This patch introduces a kzalloc wrapper and converts kernel/ to use it.  It
saves a little program text.
Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Proposed by and based on a patch from Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>:
This patch removes unnecessary critical section in ksize() function, as
cli/sti are rather expensive on modern CPUS.

It additionally adds a docbook entry for ksize() and further simplifies the
code.
Signed-Off-By: NManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Mostobjects returned by __cache_alloc() will be written by the caller,
(but not all callers want to write all the object, but just at the
begining) prefetchw() tells the modern CPU to think about the future
writes, ie start some memory transactions in advance.
Signed-off-by: NEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This is used only in slab.c and each architecture gets to define whcih
underlying type is to be used.

Seems a bit silly - move it to slab.c and use the same type for all
architectures: unsigned int.
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Fix a small spelling mistake.  subtile->subtle
Signed-off-by: NMartin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch used to be in Andrew's tree before the NUMA slab allocator went
in. Either this patch or the NUMA slab allocator is needed in order for
kmalloc_node to work correctly.

pcibus_to_node may be used to generate the node information passed to
kmalloc_node. pcibus_to_node returns -1 if it was not able to determine
on which node a pcibus is located. For that case kmalloc_node must
work like kmalloc.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch creates a new kstrdup library function and changes the "local"
implementations in several places to use this function.

Most of the changes come from the sound and net subsystems.  The sound part
had already been acknowledged by Takashi Iwai and the net part by David S.
Miller.

I left UML alone for now because I would need more time to read the code
carefully before making changes there.
Signed-off-by: NPaulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The pageset array can potentially acquire a huge amount of memory on large
NUMA systems.  F.e.  on a system with 512 processors and 256 nodes there
will be 256*512 pagesets.  If each pageset only holds 5 pages then we are
talking about 655360 pages.With a 16K page size on IA64 this results in
potentially 10 Gigabytes of memory being trapped in pagesets.  The typical
cases are much less for smaller systems but there is still the potential of
memory being trapped in off node pagesets.  Off node memory may be rarely
used if local memory is available and so we may potentially have memory in
seldom used pagesets without this patch.

The slab allocator flushes its per cpu caches every 2 seconds.  The
following patch flushes the off node pageset caches in the same way by
tying into the slab flush.

The patch also changes /proc/zoneinfo to include the number of pages
currently in each pageset.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This is for use with slab users that pass a dynamically allocated slab name in
kmem_cache_create, so that before destroying the slab one can retrieve the name
and free its memory.
Signed-off-by: NArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

This patch changes calls to synchronize_kernel(), deprecated in the earlier
"Deprecate synchronize_kernel, GPL replacement" patch to instead call the new
synchronize_rcu() and synchronize_sched() APIs.
Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The patch makes the following function calls available to allocate memory
on a specific node without changing the basic operation of the slab
allocator:

 kmem_cache_alloc_node(kmem_cache_t *cachep, unsigned int flags, int node);
 kmalloc_node(size_t size, unsigned int flags, int node);

in a similar way to the existing node-blind functions:

 kmem_cache_alloc(kmem_cache_t *cachep, unsigned int flags);
 kmalloc(size, flags);

kmem_cache_alloc_node was changed to pass flags and the node information
through the existing layers of the slab allocator (which lead to some minor
rearrangements).  The functions at the lowest layer (kmem_getpages,
cache_grow) are already node aware.  Also __alloc_percpu can call
kmalloc_node now.

Performance measurements (using the pageset localization patch) yields:

w/o patches:
Tasks    jobs/min  jti  jobs/min/task      real       cpu
    1      484.27  100       484.2736     12.02      1.97   Wed Mar 30 20:50:43 2005
  100    25170.83   91       251.7083     23.12    150.10   Wed Mar 30 20:51:06 2005
  200    34601.66   84       173.0083     33.64    294.14   Wed Mar 30 20:51:40 2005
  300    37154.47   86       123.8482     46.99    436.56   Wed Mar 30 20:52:28 2005
  400    39839.82   80        99.5995     58.43    580.46   Wed Mar 30 20:53:27 2005
  500    40036.32   79        80.0726     72.68    728.60   Wed Mar 30 20:54:40 2005
  600    44074.21   79        73.4570     79.23    872.10   Wed Mar 30 20:55:59 2005
  700    44016.60   78        62.8809     92.56   1015.84   Wed Mar 30 20:57:32 2005
  800    40411.05   80        50.5138    115.22   1161.13   Wed Mar 30 20:59:28 2005
  900    42298.56   79        46.9984    123.83   1303.42   Wed Mar 30 21:01:33 2005
 1000    40955.05   80        40.9551    142.11   1441.92   Wed Mar 30 21:03:55 2005

with pageset localization and slab API patches:
Tasks    jobs/min  jti  jobs/min/task      real       cpu
    1      484.19  100       484.1930     12.02      1.98   Wed Mar 30 21:10:18 2005
  100    27428.25   92       274.2825     21.22    149.79   Wed Mar 30 21:10:40 2005
  200    37228.94   86       186.1447     31.27    293.49   Wed Mar 30 21:11:12 2005
  300    41725.42   85       139.0847     41.84    434.10   Wed Mar 30 21:11:54 2005
  400    43032.22   82       107.5805     54.10    582.06   Wed Mar 30 21:12:48 2005
  500    42211.23   83        84.4225     68.94    722.61   Wed Mar 30 21:13:58 2005
  600    40084.49   82        66.8075     87.12    873.11   Wed Mar 30 21:15:25 2005
  700    44169.30   79        63.0990     92.24   1008.77   Wed Mar 30 21:16:58 2005
  800    43097.94   79        53.8724    108.03   1155.88   Wed Mar 30 21:18:47 2005
  900    41846.75   79        46.4964    125.17   1303.38   Wed Mar 30 21:20:52 2005
 1000    40247.85   79        40.2478    144.60   1442.21   Wed Mar 30 21:23:17 2005
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: NManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!