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David S. Miller
7e5766fa94 [SPARC64]: Fix build failure when CONFIG_BUG is disabled.
When CONFIG_BUG is turned off, the standard trick of:

	switch (x) {
	case X:
	...
	case Y:
	...
	default:
		BUG();
	};

to mark impossible cases does not work because BUG() evalutes
to nothing and thus GCC just sees a fallthrough code path.

Add an explicit KERN_ERR log message and a do_exit() to trap
this case.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-31 15:30:52 -07:00
David S. Miller
099d575aaf [SPARC64]: Kill unused ITAG_MASK macro in ultra.S
It is unused since we went to an I-cache flush that solely used
the 'flush' instruction, and it's presence breaks the build
when PAGE_SIZE is 512KB.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-31 15:30:51 -07:00
David S. Miller
d979f1792d [SPARC64]: __inline__ --> inline
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-27 00:13:04 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
48e94196a5 fix memory hot remove not configured case.
Now, arch dependent code around CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE is a mess.
This patch cleans up them. This is against 2.6.23-rc6-mm1.

 - fix compile failure on ia64/ CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG && !CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE case.
 - For !CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE, add generic no-op remove_memory(),
   which returns -EINVAL.
 - removed remove_pages() only used in powerpc.
 - removed no-op remove_memory() in i386, sh, sparc64, x86_64.

 - only powerpc returns -ENOSYS at memory hot remove(no-op). changes it
   to return -EINVAL.

Note:
Currently, only ia64 supports CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE. I welcome other
archs if there are requirements and testers.

Signed-off-by: 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>
2007-10-16 09:43:02 -07:00
Will Schmidt
dcca2bde4f During VM oom condition, kill all threads in process group
We have had complaints where a threaded application is left in a bad state
after one of it's threads is killed when we hit a VM: out_of_memory
condition.

Killing just one of the process threads can leave the application in a bad
state, whereas killing the entire process group would allow for the
application to restart, or be otherwise handled, and makes it very obvious
that something has gone wrong.

This change allows the entire process group to be taken down, rather
than just the one thread.

Signed-off-by: Will Schmidt <will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 09:42:52 -07:00
David Miller
46644c2477 SPARC64: SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP support
[apw@shadowen.org: style fixups]
[apw@shadowen.org: vmemmap sparc64: convert to new config options]
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.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>
2007-10-16 09:42:51 -07:00
David S. Miller
42d5f99b1d [SPARC64]: Only use bypass accesses to INO buckets.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-13 23:03:21 -07:00
David Gibson
dec4ad86c2 hugepage: fix broken check for offset alignment in hugepage mappings
For hugepage mappings, the file offset, like the address and size, needs to
be aligned to the size of a hugepage.

In commit 68589bc353, the check for this was
moved into prepare_hugepage_range() along with the address and size checks.
 But since BenH's rework of the get_unmapped_area() paths leading up to
commit 4b1d89290b, prepare_hugepage_range()
is only called for MAP_FIXED mappings, not for other mappings.  This means
we're no longer ever checking for an aligned offset - I've confirmed that
mmap() will (apparently) succeed with a misaligned offset on both powerpc
and i386 at least.

This patch restores the check, removing it from prepare_hugepage_range()
and putting it back into hugetlbfs_file_mmap().  I'm putting it there,
rather than in the get_unmapped_area() path so it only needs to go in one
place, than separately in the half-dozen or so arch-specific
implementations of hugetlb_get_unmapped_area().

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-31 01:42:23 -07:00
David S. Miller
c1f193a7ae [SPARC64]: Fix show_stack() when stack argument is NULL.
It didn't handle that case at all, and now dump_stack()
can be implemented directly as show_stack(current, NULL)

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-30 00:27:38 -07:00
Paul Mundt
20c2df83d2 mm: Remove slab destructors from kmem_cache_create().
Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's
c59def9f22 change. They've been
BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them
either.

This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create()
completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were
about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves,
or the documentation references).

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2007-07-20 10:11:58 +09:00
Nick Piggin
83c54070ee mm: fault feedback #2
This patch completes Linus's wish that the fault return codes be made into
bit flags, which I agree makes everything nicer.  This requires requires
all handle_mm_fault callers to be modified (possibly the modifications
should go further and do things like fault accounting in handle_mm_fault --
however that would be for another patch).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix alpha build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix s390 build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc64 build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ia64 build]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ Still apparently needs some ARM and PPC loving - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:41 -07:00
David S. Miller
7db35f31cb [SPARC64]: Fill holes in hypervisor APIs and fix KTSB registry.
Several interfaces were missing and others misnumbered or
improperly documented.

