- 04 8月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Thomas Hellstrom 提交于
The code was incorrectly reserving memtypes using the page virtual address instead of the physical address. Furthermore, the code was not ignoring highmem pages as it ought to. ( upstream does not pass in highmem pages yet - but upcoming graphics code will do it and there's no reason to not handle this properly in the CPA APIs.) Fixes: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13884Signed-off-by: NThomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Acked-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com LKML-Reference: <1249284345-7654-1-git-send-email-thellstrom@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 31 7月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Pallipadi, Venkatesh 提交于
Changeset 3869c4aa that went in after 2.6.30-rc1 was a seemingly small change to _set_memory_wc() to make it complaint with SDM requirements. But, introduced a nasty bug, which can result in crash and/or strange corruptions when set_memory_wc is used. One such crash reported here http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/7/30/94 Actually, that changeset introduced two bugs. * change_page_attr_set() takes &addr as first argument and can the addr value might have changed on return, even for single page change_page_attr_set() call. That will make the second change_page_attr_set() in this routine operate on unrelated addr, that can eventually cause strange corruptions and bad page state crash. * The second change_page_attr_set() call, before setting _PAGE_CACHE_WC, should clear the earlier _PAGE_CACHE_UC_MINUS, as otherwise cache attribute will not be WC (will be UC instead). The patch below fixes both these problems. Sending a single patch to fix both the problems, as the change is to the same line of code. The change to have a addr_copy is not very clean. But, it is simpler than making more changes through various routines in pageattr.c. A huge thanks to Jerome for reporting this problem and providing a simple test case that helped us root cause the problem. Reported-by: NJerome Glisse <glisse@freedesktop.org> Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <20090730214319.GA1889@linux-os.sc.intel.com> Acked-by: NDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 04 7月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
Generalize and move x86 setup_pcpu_lpage() into pcpu_lpage_first_chunk(). setup_pcpu_lpage() now is a simple wrapper around the generalized version. Other than taking size parameters and using arch supplied callbacks to allocate/free/map memory, pcpu_lpage_first_chunk() is identical to the original implementation. This simplifies arch code and will help converting more archs to dynamic percpu allocator. While at it, factor out pcpu_calc_fc_sizes() which is common to pcpu_embed_first_chunk() and pcpu_lpage_first_chunk(). [ Impact: code reorganization and generalization ] Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 22 6月, 2009 2 次提交
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
lpage allocator aliases a PMD page for each cpu and returns whatever is unused to the page allocator. When the pageattr of the recycled pages are changed, this makes the two aliases point to the overlapping regions with different attributes which isn't allowed and known to cause subtle data corruption in certain cases. This can be handled in simliar manner to the x86_64 highmap alias. pageattr code should detect if the target pages have PMD alias and split the PMD alias and synchronize the attributes. pcpur allocator is updated to keep the allocated PMD pages map sorted in ascending address order and provide pcpu_lpage_remapped() function which binary searches the array to determine whether the given address is aliased and if so to which address. pageattr is updated to use pcpu_lpage_remapped() to detect the PMD alias and split it up as necessary from cpa_process_alias(). Jan Beulich spotted the original problem and incorrect usage of vaddr instead of laddr for lookup. With this, lpage percpu allocator should work correctly. Re-enable it. [ Impact: fix subtle lpage pageattr bug and re-enable lpage ] Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: NJan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
Reorganize cpa_process_alias() so that new alias condition can be added easily. Jan Beulich spotted problem in the original cleanup thread which incorrectly assumed the two existing conditions were mutially exclusive. [ Impact: code reorganization ] Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 15 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Vegard Nossum 提交于
As these are allocated using the page allocator, we need to pass __GFP_NOTRACK before we add page allocator support to kmemcheck. Signed-off-by: NVegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
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- 27 5月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Pallipadi, Venkatesh 提交于
Cleanup cpa_flush_array() to avoid back to back on_each_cpu() calls. [ Impact: optimizes fix 0af48f42 ] Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 23 5月, 2009 2 次提交
