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* [PATCH] mm: fix xip issue with /dev/zeroCarsten Otte2007-03-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix the bug, that reading into xip mapping from /dev/zero fills the user page table with ZERO_PAGE() entries. Later on, xip cannot tell which pages have been ZERO_PAGE() filled by access to a sparse mapping, and which ones origin from /dev/zero. It will unmap ZERO_PAGE from all mappings when filling the sparse hole with data. xip does now use its own zeroed page for its sparse mappings. Please apply. Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] holepunch: fix mmap_sem i_mutex deadlockHugh Dickins2007-03-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | sys_madvise has down_write of mmap_sem, then madvise_remove calls vmtruncate_range which takes i_mutex and i_alloc_sem: no, we can easily devise deadlocks from that ordering. madvise_remove drop mmap_sem while calling vmtruncate_range: luckily, since madvise_remove doesn't split or merge vmas, it's easy to handle this case with a NULL prev, without restructuring sys_madvise. (Though sad to retake mmap_sem when it's unlikely to be needed, and certainly down_read is sufficient for MADV_REMOVE, unlike the other madvices.) Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] holepunch: fix disconnected pages after second truncateHugh Dickins2007-03-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | shmem_truncate_range has its own truncate_inode_pages_range, to free any pages racily instantiated while it was in progress: a SHMEM_PAGEIN flag is set when this might have happened. But holepunching gets no chance to clear that flag at the start of vmtruncate_range, so it's always set (unless a truncate came just before), so holepunch almost always does this second truncate_inode_pages_range. shmem holepunch has unlikely swap<->file races hereabouts whatever we do (without a fuller rework than is fit for this release): I was going to skip the second truncate in the punch_hole case, but Miklos points out that would make holepunch correctness more vulnerable to swapoff. So keep the second truncate, but follow it by an unmap_mapping_range to eliminate the disconnected pages (freed from pagecache while still mapped in userspace) that it might have left behind. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] holepunch: fix shmem_truncate_range punch lockingHugh Dickins2007-03-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Miklos Szeredi observes that during truncation of shmem page directories, info->lock is released to improve latency (after lowering i_size and next_index to exclude races); but this is quite wrong for holepunching, which receives no such protection from i_size or next_index, and is left vulnerable to races with shmem_unuse, shmem_getpage and shmem_writepage. Hold info->lock throughout when holepunching? No, any user could prevent rescheduling for far too long. Instead take info->lock just when needed: in shmem_free_swp when removing the swap entries, and whenever removing a directory page from the level above. But so long as we remove before scanning, we can safely skip taking the lock at the lower levels, except at misaligned start and end of the hole. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] holepunch: fix shmem_truncate_range punching too farHugh Dickins2007-03-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Miklos Szeredi observes BUG_ON(!entry) in shmem_writepage() triggered in rare circumstances, because shmem_truncate_range() erroneously removes partially truncated directory pages at the end of the range: later reclaim on pages pointing to these removed directories triggers the BUG. Indeed, and it can also cause data loss beyond the hole. Fix this as in the patch proposed by Miklos, but distinguish between "limit" (how far we need to search: ignore truncation's next_index optimization in the holepunch case - if there are races it's more consistent to act on the whole range specified) and "upper_limit" (how far we can free directory pages: generally we must be careful to keep partially punched pages, but can relax at end of file - i_size being held stable by i_mutex). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cs> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* block: blk_max_pfn is somtimes wrongVasily Tarasov2007-03-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is a small problem in handling page bounce. At the moment blk_max_pfn equals max_pfn, which is in fact not maximum possible _number_ of a page frame, but the _amount_ of page frames. For example for the 32bit x86 node with 4Gb RAM, max_pfn = 0x100000, but not 0xFFFF. request_queue structure has a member q->bounce_pfn and queue needs bounce pages for the pages _above_ this limit. This routine is handled by blk_queue_bounce(), where the following check is produced: if (q->bounce_pfn >= blk_max_pfn) return; Assume, that a driver has set q->bounce_pfn to 0xFFFF, but blk_max_pfn equals 0x10000. In such situation the check above fails and for each bio we always fall down for iterating over pages tied to the bio. I want to notice, that for quite a big range of device drivers (ide, md, ...) such problem doesn't happen because they use BLK_BOUNCE_ANY for bounce_pfn. BLK_BOUNCE_ANY is defined as blk_max_pfn << PAGE_SHIFT, and then the check above doesn't fail. But for other drivers, which obtain reuired value from drivers, it fails. For example sata_nv uses ATA_DMA_MASK or dev->dma_mask. I propose to use (max_pfn - 1) for blk_max_pfn. And the same for blk_max_low_pfn. The patch also cleanses some checks related with bounce_pfn. Signed-off-by: Vasily Tarasov <vtaras@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* [PATCH] NOMMU: make SYSV SHM nattch work correctlyDavid Howells2007-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make the SYSV SHM nattch counter work correctly by forcing multiple VMAs to be produced to represent MAP_SHARED segments, even if they overlap exactly. Using this test program: http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/doshm.c Run as: doshm sysv I can see nattch going from one before the patch: # /doshm sysv Command: sysv shmid: 65536 memory: 0xc3700000 c0b00000-c0b04000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 c0bb0000-c0bba788 r-xs 00000000 00:0b 14582157 /lib/ld-uClibc-0.9.28.so c3180000-c31dede4 r-xs 00000000 00:0b 14582179 /lib/libuClibc-0.9.28.so c3520000-c352278c rw-p 00000000 00:0b 13763417 /doshm c3584000-c35865e8 r-xs 00000000 00:0b 13763417 /doshm c3588000-c358aa00 rw-p 00008000 00:0b 14582157 /lib/ld-uClibc-0.9.28.so c3590000-c359b6c0 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 c3620000-c3640000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 c3700000-c37fa000 rw-S 00000000 00:06 1411 /SYSV00000000 (deleted) c3700000-c37fa000 rw-S 00000000 00:06 1411 /SYSV00000000 (deleted) nattch 1 To two after the patch: # /doshm sysv Command: sysv shmid: 0 memory: 0xc3700000 c0bb0000-c0bba788 r-xs 00000000 00:0b 14582157 /lib/ld-uClibc-0.9.28.so c3180000-c31dede4 r-xs 00000000 00:0b 14582179 /lib/libuClibc-0.9.28.so c3320000-c3340000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 c3530000-c35325e8 r-xs 00000000 00:0b 13763417 /doshm c3534000-c353678c rw-p 00000000 00:0b 13763417 /doshm c3538000-c353aa00 rw-p 00008000 00:0b 14582157 /lib/ld-uClibc-0.9.28.so c3590000-c359b6c0 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 c35a4000-c35a8000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 c3700000-c37fa000 rw-S 00000000 00:06 1369 /SYSV00000000 (deleted) c3700000-c37fa000 rw-S 00000000 00:06 1369 /SYSV00000000 (deleted) nattch 2 That's +1 to nattch for each shmat() made. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] NOMMU: supply get_unmapped_area() to fix NOMMU SYSV SHMDavid Howells2007-03-22
| | | | | | | | | Supply a get_unmapped_area() to fix NOMMU SYSV SHM support. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] oom fix: prevent oom from killing a process with children/sibling ↵Ankita Garg2007-03-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | unkillable Looking at oom_kill.c, found that the intention to not kill the selected process if any of its children/siblings has OOM_DISABLE set, is not being met. Signed-off-by: Ankita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] nfs: fix congestion controlPeter Zijlstra2007-03-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current NFS client congestion logic is severly broken, it marks the backing device congested during each nfs_writepages() call but doesn't mirror this in nfs_writepage() which makes for deadlocks. Also it implements its own waitqueue. Replace this by a more regular congestion implementation that puts a cap on the number of active writeback pages and uses the bdi congestion waitqueue. Also always use an interruptible wait since it makes sense to be able to SIGKILL the process even for mounts without 'intr'. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] dio: invalidate clean pages before dio writeZach Brown2007-03-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes a user-triggerable oops that was reported by Leonid Ananiev as archived at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/8/337. dio writes invalidate clean pages that intersect the written region so that subsequent buffered reads go to disk to read the new data. If this fails the interface tries to tell the caller that the cache is inconsistent by returning EIO. Before this patch we had the problem where this invalidation failure would clobber -EIOCBQUEUED as it made its way from fs/direct-io.c to fs/aio.c. Both fs/aio.c and bio completion call aio_complete() and we reference freed memory, usually oopsing. This patch addresses this problem by invalidating before the write so that we can cleanly return -EIO before ->direct_IO() has had a chance to return -EIOCBQUEUED. There is a compromise here. During the dio write we can fault in mmap()ed pages which intersect the written range with get_user_pages() if the user provided them for the source buffer. This is a crazy thing to do, but we can make it mostly work in most cases by trying the invalidation again. The compromise is that we won't return an error if this second invalidation fails if it's an AIO write and we have -EIOCBQUEUED. This was tested by having two processes race performing large O_DIRECT and buffered ordered writes. Within minutes ext3 would see a race between ext3_releasepage() and jbd holding a reference on ordered data buffers and would cause invalidation to fail, panicing the box. The test can be found in the 'aio_dio_bugs' test group in test.kernel.org/autotest. After this patch the test passes. Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: Leonid Ananiev <leonid.i.ananiev@linux.intel.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] mm: fix madvise infinine loopNick Piggin2007-03-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | madvise(MADV_REMOVE) can go into an infinite loop or cause an oops if the call covers a region from the start of a vma, and extending past that vma. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Page migration: Fix vma flag checkingChristoph Lameter2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently we do not check for vma flags if sys_move_pages is called to move individual pages. If sys_migrate_pages is called to move pages then we check for vm_flags that indicate a non migratable vma but that still includes VM_LOCKED and we can migrate mlocked pages. Extract the vma_migratable check from mm/mempolicy.c, fix it and put it into migrate.h so that is can be used from both locations. Problem was spotted by Lee Schermerhorn Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] shmem and simple const super_operationsHugh Dickins2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | shmem's super_operations were missed from the recent const-ification; and simple_fill_super()'s, which can share with get_sb_pseudo()'s. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] VM: invalidate_inode_pages2_range() should not exit earlyTrond Myklebust2007-03-01
| | | | | | | | | Fix invalidate_inode_pages2_range() so that it does not immediately exit just because a single page in the specified range could not be removed. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] adapt page_lock_anon_vma() to PREEMPT_RCUOleg Nesterov2007-03-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | page_lock_anon_vma() uses spin_lock() to block RCU. This doesn't work with PREEMPT_RCU, we have to do rcu_read_lock() explicitely. Otherwise, it is theoretically possible that slab returns anon_vma's memory to the system before we do spin_unlock(&anon_vma->lock). [ Hugh points out that this only matters for PREEMPT_RCU, which isn't merged yet, and may never be. Regardless, this patch is conceptually the right thing to do, even if it doesn't matter at this point. - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] throttle_vm_writeout(): don't loop on GFP_NOFS and GFP_NOIO allocationsAndrew Morton2007-03-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | throttle_vm_writeout() is designed to wait for the dirty levels to subside. But if the caller holds IO or FS locks, we might be holding up that writeout. So change it to take a single nap to give other devices a chance to clean some memory, then return. Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Bug in MM_RB debuggingDavid Miller2007-03-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The code is seemingly trying to make sure that rb_next() brings us to successive increasing vma entries. But the two variables, prev and pend, used to perform these checks, are never advanced. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Rename PG_checked to PG_owner_priv_1Nick Piggin2007-03-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | Rename PG_checked to PG_owner_priv_1 to reflect its availablilty as a private flag for use by the owner/allocator of the page. In the case of pagecache pages (which might be considered to be owned by the mm), filesystems may use the flag. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] kernel-doc fixes for 2.6.20-git15 (non-drivers)Randy Dunlap2007-03-01
| | | | | | | | Fix kernel-doc warnings in 2.6.20-git15 (lib/, mm/, kernel/, include/). Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] mm/{,tiny-}shmem.c cleanupsAdrian Bunk2007-03-01
| | | | | | | | | | shmem_{nopage,mmap} are no longer used in ipc/shm.c Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] slab: reduce size of alien cache to cover only possible nodesChristoph Lameter2007-02-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The alien cache is a per cpu per node array allocated for every slab on the system. Currently we size this array for all nodes that the kernel does support. For IA64 this is 1024 nodes. So we allocate an array with 1024 objects even if we only boot a system with 4 nodes. This patch uses "nr_node_ids" to determine the number of possible nodes supported by a hardware configuration and only allocates an alien cache sized for possible nodes. The initialization of nr_node_ids occurred too late relative to the bootstrap of the slab allocator and so I moved the setup_nr_node_ids() into free_area_init_nodes(). Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Replace highest_possible_node_id() with nr_node_idsChristoph Lameter2007-02-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | highest_possible_node_id() is currently used to calculate the last possible node idso that the network subsystem can figure out how to size per node arrays. I think having the ability to determine the maximum amount of nodes in a system at runtime is useful but then we should name this entry correspondingly, it should return the number of node_ids, and the the value needs to be setup only once on bootup. The node_possible_map does not change after bootup. This patch introduces nr_node_ids and replaces the use of highest_possible_node_id(). nr_node_ids is calculated on bootup when the page allocators pagesets are initialized. [deweerdt@free.fr: fix oops] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] fix mempolicy's check on a system with memory-less-nodeKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2007-02-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | bind_zonelist() can create zero-length zonelist if there is a memory-less-node. This patch checks the length of zonelist. If length is 0, returns -EINVAL. tested on ia64/NUMA with memory-less-node. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] knfsd: stop NFSD writes from being broken into lots of little writes ↵NeilBrown2007-02-16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | to filesystem When NFSD receives a write request, the data is typically in a number of 1448 byte segments and writev is used to collect them together. Unfortunately, generic_file_buffered_write passes these to the filesystem one at a time, so an e.g. 32K over-write becomes a series of partial-page writes to each page, causing the filesystem to have to pre-read those pages - wasted effort. generic_file_buffered_write handles one segment of the vector at a time as it has to pre-fault in each segment to avoid deadlocks. When writing from kernel-space (and nfsd does) this is not an issue, so generic_file_buffered_write does not need to break and iovec from nfsd into little pieces. This patch avoids the splitting when get_fs is KERNEL_DS as it is from NFSd. This issue was introduced by commit 6527c2bdf1f833cc18e8f42bd97973d583e4aa83 Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Norman Weathers <norman.r.weathers@conocophillips.com> Cc: Vladimir V. Saveliev <vs@namesys.com> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] mincore: vma crossing fixNick Piggin2007-02-15
| | | | | | | My mincore also forgot about crossing vmas. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] mincore: fill in results properlyNick Piggin2007-02-15
| | | | | | | | | | | Paper bag time. Thanks to Randy for noticing that I didn't actually assign 'present' to anything. Unfortunately my original patch passed the few simple test cases I gave it, purely by coincidence. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] mincore: CONFIG_SWAP=n fixNick Piggin2007-02-15
| | | | | | | Fix mincore-anon patch to compile with CONFIG_SWAP=n Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] mark struct inode_operations const 2Arjan van de Ven2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | Many struct inode_operations in the kernel can be "const". Marking them const moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential dirty data. In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to these shared resources. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] mm: mincore anonNick Piggin2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | Make mincore work for anon mappings, nonlinear, and migration entries. Based on patch from Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Add NOPFN_REFAULT result from vm_ops->nopfn()Benjamin Herrenschmidt2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a NOPFN_REFAULT return code for vm_ops->nopfn() equivalent to NOPAGE_REFAULT for vmops->nopage() indicating that the handler requests a re-execution of the faulting instruction Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] add vm_insert_pfn()Nick Piggin2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a vm_insert_pfn helper, so that ->fault handlers can have nopfn functionality by installing their own pte and returning NULL. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Change constant zero to NOTIFY_DONE in ratelimit_handler()Paul E. McKenney2007-02-11
| | | | | | | | | Change a hard-coded constant 0 to the symbolic equivalent NOTIFY_DONE in the ratelimit_handler() CPU notifier handler function. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files.Robert P. J. Day2007-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A variety of (mostly) innocuous fixes to the embedded kernel-doc content in source files, including: * make multi-line initial descriptions single line * denote some function names, constants and structs as such * change erroneous opening '/*' to '/**' in a few places * reword some text for clarity Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] remove invalidate_inode_pages()Andrew Morton2007-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | Convert all calls to invalidate_inode_pages() into open-coded calls to invalidate_mapping_pages(). Leave the invalidate_inode_pages() wrapper in place for now, marked as deprecated. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Export invalidate_mapping_pages() to modulesAnton Altaparmakov2007-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | It makes no sense to me to export invalidate_inode_pages() and not invalidate_mapping_pages() and I actually need invalidate_mapping_pages() because of its range specification ability... akpm: also remove the export of invalidate_inode_pages() by making it an inlined wrapper. Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] lockdep: also check for freed locks in kmem_cache_free()Ingo Molnar2007-02-11
| | | | | | | | kmem_cache_free() was missing the check for freeing held locks. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] do not disturb page referenced state when unmapping memory rangeKen Chen2007-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When kernel unmaps an address range, it needs to transfer PTE state into page struct. Currently, kernel transfer access bit via mark_page_accessed(). The call to mark_page_accessed in the unmap path doesn't look logically correct. At unmap time, calling mark_page_accessed will causes page LRU state to be bumped up one step closer to more recently used state. It is causing quite a bit headache in a scenario when a process creates a shmem segment, touch a whole bunch of pages, then unmaps it. The unmapping takes a long time because mark_page_accessed() will start moving pages from inactive to active list. I'm not too much concerned with moving the page from one list to another in LRU. Sooner or later it might be moved because of multiple mappings from various processes. But it just doesn't look logical that when user asks a range to be unmapped, it's his intention that the process is no longer interested in these pages. Moving those pages to active list (or bumping up a state towards more active) seems to be an over reaction. It also prolongs unmapping latency which is the core issue I'm trying to solve. As suggested by Peter, we should still preserve the info on pte young pages, but not more. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] simplify shmem_aops.set_page_dirty() methodKen Chen2007-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | shmem backed file does not have page writeback, nor it participates in backing device's dirty or writeback accounting. So using generic __set_page_dirty_nobuffers() for its .set_page_dirty aops method is a bit overkill. It unnecessarily prolongs shm unmap latency. For example, on a densely populated large shm segment (sevearl GBs), the unmapping operation becomes painfully long. Because at unmap, kernel transfers dirty bit in PTE into page struct and to the radix tree tag. The operation of tagging the radix tree is particularly expensive because it has to traverse the tree from the root to the leaf node on every dirty page. What's bothering is that radix tree tag is used for page write back. However, shmem is memory backed and there is no page write back for such file system. And in the end, we spend all that time tagging radix tree and none of that fancy tagging will be used. So let's simplify it by introduce a new aops __set_page_dirty_no_writeback and this will speed up shm unmap. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Set CONFIG_ZONE_DMA for arches with GENERIC_ISA_DMAChristoph Lameter2007-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As Andi pointed out: CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA only disables the ISA DMA channel management. Other functionality may still expect GFP_DMA to provide memory below 16M. So we need to make sure that CONFIG_ZONE_DMA is set independent of CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA. Undo the modifications to mm/Kconfig where we made ZONE_DMA dependent on GENERIC_ISA_DMA and set theses explicitly in each arches Kconfig. Reviews must occur for each arch in order to determine if ZONE_DMA can be switched off. It can only be switched off if we know that all devices supported by a platform are capable of performing DMA transfers to all of memory (Some arches already support this: uml, avr32, sh sh64, parisc and IA64/Altix). In order to switch ZONE_DMA off conditionally, one would have to establish a scheme by which one can assure that no drivers are enabled that are only capable of doing I/O to a part of memory, or one needs to provide an alternate means of performing an allocation from a specific range of memory (like provided by alloc_pages_range()) and insure that all drivers use that call. In that case the arches alloc_dma_coherent() may need to be modified to call alloc_pages_range() instead of relying on GFP_DMA. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] optional ZONE_DMA: optional ZONE_DMA in the VMChristoph Lameter2007-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make ZONE_DMA optional in core code. - ifdef all code for ZONE_DMA and related definitions following the example for ZONE_DMA32 and ZONE_HIGHMEM. - Without ZONE_DMA, ZONE_HIGHMEM and ZONE_DMA32 we get to a ZONES_SHIFT of 0. - Modify the VM statistics to work correctly without a DMA zone. - Modify slab to not create DMA slabs if there is no ZONE_DMA. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanup] [jdike@addtoit.com: build fix] [apw@shadowen.org: Simplify calculation of the number of bits we need for ZONES_SHIFT] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] optional ZONE_DMA: introduce CONFIG_ZONE_DMAChristoph Lameter2007-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch simply defines CONFIG_ZONE_DMA for all arches. We later do special things with CONFIG_ZONE_DMA after the VM and an arch are prepared to work without ZONE_DMA. CONFIG_ZONE_DMA can be defined in two ways depending on how an architecture handles ISA DMA. First if CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA is set by the arch then we know that the arch needs ZONE_DMA because ISA DMA devices are supported. We can catch this in mm/Kconfig and do not need to modify arch code. Second, arches may use ZONE_DMA in an unknown way. We set CONFIG_ZONE_DMA for all arches that do not set CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA in order to insure backwards compatibility. The arches may later undefine ZONE_DMA if their arch code has been verified to not depend on ZONE_DMA. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] optional ZONE_DMA: deal with cases of ZONE_DMA meaning the first zoneChristoph Lameter2007-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patchset follows up on the earlier work in Andrew's tree to reduce the number of zones. The patches allow to go to a minimum of 2 zones. This one allows also to make ZONE_DMA optional and therefore the number of zones can be reduced to one. ZONE_DMA is usually used for ISA DMA devices. There are a number of reasons why we would not want to have ZONE_DMA 1. Some arches do not need ZONE_DMA at all. 2. With the advent of IOMMUs DMA zones are no longer needed. The necessity of DMA zones may drastically be reduced in the future. This patchset allows a compilation of a kernel without that overhead. 3. Devices that require ISA DMA get rare these days. All my systems do not have any need for ISA DMA. 4. The presence of an additional zone unecessarily complicates VM operations because it must be scanned and balancing logic must operate on its. 5. With only ZONE_NORMAL one can reach the situation where we have only one zone. This will allow the unrolling of many loops in the VM and allows the optimization of varous code paths in the VM. 6. Having only a single zone in a NUMA system results in a 1-1 correspondence between nodes and zones. Various additional optimizations to critical VM paths become possible. Many systems today can operate just fine with a single zone. If you look at what is in ZONE_DMA then one usually sees that nothing uses it. The DMA slabs are empty (Some arches use ZONE_DMA instead of ZONE_NORMAL, then ZONE_NORMAL will be empty instead). On all of my systems (i386, x86_64, ia64) ZONE_DMA is completely empty. Why constantly look at an empty zone in /proc/zoneinfo and empty slab in /proc/slabinfo? Non i386 also frequently have no need for ZONE_DMA and zones stay empty. The patchset was tested on i386 (UP / SMP), x86_64 (UP, NUMA) and ia64 (NUMA). The RFC posted earlier (see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115231723513008&w=2) had lots of #ifdefs in them. An effort has been made to minize the number of #ifdefs and make this as compact as possible. The job was made much easier by the ongoing efforts of others to extract common arch specific functionality. I have been running this for awhile now on my desktop and finally Linux is using all my available RAM instead of leaving the 16MB in ZONE_DMA untouched: christoph@pentium940:~$ cat /proc/zoneinfo Node 