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2006-09-26[PATCH] avr32 architectureHaavard Skinnemoen176-2/+18124
This adds support for the Atmel AVR32 architecture as well as the AT32AP7000 CPU and the AT32STK1000 development board. AVR32 is a new high-performance 32-bit RISC microprocessor core, designed for cost-sensitive embedded applications, with particular emphasis on low power consumption and high code density. The AVR32 architecture is not binary compatible with earlier 8-bit AVR architectures. The AVR32 architecture, including the instruction set, is described by the AVR32 Architecture Manual, available from http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/doc32000.pdf The Atmel AT32AP7000 is the first CPU implementing the AVR32 architecture. It features a 7-stage pipeline, 16KB instruction and data caches and a full Memory Management Unit. It also comes with a large set of integrated peripherals, many of which are shared with the AT91 ARM-based controllers from Atmel. Full data sheet is available from http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/doc32003.pdf while the CPU core implementation including caches and MMU is documented by the AVR32 AP Technical Reference, available from http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/doc32001.pdf Information about the AT32STK1000 development board can be found at http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=3918 including a BSP CD image with an earlier version of this patch, development tools (binaries and source/patches) and a root filesystem image suitable for booting from SD card. Alternatively, there's a preliminary "getting started" guide available at http://avr32linux.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GettingStarted which provides links to the sources and patches you will need in order to set up a cross-compiling environment for avr32-linux. This patch, as well as the other patches included with the BSP and the toolchain patches, is actively supported by Atmel Corporation. [dmccr@us.ibm.com: Fix more pxx_page macro locations] [bunk@stusta.de: fix `make defconfig'] Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] Alchemy: Delete unused pt_regs * argument from au1xxx_dbdma_chan_allocRalf Baechle5-14/+14
The third argument of au1xxx_dbdma_chan_alloc's callback function is not used anywhere. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] FRV: Optimise ffs()David Howells1-2/+31
Optimise ffs(x) by using fls(x & x - 1) which we optimise to use the SCAN instruction. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] FRV: Implement fls64()David Howells1-1/+41
Implement fls64() for FRV without recource to conditional jumps. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] FRV: Fix fls() to handle bit 31 being set correctlyDavid Howells1-4/+17
Fix FRV fls() to handle bit 31 being set correctly (it should return 32 not 0). Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] FRV: permit __do_IRQ() to be dispensed withDavid Howells3-0/+12
Permit __do_IRQ() to be dispensed with based on a configuration option. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] FRV: improve FRV's use of generic IRQ handlingDavid Howells4-69/+53
Improve FRV's use of generic IRQ handling: (*) Use generic_handle_irq() rather than __do_IRQ() as the latter is obsolete. (*) Don't implement enable() and disable() ops as these will fall back to using unmask() and mask(). (*) Provide mask_ack() functions to avoid a call each to mask() and ack(). (*) Make the cascade handlers always return IRQ_HANDLED. (*) Implement the mask() and unmask() functions in the same order as they're listed in the ops table. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] FRV: Use the generic IRQ stuffDavid Howells18-1221/+450
Make the FRV arch use the generic IRQ code rather than having its own routines for doing so. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] binfmt_elf: consistently use loff_tAndrew Morton1-5/+5
As David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> points out, binfmt_elf sometimes uses off_t, sometimes uses loff_t. Use loff_t throughout. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] selinux: fix tty lockingStephen Smalley1-1/+4
Take tty_mutex when accessing ->signal->tty in selinux code. Noted by Alan Cox. Longer term, we are looking at refactoring the code to provide better encapsulation of the tty layer, but this is a simple fix that addresses the immediate bug. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] SELinux: convert sbsec semaphore to a mutexEric Paris2-5/+4
This patch converts the semaphore in the superblock security struct to a mutex. No locking changes or other code changes are done. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] SELinux: change isec semaphore to a mutexEric Paris3-19/+17
This patch converts the remaining isec->sem into a mutex. Very similar locking is provided as before only in the faster smaller mutex rather than a semaphore. An out_unlock path is introduced rather than the conditional unlocking found in the original code. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] SELinux: eliminate inode_security_set_securityEric Paris1-20/+7
