- 25 May, 2011 40 commits
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Roland Dreier authored
The presense of a writeq() implementation on 32-bit x86 that splits the 64-bit write into two 32-bit writes turns out to break the mpt2sas driver (and in general is risky for drivers as was discussed in <http://lkml.kernel.org/r/adaab6c1h7c.fsf@cisco.com>). To fix this, revert 2c5643b1 ("x86: provide readq()/writeq() on 32-bit too") and follow-on cleanups. This unfortunately leads to pushing non-atomic definitions of readq() and write() to various x86-only drivers that in the meantime started using the definitions in the x86 version of <asm/io.h>. However as discussed exhaustively, this is actually the right thing to do, because the right way to split a 64-bit transaction is hardware dependent and therefore belongs in the hardware driver (eg mpt2sas needs a spinlock to make sure no other accesses occur in between the two halves of the access). Build tested on 32- and 64-bit x86 allmodconfig. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/x86-32-writeq-is-broken@mdm.bga.comAcked-by:
Hitoshi Mitake <h.mitake@gmail.com> Cc: Kashyap Desai <Kashyap.Desai@lsi.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Ravi Anand <ravi.anand@qlogic.com> Cc: Vikas Chaudhary <vikas.chaudhary@qlogic.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Uhlenkott <juhlenko@akamai.com> Acked-by:
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@parallels.com> Acked-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by:
Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Stephen Boyd authored
This constant hasn't been used since before the git era (2.6.12) and thus can be dropped. Signed-off-by:
Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Wanlong Gao authored
The macro to_class_dev() uses the deprecated structure class_device, and the c2port_device has no member named class in the definition of the macro to_c2port_device. Signed-off-by:
Wanlong Gao <wanlong.gao@gmail.com> Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it> Signed-off-by:
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Tim Gardner authored
Apps are increasingly using more than 1024 file descriptors. See discussion in several distro bug trackers, e.g. BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/663090 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2054 You don't want to raise the default soft limit, since that might break apps that use select(), but it's safe to raise the default hard limit; that way, apps that know they need lots of file descriptors can raise their soft limit without needing root, and without user intervention. Ubuntu is doing this with a kernel change because they have a policy of not changing kernel defaults in userland. While 4096 might not be enough for *all* apps, it seems to be plenty for the apps I've seen lately that are unhappy with 1024. Signed-off-by:
Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> Cc: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by:
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Richard Weinberger authored
os_dump_core() emits SIGTERM to terminate all UML processes. Kernel threads have to exit on SIGTERM instead of calling last_ditch_exit(). Multiple calls to last_ditch_exit() can cause a crash. Signed-off-by:
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Signed-off-by:
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Richard Weinberger authored
Fix build failures on UML. Signed-off-by:
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Richard Weinberger authored
Print a short info about fatal segfaults like other archs do. Signed-off-by:
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Nolan Leake authored
The ucast transport is similar to the mcast transport (and, in fact, shares most of its code), only it uses UDP unicast to move packets. Obviously this is only useful for point-to-point connections between virtual ethernet devices. Signed-off-by:
Nolan Leake <nolan@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by:
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Richard Weinberger authored
User Mode Linux can also benefit from earlyprintk. UML's earlyprintk writes kernel messages directly to stdout. Signed-off-by:
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Richard Weinberger authored
The UML kernel ignores SIGHUP anyway. This handler is in vain. Signed-off-by:
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Richard Weinberger authored
UML_LIB_PATH is hardcoded to /usr/lib/uml/, on 64bit systems UML_LIB_PATH needs to be /usr/lib64/uml/. Signed-off-by:
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
Adapt to the new API. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
Adapt to the new API. We plan to remove old cpumask APIs later. Thus this patch converts them into the new one. Signed-off-by:
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Mark Brown authored
Allow people to use gpiolib on Alpha if they want to, mostly for build coverage. The header is a stright copy of that for Microblaze, which in turn was taken from PowerPC. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: define GENERIC_GPIO] Signed-off-by:
Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by:
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
We plan to remove cpu_xx() old APIs. Thus convert them. This patch has no functional change. Signed-off-by:
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Bob Liu authored
