Eric Sandeen [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:23:46 +0000 (15:23 -0700)]
filesystem freeze: allow SysRq emergency thaw to thaw frozen filesystems
Now that the filesystem freeze operation has been elevated to the VFS, and
is just an ioctl away, some sort of safety net for unintentionally frozen
root filesystems may be in order.
The timeout thaw originally proposed did not get merged, but perhaps
something like this would be useful in emergencies.
For example, freeze /path/to/mountpoint may freeze your root filesystem if
you forgot that you had that unmounted.
I chose 'j' as the last remaining character other than 'h' which is sort
of reserved for help (because help is generated on any unknown character).
I've tested this on a non-root fs with multiple (nested) freezers, as well
as on a system rendered unresponsive due to a frozen root fs.
[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: emergency thaw only if CONFIG_BLOCK enabled] Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Cc: Takashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com> 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>
Wolfram Strepp [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:23:45 +0000 (15:23 -0700)]
lib/rbtree.c: optimize rb_erase()
Tfour 4 redundant if-conditions in function __rb_erase_color() in
lib/rbtree.c are removed.
In pseudo-source-code, the structure of the code is as follows:
if ((!A || B) && (!C || D)) {
.
.
.
} else {
if (!C || D) {//if this is true, it implies: (A == true) && (B == false)
if (A) {//hence this always evaluates to 'true'...
.
}
.
//at this point, C always becomes true, because of:
__rb_rotate_right/left();
//and:
other = parent->rb_right/left;
}
.
.
if (C) {//...and this too !
.
}
}
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Strepp <wstrepp@gmx.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
J. R. Okajima [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:23:43 +0000 (15:23 -0700)]
loop: add ioctl to resize a loop device
Add the ability to 'resize' the loop device on the fly.
One practical application is a loop file with XFS filesystem, already
mounted: You can easily enlarge the file (append some bytes) and then call
ioctl(fd, LOOP_SET_CAPACITY, new); The loop driver will learn about the
new size and you can use xfs_growfs later on, which will allow you to use
full capacity of the loop file without the need to unmount.
void usage(FILE *f)
{
fprintf(f, "%s [options] loop_dev [backend_file]\n"
"-s, --set new_size_in_bytes\n"
"\twhen backend_file is given, "
"it will be expanded too while keeping the original contents\n",
me);
}
WANG Cong [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:23:41 +0000 (15:23 -0700)]
uml: remove useless comments
These comments are useless now, remove them.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
WANG Cong [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:23:41 +0000 (15:23 -0700)]
uml: improve error messages
These error messages are from check_sysemu(), not check_ptrace().
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
WANG Cong [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:23:40 +0000 (15:23 -0700)]
uml: don't use a too long string literal
uml uses a concatenated string literal to store the contents of .config,
but .config file content is varaible, it can be very long.
Use an array of string literals instead.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
MAJOR_NR isn't needed anymore since very early 2.5 kernels.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Magnus Damm [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:23:37 +0000 (15:23 -0700)]
pm: rework includes, remove arch ifdefs
Make the following header file changes:
- remove arch ifdefs and asm/suspend.h from linux/suspend.h
- add asm/suspend.h to disk.c (for arch_prepare_suspend())
- add linux/io.h to swsusp.c (for ioremap())
- x86 32/64 bit compile fixes
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Randy Dunlap [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:23:36 +0000 (15:23 -0700)]
alpha: convert u64 to unsigned long long
Convert alpha architecture to use u64 as unsigned long long. This is
being done so that (a) all arches use u64 as unsigned long long and (b)
printk of a u64 as %ll[ux] will not generate format warnings by gcc.
The only gcc cross-compiler that I have is 4.0.2, which generates errors
about miscompiling __weak references, so I have commented out that line in
compiler-gcc4.h so that most of these compile, but more builds and real
machine testing would be Real Good.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ivan Kokshaysky [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:23:35 +0000 (15:23 -0700)]
alpha: xchg/cmpxchg cleanup and fixes
- "_local" versions of xchg/cmpxchg functions duplicate code
of non-local ones (quite a few pages of assembler), except
memory barriers. We can generate these two variants from a
single header file using simple macros;
- convert xchg macro back to inline function using always_inline
attribute;
- use proper argument types for cmpxchg_u8/u16 functions
to fix a problem with negative arguments.
Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Hugh Dickins [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:23:33 +0000 (15:23 -0700)]
shmem: writepage directly to swap
Synopsis: if shmem_writepage calls swap_writepage directly, most shmem
swap loads benefit, and a catastrophic interaction between SLUB and some
flash storage is avoided.
shmem_writepage() has always been peculiar in making no attempt to write:
it has just transferred a shmem page from file cache to swap cache, then
let that page make its way around the LRU again before being written and
freed.
The idea was that people use tmpfs because they want those pages to stay
in RAM; so although we give it an overflow to swap, we should resist
writing too soon, giving those pages a second chance before they can be
reclaimed.
That was always questionable, and I've toyed with this patch for years;
but never had a clear justification to depart from the original design.
It became more questionable in 2.6.28, when the split LRU patches classed
shmem and tmpfs pages as SwapBacked rather than as file_cache: that in
itself gives them more resistance to reclaim than normal file pages. I
prepared this patch for 2.6.29, but the merge window arrived before I'd
completed gathering statistics to justify sending it in.
Then while comparing SLQB against SLUB, running SLUB on a laptop I'd
habitually used with SLAB, I found SLUB to run my tmpfs kbuild swapping
tests five times slower than SLAB or SLQB - other machines slower too, but
nowhere near so bad. Simpler "cp -a" swapping tests showed the same.
slub_max_order=0 brings sanity to all, but heavy swapping is too far from
normal to justify such a tuning. The crucial factor on that laptop turns
out to be that I'm using an SD card for swap. What happens is this:
By default, SLUB uses order-2 pages for shmem_inode_cache (and many other
fs inodes), so creating tmpfs files under memory pressure brings lumpy
reclaim into play. One subpage of the order is chosen from the bottom of
the LRU as usual, then the other three picked out from their random
positions on the LRUs.
In a tmpfs load, many of these pages will be ones which already passed
through shmem_writepage, so already have swap allocated. And though their
offsets on swap were probably allocated sequentially, now that the pages
are picked off at random, their swap offsets are scattered.
But the flash storage on the SD card is very sensitive to having its
writes merged: once swap is written at scattered offsets, performance
falls apart. Rotating disk seeks increase too, but less disastrously.
So: stop giving shmem/tmpfs pages a second pass around the LRU, write them
out to swap as soon as their swap has been allocated.
It's surely possible to devise an artificial load which runs faster the
old way, one whose sizing is such that the tmpfs pages on their second
pass are the ones that are wanted again, and other pages not.
But I've not yet found such a load: on all machines, under the loads I've
tried, immediate swap_writepage speeds up shmem swapping: especially when
using the SLUB allocator (and more effectively than slub_max_order=0), but
also with the others; and it also reduces the variance between runs. How
much faster varies widely: a factor of five is rare, 5% is common.
One load which might have suffered: imagine a swapping shmem load in a
limited mem_cgroup on a machine with plenty of memory. Before 2.6.29 the
swapcache was not charged, and such a load would have run quickest with
the shmem swapcache never written to swap. But now swapcache is charged,
so even this load benefits from shmem_writepage directly to swap.
Apologies for the #ifndef CONFIG_SWAP swap_writepage() stub in swap.h:
it's silly because that will never get called; but refactoring shmem.c
sensibly according to CONFIG_SWAP will be a separate task.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
try_to_free_pages() is used for the direct reclaim of up to
SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages when watermarks are low. The caller to
alloc_pages_nodemask() can specify a nodemask of nodes that are allowed to
be used but this is not passed to try_to_free_pages(). This can lead to
unnecessary reclaim of pages that are unusable by the caller and int the
worst case lead to allocation failure as progress was not been make where
it is needed.
This patch passes the nodemask used for alloc_pages_nodemask() to
try_to_free_pages().
Johannes Weiner [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:23:29 +0000 (15:23 -0700)]
ramfs-nommu: use generic lru cache
Instead of open-coding the lru-list-add pagevec batching when expanding a
file mapping from zero, defer to the appropriate page cache function that
also takes care of adding the page to the lru list.
