, range_start, range_end);
>> pgd = pgd_offset(vma->vm_mm, addr);
>> do {
>> next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end);
>> @@ -917,7 +921,7 @@ static unsigned long unmap_page_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
>> next = zap_pud_range(tlb, vma, pgd, addr, next,
>> zap_work, details);
>> } while (pgd++, addr = next, (addr != end && *zap_work > 0));
>> - tlb_end_vma(tlb, vma);
>> + tlb_end_vma(tlb, vma, range_start, range_end);
>>
>> return addr;
>> }
>
> Sorry, I don't like this second-guessing of zap_work at all (okay,
> we all hate zap_work, and would love to rework the tlb mmu_gather
> stuff to be preemptible, but the file truncation case has so far
> discouraged us).
>
> Take a look at the levels below, in particular zap_pte_range(),
> and you'll see that zap_work is just an approximate cap upon the
> amount of work being done while zapping, and is decremented by
> wildly different amounts if a pte (or swap entry) is there or not.
>
> So the range_end you calculate will usually be misleadingly
> different from the actual end of the range.
You are right. Somehow I assumed it would simply define the maximum
range in bytes, but I now realize it does not. So the range calculation
is totally wrong. For tlb_end_vma() the range end would be available in
addr, though, but that is probably irrelevant because of what you said:
> I don't see that you need to change the interface and other arches
> at all. What prevents ARM from noting the first and last addresses
> freed in its struct mmu_gather when tlb_remove_tlb_entry() is called
> (see arch/um/include/asm/tlb.h for an example of that), then using
> that in its tlb_end_vma() TLB flushing?
This would probably work, thanks for pointing it out. I should have
taken a better look of the full API, not just what was implemented in ARM.
So, there's a new ARM-only patch draft below based on this idea, adding
also linux-arm-kernel again.
> Admittedly you won't know the end for cache flusing in tlb_start_vma(),
> but you haven't mentioned that one as a problem, and I expect you can
> devise (ARM-specific) optimizations to avoid repetition there too.
Yes, the execution time of tlb_start_vma() does not depend on the range
size, so that is a lesser problem.
Thanks,
A.
---
From: Aaro Koskinen <Aaro.Koskinen@...ia.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH] [ARM] Flush only the needed range when unmapping VMA
Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <Aaro.Koskinen@...ia.com>
---
arch/arm/include/asm/tlb.h | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/tlb.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/tlb.h
index 857f1df..2729fb9 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/tlb.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/tlb.h
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@
struct mmu_gather {
struct mm_struct *mm;
unsigned int fullmm;
+ unsigned long range_start;
+ unsigned long range_end;
};
DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct mmu_gather, mmu_gathers);
@@ -47,6 +49,8 @@ tlb_gather_mmu(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned int
full_mm_flush)
tlb->mm = mm;
tlb->fullmm = full_mm_flush;
+ tlb->range_start = TASK_SIZE;
+ tlb->range_end = 0;
return tlb;
}
@@ -63,7 +67,19 @@ tlb_finish_mmu(struct mmu_gather *tlb, unsigned long
start, unsigned long end)
put_cpu_var(mmu_gathers);
}
-#define tlb_remove_tlb_entry(tlb,ptep,address) do { } while (0)
+/*
+ * Memorize the range for the TLB flush.
+ */
+static inline void
+tlb_remove_tlb_entry(struct mmu_gather *tlb, pte_t *ptep, unsigned long
addr)
+{
+ if (!tlb->fullmm) {
+ if (addr < tlb->range_start)
+ tlb->range_start = addr;
+ if (addr + PAGE_SIZE > tlb->range_end)
+ tlb->range_end = addr + PAGE_SIZE;
+ }
+}
/*
* In the case of tlb vma handling, we can optimise these away in the
@@ -80,8 +96,11 @@ tlb_start_vma(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct
vm_area_struct *vma)
static inline void
tlb_end_vma(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
- if (!tlb->fullmm)
- flush_tlb_range(vma, vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end);
+ if (!tlb->fullmm && tlb->range_end > 0) {
+ flush_tlb_range(vma, tlb->range_start, tlb->range_end);
+ tlb->range_start = TASK_SIZE;
+ tlb->range_end = 0;
+ }
}
#define tlb_remove_page(tlb,page) free_page_and_swap_cache(page)
--
1.5.4.3
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