1. 24 6月, 2005 8 次提交
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      [PATCH] sparsemem hotplug base · 29751f69
      Andy Whitcroft 提交于
      Make sparse's initalization be accessible at runtime.  This allows sparse
      mappings to be created after boot in a hotplug situation.
      
      This patch is separated from the previous one just to give an indication how
      much of the sparse infrastructure is *just* for hotplug memory.
      
      The section_mem_map doesn't really store a pointer.  It stores something that
      is convenient to do some math against to get a pointer.  It isn't valid to
      just do *section_mem_map, so I don't think it should be stored as a pointer.
      
      There are a couple of things I'd like to store about a section.  First of all,
      the fact that it is !NULL does not mean that it is present.  There could be
      such a combination where section_mem_map *is* NULL, but the math gets you
      properly to a real mem_map.  So, I don't think that check is safe.
      
      Since we're storing 32-bit-aligned structures, we have a few bits in the
      bottom of the pointer to play with.  Use one bit to encode whether there's
      really a mem_map there, and the other one to tell whether there's a valid
      section there.  We need to distinguish between the two because sometimes
      there's a gap between when a section is discovered to be present and when we
      can get the mem_map for it.
      Signed-off-by: NDave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
      Signed-off-by: NJack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
      Signed-off-by: NBob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      29751f69
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      [PATCH] sparsemem swiss cheese numa layouts · 641c7673
      Andy Whitcroft 提交于
      The part of the sparsemem patch which modifies memmap_init_zone() has recently
      become a problem.  It changes behavior so that there is a call to
      pfn_to_page() for each individual page inside of a node's range:
      node_start_pfn through node_end_pfn.  It used to simply do this once, at the
      beginning of the node, but having sparsemem's non-contiguous mem_map[]s inside
      of a node made it necessary to change.
      
      Mike Kravetz recently wrote a patch which made the NUMA code accept some new
      kinds of layouts.  The system's memory was laid out like this, with node 0's
      memory in two pieces: one before and one after node 1's memory:
      
      	Node 0: +++++     +++++
      	Node 1:      +++++
      
      Previous behavior before Mike's patch was to assign nodes like this:
      
      	Node 0: 00000     XXXXX
      	Node 1:      11111
      
      Where the 'X' areas were simply thrown away.  The new behavior was to make the
      pg_data_t span node 0 across all of its areas, including areas that are really
      node 1's: Node 0: 000000000000000 Node 1: 11111
      
      This wastes a little bit of mem_map space, but ends up being OK, and more
      fully utilizes the system's memory.  memmap_init_zone() initializes all of the
      "struct page"s for node 0, even for the "hole", but those never get used,
      because there is no pfn_to_page() that resolves to those pages.  However, only
      calling pfn_to_page() once, memmap_init_zone() always uses the pages that were
      allocated for node0->node_mem_map because:
      
      	struct page *start = pfn_to_page(start_pfn);
      	// effectively start = &node->node_mem_map[0]
      	for (page = start; page < (start + size); page++) {
      		init_page_here();...
      		page++;
      	}
      
      Slow, and wasteful, but generally harmless.
      
      But, modify that to call pfn_to_page() for each loop iteration (like sparsemem
      does):
      
      	for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn < < (start_pfn + size); pfn++++) {
      		page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
      	}
      
      And you end up trying to initialize node 1's pages too early, along with bogus
      data from node 0.  This patch checks for those weird layouts and declines to
      touch the pages, making the more frequent pfn_to_page() calls OK to do.
      Signed-off-by: NDave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      641c7673
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      [PATCH] sparsemem memory model · d41dee36
      Andy Whitcroft 提交于
      Sparsemem abstracts the use of discontiguous mem_maps[].  This kind of
      mem_map[] is needed by discontiguous memory machines (like in the old
      CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM case) as well as memory hotplug systems.  Sparsemem
      replaces DISCONTIGMEM when enabled, and it is hoped that it can eventually
      become a complete replacement.
      
      A significant advantage over DISCONTIGMEM is that it's completely separated
      from CONFIG_NUMA.  When producing this patch, it became apparent in that NUMA
      and DISCONTIG are often confused.
      
      Another advantage is that sparse doesn't require each NUMA node's ranges to be
      contiguous.  It can handle overlapping ranges between nodes with no problems,
      where DISCONTIGMEM currently throws away that memory.
      
      Sparsemem uses an array to provide different pfn_to_page() translations for
      each SECTION_SIZE area of physical memory.  This is what allows the mem_map[]
      to be chopped up.
      
      In order to do quick pfn_to_page() operations, the section number of the page
      is encoded in page->flags.  Part of the sparsemem infrastructure enables
      sharing of these bits more dynamically (at compile-time) between the
      page_zone() and sparsemem operations.  However, on 32-bit architectures, the
      number of bits is quite limited, and may require growing the size of the
      page->flags type in certain conditions.  Several things might force this to
      occur: a decrease in the SECTION_SIZE (if you want to hotplug smaller areas of
      memory), an increase in the physical address space, or an increase in the
      number of used page->flags.
      