Currently on nommu arch mmap(),mremap() and munmap() doesn't do page_align() which isn't consist with mmu arch and cause some issues. First, some drivers' mmap() function depends on vma->vm_end - vma->start is page aligned which is true on mmu arch but not on nommu. eg: uvc camera driver. Second munmap() may return -EINVAL[split file] error in cases when end is not page aligned(passed into from userspace) but vma->vm_end is aligned dure to split or driver's mmap() ops. Add page alignment to fix those issues. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by:
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Shaohua Li authored
The zone->lru_lock is heavily contented in workload where activate_page() is frequently used. We could do batch activate_page() to reduce the lock contention. The batched pages will be added into zone list when the pool is full or page reclaim is trying to drain them. For example, in a 4 socket 64 CPU system, create a sparse file and 64 processes, processes shared map to the file. Each process read access the whole file and then exit. The process exit will do unmap_vmas() and cause a lot of activate_page() call. In such workload, we saw about 58% total time reduction with below patch. Other workloads with a lot of activate_page also benefits a lot too. Andrew Morton suggested activate_page() and putback_lru_pages() should follow the same path to active pages, but this is hard to implement (see commit 7a608572 ("Revert "mm: batch activate_page() to reduce lock contention")). On the other hand, do we really need putback_lru_pages() to follow the same path? I tested several FIO/FFSB benchmark (about 20 scripts for each benchmark) in 3 machines here from 2 sockets to 4 sockets. My test doesn't show anything significant with/without below patch (there is slight difference but mostly some noise which we found even without below patch before). Below patch basically returns to the same as my first post. I tested some microbenchmarks: case-anon-cow-rand-mt 0.58% case-anon-cow-rand -3.30% case-anon-cow-seq-mt -0.51% case-anon-cow-seq -5.68% case-anon-r-rand-mt 0.23% case-anon-r-rand 0.81% case-anon-r-seq-mt -0.71% case-anon-r-seq -1.99% case-anon-rx-rand-mt 2.11% case-anon-rx-seq-mt 3.46% case-anon-w-rand-mt -0.03% case-anon-w-rand -0.50% case-anon-w-seq-mt -1.08% case-anon-w-seq -0.12% case-anon-wx-rand-mt -5.02% case-anon-wx-seq-mt -1.43% case-fork 1.65% case-fork-sleep -0.07% case-fork-withmem 1.39% case-hugetlb -0.59% case-lru-file-mmap-read-mt -0.54% case-lru-file-mmap-read 0.61% case-lru-file-mmap-read-rand -2.24% case-lru-file-readonce -0.64% case-lru-file-readtwice -11.69% case-lru-memcg -1.35% case-mmap-pread-rand-mt 1.88% case-mmap-pread-rand -15.26% case-mmap-pread-seq-mt 0.89% case-mmap-pread-seq -69.72% case-mmap-xread-rand-mt 0.71% case-mmap-xread-seq-mt 0.38% The most significent are: case-lru-file-readtwice -11.69% case-mmap-pread-rand -15.26% case-mmap-pread-seq -69.72% which use activate_page a lot. others are basically variations because each run has slightly difference. In UP case, 'size mm/swap.o' before the two patches: text data bss dec hex filename 6466 896 4 7366 1cc6 mm/swap.o after the two patches: text data bss dec hex filename 6343 896 4 7243 1c4b mm/swap.o Signed-off-by:
Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hiroyuki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyuki@gmail.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mike Frysinger authored
The copy_to_user_page() function is supposed to flush the icache on the memory that was written, but the current asm-generic version lacks that logic. While normally it isn't a big deal as the asm-generic version of icache flushing is a stub, it is a deal for ports that want to use the asm-generic version as a baseline and then overlay its own specific parts (like icache flushing). Signed-off-by:
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Barry authored
I believe I found a problem in __alloc_pages_slowpath, which allows a process to get stuck endlessly looping, even when lots of memory is available. Running an I/O and memory intensive stress-test I see a 0-order page allocation with __GFP_IO and __GFP_WAIT, running on a system with very little free memory. Right about the same time that the stress-test gets killed by the OOM-killer, the utility trying to allocate memory gets stuck in __alloc_pages_slowpath even though most of the systems memory was freed by the oom-kill of the stress-test. The utility ends up looping from the rebalance label down through the wait_iff_congested continiously. Because order=0, __alloc_pages_direct_compact skips the call to get_page_from_freelist. Because all of the reclaimable memory on the system has already been reclaimed, __alloc_pages_direct_reclaim skips the call to get_page_from_freelist. Since there is no __GFP_FS flag, the block with __alloc_pages_may_oom is skipped. The loop hits the wait_iff_congested, then jumps back to rebalance without ever trying to get_page_from_freelist. This loop repeats infinitely. The test case is pretty pathological. Running a mix of I/O stress-tests that do a lot of fork() and consume all of the system memory, I can pretty reliably hit this on 600 nodes, in about 12 hours. 32GB/node. Signed-off-by:
Andrew Barry <abarry@cray.com> Signed-off-by:
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Daniel Kiper authored