inode_security_set_sid is only called by security_inode_init_security, which is called when a new file is being created and needs to have its incore security state initialized and its security xattr set. This helper used to be called in other places in the past, but now only has the one. So this patch rolls inode_security_set_sid directly back into security_inode_init_security. There also is no need to hold the isec->sem while doing this, as the inode is not available to other threads at this point in time. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] selinux: add support for range transitions on object classesDarrel Goeddel5-23/+37
Introduces support for policy version 21. This version of the binary kernel policy allows for defining range transitions on security classes other than the process security class. As always, backwards compatibility for older formats is retained. The security class is read in as specified when using the new format, while the "process" security class is assumed when using an older policy format. Signed-off-by: Darrel Goeddel <dgoeddel@trustedcs.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] selinux: enable configuration of max policy versionStephen Smalley2-1/+42
Enable configuration of SELinux maximum supported policy version to support legacy userland (init) that does not gracefully handle kernels that support newer policy versions two or more beyond the installed policy, as in FC3 and FC4. [bunk@stusta.de: improve Kconfig help text] Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] selinux: replace ctxid with sid in selinux_audit_rule_match interfaceStephen Smalley2-6/+6
Replace ctxid with sid in selinux_audit_rule_match interface for consistency with other interfaces. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] selinux: rename selinux_ctxid_to_stringStephen Smalley5-16/+16
Rename selinux_ctxid_to_string to selinux_sid_to_string to be consistent with other interfaces. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] selinux: eliminate selinux_task_ctxidStephen Smalley3-25/+1
Eliminate selinux_task_ctxid since it duplicates selinux_task_get_sid. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] NUMA: Add zone_to_nid functionChristoph Lameter9-13/+17
There are many places where we need to determine the node of a zone. Currently we use a difficult to read sequence of pointer dereferencing. Put that into an inline function and use throughout VM. Maybe we can find a way to optimize the lookup in the future. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] Hugepages: Use page_to_nid rather than traversing zone pointersChristoph Lameter1-4/+4
I found two location in hugetlb.c where we chase pointer instead of using page_to_nid(). Page_to_nid is more effective and can get the node directly from page flags. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] oom-kill: update comments to reflect current codeRam Gupta1-3/+3
Update the comments for __oom_kill_task() to reflect the code changes. Signed-off-by: Ram Gupta <r.gupta@astronautics.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] zone reclaim with slab: avoid unecessary off node allocationsChristoph Lameter1-5/+12
Minor performance fix. If we reclaimed enough slab pages from a zone then we can avoid going off node with the current allocation. Take care of updating nr_reclaimed when reclaiming from the slab. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] zone_reclaim: dynamic slab reclaimChristoph Lameter7-28/+90
Currently one can enable slab reclaim by setting an explicit option in /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode. Slab reclaim is then used as a final option if the freeing of unmapped file backed pages is not enough to free enough pages to allow a local allocation. However, that means that the slab can grow excessively and that most memory of a node may be used by slabs. We have had a case where a machine with 46GB of memory was using 40-42GB for slab. Zone reclaim was effective in dealing with pagecache pages. However, slab reclaim was only done during global reclaim (which is a bit rare on NUMA systems). This patch implements slab reclaim during zone reclaim. Zone reclaim occurs if there is a danger of an off node allocation. At that point we 1. Shrink the per node page cache if the number of pagecache pages is more than min_unmapped_ratio percent of pages in a zone. 2. Shrink the slab cache if the number of the nodes reclaimable slab pages (patch depends on earlier one that implements that counter) are more than min_slab_ratio (a new /proc/sys/vm tunable). The shrinking of the slab cache is a bit problematic since it is not node specific. So we simply calculate what point in the slab we want to reach (current per node slab use minus the number of pages that neeed to be allocated) and then repeately run the global reclaim until that is unsuccessful or we have reached the limit. I hope we will have zone based slab reclaim at some point which will make that easier. The default for the min_slab_ratio is 5% Also remove the slab option from /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] ZVC: Support NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE / NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLEChristoph Lameter12-29/+36
