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Jan Beulich 74768ed833 page allocator: use no-panic variant of alloc_bootmem() in alloc_large_system_hash()
..  since a failed allocation is being (initially) handled gracefully, and
panic()-ed upon failure explicitly in the function if retries with smaller
sizes failed.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-12 16:07:27 -07:00
Johannes Weiner c6af5e9f8a bootmem: Move node allocation macros back to !HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM_NODE
These got unintentionally moved, put them back as x86 provides its own
versions.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 11:36:44 -07:00
Johannes Weiner 3560e249ab bootmem: replace node_boot_start in struct bootmem_data
Almost all users of this field need a PFN instead of a physical address,
so replace node_boot_start with node_min_pfn.

[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: fix spurious BUG_ON() in mark_bootmem()]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeureba.de>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 10:47:20 -07:00
Johannes Weiner 5f2809e69c bootmem: clean up alloc_bootmem_core
alloc_bootmem_core has become quite nasty to read over time.  This is a
clean rewrite that keeps the semantics.

bdata->last_pos has been dropped.

bdata->last_success has been renamed to hint_idx and it is now an index
relative to the node's range.  Since further block searching might start
at this index, it is now set to the end of a succeeded allocation rather
than its beginning.

bdata->last_offset has been renamed to last_end_off to be more clear that
it represents the ending address of the last allocation relative to the
node.

[y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com: fix new alloc_bootmem_core()]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 10:47:20 -07:00
Johannes Weiner 223e8dc924 bootmem: reorder code to match new bootmem structure
This only reorders functions so that further patches will be easier to
read.  No code changed.

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>
2008-07-24 10:47:19 -07:00
Andi Kleen b54bbf7b81 mm: introduce non panic alloc_bootmem
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>
2008-07-24 10:47:17 -07:00
Johannes Weiner ffc6421f07 mm: unexport __alloc_bootmem_core()
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>
2008-07-24 10:47:14 -07:00
Johannes Weiner b61bfa3c46 mm: move bootmem descriptors definition to a single place
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>
2008-07-24 10:47:14 -07:00
Yinghai Lu d2dbf34332 x86: clean up reserve_bootmem_generic() and port it to 32-bit
1. add reserve_bootmem_generic for 32bit
2. change len to unsigned long
3. make early_res_to_bootmem to use it

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 10:36:17 +02:00
Bernhard Walle 71c2742f5e Add return value to reserve_bootmem_node()
This patch changes the function reserve_bootmem_node() from void to int,
returning -ENOMEM if the allocation fails.

This fixes a build problem on x86 with CONFIG_KEXEC=y and
CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES=y

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Reported-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-21 11:25:10 -07:00
Yasunori Goto e70260aabe memory hotplug: make alloc_bootmem_section()
alloc_bootmem_section() can allocate specified section's area.  This is used
for usemap to keep same section with pgdat by later patch.

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28 08:58:25 -07:00
Bernhard Walle 72a7fe3967 Introduce flags for reserve_bootmem()
This patchset adds a flags variable to reserve_bootmem() and uses the
BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE flag in crashkernel reservation code to detect collisions
between crashkernel area and already used memory.

This patch:

Change the reserve_bootmem() function to accept a new flag BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE.
If that flag is set, the function returns with -EBUSY if the memory already
has been reserved in the past.  This is to avoid conflicts.

Because that code runs before SMP initialisation, there's no race condition
inside reserve_bootmem_core().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc build]
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07 08:42:25 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 6a22c57b8d Revert "x86_64: allocate sparsemem memmap above 4G"
This reverts commit 2e1c49db4c.

First off, testing in Fedora has shown it to cause boot failures,
bisected down by Martin Ebourne, and reported by Dave Jobes.  So the
commit will likely be reverted in the 2.6.23 stable kernels.

