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2008-07-24mm: introduce non panic alloc_bootmemAndi Kleen2-0/+16
Straight forward variant of the existing __alloc_bootmem_node, only subsequent patch when allocating giant hugepages at boot -- don't want to panic if we can't allocate as many as the user asked for. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24hugetlb: abstract numa round robin selectionAndi Kleen1-15/+22
Need this as a separate function for a future patch. No behaviour change. Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24hugetlb: new sysfs interfaceNishanth Aravamudan4-66/+262
Provide new hugepages user APIs that are more suited to multiple hstates in sysfs. There is a new directory, /sys/kernel/hugepages. Underneath that directory there will be a directory per-supported hugepage size, e.g.: /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64kB /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-16384kB /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-16777216kB corresponding to 64k, 16m and 16g respectively. Within each hugepages-size directory there are a number of files, corresponding to the tracked counters in the hstate, e.g.: /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64/nr_hugepages /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64/nr_overcommit_hugepages /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64/free_hugepages /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64/resv_hugepages /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64/surplus_hugepages Of these files, the first two are read-write and the latter three are read-only. The size of the hugepage being manipulated is trivially deducible from the enclosing directory and is always expressed in kB (to match meminfo). [dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com: fix build] [nacc@us.ibm.com: hugetlb: hang off of /sys/kernel/mm rather than /sys/kernel] [nacc@us.ibm.com: hugetlb: remove CONFIG_SYSFS dependency] Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24hugetlbfs: per mount huge page sizesAndi Kleen4-29/+64
Add the ability to configure the hugetlb hstate used on a per mount basis. - Add a new pagesize= option to the hugetlbfs mount that allows setting the page size - This option causes the mount code to find the hstate corresponding to the specified size, and sets up a pointer to the hstate in the mount's superblock. - Change the hstate accessors to use this information rather than the global_hstate they were using (requires a slight change in mm/memory.c so we don't NULL deref in the error-unmap path -- see comments). [np: take hstate out of hugetlbfs inode and vma->vm_private_data] Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24hugetlb: multiple hstates for multiple page sizesAndi Kleen3-33/+142
Add basic support for more than one hstate in hugetlbfs. This is the key to supporting multiple hugetlbfs page sizes at once. - Rather than a single hstate, we now have an array, with an iterator - default_hstate continues to be the struct hstate which we use by default - Add functions for architectures to register new hstates [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24hugetlb: modular state for hugetlb page sizeAndi Kleen19-218/+356
The goal of this patchset is to support multiple hugetlb page sizes. This is achieved by introducing a new struct hstate structure, which encapsulates the important hugetlb state and constants (eg. huge page size, number of huge pages currently allocated, etc). The hstate structure is then passed around the code which requires these fields, they will do the right thing regardless of the exact hstate they are operating on. This patch adds the hstate structure, with a single global instance of it (default_hstate), and does the basic work of converting hugetlb to use the hstate. Future patches will add more hstate structures to allow for different hugetlbfs mounts to have different page sizes. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24hugetlb: factor out prep_new_huge_pageAndi Kleen1-6/+11
Needed to avoid code duplication in follow up patches. Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24mm: create /sys/kernel/mmNishanth Aravamudan3-0/+24
Add a kobject to create /sys/kernel/mm when sysfs is mounted. The kobject will exist regardless. This will allow for the hugepage related sysfs directories to exist under the mm "subsystem" directory. Add an ABI file appropriately. [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix build] Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24mm: remove mm_init compilation dependency on CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INITNishanth Aravamudan2-2/+3
Towards the end of putting all core mm initialization in mm_init.c, I plan on putting the creation of a mm kobject in a function in that file. However, the file is currently only compiled if CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT is set. Remove this dependency, but put the code under an #ifdef on the same config option. This should result in no functional changes. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24vmallocinfo: add NUMA informationEric Dumazet3-2/+77
