1. 22 9月, 2009 4 次提交
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      hugetlb: add MAP_HUGETLB for mmaping pseudo-anonymous huge page regions · 4e52780d
      Eric B Munson 提交于
      Add a flag for mmap that will be used to request a huge page region that
      will look like anonymous memory to userspace.  This is accomplished by
      using a file on the internal vfsmount.  MAP_HUGETLB is a modifier of
      MAP_ANONYMOUS and so must be specified with it.  The region will behave
      the same as a MAP_ANONYMOUS region using small pages.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch definitions of MAP_HUGETLB]
      Signed-off-by: NEric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
      Acked-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
      Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      4e52780d
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      hugetlbfs: allow the creation of files suitable for MAP_PRIVATE on the vfs internal mount · 6bfde05b
      Eric B Munson 提交于
      This patchset adds a flag to mmap that allows the user to request that an
      anonymous mapping be backed with huge pages.  This mapping will borrow
      functionality from the huge page shm code to create a file on the kernel
      internal mount and use it to approximate an anonymous mapping.  The
      MAP_HUGETLB flag is a modifier to MAP_ANONYMOUS and will not work without
      both flags being preset.
      
      A new flag is necessary because there is no other way to hook into huge
      pages without creating a file on a hugetlbfs mount which wouldn't be
      MAP_ANONYMOUS.
      
      To userspace, this mapping will behave just like an anonymous mapping
      because the file is not accessible outside of the kernel.
      
      This patchset is meant to simplify the programming model.  Presently there
      is a large chunk of boiler platecode, contained in libhugetlbfs, required
      to create private, hugepage backed mappings.  This patch set would allow
      use of hugepages without linking to libhugetlbfs or having hugetblfs
      mounted.
      
      Unification of the VM code would provide these same benefits, but it has
      been resisted each time that it has been suggested for several reasons: it
      would break PAGE_SIZE assumptions across the kernel, it makes page-table
      abstractions really expensive, and it does not provide any benefit on
      architectures that do not support huge pages, incurring fast path
      penalties without providing any benefit on these architectures.
      
      This patch:
      
      There are two means of creating mappings backed by huge pages:
      
              1. mmap() a file created on hugetlbfs
              2. Use shm which creates a file on an internal mount which essentially
                 maps it MAP_SHARED
      
      The internal mount is only used for shared mappings but there is very
      little that stops it being used for private mappings. This patch extends
      hugetlbfs_file_setup() to deal with the creation of files that will be
      mapped MAP_PRIVATE on the internal hugetlbfs mount. This extended API is
      used in a subsequent patch to implement the MAP_HUGETLB mmap() flag.
      Signed-off-by: NEric Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
      Acked-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
      Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      6bfde05b
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      mm: follow_hugetlb_page flags · 2a15efc9
      Hugh Dickins 提交于
      follow_hugetlb_page() shouldn't be guessing about the coredump case
      either: pass the foll_flags down to it, instead of just the write bit.
      
      Remove that obscure huge_zeropage_ok() test.  The decision is easy,
      though unlike the non-huge case - here vm_ops->fault is always set.
      But we know that a fault would serve up zeroes, unless there's
      already a hugetlbfs pagecache page to back the range.
      
      (Alternatively, since hugetlb pages aren't swapped out under pressure,
      you could save more dump space by arguing that a page not yet faulted
      into this process cannot be relevant to the dump; but that would be
      more surprising.)
      Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
      Acked-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      2a15efc9
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      hugetlb: balance freeing of huge pages across nodes · e8c5c824
      Lee Schermerhorn 提交于
      Free huges pages from nodes in round robin fashion in an attempt to keep
      [persistent a.k.a static] hugepages balanced across nodes
      
      New function free_pool_huge_page() is modeled on and performs roughly the
      inverse of alloc_fresh_huge_page().  Replaces dequeue_huge_page() which
      now has no callers, so this patch removes it.
      
      Helper function hstate_next_node_to_free() uses new hstate member
      next_to_free_nid to distribute "frees" across all nodes with huge pages.
      Acked-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
      Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      e8c5c824
  2. 25 8月, 2009 1 次提交
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      mm: fix hugetlb bug due to user_shm_unlock call · 353d5c30
      Hugh Dickins 提交于
      2.6.30's commit 8a0bdec1 removed
      user_shm_lock() calls in hugetlb_file_setup() but left the
      user_shm_unlock call in shm_destroy().
      
      In detail:
      Assume that can_do_hugetlb_shm() returns true and hence user_shm_lock()
      is not called in hugetlb_file_setup(). However, user_shm_unlock() is
      called in any case in shm_destroy() and in the following
      atomic_dec_and_lock(&up->__count) in free_uid() is executed and if
      up->__count gets zero, also cleanup_user_struct() is scheduled.
      
      Note that sched_destroy_user() is empty if CONFIG_USER_SCHED is not set.
      However, the ref counter up->__count gets unexpectedly non-positive and
      the corresponding structs are freed even though there are live
      references to them, resulting in a kernel oops after a lots of
      shmget(SHM_HUGETLB)/shmctl(IPC_RMID) cycles and CONFIG_USER_SCHED set.
      
