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2009-01-06mm: write_cache_pages more terminate quicklyAndrew Morton
Now that we have the early-termination logic in place, it makes sense to bail out early in all other cases where done is set to 1. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: write_cache_pages terminate quicklyNick Piggin
Terminate the write_cache_pages loop upon encountering the first page past end, without locking the page. Pages cannot have their index change when we have a reference on them (truncate, eg truncate_inode_pages_range performs the same check without the page lock). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: write_cache_pages optimise page cleaningNick Piggin
In write_cache_pages, if we get stuck behind another process that is cleaning pages, we will be forced to wait for them to finish, then perform our own writeout (if it was redirtied during the long wait), then wait for that. If a page under writeout is still clean, we can skip waiting for it (if we're part of a data integrity sync, we'll be waiting for all writeout pages afterwards, so we'll still be waiting for the other guy's write that's cleaned the page). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: write_cache_pages cleanupsNick Piggin
Get rid of some complex expressions from flow control statements, add a comment, remove some duplicate code. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: write_cache_pages integrity fixNick Piggin
In write_cache_pages, nr_to_write is heeded even for data-integrity syncs, so the function will return success after writing out nr_to_write pages, even if that was not sufficient to guarantee data integrity. The callers tend to set it to values that could break data interity semantics easily in practice. For example, nr_to_write can be set to mapping->nr_pages * 2, however if a file has a single, dirty page, then fsync is called, subsequent pages might be concurrently added and dirtied, then write_cache_pages might writeout two of these newly dirty pages, while not writing out the old page that should have been written out. Fix this by ignoring nr_to_write if it is a data integrity sync. This is a data integrity bug. The reason this has been done in the past is to avoid stalling sync operations behind page dirtiers. "If a file has one dirty page at offset 1000000000000000 then someone does an fsync() and someone else gets in first and starts madly writing pages at offset 0, we want to write that page at 1000000000000000. Somehow." What we do today is return success after an arbitrary amount of pages are written, whether or not we have provided the data-integrity semantics that the caller has asked for. Even this doesn't actually fix all stall cases completely: in the above situation, if the file has a huge number of pages in pagecache (but not dirty), then mapping->nrpages is going to be huge, even if pages are being dirtied. This change does indeed make the possibility of long stalls lager, and that's not a good thing, but lying about data integrity is even worse. We have to either perform the sync, or return -ELINUXISLAME so at least the caller knows what has happened. There are subsequent competing approaches in the works to solve the stall problems properly, without compromising data integrity. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: write_cache_pages writepage error fixNick Piggin
In write_cache_pages, if ret signals a real error, but we still have some pages left in the pagevec, done would be set to 1, but the remaining pages would continue to be processed and ret will be overwritten in the process. It could easily be overwritten with success, and thus success will be returned even if there is an error. Thus the caller is told all writes succeeded, wheras in reality some did not. Fix this by bailing immediately if there is an error, and retaining the first error code. This is a data integrity bug. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: write_cache_pages early loop terminationNick Piggin
We'd like to break out of the loop early in many situations, however the existing code has been setting mapping->writeback_index past the final page in the pagevec lookup for cyclic writeback. This is a problem if we don't process all pages up to the final page. Currently the code mostly keeps writeback_index reasonable and hacked around this by not breaking out of the loop or writing pages outside the range in these cases. Keep track of a real "done index" that enables us to terminate the loop in a much more flexible manner. Needed by the subsequent patch to preserve writepage errors, and then further patches to break out of the loop early for other reasons. However there are no functional changes with this patch alone. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: write_cache_pages cyclic fixNick Piggin
In write_cache_pages, scanned == 1 is supposed to mean that cyclic writeback has circled through zero, thus we should not circle again. However it gets set to 1 after the first successful pagevec lookup. This leads to cases where not enough data gets written. Counterexample: file with first 10 pages dirty, writeback_index == 5, nr_to_write == 10. Then the 5 last pages will be found, and scanned will be set to 1, after writing those out, we will not cycle back to get the first 5. Rework this logic, now we'll always cycle unless we started off from index 0. When cycling, only write out as far as 1 page before the start page from the first cycle (so we don't write parts of the file twice). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06oom: print triggering task's cpuset and mems allowedDavid Rientjes
