1. 17 10月, 2007 40 次提交
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      uml: style fixes in FP code · f0c4cad9
      Jeff Dike 提交于
      Tidy the code affected by the floating point fixes.
      
      A bunch of unused stuff is gone, including two sigcontext.c files,
      which turned out to be entirely unneeded.
      
      There are the usual fixes -
      	whitespace and style cleanups
      	copyright updates
      	emacs formatting comments gone
      	include cleanups
      	adding severities to printks
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f0c4cad9
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      uml: coredumping floating point fixes · 058ac308
      Jeff Dike 提交于
      Fix core dumping of floating point state.  ELF_CORE_COPY_FPREGS gets a
      definitions, and as a result, dump_fpu no longer needs to exist.  Also,
      elf_fpregset_t needed a real definition.
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      058ac308
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      uml: ptrace floating point fixes · e8012b58
      Jeff Dike 提交于
      Handle floating point state better in ptrace.  The code now correctly
      distinguishes between PTRACE_[GS]ETFPREGS and PTRACE_[GS]ETFPXREGS.  The FPX
      requests get handed off to arch-specific code because that's not generic.
      
      get_fpregs, set_fpregs, set_fpregs, and set_fpxregs needed real
      implementations.
      
      Something here exposed a missing include in asm/page.h, which needed
      linux/types.h in order to get gfp_t, so that's fixed here.
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e8012b58
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      uml: fix inlines · b21d4b08
      Jeff Dike 提交于
      "extern inline" will have different semantics with gcc 4.3.
      Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b21d4b08
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      uml: rename pt_regs general-purpose register file · 18baddda
      Jeff Dike 提交于
      Before the removal of tt mode, access to a register on the skas-mode side of a
      pt_regs struct looked like pt_regs.regs.skas.regs.regs[FOO].  This was bad
      enough, but it became pt_regs.regs.regs.regs[FOO] with the removal of the
      union from the middle.  To get rid of the run of three "regs", the last field
      is renamed to "gp".
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      18baddda
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      uml: fold mmu_context_skas into mm_context · 6c738ffa
      Jeff Dike 提交于
      This patch folds mmu_context_skas into struct mm_context, changing all users
      of these structures as needed.
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      6c738ffa
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      uml: get rid of do_longjmp · fab95c55
      Jeff Dike 提交于
      do_longjmp used to be needed when UML didn't have its own implementation of
      setjmp and longjmp.  They came from libc, and couldn't be called directly from
      kernel code, as the libc jmp_buf couldn't be imported there.  do_longjmp was a
      userspace function which served to provide longjmp access to kernel code.
      
      This is gone, and a number of void * pointers can now be jmp_buf *.
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      fab95c55
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      uml: style fixes pass 3 · ba180fd4
      Jeff Dike 提交于
      Formatting changes in the files which have been changed in the course
      of folding foo_skas functions into their callers.  These include:
      	copyright updates
      	header file trimming
      	style fixes
      	adding severity to printks
      
      These changes should be entirely non-functional.
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      ba180fd4
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      uml: remove code made redundant by CHOOSE_MODE removal · 77bf4400
      Jeff Dike 提交于
      This patch makes a number of simplifications enabled by the removal of
      CHOOSE_MODE.  There were lots of functions that looked like
      
      	int foo(args){
      		foo_skas(args);
      	}
      
      The bodies of foo_skas are now folded into foo, and their declarations (and
      sometimes entire header files) are deleted.
      
      In addition, the union uml_pt_regs, which was a union between the tt and skas
      register formats, is now a struct, with the tt-mode arm of the union being
      removed.
      
      It turns out that usr2_handler was unused, so it is gone.
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      77bf4400
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      uml: style fixes pass 2 · ae2587e4
      Jeff Dike 提交于
      Formatting changes in the files which have been changed in the course
      of removing CHOOSE_MODE.  These include:
      	copyright updates
      	header file trimming
      	style fixes
      	adding severity to printks
      
      These changes should be entirely non-functional.
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      ae2587e4
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      uml: throw out CHOOSE_MODE · 6aa802ce
      Jeff Dike 提交于
      The next stage after removing code which depends on CONFIG_MODE_TT is removing
      the CHOOSE_MODE abstraction, which provided both compile-time and run-time
      branching to either tt-mode or skas-mode code.
      
