ECS A740GM-M with ATI RADEON 2100 sends data to i2c bus
   for a DVI connector that is not implemented/existent on the board.

   Fix by applying extented DDC probing for this connector.

   Requires [PATCH] drm/radeon: Extended DDC Probing for Connectors
   with Improperly Wired DDC Lines

   Tested for kernel 2.6.38 on Asus ECS A740GM-M board

   BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/810926

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Reim <reimth@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Michaels <Stephen.Micheals@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>

    Log PCI subsystem vendor and subsystem device ID in addition to
    PCI vendor and device ID during kernel mode initialisation. This helps
    to better identify radeon devices of third-party vendors, e. g. for
    bug analysis.

    Tested for kernel 2.6.35, 2.6.38 and 3.0 on Asus M2A-VM HDMI board

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Reim <reimth@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Michaels <Stephen.Micheals@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>

drm/radeon: Extended DDC Probing for Connectors with Improperly Wired DDC Lines (here: Asus M2A-VM HDMI)

    Some integrated ATI Radeon chipset implementations with add-on HDMI card
    (e. g. Asus M2A-VM HDMI) indicate the availability of a DDC even
    when the add-on card is not plugged in or HDMI is disabled in BIOS setup.
    In this case, drm_get_edid() and drm_edid_block_valid() periodically
    dump data and kernel errors into system log files and onto terminals.
    For these connectors DDC probing is extended by a check for a correct
    EDID header. Only in case a valid EDID header is also found, the
    (HDMI or DVI) connector will be used by the Radeon driver. This prevents
    the kernel driver from useless flooding of logs and terminal sessions with
    EDID dumps and error messages.
    This patch adds a flag 'requires_extended_probe' to the radeon_connector
    structure. In function radeon_connector_needs_extended_probe() this flag
    can be set on a chipset family/vendor/connector type specific basis.
    In addition, function radeon_ddc_probe() has been adapted to perform
    extended DDC probing if required by the connector's flag.
    Requires function drm_edid_header_is_valid() in DRM module provided by
    [PATCH] drm: Separate EDID Header Check from EDID Block Check.

    Tested for kernel 2.6.35, 2.6.38 and 3.0 on Asus M2A-VM HDMI board

    BugLink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668196
    BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/7228066

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Reim <reimth@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Michaels <Stephen.Micheals@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>

    Provides function drm_edid_header_is_valid() for EDID header check
    and replaces EDID header check part of function drm_edid_block_valid()
    by a call of drm_edid_header_is_valid().
    This is a prerequisite to extend DDC probing, e. g. in function
    radeon_ddc_probe() for Radeon devices, by a central EDID header check.

    Tested for kernel 2.6.35, 2.6.38 and 3.0

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Reim <reimth@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Michaels <Stephen.Micheals@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>

The struct drm_driver has some function pointers for irq. They are
gpu specific and some functions aren't essential things. This can
prevents creation of unnecessary dummy function for irq.
Signed-off-by: Joonyoung Shim <jy0922.shim@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>

The registered irq should be unregistered by free_irq() if
irq_postinstall() returns the error after request_irq() is called
successfully.

[airlied: add vga switcheroo disable]
Signed-off-by: Joonyoung Shim <jy0922.shim@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>

kzalloc() can return NULL, so I added check for it
Signed-off-by: Bojan Prtvar <prtvar.b@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>

Reg header files are generated so they are not cleaned automagically.
They need to be added to the clean-files list.
Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>

[airlied: move char declaration]
Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>

Merge branch 'drm-intel-next' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/keithp/linux-2.6 into drm-fixes

