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Message-Id: <20110401121258.211963744@chello.nl>
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:12:58 +0200
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>,
Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 00/20] mm: Preemptibility -v10
Another -rc1, another posting.
Rework the existing mmu_gather infrastructure.
The direct purpose of these patches was to allow preemptible mmu_gather,
but even without that I think these patches provide an improvement to the
status quo.
The first 9 patches rework the mmu_gather infrastructure. For review purpose
I've split them into generic and per-arch patches with the last of those a
generic cleanup.
Also provided is a rollup of these patches, which is used as a commit in the
git tree referenced below.
The next patch provides generic RCU page-table freeing, and the follow up
is a patch converting s390 to use this. I've also got 4 patches from
DaveM lined up (not included in this series) that uses this to implement
gup_fast() for sparc64.
Then there is one patch that extends the generic mmu_gather batching.
After that follow the mm preemptibility patches, these make part of the mm a
lot more preemptible. It converts i_mmap_lock and anon_vma->lock to mutexes
which together with the mmu_gather rework makes mmu_gather preemptible as well.
Making i_mmap_lock a mutex also enables a clean-up of the truncate code.
This also allows for preemptible mmu_notifiers, something that XPMEM I think
wants.
Furthermore, it removes the new and universially detested unmap_mutex.
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-mmu_gather.git
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