      This patch removes choose-mode.h and all inclusions of it, and replaces all
      CHOOSE_MODE invocations with the skas branch.  This leaves a number of trivial
      functions which will be dealt with in a later patch.
      
      There are some changes in the uaccess and tls support which go somewhat beyond
      this and eliminate some of the now-redundant functions.
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      6aa802ce
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      uml: throw out CONFIG_MODE_TT · 42fda663
      Jeff Dike 提交于
      This patchset throws out tt mode, which has been non-functional for a while.
      
      This is done in phases, interspersed with code cleanups on the affected files.
      
      The removal is done as follows:
      	remove all code, config options, and files which depend on
      CONFIG_MODE_TT
      	get rid of the CHOOSE_MODE macro, which decided whether to
      call tt-mode or skas-mode code, and replace invocations with their
      skas portions
      	replace all now-trivial procedures with their skas equivalents
      
      There are now a bunch of now-redundant pieces of data structures, including
      mode-specific pieces of the thread structure, pt_regs, and mm_context.  These
      are all replaced with their skas-specific contents.
      
      As part of the ongoing style compliance project, I made a style pass over all
      files that were changed.  There are three such patches, one for each phase,
      covering the files affected by that phase but no later ones.
      
      I noticed that we weren't freeing the LDT state associated with a process when
      it exited, so that's fixed in one of the later patches.
      
      The last patch is a tidying patch which I've had for a while, but which caused
      inexplicable crashes under tt mode.  Since that is no longer a problem, this
      can now go in.
      
      This patch:
      
      Start getting rid of tt mode support.
      
      This patch throws out CONFIG_MODE_TT and all config options, code, and files
      which depend on it.
      
      CONFIG_MODE_SKAS is gone and everything that depends on it is included
      unconditionally.
      
      The few changed lines are in re-written Kconfig help, lines which needed
      something skas-related removed from them, and a few more which weren't
      strictly deletions.
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      42fda663
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      m32r: convert to generic sys_ptrace · 0ac15559
      Christoph Hellwig 提交于
      Convert m32r to the generic sys_ptrace.  The conversion requires an
      architecture hook after ptrace_attach which this patch adds.  The hook
      will also be needed for a conersion of ia64 to the generic ptrace code.
      
      Thanks to Hirokazu Takata for fixing a bug in the first version of this
      code.
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      0ac15559
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      include/asm-m32r/thread_info.h: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc · 3165c0d1
      Mariusz Kozlowski 提交于
      Signed-off-by: NMariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
      Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3165c0d1
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      alpha: beautify vmlinux.lds · b2b5d37d
      Sam Ravnborg 提交于
      Introduced a consistent style in vmlinux.lds and it now matches the
      soon-to-be common style for all arch's vmlinux.lds files.
      
      In addition:
      - Replaced hardcoded constant with PAGE_SIZE
      - Fix page.h so PAGE_SIZE can be used from assembler and in lds files
      - Move a few labels inside brackets so linker alignment will not
        make label point ot a too low address
      - Replaced DWARF and STABS sections with definitions from asm-generic
      Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b2b5d37d
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      alpha: convert to generic sys_ptrace · a5f833f3
      Christoph Hellwig 提交于
      This patch converts alpha to the generic sys_ptrace.  We use
      force_successful_syscall_return to avoid having to pass the pt_regs pointer
      down to the function.  I think the removal of the assemly stub is correct,
      but I could only compile-test this patch, so please give it a spin before
      commiting :)
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
      Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a5f833f3
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      M68KNOMMU: remove unused config symbol CONFIG_DISKtel · fabc7f66
      Greg Ungerer 提交于
      Remove unused config symbol CONFIG_DISKtel.
      Pointed out by Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>.
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      fabc7f66
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      remove frv usage of flush_tlb_pgtables() · ef0fce85
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
      frv is the last user in the tree of that dubious hook, and it's my
      understanding that it's not even needed.  It's only called by memory.c
      free_pgd_range() which is always called within an mmu_gather, and
      tlb_flush() on frv will do a flush_tlb_mm(), which from my reading of the
      code, seems to do what flush_tlb_ptables() does, which is to clear the
      cached PGE.
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Acked-By: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      ef0fce85
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      mm/mempolicy.c: cleanups · dbcb0f19
      Adrian Bunk 提交于
      This patch contains the following cleanups:
      - every file should include the headers containing the prototypes for
        its global functions
      - make the follosing needlessly global functions static:
        - migrate_to_node()
        - do_mbind()
        - sp_alloc()
        - mpol_rebind_policy()
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix uninitialised var warning]
      Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
      Acked-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      dbcb0f19
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      mm/shmem.c: make 3 functions static · d8dc74f2
      Adrian Bunk 提交于
      This patch makes three needlessly global functions static.
      Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d8dc74f2
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      hugetlb: Add hugetlb_dynamic_pool sysctl · 54f9f80d
      Adam Litke 提交于
      The maximum size of the huge page pool can be controlled using the overall
      size of the hugetlb filesystem (via its 'size' mount option).  However in the
      common case the this will not be set as the pool is traditionally fixed in
      size at boot time.  In order to maintain the expected semantics, we need to
      prevent the pool expanding by default.
      
      This patch introduces a new sysctl controlling dynamic pool resizing.  When
      this is enabled the pool will expand beyond its base size up to the size of
      the hugetlb filesystem.  It is disabled by default.
      Signed-off-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
      Acked-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
      Acked-by: NDave McCracken <dave.mccracken@oracle.com>
      Cc: William Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com>
      Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
      Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
      Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      54f9f80d
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      memory hotplug: Hot-add with sparsemem-vmemmap · 98f3cfc1
      Yasunori Goto 提交于
      This patch is to avoid panic when memory hot-add is executed with
      sparsemem-vmemmap.  Current vmemmap-sparsemem code doesn't support memory
      hot-add.  Vmemmap must be populated when hot-add.  This is for
      2.6.23-rc2-mm2.
      
      Todo: # Even if this patch is applied, the message "[xxxx-xxxx] potential
              offnode page_structs" is displayed. To allocate memmap on its node,
              memmap (and pgdat) must be initialized itself like chicken and
              egg relationship.
      
            # vmemmap_unpopulate will be necessary for followings.
               - For cancel hot-add due to error.
               - For unplug.
      Signed-off-by: NYasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      98f3cfc1
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      fix memory hot remove not configured case. · 48e94196
      KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 提交于
      Now, arch dependent code around CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE is a mess.
      This patch cleans up them. This is against 2.6.23-rc6-mm1.
      
       - fix compile failure on ia64/ CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG && !CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE case.
       - For !CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE, add generic no-op remove_memory(),
         which returns -EINVAL.
       - removed remove_pages() only used in powerpc.
       - removed no-op remove_memory() in i386, sh, sparc64, x86_64.
      
       - only powerpc returns -ENOSYS at memory hot remove(no-op). changes it
         to return -EINVAL.
      
      Note:
      Currently, only ia64 supports CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE. I welcome other
      archs if there are requirements and testers.
      Signed-off-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      48e94196
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      memory unplug: page offline · 0c0e6195
      KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 提交于
      Logic.
       - set all pages in  [start,end)  as isolated migration-type.
         by this, all free pages in the range will be not-for-use.
       - Migrate all LRU pages in the range.
       - Test all pages in the range's refcnt is zero or not.
      
      Todo:
       - allocate migration destination page from better area.
       - confirm page_count(page)== 0 && PageReserved(page) page is safe to be freed..
       (I don't like this kind of page but..
       - Find out pages which cannot be migrated.
       - more running tests.
       - Use reclaim for unplugging other memory type area.
      Signed-off-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: NYasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      0c0e6195
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      memory unplug: page isolation · a5d76b54
      KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 提交于
      Implement generic chunk-of-pages isolation method by using page grouping ops.
      
      This patch add MIGRATE_ISOLATE to MIGRATE_TYPES. By this
       - MIGRATE_TYPES increases.
       - bitmap for migratetype is enlarged.
      
      pages of MIGRATE_ISOLATE migratetype will not be allocated even if it is free.
      By this, you can isolated *freed* pages from users. How-to-free pages is not
      a purpose of this patch. You may use reclaim and migrate codes to free pages.
      