      Hugh changed Stefan's suggested patch: can_do_hugetlb_shm() at the
      time of shm_destroy() may give a different answer from at the time
      of hugetlb_file_setup().  And fixed newseg()'s no_id error path,
      which has missed user_shm_unlock() ever since it came in 2.6.9.
      Reported-by: NStefan Huber <shuber2@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
      Tested-by: NStefan Huber <shuber2@gmail.com>
      Cc: stable@kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      353d5c30
  3. 24 6月, 2009 1 次提交
  4. 17 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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      mm: introduce PageHuge() for testing huge/gigantic pages · 20a0307c
      Wu Fengguang 提交于
      A series of patches to enhance the /proc/pagemap interface and to add a
      userspace executable which can be used to present the pagemap data.
      
      Export 10 more flags to end users (and more for kernel developers):
      
              11. KPF_MMAP            (pseudo flag) memory mapped page
              12. KPF_ANON            (pseudo flag) memory mapped page (anonymous)
              13. KPF_SWAPCACHE       page is in swap cache
              14. KPF_SWAPBACKED      page is swap/RAM backed
              15. KPF_COMPOUND_HEAD   (*)
              16. KPF_COMPOUND_TAIL   (*)
              17. KPF_HUGE		hugeTLB pages
              18. KPF_UNEVICTABLE     page is in the unevictable LRU list
              19. KPF_HWPOISON        hardware detected corruption
              20. KPF_NOPAGE          (pseudo flag) no page frame at the address
      
              (*) For compound pages, exporting _both_ head/tail info enables
                  users to tell where a compound page starts/ends, and its order.
      
      a simple demo of the page-types tool
      
      # ./page-types -h
      page-types [options]
                  -r|--raw                  Raw mode, for kernel developers
                  -a|--addr    addr-spec    Walk a range of pages
                  -b|--bits    bits-spec    Walk pages with specified bits
                  -l|--list                 Show page details in ranges
                  -L|--list-each            Show page details one by one
                  -N|--no-summary           Don't show summay info
                  -h|--help                 Show this usage message
      addr-spec:
                  N                         one page at offset N (unit: pages)
                  N+M                       pages range from N to N+M-1
                  N,M                       pages range from N to M-1
                  N,                        pages range from N to end
                  ,M                        pages range from 0 to M
      bits-spec:
                  bit1,bit2                 (flags & (bit1|bit2)) != 0
                  bit1,bit2=bit1            (flags & (bit1|bit2)) == bit1
                  bit1,~bit2                (flags & (bit1|bit2)) == bit1
                  =bit1,bit2                flags == (bit1|bit2)
      bit-names:
                locked              error         referenced           uptodate
                 dirty                lru             active               slab
             writeback            reclaim              buddy               mmap
             anonymous          swapcache         swapbacked      compound_head
         compound_tail               huge        unevictable           hwpoison
                nopage           reserved(r)         mlocked(r)    mappedtodisk(r)
               private(r)       private_2(r)   owner_private(r)            arch(r)
              uncached(r)       readahead(o)       slob_free(o)     slub_frozen(o)
            slub_debug(o)
                                         (r) raw mode bits  (o) overloaded bits
      
      # ./page-types
                   flags      page-count       MB  symbolic-flags                     long-symbolic-flags
      0x0000000000000000          487369     1903  _________________________________
      0x0000000000000014               5        0  __R_D____________________________  referenced,dirty
      0x0000000000000020               1        0  _____l___________________________  lru
      0x0000000000000024              34        0  __R__l___________________________  referenced,lru
      0x0000000000000028            3838       14  ___U_l___________________________  uptodate,lru
      0x0001000000000028              48        0  ___U_l_______________________I___  uptodate,lru,readahead
      0x000000000000002c            6478       25  __RU_l___________________________  referenced,uptodate,lru
      0x000100000000002c              47        0  __RU_l_______________________I___  referenced,uptodate,lru,readahead
      0x0000000000000040            8344       32  ______A__________________________  active
      0x0000000000000060               1        0  _____lA__________________________  lru,active
      0x0000000000000068             348        1  ___U_lA__________________________  uptodate,lru,active
      0x0001000000000068              12        0  ___U_lA______________________I___  uptodate,lru,active,readahead
      0x000000000000006c             988        3  __RU_lA__________________________  referenced,uptodate,lru,active
      0x000100000000006c              48        0  __RU_lA______________________I___  referenced,uptodate,lru,active,readahead
      0x0000000000004078               1        0  ___UDlA_______b__________________  uptodate,dirty,lru,active,swapbacked
      0x000000000000407c              34        0  __RUDlA_______b__________________  referenced,uptodate,dirty,lru,active,swapbacked
      0x0000000000000400             503        1  __________B______________________  buddy
      0x0000000000000804               1        0  __R________M_____________________  referenced,mmap
      0x0000000000000828            1029        4  ___U_l_____M_____________________  uptodate,lru,mmap
      0x0001000000000828              43        0  ___U_l_____M_________________I___  uptodate,lru,mmap,readahead
      0x000000000000082c             382        1  __RU_l_____M_____________________  referenced,uptodate,lru,mmap
      0x000100000000082c              12        0  __RU_l_____M_________________I___  referenced,uptodate,lru,mmap,readahead
      0x0000000000000868             192        0  ___U_lA____M_____________________  uptodate,lru,active,mmap
      0x0001000000000868              12        0  ___U_lA____M_________________I___  uptodate,lru,active,mmap,readahead
      0x000000000000086c             800        3  __RU_lA____M_____________________  referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mmap
      0x000100000000086c              31        0  __RU_lA____M_________________I___  referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mmap,readahead
      0x0000000000004878               2        0  ___UDlA____M__b__________________  uptodate,dirty,lru,active,mmap,swapbacked
      0x0000000000001000             492        1  ____________a____________________  anonymous
      0x0000000000005808               4        0  ___U_______Ma_b__________________  uptodate,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked
      0x0000000000005868            2839       11  ___U_lA____Ma_b__________________  uptodate,lru,active,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked
      0x000000000000586c              30        0  __RU_lA____Ma_b__________________  referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked
                   total          513968     2007
      
      # ./page-types -r
                   flags      page-count       MB  symbolic-flags                     long-symbolic-flags
      0x0000000000000000          468002     1828  _________________________________
      0x0000000100000000           19102       74  _____________________r___________  reserved
      0x0000000000008000              41        0  _______________H_________________  compound_head
      0x0000000000010000             188        0  ________________T________________  compound_tail
      0x0000000000008014               1        0  __R_D__________H_________________  referenced,dirty,compound_head
      0x0000000000010014               4        0  __R_D___________T________________  referenced,dirty,compound_tail
      0x0000000000000020               1        0  _____l___________________________  lru
      0x0000000800000024              34        0  __R__l__________________P________  referenced,lru,private
      0x0000000000000028            3794       14  ___U_l___________________________  uptodate,lru
      0x0001000000000028              46        0  ___U_l_______________________I___  uptodate,lru,readahead
      0x0000000400000028              44        0  ___U_l_________________d_________  uptodate,lru,mappedtodisk
      0x0001000400000028               2        0  ___U_l_________________d_____I___  uptodate,lru,mappedtodisk,readahead
      0x000000000000002c            6434       25  __RU_l___________________________  referenced,uptodate,lru
      0x000100000000002c              47        0  __RU_l_______________________I___  referenced,uptodate,lru,readahead
      0x000000040000002c              14        0  __RU_l_________________d_________  referenced,uptodate,lru,mappedtodisk
      0x000000080000002c              30        0  __RU_l__________________P________  referenced,uptodate,lru,private
      0x0000000800000040            8124       31  ______A_________________P________  active,private
      0x0000000000000040             219        0  ______A__________________________  active
      0x0000000800000060               1        0  _____lA_________________P________  lru,active,private
      0x0000000000000068             322        1  ___U_lA__________________________  uptodate,lru,active
      0x0001000000000068              12        0  ___U_lA______________________I___  uptodate,lru,active,readahead
      0x0000000400000068              13        0  ___U_lA________________d_________  uptodate,lru,active,mappedtodisk
      0x0000000800000068              12        0  ___U_lA_________________P________  uptodate,lru,active,private
      0x000000000000006c             977        3  __RU_lA__________________________  referenced,uptodate,lru,active
      0x000100000000006c              48        0  __RU_lA______________________I___  referenced,uptodate,lru,active,readahead
      0x000000040000006c               5        0  __RU_lA________________d_________  referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mappedtodisk
      0x000000080000006c               3        0  __RU_lA_________________P________  referenced,uptodate,lru,active,private
      0x0000000c0000006c               3        0  __RU_lA________________dP________  referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mappedtodisk,private
      0x0000000c00000068               1        0  ___U_lA________________dP________  uptodate,lru,active,mappedtodisk,private
      0x0000000000004078               1        0  ___UDlA_______b__________________  uptodate,dirty,lru,active,swapbacked
      0x000000000000407c              34        0  __RUDlA_______b__________________  referenced,uptodate,dirty,lru,active,swapbacked
      0x0000000000000400             538        2  __________B______________________  buddy
      0x0000000000000804               1        0  __R________M_____________________  referenced,mmap
      0x0000000000000828            1029        4  ___U_l_____M_____________________  uptodate,lru,mmap
      0x0001000000000828              43        0  ___U_l_____M_________________I___  uptodate,lru,mmap,readahead
      0x000000000000082c             382        1  __RU_l_____M_____________________  referenced,uptodate,lru,mmap
      0x000100000000082c              12        0  __RU_l_____M_________________I___  referenced,uptodate,lru,mmap,readahead
      0x0000000000000868             192        0  ___U_lA____M_____________________  uptodate,lru,active,mmap
      0x0001000000000868              12        0  ___U_lA____M_________________I___  uptodate,lru,active,mmap,readahead
      0x000000000000086c             800        3  __RU_lA____M_____________________  referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mmap
      0x000100000000086c              31        0  __RU_lA____M_________________I___  referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mmap,readahead
      0x0000000000004878               2        0  ___UDlA____M__b__________________  uptodate,dirty,lru,active,mmap,swapbacked
      0x0000000000001000             492        1  ____________a____________________  anonymous
      0x0000000000005008               2        0  ___U________a_b__________________  uptodate,anonymous,swapbacked
      0x0000000000005808               4        0  ___U_______Ma_b__________________  uptodate,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked
      0x000000000000580c               1        0  __RU_______Ma_b__________________  referenced,uptodate,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked
      0x0000000000005868            2839       11  ___U_lA____Ma_b__________________  uptodate,lru,active,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked
      0x000000000000586c              29        0  __RU_lA____Ma_b__________________  referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked
                   total          513968     2007
      
      # ./page-types --raw --list --no-summary --bits reserved
      offset  count   flags
      0       15      _____________________r___________
      31      4       _____________________r___________
      159     97      _____________________r___________
      4096    2067    _____________________r___________
      6752    2390    _____________________r___________
      9355    3       _____________________r___________
      9728    14526   _____________________r___________
      
      This patch:
      
      Introduce PageHuge(), which identifies huge/gigantic pages by their
      dedicated compound destructor functions.
      
