Nigel Cunningham [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:34:23 +0000 (20:34 -0800)]
[PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.h
Move process freezing functions from include/linux/sched.h to freezer.h, so
that modifications to the freezer or the kernel configuration don't require
recompiling just about everything.
[akpm@osdl.org: fix ueagle driver]
Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Stefan Seyfried [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:34:21 +0000 (20:34 -0800)]
[PATCH] swsusp: fix platform mode
At some point after 2.6.13, in-kernel software suspend got "incomplete" for
the so-called "platform" mode. pm_ops->prepare() is never called. A
visible sign of this is the "moon" light on thinkpads not flashing during
suspend. Fix by readding the pm_ops->prepare call during suspend.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de>
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Rafael J. Wysocki [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:34:19 +0000 (20:34 -0800)]
[PATCH] swsusp: use __GFP_WAIT
swsusp uses GFP_ATOMIC, but it can afford to use __GFP_WAIT, which will
permit it to reclaim clean pagecache instead of emitting scary
page-allocation-failure messages.
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Rafael J. Wysocki [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:34:18 +0000 (20:34 -0800)]
[PATCH] swsusp: Improve handling of highmem
Currently swsusp saves the contents of highmem pages by copying them to the
normal zone which is quite inefficient (eg. it requires two normal pages
to be used for saving one highmem page). This may be improved by using
highmem for saving the contents of saveable highmem pages.
Namely, during the suspend phase of the suspend-resume cycle we try to
allocate as many free highmem pages as there are saveable highmem pages.
If there are not enough highmem image pages to store the contents of all of
the saveable highmem pages, some of them will be stored in the "normal"
memory. Next, we allocate as many free "normal" pages as needed to store
the (remaining) image data. We use a memory bitmap to mark the allocated
free pages (ie. highmem as well as "normal" image pages).
Now, we use another memory bitmap to mark all of the saveable pages
(highmem as well as "normal") and the contents of the saveable pages are
copied into the image pages. Then, the second bitmap is used to save the
pfns corresponding to the saveable pages and the first one is used to save
their data.
During the resume phase the pfns of the pages that were saveable during the
suspend are loaded from the image and used to mark the "unsafe" page
frames. Next, we try to allocate as many free highmem page frames as to
load all of the image data that had been in the highmem before the suspend
and we allocate so many free "normal" page frames that the total number of
allocated free pages (highmem and "normal") is equal to the size of the
image. While doing this we have to make sure that there will be some extra
free "normal" and "safe" page frames for two lists of PBEs constructed
later.
Now, the image data are loaded, if possible, into their "original" page
frames. The image data that cannot be written into their "original" page
frames are loaded into "safe" page frames and their "original" kernel
virtual addresses, as well as the addresses of the "safe" pages containing
their copies, are stored in one of two lists of PBEs.
One list of PBEs is for the copies of "normal" suspend pages (ie. "normal"
pages that were saveable during the suspend) and it is used in the same way
as previously (ie. by the architecture-dependent parts of swsusp). The
other list of PBEs is for the copies of highmem suspend pages. The pages
in this list are restored (in a reversible way) right before the
arch-dependent code is called.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Rafael J. Wysocki [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:34:16 +0000 (20:34 -0800)]
[PATCH] swsusp: update userland interface documentation
The swsusp userland interface has recently changed for a couple of times, but
the changes have not been documented. Fix this, and document the
SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_AREA ioctl().
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Rafael J. Wysocki [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:34:15 +0000 (20:34 -0800)]
[PATCH] swsusp: add ioctl for swap files support
To be able to use swap files as suspend storage from the userland suspend
tools we need an additional ioctl() that will allow us to provide the kernel
with both the swap header's offset and the identification of the resume
partition.
The new ioctl() should be regarded as a replacement for the
SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_FILE ioctl() that from now on will be considered as
obsolete, but has to stay for backwards compatibility of the interface.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Rafael J. Wysocki [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:34:13 +0000 (20:34 -0800)]
[PATCH] swsusp: document support for swap files
Document the "resume_offset=" command line parameter as well as the way in
which swap files are supported by swsusp.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Rafael J. Wysocki [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:34:12 +0000 (20:34 -0800)]
[PATCH] swsusp: add resume_offset command line parameter
Add the kernel command line parameter "resume_offset=" allowing us to specify
the offset, in <PAGE_SIZE> units, from the beginning of the partition pointed
to by the "resume=" parameter at which the swap header is located.
This offset can be determined, for example, by an application using the FIBMAP
ioctl to obtain the swap header's block number for given file.
[akpm@osdl.org: we don't know what type sector_t is]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Rafael J. Wysocki [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:34:10 +0000 (20:34 -0800)]
[PATCH] swsusp: use block device offsets to identify swap locations
Make swsusp use block device offsets instead of swap offsets to identify swap
locations and make it use the same code paths for writing as well as for
reading data.
This allows us to use the same code for handling swap files and swap
partitions and to simplify the code, eg. by dropping rw_swap_page_sync().
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Rafael J. Wysocki [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:34:09 +0000 (20:34 -0800)]
[PATCH] swsusp: rearrange swap-handling code
Rearrange the code in kernel/power/swap.c so that the next patch is more
readable.
[This patch only moves the existing code.]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Rafael J. Wysocki [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:34:07 +0000 (20:34 -0800)]
[PATCH] swsusp: use partition device and offset to identify swap areas
The Linux kernel handles swap files almost in the same way as it handles swap
partitions and there are only two differences between these two types of swap
areas:
(1) swap files need not be contiguous,
(2) the header of a swap file is not in the first block of the partition
that holds it. From the swsusp's point of view (1) is not a problem,
because it is already taken care of by the swap-handling code, but (2) has
to be taken into consideration.
In principle the location of a swap file's header may be determined with the
help of appropriate filesystem driver. Unfortunately, however, it requires
the filesystem holding the swap file to be mounted, and if this filesystem is
journaled, it cannot be mounted during a resume from disk. For this reason we
need some other means by which swap areas can be identified.
For example, to identify a swap area we can use the partition that holds the
area and the offset from the beginning of this partition at which the swap
header is located.
The following patch allows swsusp to identify swap areas this way. It changes
swap_type_of() so that it takes an additional argument representing an offset
of the swap header within the partition represented by its first argument.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Stefan Seyfried [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:34:06 +0000 (20:34 -0800)]
[PATCH] uswsusp: add pmops->{prepare,enter,finish} support (aka "platform mode")
Add an ioctl to the userspace swsusp code that enables the usage of the
pmops->prepare, pmops->enter and pmops->finish methods (the in-kernel
suspend knows these as "platform method"). These are needed on many
machines to (among others) speed up resuming by letting the BIOS skip some
steps or let my hp nx5000 recognise the correct ac_adapter state after
resume again.
It also ensures on many machines, that changed hardware (unplugged AC
adapters) gets correctly detected and that kacpid does not run wild after
resume.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Alan Cox [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:33:59 +0000 (20:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] alpha: switch to pci_get API
Now that we have pci_get_bus_and_slot we can do the job correctly. Note that
some of these calls intentionally leak a device - this is because the device
in question is always needed from boot to reboot.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Mariusz Kozlowski [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:33:57 +0000 (20:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] h8300 stray bracket fix
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Paul Mundt [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:33:54 +0000 (20:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] avr32: fixup kprobes preemption handling
While working on SH kprobes, I noticed that avr32 got the preemption
handling wrong in the no probe case. The idea is that upon entry of
kprobe_handler() preemption is disabled outright across the life of the
kprobe, only to be re-enabled in post_kprobe_handler().
