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* [PATCH] slab: Node rotor for freeing alien caches and remote per cpu pages.Christoph Lameter2006-03-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The cache reaper currently tries to free all alien caches and all remote per cpu pages in each pass of cache_reap. For a machines with large number of nodes (such as Altix) this may lead to sporadic delays of around ~10ms. Interrupts are disabled while reclaiming creating unacceptable delays. This patch changes that behavior by adding a per cpu reap_node variable. Instead of attempting to free all caches, we free only one alien cache and the per cpu pages from one remote node. That reduces the time spend in cache_reap. However, doing so will lengthen the time it takes to completely drain all remote per cpu pagesets and all alien caches. The time needed will grow with the number of nodes in the system. All caches are drained when they overflow their respective capacity. So the drawback here is only that a bit of memory may be wasted for awhile longer. Details: 1. Rename drain_remote_pages to drain_node_pages to allow the specification of the node to drain of pcp pages. 2. Add additional functions init_reap_node, next_reap_node for NUMA that manage a per cpu reap_node counter. 3. Add a reap_alien function that reaps only from the current reap_node. For us this seems to be a critical issue. Holdoffs of an average of ~7ms cause some HPC benchmarks to slow down significantly. F.e. NAS parallel slows down dramatically. NAS parallel has a 12-16 seconds runtime w/o rotor compared to 5.8 secs with the rotor patches. It gets down to 5.05 secs with the additional interrupt holdoff reductions. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Terminate process that fails on a constrained allocationChristoph Lameter2006-02-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some allocations are restricted to a limited set of nodes (due to memory policies or cpuset constraints). If the page allocator is not able to find enough memory then that does not mean that overall system memory is low. In particular going postal and more or less randomly shooting at processes is not likely going to help the situation but may just lead to suicide (the whole system coming down). It is better to signal to the process that no memory exists given the constraints that the process (or the configuration of the process) has placed on the allocation behavior. The process may be killed but then the sysadmin or developer can investigate the situation. The solution is similar to what we do when running out of hugepages. This patch adds a check before we kill processes. At that point performance considerations do not matter much so we just scan the zonelist and reconstruct a list of nodes. If the list of nodes does not contain all online nodes then this is a constrained allocation and we should kill the current process. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Handle holes in node mask in node fallback list setupLinus Torvalds2006-02-17
| | | | | | | | | | | Change the find_next_best_node algorithm to correctly skip over holes in the node online mask. Previously it would not handle missing nodes correctly and cause crashes at boot. [Written by Linus, tested by AK] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] compound page: default destructorHugh Dickins2006-02-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Somehow I imagined that calling a NULL destructor would free a compound page rather than oopsing. No, we must supply a default destructor, __free_pages_ok using the order noted by prep_compound_page. hugetlb can still replace this as before with its own free_huge_page pointer. The case that needs this is not common: rarely does put_compound_page's put_page_testzero bring the count down to 0. But if get_user_pages is applied to some part of a compound page, without immediate release (e.g. AIO or Infiniband), then it's possible for its put_page to come after the containing vma has been unmapped and the driver done its free_pages. That's just the kind of case compound pages are supposed to be guarding against (but Nick points out, nor did PageReserved handle this right). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] compound page: use page[1].lruHugh Dickins2006-02-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a compound page has its own put_page_testzero destructor (the only current example is free_huge_page), that is noted in page[1].mapping of the compound page. But that's rather a poor place to keep it: functions which call set_page_dirty_lock after get_user_pages (e.g. Infiniband's __ib_umem_release) ought to be checking first, otherwise set_page_dirty is liable to crash on what's not the address of a struct address_space. And now I'm about to make that worse: it turns out that every compound page needs a destructor, so we can no longer rely on hugetlb pages going their own special way, to avoid further problems of page->mapping reuse. For example, not many people know that: on 50% of i386 -Os builds, the first tail page of a compound page purports to be PageAnon (when its destructor has an odd address), which surprises page_add_file_rmap. Keep the compound page destructor in page[1].lru.next instead. And to free up the common pairing of mapping and index, also move compound page order from index to lru.prev. Slab reuses page->lru too: but if we ever need slab to use compound pages, it can easily stack its use above this. (akpm: decoded version of the above: the tail pages of a compound page now have ->mapping==NULL, so there's no need for the set_page_dirty[_lock]() caller to check that they're not compund pages before doing the dirty). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] percpu data: only iterate over possible CPUsEric Dumazet2006-02-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | percpu_data blindly allocates bootmem memory to store NR_CPUS instances of cpudata, instead of allocating memory only for possible cpus. As a preparation for changing that, we need to convert various 0 -> NR_CPUS loops to use for_each_cpu(). (The above only applies to users of asm-generic/percpu.h. powerpc has gone it alone and is presently only allocating memory for present CPUs, so it's currently corrupting memory). Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] __cpuinit functions wrongly marked __meminitAshok Raj2006-02-01
