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Christoph Lameter 8417bba4b1 [PATCH] Replace min_unmapped_ratio by min_unmapped_pages in struct zone
*_pages is a better description of the role of the variable.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:51 -07:00
Christoph Lameter d00bcc98d7 [PATCH] Extract the allocpercpu functions from the slab allocator
The allocpercpu functions __alloc_percpu and __free_percpu() are heavily
using the slab allocator.  However, they are conceptually slab.  This also
simplifies SLOB (at this point slob may be broken in mm.  This should fix
it).

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:51 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 39bbcb8f88 [PATCH] mm: do not check unpopulated zones for draining and counter updates
If a zone is unpopulated then we do not need to check for pages that are to
be drained and also not for vm counters that may need to be updated.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:51 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 006d22d9bb [PATCH] Optimize free_one_page
Free one_page currently adds the page to a fake list and calls
free_page_bulk.  Fee_page_bulk takes it off again and then calles
__free_one_page.

Make free_one_page go directly to __free_one_page.  Saves list on / off and
a temporary list in free_one_page for higher ordered pages.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:51 -07:00
Siddha, Suresh B d2e7b7d0aa [PATCH] fix potential stack overflow in mm/slab.c
On High end systems (1024 or so cpus) this can potentially cause stack
overflow. Fix the stack usage.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:50 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 980128f223 [PATCH] Define easier to handle GFP_THISNODE
In many places we will need to use the same combination of flags.  Specify
a single GFP_THISNODE definition for ease of use in gfp.h.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:50 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 1192d52641 [PATCH] Cleanup: Add zone pointer to get_page_from_freelist
There are frequent references to *z in get_page_from_freelist.

Add an explicit zone variable that can be used in all these places.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:50 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 3d99cfb5f4 [PATCH] sys_move_pages: Do not fall back to other nodes
If the user specified a node where we should move the page to then we
really do not want any other node.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:50 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 9b819d204c [PATCH] Add __GFP_THISNODE to avoid fallback to other nodes and ignore cpuset/memory policy restrictions
Add a new gfp flag __GFP_THISNODE to avoid fallback to other nodes.  This
flag is essential if a kernel component requires memory to be located on a
certain node.  It will be needed for alloc_pages_node() to force allocation
on the indicated node and for alloc_pages() to force allocation on the
current node.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:50 -07:00
Ravikiran G Thirumalai 056c62418c [PATCH] slab: fix lockdep warnings
Place the alien array cache locks of on slab malloc slab caches on a
seperate lockdep class.  This avoids false positives from lockdep

[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:50 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 2ed3a4ef95 [PATCH] slab: do not panic when alloc_kmemlist fails and slab is up
It is fairly easy to get a system to oops by simply sizing a cache via
/proc in such a way that one of the chaches (shared is easiest) becomes
bigger than the maximum allowed slab allocation size.  This occurs because
enable_cpucache() fails if it cannot reallocate some caches.

However, enable_cpucache() is used for multiple purposes: resizing caches,
cache creation and bootstrap.

If the slab is already up then we already have working caches.  The resize
can fail without a problem.  We just need to return the proper error code.
F.e.  after this patch:

# echo "size-64 10000 50 1000" >/proc/slabinfo
-bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory

notice no OOPS.

If we are doing a kmem_cache_create() then we also should not panic but
return -ENOMEM.

If on the other hand we do not have a fully bootstrapped slab allocator yet
then we should indeed panic since we are unable to bring up the slab to its
full functionality.

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>
2006-09-26 08:48:50 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 117f6eb1d8 [PATCH] slab: extract __kmem_cache_destroy from kmem_cache_destroy
The ability to free memory allocated to a slab cache is also useful if an
error occurs during setup of a slab.  So extract the function.

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>
2006-09-26 08:48:50 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig dbe5e69d2d [PATCH] slab: optimize kmalloc_node the same way as kmalloc
[akpm@osdl.org: export fix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:49 -07:00
Nick Piggin da6052f7b3 [PATCH] update some mm/ comments
Let's try to keep mm/ comments more useful and up to date. This is a start.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:49 -07:00
Ravikiran G Thirumalai e5ac9c5aec [PATCH] Add some comments to slab.c
Also, checks if we get a valid slabp_cache for off slab slab-descriptors.
We should always get this.  If we don't, then in that case we, will have to
disable off-slab descriptors for this cache and do the calculations again.
This is a rare case, so add a BUG_ON, for now, just in case.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alok.kataria@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:49 -07:00
Heiko Carstens dfd54cbcc0 [PATCH] bootmem: use MAX_DMA_ADDRESS instead of LOW32LIMIT
Introduce ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT which can be set per architecture to
override the 4GB default limit used by the bootmem allocater within
__alloc_bootmem_low() and __alloc_bootmem_low_node().  E.g.  s390 needs a
2GB limit instead of 4GB.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:49 -07:00
Nick Piggin b72f160443 [PATCH] oom: more printk
Print the name of the task invoking the OOM killer.  Could make debugging
easier.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:49 -07:00
Nick Piggin 5081dde33f [PATCH] oom: kthread infinite loop fix
Skip kernel threads, rather than having them return 0 from badness.
Theoretically, badness might truncate all results to 0, thus a kernel thread
might be picked first, causing an infinite loop.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:49 -07:00
Nick Piggin af5b912435 [PATCH] oom: swapoff tasks tweak
PF_SWAPOFF processes currently cause select_bad_process to return straight
away.  Instead, give them high priority, so we will kill them first, however
we also first ensure no parallel OOM kills are happening at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:49 -07:00
Nick Piggin 4a3ede107e [PATCH] oom: handle oom_disable exiting
Having the oomkilladj == OOM_DISABLE check before the releasing check means
that oomkilladj == OOM_DISABLE tasks exiting will not stop the OOM killer.

Moving the test down will give the desired behaviour.  Also: it will allow
them to "OOM-kill" themselves if they are exiting.  As per the previous patch,
this is required to prevent OOM killer deadlocks (and they don't actually get
killed, because they're already exiting -- they're simply allowed access to
memory reserves).

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:48 -07:00
Nick Piggin 50ec3bbffb [PATCH] oom: handle current exiting
If current *is* exiting, it should actually be allowed to access reserved
memory rather than OOM kill something else.  Can't do this via a straight
check in page_alloc.c because that would allow multiple tasks to use up
reserves.  Instead cause current to OOM-kill itself which will mark it as
TIF_MEMDIE.

The current procedure of simply aborting the OOM-kill if a task is exiting can
lead to OOM deadlocks.

In the case of killing a PF_EXITING task, don't make a lot of noise about it.
This becomes more important in future patches, where we can "kill" OOM_DISABLE
tasks.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:48 -07:00
Nick Piggin 7887a3da75 [PATCH] oom: cpuset hint
cpuset_excl_nodes_overlap does not always indicate that killing a task will
not free any memory we for us.  For example, we may be asking for an
allocation from _anywhere_ in the machine, or the task in question may be
pinning memory that is outside its cpuset.  Fix this by just causing
cpuset_excl_nodes_overlap to reduce the badness rather than disallow it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:48 -07:00
Nick Piggin 4ff1ffb487 [PATCH] oom: reclaim_mapped on oom
Potentially it takes several scans of the lru lists before we can even start
reclaiming pages.

mapped pages, with young ptes can take 2 passes on the active list + one on
the inactive list.  But reclaim_mapped may not always kick in instantly, so it
could take even more than that.

Raise the threshold for marking a zone as all_unreclaimable from a factor of 4
time the pages in the zone to 6.  Introduce a mechanism to force
reclaim_mapped if we've reached a factor 3 and still haven't made progress.

Previously, a customer doing stress testing was able to easily OOM the box
after using only a small fraction of its swap (~100MB).  After the patches, it
would only OOM after having used up all swap (~800MB).

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:48 -07:00
Nick Piggin 408d85441c [PATCH] oom: use unreclaimable info
__alloc_pages currently starts shooting if page reclaim has failed to free up
swap_cluster_max pages in one run through the priorities.  This is not always
a good indicator on its own, so make use of the all_unreclaimable logic as
well: don't consider going OOM until all zones we're interested in are
unreclaimable.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:48 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra 6ddab3b9eb [PATCH] mm: swap write failure fixup
Currently we can silently drop data if the write to swap failed.  It
usually doesn't result in data-corruption because on page-in the process
will receive SIGBUS (assuming write-failure implies read-failure).

This assumption might or might not be valid.

This patch will avoid the page being discarded after a failed write.  But
will print a warning the sysadmin _should_ take to heart, if a lot of swap
space becomes un-writeable, OOM is not far off.

Tested by making the write fail 'randomly' once every 50 writes or so.

[akpm@osdl.org: printk warning fix]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:48 -07:00
Pekka Enberg ca5f9703df [PATCH] slab: respect architecture and caller mandated alignment
As explained by Heiko, on s390 (32-bit) ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN is set to
eight because their common I/O layer allocates data structures that need to
have an eight byte alignment.  This does not work when CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG is
enabled because kmem_cache_create will override alignment to BYTES_PER_WORD
which is four.

So change kmem_cache_create to ensure cache alignment is always at minimum
what the architecture or caller mandates even if slab debugging is enabled.

Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
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>
2006-09-26 08:48:48 -07:00
Nick Piggin db37648cd6 [PATCH] mm: non syncing lock_page()
lock_page needs the caller to have a reference on the page->mapping inode
due to sync_page, ergo set_page_dirty_lock is obviously buggy according to
its comments.

Solve it by introducing a new lock_page_nosync which does not do a sync_page.

akpm: unpleasant solution to an unpleasant problem.  If it goes wrong it could
cause great slowdowns while the lock_page() caller waits for kblockd to
perform the unplug.  And if a filesystem has special sync_page() requirements
(none presently do), permanent hangs are possible.

otoh, set_page_dirty_lock() is usually (always?) called against userspace
pages.  They are always up-to-date, so there shouldn't be any pending read I/O
against these pages.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:48 -07:00
Nick Piggin 28e4d965e6 [PATCH] mm: remove_mapping() safeness
Some users of remove_mapping had been unsafe.

Modify the remove_mapping precondition to ensure the caller has locked the
page and obtained the correct mapping.  Modify callers to ensure the
mapping is the correct one.

[hugh@veritas.com: swapper_space fix]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:48 -07:00
Rolf Eike Beer bfa5bf6d64 [PATCH] Add kerneldocs for some functions in mm/memory.c
These functions are already documented quite well with long comments.  Now
add kerneldoc style header to make this turn up in everyones favorite doc
format.

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:47 -07:00
Martin Peschke 7ff6f08295 [PATCH] CPU hotplug compatible alloc_percpu()
This patch splits alloc_percpu() up into two phases.  Likewise for
free_percpu().  This allows clients to limit initial allocations to online
cpu's, and to populate or depopulate per-cpu data at run time as needed:

  struct my_struct *obj;

  /* initial allocation for online cpu's */
  obj = percpu_alloc(sizeof(struct my_struct), GFP_KERNEL);

  ...

  /* populate per-cpu data for cpu coming online */
  ptr = percpu_populate(obj, sizeof(struct my_struct), GFP_KERNEL, cpu);

  ...

  /* access per-cpu object */
  ptr = percpu_ptr(obj, smp_processor_id());

  ...

  /* depopulate per-cpu data for cpu going offline */
  percpu_depopulate(obj, cpu);

  ...

  /* final removal */
  percpu_free(obj);

Signed-off-by: Martin Peschke <mp3@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:47 -07:00
Martin Schwidefsky 8bc719d3ca [PATCH] out of memory notifier
Add a notifer chain to the out of memory killer.  If one of the registered
callbacks could release some memory, do not kill the process but return and
retry the allocation that forced the oom killer to run.

The purpose of the notifier is to add a safety net in the presence of
memory ballooners.  If the resource manager inflated the balloon to a size
where memory allocations can not be satisfied anymore, it is better to
deflate the balloon a bit instead of killing processes.

The implementation for the s390 ballooner is included.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:47 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 19655d3487 [PATCH] linearly index zone->node_zonelists[]
I wonder why we need this bitmask indexing into zone->node_zonelists[]?

We always start with the highest zone and then include all lower zones
if we build zonelists.

Are there really cases where we need allocation from ZONE_DMA or
ZONE_HIGHMEM but not ZONE_NORMAL? It seems that the current implementation
of highest_zone() makes that already impossible.

If we go linear on the index then gfp_zone() == highest_zone() and a lot
of definitions fall by the wayside.

We can now revert back to the use of gfp_zone() in mempolicy.c ;-)

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:47 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 2f6726e54a [PATCH] Apply type enum zone_type
After we have done this we can now do some typing cleanup.

The memory policy layer keeps a policy_zone that specifies
the zone that gets memory policies applied. This variable
can now be of type enum zone_type.

The check_highest_zone function and the build_zonelists funnctionm must
then also take a enum zone_type parameter.

Plus there are a number of loops over zones that also should use
zone_type.

We run into some troubles at some points with functions that need a
zone_type variable to become -1. Fix that up.

[pj@sgi.com: fix set_mempolicy() crash]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:47 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 4e4785bcf0 [PATCH] mempolicies: fix policy_zone check
There is a check in zonelist_policy that compares pieces of the bitmap
obtained from a gfp mask via GFP_ZONETYPES with a zone number in function
zonelist_policy().

The bitmap is an ORed mask of __GFP_DMA, __GFP_DMA32 and __GFP_HIGHMEM.
The policy_zone is a zone number with the possible values of ZONE_DMA,
ZONE_DMA32, ZONE_HIGHMEM and ZONE_NORMAL. These are two different domains
of values.

For some reason seemed to work before the zone reduction patchset (It
definitely works on SGI boxes since we just have one zone and the check
cannot fail).

With the zone reduction patchset this check definitely fails on systems
with two zones if the system actually has memory in both zones.

This is because ZONE_NORMAL is selected using no __GFP flag at
all and thus gfp_zone(gfpmask) == 0. ZONE_DMA is selected when __GFP_DMA
is set. __GFP_DMA is 0x01.  So gfp_zone(gfpmask) == 1.

policy_zone is set to ZONE_NORMAL (==1) if ZONE_NORMAL and ZONE_DMA are
populated.

For ZONE_NORMAL gfp_zone(<no _GFP_DMA>) yields 0 which is <
policy_zone(ZONE_NORMAL) and so policy is not applied to regular memory
allocations!

Instead gfp_zone(__GFP_DMA) == 1 which results in policy being applied
to DMA allocations!

What we realy want in that place is to establish the highest allowable
zone for a given gfp_mask. If the highest zone is higher or equal to the
policy_zone then memory policies need to be applied. We have such
a highest_zone() function in page_alloc.c.

So move the highest_zone() function from mm/page_alloc.c into
include/linux/gfp.h.  On the way we simplify the function and use the new
zone_type that was also introduced with the zone reduction patchset plus we
also specify the right type for the gfp flags parameter.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:47 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 27bf71c2a7 [PATCH] reduce MAX_NR_ZONES: remove display of counters for unconfigured zones
eventcounters: Do not display counters for zones that are not available on an
arch

Do not define or display counters for the DMA32 and the HIGHMEM zone if such
zones were not configured.

[akpm@osdl.org: s390 fix]
[heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com: s390 fix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:47 -07:00
Christoph Lameter e53ef38d05 [PATCH] reduce MAX_NR_ZONES: make ZONE_HIGHMEM optional
Make ZONE_HIGHMEM optional

- ifdef out code and definitions related to CONFIG_HIGHMEM

- __GFP_HIGHMEM falls back to normal allocations if there is no
  ZONE_HIGHMEM

- GFP_ZONEMASK becomes 0x01 if there is no DMA32 and no HIGHMEM
  zone.

[jdike@addtoit.com: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:46 -07:00
Christoph Lameter fb0e7942bd [PATCH] reduce MAX_NR_ZONES: make ZONE_DMA32 optional
Make ZONE_DMA32 optional

- Add #ifdefs around ZONE_DMA32 specific code and definitions.

- Add CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32 config option and use that for x86_64
  that alone needs this zone.

- Remove the use of CONFIG_DMA_IS_DMA32 and CONFIG_DMA_IS_NORMAL
  for ia64 and fix up the way per node ZVCs are calculated.

- Fall back to prior GFP_ZONEMASK of 0x03 if there is no
  DMA32 zone.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:46 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 2f1b624868 [PATCH] reduce MAX_NR_ZONES: use enum to define zones, reformat and comment
Use enum for zones and reformat zones dependent information

Add comments explaning the use of zones and add a zones_t type for zone
numbers.

Line up information that will be #ifdefd by the following patches.

[akpm@osdl.org: comment cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:46 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 98d2b0ebda [PATCH] reduce MAX_NR_ZONES: page allocator ZONE_HIGHMEM cleanup
page allocator ZONE_HIGHMEM fixups

1. We do not need to do an #ifdef in si_meminfo since both counters
   in use are zero if !CONFIG_HIGHMEM.

2. Add #ifdef in si_meminfo_node instead to avoid referencing zone
   information for ZONE_HIGHMEM if we do not have HIGHMEM
   (may not be there after the following patches).

3. Replace the use of ZONE_HIGHMEM with MAX_NR_ZONES in build_zonelists_node

4. build_zonelists_node: Remove BUG_ON for ZONE_HIGHMEM. Zone will
   be optional soon and thus BUG_ON cannot be triggered anymore.

5. init_free_area_core: Replace a use of ZONE_HIGHMEM with NR_MAX_ZONES.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:46 -07:00
Christoph Lameter c1f60a5a41 [PATCH] reduce MAX_NR_ZONES: move HIGHMEM counters into highmem.c/.h
Move totalhigh_pages and nr_free_highpages() into highmem.c/.h

Move the totalhigh_pages definition into highmem.c/.h.  Move the
nr_free_highpages function into highmem.c

[yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:46 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 182e8e2373 [PATCH] reduce MAX_NR_ZONES: make display of highmem counters conditional on CONFIG_HIGHMEM
Do not display HIGHMEM memory sizes if CONFIG_HIGHMEM is not set.

Make HIGHMEM dependent texts and make display of highmem counters optional

Some texts are depending on CONFIG_HIGHMEM.

Remove those strings and remove the display of highmem counter values if
CONFIG_HIGHMEM is not set.

[akpm@osdl.org: remove some ifdefs]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:46 -07:00
Franck Bui-Huu f71bf0cac7 [PATCH] bootmem: miscellaneous coding style fixes
It fixes various coding style issues, specially when spaces are useless.  For
example '*' go next to the function name.

Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:45 -07:00
Franck Bui-Huu bbc7b92e33 [PATCH] bootmem: use pfn/page conversion macros
It also creates get_mapsize() helper in order to make the code more readable
when it calculates the boot bitmap size.

Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:45 -07:00
Franck Bui-Huu e786e86a54 [PATCH] bootmem: remove useless headers inclusions
Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:45 -07:00
Franck Bui-Huu bb0923a668 [PATCH] bootmem: limit to 80 columns width
Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:45 -07:00
Franck Bui-Huu 69d49e681d [PATCH] bootmem: mark link_bootmem() as part of the __init section
Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:45 -07:00
Adrian Bunk b221385bc4 [PATCH] mm/: make functions static
This patch makes the following needlessly global functions static:
 - slab.c: kmem_find_general_cachep()
 - swap.c: __page_cache_release()
 - vmalloc.c: __vmalloc_node()

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:45 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra 204ec841fb [PATCH] mm: msync() cleanup
With the tracking of dirty pages properly done now, msync doesn't need to scan
the PTEs anymore to determine the dirty status.

From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>

In looking to do that, I made some other tidyups: can remove several
#includes, and sys_msync loop termination not quite right.

Most of those points are criticisms of the existing sys_msync, not of your
patch.  In particular, the loop termination errors were introduced in 2.6.17:
I did notice this shortly before it came out, but decided I was more likely to
get it wrong myself, and make matters worse if I tried to rush a last-minute
fix in.  And it's not terribly likely to go wrong, nor disastrous if it does
go wrong (may miss reporting an unmapped area; may also fsync file of a
following vma).

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:45 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra ee6a645788 [PATCH] mm: fixup do_wp_page()
Wrt. the recent modifications in do_wp_page() Hugh Dickins pointed out:

  "I now realize it's right to the first order (normal case) and to the
   second order (ptrace poke), but not to the third order (ptrace poke
   anon page here to be COWed - perhaps can't occur without intervening
   mprotects)."

This patch restores the old COW behaviour for anonymous pages.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:44 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra e88dd6c11c [PATCH] mm: small cleanup of install_page()
Smallish cleanup to install_page(), could save a memory read (haven't checked
the asm output) and sure looks nicer.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:44 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra c1e6098b23 [PATCH] mm: optimize the new mprotect() code a bit
mprotect() resets the page protections, which could result in extra write
faults for those pages whose dirty state we track using write faults and are
dirty already.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:44 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra edc79b2a46 [PATCH] mm: balance dirty pages
Now that we can detect writers of shared mappings, throttle them.  Avoids OOM
by surprise.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:44 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra d08b3851da [PATCH] mm: tracking shared dirty pages
Tracking of dirty pages in shared writeable mmap()s.

The idea is simple: write protect clean shared writeable pages, catch the
write-fault, make writeable and set dirty.  On page write-back clean all the
PTE dirty bits and write protect them once again.

The implementation is a tad harder, mainly because the default
backing_dev_info capabilities were too loosely maintained.  Hence it is not
enough to test the backing_dev_info for cap_account_dirty.

The current heuristic is as follows, a VMA is eligible when:
 - its shared writeable
    (vm_flags & (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED)) == (VM_WRITE|VM_SHARED)
 - it is not a 'special' mapping
    (vm_flags & (VM_PFNMAP|VM_INSERTPAGE)) == 0
 - the backing_dev_info is cap_account_dirty
    mapping_cap_account_dirty(vma->vm_file->f_mapping)
 - f_op->mmap() didn't change the default page protection

Page from remap_pfn_range() are explicitly excluded because their COW
semantics are already horrid enough (see vm_normal_page() in do_wp_page()) and
because they don't have a backing store anyway.

mprotect() is taught about the new behaviour as well.  However it overrides
the last condition.

Cleaning the pages on write-back is done with page_mkclean() a new rmap call.
It can be called on any page, but is currently only implemented for mapped
pages, if the page is found the be of a VMA that accounts dirty pages it will
also wrprotect the PTE.

Finally, in fs/buffers.c:try_to_free_buffers(); remove clear_page_dirty() from
under ->private_lock.  This seems to be safe, since ->private_lock is used to
serialize access to the buffers, not the page itself.  This is needed because
clear_page_dirty() will call into page_mkclean() and would thereby violate
locking order.

[dhowells@redhat.com: Provide a page_mkclean() implementation for NOMMU]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:44 -07:00
Nick Piggin 725d704eca [PATCH] mm: VM_BUG_ON
Introduce a VM_BUG_ON, which is turned on with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM.  Use this
in the lightweight, inline refcounting functions; PageLRU and PageActive
checks in vmscan, because they're pretty well confined to vmscan.  And in
page allocate/free fastpaths which can be the hottest parts of the kernel
for kbuilds.

Unlike BUG_ON, VM_BUG_ON must not be used to execute statements with
side-effects, and should not be used outside core mm code.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:44 -07:00
David Rientjes f3ef9ead31 [PATCH] do not free non slab allocated per_cpu_pageset
Stops panic associated with attempting to free a non slab-allocated
per_cpu_pageset.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@cs.washington.edu>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-25 17:38:36 -07:00
Steven Whitehouse 363e065c02 [GFS2] Fix up merge of Linus' kernel into GFS2
This fixes up a couple of conflicts when merging up with
Linus' latest kernel. This will hopefully allow GFS2 to
be more easily merged into forthcoming -mm and FC kernels
due to the "one line per header" format now used for the
kernel headers.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>

Conflicts:

	include/linux/Kbuild
	include/linux/kernel.h
2006-09-25 12:26:59 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 9f261e0113 Merge git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6
* git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6: (74 commits)
  NFS: unmark NFS direct I/O as experimental
  NFS: add comments clarifying the use of nfs_post_op_update()
  NFSv4: rpc_mkpipe creating socket inodes w/out sk buffers
  NFS: Use SEEK_END instead of hardcoded value
  NFSv4: When mounting with a port=0 argument, substitute port=2049
  NFSv4: Poll more aggressively when handling NFS4ERR_DELAY
  NFSv4: Handle the condition NFS4ERR_FILE_OPEN
  NFSv4: Retry lease recovery if it failed during a synchronous operation.
  NFS: Don't invalidate the symlink we just stuffed into the cache
  NFS: Make read() return an ESTALE if the file has been deleted
  NFSv4: It's perfectly legal for clp to be NULL here....
  NFS: nfs_lookup - don't hash dentry when optimising away the lookup
  SUNRPC: Fix Oops in pmap_getport_done
  SUNRPC: Add refcounting to the struct rpc_xprt
  SUNRPC: Clean up soft task error handling
  SUNRPC: Handle ENETUNREACH, EHOSTUNREACH and EHOSTDOWN socket errors
  SUNRPC: rpc_delay() should not clobber the rpc_task->tk_status
  Fix a referral error Oops
  NFS: NFS_ROOT should use the new rpc_create API
  NFS: Fix up compiler warnings on 64-bit platforms in client.c
  ...

Manually resolved conflict in net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
2006-09-23 16:58:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds a4c12d6c5d Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (353 commits)
  [IPV6] ADDRCONF: Mobile IPv6 Home Address support.
  [IPV6] ADDRCONF: Allow non-DAD'able addresses.
  [IPV6] NDISC: Fix is_router flag setting.
  [IPV6] ADDRCONF: Convert addrconf_lock to RCU.
  [IPV6] NDISC: Add proxy_ndp sysctl.
  [IPV6] NDISC: Set per-entry is_router flag in Proxy NA.
  [IPV6] NDISC: Avoid updating neighbor cache for proxied address in receiving NA.
  [IPV6]: Don't forward packets to proxied link-local address.
  [IPV6] NDISC: Handle NDP messages to proxied addresses.
  [NETFILTER]: PPTP conntrack: fix another GRE keymap leak
  [NETFILTER]: PPTP conntrack: fix GRE keymap leak
  [NETFILTER]: PPTP conntrack: fix PPTP_IN_CALL message types
  [NETFILTER]: PPTP conntrack: check call ID before changing state
  [NETFILTER]: PPTP conntrack: clean up debugging cruft
  [NETFILTER]: PPTP conntrack: consolidate header parsing
  [NETFILTER]: PPTP conntrack: consolidate header size checks
  [NETFILTER]: PPTP conntrack: simplify expectation handling
  [NETFILTER]: PPTP conntrack: remove unnecessary cid/pcid header pointers
  [NETFILTER]: PPTP conntrack: fix header definitions
  [NETFILTER]: PPTP conntrack: remove more dead code
  ...
2006-09-23 16:49:31 -07:00
Trond Myklebust 275a082fe9 Add a real API for dealing with blk_congestion_wait()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-09-22 23:24:54 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 6585b57240 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/agpgart
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/agpgart:
  [AGPGART] Rework AGPv3 modesetting fallback.
  [AGPGART] Add suspend callback for i965
  [AGPGART] Fix number of aperture sizes in 830 gart structs.
  [AGPGART] Intel 965 Express support.
  [AGPGART] agp.h: constify struct agp_bridge_data::version
  [AGPGART] const'ify VIA AGP PCI table.
  [AGPGART] CONFIG_PM=n slim: drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.c
  [AGPGART] CONFIG_PM=n slim: drivers/char/agp/efficeon-agp.c
  [AGPGART] Const'ify the agpgart driver version.
  [AGPGART] remove private page protection map
2006-09-22 17:50:50 -07:00
David S. Miller f034b5d4ef [XFRM]: Dynamic xfrm_state hash table sizing.
The grow algorithm is simple, we grow if:

1) we see a hash chain collision at insert, and
2) we haven't hit the hash size limit (currently 1*1024*1024 slots), and
3) the number of xfrm_state objects is > the current hash mask

All of this needs some tweaking.