However, in the event that the probe is never activated, there's never any
chance of hitting the post probe handler, which allows for the current
avr32 implementation to disable preemption indefinitely, as it's currently
missing a re-enable when no probe is activated.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:33:50 +0000 (20:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] arch/frv/kernel/futex.c must #include <linux/uaccess.h>
This patch fixes the following compile error with
-Werror-implicit-function-declaration
(without -Werror-implicit-function-declaration it's a link error):
...
CC arch/frv/kernel/futex.o
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2/arch/frv/kernel/futex.c:
In function 'futex_atomic_op_inuser':
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2/arch/frv/kernel/futex.c:203:
error: implicit declaration of function 'pagefault_disable'
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2/arch/frv/kernel/futex.c:226:
error: implicit declaration of function 'pagefault_enable'
make[2]: *** [arch/frv/kernel/futex.o] Error 1
...
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Eric Sesterhenn [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:33:47 +0000 (20:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] security/keys/*: user kmemdup()
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Nick Piggin [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:33:44 +0000 (20:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] radix-tree: RCU lockless readside
Make radix tree lookups safe to be performed without locks. Readers are
protected against nodes being deleted by using RCU based freeing. Readers
are protected against new node insertion by using memory barriers to ensure
the node itself will be properly written before it is visible in the radix
tree.
Each radix tree node keeps a record of their height (above leaf nodes).
This height does not change after insertion -- when the radix tree is
extended, higher nodes are only inserted in the top. So a lookup can take
the pointer to what is *now* the root node, and traverse down it even if
the tree is concurrently extended and this node becomes a subtree of a new
root.
"Direct" pointers (tree height of 0, where root->rnode points directly to
the data item) are handled by using the low bit of the pointer to signal
whether rnode is a direct pointer or a pointer to a radix tree node.
When a reader wants to traverse the next branch, they will take a copy of
the pointer. This pointer will be either NULL (and the branch is empty) or
non-NULL (and will point to a valid node).
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: bugfixes, comments, simplifications]
[clameter@sgi.com: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:33:42 +0000 (20:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] Save some bytes in struct mm_struct
Before:
[acme@newtoy net-2.6.20]$ pahole --cacheline 32 kernel/sched.o mm_struct
/* include2/asm/processor.h:542 */
struct mm_struct {
struct vm_area_struct * mmap; /* 0 4 */
struct rb_root mm_rb; /* 4 4 */
struct vm_area_struct * mmap_cache; /* 8 4 */
long unsigned int (*get_unmapped_area)(); /* 12 4 */
void (*unmap_area)(); /* 16 4 */
long unsigned int mmap_base; /* 20 4 */
long unsigned int task_size; /* 24 4 */
long unsigned int cached_hole_size; /* 28 4 */
/* ---------- cacheline 1 boundary ---------- */
long unsigned int free_area_cache; /* 32 4 */
pgd_t * pgd; /* 36 4 */
atomic_t mm_users; /* 40 4 */
atomic_t mm_count; /* 44 4 */
int map_count; /* 48 4 */
struct rw_semaphore mmap_sem; /* 52 64 */
spinlock_t page_table_lock; /* 116 40 */
struct list_head mmlist; /* 156 8 */
mm_counter_t _file_rss; /* 164 4 */
mm_counter_t _anon_rss; /* 168 4 */
long unsigned int hiwater_rss; /* 172 4 */
long unsigned int hiwater_vm; /* 176 4 */
long unsigned int total_vm; /* 180 4 */
long unsigned int locked_vm; /* 184 4 */
long unsigned int shared_vm; /* 188 4 */
/* ---------- cacheline 6 boundary ---------- */
long unsigned int exec_vm; /* 192 4 */
long unsigned int stack_vm; /* 196 4 */
long unsigned int reserved_vm; /* 200 4 */
long unsigned int def_flags; /* 204 4 */
long unsigned int nr_ptes; /* 208 4 */
long unsigned int start_code; /* 212 4 */
long unsigned int end_code; /* 216 4 */
long unsigned int start_data; /* 220 4 */
/* ---------- cacheline 7 boundary ---------- */
long unsigned int end_data; /* 224 4 */
long unsigned int start_brk; /* 228 4 */
long unsigned int brk; /* 232 4 */
long unsigned int start_stack; /* 236 4 */
long unsigned int arg_start; /* 240 4 */
long unsigned int arg_end; /* 244 4 */
long unsigned int env_start; /* 248 4 */
long unsigned int env_end; /* 252 4 */
/* ---------- cacheline 8 boundary ---------- */
long unsigned int saved_auxv[44]; /* 256 176 */
unsigned int dumpable:2; /* 432 4 */
cpumask_t cpu_vm_mask; /* 436 4 */
mm_context_t context; /* 440 68 */
long unsigned int swap_token_time; /* 508 4 */
/* ---------- cacheline 16 boundary ---------- */
char recent_pagein; /* 512 1 */
/* XXX 3 bytes hole, try to pack */
int core_waiters; /* 516 4 */
struct completion * core_startup_done; /* 520 4 */
struct completion core_done; /* 524 52 */
rwlock_t ioctx_list_lock; /* 576 36 */
struct kioctx * ioctx_list; /* 612 4 */
}; /* size: 616, sum members: 613, holes: 1, sum holes: 3, cachelines: 20,
last cacheline: 8 bytes */
After:
[acme@newtoy net-2.6.20]$ pahole --cacheline 32 kernel/sched.o mm_struct
/* include2/asm/processor.h:542 */
struct mm_struct {
struct vm_area_struct * mmap; /* 0 4 */
struct rb_root mm_rb; /* 4 4 */
struct vm_area_struct * mmap_cache; /* 8 4 */
long unsigned int (*get_unmapped_area)(); /* 12 4 */
void (*unmap_area)(); /* 16 4 */
long unsigned int mmap_base; /* 20 4 */
long unsigned int task_size; /* 24 4 */
long unsigned int cached_hole_size; /* 28 4 */
/* ---------- cacheline 1 boundary ---------- */
long unsigned int free_area_cache; /* 32 4 */
pgd_t * pgd; /* 36 4 */
atomic_t mm_users; /* 40 4 */
atomic_t mm_count; /* 44 4 */
int map_count; /* 48 4 */
struct rw_semaphore mmap_sem; /* 52 64 */
spinlock_t page_table_lock; /* 116 40 */
struct list_head mmlist; /* 156 8 */
mm_counter_t _file_rss; /* 164 4 */
mm_counter_t _anon_rss; /* 168 4 */
long unsigned int hiwater_rss; /* 172 4 */
long unsigned int hiwater_vm; /* 176 4 */
long unsigned int total_vm; /* 180 4 */
long unsigned int locked_vm; /* 184 4 */
long unsigned int shared_vm; /* 188 4 */
/* ---------- cacheline 6 boundary ---------- */
long unsigned int exec_vm; /* 192 4 */
long unsigned int stack_vm; /* 196 4 */
long unsigned int reserved_vm; /* 200 4 */
long unsigned int def_flags; /* 204 4 */
long unsigned int nr_ptes; /* 208 4 */
long unsigned int start_code; /* 212 4 */
long unsigned int end_code; /* 216 4 */
long unsigned int start_data; /* 220 4 */
/* ---------- cacheline 7 boundary ---------- */
long unsigned int end_data; /* 224 4 */
long unsigned int start_brk; /* 228 4 */
long unsigned int brk; /* 232 4 */
long unsigned int start_stack; /* 236 4 */
long unsigned int arg_start; /* 240 4 */
long unsigned int arg_end; /* 244 4 */
long unsigned int env_start; /* 248 4 */
long unsigned int env_end; /* 252 4 */
/* ---------- cacheline 8 boundary ---------- */
long unsigned int saved_auxv[44]; /* 256 176 */
cpumask_t cpu_vm_mask; /* 432 4 */
mm_context_t context; /* 436 68 */
long unsigned int swap_token_time; /* 504 4 */
char recent_pagein; /* 508 1 */
unsigned char dumpable:2; /* 509 1 */
/* XXX 2 bytes hole, try to pack */
int core_waiters; /* 512 4 */
struct completion * core_startup_done; /* 516 4 */
struct completion core_done; /* 520 52 */
rwlock_t ioctx_list_lock; /* 572 36 */
struct kioctx * ioctx_list; /* 608 4 */
}; /* size: 612, sum members: 610, holes: 1, sum holes: 2, cachelines: 20,
last cacheline: 4 bytes */
[acme@newtoy net-2.6.20]$ codiff -V /tmp/sched.o.before kernel/sched.o
/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/net-2.6.20/kernel/sched.c:
struct mm_struct | -4
dumpable:2;
from: unsigned int /* 432(30) 4(2) */
to: unsigned char /* 509(6) 1(2) */
< SNIP other offset changes >
1 struct changed
[acme@newtoy net-2.6.20]$
I'm not aware of any problem about using 2 byte wide bitfields where
previously a 4 byte wide one was, holler if there is any, I wouldn't be
surprised, bitfields are things from hell.
