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2009-04-06Merge branch 'kmemtrace-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'kmemtrace-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: kmemtrace: trace kfree() calls with NULL or zero-length objects kmemtrace: small cleanups kmemtrace: restore original tracing data binary format, improve ABI kmemtrace: kmemtrace_alloc() must fill type_id kmemtrace: use tracepoints kmemtrace, rcu: don't include unnecessary headers, allow kmemtrace w/ tracepoints kmemtrace, rcu: fix rcupreempt.c data structure dependencies kmemtrace, rcu: fix rcu_tree_trace.c data structure dependencies kmemtrace, rcu: fix linux/rcutree.h and linux/rcuclassic.h dependencies kmemtrace, mm: fix slab.h dependency problem in mm/failslab.c kmemtrace, kbuild: fix slab.h dependency problem in lib/decompress_unlzma.c kmemtrace, kbuild: fix slab.h dependency problem in lib/decompress_bunzip2.c kmemtrace, kbuild: fix slab.h dependency problem in lib/decompress_inflate.c kmemtrace, squashfs: fix slab.h dependency problem in squasfs kmemtrace, befs: fix slab.h dependency problem kmemtrace, security: fix linux/key.h header file dependencies kmemtrace, fs: fix linux/fdtable.h header file dependencies kmemtrace, fs: uninline simple_transaction_set() kmemtrace, fs, security: move alloc_secdata() and free_secdata() to linux/security.h
2009-04-05Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (413 commits) tracing, net: fix net tree and tracing tree merge interaction tracing, powerpc: fix powerpc tree and tracing tree interaction ring-buffer: do not remove reader page from list on ring buffer free function-graph: allow unregistering twice trace: make argument 'mem' of trace_seq_putmem() const tracing: add missing 'extern' keywords to trace_output.h tracing: provide trace_seq_reserve() blktrace: print out BLK_TN_MESSAGE properly blktrace: extract duplidate code blktrace: fix memory leak when freeing struct blk_io_trace blktrace: fix blk_probes_ref chaos blktrace: make classic output more classic blktrace: fix off-by-one bug blktrace: fix the original blktrace blktrace: fix a race when creating blk_tree_root in debugfs blktrace: fix timestamp in binary output tracing, Text Edit Lock: cleanup tracing: filter fix for TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT events ftrace: Using FTRACE_WARN_ON() to check "freed record" in ftrace_release() x86: kretprobe-booster interrupt emulation code fix ... Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/parisc/include/asm/ftrace.h include/linux/memory.h kernel/extable.c kernel/module.c
2009-04-05Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-cpumaskLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-cpumask: (36 commits) cpumask: remove cpumask allocation from idle_balance, fix numa, cpumask: move numa_node_id default implementation to topology.h, fix cpumask: remove cpumask allocation from idle_balance x86: cpumask: x86 mmio-mod.c use cpumask_var_t for downed_cpus x86: cpumask: update 32-bit APM not to mug current->cpus_allowed x86: microcode: cleanup x86: cpumask: use work_on_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c cpumask: fix CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y cpu hotunplug crash numa, cpumask: move numa_node_id default implementation to topology.h cpumask: convert node_to_cpumask_map[] to cpumask_var_t cpumask: remove x86 cpumask_t uses. cpumask: use cpumask_var_t in uv_flush_tlb_others. cpumask: remove cpumask_t assignment from vector_allocation_domain() cpumask: make Xen use the new operators. cpumask: clean up summit's send_IPI functions cpumask: use new cpumask functions throughout x86 x86: unify cpu_callin_mask/cpu_callout_mask/cpu_initialized_mask/cpu_sibling_setup_mask cpumask: convert struct cpuinfo_x86's llc_shared_map to cpumask_var_t cpumask: convert node_to_cpumask_map[] to cpumask_var_t x86: unify 32 and 64-bit node_to_cpumask_map ...