Also, make sure to check the return value when registering
the kernel TSBs with the hypervisor.  This helped to find
the 4MB kernel TSB alignment bug fixed in a previous changeset.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-29 02:52:15 -07:00
David S. Miller
2d9e2763c2 [SPARC64]: Fix two bugs wrt. kernel 4MB TSB.
1) The TSB lookup was not using the correct hash mask.

2) It was not aligned on a boundary equal to it's size,
   which is required by the sun4v Hypervisor.

wasn't having it's return value checked, and that bug will be fixed up
as well in a subsequent changeset.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-29 02:51:38 -07:00
David S. Miller
22adb358e8 [SPARC64]: Eliminate NR_CPUS limitations.
Cheetah systems can have cpuids as large as 1023, although physical
systems don't have that many cpus.

Only three limitations existed in the kernel preventing arbitrary
NR_CPUS values:

1) dcache dirty cpu state stored in page->flags on
   D-cache aliasing platforms.  With some build time
   calculations and some build-time BUG checks on
   page->flags layout, this one was easily solved.

2) The cheetah XCALL delivery code could only handle
   a cpumask with up to 32 cpus set.  Some simple looping
   logic clears that up too.

3) thread_info->cpu was a u8, easily changed to a u16.

There are a few spots in the kernel that still put NR_CPUS
sized arrays on the kernel stack, but that's not a sparc64
specific problem.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-29 02:49:49 -07:00
David S. Miller
5cbc307373 [SPARC64]: Use machine description and OBP properly for cpu probing.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-29 02:49:41 -07:00
David S. Miller
22d6a1cba3 [SPARC64]: Report proper system soft state to the hypervisor.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-29 02:49:29 -07:00
Simon Arlott
e5dd42e4fb [SPARC64]: Spelling fixes.
Spelling fixes in arch/sparc64/.

Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-11 21:39:21 -07:00
David S. Miller
127cda1e8c [SPARC64]: Optimize fault kprobe handling just like powerpc.
And eliminate DIE_GPF while we're at it.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-08 18:25:14 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
e63340ae6b header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used
Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed.
Suggested by Al Viro.

Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc,
sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs).

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>
2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
1eeb66a1bb move die notifier handling to common code
This patch moves the die notifier handling to common code.  Previous
various architectures had exactly the same code for it.  Note that the new
code is compiled unconditionally, this should be understood as an appel to
the other architecture maintainer to implement support for it aswell (aka
sprinkling a notify_die or two in the proper place)

arm had a notifiy_die that did something totally different, I renamed it to
arm_notify_die as part of the patch and made it static to the file it's
declared and used at.  avr32 used to pass slightly less information through
this interface and I brought it into line with the other architectures.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix vmalloc_sync_all bustage]
[bryan.wu@analog.com: fix vmalloc_sync_all in nommu]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:04 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
ac35ee484d get_unmapped_area handles MAP_FIXED on sparc64
Handle MAP_FIXED in hugetlb_get_unmapped_area on sparc64 by just using
prepare_hugepage_range()

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: William Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:56 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
f0f3980b21 slab allocators: remove multiple alignment specifications
It is not necessary to tell the slab allocators to align to a cacheline
if an explicit alignment was already specified. It is rather confusing
to specify multiple alignments.

Make sure that the call sites only use one form of alignment.

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>
2007-05-07 12:12:55 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
5af6083990 slab allocators: Remove obsolete SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN
This patch was recently posted to lkml and acked by Pekka.

The flag SLAB_MUST_HWCACHE_ALIGN is

1. Never checked by SLAB at all.

2. A duplicate of SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN for SLUB

3. Fulfills the role of SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN for SLOB.

The only remaining use is in sparc64 and ppc64 and their use there
reflects some earlier role that the slab flag once may have had. If
its specified then SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN is also specified.

The flag is confusing, inconsistent and has no purpose.

Remove it.

