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* [PATCH] inode-diet: Eliminate i_blksize from the inode structureTheodore Ts'o2006-09-2780-125/+21Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This eliminates the i_blksize field from struct inode. Filesystems that want to provide a per-inode st_blksize can do so by providing their own getattr routine instead of using the generic_fillattr() function. Note that some filesystems were providing pretty much random (and incorrect) values for i_blksize. [bunk@stusta.de: cleanup] [akpm@osdl.org: generic_fillattr() fix] Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] inode-diet: Move i_cdev into a unionTheodore Ts'o2006-09-273-3/+3
| | | | | | | | Move the i_cdev pointer in struct inode into a union. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] inode-diet: Move i_bdev into a unionTheodore Ts'o2006-09-272-2/+2
| | | | | | | | Move the i_bdev pointer in struct inode into a union. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] inode-diet: Move i_pipe into a unionTheodore Ts'o2006-09-271-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | Move the i_pipe pointer into a union that will be shared with i_bdev and i_cdev. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] inode_diet: Replace inode.u.generic_ip with inode.i_privateTheodore Ts'o2006-09-2736-90/+88Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The following patches reduce the size of the VFS inode structure by 28 bytes on a UP x86. (It would be more on an x86_64 system). This is a 10% reduction in the inode size on a UP kernel that is configured in a production mode (i.e., with no spinlock or other debugging functions enabled; if you want to save memory taken up by in-core inodes, the first thing you should do is disable the debugging options; they are responsible for a huge amount of bloat in the VFS inode structure). This patch: The filesystem or device-specific pointer in the inode is inside a union, which is pretty pointless given that all 30+ users of this field have been using the void pointer. Get rid of the union and rename it to i_private, with a comment to explain who is allowed to use the void pointer. This is just a cleanup, but it allows us to reuse the union 'u' for something something where the union will actually be used. [judith@osdl.org: powerpc build fix] Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzelter <judith@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fat: cleanup fat_get_block(s)OGAWA Hirofumi2006-09-271-17/+12Star
| | | | | | | | | get_blocks() was removed. So, this removes it on fat, and will take advantage of the multi block mapping. Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kdump: introduce "reset_devices" command line optionVivek Goyal2006-09-273-0/+24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Resetting the devices during driver initialization can be a costly operation in terms of time (especially scsi devices). This option can be used by drivers to know that user forcibly wants the devices to be reset during initialization. This option can be useful while kernel is booting in unreliable environment. For ex. during kdump boot where devices are in unknown random state and BIOS execution has been skipped. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] autofs4 needs to force fail return revalidateIan Kent2006-09-272-23/+65
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For a long time now I have had a problem with not being able to return a lookup failure on an existsing directory. In autofs this corresponds to a mount failure on a autofs managed mount entry that is browsable (and so the mount point directory exists). While this problem has been present for a long time I've avoided resolving it because it was not very visible. But now that autofs v5 has "mount and expire on demand" of nested multiple mounts, such as is found when mounting an export list from a server, solving the problem cannot be avoided any longer. I've tried very hard to find a way to do this entirely within the autofs4 module but have not been able to find a satisfactory way to achieve it. So, I need to propose a change to the VFS. Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] uml: fix allocation sizeJeff Dike2006-09-271-4/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | Fix an instance of ptr=alloc(sizeof(ptr)). Grepping showed no more instances of this pattern. Also fixed the formatting in the area. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] uml: fix sleep length bugJeff Dike2006-09-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | um_timer shouldn't add local_offset to the host time since get_time already did it. This threw off sleep when a settimeofday or equivalent had happened. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] uml: add an exportJeff Dike2006-09-271-0/+1
