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Message-ID: <56134169.1070500@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 12:35:05 +0900
From: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-mm@...ck.org,
Ishimatsu, Yasuaki/石松 靖章
<isimatu.yasuaki@...fujitsu.com>,
Tang Chen <tangchen@...fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
Waiman Long <waiman.long@...com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Izumi, Taku/泉 拓
<izumi.taku@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/11] x86/mm/hotplug: Don't remove PGD entries in
remove_pagetable()
On 2015/09/22 15:23, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> So when memory hotplug removes a piece of physical memory from pagetable
> mappings, it also frees the underlying PGD entry.
>
> This complicates PGD management, so don't do this. We can keep the
> PGD mapped and the PUD table all clear - it's only a single 4K page
> per 512 GB of memory hotplugged.
>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
> Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@...com>
> Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Ishimatsu-san, Tang-san, please check.
Doesn't this patch affects the issues of
5255e0a79fcc0ff47b387af92bd9ef5729b1b859
9661d5bcd058fe15b4138a00d96bd36516134543
?
-Kame
> ---
> arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 27 ---------------------------
> 1 file changed, 27 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> index 7129e7647a76..60b0cc3f2819 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> @@ -780,27 +780,6 @@ static void __meminit free_pmd_table(pmd_t *pmd_start, pud_t *pud)
> spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
> }
>
> -/* Return true if pgd is changed, otherwise return false. */
> -static bool __meminit free_pud_table(pud_t *pud_start, pgd_t *pgd)
> -{
> - pud_t *pud;
> - int i;
> -
> - for (i = 0; i < PTRS_PER_PUD; i++) {
> - pud = pud_start + i;
> - if (pud_val(*pud))
> - return false;
> - }
> -
> - /* free a pud table */
> - free_pagetable(pgd_page(*pgd), 0);
> - spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
> - pgd_clear(pgd);
> - spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
> -
> - return true;
> -}
> -
> static void __meminit
> remove_pte_table(pte_t *pte_start, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
> bool direct)
> @@ -992,7 +971,6 @@ remove_pagetable(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, bool direct)
> unsigned long addr;
> pgd_t *pgd;
> pud_t *pud;
> - bool pgd_changed = false;
>
> for (addr = start; addr < end; addr = next) {
> next = pgd_addr_end(addr, end);
> @@ -1003,13 +981,8 @@ remove_pagetable(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, bool direct)
>
> pud = (pud_t *)pgd_page_vaddr(*pgd);
> remove_pud_table(pud, addr, next, direct);
> - if (free_pud_table(pud, pgd))
> - pgd_changed = true;
> }
>
> - if (pgd_changed)
> - sync_global_pgds(start, end - 1, 1);
> -
> flush_tlb_all();
> }
>
>
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