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2007-02-11[PATCH] Reorder ZVCs according to cachelineChristoph Lameter
The global and per zone counter sums are in arrays of longs. Reorder the ZVCs so that the most frequently used ZVCs are put into the same cacheline. That way calculations of the global, node and per zone vm state touches only a single cacheline. This is mostly important for 64 bit systems were one 128 byte cacheline takes only 8 longs. 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>
2007-02-11[PATCH] Use ZVC for free_pagesChristoph Lameter
This is again simplifies some of the VM counter calculations through the use of the ZVC consolidated counters. [michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com: build fix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11[PATCH] Use ZVC for inactive and active countsChristoph Lameter
The determination of the dirty ratio to determine writeback behavior is currently based on the number of total pages on the system. However, not all pages in the system may be dirtied. Thus the ratio is always too low and can never reach 100%. The ratio may be particularly skewed if large hugepage allocations, slab allocations or device driver buffers make large sections of memory not available anymore. In that case we may get into a situation in which f.e. the background writeback ratio of 40% cannot be reached anymore which leads to undesired writeback behavior. This patchset fixes that issue by determining the ratio based on the actual pages that may potentially be dirty. These are the pages on the active and the inactive list plus free pages. The problem with those counts has so far been that it is expensive to calculate these because counts from multiple nodes and multiple zones will have to be summed up. This patchset makes these counters ZVC counters. This means that a current sum per zone, per node and for the whole system is always available via global variables and not expensive anymore to calculate. The patchset results in some other good side effects: - Removal of the various functions that sum up free, active and inactive page counts - Cleanup of the functions that display information via the proc filesystem. This patch: The use of a ZVC for nr_inactive and nr_active allows a simplification of some counter operations. More ZVC functionality is used for sums etc in the following patches. [akpm@osdl.org: UP 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>
2007-02-11[PATCH] page_mkwrite caller race fixHugh Dickins
After do_wp_page has tested page_mkwrite, it must release old_page after acquiring page table lock, not before: at some stage that ordering got reversed, leaving a (very unlikely) window in which old_page might be truncated, freed, and reused in the same position. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11[PATCH] /proc/zoneinfo: fix vm stats displayAndrew Morton
This early break prevents us from displaying info for the vm stats thresholds if the zone doesn't have any pages in its per-cpu pagesets. So my 800MB i386 box says: Node 0, zone DMA pages free 2365 min 16 low 20 high 24 active 0 inactive 0 scanned 0 (a: 0 i: 0) spanned 4096 present 4044 nr_anon_pages 0 nr_mapped 1 nr_file_pages 0 nr_slab_reclaimable 0 nr_slab_unreclaimable 0 nr_page_table_pages 0 nr_dirty 0 nr_writeback 0 nr_unstable 0 nr_bounce 0 nr_vmscan_write 0 protection: (0, 868, 868) pagesets all_unreclaimable: 0 prev_priority: 12 start_pfn: 0 Node 0, zone Normal pages free 199713 min 934 low 1167 high 1401 active 10215 inactive 4507 scanned 0 (a: 0 i: 0) spanned 225280 present 222420 nr_anon_pages 2685 nr_mapped 1110 nr_file_pages 12055 nr_slab_reclaimable 2216 nr_slab_unreclaimable 1527 nr_page_table_pages 213 nr_dirty 0 nr_writeback 0 nr_unstable 0 nr_bounce 0 nr_vmscan_write 0 protection: (0, 0, 0) pagesets cpu: 0 pcp: 0 count: 152 high: 186 batch: 31 cpu: 0 pcp: 1 count: 13 high: 62 batch: 15 vm stats threshold: 16 cpu: 1 pcp: 0 count: 34 high: 186 batch: 31 cpu: 1 pcp: 1 count: 10 high: 62 batch: 15 vm stats threshold: 16 all_unreclaimable: 0 prev_priority: 12 start_pfn: 4096 Just nuke all that search-for-the-first-non-empty-pageset code. Dunno why it was there in the first place.. Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11[PATCH] Avoid excessive sorting of early_node_map[]Mel Gorman
find_min_pfn_for_node() and find_min_pfn_with_active_regions() sort early_node_map[] on every call. This is an excessive amount of sorting and that can be avoided. This patch always searches the whole early_node_map[] in find_min_pfn_for_node() instead of returning the first value found. The map is then only sorted once when required. Successfully boot tested on a number of machines. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11[PATCH] slab: use parameter passed to cache_reap to determine pointer to ↵Christoph Lameter