0, zone Normal pages free 4435 min 1448 low 1810 high 2172 active 241786 inactive 210170 scanned 0 (a: 0 i: 0) spanned 524224 present 524224 nr_anon_pages 61680 nr_mapped 14271 nr_file_pages 390264 nr_slab_reclaimable 27564 nr_slab_unreclaimable 1793 nr_page_table_pages 449 nr_dirty 39 nr_writeback 0 nr_unstable 0 nr_bounce 0 cpu: 0 pcp: 0 count: 156 high: 186 batch: 31 cpu: 0 pcp: 1 count: 9 high: 62 batch: 15 vm stats threshold: 20 cpu: 1 pcp: 0 count: 177 high: 186 batch: 31 cpu: 1 pcp: 1 count: 12 high: 62 batch: 15 vm stats threshold: 20 all_unreclaimable: 0 prev_priority: 12 temp_priority: 12 start_pfn: 0 This patch: In two places in the VM we use ZONE_DMA to refer to the first zone. If ZONE_DMA is optional then other zones may be first. So simply replace ZONE_DMA with zone 0. This also fixes ZONETABLE_PGSHIFT. If we have only a single zone then ZONES_PGSHIFT may become 0 because there is no need anymore to encode the zone number related to a pgdat. However, we still need a zonetable to index all the zones for each node if this is a NUMA system. Therefore define ZONETABLE_SHIFT unconditionally as the offset of the ZONE field in page flags. [apw@shadowen.org: fix mismerge] Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Drop get_zone_counts()Christoph Lameter2007-02-11
| | | | | | | | Values are available via ZVC sums. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Drop __get_zone_counts()Christoph Lameter2007-02-11
| | | | | | | | Values are readily available via ZVC per node and global sums. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Drop nr_free_pages_pgdat()Christoph Lameter2007-02-11
| | | | | | | | | Function is unnecessary now. We can use the summing features of the ZVCs to get the values we need. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Drop free_pages()Christoph Lameter2007-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | nr_free_pages is now a simple access to a global variable. Make it a macro instead of a function. The nr_free_pages now requires vmstat.h to be included. There is one occurrence in power management where we need to add the include. Directly refrer to global_page_state() there to clarify why the #include was added. [akpm@osdl.org: arm build fix] [akpm@osdl.org: sparc64 build fix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Reorder ZVCs according to cachelineChristoph Lameter2007-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | The global and per zone counter sums are in arrays of longs. Reorder the ZVCs so that the most frequently used ZVCs are put into the same cacheline. That way calculations of the global, node and per zone vm state touches only a single cacheline. This is mostly important for 64 bit systems were one 128 byte cacheline takes only 8 longs. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Use ZVC for free_pagesChristoph Lameter2007-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | This is again simplifies some of the VM counter calculations through the use of the ZVC consolidated counters. [michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com: build fix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Use ZVC for inactive and active countsChristoph Lameter2007-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The determination of the dirty ratio to determine writeback behavior is currently based on the number of total pages on the system. However, not all pages in the system may be dirtied. Thus the ratio is always too low and can never reach 100%. The ratio may be particularly skewed if large hugepage allocations, slab allocations or device driver buffers make large sections of memory not available anymore. In that case we may get into a situation in which f.e. the background writeback ratio of 40% cannot be reached anymore which leads to undesired writeback behavior. This patchset fixes that issue by determining the ratio based on the actual pages that may potentially be dirty. These are the pages on the active and the inactive list plus free pages. The problem with those counts has so far been that it is expensive to calculate these because counts from multiple nodes and multiple zones will have to be summed up. This patchset makes these counters ZVC counters. This means that a current sum per zone, per node and for the whole system is always available via global variables and not expensive anymore to calculate. The patchset results in some other good side effects: - Removal of the various functions that sum up free, active and inactive page counts - Cleanup of the functions that display information via the proc filesystem. This patch: The use of a ZVC for nr_inactive and nr_active allows a simplification of some counter operations. More ZVC functionality is used for sums etc in the following patches. [akpm@osdl.org: UP build fix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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