[PATCH 02/10] mm: Add p[te|md] protnone helpers for use by NUMA balancing

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Thu Dec 04 2014 - 06:24:44 EST


This is a preparatory patch that introduces protnone helpers for automatic
NUMA balancing.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
include/asm-generic/pgtable.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 52 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable.h
index a8805fe..7b889a3 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -39,6 +39,22 @@ static inline int pte_none(pte_t pte) { return (pte_val(pte) & ~_PTE_NONE_MASK)
static inline pgprot_t pte_pgprot(pte_t pte) { return __pgprot(pte_val(pte) & PAGE_PROT_BITS); }

#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
+/*
+ * These work without NUMA balancing but the kernel does not care. See the
+ * comment in include/asm-generic/pgtable.h . On powerpc, this will only
+ * work for user pages and always return true for kernel pages.
+ */
+static inline int pte_protnone(pte_t pte)
+{
+ return (pte_val(pte) &
+ (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_USER)) == _PAGE_PRESENT;
+}
+
+static inline int pmd_protnone(pmd_t pmd)
+{
+ return pte_protnone(pmd_pte(pmd));
+}
+
static inline int pte_present(pte_t pte)
{
return pte_val(pte) & _PAGE_NUMA_MASK;
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 081d6f4..2e25780 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -502,6 +502,22 @@ static inline int pmd_present(pmd_t pmd)
_PAGE_NUMA);
}

+#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
+/*
+ * These work without NUMA balancing but the kernel does not care. See the
+ * comment in include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
+ */
+static inline int pte_protnone(pte_t pte)
+{
+ return pte_flags(pte) & _PAGE_PROTNONE;
+}
+
+static inline int pmd_protnone(pmd_t pmd)
+{
+ return pmd_flags(pmd) & _PAGE_PROTNONE;
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */
+
static inline int pmd_none(pmd_t pmd)
{
/* Only check low word on 32-bit platforms, since it might be
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
index 177d597..d497d08 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
@@ -688,6 +688,26 @@ static inline int pmd_trans_unstable(pmd_t *pmd)
#endif
}

+#ifndef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
+/*
+ * Technically a PTE can be PROTNONE even when not doing NUMA balancing but
+ * the only case the kernel cares is for NUMA balancing and is only ever set
+ * when the VMA is accessible. For PROT_NONE VMAs, the PTEs are not marked
+ * _PAGE_PROTNONE so by by default, implement the helper as "always no". It
+ * is the responsibility of the caller to distinguish between PROT_NONE
+ * protections and NUMA hinting fault protections.
+ */
+static inline int pte_protnone(pte_t pte)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static inline int pmd_protnone(pmd_t pmd)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */
+
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
/*
* _PAGE_NUMA distinguishes between an unmapped page table entry, an entry that
--
2.1.2

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