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Linus Torvalds
b91cba52e9 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (68 commits)
  sh: sh-rtc support for SH7709.
  sh: Revert __xdiv64_32 size change.
  sh: Update r7785rp defconfig.
  sh: Export div symbols for GCC 4.2 and ST GCC.
  sh: fix race in parallel out-of-tree build
  sh: Kill off dead mach.c for hp6xx.
  sh: hd64461.h cleanup and added comments.
  sh: Update the alignment when 4K stacks are used.
  sh: Add a .bss.page_aligned section for 4K stacks.
  sh: Don't let SH-4A clobber SH-4 CFLAGS.
  sh: Add parport stub for SuperIO ports.
  sh: Drop -Wa,-dsp for DSP tuning.
  sh: Update dreamcast defconfig.
  fb: pvr2fb: A few more __devinit annotations for PCI.
  fb: pvr2fb: Fix up section mismatch warnings.
  sh: Select IPR-IRQ for SH7091.
  sh: Correct __xdiv64_32/div64_32 return value size.
  sh: Fix timer-tmu build for SH-3.
  sh: Add cpu and mach links to CLEAN_FILES.
  sh: Preliminary support for the SH-X3 CPU.
  ...
2007-07-16 10:32:02 -07:00
Rusty Russell
c80e7a826c permit mempool_free(NULL)
Christian Borntraeger points out that mempool_free() doesn't noop when
handed NULL.  This is inconsistent with the other free-like functions
in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
8f8a68ee48 remove mm/backing-dev.c:congestion_wait_interruptible()
congestion_wait_interruptible() is no longer used.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
Andrew Morton
3e733f071e dirty_writeback_centisecs_handler() cleanup
Repair indenting bustage.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:47 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
54114994f4 fault-injection: add min-order parameter to fail_page_alloc
Limiting smaller allocation failures by fault injection helps to find real
possible bugs.  Because higher order allocations are likely to fail and
zero-order allocations are not likely to fail.

This patch adds min-order parameter to fail_page_alloc.  It specifies the
minimum page allocation order to be injected failures.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:45 -07:00
Micah Cowan
17973f5af7 Only send SIGXFSZ when exceeding rlimits.
Some users have been having problems with utilities like cp or dd dumping
core when they try to copy a file that's too large for the destination
filesystem (typically, > 4gb).  Apparently, some defunct standards required
SIGXFSZ to be sent in such circumstances, but SUS only requires/allows it
for when a written file exceeds the process's resource limits.  I'd like to
limit SIGXFSZs to the bare minimum required by SUS.

Patch sent per http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/10/302

Signed-off-by: Micah Cowan <micahcowan@ubuntu.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:43 -07:00
Stephen Rothwell
f057eac0d7 Introduce CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS
Make some offending drivers depend on it and set CONFIG_ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS
for ppc64 so that we don't build those drivers.

This gets PowerPC allmodconfig and allyesconfig much closer to building.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:42 -07:00
Greg Ungerer
57c8f63e8e nommu: stub expand_stack() for nommu case
Be consistent with VM mmap, implement expand_stack().  We can't actually do
anything other than return an error in the no MMU case though.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:37 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
0165ab4435 split mmap
This is a straightforward split of do_mmap_pgoff() into two functions:

 - do_mmap_pgoff() checks the parameters, and calculates the vma
   flags.  Then it calls

 - mmap_region(), which does the actual mapping

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:37 -07:00
akpm@linux-foundation.org
c44939ecb6 NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
The do_loop_readv_writev implementation of readv breaks out of the loop as
soon as a single read request didn't fill it's buffer:

		if (nr != len)
			break;

The generic_file_aio_read version doesn't.  So if it hits EOF before the end
of the list of buffers, it will try again on the next buffer.  If the file was
extended in the mean time, this will produce a bad result.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:37 -07:00
Herbert van den Bergh
5ed44a401d do not limit locked memory when RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is RLIM_INFINITY
Fix a bug in mm/mlock.c on 32-bit architectures that prevents a user from
locking more than 4GB of shared memory, or allocating more than 4GB of
shared memory in hugepages, when rlim[RLIMIT_MEMLOCK] is set to
RLIM_INFINITY.

