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| author | Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2018-03-21 21:22:39 +0200 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2018-04-16 14:18:13 -0600 |
| commit | d18edf52f42b6e7453593738a86c288782c79fe3 (patch) | |
| tree | c174f591ff185d27e1e5ccc053f1629e7b518e4e /Documentation/vm | |
| parent | 0015190af2d8578bc78cc0b52db24a6c9dddf08a (diff) | |
| download | linux-d18edf52f42b6e7453593738a86c288782c79fe3.tar.bz2 | |
docs/vm: split_page_table_lock: convert to ReST format
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/vm')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/vm/split_page_table_lock | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/split_page_table_lock b/Documentation/vm/split_page_table_lock index 62842a857dab..889b00be469f 100644 --- a/Documentation/vm/split_page_table_lock +++ b/Documentation/vm/split_page_table_lock @@ -1,3 +1,6 @@ +.. _split_page_table_lock: + +===================== Split page table lock ===================== @@ -11,6 +14,7 @@ access to the table. At the moment we use split lock for PTE and PMD tables. Access to higher level tables protected by mm->page_table_lock. There are helpers to lock/unlock a table and other accessor functions: + - pte_offset_map_lock() maps pte and takes PTE table lock, returns pointer to the taken lock; @@ -34,12 +38,13 @@ Split page table lock for PMD tables is enabled, if it's enabled for PTE tables and the architecture supports it (see below). Hugetlb and split page table lock ---------------------------------- +================================= Hugetlb can support several page sizes. We use split lock only for PMD level, but not for PUD. Hugetlb-specific helpers: + - huge_pte_lock() takes pmd split lock for PMD_SIZE page, mm->page_table_lock otherwise; @@ -47,7 +52,7 @@ Hugetlb-specific helpers: returns pointer to table lock; Support of split page table lock by an architecture ---------------------------------------------------- +=================================================== There's no need in special enabling of PTE split page table lock: everything required is done by pgtable_page_ctor() and pgtable_page_dtor(), @@ -73,7 +78,7 @@ NOTE: pgtable_page_ctor() and pgtable_pmd_page_ctor() can fail -- it must be handled properly. page->ptl ---------- +========= page->ptl is used to access split page table lock, where 'page' is struct page of page containing the table. It shares storage with page->private @@ -81,6 +86,7 @@ page of page containing the table. It shares storage with page->private To avoid increasing size of struct page and have best performance, we use a trick: + - if spinlock_t fits into long, we use page->ptr as spinlock, so we can avoid indirect access and save a cache line. - if size of spinlock_t is bigger then size of long, we use page->ptl as |