litmus-rt.git/mm/Makefile, branch wip-bbb-prio-don

lmb: rename to memblock

2010-07-14T07:14:00+00:00

via following scripts

      FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')

      sed -i \
        -e 's/lmb/memblock/g' \
        -e 's/LMB/MEMBLOCK/g' \
        $FILES

      for N in $(find . -name lmb.[ch]); do
        M=$(echo $N | sed 's/lmb/memblock/g')
        mv $N $M
      done

and remove some wrong change like lmbench and dlmb etc.

also move memblock.c from lib/ to mm/

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar 
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

mm: compaction: memory compaction core

2010-05-25T15:06:59+00:00

This patch is the core of a mechanism which compacts memory in a zone by
relocating movable pages towards the end of the zone.

A single compaction run involves a migration scanner and a free scanner.
Both scanners operate on pageblock-sized areas in the zone.  The migration
scanner starts at the bottom of the zone and searches for all movable
pages within each area, isolating them onto a private list called
migratelist.  The free scanner starts at the top of the zone and searches
for suitable areas and consumes the free pages within making them
available for the migration scanner.  The pages isolated for migration are
then migrated to the newly isolated free pages.

[aarcange@redhat.com: Fix unsafe optimisation]
[mel@csn.ul.ie: do not schedule work on other CPUs for compaction]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Rik van Riel 
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

percpu: don't implicitly include slab.h from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00

percpu.h has always been including slab.h to get k[mz]alloc/free() for
UP inline implementation.  percpu.h being used by very low level
headers including module.h and sched.h, this meant that a lot files
unintentionally got slab.h inclusion.

Lee Schermerhorn was trying to make topology.h use percpu.h and got
bitten by this implicit inclusion.  The right thing to do is break
this ultimately unnecessary dependency.  The previous patch added
explicit inclusion of either gfp.h or slab.h to the source files using
them.  This patch updates percpu.h such that slab.h is no longer
included from percpu.h.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn

make generic_acl slightly more generic

2009-12-16T17:16:49+00:00

Now that we cache the ACL pointers in the generic inode all the generic_acl
cruft can go away and generic_acl.c can directly implement xattr handlers
dealing with the full Posix ACL semantics for in-memory filesystems.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

percpu: kill legacy percpu allocator

2009-10-02T04:29:29+00:00

With ia64 converted, there's no arch left which still uses legacy
percpu allocator.  Kill it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Delightedly-acked-by: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Christoph Lameter

procfs: disable per-task stack usage on NOMMU

2009-09-25T00:11:24+00:00

It needs walk_page_range().

Reported-by: Michal Simek 
Tested-by: Michal Simek 
Cc: Stefani Seibold 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Greg Ungerer 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6

2009-09-24T14:53:22+00:00

* 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6: (21 commits)
  HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page on btrfs
  HWPOISON: Add simple debugfs interface to inject hwpoison on arbitary PFNs
  HWPOISON: Add madvise() based injector for hardware poisoned pages v4
  HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page for NFS
  HWPOISON: Enable .remove_error_page for migration aware file systems
  HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v7
  HWPOISON: Add PR_MCE_KILL prctl to control early kill behaviour per process
  HWPOISON: shmem: call set_page_dirty() with locked page
  HWPOISON: Define a new error_remove_page address space op for async truncation
  HWPOISON: Add invalidate_inode_page
  HWPOISON: Refactor truncate to allow direct truncating of page v2
  HWPOISON: check and isolate corrupted free pages v2
  HWPOISON: Handle hardware poisoned pages in try_to_unmap
  HWPOISON: Use bitmask/action code for try_to_unmap behaviour
  HWPOISON: x86: Add VM_FAULT_HWPOISON handling to x86 page fault handler v2
  HWPOISON: Add poison check to page fault handling
  HWPOISON: Add basic support for poisoned pages in fault handler v3
  HWPOISON: Add new SIGBUS error codes for hardware poison signals
  HWPOISON: Add support for poison swap entries v2
  HWPOISON: Export some rmap vma locking to outside world
  ...

procfs: provide stack information for threads

2009-09-23T14:39:41+00:00

A patch to give a better overview of the userland application stack usage,
especially for embedded linux.