Signed-off-by: Herbert van den Bergh <herbert.van.den.bergh@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:37 -07:00
Paul Mundt
84a01c2f8e slob: sparsemem support
Currently slob is disabled if we're using sparsemem, due to an earlier
patch from Goto-san.  Slob and static sparsemem work without any trouble as
it is, and the only hiccup is a missing slab_is_available() in the case of
sparsemem extreme.  With this, we're rid of the last set of restrictions
for slob usage.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
Dan Aloni
b49ad484c5 mm/page_alloc.c: lower printk severity
Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
Paul Mundt
6193a2ff18 slob: initial NUMA support
This adds preliminary NUMA support to SLOB, primarily aimed at systems with
small nodes (tested all the way down to a 128kB SRAM block), whether
asymmetric or otherwise.

We follow the same conventions as SLAB/SLUB, preferring current node
placement for new pages, or with explicit placement, if a node has been
specified.  Presently on UP NUMA this has the side-effect of preferring
node#0 allocations (since numa_node_id() == 0, though this could be
reworked if we could hand off a pfn to determine node placement), so
single-CPU NUMA systems will want to place smaller nodes further out in
terms of node id.  Once a page has been bound to a node (via explicit node
id typing), we only do block allocations from partial free pages that have
a matching node id in the page flags.

The current implementation does have some scalability problems, in that all
partial free pages are tracked in the global freelist (with contention due
to the single spinlock).  However, these are things that are being reworked
for SMP scalability first, while things like per-node freelists can easily
be built on top of this sort of functionality once it's been added.

More background can be found in:

	http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=118117916022379&w=2
	http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=118170446306199&w=2
	http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=118187859420048&w=2

and subsequent threads.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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>
2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
Jason Baron
f797779324 speed up madvise_need_mmap_write() usage
In the new madvise_need_mmap_write() call we can avoid an extra case
statement and function call as follows.

Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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>
2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
897e679b17 mm/slab.c: start_cpu_timer() should be __cpuinit
start_cpu_timer() should be __cpuinit (which also matches what it's
callers are).

__devinit didn't cause problems, it simply wasted a few bytes of memory
for the common CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=n case.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
Paul Mundt
6ea6e6887d mm: more __meminit annotations
Currently zone_spanned_pages_in_node() and zone_absent_pages_in_node() are
non-static for ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP and static otherwise.  However, only
the non-static versions are __meminit annotated, despite only being called
from __meminit functions in either case.

zone_init_free_lists() is currently non-static and not __meminit annotated
either, despite only being called once in the entire tree by
init_currently_empty_zone(), which too is __meminit.  So make it static and
properly annotated.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
Jan Beulich
8f0accc862 kill vmalloc_earlyreserve
This symbol got orphaned quite a while ago.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
Jan Beulich
98011f569e mm: fix improper .init-type section references
.. which modpost started warning about.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
Paul Mundt
140d5a4904 numa: mempolicy: trivial debug fixes.
Enabling debugging fails to build due to the nodemask variable in
do_mbind() having changed names, and then oopses on boot due to the
assumption that the nodemask can be dereferenced -- which doesn't work out
so well when the policy is changed to MPOL_DEFAULT with a NULL nodemask by
numa_default_policy().

This fixes it up, and switches from PDprintk() to pr_debug() while
we're at it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
Ethan Solomita
462e00cc71 oom: stop allocating user memory if TIF_MEMDIE is set
get_user_pages() can try to allocate a nearly unlimited amount of memory on
behalf of a user process, even if that process has been OOM killed.  The
OOM kill occurs upon return to user space via a SIGKILL, but
get_user_pages() will try allocate all its memory before returning.  Change
get_user_pages() to check for TIF_MEMDIE, and if set then return
immediately.

Signed-off-by: Ethan Solomita <solo@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
Paul Mundt
b71636e298 numa: mempolicy: dynamic interleave map for system init
This converts the default system init memory policy to use a dynamically
created node map instead of defaulting to all online nodes.  Nodes of a
certain size (>= 16MB) are judged to be suitable for interleave, and are added
to the map.  If all nodes are smaller in size, the largest one is
automatically selected.