| | | | | | | | Some modules need strnlen_user_skas. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] uml: file renamingJeff Dike2006-09-277-192/+663
| | | | | | | | | | | Move some foo_kern.c files to foo.c now that the old foo.c files are out of the way. Also cleaned up some whitespace and an emacs formatting comment. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] uml: thread creation tidyingJeff Dike2006-09-277-86/+43Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | fork on UML has always somewhat subtle. The underlying cause has been the need to initialize a stack for the new process. The only portable way to initialize a new stack is to set it as the alternate signal stack and take a signal. The signal handler does whatever initialization is needed and jumps back to the original stack, where the fork processing is finished. The basic context switching mechanism is a jmp_buf for each process. You switch to a new process by longjmping to its jmp_buf. Now that UML has its own implementation of setjmp and longjmp, and I can poke around inside a jmp_buf without fear that libc will change the structure, a much simpler mechanism is possible. The jmpbuf can simply be initialized by hand. This eliminates - the need to set up and remove the alternate signal stack sending and handling a signal the signal blocking needed around the stack switching, since there is no stack switching setting up the jmp_buf needed to jump back to the original stack after the new one is set up In addition, since jmp_buf is now defined by UML, and not by libc, it can be embedded in the thread struct. This makes it unnecessary to have it exist on the stack, where it used to be. It also simplifies interfaces, since the switch jmp_buf used to be a void * inside the thread struct, and functions which took it as an argument needed to define a jmp_buf variable and assign it from the void *. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] uml: mark some tt-mode codeJeff Dike2006-09-273-4/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | Mark a symbol and file as being tt-mode only. This shrinks the binary slightly when tt mode support is compiled out and makes it easier to identity stuff when tt mode is removed. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] uml: add checkstack supportJeff Dike2006-09-271-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | Make checkstack work for UML. We need to pass the underlying architecture name, rather than "um" to checkstack.pl. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] uml: use correct SIGBUS handlerJeff Dike2006-09-271-8/+9
| | | | | | | | | BB noticed that we had the wrong bus error handler. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] uml: fix gcov supportJeff Dike2006-09-271-12/+1Star
| | | | | | | | | | Make __bb_init_func weak in order to avoid a link failure with some libcs and/or gccs. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] uml: fix missing x86_64 register definitionsJeff Dike2006-09-273-4/+44
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The UML/x86_64 headers were missing ptrace support for some segment registers. The underlying problem was that the x86_64 kernel uses user_regs_struct rather than the ptrace register definitions in ptrace. This patch switches UML/x86_64 to using user_regs_struct for its definitions of the host's registers. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] uml: get rid of ZONE_DMA useJeff Dike2006-09-271-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | ZONE_DMA might become dependent on CONFIG_ZONE_DMA, which UML doesn't define (we're still arguing about this) So, let's change ZONE_DMA to ZONE_NORMAL. This is prompted by optional-zone_dma-in-the-vm.patch, but should be harmless on its own. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] uml: const more dataJeff Dike2006-09-2740-65/+65