When cpusets are enabled, it's necessary to print the triggering task's set of allowable nodes so the subsequently printed meminfo can be interpreted correctly. We also print the task's cpuset name for informational purposes. [rientjes@google.com: task lock current before dereferencing cpuset] Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06oom: fix zone_scan_mutex nameDavid Rientjes
zone_scan_mutex is actually a spinlock, so name it appropriately. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: invoke oom-killer from page faultNick Piggin
Rather than have the pagefault handler kill a process directly if it gets a VM_FAULT_OOM, have it call into the OOM killer. With increasingly sophisticated oom behaviour (cpusets, memory cgroups, oom killing throttling, oom priority adjustment or selective disabling, panic on oom, etc), it's silly to unconditionally kill the faulting process at page fault time. Create a hook for pagefault oom path to call into instead. Only converted x86 and uml so far. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make __out_of_memory() static] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: move_pages: no need to set pp->page to ZERO_PAGE(0) by defaultBrice Goglin
pp->page is never used when not set to the right page, so there is no need to set it to ZERO_PAGE(0) by default. Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> 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>
2009-01-06mm: rework do_pages_move() to work on page_sized chunksBrice Goglin
Rework do_pages_move() to work by page-sized chunks of struct page_to_node that are passed to do_move_page_to_node_array(). We now only have to allocate a single page instead a possibly very large vmalloc area to store all page_to_node entries. As a result, new_page_node() will now have a very small lookup, hidding much of the overall sys_move_pages() overhead. Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr> Signed-off-by: Nathalie Furmento <Nathalie.Furmento@labri.fr> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> 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>
2009-01-06mm: don't mark_page_accessed in shmem_faultHugh Dickins
Following "mm: don't mark_page_accessed in fault path", which now places a mark_page_accessed() in zap_pte_range(), we should remove the mark_page_accessed() from shmem_fault(). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: don't mark_page_accessed in fault pathNick Piggin
Doing a mark_page_accessed at fault-time, then doing SetPageReferenced at unmap-time if the pte is young has a number of problems. mark_page_accessed is supposed to be roughly the equivalent of a young pte for unmapped references. Unfortunately it doesn't come with any context: after being called, reclaim doesn't know who or why the page was touched. So calling mark_page_accessed not only adds extra lru or PG_referenced manipulations for pages that are already going to have pte_young ptes anyway, but it also adds these references which are difficult to work with from the context of vma specific references (eg. MADV_SEQUENTIAL pte_young may not wish to contribute to the page being referenced). Then, simply doing SetPageReferenced when zapping a pte and finding it is young, is not a really good solution either. SetPageReferenced does not correctly promote the page to the active list for example. So after removing mark_page_accessed from the fault path, several mmap()+touch+munmap() would have a very different result from several read(2) calls for example, which is not really desirable. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: report the MMU pagesize in /proc/pid/smapsMel Gorman
The KernelPageSize entry in /proc/pid/smaps is the pagesize used by the kernel to back a VMA. This matches the size used by the MMU in the majority of cases. However, one counter-example occurs on PPC64 kernels whereby a kernel using 64K as a base pagesize may still use 4K pages for the MMU on older processor. To distinguish, this patch reports MMUPageSize as the pagesize used by the MMU in /proc/pid/smaps. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: "KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: report the pagesize backing a VMA in /proc/pid/smapsMel Gorman
It is useful to verify a hugepage-aware application is using the expected pagesizes for its memory regions. This patch creates an entry called KernelPageSize in /proc/pid/smaps that is the size of page used by the kernel to back a VMA. The entry is not called PageSize as it is possible the MMU uses a different size. This extension should not break any sensible parser that skips lines containing unrecognised information. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: "KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-05Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: inotify: fix type errors in interfaces fix breakage in reiserfs_new_inode() fix the treatment of jfs special inodes vfs: remove duplicate code in get_fs_type() add a vfs_fsync helper sys_execve and sys_uselib do not call into fsnotify zero i_uid/i_gid on inode allocation inode->i_op is never NULL ntfs: don't NULL i_op isofs check for NULL ->i_op in root directory is dead code affs: do not zero ->i_op kill suid bit only for regular files vfs: lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR) race condition
2009-01-05mm: update my addressAlan Cox
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-05add a vfs_fsync helperChristoph Hellwig
Fsync currently has a fdatawrite/fdatawait pair around the method call, and a mutex_lock/unlock of the inode mutex. All callers of fsync have to duplicate this, but we have a few and most of them don't quite get it right. This patch adds a new vfs_fsync that takes care of this. It's a little more complicated as usual as ->fsync might get a NULL file pointer and just a dentry from nfsd, but otherwise gets afile and we want to take the mapping and file operations from it when it is there. Notes on the fsync callers: - ecryptfs wasn't calling filemap_fdatawrite / filemap_fdatawait on the lower file - coda wasn't calling filemap_fdatawrite / filemap_fdatawait on the host file, and returning 0 when ->fsync was missing - shm wasn't calling either filemap_fdatawrite / filemap_fdatawait nor taking i_mutex. Now given that shared memory doesn't have disk backing not doing anything in fsync seems fine and I left it out of the vfs_fsync conversion for now, but in that case we might just not pass it through to the lower file at all but just call the no-op simple_sync_file directly. [and now actually export vfs_fsync] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-01-05inode->i_op is never NULLAl Viro
We used to have rather schizophrenic set of checks for NULL ->i_op even though it had been eliminated years ago. You'd need to go out of your way to set it to NULL explicitly _and_ a bunch of code would die on such inodes anyway. After killing two remaining places that still did that bogosity, all that crap can go away. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-01-05kill suid bit only for regular filesDmitri Monakhov
We don't have to do it because it is useless for non regular files. In fact block device may trigger this path without dentry->d_inode->i_mutex. (akpm: concerns were expressed (by me) about S_ISDIR inodes) Signed-off-by: Dmitri Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-01-04fs: symlink write_begin allocation context fixNick Piggin
With the write_begin/write_end aops, page_symlink was broken because it could no longer pass a GFP_NOFS type mask into the point where the allocations happened. They are done in write_begin, which would always assume that the filesystem can be entered from reclaim. This bug could cause filesystem deadlocks. The funny thing with having a gfp_t mask there is that it doesn't really allow the caller to arbitrarily tinker with the context in which it can be called. It couldn't ever be GFP_ATOMIC, for example, because it needs to take the page lock. The only thing any callers care about is __GFP_FS anyway, so turn that into a single flag. Add a new flag for write_begin, AOP_FLAG_NOFS. Filesystems can now act on this flag in their write_begin function. Change __grab_cache_page to accept a nofs argument as well, to honour that flag (while we're there, change the name to grab_cache_page_write_begin which is more instructive and does away with random leading underscores). This is really a more flexible way to go in the end anyway -- if a filesystem happens to want any extra allocations aside from the pagecache ones in ints write_begin function, it may now use GFP_KERNEL (rather than GFP_NOFS) for common case allocations (eg. ocfs2_alloc_write_ctxt, for a random example). [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix ubifs] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix fuse] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x] Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [ Cleaned up the calling convention: just pass in the AOP flags untouched to the grab_cache_page_write_begin() function. That just simplifies everybody, and may even allow future expansion of the logic. - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-04vmalloc.c: fix flushing in vmap_page_range()Adam Lackorzynski
The flush_cache_vmap in vmap_page_range() is called with the end of the range twice. The following patch fixes this for me. Signed-off-by: Adam Lackorzynski <adam@os.inf.tu-dresden.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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>
2009-01-01cpumask: remove any_online_cpu() users: mm/Rusty Russell
Impact: Remove obsolete API usage any_online_cpu() is a good name, but it takes a cpumask_t, not a pointer. There are several places where any_online_cpu() doesn't really want a mask arg at all. Replace all callers with cpumask_any() and cpumask_any_and(). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
2008-12-31Merge branch 'master' of ↵Rusty Russell
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
2008-12-30Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6: slub: avoid leaking caches or refcounts on sysfs error slab: Fix comment on #endif slab: remove GFP_THISNODE clearing from alloc_slabmgmt() slub: Add might_sleep_if() to slab_alloc() SLUB: failslab support slub: Fix incorrect use of loose slab: Update the kmem_cache_create documentation regarding the name parameter slub: make early_kmem_cache_node_alloc void slab: unsigned slabp->inuse cannot be less than 0 slub - fix get_object_page comment SLUB: Replace __builtin_return_address(0) with _RET_IP_. SLUB: cleanup - define macros instead of hardcoded numbers
2008-12-30Merge branch 'for-2.6.29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-2.6.29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (43 commits) bio: get rid of bio_vec clearing bounce: don't rely on a zeroed bio_vec list cciss: simplify parameters to deregister_disk function cfq-iosched: fix race between exiting queue and exiting task loop: Do not call loop_unplug for not configured loop device. loop: Flush possible running bios when loop device is released. alpha: remove dead BIO_VMERGE_BOUNDARY Get rid of CONFIG_LSF block: make blk_softirq_init() static block: use min_not_zero in blk_queue_stack_limits block: add one-hit cache for disk partition lookup cfq-iosched: remove limit of dispatch depth of max 4 times quantum nbd: tell the block layer that it is not a rotational device block: get rid of elevator_t typedef aio: make the lookup_ioctx() lockless bio: add support for inlining a number of bio_vecs inside the bio bio: allow individual slabs in the bio_set bio: move the slab pointer inside the bio_set bio: only mempool back the largest bio_vec slab cache block: don't use plugging on SSD devices ...
2008-12-30Merge branch 'core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (63 commits) stacktrace: provide save_stack_trace_tsk() weak alias rcu: provide RCU options on non-preempt architectures too printk: fix discarding message when recursion_bug futex: clean up futex_(un)lock_pi fault handling "Tree RCU": scalable classic RCU implementation futex: rename field in futex_q to clarify single waiter semantics x86/swiotlb: add default swiotlb_arch_range_needs_mapping x86/swiotlb: add default phys<->bus conversion x86: unify pci iommu setup and allow swiotlb to compile for 32 bit x86: add swiotlb allocation functions swiotlb: consolidate swiotlb info message printing swiotlb: support bouncing of HighMem pages swiotlb: factor out copy to/from device swiotlb: add arch hook to force mapping swiotlb: allow architectures to override phys<->bus<->phys conversions swiotlb: add comment where we handle the overflow of a dma mask on 32 bit rcu: fix rcutorture behavior during reboot resources: skip sanity check of busy resources swiotlb: move some definitions to header swiotlb: allow architectures to override swiotlb pool allocation ... Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/Makefile arch/x86/mm/init_32.c include/linux/hardirq.h as per Ingo's suggestions.
2008-12-30Merge branch 'master' of ↵Rusty Russell
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
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
2008-12-29slub: avoid leaking caches or refcounts on sysfs errorDavid Rientjes
If a slab cache is mergeable and the sysfs alias cannot be added, the target cache shall have its refcount decremented. kmem_cache_create() will return NULL, so if kmem_cache_destroy() is ever called on the target cache, it will never be freed if the refcount has been leaked. Likewise, if a slab cache is not mergeable and the sysfs link cannot be added, the new cache shall be removed from the slab_caches list. kmem_cache_create() will return NULL, so it will be impossible to call kmem_cache_destroy() on it. Both of these operations require slub_lock since refcount of all slab caches and slab_caches are protected by the lock. In the mergeable case, it would be better to restore objsize and offset back to their original values, but this could race with another merge since slub_lock was dropped. Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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: Add might_sleep_if() to slab_alloc()OGAWA Hirofumi
Currently SLUB doesn't warn about __GFP_WAIT. Add it into slab_alloc(). Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> 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>
2008-12-29bounce: don't rely on a zeroed bio_vec listJens Axboe
__blk_queue_bounce() relies on a zeroed bio_vec list, since it looks up arbitrary indexes in the allocated bio. The block layer only guarentees that added entries are valid, so clear memory after alloc. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-28Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (241 commits) sched, trace: update trace_sched_wakeup() tracing/ftrace: don't trace on early stage of a secondary cpu boot, v3 Revert "x86: disable X86_PTRACE_BTS" ring-buffer: prevent false positive warning ring-buffer: fix dangling commit race ftrace: enable format arguments checking x86, bts: memory accounting x86, bts: add fork and exit handling ftrace: introduce tracing_reset_online_cpus() helper tracing: fix warnings in kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c tracing: fix warning in kernel/trace/trace.c tracing/ring-buffer: remove unused ring_buffer size trace: fix task state printout ftrace: add not to regex on filtering functions trace: better use of stack_trace_enabled for boot up code trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracer x86: entry_64 - introduce FTRACE_ frame macro v2 tracing/ftrace: add the printk-msg-only option tracing/ftrace: use preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace in ring_buffer_time_stamp() x86, bts: correctly report invalid bts records ... Fixed up trivial conflict in scripts/recordmcount.pl due to SH bits being already partly merged by the SH merge.