Without this, tiny nodes find themselves out of memory before we even make it
to userspace.  Systems with large nodes will notice no change.

Only the system init policy is effected by this change, the regular
MPOL_DEFAULT policy is still switched to later on in the boot process as
normal.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
f0630fff54 SLUB: support slub_debug on by default
Add a new configuration variable

CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON

If set then the kernel will be booted by default with slab debugging
switched on. Similar to CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG. By default slab debugging
is available but must be enabled by specifying "slub_debug" as a
kernel parameter.

Also add support to switch off slab debugging for a kernel that was
built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON. This works by specifying

slub_debug=-

as a kernel parameter.

Dave Jones wanted this feature.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118072189913045&w=2

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: clean up switch statement]
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>
2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
Andrew Morton
fc9a07e7bf invalidate_mapping_pages(): add cond_resched
invalidate_mapping_pages() can sometimes take a long time (millions of pages
to free).  Long enough for the softlockup detector to trigger.

We used to have a cond_resched() in there but I took it out because the
drop_caches code calls invalidate_mapping_pages() under inode_lock.

The patch adds a nasty flag and puts the cond_resched() back.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
Nick Piggin
45426812d6 mm: debug check for the fault vs invalidate race
Add a bugcheck for Andrea's pagefault vs invalidate race.  This is triggerable
for both linear and nonlinear pages with a userspace test harness (using
direct IO and truncate, respectively).

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>
2007-07-16 09:05:35 -07:00
Joe Jin
f96efd585b hugetlb: fix race in alloc_fresh_huge_page()
That static `nid' index needs locking.  Without it we can end up calling
alloc_pages_node() with an illegal node ID and the kernel crashes.

Acked-by: gurudas pai <gurudas.pai@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:35 -07:00
Anderson Briglia
2706a1b89b vmscan: fix comments related to shrink_list()
Fix the shrink_list name on some files under mm/ directory.

Signed-off-by: Anderson Briglia <anderson.briglia@indt.org.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:35 -07:00
Nick Piggin
553948491c slob: improved alignment handling
Remove the core slob allocator's minimum alignment restrictions, and instead
introduce the alignment restrictions at the slab API layer.  This lets us heed
the ARCH_KMALLOC/SLAB_MINALIGN directives, and also use __alignof__ (unsigned
long) for the default alignment (which should allow relaxed alignment
architectures to take better advantage of SLOB's small minimum alignment).

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:35 -07:00
Nick Piggin
d87a133fc2 slob: remove bigblock tracking
Remove the bigblock lists in favour of using compound pages and going directly
to the page allocator.  Allocation size is stored in page->private, which also
makes ksize more accurate than it previously was.

Saves ~.5K of code, and 12-24 bytes overhead per >= PAGE_SIZE allocation.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:35 -07:00
Nick Piggin
95b35127f1 slob: rework freelist handling
Improve slob by turning the freelist into a list of pages using struct page
fields, then each page has a singly linked freelist of slob blocks via a
pointer in the struct page.

- The first benefit is that the slob freelists can be indexed by a smaller
  type (2 bytes, if the PAGE_SIZE is reasonable).

- Next is that freeing is much quicker because it does not have to traverse
  the entire freelist. Allocation can be slightly faster too, because we can
  skip almost-full freelist pages completely.

- Slob pages are then freed immediately when they become empty, rather than
  having a periodic timer try to free them. This gives efficiency and memory
  consumption improvement.

Then, we don't encode seperate size and next fields into each slob block,
rather we use the sign bit to distinguish between "size" or "next". Then
size 1 blocks contain a "next" offset, and others contain the "size" in
the first unit and "next" in the second unit.

- This allows minimum slob allocation alignment to go from 8 bytes to 2
  bytes on 32-bit and 12 bytes to 2 bytes on 64-bit. In practice, it is
  best to align them to word size, however some architectures (eg. cris)
  could gain space savings from turning off this extra alignment.

Then, make kmalloc use its own slob_block at the front of the allocation
in order to encode allocation size, rather than rely on not overwriting
slob's existing header block.

- This reduces kmalloc allocation overhead similarly to alignment reductions.

- Decouples kmalloc layer from the slob allocator.

