mm: mmu_gather rework

Rework the existing mmu_gather infrastructure.

The direct purpose of these patches was to allow preemptible mmu_gather,
but even without that I think these patches provide an improvement to the
status quo.

The first 9 patches rework the mmu_gather infrastructure.  For review
purpose I've split them into generic and per-arch patches with the last of
those a generic cleanup.

The next patch provides generic RCU page-table freeing, and the followup
is a patch converting s390 to use this.  I've also got 4 patches from
DaveM lined up (not included in this series) that uses this to implement
gup_fast() for sparc64.

Then there is one patch that extends the generic mmu_gather batching.

After that follow the mm preemptibility patches, these make part of the mm
a lot more preemptible.  It converts i_mmap_lock and anon_vma->lock to
mutexes which together with the mmu_gather rework makes mmu_gather
preemptible as well.

Making i_mmap_lock a mutex also enables a clean-up of the truncate code.

This also allows for preemptible mmu_notifiers, something that XPMEM I
think wants.

Furthermore, it removes the new and universially detested unmap_mutex.

This patch:

Remove the first obstacle towards a fully preemptible mmu_gather.

The current scheme assumes mmu_gather is always done with preemption
disabled and uses per-cpu storage for the page batches.  Change this to
try and allocate a page for batching and in case of failure, use a small
on-stack array to make some progress.

Preemptible mmu_gather is desired in general and usable once i_mmap_lock
becomes a mutex.  Doing it before the mutex conversion saves us from
having to rework the code by moving the mmu_gather bits inside the
pte_lock.

Also avoid flushing the tlb batches from under the pte lock, this is
useful even without the i_mmap_lock conversion as it significantly reduces
pte lock hold times.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment tpyo]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index e276d5e..936f577 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ static int shift_arg_pages(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long shift)
 	unsigned long length = old_end - old_start;
 	unsigned long new_start = old_start - shift;
 	unsigned long new_end = old_end - shift;
-	struct mmu_gather *tlb;
+	struct mmu_gather tlb;
 
 	BUG_ON(new_start > new_end);
 
@@ -626,12 +626,12 @@ static int shift_arg_pages(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long shift)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	lru_add_drain();
-	tlb = tlb_gather_mmu(mm, 0);
+	tlb_gather_mmu(&tlb, mm, 0);
 	if (new_end > old_start) {
 		/*
 		 * when the old and new regions overlap clear from new_end.
 		 */
-		free_pgd_range(tlb, new_end, old_end, new_end,
+		free_pgd_range(&tlb, new_end, old_end, new_end,
 			vma->vm_next ? vma->vm_next->vm_start : 0);
 	} else {
 		/*
@@ -640,10 +640,10 @@ static int shift_arg_pages(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long shift)
 		 * have constraints on va-space that make this illegal (IA64) -
 		 * for the others its just a little faster.
 		 */
-		free_pgd_range(tlb, old_start, old_end, new_end,
+		free_pgd_range(&tlb, old_start, old_end, new_end,
 			vma->vm_next ? vma->vm_next->vm_start : 0);
 	}
-	tlb_finish_mmu(tlb, new_end, old_end);
+	tlb_finish_mmu(&tlb, new_end, old_end);
 
 	/*
 	 * Shrink the vma to just the new range.  Always succeeds.