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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>
2007-05-07 12:12:55 -07:00
David Miller
3a2cba993b Quicklist support for sparc64
I ported this to sparc64 as per the patch below, tested on UP SunBlade1500 and
24 cpu Niagara T1000.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:54 -07:00
David S. Miller
f1cfdb55f1 [SPARC64]: Document and fix calculation of pages_avail.
It should be set to the total number of pages that the
system will really have available after things like
initmem, the bootmem map, and initrd are freed up.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 01:55:36 -07:00
David S. Miller
3996465392 [SPARC64]: Use bootmem_bootmap_pages() in choose_bootmap_pfn().
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 01:55:34 -07:00
David S. Miller
b93f262023 [SPARC64]: Add proper header file extern for cmdline_memory_size.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 01:55:33 -07:00
David S. Miller
9753f0d650 [SPARC64]: Kill sparc_ultra_dump_{i,d}tlb()
While useful in odd circumstances to debug something, they are
normally totally unused and anyone can fetch this code out of the
history if they really need it.

And in any event, the person who needs this kind of code is usually me
:-)

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 01:55:32 -07:00
David S. Miller
85f1e1f660 [SPARC64]: Use DECLARE_BITMAP and BITS_TO_LONGS in mm/init.c
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 01:55:31 -07:00
David S. Miller
5be4a96367 [SPARC64]: Give move verbose show_mem() output just like i386.
We now report everything i386 does except for highmem which
doesn't apply.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 01:55:30 -07:00
David S. Miller
28256ca2e0 [SPARC64]: Mark show_mem() printk's with KERN_INFO.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 01:55:28 -07:00
David S. Miller
a94aa25306 [SPARC64]: Kill kvaddr_to_phys() and friends.
Just inline it into flush_icache_range() which is the only
user.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 01:55:27 -07:00
David S. Miller
4be5c34dc4 [SPARC64]: Privatize sun4u_get_pte() and fix name.
__get_phys is only called from init.c as is prom_virt_to_phys(),
__get_iospace() is not called at all, and sun4u_get_pte() is largely
misnamed.

Privatize the implementation and helper functions of
sun4u_get_phys() to mm/init.c, and rename to
kvaddr_to_paddr().

The only used of this thing is flush_icache_range(), and thus
things can be considerably further simplified.  For example,
we should only see module or PAGE_OFFSET kernel addresses here,
so we don't need the OBP firmware range handling at all.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 01:55:26 -07:00
David S. Miller
a0963bdfb9 [SPARC64]: Kill _start[]/_end[] declarations in mm/init.c
We already get those from asm/sections.h

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 01:55:25 -07:00
David S. Miller
0015d3d68c [SPARC64]: Simplify read_obp_memory().
Kick out empty entries as soon as we spot them, and use memmove()
instead of a silly loop to make the operation more clear.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26 01:55:23 -07:00
David S. Miller
d1acb4210a [SPARC64]: Get DEBUG_PAGEALLOC working again.
We have to make sure to use base-pagesize TLB entries even during the
early transition period where we need TLB miss handling but don't have
the kernel page tables setup yet for the linear region.

Also, it is necessary therefore to not use the 4MB TSB for these
translations, and instead use the normal kernel TSB.  This allows us
to also get rid of the 4MB tsb for debug builds which shrinks the
kernel a little bit.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-03-16 17:20:28 -07:00
David S. Miller
bb8236f2b9 [SPARC64]: Add missing HPAGE_MASK masks on address parameters.
These pte loops all assume the passed in address is HPAGE
aligned, make sure that is actually true.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-03-12 22:55:39 -07:00
David S. Miller
1b51d3a08b [SPARC64]: We do not need ZONE_DMA.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-12 15:15:46 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
9617729941 [PATCH] Drop free_pages()
nr_free_pages is now a simple access to a global variable.  Make it a macro
instead of a function.

The nr_free_pages now requires vmstat.h to be included.  There is one
occurrence in power management where we need to add the include.  Directly
refrer to global_page_state() there to clarify why the #include was added.

[akpm@osdl.org: arm build fix]
[akpm@osdl.org: sparc64 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 10:51:18 -08:00
David S. Miller
6fc5bae797 [SPARC64]: Fix "mem=xxx" handling.
We were not being careful enough.  When we trim the physical
memory areas, we have to make sure we don't remove the kernel
image or initial ramdisk image ranges.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-31 14:06:04 -08:00
David S. Miller
10e267234c [SPARC64]: Add irqtrace/stacktrace/lockdep support.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-10 02:39:09 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
e18b890bb0 [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t
Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.