Currently you are only able to dump the main process/thread stack usage
which is showed in /proc/pid/status by the "VmStk" Value.  But you get no
information about the consumed stack memory of the the threads.

There is an enhancement in the /proc//{task/*,}/*maps and which marks
the vm mapping where the thread stack pointer reside with "[thread stack
xxxxxxxx]".  xxxxxxxx is the maximum size of stack.  This is a value
information, because libpthread doesn't set the start of the stack to the
top of the mapped area, depending of the pthread usage.

A sample output of /proc//task//maps looks like:

08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8312       /opt/z
08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00001000 03:00 8312       /opt/z
0804a000-0806b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
a7d12000-a7d13000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
a7d13000-a7f13000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [thread stack: 001ff4b4]
a7f13000-a7f14000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
a7f14000-a7f36000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
a7f36000-a8069000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 4222       /lib/libc.so.6
a8069000-a806b000 r--p 00133000 03:00 4222       /lib/libc.so.6
a806b000-a806c000 rw-p 00135000 03:00 4222       /lib/libc.so.6
a806c000-a806f000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
a806f000-a8083000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 14462      /lib/libpthread.so.0
a8083000-a8084000 r--p 00013000 03:00 14462      /lib/libpthread.so.0
a8084000-a8085000 rw-p 00014000 03:00 14462      /lib/libpthread.so.0
a8085000-a8088000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
a8088000-a80a4000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8317       /lib/ld-linux.so.2
a80a4000-a80a5000 r--p 0001b000 03:00 8317       /lib/ld-linux.so.2
a80a5000-a80a6000 rw-p 0001c000 03:00 8317       /lib/ld-linux.so.2
afaf5000-afb0a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [stack]
ffffe000-fffff000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0          [vdso]

Also there is a new entry "stack usage" in /proc//{task/*,}/status
which will you give the current stack usage in kb.

A sample output of /proc/self/status looks like:

Name:	cat
State:	R (running)
Tgid:	507
Pid:	507
.
.
.
CapBnd:	fffffffffffffeff
voluntary_ctxt_switches:	0
nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches:	0
Stack usage:	12 kB

I also fixed stack base address in /proc//{task/*,}/stat to the base
address of the associated thread stack and not the one of the main
process.  This makes more sense.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fs/proc/array.c now needs walk_page_range()]
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: move use_mm/unuse_mm from aio.c to mm/

2009-09-22T14:17:42+00:00

Anyone who wants to do copy to/from user from a kernel thread, needs
use_mm (like what fs/aio has).  Move that into mm/, to make reusing and
exporting easier down the line, and make aio use it.  Next intended user,
besides aio, will be vhost-net.

Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli 
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ksm: the mm interface to ksm

2009-09-22T14:17:31+00:00

This patch presents the mm interface to a dummy version of ksm.c, for
better scrutiny of that interface: the real ksm.c follows later.

When CONFIG_KSM is not set, madvise(2) reject MADV_MERGEABLE and
MADV_UNMERGEABLE with EINVAL, since that seems more helpful than
pretending that they can be serviced.  But when CONFIG_KSM=y, accept them
even if KSM is not currently running, and even on areas which KSM will not
touch (e.g.  hugetlb or shared file or special driver mappings).

Like other madvices, report ENOMEM despite success if any area in the
range is unmapped, and use EAGAIN to report out of memory.

Define vma flag VM_MERGEABLE to identify an area on which KSM may try
merging pages: leave it to ksm_madvise() to decide whether to set it.
Define mm flag MMF_VM_MERGEABLE to identify an mm which might contain
VM_MERGEABLE areas, to minimize callouts when forking or exiting.

Based upon earlier patches by Chris Wright and Izik Eidus.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright 
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus 
Cc: Michael Kerrisk 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Wu Fengguang 
Cc: Balbir Singh 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn 
Cc: Avi Kivity 
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds