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2007-07-17SLUB: add some more inlines and #ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUGChristoph Lameter
Add #ifdefs around data structures only needed if debugging is compiled into SLUB. Add inlines to small functions to reduce code size. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17Slab allocators: support __GFP_ZERO in all allocatorsChristoph Lameter
A kernel convention for many allocators is that if __GFP_ZERO is passed to an allocator then the allocated memory should be zeroed. This is currently not supported by the slab allocators. The inconsistency makes it difficult to implement in derived allocators such as in the uncached allocator and the pool allocators. In addition the support zeroed allocations in the slab allocators does not have a consistent API. There are no zeroing allocator functions for NUMA node placement (kmalloc_node, kmem_cache_alloc_node). The zeroing allocations are only provided for default allocs (kzalloc, kmem_cache_zalloc_node). __GFP_ZERO will make zeroing universally available and does not require any addititional functions. So add the necessary logic to all slab allocators to support __GFP_ZERO. The code is added to the hot path. The gfp flags are on the stack and so the cacheline is readily available for checking if we want a zeroed object. Zeroing while allocating is now a frequent operation and we seem to be gradually approaching a 1-1 parity between zeroing and not zeroing allocs. The current tree has 3476 uses of kmalloc vs 2731 uses of kzalloc. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17Slab allocators: consistent ZERO_SIZE_PTR support and NULL result semanticsChristoph Lameter
Define ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR macro to be able to remove the checks from the allocators. Move ZERO_SIZE_PTR related stuff into slab.h. Make ZERO_SIZE_PTR work for all slab allocators and get rid of the WARN_ON_ONCE(size == 0) that is still remaining in SLAB. Make slub return NULL like the other allocators if a too large memory segment is requested via __kmalloc. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17Slab allocators: consolidate code for krealloc in mm/util.cChristoph Lameter
The size of a kmalloc object is readily available via ksize(). ksize is provided by all allocators and thus we can implement krealloc in a generic way. Implement krealloc in mm/util.c and drop slab specific implementations of krealloc. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17SLUB Debug: fix initial object debug state of NUMA bootstrap objectsChristoph Lameter
The function we are calling to initialize object debug state during early NUMA bootstrap sets up an inactive object giving it the wrong redzone signature. The bootstrap nodes are active objects and should have active redzone signatures. Currently slab validation complains and reverts the object to active state. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17SLUB: ensure that the number of objects per slab stays low for high ordersChristoph Lameter
Currently SLUB has no provision to deal with too high page orders that may be specified on the kernel boot line. If an order higher than 6 (on a 4k platform) is generated then we will BUG() because slabs get more than 65535 objects. Add some logic that decreases order for slabs that have too many objects. This allow booting with slab sizes up to MAX_ORDER. For example slub_min_order=10 will boot with a default slab size of 4M and reduce slab sizes for small object sizes to lower orders if the number of objects becomes too big. Large slab sizes like that allow a concentration of objects of the same slab cache under as few as possible TLB entries and thus potentially reduces TLB pressure. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17SLUB slab validation: Move tracking information alloc outside of lockChristoph Lameter
We currently have to do an GFP_ATOMIC allocation because the list_lock is already taken when we first allocate memory for tracking allocation information. It would be better if we could avoid atomic allocations. Allocate a size of the tracking table that is usually sufficient (one page) before we take the list lock. We will then only do the atomic allocation if we need to resize the table to become larger than a page (mostly only needed under large NUMA because of the tracking of cpus and nodes otherwise the table stays small). Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17SLUB: use list_for_each_entry for loops over all slabsChristoph Lameter
Use list_for_each_entry() instead of list_for_each(). Get rid of for_all_slabs(). It had only one user. So fold it into the callback. This also gets rid of cpu_slab_flush. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17SLUB: change error reporting format to follow lockdep looselyChristoph Lameter
Changes the error reporting format to loosely follow lockdep. If data corruption is detected then we generate the following lines: ============================================ BUG <slab-cache>: <problem> -------------------------------------------- INFO: <more information> [possibly multiple times] <object dump> FIX <slab-cache>: <remedial action> This also adds some more intelligence to the data corruption detection. Its now capable of figuring out the start and end. Add a comment on how to configure SLUB so that a production system may continue to operate even though occasional slab corruption occur through a misbehaving kernel component. See "Emergency operations" in Documentation/vm/slub.txt. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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>
