Add some comments to explain how zone reclaim works. And it fixes the
following issues:
- PF_SWAPWRITE needs to be set for RECLAIM_SWAP to be able to write
out pages to swap. Currently RECLAIM_SWAP may not do that.
- remove setting nr_reclaimed pages after slab reclaim since the slab shrinking
code does not use that and the nr_reclaimed pages is just right for the
intended follow up action.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We have:
try_to_free_pages
->shrink_caches(struct zone **zones, ..)
->shrink_zone(struct zone *, ...)
->shrink_cache(struct zone *, ...)
->shrink_list(struct list_head *, ...)
->refill_inactive_list((struct zone *, ...)
which is fairly irrational.
Rename things so that we have
try_to_free_pages
->shrink_zones(struct zone **zones, ..)
->shrink_zone(struct zone *, ...)
->shrink_inactive_list(struct zone *, ...)
->shrink_page_list(struct list_head *, ...)
->shrink_active_list(struct zone *, ...)
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Change all the vmscan functions to retunr the number-of-reclaimed pages and
remove scan_conrtol.nr_reclaimed.
Saves ten-odd bytes of text and makes things clearer and more consistent.
The patch also changes the behaviour of zone_reclaim() when it falls back to slab shrinking. Christoph says
"Setting this to one means that we will rescan and shrink the slab for
each allocation if we are out of zone memory and RECLAIM_SLAB is set. Plus
if we do an order 0 allocation we do not go off node as intended.
"We better set this to zero. This means the allocation will go offnode
despite us having potentially freed lots of memory on the zone. Future
allocations can then again be done from this zone."
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Turn basically everything in vmscan.c into `unsigned long'. This is to avoid
the possibility that some piece of code in there might decide to operate upon
more than 4G (or even 2G) of pages in one hit.
This might be silly, but we'll need it one day.
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Initialise as much of scan_control as possible at the declaration site. This
tidies things up a bit and assures us that all unmentioned fields are zeroed
out.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Make nr_to_scan and priority a parameter instead of putting it into scan
control. This allows various small optimizations and IMHO makes the code
easier to read.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
When on_each_cpu() runs the callback on other CPUs, it runs with local
interrupts disabled. So we should run the function with local interrupts
disabled on this CPU, too.
And do the same for UP, so the callback is run in the same environment on both
UP and SMP. (strictly it should do preempt_disable() too, but I think
local_irq_disable is sufficiently equivalent).
Also uninlines on_each_cpu(). softirq.c was the most appropriate file I could
find, but it doesn't seem to justify creating a new file.
Oh, and fix up that comment over (under?) x86's smp_call_function(). It
drives me nuts.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
SLAB_NO_REAP is documented as an option that will cause this slab not to be
reaped under memory pressure. However, that is not what happens. The only
thing that SLAB_NO_REAP controls at the moment is the reclaim of the unused
slab elements that were allocated in batch in cache_reap(). Cache_reap()
is run every few seconds independently of memory pressure.
Could we remove the whole thing? Its only used by three slabs anyways and
I cannot find a reason for having this option.
There is an additional problem with SLAB_NO_REAP. If set then the recovery
of objects from alien caches is switched off. Objects not freed on the
same node where they were initially allocated will only be reused if a
certain amount of objects accumulates from one alien node (not very likely)
or if the cache is explicitly shrunk. (Strangely __cache_shrink does not
check for SLAB_NO_REAP)
Getting rid of SLAB_NO_REAP fixes the problems with alien cache freeing.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We have struct kmem_cache now so use it instead of the old typedef.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Remove cachep->spinlock. Locking has moved to the kmem_list3 and most of
the structures protected earlier by cachep->spinlock is now protected by
the l3->list_lock. slab cache tunables like batchcount are accessed always
with the cache_chain_mutex held.
Patch tested on SMP and NUMA kernels with dbench processes running,
constant onlining/offlining, and constant cache tuning, all at the same
time.
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
slab.c has become a bit revolting again. Try to repair it.
- Coding style fixes
- Don't do assignments-in-if-statements.