* 'drm-intel-next' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/keithp/linux-2.6: (42 commits)
  drm/i915: allow cache sharing policy control
  drm/i915/hdmi: HDMI source product description infoframe support
  drm/i915/hdmi: split infoframe setting from infoframe type code
  drm: track CEA version number if present
  drm/i915: Try enabling RC6 by default (again)
  Revert "drm/i915/dp: Zero the DPCD data before connection probe"
  drm/i915/dp: wait for previous AUX channel activity to clear
  drm/i915: don't use uninitialized EDID bpc values when picking pipe bpp
  drm/i915/pch: Save/restore PCH_PORT_HOTPLUG across suspend
  drm/i915: apply phase pointer override on SNB+ too
  drm/i915: Add quirk to disable SSC on Sony Vaio Y2
  drm/i915: provide more error output when mode sets fail
  drm/i915: add GPU max frequency control file
  i915: add Dell OptiPlex FX170 to intel_no_lvds
  drm/i915: Ignore GPU wedged errors while pinning scanout buffers
  drm/i915/hdmi: send AVI info frames on ILK+ as well
  drm/i915: fix CB tuning check for ILK+
  drm/i915: Flush other plane register writes
  drm/i915: flush plane control changes on ILK+ as well
  drm/i915: apply timing generator bug workaround on CPT and PPT
  ...

The board has an lm63 compatible thermal chip, but no
thermal chip entry in the vbios tables.

Fixes:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39513Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>

This off by one range check was copy and pasted a couple places.
It's not really harmful, but we should fix it anyway.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>

Compute cs support was actually added in 2.11.0 rather than
2.10.0, but the patch was written prior.  Update comment
to match.
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>

The core device layer sends tons of uevent notifications for each device
it finds, and if the kernel has been built with a non-empty
CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH that will make us try to execute the usermode
helper binary for all these events very early in the boot.

Not only won't the root filesystem even be mounted at that point, we
literally won't have necessarily even initialized all the process
handling data structures at that point, which causes no end of silly
problems even when the usermode helper doesn't actually succeed in
executing.

So just use our existing infrastructure to disable the usermodehelpers
to make the kernel start out with them disabled.  We enable them when
we've at least initialized stuff a bit.

Problems related to an uninitialized

	init_ipc_ns.ids[IPC_SHM_IDS].rw_mutex

reported by various people.
Reported-by: Manuel Lauss <manuel.lauss@googlemail.com>
Reported-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Reported-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@misterjones.org>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Dmitry Kasatkin reports:
  "kernel-devel package with kernel headers have no <include/xen>
   directory if XEN is disabled.  Modules which inclide asm/io.h won't
   compile.

   XEN related content is behind the CONFIG_XEN flag in the io.h.  And
   <xen/xen.h> should be also behind CONFIG_XEN flag."

So move the include of <xen/xen.h> down into the section that is
conditional on CONFIG_XEN.
Reported-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
  Input: ad7879 - fix deficient device disable
  Input: gpio_keys - fix two typos in devicetree documentation
  Input: mma8450 - add device tree probe support
  Input: gpio_keys - return proper error code if memory allocation fails
  Input: lm8323 - add missing device_remove_file for dev_attr_time
  Input: tegra-kbc - fix computation of polling time
  Input: kxtj9 - explicitly include module.h
  Input: psmouse - hgpk.c needs module.h

* 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6:
  cpuidle: stop depending on pm_idle
  x86 idle: move mwait_idle_with_hints() to where it is used
  cpuidle: replace xen access to x86 pm_idle and default_idle
  cpuidle: create bootparam "cpuidle.off=1"
  mrst_pmu: driver for Intel Moorestown Power Management Unit

* 'apei-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6:
  ACPI, APEI, EINJ Param support is disabled by default
  APEI GHES: 32-bit buildfix
  ACPI: APEI build fix
  ACPI, APEI, GHES: Add hardware memory error recovery support
  HWPoison: add memory_failure_queue()
  ACPI, APEI, GHES, Error records content based throttle
  ACPI, APEI, GHES, printk support for recoverable error via NMI
  lib, Make gen_pool memory allocator lockless
  lib, Add lock-less NULL terminated single list
  Add Kconfig option ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG
  ACPI, APEI, Add WHEA _OSC support
  ACPI, APEI, Add APEI bit support in generic _OSC call
  ACPI, APEI, GHES, Support disable GHES at boot time
  ACPI, APEI, GHES, Prevent GHES to be built as module
  ACPI, APEI, Use apei_exec_run_optional in APEI EINJ and ERST
  ACPI, APEI, Add apei_exec_run_optional
  ACPI, APEI, GHES, Do not ratelimit fatal error printk before panic
  ACPI, APEI, ERST, Fix erst-dbg long record reading issue
  ACPI, APEI, ERST, Prevent erst_dbg from loading if ERST is disabled

* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending:
  tcm_fc: Handle DDP/SW fc_frame_payload_get failures in ft_recv_write_data
  target: Fix bug for transport_generic_wait_for_tasks with direct operation
  target: iscsi_target depends on NET
  target: Fix WRITE_SAME_16 lba assignment breakage
  MAINTAINERS: Add target-devel list for drivers/target/
  iscsi-target: Fix CONFIG_SMP=n and CONFIG_MODULES=n build failure
  iscsi-target: Fix snprintf usage with MAX_PORTAL_LEN
  iscsi-target: Fix uninitialized usage of cmd->pad_bytes
  iscsi-target: strlen() doesn't count the terminator
  iscsi-target: Fix NULL dereference on allocation failure

* 'devicetree/next' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6:
  dt: add of_alias_scan and of_alias_get_id

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: use kzalloc in ext4_kzalloc()

We may optimistically check .in_use == 0 without holding the rw_mutex:
it's the common case, and if it's zero, there certainly won't be any
segments associated with us.

After taking the lock, the idr_for_each() will do the right thing, so we
could now drop the re-check inside the lock without any real cost.  But
it won't hurt.
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Commit 4c677e2e ("shm: optimize locking and ipc_namespace getting")
introduced a copy-paste bug.  Due to the bug cycle optimizations were
disabled.
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Expose the SNB+ cache sharing policy register in debugfs.  The new file,
i915_cache_sharing, has 4 values, 0-3, with 0 being "max uncore
resources" and 3 being the minimum.  Exposing this control should make
benchmarking easier and help us choose a good default.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>

Set an SPD infoframe if the sink supports it.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>

This makes it easier to add support for other infoframes (e.g. SPD,
vendor specific).
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>

Drivers need to know the CEA version number in addition to other display
info (like whether the display is an HDMI sink) before enabling certain
features.  So track the CEA version number in the display info
structure.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>

Expand the fs/Kconfig "help" info to clarify why it's a bad idea to
deselect the TMPFS_POSIX_ACL config variable.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Make the radix_tree exceptional cases, mostly in filemap.c, clearer.

It's hard to devise a suitable snappy name that illuminates the use by
shmem/tmpfs for swap, while keeping filemap/pagecache/radix_tree
generality.  And akpm points out that /* radix_tree_deref_retry(page) */
comments look like calls that have been commented out for unknown
reason.

Skirt the naming difficulty by rearranging these blocks to handle the
transient radix_tree_deref_retry(page) case first; then just explain the
remaining shmem/tmpfs swap case in a comment.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

We have already acknowledged that swapoff of a tmpfs file is slower than
it was before conversion to the generic radix_tree: a little slower
there will be acceptable, if the hotter paths are faster.

But it was a shock to find swapoff of a 500MB file 20 times slower on my
laptop, taking 10 minutes; and at that rate it significantly slows down
my testing.

Now, most of that turned out to be overhead from PROVE_LOCKING and
PROVE_RCU: without those it was only 4 times slower than before; and
more realistic tests on other machines don't fare as badly.

I've tried a number of things to improve it, including tagging the swap
entries, then doing lookup by tag: I'd expected that to halve the time,
but in practice it's erratic, and often counter-productive.

The only change I've so far found to make a consistent improvement, is
to short-circuit the way we go back and forth, gang lookup packing
entries into the array supplied, then shmem scanning that array for the
target entry.  Scanning in place doubles the speed, so it's now only
twice as slow as before (or three times slower when the PROVEs are on).

So, add radix_tree_locate_item() as an expedient, once-off,
single-caller hack to do the lookup directly in place.  #ifdef it on
CONFIG_SHMEM and CONFIG_SWAP, as much to document its limited
applicability as save space in other configurations.  And, sadly,
#include sched.h for cond_resched().
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Remove PageSwapBacked (!page_is_file_cache) cases from
add_to_page_cache_locked() and add_to_page_cache_lru(): those pages now
go through shmem_add_to_page_cache().