2009-04-03kmemtrace: trace kfree() calls with NULL or zero-length objectsPekka Enberg
Impact: also output kfree(NULL) entries This patch moves the trace_kfree() calls before the ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR check so that we can trace call-sites that call kfree() with NULL many times which might be an indication of a bug. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> LKML-Reference: <1237971957.30175.18.camel@penberg-laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-03kmemtrace: use tracepointsEduard - Gabriel Munteanu
kmemtrace now uses tracepoints instead of markers. We no longer need to use format specifiers to pass arguments. Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> [ folded: Use the new TP_PROTO and TP_ARGS to fix the build. ] [ folded: fix build when CONFIG_KMEMTRACE is disabled. ] [ folded: define tracepoints when CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS is enabled. ] Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> LKML-Reference: <ae61c0f37156db8ec8dc0d5778018edde60a92e3.1237813499.git.eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-02workqueue: add to_delayed_work() helper functionJean Delvare
It is a fairly common operation to have a pointer to a work and to need a pointer to the delayed work it is contained in. In particular, all delayed works which want to rearm themselves will have to do that. So it would seem fair to offer a helper function for this operation. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-31Merge branch 'cpumask-for-linus' of ↵Rusty Russell
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/topology.h drivers/oprofile/buffer_sync.c (Both cases: changed in Linus' tree, removed in Ingo's).
2009-03-30Merge branch 'locking-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (33 commits) lockdep: fix deadlock in lockdep_trace_alloc lockdep: annotate reclaim context (__GFP_NOFS), fix SLOB lockdep: annotate reclaim context (__GFP_NOFS), fix lockdep: build fix for !PROVE_LOCKING lockstat: warn about disabled lock debugging lockdep: use stringify.h lockdep: simplify check_prev_add_irq() lockdep: get_user_chars() redo lockdep: simplify get_user_chars() lockdep: add comments to mark_lock_irq() lockdep: remove macro usage from mark_held_locks() lockdep: fully reduce mark_lock_irq() lockdep: merge the !_READ mark_lock_irq() helpers lockdep: merge the _READ mark_lock_irq() helpers lockdep: simplify mark_lock_irq() helpers #3 lockdep: further simplify mark_lock_irq() helpers lockdep: simplify the mark_lock_irq() helpers lockdep: split up mark_lock_irq() lockdep: generate usage strings lockdep: generate the state bit definitions ...
2009-03-13cpumask: replace node_to_cpumask with cpumask_of_node.Rusty Russell
Impact: cleanup node_to_cpumask (and the blecherous node_to_cpumask_ptr which contained a declaration) are replaced now everyone implements cpumask_of_node. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-04Merge branch 'core/locking' into tracing/ftraceIngo Molnar
2009-02-14lockdep: annotate reclaim context (__GFP_NOFS)Nick Piggin
Here is another version, with the incremental patch rolled up, and added reclaim context annotation to kswapd, and allocation tracing to slab allocators (which may only ever reach the page allocator in rare cases, so it is good to put annotations here too). Haven't tested this version as such, but it should be getting closer to merge worthy ;) -- After noticing some code in mm/filemap.c accidentally perform a __GFP_FS allocation when it should not have been, I thought it might be a good idea to try to catch this kind of thing with lockdep. I coded up a little idea that seems to work. Unfortunately the system has to actually be in __GFP_FS page reclaim, then take the lock, before it will mark it. But at least that might still be some orders of magnitude more common (and more debuggable) than an actual deadlock condition, so we have some improvement I hope (the concept is no less complete than discovery of a lock's interrupt contexts). I guess we could even do the same thing with __GFP_IO (normal reclaim), and even GFP_NOIO locks too... but filesystems will have the most locks and fiddly code paths, so let's start there and see how it goes. It *seems* to work. I did a quick test. ================================= [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ] 2.6.28-rc6-00007-ged31348-dirty #26 --------------------------------- inconsistent {in-reclaim-W} -> {ov-reclaim-W} usage. modprobe/8526 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes: (testlock){--..