1. 14 11月, 2008 1 次提交
  2. 20 10月, 2008 1 次提交
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      Ramfs and Ram Disk pages are unevictable · ba9ddf49
      Lee Schermerhorn 提交于
      Christoph Lameter pointed out that ram disk pages also clutter the LRU
      lists.  When vmscan finds them dirty and tries to clean them, the ram disk
      writeback function just redirties the page so that it goes back onto the
      active list.  Round and round she goes...
      
      With the ram disk driver [rd.c] replaced by the newer 'brd.c', this is no
      longer the case, as ram disk pages are no longer maintained on the lru.
      [This makes them unmigratable for defrag or memory hot remove, but that
      can be addressed by a separate patch series.] However, the ramfs pages
      behave like ram disk pages used to, so:
      
      Define new address_space flag [shares address_space flags member with
      mapping's gfp mask] to indicate that the address space contains all
      unevictable pages.  This will provide for efficient testing of ramfs pages
      in page_evictable().
      
      Also provide wrapper functions to set/test the unevictable state to
      minimize #ifdefs in ramfs driver and any other users of this facility.
      
      Set the unevictable state on address_space structures for new ramfs
      inodes.  Test the unevictable state in page_evictable() to cull
      unevictable pages.
      
      These changes depend on [CONFIG_]UNEVICTABLE_LRU.
      
      [riel@redhat.com: undo the brd.c part]
      Signed-off-by: NLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Signed-off-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Debugged-by: NNick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      ba9ddf49
  3. 30 4月, 2008 1 次提交
  4. 17 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  5. 18 7月, 2007 1 次提交
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      Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may be migrated · 769848c0
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      It is often known at allocation time whether a page may be migrated or not.
      This patch adds a flag called __GFP_MOVABLE and a new mask called
      GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE.  Allocations using the __GFP_MOVABLE can be either migrated
      using the page migration mechanism or reclaimed by syncing with backing
      storage and discarding.
      
      An API function very similar to alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() is added for
      __GFP_MOVABLE allocations called alloc_zeroed_user_highpage_movable().  The
      flags used by alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() are not changed because it would
      change the semantics of an existing API.  After this patch is applied there
      are no in-kernel users of alloc_zeroed_user_highpage() so it probably should
      be marked deprecated if this patch is merged.
      
      Note that this patch includes a minor cleanup to the use of __GFP_ZERO in
      shmem.c to keep all flag modifications to inode->mapping in the
      shmem_dir_alloc() helper function.  This clean-up suggestion is courtesy of
      Hugh Dickens.
      
      Additional credit goes to Christoph Lameter and Linus Torvalds for shaping the
      concept.  Credit to Hugh Dickens for catching issues with shmem swap vector
      and ramfs allocations.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
      [hugh@veritas.com: __GFP_ZERO cleanup]
      Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      769848c0
  6. 22 5月, 2007 1 次提交
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      Detach sched.h from mm.h · e8edc6e0
      Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
      First thing mm.h does is including sched.h solely for can_do_mlock() inline
      function which has "current" dereference inside. By dealing with can_do_mlock()
      mm.h can be detached from sched.h which is good. See below, why.
      
      This patch
      a) removes unconditional inclusion of sched.h from mm.h
      b) makes can_do_mlock() normal function in mm/mlock.c
      c) exports can_do_mlock() to not break compilation
      d) adds sched.h inclusions back to files that were getting it indirectly.
      e) adds less bloated headers to some files (asm/signal.h, jiffies.h) that were
         getting them indirectly
      
      Net result is:
      a) mm.h users would get less code to open, read, preprocess, parse, ... if
         they don't need sched.h
      b) sched.h stops being dependency for significant number of files:
         on x86_64 allmodconfig touching sched.h results in recompile of 4083 files,
         after patch it's only 3744 (-8.3%).
      
