1. 06 2月, 2008 6 次提交
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      mm: fix PageUptodate data race · 0ed361de
      Nick Piggin 提交于
      After running SetPageUptodate, preceeding stores to the page contents to
      actually bring it uptodate may not be ordered with the store to set the
      page uptodate.
      
      Therefore, another CPU which checks PageUptodate is true, then reads the
      page contents can get stale data.
      
      Fix this by having an smp_wmb before SetPageUptodate, and smp_rmb after
      PageUptodate.
      
      Many places that test PageUptodate, do so with the page locked, and this
      would be enough to ensure memory ordering in those places if
      SetPageUptodate were only called while the page is locked.  Unfortunately
      that is not always the case for some filesystems, but it could be an idea
      for the future.
      
      Also bring the handling of anonymous page uptodateness in line with that of
      file backed page management, by marking anon pages as uptodate when they
      _are_ uptodate, rather than when our implementation requires that they be
      marked as such.  Doing allows us to get rid of the smp_wmb's in the page
      copying functions, which were especially added for anonymous pages for an
      analogous memory ordering problem.  Both file and anonymous pages are
      handled with the same barriers.
      
      FAQ:
      Q. Why not do this in flush_dcache_page?
      A. Firstly, flush_dcache_page handles only one side (the smb side) of the
      ordering protocol; we'd still need smp_rmb somewhere. Secondly, hiding away
      memory barriers in a completely unrelated function is nasty; at least in the
      PageUptodate macros, they are located together with (half) the operations
      involved in the ordering. Thirdly, the smp_wmb is only required when first
      bringing the page uptodate, wheras flush_dcache_page should be called each time
      it is written to through the kernel mapping. It is logically the wrong place to
      put it.
      
      Q. Why does this increase my text size / reduce my performance / etc.
      A. Because it is adding the necessary instructions to eliminate the data-race.
      
      Q. Can it be improved?
      A. Yes, eg. if you were to create a rule that all SetPageUptodate operations
      run under the page lock, we could avoid the smp_rmb places where PageUptodate
      is queried under the page lock. Requires audit of all filesystems and at least
      some would need reworking. That's great you're interested, I'm eagerly awaiting
      your patches.
      Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      0ed361de
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      tmpfs: move swap swizzling into shmem · 73b1262f
      Hugh Dickins 提交于
      move_to_swap_cache and move_from_swap_cache functions (which swizzle a page
      between tmpfs page cache and swap cache, to avoid page copying) are only used
      by shmem.c; and our subsequent fix for unionfs needs different treatments in
      the two instances of move_from_swap_cache.  Move them from swap_state.c into
      their callsites shmem_writepage, shmem_unuse_inode and shmem_getpage, making
      add_to_swap_cache externally visible.
      
      shmem.c likes to say set_page_dirty where swap_state.c liked to say
      SetPageDirty: respect that diversity, which __set_page_dirty_no_writeback
      makes moot (and implies we should lose that "shift page from clean_pages to
      dirty_pages list" comment: it's on neither).
      Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      73b1262f
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      tmpfs: shuffle add_to_swap_caches · f000944d
      Hugh Dickins 提交于
      add_to_swap_cache doesn't amount to much: merge it into its sole caller
      read_swap_cache_async.  But we'll be needing to call __add_to_swap_cache from
      shmem.c, so promote it to the new add_to_swap_cache.  Both were static, so
      there's no interface confusion to worry about.
      
      And lose that inappropriate "Anon pages are already on the LRU" comment in the
      merging: they're not already on the LRU, as Nick Piggin noticed.
      Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      No-problems-with: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f000944d
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      tmpfs: move swap_state stats update · bb63be0a
      Hugh Dickins 提交于
      Both unionfs and memcgroups pose challenges to tmpfs and shmem.  To help fix,
      it's best to move the swap swizzling functions from swap_state.c to shmem.c.
      As a preliminary to that, move swap stats updating down into
      __add_to_swap_cache, which will remain internal to swap_state.c.
      
      Well, actually, just move down the incrementation of add_total: remove
      noent_race and exist_race completely, they are relics of my 2.4.11 testing.
      Alt-SysRq-m users will be thrilled if 2.6.25 is at last free of "race M+N"s.
      Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      bb63be0a
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      swapin needs gfp_mask for loop on tmpfs · 02098fea
      Hugh Dickins 提交于
      Building in a filesystem on a loop device on a tmpfs file can hang when
      swapping, the loop thread caught in that infamous throttle_vm_writeout.
      
      In theory this is a long standing problem, which I've either never seen in
      practice, or long ago suppressed the recollection, after discounting my load
      and my tmpfs size as unrealistically high.  But now, with the new aops, it has
      become easy to hang on one machine.
      
      Loop used to grab_cache_page before the old prepare_write to tmpfs, which
      seems to have been enough to free up some memory for any swapin needed; but
      the new write_begin lets tmpfs find or allocate the page (much nicer, since
      grab_cache_page missed tmpfs pages in swapcache).
      
      When allocating a fresh page, tmpfs respects loop's mapping_gfp_mask, which
      has __GFP_IO|__GFP_FS stripped off, and throttle_vm_writeout is designed to
      break out when __GFP_IO or GFP_FS is unset; but when tmfps swaps in,
      read_swap_cache_async allocates with GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE regardless of the
      mapping_gfp_mask - hence the hang.
      
      So, pass gfp_mask down the line from shmem_getpage to shmem_swapin to
      swapin_readahead to read_swap_cache_async to add_to_swap_cache.
      Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Acked-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      02098fea
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      swapin_readahead: move and rearrange args · 46017e95
      Hugh Dickins 提交于
      swapin_readahead has never sat well in mm/memory.c: move it to mm/swap_state.c
      beside its kindred read_swap_cache_async.  Why were its args in a different
      order?  rearrange them.  And since it was always followed by a
      read_swap_cache_async of the target page, fold that in and return struct
      page*.  Then CONFIG_SWAP=n no longer needs valid_swaphandles and
      read_swap_cache_async stubs.
      Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Acked-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      46017e95
  2. 17 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  3. 18 7月, 2007 1 次提交
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      Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may be migrated · 769848c0
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      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: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      769848c0
  4. 17 7月, 2007 1 次提交
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  9. 22 3月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] page migration reorg · b20a3503
      Christoph Lameter 提交于
      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: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      b20a3503
  10. 02 2月, 2006 1 次提交
  11. 09 1月, 2006 1 次提交
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  13. 07 11月, 2005 1 次提交
  14. 30 10月, 2005 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] mm: update comments to pte lock · b8072f09
      Hugh Dickins 提交于
      Updated several references to page_table_lock in common code comments.
      Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      b8072f09
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      [PATCH] mm: split page table lock · 4c21e2f2
      Hugh Dickins 提交于
      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: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      4c21e2f2
  15. 09 10月, 2005 1 次提交
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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