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authorRobert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2009-04-15 01:55:32 -0400
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2009-05-21 01:43:58 -0400
commit14f966e79445015cd89d0fa0ceb6b33702e951b6 (patch)
treeb45546523e909b3d0a05df188c7494af3ce94ca1 /arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries
parentd69a78d7daada190b42269a73daabe32a5e138a6 (diff)
powerpc/pseries: CMO unused page hinting
Adds support for the "unused" page hint which can be used in shared memory partitions to flag pages not in use, which will then be stolen before active pages by the hypervisor when memory needs to be moved to LPARs in need of additional memory. Failure to mark pages as 'unused' makes the LPAR slower to give up unused memory to other partitions. This adds the kernel parameter 'cmo_free_hint' to disable this functionality. Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c52
1 files changed, 52 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
index 52a80e5840e..e3139fa5e55 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
@@ -609,3 +609,55 @@ void __init hpte_init_lpar(void)
609 ppc_md.flush_hash_range = pSeries_lpar_flush_hash_range; 609 ppc_md.flush_hash_range = pSeries_lpar_flush_hash_range;
610 ppc_md.hpte_clear_all = pSeries_lpar_hptab_clear; 610 ppc_md.hpte_clear_all = pSeries_lpar_hptab_clear;
611} 611}
612
613#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_SMLPAR
614#define CMO_FREE_HINT_DEFAULT 1
615static int cmo_free_hint_flag = CMO_FREE_HINT_DEFAULT;
616
617static int __init cmo_free_hint(char *str)
618{
619 char *parm;
620 parm = strstrip(str);
621
622 if (strcasecmp(parm, "no") == 0 || strcasecmp(parm, "off") == 0) {
623 printk(KERN_INFO "cmo_free_hint: CMO free page hinting is not active.\n");
624 cmo_free_hint_flag = 0;
625 return 1;
626 }
627
628 cmo_free_hint_flag = 1;
629 printk(KERN_INFO "cmo_free_hint: CMO free page hinting is active.\n");
630
631 if (strcasecmp(parm, "yes") == 0 || strcasecmp(parm, "on") == 0)
632 return 1;
633
634 return 0;
635}
636
637__setup("cmo_free_hint=", cmo_free_hint);
638
639static void pSeries_set_page_state(struct page *page, int order,
640 unsigned long state)
641{
642 int i, j;
643 unsigned long cmo_page_sz, addr;
644
645 cmo_page_sz = cmo_get_page_size();
646 addr = __pa((unsigned long)page_address(page));
647
648 for (i = 0; i < (1 << order); i++, addr += PAGE_SIZE) {
649 for (j = 0; j < PAGE_SIZE; j += cmo_page_sz)
650 plpar_hcall_norets(H_PAGE_INIT, state, addr + j, 0);
651 }
652}
653
654void arch_free_page(struct page *page, int order)
655{
656 if (!cmo_free_hint_flag || !firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_CMO))
657 return;
658
659 pSeries_set_page_state(page, order, H_PAGE_SET_UNUSED);
660}
661EXPORT_SYMBOL(arch_free_page);
662
663#endif