For the curious, 432(30) means: at offset 432 from the struct start, at
offset 30 in the bitfield (yeah, it comes backwards, hellish, huh?) ditto
for 509(6), while 4(2) and 1(2) means "struct field size(bitfield size)".
Now we have a 2 bytes hole and are using only 4 bytes of the last 32
bytes cacheline, any takers? :-)
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andy Whitcroft [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:33:32 +0000 (20:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] mm: make compound page destructor handling explicit
Currently we we use the lru head link of the second page of a compound page
to hold its destructor. This was ok when it was purely an internal
implmentation detail. However, hugetlbfs overrides this destructor
violating the layering. Abstract this out as explicit calls, also
introduce a type for the callback function allowing them to be type
checked. For each callback we pre-declare the function, causing a type
error on definition rather than on use elsewhere.
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Christoph Lameter [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:33:29 +0000 (20:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] slab: better fallback allocation behavior
Currently we simply attempt to allocate from all allowed nodes using
GFP_THISNODE. However, GFP_THISNODE does not do reclaim (it wont do any at
all if the recent GFP_THISNODE patch is accepted). If we truly run out of
memory in the whole system then fallback_alloc may return NULL although
memory may still be available if we would perform more thorough reclaim.
This patch changes fallback_alloc() so that we first only inspect all the
per node queues for available slabs. If we find any then we allocate from
those. This avoids slab fragmentation by first getting rid of all partial
allocated slabs on every node before allocating new memory.
If we cannot satisfy the allocation from any per node queue then we extend
a slab. We now call into the page allocator without specifying
GFP_THISNODE. The page allocator will then implement its own fallback (in
the given cpuset context), perform necessary reclaim (again considering not
a single node but the whole set of allowed nodes) and then return pages for
a new slab.
We identify from which node the pages were allocated and then insert the
pages into the corresponding per node structure. In order to do so we need
to modify cache_grow() to take a parameter that specifies the new slab.
kmem_getpages() can no longer set the GFP_THISNODE flag since we need to be
able to use kmem_getpage to allocate from an arbitrary node. GFP_THISNODE
needs to be specified when calling cache_grow().
One key advantage is that the decision from which node to allocate new
memory is removed from slab fallback processing. The patch allows to go
back to use of the page allocators fallback/reclaim logic.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Christoph Lameter [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:33:26 +0000 (20:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] GFP_THISNODE must not trigger global reclaim
The intent of GFP_THISNODE is to make sure that an allocation occurs on a
particular node. If this is not possible then NULL needs to be returned so
that the caller can choose what to do next on its own (the slab allocator
depends on that).
However, GFP_THISNODE currently triggers reclaim before returning a failure
(GFP_THISNODE means GFP_NORETRY is set). If we have over allocated a node
then we will currently do some reclaim before returning NULL. The caller
may want memory from other nodes before reclaim should be triggered. (If
the caller wants reclaim then he can directly use __GFP_THISNODE instead).
There is no flag to avoid reclaim in the page allocator and adding yet
another GFP_xx flag would be difficult given that we are out of available
flags.
So just compare and see if all bits for GFP_THISNODE (__GFP_THISNODE,
__GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOWARN) are set. If so then we return NULL before
waking up kswapd.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Christoph Lameter [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:33:24 +0000 (20:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] slab: fix two issues in kmalloc_node / __cache_alloc_node
This addresses two issues:
1. Kmalloc_node() may intermittently return NULL if we are allocating
from the current node and are unable to obtain memory for the current
node from the page allocator. This is because we call ___cache_alloc()
if nodeid == numa_node_id() and ____cache_alloc is not able to fallback
to other nodes.
This was introduced in the 2.6.19 development cycle. <= 2.6.18 in
that case does not do a restricted allocation and blindly trusts the
page allocator to have given us memory from the indicated node. It
inserts the page regardless of the node it came from into the queues for
the current node.
2. If kmalloc_node() is used on a node that has not been bootstrapped
yet then we may try to pass an invalid node number to
____cache_alloc_node() triggering a BUG().
Change the function to call fallback_alloc() instead. Only call
fallback_alloc() if we are allowed to fallback at all. The need to
handle a node not bootstrapped yet also first surfaced in the 2.6.19
cycle.
Update the comments since they were still describing the old kmalloc_node
from 2.6.12.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:33:22 +0000 (20:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] slab: deprecate kmem_cache_t
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Christoph Lameter [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:33:20 +0000 (20:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t
Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.
The patch was generated using the following script:
#!/bin/sh
#
# Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.
#
set -e
for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do
quilt add $file
sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$
mv /tmp/$$ $file
quilt refresh
done
The script was run like this
sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Christoph Lameter [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:33:19 +0000 (20:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_DMA
SLAB_DMA is an alias of GFP_DMA. This is the last one so we
remove the leftover comment too.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Christoph Lameter [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:33:17 +0000 (20:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_KERNEL
SLAB_KERNEL is an alias of GFP_KERNEL.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Christoph Lameter [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:33:16 +0000 (20:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_ATOMIC
SLAB_ATOMIC is an alias of GFP_ATOMIC
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Christoph Lameter [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:33:15 +0000 (20:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_USER
SLAB_USER is an alias of GFP_USER
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Christoph Lameter [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:33:14 +0000 (20:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_NOFS
SLAB_NOFS is an alias of GFP_NOFS.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Christoph Lameter [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:33:13 +0000 (20:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_NOIO
SLAB_NOIO is an alias of GFP_NOIO with a single instance of use.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Christoph Lameter [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:33:12 +0000 (20:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_LEVEL_MASK
SLAB_LEVEL_MASK is only used internally to the slab and is
and alias of GFP_LEVEL_MASK.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Christoph Lameter [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:33:10 +0000 (20:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_NO_GROW
It is only used internally in the slab.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Hugh Dickins [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:33:09 +0000 (20:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] kill install_file_pte's pte_val
David Binderman and his Intel C compiler rightly observe that
install_file_pte no longer has any use for its pte_val.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: d binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andy Whitcroft [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:33:08 +0000 (20:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] mm: cleanup indentation on switch for CPU operations
These patches introduced new switch statements which are indented contrary
to the concensus in mm/*.c. Fix them up to match that concensus.
[PATCH] node local per-cpu-pages
[PATCH] ZVC: Scale thresholds depending on the size of the system
commit
e7c8d5c9955a4d2e88e36b640563f5d6d5aba48a
commit
df9ecaba3f152d1ea79f2a5e0b87505e03f47590
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Eric Sandeen [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:33:06 +0000 (20:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] reject corrupt swapfiles earlier
The fsfuzzer found this; with a corrupt small swapfile that claims to have
many pages:
[root]# file swap.741.img
swap.741.img: Linux/i386 swap file (new style) 1 (4K pages) size
1040191487 pages
[root]# ls -l swap.741.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root
16777216 Nov 22 05:18 swap.741.img
sys_swapon() will try to vmalloc all those pages, and -then- check to see if
the file is actually that large:
if (!(p->swap_map = vmalloc(maxpages * sizeof(short)))) {
<snip>
if (swapfilesize && maxpages > swapfilesize) {
printk(KERN_WARNING
"Swap area shorter than signature indicates\n");
It seems to me that it would make more sense to move this test up before
the vmalloc, with the other checks, to avoid the OOM-killer in this
situation...
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andy Whitcroft [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:33:04 +0000 (20:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] silence unused pgdat warning from alloc_bootmem_node and friends
x86 NUMA systems only define bootmem for node 0. alloc_bootmem_node() and
friends therefore ignore the passed pgdat and use NODE_DATA(0) in all
cases. This leads to the following warnings as we are not using the passed
parameter:
.../mm/page_alloc.c: In function 'zone_wait_table_init':
.../mm/page_alloc.c:2259: warning: unused variable 'pgdat'
One option would be to define all variables used with these macros
__attribute__ ((unused)), but this would leave us exposed should these
become genuinely unused.
The key here is that we _are_ using the value, we ignore it but that is a
deliberate action. This patch adds a nested local variable within the
alloc_bootmem_node helper to which the pgdat parameter is assigned making
it 'used'. The nested local is marked __attribute__ ((unused)) to silence
this same warning for it.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andy Whitcroft [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:33:03 +0000 (20:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] numa node ids are int, page_to_nid and zone_to_nid should return int
NUMA node ids are passed as either int or unsigned int almost exclusivly
page_to_nid and zone_to_nid both return unsigned long. This is a throw
back to when page_to_nid was a #define and was thus exposing the real type
of the page flags field.
In addition to fixing up the definitions of page_to_nid and zone_to_nid I
audited the users of these functions identifying the following incorrect
uses:
1) mm/page_alloc.c show_node() -- printk dumping the node id,
2) include/asm-ia64/pgalloc.h pgtable_quicklist_free() -- comparison
against numa_node_id() which returns an int from cpu_to_node(), and
3) mm/mpolicy.c check_pte_range -- used as an index in node_isset which
uses bit_set which in generic code takes an int.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Christoph Lameter [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:33:02 +0000 (20:33 -0800)]
[PATCH] drain_node_page(): Drain pages in batch units
drain_node_pages() currently drains the complete pageset of all pages. If
there are a large number of pages in the queues then we may hold off
interrupts for too long.
Duplicate the method used in free_hot_cold_page. Only drain pcp->batch
pages at one time.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Christoph Lameter [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:32:59 +0000 (20:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] Remove uses of kmem_cache_t from mm/* and include/linux/slab.h
Remove all uses of kmem_cache_t (the most were left in slab.h). The
typedef for kmem_cache_t is then only necessary for other kernel
subsystems. Add a comment to that effect.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Christoph Lameter [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:32:57 +0000 (20:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] Move names_cachep to linux/fs.h
The names_cachep is used for getname() and putname(). So lets put it into
fs.h near those two definitions.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Christoph Lameter [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:32:54 +0000 (20:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] Move fs_cachep to linux/fs_struct.h
fs_cachep is only used in kernel/exit.c and in kernel/fork.c.
It is used to store fs_struct items so it should be placed in linux/fs_struct.h
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Christoph Lameter [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:32:52 +0000 (20:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] Move filep_cachep to include/file.h
filp_cachep is only used in fs/file_table.c and in fs/dcache.c where
it is defined.
Move it to related definitions in linux/file.h.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Christoph Lameter [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:32:50 +0000 (20:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] Move files_cachep to include/file.h
Proper place is in file.h since files_cachep uses are rated to file I/O.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Christoph Lameter [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:32:48 +0000 (20:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] Move vm_area_cachep to include/mm.h
vm_area_cachep is used to store vm_area_structs. So move to mm.h.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Christoph Lameter [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:32:47 +0000 (20:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] Move sighand_cachep to include/signal.h
Move sighand_cachep definitioni to linux/signal.h
The sighand cache is only used in fs/exec.c and kernel/fork.c. It is defined
in kernel/fork.c but only used in fs/exec.c.
The sighand_cachep is related to signal processing. So add the definition to
signal.h.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Christoph Lameter [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:32:45 +0000 (20:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] Remove bio_cachep from slab.h
Remove bio_cachep from slab.h - it no longer exists.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:32:43 +0000 (20:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] make mm/thrash.c:global_faults static
This patch makes the needlessly global "global_faults" static.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Christian Krafft [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:32:41 +0000 (20:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] enable booting a NUMA system where some nodes have no memory
When booting a NUMA system with nodes that have no memory (eg by limiting
memory), bootmem_alloc_core tried to find pages in an uninitialized
bootmem_map. This caused a null pointer access. This fix adds a check, so
that NULL is returned. That will enable the caller (bootmem_alloc_nopanic)
to alloc memory on other without a panic.
Signed-off-by: Christian Krafft <krafft@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Alan Stern [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:32:37 +0000 (20:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] Allow NULL pointers in percpu_free
The patch (as824b) makes percpu_free() ignore NULL arguments, as one would
expect for a deallocation routine. (Note that free_percpu is #defined as
percpu_free in include/linux/percpu.h.) A few callers are updated to remove
now-unneeded tests for NULL. A few other callers already seem to assume
that passing a NULL pointer to percpu_free() is okay!
The patch also removes an unnecessary NULL check in percpu_depopulate().
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Christoph Hellwig [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:32:36 +0000 (20:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] node-aware skb allocation
Node-aware allocation of skbs for the receive path.
Details:
- __alloc_skb gets a new node argument and cals the node-aware
slab functions with it.
- netdev_alloc_skb passed the node number it gets from dev_to_node
to it, everyone else passes -1 (any node)
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Christoph Hellwig [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:32:33 +0000 (20:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] add numa node information to struct device
For node-aware skb allocations we need information about the node in struct
net_device or struct device. Davem suggested to put it into struct device
which this patch does.
In particular:
- struct device gets a new int numa_node member if CONFIG_NUMA is set
- there are two new helpers, dev_to_node and set_dev_node to
transparently deal with the non-numa case
- for pci devices the node-info is set to the value we get from
pcibus_to_node.
Note that for some architectures pcibus_to_node doesn't work yet at the time
we call it currently. This is harmless and will just mean skb allocations
aren't node-local on this architectures until the implementation of
pcibus_to_node on these architectures have been updated (There are patches for
x86 and x86_64 floating around)
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Christoph Hellwig [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:32:30 +0000 (20:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] leak tracking for kmalloc_node
We have variants of kmalloc and kmem_cache_alloc that leave leak tracking to
the caller. This is used for subsystem-specific allocators like skb_alloc.