2007-07-17Lumpy Reclaim V4Andy Whitcroft
When we are out of memory of a suitable size we enter reclaim. The current reclaim algorithm targets pages in LRU order, which is great for fairness at order-0 but highly unsuitable if you desire pages at higher orders. To get pages of higher order we must shoot down a very high proportion of memory; >95% in a lot of cases. This patch set adds a lumpy reclaim algorithm to the allocator. It targets groups of pages at the specified order anchored at the end of the active and inactive lists. This encourages groups of pages at the requested orders to move from active to inactive, and active to free lists. This behaviour is only triggered out of direct reclaim when higher order pages have been requested. This patch set is particularly effective when utilised with an anti-fragmentation scheme which groups pages of similar reclaimability together. This patch set is based on Peter Zijlstra's lumpy reclaim V2 patch which forms the foundation. Credit to Mel Gorman for sanitity checking. Mel said: The patches have an application with hugepage pool resizing. When lumpy-reclaim is used used with ZONE_MOVABLE, the hugepages pool can be resized with greater reliability. Testing on a desktop machine with 2GB of RAM showed that growing the hugepage pool with ZONE_MOVABLE on it's own was very slow as the success rate was quite low. Without lumpy-reclaim, each attempt to grow the pool by 100 pages would yield 1 or 2 hugepages. With lumpy-reclaim, getting 40 to 70 hugepages on each attempt was typical. [akpm@osdl.org: ia64 pfn_to_nid fixes and loop cleanup] [bunk@stusta.de: static declarations for internal functions] [a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl: initial lumpy V2 implementation] Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17Add a movablecore= parameter for sizing ZONE_MOVABLEMel Gorman
This patch adds a new parameter for sizing ZONE_MOVABLE called movablecore=. While kernelcore= is used to specify the minimum amount of memory that must be available for all allocation types, movablecore= is used to specify the minimum amount of memory that is used for migratable allocations. The amount of memory used for migratable allocations determines how large the huge page pool could be dynamically resized to at runtime for example. How movablecore is actually handled is that the total number of pages in the system is calculated and a value is set for kernelcore that is kernelcore == totalpages - movablecore Both kernelcore= and movablecore= can be safely specified at the same time. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17handle kernelcore=: genericMel Gorman
This patch adds the kernelcore= parameter for x86. Once all patches are applied, a new command-line parameter exist and a new sysctl. This patch adds the necessary documentation. From: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> When "kernelcore" boot option is specified, kernel can't boot up on ia64 because of an infinite loop. In addition, the parsing code can be handled in an architecture-independent manner. This patch uses common code to handle the kernelcore= parameter. It is only available to architectures that support arch-independent zone-sizing (i.e. define CONFIG_ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP). Other architectures will ignore the boot parameter. [bunk@stusta.de: make cmdline_parse_kernelcore() static] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_MOVABLEMel Gorman
Huge pages are not movable so are not allocated from ZONE_MOVABLE. However, as ZONE_MOVABLE will always have pages that can be migrated or reclaimed, it can be used to satisfy hugepage allocations even when the system has been running a long time. This allows an administrator to resize the hugepage pool at runtime depending on the size of ZONE_MOVABLE. This patch adds a new sysctl called hugepages_treat_as_movable. When a non-zero value is written to it, future allocations for the huge page pool will use ZONE_MOVABLE. Despite huge pages being non-movable, we do not introduce additional external fragmentation of note as huge pages are always the largest contiguous block we care about. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: various fixes] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17Create the ZONE_MOVABLE zoneMel Gorman
The following 8 patches against 2.6.20-mm2 create a zone called ZONE_MOVABLE that is only usable by allocations that specify both __GFP_HIGHMEM and __GFP_MOVABLE. This has the effect of keeping all non-movable pages within a single memory partition while allowing movable allocations to be satisfied from either partition. The patches may be applied with the list-based anti-fragmentation patches that groups pages together based on mobility. The size of the zone is determined by a kernelcore= parameter specified at boot-time. This specifies how much memory is usable by non-movable allocations and the remainder is used for ZONE_MOVABLE. Any range of pages within ZONE_MOVABLE can be released by migrating the pages or by reclaiming. When selecting a zone to take pages from for ZONE_MOVABLE, there are two things to consider. First, only memory from the highest populated zone is used for ZONE_MOVABLE. On the x86, this is probably going to be ZONE_HIGHMEM but it would be ZONE_DMA on ppc64 or possibly ZONE_DMA32 on x86_64. Second, the amount of memory usable by the kernel will be spread evenly throughout