1. 08 3月, 2010 3 次提交
  2. 21 1月, 2010 1 次提交
  3. 17 1月, 2010 2 次提交
  4. 18 12月, 2009 1 次提交
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      mm: Add notifier in pageblock isolation for balloon drivers · 925cc71e
      Robert Jennings 提交于
      Memory balloon drivers can allocate a large amount of memory which is not
      movable but could be freed to accomodate memory hotplug remove.
      
      Prior to calling the memory hotplug notifier chain the memory in the
      pageblock is isolated.  Currently, if the migrate type is not
      MIGRATE_MOVABLE the isolation will not proceed, causing the memory removal
      for that page range to fail.
      
      Rather than failing pageblock isolation if the migrateteype is not
      MIGRATE_MOVABLE, this patch checks if all of the pages in the pageblock,
      and not on the LRU, are owned by a registered balloon driver (or other
      entity) using a notifier chain.  If all of the non-movable pages are owned
      by a balloon, they can be freed later through the memory notifier chain
      and the range can still be isolated in set_migratetype_isolate().
      Signed-off-by: NRobert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Gerald Schaefer <geralds@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      925cc71e
  5. 16 12月, 2009 1 次提交
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      HWPOISON: Add soft page offline support · facb6011
      Andi Kleen 提交于
      This is a simpler, gentler variant of memory_failure() for soft page
      offlining controlled from user space.  It doesn't kill anything, just
      tries to invalidate and if that doesn't work migrate the
      page away.
      
      This is useful for predictive failure analysis, where a page has
      a high rate of corrected errors, but hasn't gone bad yet. Instead
      it can be offlined early and avoided.
      
      The offlining is controlled from sysfs, including a new generic
      entry point for hard page offlining for symmetry too.
      
      We use the page isolate facility to prevent re-allocation
      race. Normally this is only used by memory hotplug. To avoid
      races with memory allocation I am using lock_system_sleep().
      This avoids the situation where memory hotplug is about
      to isolate a page range and then hwpoison undoes that work.
      This is a big hammer currently, but the simplest solution
      currently.
      
      When the page is not free or LRU we try to free pages
      from slab and other caches. The slab freeing is currently
      quite dumb and does not try to focus on the specific slab
      cache which might own the page. This could be potentially
      improved later.
      
      Thanks to Fengguang Wu and Haicheng Li for some fixes.
      
      [Added fix from Andrew Morton to adapt to new migrate_pages prototype]
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      facb6011
  6. 07 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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      mm: show node to memory section relationship with symlinks in sysfs · c04fc586
      Gary Hade 提交于
      Show node to memory section relationship with symlinks in sysfs
      
      Add /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/memoryY symlinks for all
      the memory sections located on nodeX.  For example:
      /sys/devices/system/node/node1/memory135 -> ../../memory/memory135
      indicates that memory section 135 resides on node1.
      
      Also revises documentation to cover this change as well as updating
      Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory to include descriptions
      of memory hotremove files 'phys_device', 'phys_index', and 'state'
      that were previously not described there.
      
      In addition to it always being a good policy to provide users with
      the maximum possible amount of physical location information for
      resources that can be hot-added and/or hot-removed, the following
      are some (but likely not all) of the user benefits provided by
      this change.
      Immediate:
        - Provides information needed to determine the specific node
          on which a defective DIMM is located.  This will reduce system
          downtime when the node or defective DIMM is swapped out.
        - Prevents unintended onlining of a memory section that was
          previously offlined due to a defective DIMM.  This could happen
          during node hot-add when the user or node hot-add assist script
          onlines _all_ offlined sections due to user or script inability
          to identify the specific memory sections located on the hot-added
          node.  The consequences of reintroducing the defective memory
          could be ugly.
        - Provides information needed to vary the amount and distribution
          of memory on specific nodes for testing or debugging purposes.
      Future:
        - Will provide information needed to identify the memory
          sections that need to be offlined prior to physical removal
          of a specific node.
      
      Symlink creation during boot was tested on 2-node x86_64, 2-node
      ppc64, and 2-node ia64 systems.  Symlink creation during physical
      memory hot-add tested on a 2-node x86_64 system.
      Signed-off-by: NGary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NBadari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
      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>
      c04fc586
  7. 20 10月, 2008 1 次提交
  8. 28 7月, 2008 1 次提交
  9. 27 7月, 2008 1 次提交
  10. 25 7月, 2008 1 次提交
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      memory-hotplug: add sysfs removable attribute for hotplug memory remove · 5c755e9f
      Badari Pulavarty 提交于
      Memory may be hot-removed on a per-memory-block basis, particularly on
      POWER where the SPARSEMEM section size often matches the memory-block
      size.  A user-level agent must be able to identify which sections of
      memory are likely to be removable before attempting the potentially
      expensive operation.  This patch adds a file called "removable" to the
      memory directory in sysfs to help such an agent.  In this patch, a memory
      block is considered removable if;
      
      o It contains only MOVABLE pageblocks
      o It contains only pageblocks with free pages regardless of pageblock type
      
      On the other hand, a memory block starting with a PageReserved() page will
      never be considered removable.  Without this patch, the user-agent is
      forced to choose a memory block to remove randomly.
      
      Sample output of the sysfs files:
      
      ./memory/memory0/removable: 0
      ./memory/memory1/removable: 0
      ./memory/memory2/removable: 0
      ./memory/memory3/removable: 0
      ./memory/memory4/removable: 0
      ./memory/memory5/removable: 0
      ./memory/memory6/removable: 0
      ./memory/memory7/removable: 1
      ./memory/memory8/removable: 0
      ./memory/memory9/removable: 0
      ./memory/memory10/removable: 0
      ./memory/memory11/removable: 0
      ./memory/memory12/removable: 0
      ./memory/memory13/removable: 0
      ./memory/memory14/removable: 0
      ./memory/memory15/removable: 0
      ./memory/memory16/removable: 0
      ./memory/memory17/removable: 1
      ./memory/memory18/removable: 1
      ./memory/memory19/removable: 1
      ./memory/memory20/removable: 1
      ./memory/memory21/removable: 1
      ./memory/memory22/removable: 1
      Signed-off-by: NBadari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Acked-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>
      5c755e9f
  11. 22 7月, 2008 1 次提交
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      sysdev: Pass the attribute to the low level sysdev show/store function · 4a0b2b4d
      Andi Kleen 提交于
      This allow to dynamically generate attributes and share show/store
      functions between attributes. Right now most attributes are generated
      by special macros and lots of duplicated code. With the attribute
      passed it's instead possible to attach some data to the attribute
      and then use that in shared low level functions to do different things.
      
      I need this for the dynamically generated bank attributes in the x86
      machine check code, but it'll allow some further cleanups.
      
      I converted all users in tree to the new show/store prototype. It's a single
      huge patch to avoid unbisectable sections.
      
      Runtime tested: x86-32, x86-64
      Compiled only: ia64, powerpc
      Not compile tested/only grep converted: sh, arm, avr32
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      4a0b2b4d
  12. 13 5月, 2008 1 次提交
  13. 20 4月, 2008 3 次提交
  14. 25 1月, 2008 1 次提交
  15. 22 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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      memory hotplug: rearrange memory hotplug notifier · 7b78d335
      Yasunori Goto 提交于
      Current memory notifier has some defects yet.  (Fortunately, nothing uses
      it.) This patch is to fix and rearrange for them.
      
        - Add information of start_pfn, nr_pages, and node id if node status is
          changes from/to memoryless node for callback functions.
          Callbacks can't do anything without those information.
        - Add notification going-online status.
          It is necessary for creating per node structure before the node's
          pages are available.
        - Move GOING_OFFLINE status notification after page isolation.
          It is good place for return memory like cache for callback,
          because returned page is not used again.
        - Make CANCEL events for rollingback when error occurs.
        - Delete MEM_MAPPING_INVALID notification. It will be not used.
        - Fix compile error of (un)register_memory_notifier().
      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>
      7b78d335
  16. 17 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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      sparsemem: record when a section has a valid mem_map · 540557b9
      Andy Whitcroft 提交于
      We have flags to indicate whether a section actually has a valid mem_map
      associated with it.  This is never set and we rely solely on the present bit
      to indicate a section is valid.  By definition a section is not valid if it
      has no mem_map and there is a window during init where the present bit is set
      but there is no mem_map, during which pfn_valid() will return true
      incorrectly.
      
      Use the existing SECTION_HAS_MEM_MAP flag to indicate the presence of a valid
      mem_map.  Switch valid_section{,_nr} and pfn_valid() to this bit.  Add a new
      present_section{,_nr} and pfn_present() interfaces for those users who care to
      know that a section is going to be valid.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-syle fixes]
      Signed-off-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
      Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
      Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      540557b9
  17. 14 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  18. 13 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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      Driver core: change add_uevent_var to use a struct · 7eff2e7a
      Kay Sievers 提交于
      This changes the uevent buffer functions to use a struct instead of a
      long list of parameters. It does no longer require the caller to do the
      proper buffer termination and size accounting, which is currently wrong
      in some places. It fixes a known bug where parts of the uevent
      environment are overwritten because of wrong index calculations.
      
