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2007-12-10[XFS] Make xfsbufd threads freezableRafael J. Wysocki
Fix breakage caused by commit 831441862956fffa17b9801db37e6ea1650b0f69 that did not introduce the necessary call to set_freezable() in xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c . SGI-PV: 974224 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30203a Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2007-12-10[XFS] Clear XBF_READ_AHEAD flag on I/O completion.Lachlan McIlroy
SGI-PV: 972554 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30128a Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
2007-12-10[XFS] Fixed a few bugs in xfs_buf_associate_memory()Lachlan McIlroy
- calculation of 'page_count' was incorrect as it did not consider the offset of 'mem' into the first page. The logic to bump 'page_count' didn't work if 'len' was <= PAGE_CACHE_SIZE (ie offset = 3k, len = 2k). - setting b_buffer_length to 'len' is incorrect if 'offset' is > 0. Set it to the total length of the buffer. - I suspect that passing a non-aligned address into mem_to_page() for the first page may have been causing issues - don't know but just tidy up that code anyway. SGI-PV: 971596 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30143a Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
2007-10-17Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6: (59 commits) [XFS] eagerly remove vmap mappings to avoid upsetting Xen [XFS] simplify validata_fields [XFS] no longer using io_vnode, as was remaining from 23 cherrypick [XFS] Remove STATIC which was missing from prior manual merge [XFS] Put back the QUEUE_ORDERED_NONE test in the barrier check. [XFS] Turn off XBF_ASYNC flag before re-reading superblock. [XFS] avoid race in sync_inodes() that can fail to write out all dirty data [XFS] This fix prevents bulkstat from spinning in an infinite loop. [XFS] simplify xfs_create/mknod/symlink prototype [XFS] avoid xfs_getattr in XFS_IOC_FSGETXATTR ioctl [XFS] get_bulkall() could return incorrect inode state [XFS] Kill unused IOMAP_EOF flag [XFS] fix when DMAPI mount option processing happens [XFS] ensure file size is logged on synchronous writes [XFS] growlock should be a mutex [XFS] replace some large xfs_log_priv.h macros by proper functions [XFS] kill struct bhv_vfs [XFS] move syncing related members from struct bhv_vfs to struct xfs_mount [XFS] kill the vfs_flags member in struct bhv_vfs [XFS] kill the vfs_fsid and vfs_altfsid members in struct bhv_vfs ...
2007-10-17[XFS] eagerly remove vmap mappings to avoid upsetting XenJeremy Fitzhardinge
XFS leaves stray mappings around when it vmaps memory to make it virtually contigious. This upsets Xen if one of those pages is being recycled into a pagetable, since it finds an extra writable mapping of the page. This patch solves the problem in a brute force way, by making XFS always eagerly unmap its mappings. SGI-PV: 971902 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:29886a Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
2007-10-15[XFS] Barriers need to be dynamically checked and switched offDavid Chinner
If the underlying block device suddenly stops supporting barriers, we need to handle the -EOPNOTSUPP error in a sane manner rather than shutting down the filesystem. If we get this error, clear the barrier flag, reissue the I/O, and tell the world bad things are occurring. SGI-PV: 964544 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:28568a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
2007-10-12Fix up more bio falloutAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-10Drop 'size' argument from bio_endio and bi_end_ioNeilBrown
As bi_end_io is only called once when the reqeust is complete, the 'size' argument is now redundant. Remove it. Now there is no need for bio_endio to subtract the size completed from bi_size. So don't do that either. While we are at it, change bi_end_io to return void. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-17mm: clean up and kernelify shrinker registrationRusty Russell
I can never remember what the function to register to receive VM pressure is called. I have to trace down from __alloc_pages() to find it. It's called "set_shrinker()", and it needs Your Help. 1) Don't hide struct shrinker. It contains no magic. 2) Don't allocate "struct shrinker". It's not helpful. 3) Call them "register_shrinker" and "unregister_shrinker". 4) Call the function "shrink" not "shrinker". 5) Reduce the 17 lines of waffly comments to 13, but document it properly. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-14[XFS] Flush the block device before closing it on unmount.David Chinner
