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Hugh Dickins 664beed019 [PATCH] unpaged: unifdefed PageCompound
It looks like snd_xxx is not the only nopage to be using PageReserved as a way
of holding a high-order page together: which no longer works, but is masked by
our failure to free from VM_RESERVED areas.  We cannot fix that bug without
first substituting another way to hold the high-order page together, while
farming out the 0-order pages from within it.

That's just what PageCompound is designed for, but it's been kept under
CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE.  Remove the #ifdefs: which saves some space (out- of-line
put_page), doesn't slow down what most needs to be fast (already using
hugetlb), and unifies the way we handle high-order pages.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-22 09:13:42 -08:00
Hugh Dickins 83e9b7e929 [PATCH] unpaged: private write VM_RESERVED
The PageReserved removal in 2.6.15-rc1 issued a "deprecated" message when you
tried to mmap or mprotect MAP_PRIVATE PROT_WRITE a VM_RESERVED, and failed
with -EACCES: because do_wp_page lacks the refinement to COW pages in those
areas, nor do we expect to find anonymous pages in them; and it seemed just
bloat to add code for handling such a peculiar case.  But immediately it
caused vbetool and ddcprobe (using lrmi) to fail.

So revert the "deprecated" messages, letting mmap and mprotect succeed.  But
leave do_wp_page's BUG_ON(vma->vm_flags & VM_RESERVED) in place until we've
added the code to do it right: so this particular patch is only good if the
app doesn't really need to write to that private area.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-22 09:13:42 -08:00
Hugh Dickins ed5297a940 [PATCH] unpaged: get_user_pages VM_RESERVED
The PageReserved removal in 2.6.15-rc1 prohibited get_user_pages on the areas
flagged VM_RESERVED in place of PageReserved.  That is correct in theory - we
ought not to interfere with struct pages in such a reserved area; but in
practice it broke BTTV for one.

So revert to prohibiting only on VM_IO: if someone gets into trouble with
get_user_pages on VM_RESERVED, it'll just be a "don't do that".

You can argue that videobuf_mmap_mapper shouldn't set VM_RESERVED in the first
place, but now's not the time for breaking drivers without notice.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-22 09:13:41 -08:00
Kyle McMartin 2161558fa5 Merge branch 'master' 2005-11-18 16:39:20 -05:00
Matthew Wilcox 9ab8851549 [PARISC] Fix compile warning caused by conflicting types of expand_upwards()
Fix compile warning caused by conflicting types of expand_upwards. IA64
requires it to not be static inline, as it's used outside mm/mmap.c

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2005-11-18 16:16:42 -05:00
Hans Reiser 58bb01a9cd [PATCH] re-export clear_page_dirty_for_io()
2.6.14 has this exported, and reiser4 (at least) uses it.  Put things back
the way they were.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir V. Saveliev <vs@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-18 07:49:45 -08:00
Jens Axboe 6b1de9161e [PATCH] VM: fix zone list restart in page allocatate
We must reassign z before looping through the zones kicking kswapd,
since it will be NULL if we hit an OOM condition and jump back to the
beginning again. 'z' is initially assigned before the restart: label. So
move the restart label up a little.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-17 12:43:01 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 4060994c3e Merge x86-64 update from Andi 2005-11-14 19:56:02 -08:00
Andi Kleen 07808b74e7 [PATCH] x86_64: Remove obsolete ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC_UNSIGNED and page_flags_t
Has been introduced for x86-64 at some point to save memory
in struct page, but has been obsolete for some time. Just
remove it.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-14 19:55:14 -08:00
Andi Kleen b0d4169321 [PATCH] x86_64: When cpu_up fails clean up page allocator properly
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-14 19:55:13 -08:00
Andi Kleen a2f1b42490 [PATCH] x86_64: Add 4GB DMA32 zone
Add a new 4GB GFP_DMA32 zone between the GFP_DMA and GFP_NORMAL zones.

As a bit of historical background: when the x86-64 port
was originally designed we had some discussion if we should
use a 16MB DMA zone like i386 or a 4GB DMA zone like IA64 or
both. Both was ruled out at this point because it was in early
2.4 when VM is still quite shakey and had bad troubles even
dealing with one DMA zone.  We settled on the 16MB DMA zone mainly
because we worried about older soundcards and the floppy.

But this has always caused problems since then because
device drivers had trouble getting enough DMA able memory. These days
the VM works much better and the wide use of NUMA has proven
it can deal with many zones successfully.

So this patch adds both zones.

This helps drivers who need a lot of memory below 4GB because
their hardware is not accessing more (graphic drivers - proprietary
and free ones, video frame buffer drivers, sound drivers etc.).
Previously they could only use IOMMU+16MB GFP_DMA, which
was not enough memory.

Another common problem is that hardware who has full memory
addressing for >4GB misses it for some control structures in memory
(like transmit rings or other metadata).  They tended to allocate memory
in the 16MB GFP_DMA or the IOMMU/swiotlb then using pci_alloc_consistent,
but that can tie up a lot of precious 16MB GFPDMA/IOMMU/swiotlb memory
(even on AMD systems the IOMMU tends to be quite small) especially if you have
many devices.  With the new zone pci_alloc_consistent can just put
this stuff into memory below 4GB which works better.

One argument was still if the zone should be 4GB or 2GB. The main
motivation for 2GB would be an unnamed not so unpopular hardware
raid controller (mostly found in older machines from a particular four letter
company) who has a strange 2GB restriction in firmware. But
that one works ok with swiotlb/IOMMU anyways, so it doesn't really
need GFP_DMA32. I chose 4GB to be compatible with IA64 and because
it seems to be the most common restriction.

The new zone is so far added only for x86-64.

For other architectures who don't set up this
new zone nothing changes. Architectures can set a compatibility
define in Kconfig CONFIG_DMA_IS_DMA32 that will define GFP_DMA32
as GFP_DMA. Otherwise it's a nop because on 32bit architectures
it's normally not needed because GFP_NORMAL (=0) is DMA able
enough.

One problem is still that GFP_DMA means different things on different
architectures. e.g. some drivers used to have #ifdef ia64  use GFP_DMA
(trusting it to be 4GB) #elif __x86_64__ (use other hacks like
the swiotlb because 16MB is not enough) ... . This was quite
ugly and is now obsolete.

These should be now converted to use GFP_DMA32 unconditionally. I haven't done
this yet. Or best only use pci_alloc_consistent/dma_alloc_coherent
which will use GFP_DMA32 transparently.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-14 19:55:13 -08:00
Christoph Lameter 50c85a19e7 [PATCH] slab: remove alloc_pages() calls
The slab allocator never uses alloc_pages since kmem_getpages() is always
called with a valid nodeid.  Remove the branch and the code from
kmem_getpages()

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:12 -08:00
Pekka Enberg 065d41cb26 [PATCH] slab: convert cache to page mapping macros
This patch converts object cache <-> page mapping macros to static inline
functions to make the more explicit and readable.

Signed-off-by: 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>
2005-11-13 18:14:12 -08:00
Nick Piggin 669ed17521 [PATCH] mm: highmem watermarks
The pages_high - pages_low and pages_low - pages_min deltas are the asynch
reclaim watermarks.  As such, the should be in the same ratios as any other
zone for highmem zones.  It is the pages_min - 0 delta which is the
PF_MEMALLOC reserve, and this is the region that isn't very useful for
highmem.

This patch ensures highmem systems have similar characteristics as non highmem
ones with the same amount of memory, and also that highmem zones get similar
reclaim pressures to other zones.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:12 -08:00
Rohit Seth 7fb1d9fca5 [PATCH] mm: __alloc_pages cleanup
Clean up of __alloc_pages.

Restoration of previous behaviour, plus further cleanups by introducing an
'alloc_flags', removing the last of should_reclaim_zone.

Signed-off-by: Rohit Seth <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:12 -08:00
Robin Holt 51c6f666fc [PATCH] mm: ZAP_BLOCK causes redundant work
The address based work estimate for unmapping (for lockbreak) is and always
was horribly inefficient for sparse mappings.  The problem is most simply
explained with an example:

If we find a pgd is clear, we still have to call into unmap_page_range
PGDIR_SIZE / ZAP_BLOCK_SIZE times, each time checking the clear pgd, in
order to progress the working address to the next pgd.

The fundamental way to solve the problem is to keep track of the end
address we've processed and pass it back to the higher layers.

From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>

  Modification to completely get away from address based work estimate
  and instead use an abstract count, with a very small cost for empty
  entries as opposed to present pages.

  On 2.6.14-git2, ppc64, and CONFIG_PREEMPT=y, mapping and unmapping 1TB
  of virtual address space takes 1.69s; with the following patch applied,
  this operation can be done 1000 times in less than 0.01s

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

With CONFIG_HUTETLB_PAGE=n:

mm/memory.c: In function `unmap_vmas':
mm/memory.c:779: warning: division by zero

Due to

			zap_work -= (end - start) /
					(HPAGE_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE);

So make the dummy HPAGE_SIZE non-zero

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:12 -08:00
Kirill Korotaev 885036d32f [PATCH] mm: __GFP_NOFAIL fix
In __alloc_pages():

if ((p->flags & (PF_MEMALLOC | PF_MEMDIE)) && !in_interrupt()) {
         /* go through the zonelist yet again, ignoring mins */
         for (i = 0; zones[i] != NULL; i++) {
                 struct zone *z = zones[i];

                 page = buffered_rmqueue(z, order, gfp_mask);
                 if (page) {
                         zone_statistics(zonelist, z);
                         goto got_pg;
                 }
         }
         goto nopage;                <<<< HERE!!! FAIL...
}

kswapd (which has PF_MEMALLOC flag) can fail to allocate memory even when
it allocates it with __GFP_NOFAIL flag.

Signed-Off-By: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@sw.ru>
Signed-Off-By: Denis Lunev <den@sw.ru>
Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:12 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 63f45b8094 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial 2005-11-11 16:29:22 -08:00
Dave Jones 6b482c6779 [PATCH] Don't print per-cpu vm stats for offline cpus.
I just hit a page allocation error on a kernel configured to support
64 CPUs.  It spewed 60 completely useless unnecessary lines of info.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-10 13:25:53 -08:00
Adrian Bunk dc6f3f276e mm/slab.c: fix a comment typo 2005-11-08 16:44:08 +01:00
Adrian Bunk 4936967374 [PATCH] mm/swap_state.c: unexport swapper_space
I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:54:07 -08:00
Adrian Bunk e2de225710 [PATCH] mm/swapfile.c: unexport total_swap_pages
I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:54:07 -08:00
Adrian Bunk 1b09d16489 [PATCH] mm/swap.c: unexport vm_acct_memory
I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:54:07 -08:00
Adrian Bunk f8b8db77b0 [PATCH] unexport nr_swap_pages
I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:54:07 -08:00
Adrian Bunk e6a7e0e7ce [PATCH] unexport clear_page_dirty_for_io
I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:54:06 -08:00
Adrian Bunk 99697dc02d [PATCH] unexport hugetlb_total_pages
I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:54:06 -08:00
Adrian Bunk 55be570c52 [PATCH] mm/{mmap,nommu}.c: several unexports
I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel.