Christoph recently added /proc/vmallocinfo file to get information about vmalloc allocations. This patch adds NUMA specific information, giving number of pages allocated on each memory node. This should help to check that vmalloc() is able to respect NUMA policies. Example of output on a four nodes machine (one cpu per node) 1) network hash tables are evenly spreaded on four nodes (OK) (Same point for inodes and dentries hash tables) 2) iptables tables (x_tables) are correctly allocated on each cpu node (OK). 3) sys_swapon() allocates its memory from one node only. 4) each loaded module is using memory on one node. Sysadmins could tune their setup to change points 3) and 4) if necessary. grep "pages=" /proc/vmallocinfo 0xffffc20000000000-0xffffc20000201000 2101248 alloc_large_system_hash+0x204/0x2c0 pages=512 vmalloc N0=128 N1=128 N2=128 N3=128 0xffffc20000201000-0xffffc20000302000 1052672 alloc_large_system_hash+0x204/0x2c0 pages=256 vmalloc N0=64 N1=64 N2=64 N3=64 0xffffc2000031a000-0xffffc2000031d000 12288 alloc_large_system_hash+0x204/0x2c0 pages=2 vmalloc N1=1 N2=1 0xffffc2000031f000-0xffffc2000032b000 49152 cramfs_uncompress_init+0x2e/0x80 pages=11 vmalloc N0=3 N1=3 N2=2 N3=3 0xffffc2000033e000-0xffffc20000341000 12288 sys_swapon+0x640/0xac0 pages=2 vmalloc N0=2 0xffffc20000341000-0xffffc20000344000 12288 xt_alloc_table_info+0xfe/0x130 [x_tables] pages=2 vmalloc N0=2 0xffffc20000344000-0xffffc20000347000 12288 xt_alloc_table_info+0xfe/0x130 [x_tables] pages=2 vmalloc N1=2 0xffffc20000347000-0xffffc2000034a000 12288 xt_alloc_table_info+0xfe/0x130 [x_tables] pages=2 vmalloc N2=2 0xffffc2000034a000-0xffffc2000034d000 12288 xt_alloc_table_info+0xfe/0x130 [x_tables] pages=2 vmalloc N3=2 0xffffc20004381000-0xffffc20004402000 528384 alloc_large_system_hash+0x204/0x2c0 pages=128 vmalloc N0=32 N1=32 N2=32 N3=32 0xffffc20004402000-0xffffc20004803000 4198400 alloc_large_system_hash+0x204/0x2c0 pages=1024 vmalloc vpages N0=256 N1=256 N2=256 N3=256 0xffffc20004803000-0xffffc20004904000 1052672 alloc_large_system_hash+0x204/0x2c0 pages=256 vmalloc N0=64 N1=64 N2=64 N3=64 0xffffc20004904000-0xffffc20004bec000 3047424 sys_swapon+0x640/0xac0 pages=743 vmalloc vpages N0=743 0xffffffffa0000000-0xffffffffa000f000 61440 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=14 vmalloc N1=14 0xffffffffa000f000-0xffffffffa0014000 20480 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=4 vmalloc N0=4 0xffffffffa0014000-0xffffffffa0017000 12288 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=2 vmalloc N0=2 0xffffffffa0017000-0xffffffffa0022000 45056 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=10 vmalloc N1=10 0xffffffffa0022000-0xffffffffa0028000 24576 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=5 vmalloc N3=5 0xffffffffa0028000-0xffffffffa0050000 163840 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=39 vmalloc N1=39 0xffffffffa0050000-0xffffffffa0052000 8192 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=1 vmalloc N1=1 0xffffffffa0052000-0xffffffffa0056000 16384 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=3 vmalloc N1=3 0xffffffffa0056000-0xffffffffa0081000 176128 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=42 vmalloc N3=42 0xffffffffa0081000-0xffffffffa00ae000 184320 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=44 vmalloc N3=44 0xffffffffa00ae000-0xffffffffa00b1000 12288 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=2 vmalloc N3=2 0xffffffffa00b1000-0xffffffffa00b9000 32768 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=7 vmalloc N0=7 0xffffffffa00b9000-0xffffffffa00c4000 45056 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=10 vmalloc N3=10 0xffffffffa00c6000-0xffffffffa00e0000 106496 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=25 vmalloc N2=25 0xffffffffa00e0000-0xffffffffa00f1000 69632 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=16 vmalloc N2=16 0xffffffffa00f1000-0xffffffffa00f4000 12288 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=2 vmalloc N3=2 0xffffffffa00f4000-0xffffffffa00f7000 12288 sys_init_module+0xc27/0x1d00 pages=2 vmalloc N3=2 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment] Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE may and will block. Document that.Pavel Machek1-1/+2
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment text] Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24tmpfs: support aioHugh Dickins1-21/+34
We have a request for tmpfs to support the AIO interface: easily done, no more than replacing the old shmem_file_read by shmem_file_aio_read, cribbed from generic_file_aio_read. (In 2.6.25 its write side was already changed to use generic_file_aio_write.) Incorporate cleanups from Andrew Morton and Harvey Harrison. Tests out fine with LTP's ltp-aiodio.sh, given hacks (not included) to support O_DIRECT. tmpfs cannot honestly support O_DIRECT: its cache-avoiding-IO nature is at odds with direct IO-avoiding-cache. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Tested-by: Lawrence Greenfield <leg@google.com> Cc: Christoph Rohland <hans-christoph.rohland@sap.com> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24generic_file_aio_read() cleanupsHugh Dickins1-23/+19