      If start_isolate_page_range(start,end) is called,
       - migratetype of the range turns to be MIGRATE_ISOLATE  if
         its type is MIGRATE_MOVABLE. (*) this check can be updated if other
         memory reclaiming works make progress.
       - MIGRATE_ISOLATE is not on migratetype fallback list.
       - All free pages and will-be-freed pages are isolated.
      To check all pages in the range are isolated or not,  use test_pages_isolated(),
      To cancel isolation, use undo_isolate_page_range().
      
      Changes V6 -> V7
       - removed unnecessary #ifdef
      
      There are HOLES_IN_ZONE handling codes...I'm glad if we can remove them..
      Signed-off-by: NYasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a5d76b54
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      memory unplug: memory hotplug cleanup · 75884fb1
      KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 提交于
      A clean up patch for "scanning memory resource [start, end)" operation.
      
      Now, find_next_system_ram() function is used in memory hotplug, but this
      interface is not easy to use and codes are complicated.
      
      This patch adds walk_memory_resouce(start,len,arg,func) function.
      The function 'func' is called per valid memory resouce range in [start,pfn).
      
      [pbadari@us.ibm.com: Error handling in walk_memory_resource()]
      Signed-off-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: NBadari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      75884fb1
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      SLUB: Optimize cacheline use for zeroing · 42a9fdbb
      Christoph Lameter 提交于
      We touch a cacheline in the kmem_cache structure for zeroing to get the
      size. However, the hot paths in slab_alloc and slab_free do not reference
      any other fields in kmem_cache, so we may have to just bring in the
      cacheline for this one access.
      
      Add a new field to kmem_cache_cpu that contains the object size. That
      cacheline must already be used in the hotpaths. So we save one cacheline
      on every slab_alloc if we zero.
      
      We need to update the kmem_cache_cpu object size if an aliasing operation
      changes the objsize of an non debug slab.
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      42a9fdbb
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      SLUB: Place kmem_cache_cpu structures in a NUMA aware way · 4c93c355
      Christoph Lameter 提交于
      The kmem_cache_cpu structures introduced are currently an array placed in the
      kmem_cache struct. Meaning the kmem_cache_cpu structures are overwhelmingly
      on the wrong node for systems with a higher amount of nodes. These are
      performance critical structures since the per node information has
      to be touched for every alloc and free in a slab.
      
      In order to place the kmem_cache_cpu structure optimally we put an array
      of pointers to kmem_cache_cpu structs in kmem_cache (similar to SLAB).
      
      However, the kmem_cache_cpu structures can now be allocated in a more
      intelligent way.
      
      We would like to put per cpu structures for the same cpu but different
      slab caches in cachelines together to save space and decrease the cache
      footprint. However, the slab allocators itself control only allocations
      per node. We set up a simple per cpu array for every processor with
      100 per cpu structures which is usually enough to get them all set up right.
      If we run out then we fall back to kmalloc_node. This also solves the
      bootstrap problem since we do not have to use slab allocator functions
      early in boot to get memory for the small per cpu structures.
      
      Pro:
      	- NUMA aware placement improves memory performance
      	- All global structures in struct kmem_cache become readonly
      	- Dense packing of per cpu structures reduces cacheline
      	  footprint in SMP and NUMA.
      	- Potential avoidance of exclusive cacheline fetches
      	  on the free and alloc hotpath since multiple kmem_cache_cpu
      	  structures are in one cacheline. This is particularly important
      	  for the kmalloc array.
      
      Cons:
      	- Additional reference to one read only cacheline (per cpu
      	  array of pointers to kmem_cache_cpu) in both slab_alloc()
      	  and slab_free().
      
      [akinobu.mita@gmail.com: fix cpu hotplug offline/online path]
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Cc: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
      Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      4c93c355
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      SLUB: Move page->offset to kmem_cache_cpu->offset · b3fba8da
      Christoph Lameter 提交于
      We need the offset from the page struct during slab_alloc and slab_free. In
      both cases we also reference the cacheline of the kmem_cache_cpu structure.
      We can therefore move the offset field into the kmem_cache_cpu structure
      freeing up 16 bits in the page struct.
      
      Moving the offset allows an allocation from slab_alloc() without touching the
      page struct in the hot path.
      
      The only thing left in slab_free() that touches the page struct cacheline for
      per cpu freeing is the checking of SlabDebug(page). The next patch deals with
      that.
      
      Use the available 16 bits to broaden page->inuse. More than 64k objects per
      slab become possible and we can get rid of the checks for that limitation.
      
      No need anymore to shrink the order of slabs if we boot with 2M sized slabs
      (slub_min_order=9).
      
      No need anymore to switch off the offset calculation for very large slabs
      since the field in the kmem_cache_cpu structure is 32 bits and so the offset
      field can now handle slab sizes of up to 8GB.
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b3fba8da
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      SLUB: Do not use page->mapping · 8e65d24c
      Christoph Lameter 提交于
      After moving the lockless_freelist to kmem_cache_cpu we no longer need
      page->lockless_freelist. Restructure the use of the struct page fields in
      such a way that we never touch the mapping field.
      
      This is turn allows us to remove the special casing of SLUB when determining
      the mapping of a page (needed for corner cases of virtual caches machines that
      need to flush caches of processors mapping a page).
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8e65d24c
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      SLUB: Avoid page struct cacheline bouncing due to remote frees to cpu slab · dfb4f096
      Christoph Lameter 提交于
      A remote free may access the same page struct that also contains the lockless
      freelist for the cpu slab. If objects have a short lifetime and are freed by
      a different processor then remote frees back to the slab from which we are
      currently allocating are frequent. The cacheline with the page struct needs
      to be repeately acquired in exclusive mode by both the allocating thread and
      the freeing thread. If this is frequent enough then performance will suffer
      because of cacheline bouncing.
      
      This patchset puts the lockless_freelist pointer in its own cacheline. In
      order to make that happen we introduce a per cpu structure called
      kmem_cache_cpu.
      
      Instead of keeping an array of pointers to page structs we now keep an array
      to a per cpu structure that--among other things--contains the pointer to the
      lockless freelist. The freeing thread can then keep possession of exclusive
      access to the page struct cacheline while the allocating thread keeps its
      exclusive access to the cacheline containing the per cpu structure.
      
      This works as long as the allocating cpu is able to service its request
      from the lockless freelist. If the lockless freelist runs empty then the
      allocating thread needs to acquire exclusive access to the cacheline with
      the page struct lock the slab.
      
      The allocating thread will then check if new objects were freed to the per
      cpu slab. If so it will keep the slab as the cpu slab and continue with the
      recently remote freed objects. So the allocating thread can take a series
      of just freed remote pages and dish them out again. Ideally allocations
      could be just recycling objects in the same slab this way which will lead
      to an ideal allocation / remote free pattern.
      
      The number of objects that can be handled in this way is limited by the
      capacity of one slab. Increasing slab size via slub_min_objects/
      slub_max_order may increase the number of objects and therefore performance.
      
      If the allocating thread runs out of objects and finds that no objects were
      put back by the remote processor then it will retrieve a new slab (from the
      partial lists or from the page allocator) and start with a whole
      new set of objects while the remote thread may still be freeing objects to
      the old cpu slab. This may then repeat until the new slab is also exhausted.
      If remote freeing has freed objects in the earlier slab then that earlier
      slab will now be on the partial freelist and the allocating thread will
      pick that slab next for allocation. So the loop is extended. However,
      both threads need to take the list_lock to make the swizzling via
      the partial list happen.
      
      It is likely that this kind of scheme will keep the objects being passed
      around to a small set that can be kept in the cpu caches leading to increased
      performance.
      
      More code cleanups become possible:
      
      - Instead of passing a cpu we can now pass a kmem_cache_cpu structure around.
        Allows reducing the number of parameters to various functions.
      - Can define a new node_match() function for NUMA to encapsulate locality
        checks.
      
      Effect on allocations:
      
      Cachelines touched before this patch:
      
      	Write:	page cache struct and first cacheline of object
      
      Cachelines touched after this patch:
      
      	Write:	kmem_cache_cpu cacheline and first cacheline of object
      	Read: page cache struct (but see later patch that avoids touching
      		that cacheline)
      
      The handling when the lockless alloc list runs empty gets to be a bit more
      complicated since another cacheline has now to be written to. But that is
      halfway out of the hot path.
      
