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Hugh Dickins
7be7a54699 [PATCH] mm: move_page_tables by extents
Speeding up mremap's moving of ptes has never been a priority, but the locking
will get more complicated shortly, and is already too baroque.

Scrap the current one-by-one moving, do an extent at a time: curtailed by end
of src and dst pmds (have to use PMD_SIZE: the way pmd_addr_end gets elided
doesn't match this usage), and by latency considerations.

One nice property of the old method is lost: it never allocated a page table
unless absolutely necessary, so you could free empty page tables by mremapping
to and fro.  Whereas this way, it allocates a dst table wherever there was a
src table.  I keep diving in to reinstate the old behaviour, then come out
preferring not to clutter how it now is.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:37 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
65500d234e [PATCH] mm: page fault handlers tidyup
Impose a little more consistency on the page fault handlers do_wp_page,
do_swap_page, do_anonymous_page, do_no_page, do_file_page: why not pass their
arguments in the same order, called the same names?

break_cow is all very well, but what it did was inlined elsewhere: easier to
compare if it's brought back into do_wp_page.

do_file_page's fallback to do_no_page dates from a time when we were testing
pte_file by using it wherever possible: currently it's peculiar to nonlinear
vmas, so just check that.  BUG_ON if not?  Better not, it's probably page
table corruption, so just show the pte: hmm, there's a pte_ERROR macro, let's
use that for do_wp_page's invalid pfn too.

Hah!  Someone in the ppc64 world noticed pte_ERROR was unused so removed it:
restored (and say "pud" not "pmd" in its pud_ERROR).

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:37 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
7c1fd6b964 [PATCH] mm: exit_mmap need not reset
exit_mmap resets various mm_struct fields, but the mm is well on its way out,
and none of those fields matter by this point.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:37 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
a8fb5618da [PATCH] mm: unlink_file_vma, remove_vma
Divide remove_vm_struct into two parts: first anon_vma_unlink plus
unlink_file_vma, to unlink the vma from the list and tree by which rmap or
vmtruncate might find it; then remove_vma to close, fput and free.

The intention here is to do the anon_vma_unlink and unlink_file_vma earlier,
in free_pgtables before freeing any page tables: so we can be sure that any
page tables traversed by rmap and vmtruncate are stable (and other, ordinary
cases are stabilized by holding mmap_sem).

This will be crucial to traversing pgd,pud,pmd without page_table_lock.  But
testing the split-out patch showed that lifting the page_table_lock is
symbiotically necessary to make this change - the lock ordering is wrong to
move those unlinks into free_pgtables while it's under ptlock.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:37 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
2c0b381467 [PATCH] mm: remove_vma_list consolidation
unmap_vma doesn't amount to much, let's put it inside unmap_vma_list.  Except
it doesn't unmap anything, unmap_region just did the unmapping: rename it to
remove_vma_list.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:37 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
ab50b8ed81 [PATCH] mm: vm_stat_account unshackled
The original vm_stat_account has fallen into disuse, with only one user, and
only one user of vm_stat_unaccount.  It's easier to keep track if we convert
them all to __vm_stat_account, then free it from its __shackles.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:37 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
72866f6f27 [PATCH] mm: anon is already wrprotected
do_anonymous_page's pte_wrprotect causes some confusion: in such a case,
vm_page_prot must already be forcing COW, so must omit write permission, and
so the pte_wrprotect is redundant.  Replace it by a comment to that effect,
and reword the comment on unuse_pte which also caused confusion.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:36 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
6237bcd948 [PATCH] mm: zap_pte_range dont dirty anon
zap_pte_range already avoids wasting time to mark_page_accessed on anon pages:
it can also skip anon set_page_dirty - the page only needs to be marked dirty
if shared with another mm, but that will say pte_dirty too.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:36 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
0c942a4539 [PATCH] mm: msync_pte_range progress
Use latency breaking in msync_pte_range like that in copy_pte_range, instead
of the ugly CONFIG_PREEMPT filemap_msync alternatives.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:36 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
e040f218bb [PATCH] mm: copy_pte_range progress fix
My latency breaking in copy_pte_range didn't work as intended: instead of
checking at regularish intervals, after the first interval it checked every
time around the loop, too impatient to be preempted.  Fix that.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:36 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
09ad4bbc3a [PATCH] slab: add additional debugging to detect slabs from the wrong node
This patch adds some stack dumps if the slab logic is processing slab
blocks from the wrong node.  This is necessary in order to detect
situations as encountered by Petr.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:36 -07:00
Lee Schermerhorn
c340010e4b [PATCH] shrink_list(): skip anon pages if not may_swap
Martin Hicks' page cache reclaim patch added the 'may_swap' flag to the
scan_control struct; and modified shrink_list() not to add anon pages to
the swap cache if may_swap is not asserted.

Ref:  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=111461480725322&w=4

However, further down, if the page is mapped, shrink_list() calls
try_to_unmap() which will call try_to_unmap_one() via try_to_unmap_anon ().
 try_to_unmap_one() will BUG_ON() an anon page that is NOT in the swap
cache.  Martin says he never encountered this path in his testing, but
agrees that it might happen.

This patch modifies shrink_list() to skip anon pages that are not already
in the swap cache when !may_swap, rather than just not adding them to the
cache.

Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:36 -07:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
b57b98d147 [PATCH] mm/msync.c cleanup
This is not problem actually, but sync_page_range() is using for exported
function to filesystems.

The msync_xxx is more readable at least to me.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:36 -07:00
Andi Kleen
662f3a0b94 [PATCH] Remove near all BUGs in mm/mempolicy.c
Most of them can never be triggered and were only for development.

Signed-off-by: "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:35 -07:00
Andi Kleen
dfcd3c0dc4 [PATCH] Convert mempolicies to nodemask_t
The NUMA policy code predated nodemask_t so it used open coded bitmaps.
Convert everything to nodemask_t.  Big patch, but shouldn't have any actual
behaviour changes (except I removed one unnecessary check against
node_online_map and one unnecessary BUG_ON)

Signed-off-by: "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:35 -07:00
Seth, Rohit
e46a5e28c2 [PATCH] mm: set per-cpu-pages lower threshold to zero
Set the low water mark for hot pages in pcp to zero.

(akpm: for the life of me I cannot remember why we created pcp->low.  Neither
can Martin and the changelog is silent.  Maybe it was just a brainfart, but I
have this feeling that there was a reason.  If not, we should remove the
fields completely.  We'll see.)

Signed-off-by: Rohit Seth <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:35 -07:00
Seth, Rohit
ba56e91c94 [PATCH] mm: page_alloc: increase size of per-cpu-pages
Increase the page allocator's per-cpu magazines from 1/4MB to 1/2MB.

Over 100+ runs for a workload, the difference in mean is about 2%.  The best
results for both are almost same.  Though the max variation in results with
1/2MB is only 2.2%, whereas with 1/4MB it is 12%.

Signed-off-by: Rohit Seth <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:35 -07:00
Rik Van Riel
fcdae29aa7 [PATCH] swaptoken tuning
It turns out that the original swap token implementation, by Song Jiang, only
enforced the swap token while the task holding the token is handling a page
fault.  This patch approximates that, without adding an additional flag to the
mm_struct, by checking whether the mm->mmap_sem is held for reading, like the
page fault code does.

This patch has the effect of automatically, and gradually, disabling the
enforcement of the swap token when there is little or no paging going on, and
"turning up" the intensity of the swap token code the more the task holding
the token is thrashing.

Thanks to Song Jiang for pointing out this aspect of the token based thrashing
control concept.

The new code shows a slight degradation over the old swap token code, but
still a big win over running without the swap token.

