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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 <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> |
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bootmem.c | ||
fadvise.c | ||
filemap.c | ||
fremap.c | ||
highmem.c | ||
hugetlb.c | ||
internal.h | ||
madvise.c | ||
Makefile | ||
memory.c | ||
mempolicy.c | ||
mempool.c | ||
mincore.c | ||
mlock.c | ||
mmap.c | ||
mprotect.c | ||
mremap.c | ||
msync.c | ||
nommu.c | ||
oom_kill.c | ||
page-writeback.c | ||
page_alloc.c | ||
page_io.c | ||
pdflush.c | ||
prio_tree.c | ||
readahead.c | ||
rmap.c | ||
shmem.c | ||
slab.c | ||
swap.c | ||
swap_state.c | ||
swapfile.c | ||
thrash.c | ||
tiny-shmem.c | ||
truncate.c | ||
vmalloc.c | ||
vmscan.c |