      Also move prep_compound_gigantic_page() to hugetlb.c and make
      __free_pages_ok() non-static.
      Signed-off-by: NWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
      Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
      Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
      Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      20a0307c
  5. 11 2月, 2009 2 次提交
    • S
      hugetlbfs: fix build failure with !CONFIG_HUGETLBFS · 1db8508c
      Stefan Richter 提交于
      Fix regression due to 5a6fe125,
      "Do not account for the address space used by hugetlbfs using VM_ACCOUNT"
      which added an argument to the function hugetlb_file_setup() but not to
      the macro hugetlb_file_setup().
      Reported-by: NChris Clayton <chris2553@googlemail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
      Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      1db8508c
    • M
      Do not account for the address space used by hugetlbfs using VM_ACCOUNT · 5a6fe125
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      When overcommit is disabled, the core VM accounts for pages used by anonymous
      shared, private mappings and special mappings. It keeps track of VMAs that
      should be accounted for with VM_ACCOUNT and VMAs that never had a reserve
      with VM_NORESERVE.
      
      Overcommit for hugetlbfs is much riskier than overcommit for base pages
      due to contiguity requirements. It avoids overcommiting on both shared and
      private mappings using reservation counters that are checked and updated
      during mmap(). This ensures (within limits) that hugepages exist in the
      future when faults occurs or it is too easy to applications to be SIGKILLed.
      
      As hugetlbfs makes its own reservations of a different unit to the base page
      size, VM_ACCOUNT should never be set. Even if the units were correct, we would
      double account for the usage in the core VM and hugetlbfs. VM_NORESERVE may
      be set because an application can request no reserves be made for hugetlbfs
      at the risk of getting killed later.
      
      With commit fc8744ad, VM_NORESERVE and
      VM_ACCOUNT are getting unconditionally set for hugetlbfs-backed mappings. This
      breaks the accounting for both the core VM and hugetlbfs, can trigger an
      OOM storm when hugepage pools are too small lockups and corrupted counters
      otherwise are used. This patch brings hugetlbfs more in line with how the
      core VM treats VM_NORESERVE but prevents VM_ACCOUNT being set.
      Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5a6fe125
  6. 07 1月, 2009 2 次提交
  7. 23 10月, 2008 1 次提交
  8. 27 7月, 2008 1 次提交
  9. 25 7月, 2008 8 次提交
    • J
      hugetlb: allow arch overridden hugepage allocation · 53ba51d2
      Jon Tollefson 提交于
      Allow alloc_bootmem_huge_page() to be overridden by architectures that
      can't always use bootmem.  This requires huge_boot_pages to be available
      for use by this function.
      
      This is required for powerpc 16G pages, which have to be reserved prior to
      boot-time.  The location of these pages are indicated in the device tree.
      Acked-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NJon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      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>
      53ba51d2
    • A
      hugetlb: introduce pud_huge · ceb86879
      Andi Kleen 提交于
      Straight forward extensions for huge pages located in the PUD instead of
      PMDs.
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      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>
      ceb86879
    • N
      hugetlb: new sysfs interface · a3437870
      Nishanth Aravamudan 提交于
      Provide new hugepages user APIs that are more suited to multiple hstates
      in sysfs.  There is a new directory, /sys/kernel/hugepages.  Underneath
      that directory there will be a directory per-supported hugepage size,
      e.g.:
      
      /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64kB
      /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-16384kB
      /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-16777216kB
      
      corresponding to 64k, 16m and 16g respectively.  Within each
      hugepages-size directory there are a number of files, corresponding to the
      tracked counters in the hstate, e.g.:
      
      /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64/nr_hugepages
      /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64/nr_overcommit_hugepages
      /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64/free_hugepages
      /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64/resv_hugepages
      /sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64/surplus_hugepages
      
      Of these files, the first two are read-write and the latter three are
      read-only.  The size of the hugepage being manipulated is trivially
      deducible from the enclosing directory and is always expressed in kB (to
      match meminfo).
      
      [dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com: fix build]
      [nacc@us.ibm.com: hugetlb: hang off of /sys/kernel/mm rather than /sys/kernel]
      [nacc@us.ibm.com: hugetlb: remove CONFIG_SYSFS dependency]
      Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a3437870
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      hugetlbfs: per mount huge page sizes · a137e1cc
      Andi Kleen 提交于
      Add the ability to configure the hugetlb hstate used on a per mount basis.
      
      - Add a new pagesize= option to the hugetlbfs mount that allows setting
        the page size
      - This option causes the mount code to find the hstate corresponding to the
        specified size, and sets up a pointer to the hstate in the mount's
        superblock.
      - Change the hstate accessors to use this information rather than the
        global_hstate they were using (requires a slight change in mm/memory.c
        so we don't NULL deref in the error-unmap path -- see comments).
      
      [np: take hstate out of hugetlbfs inode and vma->vm_private_data]
      Acked-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
      Acked-by: NNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      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>
      a137e1cc
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      hugetlb: multiple hstates for multiple page sizes · e5ff2159
      Andi Kleen 提交于
      Add basic support for more than one hstate in hugetlbfs.  This is the key
      to supporting multiple hugetlbfs page sizes at once.
      