To make skb_alloc node-aware we need similar routines for the node-aware slab
allocator, which this patch adds.
Note that the code is rather ugly, but it mirrors the non-node-aware code 1:1:
[akpm@osdl.org: add module export]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Suleiman Souhlal [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:32:28 +0000 (20:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] Always print out the header line in /proc/swaps
It would be possible for /proc/swaps to not always print out the header:
swapon /dev/hdc2
swapon /dev/hde2
swapoff /dev/hdc2
At this point /proc/swaps would not have a header.
Signed-off-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Kirill Korotaev [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:32:27 +0000 (20:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] OOM can panic due to processes stuck in __alloc_pages()
OOM can panic due to the processes stuck in __alloc_pages() doing infinite
rebalance loop while no memory can be reclaimed. OOM killer tries to kill
some processes, but unfortunetaly, rebalance label was moved by someone
below the TIF_MEMDIE check, so buddy allocator doesn't see that process is
OOM-killed and it can simply fail the allocation :/
Observed in reality on RHEL4(2.6.9)+OpenVZ kernel when a user doing some
memory allocation tricks triggered OOM panic.
Signed-off-by: Denis Lunev <den@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Rik Bobbaers [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:32:25 +0000 (20:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] mlock cleanup
mm is defined as vma->vm_mm, so use that.
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Guillem Jover [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:32:24 +0000 (20:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] Allow user processes to raise their oom_adj value
Currently a user process cannot rise its own oom_adj value (i.e.
unprotecting itself from the OOM killer). As this value is stored in the
task structure it gets inherited and the unprivileged childs will be unable
to rise it.
The EPERM will be handled by the generic proc fs layer, as only processes
with the proper caps or the owner of the process will be able to write to
the file. So we allow only the processes with CAP_SYS_RESOURCE to lower
the value, otherwise it will get an EACCES which seems more appropriate
than EPERM.
Signed-off-by: Guillem Jover <guillem.jover@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jeremy Fitzhardinge [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:32:22 +0000 (20:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] Fix kunmap_atomic's use of kpte_clear_flush()
kunmap_atomic() will call kpte_clear_flush with vaddr/ptep arguments which
don't correspond if the vaddr is just a normal lowmem address (ie, not in
the KMAP area). This patch makes sure that the pte is only cleared if kmap
area was actually used for the mapping.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Peter Zijlstra [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:32:21 +0000 (20:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] mm: k{,um}map_atomic() vs in_atomic()
Make kmap_atomic/kunmap_atomic denote a pagefault disabled scope. All non
trivial implementations already do this anyway.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Peter Zijlstra [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:32:20 +0000 (20:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] mm: pagefault_{disable,enable}()
Introduce pagefault_{disable,enable}() and use these where previously we did
manual preempt increments/decrements to make the pagefault handler do the
atomic thing.
Currently they still rely on the increased preempt count, but do not rely on
the disabled preemption, this might go away in the future.
(NOTE: the extra barrier() in pagefault_disable might fix some holes on
machines which have too many registers for their own good)
[heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com: s390 fix]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
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>
Peter Zijlstra [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:32:18 +0000 (20:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] mm: arch do_page_fault() vs in_atomic()
In light of the recent pagefault and filemap_copy_from_user work I've gone
through all the arch pagefault handlers to make sure the inc_preempt_count()
'feature' works as expected.
Several sections of code (including the new filemap_copy_from_user) rely on
the fact that faults do not take locks under increased preempt count.
arch/x86_64 - good
arch/powerpc - good
arch/cris - fixed
arch/i386 - good
arch/parisc - fixed
arch/sh - good
arch/sparc - good
arch/s390 - good
arch/m68k - fixed
arch/ppc - good
arch/alpha - fixed
arch/mips - good
arch/sparc64 - good
arch/ia64 - good
arch/arm - fixed
arch/um - good
arch/avr32 - good
arch/h8300 - NA
arch/m32r - good
arch/v850 - good
arch/frv - fixed
arch/m68knommu - NA
arch/arm26 - fixed
arch/sh64 - fixed
arch/xtensa - good
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Paul Menage [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:32:16 +0000 (20:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] mm: add noaliencache boot option to disable numa alien caches
When using numa=fake on non-NUMA hardware there is no benefit to having the
alien caches, and they consume much memory.
Add a kernel boot option to disable them.
Christoph sayeth "This is good to have even on large NUMA. The problem is
that the alien caches grow by the square of the size of the system in terms of
nodes."
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ravikiran G Thirumalai [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:32:14 +0000 (20:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] mm: slab: eliminate lock_cpu_hotplug from slab
Here's an attempt towards doing away with lock_cpu_hotplug in the slab
subsystem. This approach also fixes a bug which shows up when cpus are
being offlined/onlined and slab caches are being tuned simultaneously.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=
116098888100481&w=2
The patch has been stress tested overnight on a 2 socket 4 core AMD box with
repeated cpu online and offline, while dbench and kernbench process are
running, and slab caches being tuned at the same time.
There were no lockdep warnings either. (This test on 2,6.18 as 2.6.19-rc
crashes at __drain_pages
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=
116172164217678&w=2 )
The approach here is to hold cache_chain_mutex from CPU_UP_PREPARE until
CPU_ONLINE (similar in approach as worqueue_mutex) . Slab code sensitive
to cpu_online_map (kmem_cache_create, kmem_cache_destroy, slabinfo_write,
__cache_shrink) is already serialized with cache_chain_mutex. (This patch
lengthens cache_chain_mutex hold time at kmem_cache_destroy to cover this).
This patch also takes the cache_chain_sem at kmem_cache_shrink to protect
sanity of cpu_online_map at __cache_shrink, as viewed by slab.
(kmem_cache_shrink->__cache_shrink->drain_cpu_caches). But, really,
kmem_cache_shrink is used at just one place in the acpi subsystem! Do we
really need to keep kmem_cache_shrink at all?
Another note. Looks like a cpu hotplug event can send CPU_UP_CANCELED to
a registered subsystem even if the subsystem did not receive CPU_UP_PREPARE.
This could be due to a subsystem registered for notification earlier than
the current subsystem crapping out with NOTIFY_BAD. Badness can occur with
in the CPU_UP_CANCELED code path at slab if this happens (The same would
apply for workqueue.c as well). To overcome this, we might have to use either
a) a per subsystem flag and avoid handling of CPU_UP_CANCELED, or
b) Use a special notifier events like LOCK_ACQUIRE/RELEASE as Gautham was
using in his experiments, or
c) Do not send CPU_UP_CANCELED to a subsystem which did not receive
CPU_UP_PREPARE.
I would prefer c).
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Kevin Hilman [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:32:11 +0000 (20:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] slab debug and ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN don't get along
When CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG is used in combination with ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN, some
debug flags should be disabled which depend on BYTES_PER_WORD alignment.
The disabling of these debug flags is not properly handled when
BYTES_PER_WORD < ARCH_SLAB_MEMALIGN < cache_line_size()
This patch fixes that and also adds an alignment check to
cache_alloc_debugcheck_after() when ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN is used.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@mvista.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Chen, Kenneth W [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:32:07 +0000 (20:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] htlb forget rss with pt sharing
Imprecise RSS accounting is an irritating ill effect with pt sharing. After
consulted with several VM experts, I have tried various methods to solve that
problem: (1) iterate through all mm_structs that share the PT and increment
count; (2) keep RSS count in page table structure and then sum them up at
reporting time. None of the above methods yield any satisfactory
implementation.
