tree e1f8dae8783274372a0f136be6eb64102877e9f6
parent 65500d234e74fc4e8f18e1a429bc24e51e75de4a
author Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> 1130634960 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> 1130647237 -0700

[PATCH] mm: move_page_tables by extents

Speeding up mremap's moving of ptes has never been a priority, but the locking
will get more complicated shortly, and is already too baroque.

Scrap the current one-by-one moving, do an extent at a time: curtailed by end
of src and dst pmds (have to use PMD_SIZE: the way pmd_addr_end gets elided
doesn't match this usage), and by latency considerations.

One nice property of the old method is lost: it never allocated a page table
unless absolutely necessary, so you could free empty page tables by mremapping
to and fro.  Whereas this way, it allocates a dst table wherever there was a
src table.  I keep diving in to reinstate the old behaviour, then come out
preferring not to clutter how it now is.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>