- 20 12月, 2008 3 次提交
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Impact: Cleanup - removes a new function in favor of a recently modified older one. Replace follow_pfnmap_pte in pat code with follow_phys. follow_phys lso returns protection eliminating the need of pte_pgprot call. Using follow_phys also eliminates the need for pte_pa. Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Impact: Changes and globalizes an existing static interface. Follow_phys does similar things as follow_pfnmap_pte. Make a minor change to follow_phys so that it can be used in place of follow_pfnmap_pte. Physical address return value with 0 as error return does not work in follow_phys as the actual physical address 0 mapping may exist in pte. Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Impact: Documentation only Incremental patches to address the review comments from Nick Piggin for v3 version of x86 PAT pfnmap changes patchset here http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0812.2/01330.html This patch: Clarify is_linear_pfn_mapping() and its usage. It is used by x86 PAT code for performance reasons. Identifying pfnmap as linear over entire vma helps speedup reserve and free of memtype for the region. Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 19 12月, 2008 3 次提交
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Impact: Introduces new hooks, which are currently null. Introduce generic hooks in remap_pfn_range and vm_insert_pfn and corresponding copy and free routines with reserve and free tracking. Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Impact: New currently unused interface. Add a generic interface to follow pfn in a pfnmap vma range. This is used by one of the subsequent x86 PAT related patch to keep track of memory types for vma regions across vma copy and free. Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Impact: Code transformation, new functions added should have no effect. Drivers use mmap followed by pgprot_* and remap_pfn_range or vm_insert_pfn, in order to export reserved memory to userspace. Currently, such mappings are not tracked and hence not kept consistent with other mappings (/dev/mem, pci resource, ioremap) for the sme memory, that may exist in the system. The following patchset adds x86 PAT attribute tracking and untracking for pfnmap related APIs. First three patches in the patchset are changing the generic mm code to fit in this tracking. Last four patches are x86 specific to make things work with x86 PAT code. The patchset aso introduces pgprot_writecombine interface, which gives writecombine mapping when enabled, falling back to pgprot_noncached otherwise. This patch: While working on x86 PAT, we faced some hurdles with trackking remap_pfn_range() regions, as we do not have any information to say whether that PFNMAP mapping is linear for the entire vma range or it is smaller granularity regions within the vma. A simple solution to this is to use vm_pgoff as an indicator for linear mapping over the vma region. Currently, remap_pfn_range only sets vm_pgoff for COW mappings. Below patch changes the logic and sets the vm_pgoff irrespective of COW. This will still not be enough for the case where pfn is zero (vma region mapped to physical address zero). But, for all the other cases, we can look at pfnmap VMAs and say whether the mappng is for the entire vma region or not. Signed-off-by: NVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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- 20 10月, 2008 2 次提交
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由 Nick Piggin 提交于
Make sure that mlocked pages also live on the unevictable LRU, so kswapd will not scan them over and over again. This is achieved through various strategies: 1) add yet another page flag--PG_mlocked--to indicate that the page is locked for efficient testing in vmscan and, optionally, fault path. This allows early culling of unevictable pages, preventing them from getting to page_referenced()/try_to_unmap(). Also allows separate accounting of mlock'd pages, as Nick's original patch did. Note: Nick's original mlock patch used a PG_mlocked flag. I had removed this in favor of the PG_unevictable flag + an mlock_count [new page struct member]. I restored the PG_mlocked flag to eliminate the new count field. 2) add the mlock/unevictable infrastructure to mm/mlock.c, with internal APIs in mm/internal.h. This is a rework of Nick's original patch to these files, taking into account that mlocked pages are now kept on unevictable LRU list. 3) update vmscan.c:page_evictable() to check PageMlocked() and, if vma passed in, the vm_flags. Note that the vma will only be passed in for new pages in the fault path; and then only if the "cull unevictable pages in fault path" patch is included. 