Since process RSS accounting is pure information only, I propose we don't
count them at all for hugetlb page. rlimit has such field, though there is
absolutely no enforcement on limiting that resource. One other method is to
account all RSS at hugetlb mmap time regardless they are faulted or not. I
opt for the simplicity of no accounting at all.
Hugetlb page are special, they are reserved up front in global reservation
pool and is not reclaimable. From physical memory resource point of view, it
is already consumed regardless whether there are users using them.
If the concern is that RSS can be used to control resource allocation, we
already can specify hugetlb fs size limit and sysadmin can enforce that at
mount time. Combined with the two points mentioned above, I fail to see if
there is anything got affected because of this patch.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Chen, Kenneth W [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:32:03 +0000 (20:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] shared page table for hugetlb page
Following up with the work on shared page table done by Dave McCracken. This
set of patch target shared page table for hugetlb memory only.
The shared page table is particular useful in the situation of large number of
independent processes sharing large shared memory segments. In the normal
page case, the amount of memory saved from process' page table is quite
significant. For hugetlb, the saving on page table memory is not the primary
objective (as hugetlb itself already cuts down page table overhead
significantly), instead, the purpose of using shared page table on hugetlb is
to allow faster TLB refill and smaller cache pollution upon TLB miss.
With PT sharing, pte entries are shared among hundreds of processes, the cache
consumption used by all the page table is smaller and in return, application
gets much higher cache hit ratio. One other effect is that cache hit ratio
with hardware page walker hitting on pte in cache will be higher and this
helps to reduce tlb miss latency. These two effects contribute to higher
application performance.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:32:01 +0000 (20:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] balance_pdgat() cleanup
Despaghettify balance_pdgat() a bit.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Nick Piggin [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:32:00 +0000 (20:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] mm: add arch_alloc_page
Add an arch_alloc_page to match arch_free_page.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ashwin Chaugule [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:31:57 +0000 (20:31 -0800)]
[PATCH] new scheme to preempt swap token
The new swap token patches replace the current token traversal algo. The old
algo had a crude timeout parameter that was used to handover the token from
one task to another. This algo, transfers the token to the tasks that are in
need of the token. The urgency for the token is based on the number of times
a task is required to swap-in pages. Accordingly, the priority of a task is
incremented if it has been badly affected due to swap-outs. To ensure that
the token doesnt bounce around rapidly, the token holders are given a priority
boost. The priority of tasks is also decremented, if their rate of swap-in's
keeps reducing. This way, the condition to check whether to pre-empt the swap
token, is a matter of comparing two task's priority fields.
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Ashwin Chaugule <ashwin.chaugule@celunite.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ashwin Chaugule [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:31:54 +0000 (20:31 -0800)]
[PATCH] grab swap token reordered
Make sure the contention for the token happens _before_ any read-in and
kicks the swap-token algo only when the VM is under pressure.
Signed-off-by: Ashwin Chaugule <ashwin.chaugule@celunite.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Nick Piggin [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:31:53 +0000 (20:31 -0800)]
[PATCH] mm: incorrect VM_FAULT_OOM returns from drivers
Some drivers are returning OOM when it is not in response to a memory
shortage.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Nick Piggin [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:31:52 +0000 (20:31 -0800)]
[PATCH] oom: less memdie
Don't cause all threads in all other thread groups to gain TIF_MEMDIE
otherwise we'll get a thundering herd eating our memory reserve. This may not
be the optimal scheme, but it fits our policy of allowing just one TIF_MEMDIE
in the system at once.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Nick Piggin [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:31:51 +0000 (20:31 -0800)]
[PATCH] oom: cleanup messages
Clean up the OOM killer messages to be more consistent.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Nick Piggin [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:31:50 +0000 (20:31 -0800)]
[PATCH] oom: don't kill unkillable children or siblings
Abort the kill if any of our threads have OOM_DISABLE set. Having this
test here also prevents any OOM_DISABLE child of the "selected" process
from being killed.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Paul Jackson [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:31:49 +0000 (20:31 -0800)]
[PATCH] memory page_alloc zonelist caching reorder structure
Rearrange the struct members in the 'struct zonelist_cache' structure, so
as to put the readonly (once initialized) z_to_n[] array first, where it
will come right after the zones[] array in struct zonelist.
This pretty much eliminates the chance that the two frequently written
elements of 'struct zonelist_cache', the fullzones bitmap and last_full_zap
times, will end up on the same cache line as the performance sensitive,
frequently read, never (after init) written zones[] array.
Keeping frequently written data off frequently read cache lines is good for
performance.
Thanks to Rohit Seth for the suggestion.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Rohit Seth <rohitseth@google.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Paul Jackson [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:31:48 +0000 (20:31 -0800)]
[PATCH] memory page_alloc zonelist caching speedup
Optimize the critical zonelist scanning for free pages in the kernel memory
allocator by caching the zones that were found to be full recently, and
skipping them.
Remembers the zones in a zonelist that were short of free memory in the
last second. And it stashes a zone-to-node table in the zonelist struct,
to optimize that conversion (minimize its cache footprint.)
Recent changes:
This differs in a significant way from a similar patch that I
posted a week ago. Now, instead of having a nodemask_t of
recently full nodes, I have a bitmask of recently full zones.
This solves a problem that last weeks patch had, which on
systems with multiple zones per node (such as DMA zone) would
take seeing any of these zones full as meaning that all zones
on that node were full.
Also I changed names - from "zonelist faster" to "zonelist cache",
as that seemed to better convey what we're doing here - caching
some of the key zonelist state (for faster access.)
See below for some performance benchmark results. After all that
discussion with David on why I didn't need them, I went and got
some ;). I wanted to verify that I had not hurt the normal case
of memory allocation noticeably. At least for my one little
microbenchmark, I found (1) the normal case wasn't affected, and
(2) workloads that forced scanning across multiple nodes for
memory improved up to 10% fewer System CPU cycles and lower
elapsed clock time ('sys' and 'real'). Good. See details, below.
I didn't have the logic in get_page_from_freelist() for various
full nodes and zone reclaim failures correct. That should be
fixed up now - notice the new goto labels zonelist_scan,
this_zone_full, and try_next_zone, in get_page_from_freelist().
There are two reasons I persued this alternative, over some earlier
proposals that would have focused on optimizing the fake numa
emulation case by caching the last useful zone:
1) Contrary to what I said before, we (SGI, on large ia64 sn2 systems)
have seen real customer loads where the cost to scan the zonelist
was a problem, due to many nodes being full of memory before
we got to a node we could use. Or at least, I think we have.
This was related to me by another engineer, based on experiences
from some time past. So this is not guaranteed. Most likely, though.
The following approach should help such real numa systems just as
much as it helps fake numa systems, or any combination thereof.
2) The effort to distinguish fake from real numa, using node_distance,
so that we could cache a fake numa node and optimize choosing
it over equivalent distance fake nodes, while continuing to
properly scan all real nodes in distance order, was going to
require a nasty blob of zonelist and node distance munging.
The following approach has no new dependency on node distances or
zone sorting.
See comment in the patch below for a description of what it actually does.
Technical details of note (or controversy):
- See the use of "zlc_active" and "did_zlc_setup" below, to delay
adding any work for this new mechanism until we've looked at the
first zone in zonelist. I figured the odds of the first zone
having the memory we needed were high enough that we should just
look there, first, then get fancy only if we need to keep looking.
- Some odd hackery was needed to add items to struct zonelist, while
not tripping up the custom zonelists built by the mm/mempolicy.c
code for MPOL_BIND. My usual wordy comments below explain this.