This patch was already ACK'ed by Christoph Hellwig.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:54:06 -08:00
Randy Dunlap d44e0780bc [PATCH] kernel-doc: fix warnings in vmalloc.c
Fix new kernel-doc errors in vmalloc.c.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:56 -08:00
Randy Dunlap 1e5d533142 [PATCH] more kernel-doc cleanups, additions
Various core kernel-doc cleanups:
- add missing function parameters in ipc, irq/manage, kernel/sys,
  kernel/sysctl, and mm/slab;
- move description to just above function for kernel_restart()

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:55 -08:00
Andrew Morton 7361f4d8ca [PATCH] readahead commentary
Add a few comments surrounding the generic readahead API.

Also convert some ulongs into pgoff_t: the identifier for PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
offsets into pagecache.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:37 -08:00
Manfred Spraul cd61ef6268 [PATCH] slab: Use same schedule timeout for all cpus in cache_reap
Chen noticed that cache_reap uses REAPTIMEOUT_CPUC+smp_processor_id() as
the timeout for rescheduling.

The "+smp_processor_id()" part is wrong, the timeout should be identical
for all cpus: start_cpu_timer already adds a cpu dependant offset to avoid
any clustering.

The attached patch removes smp_processor_id().

Signed-Off-By: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:24 -08:00
Pekka J Enberg 2109a2d1b1 [PATCH] mm: rename kmem_cache_s to kmem_cache
This patch renames struct kmem_cache_s to kmem_cache so we can start using
it instead of kmem_cache_t typedef.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:24 -08:00
Andrew Morton 4f12bb4f77 [PATCH] slab: don't BUG on duplicated cache
slab presently goes BUG if someone tries to register an already-registered
cache.

But this can happen if the user accidentally loads a module which is already
statically linked into the kernel.  Nuking the kernel is rather a harsh
reaction.

Change it into a warning, and just fail the kmem_cache_alloc() attempt.  If
the module is well-behaved, the modprobe will fail and all is well.

Notes:

- Swaps the ranking of cache_chain_sem and lock_cpu_hotplug().  Doesn't seem
  important.

Acked-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:24 -08:00
Hugh Dickins 2d4b95f060 [PATCH] Suppress split ptlock on arches which may use one page for multiple page tables
Suppress split ptlock on arches which may use one page for multiple page
tables.  Reconsider what better to do (particularly on ppc64) later on.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:23 -08:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 3c726f8dee [PATCH] ppc64: support 64k pages
Adds a new CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES which, when enabled, changes the kernel
base page size to 64K.  The resulting kernel still boots on any
hardware.  On current machines with 4K pages support only, the kernel
will maintain 16 "subpages" for each 64K page transparently.

Note that while real 64K capable HW has been tested, the current patch
will not enable it yet as such hardware is not released yet, and I'm
still verifying with the firmware architects the proper to get the
information from the newer hypervisors.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-06 16:56:47 -08:00
Steve French 7f28570185 Export __pagevec_release and pagevec_lookup_tag
These are needed to implement cifs_writepages

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2005-11-01 10:22:55 -08:00
Matt Mackall 5d57bd39eb [PATCH] Error checks omitted in init_tmpfs() in mm/tiny-shmem.c
From: Hareesh Nagarajan <hnagar2@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Hareesh Nagarajan <hnagar2@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:27 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney a241ec65ae [PATCH] RCU torture-testing kernel module
This patch is a rewrite of the one submitted on October 1st, using modules
(http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112819093522998&w=2).

This rewrite adds a tristate CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST, which enables an
intense torture test of the RCU infratructure.  This is needed due to the
continued changes to the RCU infrastructure to accommodate dynamic ticks,
CPU hotplug, realtime, and so on.  Most of the code is in a separate file
that is compiled only if the CONFIG variable is set.  Documentation on how
to run the test and interpret the output is also included.

This code has been tested on i386 and ppc64, and an earlier version of the
code has received extensive testing on a number of architectures as part of
the PREEMPT_RT patchset.

Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:27 -08:00
Tejun Heo c7e9dd4dd0 [PATCH] vm: remove redundant assignment from __pagevec_release_nonlru()
This patch removes redundant assignment from __pagevec_release_nonlru().
pages_to_free.cold is set to pvec->cold by pagevec_init() call right above
the assignment.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:22 -08:00
Tejun Heo 39e88ca2c9 [PATCH] fs: error case fix in __generic_file_aio_read
When __generic_file_aio_read() hits an error during reading, it reports the
error iff nothing has successfully been read yet.  This is condition - when
an error occurs, if nothing has been read/written, report the error code;
otherwise, report the amount of bytes successfully transferred upto that
point.

This corner case can be exposed by performing readv(2) with the following
iov.

 iov[0] = len0 @ ptr0
 iov[1] = len1 @ NULL (or any other invalid pointer)
 iov[2] = len2 @ ptr2

When file size is enough, performing above readv(2) results in

 len0 bytes from file_pos @ ptr0
 len2 bytes from file_pos + len0 @ ptr2

And the return value is len0 + len2.  Test program is attached to this
mail.

This patch makes __generic_file_aio_read()'s error handling identical to
other functions.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/uio.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	const char *path;
	struct stat stbuf;
	size_t len0, len1;
	void *buf0, *buf1;
	struct iovec iov[3];
	int fd, i;
	ssize_t ret;

	if (argc < 2) {
		fprintf(stderr, "Usage: testreadv path (better be a "
			"small text file)\n");
		return 1;
	}
	path = argv[1];

	if (stat(path, &stbuf) < 0) {
		perror("stat");
		return 1;
	}

	len0 = stbuf.st_size / 2;
	len1 = stbuf.st_size - len0;

	if (!len0 || !len1) {
		fprintf(stderr, "Dude, file is too small\n");
		return 1;
	}

	if ((fd = open(path, O_RDONLY)) < 0) {
		perror("open");
		return 1;
	}

	if (!(buf0 = malloc(len0)) || !(buf1 = malloc(len1))) {
		perror("malloc");
		return 1;
	}

	memset(buf0, 0, len0);
	memset(buf1, 0, len1);

	iov[0].iov_base = buf0;
	iov[0].iov_len = len0;
	iov[1].iov_base = NULL;
	iov[1].iov_len = len1;
	iov[2].iov_base = buf1;
	iov[2].iov_len = len1;

	printf("vector ");
	for (i = 0; i < 3; i++)
		printf("%p:%zu ", iov[i].iov_base, iov[i].iov_len);
	printf("\n");

	ret = readv(fd, iov, 3);
	if (ret < 0)
		perror("readv");

	printf("readv returned %zd\nbuf0 = [%s]\nbuf1 = [%s]\n",
	       ret, (char *)buf0, (char *)buf1);

	return 0;
}

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:22 -08:00
Paul Jackson 68860ec10b [PATCH] cpusets: automatic numa mempolicy rebinding
This patch automatically updates a tasks NUMA mempolicy when its cpuset
memory placement changes.  It does so within the context of the task,
without any need to support low level external mempolicy manipulation.

If a system is not using cpusets, or if running on a system with just the
root (all-encompassing) cpuset, then this remap is a no-op.  Only when a
task is moved between cpusets, or a cpusets memory placement is changed
does the following apply.  Otherwise, the main routine below,
rebind_policy() is not even called.

When mixing cpusets, scheduler affinity, and NUMA mempolicies, the
essential role of cpusets is to place jobs (several related tasks) on a set
of CPUs and Memory Nodes, the essential role of sched_setaffinity is to
manage a jobs processor placement within its allowed cpuset, and the
essential role of NUMA mempolicy (mbind, set_mempolicy) is to manage a jobs
memory placement within its allowed cpuset.

However, CPU affinity and NUMA memory placement are managed within the
kernel using absolute system wide numbering, not cpuset relative numbering.

This is ok until a job is migrated to a different cpuset, or what's the
same, a jobs cpuset is moved to different CPUs and Memory Nodes.

Then the CPU affinity and NUMA memory placement of the tasks in the job
need to be updated, to preserve their cpuset-relative position.  This can
be done for CPU affinity using sched_setaffinity() from user code, as one
task can modify anothers CPU affinity.  This cannot be done from an
external task for NUMA memory placement, as that can only be modified in
the context of the task using it.

However, it easy enough to remap a tasks NUMA mempolicy automatically when
a task is migrated, using the existing cpuset mechanism to trigger a
refresh of a tasks memory placement after its cpuset has changed.  All that
is needed is the old and new nodemask, and notice to the task that it needs
to rebind its mempolicy.  The tasks mems_allowed has the old mask, the
tasks cpuset has the new mask, and the existing
cpuset_update_current_mems_allowed() mechanism provides the notice.  The
bitmap/cpumask/nodemask remap operators provide the cpuset relative
calculations.

This patch leaves open a couple of issues:

 1) Updating vma and shmfs/tmpfs/hugetlbfs memory policies:

    These mempolicies may reference nodes outside of those allowed to
    the current task by its cpuset.  Tasks are migrated as part of jobs,
    which reside on what might be several cpusets in a subtree.  When such
    a job is migrated, all NUMA memory policy references to nodes within
    that cpuset subtree should be translated, and references to any nodes
    outside that subtree should be left untouched.  A future patch will
    provide the cpuset mechanism needed to mark such subtrees.  With that
    patch, we will be able to correctly migrate these other memory policies
    across a job migration.

 2) Updating cpuset, affinity and memory policies in user space:

    This is harder.  Any placement state stored in user space using
    system-wide numbering will be invalidated across a migration.  More
    work will be required to provide user code with a migration-safe means
    to manage its cpuset relative placement, while preserving the current
    API's that pass system wide numbers, not cpuset relative numbers across
    the kernel-user boundary.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:22 -08:00
Paul Jackson 28a42b9ea7 [PATCH] cpusets: confine pdflush to its cpuset
This patch keeps pdflush daemons on the same cpuset as their parent, the
kthread daemon.

Some large NUMA configurations put as much as they can of kernel threads
and other classic Unix load in what's called a bootcpuset, keeping the rest
of the system free for dedicated jobs.

This effort is thwarted by pdflush, which dynamically destroys and
recreates pdflush daemons depending on load.

It's easy enough to force the originally created pdflush deamons into the
bootcpuset, at system boottime.  But the pdflush threads created later were
allowed to run freely across the system, due to the necessary line in their
startup kthread():

        set_cpus_allowed(current, CPU_MASK_ALL);

By simply coding pdflush to start its threads with the cpus_allowed
restrictions of its cpuset (inherited from kthread, its parent) we can
ensure that dynamically created pdflush threads are also kept in the
bootcpuset.

On systems w/o cpusets, or w/o a bootcpuset implementation, the following
will have no affect, leaving pdflush to run on any CPU, as before.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:21 -08:00
Jan Kara aaa4059bc2 [PATCH] ext3: Fix unmapped buffers in transaction's lists
Fix the problem (BUG 4964) with unmapped buffers in transaction's
t_sync_data list.  The problem is we need to call filesystem's own
invalidatepage() from block_write_full_page().

block_write_full_page() must call filesystem's invalidatepage().  Otherwise
following nasty race can happen:

   proc 1                                        proc 2
   ------                                        ------
- write some new data to 'offset'
  => bh gets to the transactions data list
                                              - starts truncate
                                                => i_size set to new size
- mpage_writepages()
  - ext3_ordered_writepage() to 'offset'
    - block_write_full_page()
      - page->index > end_index+1
        - block_invalidatepage()
          - discard_buffer()
            - clear_buffer_mapped()

- commit triggers and finds unmapped buffer - BOOM!

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:17 -08:00
Nikita Danilov b1459461f1 [PATCH] mm/filemap.c:filemap_populate(): move export.
move EXPORT_SYMBOL(filemap_populate) to the proper place: just after
function itself: it's easy to miss that function is exported otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:45 -07:00
John Hawkes 2f96996de0 [PATCH] mm: wider use of for_each_*cpu()
In 'mm' change the explicit use of a for-loop using NR_CPUS into the
general for_each_cpu() constructs.  This widens the scope of potential
future optimizations of the general constructs, as well as takes advantage
of the existing optimizations of first_cpu() and next_cpu(), which is
advantageous when the true CPU count is much smaller than NR_CPUS.

Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:45 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 5fcbb23050 [PATCH] Remove policy contextualization from mbind
Policy contextualization is only useful for task based policies and not for
vma based policies.  It may be useful to define allowed nodes that are not
accessible from this thread because other threads may have access to these
nodes.  Without this patch strange memory policy situations may cause an
application to fail with out of memory.

Example:

Let's say we have two threads A and B that share the same address space and
a huge array computational array X.

Thread A is restricted by its cpuset to nodes 0 and 1 and thread B is
restricted by its cpuset to nodes 2 and 3.

Thread A now wants to restrict allocations to the first node and thus
applies a BIND policy on X to node 0 and 2.  The cpuset limits this to node
0.  Thus pages for X must be allocated on node 0 now.

Thread B now touches a page that has never been used in X and faults in a
page.  According to the BIND policy of the vma for X the page must be
allocated on page 0.  However, the cpuset of B does not allow allocation on
0 and 1.  Now the application fails in alloc_pages with out of memory.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:45 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 8bccd85ffb [PATCH] Implement sys_* do_* layering in the memory policy layer.
- Do a separation between do_xxx and sys_xxx functions. sys_xxx functions
  take variable sized bitmaps from user space as arguments. do_xxx functions
  take fixed sized nodemask_t as arguments and may be used from inside the
  kernel. Doing so simplifies the initialization code. There is no
  fs = kernel_ds assumption anymore.

- Split up get_nodes into get_nodes (which gets the node list) and
  contextualize_policy which restricts the nodes to those accessible
  to the task and updates cpusets.

- Add comments explaining limitations of bind policy

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:45 -07:00
Dave Hansen 61b13993a8 [PATCH] memory hotplug: call setup_per_zone_pages_min after hotplug
From: IWAMOTO Toshihiro <iwamoto@valinux.co.jp>
> I found the tests does not work well with Dave's patchset.
> I've found the followings:
>
> 	- setup_per_zone_pages_min() calls should be added in
> 	   capture_page_range() and online_pages()
> 	- lru_add_drain() should be called before try_to_migrate_pages()

The following patch deals with the first item.

Signed-off-by: IWAMOTO Toshihiro <iwamoto@valinux.co.jp>
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>
2005-10-29 21:40:44 -07:00
Dave Hansen 0b0acbec1b [PATCH] memory hotplug: move section_mem_map alloc to sparse.c
This basically keeps up from having to extern __kmalloc_section_memmap().

The vaddr_in_vmalloc_area() helper could go in a vmalloc header, but that
header gets hard to work with, because it needs some arch-specific macros.
Just stick it in here for now, instead of creating another header.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Lion Vollnhals <webmaster@schiggl.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
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>
2005-10-29 21:40:44 -07:00
Dave Hansen 3947be1969 [PATCH] memory hotplug: sysfs and add/remove functions
This adds generic memory add/remove and supporting functions for memory
hotplug into a new file as well as a memory hotplug kernel config option.

Individual architecture patches will follow.

For now, disable memory hotplug when swsusp is enabled.  There's a lot of
churn there right now.  We'll fix it up properly once it calms down.

Signed-off-by: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
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>
2005-10-29 21:40:44 -07:00
Dave Hansen bdc8cb9845 [PATCH] memory hotplug locking: zone span seqlock
See the "fixup bad_range()" patch for more information, but this actually
creates a the lock to protect things making assumptions about a zone's size
staying constant at runtime.

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>
2005-10-29 21:40:44 -07:00
Dave Hansen 208d54e551 [PATCH] memory hotplug locking: node_size_lock
pgdat->node_size_lock is basically only neeeded in one place in the normal
code: show_mem(), which is the arch-specific sysrq-m printing function.

Strictly speaking, the architectures not doing memory hotplug do no need this
locking in show_mem().  However, they are all included for completeness.  This
should also make any future consolidation of all of the implementations a
little more straightforward.

This lock is also held in the sparsemem code during a memory removal, as
sections are invalidated.  This is the place there pfn_valid() is made false
for a memory area that's being removed.  The lock is only required when doing
pfn_valid() operations on memory which the user does not already have a
reference on the page, such as in show_mem().

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>
2005-10-29 21:40:44 -07:00
Dave Hansen c6a57e19e4 [PATCH] memory hotplug prep: fixup bad_range()
When doing memory hotplug operations, the size of existing zones can obviously
change.  This means that zone->zone_{start_pfn,spanned_pages} can change.

There are currently no locks that protect these structure members.  However,
they are rarely accessed at runtime.  Outside of swsusp, the only place that I
can find is bad_range().

So, split bad_range() up into two pieces: one that needs to be locked and
anther that doesn't.

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>
2005-10-29 21:40:44 -07:00
Dave Hansen 4ca644d970 [PATCH] memory hotplug prep: __section_nr helper
A little helper that we use in the hotplug code.

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>
2005-10-29 21:40:44 -07:00
Dave Hansen ed8ece2ec8 [PATCH] memory hotplug prep: break out zone initialization
If a zone is empty at boot-time and then hot-added to later, it needs to run
the same init code that would have been run on it at boot.

This patch breaks out zone table and per-cpu-pages functions for use by the
hotplug code.  You can almost see all of the free_area_init_core() function on
one page now.  :)

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>
2005-10-29 21:40:44 -07:00
Andrea Arcangeli 1a44e14908 [PATCH] .text page fault SMP scalability optimization
We had a problem on ppc64 where with more than 4 threads a large system
wouldn't scale well while faulting in the .text (most of the time was spent
in the kernel despite it was an userland compute intensive app).  The
reason is the useless overwrite of the same pte from all cpu.

I fixed it this way (verified on an older kernel but the forward port is
almost identical).  This will benefit all archs not just ppc64.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:43 -07:00
Adam Litke 4c88726597 [PATCH] hugetlb: demand fault handler
Below is a patch to implement demand faulting for huge pages.  The main
motivation for changing from prefaulting to demand faulting is so that huge
page memory areas can be allocated according to NUMA policy.

Thanks to consolidated hugetlb code, switching the behavior requires changing
only one fault handler.  The bulk of the patch just moves the logic from
hugelb_prefault() to hugetlb_pte_fault() and find_get_huge_page().

Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:43 -07:00
Hugh Dickins b8072f099b [PATCH] mm: update comments to pte lock
Updated several references to page_table_lock in common code comments.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
Hugh Dickins f412ac08c9 [PATCH] mm: fix rss and mmlist locking
A couple of oddities were guarded by page_table_lock, no longer properly
guarded when that is split.

The mm_counters of file_rss and anon_rss: make those an atomic_t, or an
atomic64_t if the architecture supports it, in such a case.  Definitions by
courtesy of Christoph Lameter: who spent considerable effort on more scalable
ways of counting, but found insufficient benefit in practice.

And adding an mm with swap to the mmlist for swapoff: the list is well-
guarded by its own lock, but the list_empty check now has to be repeated
inside it.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 4c21e2f244 [PATCH] mm: split page table lock
Christoph Lameter demonstrated very poor scalability on the SGI 512-way, with
a many-threaded application which concurrently initializes different parts of
a large anonymous area.

This patch corrects that, by using a separate spinlock per page table page, to
guard the page table entries in that page, instead of using the mm's single
page_table_lock.  (But even then, page_table_lock is still used to guard page
table allocation, and anon_vma allocation.)

In this implementation, the spinlock is tucked inside the struct page of the
page table page: with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case it overflows - which it would in
the case of 32-bit PA-RISC with spinlock debugging enabled.

Splitting the lock is not quite for free: another cacheline access.  Ideally,
I suppose we would use split ptlock only for multi-threaded processes on
multi-cpu machines; but deciding that dynamically would have its own costs.
So for now enable it by config, at some number of cpus - since the Kconfig
language doesn't support inequalities, let preprocessor compare that with
NR_CPUS.  But I don't think it's worth being user-configurable: for good
testing of both split and unsplit configs, split now at 4 cpus, and perhaps
change that to 8 later.

There is a benefit even for singly threaded processes: kswapd can be attacking
one part of the mm while another part is busy faulting.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
Hugh Dickins deceb6cd17 [PATCH] mm: follow_page with inner ptlock
Final step in pushing down common core's page_table_lock.  follow_page no
longer wants caller to hold page_table_lock, uses pte_offset_map_lock itself;
and so no page_table_lock is taken in get_user_pages itself.

But get_user_pages (and get_futex_key) do then need follow_page to pin the
page for them: take Daniel's suggestion of bitflags to follow_page.

Need one for WRITE, another for TOUCH (it was the accessed flag before:
vanished along with check_user_page_readable, but surely get_numa_maps is
wrong to mark every page it finds as accessed), another for GET.

And another, ANON to dispose of untouched_anonymous_page: it seems silly for
that to descend a second time, let follow_page observe if there was no page
table and return ZERO_PAGE if so.  Fix minor bug in that: check VM_LOCKED -
make_pages_present ought to make readonly anonymous present.

Give get_numa_maps a cond_resched while we're there.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:41 -07:00
Hugh Dickins c34d1b4d16 [PATCH] mm: kill check_user_page_readable
check_user_page_readable is a problematic variant of follow_page.  It's used
only by oprofile's i386 and arm backtrace code, at interrupt time, to
establish whether a userspace stackframe is currently readable.

This is problematic, because we want to push the page_table_lock down inside
follow_page, and later split it; whereas oprofile is doing a spin_trylock on
it (in the i386 case, forgotten in the arm case), and needs that to pin
perhaps two pages spanned by the stackframe (which might be covered by
different locks when we split).

I think oprofile is going about this in the wrong way: it doesn't need to know
the area is readable (neither i386 nor arm uses read protection of user
pages), it doesn't need to pin the memory, it should simply
__copy_from_user_inatomic, and see if that succeeds or not.  Sorry, but I've
not got around to devising the sparse __user annotations for this.

Then we can eliminate check_user_page_readable, and return to a single
follow_page without the __follow_page variants.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:41 -07:00
Hugh Dickins c0718806cf [PATCH] mm: rmap with inner ptlock
rmap's page_check_address descend without page_table_lock.  First just
pte_offset_map in case there's no pte present worth locking for, then take
page_table_lock for the full check, and pass ptl back to caller in the same
style as pte_offset_map_lock.  __xip_unmap, page_referenced_one and
try_to_unmap_one use pte_unmap_unlock.  try_to_unmap_cluster also.

page_check_address reformatted to avoid progressive indentation.  No use is
made of its one error code, return NULL when it fails.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:41 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 67b02f119d [PATCH] mm: xip_unmap ZERO_PAGE fix
Small fix to the PageReserved patch: the mips ZERO_PAGE(address) depends on
address, so __xip_unmap is wrong to initialize page with that before address
is initialized; and in fact must re-evaluate it each iteration.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:41 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 508034a32b [PATCH] mm: unmap_vmas with inner ptlock
Remove the page_table_lock from around the calls to unmap_vmas, and replace
the pte_offset_map in zap_pte_range by pte_offset_map_lock: all callers are
now safe to descend without page_table_lock.

Don't attempt fancy locking for hugepages, just take page_table_lock in
unmap_hugepage_range.  Which makes zap_hugepage_range, and the hugetlb test in
zap_page_range, redundant: unmap_vmas calls unmap_hugepage_range anyway.  Nor
does unmap_vmas have much use for its mm arg now.

The tlb_start_vma and tlb_end_vma in unmap_page_range are now called without
page_table_lock: if they're implemented at all, they typically come down to
flush_cache_range (usually done outside page_table_lock) and flush_tlb_range
(which we already audited for the mprotect case).

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:41 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 8f4f8c164c [PATCH] mm: unlink vma before pagetables
In most places the descent from pgd to pud to pmd to pte holds mmap_sem
(exclusively or not), which ensures that free_pgtables cannot be freeing page
tables from any level at the same time.  But truncation and reverse mapping
descend without mmap_sem.

No problem: just make sure that a vma is unlinked from its prio_tree (or
nonlinear list) and from its anon_vma list, after zapping the vma, but before
freeing its page tables.  Then neither vmtruncate nor rmap can reach that vma
whose page tables are now volatile (nor do they need to reach it, since all
its page entries have been zapped by this stage).

The i_mmap_lock and anon_vma->lock already serialize this correctly; but the
locking hierarchy is such that we cannot take them while holding
page_table_lock.  Well, we're trying to push that down anyway.  So in this
patch, move anon_vma_unlink and unlink_file_vma into free_pgtables, at the
same time as moving page_table_lock around calls to unmap_vmas.

tlb_gather_mmu and tlb_finish_mmu then fall outside the page_table_lock, but
we made them preempt_disable and preempt_enable earlier; and a long source
audit of all the architectures has shown no problem with removing
page_table_lock from them.  free_pgtables doesn't need page_table_lock for
itself, nor for what it calls; tlb->mm->nr_ptes is usually protected by
page_table_lock, but partly by non-exclusive mmap_sem - here it's decremented
with exclusive mmap_sem, or mm_users 0.  update_hiwater_rss and
vm_unacct_memory don't need page_table_lock either.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:40 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 705e87c0c3 [PATCH] mm: pte_offset_map_lock loops
Convert those common loops using page_table_lock on the outside and
pte_offset_map within to use just pte_offset_map_lock within instead.

These all hold mmap_sem (some exclusively, some not), so at no level can a
page table be whipped away from beneath them.  But whereas pte_alloc loops
tested with the "atomic" pmd_present, these loops are testing with pmd_none,
which on i386 PAE tests both lower and upper halves.

That's now unsafe, so add a cast into pmd_none to test only the vital lower
half: we lose a little sensitivity to a corrupt middle directory, but not
enough to worry about.  It appears that i386 and UML were the only
architectures vulnerable in this way, and pgd and pud no problem.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:40 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 8f4e2101fd [PATCH] mm: page fault handler locking
On the page fault path, the patch before last pushed acquiring the
page_table_lock down to the head of handle_pte_fault (though it's also taken
and dropped earlier when a new page table has to be allocated).

Now delete that line, read "entry = *pte" without it, and go off to this or
that page fault handler on the basis of this unlocked peek.  Usually the
handler can proceed without the lock, relying on the subsequent locked
pte_same or pte_none test to back out when necessary; though do_wp_page needs
the lock immediately, and do_file_page doesn't check (if there's a race,
install_page just zaps the entry and reinstalls it).

But on those architectures (notably i386 with PAE) whose pte is too big to be
read atomically, if SMP or preemption is enabled, do_swap_page and
do_file_page might cause irretrievable damage if passed a Frankenstein entry
stitched together from unrelated parts.  In those configs, "pte_unmap_same"
has to take page_table_lock, validate orig_pte still the same, and drop
page_table_lock before unmapping, before proceeding.

Use pte_offset_map_lock and pte_unmap_unlock throughout the handlers; but lock
avoidance leaves more lone maps and unmaps than elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:40 -07:00
Hugh Dickins c74df32c72 [PATCH] mm: ptd_alloc take ptlock
Second step in pushing down the page_table_lock.  Remove the temporary
bridging hack from __pud_alloc, __pmd_alloc, __pte_alloc: expect callers not
to hold page_table_lock, whether it's on init_mm or a user mm; take
page_table_lock internally to check if a racing task already allocated.

Convert their callers from common code.  But avoid coming back to change them
again later: instead of moving the spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock) down,
switch over to new macros pte_alloc_map_lock and pte_unmap_unlock, which
encapsulate the mapping+locking and unlocking+unmapping together, and in the
end may use alternatives to the mm page_table_lock itself.

These callers all hold mmap_sem (some exclusively, some not), so at no level
can a page table be whipped away from beneath them; and pte_alloc uses the
"atomic" pmd_present to test whether it needs to allocate.  It appears that on
all arches we can safely descend without page_table_lock.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:40 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 1bb3630e89 [PATCH] mm: ptd_alloc inline and out
It seems odd to me that, whereas pud_alloc and pmd_alloc test inline, only
calling out-of-line __pud_alloc __pmd_alloc if allocation needed,
pte_alloc_map and pte_alloc_kernel are entirely out-of-line.  Though it does
add a little to kernel size, change them to macros testing inline, calling
__pte_alloc or __pte_alloc_kernel to allocate out-of-line.  Mark none of them
as fastcalls, leave that to CONFIG_REGPARM or not.

It also seems more natural for the out-of-line functions to leave the offset
calculation and map to the inline, which has to do it anyway for the common
case.  At least mremap move wants __pte_alloc without _map.

Macros rather than inline functions, certainly to avoid the header file issues
which arise from CONFIG_HIGHPTE needing kmap_types.h, but also in case any
architectures I haven't built would have other such problems.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:40 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 872fec16d9 [PATCH] mm: init_mm without ptlock
First step in pushing down the page_table_lock.  init_mm.page_table_lock has
been used throughout the architectures (usually for ioremap): not to serialize
kernel address space allocation (that's usually vmlist_lock), but because
pud_alloc,pmd_alloc,pte_alloc_kernel expect caller holds it.

Reverse that: don't lock or unlock init_mm.page_table_lock in any of the
architectures; instead rely on pud_alloc,pmd_alloc,pte_alloc_kernel to take
and drop it when allocating a new one, to check lest a racing task already
did.  Similarly no page_table_lock in vmalloc's map_vm_area.

Some temporary ugliness in __pud_alloc and __pmd_alloc: since they also handle
user mms, which are converted only by a later patch, for now they have to lock
differently according to whether or not it's init_mm.

If sources get muddled, there's a danger that an arch source taking
init_mm.page_table_lock will be mixed with common source also taking it (or
neither take it).  So break the rules and make another change, which should
break the build for such a mismatch: remove the redundant mm arg from
pte_alloc_kernel (ppc64 scrapped its distinct ioremap_mm in 2.6.13).

Exceptions: arm26 used pte_alloc_kernel on user mm, now pte_alloc_map; ia64
used pte_alloc_map on init_mm, now pte_alloc_kernel; parisc had bad args to
pmd_alloc and pte_alloc_kernel in unused USE_HPPA_IOREMAP code; ppc64
map_io_page forgot to unlock on failure; ppc mmu_mapin_ram and ppc64 im_free
took page_table_lock for no good reason.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:40 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 46dea3d092 [PATCH] mm: ia64 use expand_upwards
ia64 has expand_backing_store function for growing its Register Backing Store
vma upwards.  But more complete code for this purpose is found in the
CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP part of mm/mmap.c.  Uglify its #ifdefs further to provide
expand_upwards for ia64 as well as expand_stack for parisc.

The Register Backing Store vma should be marked VM_ACCOUNT.  Implement the
intention of growing it only a page at a time, instead of passing an address
outside of the vma to handle_mm_fault, with unknown consequences.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:39 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 365e9c87a9 [PATCH] mm: update_hiwaters just in time
update_mem_hiwater has attracted various criticisms, in particular from those
concerned with mm scalability.  Originally it was called whenever rss or
total_vm got raised.  Then many of those callsites were replaced by a timer
tick call from account_system_time.  Now Frank van Maarseveen reports that to
be found inadequate.  How about this?  Works for Frank.

Replace update_mem_hiwater, a poor combination of two unrelated ops, by macros
update_hiwater_rss and update_hiwater_vm.  Don't attempt to keep
mm->hiwater_rss up to date at timer tick, nor every time we raise rss (usually
by 1): those are hot paths.  Do the opposite, update only when about to lower
rss (usually by many), or just before final accounting in do_exit.  Handle
mm->hiwater_vm in the same way, though it's much less of an issue.  Demand
that whoever collects these hiwater statistics do the work of taking the
maximum with rss or total_vm.

And there has been no collector of these hiwater statistics in the tree.  The
new convention needs an example, so match Frank's usage by adding a VmPeak
line above VmSize to /proc/<pid>/status, and also a VmHWM line above VmRSS
(High-Water-Mark or High-Water-Memory).

There was a particular anomaly during mremap move, that hiwater_vm might be
captured too high.  A fleeting such anomaly remains, but it's quickly
corrected now, whereas before it would stick.

What locking?  None: if the app is racy then these statistics will be racy,
it's not worth any overhead to make them exact.  But whenever it suits,
hiwater_vm is updated under exclusive mmap_sem, and hiwater_rss under
page_table_lock (for now) or with preemption disabled (later on): without
going to any trouble, minimize the time between reading current values and
updating, to minimize those occasions when a racing thread bumps a count up
and back down in between.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:39 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 861f2fb8e7 [PATCH] mm: zap_pte out of line
There used to be just one call to zap_pte, but it shouldn't be inline now
there are two.  Check for the common case pte_none before calling, and move
its rss accounting up into install_page or install_file_pte - which helps the
next patch.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:39 -07:00
Hugh Dickins d0de32d9b7 [PATCH] mm: do_mremap current mm
Cleanup: relieve do_mremap from its surfeit of current->mms.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:39 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 9e9bef07ce [PATCH] mm: do_swap_page race major
Small adjustment: do_swap_page should report its !pte_same race as a major
fault if it had to read into swap cache, because whatever raced with it will
have found page already in cache and reported minor fault.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:39 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 86d912f41d [PATCH] mm: zap_pte_range dec rss
Small adjustment: zap_pte_range decrement its rss counts from 0 then finally
add, avoiding negations - we don't have or need a sub_mm_rss.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:39 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 8c10376271 [PATCH] mm: copy_one_pte inc rss
Small adjustment, following Nick's suggestion: it's more straightforward for
copy_pte_range to let copy_one_pte do the rss incrementation, than use an
index it passed back.  Saves a #define, and 16 bytes of .text.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:39 -07:00
Nick Piggin b5810039a5 [PATCH] core remove PageReserved
Remove PageReserved() calls from core code by tightening VM_RESERVED
handling in mm/ to cover PageReserved functionality.

PageReserved special casing is removed from get_page and put_page.

All setting and clearing of PageReserved is retained, and it is now flagged
in the page_alloc checks to help ensure we don't introduce any refcount
based freeing of Reserved pages.

MAP_PRIVATE, PROT_WRITE of VM_RESERVED regions is tentatively being
deprecated.  We never completely handled it correctly anyway, and is be
reintroduced in future if required (Hugh has a proof of concept).

Once PageReserved() calls are removed from kernel/power/swsusp.c, and all
arch/ and driver code, the Set and Clear calls, and the PG_reserved bit can
be trivially removed.

Last real user of PageReserved is swsusp, which uses PageReserved to
determine whether a struct page points to valid memory or not.  This still
needs to be addressed (a generic page_is_ram() should work).

A last caveat: the ZERO_PAGE is now refcounted and managed with rmap (and
thus mapcounted and count towards shared rss).  These writes to the struct
page could cause excessive cacheline bouncing on big systems.  There are a
number of ways this could be addressed if it is an issue.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>

Refcount bug fix for filemap_xip.c

Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:39 -07:00
Hugh Dickins ae85976233 [PATCH] mm: batch updating mm_counters
tlb_finish_mmu used to batch zap_pte_range's update of mm rss, which may be
worthwhile if the mm is contended, and would reduce atomic operations if the
counts were atomic.  Let zap_pte_range now batch its updates to file_rss and
anon_rss, per page-table in case we drop the lock outside; and copy_pte_range
batch them too.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:38 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 4294621f41 [PATCH] mm: rss = file_rss + anon_rss
I was lazy when we added anon_rss, and chose to change as few places as
possible.  So currently each anonymous page has to be counted twice, in rss
and in anon_rss.  Which won't be so good if those are atomic counts in some
configurations.

Change that around: keep file_rss and anon_rss separately, and add them
together (with get_mm_rss macro) when the total is needed - reading two
atomics is much cheaper than updating two atomics.  And update anon_rss
upfront, typically in memory.c, not tucked away in page_add_anon_rmap.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:38 -07:00
Hugh Dickins fc2acab31b [PATCH] mm: tlb_finish_mmu forget rss
zap_pte_range has been counting the pages it frees in tlb->freed, then
tlb_finish_mmu has used that to update the mm's rss.  That got stranger when I
added anon_rss, yet updated it by a different route; and stranger when rss and
anon_rss became mm_counters with special access macros.  And it would no
longer be viable if we're relying on page_table_lock to stabilize the
mm_counter, but calling tlb_finish_mmu outside that lock.

Remove the mmu_gather's freed field, let tlb_finish_mmu stick to its own
business, just decrement the rss mm_counter in zap_pte_range (yes, there was
some point to batching the update, and a subsequent patch restores that).  And
forget the anal paranoia of first reading the counter to avoid going negative
- if rss does go negative, just fix that bug.

Remove the mmu_gather's flushes and avoided_flushes from arm and arm26: no use
was being made of them.  But arm26 alone was actually using the freed, in the
way some others use need_flush: give it a need_flush.  arm26 seems to prefer
spaces to tabs here: respect that.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:37 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 4d6ddfa924 [PATCH] mm: tlb_is_full_mm was obscure
tlb_is_full_mm?  What does that mean?  The TLB is full?  No, it means that the
mm's last user has gone and the whole mm is being torn down.  And it's an
inline function because sparc64 uses a different (slightly better)
"tlb_frozen" name for the flag others call "fullmm".

And now the ptep_get_and_clear_full macro used in zap_pte_range refers
directly to tlb->fullmm, which would be wrong for sparc64.  Rather than
correct that, I'd prefer to scrap tlb_is_full_mm altogether, and change
sparc64 to just use the same poor name as everyone else - is that okay?

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:37 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 7be7a54699 [PATCH] mm: move_page_tables by extents
Speeding up mremap's moving of ptes has never been a priority, but the locking
will get more complicated shortly, and is already too baroque.

Scrap the current one-by-one moving, do an extent at a time: curtailed by end
of src and dst pmds (have to use PMD_SIZE: the way pmd_addr_end gets elided
doesn't match this usage), and by latency considerations.

One nice property of the old method is lost: it never allocated a page table
unless absolutely necessary, so you could free empty page tables by mremapping
to and fro.  Whereas this way, it allocates a dst table wherever there was a
src table.  I keep diving in to reinstate the old behaviour, then come out
preferring not to clutter how it now is.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:37 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 65500d234e [PATCH] mm: page fault handlers tidyup
Impose a little more consistency on the page fault handlers do_wp_page,
do_swap_page, do_anonymous_page, do_no_page, do_file_page: why not pass their
arguments in the same order, called the same names?

break_cow is all very well, but what it did was inlined elsewhere: easier to
compare if it's brought back into do_wp_page.

do_file_page's fallback to do_no_page dates from a time when we were testing
pte_file by using it wherever possible: currently it's peculiar to nonlinear
vmas, so just check that.  BUG_ON if not?  Better not, it's probably page
table corruption, so just show the pte: hmm, there's a pte_ERROR macro, let's
use that for do_wp_page's invalid pfn too.

Hah!  Someone in the ppc64 world noticed pte_ERROR was unused so removed it:
restored (and say "pud" not "pmd" in its pud_ERROR).

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:37 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 7c1fd6b964 [PATCH] mm: exit_mmap need not reset
exit_mmap resets various mm_struct fields, but the mm is well on its way out,
and none of those fields matter by this point.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:37 -07:00
Hugh Dickins a8fb5618da [PATCH] mm: unlink_file_vma, remove_vma
Divide remove_vm_struct into two parts: first anon_vma_unlink plus
unlink_file_vma, to unlink the vma from the list and tree by which rmap or
vmtruncate might find it; then remove_vma to close, fput and free.

The intention here is to do the anon_vma_unlink and unlink_file_vma earlier,
in free_pgtables before freeing any page tables: so we can be sure that any
page tables traversed by rmap and vmtruncate are stable (and other, ordinary
cases are stabilized by holding mmap_sem).

This will be crucial to traversing pgd,pud,pmd without page_table_lock.  But
testing the split-out patch showed that lifting the page_table_lock is
symbiotically necessary to make this change - the lock ordering is wrong to
move those unlinks into free_pgtables while it's under ptlock.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:37 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 2c0b381467 [PATCH] mm: remove_vma_list consolidation
unmap_vma doesn't amount to much, let's put it inside unmap_vma_list.  Except
it doesn't unmap anything, unmap_region just did the unmapping: rename it to
remove_vma_list.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:37 -07:00
Hugh Dickins ab50b8ed81 [PATCH] mm: vm_stat_account unshackled
The original vm_stat_account has fallen into disuse, with only one user, and
only one user of vm_stat_unaccount.  It's easier to keep track if we convert
them all to __vm_stat_account, then free it from its __shackles.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:37 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 72866f6f27 [PATCH] mm: anon is already wrprotected
do_anonymous_page's pte_wrprotect causes some confusion: in such a case,
vm_page_prot must already be forcing COW, so must omit write permission, and
so the pte_wrprotect is redundant.  Replace it by a comment to that effect,
and reword the comment on unuse_pte which also caused confusion.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:36 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 6237bcd948 [PATCH] mm: zap_pte_range dont dirty anon
zap_pte_range already avoids wasting time to mark_page_accessed on anon pages:
it can also skip anon set_page_dirty - the page only needs to be marked dirty
if shared with another mm, but that will say pte_dirty too.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:36 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 0c942a4539 [PATCH] mm: msync_pte_range progress
Use latency breaking in msync_pte_range like that in copy_pte_range, instead
of the ugly CONFIG_PREEMPT filemap_msync alternatives.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:36 -07:00
Hugh Dickins e040f218bb [PATCH] mm: copy_pte_range progress fix
My latency breaking in copy_pte_range didn't work as intended: instead of
checking at regularish intervals, after the first interval it checked every
time around the loop, too impatient to be preempted.  Fix that.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:36 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 09ad4bbc3a [PATCH] slab: add additional debugging to detect slabs from the wrong node
This patch adds some stack dumps if the slab logic is processing slab
blocks from the wrong node.  This is necessary in order to detect
situations as encountered by Petr.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:36 -07:00
Lee Schermerhorn c340010e4b [PATCH] shrink_list(): skip anon pages if not may_swap
Martin Hicks' page cache reclaim patch added the 'may_swap' flag to the
scan_control struct; and modified shrink_list() not to add anon pages to
the swap cache if may_swap is not asserted.

Ref:  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=111461480725322&w=4

However, further down, if the page is mapped, shrink_list() calls
try_to_unmap() which will call try_to_unmap_one() via try_to_unmap_anon ().
 try_to_unmap_one() will BUG_ON() an anon page that is NOT in the swap
cache.  Martin says he never encountered this path in his testing, but
agrees that it might happen.

This patch modifies shrink_list() to skip anon pages that are not already
in the swap cache when !may_swap, rather than just not adding them to the
cache.

Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:36 -07:00
OGAWA Hirofumi b57b98d147 [PATCH] mm/msync.c cleanup
This is not problem actually, but sync_page_range() is using for exported
function to filesystems.

The msync_xxx is more readable at least to me.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:36 -07:00
Andi Kleen 662f3a0b94 [PATCH] Remove near all BUGs in mm/mempolicy.c
Most of them can never be triggered and were only for development.

Signed-off-by: "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:35 -07:00
Andi Kleen dfcd3c0dc4 [PATCH] Convert mempolicies to nodemask_t
The NUMA policy code predated nodemask_t so it used open coded bitmaps.
Convert everything to nodemask_t.  Big patch, but shouldn't have any actual
behaviour changes (except I removed one unnecessary check against
node_online_map and one unnecessary BUG_ON)

Signed-off-by: "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:35 -07:00
Seth, Rohit e46a5e28c2 [PATCH] mm: set per-cpu-pages lower threshold to zero
Set the low water mark for hot pages in pcp to zero.

