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It is not necessary to tell the slab allocators to align to a cacheline
if an explicit alignment was already specified. It is rather confusing
to specify multiple alignments.
Make sure that the call sites only use one form of alignment.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch was recently posted to lkml and acked by Pekka.
The flag SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN is
1. Never checked by SLAB at all.
2. A duplicate of SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN for SLUB
3. Fulfills the role of SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN for SLOB.
The only remaining use is in sparc64 and ppc64 and their use there
reflects some earlier role that the slab flag once may have had. If
its specified then SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN is also specified.
The flag is confusing, inconsistent and has no purpose.
Remove it.
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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I ported this to sparc64 as per the patch below, tested on UP SunBlade1500 and
24 cpu Niagara T1000.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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It should be set to the total number of pages that the
system will really have available after things like
initmem, the bootmem map, and initrd are freed up.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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While useful in odd circumstances to debug something, they are
normally totally unused and anyone can fetch this code out of the
history if they really need it.
And in any event, the person who needs this kind of code is usually me
:-)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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We now report everything i386 does except for highmem which
doesn't apply.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Just inline it into flush_icache_range() which is the only
user.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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__get_phys is only called from init.c as is prom_virt_to_phys(),
__get_iospace() is not called at all, and sun4u_get_pte() is largely
misnamed.
Privatize the implementation and helper functions of
sun4u_get_phys() to mm/init.c, and rename to
kvaddr_to_paddr().
The only used of this thing is flush_icache_range(), and thus
things can be considerably further simplified. For example,
we should only see module or PAGE_OFFSET kernel addresses here,
so we don't need the OBP firmware range handling at all.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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We already get those from asm/sections.h
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Kick out empty entries as soon as we spot them, and use memmove()
instead of a silly loop to make the operation more clear.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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We have to make sure to use base-pagesize TLB entries even during the
early transition period where we need TLB miss handling but don't have
the kernel page tables setup yet for the linear region.
Also, it is necessary therefore to not use the 4MB TSB for these
translations, and instead use the normal kernel TSB. This allows us
to also get rid of the 4MB tsb for debug builds which shrinks the
kernel a little bit.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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These pte loops all assume the passed in address is HPAGE
aligned, make sure that is actually true.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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nr_free_pages is now a simple access to a global variable. Make it a macro
instead of a function.
The nr_free_pages now requires vmstat.h to be included. There is one
occurrence in power management where we need to add the include. Directly
refrer to global_page_state() there to clarify why the #include was added.
[akpm@osdl.org: arm build fix]
[akpm@osdl.org: sparc64 build fix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We were not being careful enough. When we trim the physical
memory areas, we have to make sure we don't remove the kernel
image or initial ramdisk image ranges.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.
The patch was generated using the following script:
#!/bin/sh
#
# Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.
#
set -e
for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do
quilt add $file
sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$
mv /tmp/$$ $file
quilt refresh
done
The script was run like this
sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Following up with the work on shared page table done by Dave McCracken. This
set of patch target shared page table for hugetlb memory only.
The shared page table is particular useful in the situation of large number of
independent processes sharing large shared memory segments. In the normal
page case, the amount of memory saved from process' page table is quite
significant. For hugetlb, the saving on page table memory is not the primary
objective (as hugetlb itself already cuts down page table overhead
significantly), instead, the purpose of using shared page table on hugetlb is
to allow faster TLB refill and smaller cache pollution upon TLB miss.
With PT sharing, pte entries are shared among hundreds of processes, the cache
consumption used by all the page table is smaller and in return, application
gets much higher cache hit ratio. One other effect is that cache hit ratio
with hardware page walker hitting on pte in cache will be higher and this
helps to reduce tlb miss latency. These two effects contribute to higher
application performance.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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There is an ancient and totally incorrect sanity check being
done on the ramdisk location. The check assumes that the
kernel is always loaded to physical address zero, which is
wrong. It was trying to validate the ramdisk value by saying that
if it fell within the kernel image address range it must be wrong.
Anyways, kill this because it actually creates problems. The
'ramdisk_image' should always be adjusted down by KERNBASE.
SILO can easily put the ramdisk in a location which causes
this test to trigger, breaking things.
[ Based almost entirely upon a patch from Ben Collins. ]
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This problem was introduced by changeset
14778d9072e53d2171f66ffd9657daff41acfaed
Unlike the hugetlb code paths, the normal fault code is not setup to
propagate PTE changes for large page sizes correctly like the ones we
make for I/O mappings in io_remap_pfn_range().