| | | | | | | | | | Make lots of structures const in order to make it obvious that they need no locking. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] uml: fix proc-vs-interrupt context spinlock deadlockPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso2006-09-271-12/+4Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This spinlock can be taken on interrupt too, so spin_lock_irq[save] must be used. However, Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt explains we are called with rtnl_lock() held - so we don't need to care about other concurrent opens. Verified also in LDD3 and by direct checking. Also verified that the network layer (through a state machine) guarantees us that nobody will close the interface while it's being used. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Also, we must check we don't sleep with irqs disabled!!! But anyway, this is not news - we already can't sleep while holding a spinlock. Who says this is guaranted really by the present code? Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] uml: use -mcmodel=kernel for x86_64Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso2006-09-271-2/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | We have never used this flag and recently one user experienced a complaining warning about this (there was a symbol in the positive half of the address space IIRC). So fix it. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] m32r: revise __raw_read_trylock()Hirokazu Takata2006-09-271-1/+8
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] m32r: Fix "value computed not used" warningsHirokazu Takata2006-09-271-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | Fix to remove annoying gcc-4.1 warnings "value computed not used" for m32r; Modify set_mb to cast to void for SMP. Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] NOMMU: move the fallback arch_vma_name() to a sensible placeDavid Howells2006-09-273-6/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Move the fallback arch_vma_name() to a sensible place (kernel/signal.c). Currently it's in fs/proc/task_mmu.c, a file that is dependent on both CONFIG_PROC_FS and CONFIG_MMU being enabled, but it's used from kernel/signal.c from where it is called unconditionally. [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] NOMMU: Make futexes work under NOMMU conditionsDavid Howells2006-09-272-5/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make futexes work under NOMMU conditions. This can be tested by running this in one shell: #define SYSERROR(X, Y) \ do { if ((long)(X) == -1L) { perror(Y); exit(1); }} while(0) int main() { int shmid, tmp, *f, n; shmid = shmget(23, 4, IPC_CREAT|0666); SYSERROR(shmid, "shmget"); f = shmat(shmid, NULL, 0); SYSERROR(f, "shmat"); n = *f; printf("WAIT: %p{%x}\n", f, n); tmp = futex(f, FUTEX_WAIT, n, NULL, NULL, 0); SYSERROR(tmp, "futex"); printf("WAITED: %d\n", tmp); tmp = shmdt(f); SYSERROR(tmp, "shmdt"); exit(0); } And then this in the other shell: #define SYSERROR(X, Y) \ do { if ((long)(X) == -1L) { perror(Y); exit(1); }} while(0) int main() { int shmid, tmp, *f; shmid = shmget(23, 4, IPC_CREAT|0666); SYSERROR(shmid, "shmget"); f = shmat(shmid, NULL, 0); SYSERROR(f, "shmat"); (*f)++; printf("WAKE: %p{%x}\n", f, *f); tmp = futex(f, FUTEX_WAKE, 1, NULL, NULL, 0); SYSERROR(tmp, "futex"); printf("WOKE: %d\n", tmp); tmp = shmdt(f); SYSERROR(tmp, "shmdt"); exit(0); } The first program will set up a SYSV IPC SHM segment and wait on a futex in it for the number at the start to change. The program will increment that number and wake the first program up. This leads to output of the form: SHELL 1 SHELL 2 ======================= ======================= # /dowait WAIT: 0xc32ac000{0} # /dowake WAKE: 0xc32ac000{1} WAITED: 0 WOKE: 1 Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] NOMMU: Add docs about shared memoryDavid Howells2006-09-271-0/+9
| | | | | | | | Add documentation about using shared memory in NOMMU mode. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] NOMMU: Make mremap() partially work for NOMMU kernelsDavid Howells2006-09-272-17/+70
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make mremap() partially work for NOMMU kernels. It may resize a VMA provided that it doesn't exceed the size of the slab object in which the storage is allocated that the VMA refers to. Shareable VMAs may not be resized. Moving VMAs (as permitted by MREMAP_MAYMOVE) is not currently supported. This patch also makes use of the fact that the VMA list is now ordered to cut it short when possible. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] NOMMU: Order the per-mm_struct VMA listDavid Howells2006-09-271-32/+72
| | | | | | | | | Order the per-mm_struct VMA list by address so that searching it can be cut short when the appropriate address has been exceeded. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] NOMMU: Implement /proc/pid/maps for NOMMUDavid Howells2006-09-275-20/+80
