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Old 11-24-2015, 09:05 AM   #1
huangjie
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large latency of zap_page_range


In mm/memory.c, zap_page_range is defined as follow:
Code:
 /*
  * remove user pages in a given range.
  */
 void zap_page_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long address, unsigned long size)
 {
         mmu_gather_t *tlb;
         pgd_t * dir;
         unsigned long start = address, end = address + size;
         int freed = 0;

         dir = pgd_offset(mm, address);

         /*
          * This is a long-lived spinlock. That's fine.
          * There's no contention, because the page table
          * lock only protects against kswapd anyway, and
          * even if kswapd happened to be looking at this
          * process we _want_ it to get stuck.
          */
         if (address >= end)
                 BUG();
         spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
         flush_cache_range(mm, address, end);
         tlb = tlb_gather_mmu(mm);

         do {
                 freed += zap_pmd_range(tlb, dir, address, end - address);
                 address = (address + PGDIR_SIZE) & PGDIR_MASK;
                 dir++;
         } while (address && (address < end));

         /* this will flush any remaining tlb entries */
         tlb_finish_mmu(tlb, start, end);

         /*
          * Update rss for the mm_struct (not necessarily current->mm)
          * Notice that rss is an unsigned long.
          */
         if (mm->rss > freed)
                 mm->rss -= freed;
         else
                 mm->rss = 0;
         spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
}
My purpose is to create a big latency in here (between the spin locks), I mean to let this function as long as long as possible (from my user code). Can anyone give me some idea? What is associated the duration of this function?

Last edited by huangjie; 11-24-2015 at 09:55 AM.
 
  


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