Then, add a page flag specific to slob pages.

- This means kfree of a page aligned slob block doesn't have to traverse
  the bigblock list.

I would get benchmarks, but my test box's network doesn't come up with
slob before this patch. I think something is timing out. Anyway, things
are faster after the patch.

Code size goes up about 1K, however dynamic memory usage _should_ be
lower even on relatively small memory systems.

Future todo item is to restore the cyclic free list search, rather than
to always begin at the start.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:35 -07:00
Eric Dumazet
1037b83bd0 MM: alloc_large_system_hash() can free some memory for non power-of-two bucketsize
alloc_large_system_hash() is called at boot time to allocate space for
several large hash tables.

Lately, TCP hash table was changed and its bucketsize is not a power-of-two
anymore.

On most setups, alloc_large_system_hash() allocates one big page (order >
0) with __get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC, order).  This single high_order page
has a power-of-two size, bigger than the needed size.

We can free all pages that wont be used by the hash table.

On a 1GB i386 machine, this patch saves 128 KB of LOWMEM memory.

TCP established hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 393216 bytes)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:35 -07:00
Pavel Emelianov
b92151bab9 Make /proc/slabinfo use seq_list_xxx helpers
This entry prints a header in .start callback.  This is OK, but the more
elegant solution would be to move this into the .show callback and use
seq_list_start_head() in .start one.

I have left it as is in order to make the patch just switch to new API and
noting more.

[adobriyan@sw.ru: Wrong pointer was used as kmem_cache pointer]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:35 -07:00
Rolf Eike Beer
68e116a3b5 MM: use DIV_ROUND_UP() in mm/memory.c
Replace a hand coded version of DIV_ROUND_UP().

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:35 -07:00
Nishanth Aravamudan
31a5c6e4f2 hugetlb: remove unnecessary nid initialization
nid is initialized to numa_node_id() but will either be overwritten in
the loop or not used in the conditional. So remove the initialization.

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:35 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
f0c0b2b808 change zonelist order: zonelist order selection logic
Make zonelist creation policy selectable from sysctl/boot option v6.

This patch makes NUMA's zonelist (of pgdat) order selectable.
Available order are Default(automatic)/ Node-based / Zone-based.

[Default Order]
The kernel selects Node-based or Zone-based order automatically.

[Node-based Order]
This policy treats the locality of memory as the most important parameter.
Zonelist order is created by each zone's locality. This means lower zones
(ex. ZONE_DMA) can be used before higher zone (ex. ZONE_NORMAL) exhausion.
IOW. ZONE_DMA will be in the middle of zonelist.
current 2.6.21 kernel uses this.

Pros.
 * A user can expect local memory as much as possible.
Cons.
 * lower zone will be exhansted before higher zone. This may cause OOM_KILL.

Maybe suitable if ZONE_DMA is relatively big and you never see OOM_KILL
because of ZONE_DMA exhaution and you need the best locality.

(example)
assume 2 node NUMA. node(0) has ZONE_DMA/ZONE_NORMAL, node(1) has ZONE_NORMAL.

*node(0)'s memory allocation order:

 node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA -> node(1)'s NORMAL.

*node(1)'s memory allocation order:

 node(1)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA.

[Zone-based order]
This policy treats the zone type as the most important parameter.
Zonelist order is created by zone-type order. This means lower zone
never be used bofere higher zone exhaustion.
IOW. ZONE_DMA will be always at the tail of zonelist.

Pros.
 * OOM_KILL(bacause of lower zone) occurs only if the whole zones are exhausted.
Cons.
 * memory locality may not be best.

(example)
assume 2 node NUMA. node(0) has ZONE_DMA/ZONE_NORMAL, node(1) has ZONE_NORMAL.

*node(0)'s memory allocation order:

 node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(1)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA.

*node(1)'s memory allocation order:

 node(1)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA.

bootoption "numa_zonelist_order=" and proc/sysctl is supporetd.

command:
%echo N > /proc/sys/vm/numa_zonelist_order

Will rebuild zonelist in Node-based order.

command:
%echo Z > /proc/sys/vm/numa_zonelist_order

Will rebuild zonelist in Zone-based order.