The patch was generated using the following script:

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.
	#

	set -e

	for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do
		quilt add $file
		sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$
		mv /tmp/$$ $file
		quilt refresh
	done

The script was run like this

	sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
Chen, Kenneth W
39dde65c99 [PATCH] shared page table for hugetlb page
Following up with the work on shared page table done by Dave McCracken.  This
set of patch target shared page table for hugetlb memory only.

The shared page table is particular useful in the situation of large number of
independent processes sharing large shared memory segments.  In the normal
page case, the amount of memory saved from process' page table is quite
significant.  For hugetlb, the saving on page table memory is not the primary
objective (as hugetlb itself already cuts down page table overhead
significantly), instead, the purpose of using shared page table on hugetlb is
to allow faster TLB refill and smaller cache pollution upon TLB miss.

With PT sharing, pte entries are shared among hundreds of processes, the cache
consumption used by all the page table is smaller and in return, application
gets much higher cache hit ratio.  One other effect is that cache hit ratio
with hardware page walker hitting on pte in cache will be higher and this
helps to reduce tlb miss latency.  These two effects contribute to higher
application performance.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:21 -08:00
David S. Miller
715a0ecc29 [SPARC64]: Kill bogus check from bootmem_init().
There is an ancient and totally incorrect sanity check being
done on the ramdisk location.  The check assumes that the
kernel is always loaded to physical address zero, which is
wrong.  It was trying to validate the ramdisk value by saying that
if it fell within the kernel image address range it must be wrong.

Anyways, kill this because it actually creates problems.  The
'ramdisk_image' should always be adjusted down by KERNBASE.
SILO can easily put the ramdisk in a location which causes
this test to trigger, breaking things.

[ Based almost entirely upon a patch from Ben Collins. ]

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-26 23:14:21 -07:00
David S. Miller
47f2c3604f [SPARC64]: Fix X server hangs due to large pages.
This problem was introduced by changeset
14778d9072

Unlike the hugetlb code paths, the normal fault code is not setup to
propagate PTE changes for large page sizes correctly like the ones we
make for I/O mappings in io_remap_pfn_range().

It is absolutely necessary to update all sub-ptes of a largepage
mapping on a fault.  Adding special handling for this would add
considerably complexity to tlb_batch_add().  So let's just side-step
the issue and forcefully dirty any writable PTEs created by
io_remap_pfn_range().

The only other real option would be to disable to large PTE code of
io_remap_pfn_range() and we really don't want to do that.

Much thanks to Mikael Pettersson for tracking down this problem and
testing debug patches.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-08-29 21:23:31 -07:00
David S. Miller
eb398d1044 [SPARC64]: Explicitly print return PC when the kernel fault PC is bogus.
That way we'll have at least some debugging info even if
the stack dump explodes.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-24 22:33:58 -07:00
Jörn Engel
6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
c9cf55285e [PATCH] add poison.h and patch primary users
Localize poison values into one header file for better documentation and
easier/quicker debugging and so that the same values won't be used for
multiple purposes.

Use these constants in core arch., mm, driver, and fs code.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27 17:32:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
8871e73fdb Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  [SPARC]: Add iomap interfaces.
  [OPENPROM]: Rewrite driver to use in-kernel device tree.
  [OPENPROMFS]: Rewrite using in-kernel device tree and seq_file.
  [SPARC]: Add unique device_node IDs and a ".node" property.
  [SPARC]: Add of_set_property() interface.
  [SPARC64]: Export auxio_register to modules.
  [SPARC64]: Add missing interfaces to dma-mapping.h
  [SPARC64]: Export _PAGE_IE to modules.
  [SPARC64]: Allow floppy driver to build modular.
  [SPARC]: Export x_bus_type to modules.
  [RIOWATCHDOG]: Fix the build.
  [CPWATCHDOG]: Fix the build.
  [PARPORT] sunbpp: Fix typo.
  [MTD] sun_uflash: Port to new EBUS device layer.
2006-06-26 10:08:32 -07:00
Anil S Keshavamurthy
d98f8f0518 [PATCH] Notify page fault call chain for sparc64
Overloading of page fault notification with the notify_die() has performance
issues(since the only interested components for page fault is kprobes and/or
kdb) and hence this patch introduces the new notifier call chain exclusively
for page fault notifications their by avoiding notifying unnecessary
components in the do_page_fault() code path.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:22 -07:00