SGI-PV: 965630 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:28774a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
2007-07-14[XFS] Use generic shrinker interfaces in XFS.Andrew Morton
SGI-PV: 964986 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:28642a Signed-Off-By: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
2007-07-14[XFS] Fix double free in xfs_buf_get_noaddr error handling pathChristoph Hellwig
SGI-PV: 964983 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:28639a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
2007-07-14[XFS] Only use refcounted pages for I/OChristoph Hellwig
Many block drivers (aoe, iscsi) really want refcountable pages in bios, which is what almost everyone send down. XFS unfortunately has a few places where it sends down buffers that may come from kmalloc, which breaks them. Fix the places that use kmalloc()d buffers. SGI-PV: 964546 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:28562a Signed-Off-By: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
2007-05-08[XFS] Export via a function xfs_buftarg_list for use by kdb/xfsidbg.Tim Shimmin
SGI-PV: 963465 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:28414a Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
2007-03-22[PATCH] Make XFS workqueues nonfreezableRafael J. Wysocki
Since freezable workqueues are broken in 2.6.21-rc (cf. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116855740612755, http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=117261312523921&w=2) it's better to change the only user of them, which is XFS, to use "normal" nonfreezable workqueues. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-10[XFS] Keep stack usage down for 4k stacks by using noinline.David Chinner
gcc-4.1 and more recent aggressively inline static functions which increases XFS stack usage by ~15% in critical paths. Prevent this from occurring by adding noinline to the STATIC definition. Also uninline some functions that are too large to be inlined and were causing problems with CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING=y. Finally, clean up all the different users of inline, __inline and __inline__ and put them under one STATIC_INLINE macro. For debug kernels the STATIC_INLINE macro uninlines those functions. SGI-PV: 957159 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:27585a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: David Chatterton <chatz@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
2007-02-10[XFS] Current usage of buftarg flags is incorrect.David Chinner
The {test,set,clear}_bit() operations take a bit index for the bit to operate on. The XBT_* flags are defined as bit fields which is incorrect, not to mention the way the bit fields are enumerated is broken too. This was only working by chance. Fix the definitions of the flags and make the code using them use the {test,set,clear}_bit() operations correctly. SGI-PV: 958639 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:27565a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
2007-02-10[XFS] Fix a synchronous buftarg flush deadlock when freezing.David Chinner
At the last stage of a freeze, we flush the buftarg synchronously over and over again until it succeeds twice without skipping any buffers. The delwri list flush skips pinned buffers, but tries to flush all others. It removes the buffers from the delwri list, then tries to lock them one at a time as it traverses the list to issue the I/O. It holds them locked until we issue all of the I/O and then unlocks them once we've waited for it to complete. The problem is that during a freeze, the filesystem may still be doing stuff - like flushing delalloc data buffers - in the background and hence we can be trying to lock buffers that were on the delwri list at the same time. Hence we can get ABBA deadlocks between threads doing allocation and the buftarg flush (freeze) thread. Fix it by skipping locked (and pinned) buffers as we traverse the delwri buffer list. SGI-PV: 957195 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:27535a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
2006-12-07[PATCH] Use freezeable workqueues in XFSRafael J. Wysocki
Make the workqueues used by XFS freezeable, so their worker threads don't submit any I/O after the suspend image has been created. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net> Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.hNigel Cunningham
