[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "x86, ioremap: Speed up check for RAM pages" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    x86, ioremap: Speed up check for RAM pages

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 8bf156773ae12cea38d6d21ea7aea9b7f8161e7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roland Dreier <roland at purestorage.com>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 11:18:41 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 40/41] x86, ioremap: Speed up check for RAM pages

commit c81c8a1eeede61e92a15103748c23d100880cc8a upstream.

In __ioremap_caller() (the guts of ioremap), we loop over the range of
pfns being remapped and checks each one individually with page_is_ram().
For large ioremaps, this can be very slow.  For example, we have a
device with a 256 GiB PCI BAR, and ioremapping this BAR can take 20+
seconds -- sometimes long enough to trigger the soft lockup detector!

Internally, page_is_ram() calls walk_system_ram_range() on a single
page.  Instead, we can make a single call to walk_system_ram_range()
from __ioremap_caller(), and do our further checks only for any RAM
pages that we find.  For the common case of MMIO, this saves an enormous
amount of work, since the range being ioremapped doesn't intersect
system RAM at all.

With this change, ioremap on our 256 GiB BAR takes less than 1 second.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland at purestorage.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1399054721-1331-1-git-send-email-roland@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c b/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c
index 0215e2c563ef..6c0262a44524 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c
@@ -50,6 +50,21 @@ int ioremap_change_attr(unsigned long vaddr, unsigned long size,
 	return err;
 }

+static int __ioremap_check_ram(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long nr_pages,
+			       void *arg)
+{
+	unsigned long i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; ++i)
+		if (pfn_valid(start_pfn + i) &&
+		    !PageReserved(pfn_to_page(start_pfn + i)))
+			return 1;
+
+	WARN_ONCE(1, "ioremap on RAM pfn 0x%lx\n", start_pfn);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
 /*
  * Remap an arbitrary physical address space into the kernel virtual
  * address space. Needed when the kernel wants to access high addresses
@@ -93,14 +108,11 @@ static void __iomem *__ioremap_caller(resource_size_t phys_addr,
 	/*
 	 * Don't allow anybody to remap normal RAM that we're using..
 	 */
+	pfn      = phys_addr >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 	last_pfn = last_addr >> PAGE_SHIFT;
-	for (pfn = phys_addr >> PAGE_SHIFT; pfn <= last_pfn; pfn++) {
-		int is_ram = page_is_ram(pfn);
-
-		if (is_ram && pfn_valid(pfn) && !PageReserved(pfn_to_page(pfn)))
-			return NULL;
-		WARN_ON_ONCE(is_ram);
-	}
+	if (walk_system_ram_range(pfn, last_pfn - pfn + 1, NULL,
+				  __ioremap_check_ram) == 1)
+		return NULL;

 	/*
 	 * Mappings have to be page-aligned
--
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