Secondly, in the 2.6.24 model, x86-64 has now grown support for
SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, which disables the relevant code anyway, so while the
bug is not visible any more, it's become invisible due to the code just
being irrelevant and no longer enabled on the only architecture that
this ever affected.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Martin Ebourne <fedora@ebourne.me.uk>
Cc: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-29 14:05:37 -07:00
Zou Nan hai 2e1c49db4c x86_64: allocate sparsemem memmap above 4G
On systems with huge amount of physical memory, VFS cache and memory memmap
may eat all available system memory under 4G, then the system may fail to
allocate swiotlb bounce buffer.

There was a fix for this issue in arch/x86_64/mm/numa.c, but that fix dose
not cover sparsemem model.

This patch add fix to sparsemem model by first try to allocate memmap above
4G.

Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-01 08:18:27 -07:00
Ravikiran G Thirumalai e073ae1b34 [PATCH] x86-64: Set HASHDIST_DEFAULT to 1 for x86_64 NUMA
Enable system hashtable memory to be distributed among nodes on x86_64 NUMA

Forcing the kernel to use node interleaved vmalloc instead of bootmem for
the system hashtable memory (alloc_large_system_hash) reduces the memory
imbalance on node 0 by around 40MB on a 8 node x86_64 NUMA box:

Before the following patch, on bootup of a 8 node box:

Node 0 MemTotal:      3407488 kB
Node 0 MemFree:       3206296 kB
Node 0 MemUsed:        201192 kB
Node 0 Active:           7012 kB
Node 0 Inactive:          512 kB
Node 0 Dirty:               0 kB
Node 0 Writeback:           0 kB
Node 0 FilePages:        1912 kB
Node 0 Mapped:            420 kB
Node 0 AnonPages:        5612 kB
Node 0 PageTables:        468 kB
Node 0 NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
Node 0 Bounce:              0 kB
Node 0 Slab:             5408 kB
Node 0 SReclaimable:      644 kB
Node 0 SUnreclaim:       4764 kB

After the patch (or using hashdist=1 on the kernel command line):

Node 0 MemTotal:      3407488 kB
Node 0 MemFree:       3247608 kB
Node 0 MemUsed:        159880 kB
Node 0 Active:           3012 kB
Node 0 Inactive:          616 kB
Node 0 Dirty:               0 kB
Node 0 Writeback:           0 kB
Node 0 FilePages:        2424 kB
Node 0 Mapped:            380 kB
Node 0 AnonPages:        1200 kB
Node 0 PageTables:        396 kB
Node 0 NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
Node 0 Bounce:              0 kB
Node 0 Slab:             6304 kB
Node 0 SReclaimable:     1596 kB
Node 0 SUnreclaim:       4708 kB

I guess it is a good idea to keep HASHDIST_DEFAULT "on" for x86_64 NUMA
since x86_64 has no dearth of vmalloc space?  Or maybe enable hash
distribution for all 64bit NUMA arches?  The following patch does it only
for x86_64.

I ran a HPC MPI benchmark -- 'Ansys wingsolid', which takes up quite a bit of
memory and uses up tlb entries.  This was on a 4 way, 2 socket
Tyan AMD box (non vsmp), with 8G total memory (4G pernode).

The results with and without hash distribution are:

1. Vanilla - runtime of 1188.000s
2. With hashdist=1 runtime of 1154.000s

Oprofile output for the duration of run is:

1. Vanilla:
PU: AMD64 processors, speed 2411.16 MHz (estimated)
Counted L1_AND_L2_DTLB_MISSES events (L1 and L2 DTLB misses) with a unit
mask of 0x00 (No unit mask) count 500
samples  %        app name                 symbol name
163054    6.5513  libansys1.so             MultiFront::decompose(int, int,
Elemset *, int *, int, int, int)
162061    6.5114  libansys3.so             blockSaxpy6L_fd
162042    6.5107  libansys3.so             blockInnerProduct6L_fd
156286    6.2794  libansys3.so             maxb33_
87879     3.5309  libansys1.so             elmatrixmultpcg_
84857     3.4095  libansys4.so             saxpy_pcg
58637     2.3560  libansys4.so             .st4560
46612     1.8728  libansys4.so             .st4282
43043     1.7294  vmlinux-t                copy_user_generic_string
41326     1.6604  libansys3.so             blockSaxpyBackSolve6L_fd
41288     1.6589  libansys3.so             blockInnerProductBackSolve6L_fd

