I tried to upgrade an IA32 chroot on my IA64 to a new glibc with TLS.
It kept dying because set_thread_area was returning -ESRCH
(bugs.debian.org/451939).
I instrumented arch/ia64/ia32/sys_ia32.c:get_free_idx() and ended up
seeing output like
[pid] idx desc->a desc->b
-----------------------------
[2710] 0 -> c6b0ffff 40dff31b
[2710] 1 -> 0 0
[2710] 2 -> 0 0
[2710] 0 -> c6b0ffff 40dff31b
[2710] 1 -> c6b0ffff 40dff31b
[2710] 2 -> 0 0
[2711] 0 -> c6b0ffff 40dff31b
[2711] 1 -> c6b0ffff 40dff31b
[2711] 2 -> 48c0ffff 40dff317
which suggested to me that TLS pointers were surviving exec() calls,
leading to GDT pointers filling up and the eventual failure of
get_free_idx().
I think the solution is flushing the tls array on exec.
Signed-Off-By: Ian Wienand <ianw@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
The ia64 oops message doesn't include the kernel version, which
makes it hard to automatically categorize oops messages scraped
from mailing lists and bug databases.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Improve performance of memory allocations on ia64 by avoiding a global TLB
purge to purge a single page from the file cache. This happens whenever we
evict a page from the buffer cache to make room for some other allocation.
Test case: Run 'find /usr -type f | xargs cat > /dev/null' in the
background to fill the buffer cache, then run something that uses memory,
e.g. 'gmake -j50 install'. Instrumentation showed that the number of
global TLB purges went from a few millions down to about 170 over a 12
hours run of the above.
The performance impact is particularly noticeable under virtualization,
because a virtual TLB is generally both larger and slower to purge than
a physical one.
Signed-off-by: Christophe de Dinechin <ddd@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Convert ia64's ia32 support from nopage to fault.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This patch removes some redundant code in the function setup_sigcontext().
The registers ar.ccv,b7,r14,ar.csd,ar.ssd,r2-r3 and r16-r31 are not
restored in restore_sigcontext() when (flags & IA64_SC_FLAG_IN_SYSCALL) is
true. So we don't need to zero those variables in setup_sigcontext().
Signed-off-by: Shi Weihua <shiwh@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
__clear_bit_unlock does not need to perform atomic operations on the
variable. Avoid a cmpxchg and simply do a store with release semantics.
Add a barrier to be safe that the compiler does not do funky things.
Tony: Use intrinsic rather than inline assembler
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
patch: [SCSI] initio: convert to use the data buffer accessors had a
small but fatal bug in that it didn't increment the pointer into the
initio scatterlist descriptors as it looped over the block generated
ones. Fixed here.
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
This is caused by a missing scatterlist initialisation (it only shows
up when sg list handling debugging is turned on).
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
> I have a scanner connected to a Initio INI-950 SCSI card and I recently
> upgraded from SuSE 10.2 to 10.3. The new kernel doesn't see any of my
> devices. I get the following in /var/log/messages:
>
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> initio: I/O port range 0x0 is busy.
> ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:0a.0 disabled
Humm not a collision - thats a bug in the driver updating. Looks like the
changes I made and combined with Christoph's lost a line somewhere when I
was merging it all.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
The patch described by the following excerpt from ChangeLog-2.6.24-rc1
eventually causes a "irq X: nobody cared" error after a while:
commit 99c9e0a1d6
Author: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Date: Fri Oct 5 15:55:12 2007 -0400
[SCSI] sym53c8xx: Make interrupt handler capable of returning IRQ_NONE
After this happens, the kernel disables the IRQ, causing the SCSI card
to stop working until the next reboot. The problem is caused by the
interrupt handler returning IRQ_NONE instead of IRQ_HANDLED after
handling an interrupt-on-the-fly (INTF) condition. The following patch
fixes the problem.
Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
This fixes a potential corruption bug where the truncation would cause
reading or writing to the wrong memory area on machines with >4GB of
main memory.
Cc: Stable Kernel Tree <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
The following commit changed the pointer passed to request_irq(), but
failed to change the pointer passed to free_irq():
commit 99c9e0a1d6
Author: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Date: Fri Oct 5 15:55:12 2007 -0400
[SCSI] sym53c8xx: Make interrupt handler capable of returning IRQ_NONE
...
The result is that free_irq() doesn't actually take any action. This
patch fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
this is the tale of a full day spent debugging an ancient but elusive bug.
after booting up thousands of random .config kernels, i finally happened
to generate a .config that produced the following rare bootup failure
on 32-bit x86:
| ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
| ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
| ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ... failed.
| ...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ... failed.
| ...trying to set up timer as ExtINT IRQ... failed :(.
| Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! Boot with apic=debug
| and send a report. Then try booting with the 'noapic' option
this bug has been reported many times during the years, but it was never
reproduced nor fixed.
the bug that i hit was extremely sensitive to .config details.
First i did a .config-bisection - suspecting some .config detail.
That led to CONFIG_X86_MCE: enabling X86_MCE magically made the bug disappear
and the system would boot up just fine.
Debugging my way through the MCE code ended up identifying two unlikely
candidates: the thing that made a real difference to the hang was that
X86_MCE did two printks:
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
Adding the same printks to a !CONFIG_X86_MCE kernel made the bug go away!
this left timing as the main suspect: i experimented with adding various
udelay()s to the arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_32.c:check_timer() function, and
the race window turned out to be narrower than 30 microseconds (!).
That made debugging especially funny, debugging without having printk
ability before the bug hits is ... interesting ;-)
eventually i started suspecting IRQ activities - those are pretty much the
only thing that happen this early during bootup and have the timescale of
a few dozen microseconds. Also, check_timer() changes the IRQ hardware
in various creative ways, so the main candidate became IRQ0 interaction.
i've added a counter to track timer irqs (on which core they arrived, at
what exact time, etc.) and found that no timer IRQ would arrive after the
bug condition hits - even if we re-enable IRQ0 and re-initialize the i8259A,
but that we'd get a small number of timer irqs right around the time when we
call the check_timer() function.
Eventually i got the following backtrace triggered from debug code in the
timer interrupt:
...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ... failed.
...trying to set up timer as ExtINT IRQ...
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.24-rc5 #57)
EIP: 0060:[<c044d57e>] EFLAGS: 00000246 CPU: 0
EIP is at _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x5/0x1c
EAX: c0634178 EBX: 00000000 ECX: c4947d63 EDX: 00000246
ESI: 00000002 EDI: 00010031 EBP: c04e0f2e ESP: f7c41df4
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
CR0: 8005003b CR2: ffe04000 CR3: 00630000 CR4: 000006d0
DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400
[<c05f5784>] setup_IO_APIC+0x9c3/0xc5c
the spin_unlock() was called from init_8259A(). Wait ... we have an IRQ0
entry while we are in the middle of setting up the local APIC, the i8259A
and the PIT??
That is certainly not how it's supposed to work! check_timer() was supposed
to be called with irqs turned off - but this eroded away sometime in the
past. This code would still work most of the time because this code runs
very quickly, but just the right timing conditions are present and IRQ0
hits in this small, ~30 usecs window, timer irqs stop and the system does
not boot up. Also, given how early this is during bootup, the hang is
very deterministic - but it would only occur on certain machines (and
certain configs).
The fix was quite simple: disable/restore interrupts properly in this
function. With that in place the test-system now boots up just fine.
(64-bit x86 io_apic_64.c had the same bug.)
Phew! One down, only 1500 other kernel bugs are left ;-)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
In commit 76d2160147 lazy irq disabling
was implemented, and the simple irq handler had a masking set to it.
Remy Bohmer discovered that some devices in the ARM architecture
would trigger the mask, but never unmask it. His patch to do the
unmasking was questioned by Russell King about masking simple irqs
to begin with. Looking further, it was discovered that the problems
Remy was seeing was due to improper use of the simple handler by
devices, and he later submitted patches to fix those. But the issue
that was uncovered was that the simple handler should never mask.
This patch reverts the masking in the simple handler.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The patch introducing this left out 64-bit x86 despite it also having
extra entries.
this solves Xen guest troubles.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Kprobes for x86-64 may cause a kernel crash if it inserted on "iret"
instruction. "call absolute" is invalid on x86-64, so we don't need
treat it.
- Change the processing order as same as x86-32.
- Add "iret"(0xcf) case.
- Remove next_rip local variable.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
jprobe for x86-64 may cause kernel page fault when the jprobe_return()
is called from incorrect function.
- Use jprobe_saved_regs instead getting it from stack.
(Especially on x86-64, it may get incorrect data, because
pt_regs can not be get by using container_of(rsp))
- Change the type of stack pointer to unsigned long *.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch fixes the following section mismatches with CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n,
CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y:
...
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x41cd3): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:tvec_base_done.22610 (between 'timer_cpu_notify' and 'run_timer_softirq')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x41d67): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:tvec_base_done.22610 (between 'timer_cpu_notify' and 'run_timer_softirq')
...
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Add unlocked version for use by irq_chip.set_type handlers which may
wish to change handler to level or edge handler when IRQ type is
changed.
The normal set_irq_handler() call cannot be used because it tries to
take irq_desc.lock which is already held when the irq_chip.set_type
hook is called.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Resolve the following regression of a choppy, almost unusable laptop:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/7/299http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9525
A previous version of the code did the reprogramming of the broadcast
device in the return from idle code. This was removed, but the logic in
tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast() was kept the same.
When a broadcast interrupt happens we signal the expiry to all CPUs
which have an expired event. If none of the CPUs has an expired event,
which can happen in dyntick mode, then we reprogram the broadcast
device. We do not reprogram otherwise, but this is only correct if all
CPUs, which are in the idle broadcast state have been woken up.
The code ignores, that there might be pending not yet expired events on
other CPUs, which are in the idle broadcast state. So the delivery of
those events can be delayed for quite a time.
Change the tick_handle_oneshot_broadcast() function to check for CPUs,
which are in broadcast state and are not woken up by the current event,
and enforce the rearming of the broadcast device for those CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This patch is for controlling the upper 32bits of the event ctrl msrs.
This includes the upper 4 bits of the event select and the Guest Only and
Host Only bits
This patch is necessary to make Event Based Profiling work reliably on a
Family 10h processor
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: checkpatch.pl fixes]
Signed-off-by: Barry Kasindorf <barry.kasindorf@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched:
sched: do not hurt SCHED_BATCH on wakeup
sched: touch softlockup watchdog after idling
sched: sysctl, proc_dointvec_minmax() expects int values for
sched: mark rwsem functions as __sched for wchan/profiling
sched: fix crash on ia64, introduce task_current()
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
Cleanup umem driver: fix most checkpatch warnings, conform to kernel
block: let elv_register() return void
as-iosched: fix write batch start point
as-iosched: fix incorrect comments
block: use jiffies conversion functions in scsi_ioctl.c
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6:
[XFS] Put the correct offset in dirent d_off
[XFS] Don't wait for pending I/Os when purging blocks beyond eof.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc:
mmc: remove unused 'mode' from the mmc_host structure
sdhci: support JMicron JMB38x chips
sdhci: use PIO when DMA can't satisfy the request
sdhci: don't warn about sdhci 2.0 controllers
sdhci: describe quirks
measurements by Yanmin Zhang have shown that SCHED_BATCH tasks benefit
if they run the same place_entity() logic as SCHED_OTHER tasks - so
uniformize behavior in this area.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
min_sched_granularity_ns, max_sched_granularity_ns,
min_wakeup_granularity_ns and max_wakeup_granularity_ns are declared
"unsigned long".
This is incorrect since proc_dointvec_minmax() expects plain "int" guard
values.