}, at: [<ffffffffa0020055>] brd_init+0x55/0x216 [brd] {in-reclaim-W} state was registered at: [<ffffffff80267bdb>] __lock_acquire+0x75b/0x1a60 [<ffffffff80268f71>] lock_acquire+0x91/0xc0 [<ffffffff8070f0e1>] mutex_lock_nested+0xb1/0x310 [<ffffffffa002002b>] brd_init+0x2b/0x216 [brd] [<ffffffff8020903b>] _stext+0x3b/0x170 [<ffffffff80272ebf>] sys_init_module+0xaf/0x1e0 [<ffffffff8020c3fb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff irq event stamp: 3929 hardirqs last enabled at (3929): [<ffffffff8070f2b5>] mutex_lock_nested+0x285/0x310 hardirqs last disabled at (3928): [<ffffffff8070f089>] mutex_lock_nested+0x59/0x310 softirqs last enabled at (3732): [<ffffffff8061f623>] sk_filter+0x83/0xe0 softirqs last disabled at (3730): [<ffffffff8061f5b6>] sk_filter+0x16/0xe0 other info that might help us debug this: 1 lock held by modprobe/8526: #0: (testlock){--..}, at: [<ffffffffa0020055>] brd_init+0x55/0x216 [brd] stack backtrace: Pid: 8526, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.28-rc6-00007-ged31348-dirty #26 Call Trace: [<ffffffff80265483>] print_usage_bug+0x193/0x1d0 [<ffffffff80266530>] mark_lock+0xaf0/0xca0 [<ffffffff80266735>] mark_held_locks+0x55/0xc0 [<ffffffffa0020000>] ? brd_init+0x0/0x216 [brd] [<ffffffff802667ca>] trace_reclaim_fs+0x2a/0x60 [<ffffffff80285005>] __alloc_pages_internal+0x475/0x580 [<ffffffff8070f29e>] ? mutex_lock_nested+0x26e/0x310 [<ffffffffa0020000>] ? brd_init+0x0/0x216 [brd] [<ffffffffa002006a>] brd_init+0x6a/0x216 [brd] [<ffffffffa0020000>] ? brd_init+0x0/0x216 [brd] [<ffffffff8020903b>] _stext+0x3b/0x170 [<ffffffff8070f8b9>] ? mutex_unlock+0x9/0x10 [<ffffffff8070f83d>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x10d/0x180 [<ffffffff802669ec>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x12c/0x190 [<ffffffff80272ebf>] sys_init_module+0xaf/0x1e0 [<ffffffff8020c3fb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-13Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/ring-buffer', 'tracing/sysprof', ↵Ingo Molnar
'tracing/urgent' and 'linus' into tracing/core
2009-02-12mm: Export symbol ksize()Kirill A. Shutemov
Commit 7b2cd92adc5430b0c1adeb120971852b4ea1ab08 ("crypto: api - Fix zeroing on free") added modular user of ksize(). Export that to fix crypto.ko compilation. Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-01-06Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/kmemtrace2Ingo Molnar
2009-01-01cpumask: convert mm/Rusty Russell
Impact: Use new API Convert kernel mm functions to use struct cpumask. We skip include/linux/percpu.h and mm/allocpercpu.c, which are in flux. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-31tracing/kmemtrace: fix typoIngo Molnar
Impact: build fix Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-31Merge branch 'tracing/kmemtrace' into tracing/kmemtrace2Ingo Molnar
2008-12-31Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/kmemtraceIngo Molnar
Conflicts: mm/slub.c
2008-12-30tracing/kmemtrace: export kmemtrace_mark_alloc_node() / kmemtrace_mark_free()Ingo Molnar
Impact: build fix Also fix up Kconfig dependencies and include files. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-30kmemtrace: move #include linesIngo Molnar
Impact: avoid conflicts with kmemcheck kmemcheck modifies the same area of slab.c and slub.c - move the include lines up a bit. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-29kmemtrace: SLAB hooks.Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
This adds hooks for the SLAB allocator, to allow tracing with kmemtrace. We also convert some inline functions to __always_inline to make sure _RET_IP_, which expands to __builtin_return_address(0), always works as expected. Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-12-29SLUB: Replace __builtin_return_address(0) with _RET_IP_.Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
This patch replaces __builtin_return_address(0) with _RET_IP_, since a previous patch moved _RET_IP_ and _THIS_IP_ to include/linux/kernel.h and they're widely available now. This makes for shorter and easier to read code. [penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: remove _RET_IP_ casts to void pointer] Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-12-29Merge branch 'topic/failslab' into for-linusPekka Enberg
Conflicts: mm/slub.c Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-12-29Merge branches 'topic/fixes', 'topic/cleanups' and 'topic/documentation' ↵Pekka Enberg
into for-linus
2008-12-29slab: remove GFP_THISNODE clearing from alloc_slabmgmt()Pekka Enberg