2. With hashdist=1
CPU: AMD64 processors, speed 2411.13 MHz (estimated)
Counted L1_AND_L2_DTLB_MISSES events (L1 and L2 DTLB misses) with a unit
mask of 0x00 (No unit mask) count 500
samples  %        app name                 symbol name
162993    6.9814  libansys1.so             MultiFront::decompose(int, int,
Elemset *, int *, int, int, int)
160799    6.8874  libansys3.so             blockInnerProduct6L_fd
160459    6.8729  libansys3.so             blockSaxpy6L_fd
156018    6.6826  libansys3.so             maxb33_
84700     3.6279  libansys4.so             saxpy_pcg
83434     3.5737  libansys1.so             elmatrixmultpcg_
58074     2.4875  libansys4.so             .st4560
46000     1.9703  libansys4.so             .st4282
41166     1.7632  libansys3.so             blockSaxpyBackSolve6L_fd
41033     1.7575  libansys3.so             blockInnerProductBackSolve6L_fd
35762     1.5318  libansys1.so             inner_product_sub
35591     1.5245  libansys1.so             inner_product_sub2
28259     1.2104  libansys4.so             addVectors

Signed-off-by: Pravin B. Shelar <pravin.shelar@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-02 19:27:08 +02:00
David Howells 8da38d7bac [PATCH] FRV: fix unannotated variable declarations
Fix unannotated variable declarations.  Variables that have allocation
section annotations (such as __meminitdata) on their definitions must also
have them on their declarations as not doing so may affect the addressing
mode used by the compiler and may result in a linker error.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-22 19:39:05 -07:00
Andrew Morton 0490366432 [PATCH] remove HASH_HIGHMEM
It has no users and it's doubtful that we'll need it again.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:37 -08:00
Franck Bui-Huu f71bf0cac7 [PATCH] bootmem: miscellaneous coding style fixes
It fixes various coding style issues, specially when spaces are useless.  For
example '*' go next to the function name.

Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:45 -07:00
Franck Bui-Huu e786e86a54 [PATCH] bootmem: remove useless headers inclusions
Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:45 -07:00
Franck Bui-Huu bb0923a668 [PATCH] bootmem: limit to 80 columns width
Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:45 -07:00
Franck Bui-Huu 71fb2e8f87 [PATCH] bootmem: remove useless parentheses in bootmem header file
Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:45 -07:00
Franck Bui-Huu 2d1a07d487 [PATCH] bootmem: remove useless __init in header file
__init in headers is pretty useless because the compiler doesn't check it, and
they get out of sync relatively frequently.  So if you see an __init in a
header file, it's quite unreliable and you need to check the definition
anyway.

Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:45 -07:00
David S. Miller f034b5d4ef [XFRM]: Dynamic xfrm_state hash table sizing.
The grow algorithm is simple, we grow if:

1) we see a hash chain collision at insert, and
2) we haven't hit the hash size limit (currently 1*1024*1024 slots), and
3) the number of xfrm_state objects is > the current hash mask

All of this needs some tweaking.

Remove __initdata from "hashdist" so we can use it safely at run time.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 15:08:41 -07:00
David Howells 9dec17eb57 [PATCH] FRV: Fix FRV arch compile errors
Fix some FRV arch compile errors, including:

 (*) Marking nr_kernel_pages as __meminitdata so that references to it end up
     being properly calculated rather than being assumed to be in the small
     data section (and thus calculated wrt the GP register).  Not doing this
     causes the linker to emit errors as the offset is too big to fit into the
     load instruction.

 (*) Move pm_power_off into an unconditionally compiled .c file as it's now
     unconditionally accessed.

