1. 06 2月, 2008 1 次提交
  2. 17 10月, 2007 2 次提交
  3. 09 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  4. 20 7月, 2007 3 次提交
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      only allow nonlinear vmas for ram backed filesystems · 3ee6dafc
      Miklos Szeredi 提交于
      page_mkclean() doesn't re-protect ptes for non-linear mappings, so a later
      re-dirty through such a mapping will not generate a fault, PG_dirty will
      not reflect the dirty state and the dirty count will be skewed.  This
      implies that msync() is also currently broken for nonlinear mappings.
      
      The easiest solution is to emulate remap_file_pages on non-linear mappings
      with simple mmap() for non ram-backed filesystems.  Applications continue
      to work (albeit slower), as long as the number of remappings remain below
      the maximum vma count.
      
      However all currently known real uses of non-linear mappings are for ram
      backed filesystems, which this patch doesn't affect.
      Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
      Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3ee6dafc
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      mm: fault feedback #1 · d0217ac0
      Nick Piggin 提交于
      Change ->fault prototype.  We now return an int, which contains
      VM_FAULT_xxx code in the low byte, and FAULT_RET_xxx code in the next byte.
       FAULT_RET_ code tells the VM whether a page was found, whether it has been
      locked, and potentially other things.  This is not quite the way he wanted
      it yet, but that's changed in the next patch (which requires changes to
      arch code).
      
      This means we no longer set VM_CAN_INVALIDATE in the vma in order to say
      that a page is locked which requires filemap_nopage to go away (because we
      can no longer remain backward compatible without that flag), but we were
      going to do that anyway.
      
      struct fault_data is renamed to struct vm_fault as Linus asked. address
      is now a void __user * that we should firmly encourage drivers not to use
      without really good reason.
      
      The page is now returned via a page pointer in the vm_fault struct.
      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>
      d0217ac0
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      mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear) · 54cb8821
      Nick Piggin 提交于
      Nonlinear mappings are (AFAIKS) simply a virtual memory concept that encodes
      the virtual address -> file offset differently from linear mappings.
      
      ->populate is a layering violation because the filesystem/pagecache code
      should need to know anything about the virtual memory mapping.  The hitch here
      is that the ->nopage handler didn't pass down enough information (ie.  pgoff).
       But it is more logical to pass pgoff rather than have the ->nopage function
      calculate it itself anyway (because that's a similar layering violation).
      
      Having the populate handler install the pte itself is likewise a nasty thing
      to be doing.
      
      This patch introduces a new fault handler that replaces ->nopage and
      ->populate and (later) ->nopfn.  Most of the old mechanism is still in place
      so there is a lot of duplication and nice cleanups that can be removed if
      everyone switches over.
      
      The rationale for doing this in the first place is that nonlinear mappings are
      subject to the pagefault vs invalidate/truncate race too, and it seemed stupid
      to duplicate the synchronisation logic rather than just consolidate the two.
      
      After this patch, MAP_NONBLOCK no longer sets up ptes for pages present in
      pagecache.  Seems like a fringe functionality anyway.
      
      NOPAGE_REFAULT is removed.  This should be implemented with ->fault, and no
      users have hit mainline yet.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
      [randy.dunlap@oracle.com: doc. fixes for readahead]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
      Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
      Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      54cb8821
  5. 23 12月, 2006 1 次提交
  6. 08 12月, 2006 1 次提交
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  8. 26 9月, 2006 1 次提交
  9. 23 6月, 2006 1 次提交
  10. 30 11月, 2005 1 次提交
  11. 29 11月, 2005 1 次提交
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      mm: re-architect the VM_UNPAGED logic · 6aab341e
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      This replaces the (in my opinion horrible) VM_UNMAPPED logic with very
      explicit support for a "remapped page range" aka VM_PFNMAP.  It allows a
      VM area to contain an arbitrary range of page table entries that the VM
      never touches, and never considers to be normal pages.
      
