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* [PATCH] ext3_readdir: use generic readaheadAndrew Morton2006-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Linus points out that ext3_readdir's readahead only cuts in when ext3_readdir() is operating at the very start of the directory. So for large directories we end up performing no readahead at all and we suck. So take it all out and use the core VM's page_cache_readahead(). This means that ext3 directory reads will use all of readahead's dynamic sizing goop. Note that we're using the directory's filp->f_ra to hold the readahead state, but readahead is actually being performed against the underlying blockdev's address_space. Fortunately the readahead code is all set up to handle this. Tested with printk. It works. I was struggling to find a real workload which actually cared. (The patch also exports page_cache_readahead() to GPL modules) Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] swsusp: userland interfaceRafael J. Wysocki2006-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch introduces a user space interface for swsusp. The interface is based on a special character device, called the snapshot device, that allows user space processes to perform suspend and resume-related operations with the help of some ioctls and the read()/write() functions.  Additionally it allows these processes to allocate free swap pages from a selected swap partition, called the resume partition, so that they know which sectors of the resume partition are available to them. The interface uses the same low-level system memory snapshot-handling functions that are used by the built-it swap-writing/reading code of swsusp. The interface documentation is included in the patch. The patch assumes that the major and minor numbers of the snapshot device will be 10 (ie. misc device) and 231, the registration of which has already been requested. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] swsusp: low level interfaceRafael J. Wysocki2006-03-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce the low level interface that can be used for handling the snapshot of the system memory by the in-kernel swap-writing/reading code of swsusp and the userland interface code (to be introduced shortly). Also change the way in which swsusp records the allocated swap pages and, consequently, simplifies the in-kernel swap-writing/reading code (this is necessary for the userland interface too). To this end, it introduces two helper functions in mm/swapfile.c, so that the swsusp code does not refer directly to the swap internals. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] page migration reorgChristoph Lameter2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Centralize the page migration functions in anticipation of additional tinkering. Creates a new file mm/migrate.c 1. Extract buffer_migrate_page() from fs/buffer.c 2. Extract central migration code from vmscan.c 3. Extract some components from mempolicy.c 4. Export pageout() and remove_from_swap() from vmscan.c 5. Make it possible to configure NUMA systems without page migration and non-NUMA systems with page migration. I had to so some #ifdeffing in mempolicy.c that may need a cleanup. 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: slab cache interleave rotor fixPaul Jackson2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The alien cache rotor in mm/slab.c assumes that the first online node is node 0. Eventually for some archs, especially with hotplug, this will no longer be true. Fix the interleave rotor to handle the general case of node numbering. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: hugetlb alloc_fresh_huge_page bogus node loop fixPaul Jackson2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | Fix bogus node loop in hugetlb.c alloc_fresh_huge_page(), which was assuming that nodes are numbered contiguously from 0 to num_online_nodes(). Once the hotplug folks get this far, that will be false. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fix swap cluster offsetAkinobu Mita2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | When we've allocated SWAPFILE_CLUSTER pages, ->cluster_next should be the first index of swap cluster. But current code probably sets it wrong offset. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] drain_node_pages: interrupt latency reduction / optimizationChristoph Lameter2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1. Only disable interrupts if there is actually something to free 2. Only dirty the pcp cacheline if we actually freed something. 3. Disable interrupts for each single pcp and not for cleaning all the pcps in all zones of a node. drain_node_pages is called every 2 seconds from cache_reap. This fix should avoid most disabling of interrupts. 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] slab: fix drain_array() so that it works correctly with the shared_arrayChristoph Lameter2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The list_lock also protects the shared array and we call drain_array() with the shared array. Therefore we cannot go as far as I wanted to but have to take the lock in a way so that it also protects the array_cache in drain_pages. (Note: maybe we should make the array_cache locking more consistent? I.e. always take the array cache lock for shared arrays and disable interrupts for the per cpu arrays?) 