As akpm points out, there's really no need for generic_file_aio_read to make a special case of count 0: just loop through nr_segs doing nothing. And as Harvey Harrison points out, there's no need to reset retval to 0 where it's already 0. Setting count (or ocount) to 0 before calling generic_segment_checks is unnecessary too; but reluctantly I'll leave that removal to someone with a wider range of gcc versions to hand - 4.1.2 and 4.2.1 don't warn about it, but perhaps others do - I forget which are the warniest versions. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Tested-by: Lawrence Greenfield <leg@google.com> Cc: Christoph Rohland <hans-christoph.rohland@sap.com> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24vma_page_offset() has no callees: drop itJohannes Weiner1-20/+9
Hugh adds: vma_pagecache_offset() has a dangerously misleading name, since it's using hugepage units: rename it to vma_hugecache_offset(). [apw@shadowen.org: restack onto fixed MAP_PRIVATE reservations] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: vma_split conversion] Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24hugetlb reservations: fix hugetlb MAP_PRIVATE reservations across vma splitsAndy Whitcroft1-27/+145
When a hugetlb mapping with a reservation is split, a new VMA is cloned from the original. This new VMA is a direct copy of the original including the reservation count. When this pair of VMAs are unmapped we will incorrect double account the unused reservation and the overall reservation count will be incorrect, in extreme cases it will wrap. The problem occurs when we split an existing VMA say to unmap a page in the middle. split_vma() will create a new VMA copying all fields from the original. As we are storing our reservation count in vm_private_data this is also copies, endowing the new VMA with a duplicate of the original VMA's reservation. Neither of the new VMAs can exhaust these reservations as they are too small, but when we unmap and close these VMAs we will incorrect credit the remainder twice and resv_huge_pages will become out of sync. This can lead to allocation failures on mappings with reservations and even to resv_huge_pages wrapping which prevents all subsequent hugepage allocations. The simple fix would be to correctly apportion the remaining reservation count when the split is made. However the only hook we have vm_ops->open only has the new VMA we do not know the identity of the preceeding VMA. Also even if we did have that VMA to hand we do not know how much of the reservation was consumed each side of the split. This patch therefore takes a different tack. We know that the whole of any private mapping (which has a reservation) has a reservation over its whole size. Any present pages represent consumed reservation. Therefore if we track the instantiated pages we can calculate the remaining reservation. This patch reuses the existing regions code to track the regions for which we have consumed reservation (ie. the instantiated pages), as each page is faulted in we record the consumption of reservation for the new page. When we need to return unused reservations at unmap time we simply count the consumed reservation region subtracting that from the whole of the map. During a VMA split the newly opened VMA will point to the same region map, as this map is offset oriented it remains valid for both of the split VMAs. This map is referenced counted so that it is removed when all VMAs which are part of the mmap are gone. Thanks to Adam Litke and Mel Gorman for their review feedback. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Cc: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24hugetlb: allow huge page mappings to be created without reservationsAndy Whitcroft1-5/+53
By default all shared mappings and most private mappings now have reservations associated with them. This improves semantics by providing allocation guarentees to the mapper. However a small number of applications may attempt to make very large sparse mappings, with these strict reservations the system will never be able to honour the mapping. This patch set brings MAP_NORESERVE support to hugetlb files. This allows new mappings to be made to hugetlbfs files without an associated reservation, for both shared and private mappings. This allows applications which want to create very sparse mappings to opt-out of the reservation system. Obviously as there is no reservation they are liable to fault at runtime if the huge page pool becomes exhausted; buyer beware. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24hugetlb: move reservation region support earlierAndy Whitcroft1-121/+125
The following patch will require use of the reservation regions support. Move this earlier in the file. No changes have been made to this code. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24mm: record MAP_NORESERVE status on vmas and fix small page mprotect reservationsAndy Whitcroft3-4/+6
