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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2009-07-23 23:15:28 +0000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2009-08-20 10:24:56 +1000
commitc7cc58a1ad8dfe3c199d3b6ce50412b86dd3edaf (patch)
tree1d1ded72de81743ddd1306677d64757136972402 /arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
parentcf54dc7cd4f9aab55cd3e1794b0b74c3c88cd1a0 (diff)
powerpc/mm: Rework & cleanup page table freeing code path
That patch used to just add a hook to page table flushing but pulling that string brought out a whole bunch of issues, so it now does that and more: - We now make the RCU batching of page freeing SMP only, as I believe it was intended initially. We make a few more things compile to nothing on !CONFIG_SMP - Some macros are turned into functions, though that forced me to out of line a few stuffs due to unsolvable include depenencies, however it's probably better that way anyway, it's not -that- critical code path. - 32-bit didn't call pte_free_finish() on tlb_flush() which means that it wouldn't push out the batch to RCU for delayed freeing when a bunch of page tables have been freed, they would just stay in there until the batch gets full. 64-bit BookE will use that hook to maintain the virtually linear page tables or the indirect entries in the TLB when using the HW loader. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
index 627767d6169b..a65979a5f75b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -30,6 +30,14 @@
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
#include <asm/tlb.h>
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+
+/*
+ * Handle batching of page table freeing on SMP. Page tables are
+ * queued up and send to be freed later by RCU in order to avoid
+ * freeing a page table page that is being walked without locks
+ */
+
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct pte_freelist_batch *, pte_freelist_cur);
static unsigned long pte_freelist_forced_free;
@@ -116,6 +124,8 @@ void pte_free_finish(void)
*batchp = NULL;
}
+#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
+
/*
* Handle i/d cache flushing, called from set_pte_at() or ptep_set_access_flags()
*/