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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>2013-10-07 11:29:14 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2013-10-09 12:40:44 +0200
commit25cbbef1924299249756bc4030fcb2436c019813 (patch)
tree9369e1194bf3ddc91a5298b04fe590845851565b /mm
parent4591ce4f2d22dc9de7a6719161ce409b5fd1caac (diff)
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mm: numa: Trap pmd hinting faults only if we would otherwise trap PTE faults
Base page PMD faulting is meant to batch handle NUMA hinting faults from PTEs. However, even is no PTE faults would ever be handled within a range the kernel still traps PMD hinting faults. This patch avoids the overhead. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381141781-10992-37-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/mprotect.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c
index f0b087d..5aae390 100644
--- a/mm/mprotect.c
+++ b/mm/mprotect.c
@@ -146,6 +146,8 @@ static inline unsigned long change_pmd_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
do {
+ unsigned long this_pages;
+
next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) {
if (next - addr != HPAGE_PMD_SIZE)
@@ -165,8 +167,9 @@ static inline unsigned long change_pmd_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
}
if (pmd_none_or_clear_bad(pmd))
continue;
- pages += change_pte_range(vma, pmd, addr, next, newprot,
+ this_pages = change_pte_range(vma, pmd, addr, next, newprot,
dirty_accountable, prot_numa, &all_same_nidpid);
+ pages += this_pages;
/*
* If we are changing protections for NUMA hinting faults then
@@ -174,7 +177,7 @@ static inline unsigned long change_pmd_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
* node. This allows a regular PMD to be handled as one fault
* and effectively batches the taking of the PTL
*/
- if (prot_numa && all_same_nidpid)
+ if (prot_numa && this_pages && all_same_nidpid)
change_pmd_protnuma(vma->vm_mm, addr, pmd);
} while (pmd++, addr = next, addr != end);
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