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DateThu, 9 Jul 2009 12:27:02 +0900
FromKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <>
Subject[PATCH 1/2] ZERO PAGE config
Only x86 config is inculded because I can test only x86...
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From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>

Kconfig for using ZERO_PAGE. Using ZERO_PAGE or not is depends on
- arch has pte_special() or not.
- arch allows to use ZERO_PAGE or not.

In this patch, generic-config for /mm and arch-specific config for x86
is added. Other archs ? AFAIK, powerpc and s390 has pte_special().

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
---
arch/x86/Kconfig | 3 +++
mm/Kconfig | 15 +++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
Index: zeropage-trialv3/mm/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- zeropage-trialv3.orig/mm/Kconfig
+++ zeropage-trialv3/mm/Kconfig
@@ -214,6 +214,21 @@ config HAVE_MLOCKED_PAGE_BIT
config MMU_NOTIFIER
bool

+config SUPPORT_ANON_ZERO_PAGE
+ bool "use anon zero page"
+ default y if ARCH_SUPPORT_ANON_ZERO_PAGE
+ help
+ In anonymous private mapping (MAP_ANONYMOUS and /dev/zero), a read
+ page fault will allocate a new zero-cleared page. If the first page
+ fault is write, allocating a new page is necessary. But if it is
+ read, we can use ZERO_PAGE until a write comes. If you set this to y,
+ the kernel use ZERO_PAGE and delays allocating new memory in private
+ anon mapping until the first write. If applications use large mmap
+ and most of accesses are read, this reduces memory usage and cache
+ usage to some extent. To support this, your architecture should have
+ _PAGE_SPECIAL bit in pte. And this will be no help to cpu cache if
+ the arch's cache is virtually tagged.
+
config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
int "Low address space to protect from user allocation"
default 4096
Index: zeropage-trialv3/arch/x86/Kconfig
===================================================================
--- zeropage-trialv3.orig/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ zeropage-trialv3/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -161,6 +161,9 @@ config ARCH_HIBERNATION_POSSIBLE
config ARCH_SUSPEND_POSSIBLE
def_bool y

+config ARCH_SUPPORT_ANON_ZERO_PAGE
+ def_bool y
+
config ZONE_DMA32
bool
default X86_64


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