(akpm: for the life of me I cannot remember why we created pcp->low.  Neither
can Martin and the changelog is silent.  Maybe it was just a brainfart, but I
have this feeling that there was a reason.  If not, we should remove the
fields completely.  We'll see.)

Signed-off-by: Rohit Seth <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:35 -07:00
Seth, Rohit ba56e91c94 [PATCH] mm: page_alloc: increase size of per-cpu-pages
Increase the page allocator's per-cpu magazines from 1/4MB to 1/2MB.

Over 100+ runs for a workload, the difference in mean is about 2%.  The best
results for both are almost same.  Though the max variation in results with
1/2MB is only 2.2%, whereas with 1/4MB it is 12%.

Signed-off-by: Rohit Seth <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:35 -07:00
Rik Van Riel fcdae29aa7 [PATCH] swaptoken tuning
It turns out that the original swap token implementation, by Song Jiang, only
enforced the swap token while the task holding the token is handling a page
fault.  This patch approximates that, without adding an additional flag to the
mm_struct, by checking whether the mm->mmap_sem is held for reading, like the
page fault code does.

This patch has the effect of automatically, and gradually, disabling the
enforcement of the swap token when there is little or no paging going on, and
"turning up" the intensity of the swap token code the more the task holding
the token is thrashing.

Thanks to Song Jiang for pointing out this aspect of the token based thrashing
control concept.

The new code shows a slight degradation over the old swap token code, but
still a big win over running without the swap token.

2.6.12+ swap token disabled

$ for i in `seq 10` ; do /usr/bin/time ./qsbench -n 30000000 -p 3 ; done
101.74user 23.13system 8:26.91elapsed 24%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (38597major+430315minor)pagefaults 0swaps
101.98user 24.91system 8:03.06elapsed 26%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (33939major+430457minor)pagefaults 0swaps
101.93user 22.12system 7:34.90elapsed 27%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (33166major+421267minor)pagefaults 0swaps
101.82user 22.38system 8:31.40elapsed 24%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (39338major+433262minor)pagefaults 0swaps

2.6.12+ swap token enabled, timeout 300 seconds

$ for i in `seq 4` ; do /usr/bin/time ./qsbench -n 30000000 -p 3 ; done
102.58user 16.08system 3:41.44elapsed 53%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (19707major+285786minor)pagefaults 0swaps
102.07user 19.56system 4:00.64elapsed 50%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (19012major+299259minor)pagefaults 0swaps
102.64user 18.25system 4:07.31elapsed 48%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (21990major+304831minor)pagefaults 0swaps
101.39user 19.41system 5:15.81elapsed 38%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (24850major+323321minor)pagefaults 0swaps

2.6.12+ with new swap token code, timeout 300 seconds

$ for i in `seq 4` ; do /usr/bin/time ./qsbench -n 30000000 -p 3 ; done
101.87user 24.66system 5:53.20elapsed 35%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (26848major+363497minor)pagefaults 0swaps
102.83user 19.95system 4:17.25elapsed 47%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (19946major+305722minor)pagefaults 0swaps
102.09user 19.46system 5:12.57elapsed 38%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (25461major+334994minor)pagefaults 0swaps
101.67user 20.61system 4:52.97elapsed 41%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (22190major+329508minor)pagefaults 0swaps

Signed-off-by: Rik Van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:35 -07:00
Christoph Lameter 930fc45a49 [PATCH] vmalloc_node
This patch adds

vmalloc_node(size, node)	-> Allocate necessary memory on the specified node

and

get_vm_area_node(size, flags, node)

and the other functions that it depends on.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:35 -07:00
Al Viro 260b23674f [PATCH] gfp_t: the rest
zone handling, mapping->flags handling

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-28 08:16:51 -07:00
Al Viro 6daa0e2862 [PATCH] gfp_t: mm/* (easy parts)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-28 08:16:47 -07:00
Al Viro af4ca457ea [PATCH] gfp_t: infrastructure
Beginning of gfp_t annotations:

 - -Wbitwise added to CHECKFLAGS
 - old __bitwise renamed to __bitwise__
 - __bitwise defined to either __bitwise__ or nothing, depending on
   __CHECK_ENDIAN__ being defined
 - gfp_t switched from __nocast to __bitwise__
 - force cast to gfp_t added to __GFP_... constants
 - new helper - gfp_zone(); extracts zone bits out of gfp_t value and casts
   the result to int

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-28 08:16:46 -07:00
Magnus Damm 1c6fe94659 [PATCH] NUMA: broken per cpu pageset counters
The NUMA counters in struct per_cpu_pageset (linux/mmzone.h) are never
cleared today.  This works ok for CPU 0 on NUMA machines because
boot_pageset[] is already zero, but for other CPU:s this results in
uninitialized counters.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-26 10:39:43 -07:00
Hugh Dickins ac9b9c667c [PATCH] Fix handling spurious page fault for hugetlb region
This reverts commit 3359b54c8c and
replaces it with a cleaner version that is purely based on page table
operations, so that the synchronization between inode size and hugetlb
mappings becomes moot.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-20 09:02:07 -07:00
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
Hugh Dickins 1c59827d1d [PATCH] mm: hugetlb truncation fixes
hugetlbfs allows truncation of its files (should it?), but hugetlb.c often
forgets that: crashes and misaccounting ensue.

copy_hugetlb_page_range better grab the src page_table_lock since we don't
want to guess what happens if concurrently truncated.  unmap_hugepage_range
rss accounting must not assume the full range was mapped.  follow_hugetlb_page
must guard with page_table_lock and be prepared to exit early.

Restyle copy_hugetlb_page_range with a for loop like the others there.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-19 23:04:30 -07:00
Seth, Rohit 3359b54c8c [PATCH] Handle spurious page fault for hugetlb region
The hugetlb pages are currently pre-faulted.  At the time of mmap of
hugepages, we populate the new PTEs.  It is possible that HW has already
cached some of the unused PTEs internally.  These stale entries never
get a chance to be purged in existing control flow.

This patch extends the check in page fault code for hugepages.  Check if
a faulted address falls with in size for the hugetlb file backing it.
We return VM_FAULT_MINOR for these cases (assuming that the arch
specific page-faulting code purges the stale entry for the archs that
need it).

Signed-off-by: Rohit Seth <rohit.seth@intel.com>

[ This is apparently arguably an ia64 port bug. But the code won't
  hurt, and for now it fixes a real problem on some ia64 machines ]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-19 13:56:27 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 3d80636a0d Fix memory ordering bug in page reclaim
As noticed by Nick Piggin, we need to make sure that we check the page
count before we check for PageDirty, since the dirty check is only valid
if the count implies that we're the only possible ones holding the page.

We always did do this, but the code needs a read-memory-barrier to make
sure that the orderign is also honored by the CPU.

(The writer side is ordered due to the atomic decrement and test on the
page count, see the discussion on linux-kernel)

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-16 17:36:06 -07:00
Hugh Dickins f5154a98a1 [PATCH] Don't map the same page too much
Refuse to install a page into a mapping if the mapping count is already
ridiculously large.

You probably cannot trigger this on 32-bit architectures, but on a
64-bit setup we should protect against it.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-11 12:03:47 -07:00
Suzuki 1bef400329 [PATCH] madvise: Avoid returning error code -EBADF for anonymous mappings
Revert this recent correctness change: Douglas Crosher <dcrosher@scieneer.com>
reported that it broke an existing application, and that madvise() works
without error on anonymous mappings on Solaris.

This means that madvise() will remain non-standards-compliant: we should
return -EBADF for all requests against non-file-backed vma's, but Linux only
does this for MADV_WILLNEED requests.

Signed-off-by: Suzuki K P <suzuki@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-11 09:46:54 -07:00
Al Viro dd0fc66fb3 [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1
- added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t;

 - replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly
   the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change
   generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with
   typedef) and documents what's going on far better.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-08 15:00:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 6e3254c4e2 Revert "x86-64: Reverse order of bootmem lists"
As requested by Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>:

  "5d3d0f7704ed0bc7eaca0501eeae3e5da1ea6c87 breaks a couple of ARM
   boards, which depend on the historical bootmem allocation order.
   There is a cleaner solution around to remove the pgdat list
   completely, but this is a topic for post 2.6.14

   Andi signalled ACK already."

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-30 12:38:27 -07:00
Alok N Kataria 5c38230087 [PATCH] kmalloc_node IRQ safety fix
In kmalloc_node we are checking if the allocation is for the same node when
interrupts are "on".  This may lead to an allocation on another node than
intended.

This patch just shifts the check for the current node in __cache_alloc_node
when interrupts are disabled.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:42 -07:00
Nick Piggin 8b1f312461 [PATCH] mm: move_pte to remap ZERO_PAGE
Move the ZERO_PAGE remapping complexity to the move_pte macro in
asm-generic, have it conditionally depend on
__HAVE_ARCH_MULTIPLE_ZERO_PAGE, which gets defined for MIPS.

For architectures without __HAVE_ARCH_MULTIPLE_ZERO_PAGE, move_pte becomes
a noop.

From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>

Fix nasty little bug we've missed in Nick's mremap move ZERO_PAGE patch.
The "pte" at that point may be a swap entry or a pte_file entry: we must
check pte_present before perhaps corrupting such an entry.

Patch below against 2.6.14-rc2-mm1, but the same bug is in 2.6.14-rc2's
mm/mremap.c, and more dangerous there since it's affecting all arches: I
think the safest course is to send Nick's patch and Yoichi's build fix and
this fix (build tested) on to Linus - so only MIPS can be affected.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:40 -07:00
Andrew Morton dbdb904500 [PATCH] revert oversized kmalloc check
As davem points out, this wasn't such a great idea.  There may be some code
which does:

	size = 1024*1024;
	while (kmalloc(size, ...) == 0)
		size /= 2;

which will now explode.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-23 13:35:37 -07:00
Rob Landley f7b3a4359b [PATCH] Fix bd_claim() error code.
Problem: In some circumstances, bd_claim() is returning the wrong error
code.

If we try to swapon an unused block device that isn't swap formatted, we
get -EINVAL.  But if that same block device is already mounted, we instead
get -EBUSY, even though it still isn't a valid swap device.

This issue came up on the busybox list trying to get the error message
from "swapon -a" right.  If a swap device is already enabled, we get -EBUSY,
and we shouldn't report this as an error.  But we can't distinguish the two
-EBUSY conditions, which are very different errors.

In the code, bd_claim() returns either 0 or -EBUSY, but in this case busy
means "somebody other than sys_swapon has already claimed this", and
_that_ means this block device can't be a valid swap device.  So return
-EINVAL there.