2008-12-28Merge branch 'x86-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (246 commits) x86: traps.c replace #if CONFIG_X86_32 with #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 x86: PAT: fix address types in track_pfn_vma_new() x86: prioritize the FPU traps for the error code x86: PAT: pfnmap documentation update changes x86: PAT: move track untrack pfnmap stubs to asm-generic x86: PAT: remove follow_pfnmap_pte in favor of follow_phys x86: PAT: modify follow_phys to return phys_addr prot and return value x86: PAT: clarify is_linear_pfn_mapping() interface x86: ia32_signal: remove unnecessary declaration x86: common.c boot_cpu_stack and boot_exception_stacks should be static x86: fix intel x86_64 llc_shared_map/cpu_llc_id anomolies x86: fix warning in arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c x86: ia32.h: remove unused struct sigfram32 and rt_sigframe32 x86: asm-offset_64: use rt_sigframe_ia32 x86: sigframe.h: include headers for dependency x86: traps.c declare functions before they get used x86: PAT: update documentation to cover pgprot and remap_pfn related changes - v3 x86: PAT: add pgprot_writecombine() interface for drivers - v3 x86: PAT: change pgprot_noncached to uc_minus instead of strong uc - v3 x86: PAT: implement track/untrack of pfnmap regions for x86 - v3 ...
2008-12-25Merge commit 'v2.6.28' into core/coreIngo Molnar
2008-12-25Merge branch 'next' into for-linusJames Morris
2008-12-23Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/cpufeature', ↵Ingo Molnar
'x86/crashdump', 'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/detect-hyper', 'x86/doc', 'x86/dumpstack', 'x86/early-printk', 'x86/fpu', 'x86/idle', 'x86/io', 'x86/memory-corruption-check', 'x86/microcode', 'x86/mm', 'x86/mtrr', 'x86/nmi-watchdog', 'x86/pat2', 'x86/pci-ioapic-boot-irq-quirks', 'x86/ptrace', 'x86/quirks', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/setup-memory', 'x86/signal', 'x86/sparse-fixes', 'x86/time', 'x86/uv' and 'x86/xen' into x86/core
2008-12-20x86, bts: memory accountingMarkus Metzger
Impact: move the BTS buffer accounting to the mlock bucket Add alloc_locked_buffer() and free_locked_buffer() functions to mm/mlock.c to kalloc a buffer and account the locked memory to current. Account the memory for the BTS buffer to the tracer. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19x86: PAT: move track untrack pfnmap stubs to asm-genericvenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Impact: Cleanup and branch hints only. Move the track and untrack pfn stub routines from memory.c to asm-generic. Also add unlikely to pfnmap related calls in fork and exit path. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-12-19x86: PAT: remove follow_pfnmap_pte in favor of follow_physvenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Impact: Cleanup - removes a new function in favor of a recently modified older one. Replace follow_pfnmap_pte in pat code with follow_phys. follow_phys lso returns protection eliminating the need of pte_pgprot call. Using follow_phys also eliminates the need for pte_pa. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-12-19x86: PAT: modify follow_phys to return phys_addr prot and return valuevenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Impact: Changes and globalizes an existing static interface. Follow_phys does similar things as follow_pfnmap_pte. Make a minor change to follow_phys so that it can be used in place of follow_pfnmap_pte. Physical address return value with 0 as error return does not work in follow_phys as the actual physical address 0 mapping may exist in pte. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-12-19Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/ring-buffer' and 'tracing/urgent' ↵Ingo Molnar
into tracing/core Conflicts: include/linux/ftrace.h
2008-12-18x86: PAT: hooks in generic vm code to help archs to track pfnmap regions - v3venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Impact: Introduces new hooks, which are currently null. Introduce generic hooks in remap_pfn_range and vm_insert_pfn and corresponding copy and free routines with reserve and free tracking. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-12-18x86: PAT: add follow_pfnmp_pte routine to help tracking pfnmap pages - v3venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Impact: New currently unused interface. Add a generic interface to follow pfn in a pfnmap vma range. This is used by one of the subsequent x86 PAT related patch to keep track of memory types for vma regions across vma copy and free. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>