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authorHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>2007-05-09 14:38:48 +1000
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>2007-05-09 16:35:00 +1000
commit517e22638c282bb07c52a11f928961ed4822196b (patch)
tree7eab8eb1242ee18f75c325077f26bdcb86133512 /arch
parentf1fa74f4afe96b0e4ac2beaa61fa4f4667acdcbb (diff)
[POWERPC] Don't use SLAB/SLUB for PTE pages
The SLUB allocator relies on struct page fields first_page and slab, overwritten by ptl when SPLIT_PTLOCK: so the SLUB allocator cannot then be used for the lowest level of pagetable pages. This was obstructing SLUB on PowerPC, which uses kmem_caches for its pagetables. So convert its pte level to use normal gfp pages (whereas pmd, pud and 64k-page pgd want partpages, so continue to use kmem_caches for pmd, pud and pgd). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/Kconfig13
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c17
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index ecd459dd1ba..ccc5410af99 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -120,19 +120,6 @@ config GENERIC_BUG
config SYS_SUPPORTS_APM_EMULATION
bool
-#
-# Powerpc uses the slab allocator to manage its ptes and the
-# page structs of ptes are used for splitting the page table
-# lock for configurations supporting more than SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS.
-#
-# In that special configuration the page structs of slabs are modified.
-# This setting disables the selection of SLUB as a slab allocator.
-#
-config ARCH_USES_SLAB_PAGE_STRUCT
- bool
- default y
- depends on SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS <= NR_CPUS
-
config DEFAULT_UIMAGE
bool
help
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
index fe1fe852181..7312a265545 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
@@ -146,21 +146,16 @@ static void zero_ctor(void *addr, struct kmem_cache *cache, unsigned long flags)
memset(addr, 0, kmem_cache_size(cache));
}
-#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES
-static const unsigned int pgtable_cache_size[3] = {
- PTE_TABLE_SIZE, PMD_TABLE_SIZE, PGD_TABLE_SIZE
-};
-static const char *pgtable_cache_name[ARRAY_SIZE(pgtable_cache_size)] = {
- "pte_pmd_cache", "pmd_cache", "pgd_cache",
-};
-#else
static const unsigned int pgtable_cache_size[2] = {
- PTE_TABLE_SIZE, PMD_TABLE_SIZE
+ PGD_TABLE_SIZE, PMD_TABLE_SIZE
};
static const char *pgtable_cache_name[ARRAY_SIZE(pgtable_cache_size)] = {
- "pgd_pte_cache", "pud_pmd_cache",
-};
+#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES
+ "pgd_cache", "pmd_cache",
+#else
+ "pgd_cache", "pud_pmd_cache",
#endif /* CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES */
+};
#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
/* Hugepages need one extra cache, initialized in hugetlbpage.c. We