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 22:17:37 -07:00
Christoph Lameter eafb42707b [PATCH] __kmalloc: Generate BUG if size requested is too large.
I had an issue on ia64 where I got a bug in kernel/workqueue because
kzalloc returned a NULL pointer due to the task structure getting too big
for the slab allocator.  Usually these cases are caught by the kmalloc
macro in include/linux/slab.h.

Compilation will fail if a too big value is passed to kmalloc.

However, kzalloc uses __kmalloc which has no check for that.  This patch
makes __kmalloc bug if a too large entity is requested.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 22:17:36 -07:00
Christoph Lameter ff69416e63 [PATCH] slab: fix handling of pages from foreign NUMA nodes
The numa slab allocator may allocate pages from foreign nodes onto the
lists for a particular node if a node runs out of memory.  Inspecting the
slab->nodeid field will not reflect that the page is now in use for the
slabs of another node.

This patch fixes that issue by adding a node field to free_block so that
the caller can indicate which node currently uses a slab.

Also removes the check for the current node from kmalloc_cache_node since
the process may shift later to another node which may lead to an allocation
on another node than intended.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 22:17:35 -07:00
Ivan Kokshaysky 7243cc05ba [PATCH] slab: alpha inlining fix
It is essential that index_of() be inlined.  But alpha undoes the gcc
inlining hackery and index_of() ends up out-of-line.  So fiddle with things
to make that function inline again.

Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 22:17:34 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso 7e2cff42cf [PATCH] mm: add a note about partially hardcoded VM_* flags
Hugh made me note this line for permission checking in mprotect():

		if ((newflags & ~(newflags >> 4)) & 0xf) {

after figuring out what's that about, I decided it's nasty enough.  Btw
Hugh itself didn't like the 0xf.

We can safely change it to VM_READ|VM_WRITE|VM_EXEC because we never change
VM_SHARED, so no need to check that.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-21 10:11:55 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso f10df68604 [PATCH] fix locking comment in unmap_region()
That comment is plain wrong (we even take the pagetable lock inside
unmap_region()).

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-21 10:11:55 -07:00
Dave Hansen f3519f9194 [PATCH] fix mm/Kconfig spelling
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>
2005-09-17 11:50:01 -07:00
Alok Kataria c7e43c78ae [PATCH] Fix slab BUG_ON() triggered by change in array cache size
With the new changes that we made in the initialization of the slab
allocator, we first setup the cache from which array caches are allocated,
and then the cache, from which kmem_list3's are allocated.

Now if the array cache comes from a cache in which objsize > 32, (in this
instance size-64) then, first size-64 cache will be allocated and then the
size-128 (if this is the cache from which kmem_list3's are going to be
allocated).

So with these new changes, we are not guaranteed that we will be
initializing the malloc_sizes array in a serialized order. Thus there is
a bug in __find_general_cachep, as we are checking whether the first
cache_sizes ptr is NULL.

This is replaced by checking whether the array-cache cache is initialized.
Attached is a patch which does that.  Boots fine on a x86-64, with
DEBUG_SPIN, DEBUG_SLAB, and preempt.

Attached is a patch which does that.  Boots fine on a x86-64, with
DEBUG_SPIN, DEBUG_SLAB, and preempt.Thanks & Regards, Alok

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Shobhit Dayal <shobhitdayal.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-14 12:31:45 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 2fd4ef85e0 [PATCH] error path in setup_arg_pages() misses vm_unacct_memory()
Pavel Emelianov and Kirill Korotaev observe that fs and arch users of
security_vm_enough_memory tend to forget to vm_unacct_memory when a
failure occurs further down (typically in setup_arg_pages variants).

These are all users of insert_vm_struct, and that reservation will only
be unaccounted on exit if the vma is marked VM_ACCOUNT: which in some
cases it is (hidden inside VM_STACK_FLAGS) and in some cases it isn't.

So x86_64 32-bit and ppc64 vDSO ELFs have been leaking memory into
Committed_AS each time they're run.  But don't add VM_ACCOUNT to them,
it's inappropriate to reserve against the very unlikely case that gdb
be used to COW a vDSO page - we ought to do something about that in
do_wp_page, but there are yet other inconsistencies to be resolved.

The safe and economical way to fix this is to let insert_vm_struct do
the security_vm_enough_memory check when it finds VM_ACCOUNT is set.

And the MIPS irix_brk has been calling security_vm_enough_memory before
calling do_brk which repeats it, doubly accounting and so also leaking.
Remove that, and all the fs and arch calls to security_vm_enough_memory:
give it a less misleading name later on.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-14 11:18:13 -07:00
Randy Dunlap 9f1583339a [PATCH] use add_taint() for setting tainted bit flags
Use the add_taint() interface for setting tainted bit flags instead of
doing it manually.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:29 -07:00
Andi Kleen 5b952b3c14 [PATCH] Fix MPOL_F_VERIFY
There was a pretty bad bug in there that the code would always check the full
VMA, not the range the user requested.

When the VMA to be checked was merged with the previous VMA this could lead to
spurious failures.

Signed-off-by: "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:28 -07:00
Con Kolivas 8d0986e289 [PATCH] vm: kswapd cleanup: use pgdat
Use the pgdat pointer we've already defined in wakeup_kswapd

Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:28 -07:00
Andi Kleen 5d3d0f7704 [PATCH] x86-64: Reverse order of bootmem lists
This leads to bootmem allocating first from node 0 instead
of from the last node.  This avoids swiotlb allocating on the last node, which
doesn't really work on a machine with >4GB.

Note: there is a better patch around from someone else that gets
rid of the pgdat list completely.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-12 10:49:56 -07:00
Greg Ungerer 66aa2b4b1c [PATCH] uclinux: add NULL check, 0 end valid check and some more exports to nommu.c
Move call to get_mm_counter() in update_mem_hiwater() to be
inside the check for tsk->mm being null. Otherwise you can be
following a null pointer here. This patch submitted by
Javier Herrero <jherrero@hvsistemas.es>.

Modify the end check for munmap regions to allow for the
legacy behavior of 0 being valid. Pretty much all current
uClinux system libc malloc's pass in 0 as the end point.
A hard check will fail on these, so change the check so
that if it is non-zero it must be valid otherwise it fails.
A passed in value will always succeed (as it used too).

Also export a few more mm system functions - to be consistent
with the VM code exports.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-11 20:43:47 -07:00
Nishanth Aravamudan 13e4b57f6a [PATCH] mm: fix-up schedule_timeout() usage
Use schedule_timeout_{,un}interruptible() instead of
set_current_state()/schedule_timeout() to reduce kernel size.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10 10:06:37 -07:00
Renaud Lienhart 207f36eec9 [PATCH] remove invalid comment in mm/page_alloc.c
free_pages_bulk() doesn't free the entire list if count == 0.

Signed-off-by: Renaud Lienhart <renaud.lienhart@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10 10:06:31 -07:00
Victor Fusco 9de75d110c [PATCH] mm/swap_state: Fix "nocast type" warnings
Fix the sparse warning "implicit cast to nocast type"

Signed-off-by: Victor Fusco <victor@cetuc.puc-rio.br>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10 10:06:28 -07:00
Victor Fusco b2d550736f [PATCH] mm/slab: fix sparse warnings
Fix the sparse warning "implicit cast to nocast type"

Signed-off-by: Victor Fusco <victor@cetuc.puc-rio.br>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10 10:06:26 -07:00
Adrian Bunk 5ce7852cdf [PATCH] mm/filemap.c: make two functions static
With Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>

Give some things static scope.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10 10:06:25 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 8d06afab73 [PATCH] timer initialization cleanup: DEFINE_TIMER
Clean up timer initialization by introducing DEFINE_TIMER a'la
DEFINE_SPINLOCK.  Build and boot-tested on x86.  A similar patch has been
been in the -RT tree for some time.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:48 -07:00
Pekka Enberg 80e93effce [PATCH] update kfree, vfree, and vunmap kerneldoc
This patch clarifies NULL handling of kfree() and vfree().  I addition,
wording of calling context restriction for vfree() and vunmap() are changed
from "may not" to "must not."

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:43 -07:00
Christoph Lameter e498be7daf [PATCH] Numa-aware slab allocator V5
The NUMA API change that introduced kmalloc_node was accepted for
2.6.12-rc3.  Now it is possible to do slab allocations on a node to
localize memory structures.  This API was used by the pageset localization
patch and the block layer localization patch now in mm.  The existing
kmalloc_node is slow since it simply searches through all pages of the slab
to find a page that is on the node requested.  The two patches do a one
time allocation of slab structures at initialization and therefore the
speed of kmalloc node does not matter.

This patch allows kmalloc_node to be as fast as kmalloc by introducing node
specific page lists for partial, free and full slabs.  Slab allocation
improves in a NUMA system so that we are seeing a performance gain in AIM7
of about 5% with this patch alone.

More NUMA localizations are possible if kmalloc_node operates in an fast
way like kmalloc.

Test run on a 32p systems with 32G Ram.

w/o patch
Tasks    jobs/min  jti  jobs/min/task      real       cpu
    1      485.36  100       485.3640     11.99      1.91   Sat Apr 30 14:01:51 2005
  100    26582.63   88       265.8263     21.89    144.96   Sat Apr 30 14:02:14 2005
  200    29866.83   81       149.3342     38.97    286.08   Sat Apr 30 14:02:53 2005
  300    33127.16   78       110.4239     52.71    426.54   Sat Apr 30 14:03:46 2005
  400    34889.47   80        87.2237     66.72    568.90   Sat Apr 30 14:04:53 2005
  500    35654.34   76        71.3087     81.62    714.55   Sat Apr 30 14:06:15 2005
  600    36460.83   75        60.7681     95.77    853.42   Sat Apr 30 14:07:51 2005
  700    35957.00   75        51.3671    113.30    990.67   Sat Apr 30 14:09:45 2005
  800    33380.65   73        41.7258    139.48   1140.86   Sat Apr 30 14:12:05 2005
  900    35095.01   76        38.9945    149.25   1281.30   Sat Apr 30 14:14:35 2005
 1000    36094.37   74        36.0944    161.24   1419.66   Sat Apr 30 14:17:17 2005

w/patch
Tasks    jobs/min  jti  jobs/min/task      real       cpu
    1      484.27  100       484.2736     12.02      1.93   Sat Apr 30 15:59:45 2005
  100    28262.03   90       282.6203     20.59    143.57   Sat Apr 30 16:00:06 2005
  200    32246.45   82       161.2322     36.10    282.89   Sat Apr 30 16:00:42 2005
  300    37945.80   83       126.4860     46.01    418.75   Sat Apr 30 16:01:28 2005
  400    40000.69   81       100.0017     58.20    561.48   Sat Apr 30 16:02:27 2005
  500    40976.10   78        81.9522     71.02    696.95   Sat Apr 30 16:03:38 2005
  600    41121.54   78        68.5359     84.92    834.86   Sat Apr 30 16:05:04 2005
  700    44052.77   78        62.9325     92.48    971.53   Sat Apr 30 16:06:37 2005
  800    41066.89   79        51.3336    113.38   1111.15   Sat Apr 30 16:08:31 2005
  900    38918.77   79        43.2431    134.59   1252.57   Sat Apr 30 16:10:46 2005
 1000    41842.21   76        41.8422    139.09   1392.33   Sat Apr 30 16:13:05 2005

These are measurement taken directly after boot and show a greater
improvement than 5%.  However, the performance improvements become less
over time if the AIM7 runs are repeated and settle down at around 5%.

