Here is the patch to implement madvise(MADV_REMOVE) - which frees up a
given range of pages & its associated backing store. Current
implementation supports only shmfs/tmpfs and other filesystems return
-ENOSYS.
"Some app allocates large tmpfs files, then when some task quits and some
client disconnect, some memory can be released. However the only way to
release tmpfs-swap is to MADV_REMOVE". - Andrea Arcangeli
Databases want to use this feature to drop a section of their bufferpool
(shared memory segments) - without writing back to disk/swap space.
This feature is also useful for supporting hot-plug memory on UML.
Concerns raised by Andrew Morton:
- "We have no plan for holepunching! If we _do_ have such a plan (or
might in the future) then what would the API look like? I think
sys_holepunch(fd, start, len), so we should start out with that."
- Using madvise is very weird, because people will ask "why do I need to
mmap my file before I can stick a hole in it?"
- None of the other madvise operations call into the filesystem in this
manner. A broad question is: is this capability an MM operation or a
filesytem operation? truncate, for example, is a filesystem operation
which sometimes has MM side-effects. madvise is an mm operation and with
this patch, it gains FS side-effects, only they're really, really
significant ones."
Comments:
- Andrea suggested the fs operation too but then it's more efficient to
have it as a mm operation with fs side effects, because they don't
immediatly know fd and physical offset of the range. It's possible to
fixup in userland and to use the fs operation but it's more expensive,
the vmas are already in the kernel and we can use them.
Short term plan & Future Direction:
- We seem to need this interface only for shmfs/tmpfs files in the short
term. We have to add hooks into the filesystem for correctness and
completeness. This is what this patch does.
- In the future, plan is to support both fs and mmap apis also. This
also involves (other) filesystem specific functions to be implemented.
- Current patch doesn't support VM_NONLINEAR - which can be addressed in
the future.
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch makes truncate_inode_pages_range from truncate_inode_pages.
truncate_inode_pages became a one-liner call to truncate_inode_pages_range.
Reiser4 needs truncate_inode_pages_ranges because it tries to keep
correspondence between existences of metadata pointing to data pages and pages
to which those metadata point to. So, when metadata of certain part of file
is removed from filesystem tree, only pages of corresponding range are to be
truncated.
(Needed by the madvise(MADV_REMOVE) patch)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
register_memory is global and declared so in linux/memory.h. Update the
HOTPLUG specific definition to match. This fixes a compile warning when
HOTPLUG is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Both register_memory_notifer and unregister_memory_notifier are global and
declared so in linux/memory.h. Update the HOTPLUG specific definitions to
match. This fixes a compile warning when HOTPLUG is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
__add_section defines an unused pointer to the zones pgdat. Remove this
definition. This fixes a compile warning.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Two changes to the setting of the ALLOC_CPUSET flag in
mm/page_alloc.c:__alloc_pages()
- A bug fix - the "ignoring mins" case should not be honoring ALLOC_CPUSET.
This case of all cases, since it is handling a request that will free up
more memory than is asked for (exiting tasks, e.g.) should be allowed to
escape cpuset constraints when memory is tight.
- A logic change to make it simpler. Honor cpusets even on GFP_ATOMIC
(!wait) requests. With this, cpuset confinement applies to all requests
except ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS, so that in a subsequent cleanup patch, I can
remove the ALLOC_CPUSET flag entirely. Since I don't know any real reason
this logic has to be either way, I am choosing the path of the simplest
code.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- This function returns -EINVAL all the time. Fix.
- Decruftify it a bit too.
- Writing to it doesn't seem to do what it's suppoed to do.
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>
The hash.h hash_long function, when used on a 64 bit machine, ignores many
of the middle-order bits. (The prime chosen it too bit-sparse).
IP addresses for clients of an NFS server are very likely to differ only in
the low-order bits. As addresses are stored in network-byte-order, these
bits become middle-order bits in a little-endian 64bit 'long', and so do
not contribute to the hash. Thus you can have the situation where all
clients appear on one hash chain.