Remove the atomic counter for slab_reclaim_pages and replace the counter and NR_SLAB with two ZVC counter that account for unreclaimable and reclaimable slab pages: NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE and NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE. Change the check in vmscan.c to refer to to NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE. The intend seems to be to check for slab pages that could be freed. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] Replace min_unmapped_ratio by min_unmapped_pages in struct zoneChristoph Lameter3-4/+4
*_pages is a better description of the role of the variable. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] Extract the allocpercpu functions from the slab allocatorChristoph Lameter4-170/+130
The allocpercpu functions __alloc_percpu and __free_percpu() are heavily using the slab allocator. However, they are conceptually slab. This also simplifies SLOB (at this point slob may be broken in mm. This should fix it). Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] mm: do not check unpopulated zones for draining and counter updatesChristoph Lameter2-1/+7
If a zone is unpopulated then we do not need to check for pages that are to be drained and also not for vm counters that may need to be updated. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] Optimize free_one_pageChristoph Lameter1-3/+5
Free one_page currently adds the page to a fake list and calls free_page_bulk. Fee_page_bulk takes it off again and then calles __free_one_page. Make free_one_page go directly to __free_one_page. Saves list on / off and a temporary list in free_one_page for higher ordered pages. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] Standardize pxx_page macrosDave McCracken39-90/+117
One of the changes necessary for shared page tables is to standardize the pxx_page macros. pte_page and pmd_page have always returned the struct page associated with their entry, while pte_page_kernel and pmd_page_kernel have returned the kernel virtual address. pud_page and pgd_page, on the other hand, return the kernel virtual address. Shared page tables needs pud_page and pgd_page to return the actual page structures. There are very few actual users of these functions, so it is simple to standardize their usage. Since this is basic cleanup, I am submitting these changes as a standalone patch. Per Hugh Dickins' comments about it, I am also changing the pxx_page_kernel macros to pxx_page_vaddr to clarify their meaning. Signed-off-by: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] fix potential stack overflow in mm/slab.cSiddha, Suresh B1-9/+14
On High end systems (1024 or so cpus) this can potentially cause stack overflow. Fix the stack usage. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] Define easier to handle GFP_THISNODEChristoph Lameter3-5/+4
In many places we will need to use the same combination of flags. Specify a single GFP_THISNODE definition for ease of use in gfp.h. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] Profiling: require buffer allocation on the correct nodeChristoph Lameter1-4/+12
Profiling really suffers with off node buffers. Fail if no memory is available on the nodes. The profiling code can deal with these failures should they occur. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] Cleanup: Add zone pointer to get_page_from_freelistChristoph Lameter1-8/+10
There are frequent references to *z in get_page_from_freelist. Add an explicit zone variable that can be used in all these places. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] Guarantee that the uncached allocator gets pages on the correct nodeChristoph Lameter1-1/+2
The uncached allocator manages per node pools. Specify __GFP_THISNODE in order to force allocation on the indicated node or fail. The uncached allocator has already logic to deal with failing allocations. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] sys_move_pages: Do not fall back to other nodesChristoph Lameter1-1/+3
If the user specified a node where we should move the page to then we really do not want any other node. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] Add __GFP_THISNODE to avoid fallback to other nodes and ignore ↵Christoph Lameter4-3/+7
cpuset/memory policy restrictions Add a new gfp flag __GFP_THISNODE to avoid fallback to other nodes. This flag is essential if a kernel component requires memory to be located on a certain node. It will be needed for alloc_pages_node() to force allocation on the indicated node and for alloc_pages() to force allocation on the current node. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] slab: fix lockdep warningsRavikiran G Thirumalai1-14/+43
Place the alien array cache locks of on slab malloc slab caches on a seperate lockdep class. This avoids false positives from lockdep [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] slab: do not panic when alloc_kmemlist fails and slab is upChristoph Lameter1-18/+17
It is fairly easy to get a system to oops by simply sizing a cache via /proc in such a way that one of the chaches (shared is easiest) becomes bigger than the maximum allowed slab allocation size. This occurs because enable_cpucache() fails if it cannot reallocate some caches. However, enable_cpucache() is used for multiple purposes: resizing caches, cache creation and bootstrap. If the slab is already up then we already have working caches. The resize can fail without a problem. We just need to return the proper error code. F.e. after this patch: # echo "size-64 10000 50 1000" >/proc/slabinfo -bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory notice no OOPS. If we are doing a kmem_cache_create() then we also should not panic but return -ENOMEM. If on the other hand we do not have a fully bootstrapped slab allocator yet then we should indeed panic since we are unable to bring up the slab to its full functionality. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.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>