This is cleaner, saves code and reduces the stack footprint by 16 words
worth of pagevec.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.com> Cc: MinChan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
David Rientjes [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:23:29 +0000 (15:23 -0700)]
vmscan: print shrink_slab symbol name on negative shrinker objects
When a shrinker has a negative number of objects to delete, the symbol
name of the shrinker should be printed, not shrink_slab. This also makes
the error message slightly more informative.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
David Howells [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:23:26 +0000 (15:23 -0700)]
nommu: there is no mlock() for NOMMU, so don't provide the bits
The mlock() facility does not exist for NOMMU since all mappings are
effectively locked anyway, so we don't make the bits available when
they're not useful.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Enrik Berkhan <Enrik.Berkhan@ge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Akinobu Mita [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:23:25 +0000 (15:23 -0700)]
mm: introduce debug_kmap_atomic
x86 has debug_kmap_atomic_prot() which is error checking function for
kmap_atomic. It is usefull for the other architectures, although it needs
CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT.
This patch exposes it to the other architectures.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Hugh Dickins [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:23:24 +0000 (15:23 -0700)]
mm: page_mkwrite change prototype to match fault: fix sysfs
Fix warnings and return values in sysfs bin_page_mkwrite(), fixing
fs/sysfs/bin.c: In function `bin_page_mkwrite':
fs/sysfs/bin.c:250: warning: passing argument 2 of `bb->vm_ops->page_mkwrite' from incompatible pointer type
fs/sysfs/bin.c: At top level:
fs/sysfs/bin.c:280: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
Expects to have my [PATCH next] sysfs: fix some bin_vm_ops errors
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Nick Piggin [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:23:23 +0000 (15:23 -0700)]
fs: fix page_mkwrite error cases in core code and btrfs
page_mkwrite is called with neither the page lock nor the ptl held. This
means a page can be concurrently truncated or invalidated out from
underneath it. Callers are supposed to prevent truncate races themselves,
however previously the only thing they can do in case they hit one is to
raise a SIGBUS. A sigbus is wrong for the case that the page has been
invalidated or truncated within i_size (eg. hole punched). Callers may
also have to perform memory allocations in this path, where again, SIGBUS
would be wrong.
The previous patch ("mm: page_mkwrite change prototype to match fault")
made it possible to properly specify errors. Convert the generic buffer.c
code and btrfs to return sane error values (in the case of page removed
from pagecache, VM_FAULT_NOPAGE will cause the fault handler to exit
without doing anything, and the fault will be retried properly).
This fixes core code, and converts btrfs as a template/example. All other
filesystems defining their own page_mkwrite should be fixed in a similar
manner.
Acked-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Nick Piggin [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:23:21 +0000 (15:23 -0700)]
mm: page_mkwrite change prototype to match fault
Change the page_mkwrite prototype to take a struct vm_fault, and return
VM_FAULT_xxx flags. There should be no functional change.
This makes it possible to return much more detailed error information to
the VM (and also can provide more information eg. virtual_address to the
driver, which might be important in some special cases).
This is required for a subsequent fix. And will also make it easier to
merge page_mkwrite() with fault() in future.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> Cc: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
For many HPC applications we are limited by the free available memory on
the smallest node, so even though the same amount of memory is used the
better balancing helps.
Since all 64bit NUMA capable architectures should have sufficient vmalloc
space, it makes sense to enable it via CONFIG_64BIT.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Akinobu Mita [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:23:17 +0000 (15:23 -0700)]
generic debug pagealloc
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is now supported by x86, powerpc, sparc64, and
s390. This patch implements it for the rest of the architectures by
filling the pages with poison byte patterns after free_pages() and
verifying the poison patterns before alloc_pages().
This generic one cannot detect invalid page accesses immediately but
invalid read access may cause invalid dereference by poisoned memory and
invalid write access can be detected after a long delay.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Li Zefan [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:23:16 +0000 (15:23 -0700)]
memdup_user(): introduce
I notice there are many places doing copy_from_user() which follows
kmalloc():
dst = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!dst)
return -ENOMEM;
if (copy_from_user(dst, src, len)) {
kfree(dst);
return -EFAULT
}
memdup_user() is a wrapper of the above code. With this new function, we
don't have to write 'len' twice, which can lead to typos/mistakes. It
also produces smaller code and kernel text.
