From: Qi Zheng On a 64-bit system, madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) may cause a large number of empty PTE page table pages (such as 100GB+). To resolve this problem, first enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE to prepare for enabling the PT_RECLAIM feature, which resolves this problem. Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Matt Turner --- arch/alpha/Kconfig | 1 + arch/alpha/include/asm/tlb.h | 6 +++--- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/alpha/Kconfig b/arch/alpha/Kconfig index 80367f2cf821c..6c7dbf0adad62 100644 --- a/arch/alpha/Kconfig +++ b/arch/alpha/Kconfig @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ config ALPHA select OLD_SIGSUSPEND select CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS if !ALPHA_EV67 select MMU_GATHER_NO_RANGE + select MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE select SPARSEMEM_EXTREME if SPARSEMEM select ZONE_DMA help diff --git a/arch/alpha/include/asm/tlb.h b/arch/alpha/include/asm/tlb.h index 4f79e331af5ea..ad586b898fd6b 100644 --- a/arch/alpha/include/asm/tlb.h +++ b/arch/alpha/include/asm/tlb.h @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ #include -#define __pte_free_tlb(tlb, pte, address) pte_free((tlb)->mm, pte) -#define __pmd_free_tlb(tlb, pmd, address) pmd_free((tlb)->mm, pmd) - +#define __pte_free_tlb(tlb, pte, address) tlb_remove_ptdesc((tlb), page_ptdesc(pte)) +#define __pmd_free_tlb(tlb, pmd, address) tlb_remove_ptdesc((tlb), virt_to_ptdesc(pmd)) + #endif -- 2.20.1