From: Fenghua Yu <fenghua...@intel.com>
X86 32-bit machine and kernel use PAE paging, which currently wastes about
4K of memory per process on Linux where we have to reserve an entire page to
support a single 256-byte PGD structure. It would be a very good thing if
we could eliminate that wastage.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua...@intel.com>
---
arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
index 6fb6927..695db92 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/gfp.h>
+#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <asm/pgalloc.h>
#include <asm/pgtable.h>
#include <asm/tlb.h>
@@ -271,12 +272,46 @@ 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. pgd in 64 bit also
+ * needs to be in one page.
+ *
+ * But PAE without Xen only needs to allocate 256 bytes for pgd.
+ *
+ * So if kernel is compiled as PAE model without Xen, we allocate 256 bytes
+ * for pgd entries to save memory space.
+ *
+ * In other cases, one page is allocated for pgd. In theory, a kernel
+ * in PAE mode not running in Xen could allocate 256 bytes for pgd
+ * as well. But that will make the allocation and free more complex
+ * but not useful in reality. To simplify the code and testing, we just
+ * allocate one page when CONFIG_XEN is enabled regardelss kernel is running
+ * in Xen or not.
+ */
+static inline pgd_t *_pgd_alloc(void)
+{
+#if defined(CONFIG_X86_PAE) && !defined(CONFIG_XEN)
+ return kmalloc(sizeof(pgdval_t) * PTRS_PER_PGD, PGALLOC_GFP);
+#else
+ return (pgd_t *)__get_free_page(PGALLOC_GFP);
+#endif
+}
+
+static inline void _pgd_free(pgd_t *pgd)
+{
+#if defined(CONFIG_X86_PAE) && !defined(CONFIG_XEN)
+ kfree(pgd);
+#else
+ free_page((unsigned long)pgd);
+#endif
+}
+
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 +341,7 @@ 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 +351,8 @@ 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);
+
}
/*
--
1.8.1.2
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
