From 1db491f77b6ed0f32f1d4a3ac40a5be9524f1914 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fenghua Yu Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 20:30:01 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] x86/mm: Reduce PAE-mode per task pgd allocation overhead from 4K to 32 bytes 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 Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Glenn Williamson Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421382601-46912-1-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c | 81 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 78 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c index 6fb6927f9e76..d223e1fe1dd2 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c @@ -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 + +#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); } /* -- 2.39.5