With Mel's hugetlb private reservation support patches applied, strict overcommit semantics are applied to both shared and private huge page mappings. This can be a problem if an application relied on unlimited overcommit semantics for private mappings. An example of this would be an application which maps a huge area with the intention of using it very sparsely. These application would benefit from being able to opt-out of the strict overcommit. It should be noted that prior to hugetlb supporting demand faulting all mappings were fully populated and so applications of this type should be rare. This patch stack implements the MAP_NORESERVE mmap() flag for huge page mappings. This flag has the same meaning as for small page mappings, suppressing reservations for that mapping. Thanks to Mel Gorman for reviewing a number of early versions of these patches. This patch: When a small page mapping is created with mmap() reservations are created by default for any memory pages required. When the region is read/write the reservation is increased for every page, no reservation is needed for read-only regions (as they implicitly share the zero page). Reservations are tracked via the VM_ACCOUNT vma flag which is present when the region has reservation backing it. When we convert a region from read-only to read-write new reservations are aquired and VM_ACCOUNT is set. However, when a read-only map is created with MAP_NORESERVE it is indistinguishable from a normal mapping. When we then convert that to read/write we are forced to incorrectly create reservations for it as we have no record of the original MAP_NORESERVE. This patch introduces a new vma flag VM_NORESERVE which records the presence of the original MAP_NORESERVE flag. This allows us to distinguish these two circumstances and correctly account the reserve. As well as fixing this FIXME in the code, this makes it much easier to introduce MAP_NORESERVE support for huge pages as this flag is available consistantly for the life of the mapping. VM_ACCOUNT on the other hand is heavily used at the generic level in association with small pages. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24huge page private reservation review cleanupsAndy Whitcroft1-13/+45
Create some new accessors for vma private data to cut down on and contain the casts. Encapsulates the huge and small page offset calculations. Also adds a couple of VM_BUG_ONs for consistency. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Make things static] Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24hugetlb: guarantee that COW faults for a process that called ↵Mel Gorman4-23/+190
mmap(MAP_PRIVATE) on hugetlbfs will succeed After patch 2 in this series, a process that successfully calls mmap() for a MAP_PRIVATE mapping will be guaranteed to successfully fault until a process calls fork(). At that point, the next write fault from the parent could fail due to COW if the child still has a reference. We only reserve pages for the parent but a copy must be made to avoid leaking data from the parent to the child after fork(). Reserves could be taken for both parent and child at fork time to guarantee faults but if the mapping is large it is highly likely we will not have sufficient pages for the reservation, and it is common to fork only to exec() immediatly after. A failure here would be very undesirable. Note that the current behaviour of mainline with MAP_PRIVATE pages is pretty bad. The following situation is allowed to occur today. 1. Process calls mmap(MAP_PRIVATE) 2. Process calls mlock() to fault all pages and makes sure it succeeds 3. Process forks() 4. Process writes to MAP_PRIVATE mapping while child still exists 5. If the COW fails at this point, the process gets SIGKILLed even though it had taken care to ensure the pages existed This patch improves the situation by guaranteeing the reliability of the process that successfully calls mmap(). When the parent performs COW, it will try to satisfy the allocation without using reserves. If that fails the parent will steal the page leaving any children without a page. Faults from the child after that point will result in failure. If the child COW happens first, an attempt will be made to allocate the page without reserves and the child will get SIGKILLed on failure. To summarise the new behaviour: 1. If the original mapper performs COW on a private mapping with multiple references, it will attempt to allocate a hugepage from the pool or the buddy allocator without using the existing reserves. On fail, VMAs mapping the same area are traversed and the page being COW'd is unmapped where found. It will then steal the original page as the last mapper in the normal way. 2. The VMAs the pages were unmapped from are flagged to note that pages with data no longer exist. Future no-page faults on those VMAs will terminate the process as otherwise it would appear that data was corrupted. A warning is printed to the console that this situation occured. 