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] slab: remove drain_array_lockedChristoph Lameter2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | Remove drain_array_locked and use that opportunity to limit the time the l3 lock is taken further. 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] slab: make drain_array more universal by adding more parametersChristoph Lameter2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | And a parameter to drain_array to control the freeing of all objects and then use drain_array() to replace instances of drain_array_locked with drain_array. Doing so will avoid taking locks in those locations if the arrays are empty. 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] slab: cache_reap(): further reduction in interrupt holdoffChristoph Lameter2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | cache_reap takes the l3->list_lock (disabling interrupts) unconditionally and then does a few checks and maybe does some cleanup. This patch makes cache_reap() only take the lock if there is work to do and then the lock is taken and released for each cleaning action. The checking of when to do the next reaping is done without any locking and becomes racy. Should not matter since reaping can also be skipped if the slab mutex cannot be acquired. The same is true for the touched processing. If we get this wrong once in awhile then we will mistakenly clean or not clean the shared cache. This will impact performance slightly. Note that the additional drain_array() function introduced here will fall out in a subsequent patch since array cleaning will now be very similar from all callers. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: make shrink_all_memory try harderRafael J. Wysocki2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | Make shrink_all_memory() repeat the attempts to free more memory if there seems to be no pages to free. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] optimize follow_hugetlb_pageChen, Kenneth W2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | follow_hugetlb_page() walks a range of user virtual address and then fills in list of struct page * into an array that is passed from the argument list. It also gets a reference count via get_page(). For compound page, get_page() actually traverse back to head page via page_private() macro and then adds a reference count to the head page. Since we are doing a virt to pte look up, kernel already has a struct page pointer into the head page. So instead of traverse into the small unit page struct and then follow a link back to the head page, optimize that with incrementing the reference count directly on the head page. The benefit is that we don't take a cache miss on accessing page struct for the corresponding user address and more importantly, not to pollute the cache with a "not very useful" round trip of pointer chasing. This adds a moderate performance gain on an I/O intensive database transaction workload. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] hugepage: Fix hugepage logic in free_pgtables() harderDavid Gibson2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Turns out the hugepage logic in free_pgtables() was doubly broken. The loop coalescing multiple normal page VMAs into one call to free_pgd_range() had an off by one error, which could mean it would coalesce one hugepage VMA into the same bundle (checking 'vma' not 'next' in the loop). I transferred this bug into the new is_vm_hugetlb_page() based version. Here's the fix. This one didn't bite on powerpc previously for the same reason the is_hugepage_only_range() problem didn't: powerpc's hugetlb_free_pgd_range() is identical to free_pgd_range(). It didn't bite on ia64 because the hugepage region is distant enough from any other region that the separated PMD_SIZE distance test would always prevent coalescing the two together. No libhugetlbfs testsuite regressions (ppc64, POWER5). Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] hugepage: Fix hugepage logic in free_pgtables()David Gibson2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | free_pgtables() has special logic to call hugetlb_free_pgd_range() instead of the normal free_pgd_range() on hugepage VMAs. However, the test it uses to do so is incorrect: it calls is_hugepage_only_range on a hugepage sized range at the start of the vma. is_hugepage_only_range() will return true if the given range has any intersection with a hugepage address region, and in this case the given region need not be hugepage aligned. So, for example, this test can return true if called on, say, a 4k VMA immediately preceding a (nicely aligned) hugepage VMA. At present we get away with this because the powerpc version of hugetlb_free_pgd_range() is just a call to free_pgd_range(). On ia64 (the only other arch with a non-trivial is_hugepage_only_range()) we get away with it for a different reason; the hugepage area is not contiguous with the rest of the user address space, and VMAs are not permitted in between, so the test can't return a false positive