linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] staging: zsmalloc: zsmalloc memory allocation library

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Message-ID: <4F21A5AF.6010605@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:12:47 -0800
From:	Dave Hansen <dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>,
	Brian King <brking@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Konrad Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] staging: zsmalloc: zsmalloc memory allocation library

On 01/09/2012 02:51 PM, Seth Jennings wrote:
> +	area = &get_cpu_var(zs_map_area);
> +	if (off + class->size <= PAGE_SIZE) {
> +		/* this object is contained entirely within a page */
> +		area->vm_addr = kmap_atomic(page);
> +	} else {
> +		/* this object spans two pages */
> +		struct page *nextp;
> +
> +		nextp = get_next_page(page);
> +		BUG_ON(!nextp);
> +
> +
> +		set_pte(area->vm_ptes[0], mk_pte(page, PAGE_KERNEL));
> +		set_pte(area->vm_ptes[1], mk_pte(nextp, PAGE_KERNEL));
> +
> +		/* We pre-allocated VM area so mapping can never fail */
> +		area->vm_addr = area->vm->addr;
> +	}

This bit appears to be trying to make kmap_atomic() variant that can map
two pages in to contigious virtual addresses.  Instead of open-coding it
in a non-portable way like this, should we just make a new kmap_atomic()
variant that does this?

>From the way it's implemented, I _think_ you're guaranteed to get two
contiguous addresses if you do two adjacent kmap_atomics() on the same CPU:

void *kmap_atomic_prot(struct page *page, pgprot_t prot)
{
...
        type = kmap_atomic_idx_push();
        idx = type + KM_TYPE_NR*smp_processor_id();
        vaddr = __fix_to_virt(FIX_KMAP_BEGIN + idx);

I think if you do a get_cpu()/put_cpu() or just a preempt_disable()
across the operations you'll be guaranteed to get two contiguous addresses.

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