| | | | | | | | | Implement /proc/pid/maps for NOMMU by reading the vm_area_list attached to current->mm->context.vmlist. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] NOMMU: Permit ptrace to ignore non-PROT_WRITE VMAs in NOMMU modeDavid Howells2006-09-271-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Permit ptrace to modify a section that's non-shared but is marked unwritable, such as is obtained by mapping the text segment of an ELF-FDPIC executable binary with into a binary that's being ptraced[*]. [*] Under NOMMU conditions ptrace causes read-only MAP_PRIVATE mmaps to become totally private copies because if a private mapping was actually shared then the debugging setting breakpoints in it would potentially crash other processes. This is done by using the VM_MAYWRITE flag rather than the VM_WRITE flag when deciding whether to permit a write. Without this patch a debugger can't set breakpoints in the mapped text sections of executables that are mapped read-only private, even if the mmap() syscall has taken a private copy because PT_PTRACED is set. In addition, VM_MAYREAD is used instead of VM_READ for similar reasons. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] NOMMU: Check VMA protectionsDavid Howells2006-09-271-5/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | Check the VMA protections in get_user_pages() against what's being asked. This checks to see that we don't accidentally write on a non-writable VMA or permit an I/O mapping VMA to be accessed (which may lack page structs). Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Check if start address is in vma region in NOMMU function ↵Sonic Zhang2006-09-271-2/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | get_user_pages() In NOMMU arch, if run "cat /proc/self/mem", data from physical address 0 are read. This behavior is different from MMU arch. In IA32, message "cat: /proc/self/mem: Input/output error" is reported. This issue is rootcaused by not validate the start address in NOMMU function get_user_pages(). Following patch solves this issue. Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.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>
* [PATCH] NOMMU: Use find_vma() rather than reimplementing a VMA searchDavid Howells2006-09-271-8/+3Star
| | | | | | | | | Use find_vma() in the NOMMU version of access_process_vm() rather than reimplementing it. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] NOMMU: Set BDI capabilities for /dev/mem and /dev/kmemDavid Howells2006-09-273-0/+61
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Set the backing device info capabilities for /dev/mem and /dev/kmem to permit direct sharing under no-MMU conditions and full mapping capabilities under MMU conditions. Make the BDI used by these available to all directly mappable character devices. Also comment the capabilities for /dev/zero. [akpm@osdl.org: ifdef reductions] Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] NOMMU: Check that access_process_vm() has a valid targetDavid Howells2006-09-273-54/+100
| | | | | | | | | | | | Check that access_process_vm() is accessing a valid mapping in the target process. This limits ptrace() accesses and accesses through /proc/<pid>/maps to only those regions actually mapped by a program. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] AVR32: Use unsigned long flags for saving interrupt stateHaavard Skinnemoen2006-09-271-2/+4
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Mark __remove_vm_area() staticRolf Eike Beer2006-09-272-2/+1Star
| | | | | | | | | The function is exported but not used from anywhere else. It's also marked as "not for driver use" so noone out there should really care. 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>
* [PATCH] Fix kerneldoc comments in mm/vmalloc.cRolf Eike Beer2006-09-271-20/+8Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | The empty line between the short description and the first argument description causes a section to appear twice in the generated manpage. Also the short description should really be short: the script can't handle multiple lines. Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm/page_alloc: use NULL instead of 0 for ptrRandy Dunlap2006-09-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Use NULL instead of 0 for pointer value, eliminate sparse warnings. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mspec driverJes Sorensen2006-09-273-0/+430
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement the special memory driver (mspec) based on the do_no_pfn approach. The driver is currently used only on SN2 hardware with special fetchop support but could be beneficial on other architectures using the uncached mode. Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] do_no_pfn()Jes Sorensen2006-09-272-5/+66