      - Rather than a single hstate, we now have an array, with an iterator
      - default_hstate continues to be the struct hstate which we use by default
      - Add functions for architectures to register new hstates
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
      Acked-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
      Acked-by: NNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      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>
      e5ff2159
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      hugetlb: modular state for hugetlb page size · a5516438
      Andi Kleen 提交于
      The goal of this patchset is to support multiple hugetlb page sizes.  This
      is achieved by introducing a new struct hstate structure, which
      encapsulates the important hugetlb state and constants (eg.  huge page
      size, number of huge pages currently allocated, etc).
      
      The hstate structure is then passed around the code which requires these
      fields, they will do the right thing regardless of the exact hstate they
      are operating on.
      
      This patch adds the hstate structure, with a single global instance of it
      (default_hstate), and does the basic work of converting hugetlb to use the
      hstate.
      
      Future patches will add more hstate structures to allow for different
      hugetlbfs mounts to have different page sizes.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
      Acked-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
      Acked-by: NNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      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>
      a5516438
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      hugetlb: guarantee that COW faults for a process that called mmap(MAP_PRIVATE)... · 04f2cbe3
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      hugetlb: guarantee that COW faults for a process that called mmap(MAP_PRIVATE) on hugetlbfs will succeed
      
      After patch 2 in this series, a process that successfully calls mmap() for
      a MAP_PRIVATE mapping will be guaranteed to successfully fault until a
      process calls fork().  At that point, the next write fault from the parent
      could fail due to COW if the child still has a reference.
      
      We only reserve pages for the parent but a copy must be made to avoid
      leaking data from the parent to the child after fork().  Reserves could be
      taken for both parent and child at fork time to guarantee faults but if
      the mapping is large it is highly likely we will not have sufficient pages
      for the reservation, and it is common to fork only to exec() immediatly
      after.  A failure here would be very undesirable.
      
      Note that the current behaviour of mainline with MAP_PRIVATE pages is
      pretty bad.  The following situation is allowed to occur today.
      
      1. Process calls mmap(MAP_PRIVATE)
      2. Process calls mlock() to fault all pages and makes sure it succeeds
      3. Process forks()
      4. Process writes to MAP_PRIVATE mapping while child still exists
      5. If the COW fails at this point, the process gets SIGKILLed even though it
         had taken care to ensure the pages existed
      
      This patch improves the situation by guaranteeing the reliability of the
      process that successfully calls mmap().  When the parent performs COW, it
      will try to satisfy the allocation without using reserves.  If that fails
      the parent will steal the page leaving any children without a page.
      Faults from the child after that point will result in failure.  If the
      child COW happens first, an attempt will be made to allocate the page
      without reserves and the child will get SIGKILLed on failure.
      
      To summarise the new behaviour:
      
      1. If the original mapper performs COW on a private mapping with multiple
         references, it will attempt to allocate a hugepage from the pool or
         the buddy allocator without using the existing reserves. On fail, VMAs
         mapping the same area are traversed and the page being COW'd is unmapped
         where found. It will then steal the original page as the last mapper in
         the normal way.
      
      2. The VMAs the pages were unmapped from are flagged to note that pages
         with data no longer exist. Future no-page faults on those VMAs will
         terminate the process as otherwise it would appear that data was corrupted.
         A warning is printed to the console that this situation occured.
      
      2. If the child performs COW first, it will attempt to satisfy the COW
         from the pool if there are enough pages or via the buddy allocator if
         overcommit is allowed and the buddy allocator can satisfy the request. If
         it fails, the child will be killed.
      
      If the pool is large enough, existing applications will not notice that
      the reserves were a factor.  Existing applications depending on the
      no-reserves been set are unlikely to exist as for much of the history of
      hugetlbfs, pages were prefaulted at mmap(), allocating the pages at that
      point or failing the mmap().
      
      [npiggin@suse.de: fix CONFIG_HUGETLB=n build]
      Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Acked-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
      Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      04f2cbe3
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      hugetlb: reserve huge pages for reliable MAP_PRIVATE hugetlbfs mappings until fork() · a1e78772
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      This patch reserves huge pages at mmap() time for MAP_PRIVATE mappings in
      a similar manner to the reservations taken for MAP_SHARED mappings.  The
      reserve count is accounted both globally and on a per-VMA basis for
      private mappings.  This guarantees that a process that successfully calls
      mmap() will successfully fault all pages in the future unless fork() is
      called.
      
      The characteristics of private mappings of hugetlbfs files behaviour after
      this patch are;
      
      1. The process calling mmap() is guaranteed to succeed all future faults until
         it forks().
      2. On fork(), the parent may die due to SIGKILL on writes to the private
         mapping if enough pages are not available for the COW. For reasonably
         reliable behaviour in the face of a small huge page pool, children of
         hugepage-aware processes should not reference the mappings; such as
         might occur when fork()ing to exec().
      3. On fork(), the child VMAs inherit no reserves. Reads on pages already
         faulted by the parent will succeed. Successful writes will depend on enough
         huge pages being free in the pool.
      4. Quotas of the hugetlbfs mount are checked at reserve time for the mapper
         and at fault time otherwise.
      
