1. 28 9月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [S390] Inline assembly cleanup. · 94c12cc7
      Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
      Major cleanup of all s390 inline assemblies. They now have a common
      coding style. Quite a few have been shortened, mainly by using register
      asm variables. Use of the EX_TABLE macro helps  as well. The atomic ops,
      bit ops and locking inlines new use the Q-constraint if a newer gcc
      is used.  That results in slightly better code.
      
      Thanks to Christian Borntraeger for proof reading the changes.
      Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      94c12cc7
  2. 26 9月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] Standardize pxx_page macros · 46a82b2d
      Dave McCracken 提交于
      One of the changes necessary for shared page tables is to standardize the
      pxx_page macros.  pte_page and pmd_page have always returned the struct
      page associated with their entry, while pte_page_kernel and pmd_page_kernel
      have returned the kernel virtual address.  pud_page and pgd_page, on the
      other hand, return the kernel virtual address.
      
      Shared page tables needs pud_page and pgd_page to return the actual page
      structures.  There are very few actual users of these functions, so it is
      simple to standardize their usage.
      
      Since this is basic cleanup, I am submitting these changes as a standalone
      patch.  Per Hugh Dickins' comments about it, I am also changing the
      pxx_page_kernel macros to pxx_page_vaddr to clarify their meaning.
      Signed-off-by: NDave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      46a82b2d
  3. 20 9月, 2006 1 次提交
  4. 01 7月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] zoned vm counters: create vmstat.c/.h from page_alloc.c/.h · f6ac2354
      Christoph Lameter 提交于
      NOTE: ZVC are *not* the lightweight event counters.  ZVCs are reliable whereas
      event counters do not need to be.
      
      Zone based VM statistics are necessary to be able to determine what the state
      of memory in one zone is.  In a NUMA system this can be helpful for local
      reclaim and other memory optimizations that may be able to shift VM load in
      order to get more balanced memory use.
      
      It is also useful to know how the computing load affects the memory
      allocations on various zones.  This patchset allows the retrieval of that data
      from userspace.
      
      The patchset introduces a framework for counters that is a cross between the
      existing page_stats --which are simply global counters split per cpu-- and the
      approach of deferred incremental updates implemented for nr_pagecache.
      
      Small per cpu 8 bit counters are added to struct zone.  If the counter exceeds
      certain thresholds then the counters are accumulated in an array of
      atomic_long in the zone and in a global array that sums up all zone values.
      The small 8 bit counters are next to the per cpu page pointers and so they
      will be in high in the cpu cache when pages are allocated and freed.
      
      Access to VM counter information for a zone and for the whole machine is then
      possible by simply indexing an array (Thanks to Nick Piggin for pointing out
      that approach).  The access to the total number of pages of various types does
      no longer require the summing up of all per cpu counters.
      
      Benefits of this patchset right now:
      
      - Ability for UP and SMP configuration to determine how memory
        is balanced between the DMA, NORMAL and HIGHMEM zones.
      
      - loops over all processors are avoided in writeback and
        reclaim paths. We can avoid caching the writeback information
        because the needed information is directly accessible.
      
      - Special handling for nr_pagecache removed.
      
      - zone_reclaim_interval vanishes since VM stats can now determine
        when it is worth to do local reclaim.
      
      - Fast inline per node page state determination.
      
      - Accurate counters in /sys/devices/system/node/node*/meminfo. Current
        counters are counting simply which processor allocated a page somewhere
        and guestimate based on that. So the counters were not useful to show
        the actual distribution of page use on a specific zone.
      
      - The swap_prefetch patch requires per node statistics in order to
        figure out when processors of a node can prefetch. This patch provides
        some of the needed numbers.
      
      - Detailed VM counters available in more /proc and /sys status files.
      
      References to earlier discussions:
      V1 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113511649910826&w=2
      V2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114980851924230&w=2
      V3 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115014697910351&w=2
      V4 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115024767318740&w=2
      
      Performance tests with AIM7 did not show any regressions.  Seems to be a tad
      faster even.  Tested on ia64/NUMA.  Builds fine on i386, SMP / UP.  Includes
      fixes for s390/arm/uml arch code.
      
      This patch:
      
      Move counter code from page_alloc.c/page-flags.h to vmstat.c/h.
      
      Create vmstat.c/vmstat.h by separating the counter code and the proc
      functions.
      
      Move the vm_stat_text array before zoneinfo_show.
      
      [akpm@osdl.org: s390 build fix]
      [akpm@osdl.org: HOTPLUG_CPU build fix]
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      f6ac2354
  5. 09 11月, 2005 1 次提交
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  7. 20 4月, 2005 1 次提交
  8. 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