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2005-11-17[IA64] 4 level page table bug fix in vhpt_missChen, Kenneth W
From source code inspection, I think there is a bug with 4 level page table with vhpt_miss handler. In the code path of rechecking page table entry against previously read value after tlb insertion, *pte value in register r18 was overwritten with value newly read from pud pointer, render the check of new *pte against previous *pte completely wrong. Though the bug is none fatal and the penalty is to purge the entry and retry. For functional correctness, it should be fixed. The fix is to use a different register so new *pud don't trash *pte. (btw, the comments in the cmp statement is wrong as well, which I will address in the next patch). Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-11-15[PATCH] ia64: cpu_idle performance bug fixChen, Kenneth W
Our performance validation on 2.6.15-rc1 caught a disastrous performance regression on ia64 with netperf (-98%) and volanomark (-58%) compares to previous kernel version 2.6.14-git7. See the following chart (result group 1 & 2). http://kernel-perf.sourceforge.net/results.machine_id=26.html We have root caused it to commit 64c7c8f88559624abdbe12b5da6502e8879f8d28 This changeset broke the ia64 task resched notification. In sched.c:resched_task(), a reschedule IPI is conditioned upon TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG. However, the above changeset unconditionally set the polling thread flag for idle tasks regardless whether pal_halt_light is in use or not. As a result, resched IPI is not sent from resched_task(). And since the default behavior on ia64 is to use pal_halt_light, we end up delaying the rescheduling task until next timer tick, and thus cause the performance regression. This fixes the performance bug. I'm glad our performance suite is turning up bad performance bug like this in time. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-14Merge x86-64 update from AndiLinus Torvalds
2005-11-14[PATCH] x86_64: Set compatibility flag for 4GB zone on IA64Andi Kleen
IA64 traditionally had a 4GB DMA32 zone. Set the compatibility flag to keep old drivers working. For new drivers it would be better to use ZONE_DMA32 now. Cc: tony.luck@intel.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-11[IA64-SGI] set altix preferred consoleMark Maule
Fix default VGA console on SN platforms. Since SN firmware does not pass enough ACPI information to identify VGA cards and the associated legacy IO/MEM addresses, we rely on the EFI PCDP table. Since the linux pcdp driver is optional (and overridden if console= directives are used) SN duplicates a portion of the pcdp scan code to identify if there is a usable console VGA adapter. Additionally, dup necessary pcdp related structs to avoid dragging drivers/pcdp.h into a more public location. Signed-off-by: Mark Maule <maule@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-11-11[IA64] 4-level page tablesRobin Holt
This patch introduces 4-level page tables to ia64. I have run some benchmarks and found nothing interesting. Performance has consistently fallen within the noise range. It also introduces a config option (setting the default to 3 levels). The config option prevents having 4 level page tables with 64k base page size. Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-11-10[IA64] utilize notify_die() for XPC disengageDean Nelson
XPC (as in arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xp*) has a need to notify other partitions (SGI Altix) whenever a partition is going down in order to get them to disengage from accessing the halting partition's memory. If this is not done before the reset of the hardware, the other partitions can find themselves encountering MCAs that bring them down. Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-11-10[IA64] Replace kcalloc(1, with kzalloc.Panagiotis Issaris
Conversion from kcalloc(1, to kzalloc. Signed-off-by: Panagiotis Issaris <takis@issaris.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-11-10Pull add-mmio-to-proc-iomem into release branchTony Luck
2005-11-10Pull context-bitmap into release branchTony Luck
2005-11-10Pull extend-notify-die into release branchTony Luck
2005-11-10Pull memoryless-node-allocation into release branchTony Luck
2005-11-10Pull mca-check-psp into release branchTony Luck
2005-11-10Pull align-sig-frame into release branchTony Luck
2005-11-09Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
2005-11-09[PATCH] sched: resched and cpu_idle reworkNick Piggin
