On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 03:09:09PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 10:51:55AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 05:30:28PM -0700, Rick Edgecombe wrote:
> > > @@ -54,6 +98,8 @@ void ___pte_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, struct page *pte)
> > > {
> > > pgtable_pte_page_dtor(pte);
> > > paravirt_release_pte(page_to_pfn(pte));
> > > + /* Set Page Table so swap knows how to free it */
> > > + __SetPageTable(pte);
> > > paravirt_tlb_remove_table(tlb, pte);
> > > }
> > >
> > > @@ -70,12 +116,16 @@ void ___pmd_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, pmd_t *pmd)
> > > tlb->need_flush_all = 1;
> > > #endif
> > > pgtable_pmd_page_dtor(page);
> > > + /* Set Page Table so swap nows how to free it */
> > > + __SetPageTable(virt_to_page(pmd));
> > > paravirt_tlb_remove_table(tlb, page);
> > > }
> > >
> > > #if CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS > 3
> > > void ___pud_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, pud_t *pud)
> > > {
> > > + /* Set Page Table so swap nows how to free it */
> > > + __SetPageTable(virt_to_page(pud));
> > > paravirt_release_pud(__pa(pud) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> > > paravirt_tlb_remove_table(tlb, virt_to_page(pud));
> > > }
> > > @@ -83,6 +133,8 @@ void ___pud_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, pud_t *pud)
> > > #if CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS > 4
> > > void ___p4d_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, p4d_t *p4d)
> > > {
> > > + /* Set Page Table so swap nows how to free it */
> > > + __SetPageTable(virt_to_page(p4d));
> > > paravirt_release_p4d(__pa(p4d) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> > > paravirt_tlb_remove_table(tlb, virt_to_page(p4d));
> > > }
> >
> > This, to me, seems like a really weird place to __SetPageTable(), why
> > can't we do that on allocation?
>
> We call __ClearPageTable() at pgtable_pxy_page_dtor(), so at least for pte
> and pmd we need to somehow tell release_pages() what kind of page it was.
Hurph, right, but then the added comment is misleading; s/Set/Reset/g.
Still I'm thinking that if we do these allocators, moving the set/clear
to the allocator would be the most natural place, perhaps we can remove
them from the {c,d}tor.