Remove __initdata from "hashdist" so we can use it safely at run time.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 15:08:41 -07:00
Steven Whitehouse 0bc0748dfb Merge branch 'master' into gfs2 2006-09-13 09:55:09 -04:00
Andrew Morton 016eb4a0ed [PATCH] invalidate_complete_page() race fix
If a CPU faults this page into pagetables after invalidate_mapping_pages()
checked page_mapped(), invalidate_complete_page() will still proceed to remove
the page from pagecache.  This leaves the page-faulting process with a
detached page.  If it was MAP_SHARED then file data loss will ensue.

Fix that up by checking the page's refcount after taking tree_lock.

Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-08 10:22:50 -07:00
Kirill Korotaev 3a45975681 [PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFs
This prevents cross-region mappings on IA64 and SPARC which could lead
to system crash.  They were correctly trapped for normal mmap() calls,
but not for the kernel internal calls generated by executable loading.

This code just moves the architecture-specific cross-region checks into
an arch-specific "arch_mmap_check()" macro, and defines that for the
architectures that needed it (ia64, sparc and sparc64).

Architectures that don't have any special requirements can just ignore
the new cross-region check, since the mmap() code will just notice on
its own when the macro isn't defined.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
[ Cleaned up to not affect architectures that don't need it ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-08 08:40:46 -07:00
Dave Jones 115b384cf8 Merge ../linus 2006-09-05 17:20:21 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse 31e77ac55f Merge branch 'master' into gfs2 2006-09-04 10:31:36 -04:00
Nishanth Aravamudan 3b98b087fc [PATCH] fix NUMA interleaving for huge pages
Since vma->vm_pgoff is in units of smallpages, VMAs for huge pages have the
lower HPAGE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT bits always cleared, which results in badd
offsets to the interleave functions.  Take this difference from small pages
into account when calculating the offset.  This does add a 0-bit shift into
the small-page path (via alloc_page_vma()), but I think that is negligible.
 Also add a BUG_ON to prevent the offset from growing due to a negative
right-shift, which probably shouldn't be allowed anyways.

Tested on an 8-memory node ppc64 NUMA box and got the interleaving I
expected.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01 11:39:10 -07:00
Pavel Mironchik 0b1d647a02 [PATCH] dm: work around mempool_alloc, bio_alloc_bioset deadlocks
This patch works around a complex dm-related deadlock/livelock down in the
mempool allocator.

Alasdair said:

  Several dm targets suffer from this.

  Mempools are not yet used correctly everywhere in device-mapper: they can
  get shared when devices are stacked, and some targets share them across
  multiple instances.  I made fixing this one of the prerequisites for this
  patch:

    md-dm-reduce-stack-usage-with-stacked-block-devices.patch

  which in some cases makes people more likely to hit the problem.

  There's been some progress on this recently with (unfinished) dm-crypt
  patches at:

    http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/agk/patches/2.6/editing/
      (dm-crypt-move-io-to-workqueue.patch plus dependencies)

and:

  I've no problems with a temporary workaround like that, but Milan Broz (a
  new Redhat developer in the Czech Republic) has started reviewing all the
  mempool usage in device-mapper so I'm expecting we'll soon have a proper fix
  for this associated problems.  [He's back from holiday at the start of next
  week.]

For now, this sad-but-safe little patch will allow the machine to recover.

[akpm@osdl.org: rewrote changelog]
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01 11:39:09 -07:00
Christoph Lameter df9ecaba3f [PATCH] ZVC: Scale thresholds depending on the size of the system
The ZVC counter update threshold is currently set to a fixed value of 32.
This patch sets up the threshold depending on the number of processors and
the sizes of the zones in the system.

With the current threshold of 32, I was able to observe slight contention
when more than 130-140 processors concurrently updated the counters.  The
contention vanished when I either increased the threshold to 64 or used
Andrew's idea of overstepping the interval (see ZVC overstep patch).

However, we saw contention again at 220-230 processors.  So we need higher
values for larger systems.

But the current default is already a bit of an overkill for smaller
systems.  Some systems have tiny zones where precision matters.  For
example i386 and x86_64 have 16M DMA zones and either 900M ZONE_NORMAL or
ZONE_DMA32.  These are even present on SMP and NUMA systems.

The patch here sets up a threshold based on the number of processors in the
system and the size of the zone that these counters are used for.  The
threshold should grow logarithmically, so we use fls() as an easy
approximation.

Results of tests on a system with 1024 processors (4TB RAM)

The following output is from a test allocating 1GB of memory concurrently
on each processor (Forking the process.  So contention on mmap_sem and the
pte locks is not a factor):

                       X                   MIN
TYPE:               CPUS       WALL       WALL        SYS     USER     TOTCPU
fork                   1      0.552      0.552      0.540    0.012      0.552
fork                   4      0.552      0.548      2.164    0.036      2.200
fork                  16      0.564      0.548      8.812    0.164      8.976
fork                 128      0.580      0.572     72.204    1.208     73.412
fork                 256      1.300      0.660    310.400    2.160    312.560
fork                 512      3.512      0.696   1526.836    4.816   1531.652
fork                1020     20.024      0.700  17243.176    6.688  17249.863

So a threshold of 32 is fine up to 128 processors. At 256 processors contention
becomes a factor.

Overstepping the counter (earlier patch) improves the numbers a bit:

fork                   4      0.552      0.548      2.164    0.040      2.204
fork                  16      0.552      0.548      8.640    0.148      8.788
fork                 128      0.556      0.548     69.676    0.956     70.632
fork                 256      0.876      0.636    212.468    2.108    214.576
fork                 512      2.276      0.672    997.324    4.260   1001.584
fork                1020     13.564      0.680  11586.436    6.088  11592.523

Still contention at 512 and 1020. Contention at 1020 is down by a third.
256 still has a slight bit of contention.

After this patch the counter threshold will be set to 125 which reduces
contention significantly:

fork                 128      0.560      0.548     69.776    0.932     70.708
fork                 256      0.636      0.556    143.460    2.036    145.496
fork                 512      0.640      0.548    284.244    4.236    288.480
fork                1020      1.500      0.588   1326.152    8.892   1335.044

[akpm@osdl.org: !SMP build fix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01 11:39:08 -07:00
Christoph Lameter a302eb4e46 [PATCH] ZVC: Overstep counters
Increments and decrements are usually grouped rather than mixed.  We can
optimize the inc and dec functions for that case.

Increment and decrement the counters by 50% more than the threshold in
those cases and set the differential accordingly.  This decreases the need
to update the atomic counters.

The idea came originally from Andrew Morton.  The overstepping alone was
sufficient to address the contention issue found when updating the global
and the per zone counters from 160 processors.

Also remove some code in dec_zone_page_state.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01 11:39:08 -07:00
Steven Whitehouse 83b7a664a0 Merge branch 'master' into gfs2 2006-08-29 11:39:34 -04:00
Rafael J. Wysocki b6b5bce357 [PATCH] swsusp: Fix swap_type_of
There is a bug in mm/swapfile.c#swap_type_of() that makes swsusp only be
able to use the first active swap partition as the resume device.  Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27 11:01:28 -07:00
Alexander Zarochentsev 1d7ea7324a [PATCH] fuse: fix error case in fuse_readpages
Don't let fuse_readpages leave the @pages list not empty when exiting
on error.

[akpm@osdl.org: kernel-doc fixes]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Zarochentsev <zam@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-08-14 12:54:29 -07:00
Steven Whitehouse ad73c67e79 Merge branch 'master' 2006-08-07 09:16:35 -04:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki ebd15302dc [PATCH] memory hotadd fixes: enhance collision check
This patch is for collision check enhancement for memory hot add.

It's better to do resouce collision check before doing memory hot add,
which will touch memory management structures.

And add_section() should check section exists or not before calling
sparse_add_one_section(). (sparse_add_one_section() will do another
check anyway. but checking in memory_hotplug.c will be easy to understand.)

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: keith mannthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-06 08:57:49 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 58c1b5b079 [PATCH] memory hotadd fixes: find_next_system_ram catch range fix
find_next_system_ram() is used to find available memory resource at onlining
newly added memory.  This patch fixes following problem.

find_next_system_ram() cannot catch this case.

Resource:      (start)-------------(end)
Section :                (start)-------------(end)

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Keith Mannthey <kmannth@gmail.com>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-06 08:57:48 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 6f712711db [PATCH] memory hotadd fixes: not-aligned memory hotadd handling fix
ioresouce handling code in memory hotplug allows not-aligned memory hot add.
But when memmap and other memory structures are initialized, parameters should
be aligned.  (if not aligned, initialization of mem_map will do wrong, it
assumes parameters are aligned.) This patch fix it.

And this patch allows ioresource collision check to handle -EEXIST.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Keith Mannthey <kmannth@gmail.com>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-06 08:57:48 -07:00
Andrew Morton 60c371bc75 [PATCH] fadvise() make POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE a no-op
The POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE hint means "the application will use this range of the
file a single time".  It seems to be intended that the implementation will use
this hint to perform drop-behind of that part of the file when the application
gets around to reading or writing it.