| | | | | | | | | __meminit has overzelously been modified and crept its way into marking cpuup callbacks as __meminit. Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Zone reclaim: Reclaim logicChristoph Lameter2006-01-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some bits for zone reclaim exists in 2.6.15 but they are not usable. This patch fixes them up, removes unused code and makes zone reclaim usable. Zone reclaim allows the reclaiming of pages from a zone if the number of free pages falls below the watermarks even if other zones still have enough pages available. Zone reclaim is of particular importance for NUMA machines. It can be more beneficial to reclaim a page than taking the performance penalties that come with allocating a page on a remote zone. Zone reclaim is enabled if the maximum distance to another node is higher than RECLAIM_DISTANCE, which may be defined by an arch. By default RECLAIM_DISTANCE is 20. 20 is the distance to another node in the same component (enclosure or motherboard) on IA64. The meaning of the NUMA distance information seems to vary by arch. If zone reclaim is not successful then no further reclaim attempts will occur for a certain time period (ZONE_RECLAIM_INTERVAL). This patch was discussed before. See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113519961504207&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113408418232531&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113389027420032&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113380938612205&w=2 Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86_64: add __meminit for memory hotplugMatt Tolentino2006-01-17
| | | | | | | | | | | Add __meminit to the __init lineup to ensure functions default to __init when memory hotplug is not enabled. Replace __devinit with __meminit on functions that were changed when the memory hotplug code was introduced. Signed-off-by: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] memmap_init_zone(): remove uneccesary page++Greg Ungerer2006-01-12
| | | | | | | | Remove unecessary page++ from memmap_init_zone loop. Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: gfp_atomic commentsPaul Jackson2006-01-11
| | | | | | | | | Clarify in comments that GFP_ATOMIC means both "don't sleep" and "use emergency pools", hence both ALLOC_HARDER and ALLOC_HIGH. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Restore KERN_EMERG to each line printed by bad_pageHugh Dickins2006-01-11
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fix/simplify mutex debugging codeDavid Woodhouse2006-01-11
| | | | | | | | | | Let's switch mutex_debug_check_no_locks_freed() to take (addr, len) as arguments instead, since all its callers were just calculating the 'to' address for themselves anyway... (and sometimes doing so badly). Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mutex subsystem, more debugging codeIngo Molnar2006-01-09
| | | | | | | | more mutex debugging: check for held locks during memory freeing, task exit, enable sysrq printouts, etc. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
* [PATCH] cpuset: memory pressure meterPaul Jackson2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Provide a simple per-cpuset metric of memory pressure, tracking the -rate- that the tasks in a cpuset call try_to_free_pages(), the synchronous (direct) memory reclaim code. This enables batch managers monitoring jobs running in dedicated cpusets to efficiently detect what level of memory pressure that job is causing. This is useful both on tightly managed systems running a wide mix of submitted jobs, which may choose to terminate or reprioritize jobs that are trying to use more memory than allowed on the nodes assigned them, and with tightly coupled, long running, massively parallel scientific computing jobs that will dramatically fail to meet required performance goals if they start to use more memory than allowed to them. This patch just provides a very economical way for the batch manager to monitor a cpuset for signs of memory pressure. It's up to the batch manager or other user code to decide what to do about it and take action. ==> Unless this feature is enabled by writing "1" to the special file /dev/cpuset/memory_pressure_enabled, the hook in the rebalance code of __alloc_pages() for this metric reduces to simply noticing that the cpuset_memory_pressure_enabled flag is zero. So only systems that enable this feature will compute the metric. Why a per-cpuset, running average: Because this meter is per-cpuset, rather than per-task or mm, the system load imposed by a batch scheduler monitoring this metric is sharply reduced on large systems, because a scan of the tasklist can be avoided on each set of queries. Because this meter is a running average, instead of an accumulating counter, a batch scheduler can detect memory pressure with a single read, instead of having to read and accumulate results for a period of time. Because this meter is per-cpuset rather than per-task or mm, the batch scheduler can obtain the key information, memory pressure in a cpuset, with a single read, rather than having to query and accumulate results over all the (dynamically changing) set of tasks in the cpuset. A per-cpuset simple digital filter (requires a spinlock and 3 words of data per-cpuset) is kept, and updated by any task attached to that cpuset, if it enters the synchronous (direct) page reclaim code. A per-cpuset file provides an integer number representing the recent (half-life of 10 seconds) rate of direct page reclaims caused by the tasks in the cpuset, in units of reclaims attempted per second, times 1000. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: free_pages optNick Piggin2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Try to streamline free_pages_bulk by ensuring callers don't pass in a 'count' that exceeds the list size. Some cleanups: Rename __free_pages_bulk to __free_one_page. Put the page list manipulation from __free_pages_ok into free_one_page. Make __free_pages_ok static. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: cleanup zone_pcpNick Piggin2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Use zone_pcp everywhere even though NUMA code "knows" the internal details of the zone. Stop other people trying to copy, and it looks nicer. Also, only print the pagesets of online cpus in zoneinfo. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Make high and batch sizes of per_cpu_pagelists configurableRohit Seth2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As recently there has been lot of traffic on the right values for batch and high water marks for per_cpu_pagelists. This patch makes these two variables configurable through /proc interface. A new tunable /proc/sys/vm/percpu_pagelist_fraction is added. This entry controls the fraction of pages at most in each zone that are allocated for each per cpu page list. The min value for this is 8. It means that we don't allow more than 1/8th of pages in each zone to be allocated in any single per_cpu_pagelist. The batch value of each per cpu pagelist is also updated as a result. It is set to pcp->high/4. The upper limit of batch is (PAGE_SHIFT * 8) Signed-off-by: Rohit Seth <rohit.seth@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] slab: remove nested #ifdef CONFIG_NUMAChristoph Lameter2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | For some reason there is an #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA within another #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA in the page allocator. Remove innermost #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] revert "mm: page_state fixes"Andrew Morton2006-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hugh says: page_alloc_cpu_notify() specifically contains code to /* Add dead cpu's page_states to our own. */ which handles this more efficiently. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: page_state optNick Piggin2006-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Optimise page_state manipulations by introducing interrupt unsafe accessors to page_state fields. Callers must provide their own locking (either disable interrupts or not update from interrupt context). Switch over the hot callsites that can easily be moved under interrupts off sections. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] build_zonelists_node(): rename argsChristoph Lameter2006-01-06
| | | | | | | | Give j and r meaningful names. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Fix zone policy determinationChristoph Lameter2006-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | The use k in the inner loop means that the highest zone nr is always used if any zone of a node is populated. This means that the policy zone is not correctly determined on arches that do no use HIGHMEM like ia64. Change the loop to decrement k which also simplifies the BUG_ON. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: move determination of policy_zone into page allocatorChristoph Lameter2006-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently the function to build a zonelist for a BIND policy has the side effect to set the policy_zone. This seems to be a bit strange. policy zone seems to not be initialized elsewhere and therefore 0. Do we police ZONE_DMA if no bind policy has been used yet? This patch moves the determination of the zone to apply policies to into the page allocator. We determine the zone while building the zonelist for nodes. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: simplify build_zonelists_node by removing the case statement.Christoph Lameter2006-01-06
| | | | | | | | Simplify build_zonelists_node by removing the case statement. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: add populated_zone() helperCon Kolivas2006-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | There are numerous places we check whether a zone is populated or not. Provide a helper function to check for populated zones and convert all checks for zone->present_pages. Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: bad_page optimisationNick Piggin2006-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | Cut down size slightly by not passing bad_page the function name (it should be able to be determined by dump_stack()). And cut down the number of printks in bad_page. Also, cut down some branching in the destroy_compound_page path. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: dma32 zone statisticsNick Piggin2006-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | Add dma32 to zone statistics. Also attempt to arrange struct page_state a bit better (visually). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] FRV: Clean up bootmem allocator's page freeing algorithmDavid Howells2006-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The attached patch cleans up the way the bootmem allocator frees pages. A new function, __free_pages_bootmem(), is provided in mm/page_alloc.c that is called from mm/bootmem.c to turn pages over to the main allocator. All the bits of code to initialise pages (clearing PG_reserved and setting the page count) are moved to here. The checks on page validity are removed, on the assumption that the struct page arrays will have been prepared correctly. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: page_alloc cleanupsNick Piggin2006-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | Small cleanups that does not change generated code with the gcc's I've tested with. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: page_state fixesNick Piggin2006-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | read_page_state and __get_page_state only traverse online CPUs, which will cause results to fluctuate when CPUs are plugged in or out. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: remove pcp lowNick Piggin2006-01-06
| | | | | | | | | struct per_cpu_pages.low is useless. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: remove bad_rangeNick Piggin2006-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | bad_range is supposed to be a temporary check. It would be a pity to throw it out. Make it depend on CONFIG_DEBUG_VM instead. CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE systems were relying on this to check pfn_valid in the page allocator. Add that to page_is_buddy instead. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: microopt conditionsNick Piggin2006-01-06
| | | | | | | | | Micro optimise some conditionals where we don't need lazy evaluation. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: set_page_refs optNick Piggin2006-01-06
| | | | | | | | | Inline set_page_refs. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: pagealloc optNick Piggin2006-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | Slightly optimise some page allocation and freeing functions by taking advantage of knowing whether or not interrupts are disabled. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: remove arch independent NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODESMike Kravetz2006-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES config option was created so that DISCONTIGMEM could handle pSeries numa layouts. However, support for DISCONTIGMEM has been replaced by SPARSEMEM on powerpc. As a result, this config option and supporting code is no longer needed. I have already sent a patch to Paul that removes the option from powerpc specific code. This removes the arch independent piece. Doesn't really matter which is applied first. Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: fix __alloc_pages cpuset ALLOC_* flagsPaul Jackson2006-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Two changes to the setting of the ALLOC_CPUSET flag in mm/page_alloc.c:__alloc_pages() - A bug fix - the "ignoring mins" case should not be honoring ALLOC_CPUSET. This case of all cases, since it is handling a request that will free up more memory than is asked for (exiting tasks, e.g.) should be allowed to escape cpuset constraints when memory is tight. - A logic change to make it simpler. Honor cpusets even on GFP_ATOMIC (!wait) requests. With this, cpuset confinement applies to all requests except ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS, so that in a subsequent cleanup patch, I can remove the ALLOC_CPUSET flag entirely. Since I don't know any real reason this logic has to be either way, I am choosing the path of the simplest code. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] missing prototype (mm/page_alloc.c)Al Viro2005-12-15
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Fix up per-cpu page batch sizesNick Piggin2005-12-03
| | | | | | | | | The code to clamp batch sizes to 2^n - 1 went missing and an extra check got added, which must have been a hunk of the "higer order pcp batch refills" work sneaking in. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: __alloc_pages cleanup fixNick Piggin2005-11-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I believe this patch is required to fix breakage in the asynch reclaim watermark logic introduced by this patch: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=7fb1d9fca5c6e3b06773b69165a73f3fb786b8ee Just some background of the watermark logic in case it isn't clear... Basically what we have is this: --- pages_high | | (a) | --- pages_low | | (b) | --- pages_min | | (c) | --- 0 Now when pages_low is reached, we want to kick asynch reclaim, which gives us an interval of "b" before we must start synch reclaim, and gives kswapd an interval of "a" before it need go back to sleep. When pages_min is reached, normal allocators must enter synch reclaim, but PF_MEMALLOC, ALLOC_HARDER, and ALLOC_HIGH (ie. atomic allocations, recursive allocations, etc.) get access to varying amounts of the reserve "c". Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] unpaged: PG_reserved bad_pageHugh Dickins2005-11-22