Make some changes to the NEED_RESCHED and POLLING_NRFLAG to reduce confusion, and make their semantics rigid. Improves efficiency of resched_task and some cpu_idle routines. * In resched_task: - TIF_NEED_RESCHED is only cleared with the task's runqueue lock held, and as we hold it during resched_task, then there is no need for an atomic test and set there. The only other time this should be set is when the task's quantum expires, in the timer interrupt - this is protected against because the rq lock is irq-safe. - If TIF_NEED_RESCHED is set, then we don't need to do anything. It won't get unset until the task get's schedule()d off. - If we are running on the same CPU as the task we resched, then set TIF_NEED_RESCHED and no further action is required. - If we are running on another CPU, and TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG is *not* set after TIF_NEED_RESCHED has been set, then we need to send an IPI. Using these rules, we are able to remove the test and set operation in resched_task, and make clear the previously vague semantics of POLLING_NRFLAG. * In idle routines: - Enter cpu_idle with preempt disabled. When the need_resched() condition becomes true, explicitly call schedule(). This makes things a bit clearer (IMO), but haven't updated all architectures yet. - Many do a test and clear of TIF_NEED_RESCHED for some reason. According to the resched_task rules, this isn't needed (and actually breaks the assumption that TIF_NEED_RESCHED is only cleared with the runqueue lock held). So remove that. Generally one less locked memory op when switching to the idle thread. - Many idle routines clear TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG, and only set it in the inner most polling idle loops. The above resched_task semantics allow it to be set until before the last time need_resched() is checked before going into a halt requiring interrupt wakeup. Many idle routines simply never enter such a halt, and so POLLING_NRFLAG can be always left set, completely eliminating resched IPIs when rescheduling the idle task. POLLING_NRFLAG width can be increased, to reduce the chance of resched IPIs. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-09[PATCH] sched: disable preempt in idle tasksNick Piggin
Run idle threads with preempt disabled. Also corrected a bugs in arm26's cpu_idle (make it actually call schedule()). How did it ever work before? Might fix the CPU hotplugging hang which Nigel Cunningham noted. We think the bug hits if the idle thread is preempted after checking need_resched() and before going to sleep, then the CPU offlined. After calling stop_machine_run, the CPU eventually returns from preemption and into the idle thread and goes to sleep. The CPU will continue executing previous idle and have no chance to call play_dead. By disabling preemption until we are ready to explicitly schedule, this bug is fixed and the idle threads generally become more robust. From: alexs <ashepard@u.washington.edu> PPC build fix From: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp> MIPS build fix Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-09[PATCH] remove ioctl32_handler_tChristoph Hellwig
Some architectures define and use this type in their compat_ioctl code, but all of them can easily use the identical ioctl_trans_handler_t type that is defined in common code. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-08[IA64] add the MMIO regions that are translated to I/O port space to /proc/iomemBjorn Helgaas
ia64 translates normal loads and stores to special MMIO regions into I/O port accesses. Reserve these special MMIO regions in /proc/iomem. Sample /proc/iomem: f8100000000-f81003fffff : PCI Bus 0000:80 I/O Ports 00000000-00000fff f8100400000-f81007fffff : PCI Bus 0000:8e I/O Ports 00001000-00001fff f8100800000-f8100ffffff : PCI Bus 0000:9c I/O Ports 00002000-00003fff f8101000000-f81017fffff : PCI Bus 0000:aa I/O Ports 00004000-00005fff and corresponding /proc/ioports: 00000000-00000fff : PCI Bus 0000:80 00001000-00001fff : PCI Bus 0000:8e 00002000-00003fff : PCI Bus 0000:9c 00004000-00005fff : PCI Bus 0000:aa Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-11-08[IA64] altix: misc pci interrupt related fixesMark Maule
Fix a couple of altix interrupt related bugs. Signed-off-by: Mark Maule <maule@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-11-08[IA64] MCA recovery: Bump reference count on bad pagesRuss Anderson
When a page has a memory uncorrectable ECC error, the recovery code wants to prevent the page from being reused. This change bumps the reference count to prevent the page from getting back on the free list. Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson (rja@sgi.com) Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-11-08[IA64] MCA recovery: pfn_valid() needs a pfnRuss Anderson
paddr needs to be shifted by PAGE_SHIFT to be valid input for pfn_valid(). Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-11-08[IA64] MCA recovery based on PSP bitsRuss Anderson
The determination of whether an MCA is recoverable or not must be based on the bits set in the PSP (Processor State Parameter). The specific bits are shown in the Intel IA-64 Architecture Software Developer's Manual, Vol 2, Table 11-6 Software Recovery Bits in Processor State Parameter. Those bits should be consistent across the entire IA-64 family of processors. Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-11-08[IA64] align signal-frame even when not using alternate signal-stackDavid Mosberger-Tang
