1. 25 6月, 2016 2 次提交
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      parisc: get rid of superfluous __GFP_REPEAT · aade311a
      Michal Hocko 提交于
      __GFP_REPEAT has a rather weak semantic but since it has been introduced
      around 2.6.12 it has been ignored for low order allocations.
      
      pmd_alloc_one allocate PMD_ORDER which is 1.  This means that this flag
      has never been actually useful here because it has always been used only
      for PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY requests.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464599699-30131-10-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
      Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      aade311a
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      tree wide: get rid of __GFP_REPEAT for order-0 allocations part I · 32d6bd90
      Michal Hocko 提交于
      This is the third version of the patchset previously sent [1].  I have
      basically only rebased it on top of 4.7-rc1 tree and dropped "dm: get
      rid of superfluous gfp flags" which went through dm tree.  I am sending
      it now because it is tree wide and chances for conflicts are reduced
      considerably when we want to target rc2.  I plan to send the next step
      and rename the flag and move to a better semantic later during this
      release cycle so we will have a new semantic ready for 4.8 merge window
      hopefully.
      
      Motivation:
      
      While working on something unrelated I've checked the current usage of
      __GFP_REPEAT in the tree.  It seems that a majority of the usage is and
      always has been bogus because __GFP_REPEAT has always been about costly
      high order allocations while we are using it for order-0 or very small
      orders very often.  It seems that a big pile of them is just a
      copy&paste when a code has been adopted from one arch to another.
      
      I think it makes some sense to get rid of them because they are just
      making the semantic more unclear.  Please note that GFP_REPEAT is
      documented as
      
      * __GFP_REPEAT: Try hard to allocate the memory, but the allocation attempt
      
      * _might_ fail.  This depends upon the particular VM implementation.
        while !costly requests have basically nofail semantic.  So one could
        reasonably expect that order-0 request with __GFP_REPEAT will not loop
        for ever.  This is not implemented right now though.
      
      I would like to move on with __GFP_REPEAT and define a better semantic
      for it.
      
        $ git grep __GFP_REPEAT origin/master | wc -l
        111
        $ git grep __GFP_REPEAT | wc -l
        36
      
      So we are down to the third after this patch series.  The remaining
      places really seem to be relying on __GFP_REPEAT due to large allocation
      requests.  This still needs some double checking which I will do later
      after all the simple ones are sorted out.
      
      I am touching a lot of arch specific code here and I hope I got it right
      but as a matter of fact I even didn't compile test for some archs as I
      do not have cross compiler for them.  Patches should be quite trivial to
      review for stupid compile mistakes though.  The tricky parts are usually
      hidden by macro definitions and thats where I would appreciate help from
      arch maintainers.
      
      [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461849846-27209-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
      
      This patch (of 19):
      
      __GFP_REPEAT has a rather weak semantic but since it has been introduced
      around 2.6.12 it has been ignored for low order allocations.  Yet we
      have the full kernel tree with its usage for apparently order-0
      allocations.  This is really confusing because __GFP_REPEAT is
      explicitly documented to allow allocation failures which is a weaker
      semantic than the current order-0 has (basically nofail).
      
      Let's simply drop __GFP_REPEAT from those places.  This would allow to
      identify place which really need allocator to retry harder and formulate
      a more specific semantic for what the flag is supposed to do actually.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464599699-30131-2-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: NMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
      Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
      Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.linux@gmail.com>
      Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> [for tile]
      Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
      Cc: John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org>
      Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com>
      Cc: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
      Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
      Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
      Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      32d6bd90
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  10. 09 2月, 2008 1 次提交
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      CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables. · 2f569afd
      Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
      Background: I've implemented 1K/2K page tables for s390.  These sub-page
      page tables are required to properly support the s390 virtualization
      instruction with KVM.  The SIE instruction requires that the page tables
      have 256 page table entries (pte) followed by 256 page status table entries
      (pgste).  The pgstes are only required if the process is using the SIE
      instruction.  The pgstes are updated by the hardware and by the hypervisor
      for a number of reasons, one of them is dirty and reference bit tracking.
      To avoid wasting memory the standard pte table allocation should return
      1K/2K (31/64 bit) and 2K/4K if the process is using SIE.
      
      Problem: Page size on s390 is 4K, page table size is 1K or 2K.  That means
      the s390 version for pte_alloc_one cannot return a pointer to a struct
      page.  Trouble is that with the CONFIG_HIGHPTE feature on x86 pte_alloc_one
      cannot return a pointer to a pte either, since that would require more than
      32 bit for the return value of pte_alloc_one (and the pte * would not be
      accessible since its not kmapped).
      
      Solution: The only solution I found to this dilemma is a new typedef: a
      pgtable_t.  For s390 pgtable_t will be a (pte *) - to be introduced with a
      later patch.  For everybody else it will be a (struct page *).  The
      additional problem with the initialization of the ptl lock and the
      NR_PAGETABLE accounting is solved with a constructor pgtable_page_ctor and
      a destructor pgtable_page_dtor.  The page table allocation and free
      functions need to call these two whenever a page table page is allocated or
      freed.  pmd_populate will get a pgtable_t instead of a struct page pointer.
       To get the pgtable_t back from a pmd entry that has been installed with
      pmd_populate a new function pmd_pgtable is added.  It replaces the pmd_page
      call in free_pte_range and apply_to_pte_range.
      Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      2f569afd
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      Linux-2.6.12-rc2 · 1da177e4
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
      even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
      archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
      3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
      git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
      infrastructure for it.
      
      Let it rip!
      1da177e4