2.6.12+ swap token disabled

$ for i in `seq 10` ; do /usr/bin/time ./qsbench -n 30000000 -p 3 ; done
101.74user 23.13system 8:26.91elapsed 24%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (38597major+430315minor)pagefaults 0swaps
101.98user 24.91system 8:03.06elapsed 26%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (33939major+430457minor)pagefaults 0swaps
101.93user 22.12system 7:34.90elapsed 27%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (33166major+421267minor)pagefaults 0swaps
101.82user 22.38system 8:31.40elapsed 24%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (39338major+433262minor)pagefaults 0swaps

2.6.12+ swap token enabled, timeout 300 seconds

$ for i in `seq 4` ; do /usr/bin/time ./qsbench -n 30000000 -p 3 ; done
102.58user 16.08system 3:41.44elapsed 53%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (19707major+285786minor)pagefaults 0swaps
102.07user 19.56system 4:00.64elapsed 50%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (19012major+299259minor)pagefaults 0swaps
102.64user 18.25system 4:07.31elapsed 48%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (21990major+304831minor)pagefaults 0swaps
101.39user 19.41system 5:15.81elapsed 38%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (24850major+323321minor)pagefaults 0swaps

2.6.12+ with new swap token code, timeout 300 seconds

$ for i in `seq 4` ; do /usr/bin/time ./qsbench -n 30000000 -p 3 ; done
101.87user 24.66system 5:53.20elapsed 35%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (26848major+363497minor)pagefaults 0swaps
102.83user 19.95system 4:17.25elapsed 47%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (19946major+305722minor)pagefaults 0swaps
102.09user 19.46system 5:12.57elapsed 38%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (25461major+334994minor)pagefaults 0swaps
101.67user 20.61system 4:52.97elapsed 41%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (22190major+329508minor)pagefaults 0swaps

Signed-off-by: Rik Van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:35 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
930fc45a49 [PATCH] vmalloc_node
This patch adds

vmalloc_node(size, node)	-> Allocate necessary memory on the specified node

and

get_vm_area_node(size, flags, node)

and the other functions that it depends on.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:35 -07:00
Al Viro
260b23674f [PATCH] gfp_t: the rest
zone handling, mapping->flags handling

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-28 08:16:51 -07:00
Al Viro
6daa0e2862 [PATCH] gfp_t: mm/* (easy parts)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-28 08:16:47 -07:00
Al Viro
af4ca457ea [PATCH] gfp_t: infrastructure
Beginning of gfp_t annotations:

 - -Wbitwise added to CHECKFLAGS
 - old __bitwise renamed to __bitwise__
 - __bitwise defined to either __bitwise__ or nothing, depending on
   __CHECK_ENDIAN__ being defined
 - gfp_t switched from __nocast to __bitwise__
 - force cast to gfp_t added to __GFP_... constants
 - new helper - gfp_zone(); extracts zone bits out of gfp_t value and casts
   the result to int

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-28 08:16:46 -07:00
Magnus Damm
1c6fe94659 [PATCH] NUMA: broken per cpu pageset counters
The NUMA counters in struct per_cpu_pageset (linux/mmzone.h) are never
cleared today.  This works ok for CPU 0 on NUMA machines because
boot_pageset[] is already zero, but for other CPU:s this results in
uninitialized counters.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-26 10:39:43 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
ac9b9c667c [PATCH] Fix handling spurious page fault for hugetlb region
This reverts commit 3359b54c8c and
replaces it with a cleaner version that is purely based on page table
operations, so that the synchronization between inode size and hugetlb
mappings becomes moot.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-20 09:02:07 -07:00
Yasunori Goto
281dd25cdc [PATCH] swiotlb: make sure initial DMA allocations really are in DMA memory
This introduces a limit parameter to the core bootmem allocator; The new
parameter indicates that physical memory allocated by the bootmem
allocator should be within the requested limit.

We also introduce alloc_bootmem_low_pages_limit, alloc_bootmem_node_limit,
alloc_bootmem_low_pages_node_limit apis, but alloc_bootmem_low_pages_limit
is the only api used for swiotlb.

The existing alloc_bootmem_low_pages() api could instead have been
changed and made to pass right limit to the core allocator.  But that
would make the patch more intrusive for 2.6.14, as other arches use
alloc_bootmem_low_pages().  We may be done that post 2.6.14 as a
cleanup.

With this, swiotlb gets memory within 4G for both x86_64 and ia64
arches.