      Effect on freeing:
      
      Cachelines touched before this patch:
      
      	Write: page_struct and first cacheline of object
      
      Cachelines touched after this patch depending on how we free:
      
        Write(to cpu_slab):	kmem_cache_cpu struct and first cacheline of object
        Write(to other):	page struct and first cacheline of object
      
        Read(to cpu_slab):	page struct to id slab etc. (but see later patch that
        			avoids touching the page struct on free)
        Read(to other):	cpu local kmem_cache_cpu struct to verify its not
        			the cpu slab.
      
      Summary:
      
      Pro:
      	- Distinct cachelines so that concurrent remote frees and local
      	  allocs on a cpuslab can occur without cacheline bouncing.
      	- Avoids potential bouncing cachelines because of neighboring
      	  per cpu pointer updates in kmem_cache's cpu_slab structure since
      	  it now grows to a cacheline (Therefore remove the comment
      	  that talks about that concern).
      
      Cons:
      	- Freeing objects now requires the reading of one additional
      	  cacheline. That can be mitigated for some cases by the following
      	  patches but its not possible to completely eliminate these
      	  references.
      
      	- Memory usage grows slightly.
      
      	The size of each per cpu object is blown up from one word
      	(pointing to the page_struct) to one cacheline with various data.
      	So this is NR_CPUS*NR_SLABS*L1_BYTES more memory use. Lets say
      	NR_SLABS is 100 and a cache line size of 128 then we have just
      	increased SLAB metadata requirements by 12.8k per cpu.
      	(Another later patch reduces these requirements)
      Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      dfb4f096
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      Print out statistics in relation to fragmentation avoidance to /proc/pagetypeinfo · 467c996c
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      This patch provides fragmentation avoidance statistics via /proc/pagetypeinfo.
       The information is collected only on request so there is no runtime overhead.
       The statistics are in three parts:
      
      The first part prints information on the size of blocks that pages are
      being grouped on and looks like
      
      Page block order: 10
      Pages per block:  1024
      
      The second part is a more detailed version of /proc/buddyinfo and looks like
      
      Free pages count per migrate type at order       0      1      2      3      4      5      6      7      8      9     10
      Node    0, zone      DMA, type    Unmovable      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0
      Node    0, zone      DMA, type  Reclaimable      1      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0
      Node    0, zone      DMA, type      Movable      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0
      Node    0, zone      DMA, type      Reserve      0      4      4      0      0      0      0      1      0      1      0
      Node    0, zone   Normal, type    Unmovable    111      8      4      4      2      3      1      0      0      0      0
      Node    0, zone   Normal, type  Reclaimable    293     89      8      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0
      Node    0, zone   Normal, type      Movable      1      6     13      9      7      6      3      0      0      0      0
      Node    0, zone   Normal, type      Reserve      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      0      4
      
      The third part looks like
      
      Number of blocks type     Unmovable  Reclaimable      Movable      Reserve
      Node 0, zone      DMA            0            1            2            1
      Node 0, zone   Normal            3           17           94            4
      
      To walk the zones within a node with interrupts disabled, walk_zones_in_node()
      is introduced and shared between /proc/buddyinfo, /proc/zoneinfo and
      /proc/pagetypeinfo to reduce code duplication.  It seems specific to what
      vmstat.c requires but could be broken out as a general utility function in
      mmzone.c if there were other other potential users.
      Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Acked-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
      Acked-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      467c996c
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      Do not depend on MAX_ORDER when grouping pages by mobility · d9c23400
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      Currently mobility grouping works at the MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES level.  This makes
      sense for the majority of users where this is also the huge page size.
      However, on platforms like ia64 where the huge page size is runtime
      configurable it is desirable to group at a lower order.  On x86_64 and
      occasionally on x86, the hugepage size may not always be MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES.
      
      This patch groups pages together based on the value of HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER.  It
      uses a compile-time constant if possible and a variable where the huge page
      size is runtime configurable.
      
      It is assumed that grouping should be done at the lowest sensible order and
      that the user would not want to override this.  If this is not true,
      page_block order could be forced to a variable initialised via a boot-time
      kernel parameter.
      
