1. 13 10月, 2012 1 次提交
  2. 09 10月, 2012 2 次提交
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      mempolicy: fix a race in shared_policy_replace() · b22d127a
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      shared_policy_replace() use of sp_alloc() is unsafe.  1) sp_node cannot
      be dereferenced if sp->lock is not held and 2) another thread can modify
      sp_node between spin_unlock for allocating a new sp node and next
      spin_lock.  The bug was introduced before 2.6.12-rc2.
      
      Kosaki's original patch for this problem was to allocate an sp node and
      policy within shared_policy_replace and initialise it when the lock is
      reacquired.  I was not keen on this approach because it partially
      duplicates sp_alloc().  As the paths were sp->lock is taken are not that
      performance critical this patch converts sp->lock to sp->mutex so it can
      sleep when calling sp_alloc().
      
      [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: Original patch]
      Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Acked-by: NKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Reviewed-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
      Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b22d127a
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      mm: kill vma flag VM_RESERVED and mm->reserved_vm counter · 314e51b9
      Konstantin Khlebnikov 提交于
      A long time ago, in v2.4, VM_RESERVED kept swapout process off VMA,
      currently it lost original meaning but still has some effects:
      
       | effect                 | alternative flags
      -+------------------------+---------------------------------------------
      1| account as reserved_vm | VM_IO
      2| skip in core dump      | VM_IO, VM_DONTDUMP
      3| do not merge or expand | VM_IO, VM_DONTEXPAND, VM_HUGETLB, VM_PFNMAP
      4| do not mlock           | VM_IO, VM_DONTEXPAND, VM_HUGETLB, VM_PFNMAP
      
      This patch removes reserved_vm counter from mm_struct.  Seems like nobody
      cares about it, it does not exported into userspace directly, it only
      reduces total_vm showed in proc.
      
      Thus VM_RESERVED can be replaced with VM_IO or pair VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP.
      
      remap_pfn_range() and io_remap_pfn_range() set VM_IO|VM_DONTEXPAND|VM_DONTDUMP.
      remap_vmalloc_range() set VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c fixup]
      Signed-off-by: NKonstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
      Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
      Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
      Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
      Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
      Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
      Cc: Kentaro Takeda <takedakn@nttdata.co.jp>
      Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
      Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
      Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
      Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
      Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      314e51b9
  3. 20 6月, 2012 1 次提交
  4. 30 5月, 2012 1 次提交
  5. 11 1月, 2012 1 次提交
  6. 25 5月, 2011 2 次提交
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      mm: declare mpol_to_str() when CONFIG_TMPFS=n · 13057efb
      Stephen Wilson 提交于
      When CONFIG_TMPFS=n mpol_to_str() is not declared in mempolicy.h.
      However, in the NUMA case, the definition is always compiled.
      
      Since it is not strictly true that tmpfs is the only client, and since the
      symbol was always lurking around anyways, export mpol_to_str()
      unconditionally.  Furthermore, this will allow us to move show_numa_map()
      out of mempolicy.c and into the procfs subsystem.
      Signed-off-by: NStephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca>
      Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      13057efb
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      mm: export get_vma_policy() · d98f6cb6
      Stephen Wilson 提交于
      In commit 48fce342 ("mempolicies: unexport get_vma_policy()")
      get_vma_policy() was marked static as all clients were local to
      mempolicy.c.
      
      However, the decision to generate /proc/pid/numa_maps in the numa memory
      policy code and outside the procfs subsystem introduces an artificial
      interdependency between the two systems.  Exporting get_vma_policy() once
      again is the first step to clean up this interdependency.
      Signed-off-by: NStephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca>
      Reviewed-by: NKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d98f6cb6
  7. 10 8月, 2010 1 次提交
  8. 25 5月, 2010 1 次提交
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      mempolicy: restructure rebinding-mempolicy functions · 708c1bbc
      Miao Xie 提交于
      Nick Piggin reported that the allocator may see an empty nodemask when
      changing cpuset's mems[1].  It happens only on the kernel that do not do
      atomic nodemask_t stores.  (MAX_NUMNODES > BITS_PER_LONG)
      
      But I found that there is also a problem on the kernel that can do atomic
      nodemask_t stores.  The problem is that the allocator can't find a node to
      alloc page when changing cpuset's mems though there is a lot of free
      memory.  The reason is like this:
      
      (mpol: mempolicy)
      	task1			task1's mpol	task2
      	alloc page		1
      	  alloc on node0? NO	1
      				1		change mems from 1 to 0
      				1		rebind task1's mpol
      				0-1		  set new bits
      				0	  	  clear disallowed bits
      	  alloc on node1? NO	0
      	  ...
      	can't alloc page
      	  goto oom
      
      I can use the attached program reproduce it by the following step:
      
      # mkdir /dev/cpuset
      # mount -t cpuset cpuset /dev/cpuset
      # mkdir /dev/cpuset/1
      # echo `cat /dev/cpuset/cpus` > /dev/cpuset/1/cpus
      # echo `cat /dev/cpuset/mems` > /dev/cpuset/1/mems
      # echo $$ > /dev/cpuset/1/tasks
      # numactl --membind=`cat /dev/cpuset/mems` ./cpuset_mem_hog <nr_tasks> &
         <nr_tasks> = max(nr_cpus - 1, 1)
      # killall -s SIGUSR1 cpuset_mem_hog
      # ./change_mems.sh
      
      several hours later, oom will happen though there is a lot of free memory.
      
      This patchset fixes this problem by expanding the nodes range first(set
      newly allowed bits) and shrink it lazily(clear newly disallowed bits).  So
      we use a variable to tell the write-side task that read-side task is
      reading nodemask, and the write-side task clears newly disallowed nodes
      after read-side task ends the current memory allocation.
      
      This patch:
      
      In order to fix no node to alloc memory, when we want to update mempolicy
      and mems_allowed, we expand the set of nodes first (set all the newly
      nodes) and shrink the set of nodes lazily(clean disallowed nodes), But the
      mempolicy's rebind functions may breaks the expanding.
      
      So we restructure the mempolicy's rebind functions and split the rebind
      work to two steps, just like the update of cpuset's mems: The 1st step:
      expand the set of the mempolicy's nodes.  The 2nd step: shrink the set of
      the mempolicy's nodes.  It is used when there is no real lock to protect
      the mempolicy in the read-side.  Otherwise we can do rebind work at once.
      
      In order to implement it, we define
      
      	enum mpol_rebind_step {
      		MPOL_REBIND_ONCE,
      		MPOL_REBIND_STEP1,
      		MPOL_REBIND_STEP2,
      		MPOL_REBIND_NSTEP,
      	};
      
      If the mempolicy needn't be updated by two steps, we can pass
      MPOL_REBIND_ONCE to the rebind functions.  Or we can pass
      MPOL_REBIND_STEP1 to do the first step of the rebind work and pass
      MPOL_REBIND_STEP2 to do the second step work.
      
      Besides that, it maybe long time between these two step and we have to
      release the lock that protects mempolicy and mems_allowed.  If we hold the
      lock once again, we must check whether the current mempolicy is under the
      rebinding (the first step has been done) or not, because the task may
      alloc a new mempolicy when we don't hold the lock.  So we defined the
      following flag to identify it:
      
      #define MPOL_F_REBINDING (1 << 2)
      
      The new functions will be used in the next patch.
      Signed-off-by: NMiao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
      Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
      Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      708c1bbc
  9. 16 12月, 2009 1 次提交
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      hugetlb: derive huge pages nodes allowed from task mempolicy · 06808b08
      Lee Schermerhorn 提交于
      This patch derives a "nodes_allowed" node mask from the numa mempolicy of
      the task modifying the number of persistent huge pages to control the
      allocation, freeing and adjusting of surplus huge pages when the pool page
      count is modified via the new sysctl or sysfs attribute
      "nr_hugepages_mempolicy".  The nodes_allowed mask is derived as follows:
      
      * For "default" [NULL] task mempolicy, a NULL nodemask_t pointer
        is produced.  This will cause the hugetlb subsystem to use
        node_online_map as the "nodes_allowed".  This preserves the
        behavior before this patch.
      * For "preferred" mempolicy, including explicit local allocation,
        a nodemask with the single preferred node will be produced.
        "local" policy will NOT track any internode migrations of the
        task adjusting nr_hugepages.
      * For "bind" and "interleave" policy, the mempolicy's nodemask
        will be used.
      * Other than to inform the construction of the nodes_allowed node
        mask, the actual mempolicy mode is ignored.  That is, all modes
        behave like interleave over the resulting nodes_allowed mask
        with no "fallback".
      
      See the updated documentation [next patch] for more information
      about the implications of this patch.
      
      Examples:
      
      Starting with:
      
      	Node 0 HugePages_Total:     0
      	Node 1 HugePages_Total:     0
      	Node 2 HugePages_Total:     0
      	Node 3 HugePages_Total:     0
      
      Default behavior [with or without this patch] balances persistent
      hugepage allocation across nodes [with sufficient contiguous memory]:
      
      	sysctl vm.nr_hugepages[_mempolicy]=32
      
      yields:
      
      	Node 0 HugePages_Total:     8
      	Node 1 HugePages_Total:     8
      	Node 2 HugePages_Total:     8
      	Node 3 HugePages_Total:     8
      
      Of course, we only have nr_hugepages_mempolicy with the patch,
      but with default mempolicy, nr_hugepages_mempolicy behaves the
      same as nr_hugepages.
      
      Applying mempolicy--e.g., with numactl [using '-m' a.k.a.
      '--membind' because it allows multiple nodes to be specified
      and it's easy to type]--we can allocate huge pages on
      individual nodes or sets of nodes.  So, starting from the
      condition above, with 8 huge pages per node, add 8 more to
      node 2 using:
      
      	numactl -m 2 sysctl vm.nr_hugepages_mempolicy=40
      
      This yields:
      
      	Node 0 HugePages_Total:     8
      	Node 1 HugePages_Total:     8
      	Node 2 HugePages_Total:    16
      	Node 3 HugePages_Total:     8
      
      The incremental 8 huge pages were restricted to node 2 by the
      specified mempolicy.
      
      Similarly, we can use mempolicy to free persistent huge pages
      from specified nodes:
      
      	numactl -m 0,1 sysctl vm.nr_hugepages_mempolicy=32
      
      yields:
      
      	Node 0 HugePages_Total:     4
      	Node 1 HugePages_Total:     4
      	Node 2 HugePages_Total:    16
      	Node 3 HugePages_Total:     8
      
      The 8 huge pages freed were balanced over nodes 0 and 1.
      
      [rientjes@google.com: accomodate reworked NODEMASK_ALLOC]
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Reviewed-by: NAndi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
      Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
      Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
      Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      06808b08
  10. 25 7月, 2008 1 次提交
  11. 28 4月, 2008 15 次提交
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      mempolicy: use struct mempolicy pointer in shmem_sb_info · 71fe804b
      Lee Schermerhorn 提交于
      This patch replaces the mempolicy mode, mode_flags, and nodemask in the
      shmem_sb_info struct with a struct mempolicy pointer, initialized to NULL.
      This removes dependency on the details of mempolicy from shmem.c and hugetlbfs
      inode.c and simplifies the interfaces.
      
      mpol_parse_str() in mempolicy.c is changed to return, via a pointer to a
      pointer arg, a struct mempolicy pointer on success.  For MPOL_DEFAULT, the
      returned pointer is NULL.  Further, mpol_parse_str() now takes a 'no_context'
      argument that causes the input nodemask to be stored in the w.user_nodemask of
      the created mempolicy for use when the mempolicy is installed in a tmpfs inode
      shared policy tree.  At that time, any cpuset contextualization is applied to
      the original input nodemask.  This preserves the previous behavior where the
      input nodemask was stored in the superblock.  We can think of the returned
      mempolicy as "context free".
      
      Because mpol_parse_str() is now calling mpol_new(), we can remove from
      mpol_to_str() the semantic checks that mpol_new() already performs.
      
      Add 'no_context' parameter to mpol_to_str() to specify that it should format
      the nodemask in w.user_nodemask for 'bind' and 'interleave' policies.
      
      Change mpol_shared_policy_init() to take a pointer to a "context free" struct
      mempolicy and to create a new, "contextualized" mempolicy using the mode,
      mode_flags and user_nodemask from the input mempolicy.
      
        Note: we know that the mempolicy passed to mpol_to_str() or
        mpol_shared_policy_init() from a tmpfs superblock is "context free".  This
        is currently the only instance thereof.  However, if we found more uses for
        this concept, and introduced any ambiguity as to whether a mempolicy was
        context free or not, we could add another internal mode flag to identify
        context free mempolicies.  Then, we could remove the 'no_context' argument
        from mpol_to_str().
      
      Added shmem_get_sbmpol() to return a reference counted superblock mempolicy,
      if one exists, to pass to mpol_shared_policy_init().  We must add the
      reference under the sb stat_lock to prevent races with replacement of the mpol
      by remount.  This reference is removed in mpol_shared_policy_init().
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: another build fix]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: yet another build fix]
      Signed-off-by: NLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      71fe804b
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      mempolicy: rework shmem mpol parsing and display · 095f1fc4
      Lee Schermerhorn 提交于
      mm/shmem.c currently contains functions to parse and display memory policy
      strings for the tmpfs 'mpol' mount option.  Move this to mm/mempolicy.c with
      the rest of the mempolicy support.  With subsequent patches, we'll be able to
      remove knowledge of the details [mode, flags, policy, ...] completely from
      shmem.c
      
      1) replace shmem_parse_mpol() in mm/shmem.c with mpol_parse_str() in
         mm/mempolicy.c.  Rework to use the policy_types[] array [used by
         mpol_to_str()] to look up mode by name.
      
      2) use mpol_to_str() to format policy for shmem_show_mpol().  mpol_to_str()
         expects a pointer to a struct mempolicy, so temporarily construct one.
         This will be replaced with a reference to a struct mempolicy in the tmpfs
         superblock in a subsequent patch.
      
         NOTE 1: I changed mpol_to_str() to use a colon ':' rather than an equal
         sign '=' as the nodemask delimiter to match mpol_parse_str() and the
         tmpfs/shmem mpol mount option formatting that now uses mpol_to_str().  This
         is a user visible change to numa_maps, but then the addition of the mode
         flags already changed the display.  It makes sense to me to have the mounts
         and numa_maps display the policy in the same format.  However, if anyone
         objects strongly, I can pass the desired nodemask delimeter as an arg to
         mpol_to_str().
      
         Note 2: Like show_numa_map(), I don't check the return code from
         mpol_to_str().  I do use a longer buffer than the one provided by
         show_numa_map(), which seems to have sufficed so far.
      Signed-off-by: NLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      095f1fc4
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      mempolicy: use MPOL_F_LOCAL to Indicate Preferred Local Policy · fc36b8d3
      Lee Schermerhorn 提交于
      Now that we're using "preferred local" policy for system default, we need to
      make this as fast as possible.  Because of the variable size of the mempolicy
      structure [based on size of nodemasks], the preferred_node may be in a
      different cacheline from the mode.  This can result in accessing an extra
      cacheline in the normal case of system default policy.  Suspect this is the
      cause of an observed 2-3% slowdown in page fault testing relative to kernel
      without this patch series.
      
      To alleviate this, use an internal mode flag, MPOL_F_LOCAL in the mempolicy
      flags member which is guaranteed [?] to be in the same cacheline as the mode
      itself.
      
      Verified that reworked mempolicy now performs slightly better on 25-rc8-mm1
      for both anon and shmem segments with system default and vma [preferred local]
      policy.
      Signed-off-by: NLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      fc36b8d3
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      mempolicy: rework mempolicy Reference Counting [yet again] · 52cd3b07
      Lee Schermerhorn 提交于
      After further discussion with Christoph Lameter, it has become clear that my
      earlier attempts to clean up the mempolicy reference counting were a bit of
      overkill in some areas, resulting in superflous ref/unref in what are usually
      fast paths.  In other areas, further inspection reveals that I botched the
      unref for interleave policies.
      
      A separate patch, suitable for upstream/stable trees, fixes up the known
      errors in the previous attempt to fix reference counting.
      
      This patch reworks the memory policy referencing counting and, one hopes,
      simplifies the code.  Maybe I'll get it right this time.
      
      See the update to the numa_memory_policy.txt document for a discussion of
      memory policy reference counting that motivates this patch.
      
      Summary:
      
      Lookup of mempolicy, based on (vma, address) need only add a reference for
      shared policy, and we need only unref the policy when finished for shared
      policies.  So, this patch backs out all of the unneeded extra reference
      counting added by my previous attempt.  It then unrefs only shared policies
      when we're finished with them, using the mpol_cond_put() [conditional put]
      helper function introduced by this patch.
      
      Note that shmem_swapin() calls read_swap_cache_async() with a dummy vma
      containing just the policy.  read_swap_cache_async() can call alloc_page_vma()
      multiple times, so we can't let alloc_page_vma() unref the shared policy in
      this case.  To avoid this, we make a copy of any non-null shared policy and
      remove the MPOL_F_SHARED flag from the copy.  This copy occurs before reading
      a page [or multiple pages] from swap, so the overhead should not be an issue
      here.
      
      I introduced a new static inline function "mpol_cond_copy()" to copy the
      shared policy to an on-stack policy and remove the flags that would require a
      conditional free.  The current implementation of mpol_cond_copy() assumes that
      the struct mempolicy contains no pointers to dynamically allocated structures
      that must be duplicated or reference counted during copy.
      Signed-off-by: NLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      52cd3b07
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      mempolicy: mark shared policies for unref · aab0b102
      Lee Schermerhorn 提交于
      As part of yet another rework of mempolicy reference counting, we want to be
      able to identify shared policies efficiently, because they have an extra ref
      taken on lookup that needs to be removed when we're finished using the policy.
      
        Note:  the extra ref is required because the policies are
        shared between tasks/processes and can be changed/freed
        by one task while another task is using them--e.g., for
        page allocation.
      
      Building on David Rientjes mempolicy "mode flags" enhancement, this patch
      indicates a "shared" policy by setting a new MPOL_F_SHARED flag in the flags
      member of the struct mempolicy added by David.  MPOL_F_SHARED, and any future
      "internal mode flags" are reserved from bit zero up, as they will never be
      passed in the upper bits of the mode argument of a mempolicy API.
      
      I set the MPOL_F_SHARED flag when the policy is installed in the shared policy
      rb-tree.  Don't need/want to clear the flag when removing from the tree as the
      mempolicy is freed [unref'd] internally to the sp_delete() function.  However,
      a task could hold another reference on this mempolicy from a prior lookup.  We
      need the MPOL_F_SHARED flag to stay put so that any tasks holding a ref will
      unref, eventually freeing, the mempolicy.
      
      A later patch in this series will introduce a function to conditionally unref
      [mpol_free] a policy.  The MPOL_F_SHARED flag is one reason [currently the
      only reason] to unref/free a policy via the conditional free.
      Signed-off-by: NLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      aab0b102
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      mempolicy: rename struct mempolicy 'policy' member to 'mode' · 45c4745a
      Lee Schermerhorn 提交于
      The terms 'policy' and 'mode' are both used in various places to describe the
      semantics of the value stored in the 'policy' member of struct mempolicy.
      Furthermore, the term 'policy' is used to refer to that member, to the entire
      struct mempolicy and to the more abstract concept of the tuple consisting of a
      "mode" and an optional node or set of nodes.  Recently, we have added "mode
      flags" that are passed in the upper bits of the 'mode' [or sometimes,
      'policy'] member of the numa APIs.
      
      I'd like to resolve this confusion, which perhaps only exists in my mind, by
      renaming the 'policy' member to 'mode' throughout, and fixing up the
      Documentation.  Man pages will be updated separately.
      Signed-off-by: NLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      45c4745a
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      mempolicy: rename mpol_copy to mpol_dup · 846a16bf
      Lee Schermerhorn 提交于
      This patch renames mpol_copy() to mpol_dup() because, well, that's what it
      does.  Like, e.g., strdup() for strings, mpol_dup() takes a pointer to an
      existing mempolicy, allocates a new one and copies the contents.
      
      In a later patch, I want to use the name mpol_copy() to copy the contents from
      one mempolicy to another like, e.g., strcpy() does for strings.
      Signed-off-by: NLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      846a16bf
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      mempolicy: rename mpol_free to mpol_put · f0be3d32
      Lee Schermerhorn 提交于
      This is a change that was requested some time ago by Mel Gorman.  Makes sense
      to me, so here it is.
      
      Note: I retain the name "mpol_free_shared_policy()" because it actually does
      free the shared_policy, which is NOT a reference counted object.  However, ...
      
      The mempolicy object[s] referenced by the shared_policy are reference counted,
      so mpol_put() is used to release the reference held by the shared_policy.  The
      mempolicy might not be freed at this time, because some task attached to the
      shared object associated with the shared policy may be in the process of
      allocating a page based on the mempolicy.  In that case, the task performing
      the allocation will hold a reference on the mempolicy, obtained via
      mpol_shared_policy_lookup().  The mempolicy will be freed when all tasks
      holding such a reference have called mpol_put() for the mempolicy.
      Signed-off-by: NLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f0be3d32
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      mempolicy: small header file cleanup · 3842b46d
      David Rientjes 提交于
      Removes forward definition of vm_area_struct in linux/mempolicy.h.  We already
      get it from the linux/slab.h -> linux/gfp.h include.
      
      Removes the unused mpol_set_vma_default() macro from linux/mempolicy.h.
      
      Removes the extern definition of default_policy since it is only referenced,
      as it should be, in mm/mempolicy.c.
      
      Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3842b46d
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      mempolicy: add MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES flag · 4c50bc01
      David Rientjes 提交于
      Adds another optional mode flag, MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES, that specifies
      nodemasks passed via set_mempolicy() or mbind() should be considered relative
      to the current task's mems_allowed.
      
      When the mempolicy is created, the passed nodemask is folded and mapped onto
      the current task's mems_allowed.  For example, consider a task using
      set_mempolicy() to pass MPOL_INTERLEAVE | MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES with a
      nodemask of 1-3.  If current's mems_allowed is 4-7, the effected nodemask is
      5-7 (the second, third, and fourth node of mems_allowed).
      
      If the same task is attached to a cpuset, the mempolicy nodemask is rebound
      each time the mems are changed.  Some possible rebinds and results are:
      
      	mems			result
      	1-3			1-3
      	1-7			2-4
      	1,5-6			1,5-6
      	1,5-7			5-7
      
      Likewise, the zonelist built for MPOL_BIND acts on the set of zones assigned
      to the resultant nodemask from the relative remap.
      
      In the MPOL_PREFERRED case, the preferred node is remapped from the currently
      effected nodemask to the relative nodemask.
      
      This mempolicy mode flag was conceived of by Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>.
      
      Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      4c50bc01
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      mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag · f5b087b5
      David Rientjes 提交于
      Add an optional mempolicy mode flag, MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES, that suppresses the
      node remap when the policy is rebound.
      
      Adds another member to struct mempolicy, nodemask_t user_nodemask, as part of
      a union with cpuset_mems_allowed:
      
      	struct mempolicy {
      		...
      		union {
      			nodemask_t cpuset_mems_allowed;
      			nodemask_t user_nodemask;
      		} w;
      	}
      
      that stores the the nodemask that the user passed when he or she created the
      mempolicy via set_mempolicy() or mbind().  When using MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES,
      which is passed with any mempolicy mode, the user's passed nodemask
      intersected with the VMA or task's allowed nodes is always used when
      determining the preferred node, setting the MPOL_BIND zonelist, or creating
      the interleave nodemask.  This happens whenever the policy is rebound,
      including when a task's cpuset assignment changes or the cpuset's mems are
      changed.
      
      This creates an interesting side-effect in that it allows the mempolicy
      "intent" to lie dormant and uneffected until it has access to the node(s) that
      it desires.  For example, if you currently ask for an interleaved policy over
      a set of nodes that you do not have access to, the mempolicy is not created
      and the task continues to use the previous policy.  With this change, however,
      it is possible to create the same mempolicy; it is only effected when access
      to nodes in the nodemask is acquired.
      
      It is also possible to mount tmpfs with the static nodemask behavior when
      specifying a node or nodemask.  To do this, simply add "=static" immediately
      following the mempolicy mode at mount time:
      
      	mount -o remount mpol=interleave=static:1-3
      
      Also removes mpol_check_policy() and folds its logic into mpol_new() since it
      is now obsoleted.  The unused vma_mpol_equal() is also removed.
      
      Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f5b087b5
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      mempolicy: support optional mode flags · 028fec41
      David Rientjes 提交于
      With the evolution of mempolicies, it is necessary to support mempolicy mode
      flags that specify how the policy shall behave in certain circumstances.  The
      most immediate need for mode flag support is to suppress remapping the
      nodemask of a policy at the time of rebind.
      
      Both the mempolicy mode and flags are passed by the user in the 'int policy'
      formal of either the set_mempolicy() or mbind() syscall.  A new constant,
      MPOL_MODE_FLAGS, represents the union of legal optional flags that may be
      passed as part of this int.  Mempolicies that include illegal flags as part of
      their policy are rejected as invalid.
      
      An additional member to struct mempolicy is added to support the mode flags:
      
      	struct mempolicy {
      		...
      		unsigned short policy;
      		unsigned short flags;
      	}
      
      The splitting of the 'int' actual passed by the user is done in
      sys_set_mempolicy() and sys_mbind() for their respective syscalls.  This is
      done by intersecting the actual with MPOL_MODE_FLAGS, rejecting the syscall of
      there are additional flags, and storing it in the new 'flags' member of struct
      mempolicy.  The intersection of the actual with ~MPOL_MODE_FLAGS is stored in
      the 'policy' member of the struct and all current users of pol->policy remain
      unchanged.
      
      The union of the policy mode and optional mode flags is passed back to the
      user in get_mempolicy().
      
      This combination of mode and flags within the same actual does not break
      userspace code that relies on get_mempolicy(&policy, ...) and either
      
      	switch (policy) {
      	case MPOL_BIND:
      		...
      	case MPOL_INTERLEAVE:
      		...
      	};
      
      statements or
      
      	if (policy == MPOL_INTERLEAVE) {
      		...
      	}
      
      statements.  Such applications would need to use optional mode flags when
      calling set_mempolicy() or mbind() for these previously implemented statements
      to stop working.  If an application does start using optional mode flags, it
      will need to mask the optional flags off the policy in switch and conditional
      statements that only test mode.
      
      An additional member is also added to struct shmem_sb_info to store the
      optional mode flags.
      
      [hugh@veritas.com: shmem mpol: fix build warning]
      Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      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>
      028fec41
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      mempolicy: convert MPOL constants to enum · a3b51e01
      David Rientjes 提交于
      The mempolicy mode constants, MPOL_DEFAULT, MPOL_PREFERRED, MPOL_BIND, and
      MPOL_INTERLEAVE, are better declared as part of an enum since they are
      sequentially numbered and cannot be combined.
      
      The policy member of struct mempolicy is also converted from type short to
      type unsigned short.  A negative policy does not have any legitimate meaning,
      so it is possible to change its type in preparation for adding optional mode
      flags later.
      
      The equivalent member of struct shmem_sb_info is also changed from int to
      unsigned short.
      
      For compatibility, the policy formal to get_mempolicy() remains as a pointer
      to an int:
      
      	int get_mempolicy(int *policy, unsigned long *nmask,
      			  unsigned long maxnode, unsigned long addr,
      			  unsigned long flags);
      
      although the only possible values is the range of type unsigned short.
      
      Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a3b51e01
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      mm: filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask · 19770b32
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      The MPOL_BIND policy creates a zonelist that is used for allocations
      controlled by that mempolicy.  As the per-node zonelist is already being
      filtered based on a zone id, this patch adds a version of __alloc_pages() that
      takes a nodemask for further filtering.  This eliminates the need for
      MPOL_BIND to create a custom zonelist.
      
      A positive benefit of this is that allocations using MPOL_BIND now use the
      local node's distance-ordered zonelist instead of a custom node-id-ordered
      zonelist.  I.e., pages will be allocated from the closest allowed node with
      available memory.
      
      [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: update stale documentation and comments]
      [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: make dequeue_huge_page_vma() obey MPOL_BIND nodemask]
      [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: make dequeue_huge_page_vma() obey MPOL_BIND nodemask rework]
      Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Acked-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      19770b32
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      mm: introduce node_zonelist() for accessing the zonelist for a GFP mask · 0e88460d
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      Introduce a node_zonelist() helper function.  It is used to lookup the
      appropriate zonelist given a node and a GFP mask.  The patch on its own is a
      cleanup but it helps clarify parts of the two-zonelist-per-node patchset.  If
      necessary, it can be merged with the next patch in this set without problems.
      Reviewed-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Signed-off-by: NLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      0e88460d
  12. 20 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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      Task Control Groups: make cpusets a client of cgroups · 8793d854
      Paul Menage 提交于
      Remove the filesystem support logic from the cpusets system and makes cpusets
      a cgroup subsystem
      
      The "cpuset" filesystem becomes a dummy filesystem; attempts to mount it get
      passed through to the cgroup filesystem with the appropriate options to
      emulate the old cpuset filesystem behaviour.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Menage <menage@google.com>
      Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
      Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
      Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
      Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8793d854
  13. 17 10月, 2007 2 次提交
  14. 20 9月, 2007 1 次提交
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      Fix NUMA Memory Policy Reference Counting · 480eccf9
      Lee Schermerhorn 提交于
      This patch proposes fixes to the reference counting of memory policy in the
      page allocation paths and in show_numa_map().  Extracted from my "Memory
      Policy Cleanups and Enhancements" series as stand-alone.
      
      Shared policy lookup [shmem] has always added a reference to the policy,
      but this was never unrefed after page allocation or after formatting the
      numa map data.
      
      Default system policy should not require additional ref counting, nor
      should the current task's task policy.  However, show_numa_map() calls
      get_vma_policy() to examine what may be [likely is] another task's policy.
      The latter case needs protection against freeing of the policy.
      
      This patch adds a reference count to a mempolicy returned by
      get_vma_policy() when the policy is a vma policy or another task's
      mempolicy.  Again, shared policy is already reference counted on lookup.  A
      matching "unref" [__mpol_free()] is performed in alloc_page_vma() for
      shared and vma policies, and in show_numa_map() for shared and another
      task's mempolicy.  We can call __mpol_free() directly, saving an admittedly
      inexpensive inline NULL test, because we know we have a non-NULL policy.
      
      Handling policy ref counts for hugepages is a bit trickier.
      huge_zonelist() returns a zone list that might come from a shared or vma
      'BIND policy.  In this case, we should hold the reference until after the
      huge page allocation in dequeue_hugepage().  The patch modifies
      huge_zonelist() to return a pointer to the mempolicy if it needs to be
      unref'd after allocation.
      
      Kernel Build [16cpu, 32GB, ia64] - average of 10 runs:
      
      		w/o patch	w/ refcount patch
      	    Avg	  Std Devn	   Avg	  Std Devn
      Real:	 100.59	    0.38	 100.63	    0.43
      User:	1209.60	    0.37	1209.91	    0.31
      System:   81.52	    0.42	  81.64	    0.34
      Signed-off-by: NLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Acked-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      480eccf9
  15. 23 8月, 2007 1 次提交
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      Apply memory policies to top two highest zones when highest zone is ZONE_MOVABLE · b377fd39
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      The NUMA layer only supports NUMA policies for the highest zone.  When
      ZONE_MOVABLE is configured with kernelcore=, the the highest zone becomes
      ZONE_MOVABLE.  The result is that policies are only applied to allocations
      like anonymous pages and page cache allocated from ZONE_MOVABLE when the
      zone is used.
      
      This patch applies policies to the two highest zones when the highest zone
      is ZONE_MOVABLE.  As ZONE_MOVABLE consists of pages from the highest "real"
      zone, it's always functionally equivalent.
      
      The patch has been tested on a variety of machines both NUMA and non-NUMA
      covering x86, x86_64 and ppc64.  No abnormal results were seen in
      kernbench, tbench, dbench or hackbench.  It passes regression tests from
      the numactl package with and without kernelcore= once numactl tests are
      patched to wait for vmstat counters to update.
      
      akpm: this is the nasty hack to fix NUMA mempolicies in the presence of
      ZONE_MOVABLE and kernelcore= in 2.6.23.  Christoph says "For .24 either merge
      the mobility or get the other solution that Mel is working on.  That solution
      would only use a single zonelist per node and filter on the fly.  That may
      help performance and also help to make memory policies work better."
      Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Acked-by: NLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Tested-by: NLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Acked-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b377fd39
  16. 18 7月, 2007 1 次提交
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      Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE · 396faf03
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      Huge pages are not movable so are not allocated from ZONE_MOVABLE.  However,
      as ZONE_MOVABLE will always have pages that can be migrated or reclaimed, it
      can be used to satisfy hugepage allocations even when the system has been
      running a long time.  This allows an administrator to resize the hugepage pool
      at runtime depending on the size of ZONE_MOVABLE.
      
      This patch adds a new sysctl called hugepages_treat_as_movable.  When a
      non-zero value is written to it, future allocations for the huge page pool
      will use ZONE_MOVABLE.  Despite huge pages being non-movable, we do not
      introduce additional external fragmentation of note as huge pages are always
      the largest contiguous block we care about.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: various fixes]
      Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      396faf03
  17. 22 10月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] cpuset: mempolicy migration typo fix · faf6bbcf
      Paul Jackson 提交于
      Mistyped an ifdef CONFIG_CPUSETS - fixed.
      
      I doubt that anyone ever noticed.  The impact of this typo was
      that if someone:
       1) was using MPOL_BIND to force off node allocations
       2) while using cpusets to constrain memory placement
       3) when that cpuset was migrating that jobs memory
       4) while the tasks in that job were actively forking
      then there was a rare chance that future allocations using
      that MPOL_BIND policy would be node local, not off node.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      faf6bbcf
  18. 26 9月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] Apply type enum zone_type · 2f6726e5
      Christoph Lameter 提交于
      After we have done this we can now do some typing cleanup.
      
      The memory policy layer keeps a policy_zone that specifies
      the zone that gets memory policies applied. This variable
      can now be of type enum zone_type.
      
      The check_highest_zone function and the build_zonelists funnctionm must
      then also take a enum zone_type parameter.
      
      Plus there are a number of loops over zones that also should use
      zone_type.
      
      We run into some troubles at some points with functions that need a
      zone_type variable to become -1. Fix that up.
      
      [pj@sgi.com: fix set_mempolicy() crash]
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      2f6726e5
  19. 09 6月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] Fix mempolicy.h build error · 45b35a5c
      Ralf Baechle 提交于
      From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      
      <linux/mempolicy.h> uses struct mm_struct and relies on a definition or
      declaration somehow magically being dragged in which may result in a
      build:
      
      [...]
        CC      mm/mempolicy.o
      In file included from mm/mempolicy.c:69:
      include/linux/mempolicy.h:150: warning: ‘struct mm_struct’ declared inside parameter list
      include/linux/mempolicy.h:150: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want
      include/linux/mempolicy.h:175: warning: ‘struct mm_struct’ declared inside parameter list
      mm/mempolicy.c:622: error: conflicting types for ‘do_migrate_pages’
      include/linux/mempolicy.h:175: error: previous declaration of ‘do_migrate_pages’ was here
      mm/mempolicy.c:1661: error: conflicting types for ‘mpol_rebind_mm’
      include/linux/mempolicy.h:150: error: previous declaration of ‘mpol_rebind_mm’ was here
      make[1]: *** [mm/mempolicy.o] Error 1
      make: *** [mm] Error 2
      [ralf@denk linux-ip35]$
      
      Including <linux/sched.h> is a step into direction of include hell so
      fixed by adding a forward declaration of struct mm_struct instead.
      Signed-off-by: NRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      45b35a5c
  20. 26 4月, 2006 1 次提交
  21. 24 3月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] cpuset memory spread slab cache optimizations · c61afb18
      Paul Jackson 提交于
      The hooks in the slab cache allocator code path for support of NUMA
      mempolicies and cpuset memory spreading are in an important code path.  Many
      systems will use neither feature.
      
      This patch optimizes those hooks down to a single check of some bits in the
      current tasks task_struct flags.  For non NUMA systems, this hook and related
      code is already ifdef'd out.
      
      The optimization is done by using another task flag, set if the task is using
      a non-default NUMA mempolicy.  Taking this flag bit along with the
      PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB flag bits added earlier in this 'cpuset
      memory spreading' patch set, one can check for the combination of any of these
      special case memory placement mechanisms with a single test of the current
      tasks task_struct flags.
      
      This patch also tightens up the code, to save a few bytes of kernel text
      space, and moves some of it out of line.  Due to the nested inlines called
      from multiple places, we were ending up with three copies of this code, which
      once we get off the main code path (for local node allocation) seems a bit
      wasteful of instruction memory.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      c61afb18
  22. 19 1月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] NUMA policies in the slab allocator V2 · dc85da15
      Christoph Lameter 提交于
      This patch fixes a regression in 2.6.14 against 2.6.13 that causes an
      imbalance in memory allocation during bootup.
      
      The slab allocator in 2.6.13 is not numa aware and simply calls
      alloc_pages().  This means that memory policies may control the behavior of
      alloc_pages().  During bootup the memory policy is set to MPOL_INTERLEAVE
      resulting in the spreading out of allocations during bootup over all
      available nodes.  The slab allocator in 2.6.13 has only a single list of
      slab pages.  As a result the per cpu slab cache and the spinlock controlled
      page lists may contain slab entries from off node memory.  The slab
      allocator in 2.6.13 makes no effort to discern the locality of an entry on
      its lists.
      
      The NUMA aware slab allocator in 2.6.14 controls locality of the slab pages
      explicitly by calling alloc_pages_node().  The NUMA slab allocator manages
      slab entries by having lists of available slab pages for each node.  The
      per cpu slab cache can only contain slab entries associated with the node
      local to the processor.  This guarantees that the default allocation mode
      of the slab allocator always assigns local memory if available.
      
      Setting MPOL_INTERLEAVE as a default policy during bootup has no effect
      anymore.  In 2.6.14 all node unspecific slab allocations are performed on
      the boot processor.  This means that most of key data structures are
      allocated on one node.  Most processors will have to refer to these
      structures making the boot node a potential bottleneck.  This may reduce
      performance and cause unnecessary memory pressure on the boot node.
      
      This patch implements NUMA policies in the slab layer.  There is the need
      of explicit application of NUMA memory policies by the slab allcator itself
      since the NUMA slab allocator does no longer let the page_allocator control
      locality.
      
      The check for policies is made directly at the beginning of __cache_alloc
      using current->mempolicy.  The memory policy is already frequently checked
      by the page allocator (alloc_page_vma() and alloc_page_current()).  So it
      is highly likely that the cacheline is present.  For MPOL_INTERLEAVE
      kmalloc() will spread out each request to one node after another so that an
      equal distribution of allocations can be obtained during bootup.
      
      It is not possible to push the policy check to lower layers of the NUMA
      slab allocator since the per cpu caches are now only containing slab
      entries from the current node.  If the policy says that the local node is
      not to be preferred or forbidden then there is no point in checking the
      slab cache or local list of slab pages.  The allocation better be directed
      immediately to the lists containing slab entries for the allowed set of
      nodes.
      
      This way of applying policy also fixes another strange behavior in 2.6.13.
      alloc_pages() is controlled by the memory allocation policy of the current
      process.  It could therefore be that one process is running with
      MPOL_INTERLEAVE and would f.e.  obtain a new page following that policy
      since no slab entries are in the lists anymore.  A page can typically be
      used for multiple slab entries but lets say that the current process is
      only using one.  The other entries are then added to the slab lists.  These
      are now non local entries in the slab lists despite of the possible
      availability of local pages that would provide faster access and increase
      the performance of the application.
      
      Another process without MPOL_INTERLEAVE may now run and expect a local slab
      entry from kmalloc().  However, there are still these free slab entries
      from the off node page obtained from the other process via MPOL_INTERLEAVE
      in the cache.  The process will then get an off node slab entry although
      other slab entries may be available that are local to that process.  This
      means that the policy if one process may contaminate the locality of the
      slab caches for other processes.
      
      This patch in effect insures that a per process policy is followed for the
      allocation of slab entries and that there cannot be a memory policy
      influence from one process to another.  A process with default policy will
      always get a local slab entry if one is available.  And the process using
      memory policies will get its memory arranged as requested.  Off-node slab
      allocation will require the use of spinlocks and will make the use of per
      cpu caches not possible.  A process using memory policies to redirect
      allocations offnode will have to cope with additional lock overhead in
      addition to the latency added by the need to access a remote slab entry.
      
      Changes V1->V2
      - Remove #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA by moving forward declaration into
        prior #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA section.
      
      - Give the function determining the node number to use a saner
        name.
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      dc85da15
  23. 15 1月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] Add tmpfs options for memory placement policies · 7339ff83
      Robin Holt 提交于
      Anything that writes into a tmpfs filesystem is liable to disproportionately
      decrease the available memory on a particular node.  Since there's no telling
      what sort of application (e.g.  dd/cp/cat) might be dropping large files
      there, this lets the admin choose the appropriate default behavior for their
      site's situation.
      
      Introduce a tmpfs mount option which allows specifying a memory policy and
      a second option to specify the nodelist for that policy.  With the default
      policy, tmpfs will behave as it does today.  This patch adds support for
      preferred, bind, and interleave policies.
      
      The default policy will cause pages to be added to tmpfs files on the node
      which is doing the writing.  Some jobs expect a single process to create
      and manage the tmpfs files.  This results in a node which has a
      significantly reduced number of free pages.
      
      With this patch, the administrator can specify the policy and nodes for
      that policy where they would prefer allocations.
      
      This patch was originally written by Brent Casavant and Hugh Dickins.  I
      added support for the bind and preferred policies and the mpol_nodelist
      mount option.
      Signed-off-by: NBrent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Signed-off-by: NRobin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      7339ff83