- 05 2月, 2008 6 次提交
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由 Pekka Enberg 提交于
This fixes most of the obvious coding style violations in mm/slub.c as reported by checkpatch. Acked-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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由 Christoph Lameter 提交于
Add a parameter to add_partial instead of having separate functions. The parameter allows a more detailed control of where the slab pages is placed in the partial queues. If we put slabs back to the front then they are likely immediately used for allocations. If they are put at the end then we can maximize the time that the partial slabs spent without being subject to allocations. When deactivating slab we can put the slabs that had remote objects freed (we can see that because objects were put on the freelist that requires locks) to them at the end of the list so that the cachelines of remote processors can cool down. Slabs that had objects from the local cpu freed to them (objects exist in the lockless freelist) are put in the front of the list to be reused ASAP in order to exploit the cache hot state of the local cpu. Patch seems to slightly improve tbench speed (1-2%). Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Christoph Lameter 提交于
The NUMA defrag works by allocating objects from partial slabs on remote nodes. Rename it to remote_node_defrag_ratio to be clear about this. Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Christoph Lameter 提交于
Move the counting function for objects in partial slabs so that it is placed before kmem_cache_shrink. Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Christoph Lameter 提交于
If CONFIG_SYSFS is set then free the kmem_cache structure when sysfs tells us its okay. Otherwise there is the danger (as pointed out by Al Viro) that sysfs thinks the kobject still exists after kmem_cache_destroy() removed it. Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: NPekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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由 Harvey Harrison 提交于
Introduce 'len' at outer level: mm/slub.c:3406:26: warning: symbol 'n' shadows an earlier one mm/slub.c:3393:6: originally declared here No need to declare new node: mm/slub.c:3501:7: warning: symbol 'node' shadows an earlier one mm/slub.c:3491:6: originally declared here No need to declare new x: mm/slub.c:3513:9: warning: symbol 'x' shadows an earlier one mm/slub.c:3492:6: originally declared here Signed-off-by: NHarvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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- 03 2月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Nick Piggin 提交于
Frederik Himpe reported an unkillable and un-straceable pan process. Zero length iovecs can go into an infinite loop in writev, because the iovec iterator does not always advance over them. The sequence required to trigger this is not trivial. I think it requires that a zero-length iovec be followed by a non-zero-length iovec which causes a pagefault in the atomic usercopy. This causes the writev code to drop back into single-segment copy mode, which then tries to copy the 0 bytes of the zero-length iovec; a zero length copy looks like a failure though, so it loops. Put a test into iov_iter_advance to catch zero-length iovecs. We could just put the test in the fallback path, but I feel it is more robust to skip over zero-length iovecs throughout the code (iovec iterator may be used in filesystems too, so it should be robust). Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 30 1月, 2008 3 次提交
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由 Andi Kleen 提交于
They now look like: hal-resmgr[13791]: segfault at 3c rip 2b9c8caec182 rsp 7fff1e825d30 error 4 in libacl.so.1.1.0[2b9c8caea000+6000] This makes it easier to pinpoint bugs to specific libraries. And printing the offset into a mapping also always allows to find the correct fault point in a library even with randomized mappings. Previously there was no way to actually find the correct code address inside the randomized mapping. Relies on earlier patch to shorten the printk formats. They are often now longer than 80 characters, but I think that's worth it. [includes fix from Eric Dumazet to check d_path error value] Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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由 Nick Piggin 提交于
The break_lock data structure and code for spinlocks is quite nasty. Not only does it double the size of a spinlock but it changes locking to a potentially less optimal trylock. Put all of that under CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK, and introduce a __raw_spin_is_contended that uses the lock data itself to determine whether there are waiters on the lock, to be used if CONFIG_GENERIC_LOCKBREAK is not set. Rename need_lockbreak to spin_needbreak, make it use spin_is_contended to decouple it from the spinlock implementation, and make it typesafe (rwlocks do not have any need_lockbreak sites -- why do they even get bloated up with that break_lock then?). Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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由 Jiri Kosina 提交于
Randomize the location of the heap (brk) for i386 and x86_64. The range is randomized in the range starting at current brk location up to 0x02000000 offset for both architectures. This, together with pie-executable-randomization.patch and pie-executable-randomization-fix.patch, should make the address space randomization on i386 and x86_64 complete. Arjan says: This is known to break older versions of some emacs variants, whose dumper code assumed that the last variable declared in the program is equal to the start of the dynamically allocated memory region. (The dumper is the code where emacs effectively dumps core at the end of it's compilation stage; this coredump is then loaded as the main program during normal use) iirc this was 5 years or so; we found this way back when I was at RH and we first did the security stuff there (including this brk randomization). It wasn't all variants of emacs, and it got fixed as a result (I vaguely remember that emacs already had code to deal with it for other archs/oses, just ifdeffed wrongly). It's a rare and wrong assumption as a general thing, just on x86 it mostly happened to be true (but to be honest, it'll break too if gcc does something fancy or if the linker does a non-standard order). Still its something we should at least document. Note 2: afaik it only broke the emacs *build*. I'm not 100% sure about that (it IS 5 years ago) though. [ akpm@linux-foundation.org: deuglification ] Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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- 28 1月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Paul Mundt 提交于
Sync up with the SH definitions. Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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- 26 1月, 2008 3 次提交