Add SECTION_ALIGN_UP() and SECTION_ALIGN_DOWN() macro which aligns given pfn to upper section and lower section boundary accordingly. Required for the latest memory hotplug support for the Xen balloon driver. Signed-off-by:
Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl> Reviewed-by:
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Michal Hocko authored
The noswapaccount parameter has been deprecated since 2.6.38 without any complaints from users so we can remove it. swapaccount=0|1 can be used instead. As we are removing the parameter we can also clean up swapaccount because it doesn't have to accept an empty string anymore (to match noswapaccount) and so we can push = into __setup macro rather than checking "=1" resp. "=0" strings Signed-off-by:
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Hiroyuki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyuki@gmail.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Stephen Wilson authored
In show_numa_map() we collect statistics into a numa_maps structure. Since the number of NUMA nodes can be very large, this structure is not a candidate for stack allocation. Instead of going thru a kmalloc()+kfree() cycle each time show_numa_map() is invoked, perform the allocation just once when /proc/pid/numa_maps is opened. Performing the allocation when numa_maps is opened, and thus before a reference to the target tasks mm is taken, eliminates a potential stalemate condition in the oom-killer as originally described by Hugh Dickins: ... imagine what happens if the system is out of memory, and the mm we're looking at is selected for killing by the OOM killer: while we wait in __get_free_page for more memory, no memory is freed from the selected mm because it cannot reach exit_mmap while we hold that reference. Signed-off-by:
Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Reviewed-by:
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Stephen Wilson authored
Now that mm/mempolicy.c is no longer implementing /proc/pid/numa_maps there is no need to export struct proc_maps_private to the world. Move it to fs/proc/internal.h instead. Signed-off-by:
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Stephen Wilson authored
Moving show_numa_map() from mempolicy.c to task_mmu.c solves several issues. - Having the show() operation "miles away" from the corresponding seq_file iteration operations is a maintenance burden. - The need to export ad hoc info like struct proc_maps_private is eliminated. - The implementation of show_numa_map() can be improved in a simple manner by cooperating with the other seq_file operations (start, stop, etc) -- something that would be messy to do without this change. Signed-off-by: -
Stephen Wilson authored
When CONFIG_TMPFS=n mpol_to_str() is not declared in mempolicy.h. However, in the NUMA case, the definition is always compiled. Since it is not strictly true that tmpfs is the only client, and since the symbol was always lurking around anyways, export mpol_to_str() unconditionally. Furthermore, this will allow us to move show_numa_map() out of mempolicy.c and into the procfs subsystem. Signed-off-by:
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Stephen Wilson authored
This function has been superseded by gather_hugetbl_stats() and is no longer needed. Signed-off-by:
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Stephen Wilson authored
Improve the prototype of gather_stats() to take a struct numa_maps as argument instead of a generic void *. Update all callers to make the required type explicit. Since gather_stats() is not needed before its definition and is scheduled to be moved out of mempolicy.c the declaration is removed as well. Signed-off-by:
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Stephen Wilson authored
Mapping statistics in a NUMA environment is now computed using the generic walk_page_range() logic. Remove the old/equivalent functionality. Signed-off-by:
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Stephen Wilson authored
Converting show_numa_map() to use the generic routine decouples the function from mempolicy.c, allowing it to be moved out of the mm subsystem and into fs/proc. Also, include KSM pages in /proc/pid/numa_maps statistics. The pagewalk logic implemented by check_pte_range() failed to account for such pages as they were not applicable to the page migration case. Signed-off-by:
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Stephen Wilson authored
In commit 48fce342 ("mempolicies: unexport get_vma_policy()") get_vma_policy() was marked static as all clients were local to mempolicy.c. However, the decision to generate /proc/pid/numa_maps in the numa memory policy code and outside the procfs subsystem introduces an artificial interdependency between the two systems. Exporting get_vma_policy() once again is the first step to clean up this interdependency. Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
Remove noMMU declaration of shmem_get_unmapped_area() from mm.h: it fell out of use in 2.6.21 and ceased to exist in 2.6.29. Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Eric Paris authored