Remove a comment on maximum tmpfs size from fsstack_copy_inode_size(),
and add a comment on swap entries to invalidate_mapping_pages().

And mincore_page() uses find_get_page() on what might be shmem or a
tmpfs file: allow for a radix_tree_exceptional_entry(), and proceed to
find_get_page() on swapper_space if so (oh, swapper_space needs #ifdef).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

But we've not yet removed the old swp_entry_t i_direct[16] from
shmem_inode_info.  That's because it was still being shared with the
inline symlink.  Remove it now (saving 64 or 128 bytes from shmem inode
size), and use kmemdup() for short symlinks, say, those up to 128 bytes.

I wonder why mpol_free_shared_policy() is done in shmem_destroy_inode()
rather than shmem_evict_inode(), where we usually do such freeing? I
guess it doesn't matter, and I'm not into NUMA mpol testing right now.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Convert shmem_writepage() to use shmem_delete_from_page_cache() to use
shmem_radix_tree_replace() to substitute swap entry for page pointer
atomically in the radix tree.

As with shmem_add_to_page_cache(), it's not entirely satisfactory to be
copying such code from delete_from_swap_cache, but again judged easier
to sell than making its other callers go through the extras.

Remove the toy implementation's shmem_put_swap() and shmem_get_swap(),
now unreferenced, and the hack to disable swap: it's now good to go.

The way things have worked out, info->lock no longer helps to guard the
shmem_swaplist: we increment swapped under shmem_swaplist_mutex only.
That global mutex exclusion between shmem_writepage() and shmem_unuse()
is not pretty, and we ought to find another way; but it's been forced on
us by recent race discoveries, not a consequence of this patchset.

And what has become of the WARN_ON_ONCE(1) free_swap_and_cache() if a
swap entry was found already present? That's no longer possible, the
(unknown) one inserting this page into filecache would hit the swap
entry occupying that slot.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Remove mem_cgroup_shmem_charge_fallback(): it was only required when we
had to move swappage to filecache with GFP_NOWAIT.

Remove the GFP_NOWAIT special case from mem_cgroup_cache_charge(), by
moving its call out from shmem_add_to_page_cache() to two of thats three
callers.  But leave it doing mem_cgroup_uncharge_cache_page() on error:
although asymmetrical, it's easier for all 3 callers to handle.

These two changes would also be appropriate if anyone were to start
using shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp() with GFP_NOWAIT.

Remove mem_cgroup_get_shmem_target(): mc_handle_file_pte() can test
radix_tree_exceptional_entry() to get what it needs for itself.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Convert shmem_getpage_gfp(), the engine-room of shmem, to expect page or
swap entry returned from radix tree by find_lock_page().

Whereas the repetitive old method proceeded mainly under info->lock,
dropping and repeating whenever one of the conditions needed was not
met, now we can proceed without it, leaving shmem_add_to_page_cache() to
check for a race.

This way there is no need to preallocate a page, no need for an early
radix_tree_preload(), no need for mem_cgroup_shmem_charge_fallback().

Move the error unwinding down to the bottom instead of repeating it
throughout.  ENOSPC handling is a little different from before: there is
no longer any race between find_lock_page() and finding swap, but we can
arrive at ENOSPC before calling shmem_recalc_inode(), which might
occasionally discover freed space.

Be stricter to check i_size before returning.  info->lock is used for
little but alloced, swapped, i_blocks updates.  Move i_blocks updates
out from under the max_blocks check, so even an unlimited size=0 mount
can show accurate du.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Convert shmem_unuse_inode() to use a lockless gang lookup of the radix
tree, searching for matching swap.