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由 Peter Zijlstra 提交于
Move the task_struct members specific to rt scheduling together. A future optimization could be to put sched_entity and sched_rt_entity into a union. Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> CC: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Gautham R Shenoy 提交于
This patch converts the known per-subsystem mutexes to get_online_cpus put_online_cpus. It also eliminates the CPU_LOCK_ACQUIRE and CPU_LOCK_RELEASE hotplug notification events. Signed-off-by: NGautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Pekka Enberg 提交于
If the node we're booting on doesn't have memory, bootstrapping kmalloc() caches resorts to fallback_alloc() which requires ->nodelists set for all nodes. Fix that by calling set_up_list3s() for CACHE_CACHE in kmem_cache_init(). As kmem_getpages() is called with GFP_THISNODE set, this used to work before because of breakage in 2.6.22 and before with GFP_THISNODE returning pages from the wrong node if a node had no memory. So it may have worked accidentally and in an unsafe manner because the pages would have been associated with the wrong node which could trigger bug ons and locking troubles. Tested-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Tested-by: NOlaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Reviewed-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> [ With additional one-liner by Olaf Hering - Linus ] Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 25 1月, 2008 8 次提交
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由 Greg Kroah-Hartman 提交于
This converts the code to use the new kobject functions, cleaning up the logic in doing so. Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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由 Greg Kroah-Hartman 提交于
kernel_kset does not need to be a kset, but a much simpler kobject now that we have kobj_attributes. We also rename kernel_kset to kernel_kobj to catch all users of this symbol with a build error instead of an easy-to-ignore build warning. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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由 Greg Kroah-Hartman 提交于
/sys/kernel is where these things should go. Also updated the documentation and tool that used this directory. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Acked-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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由 Greg Kroah-Hartman 提交于
Dynamically create the kset instead of declaring it statically. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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由 Greg Kroah-Hartman 提交于
We don't need a "default" ktype for a kset. We should set this explicitly every time for each kset. This change is needed so that we can make ksets dynamic, and cleans up one of the odd, undocumented assumption that the kset/kobject/ktype model has. This patch is based on a lot of help from Kay Sievers. Nasty bug in the block code was found by Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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由 Richard Knutsson 提交于
Fixing: CHECK mm/mmap.c mm/mmap.c:1623:29: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer mm/mmap.c:1623:29: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer mm/mmap.c:1944:29: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer Signed-off-by: NRichard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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由 Mel Gorman 提交于
Partial revert the changes made by 04231b30 to the kmem_list3 management. On a machine with a memoryless node, this BUG_ON was triggering static void *____cache_alloc_node(struct kmem_cache *cachep, gfp_t flags, int nodeid) { struct list_head *entry; struct slab *slabp; struct kmem_list3 *l3; void *obj; int x; l3 = cachep->nodelists[nodeid]; BUG_ON(!l3); Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> 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>
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由 Larry Woodman 提交于
The shared page table code for hugetlb memory on x86 and x86_64 is causing a leak. When a user of hugepages exits using this code the system leaks some of the hugepages. ------------------------------------------------------- Part of /proc/meminfo just before database startup: HugePages_Total: 5500 HugePages_Free: 5500 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB Just before shutdown: HugePages_Total: 5500 HugePages_Free: 4475 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB After shutdown: HugePages_Total: 5500 HugePages_Free: 4988 HugePages_Rsvd: 0 Hugepagesize: 2048 kB ---------------------------------------------------------- The problem occurs durring a fork, in copy_hugetlb_page_range(). It locates the dst_pte using huge_pte_alloc(). Since huge_pte_alloc() calls huge_pmd_share() it will share the pmd page if can, yet the main loop in copy_hugetlb_page_range() does a get_page() on every hugepage. This is a violation of the shared hugepmd pagetable protocol and creates additional referenced to the hugepages causing a leak when the unmap of the VMA occurs. We can skip the entire replication of the ptes when the hugepage pagetables are shared. The attached patch skips copying the ptes and the get_page() calls if the hugetlbpage pagetable is shared. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups] Signed-off-by: NLarry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAdam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 24 1月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Anton Salikhmetov 提交于
Update ctime and mtime for memory-mapped files at a write access on a present, read-only PTE, as well as at a write on a non-present PTE. Signed-off-by: NAnton Salikhmetov <salikhmetov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 18 1月, 2008 2 次提交
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由 Carsten Otte 提交于
This patch puts #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM around a check in vm_normal_page that verifies that a pfn is valid. This patch increases performance of the page fault microbenchmark in lmbench by 13% and overall dbench performance by 7% on s390x. pfn_valid() is an expensive operation on s390 that needs a high double digit amount of CPU cycles. Nick Piggin suggested that pfn_valid() involves an array lookup on systems with sparsemem, and therefore is an expensive operation there too. The check looks like a clear debug thing to me, it should never trigger on regular kernels. And if a pte is created for an invalid pfn, we'll find out once the memory gets accessed later on anyway. Please consider inclusion of this patch into mm. Signed-off-by: NCarsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: NNick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Sam Ravnborg 提交于
With CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n and CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y we saw following warning: WARNING: mm/built-in.o(.text+0x6864): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'process_zones' and 'pageset_cpuup_callback') The culprit was zone_batchsize() which were annotated __devinit but used from process_zones() which is annotated __cpuinit. zone_batchsize() are used from another function annotated __meminit so the only valid option is to drop the annotation of zone_batchsize() so we know it is always valid to use it. Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> 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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- 15 1月, 2008 3 次提交
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
This reverts commit 2e6883bd, as requested by Fengguang Wu. It's not quite fully baked yet, and while there are patches around to fix the problems it caused, they should get more testing. Says Fengguang: "I'll resend them both for -mm later on, in a more complete patchset". See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9738 for some of this discussion. Requested-by: NFengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Ken Chen 提交于
In the error path of both shared and private hugetlb page allocation, the file system quota is never undone, leading to fs quota leak. Fix them up. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup, micro-optimise] Signed-off-by: NKen Chen <kenchen@google.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@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Christoph Lameter 提交于
Quicklists calculates the size of the quicklists based on the number of free pages. This must be the number of free pages that can be allocated with GFP_KERNEL. node_page_state() includes the pages in ZONE_HIGHMEM and ZONE_MOVABLE which may lead the quicklists to become too large causing OOM. Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Tested-by: NDhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 09 1月, 2008 2 次提交
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由 Thomas Bogendoerfer 提交于
When using FLAT_MEMORY and ARCH_PFN_OFFSET is not 0, the kernel crashes in memmap_init_zone(). This bug got introduced by commit c713216dSigned-off-by: NThomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Acked-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: "Keith Mannthey" <kmannth@gmail.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@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 Akinobu Mita 提交于
The use of get_zeroed_page() with __GFP_HIGHMEM is invalid. Use alloc_page() with __GFP_ZERO instead of invalid get_zeroed_page(). (This patch is only compile tested) Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Acked-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: NCarsten Otte <cotte@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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- 03 1月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
Both SLUB and SLAB really did almost exactly the same thing for /proc/slabinfo setup, using duplicate code and per-allocator #ifdef's. This just creates a common CONFIG_SLABINFO that is enabled by both SLUB and SLAB, and shares all the setup code. Maybe SLOB will want this some day too. Reviewed-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 02 1月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Pekka J Enberg 提交于
This adds a read-only /proc/slabinfo file on SLUB, that makes slabtop work. [ mingo@elte.hu: build fix. ] Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 22 12月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Christoph Lameter 提交于
Increase the mininum number of partial slabs to keep around and put partial slabs to the end of the partial queue so that they can add more objects. Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 20 12月, 2007 1 次提交
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
Krzysztof Oledzki noticed a dirty page accounting leak on some of his machines, causing the machine to eventually lock up when the kernel decided that there was too much dirty data, but nobody could actually write anything out to fix it. The culprit turns out to be filesystems (cough ext3 with data=journal cough) that re-dirty the page when the "->invalidatepage()" callback is called. Fix it up by doing a final dirty page accounting check when we actually remove the page from the page cache. This fixes bugzilla entry 9182: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9182Tested-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: NKrzysztof Oledzki <olel@ans.pl> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 18 12月, 2007 6 次提交
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由 Christoph Lameter 提交于
Remove a recently added useless masking of GFP_ZERO. GFP_ZERO is already masked out in new_slab() (See how it calls allocate_slab). No need to do it twice. This reverts the SLUB parts of 7fd27255. Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Reviewed-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 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>
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由 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>
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由 Mel Gorman 提交于
In some cases the IO subsystem is able to merge requests if the pages are adjacent in physical memory. This was achieved in the allocator by having expand() return pages in physically contiguous order in situations were a large buddy was split. However, list-based anti-fragmentation changed the order pages were returned in to avoid searching in buffered_rmqueue() for a page of the appropriate migrate type. This patch restores behaviour of rmqueue_bulk() preserving the physical order of pages returned by the allocator without incurring increased search costs for anti-fragmentation. Signed-off-by: NMel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 WANG Cong 提交于
Improve the error handling for mm/sparse.c::sparse_add_one_section(). And I see no reason to check 'usemap' until holding the 'pgdat_resize_lock'. [geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com: sparse_index_init() returns -EEXIST] Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by: NDave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: NYasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: NWANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NGeoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 WANG Cong 提交于
Since sparse_index_alloc() can return NULL on memory allocation failure, we must deal with the failure condition when calling it. Signed-off-by: NWANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.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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