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2006-09-26[PATCH] Apply type enum zone_typeChristoph Lameter2-13/+25
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[PATCH] mempolicies: fix policy_zone checkChristoph Lameter2-17/+1
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[PATCH] reduce MAX_NR_ZONES: remove display of counters for unconfigured zonesChristoph Lameter1-23/+20
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[PATCH] reduce MAX_NR_ZONES: make ZONE_HIGHMEM optionalChristoph Lameter1-0/+6
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[PATCH] reduce MAX_NR_ZONES: make ZONE_DMA32 optionalChristoph Lameter1-0/+6
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[PATCH] reduce MAX_NR_ZONES: use enum to define zones, reformat and commentChristoph Lameter1-6/+18
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[PATCH] reduce MAX_NR_ZONES: page allocator ZONE_HIGHMEM cleanupChristoph Lameter1-10/+7
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[PATCH] reduce MAX_NR_ZONES: move HIGHMEM counters into highmem.c/.hChristoph Lameter3-15/+14
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[PATCH] reduce MAX_NR_ZONES: make display of highmem counters conditional on ↵Christoph Lameter1-4/+0
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[PATCH] bootmem: miscellaneous coding style fixesFranck Bui-Huu1-37/+44
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[PATCH] bootmem: use pfn/page conversion macrosFranck Bui-Huu1-37/+45
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[PATCH] bootmem: remove useless headers inclusionsFranck Bui-Huu1-7/+3
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[PATCH] bootmem: limit to 80 columns widthFranck Bui-Huu1-10/+18
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[PATCH] bootmem: mark link_bootmem() as part of the __init sectionFranck Bui-Huu1-1/+1
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[PATCH] mm/: make functions staticAdrian Bunk3-25/+25
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[PATCH] mm: msync() cleanupPeter Zijlstra1-163/+33
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[PATCH] mm: fixup do_wp_page()Peter Zijlstra1-6/+13
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[PATCH] mm: small cleanup of install_page()Peter Zijlstra1-2/+2
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[PATCH] mm: optimize the new mprotect() code a bitPeter Zijlstra1-10/+24
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[PATCH] mm: balance dirty pagesPeter Zijlstra2-2/+13
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[PATCH] mm: tracking shared dirty pagesPeter Zijlstra5-29/+113
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[PATCH] mm: VM_BUG_ONNick Piggin4-28/+27
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[PATCH] do not free non slab allocated per_cpu_pagesetDavid Rientjes1-1/+3
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>
2006-09-24Merge git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6Linus Torvalds1-0/+9
* 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
2006-09-24Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
* 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 ...
2006-09-23Add a real API for dealing with blk_congestion_wait()Trond Myklebust1-0/+9
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2006-09-23Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/agpgartLinus Torvalds1-0/+7
* 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
2006-09-23[XFRM]: Dynamic xfrm_state hash table sizing.David S. Miller1-1/+1
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>
2006-09-08[PATCH] invalidate_complete_page() race fixAndrew Morton1-4/+7
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[PATCH] IA64,sparc: local DoS with corrupted ELFsKirill Korotaev1-2/+15
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>
2006-09-06Merge ../linusDave Jones9-50/+196
2006-09-01[PATCH] fix NUMA interleaving for huge pagesNishanth Aravamudan1-1/+9
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[PATCH] dm: work around mempool_alloc, bio_alloc_bioset deadlocksPavel Mironchik1-2/+7
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[PATCH] ZVC: Scale thresholds depending on the size of the systemChristoph Lameter1-20/+119
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[PATCH] ZVC: Overstep countersChristoph Lameter1-15/+5
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>
2006-08-27[PATCH] swsusp: Fix swap_type_ofRafael J. Wysocki1-1/+2
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>
2006-08-14[PATCH] fuse: fix error case in fuse_readpagesAlexander Zarochentsev1-0/+20
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>
2006-08-06[PATCH] memory hotadd fixes: enhance collision checkKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki1-7/+22
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[PATCH] memory hotadd fixes: find_next_system_ram catch range fixKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki1-1/+1
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[PATCH] memory hotadd fixes: not-aligned memory hotadd handling fixKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki1-7/+16
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[PATCH] fadvise() make POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE a no-opAndrew Morton1-1/+2
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>
2006-08-01[PATCH] Fix kmem_cache_alloc() been documented twiceRolf Eike Beer1-1/+1
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>
2006-08-01[PATCH] cpu hotplug: replace __devinit* with __cpuinit* for cpu notificationsChandra Seetharaman1-1/+1
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>
2006-07-30[PATCH] MM: Remove rogue readahead printkAndi Kleen1-2/+0
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>
2006-07-27[AGPGART] remove private page protection mapHugh Dickins1-0/+7
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>
2006-07-15[PATCH] per-task-delay-accounting: sync block I/O and swapin delay collectionShailabh Nagar1-0/+4
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>
2006-07-15[PATCH] nommu: export two symbols for drivers to useLuke Yang1-0/+2
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>
2006-07-15[PATCH] ia64: race flushing icache in COW pathAnil Keshavamurthy1-1/+1
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>
2006-07-15[PATCH] mm: fix oom roll-back of __vmalloc_area_nodeJan Kiszka1-3/+4
__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[PATCH] revert slab.c locking changeIngo Molnar1-9/+0
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>