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-19 23:11:33 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
1c59827d1d [PATCH] mm: hugetlb truncation fixes
hugetlbfs allows truncation of its files (should it?), but hugetlb.c often
forgets that: crashes and misaccounting ensue.

copy_hugetlb_page_range better grab the src page_table_lock since we don't
want to guess what happens if concurrently truncated.  unmap_hugepage_range
rss accounting must not assume the full range was mapped.  follow_hugetlb_page
must guard with page_table_lock and be prepared to exit early.

Restyle copy_hugetlb_page_range with a for loop like the others there.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-19 23:04:30 -07:00
Seth, Rohit
3359b54c8c [PATCH] Handle spurious page fault for hugetlb region
The hugetlb pages are currently pre-faulted.  At the time of mmap of
hugepages, we populate the new PTEs.  It is possible that HW has already
cached some of the unused PTEs internally.  These stale entries never
get a chance to be purged in existing control flow.

This patch extends the check in page fault code for hugepages.  Check if
a faulted address falls with in size for the hugetlb file backing it.
We return VM_FAULT_MINOR for these cases (assuming that the arch
specific page-faulting code purges the stale entry for the archs that
need it).

Signed-off-by: Rohit Seth <rohit.seth@intel.com>

[ This is apparently arguably an ia64 port bug. But the code won't
  hurt, and for now it fixes a real problem on some ia64 machines ]

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-19 13:56:27 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3d80636a0d Fix memory ordering bug in page reclaim
As noticed by Nick Piggin, we need to make sure that we check the page
count before we check for PageDirty, since the dirty check is only valid
if the count implies that we're the only possible ones holding the page.

We always did do this, but the code needs a read-memory-barrier to make
sure that the orderign is also honored by the CPU.

(The writer side is ordered due to the atomic decrement and test on the
page count, see the discussion on linux-kernel)

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-16 17:36:06 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
f5154a98a1 [PATCH] Don't map the same page too much
Refuse to install a page into a mapping if the mapping count is already
ridiculously large.

You probably cannot trigger this on 32-bit architectures, but on a
64-bit setup we should protect against it.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-11 12:03:47 -07:00
Suzuki
1bef400329 [PATCH] madvise: Avoid returning error code -EBADF for anonymous mappings
Revert this recent correctness change: Douglas Crosher <dcrosher@scieneer.com>
reported that it broke an existing application, and that madvise() works
without error on anonymous mappings on Solaris.

This means that madvise() will remain non-standards-compliant: we should
return -EBADF for all requests against non-file-backed vma's, but Linux only
does this for MADV_WILLNEED requests.

Signed-off-by: Suzuki K P <suzuki@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-11 09:46:54 -07:00
Al Viro
dd0fc66fb3 [PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1
- added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t;

 - replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly
   the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change
   generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with
   typedef) and documents what's going on far better.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-08 15:00:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6e3254c4e2 Revert "x86-64: Reverse order of bootmem lists"
As requested by Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>:

  "5d3d0f7704ed0bc7eaca0501eeae3e5da1ea6c87 breaks a couple of ARM
   boards, which depend on the historical bootmem allocation order.
   There is a cleaner solution around to remove the pgdat list
   completely, but this is a topic for post 2.6.14

   Andi signalled ACK already."

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-30 12:38:27 -07:00
Alok N Kataria
5c38230087 [PATCH] kmalloc_node IRQ safety fix
In kmalloc_node we are checking if the allocation is for the same node when
interrupts are "on".  This may lead to an allocation on another node than
intended.

This patch just shifts the check for the current node in __cache_alloc_node
when interrupts are disabled.

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:42 -07:00
Nick Piggin
8b1f312461 [PATCH] mm: move_pte to remap ZERO_PAGE
Move the ZERO_PAGE remapping complexity to the move_pte macro in
asm-generic, have it conditionally depend on
__HAVE_ARCH_MULTIPLE_ZERO_PAGE, which gets defined for MIPS.

For architectures without __HAVE_ARCH_MULTIPLE_ZERO_PAGE, move_pte becomes
a noop.