However for reasons which aren't obvious (or sane?) I mapped
POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE onto POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED.  ie: it does readahead.

That's daft.  So for now, make POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE a no-op.

This is a non-back-compatible change.  If someone was using POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE
to perform readahead, they lose.  The likelihood is low.

If/when we later implement POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE things will get interesting - to
do it fully we'll need to maintain file offset/length ranges and peform all
sorts of complex tricks, and managing the lifetime of those ranges' data
structures will be interesting..

A sensible implementation would probably ignore the file range and would
simply mark the entire file as needing some form of drop-behind treatment.

Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-06 08:57:47 -07:00
Rolf Eike Beer b8008b2bc2 [PATCH] Fix kmem_cache_alloc() been documented twice
kmem_cache_alloc() was documented twice, but kmem_cache_zalloc() never.
Fix this obvious typo to get things right.

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31 13:28:43 -07:00
Chandra Seetharaman 8c78f3075d [PATCH] cpu hotplug: replace __devinit* with __cpuinit* for cpu notifications
Few of the callback functions and notifier blocks that are associated with cpu
notifications incorrectly have __devinit and __devinitdata.  They should be
__cpuinit and __cpuinitdata instead.

It makes no functional difference but wastes text area when CONFIG_HOTPLUG is
enabled and CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is not.

This patch fixes all those instances.

Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31 13:28:39 -07:00
Steven Whitehouse b1b934d31d Merge branch 'master' 2006-07-31 08:59:59 -04:00
Andi Kleen b83a8e64fd [PATCH] MM: Remove rogue readahead printk
For some reason it triggers always with NFS root and spams the kernel
logs of my nfs root boxes a lot.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-29 20:59:55 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 804af2cf6e [AGPGART] remove private page protection map
AGP keeps its own copy of the protection_map, upcoming DRM changes will
also require access to this map from modules.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-07-26 19:58:39 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse a9e5f4d078 [GFS2] Alter direct I/O path
As per comments received, alter the GFS2 direct I/O path so that
it uses the standard read functions "out of the box". Needs a
small change to one of the VFS functions. This reduces the size
of the code quite a lot and also removes the need for one new export.

Some more work remains to be done, but this is the bones of the
thing.

Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
2006-07-25 17:24:12 -04:00
Steven Whitehouse 4bf311ddfb Merge branch 'master' 2006-07-17 09:25:26 -04:00
Shailabh Nagar 0ff922452d [PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: sync block I/O and swapin delay collection
Unlike earlier iterations of the delay accounting patches, now delays are only
collected for the actual I/O waits rather than try and cover the delays seen
in I/O submission paths.

Account separately for block I/O delays incurred as a result of swapin page
faults whose frequency can be affected by the task/process' rss limit.  Hence
swapin delays can act as feedback for rss limit changes independent of I/O
priority changes.

Signed-off-by: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Erich Focht <efocht@ess.nec.de>
Cc: Levent Serinol <lserinol@gmail.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-14 21:53:56 -07:00
Luke Yang 22c4af4092 [PATCH] nommu: export two symbols for drivers to use
nommu.c needs to export two more symbols for drivers to use:
remap_pfn_range and unmap_mapping_range.

Signed-off-by: Luke Yang <luke.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-14 21:53:53 -07:00
Anil Keshavamurthy c38c8db722 [PATCH] ia64: race flushing icache in COW path
There is a race condition that showed up in a threaded JIT environment.
The situation is that a process with a JIT code page forks, so the page is
marked read-only, then some threads are created in the child.  One of the
threads attempts to add a new code block to the JIT page, so a
copy-on-write fault is taken, and the kernel allocates a new page, copies
the data, installs the new pte, and then calls lazy_mmu_prot_update() to
flush caches to make sure that the icache and dcache are in sync.
Unfortunately, the other thread runs right after the new pte is installed,
but before the caches have been flushed.  It tries to execute some old JIT
code that was already in this page, but it sees some garbage in the i-cache
from the previous users of the new physical page.

Fix: we must make the caches consistent before installing the pte.  This is
an ia64 only fix because lazy_mmu_prot_update() is a no-op on all other
architectures.

Signed-off-by: Anil Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-14 21:53:51 -07:00
Jan Kiszka 8757d5fa6b [PATCH] mm: fix oom roll-back of __vmalloc_area_node
__vunmap must not rely on area->nr_pages when picking the release methode
for area->pages.  It may be too small when __vmalloc_area_node failed early
due to lacking memory.  Instead, use a flag in vmstruct to differentiate.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-14 21:53:51 -07:00
Ingo Molnar fc818301a8 [PATCH] revert slab.c locking change
Chandra Seetharaman reported SLAB crashes caused by the slab.c lock
annotation patch.  There is only one chunk of that patch that has a
material effect on the slab logic - this patch undoes that chunk.

This was confirmed to fix the slab problem by Chandra.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tested-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-13 15:38:43 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven f1aaee53f2 [PATCH] lockdep: annotate mm/slab.c
mm/slab.c uses nested locking when dealing with 'off-slab'
caches, in that case it allocates the slab header from the
(on-slab) kmalloc caches. Teach the lock validator about
this by putting all on-slab caches into a separate class.

this patch has no effect on non-lockdep kernels.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-13 12:02:44 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 873623dfab [PATCH] lockdep: undo mm/slab.c annotation
undo existing mm/slab.c lock-validator annotations, in preparation
of a new, less intrusive annotation patch.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-13 12:02:44 -07:00
Heiko Carstens 32dd66fce3 [PATCH] vmstat: export all_vm_events()
Add missing EXPORT_SYMBOL for all_vm_events(). Git commit
f8891e5e1f caused this:

  Building modules, stage 2.
  MODPOST
WARNING: "all_vm_events" [arch/s390/appldata/appldata_mem.ko] undefined!
  CC      arch/s390/appldata/appldata_mem.mod.o

Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-10 13:24:18 -07:00
Adrian Bunk b0d85c5c30 [PATCH] mm/mmzone.c: EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL
This patch marks three unused exports as EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-10 13:24:17 -07:00
Adrian Bunk 26fc52367a [PATCH] mm/memory.c: EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL
This patch marks an unused export as EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-10 13:24:17 -07:00
Adrian Bunk 6d46cc6b9b [PATCH] mm/bootmem.c: EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL
This patch marks an unused export as EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-10 13:24:17 -07:00
Andrew Morton 8f72e4028a [PATCH] fadvise: remove dead comments
Cc: "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-10 13:24:14 -07:00
Steven Whitehouse cf57a30843 Merge branch 'master' 2006-07-05 08:27:42 -04:00
Ingo Molnar 36c8b58689 [PATCH] sched: cleanup, remove task_t, convert to struct task_struct
cleanup: remove task_t and convert all the uses to struct task_struct. I
introduced it for the scheduler anno and it was a mistake.

Conversion was mostly scripted, the result was reviewed and all
secondary whitespace and style impact (if any) was fixed up by hand.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03 15:27:11 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 2b2d5493e1 [PATCH] lockdep: annotate SLAB code
Teach special (recursive) locking code to the lock validator.  Has no effect
on non-lockdep kernels.

Fix initialize-locks-via-memcpy assumptions.

Effects on non-lockdep kernels: the subclass nesting parameter is passed into
cache_free_alien() and __cache_free(), and turns one internal
kmem_cache_free() call into an open-coded __cache_free() call.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03 15:27:09 -07:00
Ingo Molnar f20dc5f7c1 [PATCH] lockdep: annotate mm
Teach special (recursive) locking code to the lock validator.  Has no effect
on non-lockdep kernels.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03 15:27:07 -07:00
Ingo Molnar e4d9191885 [PATCH] lockdep: locking init debugging improvement
Locking init improvement:

 - introduce and use __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED for array initializations,
   to pass in the name string of locks, used by debugging

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03 15:27:02 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 9a11b49a80 [PATCH] lockdep: better lock debugging
Generic lock debugging:

 - generalized lock debugging framework. For example, a bug in one lock
   subsystem turns off debugging in all lock subsystems.

 - got rid of the caller address passing (__IP__/__IP_DECL__/etc.) from
   the mutex/rtmutex debugging code: it caused way too much prototype
   hackery, and lockdep will give the same information anyway.

 - ability to do silent tests

 - check lock freeing in vfree too.

 - more finegrained debugging options, to allow distributions to
   turn off more expensive debugging features.

There's no separate 'held mutexes' list anymore - but there's a 'held locks'
stack within lockdep, which unifies deadlock detection across all lock
classes.  (this is independent of the lockdep validation stuff - lockdep first
checks whether we are holding a lock already)

Here are the current debugging options:

CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC=y

which do:

 config DEBUG_MUTEXES
          bool "Mutex debugging, basic checks"

 config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
         bool "Detect incorrect freeing of live mutexes"

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03 15:27:01 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 9614634fe6 [PATCH] ZVC/zone_reclaim: Leave 1% of unmapped pagecache pages for file I/O
It turns out that it is advantageous to leave a small portion of unmapped file
backed pages if all of a zone's pages (or almost all pages) are allocated and
so the page allocator has to go off-node.

This allows recently used file I/O buffers to stay on the node and
reduces the times that zone reclaim is invoked if file I/O occurs
when we run out of memory in a zone.

