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[RFC,V4,4/7] arm: mm: Enable RCU fast_gup

Message ID 1396018892-6773-5-git-send-email-steve.capper@linaro.org
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Steve Capper March 28, 2014, 3:01 p.m. UTC 
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.

Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
---
 arch/arm/Kconfig                      |  3 +++
 arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h |  6 ++++++
 arch/arm/mm/flush.c                   | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/arch/arm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/Kconfig
index 7d5340d..3cf589e 100644
--- a/arch/arm/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/Kconfig
@@ -1788,6 +1788,9 @@  config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
 config HAVE_ARCH_PFN_VALID
 	def_bool ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL || !SPARSEMEM
 
+config HAVE_RCU_GUP
+	def_bool y
+
 config HIGHMEM
 	bool "High Memory Support"
 	depends on MMU
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
index b286ba9..fdc4a4f 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
@@ -226,6 +226,12 @@  static inline pte_t pte_mkspecial(pte_t pte)
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
 #define pmd_trans_huge(pmd)	(pmd_val(pmd) && !(pmd_val(pmd) & PMD_TABLE_BIT))
 #define pmd_trans_splitting(pmd) (pmd_val(pmd) & PMD_SECT_SPLITTING)
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE
+#define __HAVE_ARCH_PMDP_SPLITTING_FLUSH
+void pmdp_splitting_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
+			  pmd_t *pmdp);
+#endif
 #endif
 
 #define PMD_BIT_FUNC(fn,op) \
diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/flush.c b/arch/arm/mm/flush.c
index 3387e60..91a2b59 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/flush.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/flush.c
@@ -377,3 +377,22 @@  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
+static void thp_splitting_flush_sync(void *arg)
+{
+}
+
+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 */
+	smp_call_function(thp_splitting_flush_sync, NULL, 1);
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE */
+#endif /* CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */