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* [PATCH] mm: pagealloc optNick Piggin2006-01-061-7/+11
| | | | | | | | | | Slightly optimise some page allocation and freeing functions by taking advantage of knowing whether or not interrupts are disabled. 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>
* [PATCH] mm: free_pages_and_swap_cache optHugh Dickins2006-01-061-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Minor optimization (though it doesn't help in the PREEMPT case, severely constrained by small ZAP_BLOCK_SIZE). free_pages_and_swap_cache works in chunks of 16, calling release_pages which works in chunks of PAGEVEC_SIZE. But PAGEVEC_SIZE was dropped from 16 to 14 in 2.6.10, so we're now doing more spin_lock_irq'ing than necessary: use PAGEVEC_SIZE throughout. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: remove arch independent NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODESMike Kravetz2006-01-061-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES config option was created so that DISCONTIGMEM could handle pSeries numa layouts. However, support for DISCONTIGMEM has been replaced by SPARSEMEM on powerpc. As a result, this config option and supporting code is no longer needed. I have already sent a patch to Paul that removes the option from powerpc specific code. This removes the arch independent piece. Doesn't really matter which is applied first. Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] hugepages: fold find_or_alloc_pages into huge_no_page()Christoph Lameter2006-01-061-42/+24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The number of parameters for find_or_alloc_page increases significantly after policy support is added to huge pages. Simplify the code by folding find_or_alloc_huge_page() into hugetlb_no_page(). Adam Litke objected to this piece in an earlier patch but I think this is a good simplification. Diffstat shows that we can get rid of almost half of the lines of find_or_alloc_page(). If we can find no consensus then lets simply drop this patch. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Acked-by: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Remove old node based policy interface from mempolicy.cChristoph Lameter2006-01-061-48/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | mempolicy.c contains provisional interface for huge page allocation based on node numbers. This is in use in SLES9 but was never used (AFAIK) in upstream versions of Linux. Huge page allocations now use zonelists to figure out where to allocate pages. The use of zonelists allows us to find the closest hugepage which was the consideration of the NUMA distance for huge page allocations. Remove the obsolete functions. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Acked-by: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Add NUMA policy support for huge pages.Christoph Lameter2006-01-062-19/+44
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The huge_zonelist() function in the memory policy layer provides an list of zones ordered by NUMA distance. The hugetlb layer will walk that list looking for a zone that has available huge pages but is also in the nodeset of the current cpuset. This patch does not contain the folding of find_or_alloc_huge_page() that was controversial in the earlier discussion. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Acked-by: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: dequeue a huge page near to this nodeChristoph Lameter2006-01-061-6/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This was discussed at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113166526217117&w=2 This patch changes the dequeueing to select a huge page near the node executing instead of always beginning to check for free nodes from node 0. This will result in a placement of the huge pages near the executing processor improving performance. The existing implementation can place the huge pages far away from the executing processor causing significant degradation of performance. The search starting from zero also means that the lower zones quickly run out of memory. Selecting a huge page near the process distributed the huge pages better. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Hugetlb: Copy on Write supportDavid Gibson2006-01-061-19/+108
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement copy-on-write support for hugetlb mappings so MAP_PRIVATE can be supported. This helps us to safely use hugetlb pages in many more applications. The patch makes the following changes. If needed, I also have it broken out according to the following paragraphs. 1. Add a pair of functions to set/clear write access on huge ptes. The writable check in make_huge_pte is moved out to the caller for use by COW later. 2. Hugetlb copy-on-write requires special case handling in the following situations: - copy_hugetlb_page_range() - Copied pages must be write protected so a COW fault will be triggered (if necessary) if those pages are written to. - find_or_alloc_huge_page() - Only MAP_SHARED pages are added to the page cache. MAP_PRIVATE pages still need to be locked however. 3. Provide hugetlb_cow() and calls from hugetlb_fault() and hugetlb_no_page() which handles the COW fault by making the actual copy. 4. Remove the check in hugetlbfs_file_map() so that MAP_PRIVATE mmaps will be allowed. Make MAP_HUGETLB exempt from the depricated VM_RESERVED mapping check. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Hugetlb: Reorganize hugetlb_fault to prepare for COWAdam Litke2006-01-061-9/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch splits the "no_page()" type activity into its own function, hugetlb_no_page(). hugetlb_fault() becomes the entry point for hugetlb faults and delegates to the appropriate handler depending on the type of fault. Right now we still have only hugetlb_no_page() but a later patch introduces a COW fault. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Hugetlb: Rename find_lock_page to find_or_alloc_huge_pageAdam Litke2006-01-061-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | find_lock_huge_page() isn't a great name, since it does extra things not analagous to find_lock_page(). Rename it find_or_alloc_huge_page() which is closer to the mark. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Hugetlb: Remove duplicate i_size checkAdam Litke2006-01-061-7/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | cleanup Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] madvise(MADV_REMOVE): remove pages from tmpfs shm backing storeBadari Pulavarty2006-01-063-9/+83
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Here is the patch to implement madvise(MADV_REMOVE) - which frees up a given range of pages & its associated backing store. Current implementation supports only shmfs/tmpfs and other filesystems return -ENOSYS. "Some app allocates large tmpfs files, then when some task quits and some client disconnect, some memory can be released. However the only way to release tmpfs-swap is to MADV_REMOVE". - Andrea Arcangeli Databases want to use this feature to drop a section of their bufferpool (shared memory segments) - without writing back to disk/swap space. This feature is also useful for supporting hot-plug memory on UML. Concerns raised by Andrew Morton: - "We have no plan for holepunching! If we _do_ have such a plan (or might in the future) then what would the API look like? I think sys_holepunch(fd, start, len), so we should start out with that." - Using madvise is very weird, because people will ask "why do I need to mmap my file before I can stick a hole in it?" - None of the other madvise operations call into the filesystem in this manner. A broad question is: is this capability an MM operation or a filesytem operation? truncate, for example, is a filesystem operation which sometimes has MM side-effects. madvise is an mm operation and with this patch, it gains FS side-effects, only they're really, really significant ones." Comments: - Andrea suggested the fs operation too but then it's more efficient to have it as a mm operation with fs side effects, because they don't immediatly know fd and physical offset of the range. It's possible to fixup in userland and to use the fs operation but it's more expensive, the vmas are already in the kernel and we can use them. Short term plan & Future Direction: - We seem to need this interface only for shmfs/tmpfs files in the short term. We have to add hooks into the filesystem for correctness and completeness. This is what this patch does. - In the future, plan is to support both fs and mmap apis also. This also involves (other) filesystem specific functions to be implemented. - Current patch doesn't support VM_NONLINEAR - which can be addressed in the future. Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] reiser4: vfs: add truncate_inode_pages_range()Hans Reiser2006-01-061-7/+37
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch makes truncate_inode_pages_range from truncate_inode_pages. truncate_inode_pages became a one-liner call to truncate_inode_pages_range. Reiser4 needs truncate_inode_pages_ranges because it tries to keep correspondence between existences of metadata pointing to data pages and pages to which those metadata point to. So, when metadata of certain part of file is removed from filesystem tree, only pages of corresponding range are to be truncated. (Needed by the madvise(MADV_REMOVE) patch) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] memhotplug: __add_section remove unused pgdat definitionAndy Whitcroft2006-01-061-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | __add_section defines an unused pointer to the zones pgdat. Remove this definition. This fixes a compile warning. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: fix __alloc_pages cpuset ALLOC_* flagsPaul Jackson2006-01-061-3/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Two changes to the setting of the ALLOC_CPUSET flag in mm/page_alloc.c:__alloc_pages() - A bug fix - the "ignoring mins" case should not be honoring ALLOC_CPUSET. This case of all cases, since it is handling a request that will free up more memory than is asked for (exiting tasks, e.g.) should be allowed to escape cpuset constraints when memory is tight. - A logic change to make it simpler. Honor cpusets even on GFP_ATOMIC (!wait) requests. With this, cpuset confinement applies to all requests except ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS, so that in a subsequent cleanup patch, I can remove the ALLOC_CPUSET flag entirely. Since I don't know any real reason this logic has to be either way, I am choosing the path of the simplest code. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] add AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE, prepend AOP_ to WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATEZach Brown2006-01-034-31/+61
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | readpage(), prepare_write(), and commit_write() callers are updated to understand the special return code AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE in the style of writepage() and WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE. AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE tells the caller that the callee has unlocked the page and that the operation should be tried again with a new page. OCFS2 uses this to detect and work around a lock inversion in its aop methods. There should be no change in behaviour for methods that don't return AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE. WRITEPAGE_ACTIVATE is also prepended with AOP_ for consistency and they are made enums so that kerneldoc can be used to document their semantics. Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
* [PATCH] Make sure interleave masks have at least one node setAndi Kleen2006-01-021-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Otherwise a bad mem policy system call can confuse the interleaving code into referencing undefined nodes. Originally reported by Doug Chapman I was told it's CVE-2005-3358 (one has to love these security people - they make everything sound important) Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Make sure we copy pages inserted with "vm_insert_page()" on forkLinus Torvalds2005-12-163-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | The logic that decides that a fork() might be able to avoid copying a VM area when it can be re-created by page faults didn't know about the new vm_insert_page() case. Also make some things a bit more anal wrt VM_PFNMAP. Pointed out by Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] missing prototype (mm/page_alloc.c)Al Viro2005-12-151-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Fix calculation of grow_pgdat_span() in mm/memory_hotplug.cYasunori Goto2005-12-131-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | The calculation for node_spanned_pages at grow_pgdat_span() is clearly wrong. This is patch for it. (Please see grow_zone_span() to compare. It is correct.) Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* get_user_pages: don't try to follow PFNMAP pagesLinus Torvalds2005-12-121-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | Nick Piggin points out that a few drivers play games with VM_IO (why? who knows..) and thus a pfn-remapped area may not have that bit set even if remap_pfn_range() set it originally. So make it explicit in get_user_pages() that we don't follow VM_PFNMAP pages, since pretty much by definition they do not have a "struct page" associated with them. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fix in __alloc_bootmem_core() when there is no free page in first ↵Haren Myneni2005-12-121-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | node's memory Hitting BUG_ON() in __alloc_bootmem_core() when there is no free page available in the first node's memory. For the case of kdump on PPC64 (Power 4 machine), the captured kernel is used two memory regions - memory for TCE tables (tce-base and tce-size at top of RAM and reserved) and captured kernel memory region (crashk_base and crashk_size). Since we reserve the memory for the first node, we should be returning from __alloc_bootmem_core() to search for the next node (pg_dat). Currently, find_next_zero_bit() is returning the n^th bit (eidx) when there is no free page. Then, test_bit() is failed since we set 0xff only for the actual size initially (init_bootmem_core()) even though rounded up to one page for bdata->node_bootmem_map. We are hitting the BUG_ON after failing to enter second "for" loop. Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Allow arbitrary read-only shared pfn-remapping tooLinus Torvalds2005-12-111-3/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The VM layer (for historical reasons) turns a read-only shared mmap into a private-like mapping with the VM_MAYWRITE bit clear. Thus checking just VM_SHARED isn't actually sufficient. So use a trivial helper function for the cases where we wanted to inquire if a mapping was COW-like or not. Moo! Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Remove (at least temporarily) the "incomplete PFN mapping" supportLinus Torvalds2005-12-111-45/+1
| | | | | | | | | With the previous commit, we can handle arbitrary shared re-mappings even without this complexity, and since the only known private mappings are for strange users of /dev/mem (which never create an incomplete one), there seems to be no reason to support it. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Allow arbitrary shared PFNMAP'sLinus Torvalds2005-12-111-4/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | A shared mapping doesn't cause COW-pages, so we don't need to worry about the whole vm_pgoff logic to decide if a PFN-remapped page has gone through COW or not. This makes it possible to entirely avoid the special "partial remapping" logic for the common case. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Make vm_insert_page() available to NVidia moduleLinus Torvalds2005-12-031-1/+1