A quick grep shows 250+ places where memdup_user() *may* be used. I'll
prepare a patchset to do this conversion.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.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>
Roel Kluin [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:23:15 +0000 (15:23 -0700)]
hugetlb: chg cannot become less than 0
chg is unsigned, so it cannot be less than 0.
Also, since region_chg returns long, let vma_needs_reservation() forward
this to alloc_huge_page(). Store it as long as well. all callers cast it
to long anyway.
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Johannes Weiner [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:23:13 +0000 (15:23 -0700)]
mm: don't free swap slots on page deactivation
The pagevec_swap_free() at the end of shrink_active_list() was introduced
in 68a22394 "vmscan: free swap space on swap-in/activation" when
shrink_active_list() was still rotating referenced active pages.
In 7e9cd48 "vmscan: fix pagecache reclaim referenced bit check" this was
changed, the rotating removed but the pagevec_swap_free() after the
rotation loop was forgotten, applying now to the pagevec of the
deactivation loop instead.
Now swap space is freed for deactivated pages. And only for those that
happen to be on the pagevec after the deactivation loop.
Complete 7e9cd48 and remove the rest of the swap freeing.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm: reintroduce and deprecate rlimit based access for SHM_HUGETLB
Allow non root users with sufficient mlock rlimits to be able to allocate
hugetlb backed shm for now. Deprecate this though. This is being
deprecated because the mlock based rlimit checks for SHM_HUGETLB is not
consistent with mmap based huge page allocations.
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm: fix SHM_HUGETLB to work with users in hugetlb_shm_group
Fix hugetlb subsystem so that non root users belonging to
hugetlb_shm_group can actually allocate hugetlb backed shm.
Currently non root users cannot even map one large page using SHM_HUGETLB
when they belong to the gid in /proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_shm_group. This is
because allocation size is verified against RLIMIT_MEMLOCK resource limit
even if the user belongs to hugetlb_shm_group.
This patch
1. Fixes hugetlb subsystem so that users with CAP_IPC_LOCK and users
belonging to hugetlb_shm_group don't need to be restricted with
RLIMIT_MEMLOCK resource limits
2. This patch also disables mlock based rlimit checking (which will
be reinstated and marked deprecated in a subsequent patch).
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Edward Shishkin [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:19:39 +0000 (15:19 -0700)]
vfs: add/use account_page_dirtied()
Add a helper function account_page_dirtied(). Use that from two
callsites. reiser4 adds a function which adds a third callsite.
Signed-off-by: Edward Shishkin<edward.shishkin@gmail.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>
Johannes Weiner [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:19:38 +0000 (15:19 -0700)]
vmscan: respect higher order in zone_reclaim()
During page allocation, there are two stages of direct reclaim that are
applied to each zone in the preferred list. The first stage using
zone_reclaim() reclaims unmapped file backed pages and slab pages if over
defined limits as these are cheaper to reclaim. The caller specifies the
order of the target allocation but the scan control is not being correctly
initialised.
The impact is that the correct number of pages are being reclaimed but
that lumpy reclaim is not being applied. This increases the chances of a
full direct reclaim via try_to_free_pages() is required.
This patch initialises the order field of the scan control as requested by
the caller.
[mel@csn.ul.ie: rewrote changelog] Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Touching a page via follow_page() counts as a reference so we should be
either setting the referenced bit in the pte or running mark_page_accessed().
Altering the pte is tricky because we haven't implemented an atomic
pte_mkyoung(). And mark_page_accessed() is better anyway because it has more
aging state: it can move the page onto the active list.
Johannes Weiner [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:19:35 +0000 (15:19 -0700)]
vmscan: clip swap_cluster_max in shrink_all_memory()
shrink_inactive_list() scans in sc->swap_cluster_max chunks until it hits
the scan limit it was passed.
shrink_inactive_list()
{
do {
isolate_pages(swap_cluster_max)
shrink_page_list()
} while (nr_scanned < max_scan);
}
This assumes that swap_cluster_max is not bigger than the scan limit
because the latter is checked only after at least one iteration.
In shrink_all_memory() sc->swap_cluster_max is initialized to the overall
reclaim goal in the beginning but not decreased while reclaim is making
progress which leads to subsequent calls to shrink_inactive_list()
reclaiming way too much in the one iteration that is done unconditionally.