This is somewhat slower than the old method: because of repeated radix
tree descents, because of copying entries up, but probably most because
the old method noted and skipped once a vector page was cleared of swap.
Perhaps we can devise a use of radix tree tagging to achieve that later.

shmem_add_to_page_cache() uses shmem_radix_tree_replace() to compensate
for the lockless lookup by checking that the expected entry is in place,
under lock.  It is not very satisfactory to be copying this much from
add_to_page_cache_locked(), but I think easier to sell than insisting
that every caller of add_to_page_cache*() go through the extras.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Disable the toy swapping implementation in shmem_writepage() - it's hard
to support two schemes at once - and convert shmem_truncate_range() to a
lockless gang lookup of swap entries along with pages, freeing both.

Since the second loop tightens its noose until all entries of either
kind have been squeezed out (and we shall make sure that there's not an
instant when neither is visible), there is no longer a need for yet
another pass below.

shmem_radix_tree_replace() compensates for the lockless lookup by
checking that the expected entry is in place, under lock, before
replacing it.  Here it just deletes, but will be used in later patches
to substitute swap entry for page or page for swap entry.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Bring truncate.c's code for truncate_inode_pages_range() inline into
shmem_truncate_range(), replacing its first call (there's a followup
call below, but leave that one, it will disappear next).

Don't play with it yet, apart from leaving out the cleancache flush, and
(importantly) the nrpages == 0 skip, and moving shmem_setattr()'s
partial page preparation into its partial page handling.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

While it's at its least, make a number of boring nitpicky cleanups to
shmem.c, mostly for consistency of variable naming.  Things like "swap"
instead of "entry", "pgoff_t index" instead of "unsigned long idx".

And since everything else here is prefixed "shmem_", better change
init_tmpfs() to shmem_init().
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The maximum size of a shmem/tmpfs file has been limited by the maximum
size of its triple-indirect swap vector.  With 4kB page size, maximum
filesize was just over 2TB on a 32-bit kernel, but sadly one eighth of
that on a 64-bit kernel.  (With 8kB page size, maximum filesize was just
over 4TB on a 64-bit kernel, but 16TB on a 32-bit kernel,
MAX_LFS_FILESIZE being then more restrictive than swap vector layout.)

It's a shame that tmpfs should be more restrictive than ramfs, and this
limitation has now been noticed.  Add another level to the swap vector?
No, it became obscure and hard to maintain, once I complicated it to
make use of highmem pages nine years ago: better choose another way.

Surely, if 2.4 had had the radix tree pagecache introduced in 2.5, then
tmpfs would never have invented its own peculiar radix tree: we would
have fitted swap entries into the common radix tree instead, in much the
same way as we fit swap entries into page tables.

And why should each file have a separate radix tree for its pages and
for its swap entries? The swap entries are required precisely where and
when the pages are not.  We want to put them together in a single radix
tree: which can then avoid much of the locking which was needed to
prevent them from being exchanged underneath us.

This also avoids the waste of memory devoted to swap vectors, first in
the shmem_inode itself, then at least two more pages once a file grew
beyond 16 data pages (pages accounted by df and du, but not by memcg).
Allocated upfront, to avoid allocation when under swapping pressure, but
pure waste when CONFIG_SWAP is not set - I have never spattered around
the ifdefs to prevent that, preferring this move to sharing the common
radix tree instead.

There are three downsides to sharing the radix tree.  One, that it binds
tmpfs more tightly to the rest of mm, either requiring knowledge of swap
entries in radix tree there, or duplication of its code here in shmem.c.
I believe that the simplications and memory savings (and probable higher
performance, not yet measured) justify that.

Two, that on HIGHMEM systems with SWAP enabled, it's the lowmem radix
nodes that cannot be freed under memory pressure - whereas before it was
the less precious highmem swap vector pages that could not be freed.
I'm hoping that 64-bit has now been accessible for long enough, that the
highmem argument has grown much less persuasive.

Three, that swapoff is slower than it used to be on tmpfs files, since
it's using a simple generic mechanism not tailored to it: I find this
noticeable, and shall want to improve, but maybe nobody else will
notice.

So...  now remove most of the old swap vector code from shmem.c.  But,
for the moment, keep the simple i_direct vector of 16 pages, with simple
accessors shmem_put_swap() and shmem_get_swap(), as a toy implementation
to help mark where swap needs to be handled in subsequent patches.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>