 (*) Declare frv_change_cmode() in a header file rather than in a .c file, and
     declare it asmlinkage.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-10 13:24:21 -07:00
Yasunori Goto 86356ab147 [PATCH] wait_table and zonelist initializing for memory hotadd: change to meminit for build_zonelist
Change definitions of some functions and data from __init to __meminit.

These functions and data can be used after bootup by this patch to be used for
hot-add codes.

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23 07:42:46 -07:00
Andi Kleen a8062231d8 [PATCH] x86_64: Handle empty PXMs that only contain hotplug memory
The node setup code would try to allocate the node metadata in the node
itself, but that fails if there is no memory in there.

This can happen with memory hotplug when the hotplug area defines an so
far empty node.

Now use bootmem to try to allocate the mem_map in other nodes.

And if it fails don't panic, but just ignore the node.

To make this work I added a new __alloc_bootmem_nopanic function that
does what its name implies.

TBD should try to use nearby nodes here.  Currently we just use any.
It's hard to do it better because bootmem doesn't have proper fallback
lists yet.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-09 11:53:16 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 679bc9fbb5 [PATCH] for_each_online_pgdat: for_each_bootmem
Add a list_head to bootmem_data_t and make bootmems use it.  bootmem list is
sorted by node_boot_start.

Only nodes against which init_bootmem() is called are linked to the list.
(i386 allocates bootmem only from one node(0) not from all online nodes.)

A summary:
 1. for_each_online_pgdat() traverses all *online* nodes.
 2. alloc_bootmem() allocates memory only from initialized-for-bootmem nodes.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27 08:44:47 -08:00
Andi Kleen 267b48014a [PATCH] x86_64: Try to allocate node memmap near the end of node
This fixes problems with very large nodes (over 128GB) filling up all of
the first 4GB with their mem_map and not leaving enough space for the
swiotlb.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 09:10:56 -08:00
Ravikiran G Thirumalai 008857c1a4 [PATCH] Cleanup bootmem allocator and fix alloc_bootmem_low
Patch cleans up the alloc_bootmem fix for swiotlb.  Patch removes
alloc_bootmem_*_limit api and fixes alloc_boot_*low api to do the right
thing -- allocate from low32 memory.

Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:26 -08:00
Yasunori Goto 281dd25cdc [PATCH] swiotlb: make sure initial DMA allocations really are in DMA memory
This introduces a limit parameter to the core bootmem allocator; The new
parameter indicates that physical memory allocated by the bootmem
allocator should be within the requested limit.

We also introduce alloc_bootmem_low_pages_limit, alloc_bootmem_node_limit,
alloc_bootmem_low_pages_node_limit apis, but alloc_bootmem_low_pages_limit
is the only api used for swiotlb.

The existing alloc_bootmem_low_pages() api could instead have been
changed and made to pass right limit to the core allocator.  But that
would make the patch more intrusive for 2.6.14, as other arches use
alloc_bootmem_low_pages().  We may be done that post 2.6.14 as a
cleanup.

With this, swiotlb gets memory within 4G for both x86_64 and ia64
arches.

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-19 23:11:33 -07:00
Vivek Goyal 92aa63a5a1 [PATCH] kdump: Retrieve saved max pfn
This patch retrieves the max_pfn being used by previous kernel and stores it
in a safe location (saved_max_pfn) before it is overwritten due to user
defined memory map.  This pfn is used to make sure that user does not try to
read the physical memory beyond saved_max_pfn.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25 16:24:52 -07:00
Dave Hansen 6f167ec721 [PATCH] sparsemem base: simple NUMA remap space allocator
Introduce a simple allocator for the NUMA remap space.  This space is very
scarce, used for structures which are best allocated node local.

This mechanism is also used on non-NUMA ia64 systems with a vmem_map to keep
the pgdat->node_mem_map initialized in a consistent place for all
architectures.

Issues:
o alloc_remap takes a node_id where we might expect a pgdat which was intended
  to allow us to allocate the pgdat's using this mechanism; which we do not yet
  do.  Could have alloc_remap_node() and alloc_remap_nid() for this purpose.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:01 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00