      Before this patch, all reads or writes in the child potentially needs page
      allocations that can later lead to the death of the parent.  This applies
      to reads and writes of uninstantiated pages as well as COW.  After the
      patch it is only a write to an instantiated page that causes problems.
      Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Acked-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
      Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
      Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a1e78772
  10. 28 4月, 2008 1 次提交
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      hugetlbfs: architecture header cleanup · 6d779079
      Gerald Schaefer 提交于
      This patch moves all architecture functions for hugetlb to architecture header
      files (include/asm-foo/hugetlb.h) and converts all macros to inline functions.
       It also removes (!) ARCH_HAS_HUGEPAGE_ONLY_RANGE,
      ARCH_HAS_HUGETLB_FREE_PGD_RANGE, ARCH_HAS_PREPARE_HUGEPAGE_RANGE,
      ARCH_HAS_SETCLEAR_HUGE_PTE and ARCH_HAS_HUGETLB_PREFAULT_HOOK.
      
      Getting rid of the ARCH_HAS_xxx #ifdef and macro fugliness should increase
      readability and maintainability, at the price of some code duplication.  An
      asm-generic common part would have reduced the loc, but we would end up with
      new ARCH_HAS_xxx defines eventually.
      Acked-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NGerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      6d779079
  11. 14 2月, 2008 1 次提交
  12. 09 2月, 2008 1 次提交
  13. 18 12月, 2007 2 次提交
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      Revert "hugetlb: Add hugetlb_dynamic_pool sysctl" · 368d2c63
      Nishanth Aravamudan 提交于
      This reverts commit 54f9f80d ("hugetlb:
      Add hugetlb_dynamic_pool sysctl")
      
      Given the new sysctl nr_overcommit_hugepages, the boolean dynamic pool
      sysctl is not needed, as its semantics can be expressed by 0 in the
      overcommit sysctl (no dynamic pool) and non-0 in the overcommit sysctl
      (pool enabled).
      
      (Needed in 2.6.24 since it reverts a post-2.6.23 userspace-visible change)
      Signed-off-by: NNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
      Acked-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      368d2c63
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      hugetlb: introduce nr_overcommit_hugepages sysctl · d1c3fb1f
      Nishanth Aravamudan 提交于
      hugetlb: introduce nr_overcommit_hugepages sysctl
      
      While examining the code to support /proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_dynamic_pool, I
      became convinced that having a boolean sysctl was insufficient:
      
      1) To support per-node control of hugepages, I have previously submitted
      patches to add a sysfs attribute related to nr_hugepages. However, with
      a boolean global value and per-mount quota enforcement constraining the
      dynamic pool, adding corresponding control of the dynamic pool on a
      per-node basis seems inconsistent to me.
      
      2) Administration of the hugetlb dynamic pool with multiple hugetlbfs
      mount points is, arguably, more arduous than it needs to be. Each quota
      would need to be set separately, and the sum would need to be monitored.
      
      To ease the administration, and to help make the way for per-node
      control of the static & dynamic hugepage pool, I added a separate
      sysctl, nr_overcommit_hugepages. This value serves as a high watermark
      for the overall hugepage pool, while nr_hugepages serves as a low
      watermark. The boolean sysctl can then be removed, as the condition
      
      	nr_overcommit_hugepages > 0
      
      indicates the same administrative setting as
      
      	hugetlb_dynamic_pool == 1
      
      Quotas still serve as local enforcement of the size of the pool on a
      per-mount basis.
      
      A few caveats:
      
      1) There is a race whereby the global surplus huge page counter is
      incremented before a hugepage has allocated. Another process could then
      try grow the pool, and fail to convert a surplus huge page to a normal
      huge page and instead allocate a fresh huge page. I believe this is
      benign, as no memory is leaked (the actual pages are still tracked
      correctly) and the counters won't go out of sync.
      
      2) Shrinking the static pool while a surplus is in effect will allow the
      number of surplus huge pages to exceed the overcommit value. As long as
      this condition holds, however, no more surplus huge pages will be
      allowed on the system until one of the two sysctls are increased
      sufficiently, or the surplus huge pages go out of use and are freed.
      
      Successfully tested on x86_64 with the current libhugetlbfs snapshot,
      modified to use the new sysctl.
      Signed-off-by: NNishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
      Acked-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
      Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d1c3fb1f
  14. 15 11月, 2007 3 次提交
  15. 17 10月, 2007 1 次提交
  16. 31 8月, 2007 1 次提交
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      hugepage: fix broken check for offset alignment in hugepage mappings · dec4ad86
      David Gibson 提交于
      For hugepage mappings, the file offset, like the address and size, needs to
      be aligned to the size of a hugepage.
      
      In commit 68589bc3, the check for this was
      moved into prepare_hugepage_range() along with the address and size checks.
       But since BenH's rework of the get_unmapped_area() paths leading up to
      commit 4b1d8929, prepare_hugepage_range()
      is only called for MAP_FIXED mappings, not for other mappings.  This means
      we're no longer ever checking for an aligned offset - I've confirmed that
      mmap() will (apparently) succeed with a misaligned offset on both powerpc
      and i386 at least.
      
      This patch restores the check, removing it from prepare_hugepage_range()
      and putting it back into hugetlbfs_file_mmap().  I'm putting it there,
      rather than in the get_unmapped_area() path so it only needs to go in one
      place, than separately in the half-dozen or so arch-specific
      implementations of hugetlb_get_unmapped_area().
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
      Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      dec4ad86
  17. 30 7月, 2007 1 次提交
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      Remove fs.h from mm.h · 4e950f6f
      Alexey Dobriyan 提交于
      Remove fs.h from mm.h. For this,
       1) Uninline vma_wants_writenotify(). It's pretty huge anyway.
       2) Add back fs.h or less bloated headers (err.h) to files that need it.
      