2. If the child performs COW first, it will attempt to satisfy the COW from the pool if there are enough pages or via the buddy allocator if overcommit is allowed and the buddy allocator can satisfy the request. If it fails, the child will be killed. If the pool is large enough, existing applications will not notice that the reserves were a factor. Existing applications depending on the no-reserves been set are unlikely to exist as for much of the history of hugetlbfs, pages were prefaulted at mmap(), allocating the pages at that point or failing the mmap(). [npiggin@suse.de: fix CONFIG_HUGETLB=n build] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24hugetlb: reserve huge pages for reliable MAP_PRIVATE hugetlbfs mappings ↵Mel Gorman4-44/+140
until fork() This patch reserves huge pages at mmap() time for MAP_PRIVATE mappings in a similar manner to the reservations taken for MAP_SHARED mappings. The reserve count is accounted both globally and on a per-VMA basis for private mappings. This guarantees that a process that successfully calls mmap() will successfully fault all pages in the future unless fork() is called. The characteristics of private mappings of hugetlbfs files behaviour after this patch are; 1. The process calling mmap() is guaranteed to succeed all future faults until it forks(). 2. On fork(), the parent may die due to SIGKILL on writes to the private mapping if enough pages are not available for the COW. For reasonably reliable behaviour in the face of a small huge page pool, children of hugepage-aware processes should not reference the mappings; such as might occur when fork()ing to exec(). 3. On fork(), the child VMAs inherit no reserves. Reads on pages already faulted by the parent will succeed. Successful writes will depend on enough huge pages being free in the pool. 4. Quotas of the hugetlbfs mount are checked at reserve time for the mapper and at fault time otherwise. Before this patch, all reads or writes in the child potentially needs page allocations that can later lead to the death of the parent. This applies to reads and writes of uninstantiated pages as well as COW. After the patch it is only a write to an instantiated page that causes problems. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24hugetlb: move hugetlb_acct_memory()Mel Gorman1-41/+41
This is a patchset to give reliable behaviour to a process that successfully calls mmap(MAP_PRIVATE) on a hugetlbfs file. Currently, it is possible for the process to be killed due to a small hugepage pool size even if it calls mlock(). MAP_SHARED mappings on hugetlbfs reserve huge pages at mmap() time. This guarantees all future faults against the mapping will succeed. This allows local allocations at first use improving NUMA locality whilst retaining reliability. MAP_PRIVATE mappings do not reserve pages. This can result in an application being SIGKILLed later if a huge page is not available at fault time. This makes huge pages usage very ill-advised in some cases as the unexpected application failure cannot be detected and handled as it is immediately fatal. Although an application may force instantiation of the pages using mlock(), this may lead to poor memory placement and the process may still be killed when performing COW. This patchset introduces a reliability guarantee for the process which creates a private mapping, i.e. the process that calls mmap() on a hugetlbfs file successfully. The first patch of the set is purely mechanical code move to make later diffs easier to read. The second patch will guarantee faults up until the process calls fork(). After patch two, as long as the child keeps the mappings, the parent is no longer guaranteed to be reliable. Patch 3 guarantees that the parent will always successfully COW by unmapping the pages from the child in the event there are insufficient pages in the hugepage pool in allocate a new page, be it via a static or dynamic pool. Existing hugepage-aware applications are unlikely to be affected by this change. For much of hugetlbfs's history, pages were pre-faulted at mmap() time or mmap() failed which acts in a reserve-like manner. If the pool is sized correctly already so that parent and child can fault reliably, the application will not even notice the reserves. It's only when the pool is too small for the application to function perfectly reliably that the reserves come into play. Credit goes to Andy Whitcroft for cleaning up a number of mistakes during review before the patches were released. This patch: A later patch in this set needs to call hugetlb_acct_memory() before it is defined. This patch moves the function without modification. This makes later diffs easier to read. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24mm: drop unneeded pgdat argument from free_area_init_node()Johannes Weiner16-26/+22
free_area_init_node() gets passed in the node id as well as the node descriptor. This is redundant as the function can trivially get the node descriptor itself by means of NODE_DATA() and the node's id. I checked all the users and NODE_DATA() seems to be usable everywhere from where this function is called. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24mapping_set_error: add unlikely()Andrew Morton1-1/+1
