linux/arch
Dan Williams 52db400fcd pmem, dax: clean up clear_pmem()
To date, we have implemented two I/O usage models for persistent memory,
PMEM (a persistent "ram disk") and DAX (mmap persistent memory into
userspace).  This series adds a third, DAX-GUP, that allows DAX mappings
to be the target of direct-i/o.  It allows userspace to coordinate
DMA/RDMA from/to persistent memory.

The implementation leverages the ZONE_DEVICE mm-zone that went into
4.3-rc1 (also discussed at kernel summit) to flag pages that are owned
and dynamically mapped by a device driver.  The pmem driver, after
mapping a persistent memory range into the system memmap via
devm_memremap_pages(), arranges for DAX to distinguish pfn-only versus
page-backed pmem-pfns via flags in the new pfn_t type.

The DAX code, upon seeing a PFN_DEV+PFN_MAP flagged pfn, flags the
resulting pte(s) inserted into the process page tables with a new
_PAGE_DEVMAP flag.  Later, when get_user_pages() is walking ptes it keys
off _PAGE_DEVMAP to pin the device hosting the page range active.
Finally, get_page() and put_page() are modified to take references
against the device driver established page mapping.

Finally, this need for "struct page" for persistent memory requires
memory capacity to store the memmap array.  Given the memmap array for a
large pool of persistent may exhaust available DRAM introduce a
mechanism to allocate the memmap from persistent memory.  The new
"struct vmem_altmap *" parameter to devm_memremap_pages() enables
arch_add_memory() to use reserved pmem capacity rather than the page
allocator.

This patch (of 25):

Both __dax_pmd_fault, and clear_pmem() were taking special steps to
clear memory a page at a time to take advantage of non-temporal
clear_page() implementations.  However, x86_64 does not use non-temporal
instructions for clear_page(), and arch_clear_pmem() was always
incurring the cost of __arch_wb_cache_pmem().

Clean up the assumption that doing clear_pmem() a page at a time is more
performant.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
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alpha arch/*/include/uapi/asm/mman.h: : let MADV_FREE have same value for all architectures 2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
arc mm: differentiate page_mapped() from page_mapcount() for compound pages 2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
arm arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h: add pmd_mkclean for THP 2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
arm64 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h: add pmd_mkclean for THP 2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
avr32 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching 2016-01-14 16:38:02 -08:00
blackfin MTD updates for v4.5: 2016-01-13 11:25:54 -08:00
c6x Merge branch 'for-linux-next' of git://linux-c6x.org/git/projects/linux-c6x-upstreaming 2016-01-12 13:00:16 -08:00
cris cris: nand: remove useless mtd->priv = chip assignments 2015-12-18 13:22:11 -08:00
frv libnvdimm for 4.5 2016-01-13 19:15:14 -08:00
h8300 h8300: Rename ctlr_out/in[bwl] to raw_read/write[bwl] 2015-12-15 10:12:03 +01:00
hexagon
ia64 Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2016-01-15 11:41:44 -08:00
m32r m32r: fix m32104ut_defconfig build fail 2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00
m68k Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-01-12 17:11:47 -08:00
metag Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching 2016-01-14 16:38:02 -08:00
microblaze Revert "scatterlist: use sg_phys()" 2015-12-15 12:54:06 -08:00
mips arch/*/include/uapi/asm/mman.h: : let MADV_FREE have same value for all architectures 2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
mn10300 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2016-01-12 18:57:02 -08:00
nios2 nios2: fix cache coherency 2015-11-26 22:25:58 +08:00
openrisc
parisc arch/*/include/uapi/asm/mman.h: : let MADV_FREE have same value for all architectures 2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
powerpc arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64.h: add pmd_[dirty|mkclean] for THP 2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
s390 s390, thp: remove infrastructure for handling splitting PMDs 2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
score
sh mm: differentiate page_mapped() from page_mapcount() for compound pages 2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
sparc arch/sparc/include/asm/pgtable_64.h: add pmd_[dirty|mkclean] for THP 2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
tile tile, thp: remove infrastructure for handling splitting PMDs 2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
um Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-01-12 17:11:47 -08:00
unicore32 arch: consolidate CONFIG_STRICT_DEVM in lib/Kconfig.debug 2016-01-09 06:30:49 -08:00
x86 pmem, dax: clean up clear_pmem() 2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
xtensa arch/*/include/uapi/asm/mman.h: : let MADV_FREE have same value for all architectures 2016-01-15 17:56:32 -08:00
.gitignore
Kconfig mm: mmap: add new /proc tunable for mmap_base ASLR 2016-01-14 16:00:49 -08:00