there. Nonetheless this should be fixed. We do that in the patch below by replacing the is_hugepage_only_range() test with an explicit test of the VMA using is_vm_hugetlb_page(). This in turn changes behaviour for platforms where is_hugepage_only_range() returns false always (everything except powerpc and ia64). We address this by ensuring that hugetlb_free_pgd_range() is defined to be identical to free_pgd_range() (instead of a no-op) on everything except ia64. Even so, it will prevent some otherwise possible coalescing of calls down to free_pgd_range(). Since this only happens for hugepage VMAs, removing this small optimization seems unlikely to cause any trouble. This patch causes no regressions on the libhugetlbfs testsuite - ppc64 POWER5 (8-way), ppc64 G5 (2-way) and i386 Pentium M (UP). Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] hugepage: Make {alloc,free}_huge_page() localDavid Gibson2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Originally, mm/hugetlb.c just handled the hugepage physical allocation path and its {alloc,free}_huge_page() functions were used from the arch specific hugepage code. These days those functions are only used with mm/hugetlb.c itself. Therefore, this patch makes them static and removes their prototypes from hugetlb.h. This requires a small rearrangement of code in mm/hugetlb.c to avoid a forward declaration. This patch causes no regressions on the libhugetlbfs testsuite (ppc64, POWER5). Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] hugepage: Strict page reservation for hugepage inodesDavid Gibson2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These days, hugepages are demand-allocated at first fault time. There's a somewhat dubious (and racy) heuristic when making a new mmap() to check if there are enough available hugepages to fully satisfy that mapping. A particularly obvious case where the heuristic breaks down is where a process maps its hugepages not as a single chunk, but as a bunch of individually mmap()ed (or shmat()ed) blocks without touching and instantiating the pages in between allocations. In this case the size of each block is compared against the total number of available hugepages. It's thus easy for the process to become overcommitted, because each block mapping will succeed, although the total number of hugepages required by all blocks exceeds the number available. In particular, this defeats such a program which will detect a mapping failure and adjust its hugepage usage downward accordingly. The patch below addresses this problem, by strictly reserving a number of physical hugepages for hugepage inodes which have been mapped, but not instatiated. MAP_SHARED mappings are thus "safe" - they will fail on mmap(), not later with an OOM SIGKILL. MAP_PRIVATE mappings can still trigger an OOM. (Actually SHARED mappings can technically still OOM, but only if the sysadmin explicitly reduces the hugepage pool between mapping and instantiation) This patch appears to address the problem at hand - it allows DB2 to start correctly, for instance, which previously suffered the failure described above. This patch causes no regressions on the libhugetblfs testsuite, and makes a test (designed to catch this problem) pass which previously failed (ppc64, POWER5). Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] hugepage: serialize hugepage allocation and instantiationDavid Gibson2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, no lock or mutex is held between allocating a hugepage and inserting it into the pagetables / page cache. When we do go to insert the page into pagetables or page cache, we recheck and may free the newly allocated hugepage. However, since the number of hugepages in the system is strictly limited, and it's usualy to want to use all of them, this can still lead to spurious allocation failures. For example, suppose two processes are both mapping (MAP_SHARED) the same hugepage file, large enough to consume the entire available hugepage pool. If they race instantiating the last page in the mapping, they will both attempt to allocate the last available hugepage. One will fail, of course, returning OOM from the fault and thus causing the process to be killed, despite the fact that the entire mapping can, in fact, be instantiated. The patch fixes this race by the simple method of adding a (sleeping) mutex to serialize the hugepage fault path between allocation and insertion into pagetables and/or page cache. It would be possible to avoid the serialization by catching the allocation failures, waiting on some condition, then rechecking to see if someone else has instantiated the page for us. Given the likely frequency of hugepage instantiations, it seems very doubtful it's worth the extra complexity. This patch causes no regression on the libhugetlbfs testsuite, and one test, which can trigger this race now passes where it previously failed. Actually, the test still sometimes fails, though less often and only as a shmat() failure, rather processes getting OOM killed by the VM. The dodgy heuristic tests in fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c for whether there's enough hugepage space aren't protected by the new mutex, and would be ugly to do so, so there's still a race there. Another patch to replace those tests with something saner for this reason as well as others coming... Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] hugepage: Small fixes to hugepage clear/copy pathDavid Gibson2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move the loops used in mm/hugetlb.c to clear and copy hugepages to their own functions for clarity. As we do so, we add some checks of need_resched - we are, after all copying megabytes of memory here. We also add might_sleep() accordingly. We generally dropped locks around the clear and copy, already but not everyone has PREEMPT enabled, so we should still be checking explicitly. For this to work, we need to remove the clear_huge_page() from alloc_huge_page(), which is called with the page_table_lock held in the COW path. We move the clear_huge_page() to just after the alloc_huge_page() in the hugepage no-page path. In the COW path, the new page is about to be copied over, so clearing it was just a waste of time anyway. So as a side effect we also fix the fact that we held the page_table_lock for far too long in this path by calling alloc_huge_page() under it. It causes no regressions on the libhugetlbfs testsuite (ppc64, POWER5). Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Enable mprotect on huge pagesZhang, Yanmin2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2.6.16-rc3 uses hugetlb on-demand paging, but it doesn_t support hugetlb mprotect. From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Remove a test from the mprotect() path which checks that the mprotect()ed range on a hugepage VMA is hugepage aligned (yes, really, the sense of is_aligned_hugepage_range() is the opposite of what you'd guess :-/). In fact, we don't need this test. If the given addresses match the beginning/end of a hugepage VMA they must already be suitably aligned. If they don't, then mprotect_fixup() will attempt to split the VMA. The very first test in split_vma() will check for a badly aligned address on a hugepage VMA and return -EINVAL if necessary. From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> On i386 and x86-64, pte flag _PAGE_PSE collides with _PAGE_PROTNONE. The identify of hugetlb pte is lost when changing page protection via mprotect. A page fault occurs later will trigger a bug check in huge_pte_alloc(). The fix is to always make new pte a hugetlb pte and also to clean up legacy code where _PAGE_PRESENT is forced on in the pre-faulting day. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] readahead: fix initial window size calculationSteven Pratt2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current current get_init_ra_size is not optimal across different IO sizes and max_readahead values. Here is a quick summary of sizes computed under current design and under the attached patch. All of these assume 1st IO at offset 0, or 1st detected sequential IO. 32k max, 4k request old new ----------------- 8k 8k 16k 16k 32k 32k 128k max, 4k request old new ----------------- 32k 16k 64k 32k 128k 64k 128k 128k 128k max, 32k request old new ----------------- 32k 64k <----- 64k 128k 128k 128k 512k max, 4k request old new ----------------- 4k 32k <---- 16k 64k 64k 128k 128k 256k 512k 512k Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Steven Pratt <slpratt@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] readahead: ->prev_page can overrun the ahead windowOleg Nesterov2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | If get_next_ra_size() does not grow fast enough, ->prev_page can overrun the ahead window. This means the caller will read the pages from ->ahead_start + ->ahead_size to ->prev_page synchronously. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Steven Pratt <slpratt@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] shmem: inline to avoid warningHugh Dickins2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | shmem.c was named and shamed in Jesper's "Building 100 kernels" warnings: shmem_parse_mpol is only used when CONFIG_TMPFS parses mount options; and only called from that one site, so mark it inline like its non-NUMA stub. 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] vmscan: emove obsolete checks from shrink_list() and fix unlikely in ↵Christoph Lameter2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | refill_inactive_zone() As suggested by Marcelo: 1. The optimization introduced recently for not calling page_referenced() during zone reclaim makes two additional checks in shrink_list unnecessary. 2. The if (unlikely(sc->may_swap)) in refill_inactive_zone is optimized for the zone_reclaim case. However, most peoples system only does swap. Undo that. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: more CONFIG_DEBUG_VMNick Piggin2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | Put a few more checks under CONFIG_DEBUG_VM 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: prep_zero_page() in irq is a bugAndrew Morton2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | prep_zero_page() uses KM_USER0 and hence may not be used from IRQ context, at least for highmem pages. Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: cleanup prep_ stuffNick Piggin2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | Move the prep_ stuff into prep_new_page. 