4) add try_to_unlock() to rmap.c to walk a page's rmap and ClearPageMlocked() if no other vmas have it mlocked. Reuses as much of try_to_unmap() as possible. This effectively replaces the use of one of the lru list links as an mlock count. If this mechanism let's pages in mlocked vmas leak through w/o PG_mlocked set [I don't know that it does], we should catch them later in try_to_unmap(). One hopes this will be rare, as it will be relatively expensive. Original mm/internal.h, mm/rmap.c and mm/mlock.c changes: Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> splitlru: introduce __get_user_pages(): New munlock processing need to GUP_FLAGS_IGNORE_VMA_PERMISSIONS. because current get_user_pages() can't grab PROT_NONE pages theresore it cause PROT_NONE pages can't munlock. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix this for pagemap-pass-mm-into-pagewalkers.patch] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: untangle patch interdependencies] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix things after out-of-order merging] [hugh@veritas.com: fix page-flags mess] [lee.schermerhorn@hp.com: fix munlock page table walk - now requires 'mm'] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: build fix] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix truncate race and sevaral comments] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: splitlru: introduce __get_user_pages()] Signed-off-by: NKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.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>
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由 Lee Schermerhorn 提交于
Shmem segments locked into memory via shmctl(SHM_LOCKED) should not be kept on the normal LRU, since scanning them is a waste of time and might throw off kswapd's balancing algorithms. Place them on the unevictable LRU list instead. Use the AS_UNEVICTABLE flag to mark address_space of SHM_LOCKed shared memory regions as unevictable. Then these pages will be culled off the normal LRU lists during vmscan. Add new wrapper function to clear the mapping's unevictable state when/if shared memory segment is munlocked. Add 'scan_mapping_unevictable_page()' to mm/vmscan.c to scan all pages in the shmem segment's mapping [struct address_space] for evictability now that they're no longer locked. If so, move them to the appropriate zone lru list. Changes depend on [CONFIG_]UNEVICTABLE_LRU. [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: revert shm change] Signed-off-by: NLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NKosaki Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 10 9月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Jeremy Fitzhardinge 提交于
Define USE_SPLIT_PTLOCKS as a constant expression rather than repeating "NR_CPUS >= CONFIG_SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS" all over the place. Signed-off-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Acked-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 17 8月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Hugh Dickins 提交于
Try to comment away a little of the confusion between mm's vm_area_struct vm_flags and vmalloc's vm_struct flags: based on an idea by Ulrich Drepper. Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 12 8月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
Out of line get_user_pages_fast fallback implementation, make it a weak symbol, get rid of CONFIG_HAVE_GET_USER_PAGES_FAST. Export the symbol to modules so lguest can use it. Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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- 31 7月, 2008 2 次提交
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由 Jack Steiner 提交于
zap_vma_ptes() is intended to be used by drivers to unmap ptes assigned to the driver private vmas. This interface is similar to zap_page_range() but is less general & less likely to be abused. Needed by the GRU driver. Signed-off-by: NJack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Yinghai Lu 提交于
It has no user now Also print out info about adding/removing active regions. Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 29 7月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Andrea Arcangeli 提交于
mm_take_all_locks holds off reclaim from an entire mm_struct. This allows mmu notifiers to register into the mm at any time with the guarantee that no mmu operation is in progress on the mm. This operation locks against the VM for all pte/vma/mm related operations that could ever happen on a certain mm. This includes vmtruncate, try_to_unmap, and all page faults. The caller must take the mmap_sem in write mode before calling mm_take_all_locks(). The caller isn't allowed to release the mmap_sem until mm_drop_all_locks() returns. mmap_sem in write mode is required in order to block all operations that could modify pagetables and free pages without need of altering the vma layout (for example populate_range() with nonlinear vmas). It's also needed in write mode to avoid new anon_vmas to be associated with existing vmas. A single task can't take more than one mm_take_all_locks() in a row or it would deadlock. mm_take_all_locks() and mm_drop_all_locks are expensive operations that may have to take thousand of locks. mm_take_all_locks() can fail if it's interrupted by signals. When mmu_notifier_register returns, we must be sure that the driver is notified if some task is in the middle of a vmtruncate for the 'mm' where the mmu notifier was registered (mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start/end is run around the vmtruncation but mmu_notifier_register can run after mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start and before mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end). Same problem for rmap paths. And we've to remove page pinning to avoid replicating the tlb_gather logic inside KVM (and GRU doesn't work well with page pinning regardless of needing tlb_gather), so without mm_take_all_locks when vmtruncate frees the page, kvm would have no way to notice that it mapped into sptes a page that is going into the freelist without a chance of any further mmu_notifier notification. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: NAndrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com> Acked-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Kanoj Sarcar <kanojsarcar@yahoo.com> Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com> Cc: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com> Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 27 7月, 2008 2 次提交
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由 Adrian Bunk 提交于
This patch makes the needlessly global print_bad_pte() static. Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: NKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Nick Piggin 提交于
Introduce a new get_user_pages_fast mm API, which is basically a get_user_pages with a less general API (but still tends to be suited to the common case): - task and mm are always current and current->mm - force is always 0 - pages is always non-NULL - don't pass back vmas This restricted API can be implemented in a much more scalable way on many architectures when the ptes are present, by walking the page tables locklessly (no mmap_sem or page table locks). When the ptes are not populated, get_user_pages_fast() could be slower. This is implemented locklessly on x86, and used in some key direct IO call sites, in later patches, which provides nearly 10% performance improvement on a threaded database workload. Lots of other code could use this too, depending on use cases (eg. grep drivers/). And it might inspire some new and clever ways to use it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 25 7月, 2008 6 次提交
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由 Andrea Righi 提交于
On 32-bit architectures PAGE_ALIGN() truncates 64-bit values to the 32-bit boundary. For example: u64 val = PAGE_ALIGN(size); always returns a value < 4GB even if size is greater than 4GB. The problem resides in PAGE_MASK definition (from include/asm-x86/page.h for example): #define PAGE_SHIFT 12 #define PAGE_SIZE (_AC(1,UL) << PAGE_SHIFT) #define PAGE_MASK (~(PAGE_SIZE-1)) ... #define PAGE_ALIGN(addr) (((addr)+PAGE_SIZE-1)&PAGE_MASK) The "~" is performed on a 32-bit value, so everything in "and" with PAGE_MASK greater than 4GB will be truncated to the 32-bit boundary. Using the ALIGN() macro seems to be the right way, because it uses typeof(addr) for the mask. Also move the PAGE_ALIGN() definitions out of include/asm-*/page.h in include/linux/mm.h. See also lkml discussion: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/11/237 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_queue.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix v850] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arm] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mips] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-dvb.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/mtd/maps/uclinux.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc] Signed-off-by: NAndrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Andy Whitcroft 提交于
With Mel's hugetlb private reservation support patches applied, strict overcommit semantics are applied to both shared and private huge page mappings. This can be a problem if an application relied on unlimited overcommit semantics for private mappings. An example of this would be an application which maps a huge area with the intention of using it very sparsely. These application would benefit from being able to opt-out of the strict overcommit. It should be noted that prior to hugetlb supporting demand faulting all mappings were fully populated and so applications of this type should be rare. This patch stack implements the MAP_NORESERVE mmap() flag for huge page mappings. This flag has the same meaning as for small page mappings, suppressing reservations for that mapping. Thanks to Mel Gorman for reviewing a number of early versions of these patches. This patch: When a small page mapping is created with mmap() reservations are created by default for any memory pages required. When the region is read/write the reservation is increased for every page, no reservation is needed for read-only regions (as they implicitly share the zero page). Reservations are tracked via the VM_ACCOUNT vma flag which is present when the region has reservation backing it. When we convert a region from read-only to read-write new reservations are aquired and VM_ACCOUNT is