It is absolutely necessary to update all sub-ptes of a largepage
mapping on a fault. Adding special handling for this would add
considerably complexity to tlb_batch_add(). So let's just side-step
the issue and forcefully dirty any writable PTEs created by
io_remap_pfn_range().
The only other real option would be to disable to large PTE code of
io_remap_pfn_range() and we really don't want to do that.
Much thanks to Mikael Pettersson for tracking down this problem and
testing debug patches.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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That way we'll have at least some debugging info even if
the stack dump explodes.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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Localize poison values into one header file for better documentation and
easier/quicker debugging and so that the same values won't be used for
multiple purposes.
Use these constants in core arch., mm, driver, and fs code.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
[SPARC]: Add iomap interfaces.
[OPENPROM]: Rewrite driver to use in-kernel device tree.
[OPENPROMFS]: Rewrite using in-kernel device tree and seq_file.
[SPARC]: Add unique device_node IDs and a ".node" property.
[SPARC]: Add of_set_property() interface.
[SPARC64]: Export auxio_register to modules.
[SPARC64]: Add missing interfaces to dma-mapping.h
[SPARC64]: Export _PAGE_IE to modules.
[SPARC64]: Allow floppy driver to build modular.
[SPARC]: Export x_bus_type to modules.
[RIOWATCHDOG]: Fix the build.
[CPWATCHDOG]: Fix the build.
[PARPORT] sunbpp: Fix typo.
[MTD] sun_uflash: Port to new EBUS device layer.
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Overloading of page fault notification with the notify_die() has performance
issues(since the only interested components for page fault is kprobes and/or
kdb) and hence this patch introduces the new notifier call chain exclusively
for page fault notifications their by avoiding notifying unnecessary
components in the do_page_fault() code path.
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>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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On some sun4v systems, after netboot the ethernet controller and it's
DMA mappings can be left active. The net result is that the kernel
can end up using memory the ethernet controller will continue to DMA
into, resulting in corruption.
To deal with this, we are more careful about importing IOMMU
translations which OBP has left in the IO-TLB. If the mapping maps
into an area the firmware claimed was free and available memory for
the kernel to use, we demap instead of import that IOMMU entry.
This is going to cause the network chip to take a PCI master abort on
the next DMA it attempts, if it has been left going like this. All
tests show that this is handled properly by the PCI layer and the e1000
drivers.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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If we end up zero'ing out the size of one of the entries,
pop it out of the array completely because some code that
examines these things cannot handle a zero length element
properly.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The basic framework is based on the PowerPC OF code.
This code even tries to get the device addressing components
correct in the full path names.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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A context switch will force a call to flush_tlb_pending() (via
switch_to()), so if we test tlb_nr to be non-zero, then sleep, it
would become zero and later back at the original context we'll pass
zero down into the TLB flushing code which should never see a nr
argument of zero.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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We are about to fill in all HPAGE_SIZE's worth
of PAGE_SIZE ptes, so we have to give the first
pte in that set else we scribble over random memory
when we fill in the ptes.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The worst part about this bug is what it would cause
a hugepage TSB to be allocated for every address space
since "0 >= 0".
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Merge clash will have broken sparc64. Synch up its online_page
implementation with powerpc, which was identical until the
set_page_count removal.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
[SPARC64]: Add a secondary TSB for hugepage mappings.
[SPARC]: Respect vm_page_prot in io_remap_page_range().
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Quite a long time back, prepare_hugepage_range() replaced
is_aligned_hugepage_range() as the callback from mm/mmap.c to arch code to
verify if an address range is suitable for a hugepage mapping.
is_aligned_hugepage_range() stuck around, but only to implement
prepare_hugepage_range() on archs which didn't implement their own.
Most archs (everything except ia64 and powerpc) used the same
implementation of is_aligned_hugepage_range(). On powerpc, which
implements its own prepare_hugepage_range(), the custom version was never
used.
In addition, "is_aligned_hugepage_range()" was a bad name, because it
suggests it returns true iff the given range is a good hugepage range,
whereas in fact it returns 0-or-error (so the sense is reversed).
This patch cleans up by abolishing is_aligned_hugepage_range(). Instead
prepare_hugepage_range() is defined directly. Most archs use the default
version, which simply checks the given region is aligned to the size of a
hugepage. ia64 and powerpc define custom versions. The ia64 one simply
checks that the range is in the correct address space region in addition to
being suitably aligned. The powerpc version (just as previously) checks
for suitable addresses, and if necessary performs low-level MMU frobbing to
set up new areas for use by hugepages.