work structure Use the pointer passed to cache_reap to determine the work pointer and consolidate exit paths. 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>
2007-02-11[PATCH] slab: cache alloc cleanupsPekka Enberg
Clean up __cache_alloc and __cache_alloc_node functions a bit. We no longer need to do NUMA_BUILD tricks and the UMA allocation path is much simpler. No functional changes in this patch. Note: saves few kernel text bytes on x86 NUMA build due to using gotos in __cache_alloc_node() and moving __GFP_THISNODE check in to fallback_alloc(). Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@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>
2007-02-11[PATCH] slab: remove broken PageSlab check from kfree_debugcheckPekka Enberg
The PageSlab debug check in kfree_debugcheck() is broken for compound pages. It is also redundant as we already do BUG_ON for non-slab pages in page_get_cache() and page_get_slab() which are always called before we free any actual objects. 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>
2007-02-09[PATCH] Add install_special_mappingRoland McGrath
This patch adds a utility function install_special_mapping, for creating a special vma using a fixed set of preallocated pages as backing, such as for a vDSO. This consolidates some nearly identical code used for vDSO mapping reimplemented for different architectures. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-09[PATCH] mm: show bounce pages in oom killer outputAndrew Morton
Also split that long line up - people like to send us wordwrapped oom-kill traces. Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-09[PATCH] hugetlb: preserve hugetlb pte dirty stateKen Chen
__unmap_hugepage_range() is buggy that it does not preserve dirty state of huge_pte when unmapping hugepage range. It causes data corruption in the event of dop_caches being used by sys admin. For example, an application creates a hugetlb file, modify pages, then unmap it. While leaving the hugetlb file alive, comes along sys admin doing a "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches". drop_pagecache_sb() will happily free all pages that aren't marked dirty if there are no active mapping. Later when application remaps the hugetlb file back and all data are gone, triggering catastrophic flip over on application. Not only that, the internal resv_huge_pages count will also get all messed up. Fix it up by marking page dirty appropriately. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Cc: "Nish Aravamudan" <nish.aravamudan@gmail.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-09[PATCH] mm: remove find_trylock_pageNick Piggin
Remove find_trylock_page as per the removal schedule. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> [ Let's see if anybody screams ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-31Revert "[PATCH] mm: micro optimise zone_watermark_ok"Linus Torvalds
This reverts commit e80ee884ae0e3794ef2b65a18a767d502ad712ee. Pawel Sikora had a boot-time oops due to it - because the sign change invalidates the following comparisons, since 'free_pages' can be negative. The micro-optimization just isn't worth it. Bisected-by: Pawel Sikora <pluto@agmk.net> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-30[PATCH] Don't allow the stack to grow into hugetlb reserved regionsAdam Litke
When expanding the stack, we don't currently check if the VMA will cross into an area of the address space that is reserved for hugetlb pages. Subsequent faults on the expanded portion of such a VMA will confuse the low-level MMU code, resulting in an OOPS. Check for this. Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-30[PATCH] mm: mremap correct rmap accountingHugh Dickins
Nick Piggin points out that page accounting on MIPS multiple ZERO_PAGEs is not maintained by its move_pte, and could lead to freeing a ZERO_PAGE. Instead of complicating that move_pte, just forget the minor optimization when mremapping, and change the one thing which needed it for correctness - filemap_xip use ZERO_PAGE(0) throughout instead of according to address. [ "There is no block device driver one could use for XIP on mips platforms" - Carsten Otte ] Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-29Fix balance_dirty_page() calculations with CONFIG_HIGHMEMLinus Torvalds
This makes balance_dirty_page() always base its calculations on the amount of non-highmem memory in the machine, rather than try to base it on total memory and then falling back on non-highmem memory if the mapping it was writing wasn't highmem capable. This not only fixes a situation where two different writers can have wildly different notions about what is a "balanced" dirty state, but it also means that people with highmem machines don't run into an OOM situation when regular memory fills up with dirty pages. We used to try to handle the latter case by scaling down the dirty_ratio if the machine had a lot of highmem pages in page_writeback_init(), but it wasn't aggressive enough for some situations, and since basing the dirty ratio on highmem memory was broken in the first place, let's just stop doing so. (A variation of this theme fixed Justin Piszcz's OOM problem when copying an 18GB file on a RAID setup). Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-26[PATCH] MM: Remove [PATCH] invalidate_inode_pages2_range() debugTrond Myklebust
NFS can handle the case where invalidate_inode_pages2_range() fails, so the premise behind commit 8258d4a574d3a8c01f0ef68aa26b969398a0e140 is now gone. Remove the WARN_ON_ONCE() which is causing users grief as we can see from http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7826 Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-26[PATCH] i386 vDSO: use VM_ALWAYSDUMPRoland McGrath
This patch fixes core dumps to include the vDSO vma, which is left out now. It removes the special-case core writing macros, which were not doing the right thing for the vDSO vma anyway. Instead, it uses VM_ALWAYSDUMP in the vma; there is no need for the fixmap page to be installed. It handles the CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO case by making elf_core_dump use the fake vma from get_gate_vma after real vmas in the same way the /proc/PID/maps code does. This changes core dumps so they no longer include the non-PT_LOAD phdrs from the vDSO. I made the change to add them in the first place, but in turned out that nothing ever wanted them there since the advent of NT_AUXV. It's cleaner to leave them out, and just let the phdrs inside the vDSO image speak for themselves. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-26[PATCH] Fix gate_vma.vm_flagsRoland McGrath
This patch fixes the initialization of gate_vma.vm_flags and gate_vma.vm_page_prot to reflect reality. This makes the "[vdso]" line in /proc/PID/maps correctly show r-xp instead of ---p, when gate_vma is used (CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO on i386). Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-26Resurrect 'try_to_free_buffers()' VM hackeryLinus Torvalds
It's not pretty, but it appears that ext3 with data=journal will clean pages without ever actually telling the VM that they are clean. This, in turn, will result in the VM (and balance_dirty_pages() in particular) to never realize that the pages got cleaned, and wait forever for an event that already happened. Technically, this seems to be a problem with ext3 itself, but it used to be hidden by 'try_to_free_buffers()' noticing this situation on its own, and just working around the filesystem problem. This commit re-instates that hack, in order to avoid a regression for the 2.6.20 release. This fixes bugzilla 7844: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7844 Peter Zijlstra points out that we should probably retain the debugging code that this removes from cancel_dirty_page(), and I agree, but for the imminent release we might as well just silence the warning too (since it's not a new bug: anything that triggers that warning has been around forever). Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-23[PATCH] mbind: restrict nodes to the currently allowed cpusetChristoph Lameter
Currently one can specify an arbitrary node mask to mbind that includes nodes not allowed. If that is done with an interleave policy then we will go around all the nodes. Those outside of the currently allowed cpuset will be redirected to the border nodes. Interleave will then create imbalances at the borders of the cpuset. This patch restricts the nodes to the currently allowed cpuset. The RFC for this patch was discussed at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=116793842100004&r=1&w=2 Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-01-12[PATCH] blktrace: only add a bounce trace when we really bounceJens Axboe
Currently we issue a bounce trace when __blk_queue_bounce() is called, but that merely means that the device has a lower dma mask than the higher pages in the system. The bio itself may still be lower pages. So move the bounce trace into __blk_queue_bounce(), when we know there will actually be page bouncing. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2007-01-11[PATCH] NFS: Fix race in nfs_release_page()Trond Myklebust
NFS: Fix race in nfs_release_page() invalidate_inode_pages2() may find the dirty bit has been set on a page owing to the fact that the page may still be mapped after it was locked. Only after the call to unmap_mapping_range() are we sure that the page can no longer be dirtied. In order to fix this, NFS has hooked the releasepage() method and tries to write the page out between the call to unmap_mapping_range() and the call to remove_mapping(). This, however leads to deadlocks in the page reclaim code, where the page may be locked without holding a reference to the inode or dentry. Fix is to add a new address_space_operation, launder_page(), which will attempt to write out a dirty page without releasing the page lock. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Also, the bare SetPageDirty() can skew all sort of accounting leading to other nasties. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2007-01-11[PATCH] Fix sparsemem on CellDave Hansen
Fix an oops experienced on the Cell architecture when init-time functions, early_*(), are called at runtime. It alters the call paths to make sure that the callers explicitly say whether the call is being made on behalf of a hotplug even, or happening at boot-time. It has been compile tested on ppc64, ia64, s390, i386 and x86_64. Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2007-01-08Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: [ARM] Provide basic printk_clock() implementation [ARM] Resolve fuse and direct-IO failures due to missing cache flushes [ARM] pass vma for flush_anon_page() [ARM] Fix potential MMCI bug [ARM] Fix kernel-mode undefined instruction aborts [ARM] 4082/1: iop3xx: fix iop33x gpio register offset [ARM] 4070/1: arch/arm/kernel: fix warnings from missing includes [ARM] 4079/1: iop: Update MAINTAINERS
2007-01-08[ARM] pass vma for flush_anon_page()Russell King
Since get_user_pages() may be used with processes other than the current process and calls flush_anon_page(), flush_anon_page() has to cope in some way with non-current processes. It may not be appropriate, or even desirable to flush a region of virtual memory cache in the current process when that is different to the process that we want the flush to occur for. Therefore, pass the vma into flush_anon_page() so that the architecture can work out whether the 'vmaddr' is for the current process or not. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2007-01-05[PATCH] shrink_all_memory(): fix lru_pages handlingAndrew Morton
At the end of shrink_all_memory() we forget to recalculate lru_pages: it can be zero. Fix that up, and add a helper function for this operation too. Also, recalculate lru_pages each time around the inner loop to get the balancing correct. Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2007-01-05[PATCH] fix OOM killing of swapoffHugh Dickins
These days, if you swapoff when there isn't enough memory, OOM killer gives "BUG: scheduling while atomic" and the machine hangs: badness() needs to do its PF_SWAPOFF return after the task_unlock (tasklist_lock is also held here, so p isn't going to be freed: PF_SWAPOFF might get turned off at any moment, but that doesn't really matter). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2007-01-05[PATCH] Check for populated zone in __drain_pagesChristoph Lameter
Both process_zones() and drain_node_pages() check for populated zones before touching pagesets. However, __drain_pages does not do so, This may result in a NULL pointer dereference for pagesets in unpopulated zones if a NUMA setup is combined with cpu hotplug. Initially the unpopulated zone has the pcp pointers pointing to the boot pagesets. Since the zone is not populated the boot pageset pointers will not be changed during page allocator and slab bootstrap. If a cpu is later brought down (first call to __drain_pages()) then the pcp pointers for cpus in unpopulated zones are set to NULL since __drain_pages does not first check for an unpopulated zone. If the cpu is then brought up again then we call process_zones() which will ignore the unpopulated zone. So the pageset pointers will still be NULL. If the cpu is then again brought down then __drain_pages will attempt to drain pages by following the NULL pageset pointer for unpopulated zones. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2007-01-05[PATCH] fix BUG_ON(!PageSlab) from fallback_allocHugh Dickins
pdflush hit the BUG_ON(!PageSlab(page)) in kmem_freepages called from fallback_alloc: cache_grow already freed those pages when alloc_slabmgmt failed. But it wouldn't have freed them if __GFP_NO_GROW, so make sure fallback_alloc doesn't waste its time on that case. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2007-01-05[PATCH] Sanely size hash tables when using large base pagesPaul Mundt
At the moment the inode/dentry cache hash tables (common by way of alloc_large_system_hash()) are incorrectly sized by their respective detection logic when we attempt to use large base pages on systems with little memory. This results in odd behaviour when using a 64kB PAGE_SIZE, such as: Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: -1, 32768 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: -2, 16384 bytes) The mount cache hash table is seemingly the only one that gets this right by directly taking PAGE_SIZE in to account. The following patch attempts to catch the bogus values and round it up to at least 0-order. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2007-01-05[PATCH] swsusp: Do not fail if resume device is not setRafael J. Wysocki
In the kernels later than 2.6.19 there is a regression that makes swsusp fail if the resume device is not explicitly specified. It can be fixed by adding an additional parameter to mm/swapfile.c:swap_type_of() allowing us to pass the (struct block_device *) corresponding to the first available swap back to the caller. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-30[PATCH] Buglet in vmscan.cShantanu Goel
Fix a rather obvious buglet. Noticed while instrumenting the VM using /proc/vmstat. Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-30[PATCH] page_mkclean_one(): fix call to set_pte_at()Al Viro
(akpm: macros are wonderful) Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-30[PATCH] MM: SLOB is broken by recent cleanup of slab.hDimitri Gorokhovik
Recent cleanup of slab.h broke SLOB allocator: the routine kmem_cache_init has now the __init attribute for both slab.c and slob.c. This routine cannot be removed after init in the case of slob.c -- it serves as a timer callback. Provide a separate timer callback routine, call it once from kmem_cache_init, keep the __init attribute on the latter. Signed-off-by: Dimitri Gorokhovik <dimitri.gorokhovik@free.fr> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-30[PATCH] fix oom killer kills current every time if there is memory-less-node ↵KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
take2 constrained_alloc(), which is called to detect where oom is from, checks passed zone_list(). If zone_list doesn't include all nodes, it thinks oom is from mempolicy. But there is memory-less-node. memory-less-node's zones are never included in zonelist[]. contstrained_alloc() should get memory_less_node into count. Otherwise, it always thinks 'oom is from mempolicy'. This means that current process dies at any time. This patch fix it. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-29VM: Fix nasty and subtle race in shared mmap'ed page writebackLinus Torvalds
The VM layer (on the face of it, fairly reasonably) expected that when it does a ->writepage() call to the filesystem, it would write out the full page at that point in time. Especially since it had earlier marked the whole page dirty with "set_page_dirty()". But that isn't actually the case: ->writepage() does not actually write a page, it writes the parts of the page that have been explicitly marked dirty before, *and* that had not got written out for other reasons since the last time we told it they were dirty. That last caveat is the important one. Which _most_ of the time ends up being the whole page (since we had called "set_page_dirty()" on the page earlier), but if the filesystem had done any dirty flushing of its own (for example, to honor some internal write ordering guarantees), it might end up doing only a partial page IO (or none at all) when ->writepage() is actually called. That is the correct thing in general (since we actually often _want_ only the known-dirty parts of the page to be written out), but the shared dirty page handling had implicitly forgotten about these details, and had a number of cases where it was doing just the "->writepage()" part, without telling the low-level filesystem that the whole page might have been re-dirtied as part of being mapped writably into user space. Since most of the time the FS did actually write out the full page, we didn't notice this for a loong time, and this needed some really odd patterns to trigger. But it caused occasional corruption with rtorrent and with the Debian "apt" database, because both use shared mmaps to update the end result. This fixes it. Finally. After way too much hair-pulling. Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Acked-by: Martin J. Bligh <mbligh@google.com> Acked-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> Acked-by: Martin Johansson <martin@fatbob.nu> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Andrei Popa <andrei.popa@i-neo.ro> Cc: High Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com> Cc: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@yahoo.fr> Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Kenneth Cheng <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Cc: Tobias Diedrich <ranma@tdiedrich.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-23Clean up and export cancel_dirty_page() to modulesLinus Torvalds
Make cancel_dirty_page() act more like all the other dirty and writeback accounting functions: test for "mapping" being NULL, and do the NR_FILE_DIRY accounting purely based on mapping_cap_account_dirty()). Also, add it to the exports, so that modular filesystems can use it. Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-22[PATCH] Fix up page_mkclean_one(): virtual caches, s390Peter Zijlstra
- add flush_cache_page() for all those virtual indexed cache architectures. - handle s390. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-22[PATCH] mm: more rmap debuggingNick Piggin