Set sc->swap_cluster_max always to the proper goal before doing
shrink_all_zones()
shrink_list()
shrink_inactive_list().
While the current shrink_all_memory() happily reclaims more than actually
requested, this patch fixes it to never exceed the goal:
MinChan Kim [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:19:34 +0000 (15:19 -0700)]
mm: shrink_all_memory(): use sc.nr_reclaimed
Commit a79311c14eae4bb946a97af25f3e1b17d625985d "vmscan: bail out of
direct reclaim after swap_cluster_max pages" moved the nr_reclaimed
counter into the scan control to accumulate the number of all reclaimed
pages in a reclaim invocation.
shrink_all_memory() can use the same mechanism. it increase code
consistency and redability.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: MinChan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
KOSAKI Motohiro [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:19:31 +0000 (15:19 -0700)]
mm: introduce for_each_populated_zone() macro
Impact: cleanup
In almost cases, for_each_zone() is used with populated_zone(). It's
because almost function doesn't need memoryless node information.
Therefore, for_each_populated_zone() can help to make code simplify.
This patch has no functional change.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: small cleanup] Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Johannes Weiner [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:19:30 +0000 (15:19 -0700)]
vmscan: rename sc.may_swap to may_unmap
sc.may_swap does not only influence reclaiming of anon pages but pages
mapped into pagetables in general, which also includes mapped file pages.
In shrink_page_list():
if (!sc->may_swap && page_mapped(page))
goto keep_locked;
For anon pages, this makes sense as they are always mapped and reclaiming
them always requires swapping.
But mapped file pages are skipped here as well and it has nothing to do
with swapping.
The real effect of the knob is whether mapped pages are unmapped and
reclaimed or not. Rename it to `may_unmap' to have its name match its
actual meaning more precisely.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: MinChan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
x86: signal: check sas_ss_size instead of sas_ss_flags()
Impact: fix redundant and incorrect check
Oleg Nesterov noticed wrt commit:
14fc9fb: x86: signal: check signal stack overflow properly
>> No need to check SA_ONSTACK if we're already using alternate signal stack.
>
> Yes, but this also mean that we don't need sas_ss_flags() under
> "if (!onsigstack)",
Checking on_sig_stack() in sas_ss_flags() at get_sigframe() is redundant
and not correct on 64 bit. To check sas_ss_size is enough.
Peter Ma [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:31:02 +0000 (10:31 -0700)]
avr32: add hardware handshake support to atmel_serial
Adds Hardware Handshake (aka RTS/CTS flow-control) support to
atmel_serial driver, as a termios flag.
For this to actually work, the platform code needs to configure the RTS
and CTS pins for use by the USART. This has been done for AVR32 as a
separate patch.
Signed-off-by: Peter Ma <pma@mediamatech.com> Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:03:19 +0000 (14:03 -0400)]
ring-buffer: do not remove reader page from list on ring buffer free
Impact: prevent possible memory leak
The reader page of the ring buffer is special. Although it points
into the ring buffer, it is not part of the actual buffer. It is
a page used by the reader to swap with a page in the ring buffer.
Once the swap is made, the new reader page is again outside the
buffer.
Even though the reader page points into the buffer, it is really
pointing to residual data. Note, this data is used by the reader.
reader page
|
v
(prev) +---+ (next)
+----------| |----------+
| +---+ |
v v
+---+ +---+ +---+
-->| |------->| |------->| |--->
<--| |<-------| |<-------| |<---
+---+ +---+ +---+
^ ^ ^
\ | /
------- Buffer---------
If we perform a list_del_init() on the reader page we will actually remove
the last page the reader swapped with and not the reader page itself.
This will cause that page to not be freed, and thus is a memory leak.
Luckily, the only user of the ring buffer so far is ftrace. And ftrace
will not free its ring buffer after it allocates it. There is no current
possible memory leak. But once there are other users, or if ftrace
dynamically creates and frees its ring buffer, then this would be a
memory leak.
This patch fixes the leak for future cases.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:11:28 +0000 (11:11 -0400)]
function-graph: allow unregistering twice
Impact: fix to permanent disabling of function graph tracer
There should be nothing to prevent a tracer from unregistering a
function graph callback more than once. This can simplify error paths.
