| From: |
| Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> |
| To: |
| Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
| Subject: |
| [PATCH 00/20] mm: Preemptibility -v5 |
| Date: |
| Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:24:33 +0200 |
| Message-ID: |
| <20101018112433.556591568@chello.nl> |
| Cc: |
| linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> |
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Article |
This patch-set makes part of the mm a lot more preemptible. It converts
i_mmap_lock and anon_vma->lock to mutexes and makes mmu_gather fully
preemptible.
The main motivation was making mm_take_all_locks() preemptible, since it
appears people are nesting hundreds of spinlocks there.
The side-effects are that can finally make mmu_gather preemptible,
something which lots of people have wanted to do for a long time.
It also gets us anon_vma refcounting, which seems to result in a nice
cleanup of the anon_vma lifetime rules wrt KSM and compaction.
This patch-set it build and boot-tested on x86_64 (a previous version was
also tested on Dave's Niagra2 machines, and I suppose s390 was too when
Martin provided the conversion patch for his arch).
There are no known architectures left unconverted.
Yanmin ran the -v3 posting through the comprehensive Intel test farm
and didn't find any regressions.
( Not included in this posting are the 4 Sparc64 patches that implement
gup_fast, those can be applied separately after this series gets
anywhere. )
The full series (including the Sparc64 gup_fast bits) also available in -git
form from (against Linus' tree as of about an hour ago):
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-mmu_preempt.git mmu_preempt
DaveM mentioned some sparc64 trouble with the -v4 posting, this turned out to
be a false positive as unpatched kernels also are having trouble on his
machines.
Linus, Andrew, Stephen, can we add this to -next for .37?
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