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x86/mm: Reduce PAE-mode per task pgd allocation overhead from 4K to 32 bytes

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With more embedded systems emerging using Quark, among other
things, 32-bit kernel matters again. 32-bit machine and kernel
uses PAE paging, which currently wastes at least 4K of memory
per process on Linux where we have to reserve an entire page to
support a single 32-byte PGD structure. It would be a very good
thing if we could eliminate that wastage.

PAE paging is used to access more than 4GB memory on x86-32. And
it is required for NX.

In this patch, we still allocate one page for pgd for a Xen
domain and 64-bit kernel because one page pgd is assumed in
these cases. But we can save memory space by only allocating
32-byte pgd for 32-bit PAE kernel when it is not running as a
Xen domain.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Glenn Williamson <glenn.p.williamson@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421382601-46912-1-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Fenghua Yu 2015-01-15 20:30:01 -08:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent e07e0d4cb0
commit 1db491f77b
1 changed files with 78 additions and 3 deletions
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arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
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@ -271,12 +271,87 @@ static void pgd_prepopulate_pmd(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd, pmd_t *pmds[])
}
}
/*
* Xen paravirt assumes pgd table should be in one page. 64 bit kernel also
* assumes that pgd should be in one page.
*
* But kernel with PAE paging that is not running as a Xen domain
* only needs to allocate 32 bytes for pgd instead of one page.
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE
#include <linux/slab.h>
#define PGD_SIZE (PTRS_PER_PGD * sizeof(pgd_t))
#define PGD_ALIGN 32
static struct kmem_cache *pgd_cache;
static int __init pgd_cache_init(void)
{
/*
* When PAE kernel is running as a Xen domain, it does not use
* shared kernel pmd. And this requires a whole page for pgd.
*/
if (!SHARED_KERNEL_PMD)
return 0;
/*
* when PAE kernel is not running as a Xen domain, it uses
* shared kernel pmd. Shared kernel pmd does not require a whole
* page for pgd. We are able to just allocate a 32-byte for pgd.
* During boot time, we create a 32-byte slab for pgd table allocation.
*/
pgd_cache = kmem_cache_create("pgd_cache", PGD_SIZE, PGD_ALIGN,
SLAB_PANIC, NULL);
if (!pgd_cache)
return -ENOMEM;
return 0;
}
core_initcall(pgd_cache_init);
static inline pgd_t *_pgd_alloc(void)
{
/*
* If no SHARED_KERNEL_PMD, PAE kernel is running as a Xen domain.
* We allocate one page for pgd.
*/
if (!SHARED_KERNEL_PMD)
return (pgd_t *)__get_free_page(PGALLOC_GFP);
/*
* Now PAE kernel is not running as a Xen domain. We can allocate
* a 32-byte slab for pgd to save memory space.
*/
return kmem_cache_alloc(pgd_cache, PGALLOC_GFP);
}
static inline void _pgd_free(pgd_t *pgd)
{
if (!SHARED_KERNEL_PMD)
free_page((unsigned long)pgd);
else
kmem_cache_free(pgd_cache, pgd);
}
#else
static inline pgd_t *_pgd_alloc(void)
{
return (pgd_t *)__get_free_page(PGALLOC_GFP);
}
static inline void _pgd_free(pgd_t *pgd)
{
free_page((unsigned long)pgd);
}
#endif /* CONFIG_X86_PAE */
pgd_t *pgd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
pgd_t *pgd;
pmd_t *pmds[PREALLOCATED_PMDS];
pgd = (pgd_t *)__get_free_page(PGALLOC_GFP);
pgd = _pgd_alloc();
if (pgd == NULL)
goto out;
@ -306,7 +381,7 @@ pgd_t *pgd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm)
out_free_pmds:
free_pmds(pmds);
out_free_pgd:
free_page((unsigned long)pgd);
_pgd_free(pgd);
out:
return NULL;
}
@ -316,7 +391,7 @@ void pgd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd)
pgd_mop_up_pmds(mm, pgd);
pgd_dtor(pgd);
paravirt_pgd_free(mm, pgd);
free_page((unsigned long)pgd);
_pgd_free(pgd);
}
/*