The problem is that zone reclaim runs too frequently when the page cache is
used for file I/O (read write and therefore unmapped pages!) alone and we have
almost all pages of the zone allocated.  Zone reclaim may remove 32 unmapped
pages.  File I/O will use these pages for the next read/write requests and the
unmapped pages increase.  After the zone has filled up again zone reclaim will
remove it again after only 32 pages.  This cycle is too inefficient and there
are potentially too many zone reclaim cycles.

With the 1% boundary we may still remove all unmapped pages for file I/O in
zone reclaim pass.  However.  it will take a large number of read and writes
to get back to 1% again where we trigger zone reclaim again.

The zone reclaim 2.6.16/17 does not show this behavior because we have a 30
second timeout.

[akpm@osdl.org: rename the /proc file and the variable]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03 15:26:59 -07:00
Steven Whitehouse 0a1340c185 Merge rsync://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	include/linux/kernel.h
2006-07-03 10:25:08 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 22a3e233ca Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial:
  Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
  remove obsolete swsusp_encrypt
  arch/arm26/Kconfig typos
  Documentation/IPMI typos
  Kconfig: Typos in net/sched/Kconfig
  v9fs: do not include linux/version.h
  Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl: typo fixes
  typo fixes: specfic -> specific
  typo fixes in Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt
  typo fixes: occuring -> occurring
  typo fixes: infomation -> information
  typo fixes: disadvantadge -> disadvantage
  typo fixes: aquire -> acquire
  typo fixes: mecanism -> mechanism
  typo fixes: bandwith -> bandwidth
  fix a typo in the RTC_CLASS help text
  smb is no longer maintained

Manually merged trivial conflict in arch/um/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
2006-06-30 15:39:30 -07:00
Christoph Lameter ed11d9eb22 [PATCH] slab: consolidate code to free slabs from freelist
Post and discussion:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=115074342800003&r=1&w=2

Code in __shrink_node() duplicates code in cache_reap()

Add a new function drain_freelist that removes slabs with objects that are
already free and use that in various places.

This eliminates the __node_shrink() function and provides the interrupt
holdoff reduction from slab_free to code that used to call __node_shrink.

[akpm@osdl.org: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30 11:25:36 -07:00
Christoph Lameter f8891e5e1f [PATCH] Light weight event counters
The remaining counters in page_state after the zoned VM counter patches
have been applied are all just for show in /proc/vmstat.  They have no
essential function for the VM.

We use a simple increment of per cpu variables.  In order to avoid the most
severe races we disable preempt.  Preempt does not prevent the race between
an increment and an interrupt handler incrementing the same statistics
counter.  However, that race is exceedingly rare, we may only loose one
increment or so and there is no requirement (at least not in kernel) that
the vm event counters have to be accurate.

In the non preempt case this results in a simple increment for each
counter.  For many architectures this will be reduced by the compiler to a
single instruction.  This single instruction is atomic for i386 and x86_64.
 And therefore even the rare race condition in an interrupt is avoided for
both architectures in most cases.

The patchset also adds an off switch for embedded systems that allows a
building of linux kernels without these counters.

The implementation of these counters is through inline code that hopefully
results in only a single instruction increment instruction being emitted
(i386, x86_64) or in the increment being hidden though instruction
concurrency (EPIC architectures such as ia64 can get that done).

Benefits:
- VM event counter operations usually reduce to a single inline instruction
  on i386 and x86_64.
- No interrupt disable, only preempt disable for the preempt case.
  Preempt disable can also be avoided by moving the counter into a spinlock.
- Handling is similar to zoned VM counters.
- Simple and easily extendable.
- Can be omitted to reduce memory use for embedded use.

References:

RFC http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113512330605497&w=2
RFC http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114988082814934&w=2
local_t http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114991748606690&w=2
V2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=115014808400007&r=1&w=2
V3 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115024767022346&w=2
V4 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115047968808926&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>
2006-06-30 11:25:36 -07:00
Christoph Lameter ca889e6c45 [PATCH] Use Zoned VM Counters for NUMA statistics
The numa statistics are really event counters.  But they are per node and
so we have had special treatment for these counters through additional
fields on the pcp structure.  We can now use the per zone nature of the
zoned VM counters to realize these.

This will shrink the size of the pcp structure on NUMA systems.  We will
have some room to add additional per zone counters that will all still fit
in the same cacheline.

 Bits	Prior pcp size	  	Size after patch	We can add
 ------------------------------------------------------------------
 64	128 bytes (16 words)	80 bytes (10 words)	48
 32	 76 bytes (19 words)	56 bytes (14 words)	8 (64 byte cacheline)
							72 (128 byte)

Remove the special statistics for numa and replace them with zoned vm
counters.  This has the side effect that global sums of these events now
show up in /proc/vmstat.

Also take the opportunity to move the zone_statistics() function from
page_alloc.c into vmstat.c.

Discussions:
V2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=115048227000002&r=1&w=2

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30 11:25:36 -07:00
Andrew Morton bab1846a05 [PATCH] zoned-vm-counters: remove read_page_state()
No callers.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30 11:25:36 -07:00
Christoph Lameter c24f21bda8 [PATCH] zoned vm counters: remove useless struct wbs
Remove writeback state

We can remove some functions now that were needed to calculate the page state
for writeback control since these statistics are now directly available.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30 11:25:36 -07:00
Christoph Lameter d2c5e30c9a [PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_bounce to per zone counter
Conversion of nr_bounce to a per zone counter

nr_bounce is only used for proc output.  So it could be left as an event
counter.  However, the event counters may not be accurate and nr_bounce is
categorizing types of pages in a zone.  So we really need this to also be a
per zone counter.

[akpm@osdl.org: bugfix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30 11:25:36 -07:00
Christoph Lameter fd39fc8561 [PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_unstable to per zone counter
Conversion of nr_unstable to a per zone counter

We need to do some special modifications to the nfs code since there are
multiple cases of disposition and we need to have a page ref for proper
accounting.

This converts the last critical page state of the VM and therefore we need to
remove several functions that were depending on GET_PAGE_STATE_LAST in order
to make the kernel compile again.  We are only left with event type counters
in page state.

[akpm@osdl.org: bugfixes]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.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>
2006-06-30 11:25:36 -07:00
Christoph Lameter ce866b34ae [PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_writeback to per zone counter
Conversion of nr_writeback to per zone counter.

This removes the last page_state counter from arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c so we
drop the page_state from there.

[akpm@osdl.org: bugfix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.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>
2006-06-30 11:25:35 -07:00
Christoph Lameter b1e7a8fd85 [PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_dirty to per zone counter
This makes nr_dirty a per zone counter.  Looping over all processors is
avoided during writeback state determination.

The counter aggregation for nr_dirty had to be undone in the NFS layer since
we summed up the page counts from multiple zones.  Someone more familiar with
NFS should probably review what I have done.

[akpm@osdl.org: bugfix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.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>
2006-06-30 11:25:35 -07:00
Christoph Lameter df849a1529 [PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_pagetables to per zone counter
Conversion of nr_page_table_pages to a per zone counter

[akpm@osdl.org: bugfix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30 11:25:35 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 9a865ffa34 [PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_slab to per zone counter
- Allows reclaim to access counter without looping over processor counts.

- Allows accurate statistics on how many pages are used in a zone by
  the slab. This may become useful to balance slab allocations over
  various zones.

[akpm@osdl.org: bugfix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30 11:25:35 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 34aa1330f9 [PATCH] zoned vm counters: zone_reclaim: remove /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_interval
The zone_reclaim_interval was necessary because we were not able to determine
how many unmapped pages exist in a zone.  Therefore we had to scan in
intervals to figure out if any pages were unmapped.

With the zoned counters and NR_ANON_PAGES we now know the number of pagecache
pages and the number of mapped pages in a zone.  So we can simply skip the
reclaim if there is an insufficient number of unmapped pages.  We use
SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX as the boundary.

Drop all support for /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_interval.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30 11:25:35 -07:00
Christoph Lameter f3dbd34460 [PATCH] zoned vm counters: split NR_ANON_PAGES off from NR_FILE_MAPPED
The current NR_FILE_MAPPED is used by zone reclaim and the dirty load
calculation as the number of mapped pagecache pages.  However, that is not
true.  NR_FILE_MAPPED includes the mapped anonymous pages.  This patch
separates those and therefore allows an accurate tracking of the anonymous
pages per zone.

It then becomes possible to determine the number of unmapped pages per zone
and we can avoid scanning for unmapped pages if there are none.

Also it may now be possible to determine the mapped/unmapped ratio in
get_dirty_limit.  Isnt the number of anonymous pages irrelevant in that
calculation?

Note that this will change the meaning of the number of mapped pages reported
in /proc/vmstat /proc/meminfo and in the per node statistics.  This may affect
user space tools that monitor these counters!  NR_FILE_MAPPED works like
NR_FILE_DIRTY.  It is only valid for pagecache pages.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.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>
2006-06-30 11:25:35 -07:00
Christoph Lameter bf02cf4b6c [PATCH] zoned vm counters: remove NR_FILE_MAPPED from scan control structure
We can now access the number of pages in a mapped state in an inexpensive way
in shrink_active_list.  So drop the nr_mapped field from scan_control.

[akpm@osdl.org: bugfix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30 11:25:35 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 347ce434d5 [PATCH] zoned vm counters: conversion of nr_pagecache to per zone counter
Currently a single atomic variable is used to establish the size of the page
cache in the whole machine.  The zoned VM counters have the same method of
implementation as the nr_pagecache code but also allow the determination of
the pagecache size per zone.