Move process freezing functions from include/linux/sched.h to freezer.h, so that modifications to the freezer or the kernel configuration don't require recompiling just about everything. [akpm@osdl.org: fix ueagle driver] Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-22WorkStruct: make allyesconfigDavid Howells
Fix up for make allyesconfig. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-11-11[XFS] 956618: Linux crashes on boot with XFS-DMAPI filesystem whenVlad Apostolov
CONFIG_XFS_TRACE is on SGI-PV: 956618 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:27196a Signed-off-by: Vlad Apostolov <vapo@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
2006-10-20[PATCH] separate bdi congestion functions from queue congestion functionsAndrew Morton
Separate out the concept of "queue congestion" from "backing-dev congestion". Congestion is a backing-dev concept, not a queue concept. The blk_* congestion functions are retained, as wrappers around the core backing-dev congestion functions. This proper layering is needed so that NFS can cleanly use the congestion functions, and so that CONFIG_BLOCK=n actually links. Cc: "Thomas Maier" <balagi@justmail.de> Cc: "Jens Axboe" <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-28[XFS] Be more defensive with page flags (error/private) for metadataNathan Scott
buffers. SGI-PV: 955302 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:26801a Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
2006-09-28[XFS] Add a debug flag for allocations which are known to be larger thanNathan Scott
one page. SGI-PV: 955302 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:26800a Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
2006-09-28[XFS] When issuing metadata readahead, submit bio with READA not READ.Nathan Scott
SGI-PV: 944409 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:26603a Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
2006-09-28[XFS] Improve xfsbufd delayed write submission patterns, after blktraceNathan Scott
analysis. Under a sequential create+allocate workload, blktrace reported backward writes being issued by xfsbufd, and frequent inappropriate queue unplugs. We now insert at the tail when moving from the delwri lists to the temp lists, which maintains correct ordering, and we avoid unplugging queues deep in the submit paths when we'd shortly do it at a higher level anyway. blktrace now reports much healthier write patterns from xfsbufd for this workload (and likely many others). SGI-PV: 954310 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:26396a Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>
2006-06-28[PATCH] mark address_space_operations constChristoph Hellwig
Same as with already do with the file operations: keep them in .rodata and prevents people from doing runtime patching. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] Add GFP_NOWAITJeff Dike
Introduce GFP_NOWAIT, as an alias for GFP_ATOMIC & ~__GFP_HIGH. This also changes XFS, which is the only in-tree user of this idiom that I could find. The XFS piece is compile-tested only. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Acked-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23Merge git://oss.sgi.com:8090/oss/git/xfs-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://oss.sgi.com:8090/oss/git/xfs-2.6: (71 commits) [XFS] Sync up one/two other minor changes missed in previous merges. [XFS] Reenable the noikeep (delete inode cluster space) option by default. [XFS] Check that a page has dirty buffers before finding it acceptable for [XFS] Fixup naming inconsistencies found by Pekka Enberg and one from Jan [XFS] Explain the race closed by the addition of vn_iowait() to the start [XFS] Fixing the error caused by the conflict between DIO Write's [XFS] Fixing KDB's xrwtrc command, also added the current process id into [XFS] Fix compiler warning from xfs_file_compat_invis_ioctl prototype. [XFS] remove bogus INT_GET for u8 variables in xfs_dir_leaf.c [XFS] endianess annotations for xfs_da_node_hdr_t [XFS] endianess annotations for xfs_da_node_entry_t [XFS] store xfs_attr_inactive_list_t in native endian [XFS] store xfs_attr_sf_sort in native endian [XFS] endianess annotations for xfs_attr_shortform_t [XFS] endianess annotations for xfs_attr_leaf_name_remote_t [XFS] endianess annotations for xfs_attr_leaf_name_local_t [XFS] endianess annotations for xfs_attr_leaf_entry_t [XFS] endianess annotations for xfs_attr_leaf_hdr_t [XFS] remove bogus INT_GET on u8 variables in xfs_dir2_block.c [XFS] endianess annotations for xfs_da_blkinfo_t ...