| | | | | | | | It used to use remap_pfn_range(), which wasn't GPL-only either, and the new interface is actually simpler and does more checking, so we shouldn't unnecessarily discourage people from switching over. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Fix up per-cpu page batch sizesNick Piggin2005-12-031-8/+8
| | | | | | | | | The code to clamp batch sizes to 2^n - 1 went missing and an extra check got added, which must have been a hunk of the "higer order pcp batch refills" work sneaking in. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* VM: add "vm_insert_page()" functionLinus Torvalds2005-11-301-2/+34
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This is what a lot of drivers will actually want to use to insert individual pages into a user VMA. It doesn't have the old PageReserved restrictions of remap_pfn_range(), and it doesn't complain about partial remappings. The page you insert needs to be a nice clean kernel allocation, so you can't insert arbitrary page mappings with this, but that's not what people want. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] VM: Fix typos in get_locked_pteTrond Myklebust2005-11-291-2/+2
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] pfnmap: do_no_page BUG_ON againHugh Dickins2005-11-291-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | Use copy_user_highpage directly instead of cow_user_page in do_no_page: in the immediately following page_cache_release, and elsewhere, it is assuming that new_page is normal. If any VM_PFNMAP driver can get to do_no_page, it's just a BUG (but not in the case of do_anonymous_page). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] pfnmap: remove src_page from do_wp_pageHugh Dickins2005-11-291-4/+3
| | | | | | | Clean away do_wp_page's "src_page": cow_user_page makes it unnecessary. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* cow_user_page: fix page alignmentLinus Torvalds2005-11-291-2/+9
| | | | | | | | | High Dickins points out that the user virtual address passed to the page fault handler isn't necessarily page-aligned. Also, add a comment on why the copy could fail for the user address case. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* VM: add common helper function to create the page tablesLinus Torvalds2005-11-292-34/+16
| | | | | | This logic was duplicated four times, for no good reason. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Support strange discontiguous PFN remappingsLinus Torvalds2005-11-291-0/+92
| | | | | | | | | | | | | These get created by some drivers that don't generally even want a pfn remapping at all, but would really mostly prefer to just map pages they've allocated individually instead. For now, create a helper function that turns such an incomplete PFN remapping call into a loop that does that explicit mapping. In the long run we almost certainly want to export a totally different interface for that, though. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Fix missing pfn variables caused by vm changesBen Collins2005-11-292-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | I image this showed up because of "unused var..." when the changes occured, because flush_cache_page() is a noop in most places. This showed up for me on parisc however, where flush_cache_page() is a real function. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Fix vma argument in get_usr_pages() for gate areasNick Piggin2005-11-291-1/+1
| | | | | | | | The system call gate area handling called vm_normal_page() with the wrong vma (which was always NULL, and caused an oops). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] shrinker->nr = LONG_MAX means deadlock for icacheAndrea Arcangeli2005-11-281-3/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> The slab scanning code tries to balance the scanning rate of slabs versus the scanning rate of LRU pages. To do this, it retains state concerning how many slabs have been scanned - if a particular slab shrinker didn't scan enough objects, we remember that for next time, and scan more objects on the next pass. The problem with this is that with (say) a huge number of GFP_NOIO direct-reclaim attempts, the number of objects which are to be scanned when we finally get a GFP_KERNEL request can be huge. Because some shrinker handlers just bail out if !__GFP_FS. So the patch clamps the number of objects-to-be-scanned to 2* the total number of objects in the slab cache. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] temporarily disable swap token on memory pressureRik van Riel2005-11-283-21/+26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some users (hi Zwane) have seen a problem when running a workload that eats nearly all of physical memory - th system does an OOM kill, even when there is still a lot of swap free. The problem appears to be a very big task that is holding the swap token, and the VM has a very hard time finding any other page in the system that is swappable. Instead of ignoring the swap token when sc->priority reaches 0, we could simply take the swap token away from the memory hog and make sure we don't give it back to the memory hog for a few seconds. This patch resolves the problem Zwane ran into. 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>
* [PATCH] mm: __alloc_pages cleanup fixNick Piggin2005-11-281-7/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I believe this patch is required to fix breakage in the asynch reclaim watermark logic introduced by this patch: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=7fb1d9fca5c6e3b06773b69165a73f3fb786b8ee Just some background of the watermark logic in case it isn't clear... Basically what we have is this: --- pages_high | | (a) | --- pages_low | | (b) | --- pages_min | | (c) | --- 0 Now when pages_low is reached, we want to kick asynch reclaim, which gives us an interval of "b" before we must start synch reclaim, and gives kswapd an interval of "a" before it need go back to sleep. When pages_min is reached, normal allocators must enter synch reclaim, but PF_MEMALLOC, ALLOC_HARDER, and ALLOC_HIGH (ie. atomic allocations, recursive allocations, etc.) get access to varying amounts of the reserve "c". Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Workaround for gcc 2.96 (undefined references)Alan Stern2005-11-281-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | LD .tmp_vmlinux1 mm/built-in.o(.text+0x100d6): In function `copy_page_range': : undefined reference to `__pud_alloc' mm/built-in.o(.text+0x1010b): In function `copy_page_range': : undefined reference to `__pmd_alloc' mm/built-in.o(.text+0x11ef4): In function `__handle_mm_fault': : undefined reference to `__pud_alloc' fs/built-in.o(.text+0xc930): In function `install_arg_page': : undefined reference to `__pud_alloc' make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 Those missing references in mm/memory.c arise from this code in include/linux/mm.h, combined with the fact that __PGTABLE_PMD_FOLDED and __PGTABLE_PUD_FOLDED are both set and __ARCH_HAS_4LEVEL_HACK is not: /* * The following ifdef needed to get the 4level-fixup.h header to work. * Remove it when 4level-fixup.h has been removed. */ #if defined(CONFIG_MMU) && !defined(__ARCH_HAS_4LEVEL_HACK) static inline pud_t *pud_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd, unsigned long address) { return (unlikely(pgd_none(*pgd)) && __pud_alloc(mm, pgd, address))? NULL: pud_offset(pgd, address); } static inline pmd_t *pmd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t *pud, unsigned long address) { return (unlikely(pud_none(*pud)) && __pmd_alloc(mm, pud, address))? NULL: pmd_offset(pud, address); } #endif /* CONFIG_MMU && !__ARCH_HAS_4LEVEL_HACK */ With my configuration the pgd_none and pud_none routines are inlines returning a constant 0. Apparently the old compiler avoids generating calls to __pud_alloc and __pmd_alloc but still lists them as undefined references in the module's symbol table. I don't know which change caused this problem. I think it was added somewhere between 2.6.14 and 2.6.15-rc1, because I remember building several 2.6.14-rc kernels without difficulty. However I can't point to an individual culprit. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* mm: re-architect the VM_UNPAGED logicLinus Torvalds2005-11-287-135/+118
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This replaces the (in my opinion horrible) VM_UNMAPPED logic with very explicit support for a "remapped page range" aka VM_PFNMAP. It allows a VM area to contain an arbitrary range of page table entries that the VM never touches, and never considers to be normal pages. Any user of "remap_pfn_range()" automatically gets this new functionality, and doesn't even have to mark the pages reserved or indeed mark them any other way. It just works. As a side effect, doing mmap() on /dev/mem works for arbitrary ranges. Sparc update from David in the next commit. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] 32bit integer overflow in invalidate_inode_pages2()Oleg Drokin2005-11-231-3/+3
| | | | | | | Fix a 32 bit integer overflow in invalidate_inode_pages2_range. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: update split ptlock KconfigHugh Dickins2005-11-231-4/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Closer attention to the arithmetic shows that neither ppc64 nor sparc really uses one page for multiple page tables: how on earth could they, while pte_alloc_one returns just a struct page pointer, with no offset? Well, arm26 manages it by returning a pte_t pointer cast to a struct page pointer, harumph, then compensating in its pmd_populate. But arm26 is never SMP, so it's not a problem for split ptlock either. And the PA-RISC situation has been recently improved: CONFIG_PA20 works without the 16-byte alignment which inflated its spinlock_t. But the current union of spinlock_t with private does make the 7xxx struct page significantly larger, even without debug, so disable its split 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>
* [PATCH] hugetlb: fix race in set_max_huge_pages for multiple updaters of ↵Eric Paris2005-11-221-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | nr_huge_pages If there are multiple updaters to /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages simultaneously it is possible for the nr_huge_pages variable to become incorrect. There is no locking in the set_max_huge_pages function around alloc_fresh_huge_page which is able to update nr_huge_pages. Two callers to alloc_fresh_huge_page could race against each other as could a call to alloc_fresh_huge_page and a call to update_and_free_page. This patch just expands the area covered by the hugetlb_lock to cover the call into alloc_fresh_huge_page. I'm not sure how we could say that a sysctl section is performance critical where more specific locking would be needed. My reproducer was to run a couple copies of the following script simultaneously while [ true ]; do echo 1000 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages echo 500 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages echo 750 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages echo 100 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages done and then watch /proc/meminfo and eventually you will see things like HugePages_Total: 100 HugePages_Free: 109 After applying the patch all seemed well. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] unpaged: PG_reserved bad_pageHugh Dickins2005-11-221-12/+34
