- 30 Oct, 2002 40 commits
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Andrew Morton authored
Convert global page state accounting to use per-cpu storage (I think this code remains a little buggy, btw. Note how I do per_cpu(page_states, cpu).member += (delta); This gets done at interrupt time and hence is assuming that the "+=" operation on a ulong is atomic wrt interrupts on all architectures. How do we feel about that assumption?)
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Andrew Morton authored
This is needed so that per-cpu information in the core kernel can be accessed from modules.
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Andrew Morton authored
Patch from Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> This patch makes per_cpu bh_accounting safe for cpu_possible allocation by using cpu notifiers.
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Andrew Morton authored
Patch from Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> This patch makes per_cpu tasklet vectors safe for cpu_possible allocation by using CPU notifiers.
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Andrew Morton authored
Patch from Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> This patch changes the per-CPU data in timer management (tvec_bases) to use per_cpu data area and makes it safe for cpu_possible allocation by using CPU notifiers. End result - saving space. Depends on cpu_possible patch.
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Andrew Morton authored
Patch from Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> This patch convers RCU per_cpu data to use per_cpu data area and makes it safe for cpu_possible allocation by using CPU notifiers.
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Andrew Morton authored
A typical construct is: int cpu = get_cpu(); foo = per_cpu(bar, cpu); put_cpu(); but this generates a compiler warning on uniprocessor builds: unused variable `cpu'. Add a dummy ref to `cpu' to per_cpu() to prevent this.
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Andrew Morton authored
Convert balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() to use percpu storage for the ratelimiting counters.
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Andrew Morton authored
- allocate memory for cpu buffers in cpu_up_prepare - start the timer in cpu_online - free the memory for cpu buffers in cpu_up_cancel.
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Andrew Morton authored
From Manfred Spraul - remove all typedef, except the kmem_bufctl_t. It's a redefine for an int, i.e. qualifies as tiny. - convert most macros to inline functions.
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Andrew Morton authored
Manfred added a new lock to protect the global list of slab caches. We already have a semaphore from those but he needs locking from timer context. So here we remove that lock and just do a down_trylock() on the existing semaphore. If that fails give up - we'll try again next timer tick.
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Andrew Morton authored
Manfred had all this weird code to schedule a kernel thread onto a different CPU just so that we could bond a timer to that CPU. Convert it all to use the new add_timer_on().
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Andrew Morton authored
- add a reap timer that returns stale objects from the cpu arrays - use list_for_each instead of while loops - /proc/slabinfo layout change, for a new field about reaping. Implementation: slab contains 2 caches that contain objects that might be usable to the systems: - the cpu arrays contains objects that other cpus could use - the slabs_free list contains freeable slabs, i.e. pages that someone else might want. The patch now keeps track of accesses to the cpu arrays and to the free list. If there were no recent activities in one of the caches, part of the cache is flushed. Unlike <2.5.39, only a small part (~20%) is flushed each time: The older kernel would refill/drain bounce heavily under memory pressure: - kmem_cache_alloc: notices that there are no objects in the cpu cache, loads 120 objects from the slab lists, return 1. [assuming batchcount=120] - kmem_cache_reap is called due to memory pressure, finds 119 objects in the cpu array and returns them to the slab lists. - repeat. In addition, the length of the free list is limited based on the free list accesses: a fixed "1" limit hurts the large object caches. That's the last part for now, next is: [not yet written] - cleanup: BUG_ON instead of if() BUG - OOM handling for enable_cpucaches - remove the unconditional might_sleep() from cache_alloc_debugcheck_before, and make that DEBUG dependant. - initial NUMA support, just to collect some stats: Which percentage of the objects are freed on the wrong node? 0.1% or 20%?
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Andrew Morton authored
remove inline from the cache poison checks: the functions are not performance critical.