At the moment, attempting to invoke a signal-handler on the normal stack is guaranteed to fail if the stack-pointer happens not to be 16-byte aligned. This is because the signal-trampoline will attempt to store fp-regs with stf.spill instructions, which will trap for misaligned addresses. This isn't terribly useful behavior. It's better to just always align the signal frame to the next lower 16-byte boundary. Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <David.Mosberger@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-11-08[IA64] fix memory less node allocationBob Picco
The original memory less node allocation attempted to use NODEDATA_ALIGN for alignment. The bootmem allocator only allows a power of two alignments. This causes a BUG_ON for some nodes. For cpu only nodes just allocate with a PERCPU_PAGE_SIZE alignment. Some older firmware reports SLIT distances of 0xff and results in bestnode not being computed. This is now treated correctly. The failed allocation check was removed because it's redundant. The bootmem allocator already makes this check. This fix has been boot tested on 4 node machine which has 4 cpu only nodes and 1 memory node. Thanks to Pete Keilty for reporting this and helping me test it. Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-11-07[IA64] Extend notify_die() hooks for IA64Keith Owens
notify_die() added for MCA_{MONARCH,SLAVE,RENDEZVOUS}_{ENTER,PROCESS,LEAVE} and INIT_{MONARCH,SLAVE}_{ENTER,PROCESS,LEAVE}. We need multiple notification points for these events because they can take many seconds to run which has nasty effects on the behaviour of the rest of the system. DIE_SS replaced by a generic DIE_FAULT which checks the vector number, to allow interception of faults other than SS. DIE_MACHINE_{HALT,RESTART} added to allow last minute close down processing, especially when the halt/restart routines are called from error handlers. DIE_OOPS added. The check for kprobe's break numbers has been moved from traps.c to kprobes.c, allowing DIE_BREAK to be used for any additional break numbers, i.e. it is no longer kprobes specific. Hooks for kernel debuggers and kernel dumpers added, ENTER and LEAVE. Both of these disable the system for long periods which impact on watchdogs and heartbeat systems in general. More patches to come that use these events to reset watchdogs and heartbeats. unregister_die_notifier() added and both routines exported. Requested by Dean Nelson. Lock removed from {un,}register_die_notifier. notifier_chain_register() already takes a lock. Also the generic notifier chain locking is being reworked to distinguish between callbacks that can block and those that cannot, the lock in {un,}register_die_notifier would interfere with that change. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113018709002036&w=2 Leading white space removed from arch/ia64/kernel/kprobes.c. Typo in mca.c in original version of this patch found & fixed by Dean Nelson. Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> Acked-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> Acked-by: Anil Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-11-07Auto-update from upstreamTony Luck
2005-11-07[PATCH] kfree cleanup: archJesper Juhl
This is the arch/ part of the big kfree cleanup patch. Remove pointless checks for NULL prior to calling kfree() in arch/. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Acked-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] ia64: fix-up schedule_timeout() usageNishanth Aravamudan
Use schedule_timeout_interruptible() instead of set_current_state()/schedule_timeout() to reduce kernel size. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] Kprobes: preempt_disable/enable() simplificationAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli
Reorganize the preempt_disable/enable calls to eliminate the extra preempt depth. Changes based on Paul McKenney's review suggestions for the kprobes RCU changeset. Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] Kprobes: Use RCU for (un)register synchronization - arch changesAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli
Changes to the arch kprobes infrastructure to take advantage of the locking changes introduced by usage of RCU for synchronization. All handlers are now run without any locks held, so they have to be re-entrant or provide their own synchronization. Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] Kprobes: Track kprobe on a per_cpu basis - ia64 changesAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli
IA64 changes to track kprobe execution on a per-cpu basis. We now track the kprobe state machine independently on each cpu using an arch specific kprobe control block. Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] Kprobes: rearrange preempt_disable/enable() callsAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli
The following set of patches are aimed at improving kprobes scalability. We currently serialize kprobe registration, unregistration and handler execution using a single spinlock - kprobe_lock. With these changes, kprobe handlers can run without any locks held. It also allows for simultaneous kprobe handler executions on different processors as we now track kprobe execution on a per processor basis. It is now necessary that the handlers be re-entrant since handlers can run concurrently on multiple processors. All changes have been tested on i386, ia64, ppc64 and x86_64, while sparc64 has been compile tested only. The patches can be viewed as 3 logical chunks: patch 1: Reorder preempt_(dis/en)able calls patches 2-7: Introduce per_cpu data areas to track kprobe execution patches 8-9: Use RCU to synchronize kprobe (un)registration and handler execution. Thanks to Maneesh Soni, James Keniston and Anil Keshavamurthy for their review and suggestions. Thanks again to Anil, Hien Nguyen and Kevin Stafford for testing the patches. This patch: Reorder preempt_disable/enable() calls in arch kprobes files in preparation to introduce locking changes. No functional changes introduced by this patch. Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayahanalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] Move Kprobes and Oprofile to "Instrumentation Support" menuPrasanna S Panchamukhi
Andrew Morton suggested to move kprobes from kernel hacking menu, since kernel hacking menu is in-appropriate for the Kprobes. This patch moves Kprobes and Oprofile under instrumentation menu. (akpm: it's not a natural fit, but things like djprobes and the s390 guys' statistics library need a home) Signed-of-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr> Cc: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] ia64: re-implement dma_get_cache_alignment to avoid EXPORT_SYMBOLJohn W. Linville
The current ia64 implementation of dma_get_cache_alignment does not work for modules because it relies on a symbol which is not exported. Direct access to a global is a little ugly anyway, so this patch re-implements dma_get_cache_alignment in a manner similar to what is currently used for x86_64. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-03[IA64] restrict CONFIG_SGI_SN_XP to IA64_GENERIC or IA64_SGI_SN2Dean Nelson
Restrict CONFIG_SGI_SN_XP to IA64_GENERIC or IA64_SGI_SN2 kernels. Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-11-03[IA64] make mmu_context.h and tlb.c 80-column friendlyChen, Kenneth W
wrap_mmu_context(), delayed_tlb_flush(), get_mmu_context() all have an extra { } block which cause one extra indentation. get_mmu_context() is particularly bad with 5 indentations to the most inner "if". It finally gets on my nerve that I can't keep the code within 80 columns. Remove the extra { } block and while I'm at it, reformat all the comments to 80-column friendly. No functional change at all with this patch. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-10-31[IA64] Use bitmaps for efficient context allocation/freePeter Keilty
Corrects the very inefficent method of finding free context_ids in get_mmu_context(). Instead of walking the task_list of all processes, 2 bitmaps are used to efficently store and lookup state, inuse and needs flushing. The entire rid address space is now used before calling wrap_mmu_context and global tlb flushing. Special thanks to Ken and Rohit for their review and modifications in using a bit flushmap. Signed-off-by: Peter Keilty <peter.keilty@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-10-31manual update from upstream:Tony Luck
Applied Al's change 06a544971fad0992fe8b92c5647538d573089dd4 to new location of swiotlb.c Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-10-30[PATCH] fix missing includesTim Schmielau
I recently picked up my older work to remove unnecessary #includes of sched.h, starting from a patch by Dave Jones to not include sched.h from module.h. This reduces the number of indirect includes of sched.h by ~300. Another ~400 pointless direct includes can be removed after this disentangling (patch to follow later). However, quite a few indirect includes need to be fixed up for this. In order to feed the patches through -mm with as little disturbance as possible, I've split out the fixes I accumulated up to now (complete for i386 and x86_64, more archs to follow later) and post them before the real patch. This way this large part of the patch is kept simple with only adding #includes, and all hunks are independent of each other. So if any hunk rejects or gets in the way of other patches, just drop it. My scripts will pick it up again in the next round. Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30[PATCH] jiffies_64 cleanupThomas Gleixner