No libhugetlbfs testsuite regressions on ppc64 (POWER5 LPAR).
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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set_page_count usage outside mm/ is limited to setting the refcount to 1.
Remove set_page_count from outside mm/, and replace those users with
init_page_count() and set_page_refcounted().
This allows more debug checking, and tighter control on how code is allowed
to play around with page->_count.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Make sure the callers do a pgprot_noncached() on
vma->vm_page_prot.
Pointed out by Hugh Dickens.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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1) huge_pte_offset() did not check the page table hierarchy
elements as being empty correctly, resulting in an OOPS
2) Need platform specific hugetlb_get_unmapped_area() to handle
the top-down vs. bottom-up address space allocation strategies.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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We only need to write an invalid tag every 16 bytes,
so taking advantage of this can save many instructions
compared to the simple memset() call we make now.
A prefetching implementation is implemented for sun4u
and a block-init store version if implemented for Niagara.
The next trick is to be able to perform an init and
a copy_tsb() in parallel when growing a TSB table.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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online_page() is straightforward, and then add a dummy
remove_memory() that returns -EINVAL just like i386.
There is no point in implementing remove_memory() since
__remove_pages() has no implementation either.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Try only lightly on > 1 order allocations.
If a grow fails, we are under memory pressure, so do not try
to grow the TSB for this address space any more.
If a > 0 order TSB allocation fails on a new fork, retry using
a 0 order allocation.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This is good for up to %50 performance improvement of some test cases.
The problem has been the race conditions, and hopefully I've plugged
them all up here.
1) There was a serious race in switch_mm() wrt. lazy TLB
switching to and from kernel threads.
We could erroneously skip a tsb_context_switch() and thus
use a stale TSB across a TSB grow event.
There is a big comment now in that function describing
exactly how it can happen.
2) All code paths that do something with the TSB need to be
guarded with the mm->context.lock spinlock. This makes
page table flushing paths properly synchronize with both
TSB growing and TLB context changes.
3) TSB growing events are moved to the end of successful fault
processing. Previously it was in update_mmu_cache() but
that is deadlock prone. At the end of do_sparc64_fault()
we hold no spinlocks that could deadlock the TSB grow
sequence. We also have dropped the address space semaphore.
While we're here, add prefetching to the copy_tsb() routine
and put it in assembler into the tsb.S file. This piece of
code is quite time critical.
There are some small negative side effects to this code which
can be improved upon. In particular we grab the mm->context.lock
even for the tsb insert done by update_mmu_cache() now and that's
a bit excessive. We can get rid of that locking, and the same
lock taking in flush_tsb_user(), by disabling PSTATE_IE around
the whole operation including the capturing of the tsb pointer
and tsb_nentries value. That would work because anyone growing
the TSB won't free up the old TSB until all cpus respond to the
TSB change cross call.
I'm not quite so confident in that optimization to put it in
right now, but eventually we might be able to and the description
is here for reference.
This code seems very solid now. It passes several parallel GCC
bootstrap builds, and our favorite "nut cruncher" stress test which is
a full "make -j8192" build of a "make allmodconfig" kernel. That puts
about 256 processes on each cpu's run queue, makes lots of process cpu
migrations occur, causes lots of page table and TLB flushing activity,
incurs many context version number changes, and it swaps the machine
real far out to disk even though there is 16GB of ram on this test
system. :-)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The page->flags manipulations done by the D-cache dirty
state tracking was broken because the constants were not
marked with "UL" to make them 64-bit, which means we were
clobbering the upper 32-bits of page->flags all the time.
This doesn't jive well with sparsemem which stores the
section and indexing information in the top 32-bits of
page->flags.
This is yet another sparc64 bug which has been with us
forever.
While we're here, tidy up some things in bootmem_init()
and paginig_init():
1) Pass min_low_pfn to init_bootmem_node(), it's identical
to (phys_base >> PAGE_SHIFT) but we should use consistent
with the variable names we print in CONFIG_BOOTMEM_DEBUG
2) max_mapnr, although no longer used, was being set
inaccurately, we shouldn't subtract pfn_base any more.
3) All the games with phys_base in the zones_*[] arrays
we pass to free_area_init_node() are no longer necessary.
Thanks to Josh Grebe and Fabbione for the bug reports
and testing. Fix also verified locally on an SB2500
which had a memory layout that triggered the same problem.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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