From c46a7c817e662a820373bb76b88d0ad67d6abe5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 16:06:30 -0700 Subject: x86: define _PAGE_NUMA by reusing software bits on the PMD and PTE levels _PAGE_NUMA is currently an alias of _PROT_PROTNONE to trap NUMA hinting faults on x86. Care is taken such that _PAGE_NUMA is used only in situations where the VMA flags distinguish between NUMA hinting faults and prot_none faults. This decision was x86-specific and conceptually it is difficult requiring special casing to distinguish between PROTNONE and NUMA ptes based on context. Fundamentally, we only need the _PAGE_NUMA bit to tell the difference between an entry that is really unmapped and a page that is protected for NUMA hinting faults as if the PTE is not present then a fault will be trapped. Swap PTEs on x86-64 use the bits after _PAGE_GLOBAL for the offset. This patch shrinks the maximum possible swap size and uses the bit to uniquely distinguish between NUMA hinting ptes and swap ptes. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Cc: David Vrabel Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Anvin Cc: Fengguang Wu Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Steven Noonan Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/x86/mm/pageattr-test.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/x86/mm') diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr-test.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr-test.c index 461bc8289024..6629f397b467 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr-test.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr-test.c @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ enum { static int pte_testbit(pte_t pte) { - return pte_flags(pte) & _PAGE_UNUSED1; + return pte_flags(pte) & _PAGE_SOFTW1; } struct split_state { -- cgit v1.2.3