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement do_no_pfn() for handling mapping of memory without a struct page backing it. This avoids creating fake page table entries for regions which are not backed by real memory. This feature is used by the MSPEC driver and other users, where it is highly undesirable to have a struct page sitting behind the page (for instance if the page is accessed in cached mode via the struct page in parallel to the the driver accessing it uncached, which can result in data corruption on some architectures, such as ia64). This version uses specific NOPFN_{SIGBUS,OOM} return values, rather than expect all negative pfn values would be an error. It also bugs on cow mappings as this would not work with the VM. [akpm@osdl.org: micro-optimise] Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] zone_statistics: Use hot node instead of cold zone_pgdatChristoph Lameter2006-09-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | Now that we have the node in the hot zone of struct zone we can avoid accessing zone_pgdat in zone_statistics. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Do not allocate pagesets for unpopulated zones.Christoph Lameter2006-09-271-0/+3
| | | | | | | | We do not need to allocate pagesets for unpopulated zones. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Add node to zone for the NUMA caseChristoph Lameter2006-09-273-1/+7
| | | | | | | | | Add the node in order to optimize zone_to_nid. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] GFP_THISNODE for the slab allocatorChristoph Lameter2006-09-272-30/+81
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch insures that the slab node lists in the NUMA case only contain slabs that belong to that specific node. All slab allocations use GFP_THISNODE when calling into the page allocator. If an allocation fails then we fall back in the slab allocator according to the zonelists appropriate for a certain context. This allows a replication of the behavior of alloc_pages and alloc_pages node in the slab layer. Currently allocations requested from the page allocator may be redirected via cpusets to other nodes. This results in remote pages on nodelists and that in turn results in interrupt latency issues during cache draining. Plus the slab is handing out memory as local when it is really remote. Fallback for slab memory allocations will occur within the slab allocator and not in the page allocator. This is necessary in order to be able to use the existing pools of objects on the nodes that we fall back to before adding more pages to a slab. The fallback function insures that the nodes we fall back to obey cpuset restrictions of the current context. We do not allocate objects from outside of the current cpuset context like before. Note that the implementation of locality constraints within the slab allocator requires importing logic from the page allocator. This is a mischmash that is not that great. Other allocators (uncached allocator, vmalloc, huge pages) face similar problems and have similar minimal reimplementations of the basic fallback logic of the page allocator. There is another way of implementing a slab by avoiding per node lists (see modular slab) but this wont work within the existing slab. V1->V2: - Use NUMA_BUILD to avoid #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA - Exploit GFP_THISNODE being 0 in the NON_NUMA case to avoid another #ifdef [akpm@osdl.org: 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>
* [PATCH] Disable GFP_THISNODE in the non-NUMA caseChristoph Lameter2006-09-271-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | GFP_THISNODE must be set to 0 in the non numa case otherwise we disable retry and warnings for failing allocations in the SMP and UP case. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Add NUMA_BUILD definition in kernel.h to avoid #ifdef CONFIG_NUMAChristoph Lameter2006-09-272-7/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The NUMA_BUILD constant is always available and will be set to 1 on NUMA_BUILDs. That way checks valid only under CONFIG_NUMA can easily be done without #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA F.e. if (NUMA_BUILD && <numa_condition>) { ... } [akpm: not a thing we'd normally do, but CONFIG_NUMA is special: it is causing ifdef explosion in core kernel, so let's see if this is a comfortable way in whcih to control that] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Condense output of show_free_areas()Jes Sorensen2006-09-271-19/+17Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On larger systems, the amount of output dumped on the console when you do SysRq-M is beyond insane. This patch is trying to reduce it somewhat as even with the smaller NUMA systems that have hit the desktop this seems to be a fair thing to do. The philosophy I have taken is as follows: 1) If a zone is empty, don't tell, we don't need yet another line telling us so. The information is available since one can look up the fact how many zones were initialized in the first place. 