But currently, the counter does not account for mulitple unregistering
of the function graph callback. If it happens, the function graph
tracer will be permanently disabled.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
for the benefit of ext4's delayed allocation support. Since commit a1d6cc563bfdf1bf2829d3e6ce4d8b774251796b (ext4: Rework the
ext4_da_writepages() function), these functions are not used by the
ext4 driver anymore. However, the now unnecessary exports still
remain, and this patch removes those. Moreover, these two functions
can become static again.
The issue was spotted by namespacecheck.
Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.com> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Lai Jiangshan [Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:50:04 +0000 (14:50 +0800)]
tracing: move scripts/trace/power.pl to scripts/tracing/power.pl
Impact: Cleanup
We use scripts/tracing/ to contain tracing scripts.
Use one directory only instead of two.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49D06B9C.3070209@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:24:17 +0000 (12:24 -0700)]
bzip2/lzma: quiet Kconfig warning for INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_NONE
Impact: quiet Kconfig warning
It appears that Kconfig simply has no way to provide defaults for
entries that exist inside a conditionalized choice block.
Fortunately, it turns out we don't actually ever use
CONFIG_INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_NONE, so we can just drop it for
everything outside the choice block.
Al Viro [Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:31:16 +0000 (16:31 -0400)]
Don't mess with descriptor table in load_elf_binary()
... since we don't tell anyone which descriptor does the file get.
We used to, but only in case of ELF binary with a.out loader and
that stuff has been gone for a while.
Al Viro [Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:50:06 +0000 (19:50 -0400)]
Get rid of indirect include of fs_struct.h
Don't pull it in sched.h; very few files actually need it and those
can include directly. sched.h itself only needs forward declaration
of struct fs_struct;
Al Viro [Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:20:30 +0000 (07:20 -0400)]
New locking/refcounting for fs_struct
* all changes of current->fs are done under task_lock and write_lock of
old fs->lock
* refcount is not atomic anymore (same protection)
* its decrements are done when removing reference from current; at the
same time we decide whether to free it.
* put_fs_struct() is gone
* new field - ->in_exec. Set by check_unsafe_exec() if we are trying to do
execve() and only subthreads share fs_struct. Cleared when finishing exec
(success and failure alike). Makes CLONE_FS fail with -EAGAIN if set.
* check_unsafe_exec() may fail with -EAGAIN if another execve() from subthread
is in progress.
Al Viro [Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:00:13 +0000 (19:00 -0400)]
Take fs_struct handling to new file (fs/fs_struct.c)
Pure code move; two new helper functions for nfsd and daemonize
(unshare_fs_struct() and daemonize_fs_struct() resp.; for now -
the same code as used to be in callers). unshare_fs_struct()
exported (for nfsd, as copy_fs_struct()/exit_fs() used to be),
copy_fs_struct() and exit_fs() don't need exports anymore.
Al Viro [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:36:33 +0000 (20:36 -0400)]
Get rid of bumping fs_struct refcount in pivot_root(2)
Not because execve races with _that_ are serious - we really
need a situation when final drop of fs_struct refcount is
done by something that used to have it as current->fs.
Ben Hutchings [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:07:21 +0000 (15:07 -0700)]
sfc: Call netif_napi_add() before registering our interrupt handler
If we use a shared legacy IRQ then our interrupt handler may be called
as soon as it is registered even though IRQs are disabled on the NIC.
Now that the legacy interrupt handler also checks for event delivery,
it may decide to schedule polling in this case. Ensure that the NAPI
context is valid but disabled at this point.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Heiko Carstens [Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:41:02 +0000 (14:41 -0700)]
ETHOC: fix build breakage on s390
Let driver depend on HAS_IOMEM to avoid build breakage on s390:
CC drivers/net/ethoc.o
drivers/net/ethoc.c: In function 'ethoc_read':
drivers/net/ethoc.c:221: error: implicit declaration of function 'ioread32'
drivers/net/ethoc.c: In function 'ethoc_write':
drivers/net/ethoc.c:226: error: implicit declaration of function 'iowrite32'
drivers/net/ethoc.c: In function 'ethoc_rx':
drivers/net/ethoc.c:405: error: implicit declaration of function 'memcpy_fromio'
drivers/net/ethoc.c: In function 'ethoc_start_xmit':
drivers/net/ethoc.c:828: error: implicit declaration of function 'memcpy_toio'
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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