set. However, when a read-only map is created with MAP_NORESERVE it is indistinguishable from a normal mapping. When we then convert that to read/write we are forced to incorrectly create reservations for it as we have no record of the original MAP_NORESERVE. This patch introduces a new vma flag VM_NORESERVE which records the presence of the original MAP_NORESERVE flag. This allows us to distinguish these two circumstances and correctly account the reserve. As well as fixing this FIXME in the code, this makes it much easier to introduce MAP_NORESERVE support for huge pages as this flag is available consistantly for the life of the mapping. VM_ACCOUNT on the other hand is heavily used at the generic level in association with small pages. Signed-off-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Johannes Weiner 提交于
free_area_init_node() gets passed in the node id as well as the node descriptor. This is redundant as the function can trivially get the node descriptor itself by means of NODE_DATA() and the node's id. I checked all the users and NODE_DATA() seems to be usable everywhere from where this function is called. Signed-off-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Jan Beulich 提交于
The double indirection here is not needed anywhere and hence (at least) confusing. Signed-off-by: NJan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: NJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Rik van Riel 提交于
In order to be able to debug things like the X server and programs using the PPC Cell SPUs, the debugger needs to be able to access device memory through ptrace and /proc/pid/mem. This patch: Add the generic_access_phys access function and put the hooks in place to allow access_process_vm to access device or PPC Cell SPU memory. [riel@redhat.com: Add documentation for the vm_ops->access function] Signed-off-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrensmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Nick Piggin 提交于
There are no users of nopfn in the tree. Remove it. [hugh@veritas.com: fix build error] Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> 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>
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- 09 7月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Dave Kleikamp 提交于
This patch defines: - PROT_SAO, which is passed into mmap() and mprotect() in the prot field - VM_SAO in vma->vm_flags, and - _PAGE_SAO, the combination of WIMG bits in the pte that enables strong access ordering for the page. Signed-off-by: NDave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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- 08 7月, 2008 4 次提交
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由 Yinghai Lu 提交于
want to remove arch_get_ram_range, and use early_node_map instead. Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Mike Travis 提交于
* Remove the boot_cpu_pda array and pointer table from the data section. Allocate the pointer table and array during init. do_boot_cpu() will reallocate the pda in node local memory and if the cpu is being brought up before the bootmem array is released (after_bootmem = 0), then it will free the initial pda. This will happen for all cpus present at system startup. This removes 512k + 32k bytes from the data section. For inclusion into sched-devel/latest tree. Based on: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git + sched-devel/latest .../mingo/linux-2.6-sched-devel.git Signed-off-by: NMike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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由 Yinghai Lu 提交于
use early_node_map to init high pages, so we can remove page_is_ram() and page_is_reserved_early() in the big loop with add_one_highpage also remove page_is_reserved_early(), it is not needed anymore. v2: fix the build of other platforms Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Yinghai Lu 提交于
in case we have kva before ramdisk on a node, we still need to use those ranges. v2: reserve_early kva ram area, in case there are holes in highmem, to avoid those area could be treat as free high pages. Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 19 6月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Jiri Slaby 提交于
Add some (configurable) expensive sanity checking to catch wrong address translations on x86. - create linux/mmdebug.h file to be able include this file in asm headers to not get unsolvable loops in header files - __phys_addr on x86_32 became a function in ioremap.c since PAGE_OFFSET, is_vmalloc_addr and VMALLOC_* non-constasts are undefined if declared in page_32.h - add __phys_addr_const for initializing doublefault_tss.__cr3 Tested on 386, 386pae, x86_64 and x86_64 numa=fake=2. Contains Andi's enable numa virtual address debug patch. Signed-off-by: NJiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 13 6月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Dave Hansen 提交于