- Don't typecast assignments to/from void*
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Extract setup_cpu_cache() function from kmem_cache_create() to make the
latter a little less complex.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Clean up the object to index mapping that has been spread around mm/slab.c.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Since size_t has the same size as a long on all architectures, it's enough
for overflow checks to check against ULONG_MAX.
This change could allow a compiler better optimization (especially in the
n=1 case).
The practical effect seems to be positive, but quite small:
text data bss dec hex filename
21762380 5859870 1848928 29471178 1c1b1ca vmlinux-old
21762211 5859870 1848928 29471009 1c1b121 vmlinux-patched
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Insert "fresh" huge pages into the hugepage allocator by the same means as
they are freed back into it. This reduces code size and allows
enqueue_huge_page to be inlined into the hugepage free fastpath.
Eliminate occurances of hugepages on the free list with non-zero refcount.
This can allow stricter refcount checks in future. Also required for
lockless pagecache.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
"This patch also eliminates a leak "cleaned up" by re-clobbering the
refcount on every allocation from the hugepage freelists. With respect to
the lockless pagecache, the crucial aspect is to eliminate unconditional
set_page_count() to 0 on pages with potentially nonzero refcounts, though
closer inspection suggests the assignments removed are entirely spurious."
Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The bootmem code added to page_alloc.c duplicated some page freeing code
that it really doesn't need to because it is not so performance critical.
While we're here, make prefetching work properly by actually prefetching
the page we're about to use before prefetching ahead to the next one (ie.
get the most important transaction started first). Also prefetch just a
single page ahead rather than leaving a gap of 16.
Jack Steiner reported no problems with SGI's ia64 simulator.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Clarify that preemption needs to be guarded against with the
__xxx_page_state functions.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Have an explicit mm call to split higher order pages into individual pages.
Should help to avoid bugs and be more explicit about the code's intention.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Don't return uninitialised stack values in case of allocation failure
- Don't bother clearing PageCompound because __GFP_COMP wasn't specified
Increment over the pte page rather than one pte entry in
pte_alloc_one_kernel
- Actually increment the page pointer in pte_alloc_one
- Compile fixes, typos.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
atomic_add_unless (atomic_inc_not_zero) no longer requires an offset refcount
to function correctly.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The VM has an interesting race where a page refcount can drop to zero, but it
is still on the LRU lists for a short time. This was solved by testing a 0->1
refcount transition when picking up pages from the LRU, and dropping the
refcount in that case.
Instead, use atomic_add_unless to ensure we never pick up a 0 refcount page
from the LRU, thus a 0 refcount page will never have its refcount elevated
until it is allocated again.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
More atomic operation removal from page allocator
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
In the page release paths, we can be sure that nobody will mess with our
page->flags because the refcount has dropped to 0. So no need for atomic
operations here.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
PG_active is protected by zone->lru_lock, it does not need TestSet/TestClear
operations.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
PG_lru is protected by zone->lru_lock. It does not need TestSet/TestClear
operations.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
If vmscan finds a zero refcount page on the lru list, never ClearPageLRU
it. This means the release code need not hold ->lru_lock to stabilise
PageLRU, so that lock may be skipped entirely when releasing !PageLRU pages
(because we know PageLRU won't have been temporarily cleared by vmscan,
which was previously guaranteed by holding the lock to synchronise against
vmscan).
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
set_pgdir isn't needed anymore for a very long time. Remove the leftover
implementation on sh64 and the stub on s390.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Do not use platform_device_register_simple() as it is going away, define
dcdbas_driver and implement ->probe() and ->remove() functions so manual
binding and unbinding will work with this driver.
Also switch to using attribute_group when creating sysfs attributes and
make sure to check and handle errors; explicitely remove attributes when
detaching driver.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Do not use platform_device_register_simple() as it is going away.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
mv64x600_wdt: convert to the new platform device interface Do not use
platform_device_register_simple() as it is going away.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The patch does the following for v441xx seris drivers:
- stop using platform_device_register_simple() as it is going away
- mark ->probe() and ->remove() methods as __devinit and __devexit
respectively
- initialize "owner" field in driver structure so there is a link
from /sys/modules to the driver
- mark *_init() and *_exit() functions as __init and __exit
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Sam's tree includes a new check, which found that we're exporting strpbrk()
multiple times.