      As result, on x86_64 allyesconfig, fs.h dependencies cut down from 3929 files
      rebuilt down to 3444 (-12.3%).
      
      Cross-compile tested without regressions on my two usual configs and (sigh):
      
      alpha              arm-mx1ads        mips-bigsur          powerpc-ebony
      alpha-allnoconfig  arm-neponset      mips-capcella        powerpc-g5
      alpha-defconfig    arm-netwinder     mips-cobalt          powerpc-holly
      alpha-up           arm-netx          mips-db1000          powerpc-iseries
      arm                arm-ns9xxx        mips-db1100          powerpc-linkstation
      arm-assabet        arm-omap_h2_1610  mips-db1200          powerpc-lite5200
      arm-at91rm9200dk   arm-onearm        mips-db1500          powerpc-maple
      arm-at91rm9200ek   arm-picotux200    mips-db1550          powerpc-mpc7448_hpc2
      arm-at91sam9260ek  arm-pleb          mips-ddb5477         powerpc-mpc8272_ads
      arm-at91sam9261ek  arm-pnx4008       mips-decstation      powerpc-mpc8313_rdb
      arm-at91sam9263ek  arm-pxa255-idp    mips-e55             powerpc-mpc832x_mds
      arm-at91sam9rlek   arm-realview      mips-emma2rh         powerpc-mpc832x_rdb
      arm-ateb9200       arm-realview-smp  mips-excite          powerpc-mpc834x_itx
      arm-badge4         arm-rpc           mips-fulong          powerpc-mpc834x_itxgp
      arm-carmeva        arm-s3c2410       mips-ip22            powerpc-mpc834x_mds
      arm-cerfcube       arm-shannon       mips-ip27            powerpc-mpc836x_mds
      arm-clps7500       arm-shark         mips-ip32            powerpc-mpc8540_ads
      arm-collie         arm-simpad        mips-jazz            powerpc-mpc8544_ds
      arm-corgi          arm-spitz         mips-jmr3927         powerpc-mpc8560_ads
      arm-csb337         arm-trizeps4      mips-malta           powerpc-mpc8568mds
      arm-csb637         arm-versatile     mips-mipssim         powerpc-mpc85xx_cds
      arm-ebsa110        i386              mips-mpc30x          powerpc-mpc8641_hpcn
      arm-edb7211        i386-allnoconfig  mips-msp71xx         powerpc-mpc866_ads
      arm-em_x270        i386-defconfig    mips-ocelot          powerpc-mpc885_ads
      arm-ep93xx         i386-up           mips-pb1100          powerpc-pasemi
      arm-footbridge     ia64              mips-pb1500          powerpc-pmac32
      arm-fortunet       ia64-allnoconfig  mips-pb1550          powerpc-ppc64
      arm-h3600          ia64-bigsur       mips-pnx8550-jbs     powerpc-prpmc2800
      arm-h7201          ia64-defconfig    mips-pnx8550-stb810  powerpc-ps3
      arm-h7202          ia64-gensparse    mips-qemu            powerpc-pseries
      arm-hackkit        ia64-sim          mips-rbhma4200       powerpc-up
      arm-integrator     ia64-sn2          mips-rbhma4500       s390
      arm-iop13xx        ia64-tiger        mips-rm200           s390-allnoconfig
      arm-iop32x         ia64-up           mips-sb1250-swarm    s390-defconfig
      arm-iop33x         ia64-zx1          mips-sead            s390-up
      arm-ixp2000        m68k              mips-tb0219          sparc
      arm-ixp23xx        m68k-amiga        mips-tb0226          sparc-allnoconfig
      arm-ixp4xx         m68k-apollo       mips-tb0287          sparc-defconfig
      arm-jornada720     m68k-atari        mips-workpad         sparc-up
      arm-kafa           m68k-bvme6000     mips-wrppmc          sparc64
      arm-kb9202         m68k-hp300        mips-yosemite        sparc64-allnoconfig
      arm-ks8695         m68k-mac          parisc               sparc64-defconfig
      arm-lart           m68k-mvme147      parisc-allnoconfig   sparc64-up
      arm-lpd270         m68k-mvme16x      parisc-defconfig     um-x86_64
      arm-lpd7a400       m68k-q40          parisc-up            x86_64
      arm-lpd7a404       m68k-sun3         powerpc              x86_64-allnoconfig
      arm-lubbock        m68k-sun3x        powerpc-cell         x86_64-defconfig
      arm-lusl7200       mips              powerpc-celleb       x86_64-up
      arm-mainstone      mips-atlas        powerpc-chrp32
      Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      4e950f6f
  18. 18 7月, 2007 1 次提交
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      Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE · 396faf03
      Mel Gorman 提交于
      Huge pages are not movable so are not allocated from ZONE_MOVABLE.  However,
      as ZONE_MOVABLE will always have pages that can be migrated or reclaimed, it
      can be used to satisfy hugepage allocations even when the system has been
      running a long time.  This allows an administrator to resize the hugepage pool
      at runtime depending on the size of ZONE_MOVABLE.
      