      Cross-compile tested on
      
      	all arm defconfigs, all mips defconfigs, all powerpc defconfigs,
      	alpha alpha-up
      	arm
      	i386 i386-up i386-defconfig i386-allnoconfig
      	ia64 ia64-up
      	m68k
      	mips
      	parisc parisc-up
      	powerpc powerpc-up
      	s390 s390-up
      	sparc sparc-up
      	sparc64 sparc64-up
      	um-x86_64
      	x86_64 x86_64-up x86_64-defconfig x86_64-allnoconfig
      
      as well as my two usual configs.
      Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e8edc6e0
  7. 09 5月, 2007 1 次提交
  8. 13 2月, 2007 2 次提交
  9. 01 10月, 2006 1 次提交
  10. 27 9月, 2006 1 次提交
  11. 23 6月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] VFS: Permit filesystem to override root dentry on mount · 454e2398
      David Howells 提交于
      Extend the get_sb() filesystem operation to take an extra argument that
      permits the VFS to pass in the target vfsmount that defines the mountpoint.
      
      The filesystem is then required to manually set the superblock and root dentry
      pointers.  For most filesystems, this should be done with simple_set_mnt()
      which will set the superblock pointer and then set the root dentry to the
      superblock's s_root (as per the old default behaviour).
      
      The get_sb() op now returns an integer as there's now no need to return the
      superblock pointer.
      
      This patch permits a superblock to be implicitly shared amongst several mount
      points, such as can be done with NFS to avoid potential inode aliasing.  In
      such a case, simple_set_mnt() would not be called, and instead the mnt_root
      and mnt_sb would be set directly.
      
      The patch also makes the following changes:
      
       (*) the get_sb_*() convenience functions in the core kernel now take a vfsmount
           pointer argument and return an integer, so most filesystems have to change
           very little.
      
       (*) If one of the convenience function is not used, then get_sb() should
           normally call simple_set_mnt() to instantiate the vfsmount. This will
           always return 0, and so can be tail-called from get_sb().
      
       (*) generic_shutdown_super() now calls shrink_dcache_sb() to clean up the
           dcache upon superblock destruction rather than shrink_dcache_anon().
      
           This is required because the superblock may now have multiple trees that
           aren't actually bound to s_root, but that still need to be cleaned up. The
           currently called functions assume that the whole tree is rooted at s_root,
           and that anonymous dentries are not the roots of trees which results in
           dentries being left unculled.
      
           However, with the way NFS superblock sharing are currently set to be
           implemented, these assumptions are violated: the root of the filesystem is
           simply a dummy dentry and inode (the real inode for '/' may well be
           inaccessible), and all the vfsmounts are rooted on anonymous[*] dentries
           with child trees.
      
           [*] Anonymous until discovered from another tree.
      
       (*) The documentation has been adjusted, including the additional bit of
           changing ext2_* into foo_* in the documentation.
      
      [akpm@osdl.org: convert ipath_fs, do other stuff]
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
      Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      454e2398
  12. 07 3月, 2006 1 次提交
  13. 25 2月, 2006 1 次提交
  14. 07 1月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] NOMMU: Provide shared-writable mmap support on ramfs · 642fb4d1
      David Howells 提交于
      The attached patch makes ramfs support shared-writable mmaps by:
      
       (1) Attempting to perform a contiguous block allocation to the requested size
           when truncate attempts to increase the file from zero size, such as
           happens when:
      
      	fd = shm_open("/file/on/ramfs", ...):
      	ftruncate(fd, size_requested);
      	addr = mmap(NULL, subsize, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_SHARED,
      		    fd, offset);
      
       (2) Permitting any shared-writable mapping over any contiguous set of extant
           pages. get_unmapped_area() will return the address into the actual ramfs
           pages. The mapping may start anywhere and be of any size, but may not go
           over the end of file. Multiple mappings may overlap in any way.
      
       (3) Not permitting a file to be shrunk if it would truncate any shared
           mappings (private mappings are copied).
      
      Thus this patch provides support for POSIX shared memory on NOMMU kernels,
      with certain limitations such as there being a large enough block of pages
      available to support the allocation and it only working on directly mappable
      filesystems.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      642fb4d1
  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