So, until hash_long is fixed (or maybe forever), us a hash function that
works well on IP addresses - xor the bytes together.
Thanks to "Iozone" <capps@iozone.org> for identifying this problem.
Cc: "Iozone" <capps@iozone.org>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Janos Haar of First NetCenter Bt. reported numerous crashes involving the
NBD driver. With his help, this was tracked down to bogus bio vectors
which in turn was the result of a race condition between the
receive/transmit routines in the NBD driver.
The bug manifests itself like this:
CPU0 CPU1
do_nbd_request
add req to queuelist
nbd_send_request
send req head
for each bio
kmap
send
nbd_read_stat
nbd_find_request
nbd_end_request
kunmap
When CPU1 finishes nbd_end_request, the request and all its associated
bio's are freed. So when CPU0 calls kunmap whose argument is derived from
the last bio, it may crash.
Under normal circumstances, the race occurs only on the last bio. However,
if an error is encountered on the remote NBD server (such as an incorrect
magic number in the request), or if there were a bug in the server, it is
possible for the nbd_end_request to occur any time after the request's
addition to the queuelist.
The following patch fixes this problem by making sure that requests are not
added to the queuelist until after they have been completed transmission.
In order for the receiving side to be ready for responses involving
requests still being transmitted, the patch introduces the concept of the
active request.
When a response matches the current active request, its processing is
delayed until after the tranmission has come to a stop.
This has been tested by Janos and it has been successful in curing this
race condition.
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Here is an updated patch which removes the active_req wait in
nbd_clear_queue and the associated memory barrier.
I've also clarified this in the comment.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: <djani22@dynamicweb.hu>
Cc: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@SteelEye.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
nls_utf8 is available, and the check in hfsplus_fill_super checks the wrong
pointer for NULLness (it checks the saved nls, not the new one that it
needs to use.)
Signed-off-by: Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Update IDE to use new blk_ordered. This change makes the
following behavior changes.
* Partial completion of the barrier request is handled as
failure of the whole ordered sequence. No more partial
completion for barrier requests.
* Any failure of pre or post flush request results in failure
of the whole ordered sequence.
So, successfully completed ordered sequence guarantees that
all requests prior to the barrier made to physical medium and,
then, the while barrier request made to the physical medium.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Reflect changes in SCSI midlayer and updated to use new
ordered request implementation
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
All ordered request related stuff delegated to HLD. Midlayer
now doens't deal with ordered setting or prepare_flush
callback. sd.c updated to deal with blk_queue_ordered
setting. Currently, ordered tag isn't used as SCSI midlayer
cannot guarantee request ordering.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Reimplement handling of barrier requests.
* Flexible handling to deal with various capabilities of
target devices.
* Retry support for falling back.
* Tagged queues which don't support ordered tag can do ordered.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Separate out bio initialization part from __make_request. It
will be used by the following blk_ordered_reimpl.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
add @uptodate argument to end_that_request_last() and @error
to rq_end_io_fn(). there's no generic way to pass error code
to request completion function, making generic error handling
of non-fs request difficult (rq->errors is driver-specific and
each driver uses it differently). this patch adds @uptodate
to end_that_request_last() and @error to rq_end_io_fn().
for fs requests, this doesn't really matter, so just using the
same uptodate argument used in the last call to
end_that_request_first() should suffice. imho, this can also
help the generic command-carrying request jens is working on.