      One potential issue with this patch is that IA64 now parses hugepagesz with
      early_param() instead of __setup().  __setup() is called after the memory
      allocator has been initialised and the pageblock bitmaps already setup.  In
      tests on one IA64 there did not seem to be any problem with using
      early_param() and in fact may be more correct as it guarantees the parameter
      is handled before the parsing of hugepages=.
      Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Acked-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
      Acked-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d9c23400
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      don't group high order atomic allocations · 64c5e135
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      Grouping high-order atomic allocations together was intended to allow
      bursty users of atomic allocations to work such as e1000 in situations
      where their preallocated buffers were depleted.  This did not work in at
      least one case with a wireless network adapter needing order-1 allocations
      frequently.  To resolve that, the free pages used for min_free_kbytes were
      moved to separate contiguous blocks with the patch
      bias-the-location-of-pages-freed-for-min_free_kbytes-in-the-same-max_order_nr_pages-blocks.
      
      It is felt that keeping the free pages in the same contiguous blocks should
      be sufficient for bursty short-lived high-order atomic allocations to
      succeed, maybe even with the e1000.  Even if there is a failure, increasing
      the value of min_free_kbytes will free pages as contiguous bloks in
      contrast to the standard buddy allocator which makes no attempt to keep the
      minimum number of free pages contiguous.
      
      This patch backs out grouping high order atomic allocations together to
      determine if it is really needed or not.  If a new report comes in about
      high-order atomic allocations failing, the feature can be reintroduced to
      determine if it fixes the problem or not.  As a side-effect, this patch
      reduces by 1 the number of bits required to track the mobility type of
      pages within a MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES block.
      Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Acked-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      64c5e135
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      remove PAGE_GROUP_BY_MOBILITY · ac0e5b7a
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      Grouping pages by mobility can be disabled at compile-time. This was
      considered undesirable by a number of people. However, in the current stack of
      patches, it is not a simple case of just dropping the configurable patch as it
      would cause merge conflicts.  This patch backs out the configuration option.
      Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Acked-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      ac0e5b7a
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      Bias the location of pages freed for min_free_kbytes in the same MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES blocks · 56fd56b8
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      The standard buddy allocator always favours the smallest block of pages.
      The effect of this is that the pages free to satisfy min_free_kbytes tends
      to be preserved since boot time at the same location of memory ffor a very
      long time and as a contiguous block.  When an administrator sets the
      reserve at 16384 at boot time, it tends to be the same MAX_ORDER blocks
      that remain free.  This allows the occasional high atomic allocation to
      succeed up until the point the blocks are split.  In practice, it is
      difficult to split these blocks but when they do split, the benefit of
      having min_free_kbytes for contiguous blocks disappears.  Additionally,
      increasing min_free_kbytes once the system has been running for some time
      has no guarantee of creating contiguous blocks.
      
      On the other hand, CONFIG_PAGE_GROUP_BY_MOBILITY favours splitting large
      blocks when there are no free pages of the appropriate type available.  A
      side-effect of this is that all blocks in memory tends to be used up and
      the contiguous free blocks from boot time are not preserved like in the
      vanilla allocator.  This can cause a problem if a new caller is unwilling
      to reclaim or does not reclaim for long enough.
      
      A failure scenario was found for a wireless network device allocating
      order-1 atomic allocations but the allocations were not intense or frequent
      enough for a whole block of pages to be preserved for MIGRATE_HIGHALLOC.
      This was reproduced on a desktop by booting with mem=256mb, forcing the
      driver to allocate at order-1, running a bittorrent client (downloading a
      debian ISO) and building a kernel with -j2.
      
      This patch addresses the problem on the desktop machine booted with
      mem=256mb.  It works by setting aside a reserve of MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES
      blocks, the number of which depends on the value of min_free_kbytes.  These
      blocks are only fallen back to when there is no other free pages.  Then the
      smallest possible page is used just like the normal buddy allocator instead
      of the largest possible page to preserve contiguous pages The pages in free
      lists in the reserve blocks are never taken for another migrate type.  The
      results is that even if min_free_kbytes is set to a low value, contiguous
      blocks will be preserved in the MIGRATE_RESERVE blocks.
      
