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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
slub: dump more data on slab corruption
SLUB: simplify re on_each_cpu()
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Hash et al. sizing code in SCTP wants to make the
calculation totalram_pages - totalhigh_pages, just
like TCP. But this requires an export for the
CONFIG_HIGHMEM case to work.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The limit of 128 bytes is too small when debugging slab corruption of the skb
cache, for example. So increase the limit to PAGE_SIZE to make debugging
corruptions easier.
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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on_each_cpu() expands to function call on UP, too.
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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Manual merge of:
arch/powerpc/Kconfig
arch/powerpc/kernel/stacktrace.c
arch/powerpc/mm/slice.c
arch/ppc/kernel/smp.c
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Conflicts:
arch/powerpc/Kconfig
arch/s390/kernel/time.c
arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c
arch/x86/kernel/i8259_64.c
arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
arch/x86/kernel/nmi_64.c
arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
arch/x86/xen/smp.c
include/asm-x86/hw_irq_32.h
include/asm-x86/hw_irq_64.h
include/asm-x86/mach-default/irq_vectors.h
include/asm-x86/mach-voyager/irq_vectors.h
include/asm-x86/smp.h
kernel/Makefile
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
slab: rename slab_destroy_objs
slub: current is always valid
slub: Add check for kfree() of non slab objects.
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With the removal of destructors, slab_destroy_objs no longer actually
destroys any objects, making the kernel doc incorrect and the function
name misleading.
In keeping with the other debug functions, rename it to
slab_destroy_debugcheck and drop the kernel doc.
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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We can detect kfree()s on non slab objects by checking for PageCompound().
Works in the same way as for ksize. This helped me catch an invalid
kfree().
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (61 commits)
ext4: Documention update for new ordered mode and delayed allocation
ext4: do not set extents feature from the kernel
ext4: Don't allow nonextenst mount option for large filesystem
ext4: Enable delalloc by default.
ext4: delayed allocation i_blocks fix for stat
ext4: fix delalloc i_disksize early update issue
ext4: Handle page without buffers in ext4_*_writepage()
ext4: Add ordered mode support for delalloc
ext4: Invert lock ordering of page_lock and transaction start in delalloc
mm: Add range_cont mode for writeback
ext4: delayed allocation ENOSPC handling
percpu_counter: new function percpu_counter_sum_and_set
ext4: Add delayed allocation support in data=writeback mode
vfs: add hooks for ext4's delayed allocation support
jbd2: Remove data=ordered mode support using jbd buffer heads
ext4: Use new framework for data=ordered mode in JBD2
jbd2: Implement data=ordered mode handling via inodes
vfs: export filemap_fdatawrite_range()
ext4: Fix lock inversion in ext4_ext_truncate()
ext4: Invert the locking order of page_lock and transaction start
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Manual fixup of:
arch/powerpc/Kconfig
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'tracing/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (228 commits)
ftrace: build fix for ftraced_suspend
ftrace: separate out the function enabled variable
ftrace: add ftrace_kill_atomic
ftrace: use current CPU for function startup
ftrace: start wakeup tracing after setting function tracer
ftrace: check proper config for preempt type
ftrace: trace schedule
ftrace: define function trace nop
ftrace: move sched_switch enable after markers
ftrace: prevent ftrace modifications while being kprobe'd, v2
fix "ftrace: store mcount address in rec->ip"
mmiotrace broken in linux-next (8-bit writes only)
ftrace: avoid modifying kprobe'd records
ftrace: freeze kprobe'd records
kprobes: enable clean usage of get_kprobe
ftrace: store mcount address in rec->ip
ftrace: build fix with gcc 4.3
namespacecheck: fixes
ftrace: fix "notrace" filtering priority
ftrace: fix printout
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (821 commits)
x86: make 64bit hpet_set_mapping to use ioremap too, v2
x86: get x86_phys_bits early
x86: max_low_pfn_mapped fix #4
x86: change _node_to_cpumask_ptr to return const ptr
x86: I/O APIC: remove an IRQ2-mask hack
x86: fix numaq_tsc_disable calling
x86, e820: remove end_user_pfn
x86: max_low_pfn_mapped fix, #3
x86: max_low_pfn_mapped fix, #2
x86: max_low_pfn_mapped fix, #1
x86_64: fix delayed signals
x86: remove conflicting nx6325 and nx6125 quirks
x86: Recover timer_ack lost in the merge of the NMI watchdog
x86: I/O APIC: Never configure IRQ2
x86: L-APIC: Always fully configure IRQ0
x86: L-APIC: Set IRQ0 as edge-triggered
x86: merge dwarf2 headers
x86: use AS_CFI instead of UNWIND_INFO
x86: use ignore macro instead of hash comment
x86: use matching CFI_ENDPROC
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hskinnemoen/avr32-2.6: (31 commits)
avr32: Fix typo of IFSR in a comment in the PIO header file
avr32: Power Management support ("standby" and "mem" modes)
avr32: Add system device for the internal interrupt controller (intc)
avr32: Add simple SRAM allocator
avr32: Enable SDRAMC clock at startup
rtc-at32ap700x: Enable wakeup
macb: Basic suspend/resume support
atmel_serial: Drain console TX shifter before suspending
atmel_serial: Fix build on avr32 with CONFIG_PM enabled
avr32: Use a quicklist for PTE allocation as well
avr32: Use a quicklist for PGD allocation
avr32: Cover the kernel page tables in the user PGDs
avr32: Store virtual addresses in the PGD
avr32: Remove useless zeroing of swapper_pg_dir at startup
avr32: Clean up and optimize the TLB operations
avr32: Rename at32ap.c -> pdc.c
avr32: Move setup_platform() into chip-specific file
avr32: Kill special exception handler sections
avr32: Kill unneeded #include <asm/pgalloc.h> from asm/mmu_context.h
avr32: Clean up time.c #includes
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* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: (71 commits)
[S390] sclp_tty: Fix scheduling while atomic bug.
