x86, pat: Add rbtree to do quick lookup in memtype tracking
PAT memtype tracking uses a linear link list to keep track of IO (non-RAM) regions and their memtypes. The code used a last_accessed pointer as a cache to speedup the lookup. As per discussions with H. Peter Anvin a while back, having a rbtree here will avoid bad performances in pathological cases where we may end up with huge linked list. This may not add any noticable performance speedup in normal case as the number of entires in PAT memtype list tend to be ~20-30 range. The patch removes the "cached_entry" logic as with rbtree we have more generic way of speeding up the lookup. With this patch, we use rbtree to do the quick lookup. We still use linked list as the memtype range tracked can be of different sizes and can overlap in different ways. We also keep track of usage counts with linked list. Example: Multiple ioremaps with different sizes uncached-minus @ 0xfffff00000-0xfffff04000 uncached-minus @ 0xfffff02000-0xfffff03000 And one userlevel mmap and the thread forks a new process uncached-minus @ 0xbf453000-0xbf454000 uncached-minus @ 0xbf453000-0xbf454000 Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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