[tip:x86/urgent] x86/mm/pat: Improve scaling of pat_pagerange_is_ram()

From: tip-bot for John Dykstra
Date: Wed May 30 2012 - 10:39:29 EST


Commit-ID: fa83523f45fbb403eba4ebc5704bf98aa4da0163
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/fa83523f45fbb403eba4ebc5704bf98aa4da0163
Author: John Dykstra <jdykstra@xxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri, 25 May 2012 16:12:46 -0500
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Wed, 30 May 2012 10:57:11 +0200

x86/mm/pat: Improve scaling of pat_pagerange_is_ram()

Function pat_pagerange_is_ram() scales poorly to large address
ranges, because it probes the resource tree for each page.

On a 2.6 GHz Opteron, this function consumes 34 ms for a 1 GB range.

It is called twice during untrack_pfn_vma(), slowing process
cleanup and handicapping the OOM killer.

This replacement consumes less than 1ms, under the same conditions.

Signed-off-by: John Dykstra <jdykstra@xxxxxxxx> on behalf of Cray Inc.
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: 1337980366.1979.6.camel@redwood">http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337980366.1979.6.camel@redwood
[ Small stylistic cleanups and renames ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/mm/pat.c | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
1 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
index f6ff57b..bea6e57 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
@@ -158,31 +158,47 @@ static unsigned long pat_x_mtrr_type(u64 start, u64 end, unsigned long req_type)
return req_type;
}

+struct pagerange_state {
+ unsigned long cur_pfn;
+ int ram;
+ int not_ram;
+};
+
+static int
+pagerange_is_ram_callback(unsigned long initial_pfn, unsigned long total_nr_pages, void *arg)
+{
+ struct pagerange_state *state = arg;
+
+ state->not_ram |= initial_pfn > state->cur_pfn;
+ state->ram |= total_nr_pages > 0;
+ state->cur_pfn = initial_pfn + total_nr_pages;
+
+ return state->ram && state->not_ram;
+}
+
static int pat_pagerange_is_ram(resource_size_t start, resource_size_t end)
{
- int ram_page = 0, not_rampage = 0;
- unsigned long page_nr;
+ int ret = 0;
+ unsigned long start_pfn = start >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ unsigned long end_pfn = (end + PAGE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ struct pagerange_state state = {start_pfn, 0, 0};

- for (page_nr = (start >> PAGE_SHIFT); page_nr < (end >> PAGE_SHIFT);
- ++page_nr) {
- /*
- * For legacy reasons, physical address range in the legacy ISA
- * region is tracked as non-RAM. This will allow users of
- * /dev/mem to map portions of legacy ISA region, even when
- * some of those portions are listed(or not even listed) with
- * different e820 types(RAM/reserved/..)
- */
- if (page_nr >= (ISA_END_ADDRESS >> PAGE_SHIFT) &&
- page_is_ram(page_nr))
- ram_page = 1;
- else
- not_rampage = 1;
-
- if (ram_page == not_rampage)
- return -1;
+ /*
+ * For legacy reasons, physical address range in the legacy ISA
+ * region is tracked as non-RAM. This will allow users of
+ * /dev/mem to map portions of legacy ISA region, even when
+ * some of those portions are listed(or not even listed) with
+ * different e820 types(RAM/reserved/..)
+ */
+ if (start_pfn < ISA_END_ADDRESS >> PAGE_SHIFT)
+ start_pfn = ISA_END_ADDRESS >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+
+ if (start_pfn < end_pfn) {
+ ret = walk_system_ram_range(start_pfn, end_pfn - start_pfn,
+ &state, pagerange_is_ram_callback);
}

- return ram_page;
+ return (ret > 0) ? -1 : (state.ram ? 1 : 0);
}

/*
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