This is called on a per-page basis and in the vast majority of cases `error' is zero. Cc: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24slob: record page flag overlays explicitlyAndy Whitcroft2-6/+13
SLOB reuses two page bits for internal purposes, it overlays PG_active and PG_private. This is hidden away in slob.c. Document these overlays explicitly in the main page-flags enum along with all the others. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24slub: record page flag overlays explicitlyAndy Whitcroft2-48/+24
SLUB reuses two page bits for internal purposes, it overlays PG_active and PG_error. This is hidden away in slub.c. Document these overlays explicitly in the main page-flags enum along with all the others. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24page-flags: record page flag overlays explicitlyAndy Whitcroft1-4/+11
With the recent page flag reorganisation we have a single enum which defines the valid page flags and their values, nice and clear. However there are a number of bits which are overloaded by different subsystems. Firstly there is PG_owner_priv_1 which is used by filesystems and by XEN. Secondly both SLOB and SLUB use a couple of extra page bits to manage internal state for pages they own; both overlay other bits. All of these "aliases" are scattered about the source making it very hard for a reader to know if the bits are safe to rely on in all contexts; confusion here is bad. As we now have a single place where the bits are clearly assigned it makes sense to clarify the reuse of bits by making the aliases explicit and visible with the original bit assignments. This patch creates explicit aliases within the enum itself for the overloaded bits, creates standard bit accessors PageFoo etc. and uses those throughout. This version pulls the bit manipulation out to standard named page bit accessors as suggested by Christoph, it retains the explicit mapping to the overlayed bits. A fusion of both ideas. This has been SLUB and SLOB have been compile tested on x86_64 only, and SLUB boot tested. If people feel this is worth doing then I can run a fuller set of testing. This patch: Some page flags are used for more than one purpose, for example PG_owner_priv_1. Currently there are individual accessors for each user, each built using the common flag name far away from the bit definitions. This makes it hard to see all possible uses of these bits. Now that we have a single enum to generate the bit orders it makes sense to express overlays in the same place. So create per use aliases for this bit in the main page-flags enum and use those in the accessors. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix xen] Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24fix soft lock up at NFS mount via per-SB LRU-list of unused dentriesKentaro Makita3-155/+185
[Summary] Split LRU-list of unused dentries to one per superblock to avoid soft lock up during NFS mounts and remounting of any filesystem. Previously I posted here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/5/590 [Descriptions] - background dentry_unused is a list of dentries which are not referenced. dentry_unused grows up when references on directories or files are released. This list can be very long if there is huge free memory. - the problem When shrink_dcache_sb() is called, it scans all dentry_unused linearly under spin_lock(), and if dentry->d_sb is differnt from given superblock, scan next dentry. This scan costs very much if there are many entries, and very ineffective if there are many superblocks. IOW, When we need to shrink unused dentries on one dentry, but scans unused dentries on all superblocks in the system. For example, we scan 500 dentries to unmount a filesystem, but scans 1,000,000 or more unused dentries on other superblocks. In our case , At mounting NFS*, shrink_dcache_sb() is called to shrink unused dentries on NFS, but scans 100,000,000 unused dentries on superblocks in the system such as local ext3 filesystems. I hear NFS mounting took 1 min on some system in use. * : NFS uses virtual filesystem in rpc layer, so NFS is affected by this problem. 100,000,000 is possible number on large systems. Per-superblock LRU of unused dentried can reduce the cost in reasonable manner. - How to fix I found this problem is solved by David Chinner's "Per-superblock unused dentry LRU lists V3"(1), so I rebase it and add some fix to reclaim with fairness, which is in Andrew Morton's comments(2). 