Commit 6cb062296f73e74768cca2f3eaf90deac54de02d ("Categorize GFP flags") left one call-site in alloc_slabmgmt() to clear GFP_THISNODE instead of GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK. Unfortunately, that ends up clearing __GFP_NOWARN and __GFP_NORETRY as well which is not what we want. As the only caller of alloc_slabmgmt() already clears GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK before passing local_flags to it, we can just remove the clearing of GFP_THISNODE. This patch should fix spurious page allocation failure warnings on the mempool_alloc() path. See the following URL for the original discussion of the bug: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/27/100 Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Reported-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-12-29SLUB: failslab supportAkinobu Mita
Currently fault-injection capability for SLAB allocator is only available to SLAB. This patch makes it available to SLUB, too. [penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: unify slab and slub implementations] Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-11-26slab: Update the kmem_cache_create documentation regarding the name parameterCatalin Marinas
kmem_cache implementations like slub are allowed to merge multiple caches but only the initial name is preserved. Therefore, kmem_cache_name() is not guaranteed to return the same pointer passed to the former function. This patch updates the documentation to make this clearer. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-11-26slab: unsigned slabp->inuse cannot be less than 0roel kluin
unsigned slabp->inuse cannot be less than 0 Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-11-26SLUB: Replace __builtin_return_address(0) with _RET_IP_.Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
This patch replaces __builtin_return_address(0) with _RET_IP_, since a previous patch moved _RET_IP_ and _THIS_IP_ to include/linux/kernel.h and they're widely available now. This makes for shorter and easier to read code. [penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: remove _RET_IP_ casts to void pointer] Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-10-23proc: move /proc/slabinfo boilerplate to mm/slub.c, mm/slab.cAlexey Dobriyan
Lose dummy ->write hook in case of SLUB, it's possible now. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-10-23proc: move /proc/slab_allocators boilerplate to mm/slab.cAlexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-07-29mm: unexport ksizeAdrian Bunk
This patch removes the obsolete and no longer used exports of ksize. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-07-26SL*B: drop kmem cache argument from constructorAlexey Dobriyan
Kmem cache passed to constructor is only needed for constructors that are themselves multiplexeres. Nobody uses this "feature", nor does anybody uses passed kmem cache in non-trivial way, so pass only pointer to object. Non-trivial places are: arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c This is flag day, yes. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/slab.c] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ubifs] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-15Merge branch 'generic-ipi' into generic-ipi-for-linusIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/powerpc/Kconfig arch/s390/kernel/time.c arch/x86/kernel/apic_32.c arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c arch/x86/kernel/i8259_64.c arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c arch/x86/kernel/nmi_64.c arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c arch/x86/xen/smp.c include/asm-x86/hw_irq_32.h include/asm-x86/hw_irq_64.h include/asm-x86/mach-default/irq_vectors.h include/asm-x86/mach-voyager/irq_vectors.h include/asm-x86/smp.h kernel/Makefile Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-15slab: rename slab_destroy_objsRabin Vincent
With the removal of destructors, slab_destroy_objs no longer actually destroys any objects, making the kernel doc incorrect and the function name misleading. In keeping with the other debug functions, rename it to slab_destroy_debugcheck and drop the kernel doc. Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-06-26on_each_cpu(): kill unused 'retry' parameterJens Axboe
It's not even passed on to smp_call_function() anymore, since that was removed. So kill it. Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-06-21Slab: Fix memory leak in fallback_alloc()Christoph Lameter
