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Patch series "Rearrange struct page", v6.
As presented at LSFMM, this patch-set rearranges struct page to give
more contiguous usable space to users who have allocated a struct page
for their own purposes. For a graphical view of before-and-after, see
the first two tabs of
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tvCszs_7FXrjei9_mtFiKV6nW1FLnYyvPvW-qNZhdog/edit?usp=sharing
Highlights:
- deferred_list now really exists in struct page instead of just a comment.
- hmm_data also exists in struct page instead of being a nasty hack.
- x86's PGD pages have a real pointer to the mm_struct.
- VMalloc pages now have all sorts of extra information stored in them
to help with debugging and tuning.
- rcu_head is no longer tied to slab in case anyone else wants to
free pages by RCU.
- slub's counters no longer share space with _refcount.
- slub's freelist+counters are now naturally dword aligned.
- slub loses a parameter to a lot of functions and a sysfs file.
This patch (of 17):
s390 borrows the storage used for _mapcount in struct page in order to
account whether the bottom or top half is being used for 2kB page tables.
I want to use that for something else, so use the top byte of _refcount
instead of the bottom byte of _mapcount. _refcount may temporarily be
incremented by other CPUs that see a stale pointer to this page in the
page cache, but each CPU can only increment it by one, and there are no
systems with 2^24 CPUs today, so they will not change the upper byte of
_refcount. We do have to be a little careful not to lose any of their
writes (as they will subsequently decrement the counter).
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]>
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <[email protected]>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Jérôme Glisse <[email protected]>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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