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| author | Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> | 2007-05-09 14:38:48 +1000 |
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| committer | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2007-05-09 16:35:00 +1000 |
| commit | 517e22638c282bb07c52a11f928961ed4822196b (patch) | |
| tree | 7eab8eb1242ee18f75c325077f26bdcb86133512 /arch/powerpc | |
| parent | f1fa74f4afe96b0e4ac2beaa61fa4f4667acdcbb (diff) | |
[POWERPC] Don't use SLAB/SLUB for PTE pages
The SLUB allocator relies on struct page fields first_page and slab,
overwritten by ptl when SPLIT_PTLOCK: so the SLUB allocator cannot then
be used for the lowest level of pagetable pages. This was obstructing
SLUB on PowerPC, which uses kmem_caches for its pagetables. So convert
its pte level to use normal gfp pages (whereas pmd, pud and 64k-page pgd
want partpages, so continue to use kmem_caches for pmd, pud and pgd).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c | 17 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig index ecd459dd1baf..ccc5410af996 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig @@ -120,19 +120,6 @@ config GENERIC_BUG config SYS_SUPPORTS_APM_EMULATION bool -# -# Powerpc uses the slab allocator to manage its ptes and the -# page structs of ptes are used for splitting the page table -# lock for configurations supporting more than SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS. -# -# In that special configuration the page structs of slabs are modified. -# This setting disables the selection of SLUB as a slab allocator. -# -config ARCH_USES_SLAB_PAGE_STRUCT - bool - default y - depends on SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS <= NR_CPUS - config DEFAULT_UIMAGE bool help diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c index fe1fe852181a..7312a265545f 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c @@ -146,21 +146,16 @@ static void zero_ctor(void *addr, struct kmem_cache *cache, unsigned long flags) memset(addr, 0, kmem_cache_size(cache)); } -#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES -static const unsigned int pgtable_cache_size[3] = { - PTE_TABLE_SIZE, PMD_TABLE_SIZE, PGD_TABLE_SIZE -}; -static const char *pgtable_cache_name[ARRAY_SIZE(pgtable_cache_size)] = { - "pte_pmd_cache", "pmd_cache", "pgd_cache", -}; -#else static const unsigned int pgtable_cache_size[2] = { - PTE_TABLE_SIZE, PMD_TABLE_SIZE + PGD_TABLE_SIZE, PMD_TABLE_SIZE }; static const char *pgtable_cache_name[ARRAY_SIZE(pgtable_cache_size)] = { - "pgd_pte_cache", "pud_pmd_cache", -}; +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES + "pgd_cache", "pmd_cache", +#else + "pgd_cache", "pud_pmd_cache", #endif /* CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES */ +}; #ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE /* Hugepages need one extra cache, initialized in hugetlbpage.c. We |