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Andrew Morton authored
- enable the cpu array for all caches - remove the optimized implementations for quick list access - with cpu arrays in all caches, the list access is now rare. - make the cpu arrays mandatory, this removes 50% of the conditional branches from the hot path of kmem_cache_alloc [1] - poisoning for objects with constructors Patch got a bit longer... I forgot to mention this: head arrays mean that some pages can be blocked due to objects in the head arrays, and not returned to page_alloc.c. The current kernel never flushes the head arrays, this might worsen the behaviour of low memory systems. The hunk that flushes the arrays regularly comes next. Details changelog: [to be read site by side with the patch] * docu update * "growing" is not really needed: races between grow and shrink are handled by retrying. [additionally, the current kernel never shrinks] * move the batchcount into the cpu array: the old code contained a race during cpu cache tuning: update batchcount [in cachep] before or after the IPI? And NUMA will need it anyway. * bootstrap support: the cpu arrays are really mandatory, nothing works without them. Thus a statically allocated cpu array is needed to for starting the allocators. * move the full, partial & free lists into a separate structure, as a preparation for NUMA * structure reorganization: now the cpu arrays are the most important part, not the lists. * dead code elimination: remove "failures", nowhere read. * dead code elimination: remove "OPTIMIZE": not implemented. The idea is to skip the virt_to_page lookup for caches with on-slab slab structures, and use (ptr&PAGE_MASK) instead. The details are in Bonwicks paper. Not fully implemented. * remove GROWN: kernel never shrinks a cache, thus grown is meaningless. * bootstrap: starting the slab allocator is now a 3 stage process: - nothing works, use the statically allocated cpu arrays. - the smallest kmalloc allocator works, use it to allocate cpu arrays. - all kmalloc allocators work, use the default cpu array size * register a cpu nodifier callback, and allocate the needed head arrays if a new cpu arrives * always enable head arrays, even for DEBUG builds. Poisoning and red-zoning now happens before an object is added to the arrays. Insert enable_all_cpucaches into cpucache_init, there is no need for seperate function. * modifications to the debug checks due to the earlier calls of the dtor for caches with poisoning enabled * poison+ctor is now supported * squeezing 3 objects into a cacheline is hopeless, the FIXME is not solvable and can be removed. * add additional debug tests: check_irq_off(), check_irq_on(), check_spinlock_acquired(). * move do_ccupdate_local nearer to do_tune_cpucache. Should have been part of -04-drain. * additional objects checks. red-zoning is tricky: it's implemented by increasing the object size by 2*BYTES_PER_WORD. Thus BYTES_PER_WORD must be added to objp before calling the destructor, constructor or before returing the object from alloc. The poison functions add BYTES_PER_WORD internally. * create a flagcheck function, right now the tests are duplicated in cache_grow [always] and alloc_debugcheck_before [DEBUG only] * modify slab list updates: all allocs are now bulk allocs that try to get multiple objects at once, update the list pointers only at the end of a bulk alloc, not once per alloc. * might_sleep was moved into kmem_flagcheck. * major hotpath change: - cc always exists, no fallback - cache_alloc_refill is called with disabled interrupts, and does everything to recover from an empty cpu array. Far shorter & simpler __cache_alloc [inlined in both kmalloc and kmem_cache_alloc] * __free_block, free_block, cache_flusharray: main implementation of returning objects to the lists. no big changes, diff lost track. * new debug check: too early kmalloc or kmem_cache_alloc * slightly reduce the sizes of the cpu arrays: keep the size < a power of 2, including batchcount, avail and now limit, for optimal kmalloc memory efficiency. That's it. I even found 2 bugs while reading: dtors and ctors for verify were called with wrong parameters, with RED_ZONE enabled, and some checks still assumed that POISON and ctor are incompatible.
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Andrew Morton authored
From Manfred Spraul remove the space from the name of the DMA caches: they make it impossible to tune the caches through /proc/slabinfo, and make parsing /proc/slabinfo difficult
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Andrew Morton authored
In 2.5, local_irq_disable() provides protection against smp_call_function() on all architectures. (Or it will, not sure. But davem says this is OK). So a spin_lock() within the smp_call_function() callback is now permitted, and we can remove/cleanup the workaround.