1) http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/25/318 2) http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/25/320 Split LRU-list of unused dentries to each superblocks. Then, NFS mounting will check dentries under a superblock instead of all. But this spliting will break LRU of dentry-unused. So, I've attempted to make reclaim unused dentrins with fairness by calculate number of dentries to scan on this sb based on following way number of dentries to scan on this sb = count * (number of dentries on this sb / number of dentries in the machine) - ToDo - I have to measuring performance number and do stress tests. - When unmount occurs during prune_dcache(), scanning on same superblock, It is unable to reach next superblock because it is gone away. We restart scannig superblock from first one, it causes unfairness of reclaim unused dentries on first superblock. But I think this happens very rarely. - Test Results Result on 6GB boxes with excessive unused dentries. Without patch: $ cat /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state 10181835 10180203 45 0 0 0 # mount -t nfs 10.124.60.70:/work/kernel-src nfs real 0m1.830s user 0m0.001s sys 0m1.653s With this patch: $ cat /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state 10236610 10234751 45 0 0 0 # mount -t nfs 10.124.60.70:/work/kernel-src nfs real 0m0.106s user 0m0.002s sys 0m0.032s [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comments] Signed-off-by: Kentaro Makita <k-makita@np.css.fujitsu.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24buddy: clarify comments describing buddy mergeAndy Whitcroft1-1/+2
In __free_one_page(), the comment "Move the buddy up one level" appears attached to the break and by implication when the break is taken we are moving it up one level: if (!page_is_buddy(page, buddy, order)) break; /* Move the buddy up one level. */ In reality the inverse is true, we break out when we can no longer merge this page with its buddy. Looking back into pre-history (into the full git history) it appears that these two lines accidentally got joined as part of another change. Move the comment down where it belongs below the if and clarify its language. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24mm: remove double indirection on tlb parameter to free_pgd_range() & CoJan Beulich12-21/+26
The double indirection here is not needed anywhere and hence (at least) confusing. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24spufs: use new vm_ops->access to allow local state access from gdbBenjamin Herrenschmidt1-0/+23
This uses the new vm_ops->access to allow gdb to access the SPU local store. We currently prevent access to problem state registers, this can be done later if really needed but it's safer not to. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo] Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24powerpc ioremap_protBenjamin Herrenschmidt7-7/+64
This adds ioremap_prot and pte_pgprot() so that one can extract protection bits from a PTE and use them to ioremap_prot() (in order to support ptrace of VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP as per Rik's patch). This moves a couple of flag checks around in the ioremap implementations of arch/powerpc. There's a side effect of allowing non-cacheable and non-guarded mappings on ppc32 which before would always have _PAGE_GUARDED set whenever _PAGE_NO_CACHE is. (standard ioremap will still set _PAGE_GUARDED, but ioremap_prot will be capable of setting such a non guarded mapping). Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24use generic_access_phys for /dev/mem mappingsRik van Riel2-1/+5
Use generic_access_phys as the access_process_vm access function for /dev/mem mappings. This makes it possible to debug the X server. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: repair all the architectures which broke] Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrensmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24access_process_vm device memory infrastructureRik van Riel8-18/+144
In order to be able to debug things like the X server and programs using the PPC Cell SPUs, the debugger needs to be able to access device memory through ptrace and /proc/pid/mem. This patch: Add the generic_access_phys access function and put the hooks in place to allow access_process_vm to access device or PPC Cell SPU memory. [riel@redhat.com: Add documentation for the vm_ops->access function] Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrensmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24mm: remove nopfnNick Piggin2-69/+7
There are no users of nopfn in the tree. Remove it. [hugh@veritas.com: fix build error] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24kill generic_file_direct_IO()Christoph Hellwig1-66/+51
generic_file_direct_IO is a common helper around the invocation of ->direct_IO. But there's almost nothing shared between the read and write side, so we're better off without this helper. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24mm/hugetlb.c: fix duplicate variableAdrian Bunk1-1/+0
It's confusing that set_max_huge_pages() contained two different variables named "ret", and although the code works correctly this should be fixed. The inner of the two variables can simply be removed. Spotted by sparse. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: "KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24mm/vmstat.c: proper externsAdrian Bunk4-5/+8