2) Put as much information on a line is possible, if it can be done in one line, rahter than two, then do it in one. I tried to format the temperature stuff for easy reading. Change show_free_areas() to not print lines for empty zones. If no zone output is printed, the zone is empty. This reduces the number of lines dumped to the console in sysrq on a large system by several thousand lines. Change the zone temperature printouts to use one line per CPU instead of two lines (one hot, one cold). On a 1024 CPU, 1024 node system, this reduces the console output by over a million lines of output. While this is a bigger problem on large NUMA systems, it is also applicable to smaller desktop sized and mid range NUMA systems. Old format: Mem-info: Node 0 DMA per-cpu: cpu 0 hot: high 42, batch 7 used:24 cpu 0 cold: high 14, batch 3 used:1 cpu 1 hot: high 42, batch 7 used:34 cpu 1 cold: high 14, batch 3 used:0 cpu 2 hot: high 42, batch 7 used:0 cpu 2 cold: high 14, batch 3 used:0 cpu 3 hot: high 42, batch 7 used:0 cpu 3 cold: high 14, batch 3 used:0 cpu 4 hot: high 42, batch 7 used:0 cpu 4 cold: high 14, batch 3 used:0 cpu 5 hot: high 42, batch 7 used:0 cpu 5 cold: high 14, batch 3 used:0 cpu 6 hot: high 42, batch 7 used:0 cpu 6 cold: high 14, batch 3 used:0 cpu 7 hot: high 42, batch 7 used:0 cpu 7 cold: high 14, batch 3 used:0 Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu: empty Node 0 Normal per-cpu: empty Node 0 HighMem per-cpu: empty Node 1 DMA per-cpu: [snip] Free pages: 5410688kB (0kB HighMem) Active:9536 inactive:4261 dirty:6 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:338168 slab:1931 mapped:1900 pagetables:208 Node 0 DMA free:1676304kB min:3264kB low:4080kB high:4896kB active:128048kB inactive:61568kB present:1970880kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 Node 0 DMA32 free:0kB min:0kB low:0kB high:0kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 Node 0 Normal free:0kB min:0kB low:0kB high:0kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 Node 0 HighMem free:0kB min:512kB low:512kB high:512kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 Node 1 DMA free:1951728kB min:3280kB low:4096kB high:4912kB active:5632kB inactive:1504kB present:1982464kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 .... New format: Mem-info: Node 0 DMA per-cpu: CPU 0: Hot: hi: 42, btch: 7 usd: 41 Cold: hi: 14, btch: 3 usd: 2 CPU 1: Hot: hi: 42, btch: 7 usd: 40 Cold: hi: 14, btch: 3 usd: 1 CPU 2: Hot: hi: 42, btch: 7 usd: 0 Cold: hi: 14, btch: 3 usd: 0 CPU 3: Hot: hi: 42, btch: 7 usd: 0 Cold: hi: 14, btch: 3 usd: 0 CPU 4: Hot: hi: 42, btch: 7 usd: 0 Cold: hi: 14, btch: 3 usd: 0 CPU 5: Hot: hi: 42, btch: 7 usd: 0 Cold: hi: 14, btch: 3 usd: 0 CPU 6: Hot: hi: 42, btch: 7 usd: 0 Cold: hi: 14, btch: 3 usd: 0 CPU 7: Hot: hi: 42, btch: 7 usd: 0 Cold: hi: 14, btch: 3 usd: 0 Node 1 DMA per-cpu: [snip] Free pages: 5411088kB (0kB HighMem) Active:9558 inactive:4233 dirty:6 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:338193 slab:1942 mapped:1918 pagetables:208 Node 0 DMA free:1677648kB min:3264kB low:4080kB high:4896kB active:129296kB inactive:58864kB present:1970880kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 Node 1 DMA free:1948448kB min:3280kB low:4096kB high:4912kB active:6864kB inactive:3536kB present:1982464kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] slab: fix kmalloc_node applying memory policies if nodeid == ↵Christoph Lameter2006-09-271-10/+9Star
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | numa_node_id() kmalloc_node() falls back to ___cache_alloc() under certain conditions and at that point memory policies may be applied redirecting the allocation away from the current node. Therefore kmalloc_node(...,numa_node_id()) or kmalloc_node(...,-1) may not return memory from the local node. Fix this by doing the policy check in __cache_alloc() instead of ____cache_alloc(). This version here is a cleanup of Kiran's patch. - Tested on ia64. - Extra material removed. - Consolidate the exit path if alternate_node_alloc() returned an object. [akpm@osdl.org: warning fix] 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> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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