2006-09-26[PATCH] slab: extract __kmem_cache_destroy from kmem_cache_destroyChristoph Lameter1-16/+22
The ability to free memory allocated to a slab cache is also useful if an error occurs during setup of a slab. So extract the function. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.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>
2006-09-26[PATCH] slab: optimize kmalloc_node the same way as kmallocChristoph Hellwig2-3/+26
[akpm@osdl.org: export fix] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] update some mm/ commentsNick Piggin3-47/+64
Let's try to keep mm/ comments more useful and up to date. This is a start. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] Add some comments to slab.cRavikiran G Thirumalai1-2/+27
Also, checks if we get a valid slabp_cache for off slab slab-descriptors. We should always get this. If we don't, then in that case we, will have to disable off-slab descriptors for this cache and do the calculations again. This is a rare case, so add a BUG_ON, for now, just in case. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alok.kataria@calsoftinc.com> Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] bootmem: use MAX_DMA_ADDRESS instead of LOW32LIMITHeiko Carstens2-3/+10
Introduce ARCH_LOW_ADDRESS_LIMIT which can be set per architecture to override the 4GB default limit used by the bootmem allocater within __alloc_bootmem_low() and __alloc_bootmem_low_node(). E.g. s390 needs a 2GB limit instead of 4GB. Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] oom: more printkNick Piggin1-2/+3
Print the name of the task invoking the OOM killer. Could make debugging easier. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] oom: kthread infinite loop fixNick Piggin1-0/+3
Skip kernel threads, rather than having them return 0 from badness. Theoretically, badness might truncate all results to 0, thus a kernel thread might be picked first, causing an infinite loop. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] oom: swapoff tasks tweakNick Piggin1-2/+6
PF_SWAPOFF processes currently cause select_bad_process to return straight away. Instead, give them high priority, so we will kill them first, however we also first ensure no parallel OOM kills are happening at the same time. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] oom: handle oom_disable exitingNick Piggin1-2/+2
Having the oomkilladj == OOM_DISABLE check before the releasing check means that oomkilladj == OOM_DISABLE tasks exiting will not stop the OOM killer. Moving the test down will give the desired behaviour. Also: it will allow them to "OOM-kill" themselves if they are exiting. As per the previous patch, this is required to prevent OOM killer deadlocks (and they don't actually get killed, because they're already exiting -- they're simply allowed access to memory reserves). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] oom: handle current exitingNick Piggin1-4/+31
If current *is* exiting, it should actually be allowed to access reserved memory rather than OOM kill something else. Can't do this via a straight check in page_alloc.c because that would allow multiple tasks to use up reserves. Instead cause current to OOM-kill itself which will mark it as TIF_MEMDIE. The current procedure of simply aborting the OOM-kill if a task is exiting can lead to OOM deadlocks. In the case of killing a PF_EXITING task, don't make a lot of noise about it. This becomes more important in future patches, where we can "kill" OOM_DISABLE tasks. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] oom: cpuset hintNick Piggin1-3/+8
cpuset_excl_nodes_overlap does not always indicate that killing a task will not free any memory we for us. For example, we may be asking for an allocation from _anywhere_ in the machine, or the task in question may be pinning memory that is outside its cpuset. Fix this by just causing cpuset_excl_nodes_overlap to reduce the badness rather than disallow it. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] oom: reclaim_mapped on oomNick Piggin1-1/+10
Potentially it takes several scans of the lru lists before we can even start reclaiming pages. mapped pages, with young ptes can take 2 passes on the active list + one on the inactive list. But reclaim_mapped may not always kick in instantly, so it could take even more than that. Raise the threshold for marking a zone as all_unreclaimable from a factor of 4 time the pages in the zone to 6. Introduce a mechanism to force reclaim_mapped if we've reached a factor 3 and still haven't made progress. Previously, a customer doing stress testing was able to easily OOM the box after using only a small fraction of its swap (~100MB). After the patches, it would only OOM after having used up all swap (~800MB). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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