lwn.git/include/asm-avr32/pgalloc.h, branch v3.7.3

avr32: Move include/asm-avr32 to arch/avr32/include/asm

2008-08-05T11:35:07+00:00

Leaving include/asm/arch alone for now. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen

avr32: Use a quicklist for PTE allocation as well

2008-07-02T09:01:29+00:00

Using a quicklist to allocate PTEs might be slightly faster than using the page allocator directly since we might avoid zeroing the page after each allocation. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen

avr32: Use a quicklist for PGD allocation

2008-07-02T09:01:29+00:00

Use a quicklist to allocate process PGDs. This is expected to be slightly faster since we need to copy entries from swapper_pg_dir, which can stay around for pages on the PGD quick list. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen

avr32: Cover the kernel page tables in the user PGDs

2008-07-02T09:01:29+00:00

Expand the per-process PGDs so that they cover the kernel virtual memory area as well. This simplifies the TLB miss handler fastpath since it doesn't have to check for kernel addresses anymore. If a TLB miss happens on a kernel address and a second-level page table can't be found, we check swapper_pg_dir and copy the PGD entry into the user PGD if it can be found there. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen

avr32: Store virtual addresses in the PGD

2008-07-02T09:01:28+00:00

Instead of storing physical addresses along with page flags in the PGD, store virtual addresses and use NULL to indicate a not present second-level page table. A non-page-aligned page table indicates a bad PMD. This simplifies the TLB miss handler since it no longer has to check the Present bit and no longer has to convert the PGD entry from physical to virtual address. Instead, it has to check for a NULL entry, which is slightly cheaper than either. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen

CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables.

2008-02-08T17:22:42+00:00

Background: I've implemented 1K/2K page tables for s390. These sub-page page tables are required to properly support the s390 virtualization instruction with KVM. The SIE instruction requires that the page tables have 256 page table entries (pte) followed by 256 page status table entries (pgste). The pgstes are only required if the process is using the SIE instruction. The pgstes are updated by the hardware and by the hypervisor for a number of reasons, one of them is dirty and reference bit tracking. To avoid wasting memory the standard pte table allocation should return 1K/2K (31/64 bit) and 2K/4K if the process is using SIE. Problem: Page size on s390 is 4K, page table size is 1K or 2K. That means the s390 version for pte_alloc_one cannot return a pointer to a struct page. Trouble is that with the CONFIG_HIGHPTE feature on x86 pte_alloc_one cannot return a pointer to a pte either, since that would require more than 32 bit for the return value of pte_alloc_one (and the pte * would not be accessible since its not kmapped). Solution: The only solution I found to this dilemma is a new typedef: a pgtable_t. For s390 pgtable_t will be a (pte *) - to be introduced with a later patch. For everybody else it will be a (struct page *). The additional problem with the initialization of the ptl lock and the NR_PAGETABLE accounting is solved with a constructor pgtable_page_ctor and a destructor pgtable_page_dtor. The page table allocation and free functions need to call these two whenever a page table page is allocated or freed. pmd_populate will get a pgtable_t instead of a struct page pointer. To get the pgtable_t back from a pmd entry that has been installed with pmd_populate a new function pmd_pgtable is added. It replaces the pmd_page call in free_pte_range and apply_to_pte_range. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

add mm argument to pte/pmd/pud/pgd_free

2008-02-05T17:44:18+00:00

(with Martin Schwidefsky ) The pgd/pud/pmd/pte page table allocation functions get a mm_struct pointer as first argument. The free functions do not get the mm_struct argument. This is 1) asymmetrical and 2) to do mm related page table allocations the mm argument is needed on the free function as well. [kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com: i386 fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-syle fixes] Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[AVR32] Simplify pte_alloc_one{,_kernel}

2007-08-15T14:36:56+00:00

There's really no need to retry an allocation with __GFP_REPEAT set. Also, use get_zeroed_page() and __GFP_ZERO to eliminate the extra call to clear_page() afterwards. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen

include/asm-avr32/pgalloc.h: kmalloc + memset conversion to kcalloc

2007-08-15T14:36:56+00:00

Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen

[PATCH] getting rid of all casts of k[cmz]alloc() calls

2006-12-13T17:05:58+00:00

Run this: #!/bin/sh for f in $(grep -Erl "$[^$]*\) *k[cmz]alloc" *) ; do echo "De-casting $f..." perl -pi -e "s/ ?= ?$[^$]*\) *(k[cmz]alloc) *\(/ = \1\(/" $f done And then go through and reinstate those cases where code is casting pointers to non-pointers. And then drop a few hunks which conflicted with outstanding work. Cc: Russell King , Ian Molton Cc: Mikael Starvik Cc: Yoshinori Sato Cc: Roman Zippel Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Kyle McMartin Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Jeff Dike Cc: Greg KH Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Paul Fulghum Cc: Alan Cox Cc: Karsten Keil Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Jeff Garzik Cc: James Bottomley Cc: Ian Kent Cc: Steven French Cc: David Woodhouse Cc: Neil Brown Cc: Jaroslav Kysela Cc: Takashi Iwai Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds