1. 30 1月, 2008 1 次提交
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      x86: 64-bit, make sparsemem vmemmap the only memory model · b263295d
      Christoph Lameter 提交于
      Use sparsemem as the only memory model for UP, SMP and NUMA.  Measurements
      indicate that DISCONTIGMEM has a higher overhead than sparsemem.  And
      FLATMEMs benefits are minimal.  So I think its best to simply standardize
      on sparsemem.
      
      Results of page allocator tests (test can be had via git from slab git
      tree branch tests)
      
      Measurements in cycle counts. 1000 allocations were performed and then the
      average cycle count was calculated.
      
      Order	FlatMem	Discontig	SparseMem
      0	  639	  665		  641
      1	  567	  647		  593
      2	  679	  774		  692
      3	  763	  967		  781
      4	  961	 1501		  962
      5	 1356	 2344		 1392
      6	 2224	 3982		 2336
      7	 4869	 7225		 5074
      8	12500	14048		12732
      9	27926	28223		28165
      10	58578	58714		58682
      
      (Note that FlatMem is an SMP config and the rest NUMA configurations)
      
      Memory use:
      
      SMP Sparsemem
      -------------
      
      Kernel size:
      
         text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
      3849268  397739 1264856 5511863  541ab7 vmlinux
      
                   total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
      Mem:       8242252      41164    8201088          0        352      11512
      -/+ buffers/cache:      29300    8212952
      Swap:      9775512          0    9775512
      
      SMP Flatmem
      -----------
      
      Kernel size:
      
         text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
      3844612  397739 1264536 5506887  540747 vmlinux
      
      So 4.5k growth in text size vs. FLATMEM.
      
                   total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
      Mem:       8244052      40544    8203508          0        352      11484
      -/+ buffers/cache:      28708    8215344
      
      2k growth in overall memory use after boot.
      
      NUMA discontig:
      
         text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
      3888124  470659 1276504 5635287  55fcd7 vmlinux
      
                   total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
      Mem:       8256256      56908    8199348          0        352      11496
      -/+ buffers/cache:      45060    8211196
      Swap:      9775512          0    9775512
      
      NUMA sparse:
      
         text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
      3896428  470659 1276824 5643911  561e87 vmlinux
      
      8k text growth. Given that we fully inline virt_to_page and friends now
      that is rather good.
      
                   total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
      Mem:       8264720      57240    8207480          0        352      11516
      -/+ buffers/cache:      45372    8219348
      Swap:      9775512          0    9775512
      
      The total available memory is increased by 8k.
      
      This patch makes sparsemem the default and removes discontig and
      flatmem support from x86.
      
      [ akpm@linux-foundation.org: allnoconfig build fix ]
      Acked-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      b263295d
  2. 11 10月, 2007 2 次提交
  3. 07 5月, 2007 1 次提交
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      Revert "[PATCH] x86: __pa and __pa_symbol address space separation" · e3ebadd9
      Linus Torvalds 提交于
      This was broken.  It adds complexity, for no good reason.  Rather than
      separate __pa() and __pa_symbol(), we should deprecate __pa_symbol(),
      and preferably __pa() too - and just use "virt_to_phys()" instead, which
      is more readable and has nicer semantics.
      
      However, right now, just undo the separation, and make __pa_symbol() be
      the exact same as __pa().  That fixes the bugs this patch introduced,
      and we can do the fairly obvious cleanups later.
      
      Do the new __phys_addr() function (which is now the actual workhorse for
      the unified __pa()/__pa_symbol()) as a real external function, that way
      all the potential issues with compile/link-time optimizations of
      constant symbol addresses go away, and we can also, if we choose to, add
      more sanity-checking of the argument.
      
      Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e3ebadd9
  4. 01 10月, 2006 1 次提交
  5. 27 6月, 2006 1 次提交
  6. 16 12月, 2005 1 次提交
  7. 13 12月, 2005 1 次提交
  8. 30 10月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] mm: init_mm without ptlock · 872fec16
      Hugh Dickins 提交于
      First step in pushing down the page_table_lock.  init_mm.page_table_lock has
      been used throughout the architectures (usually for ioremap): not to serialize
      kernel address space allocation (that's usually vmlist_lock), but because
      pud_alloc,pmd_alloc,pte_alloc_kernel expect caller holds it.
      
      Reverse that: don't lock or unlock init_mm.page_table_lock in any of the
      architectures; instead rely on pud_alloc,pmd_alloc,pte_alloc_kernel to take
      and drop it when allocating a new one, to check lest a racing task already
      did.  Similarly no page_table_lock in vmalloc's map_vm_area.
      
      Some temporary ugliness in __pud_alloc and __pmd_alloc: since they also handle
      user mms, which are converted only by a later patch, for now they have to lock
      differently according to whether or not it's init_mm.
      
      If sources get muddled, there's a danger that an arch source taking
      init_mm.page_table_lock will be mixed with common source also taking it (or
      neither take it).  So break the rules and make another change, which should
      break the build for such a mismatch: remove the redundant mm arg from
      pte_alloc_kernel (ppc64 scrapped its distinct ioremap_mm in 2.6.13).
      
      Exceptions: arm26 used pte_alloc_kernel on user mm, now pte_alloc_map; ia64
      used pte_alloc_map on init_mm, now pte_alloc_kernel; parisc had bad args to
      pmd_alloc and pte_alloc_kernel in unused USE_HPPA_IOREMAP code; ppc64
      map_io_page forgot to unlock on failure; ppc mmu_mapin_ram and ppc64 im_free
      took page_table_lock for no good reason.
      Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      872fec16
  9. 24 6月, 2005 1 次提交
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  11. 17 5月, 2005 1 次提交
  12. 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