Thanks to Lee Schermerhorn, he gives me much help and codes.

[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: add check_highest_zone to build_zonelists_in_zone_order]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "jesse.barnes@intel.com" <jesse.barnes@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:35 -07:00
Eric Paris
ed03218951 security: Protection for exploiting null dereference using mmap
Add a new security check on mmap operations to see if the user is attempting
to mmap to low area of the address space.  The amount of space protected is
indicated by the new proc tunable /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr and defaults to
0, preserving existing behavior.

This patch uses a new SELinux security class "memprotect."  Policy already
contains a number of allow rules like a_t self:process * (unconfined_t being
one of them) which mean that putting this check in the process class (its
best current fit) would make it useless as all user processes, which we also
want to protect against, would be allowed. By taking the memprotect name of
the new class it will also make it possible for us to move some of the other
memory protect permissions out of 'process' and into the new class next time
we bump the policy version number (which I also think is a good future idea)

Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2007-07-11 22:52:29 -04:00
Carsten Otte
d054fe3d10 xip sendfile removal
This patch removes xip_file_sendfile, the sendfile implementation for
xip without replacement. Those customers that use xip on s390 are not
using sendfile() as far as we know, and so far s390 is the only platform
this could potentially be used on so far.
Having sendfile is not a popular feature for execute in place file
systems, however we have a working implementation of splice_read() based
on fs/splice.c if anyone asks for it.
At this point in time, it does not seem preferable to merge
splice_read() for xip because it causes extra maintenence effort due to
code duplication and it requires struct page behind the xip memory
segment. We'd like to get rid of that in favor of supporting flash based
embedded platforms (Monta Vista work) soon.

Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10 08:04:15 +02:00
Hugh Dickins
ae97641646 shmem: convert to using splice instead of sendfile()
Remove shmem_file_sendfile and resurrect shmem_readpage, as used by tmpfs
to support loop and sendfile in 2.4 and 2.5.  Now tmpfs can support splice,
loop and sendfile in the simplest way, using generic_file_splice_read and
generic_file_splice_write (with the aid of shmem_prepare_write).

We could make some efficiency tweaks later, if there's a real need;
but this is stable and works well as is.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10 08:04:15 +02:00
Jens Axboe
0452a4e5d0 sendfile: kill generic_file_sendfile()
It's no longer used.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10 08:04:14 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra
4e99325b46 mm: double mark_page_accessed() in read_cache_page_async()
Fix a post-2.6.21 regression.

read_cache_page_async() has two invocations of mark_page_accessed() which will
launch pages right onto the active list.

Remove the first one, keeping the latter one.  This avoids marking unwanted
pages active (in the retry loop).

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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>
2007-07-08 10:13:21 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
d23cf676d0 slub: remove useless EXPORT_SYMBOL
kmem_cache_open is static. EXPORT_SYMBOL was leftover from some earlier
time period where kmem_cache_open was usable outside of slub.

(Fixes powerpc build error)

Signed-off-by: Chrsitoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-06 11:45:11 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
23c1fb5296 mm: fixup /proc/vmstat output
Line up the vmstat_text with zone_stat_item

enum zone_stat_item {
	/* First 128 byte cacheline (assuming 64 bit words) */
	NR_FREE_PAGES,
	NR_INACTIVE,
	NR_ACTIVE,

We current have nr_active and nr_inactive reversed.

[ "OK with patch, though using initializers canbe handy to prevent such
   things in future:

	static const char * const vmstat_text[] = {
		[NR_FREE_PAGES] = "nr_free_pages",
		..."
							 - Alexey ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-06 10:26:50 -07:00
David Woodhouse
87a927c715 Fix slab redzone alignment
Commit b46b8f19c9 fixed a couple of bugs
by switching the redzone to 64 bits. Unfortunately, it neglected to
ensure that the _second_ redzone, after the slab object, is aligned
correctly. This caused illegal instruction faults on sparc32, which for
some reason not entirely clear to me are not trapped and fixed up.

Two things need to be done to fix this:
  - increase the object size, rounding up to alignof(long long) so
    that the second redzone can be aligned correctly.
  - If SLAB_STORE_USER is set but alignof(long long)==8, allow a
    full 64 bits of space for the user word at the end of the buffer,
    even though we may not _use_ the whole 64 bits.