Define jiffies_64 in kernel/timer.c rather than having 24 duplicated defines in each architecture. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30[PATCH] unify sys_ptrace prototypeChristoph Hellwig
Make sure we always return, as all syscalls should. Also move the common prototype to <linux/syscalls.h> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29[PATCH] memory hotplug locking: node_size_lockDave Hansen
pgdat->node_size_lock is basically only neeeded in one place in the normal code: show_mem(), which is the arch-specific sysrq-m printing function. Strictly speaking, the architectures not doing memory hotplug do no need this locking in show_mem(). However, they are all included for completeness. This should also make any future consolidation of all of the implementations a little more straightforward. This lock is also held in the sparsemem code during a memory removal, as sections are invalidated. This is the place there pfn_valid() is made false for a memory area that's being removed. The lock is only required when doing pfn_valid() operations on memory which the user does not already have a reference on the page, such as in show_mem(). 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>
2005-10-29[PATCH] mm: flush_tlb_range outside ptlockHugh Dickins
There was one small but very significant change in the previous patch: mprotect's flush_tlb_range fell outside the page_table_lock: as it is in 2.4, but that doesn't prove it safe in 2.6. On some architectures flush_tlb_range comes to the same as flush_tlb_mm, which has always been called from outside page_table_lock in dup_mmap, and is so proved safe. Others required a deeper audit: I could find no reliance on page_table_lock in any; but in ia64 and parisc found some code which looks a bit as if it might want preemption disabled. That won't do any actual harm, so pending a decision from the maintainers, disable preemption there. Remove comments on page_table_lock from flush_tlb_mm, flush_tlb_range and flush_tlb_page entries in cachetlb.txt: they were rather misleading (what generic code does is different from what usually happens), the rules are now changing, and it's not yet clear where we'll end up (will the generic tlb_flush_mmu happen always under lock? never under lock? or sometimes under and sometimes not?). 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[PATCH] mm: init_mm without ptlockHugh Dickins
First step in pushing down the page_table_lock. init_mm.page_table_lock has been used throughout the architectures (usually for ioremap): not to serialize kernel address space allocation (that's usually vmlist_lock), but because pud_alloc,pmd_alloc,pte_alloc_kernel expect caller holds it. Reverse that: don't lock or unlock init_mm.page_table_lock in any of the architectures; instead rely on pud_alloc,pmd_alloc,pte_alloc_kernel to take and drop it when allocating a new one, to check lest a racing task already did. Similarly no page_table_lock in vmalloc's map_vm_area. Some temporary ugliness in __pud_alloc and __pmd_alloc: since they also handle user mms, which are converted only by a later patch, for now they have to lock differently according to whether or not it's init_mm. If sources get muddled, there's a danger that an arch source taking init_mm.page_table_lock will be mixed with common source also taking it (or neither take it). So break the rules and make another change, which should break the build for such a mismatch: remove the redundant mm arg from pte_alloc_kernel (ppc64 scrapped its distinct ioremap_mm in 2.6.13). Exceptions: arm26 used pte_alloc_kernel on user mm, now pte_alloc_map; ia64 used pte_alloc_map on init_mm, now pte_alloc_kernel; parisc had bad args to pmd_alloc and pte_alloc_kernel in unused USE_HPPA_IOREMAP code; ppc64 map_io_page forgot to unlock on failure; ppc mmu_mapin_ram and ppc64 im_free took page_table_lock for no good reason. 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[PATCH] mm: ia64 use expand_upwardsHugh Dickins
ia64 has expand_backing_store function for growing its Register Backing Store vma upwards. But more complete code for this purpose is found in the CONFIG_STACK_GROWSUP part of mm/mmap.c. Uglify its #ifdefs further to provide expand_upwards for ia64 as well as expand_stack for parisc. The Register Backing Store vma should be marked VM_ACCOUNT. Implement the intention of growing it only a page at a time, instead of passing an address outside of the vma to handle_mm_fault, with unknown consequences. 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[PATCH] mm: vm_stat_account unshackledHugh Dickins
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>
2005-10-28Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
2005-10-28[IA64] fix warning unused variable `g'Tony Luck
4ac0068f44f192f2de95a7bb36df3e19767a45fb forgot to delete the declaration of this variable which is no longer used. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-10-28Pull optimize-ptrace-threads into release branchTony Luck