      This patch adds a new sysctl called hugepages_treat_as_movable.  When a
      non-zero value is written to it, future allocations for the huge page pool
      will use ZONE_MOVABLE.  Despite huge pages being non-movable, we do not
      introduce additional external fragmentation of note as huge pages are always
      the largest contiguous block we care about.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: various fixes]
      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>
      396faf03
  19. 17 6月, 2007 1 次提交
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      shm: fix the filename of hugetlb sysv shared memory · 9d66586f
      Eric W. Biederman 提交于
      Some user space tools need to identify SYSV shared memory when examining
      /proc/<pid>/maps.  To do so they look for a block device with major zero, a
      dentry named SYSV<sysv key>, and having the minor of the internal sysv
      shared memory kernel mount.
      
      To help these tools and to make it easier for people just browsing
      /proc/<pid>/maps this patch modifies hugetlb sysv shared memory to use the
      SYSV<key> dentry naming convention.
      
      User space tools will still have to be aware that hugetlb sysv shared
      memory lives on a different internal kernel mount and so has a different
      block device minor number from the rest of sysv shared memory.
      Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
      Cc: Albert Cahalan <acahalan@gmail.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>
      9d66586f
  20. 08 5月, 2007 1 次提交
  21. 02 3月, 2007 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] Fix get_unmapped_area and fsync for hugetlb shm segments · 516dffdc
      Adam Litke 提交于
      This patch provides the following hugetlb-related fixes to the recent stacked
      shm files changes:
       - Update is_file_hugepages() so it will reconize hugetlb shm segments.
       - get_unmapped_area must be called with the nested file struct to handle
         the sfd->file->f_ops->get_unmapped_area == NULL case.
       - The fsync f_op must be wrapped since it is specified in the hugetlbfs
         f_ops.
      
      This is based on proposed fixes from Eric Biederman that were debugged and
      tested by me.  Without it, attempting to use hugetlb shared memory segments
      on powerpc (and likely ia64) will kill your box.
      Signed-off-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Acked-by: NWilliam Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      516dffdc
  22. 08 12月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] shared page table for hugetlb page · 39dde65c
      Chen, Kenneth W 提交于
      Following up with the work on shared page table done by Dave McCracken.  This
      set of patch target shared page table for hugetlb memory only.
      
      The shared page table is particular useful in the situation of large number of
      independent processes sharing large shared memory segments.  In the normal
      page case, the amount of memory saved from process' page table is quite
      significant.  For hugetlb, the saving on page table memory is not the primary
      objective (as hugetlb itself already cuts down page table overhead
      significantly), instead, the purpose of using shared page table on hugetlb is
      to allow faster TLB refill and smaller cache pollution upon TLB miss.
      
      With PT sharing, pte entries are shared among hundreds of processes, the cache
      consumption used by all the page table is smaller and in return, application
      gets much higher cache hit ratio.  One other effect is that cache hit ratio
      with hardware page walker hitting on pte in cache will be higher and this
      helps to reduce tlb miss latency.  These two effects contribute to higher
      application performance.
      Signed-off-by: NKen Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
      Acked-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Cc: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
      Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
      Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      39dde65c
  23. 15 11月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] hugetlb: prepare_hugepage_range check offset too · 68589bc3
      Hugh Dickins 提交于
      (David:)
      
      If hugetlbfs_file_mmap() returns a failure to do_mmap_pgoff() - for example,
      because the given file offset is not hugepage aligned - then do_mmap_pgoff
      will go to the unmap_and_free_vma backout path.
      
      But at this stage the vma hasn't been marked as hugepage, and the backout path
      will call unmap_region() on it.  That will eventually call down to the
      non-hugepage version of unmap_page_range().  On ppc64, at least, that will
      cause serious problems if there are any existing hugepage pagetable entries in
      the vicinity - for example if there are any other hugepage mappings under the
      same PUD.  unmap_page_range() will trigger a bad_pud() on the hugepage pud
      entries.  I suspect this will also cause bad problems on ia64, though I don't
      have a machine to test it on.
      
      (Hugh:)
      
      prepare_hugepage_range() should check file offset alignment when it checks
      virtual address and length, to stop MAP_FIXED with a bad huge offset from
      unmapping before it fails further down.  PowerPC should apply the same
      prepare_hugepage_range alignment checks as ia64 and all the others do.
      
      Then none of the alignment checks in hugetlbfs_file_mmap are required (nor
      is the check for too small a mapping); but even so, move up setting of
      VM_HUGETLB and add a comment to warn of what David Gibson discovered - if
      hugetlbfs_file_mmap fails before setting it, do_mmap_pgoff's unmap_region
      when unwinding from error will go the non-huge way, which may cause bad
      behaviour on architectures (powerpc and ia64) which segregate their huge
      mappings into a separate region of the address space.
      Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
      Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Acked-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
      Acked-by: NDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      68589bc3
  24. 12 10月, 2006 1 次提交
  25. 23 6月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] tightening hugetlb strict accounting · a43a8c39
      Chen, Kenneth W 提交于
      Current hugetlb strict accounting for shared mapping always assume mapping
      starts at zero file offset and reserves pages between zero and size of the
      file.  This assumption often reserves (or lock down) a lot more pages then
      necessary if application maps at none zero file offset.  libhugetlbfs is
      one example that requires proper reservation on shared mapping starts at
      none zero offset.
      
      This patch extends the reservation and hugetlb strict accounting to support
      any arbitrary pair of (offset, len), resulting a much more robust and
      accurate scheme.  More importantly, it won't lock down any hugetlb pages
      outside file mapping.
      Signed-off-by: NKen Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
      Acked-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
      Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
      Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      a43a8c39