The zonelist patches caused the loop that checks for available objects in permitted zones to not terminate immediately. One object per zone per allocation may be allocated and then abandoned. Break the loop when we have successfully allocated one object. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30mm: remove remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrencesHarvey Harrison
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__ Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-30infrastructure to debug (dynamic) objectsThomas Gleixner
We can see an ever repeating problem pattern with objects of any kind in the kernel: 1) freeing of active objects 2) reinitialization of active objects Both problems can be hard to debug because the crash happens at a point where we have no chance to decode the root cause anymore. One problem spot are kernel timers, where the detection of the problem often happens in interrupt context and usually causes the machine to panic. While working on a timer related bug report I had to hack specialized code into the timer subsystem to get a reasonable hint for the root cause. This debug hack was fine for temporary use, but far from a mergeable solution due to the intrusiveness into the timer code. The code further lacked the ability to detect and report the root cause instantly and keep the system operational. Keeping the system operational is important to get hold of the debug information without special debugging aids like serial consoles and special knowledge of the bug reporter. The problems described above are not restricted to timers, but timers tend to expose it usually in a full system crash. Other objects are less explosive, but the symptoms caused by such mistakes can be even harder to debug. Instead of creating specialized debugging code for the timer subsystem a generic infrastructure is created which allows developers to verify their code and provides an easy to enable debug facility for users in case of trouble. The debugobjects core code keeps track of operations on static and dynamic objects by inserting them into a hashed list and sanity checking them on object operations and provides additional checks whenever kernel memory is freed. The tracked object operations are: - initializing an object - adding an object to a subsystem list - deleting an object from a subsystem list Each operation is sanity checked before the operation is executed and the subsystem specific code can provide a fixup function which allows to prevent the damage of the operation. When the sanity check triggers a warning message and a stack trace is printed. The list of operations can be extended if the need arises. For now it's limited to the requirements of the first user (timers). The core code enqueues the objects into hash buckets. The hash index is generated from the address of the object to simplify the lookup for the check on kfree/vfree. Each bucket has it's own spinlock to avoid contention on a global lock. The debug code can be compiled in without being active. The runtime overhead is minimal and could be optimized by asm alternatives. A kernel command line option enables the debugging code. Thanks to Ingo Molnar for review, suggestions and cleanup patches. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28mm: move cache_line_size() to <linux/cache.h>Pekka Enberg
Not all architectures define cache_line_size() so as suggested by Andrew move the private implementations in mm/slab.c and mm/slob.c to <linux/cache.h>. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28mm: have zonelist contains structs with both a zone pointer and zone_idxMel Gorman
Filtering zonelists requires very frequent use of zone_idx(). This is costly as it involves a lookup of another structure and a substraction operation. As the zone_idx is often required, it should be quickly accessible. The node idx could also be stored here if it was found that accessing zone->node is significant which may be the case on workloads where nodemasks are heavily used. This patch introduces a struct zoneref to store a zone pointer and a zone index. The zonelist then consists of an array of these struct zonerefs which are looked up as necessary. Helpers are given for accessing the zone index as well as the node index. [kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: Suggested struct zoneref instead of embedding information in pointers] [hugh@veritas.com: mm-have-zonelist: fix memcg ooms] [hugh@veritas.com: just return do_try_to_free_pages] [hugh@veritas.com: do_try_to_free_pages gfp_mask redundant] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28mm: use two zonelist that are filtered by GFP maskMel Gorman