From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>

Fix nasty little bug we've missed in Nick's mremap move ZERO_PAGE patch.
The "pte" at that point may be a swap entry or a pte_file entry: we must
check pte_present before perhaps corrupting such an entry.

Patch below against 2.6.14-rc2-mm1, but the same bug is in 2.6.14-rc2's
mm/mremap.c, and more dangerous there since it's affecting all arches: I
think the safest course is to send Nick's patch and Yoichi's build fix and
this fix (build tested) on to Linus - so only MIPS can be affected.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:40 -07:00
Andrew Morton
dbdb904500 [PATCH] revert oversized kmalloc check
As davem points out, this wasn't such a great idea.  There may be some code
which does:

	size = 1024*1024;
	while (kmalloc(size, ...) == 0)
		size /= 2;

which will now explode.

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-23 13:35:37 -07:00
Rob Landley
f7b3a4359b [PATCH] Fix bd_claim() error code.
Problem: In some circumstances, bd_claim() is returning the wrong error
code.

If we try to swapon an unused block device that isn't swap formatted, we
get -EINVAL.  But if that same block device is already mounted, we instead
get -EBUSY, even though it still isn't a valid swap device.

This issue came up on the busybox list trying to get the error message
from "swapon -a" right.  If a swap device is already enabled, we get -EBUSY,
and we shouldn't report this as an error.  But we can't distinguish the two
-EBUSY conditions, which are very different errors.

In the code, bd_claim() returns either 0 or -EBUSY, but in this case busy
means "somebody other than sys_swapon has already claimed this", and
_that_ means this block device can't be a valid swap device.  So return
-EINVAL there.

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 22:17:37 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
eafb42707b [PATCH] __kmalloc: Generate BUG if size requested is too large.
I had an issue on ia64 where I got a bug in kernel/workqueue because
kzalloc returned a NULL pointer due to the task structure getting too big
for the slab allocator.  Usually these cases are caught by the kmalloc
macro in include/linux/slab.h.

Compilation will fail if a too big value is passed to kmalloc.

However, kzalloc uses __kmalloc which has no check for that.  This patch
makes __kmalloc bug if a too large entity is requested.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 22:17:36 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
ff69416e63 [PATCH] slab: fix handling of pages from foreign NUMA nodes
The numa slab allocator may allocate pages from foreign nodes onto the
lists for a particular node if a node runs out of memory.  Inspecting the
slab->nodeid field will not reflect that the page is now in use for the
slabs of another node.

This patch fixes that issue by adding a node field to free_block so that
the caller can indicate which node currently uses a slab.

Also removes the check for the current node from kmalloc_cache_node since
the process may shift later to another node which may lead to an allocation
on another node than intended.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 22:17:35 -07:00
Ivan Kokshaysky
7243cc05ba [PATCH] slab: alpha inlining fix
It is essential that index_of() be inlined.  But alpha undoes the gcc
inlining hackery and index_of() ends up out-of-line.  So fiddle with things
to make that function inline again.

Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 22:17:34 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
7e2cff42cf [PATCH] mm: add a note about partially hardcoded VM_* flags
Hugh made me note this line for permission checking in mprotect():

		if ((newflags & ~(newflags >> 4)) & 0xf) {

after figuring out what's that about, I decided it's nasty enough.  Btw
Hugh itself didn't like the 0xf.

We can safely change it to VM_READ|VM_WRITE|VM_EXEC because we never change
VM_SHARED, so no need to check that.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-21 10:11:55 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
f10df68604 [PATCH] fix locking comment in unmap_region()
That comment is plain wrong (we even take the pagetable lock inside
unmap_region()).

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-21 10:11:55 -07:00
Dave Hansen
f3519f9194 [PATCH] fix mm/Kconfig spelling
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-17 11:50:01 -07:00
Alok Kataria
c7e43c78ae [PATCH] Fix slab BUG_ON() triggered by change in array cache size
With the new changes that we made in the initialization of the slab
allocator, we first setup the cache from which array caches are allocated,
and then the cache, from which kmem_list3's are allocated.