| | | | | | | | | | | It used to be the case that PG_reserved pages were silently never freed, but in 2.6.15-rc1 they may be freed with a "Bad page state" message. We should work through such cases as they appear, fixing the code; but for now it's safer to issue the message without freeing the page, leaving PG_reserved set. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] unpaged: unifdefed PageCompoundHugh Dickins2005-11-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It looks like snd_xxx is not the only nopage to be using PageReserved as a way of holding a high-order page together: which no longer works, but is masked by our failure to free from VM_RESERVED areas. We cannot fix that bug without first substituting another way to hold the high-order page together, while farming out the 0-order pages from within it. That's just what PageCompound is designed for, but it's been kept under CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE. Remove the #ifdefs: which saves some space (out- of-line put_page), doesn't slow down what most needs to be fast (already using hugetlb), and unifies the way we handle high-order pages. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] VM: fix zone list restart in page allocatateJens Axboe2005-11-17
| | | | | | | | | We must reassign z before looping through the zones kicking kswapd, since it will be NULL if we hit an OOM condition and jump back to the beginning again. 'z' is initially assigned before the restart: label. So move the restart label up a little. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* Merge x86-64 update from AndiLinus Torvalds2005-11-14
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| * [PATCH] x86_64: Remove obsolete ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC_UNSIGNED and page_flags_tAndi Kleen2005-11-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Has been introduced for x86-64 at some point to save memory in struct page, but has been obsolete for some time. Just remove it. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] x86_64: When cpu_up fails clean up page allocator properlyAndi Kleen2005-11-14
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] x86_64: Add 4GB DMA32 zoneAndi Kleen2005-11-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a new 4GB GFP_DMA32 zone between the GFP_DMA and GFP_NORMAL zones. As a bit of historical background: when the x86-64 port was originally designed we had some discussion if we should use a 16MB DMA zone like i386 or a 4GB DMA zone like IA64 or both. Both was ruled out at this point because it was in early 2.4 when VM is still quite shakey and had bad troubles even dealing with one DMA zone. We settled on the 16MB DMA zone mainly because we worried about older soundcards and the floppy. But this has always caused problems since then because device drivers had trouble getting enough DMA able memory. These days the VM works much better and the wide use of NUMA has proven it can deal with many zones successfully. So this patch adds both zones. This helps drivers who need a lot of memory below 4GB because their hardware is not accessing more (graphic drivers - proprietary and free ones, video frame buffer drivers, sound drivers etc.). Previously they could only use IOMMU+16MB GFP_DMA, which was not enough memory. Another common problem is that hardware who has full memory addressing for >4GB misses it for some control structures in memory (like transmit rings or other metadata). They tended to allocate memory in the 16MB GFP_DMA or the IOMMU/swiotlb then using pci_alloc_consistent, but that can tie up a lot of precious 16MB GFPDMA/IOMMU/swiotlb memory (even on AMD systems the IOMMU tends to be quite small) especially if you have many devices. With the new zone pci_alloc_consistent can just put this stuff into memory below 4GB which works better. One argument was still if the zone should be 4GB or 2GB. The main motivation for 2GB would be an unnamed not so unpopular hardware raid controller (mostly found in older machines from a particular four letter company) who has a strange 2GB restriction in firmware. But that one works ok with swiotlb/IOMMU anyways, so it doesn't really need GFP_DMA32. I chose 4GB to be compatible with IA64 and because it seems to be the most common restriction. The new zone is so far added only for x86-64. For other architectures who don't set up this new zone nothing changes. Architectures can set a compatibility define in Kconfig CONFIG_DMA_IS_DMA32 that will define GFP_DMA32 as GFP_DMA. Otherwise it's a nop because on 32bit architectures it's normally not needed because GFP_NORMAL (=0) is DMA able enough. One problem is still that GFP_DMA means different things on different architectures. e.g. some drivers used to have #ifdef ia64 use GFP_DMA (trusting it to be 4GB) #elif __x86_64__ (use other hacks like the swiotlb because 16MB is not enough) ... . This was quite ugly and is now obsolete. These should be now converted to use GFP_DMA32 unconditionally. I haven't done this yet. Or best only use pci_alloc_consistent/dma_alloc_coherent which will use GFP_DMA32 transparently. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] mm: highmem watermarksNick Piggin2005-11-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The pages_high - pages_low and pages_low - pages_min deltas are the asynch reclaim watermarks. As such, the should be in the same ratios as any other zone for highmem zones. It is the pages_min - 0 delta which is the PF_MEMALLOC reserve, and this is the region that isn't very useful for highmem. This patch ensures highmem systems have similar characteristics as non highmem ones with the same amount of memory, and also that highmem zones get similar reclaim pressures to other zones. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] mm: __alloc_pages cleanupRohit Seth2005-11-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Clean up of __alloc_pages. Restoration of previous behaviour, plus further cleanups by introducing an 'alloc_flags', removing the last of should_reclaim_zone. Signed-off-by: Rohit Seth <rohit.seth@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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