Remove the special implementation for nr_pagecache and make it a zoned counter
named NR_FILE_PAGES.

Updates of the page cache counters are always performed with interrupts off.
We can therefore use the __ variant here.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.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>
2006-06-30 11:25:34 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 65ba55f500 [PATCH] zoned vm counters: convert nr_mapped to per zone counter
nr_mapped is important because it allows a determination of how many pages of
a zone are not mapped, which would allow a more efficient means of determining
when we need to reclaim memory in a zone.

We take the nr_mapped field out of the page state structure and define a new
per zone counter named NR_FILE_MAPPED (the anonymous pages will be split off
from NR_MAPPED in the next patch).

We replace the use of nr_mapped in various kernel locations.  This avoids the
looping over all processors in try_to_free_pages(), writeback, reclaim (swap +
zone reclaim).

[akpm@osdl.org: bugfix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.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>
2006-06-30 11:25:34 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 2244b95a7b [PATCH] zoned vm counters: basic ZVC (zoned vm counter) implementation
Per zone counter infrastructure

The counters that we currently have for the VM are split per processor.  The
processor however has not much to do with the zone these pages belong to.  We
cannot tell f.e.  how many ZONE_DMA pages are dirty.

So we are blind to potentially inbalances in the usage of memory in various
zones.  F.e.  in a NUMA system we cannot tell how many pages are dirty on a
particular node.  If we knew then we could put measures into the VM to balance
the use of memory between different zones and different nodes in a NUMA
system.  For example it would be possible to limit the dirty pages per node so
that fast local memory is kept available even if a process is dirtying huge
amounts of pages.

Another example is zone reclaim.  We do not know how many unmapped pages exist
per zone.  So we just have to try to reclaim.  If it is not working then we
pause and try again later.  It would be better if we knew when it makes sense
to reclaim unmapped pages from a zone.  This patchset allows the determination
of the number of unmapped pages per zone.  We can remove the zone reclaim
interval with the counters introduced here.

Futhermore the ability to have various usage statistics available will allow
the development of new NUMA balancing algorithms that may be able to improve
the decision making in the scheduler of when to move a process to another node
and hopefully will also enable automatic page migration through a user space
program that can analyse the memory load distribution and then rebalance
memory use in order to increase performance.

The counter framework here implements differential counters for each processor
in struct zone.  The differential counters are consolidated when a threshold
is exceeded (like done in the current implementation for nr_pageache), when
slab reaping occurs or when a consolidation function is called.

Consolidation uses atomic operations and accumulates counters per zone in the
zone structure and also globally in the vm_stat array.  VM functions can
access the counts by simply indexing a global or zone specific array.

The arrangement of counters in an array also simplifies processing when output
has to be generated for /proc/*.

Counters can be updated by calling inc/dec_zone_page_state or
_inc/dec_zone_page_state analogous to *_page_state.  The second group of
functions can be called if it is known that interrupts are disabled.

Special optimized increment and decrement functions are provided.  These can
avoid certain checks and use increment or decrement instructions that an
architecture may provide.

We also add a new CONFIG_DMA_IS_NORMAL that signifies that an architecture can
do DMA to all memory and therefore ZONE_NORMAL will not be populated.  This is
only currently set for IA64 SGI SN2 and currently only affects
node_page_state().  In the best case node_page_state can be reduced to
retrieving a single counter for the one zone on the node.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
[akpm@osdl.org: export vm_stat[] for filesystems]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.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>
2006-06-30 11:25:34 -07:00
Christoph Lameter f6ac2354d7 [PATCH] zoned vm counters: create vmstat.c/.h from page_alloc.c/.h
NOTE: ZVC are *not* the lightweight event counters.  ZVCs are reliable whereas
event counters do not need to be.

Zone based VM statistics are necessary to be able to determine what the state
of memory in one zone is.  In a NUMA system this can be helpful for local
reclaim and other memory optimizations that may be able to shift VM load in
order to get more balanced memory use.

It is also useful to know how the computing load affects the memory
allocations on various zones.  This patchset allows the retrieval of that data
from userspace.

The patchset introduces a framework for counters that is a cross between the
existing page_stats --which are simply global counters split per cpu-- and the
approach of deferred incremental updates implemented for nr_pagecache.

Small per cpu 8 bit counters are added to struct zone.  If the counter exceeds
certain thresholds then the counters are accumulated in an array of
atomic_long in the zone and in a global array that sums up all zone values.
The small 8 bit counters are next to the per cpu page pointers and so they
will be in high in the cpu cache when pages are allocated and freed.

Access to VM counter information for a zone and for the whole machine is then
possible by simply indexing an array (Thanks to Nick Piggin for pointing out
that approach).  The access to the total number of pages of various types does
no longer require the summing up of all per cpu counters.

Benefits of this patchset right now:

- Ability for UP and SMP configuration to determine how memory
  is balanced between the DMA, NORMAL and HIGHMEM zones.

- loops over all processors are avoided in writeback and
  reclaim paths. We can avoid caching the writeback information
  because the needed information is directly accessible.

- Special handling for nr_pagecache removed.

- zone_reclaim_interval vanishes since VM stats can now determine
  when it is worth to do local reclaim.

- Fast inline per node page state determination.

- Accurate counters in /sys/devices/system/node/node*/meminfo. Current
  counters are counting simply which processor allocated a page somewhere
  and guestimate based on that. So the counters were not useful to show
  the actual distribution of page use on a specific zone.

- The swap_prefetch patch requires per node statistics in order to
  figure out when processors of a node can prefetch. This patch provides
  some of the needed numbers.

- Detailed VM counters available in more /proc and /sys status files.

References to earlier discussions:
V1 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113511649910826&w=2
V2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114980851924230&w=2
V3 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115014697910351&w=2
V4 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115024767318740&w=2

Performance tests with AIM7 did not show any regressions.  Seems to be a tad
faster even.  Tested on ia64/NUMA.  Builds fine on i386, SMP / UP.  Includes
fixes for s390/arm/uml arch code.

This patch:

Move counter code from page_alloc.c/page-flags.h to vmstat.c/h.

Create vmstat.c/vmstat.h by separating the counter code and the proc
functions.

Move the vm_stat_text array before zoneinfo_show.

[akpm@osdl.org: s390 build fix]
[akpm@osdl.org: HOTPLUG_CPU build fix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.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>
2006-06-30 11:25:34 -07:00
Jörn Engel 6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 602cada851 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/devfs-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/devfs-2.6: (22 commits)
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove it from the feature_removal.txt file
  [PATCH] devfs: Last little devfs cleanups throughout the kernel tree.
  [PATCH] devfs: Rename TTY_DRIVER_NO_DEVFS to TTY_DRIVER_DYNAMIC_DEV
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove the tty_driver devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove the line_driver devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove the videodevice devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove the gendisk devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove the miscdevice devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove the devfs_fs_kernel.h file from the tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_remove() function from the kernel tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_cdev() function from the kernel tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_bdev() function from the kernel tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_symlink() function from the kernel tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_dir() function from the kernel tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_*_tape() functions from the kernel tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the sound subsystem
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the ide subsystem.
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the serial subsystem
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the init code
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the partition code
  ...
2006-06-29 14:19:21 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1903ac54f8 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6:
  [PATCH] i386: export memory more than 4G through /proc/iomem
  [PATCH] 64bit Resource: finally enable 64bit resource sizes
  [PATCH] 64bit Resource: convert a few remaining drivers to use resource_size_t where needed
  [PATCH] 64bit resource: change pnp core to use resource_size_t
  [PATCH] 64bit resource: change pci core and arch code to use resource_size_t
  [PATCH] 64bit resource: change resource core to use resource_size_t
  [PATCH] 64bit resource: introduce resource_size_t for the start and end of struct resource
  [PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in misc drivers
  [PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in arch and core code
  [PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in pcmcia drivers
  [PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in video drivers
  [PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in ide drivers
  [PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in mtd drivers
  [PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in pci core and hotplug drivers
  [PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in networks drivers
  [PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in sound drivers
  [PATCH] 64bit resource: C99 changes for struct resource declarations

Fixed up trivial conflict in drivers/ide/pci/cmd64x.c (the printk that
was changed by the 64-bit resources had been deleted in the meantime ;)
2006-06-29 10:49:17 -07:00
Yasunori Goto cc57637b0b [PATCH] solve config broken: undefined reference to `online_page'
Memory hotplug code of i386 adds memory to only highmem.  So, if
CONFIG_HIGHMEM is not set, CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG shouldn't be set.
Otherwise, it causes compile error.

In addition, many architecture can't use memory hotplug feature yet.  So, I
introduce CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTPLUG.

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-29 10:26:20 -07:00
Andrew Morton 81b0c87133 [PATCH] generic_file_buffered_write(): handle zero-length iovec segments
The recent generic_file_write() deadlock fix caused
generic_file_buffered_write() to loop inifinitely when presented with a
zero-length iovec segment.  Fix.

Note that this fix deliberately avoids calling ->prepare_write(),
->commit_write() etc with a zero-length write.  This is because I don't trust
all filesystems to get that right.

This is a cautious approach, for 2.6.17.x.  For 2.6.18 we should just go ahead
and call ->prepare_write() and ->commit_write() with the zero length and fix
any broken filesystems.  So I'll make that change once this code is stabilised
and backported into 2.6.17.x.