Now if the array cache comes from a cache in which objsize > 32, (in this
instance size-64) then, first size-64 cache will be allocated and then the
size-128 (if this is the cache from which kmem_list3's are going to be
allocated).

So with these new changes, we are not guaranteed that we will be
initializing the malloc_sizes array in a serialized order. Thus there is
a bug in __find_general_cachep, as we are checking whether the first
cache_sizes ptr is NULL.

This is replaced by checking whether the array-cache cache is initialized.
Attached is a patch which does that.  Boots fine on a x86-64, with
DEBUG_SPIN, DEBUG_SLAB, and preempt.

Attached is a patch which does that.  Boots fine on a x86-64, with
DEBUG_SPIN, DEBUG_SLAB, and preempt.Thanks & Regards, Alok

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Shobhit Dayal <shobhitdayal.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-14 12:31:45 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
2fd4ef85e0 [PATCH] error path in setup_arg_pages() misses vm_unacct_memory()
Pavel Emelianov and Kirill Korotaev observe that fs and arch users of
security_vm_enough_memory tend to forget to vm_unacct_memory when a
failure occurs further down (typically in setup_arg_pages variants).

These are all users of insert_vm_struct, and that reservation will only
be unaccounted on exit if the vma is marked VM_ACCOUNT: which in some
cases it is (hidden inside VM_STACK_FLAGS) and in some cases it isn't.

So x86_64 32-bit and ppc64 vDSO ELFs have been leaking memory into
Committed_AS each time they're run.  But don't add VM_ACCOUNT to them,
it's inappropriate to reserve against the very unlikely case that gdb
be used to COW a vDSO page - we ought to do something about that in
do_wp_page, but there are yet other inconsistencies to be resolved.

The safe and economical way to fix this is to let insert_vm_struct do
the security_vm_enough_memory check when it finds VM_ACCOUNT is set.

And the MIPS irix_brk has been calling security_vm_enough_memory before
calling do_brk which repeats it, doubly accounting and so also leaking.
Remove that, and all the fs and arch calls to security_vm_enough_memory:
give it a less misleading name later on.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-14 11:18:13 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
9f1583339a [PATCH] use add_taint() for setting tainted bit flags
Use the add_taint() interface for setting tainted bit flags instead of
doing it manually.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:29 -07:00
Andi Kleen
5b952b3c14 [PATCH] Fix MPOL_F_VERIFY
There was a pretty bad bug in there that the code would always check the full
VMA, not the range the user requested.

When the VMA to be checked was merged with the previous VMA this could lead to
spurious failures.

Signed-off-by: "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:28 -07:00
Con Kolivas
8d0986e289 [PATCH] vm: kswapd cleanup: use pgdat
Use the pgdat pointer we've already defined in wakeup_kswapd

Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:28 -07:00
Andi Kleen
5d3d0f7704 [PATCH] x86-64: Reverse order of bootmem lists
This leads to bootmem allocating first from node 0 instead
of from the last node.  This avoids swiotlb allocating on the last node, which
doesn't really work on a machine with >4GB.

Note: there is a better patch around from someone else that gets
rid of the pgdat list completely.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-12 10:49:56 -07:00
Greg Ungerer
66aa2b4b1c [PATCH] uclinux: add NULL check, 0 end valid check and some more exports to nommu.c
Move call to get_mm_counter() in update_mem_hiwater() to be
inside the check for tsk->mm being null. Otherwise you can be
following a null pointer here. This patch submitted by
Javier Herrero <jherrero@hvsistemas.es>.

Modify the end check for munmap regions to allow for the
legacy behavior of 0 being valid. Pretty much all current
uClinux system libc malloc's pass in 0 as the end point.
A hard check will fail on these, so change the check so
that if it is non-zero it must be valid otherwise it fails.
A passed in value will always succeed (as it used too).

Also export a few more mm system functions - to be consistent
with the VM code exports.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-11 20:43:47 -07:00
Nishanth Aravamudan
13e4b57f6a [PATCH] mm: fix-up schedule_timeout() usage
Use schedule_timeout_{,un}interruptible() instead of
set_current_state()/schedule_timeout() to reduce kernel size.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10 10:06:37 -07:00