This bug only triggers on big endian 64 bit arches.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This following commit
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=fdf8cb0909b531f9ae8f9b9d7e4eb35ba3505f07
un-inlined a low-level rwsem function, but did not mark it as __sched.
The result is that it now shows up as thread wchan (which also affects
/proc/profile stats). The following simple patch fixes this by properly
marking rwsem_down_failed_common() as a __sched function.
Also in this patch, which is up for discussion, marks down_read() and
down_write() proper as __sched. For profiling, it is pretty much
useless to know that a semaphore is beig help - it is necessary to know
_which_ one. By going up another frame on the stack, the information
becomes much more useful.
In summary, the below change to lib/rwsem.c should be applied; the
changes to kernel/rwsem.c could be applied if other kernel hackers agree
with my proposal that down_read()/down_write() in the profile is not
enough.
[ akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix ]
Signed-off-by: Livio Soares <livio@eecg.toronto.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Some services (e.g. sched_setscheduler(), rt_mutex_setprio() and
sched_move_task()) must handle a given task differently in case it's the
'rq->curr' task on its run-queue. The task_running() interface is not
suitable for determining such tasks for platforms with one of the
following options:
#define __ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW
#define __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW
Due to the fact that it makes use of 'p->oncpu == 1' as a criterion but
such a task is not necessarily 'rq->curr'.
The detailed explanation is available here:
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2007-December/009262.html
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Tested-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
coding style.
linux-2.6.24-rc5-git3> checkpatch.pl-next patches/block-umem-ckpatch.patch
total: 0 errors, 5 warnings, 530 lines checked
All of these are line-length warnings.
Only change in generated object file is due to not initializing a
static global variable to 0.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
elv_register() always returns 0, and there isn't anything it does where
it should return an error (the only error condition is so grave that
it's handled with a BUG_ON).
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
New write batches currently start from where the last one completed.
We have no idea where the head is after switching batches, so this
makes little sense. Instead, start the next batch from the request
with the earliest deadline in the hope that we avoid a deadline
expiry later on.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Carroll <aaronc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Two comments refer to deadlines applying to reads only. This is
not the case.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Carroll <aaronc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Use msecs_to_jiffies() and jiffies_to_msecs() in scsi_ioctl().
Sometimes callers use very large values for e.g. vendor specific media
clear command and calculation can overflow.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
The recent filldir regression fix was not putting the correct d_off in
each dirent. This was resulting in incorrect cookies being passed to dmapi
ioctls and the wrong offset appearing in the dirents. readdir was
unaffected as the filp->f_pos was being updated with the correct offset
and this was being written into the last dirent in each buffer. Fix the
XFS code to do the right thing.
SGI-PV: 973746
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30240a
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
On last close of a file we purge blocks beyond eof. The same code is used
when we truncate the file size down. In this case we need to wait for any
pending I/Os for dirty pages beyond the new eof. For the last close case
we are not changing the file size and therefore do not need to wait for
any I/Os to complete. This fixes a performance bottleneck where writes
into the page cache and cache flushes can become mutually exclusive.
SGI-PV: 964002
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30220a
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Leckie <pleckie@sgi.com>
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
libata: fix ATAPI draining
libata: update atapi_eh_request_sense() such that lbam/lbah contains buffer size
libata-acpi: implement _GTF command filtering
libata-acpi: improve _GTF execution error handling and reporting
libata-acpi: improve ACPI disabling
libata-acpi: implement dev->gtf_cache and evaluate _GTF right after _STM during resume
libata-acpi: implement and use ata_acpi_init_gtm()
libata-acpi: add new hooks ata_acpi_dissociate() and ata_acpi_on_disable()
libata: ata_dev_disable() should be called from EH context
libata: add more opcodes to ata.h
libata: update ata_*_printk() macros such that level can be a variable
libata-acpi: adjust constness in ata_acpi_gtm/stm() parameters
sata_mv: improve warnings about Highpoint RocketRAID 23xx cards
libata: add ST3160023AS / 3.42 to NCQ blacklist
libata: clear link->eh_info.serror from ata_std_postreset()
sata_sil: fix spurious IRQ handling
This ensures that the quicklists are drained. Otherwise draining may only
occur when the processor reaches an idle state.