This patch should be a no-op on any 64-bit architecture or any 32-bit
architecture where alignof(long long) == 4. Of the others, it's tested
on ppc32 by myself and a very similar patch was tested on sparc32 by
Mark Fortescue, who reported the new problem.

Also, fix the conditions for FORCED_DEBUG, which hadn't been adjusted to
the new sizes. Again noticed by Mark.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-05 15:54:13 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
dbc55faa64 SLUB: Make lockdep happy by not calling add_partial with interrupts enabled during bootstrap
If we move the local_irq_enable() to the end of the function then
add_partial() in early_kmem_cache_node_alloc() will be called
with interrupts disabled like during regular operations.

This makes lockdep happy.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Tested-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-03 13:56:13 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
17022220dd SLAB: remove WARN_ON_ONCE for zero sized objects for 2.6.22 release
We agreed to remove the WARN_ON_ONCE before 2.6.22 is released.

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>
2007-07-01 12:29:43 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
30acbabae3 mm: kill validate_anon_vma to avoid mapcount BUG
validate_anon_vma gave a useful check on the integrity of the anon_vma list
when Andrea was developing obj rmap; but it was not enabled in SLES9
itself, nor in mainline, until Nick changed commented-out RMAP_DEBUG to
configurable CONFIG_DEBUG_VM in 2.6.17.  Now Petr Vandrovec reports that
its BUG_ON(mapcount > 100000) can easily crash a CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y system.

That limit was just an arbitrary number to protect against an infinite
loop.  We could raise it to something enormous (depending on sizeof struct
vma and size of memory?); but I rather think validate_anon_vma has outlived
its usefulness, and is better just removed - which gives a magnificent
performance boost to anything like Petr's test program ;)

Of course, a very long anon_vma list is bad news for preemption latency,
and I believe there has been one recent report of such: let's not forget
that, but validate_anon_vma only makes it worse not better.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-28 11:34:53 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
8496634302 SLUB: fix behavior if the text output of list_locations overflows PAGE_SIZE
If slabs are allocated or freed from a large set of call sites (typical for
the kmalloc area) then we may create more output than fits into a single
PAGE and sysfs only gives us one page.  The output should be truncated.
This patch fixes the checks to do the truncation properly.

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>
2007-06-24 08:59:11 -07:00
Helge Deller
06b32f3ab6 [PARISC] Handle wrapping in expand_upwards()
Function expand_upwards() did not guarded against wrapping
around to address 0. This fixes the adjtimex02 testcase from
the Linux Test Project on a 32bit PARISC kernel.

[expand_upwards is only used on parisc and ia64; it looks like it does
 the right thing on both. --kyle]

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2007-06-21 17:46:20 -04:00
Christoph Lameter
4b356be019 SLUB: minimum alignment fixes
If ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN is set to a value greater than 8 (SLUBs smallest
kmalloc cache) then SLUB may generate duplicate slabs in sysfs (yes again)
because the object size is padded to reach ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN.  Thus the
size of the small slabs is all the same.

No arch sets ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN larger than 8 though except mips which
for some reason wants a 128 byte alignment.

This patch increases the size of the smallest cache if
ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN is greater than 8.  In that case more and more of the
smallest caches are disabled.

If we do that then the count of the active general caches that is displayed
on boot is not correct anymore since we may skip elements of the kmalloc
array.  So count them separately.

This approach was tested by Havard yesterday.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-16 13:16:16 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
8dab5241d0 Rework ptep_set_access_flags and fix sun4c
Some changes done a while ago to avoid pounding on ptep_set_access_flags and
update_mmu_cache in some race situations break sun4c which requires
update_mmu_cache() to always be called on minor faults.

This patch reworks ptep_set_access_flags() semantics, implementations and
callers so that it's now responsible for returning whether an update is
necessary or not (basically whether the PTE actually changed).  This allow
fixing the sparc implementation to always return 1 on sun4c.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fixes, cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Mark Fortescue <mark@mtfhpc.demon.co.uk>
Acked-by: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-16 13:16:16 -07:00