2006-03-22[PATCH] page migration reorgChristoph Lameter
Centralize the page migration functions in anticipation of additional tinkering. Creates a new file mm/migrate.c 1. Extract buffer_migrate_page() from fs/buffer.c 2. Extract central migration code from vmscan.c 3. Extract some components from mempolicy.c 4. Export pageout() and remove_from_swap() from vmscan.c 5. Make it possible to configure NUMA systems without page migration and non-NUMA systems with page migration. I had to so some #ifdeffing in mempolicy.c that may need a cleanup. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-14[XFS] Cleanup the use of zones/slabs, more consistent and allows flags toNathan Scott
be passed. SGI-PV: 949073 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:25122a Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2006-02-01[PATCH] Direct Migration V9: Avoid writeback / page_migrate() methodChristoph Lameter
Migrate a page with buffers without requiring writeback This introduces a new address space operation migratepage() that may be used by a filesystem to implement its own version of page migration. A version is provided that migrates buffers attached to pages. Some filesystems (ext2, ext3, xfs) are modified to utilize this feature. The swapper address space operation are modified so that a regular migrate_page() will occur for anonymous pages without writeback (migrate_pages forces every anonymous page to have a swap entry). Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01[XFS] Fix regression in xfs_buf_rele dealing with non-hashed buffers, asNathan Scott
occur during log replay. Novell bug 145204, Fedora bug 177848. SGI-PV: 948860 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:25064a Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2006-01-11[XFS] Fix up offset type inconsistencies and gcc warnings from earlierNathan Scott
changes. SGI-PV: 947038 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:24875a Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2006-01-11[XFS] fix up per-device xfsbufdChristoph Hellwig
SGI-PV: 947098 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:203831a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2006-01-11[XFS] Complete the pagebuf -> xfs_buf naming convention transition,Nathan Scott
finally. SGI-PV: 947038 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:24866a Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2006-01-11[XFS] Introduce per-filesystem delwri pagebuf flushing to reduceDavid Chinner
contention between filesystems and prevent deadlocks between filesystems when a flush dependency exists between them. SGI-PV: 947098 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:24844a Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-04[XFS] Remove no-longer-used qsort source.Nathan Scott
Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02[XFS] Simplify pagebuf_rele Remove a conditional that can not be trueChristoph Hellwig
anymore and simplify the final put path a little SGI-PV: 908809 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:200790a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02[XFS] Update license/copyright notices to match the prefered SGINathan Scott
boilerplate. SGI-PV: 913862 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:23903a Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02[XFS] only mark buffers done when all pages are uptodate in additionChristoph Hellwig
replace PBF_NONE with an inverted PBF_DONE, so it's like all the other flags. SGI-PV: 942609 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:199136a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02[XFS] write barrier support Issue all log sync operations as orderedChristoph Hellwig
writes. In addition flush the disk cache on fsync if the sync cached operation didn't sync the log to disk (this requires some additional bookeping in the transaction and log code). If the device doesn't claim to support barriers, the filesystem has an extern log volume or the trial superblock write with barriers enabled failed we disable barriers and print a warning. We should probably fail the mount completely, but that could lead to nasty boot failures for the root filesystem. Not enabled by default yet, needs more destructive testing first. SGI-PV: 912426 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:198723a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02[XFS] fix PBF_NONE handlingChristoph Hellwig
SGI-PV: 908809 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:198669a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02[XFS] remove unused pagebuf flagsChristoph Hellwig
SGI-PV: 908809 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:198656a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-11-02[XFS] Make sure the threads and shaker in xfs_buf are de-initialized inChristoph Hellwig
reverse startup order SGI-PV: 942063 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:198651a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
2005-10-29[PATCH] mm: split page table lockHugh Dickins
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>
2005-10-28[PATCH] gfp_t: fs/*Al Viro
- ->releasepage() annotated (s/int/gfp_t), instances updated - missing gfp_t in fs/* added - fixed misannotation from the original sweep caught by bitwise checks: XFS used __nocast both for gfp_t and for flags used by XFS allocator. The latter left with unsigned int __nocast; we might want to add a different type for those but for now let's leave them alone. That, BTW, is a case when __nocast use had been actively confusing - it had been used in the same code for two different and similar types, with no way to catch misuses. Switch of gfp_t to bitwise had caught that immediately... One tricky bit is left alone to be dealt with later - mapping->flags is a mix of gfp_t and error indications. Left alone for now. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10[PATCH] fs: fix-up schedule_timeout() usageNishanth Aravamudan
Use schedule_timeout_{,un}interruptible() instead of set_current_state()/schedule_timeout() to reduce kernel size. Also use helper functions to convert between human time units and jiffies rather than constant HZ division to avoid rounding errors. 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>
2005-09-05[XFS] Switch kernel thread handling to the kthread_ APIChristoph Hellwig
SGI-PV: 942063 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:198388a Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>