Add more debugging in the rmap code in an attempt to locate to source of the occasional "mapcount went negative" assertions. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-22[PATCH] Fix swapped parameters in mm/vmscan.cNigel Cunningham
The version of mm/vmscan.c in Linus' current tree has swapped parameters in the shrink_all_zones declaration and call, used by the various suspend-to-disk implementations. This doesn't seem to have any great adverse effect, but it's clearly wrong. Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-22[PATCH] fix kernel-doc warnings in 2.6.20-rc1Randy Dunlap
Fix kernel-doc warnings in 2.6.20-rc1. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-22[PATCH] slab: fix kmem_ptr_validate definitionChristoph Lameter
The declaration of kmem_ptr_validate in slab.h does not match the one in slab.c. Remove the fastcall attribute (this is the only use in slab.c). Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-22[PATCH] Fix for shmem_truncate_range() BUG_ON()Badari Pulavarty
Ran into BUG() while doing madvise(REMOVE) testing. If we are punching a hole into shared memory segment using madvise(REMOVE) and the entire hole is below the indirect blocks, we hit following assert. BUG_ON(limit <= SHMEM_NR_DIRECT); Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-22[PATCH] truncate: dirty memory accounting fixAndrew Morton
Only (un)account for IO and page-dirtying for devices which have real backing store (ie: not tmpfs or ramdisks). Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-21[PATCH] truncate: clear page dirtiness before running try_to_free_buffers()Andrew Morton
truncate presently invalidates the dirty page's buffer_heads then shoots down the page. But try_to_free_buffers() will now bale out because the page is dirty. Net effect: the LRU gets filled with dirty pages which have invalidated buffer_heads attached. They have no ->mapping and hence cannot be cleaned. The machine leaks memory at an enormous rate. Fix this by cleaning the page before running try_to_free_buffers(), so try_to_free_buffers() can do its work. Also, remember to do dirty-page-acoounting in cancel_dirty_page() so the machine won't wedge up trying to write non-existent dirty pages. Probably still wrong, but now less so. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-21VM: Remove "clear_page_dirty()" and "test_clear_page_dirty()" functionsLinus Torvalds
They were horribly easy to mis-use because of their tempting naming, and they also did way more than any users of them generally wanted them to do. A dirty page can become clean under two circumstances: (a) when we write it out. We have "clear_page_dirty_for_io()" for this, and that function remains unchanged. In the "for IO" case it is not sufficient to just clear the dirty bit, you also have to mark the page as being under writeback etc. (b) when we actually remove a page due to it becoming inaccessible to users, notably because it was truncate()'d away or the file (or metadata) no longer exists, and we thus want to cancel any outstanding dirty state. For the (b) case, we now introduce "cancel_dirty_page()", which only touches the page state itself, and verifies that the page is not mapped (since cancelling writes on a mapped page would be actively wrong as it is still accessible to users). Some filesystems need to be fixed up for this: CIFS, FUSE, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS all use the old confusing functions, and will be fixed separately in subsequent commits (with some of them just removing the offending logic, and others using clear_page_dirty_for_io()). This was confirmed by Martin Michlmayr to fix the apt database corruption on ARM. Cc: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Andrei Popa <andrei.popa@i-neo.ro> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-17[PATCH] sys_mincore: s/max/min/Oleg Nesterov
fix a typo, sys_mincore() needs min(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus "I'm a moron" Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-16Fix up mm/mincore.c error value casesLinus Torvalds
Hugh Dickins correctly points out that mincore() is actually _supposed_ to fail on an unmapped hole in the user address space, rather than return valid ("empty") information about the hole. This just simplifies the problem further (I had been misled by our previous confusing and complicated way of doing mincore()). Also, in the unlikely situation that we can't allocate a temporary kernel buffer, we should actually return EAGAIN, not ENOMEM, to keep the "unmapped hole" and "allocation failure" error cases separate. Finally, add a comment about our stupid historical lack of support for anonymous mappings. I'll fix that if somebody reminds me after 2.6.20 is out. Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>