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Andrew Morton authored
From Manfred Spraul If an object is freed from a slab, then move the slab to the tail of the partial list - this should increase the probability that the other objects from the same page are freed, too, and that a page can be returned to gfp later. In other words: if we just freed an object from this page then make this page be the *last* page which is eligible for new allocations. Under the assumption that other objects in that same page are about to be freed up as well. The cpu arrays are now always in front of the list, i.e. cache hit rates should not matter.
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Andrew Morton authored
From Manfred Spraul Always enable the cpu arrays, even on uniprocessor. They provide LIFO ordering, which should improve cache hit rates. And the array allocator is slightly faster than the list operations.
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Andrew Morton authored
From Manfred Spraul remove kmem_ from all static function that are only used in slab.c. Except kmem_cache_slabmgmt, I've renamed it to alloc_slabmgmt().
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Andrew Morton authored
add_timer_on is like add_timer, except it takes a target CPU on which to add the timer. The slab code needs per-cpu timers for shrinking the per-cpu caches.
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Andrew Morton authored
Patch from Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> This is Manfred's patch which provides a CPU_UP_PREPARE cpu notifier to allow initialization of per_cpu data just before the cpu becomes fully functional. It also provides a facility for the CPU_UP_PREPARE handler to return NOTIFY_BAD to signify that the CPU is not permitted to come up. If that happens, a CPU_UP_CANCELLED message is passed to all the handlers. The patch also fixes a bogus NOFITY_BAD return from the softirq setup code. Patch has been acked by Rusty. We need this mechanism in slab for starting per-cpu timers and for allocating the per-cpu slab hgead arrays *before* the CPU has come up and started using slab.
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Matthew Wilcox authored
- Remove obsolete documentation - Update arch/parisc/lib - Remove arch/parisc/tools, we use asm-offsets.c these days - Update arch/parisc/Makefile, defconfig & vmlinux.lds.S
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Matthew Wilcox authored
Add support for the parisc64 architecture.
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Matthew Wilcox authored
Performance monitor support for PA8000+ processors.
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Matthew Wilcox authored
Update arch/parisc/kernel.
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Matthew Wilcox authored
Update arch/parisc/mm
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Matthew Wilcox authored
Update include/asm-parisc
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Matthew Wilcox authored
Add support for unimplemented FP ops on PA processors.
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Stelian Pop authored
This patch adds some new events to the sonypi driver (Fn key pressed alone, jogdial turned fast or very fast) and cleanups the code a little bit. Thanks to Christian Gennerat for this contribution.
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Linus Torvalds authored
into penguin.transmeta.com:/home/penguin/torvalds/repositories/kernel/linux
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Davide Libenzi authored
Latest version of the epoll interfaces.
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bk://ldm.bkbits.net/linux-2.5-kobjectLinus Torvalds authored
into penguin.transmeta.com:/home/penguin/torvalds/repositories/kernel/linux
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Patrick Mochel authored
into osdl.org:/home/mochel/src/kernel/devel/linux-2.5-kobject
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Patrick Mochel authored
struct subsystem may now contain a pointer to a NULL-terminated array of default attributes to be exported when an object is registered with the subsystem. kobject registration will check the return values of the directory creation and the creation of each file, and handle it appropriately. The documentation has also been updated.
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Patrick Mochel authored
Previously, sysfs read() and write() calls looked for sysfs_ops in the struct sysfs_dir, in the kobject. Since objects belong to a subsystem, and is a member of a group of like devices, the sysfs_ops have been moved to struct subsystem, and are referenced from there. The only remaining member of struct sysfs_dir is the dentry of the object's directory. That is moved out of the dir struct and directly into struct kobject. That saves us 4 bytes/object. All of the sysfs functions that referenced the struct have been changed to just reference the dentry.
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Linus Torvalds authored
into penguin.transmeta.com:/home/penguin/torvalds/repositories/kernel/linux
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Roman Zippel authored
This fixes "choice" behaviour - it sets the correct default and fixes oldconfig.
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http://mdomsch.bkbits.net/linux-2.5-edd-tolinusLinus Torvalds authored
into penguin.transmeta.com:/home/penguin/torvalds/repositories/kernel/linux
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Matt Domsch authored
into dell.com:/home/mdomsch/bk/linux-2.5-edd-tolinus
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