Signed-off-by: tejun heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-Off-By: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
the patch below marks various read-only variables in block/* as const,
so that gcc can optimize the use of them; eg gcc will replace the use by
the value directly now and will even remove the memory usage of these.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
For filesystems with a blocksize < page size, we can merge same page
calls into the bio_vec at the end of the bio. This saves segments
on systems with a page size > the "normal" 4kb fs block size.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Originally from: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Move current_io_context out of the get_request fastpth. Also try to
streamline a few other things in this area.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Unlike other ioscheds, as-iosched handles alias by chaing them using
rq->queuelist. As aliased requests are very rare in the first place,
this complicates merge/dispatch handling without meaningful
performance improvement. This patch updates as-iosched to dump
aliased requests into dispatch queue as other ioscheds do.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
When the i2c-mv64xxx i2c driver is signalled to abort a transaction,
it aborts it immediately by issuing a stop condition on the bus.
This violates the i2c protocol and can cause what appears to be an i2c
bus hang. This patch delays issuing the stop condition until the i2c
device can reasonably expect a stop condition.
Also includes a minor fixup.
Signed-off-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
One more supported PCI ID for the i2c-nforce2 driver.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Add the ibm_iic driver to the HWMON class so it will scan the
bus for connected hardware monitor sensors.
Signed-off-by: Martin Hicks <mort@bork.org>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The removal of I2C_DF_NOTIFY left some out of date comments in the
code. Drop them.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Document i2c_driver.command as being deprecated, and don't suggest an
empty implementation of this callback as it doesn't make any sense.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Given that implementing i2c_driver.command is optional, there is no
point in an empty implementation thereof.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Michael Geng <linux@MichaelGeng.de>
Cc: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cleanups to i2c driver ID list:
* Remove mostly bogus comments about driver ID ranges.
* Drop experimental driver IDs, as the concept is pretty broken.
* Drop now unused IDs of non-I2C (ISA) drivers.
* Drop a few more IDs which are no more used.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch adds the VIA CENTAUR CPUs to detection table.
Table was updated to treat future Intel x86 CPUs as VRD10.
Stepping field was added, because some VIA CPUs have
different VRM specs across stepping. I changed the vrm type
to u8 because all drivers use u8 anyway.
Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@sh.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Simplify the way the w83792d driver handles the extra resolution
bits of voltage input channels.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Yuan Mu <Ymu@winbond.com.tw>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cleanup the w83792d driver a bit:
* Discard unused lock and irrelevant comments inherited from the
w83781d driver.
* Simplify w83792d_{read,write}_value functions.
* Drop useless address test during detection.
* Drop useless bitmasking.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Yuan Mu <Ymu@winbond.com.tw>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
i2c-dev doesn't use the reference counting logic of struct class_device so move
it to the dynamic method. This makes the code paths simpler and the driver
smaller.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Update the i2c documentation to reflect the recent change to
i2c_add_driver.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Now that i2c_add_driver() doesn't need the module owner to be set by
hand, we can delete it from the drivers. This patch catches all of the
drivers that I found in the current tree (if a driver sets the .owner by
hand, it's not a problem, just not needed.)
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
This prevents i2c drivers from messing up and forgetting to set the
module owner of their driver. It also reduces the size of their drivers
by one line :)
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Document the drop of the owner and name fields of the i2c_driver
structure.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
CC: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
We should use the i2c_driver.driver's .name and .owner fields
instead of the i2c_driver's ones.
This patch updates the drivers for arm arch.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
CC: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
We should use the i2c_driver.driver's .name and .owner fields
instead of the i2c_driver's ones.
This patch updates the matroxfb driver.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
We should use the i2c_driver.driver's .name and .owner fields
instead of the i2c_driver's ones.
This patch updates the drivers for acorn arch.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
We should use the i2c_driver.driver's .name and .owner fields
instead of the i2c_driver's ones.
This patch updates the drivers for ppc arch.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
We should use the i2c_driver.driver's .name and .owner fields
instead of the i2c_driver's ones.
This patch updates the OSS drivers.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
We should use the i2c_driver.driver's .name and .owner fields
instead of the i2c_driver's ones.
This patch updates the drivers/media/video and usb/media drivers.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
We should use the i2c_driver.driver's .name and .owner fields
instead of the i2c_driver's ones.
This patch updates the drivers for macintosh.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