Fixes fatal leakage of pgd_t's on 2.6.22 and later.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Reported-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Remove a recently added useless masking of GFP_ZERO. GFP_ZERO is already
masked out in new_slab() (See how it calls allocate_slab). No need to do
it twice.
This reverts the SLUB parts of 7fd272550b.
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix compilation warning about discarded const.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The hugetlb documentation has gotten a bit out of sync with the current code.
Updated the sysctl file to refer to Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt. Update
that file to contain the current state of affairs (with the newer named sysctl
in place).
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This reverts commit 54f9f80d65 ("hugetlb:
Add hugetlb_dynamic_pool sysctl")
Given the new sysctl nr_overcommit_hugepages, the boolean dynamic pool
sysctl is not needed, as its semantics can be expressed by 0 in the
overcommit sysctl (no dynamic pool) and non-0 in the overcommit sysctl
(pool enabled).
(Needed in 2.6.24 since it reverts a post-2.6.23 userspace-visible change)
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
hugetlb: introduce nr_overcommit_hugepages sysctl
While examining the code to support /proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_dynamic_pool, I
became convinced that having a boolean sysctl was insufficient:
1) To support per-node control of hugepages, I have previously submitted
patches to add a sysfs attribute related to nr_hugepages. However, with
a boolean global value and per-mount quota enforcement constraining the
dynamic pool, adding corresponding control of the dynamic pool on a
per-node basis seems inconsistent to me.
2) Administration of the hugetlb dynamic pool with multiple hugetlbfs
mount points is, arguably, more arduous than it needs to be. Each quota
would need to be set separately, and the sum would need to be monitored.
To ease the administration, and to help make the way for per-node
control of the static & dynamic hugepage pool, I added a separate
sysctl, nr_overcommit_hugepages. This value serves as a high watermark
for the overall hugepage pool, while nr_hugepages serves as a low
watermark. The boolean sysctl can then be removed, as the condition
nr_overcommit_hugepages > 0
indicates the same administrative setting as
hugetlb_dynamic_pool == 1
Quotas still serve as local enforcement of the size of the pool on a
per-mount basis.
A few caveats:
1) There is a race whereby the global surplus huge page counter is
incremented before a hugepage has allocated. Another process could then
try grow the pool, and fail to convert a surplus huge page to a normal
huge page and instead allocate a fresh huge page. I believe this is
benign, as no memory is leaked (the actual pages are still tracked
correctly) and the counters won't go out of sync.
2) Shrinking the static pool while a surplus is in effect will allow the
number of surplus huge pages to exceed the overcommit value. As long as
this condition holds, however, no more surplus huge pages will be
allowed on the system until one of the two sysctls are increased
sufficiently, or the surplus huge pages go out of use and are freed.
Successfully tested on x86_64 with the current libhugetlbfs snapshot,
modified to use the new sysctl.
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ecryptfs in 2.6.24-rc3 wasn't surviving fsx for me at all, dying after 4
ops. Generally, encountering problems with stale data and improperly
zeroed pages. An extending truncate + write for example would expose stale
data.
With the changes below I got to a million ops and beyond with all mmap ops
disabled - mmap still needs work. (A version of this patch on a RHEL5
kernel ran for over 110 million fsx ops)
I added a few comments as well, to the best of my understanding
as I read through the code.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
bloat-o-meter assumes that a '.' anywhere in a symbol's name means that it
is static and prepends 'static.' to the first part of the symbol name,
discarding the portion of the name that follows the '.'. However, the
names of function entry points begin with '.' in the ppc64 ABI. This
causes all function text size changes to be accounted to a single 'static.'
entry in the output when comparing ppc64 kernels.
Change getsizes() to ignore the first character of the symbol name when
searching for '.'.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