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cpa_flush_array seems to prefer wbinvd() over clflush at 4M threshold. clflush needs to be done on only one CPU as per instruction definition. wbinvd() however, should be done on all CPUs. [ Impact: fix missing flush which could cause data corruption ] Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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wbinvd is supported on all CPUs 486 or later. But, pageattr.c is checking x86_model >= 4 before wbinvd(), which looks like an oversight bug. It was first introduced at one place by changeset d7c8f21a and got copied over to second place in the same file later. [ Impact: fix missing cache flush on early-model CPUs, potential data corruption ] Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 10 4月, 2009 3 次提交
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As per SDM, there should not be any aliasing of a WC with any cacheable type across CPUs. That is if one CPU is changing the identity map memtype to _WC, no other CPU at the time of this change should not have a TLB for this page that carries a WB attribute. SDM suggests to make the page not present. But for that we will have to handle any page faults that can potentially happen due to these pages being not present. Other way to deal with this without having any WB mapping is to change the page first to UC and then to WC. This ensures that we meet the SDM requirement of no cacheable alais to WC page. This also has same or lower overhead than marking the page not present and making it present later. Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <20090409212708.797481000@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Handle faults and do proper cleanups in set_memory_*() functions. In some cases, these functions were not doing proper free on failure paths. With the changes to tracking memtype of RAM pages in struct page instead of pat list, we do not need the changes in commits c5e147. This patch reverts that change. Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <20090409212708.653222000@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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To be free of aliasing due to races, set_memory_* interfaces should follow ordering of reserving, changing memtype to UC/WC, changing memtype back to WB followed by free. Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <20090409212708.512280000@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 30 3月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
Impact: simplification, robustness Make paravirt_lazy_mode() always return PARAVIRT_LAZY_NONE when in an interrupt. This prevents interrupt code from accidentally inheriting an outer lazy state, and instead does everything synchronously. Outer batched operations are left deferred. Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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- 20 3月, 2009 3 次提交
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Add new interfaces: set_pages_array_uc() set_pages_array_wb() that can be used change the page attribute for a bunch of pages with flush etc done once at the end of all the changes. These interfaces are similar to existing set_memory_array_uc() and set_memory_array_wc(). Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: arjan@infradead.org Cc: eric@anholt.net Cc: airlied@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20090319215358.901545000@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Add struct page array pointer to cpa struct and CPA_PAGES_ARRAY. With that we can add change_page_attr_set_clr() a parameter to pass struct page array pointer and that can be handled by the underlying cpa code. cpa_flush_array() is also changed to support both addr array or struct page pointer array, depending on the flag. Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: arjan@infradead.org Cc: eric@anholt.net Cc: airlied@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20090319215358.758513000@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Change change_page_attr_set_clr() array parameter to a flag. This helps following patches which adds an interface to change attr to uc/wb over a set of pages referred by struct page. Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: arjan@infradead.org Cc: eric@anholt.net Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: airlied@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <20090319215358.611346000@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 15 3月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
Impact: new interface Add a brk()-like allocator which effectively extends the bss in order to allow very early code to do dynamic allocations. This is better than using statically allocated arrays for data in subsystems which may never get used. The space for brk allocations is in the bss ELF segment, so that the space is mapped properly by the code which maps the kernel, and so that bootloaders keep the space free rather than putting a ramdisk or something into it. The bss itself, delimited by __bss_stop, ends before the brk area (__brk_base to __brk_limit). The kernel text, data and bss is reserved up to __bss_stop. Any brk-allocated data is reserved separately just before the kernel pagetable is built, as that code allocates from unreserved spaces in the e820 map, potentially allocating from any unused brk memory. Ultimately any unused memory in the brk area is used in the general kernel memory pool. Initially the brk space is set to 1MB, which is probably much larger than any user needs (the largest current user is i386 head_32.S's code to build the pagetables to map the kernel, which can get fairly large with a big kernel image and no PSE support). So long as the system has sufficient memory for the bootloader to reserve the kernel+1MB brk, there are no bad effects resulting from an over-large brk. Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 12 3月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
Impact: work around boot crash Work around Intel Atom erratum AAH41 (probabilistically) - it's triggering in the field. Reported-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Tested-by: NKyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 21 2月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
Impact: future-proof the split_large_page() function Linus noticed that split_large_page() is not safe wrt. the PAT bit: it is bit 12 on the 1GB and 2MB page table level (_PAGE_BIT_PAT_LARGE), and it is bit 7 on the 4K page table level (_PAGE_BIT_PAT). Currently it is not a problem because we never set _PAGE_BIT_PAT_LARGE on any of the large-page mappings - but should this happen in the future the split_large_page() would silently lift bit 12 into the lowlevel 4K pte and would start corrupting the physical page frame offset. Not fun. So add a debug warning, to make sure if something ever sets the PAT bit then this function gets updated too. Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 20 2月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
Steven Rostedt found a bug in where in his modified kernel ftrace was unable to modify the kernel text, due to the PMD itself having been marked read-only as well in split_large_page(). The fix, suggested by Linus, is to not try to 'clone' the reference protection of a huge-page, but to use the standard (and permissive) page protection bits of KERNPG_TABLE. The 'cloning' makes sense for the ptes but it's a confused and incorrect concept at the page table level - because the pagetable entry is a set of all ptes and hence cannot 'clone' any single protection attribute - the ptes can be any mixture of protections. With the permissive KERNPG_TABLE, even if the pte protections get changed after this point (due to ftrace doing code-patching or other similar activities like kprobes), the resulting combined protections will still be correct and the pte's restrictive (or permissive) protections will control it. Also update the comment. This bug was there for a long time but has not caused visible problems before as it needs a rather large read-only area to trigger. Steve possibly hacked his kernel with some really large arrays or so. Anyway, the bug is definitely worth fixing. [ Huang Ying also experienced problems in this area when writing the EFI code, but the real bug in split_large_page() was not realized back then. ] Reported-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reported-by: NHuang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 13 2月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Thomas Gleixner 提交于
Impact: Flush the lazy MMU only once Pending mmu updates only need to be flushed once to bring the in-memory pagetable state up to date. Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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- 12 2月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
Impact: fix race leading to crash under KVM and Xen The CPA code may be called while we're in lazy mmu update mode - for example, when using DEBUG_PAGE_ALLOC and doing a slab allocation in an interrupt handler which interrupted a lazy mmu update. In this case, the in-memory pagetable state may be out of date due to pending queued updates. We need to flush any pending updates before inspecting the page table. Similarly, we must explicitly flush any modifications CPA may have made (which comes down to flushing queued operations when flushing the TLB). Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Acked-by: NMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 21 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Suresh Siddha 提交于
Impact: fix sporadic slowdowns and warning messages This patch fixes a performance issue reported by Linus on his Nehalem system. While Linus reverted the PAT patch (commit 58dab916) which exposed the issue, existing cpa() code can potentially still cause wrong(page attribute corruption) behavior. This patch also fixes the "WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c:560" that various people reported. In 64bit kernel, kernel identity mapping might have holes depending on the available memory and how e820 reports the address range covering the RAM, ACPI, PCI reserved regions. If there is a 2MB/1GB hole in the address range that is not listed by e820 entries, kernel identity mapping will have a corresponding hole in its 1-1 identity mapping. If cpa() happens on the kernel identity mapping which falls into these holes, existing code fails like this: __change_page_attr_set_clr() __change_page_attr() returns 0 because of if (!kpte). But doesn't set cpa->numpages and cpa->pfn. cpa_process_alias() uses uninitialized cpa->pfn (random value) which can potentially lead to changing the page attribute of kernel text/data, kernel identity mapping of RAM pages etc. oops! This bug was easily exposed by another PAT patch which was doing cpa() more often on kernel identity mapping holes (physical range between max_low_pfn_mapped and 4GB), where in here it was setting the cache disable attribute(PCD) for kernel identity mappings aswell. Fix cpa() to handle the kernel identity mapping holes. Retain the WARN() for cpa() calls to other not present address ranges (kernel-text/data, ioremap() addresses) Signed-off-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 16 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
This reverts commit 58dab916, which makes my Nehalem come to a nasty crawling almost-halt. It looks like it turns off caching of regular kernel RAM, with the understandable slowdown of a few orders of magnitude as a result. Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 14 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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Impact: reduce scope of debug check - avoid warnings The logic to find whether identity map exists or not using high_memory or max_low_pfn_mapped/max_pfn_mapped are not complete as the memory withing the range may not be mapped if there is a unusable hole in e820. Specifically, on my test system I started seeing these warnings with tools like hwinfo, acpidump trying to map ACPI region. [ 27.400018] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 27.400344] WARNING: at /home/venkip/src/linus/linux-2.6/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c:560 __change_page_attr_set_clr+0xf3/0x8b8() [ 27.400821] Hardware name: X7DB8 [ 27.401070] CPA: called for zero pte. vaddr = ffff8800cff6a000 cpa->vaddr = ffff8800cff6a000 [ 27.401569] Modules linked in: [ 27.401882] Pid: 4913, comm: dmidecode Not tainted 2.6.28-05716-gfe0bdec6 #586 [ 27.402141] Call Trace: [ 27.402488] [<ffffffff80237c21>] warn_slowpath+0xd3/0x10f [ 27.402749] [<ffffffff80274ade>] ? find_get_page+0xb3/0xc9 [ 27.403028] [<ffffffff80274a2b>] ? find_get_page+0x0/0xc9 [ 27.403333] [<ffffffff80226425>] __change_page_attr_set_clr+0xf3/0x8b8 [ 27.403628] [<ffffffff8028ec99>] ? __purge_vmap_area_lazy+0x192/0x1a1 [ 27.403883] [<ffffffff8028eb52>] ? __purge_vmap_area_lazy+0x4b/0x1a1 [ 27.404172] [<ffffffff80290268>] ? vm_unmap_aliases+0x1ab/0x1bb [ 27.404512] [<ffffffff80290105>] ? vm_unmap_aliases+0x48/0x1bb [ 27.404766] [<ffffffff80226d28>] change_page_attr_set_clr+0x13e/0x2e6 [ 27.405026] [<ffffffff80698fa7>] ? _spin_unlock+0x26/0x2a [ 27.405292] [<ffffffff80227e6a>] ? reserve_memtype+0x19b/0x4e3 [ 27.405590] [<ffffffff80226ffd>] _set_memory_wb+0x22/0x24 [ 27.405844] [<ffffffff80225d28>] ioremap_change_attr+0x26/0x28 [ 27.406097] [<ffffffff80228355>] reserve_pfn_range+0x1a3/0x235 [ 27.406427] [<ffffffff80228430>] track_pfn_vma_new+0x49/0xb3 [ 27.406686] [<ffffffff80286c46>] remap_pfn_range+0x94/0x32c [ 27.406940] [<ffffffff8022878d>] ? phys_mem_access_prot_allowed+0xb5/0x1a8 [ 27.407209] [<ffffffff803e9bf4>] mmap_mem+0x75/0x9d [ 27.407523] [<ffffffff8028b3b4>] mmap_region+0x2cf/0x53e [ 27.407776] [<ffffffff8028b8cc>] do_mmap_pgoff+0x2a9/0x30d [ 27.408034] [<ffffffff8020f4a4>] sys_mmap+0x92/0xce [ 27.408339] [<ffffffff8020b65b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [ 27.408614] ---[ end trace 4b16ad70c09a602d ]--- [ 27.408871] dmidecode:4913 reserve_pfn_range ioremap_change_attr failed write-back for cff6a000-cff6b000 This is wih track_pfn_vma_new trying to keep identity map in sync. The address cff6a000 is the ACPI region according to e820. [ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009c000 (usable) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009c000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000cc000 - 00000000000d0000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000cff60000 (usable) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000cff60000 - 00000000cff69000 (ACPI data) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000cff69000 - 00000000cff80000 (ACPI NVS) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000cff80000 - 00000000d0000000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000ff000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000230000000 (usable) And is not mapped as per init_memory_mapping. [ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: 0000000000000000-00000000cff60000 [ 0.000000] init_memory_mapping: 0000000100000000-0000000230000000 We can add logic to check for this. But, there can also be other holes in identity map when we have 1GB of aligned reserved space in e820. This patch handles it by removing the WARN_ON and returning a specific error value (EFAULT) to indicate that the address does not have any identity mapping. The code that tries to keep identity map in sync can ignore this error, with other callers of cpa still getting error here. Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 06 11月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Hugh Dickins 提交于
Impact: right-align /proc/meminfo consistent with other fields When the split-LRU patches added Inactive(anon) and Inactive(file) lines to /proc/meminfo, all counts were moved two columns rightwards to fit in. Now move x86's DirectMap lines two columns rightwards to line up. Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 23 10月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
and move it to fs/proc/meminfo.c while I'm at it. Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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- 20 10月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Nick Piggin 提交于
Rewrite the vmap allocator to use rbtrees and lazy tlb flushing, and provide a fast, scalable percpu frontend for small vmaps (requires a slightly different API, though). The biggest problem with vmap is actually vunmap. Presently this requires a global kernel TLB flush, which on most architectures is a broadcast IPI to all CPUs to flush the cache. This is all done under a global lock. As the number of CPUs increases, so will the number of vunmaps a scaled workload will want to perform, and so will the cost of a global TLB flush. This gives terrible quadratic scalability characteristics. Another problem is that the entire vmap subsystem works under a single lock. It is a rwlock, but it is actually taken for write in all the fast paths, and the read locking would likely never be run concurrently anyway, so it's just pointless. This is a rewrite of vmap subsystem to solve those problems. The existing vmalloc API is implemented on top of the rewritten subsystem. The TLB flushing problem is solved by using lazy TLB unmapping. vmap addresses do not have to be flushed immediately when they are vunmapped, because the kernel will not reuse them again (would be a use-after-free) until they are reallocated. So the addresses aren't allocated again until a subsequent TLB flush. A single TLB flush then can flush multiple vunmaps from each CPU. XEN and PAT and such do not like deferred TLB flushing because they can't always handle multiple aliasing virtual addresses to a physical address. They now call vm_unmap_aliases() in order to flush any deferred mappings. That call is very expensive (well, actually not a lot more expensive than a single vunmap under the old scheme), however it should be OK if not called too often. The virtual memory extent information is stored in an rbtree rather than a linked list to improve the algorithmic scalability. There is a per-CPU allocator for small vmaps, which amortizes or avoids global locking. To use the per-CPU interface, the vm_map_ram / vm_unmap_ram interfaces must be used in place of vmap and vunmap. Vmalloc does not use these interfaces at the moment, so it will not be quite so scalable (although it will use lazy TLB flushing). As a quick test of performance, I ran a test that loops in the kernel, linearly mapping then touching then unmapping 4 pages. Different numbers of tests were run in parallel on an 4 core, 2 socket opteron. Results are in nanoseconds per map+touch+unmap. threads vanilla vmap rewrite 1 14700 2900 2 33600 3000 4 49500 2800 8 70631 2900 So with a 8 cores, the rewritten version is already 25x faster. In a slightly more realistic test (although with an older and less scalable version of the patch), I ripped the not-very-good vunmap batching code out of XFS, and implemented the large buffer mapping with vm_map_ram and vm_unmap_ram... along with a couple of other tricks, I was able to speed up a large directory workload by 20x on a 64 CPU system. I believe vmap/vunmap is actually sped up a lot more than 20x on such a system, but I'm running into other locks now. vmap is pretty well blown off the profiles. Before: 1352059 total 0.1401 798784 _write_lock 8320.6667 <- vmlist_lock 529313 default_idle 1181.5022 15242 smp_call_function 15.8771 <- vmap tlb flushing 2472 __get_vm_area_node 1.9312 <- vmap 1762 remove_vm_area 4.5885 <- vunmap 316 map_vm_area 0.2297 <- vmap 312 kfree 0.1950 300 _spin_lock 3.1250 252 sn_send_IPI_phys 0.4375 <- tlb flushing 238 vmap 0.8264 <- vmap 216 find_lock_page 0.5192 196 find_next_bit 0.3603 136 sn2_send_IPI 0.2024 130 pio_phys_write_mmr 2.0312 118 unmap_kernel_range 0.1229 After: 78406 total 0.0081 40053 default_idle 89.4040 33576 ia64_spinlock_contention 349.7500 1650 _spin_lock 17.1875 319 __reg_op 0.5538 281 _atomic_dec_and_lock 1.0977 153 mutex_unlock 1.5938 123 iget_locked 0.1671 117 xfs_dir_lookup 0.1662 117 dput 0.1406 114 xfs_iget_core 0.0268 92 xfs_da_hashname 0.1917 75 d_alloc 0.0670 68 vmap_page_range 0.0462 <- vmap 58 kmem_cache_alloc 0.0604 57 memset 0.0540 52 rb_next 0.1625 50 __copy_user 0.0208 49 bitmap_find_free_region 0.2188 <- vmap 46 ia64_sn_udelay 0.1106 45 find_inode_fast 0.1406 42 memcmp 0.2188 42 finish_task_switch 0.1094 42 __d_lookup 0.0410 40 radix_tree_lookup_slot 0.1250 37 _spin_unlock_irqrestore 0.3854 36 xfs_bmapi 0.0050 36 kmem_cache_free 0.0256 35 xfs_vn_getattr 0.0322 34 radix_tree_lookup 0.1062 33 __link_path_walk 0.0035 31 xfs_da_do_buf 0.0091 30 _xfs_buf_find 0.0204 28 find_get_page 0.0875 27 xfs_iread 0.0241 27 __strncpy_from_user 0.2812 26 _xfs_buf_initialize 0.0406 24 _xfs_buf_lookup_pages 0.0179 24 vunmap_page_range 0.0250 <- vunmap 23 find_lock_page 0.0799 22 vm_map_ram 0.0087 <- vmap 20 kfree 0.0125 19 put_page 0.0330 18 __kmalloc 0.0176 17 xfs_da_node_lookup_int 0.0086 17 _read_lock 0.0885 17 page_waitqueue 0.0664 vmap has gone from being the top 5 on the profiles and flushing the crap out of all TLBs, to using less than 1% of kernel time. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups, section fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build on alpha] Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 11 10月, 2008 3 次提交
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由 Suresh Siddha 提交于
Do a global flush tlb after splitting the large page and before we do the actual change page attribute in the PTE. With out this, we violate the TLB application note, which says "The TLBs may contain both ordinary and large-page translations for a 4-KByte range of linear addresses. This may occur if software modifies the paging structures so that the page size used for the address range changes. If the two translations differ with respect to page frame or attributes (e.g., permissions), processor behavior is undefined and may be implementation-specific." And also serialize cpa() (for !DEBUG_PAGEALLOC which uses large identity mappings) using cpa_lock. So that we don't allow any other cpu, with stale large tlb entries change the page attribute in parallel to some other cpu splitting a large page entry along with changing the attribute. Signed-off-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com Cc: venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Cc: jeremy@goop.org Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Suresh Siddha 提交于
Interrupt context no longer splits large page in cpa(). So we can do away with cpa memory pool code. Signed-off-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com Cc: venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Cc: jeremy@goop.org Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Suresh Siddha 提交于
No alias checking needed for setting present/not-present mapping. Otherwise, we may need to break large pages for 64-bit kernel text mappings (this adds to complexity if we want to do this from atomic context especially, for ex: with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC). Let's keep it simple! Signed-off-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com Cc: venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com Cc: jeremy@goop.org Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 30 9月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Bruce Allan 提交于
Export set_memory_ro() and set_memory_rw() calls for use by drivers that need to have more debug information about who might be writing to memory space. this was initially developed for use while debugging a memory corruption problem with e1000e. Signed-off-by: NBruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NJesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 23 8月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Venki Pallipadi 提交于
Fix the start addr for free_memtype calls in the error path. Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Acked-by: NRene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 22 8月, 2008 2 次提交
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由 Rene Herman 提交于
Actually, might as well simply reconstruct the memtype list at free time I guess. How is this for a coalescing version of the array functions? Compiles, boots and provides me with: root@7ixe4:~# wc -l /debug/x86/pat_memtype_list 53 /debug/x86/pat_memtype_list otherwise (down from 16384+). Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Rene Herman 提交于
The new set_memory_array_{uc,wb}() pass virtual addresses to {reserve,free}_memtype() it seems. Signed-off-by: NRene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 21 8月, 2008 3 次提交
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由 Shaohua Li 提交于
Add array interface APIs of pageattr. page based cache flush is quite slow for a lot of pages. If pages are more than 1024 (4M), the patch will use a wbinvd(). We have a simple test here (run a 3d game - open arena), nearly all agp memory allocation are small (< 1M), so suppose this will not impact runtime performance. Signed-off-by: NDave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Ingo Molnar 提交于
This reverts commit 1ac2f7d5.
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Big thinko in pat memtype tracking code. reserve_memtype should be called with physical address and not virtual address. Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 15 8月, 2008 2 次提交
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由 Nick Piggin 提交于
Highmem code can leave ptes and tlb entries around for a given page even after kunmap, and after it has been freed. >From what I can gather, the PAT code may change the cache attributes of arbitrary physical addresses (ie. including highmem pages), which would result in aliases in the case that it operates on one of these lazy tlb highmem pages. Flushing kmaps should solve the problem. I've also just added code for conditional flushing if we haven't got any dangling highmem aliases -- this should help performance if we change page attributes frequently or systems that aren't using much highmem pages (eg. if < 4G RAM). Should be turned into 2 patches, but just for RFC... Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Shaohua Li 提交于
Introduce two APIs for page attribute. flushing tlb/cache in every page attribute is expensive. AGP gart usually will do a lot of operations to change a page to uc, new APIs can reduce flush. Signed-off-by: NShaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: airlied@linux.ie Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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