[S390] sclp_tty: remove ioctl interface.
[S390] Remove P390 support.
[S390] Cleanup vmcp printk messages.
[S390] Cleanup lcs printk messages.
[S390] Cleanup kprobes printk messages.
[S390] Cleanup vmwatch printk messages.
[S390] Cleanup dcssblk printk messages.
[S390] Cleanup zfcp dumper printk messages.
[S390] Cleanup vmlogrdr printk messages.
[S390] Cleanup s390 debug feature print messages.
[S390] Cleanup monreader printk messages.
[S390] Cleanup appldata printk messages.
[S390] Cleanup smsgiucv printk messages.
[S390] Cleanup cpacf printk messages.
[S390] Cleanup qeth print messages.
[S390] Cleanup netiucv printk messages.
[S390] Cleanup iucv printk messages.
[S390] Cleanup sclp printk messages.
[S390] Cleanup zcrypt printk messages.
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This simplifies the code significantly, and was the whole point of the
exercise.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
arch/x86/lib/Makefile
include/asm-x86/irqflags.h
kernel/Makefile
kernel/sched.c
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Manual fixup of include/asm-powerpc/pgtable-ppc64.h
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Filesystems like ext4 needs to start a new transaction in
the writepages for block allocation. This happens with delayed
allocation and there is limit to how many credits we can request
from the journal layer. So we call write_cache_pages multiple
times with wbc->nr_to_write set to the maximum possible value
limitted by the max journal credits available.
Add a new mode to writeback that enables us to handle this
behaviour. In the new mode we update the wbc->range_start
to point to the new offset to be written. Next call to
call to write_cache_pages will start writeout from specified
range_start offset. In the new mode we also limit writing
to the specified wbc->range_end.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Make filemap_fdatawrite_range() function public, so that it can later
be used in ordered mode rewrite by JBD/JBD2.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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Vegard Nossum reported a crash in kmem_cache_alloc():
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at da87d000
IP: [<c01991c7>] kmem_cache_alloc+0xc7/0xe0
*pde = 28180163 *pte = 1a87d160
Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
Pid: 3850, comm: grep Not tainted (2.6.26-rc9-00059-gb190333 #5)
EIP: 0060:[<c01991c7>] EFLAGS: 00210203 CPU: 0
EIP is at kmem_cache_alloc+0xc7/0xe0
EAX: 00000000 EBX: da87c100 ECX: 1adad71a EDX: 6b6b6b6b
ESI: 00200282 EDI: da87d000 EBP: f60bfe74 ESP: f60bfe54
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
and analyzed it:
"The register %ecx looks innocent but is very important here. The disassembly:
mov %edx,%ecx
shr $0x2,%ecx
rep stos %eax,%es:(%edi) <-- the fault
So %ecx has been loaded from %edx... which is 0x6b6b6b6b/POISON_FREE.
(0x6b6b6b6b >> 2 == 0x1adadada.)
%ecx is the counter for the memset, from here:
memset(object, 0, c->objsize);
i.e. %ecx was loaded from c->objsize, so "c" must have been freed.
Where did "c" come from? Uh-oh...
c = get_cpu_slab(s, smp_processor_id());
This looks like it has very much to do with CPU hotplug/unplug. Is
there a race between SLUB/hotplug since the CPU slab is used after it
has been freed?"
Good analysis.
Yeah, it's possible that a caller of kmem_cache_alloc() -> slab_alloc()
can be migrated on another CPU right after local_irq_restore() and
before memset(). The inital cpu can become offline in the mean time (or
a migration is a consequence of the CPU going offline) so its
'kmem_cache_cpu' structure gets freed ( slab_cpuup_callback).