NUMA nodes where possible. If the nodes are not of equal size, the amount of memory usable by the kernel on some nodes may be greater than others. By default, the zone is not as useful for hugetlb allocations because they are pinned and non-migratable (currently at least). A sysctl is provided that allows huge pages to be allocated from that zone. This means that the huge page pool can be resized to the size of ZONE_MOVABLE during the lifetime of the system assuming that pages are not mlocked. Despite huge pages being non-movable, we do not introduce additional external fragmentation of note as huge pages are always the largest contiguous block we care about. Credit goes to Andy Whitcroft for catching a large variety of problems during review of the patches. This patch creates an additional zone, ZONE_MOVABLE. This zone is only usable by allocations which specify both __GFP_HIGHMEM and __GFP_MOVABLE. Hot-added memory continues to be placed in their existing destination as there is no mechanism to redirect them to a specific zone. [y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com: Fix section mismatch of memory hotplug related code] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: various fixes] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may ↵Mel Gorman
be migrated It is often known at allocation time whether a page may be migrated or not. This patch adds a flag called __GFP_MOVABLE and a new mask called GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE. Allocations using the __GFP_MOVABLE can be either migrated using the page migration mechanism or reclaimed by syncing with backing storage and discarding. An API function very similar to alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() is added for __GFP_MOVABLE allocations called alloc_zeroed_user_highpage_movable(). The flags used by alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() are not changed because it would change the semantics of an existing API. After this patch is applied there are no in-kernel users of alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() so it probably should be marked deprecated if this patch is merged. Note that this patch includes a minor cleanup to the use of __GFP_ZERO in shmem.c to keep all flag modifications to inode->mapping in the shmem_dir_alloc() helper function. This clean-up suggestion is courtesy of Hugh Dickens. Additional credit goes to Christoph Lameter and Linus Torvalds for shaping the concept. Credit to Hugh Dickens for catching issues with shmem swap vector and ramfs allocations. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [hugh@veritas.com: __GFP_ZERO cleanup] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17Fix read/truncate raceNeilBrown
do_generic_mapping_read currently samples the i_size at the start and doesn't do so again unless it needs to call ->readpage to load a page. After ->readpage it has to re-sample i_size as a truncate may have caused that page to be filled with zeros, and the read() call should not see these. However there are other activities that might cause ->readpage to be called on a page between the time that do_generic_mapping_read samples i_size and when it finds that it has an uptodate page. These include at least read-ahead and possibly another thread performing a read. So do_generic_mapping_read must sample i_size *after* it has an uptodate page. Thus the current sampling at the start and after a read can be replaced with a sampling before the copy-out. The same change applied to __generic_file_splice_read. Note that this fixes any race with truncate_complete_page, but does not fix a possible race with truncate_partial_page. If a partial truncate happens after do_generic_mapping_read samples i_size and before the copy_out, the nuls that truncate_partial_page place in the page could be copied out incorrectly. I think the best fix for that is to *not* zero out parts of the page in truncate_partial_page, but rather to zero out the tail of a page when increasing i_size. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> 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>
2007-07-16Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (209 commits) [POWERPC] Create add_rtc() function to enable the RTC CMOS driver [POWERPC] Add H_ILLAN_ATTRIBUTES hcall number [POWERPC] xilinxfb: Parameterize xilinxfb platform device registration [POWERPC] Oprofile support for Power 5++ [POWERPC] Enable arbitary speed tty ioctls and split input/output speed [POWERPC] Make drivers/char/hvc_console.c:khvcd() static [POWERPC] Remove dead code for preventing pread() and pwrite() calls [POWERPC] Remove unnecessary #undef printk from prom.c [POWERPC] Fix typo in Ebony default DTS [POWERPC] Check for NULL ppc_md.init_IRQ() before calling [POWERPC] Remove extra return statement [POWERPC] pasemi: Don't auto-select CONFIG_EMBEDDED [POWERPC] pasemi: Rename platform [POWERPC] arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c: Move NUMA exports [POWERPC] Add __read_mostly support for powerpc [POWERPC] Modify sched_clock() to make CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME more sane [POWERPC] Create a dummy zImage if no valid platform has been selected [POWERPC] PS3: Bootwrapper support. [POWERPC] powermac i2c: Use mutex [POWERPC] Schedule removal of arch/ppc ... Fixed up conflicts manually in: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_32.c arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_64.c include/asm-powerpc/pci.h and asked the powerpc people to double-check the result..
2007-07-16Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (68 commits) sh: sh-rtc support for SH7709. sh: Revert __xdiv64_32 size change. sh: Update r7785rp defconfig. sh: Export div symbols for GCC 4.2 and ST GCC. sh: fix race in parallel out-of-tree build sh: Kill off dead mach.c for hp6xx. sh: hd64461.h cleanup and added comments. sh: Update the alignment when 4K stacks are used. sh: Add a .bss.page_aligned section for 4K stacks. sh: Don't let SH-4A clobber SH-4 CFLAGS. sh: Add parport stub for SuperIO ports. sh: Drop -Wa,-dsp for DSP tuning. sh: Update dreamcast defconfig. fb: pvr2fb: A few more __devinit annotations for PCI. fb: pvr2fb: Fix up section mismatch warnings. sh: Select IPR-IRQ for SH7091. sh: Correct __xdiv64_32/div64_32 return value size. sh: Fix timer-tmu build for SH-3. sh: Add cpu and mach links to CLEAN_FILES. sh: Preliminary support for the SH-X3 CPU. ...
2007-07-16permit mempool_free(NULL)Rusty Russell
Christian Borntraeger points out that mempool_free() doesn't noop when handed NULL. This is inconsistent with the other free-like functions in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16remove mm/backing-dev.c:congestion_wait_interruptible()Adrian Bunk
congestion_wait_interruptible() is no longer used. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: 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>
2007-07-16dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler() cleanupAndrew Morton
Repair indenting bustage. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16fault-injection: add min-order parameter to fail_page_allocAkinobu Mita
Limiting smaller allocation failures by fault injection helps to find real possible bugs. Because higher order allocations are likely to fail and zero-order allocations are not likely to fail. This patch adds min-order parameter to fail_page_alloc. It specifies the minimum page allocation order to be injected failures. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16Only send SIGXFSZ when exceeding rlimits.Micah Cowan
Some users have been having problems with utilities like cp or dd dumping core when they try to copy a file that's too large for the destination filesystem (typically, > 4gb). Apparently, some defunct standards required SIGXFSZ to be sent in such circumstances, but SUS only requires/allows it for when a written file exceeds the process's resource limits. I'd like to limit SIGXFSZs to the bare minimum required by SUS. Patch sent per http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/10/302 Signed-off-by: Micah Cowan <micahcowan@ubuntu.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16Introduce CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUSStephen Rothwell
Make some offending drivers depend on it and set CONFIG_ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS for ppc64 so that we don't build those drivers. This gets PowerPC allmodconfig and allyesconfig much closer to building. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16nommu: stub expand_stack() for nommu caseGreg Ungerer
Be consistent with VM mmap, implement expand_stack(). We can't actually do anything other than return an error in the no MMU case though. Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16split mmapMiklos Szeredi
This is a straightforward split of do_mmap_pgoff() into two functions: - do_mmap_pgoff() checks the parameters, and calculates the vma flags. Then it calls - mmap_region(), which does the actual mapping Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>akpm@linux-foundation.org
The do_loop_readv_writev implementation of readv breaks out of the loop as soon as a single read request didn't fill it's buffer: if (nr != len) break; The generic_file_aio_read version doesn't. So if it hits EOF before the end of the list of buffers, it will try again on the next buffer. If the file was extended in the mean time, this will produce a bad result. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16do not limit locked memory when RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is RLIM_INFINITYHerbert van den Bergh
Fix a bug in mm/mlock.c on 32-bit architectures that prevents a user from locking more than 4GB of shared memory, or allocating more than 4GB of shared memory in hugepages, when rlim[RLIMIT_MEMLOCK] is set to RLIM_INFINITY. Signed-off-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com> Acked-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16slob: sparsemem supportPaul Mundt
Currently slob is disabled if we're using sparsemem, due to an earlier patch from Goto-san. Slob and static sparsemem work without any trouble as it is, and the only hiccup is a missing slab_is_available() in the case of sparsemem extreme. With this, we're rid of the last set of restrictions for slob usage. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16mm/page_alloc.c: lower printk severityDan Aloni
Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16slob: initial NUMA supportPaul Mundt
This adds preliminary NUMA support to SLOB, primarily aimed at systems with small nodes (tested all the way down to a 128kB SRAM block), whether asymmetric or otherwise. We follow the same conventions as SLAB/SLUB, preferring current node placement for new pages, or with explicit placement, if a node has been specified. Presently on UP NUMA this has the side-effect of preferring node#0 allocations (since numa_node_id() == 0, though this could be reworked if we could hand off a pfn to determine node placement), so single-CPU NUMA systems will want to place smaller nodes further out in terms of node id. Once a page has been bound to a node (via explicit node id typing), we only do block allocations from partial free pages that have a matching node id in the page flags. The current implementation does have some scalability problems, in that all partial free pages are tracked in the global freelist (with contention due to the single spinlock). However, these are things that are being reworked for SMP scalability first, while things like per-node freelists can easily be built on top of this sort of functionality once it's been added. More background can be found in: http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=118117916022379&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=118170446306199&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=118187859420048&w=2 and subsequent threads. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16speed up madvise_need_mmap_write() usageJason Baron
In the new madvise_need_mmap_write() call we can avoid an extra case statement and function call as follows. Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16mm/slab.c: start_cpu_timer() should be __cpuinitAdrian Bunk
start_cpu_timer() should be __cpuinit (which also matches what it's callers are). __devinit didn't cause problems, it simply wasted a few bytes of memory for the common CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=n case. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16mm: more __meminit annotationsPaul Mundt
Currently zone_spanned_pages_in_node() and zone_absent_pages_in_node() are non-static for ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP and static otherwise. However, only the non-static versions are __meminit annotated, despite only being called from __meminit functions in either case. zone_init_free_lists() is currently non-static and not __meminit annotated either, despite only being called once in the entire tree by init_currently_empty_zone(), which too is __meminit. So make it static and properly annotated. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16kill vmalloc_earlyreserveJan Beulich
This symbol got orphaned quite a while ago. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16mm: fix improper .init-type section referencesJan Beulich
.. which modpost started warning about. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16numa: mempolicy: trivial debug fixes.Paul Mundt
Enabling debugging fails to build due to the nodemask variable in do_mbind() having changed names, and then oopses on boot due to the assumption that the nodemask can be dereferenced -- which doesn't work out so well when the policy is changed to MPOL_DEFAULT with a NULL nodemask by numa_default_policy(). This fixes it up, and switches from PDprintk() to pr_debug() while we're at it. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16oom: stop allocating user memory if TIF_MEMDIE is setEthan Solomita
get_user_pages() can try to allocate a nearly unlimited amount of memory on behalf of a user process, even if that process has been OOM killed. The OOM kill occurs upon return to user space via a SIGKILL, but get_user_pages() will try allocate all its memory before returning. Change get_user_pages() to check for TIF_MEMDIE, and if set then return immediately. Signed-off-by: Ethan Solomita <solo@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16numa: mempolicy: dynamic interleave map for system initPaul Mundt
This converts the default system init memory policy to use a dynamically created node map instead of defaulting to all online nodes. Nodes of a certain size (>= 16MB) are judged to be suitable for interleave, and are added to the map. If all nodes are smaller in size, the largest one is automatically selected. Without this, tiny nodes find themselves out of memory before we even make it to userspace. Systems with large nodes will notice no change. Only the system init policy is effected by this change, the regular MPOL_DEFAULT policy is still switched to later on in the boot process as normal. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16SLUB: support slub_debug on by defaultChristoph Lameter
Add a new configuration variable CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON If set then the kernel will be booted by default with slab debugging switched on. Similar to CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG. By default slab debugging is available but must be enabled by specifying "slub_debug" as a kernel parameter. Also add support to switch off slab debugging for a kernel that was built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON. This works by specifying slub_debug=- as a kernel parameter. Dave Jones wanted this feature. http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118072189913045&w=2 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: clean up switch statement] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16invalidate_mapping_pages(): add cond_reschedAndrew Morton
invalidate_mapping_pages() can sometimes take a long time (millions of pages to free). Long enough for the softlockup detector to trigger. We used to have a cond_resched() in there but I took it out because the drop_caches code calls invalidate_mapping_pages() under inode_lock. The patch adds a nasty flag and puts the cond_resched() back. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16mm: debug check for the fault vs invalidate raceNick Piggin
Add a bugcheck for Andrea's pagefault vs invalidate race. This is triggerable for both linear and nonlinear pages with a userspace test harness (using direct IO and truncate, respectively). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16hugetlb: fix race in alloc_fresh_huge_page()Joe Jin
That static `nid' index needs locking. Without it we can end up calling alloc_pages_node() with an illegal node ID and the kernel crashes. Acked-by: gurudas pai <gurudas.pai@oracle.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16vmscan: fix comments related to shrink_list()Anderson Briglia
Fix the shrink_list name on some files under mm/ directory. Signed-off-by: Anderson Briglia <anderson.briglia@indt.org.br> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16slob: improved alignment handlingNick Piggin
Remove the core slob allocator's minimum alignment restrictions, and instead introduce the alignment restrictions at the slab API layer. This lets us heed the ARCH_KMALLOC/SLAB_MINALIGN directives, and also use __alignof__ (unsigned long) for the default alignment (which should allow relaxed alignment architectures to take better advantage of SLOB's small minimum alignment). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16slob: remove bigblock trackingNick Piggin
Remove the bigblock lists in favour of using compound pages and going directly to the page allocator. Allocation size is stored in page->private, which also makes ksize more accurate than it previously was. Saves ~.5K of code, and 12-24 bytes overhead per >= PAGE_SIZE allocation. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16slob: rework freelist handlingNick Piggin
Improve slob by turning the freelist into a list of pages using struct page fields, then each page has a singly linked freelist of slob blocks via a pointer in the struct page. - The first benefit is that the slob freelists can be indexed by a smaller type (2 bytes, if the PAGE_SIZE is reasonable). - Next is that freeing is much quicker because it does not have to traverse the entire freelist. Allocation can be slightly faster too, because we can skip almost-full freelist pages completely. - Slob pages are then freed immediately when they become empty, rather than having a periodic timer try to free them. This gives efficiency and memory consumption improvement. Then, we don't encode seperate size and next fields into each slob block, rather we use the sign bit to distinguish between "size" or "next". Then size 1 blocks contain a "next" offset, and others contain the "size" in the first unit and "next" in the second unit. - This allows minimum slob allocation alignment to go from 8 bytes to 2 bytes on 32-bit and 12 bytes to 2 bytes on 64-bit. In practice, it is best to align them to word size, however some architectures (eg. cris) could gain space savings from turning off this extra alignment. Then, make kmalloc use its own slob_block at the front of the allocation in order to encode allocation size, rather than rely on not overwriting slob's existing header block. - This reduces kmalloc allocation overhead similarly to alignment reductions. - Decouples kmalloc layer from the slob allocator. Then, add a page flag specific to slob pages. - This means kfree of a page aligned slob block doesn't have to traverse the bigblock list. I would get benchmarks, but my test box's network doesn't come up with slob before this patch. I think something is timing out. Anyway, things are faster after the patch. Code size goes up about 1K, however dynamic memory usage _should_ be lower even on relatively small memory systems. Future todo item is to restore the cyclic free list search, rather than to always begin at the start. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16MM: alloc_large_system_hash() can free some memory for non power-of-two ↵Eric Dumazet
bucketsize alloc_large_system_hash() is called at boot time to allocate space for several large hash tables. Lately, TCP hash table was changed and its bucketsize is not a power-of-two anymore. On most setups, alloc_large_system_hash() allocates one big page (order > 0) with __get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC, order). This single high_order page has a power-of-two size, bigger than the needed size. We can free all pages that wont be used by the hash table. On a 1GB i386 machine, this patch saves 128 KB of LOWMEM memory. TCP established hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 393216 bytes) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16Make /proc/slabinfo use seq_list_xxx helpersPavel Emelianov
This entry prints a header in .start callback. This is OK, but the more elegant solution would be to move this into the .show callback and use seq_list_start_head() in .start one. I have left it as is in order to make the patch just switch to new API and noting more. [adobriyan@sw.ru: Wrong pointer was used as kmem_cache pointer] Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>