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] remove set_page_count() outside mm/Nick Piggin2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | set_page_count usage outside mm/ is limited to setting the refcount to 1. Remove set_page_count from outside mm/, and replace those users with init_page_count() and set_page_refcounted(). This allows more debug checking, and tighter control on how code is allowed to play around with page->_count. 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: nommu use compound pagesNick Piggin2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that compound page handling is properly fixed in the VM, move nommu over to using compound pages rather than rolling their own refcounting. nommu vm page refcounting is broken anyway, but there is no need to have divergent code in the core VM now, nor when it gets fixed. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> (Needs testing, please). Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: make __put_page internalNick Piggin2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | Remove __put_page from outside the core mm/. It is dangerous because it does not handle compound pages nicely, and misses 1->0 transitions. If a user later appears that really needs the extra speed we can reevaluate. 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] remove VM_DONTCOPY bogositiesHugh Dickins2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that it's madvisable, remove two pieces of VM_DONTCOPY bogosity: 1. There was and is no logical reason why VM_DONTCOPY should be in the list of flags which forbid vma merging (and those drivers which set it are also setting VM_IO, which itself forbids the merge). 2. It's hard to understand the purpose of the VM_HUGETLB, VM_DONTCOPY block in vm_stat_account: but never mind, it's under CONFIG_HUGETLB, which (unlike CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE or CONFIG_HUGETLBFS) has never been defined. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: shrink_inactive_lis() nr_scan accounting fixWu Fengguang2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | In shrink_inactive_list(), nr_scan is not accounted when nr_taken is 0. But 0 pages taken does not mean 0 pages scanned. Move the goto statement below the accounting code to fix it. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: isolate_lru_pages() scan count fixWu Fengguang2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | In isolate_lru_pages(), *scanned reports one more scan because the scan counter is increased one more time on exit of the while-loop. Change the while-loop to for-loop to fix it. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] zone_reclaim: additional comments and cleanupChristoph Lameter2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add some comments to explain how zone reclaim works. And it fixes the following issues: - PF_SWAPWRITE needs to be set for RECLAIM_SWAP to be able to write out pages to swap. Currently RECLAIM_SWAP may not do that. - remove setting nr_reclaimed pages after slab reclaim since the slab shrinking code does not use that and the nr_reclaimed pages is just right for the intended follow up action. 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] vmscan: rename functionsAndrew Morton2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We have: try_to_free_pages ->shrink_caches(struct zone **zones, ..) ->shrink_zone(struct zone *, ...) ->shrink_cache(struct zone *, ...) ->shrink_list(struct list_head *, ...) ->refill_inactive_list((struct zone *, ...) which is fairly irrational. Rename things so that we have try_to_free_pages ->shrink_zones(struct zone **zones, ..) ->shrink_zone(struct zone *, ...) ->shrink_inactive_list(struct zone *, ...) ->shrink_page_list(struct list_head *, ...) ->shrink_active_list(struct zone *, ...) Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] vmscan return nr_reclaimedAndrew Morton2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change all the vmscan functions to retunr the number-of-reclaimed pages and remove scan_conrtol.nr_reclaimed. Saves ten-odd bytes of text and makes things clearer and more consistent. The patch also changes the behaviour of zone_reclaim() when it falls back to slab shrinking. Christoph says "Setting this to one means that we will rescan and shrink the slab for each allocation if we are out of zone memory and RECLAIM_SLAB is set. Plus if we do an order 0 allocation we do not go off node as intended. "We better set this to zero. This means the allocation will go offnode despite us having potentially freed lots of memory on the zone. Future allocations can then again be done from this zone." Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] vmscan: use unsigned longsAndrew Morton2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Turn basically everything in vmscan.c into `unsigned long'. This is to avoid the possibility that some piece of code in there might decide to operate upon more than 4G (or even 2G) of pages in one hit. This might be silly, but we'll need it one day. Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] vmscan: scan_control cleanupAndrew Morton2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | Initialise as much of scan_control as possible at the declaration site. This tidies things up a bit and assures us that all unmentioned fields are zeroed out. 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] Thin out scan_control: remove nr_to_scan and priorityChristoph Lameter2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | Make nr_to_scan and priority a parameter instead of putting it into scan control. This allows various small optimizations and IMHO makes the code easier to read. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.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] slab: use on_each_cpu()Andrew Morton2006-03-22
