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authorSteve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>2014-10-09 15:29:20 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-10-09 22:26:01 -0400
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arm: mm: enable RCU fast_gup
Activate the RCU fast_gup for ARM. We also need to force THP splits to broadcast an IPI s.t. we block in the fast_gup page walker. As THP splits are comparatively rare, this should not lead to a noticeable performance degradation. Some pre-requisite functions pud_write and pud_page are also added. Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Dann Frazier <dann.frazier@canonical.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/arm/mm')
-rw-r--r--arch/arm/mm/flush.c15
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/flush.c b/arch/arm/mm/flush.c
index 43d54f5b26b9..265b836b3bd1 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/flush.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/flush.c
@@ -400,3 +400,18 @@ void __flush_anon_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page, unsigned l
*/
__cpuc_flush_dcache_area(page_address(page), PAGE_SIZE);
}
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
+void pmdp_splitting_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
+ pmd_t *pmdp)
+{
+ pmd_t pmd = pmd_mksplitting(*pmdp);
+ VM_BUG_ON(address & ~PMD_MASK);
+ set_pmd_at(vma->vm_mm, address, pmdp, pmd);
+
+ /* dummy IPI to serialise against fast_gup */
+ kick_all_cpus_sync();
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE */
+#endif /* CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */
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