Implement generic xattrs for tmpfs filesystems. The Feodra project, while trying to replace suid apps with file capabilities, realized that tmpfs, which is used on the build systems, does not support file capabilities and thus cannot be used to build packages which use file capabilities. Xattrs are also needed for overlayfs. The xattr interface is a bit odd. If a filesystem does not implement any {get,set,list}xattr functions the VFS will call into some random LSM hooks and the running LSM can then implement some method for handling xattrs. SELinux for example provides a method to support security.selinux but no other security.* xattrs. As it stands today when one enables CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL tmpfs will have xattr handler routines specifically to handle acls. Because of this tmpfs would loose the VFS/LSM helpers to support the running LSM. To make up for that tmpfs had stub functions that did nothing but call into the LSM hooks which implement the helpers. This new patch does not use the LSM fallback functions and instead just implements a native get/set/list xattr feature for the full security.* and trusted.* namespace like a normal filesystem. This means that tmpfs can now support both security.selinux and security.capability, which was not previously possible. The basic implementation is that I attach a: struct shmem_xattr { struct list_head list; /* anchored by shmem_inode_info->xattr_list */ char *name; size_t size; char value[0]; }; Into the struct shmem_inode_info for each xattr that is set. This implementation could easily support the user.* namespace as well, except some care needs to be taken to prevent large amounts of unswappable memory being allocated for unprivileged users. [mszeredi@suse.cz: new config option, suport trusted.*, support symlinks] Signed-off-by:Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Acked-by:
Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> Tested-by:
Jordi Pujol <jordipujolp@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Yinghai Lu authored
The bootmem wrapper with memblock supports top-down now, so we no longer need this trick. Signed-off-by:
Yinghai LU <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Signed-off-by:
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Yinghai Lu authored
The bootmem wrapper with memblock supports top-down now, so we do not need to set the low limit to __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS). The logic should be: good to allocate above __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS), but it is ok if we can not find memory above 16M on system that has a small amount of RAM. Signed-off-by:
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Matt Fleming authored
The problem with having two different types of counters is that developers adding new code need to keep in mind whether it's safe to use both the atomic and non-atomic implementations. For example, when adding new callers of the *_mm_counter() functions a developer needs to ensure that those paths are always executed with page_table_lock held, in case we're using the non-atomic implementation of mm counters. Hugh Dickins introduced the atomic mm counters in commit f412ac08 ("[PATCH] mm: fix rss and mmlist locking"). When asked why he left the non-atomic counters around he said, | The only reason was to avoid adding costly atomic operations into a | configuration that had no need for them there: the page_table_lock | sufficed. | | Certainly it would be simpler just to delete the non-atomic variant. | | And I think it's fair to say that any configuration on which we're | measuring performance to that degree (rather than "does it boot fast?" | type measurements), would already be going the split ptlocks route. Removing the non-atomic counters eases the maintenance burden because developers no longer have to mindful of the two implementations when using *_mm_counter(). Note that all architectures provide a means of atomically updating atomic_long_t variables, even if they have to revert to the generic spinlock implementation because they don't support 64-bit atomic instructions (see lib/atomic64.c). Signed-off-by:
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@linux.intel.com> Acked-by:
Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by:
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
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David Rientjes authored
The page allocator will improperly return a page from ZONE_NORMAL even when __GFP_DMA is passed if CONFIG_ZONE_DMA is disabled. The caller expects DMA memory, perhaps for ISA devices with 16-bit address registers, and may get higher memory resulting in undefined behavior. This patch causes the page allocator to return NULL in such circumstances with a warning emitted to the kernel log on the first occurrence. Signed-off-by:
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Daniel Kiper authored
Do not define PFN_SECTION_SHIFT if !CONFIG_SPARSEMEM. Signed-off-by:
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Daniel Kiper authored
pfn_to_section_nr()/section_nr_to_pfn() is valid only in CONFIG_SPARSEMEM context. Move it to proper place. Signed-off-by:
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Daniel Kiper authored
set_page_section() is meaningful only in CONFIG_SPARSEMEM and !CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP context. Move it to proper place and amend accordingly functions which are using it. Signed-off-by:
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Daniel Kiper authored
online_pages() is only compiled for CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE, so there is no need to support CONFIG_FLATMEM code within it. This patch removes code that is never used. Signed-off-by:
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