This patch adds proper extern declarations for five variables in include/linux/vmstat.h Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24mm/migrate.c should #include <linux/syscalls.h>Adrian Bunk1-0/+1
Every file should include the headers containing the externs for its global functions (in this case for sys_move_pages()). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24page allocator: inline some __alloc_pages() wrappersKOSAKI Motohiro2-21/+19
Two zonelist patch series rewrote __page_alloc() largely. Now, it is just a wrapper function. Inlining them will save a function call. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export __alloc_pages_internal] Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24mspec: convert nopfn to faultNick Piggin1-9/+14
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unused variable] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24mm: unexport __alloc_bootmem_core()Johannes Weiner2-17/+12
This function has no external callers, so unexport it. Also fix its naming inconsistency. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24mm: normalize internal argument passing of bootmem dataJohannes Weiner1-8/+6
All _core functions only need the bootmem data, not the whole node descriptor. Adjust the two functions that take the node descriptor unneededly. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24mm: fix free_all_bootmem_core alignment checkJohannes Weiner1-11/+10
The check for node_boot_start is bogus because we start freeing at the corresponding pfn. So check if the pfn is properly aligned instead in a more readable way and adjust the documentation. Also remove an unneeded accounting variable. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24mm: move bootmem descriptors definition to a single placeJohannes Weiner15-54/+40
There are a lot of places that define either a single bootmem descriptor or an array of them. Use only one central array with MAX_NUMNODES items instead. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24add a helper function to test if an object is on the stackFUJITA Tomonori2-3/+8
lib/debugobjects.c has a function to test if an object is on the stack. The block layer and ide needs it (they need to avoid DMA from/to stack buffers). This patch moves the function to include/linux/sched.h so that everyone can use it. lib/debugobjects.c uses current->stack but this patch uses a task_stack_page() accessor, which is a preferable way to access the stack. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24mm: print out the zonelists on request for manual verificationMel Gorman3-0/+51
This patch prints out the zonelists during boot for manual verification by the user if the mminit_loglevel is MMINIT_VERIFY or higher. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24mm: make defensive checks around PFN values registered for memory usageMel Gorman4-8/+44
There are a number of different views to how much memory is currently active. There is the arch-independent zone-sizing view, the bootmem allocator and memory models view. Architectures register this information at different times and is not necessarily in sync particularly with respect to some SPARSEMEM limitations. This patch introduces mminit_validate_memmodel_limits() which is able to validate and correct PFN ranges with respect to the memory model. It is only SPARSEMEM that currently validates itself. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24mm: verify the page links and memory modelMel Gorman3-0/+91
Print out information on how the page flags are being used if mminit_loglevel is MMINIT_VERIFY or higher and unconditionally performs sanity checks on the flags regardless of loglevel. When the page flags are updated with section, node and zone information, a check are made to ensure the values can be retrieved correctly. Finally we confirm that pfn_to_page and page_to_pfn are the correct inverse functions. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk warnings] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24mm: add a basic debugging framework for memory initialisationMel Gorman6-9/+79
Boot initialisation is very complex, with significant numbers of architecture-specific routines, hooks and code ordering. While significant amounts of the initialisation is architecture-independent, it trusts the data received from the architecture layer. This is a mistake, and has resulted in a number of difficult-to-diagnose bugs. This patchset adds some validation and tracing to memory initialisation. It also introduces a few basic defensive measures. The validation code can be explicitly disabled for embedded systems. This patch: Add additional debugging and verification code for memory initialisation. Once enabled, the verification checks are always run and when required additional debugging information may be outputted via a mminit_loglevel= command-line parameter. The verification code is placed in a new file mm/mm_init.c. Ideally other mm initialisation code will be moved here over time. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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