Search for "MPOL_BIND".
- Some per-node data in the struct zonelist is now modified frequently,
with no locking. Multiple CPU cores on a node could hit and mangle
this data. The theory is that this is just performance hint data,
and the memory allocator will work just fine despite any such mangling.
The fields at risk are the struct 'zonelist_cache' fields 'fullzones'
(a bitmask) and 'last_full_zap' (unsigned long jiffies). It should
all be self correcting after at most a one second delay.
- This still does a linear scan of the same lengths as before. All
I've optimized is making the scan faster, not algorithmically
shorter. It is now able to scan a compact array of 'unsigned
short' in the case of many full nodes, so one cache line should
cover quite a few nodes, rather than each node hitting another
one or two new and distinct cache lines.
- If both Andi and Nick don't find this too complicated, I will be
(pleasantly) flabbergasted.
- I removed the comment claiming we only use one cachline's worth of
zonelist. We seem, at least in the fake numa case, to have put the
lie to that claim.
- I pay no attention to the various watermarks and such in this performance
hint. A node could be marked full for one watermark, and then skipped
over when searching for a page using a different watermark. I think
that's actually quite ok, as it will tend to slightly increase the
spreading of memory over other nodes, away from a memory stressed node.
===============
Performance - some benchmark results and analysis:
This benchmark runs a memory hog program that uses multiple
threads to touch alot of memory as quickly as it can.
Multiple runs were made, touching 12, 38, 64 or 90 GBytes out of
the total 96 GBytes on the system, and using 1, 19, 37, or 55
threads (on a 56 CPU system.) System, user and real (elapsed)
timings were recorded for each run, shown in units of seconds,
in the table below.
Two kernels were tested - 2.6.18-mm3 and the same kernel with
this zonelist caching patch added. The table also shows the
percentage improvement the zonelist caching sys time is over
(lower than) the stock *-mm kernel.
number 2.6.18-mm3 zonelist-cache delta (< 0 good) percent
GBs N ------------ -------------- ---------------- systime
mem threads sys user real sys user real sys user real better
12 1 153 24 177 151 24 176 -2 0 -1 1%
12 19 99 22 8 99 22 8 0 0 0 0%
12 37 111 25 6 112 25 6 1 0 0 -0%
12 55 115 25 5 110 23 5 -5 -2 0 4%
38 1 502 74 576 497 73 570 -5 -1 -6 0%
38 19 426 78 48 373 76 39 -53 -2 -9 12%
38 37 544 83 36 547 82 36 3 -1 0 -0%
38 55 501 77 23 511 80 24 10 3 1 -1%
64 1 917 125 1042 890 124 1014 -27 -1 -28 2%
64 19 1118 138 119 965 141 103 -153 3 -16 13%
64 37 1202 151 94 1136 150 81 -66 -1 -13 5%
64 55 1118 141 61 1072 140 58 -46 -1 -3 4%
90 1 1342 177 1519 1275 174 1450 -67 -3 -69 4%
90 19 2392 199 192 2116 189 176 -276 -10 -16 11%
90 37 3313 238 175 2972 225 145 -341 -13 -30 10%
90 55 1948 210 104 1843 213 100 -105 3 -4 5%
Notes:
1) This test ran a memory hog program that started a specified number N of
threads, and had each thread allocate and touch 1/N'th of
the total memory to be used in the test run in a single loop,
writing a constant word to memory, one store every 4096 bytes.
Watching this test during some earlier trial runs, I would see
each of these threads sit down on one CPU and stay there, for
the remainder of the pass, a different CPU for each thread.
2) The 'real' column is not comparable to the 'sys' or 'user' columns.
The 'real' column is seconds wall clock time elapsed, from beginning
to end of that test pass. The 'sys' and 'user' columns are total
CPU seconds spent on that test pass. For a 19 thread test run,
for example, the sum of 'sys' and 'user' could be up to 19 times the
number of 'real' elapsed wall clock seconds.
3) Tests were run on a fresh, single-user boot, to minimize the amount
of memory already in use at the start of the test, and to minimize
the amount of background activity that might interfere.
4) Tests were done on a 56 CPU, 28 Node system with 96 GBytes of RAM.
5) Notice that the 'real' time gets large for the single thread runs, even
though the measured 'sys' and 'user' times are modest. I'm not sure what
that means - probably something to do with it being slow for one thread to
be accessing memory along ways away. Perhaps the fake numa system, running
ostensibly the same workload, would not show this substantial degradation
of 'real' time for one thread on many nodes -- lets hope not.
6) The high thread count passes (one thread per CPU - on 55 of 56 CPUs)
ran quite efficiently, as one might expect. Each pair of threads needed
to allocate and touch the memory on the node the two threads shared, a
pleasantly parallizable workload.
7) The intermediate thread count passes, when asking for alot of memory forcing
them to go to a few neighboring nodes, improved the most with this zonelist
caching patch.
Conclusions:
* This zonelist cache patch probably makes little difference one way or the
other for most workloads on real numa hardware, if those workloads avoid
heavy off node allocations.
* For memory intensive workloads requiring substantial off-node allocations
on real numa hardware, this patch improves both kernel and elapsed timings
up to ten per-cent.
* For fake numa systems, I'm optimistic, but will have to leave that up to
Rohit Seth to actually test (once I get him a 2.6.18 backport.)
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Rohit Seth <rohitseth@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@cs.washington.edu>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Christoph Lameter [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:31:45 +0000 (20:31 -0800)]
[PATCH] Get rid of zone_table[]
The zone table is mostly not needed. If we have a node in the page flags
then we can get to the zone via NODE_DATA() which is much more likely to be
already in the cpu cache.
In case of SMP and UP NODE_DATA() is a constant pointer which allows us to
access an exact replica of zonetable in the node_zones field. In all of
the above cases there will be no need at all for the zone table.
The only remaining case is if in a NUMA system the node numbers do not fit
into the page flags. In that case we make sparse generate a table that
maps sections to nodes and use that table to to figure out the node number.
This table is sized to fit in a single cache line for the known 32 bit
NUMA platform which makes it very likely that the information can be
obtained without a cache miss.
For sparsemem the zone table seems to be have been fairly large based on
the maximum possible number of sections and the number of zones per node.
There is some memory saving by removing zone_table. The main benefit is to
reduce the cache foootprint of the VM from the frequent lookups of zones.
Plus it simplifies the page allocator.
[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Chen, Kenneth W [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:31:39 +0000 (20:31 -0800)]
[PATCH] __unmap_hugepage_range(): add comment
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Paul Jackson [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:31:38 +0000 (20:31 -0800)]
[PATCH] memory page alloc minor cleanups
- s/freeliest/freelist/ spelling fix
- Check for NULL *z zone seems useless - even if it could happen, so
what? Perhaps we should have a check later on if we are faced with an
allocation request that is not allowed to fail - shouldn't that be a
serious kernel error, passing an empty zonelist with a mandate to not
fail?
- Initializing 'z' to zonelist->zones can wait until after the first
get_page_from_freelist() fails; we only use 'z' in the wakeup_kswapd()
loop, so let's initialize 'z' there, in a 'for' loop. Seems clearer.
- Remove superfluous braces around a break
- Fix a couple errant spaces
- Adjust indentation on the cpuset_zone_allowed() check, to match the
lines just before it -- seems easier to read in this case.
- Add another set of braces to the zone_watermark_ok logic
From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Backout one item from a previous "memory page_alloc minor cleanups" patch.