| | | | | | | Slab duplicates on_each_cpu(). Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] slab: Remove SLAB_NO_REAP optionChristoph Lameter2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | SLAB_NO_REAP is documented as an option that will cause this slab not to be reaped under memory pressure. However, that is not what happens. The only thing that SLAB_NO_REAP controls at the moment is the reclaim of the unused slab elements that were allocated in batch in cache_reap(). Cache_reap() is run every few seconds independently of memory pressure. Could we remove the whole thing? Its only used by three slabs anyways and I cannot find a reason for having this option. There is an additional problem with SLAB_NO_REAP. If set then the recovery of objects from alien caches is switched off. Objects not freed on the same node where they were initially allocated will only be reused if a certain amount of objects accumulates from one alien node (not very likely) or if the cache is explicitly shrunk. (Strangely __cache_shrink does not check for SLAB_NO_REAP) Getting rid of SLAB_NO_REAP fixes the problems with alien cache freeing. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] slab: fix kernel-doc warningsRandy Dunlap2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | Fix kernel-doc warnings in mm/slab.c. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: kill kmem_cache_t usagePekka Enberg2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | We have struct kmem_cache now so use it instead of the old typedef. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] slab: remove cachep->spinlockRavikiran G Thirumalai2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove cachep->spinlock. Locking has moved to the kmem_list3 and most of the structures protected earlier by cachep->spinlock is now protected by the l3->list_lock. slab cache tunables like batchcount are accessed always with the cache_chain_mutex held. Patch tested on SMP and NUMA kernels with dbench processes running, constant onlining/offlining, and constant cache tuning, all at the same time. Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] slab cleanupAndrew Morton2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | slab.c has become a bit revolting again. Try to repair it. - Coding style fixes - Don't do assignments-in-if-statements. - Don't typecast assignments to/from void* Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] slab: extract setup_cpu_cachePekka Enberg2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | Extract setup_cpu_cache() function from kmem_cache_create() to make the latter a little less complex. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] slab: object to index mapping cleanupPekka Enberg2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | Clean up the object to index mapping that has been spread around mm/slab.c. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] hugepage allocator cleanupNick Piggin2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Insert "fresh" huge pages into the hugepage allocator by the same means as they are freed back into it. This reduces code size and allows enqueue_huge_page to be inlined into the hugepage free fastpath. Eliminate occurances of hugepages on the free list with non-zero refcount. This can allow stricter refcount checks in future. Also required for lockless pagecache. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> "This patch also eliminates a leak "cleaned up" by re-clobbering the refcount on every allocation from the hugepage freelists. With respect to the lockless pagecache, the crucial aspect is to eliminate unconditional set_page_count() to 0 on pages with potentially nonzero refcounts, though closer inspection suggests the assignments removed are entirely spurious." Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: cleanup bootmemNick Piggin2006-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The bootmem code added to page_alloc.c duplicated some page freeing code that it really doesn't need to because it is not so performance critical. While we're here, make prefetching work properly by actually prefetching the page we're about to use before prefetching ahead to the next one (ie. get the most important transaction started first). Also prefetch just a single page ahead rather than leaving a gap of 16. Jack Steiner reported no problems with SGI's ia64 simulator. 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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