We need this at least for huge page detection for now, because powerpc needs the vm_area_struct to be able to determine whether a virtual address is referring to a huge page (its pmd_huge() doesn't work). It might also come in handy for some of the other users. Signed-off-by: NDave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: NMatt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 10 6月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Yinghai Lu 提交于
Now we are using register_e820_active_regions() instead of add_active_range() directly. So end_pfn could be different between the value in early_node_map to node_end_pfn. So we need to make shrink_active_range() smarter. shrink_active_range() is a generic MM function in mm/page_alloc.c but it is only used on 32-bit x86. Should we move it back to some file in arch/x86? Signed-off-by: NYinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 29 4月, 2008 2 次提交
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由 Matt Helsley 提交于
The kernel implements readlink of /proc/pid/exe by getting the file from the first executable VMA. Then the path to the file is reconstructed and reported as the result. Because of the VMA walk the code is slightly different on nommu systems. This patch avoids separate /proc/pid/exe code on nommu systems. Instead of walking the VMAs to find the first executable file-backed VMA we store a reference to the exec'd file in the mm_struct. That reference would prevent the filesystem holding the executable file from being unmounted even after unmapping the VMAs. So we track the number of VM_EXECUTABLE VMAs and drop the new reference when the last one is unmapped. This avoids pinning the mounted filesystem. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: improve comments] [yamamoto@valinux.co.jp: fix dup_mmap] Signed-off-by: NMatt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc:"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: NYAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Adrian Bunk 提交于
Make the following needlessly global functions static: - drop_pagecache() - drop_slab() Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 28 4月, 2008 8 次提交
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由 Lee Schermerhorn 提交于
Document mempolicy return value reference semantics assumed by the rest of the mempolicy code for the set_ and get_policy vm_ops in <linux/mm.h>--where the prototypes are defined--to inform any future mempolicy vm_op writers what the rest of the subsystem expects of them. 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>
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由 Nick Piggin 提交于
vm_insert_mixed will insert either a raw pfn or a refcounted struct page into the page tables, depending on whether vm_normal_page() will return the page or not. With the introduction of the new pte bit, this is now a too tricky for drivers to be doing themselves. filemap_xip uses this in a subsequent patch. Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com> Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Nick Piggin 提交于
s390 for one, cannot implement VM_MIXEDMAP with pfn_valid, due to their memory model (which is more dynamic than most). Instead, they had proposed to implement it with an additional path through vm_normal_page(), using a bit in the pte to determine whether or not the page should be refcounted: vm_normal_page() { ... if (unlikely(vma->vm_flags & (VM_PFNMAP|VM_MIXEDMAP))) { if (vma->vm_flags & VM_MIXEDMAP) { #ifdef s390 if (!mixedmap_refcount_pte(pte)) return NULL; #else if (!pfn_valid(pfn)) return NULL; #endif goto out; } ... } This is fine, however if we are allowed to use a bit in the pte to determine refcountedness, we can use that to _completely_ replace all the vma based schemes. So instead of adding more cases to the already complex vma-based scheme, we can have a clearly seperate and simple pte-based scheme (and get slightly better code generation in the process): vm_normal_page() { #ifdef s390 if (!mixedmap_refcount_pte(pte)) return NULL; return pte_page(pte); #else ... #endif } And finally, we may rather make this concept usable by any architecture rather than making it s390 only, so implement a new type of pte state for this. Unfortunately the old vma based code must stay, because some architectures may not be able to spare pte bits. This makes vm_normal_page a little bit more ugly than we would like, but the 2 cases are clearly seperate. So introduce a pte_special pte state, and use it in mm/memory.c. It is currently a noop for all architectures, so this doesn't actually result in any compiled code changes to mm/memory.o. BTW: I haven't put vm_normal_page() into arch code as-per an earlier suggestion. The reason is that, regardless of where vm_normal_page is actually implemented, the *abstraction* is still exactly the same. Also, while it depends on whether the architecture has pte_special or not, that is the only two possible cases, and it really isn't an arch specific function -- the role of the arch code should be to provide primitive functions and accessors with which to build the core code; pte_special does that. We do not want architectures to know or care about vm_normal_page itself, and we definitely don't want them being able to invent something new there out of sight of mm/ code. If we made vm_normal_page an arch function, then we have to make vm_insert_mixed (next patch) an arch function too. So I don't think moving it to arch code fundamentally improves any abstractions, while it does practically make the code more difficult to follow, for both mm and arch developers, and easier to misuse. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: NCarsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Cc: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Jared Hulbert 提交于