      This works better than the vanilla allocator because if min_free_kbytes is
      increased, a new reserve block will be chosen based on the location of
      reclaimable pages and the block will free up as contiguous pages.  In the
      vanilla allocator, no effort is made to target a block of pages to free as
      contiguous pages and min_free_kbytes pages are scattered randomly.
      
      This effect has been observed on the test machine.  min_free_kbytes was set
      initially low but it was kept as a contiguous free block within
      MIGRATE_RESERVE.  min_free_kbytes was then set to a higher value and over a
      period of time, the free blocks were within the reserve and coalescing.
      How long it takes to free up depends on how quickly LRU is rotating.
      Amusingly, this means that more activity will free the blocks faster.
      
      This mechanism potentially replaces MIGRATE_HIGHALLOC as it may be more
      effective than grouping contiguous free pages together.  It all depends on
      whether the number of active atomic high allocations exceeds
      min_free_kbytes or not.  If the number of active allocations exceeds
      min_free_kbytes, it's worth it but maybe in that situation, min_free_kbytes
      should be set higher.  Once there are no more reports of allocation
      failures, a patch will be submitted that backs out MIGRATE_HIGHALLOC and
      see if the reports stay missing.
      
      Credit to Mariusz Kozlowski for discovering the problem, describing the
      failure scenario and testing patches and scenarios.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
      Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Acked-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      56fd56b8
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      Fix corruption of memmap on IA64 SPARSEMEM when mem_section is not a power of 2 · 5c0e3066
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      There are problems in the use of SPARSEMEM and pageblock flags that causes
      problems on ia64.
      
      The first part of the problem is that units are incorrect in
      SECTION_BLOCKFLAGS_BITS computation.  This results in a map_section's
      section_mem_map being treated as part of a bitmap which isn't good.  This
      was evident with an invalid virtual address when mem_init attempted to free
      bootmem pages while relinquishing control from the bootmem allocator.
      
      The second part of the problem occurs because the pageblock flags bitmap is
      be located with the mem_section.  The SECTIONS_PER_ROOT computation using
      sizeof (mem_section) may not be a power of 2 depending on the size of the
      bitmap.  This renders masks and other such things not power of 2 base.
      This issue was seen with SPARSEMEM_EXTREME on ia64.  This patch moves the
      bitmap outside of mem_section and uses a pointer instead in the
      mem_section.  The bitmaps are allocated when the section is being
      initialised.
      
      Note that sparse_early_usemap_alloc() does not use alloc_remap() like
      sparse_early_mem_map_alloc().  The allocation required for the bitmap on
      x86, the only architecture that uses alloc_remap is typically smaller than
      a cache line.  alloc_remap() pads out allocations to the cache size which
      would be a needless waste.
      
      Credit to Bob Picco for identifying the original problem and effecting a
      fix for the SECTION_BLOCKFLAGS_BITS calculation.  Credit to Andy Whitcroft
      for devising the best way of allocating the bitmaps only when required for
      the section.
      
      [wli@holomorphy.com: warning fix]
      Signed-off-by: NBob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
      Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NWilliam Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5c0e3066
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      Group high-order atomic allocations · e010487d
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      In rare cases, the kernel needs to allocate a high-order block of pages
      without sleeping.  For example, this is the case with e1000 cards configured
      to use jumbo frames.  Migrating or reclaiming pages in this situation is not
      an option.
      
      This patch groups these allocations together as much as possible by adding a
      new MIGRATE_TYPE.  The MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC type are exactly what they sound
      like.  Care is taken that pages of other migrate types do not use the same
      blocks as high-order atomic allocations.
      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>
      e010487d
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      Group short-lived and reclaimable kernel allocations · e12ba74d
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      This patch marks a number of allocations that are either short-lived such as
      network buffers or are reclaimable such as inode allocations.  When something
      like updatedb is called, long-lived and unmovable kernel allocations tend to
      be spread throughout the address space which increases fragmentation.
      
      This patch groups these allocations together as much as possible by adding a
      new MIGRATE_TYPE.  The MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE type is for allocations that can be
      reclaimed on demand, but not moved.  i.e.  they can be migrated by deleting
      them and re-reading the information from elsewhere.
      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>
      e12ba74d