Until and unless we are certain that no one can ever pass an empty zonelist
to __alloc_pages(), this check for an empty zonelist (or some BUG
equivalent) is essential. The code in get_page_from_freelist() blow ups if
passed an empty zonelist.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:31:36 +0000 (20:31 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: workqueue build fix
arch/um/drivers/chan_kern.c:643: error: conflicting types for 'chan_interrupt'
arch/um/include/chan_kern.h:31: error: previous declaration of 'chan_interrupt'
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrey Mirkin [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:31:35 +0000 (20:31 -0800)]
[PATCH] skip data conversion in compat_sys_mount when data_page is NULL
OpenVZ Linux kernel team has found a problem with mounting in compat mode.
Simple command "mount -t smbfs ..." on Fedora Core 5 distro in 32-bit mode
leads to oops:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
0000000000000000 RIP: compat_sys_mount+0xd6/0x290
Process mount (pid: 14656, veid=300, threadinfo
ffff810034d30000, task
ffff810034c86bc0)
Call Trace: ia32_sysret+0x0/0xa
The problem is that data_page pointer can be NULL, so we should skip data
conversion in this case.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Mirkin <amirkin@openvz.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:31:33 +0000 (20:31 -0800)]
[PATCH] drm-sis linkage fix
Fix http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7606
WARNING: "drm_sman_set_manager" [drivers/char/drm/sis.ko] undefined!
Cc: <daniel-silveira@gee.inatel.br>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 04:31:30 +0000 (20:31 -0800)]
[PATCH] add bottom_half.h
With CONFIG_SMP=n:
drivers/input/ff-memless.c:384: warning: implicit declaration of function 'local_bh_disable'
drivers/input/ff-memless.c:393: warning: implicit declaration of function 'local_bh_enable'
Really linux/spinlock.h should include linux/interrupt.h. But interrupt.h
includes sched.h which will need spinlock.h.
So the patch breaks the _bh declarations out into a separate header and
includes it in both interrupt.h and spinlock.h.
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jesper Juhl [Wed, 6 Dec 2006 23:45:58 +0000 (00:45 +0100)]
[PATCH] A few small additions and corrections to README
Here's a small patch which
- adds a few archs to the current list of supported platforms.
- adds a few missing slashes at the end of URLs.
- adds a few references to additional documentation.
- adds "make config" to the list of possible configuration targets.
- makes a few other minor changes.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
[ Ben Nizette <ben.nizette@iinet.net.au> points out AVR32 arch too ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jesper Juhl [Wed, 6 Dec 2006 23:16:26 +0000 (00:16 +0100)]
[PATCH] Clean up 'make help' output for documentation targets.
Here's a patch that cleans up the "make help" output a bit for the
documentation targets.
Currently the documentation targets are listed completely different than
all the other targets :
Documentation targets:
Linux kernel internal documentation in different formats:
xmldocs (XML DocBook), psdocs (Postscript), pdfdocs (PDF)
htmldocs (HTML), mandocs (man pages, use installmandocs to install)
with this patch they are more in line with the rest of the output :
Documentation targets:
Linux kernel internal documentation in different formats:
htmldocs - HTML
installmandocs - install man pages generated by mandocs
mandocs - man pages
pdfdocs - PDF
psdocs - Postscript
xmldocs - XML DocBook
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 00:17:37 +0000 (16:17 -0800)]
Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/upstream-linus
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
[MIPS] Import updates from i386's i8259.c
[MIPS] *-berr: Header inclusions for DEC bus error handlers
[MIPS] Compile __do_IRQ() when really needed
[MIPS] genirq: use name instead of typename
[MIPS] Do not use handle_level_irq for ioasic_dma_irq_type.
[MIPS] pte_offset(dir,addr): parenthesis fix
Linus Torvalds [Thu, 7 Dec 2006 00:16:35 +0000 (16:16 -0800)]
Merge branch 'release' of /home/ftp/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of master.kernel.org:/home/ftp/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] Fix pci.c kernel compilation breakage.
Al Viro [Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:15:22 +0000 (21:15 +0000)]
[PATCH] ... and then some more work_struct-induced breakage (ibmvscsi)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Al Viro [Wed, 6 Dec 2006 19:50:06 +0000 (19:50 +0000)]
[PATCH] ... and more work_struct-induced breakage (mips)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Al Viro [Wed, 6 Dec 2006 19:18:20 +0000 (19:18 +0000)]
[PATCH] More work_struct induced breakage (s390)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 6 Dec 2006 22:42:57 +0000 (14:42 -0800)]
x86[-64]:Remove 'volatile' from atomic_t
Any code that relies on the volatile would be a bug waiting to happen
anyway.
Don't encourage people to think that putting 'volatile' on data
structures somehow fixes problems. We should always use proper locking
(and other serialization) techniques.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Art Haas [Wed, 6 Dec 2006 20:45:53 +0000 (14:45 -0600)]
[PATCH] Remove 'volatile' from spinlock_types
This is a resubmission of patches originally created by Ingo Molnar.
The link below is the initial (?) posting of the patch.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=
115217423929806&w=2
Remove 'volatile' from spinlock_types as it causes GCC to generate bad
code (see link) and locking should be used on kernel data.
Signed-off-by: Art Haas <ahaas@airmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Peter Chubb [Tue, 5 Dec 2006 01:25:31 +0000 (12:25 +1100)]
[IA64] Fix pci.c kernel compilation breakage.
The recent change to convert the is_enabled flag in the PCI device to an
atomic count broke the IA64 compilation.
As pcibios_disable_device is only ever called if the reference count
is zero, convert the if to a BUG_ON.
Signed-off-by: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Atsushi Nemoto [Wed, 6 Dec 2006 17:04:17 +0000 (02:04 +0900)]
[MIPS] Import updates from i386's i8259.c
Import many updates from i386's i8259.c, especially genirq transitions.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Maciej W. Rozycki [Wed, 6 Dec 2006 11:50:23 +0000 (11:50 +0000)]
[MIPS] *-berr: Header inclusions for DEC bus error handlers
A fixup to add missing header inclusions for bus error handlers for
DECstation system after the recent switch to get_irq_regs().
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Franck Bui-Huu [Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:22:27 +0000 (18:22 +0100)]
[MIPS] Compile __do_IRQ() when really needed
__do_IRQ() is needed only by irq handlers that can't use
default handlers defined in kernel/irq/chip.c.
For others platforms there's no need to compile this function
since it won't be used. For those platforms this patch defines
GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO__DO_IRQ symbol which is used exactly for
this purpose.
Futhermore for platforms which do not use __do_IRQ(), end()
method which is part of the 'irq_chip' structure is not used.
This patch simply removes this method in this case.
Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Atsushi Nemoto [Tue, 5 Dec 2006 16:20:57 +0000 (01:20 +0900)]
[MIPS] genirq: use name instead of typename
The "typename" field was obsoleted by the "name" field.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Atsushi Nemoto [Fri, 1 Dec 2006 15:08:03 +0000 (00:08 +0900)]
[MIPS] Do not use handle_level_irq for ioasic_dma_irq_type.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Franck Bui-Huu [Tue, 5 Dec 2006 09:39:56 +0000 (10:39 +0100)]
[MIPS] pte_offset(dir,addr): parenthesis fix
This patch adds missing parenthesis around 'dir' argument in pte_offset()
macro definition.
It also removes an extra space in the definition of pte_offset_kernel()
macro.
Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Al Viro [Wed, 6 Dec 2006 18:41:45 +0000 (18:41 +0000)]
[PATCH] drivers/{char|isdn}: work_struct-induced breakage
part 1 of fsck-knows-how-many
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>