      Any user of "remap_pfn_range()" automatically gets this new
      functionality, and doesn't even have to mark the pages reserved or
      indeed mark them any other way.  It just works.  As a side effect, doing
      mmap() on /dev/mem works for arbitrary ranges.
      
      Sparc update from David in the next commit.
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      6aab341e
  12. 23 11月, 2005 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] unpaged: VM_NONLINEAR VM_RESERVED · 101d2be7
      Hugh Dickins 提交于
      There's one peculiar use of VM_RESERVED which the previous patch left behind:
      because VM_NONLINEAR's try_to_unmap_cluster uses vm_private_data as a swapout
      cursor, but should never meet VM_RESERVED vmas, it was a way of extending
      VM_NONLINEAR to VM_RESERVED vmas using vm_private_data for some other purpose.
       But that's an empty set - they don't have the populate function required.  So
      just throw away those VM_RESERVED tests.
      
      But one more interesting in rmap.c has to go too: try_to_unmap_one will want
      to swap out an anonymous page from VM_RESERVED or VM_UNPAGED area.
      Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      101d2be7
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      [PATCH] unpaged: VM_UNPAGED · 0b14c179
      Hugh Dickins 提交于
      Although we tend to associate VM_RESERVED with remap_pfn_range, quite a few
      drivers set VM_RESERVED on areas which are then populated by nopage.  The
      PageReserved removal in 2.6.15-rc1 changed VM_RESERVED not to free pages in
      zap_pte_range, without changing those drivers not to set it: so their pages
      just leak away.
      
      Let's not change miscellaneous drivers now: introduce VM_UNPAGED at the core,
      to flag the special areas where the ptes may have no struct page, or if they
      have then it's not to be touched.  Replace most instances of VM_RESERVED in
      core mm by VM_UNPAGED.  Force it on in remap_pfn_range, and the sparc and
      sparc64 io_remap_pfn_range.
      
      Revert addition of VM_RESERVED to powerpc vdso, it's not needed there.  Is it
      needed anywhere?  It still governs the mm->reserved_vm statistic, and special
      vmas not to be merged, and areas not to be core dumped; but could probably be
      eliminated later (the drivers are probably specifying it because in 2.4 it
      kept swapout off the vma, but in 2.6 we work from the LRU, which these pages
      don't get on).
      
      Use the VM_SHM slot for VM_UNPAGED, and define VM_SHM to 0: it serves no
      purpose whatsoever, and should be removed from drivers when we clean up.
      Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Acked-by: NWilliam Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      0b14c179
  13. 30 10月, 2005 5 次提交
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      [PATCH] mm: ptd_alloc take ptlock · c74df32c
      Hugh Dickins 提交于
      Second step in pushing down the page_table_lock.  Remove the temporary
      bridging hack from __pud_alloc, __pmd_alloc, __pte_alloc: expect callers not
      to hold page_table_lock, whether it's on init_mm or a user mm; take
      page_table_lock internally to check if a racing task already allocated.
      
      Convert their callers from common code.  But avoid coming back to change them
      again later: instead of moving the spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock) down,
      switch over to new macros pte_alloc_map_lock and pte_unmap_unlock, which
      encapsulate the mapping+locking and unlocking+unmapping together, and in the
      end may use alternatives to the mm page_table_lock itself.
      
      These callers all hold mmap_sem (some exclusively, some not), so at no level
      can a page table be whipped away from beneath them; and pte_alloc uses the
      "atomic" pmd_present to test whether it needs to allocate.  It appears that on
      all arches we can safely descend without page_table_lock.
      Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      c74df32c
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      [PATCH] mm: update_hiwaters just in time · 365e9c87
      Hugh Dickins 提交于
      update_mem_hiwater has attracted various criticisms, in particular from those
      concerned with mm scalability.  Originally it was called whenever rss or
      total_vm got raised.  Then many of those callsites were replaced by a timer
      tick call from account_system_time.  Now Frank van Maarseveen reports that to
      be found inadequate.  How about this?  Works for Frank.
      
      Replace update_mem_hiwater, a poor combination of two unrelated ops, by macros
      update_hiwater_rss and update_hiwater_vm.  Don't attempt to keep
      mm->hiwater_rss up to date at timer tick, nor every time we raise rss (usually
      by 1): those are hot paths.  Do the opposite, update only when about to lower
      rss (usually by many), or just before final accounting in do_exit.  Handle
      mm->hiwater_vm in the same way, though it's much less of an issue.  Demand
      that whoever collects these hiwater statistics do the work of taking the
      maximum with rss or total_vm.
      
      And there has been no collector of these hiwater statistics in the tree.  The
      new convention needs an example, so match Frank's usage by adding a VmPeak
      line above VmSize to /proc/<pid>/status, and also a VmHWM line above VmRSS
      (High-Water-Mark or High-Water-Memory).
      
      There was a particular anomaly during mremap move, that hiwater_vm might be
      captured too high.  A fleeting such anomaly remains, but it's quickly
      corrected now, whereas before it would stick.
      
      What locking?  None: if the app is racy then these statistics will be racy,
      it's not worth any overhead to make them exact.  But whenever it suits,
      hiwater_vm is updated under exclusive mmap_sem, and hiwater_rss under
      page_table_lock (for now) or with preemption disabled (later on): without
      going to any trouble, minimize the time between reading current values and
      updating, to minimize those occasions when a racing thread bumps a count up
      and back down in between.
      Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      365e9c87
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      [PATCH] mm: zap_pte out of line · 861f2fb8
      Hugh Dickins 提交于
      There used to be just one call to zap_pte, but it shouldn't be inline now
      there are two.  Check for the common case pte_none before calling, and move
      its rss accounting up into install_page or install_file_pte - which helps the
      next patch.
      Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      861f2fb8
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      [PATCH] core remove PageReserved · b5810039
      Nick Piggin 提交于
      Remove PageReserved() calls from core code by tightening VM_RESERVED
      handling in mm/ to cover PageReserved functionality.
      
      PageReserved special casing is removed from get_page and put_page.
      
      All setting and clearing of PageReserved is retained, and it is now flagged
      in the page_alloc checks to help ensure we don't introduce any refcount
      based freeing of Reserved pages.
      
      MAP_PRIVATE, PROT_WRITE of VM_RESERVED regions is tentatively being
      deprecated.  We never completely handled it correctly anyway, and is be
      reintroduced in future if required (Hugh has a proof of concept).
      
      Once PageReserved() calls are removed from kernel/power/swsusp.c, and all
      arch/ and driver code, the Set and Clear calls, and the PG_reserved bit can
      be trivially removed.
      
      Last real user of PageReserved is swsusp, which uses PageReserved to
      determine whether a struct page points to valid memory or not.  This still
      needs to be addressed (a generic page_is_ram() should work).
      
      A last caveat: the ZERO_PAGE is now refcounted and managed with rmap (and
      thus mapcounted and count towards shared rss).  These writes to the struct
      page could cause excessive cacheline bouncing on big systems.  There are a
      number of ways this could be addressed if it is an issue.
      Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      
      Refcount bug fix for filemap_xip.c
      Signed-off-by: NCarsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      b5810039
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      [PATCH] mm: rss = file_rss + anon_rss · 4294621f
      Hugh Dickins 提交于
      I was lazy when we added anon_rss, and chose to change as few places as
      possible.  So currently each anonymous page has to be counted twice, in rss
      and in anon_rss.  Which won't be so good if those are atomic counts in some
      configurations.
      
      Change that around: keep file_rss and anon_rss separately, and add them
      together (with get_mm_rss macro) when the total is needed - reading two
      atomics is much cheaper than updating two atomics.  And update anon_rss
      upfront, typically in memory.c, not tucked away in page_add_anon_rmap.
      Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      4294621f
  14. 12 10月, 2005 1 次提交
  15. 17 4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