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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH RFC] vmalloc: eagerly clear ptes on vunmap

To: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH RFC] vmalloc: eagerly clear ptes on vunmap
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:09:43 -0800
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On 11/30/2010 04:29 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:32:11 -0800
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> When unmapping a region in the vmalloc space, clear the ptes immediately.
>> There's no point in deferring this because there's no amortization
>> benefit.
>>
>> The TLBs are left dirty, and they are flushed lazily to amortize the
>> cost of the IPIs.
>>
>> This specific motivation for this patch is a regression since 2.6.36 when
>> using NFS under Xen, triggered by the NFS client's use of vm_map_ram()
>> introduced in 56e4ebf877b6043c289bda32a5a7385b80c17dee.  XFS also uses
>> vm_map_ram() and could cause similar problems.
>>
> Do we have any quantitative info on that regression?

It's pretty easy to reproduce - you get oopses very quickly while using
NFS.  I haven't got any lying around right now, but I could easily
generate one if you want to decorate the changelog a bit.

>   The patch fixed
> it, I assume?

Yes, the patch fixes it, and I think it is just luck that xfs doesn't
also trigger the same problem.  Here's a followup patch to disable the
previous hack.

    J

Subject: [PATCH] vmalloc: remove vmap_lazy_unmap flag

Now that vmunmap no longer leaves stray ptes lying around, we don't need
the vmap_lazy_unmap flag any more.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
index 21ed8d7..0e4ecac 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
@@ -2358,8 +2358,6 @@ void __init xen_init_mmu_ops(void)
        x86_init.paging.pagetable_setup_done = xen_pagetable_setup_done;
        pv_mmu_ops = xen_mmu_ops;
 
-       vmap_lazy_unmap = false;
-
        memset(dummy_mapping, 0xff, PAGE_SIZE);
 }
 
diff --git a/include/linux/vmalloc.h b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
index a03dcf6..44b54f6 100644
--- a/include/linux/vmalloc.h
+++ b/include/linux/vmalloc.h
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@
 
 struct vm_area_struct;         /* vma defining user mapping in mm_types.h */
 
-extern bool vmap_lazy_unmap;
-
 /* bits in flags of vmalloc's vm_struct below */
 #define VM_IOREMAP     0x00000001      /* ioremap() and friends */
 #define VM_ALLOC       0x00000002      /* vmalloc() */
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index ffefe70..828d95e 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -31,8 +31,6 @@
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 #include <asm/shmparam.h>
 
-bool vmap_lazy_unmap __read_mostly = true;
-
 /*** Page table manipulation functions ***/
 
 static void vunmap_pte_range(pmd_t *pmd, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end)
@@ -503,9 +501,6 @@ static unsigned long lazy_max_pages(void)
 {
        unsigned int log;
 
-       if (!vmap_lazy_unmap)
-               return 0;
-
        log = fls(num_online_cpus());
 
        return log * (32UL * 1024 * 1024 / PAGE_SIZE);



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