Links to earlier discussions:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=111094594500003&r=1&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=111603406600002&r=1&w=2

Changelog V4-V5:
- alloc_arraycache and alloc_aliencache take node parameter instead of cpu
- fix initialization so that nodes without cpus are properly handled.
- simplify code in kmem_cache_init
- patch against Andrews temp mm3 release
- Add Shai to credits
- fallback to __cache_alloc from __cache_alloc_node if the node's cache
  is not available yet.

Changelog V3-V4:
- Patch against 2.6.12-rc5-mm1
- Cleanup patch integrated
- More and better use of for_each_node and for_each_cpu
- GCC 2.95 fix (do not use [] use [0])
- Correct determination of INDEX_AC
- Remove hack to cause an error on platforms that have no CONFIG_NUMA but nodes.
- Remove list3_data and list3_data_ptr macros for better readability

Changelog V2-V3:
- Made to patch against 2.6.12-rc4-mm1
- Revised bootstrap mechanism so that larger size kmem_list3 structs can be
  supported. Do a generic solution so that the right slab can be found
  for the internal structs.
- use for_each_online_node

Changelog V1-V2:
- Batching for freeing of wrong-node objects (alien caches)
- Locking changes and NUMA #ifdefs as requested by Manfred

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Shobhit Dayal <shobhit@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <Shai@Scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:48 -07:00
Stephen Smalley 570bc1c2e5 [PATCH] tmpfs: Enable atomic inode security labeling
This patch modifies tmpfs to call the inode_init_security LSM hook to set
up the incore inode security state for new inodes before the inode becomes
accessible via the dcache.

As there is no underlying storage of security xattrs in this case, it is
not necessary for the hook to return the (name, value, len) triple to the
tmpfs code, so this patch also modifies the SELinux hook function to
correctly handle the case where the (name, value, len) pointers are NULL.

The hook call is needed in tmpfs in order to support proper security
labeling of tmpfs inodes (e.g.  for udev with tmpfs /dev in Fedora).  With
this change in place, we should then be able to remove the
security_inode_post_create/mkdir/...  hooks safely.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:28 -07:00
Mark Fasheh fef266580e [PATCH] update filesystems for new delete_inode behavior
Update the file systems in fs/ implementing a delete_inode() callback to
call truncate_inode_pages().  One implementation note: In developing this
patch I put the calls to truncate_inode_pages() at the very top of those
filesystems delete_inode() callbacks in order to retain the previous
behavior.  I'm guessing that some of those could probably be optimized.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:27 -07:00
Andi Kleen d42c69972b [PATCH] PCI: Run PCI driver initialization on local node
Run PCI driver initialization on local node

Instead of adding messy kmalloc_node()s everywhere run the
PCI driver probe on the node local to the device.

This would not have helped for IDE, but should for
other more clean drivers that do more initialization in probe().
It won't help for drivers that do most of the work
on first open (like many network drivers)

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-09-08 14:57:23 -07:00
Pekka J Enberg dd3927105b [PATCH] introduce and use kzalloc
This patch introduces a kzalloc wrapper and converts kernel/ to use it.  It
saves a little program text.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:45 -07:00
Paul Jackson ef08e3b498 [PATCH] cpusets: confine oom_killer to mem_exclusive cpuset
Now the real motivation for this cpuset mem_exclusive patch series seems
trivial.

This patch keeps a task in or under one mem_exclusive cpuset from provoking an
oom kill of a task under a non-overlapping mem_exclusive cpuset.  Since only
interrupt and GFP_ATOMIC allocations are allowed to escape mem_exclusive
containment, there is little to gain from oom killing a task under a
non-overlapping mem_exclusive cpuset, as almost all kernel and user memory
allocation must come from disjoint memory nodes.

This patch enables configuring a system so that a runaway job under one
mem_exclusive cpuset cannot cause the killing of a job in another such cpuset
that might be using very high compute and memory resources for a prolonged
time.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:40 -07:00
Paul Jackson 9bf2229f88 [PATCH] cpusets: formalize intermediate GFP_KERNEL containment
This patch makes use of the previously underutilized cpuset flag
'mem_exclusive' to provide what amounts to another layer of memory placement
resolution.  With this patch, there are now the following four layers of
memory placement available:

 1) The whole system (interrupt and GFP_ATOMIC allocations can use this),
 2) The nearest enclosing mem_exclusive cpuset (GFP_KERNEL allocations can use),
 3) The current tasks cpuset (GFP_USER allocations constrained to here), and
 4) Specific node placement, using mbind and set_mempolicy.

These nest - each layer is a subset (same or within) of the previous.

Layer (2) above is new, with this patch.  The call used to check whether a
zone (its node, actually) is in a cpuset (in its mems_allowed, actually) is
extended to take a gfp_mask argument, and its logic is extended, in the case
that __GFP_HARDWALL is not set in the flag bits, to look up the cpuset
hierarchy for the nearest enclosing mem_exclusive cpuset, to determine if
placement is allowed.  The definition of GFP_USER, which used to be identical
to GFP_KERNEL, is changed to also set the __GFP_HARDWALL bit, in the previous
cpuset_gfp_hardwall_flag patch.

GFP_ATOMIC and GFP_KERNEL allocations will stay within the current tasks
cpuset, so long as any node therein is not too tight on memory, but will
escape to the larger layer, if need be.

The intended use is to allow something like a batch manager to handle several
jobs, each job in its own cpuset, but using common kernel memory for caches
and such.  Swapper and oom_kill activity is also constrained to Layer (2).  A
task in or below one mem_exclusive cpuset should not cause swapping on nodes
in another non-overlapping mem_exclusive cpuset, nor provoke oom_killing of a
task in another such cpuset.  Heavy use of kernel memory for i/o caching and
such by one job should not impact the memory available to jobs in other
non-overlapping mem_exclusive cpusets.

This patch enables providing hardwall, inescapable cpusets for memory
allocations of each job, while sharing kernel memory allocations between
several jobs, in an enclosing mem_exclusive cpuset.

Like Dinakar's patch earlier to enable administering sched domains using the
cpu_exclusive flag, this patch also provides a useful meaning to a cpuset flag
that had previously done nothing much useful other than restrict what cpuset
configurations were allowed.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:40 -07:00
Paul Jackson a49335ccea [PATCH] cpusets: oom_kill tweaks
This patch series extends the use of the cpuset attribute 'mem_exclusive'
to support cpuset configurations that:
 1) allow GFP_KERNEL allocations to come from a potentially larger
    set of memory nodes than GFP_USER allocations, and
 2) can constrain the oom killer to tasks running in cpusets in
    a specified subtree of the cpuset hierarchy.

Here's an example usage scenario.  For a few hours or more, a large NUMA
system at a University is to be divided in two halves, with a bunch of student
jobs running in half the system under some form of batch manager, and with a
big research project running in the other half.  Each of the student jobs is
placed in a small cpuset, but should share the classic Unix time share
facilities, such as buffered pages of files in /bin and /usr/lib.  The big
research project wants no interference whatsoever from the student jobs, and
has highly tuned, unusual memory and i/o patterns that intend to make full use
of all the main memory on the nodes available to it.

In this example, we have two big sibling cpusets, one of which is further
divided into a more dynamic set of child cpusets.

We want kernel memory allocations constrained by the two big cpusets, and user
allocations constrained by the smaller child cpusets where present.  And we
require that the oom killer not operate across the two halves of this system,
or else the first time a student job runs amuck, the big research project will
likely be first inline to get shot.

Tweaking /proc/<pid>/oom_adj is not ideal -- if the big research project
really does run amuck allocating memory, it should be shot, not some other
task outside the research projects mem_exclusive cpuset.

I propose to extend the use of the 'mem_exclusive' flag of cpusets to manage
such scenarios.  Let memory allocations for user space (GFP_USER) be
constrained by a tasks current cpuset, but memory allocations for kernel space
(GFP_KERNEL) by constrained by the nearest mem_exclusive ancestor of the
current cpuset, even though kernel space allocations will still _prefer_ to
remain within the current tasks cpuset, if memory is easily available.

Let the oom killer be constrained to consider only tasks that are in
overlapping mem_exclusive cpusets (it won't help much to kill a task that
normally cannot allocate memory on any of the same nodes as the ones on which
the current task can allocate.)

The current constraints imposed on setting mem_exclusive are unchanged.  A
cpuset may only be mem_exclusive if its parent is also mem_exclusive, and a
mem_exclusive cpuset may not overlap any of its siblings memory nodes.

This patch was presented on linux-mm in early July 2005, though did not
generate much feedback at that time.  It has been built for a variety of
arch's using cross tools, and built, booted and tested for function on SN2
(ia64).

There are 4 patches in this set:
  1) Some minor cleanup, and some improvements to the code layout
     of one routine to make subsequent patches cleaner.
  2) Add another GFP flag - __GFP_HARDWALL.  It marks memory
     requests for USER space, which are tightly confined by the
     current tasks cpuset.
  3) Now memory requests (such as KERNEL) that not marked HARDWALL can
     if short on memory, look in the potentially larger pool of memory
     defined by the nearest mem_exclusive ancestor cpuset of the current
     tasks cpuset.
  4) Finally, modify the oom killer to skip any task whose mem_exclusive
     cpuset doesn't overlap ours.

Patch (1), the one time I looked on an SN2 (ia64) build, actually saved 32
bytes of kernel text space.  Patch (2) has no affect on the size of kernel
text space (it just adds a preprocessor flag).  Patches (3) and (4) added
about 600 bytes each of kernel text space, mostly in kernel/cpuset.c, which
matters only if CONFIG_CPUSET is enabled.

This patch:

This patch applies a few comment and code cleanups to mm/oom_kill.c prior to
applying a few small patches to improve cpuset management of memory placement.

The comment changed in oom_kill.c was seriously misleading.  The code layout
change in select_bad_process() makes room for adding another condition on
which a process can be spared the oom killer (see the subsequent
cpuset_nodes_overlap patch for this addition).

Also a couple typos and spellos that bugged me, while I was here.

This patch should have no material affect.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:39 -07:00
Ravikiran G Thirumalai 6c231b7bab [PATCH] Additions to .data.read_mostly section
Mark variables which are usually accessed for reads with __readmostly.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:33 -07:00
Steven Pratt 3b30bbd963 [PATCH] readahead: reset cache_hit earlier
We don't reset the cache hit count until after readahead does a successful
readahead.  This seems to leave a corner case open where we miss in cache,
but don't restart the readhead right away.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:25 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig cdb3826b99 [PATCH] remove misleading comment above sys_brk
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:23 -07:00