      One thing to note is that, once sparsemem is present, the NUMA node
      information no longer needs to be stored in the page->flags.  It might provide
      speed increases on certain platforms and will be stored there if there is
      room.  But, if out of room, an alternate (theoretically slower) mechanism is
      used.
      
      This patch introduces CONFIG_FLATMEM.  It is used in almost all cases where
      there used to be an #ifndef DISCONTIG, because SPARSEMEM and DISCONTIGMEM
      often have to compile out the same areas of code.
      Signed-off-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
      Signed-off-by: NDave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NMartin Bligh <mbligh@aracnet.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
      Signed-off-by: NYasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: NBob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      d41dee36
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      [PATCH] generify early_pfn_to_nid · b159d43f
      Andy Whitcroft 提交于
      Provide a default implementation for early_pfn_to_nid returning node 0.  Allow
      architectures to override this with their own implementation out of
      asm/mmzone.h.
      Signed-off-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
      Signed-off-by: NDave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NMartin Bligh <mbligh@aracnet.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      b159d43f
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      [PATCH] Introduce new Kconfig option for NUMA or DISCONTIG · 93b7504e
      Dave Hansen 提交于
      There is some confusion that arose when working on SPARSEMEM patch between
      what is needed for DISCONTIG vs. NUMA.
      
      Multiple pg_data_t's are needed for DISCONTIGMEM or NUMA, independently.
      All of the current NUMA implementations require an implementation of
      DISCONTIG.  Because of this, quite a lot of code which is really needed for
      NUMA is actually under DISCONTIG #ifdefs.  For SPARSEMEM, we changed some
      of these #ifdefs to CONFIG_NUMA, but that broke the DISCONTIG=y and NUMA=n
      case.
      
      Introducing this new NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES config option allows code that is
      needed for both NUMA or DISCONTIG to be separated out from code that is
      specific to DISCONTIG.
      
      One great advantage of this approach is that it doesn't require every
      architecture to be converted over.  All of the current implementations
      should "just work", only the ones implementing SPARSEMEM will have to be
      fixed up.
      
      The change to free_area_init() makes it work inside, or out of the new
      config option.
      Signed-off-by: NDave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      93b7504e
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      [PATCH] sparsemem base: reorganize page->flags bit operations · 348f8b6c
      Dave Hansen 提交于
      Generify the value fields in the page_flags.  The aim is to allow the location
      and size of these fields to be varied.  Additionally we want to move away from
      fixed allocations per field whilst still enforcing the overall bit utilisation
      limits.  We rely on the compiler to spot and optimise the accessor functions.
      Signed-off-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
      Signed-off-by: NDave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      348f8b6c
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      [PATCH] sparsemem base: simple NUMA remap space allocator · 6f167ec7
      Dave Hansen 提交于
      Introduce a simple allocator for the NUMA remap space.  This space is very
      scarce, used for structures which are best allocated node local.
      
      This mechanism is also used on non-NUMA ia64 systems with a vmem_map to keep
      the pgdat->node_mem_map initialized in a consistent place for all
      architectures.
      
      Issues:
      o alloc_remap takes a node_id where we might expect a pgdat which was intended
        to allow us to allocate the pgdat's using this mechanism; which we do not yet
        do.  Could have alloc_remap_node() and alloc_remap_nid() for this purpose.
      Signed-off-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
      Signed-off-by: NDave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      6f167ec7
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      [PATCH] remove non-DISCONTIG use of pgdat->node_mem_map · 408fde81
      Dave Hansen 提交于
      This patch effectively eliminates direct use of pgdat->node_mem_map outside
      of the DISCONTIG code.  On a flat memory system, these fields aren't
      currently used, neither are they on a sparsemem system.
      
      There was also a node_mem_map(nid) macro on many architectures.  Its use
      along with the use of ->node_mem_map itself was not consistent.  It has
      been removed in favor of two new, more explicit, arch-independent macros:
      
      	pgdat_page_nr(pgdat, pagenr)
      	nid_page_nr(nid, pagenr)
      
      I called them "pgdat" and "nid" because we overload the term "node" to mean
      "NUMA node", "DISCONTIG node" or "pg_data_t" in very confusing ways.  I
      believe the newer names are much clearer.
      
      These macros can be overridden in the sparsemem case with a theoretically
      slower operation using node_start_pfn and pfn_to_page(), instead.  We could
      make this the only behavior if people want, but I don't want to change too
      much at once.  One thing at a time.
      
      This patch removes more code than it adds.
      
      Compile tested on alpha, alpha discontig, arm, arm-discontig, i386, i386
      generic, NUMAQ, Summit, ppc64, ppc64 discontig, and x86_64.  Full list
      here: http://sr71.net/patches/2.6.12/2.6.12-rc1-mhp2/configs/
      
      Boot tested on NUMAQ, x86 SMP and ppc64 power4/5 LPARs.
      Signed-off-by: NDave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NMartin J. Bligh <mbligh@aracnet.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      408fde81
  2. 23 6月, 2005 32 次提交