Currently a node has two sets of zonelists, one for each zone type in the system and a second set for GFP_THISNODE allocations. Based on the zones allowed by a gfp mask, one of these zonelists is selected. All of these zonelists consume memory and occupy cache lines. This patch replaces the multiple zonelists per-node with two zonelists. The first contains all populated zones in the system, ordered by distance, for fallback allocations when the target/preferred node has no free pages. The second contains all populated zones in the node suitable for GFP_THISNODE allocations. An iterator macro is introduced called for_each_zone_zonelist() that interates through each zone allowed by the GFP flags in the selected zonelist. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-28mm: introduce node_zonelist() for accessing the zonelist for a GFP maskMel Gorman
Introduce a node_zonelist() helper function. It is used to lookup the appropriate zonelist given a node and a GFP mask. The patch on its own is a cleanup but it helps clarify parts of the two-zonelist-per-node patchset. If necessary, it can be merged with the next patch in this set without problems. Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-19nodemask: use new node_to_cpumask_ptr functionMike Travis
* Use new node_to_cpumask_ptr. This creates a pointer to the cpumask for a given node. This definition is in mm patch: asm-generic-add-node_to_cpumask_ptr-macro.patch * Use new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function. Depends on: [mm-patch]: asm-generic-add-node_to_cpumask_ptr-macro.patch [sched-devel]: sched: add new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function [x86/latest]: x86: add cpus_scnprintf function Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-26slab: fix cache_cache bootstrap in kmem_cache_init()Daniel Yeisley
Commit 556a169dab38b5100df6f4a45b655dddd3db94c1 ("slab: fix bootstrap on memoryless node") introduced bootstrap-time cache_cache list3s for all nodes but forgot that initkmem_list3 needs to be accessed by [somevalue + node]. This patch fixes list_add() corruption in mm/slab.c seen on the ES7000. Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Yeisley <dan.yeisley@unisys.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
2008-03-19mm: fix various kernel-doc commentsRandy Dunlap
Fix various kernel-doc notation in mm/: filemap.c: add function short description; convert 2 to kernel-doc fremap.c: change parameter 'prot' to @prot pagewalk.c: change "-" in function parameters to ":" slab.c: fix short description of kmem_ptr_validate() swap.c: fix description & parameters of put_pages_list() swap_state.c: fix function parameters vmalloc.c: change "@returns" to "Returns:" since that is not a parameter Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-06slab: NUMA slab allocator migration bugfixJoe Korty
NUMA slab allocator cpu migration bugfix The NUMA slab allocator (specifically, cache_alloc_refill) is not refreshing its local copies of what cpu and what numa node it is on, when it drops and reacquires the irq block that it inherited from its caller. As a result those values become invalid if an attempt to migrate the process to another numa node occured while the irq block had been dropped. The solution is to make cache_alloc_refill reload these variables whenever it drops and reacquires the irq block. The error is very difficult to hit. When it does occur, one gets the following oops + stack traceback bits in check_spinlock_acquired: kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:2417 cache_alloc_refill+0xe6 kmem_cache_alloc+0xd0 ... This patch was developed against 2.6.23, ported to and compiled-tested only against 2.6.25-rc4. Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
2008-03-06slab - use angle brackets for include of kmalloc_sizes.hJoe Perches
Make them all use angle brackets and the directory name. Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
2008-03-06slab numa fallback logic: Do not pass unfiltered flags to page allocatorChristoph Lameter
The NUMA fallback logic should be passing local_flags to kmem_get_pages() and not simply the flags passed in. Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
2008-02-14slab: avoid double initialization & do initialization in 1 placeMarcin Slusarz
- alloc_slabmgmt: initialize all slab fields in 1 place - slab->nodeid was initialized twice: in alloc_slabmgmt and immediately after it in cache_grow Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> CC: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>