From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753617Ab1AYSDZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:03:25 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:59945 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753547Ab1AYR7b (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:59:31 -0500 Message-Id: <20110125173111.720927511@chello.nl> User-Agent: quilt/0.48-1 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:31:11 +0100 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Andrea Arcangeli , Avi Kivity , Thomas Gleixner , Rik van Riel , Ingo Molnar , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , David Miller , Hugh Dickins , Mel Gorman , Nick Piggin , Peter Zijlstra , Paul McKenney , Yanmin Zhang Subject: [PATCH 00/25] mm: Preemptibility -v7 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This patch-set makes part of the mm a lot more preemptible. It converts i_mmap_lock and anon_vma->lock to mutexes and makes mmu_gather fully preemptible. The main motivation was making mm_take_all_locks() preemptible, since it appears people are nesting hundreds of spinlocks there. The side-effects are that can finally make mmu_gather preemptible, something which lots of people have wanted to do for a long time. It also gets us anon_vma refcounting, which seems to result in a nice cleanup of the anon_vma lifetime rules wrt KSM and compaction. This patch-set is build and boot-tested on x86_64 (a previous version was also tested on Dave's Niagra2 machines, and I suppose s390 was too when Martin provided the conversion patch for his arch). There are no known architectures left unconverted. Yanmin ran the -v3 posting through the comprehensive Intel test farm and didn't find any regressions. ( Not included in this posting are the 4 Sparc64 patches that implement gup_fast, those can be applied separately after this series gets anywhere. ) The full series (including the Sparc64 gup_fast bits) also available in -git form from (against something post .38-rc2): git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-mmu_preempt.git Changes since -v6: Suggested by Hugh: - reordered the patches - changed to GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN to allocate mmu_gather pages - s/lock/mutex/ for the spinlock to mutex conversion - removed all DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mmu_gather, mmu_gather) remnants - split the i_mmap_lock and anon_vma->lock conversion - removed some KSM wrappers - avoid tlb_flush_mmu() while holding pte_lock Other: - remove the i_mmap_lock lockbreak in truncate (XXX) - arch/tile __pte_free_tlb() change TODO: - decide if we want to actually remove the i_mmap_lock lockbreak - figure out if LOCK vs MB works or add a smp_mb() to patch #23 - figure out what to do with sparc's tlb_batch lack of ->fullmm