| | | | | | | | | | | It used to be the case that PG_reserved pages were silently never freed, but in 2.6.15-rc1 they may be freed with a "Bad page state" message. We should work through such cases as they appear, fixing the code; but for now it's safer to issue the message without freeing the page, leaving PG_reserved set. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] unpaged: ZERO_PAGE in VM_UNPAGEDHugh Dickins2005-11-221-2/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | It's strange enough to be looking out for anonymous pages in VM_UNPAGED areas, let's not insert the ZERO_PAGE there - though whether it would matter will depend on what we decide about ZERO_PAGE refcounting. But whereas do_anonymous_page may (exceptionally) be called on a VM_UNPAGED area, do_no_page should never be: just BUG_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>
* [PATCH] unpaged: anon in VM_UNPAGEDHugh Dickins2005-11-222-24/+46
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | copy_one_pte needs to copy the anonymous COWed pages in a VM_UNPAGED area, zap_pte_range needs to free them, do_wp_page needs to COW them: just like ordinary pages, not like the unpaged. But recognizing them is a little subtle: because PageReserved is no longer a condition for remap_pfn_range, we can now mmap all of /dev/mem (whether the distro permits, and whether it's advisable on this or that architecture, is another matter). So if we can see a PageAnon, it may not be ours to mess with (or may be ours from elsewhere in the address space). I suspect there's an entertaining insoluble self-referential problem here, but the page_is_anon function does a good practical job, and MAP_PRIVATE PROT_WRITE VM_UNPAGED will always be an odd choice. In updating the comment on page_address_in_vma, noticed a potential NULL dereference, in a path we don't actually take, but fixed 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>
* [PATCH] unpaged: COW on VM_UNPAGEDHugh Dickins2005-11-221-12/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the BUG_ON(vma->vm_flags & VM_UNPAGED) from do_wp_page, and let it do Copy-On-Write without touching the VM_UNPAGED's page counts - but this is incomplete, because the anonymous page it inserts will itself need to be handled, here and in other functions - next patch. We still don't copy the page if the pfn is invalid, because the copy_user_highpage interface does not allow it. But that's not been a problem in the past: can be added in later if the need arises. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] unpaged: VM_NONLINEAR VM_RESERVEDHugh Dickins2005-11-222-14/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's one peculiar use of VM_RESERVED which the previous patch left behind: because VM_NONLINEAR's try_to_unmap_cluster uses vm_private_data as a swapout cursor, but should never meet VM_RESERVED vmas, it was a way of extending VM_NONLINEAR to VM_RESERVED vmas using vm_private_data for some other purpose. But that's an empty set - they don't have the populate function required. So just throw away those VM_RESERVED tests. But one more interesting in rmap.c has to go too: try_to_unmap_one will want to swap out an anonymous page from VM_RESERVED or VM_UNPAGED 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>
* [PATCH] unpaged: VM_UNPAGEDHugh Dickins2005-11-225-18/+24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Although we tend to associate VM_RESERVED with remap_pfn_range, quite a few drivers set VM_RESERVED on areas which are then populated by nopage. The PageReserved removal in 2.6.15-rc1 changed VM_RESERVED not to free pages in zap_pte_range, without changing those drivers not to set it: so their pages just leak away. Let's not change miscellaneous drivers now: introduce VM_UNPAGED at the core, to flag the special areas where the ptes may have no struct page, or if they have then it's not to be touched. Replace most instances of VM_RESERVED in core mm by VM_UNPAGED. Force it on in remap_pfn_range, and the sparc and sparc64 io_remap_pfn_range. Revert addition of VM_RESERVED to powerpc vdso, it's not needed there. Is it needed anywhere? It still governs the mm->reserved_vm statistic, and special vmas not to be merged, and areas not to be core dumped; but could probably be eliminated later (the drivers are probably specifying it because in 2.4 it kept swapout off the vma, but in 2.6 we work from the LRU, which these pages don't get on). Use the VM_SHM slot for VM_UNPAGED, and define VM_SHM to 0: it serves no purpose whatsoever, and should be removed from drivers when we clean up. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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