It seems that the convention is that this is exported from the arch files, so
reove the lib/string.c export.
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Update the serial_txx9 driver.
* More strict check in verify_port. Cleanup.
* Do not insert a char caused previous overrun.
* Fix some spin_locks.
* Do not call uart_add_one_port for absent ports.
Also, this patch removes a BROKEN tag from Kconfig. This driver has been
marked as BROKEN by removal of uart_register_port, but it has been solved
already on Sep 2005.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The code that handles bios that span table target boundaries by breaking
them up into smaller bios will not split an individual struct bio_vec into
more than two pieces. Sometimes more than that are required.
This patch adds a loop to break the second piece up into as many pieces as
are necessary.
Cc: "Abhishek Gupta" <abhishekgupt@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Smith <danms@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
A bare bones trivial patch to ensure we always get -EINVAL on the
unsupported cases for sys_unshare. If this goes in before 2.6.16 it allows
us to forward compatible with future applications using sys_unshare.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: JANAK DESAI <janak@us.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kerenl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
__get_page_state() has an open-coded for_each_cpu_mask() loop in it.
Tidy that up, then notice that the code was buggy:
while (cpu < NR_CPUS) {
unsigned long *in, *out, off;
if (!cpu_isset(cpu, *cpumask))
continue;
an obvious infinite loop. I guess we just never call it with a holey cpu
mask.
Even after my cpumask size-reduction work, this patch increases code size :(
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This variable is rarely written to. Mark the variable accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
If a file is not found in v9fs_vfs_lookup, the function creates negative
dentry, but doesn't assign any dentry ops. This leaves the negative entry
in the cache (there is no d_delete to mark it for removal). If the file is
created outside of the mounted v9fs filesystem, the file shows up in the
directory with weird permissions.
This patch assigns the default v9fs dentry ops to the negative dentry.
Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The console cursor can be called in atomic context. Change memory
allocation to use the GFP_ATOMIC flag in i810fb_cursor().
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
arch/i386/kernel/efi.c: In function `efi_call_phys_epilog': arch/i386/kernel/efi.c:118: warning: assignment makes integer from pointer without a cast
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: "Tolentino, Matthew E" <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
check_acpi_pci() is called from arch/i386/kernel/setup.c even if
CONFIG_ACPI is not defined, but the code in include/asm/acpi.h doesn't
provide it in this case.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Pötzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Remove the sleep_avg multiplier. This multiplier was necessary back when
we had 10 seconds of dynamic range in sleep_avg, but now that we only have
one second, it causes that one second to be compressed down to 100ms in
some cases. This is particularly noticeable when compiling a kernel in a
slow NFS mount, and I believe it to be a very likely candidate for other
recently reported network related interactivity problems.
In testing, I can detect no negative impact of this removal.
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64-SGI] SN2-XP reduce kmalloc wrapper inlining
[IA64] MCA: remove obsolete ifdef
[IA64] MCA: update MCA comm field for user space tasks
[IA64] MCA: print messages in MCA handler
[IA64-SGI] - Eliminate SN pio_phys_xxx macros. Move to assembly
[IA64] use icc defined constant
[IA64] add __builtin_trap definition for icc build
[IA64] clean up asm/intel_intrin.h
[IA64] map ia64_hint definition to intel compiler intrinsic
[IA64] hooks to wait for mmio writes to drain when migrating processes
[IA64-SGI] driver bugfixes and hardware workarounds for CE1.0 asic
[IA64-SGI] Handle SC env. powerdown events
[IA64] Delete MCA/INIT sigdelayed code
[IA64-SGI] sem2mutex ioc4.c
[IA64] implement ia64 specific mutex primitives
[IA64] Fix UP build with BSP removal support.
[IA64] support for cpu0 removal
This reverts commit 08f1d0b99f
The "bt8xx/ conversion" for drivers/video/ hasn't actually percolated
all the way to this tree, so the Makefile change escaped too soon.
Build breakage noticed by Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- undo some Lindent damage by indenting member names
- remove history at top of .c file, this is stored in the kernel
repo changelog (in greater detail, even).