At some point of time the caller continues on another CPU having an
obsolete pointer...
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch allows architectures to define functions to deal with
additional protections bits for mmap() and mprotect().
arch_calc_vm_prot_bits() maps additonal protection bits to vm_flags
arch_vm_get_page_prot() maps additional vm_flags to the vma's vm_page_prot
arch_validate_prot() checks for valid values of the protection bits
Note: vm_get_page_prot() is now pretty ugly, but the generated code
should be identical for architectures that don't define additional
protection bits.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Fix some problems with (and applies on top of) a previous patch:
x86 boot: show pfn addresses in hex not decimal in some kernel info printks
Primarily change "0x%8lx" format, which displays with a right aligned
space filled hex number (spaces between the "0x" prefix and the number),
into "%0#10lx" format, which zero fills instead of space fills, and
which uses the printf flag '#' to request the "0x" prefix instead of
hard coding it.
Also replace some other "0x%lx" formats with "%#lx", making use of the
'#' printf flag again.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jack Steiner" <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: "Mike Travis" <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: "Huang
Cc: Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: "Andi Kleen" <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Everywhere I look, node id's are of type 'int', except in this one
case, which has 'unsigned long'. Change this one to 'int' as well.
There is nothing special about the way this variable 'nid' is used in
this routine to justify using an unusual type here.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jack Steiner" <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: "Mike Travis" <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: "Huang
Cc: Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: "Andi Kleen" <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Page frame numbers (the portion of physical addresses above the low
order page offsets) are displayed in several kernel debug and info
prints in decimal, not hex. Decimal addresse are unreadable. Use hex.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jack Steiner" <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: "Mike Travis" <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: "Huang
Cc: Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: "Andi Kleen" <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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want to remove arch_get_ram_range, and use early_node_map instead.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/Kconfig
arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_32.c
arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c
arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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use early_node_map to init high pages, so we can remove page_is_ram() and
page_is_reserved_early() in the big loop with add_one_highpage
also remove page_is_reserved_early(), it is not needed anymore.
v2: fix the build of other platforms
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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in case we have kva before ramdisk on a node, we still need to use
those ranges.
v2: reserve_early kva ram area, in case there are holes in highmem, to avoid
those area could be treat as free high pages.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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'x86/build', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/cpa', 'x86/cpu', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/gart', 'x86/i8259', 'x86/intel', 'x86/irqstats', 'x86/kconfig', 'x86/ldt', 'x86/mce', 'x86/memtest', 'x86/pat', 'x86/ptemask', 'x86/resumetrace', 'x86/threadinfo', 'x86/timers', 'x86/vdso' and 'x86/xen' into x86/devel
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Flags considered internal to the mempolicy kernel code are stored as part
of the "flags" member of struct mempolicy.
Before exposing a policy type to userspace via get_mempolicy(), these
internal flags must be masked. Flags exposed to userspace, however,
should still be returned to the user.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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get_user_pages() must not return the error when i != 0. When pages !=
NULL we have i get_page()'ed pages.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dirty page accounting accurately measures the amound of dirty pages in
writable shared mappings by mapping the pages RO (as indicated by
vma_wants_writenotify). We then trap on first write and call
set_page_dirty() on the page, after which we map the page RW and
continue execution.
When we launder dirty pages, we call clear_page_dirty_for_io() which
clears both the dirty flag, and maps the page RO again before we start
writeout so that the story can repeat itself.
vma_wants_writenotify() excludes VM_PFNMAP on the basis that we cannot
do the regular dirty page stuff on raw PFNs and the memory isn't going
anywhere anyway.
The recently introduced VM_MIXEDMAP mixes both !pfn_valid() and
pfn_valid() pages in a single mapping.
We can't do dirty page accounting on !pfn_valid() pages as stated
above, and mapping them RO causes them to be COW'ed on write, which
breaks VM_SHARED semantics.
Excluding VM_MIXEDMAP in vma_wants_writenotify() would mean we don't do
the regular dirty page accounting for the pfn_valid() pages, which
would bring back all the head-aches from inaccurate dirty page
accounting.
So instead, we let the !pfn_valid() pages get mapped RO, but fix them
up unconditionally in the fault path.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: "Jared Hulbert" <jaredeh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Remove all clameter@sgi.com addresses from the kernel tree since they will
become invalid on June 27th. Change my maintainer email address for the
slab allocators to cl@linux-foundation.org (which will be the new email
address for the future).
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
slub: Do not use 192 byte sized cache if minimum alignment is 128 byte
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The non-NUMA case of build_zonelist_cache() would initialize the
zlcache_ptr for both node_zonelists[] to NULL.
Which is problematic, since non-NUMA only has a single node_zonelists[]
entry, and trying to zero the non-existent second one just overwrote the
nr_zones field instead.
As kswapd uses this value to determine what reclaim work is necessary,
the result is that kswapd never reclaims. This causes processes to
stall frequently in low-memory situations as they always direct reclaim.
This patch initialises zlcache_ptr correctly.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Tested-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
[ Simplified patch a bit ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The 192 byte cache is not necessary if we have a basic alignment of 128
byte. If it would be used then the 192 would be aligned to the next 128 byte
boundary which would result in another 256 byte cache. Two 256 kmalloc caches
cause sysfs to complain about a duplicate entry.
MIPS needs 128 byte aligned kmalloc caches and spits out warnings on boot without
this patch.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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Using a quicklist to allocate PTEs might be slightly faster than using
the page allocator directly since we might avoid zeroing the page
after each allocation.
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
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It's not even passed on to smp_call_function() anymore, since that
was removed. So kill it.
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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This patch adds an API for doing read-modify-write updates to a pte's
protection bits which may race against hardware updates to the pte.
After reading the pte, the hardware may asynchonously set the accessed
or dirty bits on a pte, which would be lost when writing back the
modified pte value.
The existing technique to handle this race is to use
ptep_get_and_clear() atomically fetch the old pte value and clear it
in memory. This has the effect of marking the pte as non-present,
which will prevent the hardware from updating its state. When the new
value is written back, the pte will be present again, and the hardware
can resume updating the access/dirty flags.
When running in a virtualized environment, pagetable updates are
relatively expensive, since they generally involve some trap into the
hypervisor. To mitigate the cost of these updates, we tend to batch
them.
However, because of the atomic nature of ptep_get_and_clear(), it is
inherently non-batchable. This new interface allows batching by
giving the underlying implementation enough information to open a
transaction between the read and write phases:
ptep_modify_prot_start() returns the current pte value, and puts the
pte entry into a state where either the hardware will not update the
pte, or if it does, the updates will be preserved on commit.
ptep_modify_prot_commit() writes back the updated pte, makes sure that
any hardware updates made since ptep_modify_prot_start() are
preserved.
ptep_modify_prot_start() and _commit() must be exactly paired, and
used while holding the appropriate pte lock. They do not protect
against other software updates of the pte in any way.
The current implementations of ptep_modify_prot_start and _commit are
functionally unchanged from before: _start() uses ptep_get_and_clear()
fetch the pte and zero the entry, preventing any hardware updates.
_commit() simply writes the new pte value back knowing that the
hardware has not updated the pte in the meantime.
The only current user of this interface is mprotect
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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There is a race in the COW logic. It contains a shortcut to avoid the
COW and reuse the page if we have the sole reference on the page,
however it is possible to have two racing do_wp_page()ers with one
causing the other to mistakenly believe it is safe to take the shortcut
when it is not. This could lead to data corruption.
Process 1 and process2 each have a wp pte of the same anon page (ie.
one forked the other). The page's mapcount is 2. Then they both
attempt to write to it around the same time...
proc1 proc2 thr1 proc2 thr2
CPU0 CPU1 CPU3
do_wp_page() do_wp_page()
trylock_page()
can_share_swap_page()
load page mapcount (==2)
reuse = 0
pte unlock
copy page to new_page
pte lock
page_remove_rmap(page);
trylock_page()
can_share_swap_page()
load page mapcount (==1)
reuse = 1
ptep_set_access_flags (allow W)
write private key into page
read from page
ptep_clear_flush()
set_pte_at(pte of new_page)
Fix this by moving the page_remove_rmap of the old page after the pte
clear and flush. Potentially the entire branch could be moved down
here, but in order to stay consistent, I won't (should probably move all
the *_mm_counter stuff with one patch).
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Commit 89f5b7da2a6bad2e84670422ab8192382a5aeb9f ("Reinstate ZERO_PAGE
optimization in 'get_user_pages()' and fix XIP") broke vmware, as
reported by Jeff Chua:
"This broke vmware 6.0.4.
Jun 22 14:53:03.845: vmx| NOT_IMPLEMENTED
/build/mts/release/bora-93057/bora/vmx/main/vmmonPosix.c:774"
and the reason seems to be that there's an old bug in how we handle do
FOLL_ANON on VM_SHARED areas in get_user_pages(), but since it only
triggered if the whole page table was missing, nobody had apparently hit
it before.
The recent changes to 'follow_page()' made the FOLL_ANON logic trigger
not just for whole missing page tables, but for individual pages as
well, and exposed this problem.
This fixes it by making the test for when FOLL_ANON is used more
careful, and also makes the code easier to read and understand by moving
the logic to a separate inline function.
Reported-and-tested-by: Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The zonelist patches caused the loop that checks for available
objects in permitted zones to not terminate immediately. One object
per zone per allocation may be allocated and then abandoned.
Break the loop when we have successfully allocated one object.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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