linux_dsm_epyc7002/include
Andrea Arcangeli 7906d00cd1 mmu-notifiers: add mm_take_all_locks() operation
mm_take_all_locks holds off reclaim from an entire mm_struct.  This allows
mmu notifiers to register into the mm at any time with the guarantee that
no mmu operation is in progress on the mm.

This operation locks against the VM for all pte/vma/mm related operations
that could ever happen on a certain mm.  This includes vmtruncate,
try_to_unmap, and all page faults.

The caller must take the mmap_sem in write mode before calling
mm_take_all_locks().  The caller isn't allowed to release the mmap_sem
until mm_drop_all_locks() returns.

mmap_sem in write mode is required in order to block all operations that
could modify pagetables and free pages without need of altering the vma
layout (for example populate_range() with nonlinear vmas).  It's also
needed in write mode to avoid new anon_vmas to be associated with existing
vmas.

A single task can't take more than one mm_take_all_locks() in a row or it
would deadlock.

mm_take_all_locks() and mm_drop_all_locks are expensive operations that
may have to take thousand of locks.

mm_take_all_locks() can fail if it's interrupted by signals.

When mmu_notifier_register returns, we must be sure that the driver is
notified if some task is in the middle of a vmtruncate for the 'mm' where
the mmu notifier was registered (mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start/end
is run around the vmtruncation but mmu_notifier_register can run after
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start and before
mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end).  Same problem for rmap paths.  And
we've to remove page pinning to avoid replicating the tlb_gather logic
inside KVM (and GRU doesn't work well with page pinning regardless of
needing tlb_gather), so without mm_take_all_locks when vmtruncate frees
the page, kvm would have no way to notice that it mapped into sptes a page
that is going into the freelist without a chance of any further
mmu_notifier notification.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Kanoj Sarcar <kanojsarcar@yahoo.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
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acpi Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 2008-07-16 17:25:46 -07:00
asm-alpha [PATCH] kill altroot 2008-07-26 20:53:20 -04:00
asm-arm i2c: S3C2410: Pass the I2C bus number via drivers platform data 2008-07-28 12:05:26 +01:00
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asm-powerpc powerpc/mm: Implement _PAGE_SPECIAL & pte_special() for 64-bit 2008-07-28 16:30:52 +10:00
asm-s390 KVM: s390: Fix instruction naming for lctlg 2008-07-27 11:36:12 +03:00
asm-sh sh: Add SuperH Mobile CEU platform data for Migo-R 2008-07-28 18:51:07 +09:00
asm-um [PATCH] kill altroot 2008-07-26 20:53:20 -04:00
asm-x86 KVM: SVM: allow enabling/disabling NPT by reloading only the architecture module 2008-07-27 11:34:09 +03:00
asm-xtensa [PATCH] kill altroot 2008-07-26 20:53:20 -04:00
crypto crypto: hash - Move ahash functions into crypto/hash.h 2008-07-10 20:35:18 +08:00
drm drm/radeon: fixup issue with radeon and PAT support. 2008-07-15 15:48:05 +10:00
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linux mmu-notifiers: add mm_take_all_locks() operation 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
math-emu
media V4L/DVB (8525): fix a few assorted spelling mistakes. 2008-07-27 11:07:13 -03:00
mtd Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubi-2.6 2008-07-25 10:40:14 -04:00
net missing bits of net-namespace / sysctl 2008-07-27 09:45:34 -07:00
pcmcia
rdma dma-mapping: add the device argument to dma_mapping_error() 2008-07-26 12:00:03 -07:00
rxrpc
scsi [SCSI] extend the last_sector_bug flag to cover more sectors 2008-07-27 10:16:13 -04:00
sound ALSA: Release v1.0.17 2008-07-14 09:54:43 +02:00
video include/video/atmel_lcdc.h must #include <linux/workqueue.h> 2008-07-26 12:00:01 -07:00
xen xen: implement Xen-specific spinlocks 2008-07-16 11:15:53 +02:00
Kbuild kbuild: only one call for include/ in make headers_* 2008-07-25 22:11:44 +02:00