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x86: define _PAGE_NUMA by reusing software bits on the PMD and PTE levels
authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 22:55:26 +0000 (08:55 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Thu, 24 Apr 2014 22:55:26 +0000 (08:55 +1000)
commita36c91ba82b2cf6af671d8c3dc321186771cf6fd
tree2237828bf2f75b5d2c7cb1c6d47528a8d100aa9e
parent7d7b2990d8edfa67130013e8444dd6732c812ba8
x86: define _PAGE_NUMA by reusing software bits on the PMD and PTE levels

_PAGE_NUMA is currently an alias of _PROT_PROTNONE to trap NUMA hinting
faults on x86.  Care is taken such that _PAGE_NUMA is used only in
situations where the VMA flags distinguish between NUMA hinting faults and
prot_none faults.  This decision was x86-specific and conceptually it is
difficult requiring special casing to distinguish between PROTNONE and
NUMA ptes based on context.

Fundamentally, we only need the _PAGE_NUMA bit to tell the difference
between an entry that is really unmapped and a page that is protected for
NUMA hinting faults as if the PTE is not present then a fault will be
trapped.

Swap PTEs on x86-64 use the bits after _PAGE_GLOBAL for the offset.  This
patch shrinks the maximum possible swap size and uses the bit to uniquely
distinguish between NUMA hinting ptes and swap ptes.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable.h
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64.h
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_types.h
arch/x86/mm/pageattr-test.c
include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
include/linux/swapops.h
mm/memory.c