The reason for preferring to call ->prepare_write() and ->commit_write() with
the zero-length segment: a zero-length segment _should_ be sufficiently
uncommon that this is the correct way of handling it.  We don't want to
optimise for poorly-written userspace at the expense of well-written
userspace.

Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-29 10:26:20 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig f5e54d6e53 [PATCH] mark address_space_operations const
Same as with already do with the file operations: keep them in .rodata and
prevents people from doing runtime patching.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-28 14:59:04 -07:00
Ingo Molnar e7eebaf6a8 [PATCH] pi-futex: rt mutex debug
Runtime debugging functionality for rt-mutexes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27 17:32:47 -07:00
Ingo Molnar f9b8404cf8 [PATCH] pi-futex: introduce debug_check_no_locks_freed()
Add debug_check_no_locks_freed(), as a central inline to add
bad-lock-free-debugging functionality to.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27 17:32:46 -07:00
Chandra Seetharaman 26c2143b63 [PATCH] cpu hotplug: make cpu_notifier related notifier calls __cpuinit only
Make notifier_calls associated with cpu_notifier as __cpuinit.

__cpuinit makes sure that the function is init time only unless
CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined.

[akpm@osdl.org: section fix]
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27 17:32:41 -07:00
Chandra Seetharaman 74b85f3790 [PATCH] cpu hotplug: make cpu_notifier related notifier blocks __cpuinit only
Make notifier_blocks associated with cpu_notifier as __cpuinitdata.

__cpuinitdata makes sure that the data is init time only unless
CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined.

Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27 17:32:41 -07:00
Chandra Seetharaman 9c7b216d23 [PATCH] cpu hotplug: revert init patch submitted for 2.6.17
In 2.6.17, there was a problem with cpu_notifiers and XFS.  I provided a
band-aid solution to solve that problem.  In the process, i undid all the
changes you both were making to ensure that these notifiers were available
only at init time (unless CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined).

We deferred the real fix to 2.6.18.  Here is a set of patches that fixes the
XFS problem cleanly and makes the cpu notifiers available only at init time
(unless CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined).

If CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined then cpu notifiers are available at run
time.

This patch reverts the notifier_call changes made in 2.6.17

Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27 17:32:40 -07:00
Vladimir V. Saveliev 6527c2bdf1 [PATCH] generic_file_buffered_write(): deadlock on vectored write
generic_file_buffered_write() prefaults in user pages in order to avoid
deadlock on copying from the same page as write goes to.

However, it looks like there is a problem when write is vectored:
fault_in_pages_readable brings in current segment or its part (maxlen).
OTOH, filemap_copy_from_user_iovec is called to copy number of bytes
(bytes) which may exceed current segment, so filemap_copy_from_user_iovec
switches to the next segment which is not brought in yet.  Pagefault is
generated.  That causes the deadlock if pagefault is for the same page
write goes to: page being written is locked and not uptodate, pagefault
will deadlock trying to lock locked page.

[akpm@osdl.org: somewhat rewritten]
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27 17:32:39 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 34af946a22 [PATCH] spin/rwlock init cleanups
locking init cleanups:

 - convert " = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED" to spin_lock_init() or DEFINE_SPINLOCK()
 - convert rwlocks in a similar manner

this patch was generated automatically.

Motivation:

 - cleanliness
 - lockdep needs control of lock initialization, which the open-coded
   variants do not give
 - it's also useful for -rt and for lock debugging in general

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27 17:32:39 -07:00
Randy Dunlap c9cf55285e [PATCH] add poison.h and patch primary users
Localize poison values into one header file for better documentation and
easier/quicker debugging and so that the same values won't be used for
multiple purposes.

Use these constants in core arch., mm, driver, and fs code.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27 17:32:38 -07:00
Yasunori Goto 0fc44159bf [PATCH] Register sysfs file for hotplugged new node
When new node becomes enable by hot-add, new sysfs file must be created for
new node.  So, if new node is enabled by add_memory(), register_one_node() is
called to create it.  In addition, I386's arch_register_node() and a part of
register_nodes() of powerpc are consolidated to register_one_node() as a
generic_code().

This is tested by Tiger4(IPF) with node hot-plug emulation.

Signed-off-by: Keiichiro Tokunaga <tokuanga.keiich@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27 17:32:36 -07:00
Yasunori Goto 1f04bbd2d3 [PATCH] sparc64: support sparsemem and !memory hotplug
Fix "undefined reference to `arch_add_memory'" on sparc64 allmodconfig.

sparc64 doesn't support memory hotplug.  But we want it to support
sparsemem.

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27 17:32:36 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 2842f11419 [PATCH] catch valid mem range at onlining memory
This patch allows hot-add memory which is not aligned to section.

Now, hot-added memory has to be aligned to section size.  Considering big
section sized archs, this is not useful.

When hot-added memory is registerd as iomem resoruce by iomem resource
patch, we can make use of that information to detect valid memory range.

Note: With this, not-aligned memory can be registerd. To allow hot-add
      memory with holes, we have to do more work around add_memory().
      (It doesn't allows add memory to already existing mem section.)

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27 17:32:36 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 0a54703904 [PATCH] register hot-added memory to iomem resource
Register hot-added memory to iomem_resource.  With this, /proc/iomem can
show hot-added memory.

Note: kdump uses /proc/iomem to catch memory range when it is installed.
      So, kdump should be re-installed after /proc/iomem change.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27 17:32:36 -07:00
Yasunori Goto 9af3c2dea3 [PATCH] pgdat allocation for new node add (call pgdat allocation)
Add node-hot-add support to add_memory().

node hotadd uses this sequence.
1. allocate pgdat.
2. refresh NODE_DATA()
3. call free_area_init_node() to initialize
4. create sysfs entry
5. add memory (old add_memory())
6. set node online
7. run kswapd for new node.
(8). update zonelist after pages are onlined. (This is already merged in -mm
   due to update phase is difference.)

Note:
  To make common function as much as possible,
  there is 2 changes from v2.
    - The old add_memory(), which is defiend by each archs,
      is renamed to arch_add_memory(). New add_memory becomes
      caller of arch dependent function as a common code.

    - This patch changes add_memory()'s interface
        From: add_memory(start, end)
        TO  : add_memory(nid, start, end).
      It was cause of similar code that finding node id from
      physical address is inside of old add_memory() on each arch.

      In addition, acpi memory hotplug driver can find node id easier.
      In v2, it must walk DSDT'S _CRS by matching physical address to
      get the handle of its memory device, then get _PXM and node id.
      Because input is just physical address.
      However, in v3, the acpi driver can use handle to get _PXM and node id
      for the new memory device. It can pass just node id to add_memory().

Fix interface of arch_add_memory() is in next patche.

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto     <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27 17:32:36 -07:00
Yasunori Goto 3218ae14b1 [PATCH] pgdat allocation for new node add (export kswapd start func)
When node is hot-added, kswapd for the node should start.  This export kswapd
start function as kswapd_run() to use at add_memory().

[akpm@osdl.org: daemonize() isn't needed when using the kthread API]
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27 17:32:36 -07:00
Yasunori Goto bc02af93dd [PATCH] pgdat allocation for new node add (specify node id)
Change the name of old add_memory() to arch_add_memory.  And use node id to
get pgdat for the node at NODE_DATA().

Note: Powerpc's old add_memory() is defined as __devinit. However,
      add_memory() is usually called only after bootup.
      I suppose it may be redundant. But, I'm not well known about powerpc.
      So, I keep it. (But, __meminit is better at least.)

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27 17:32:35 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 6550e07f41 [PATCH] 64bit Resource: finally enable 64bit resource sizes
Introduce the Kconfig entry and actually switch to a 64bit value, if
wanted, for resource_size_t.

Based on a patch series originally from Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>

Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-27 09:24:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds da206c9e68 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial:
  typo fixes
  Clean up 'inline is not at beginning' warnings for usb storage
  Storage class should be first
  i386: Trivial typo fixes
  ixj: make ixj_set_tone_off() static
  spelling fixes
  fix paniced->panicked typos
  Spelling fixes for Documentation/atomic_ops.txt
  move acknowledgment for Mark Adler to CREDITS
  remove the bouncing email address of David Campbell
2006-06-26 13:33:14 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman ff23eca3e8 [PATCH] devfs: Remove the devfs_fs_kernel.h file from the tree
Also fixes up all files that #include it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-26 12:25:08 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 95dc112a57 [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_dir() function from the kernel tree
Removes the devfs_mk_dir() function and all callers of it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-26 12:25:06 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman 99f8955183 [PATCH] proc: don't lock task_structs indefinitely
Every inode in /proc holds a reference to a struct task_struct.  If a
directory or file is opened and remains open after the the task exits this
pinning continues.  With 8K stacks on a 32bit machine the amount pinned per
file descriptor is about 10K.

Normally I would figure a reasonable per user process limit is about 100
processes.  With 80 processes, with a 1000 file descriptors each I can trigger
the 00M killer on a 32bit kernel, because I have pinned about 800MB of useless
data.

This patch replaces the struct task_struct pointer with a pointer to a struct
task_ref which has a struct task_struct pointer.  The so the pinning of dead
tasks does not happen.

The code now has to contend with the fact that the task may now exit at any
time.  Which is a little but not muh more complicated.

With this change it takes about 1000 processes each opening up 1000 file
descriptors before I can trigger the OOM killer.  Much better.

[mlp@google.com: task_mmu small fixes]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Prasanna Meda <mlp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:25 -07:00