This series introduces some important infrastructure work. The overall result is that: 1. We now support XIP backed filesystems using memory that have no struct page allocated to them. And patches 6 and 7 actually implement this for s390. This is pretty important in a number of cases. As far as I understand, in the case of virtualisation (eg. s390), each guest may mount a readonly copy of the same filesystem (eg. the distro). Currently, guests need to allocate struct pages for this image. So if you have 100 guests, you already need to allocate more memory for the struct pages than the size of the image. I think. (Carsten?) For other (eg. embedded) systems, you may have a very large non- volatile filesystem. If you have to have struct pages for this, then your RAM consumption will go up proportionally to fs size. Even though it is just a small proportion, the RAM can be much more costly eg in terms of power, so every KB less that Linux uses makes it more attractive to a lot of these guys. 2. VM_MIXEDMAP allows us to support mappings where you actually do want to refcount _some_ pages in the mapping, but not others, and support COW on arbitrary (non-linear) mappings. Jared needs this for his NVRAM filesystem in progress. Future iterations of this filesystem will most likely want to migrate pages between pagecache and XIP backing, which is where the requirement for mixed (some refcounted, some not) comes from. 3. pte_special also has a peripheral usage that I need for my lockless get_user_pages patch. That was shown to speed up "oltp" on db2 by 10% on a 2 socket system, which is kind of significant because they scrounge for months to try to find 0.1% improvement on these workloads. I'm hoping we might finally be faster than AIX on pSeries with this :). My reference to lockless get_user_pages is not meant to justify this patchset (which doesn't include lockless gup), but just to show that pte_special is not some s390 specific thing that should be hidden in arch code or xip code: I definitely want to use it on at least x86 and powerpc as well. This patch: Introduce a new type of mapping, VM_MIXEDMAP. This is unlike VM_PFNMAP in that it can support COW mappings of arbitrary ranges including ranges without struct page *and* ranges with a struct page that we actually want to refcount (PFNMAP can only support COW in those cases where the un-COW-ed translations are mapped linearly in the virtual address, and can only support non refcounted ranges). VM_MIXEDMAP achieves this by refcounting all pfn_valid pages, and not refcounting !pfn_valid pages (which is not an option for VM_PFNMAP, because it needs to avoid refcounting pfn_valid pages eg. for /dev/mem mappings). Signed-off-by: NJared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: NCarsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Cc: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Christoph Lameter 提交于
NR_PAGEFLAGS specifies the number of page flags we are using. From that we can calculate the number of bits leftover that can be used for zone, node (and maybe the sections id). There is no need anymore for FLAGS_RESERVED if we use NR_PAGEFLAGS. Use the new methods to make NR_PAGEFLAGS available via the preprocessor. NR_PAGEFLAGS is used to calculate field boundaries in the page flags fields. These field widths have to be available to the preprocessor. Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Andrew Morton 提交于
This fixes the superh build when the pageflags patches are applied. But it shouldn't unless it's a gcc bug. Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Christoph Lameter 提交于
A set of patches that attempts to improve page flag handling. First of all a method is introduced to generate the page flag functions using macros. Then the number of page flags used by sparsemem is reduced. All page flag operations will no longer be macros. All flags will use inline function. Then we add a way to export enum constants to the preprocessor which allows us to get rid of __ZONE_COUNT and use the NR_PAGEFLAGS for the dynamic calculation of actually available page flags for fields. This patch: Sparsemem vmemmap does not need any section bits. This patch has the effect of reducing the number of bits used in page->flags by at least 6. Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Nick Piggin 提交于
Nothing in the tree uses nopage any more. Remove support for it in the core mm code and documentation (and a few stray references to it in comments). Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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