From e0da382c92626ad1d7f4b7527d19b80104d67a83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hugh Dickins Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:29:15 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] freepgt: free_pgtables use vma list Recent woes with some arches needing their own pgd_addr_end macro; and 4-level clear_page_range regression since 2.6.10's clear_page_tables; and its long-standing well-known inefficiency in searching throughout the higher-level page tables for those few entries to clear and free: all can be blamed on ignoring the list of vmas when we free page tables. Replace exit_mmap's clear_page_range of the total user address space by free_pgtables operating on the mm's vma list; unmap_region use it in the same way, giving floor and ceiling beyond which it may not free tables. This brings lmbench fork/exec/sh numbers back to 2.6.10 (unless preempt is enabled, in which case latency fixes spoil unmap_vmas throughput). Beware: the do_mmap_pgoff driver failure case must now use unmap_region instead of zap_page_range, since a page table might have been allocated, and can only be freed while it is touched by some vma. Move free_pgtables from mmap.c to memory.c, where its lower levels are adapted from the clear_page_range levels. (Most of free_pgtables' old code was actually for a non-existent case, prev not properly set up, dating from before hch gave us split_vma.) Pass mmu_gather** in the public interfaces, since we might want to add latency lockdrops later; but no attempt to do so yet, going by vma should itself reduce latency. But what if is_hugepage_only_range? Those ia64 and ppc64 cases need careful examination: put that off until a later patch of the series. What of x86_64's 32bit vdso page __map_syscall32 maps outside any vma? And the range to sparc64's flush_tlb_pgtables? It's less clear to me now that we need to do more than is done here - every PMD_SIZE ever occupied will be flushed, do we really have to flush every PGDIR_SIZE ever partially occupied? A shame to complicate it unnecessarily. Special thanks to David Miller for time spent repairing my ceilings. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/mm.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h index 85f7d1bea937..c3f6c39d41d0 100644 --- a/include/linux/mm.h +++ b/include/linux/mm.h @@ -592,7 +592,8 @@ int unmap_vmas(struct mmu_gather **tlbp, struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *start_vma, unsigned long start_addr, unsigned long end_addr, unsigned long *nr_accounted, struct zap_details *); -void clear_page_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end); +void free_pgtables(struct mmu_gather **tlb, struct vm_area_struct *vma, + unsigned long floor, unsigned long ceiling); int copy_page_range(struct mm_struct *dst, struct mm_struct *src, struct vm_area_struct *vma); int zeromap_page_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long from, -- cgit v1.2.2