      Many thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers for finding bugs and improving the
      error handling.
      Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
      Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
      Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      
      7eff2e7a
  19. 08 12月, 2006 1 次提交
  20. 28 6月, 2006 1 次提交
  21. 28 3月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] Notifier chain update: API changes · e041c683
      Alan Stern 提交于
      The kernel's implementation of notifier chains is unsafe.  There is no
      protection against entries being added to or removed from a chain while the
      chain is in use.  The issues were discussed in this thread:
      
          http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113018709002036&w=2
      
      We noticed that notifier chains in the kernel fall into two basic usage
      classes:
      
      	"Blocking" chains are always called from a process context
      	and the callout routines are allowed to sleep;
      
      	"Atomic" chains can be called from an atomic context and
      	the callout routines are not allowed to sleep.
      
      We decided to codify this distinction and make it part of the API.  Therefore
      this set of patches introduces three new, parallel APIs: one for blocking
      notifiers, one for atomic notifiers, and one for "raw" notifiers (which is
      really just the old API under a new name).  New kinds of data structures are
      used for the heads of the chains, and new routines are defined for
      registration, unregistration, and calling a chain.  The three APIs are
      explained in include/linux/notifier.h and their implementation is in
      kernel/sys.c.
      
      With atomic and blocking chains, the implementation guarantees that the chain
      links will not be corrupted and that chain callers will not get messed up by
      entries being added or removed.  For raw chains the implementation provides no
      guarantees at all; users of this API must provide their own protections.  (The
      idea was that situations may come up where the assumptions of the atomic and
      blocking APIs are not appropriate, so it should be possible for users to
      handle these things in their own way.)
      
      There are some limitations, which should not be too hard to live with.  For
      atomic/blocking chains, registration and unregistration must always be done in
      a process context since the chain is protected by a mutex/rwsem.  Also, a
      callout routine for a non-raw chain must not try to register or unregister
      entries on its own chain.  (This did happen in a couple of places and the code
      had to be changed to avoid it.)
      
      Since atomic chains may be called from within an NMI handler, they cannot use
      spinlocks for synchronization.  Instead we use RCU.  The overhead falls almost
      entirely in the unregister routine, which is okay since unregistration is much
      less frequent that calling a chain.
      
      Here is the list of chains that we adjusted and their classifications.  None
      of them use the raw API, so for the moment it is only a placeholder.
      
        ATOMIC CHAINS
        -------------
      arch/i386/kernel/traps.c:		i386die_chain
      arch/ia64/kernel/traps.c:		ia64die_chain
      arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c:		powerpc_die_chain
      arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c:		sparc64die_chain
      arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c:		die_chain
      drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c:	xaction_notifier_list
      kernel/panic.c:				panic_notifier_list
      kernel/profile.c:			task_free_notifier
      net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:		hci_notifier
      net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c:	ip_conntrack_chain
      net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c:	ip_conntrack_expect_chain
      net/ipv6/addrconf.c:			inet6addr_chain
      net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:	nf_conntrack_chain
      net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:	nf_conntrack_expect_chain
      net/netlink/af_netlink.c:		netlink_chain
      
        BLOCKING CHAINS
        ---------------
      arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c:	pSeries_reconfig_chain
      arch/s390/kernel/process.c:		idle_chain
      arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c		idle_notifier
      drivers/base/memory.c:			memory_chain
      drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c		cpufreq_policy_notifier_list
      drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c		cpufreq_transition_notifier_list
      drivers/macintosh/adb.c:		adb_client_list
      drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c		sleep_notifier_list
      drivers/macintosh/via-pmu68k.c		sleep_notifier_list
      drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c	wf_client_list
      drivers/usb/core/notify.c		usb_notifier_list
      drivers/video/fbmem.c			fb_notifier_list
      kernel/cpu.c				cpu_chain
      kernel/module.c				module_notify_list
      kernel/profile.c			munmap_notifier
      kernel/profile.c			task_exit_notifier
      kernel/sys.c				reboot_notifier_list
      net/core/dev.c				netdev_chain
      net/decnet/dn_dev.c:			dnaddr_chain
      net/ipv4/devinet.c:			inetaddr_chain
      
      It's possible that some of these classifications are wrong.  If they are,
      please let us know or submit a patch to fix them.  Note that any chain that
      gets called very frequently should be atomic, because the rwsem read-locking
      used for blocking chains is very likely to incur cache misses on SMP systems.
      (However, if the chain's callout routines may sleep then the chain cannot be
      atomic.)
      
      The patch set was written by Alan Stern and Chandra Seetharaman, incorporating
      material written by Keith Owens and suggestions from Paul McKenney and Andrew
      Morton.
      
      [jes@sgi.com: restructure the notifier chain initialization macros]
      Signed-off-by: NAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
      Signed-off-by: NChandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      e041c683
  22. 08 2月, 2006 1 次提交
  23. 12 1月, 2006 1 次提交
  24. 07 1月, 2006 2 次提交
  25. 05 1月, 2006 1 次提交
  26. 16 12月, 2005 1 次提交
  27. 30 10月, 2005 2 次提交