i386 Inline asm cleanup. Use cr/dr accessor functions.
Also, a potential bugfix. Also, some CR accessors really should be volatile.
Reads from CR0 (numeric state may change in an exception handler), writes to
CR4 (flipping CR4.TSD) and reads from CR2 (page fault) prevent instruction
re-ordering. I did not add memory clobber to CR3 / CR4 / CR0 updates, as it
was not there to begin with, and in no case should kernel memory be clobbered,
except when doing a TLB flush, which already has memory clobber.
I noticed that page invalidation does not have a memory clobber. I can't find
a bug as a result, but there is definitely a potential for a bug here:
Roland McGrath [Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:56:35 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
[PATCH] i386: clean up vDSO alignment padding
This makes the vDSO use nops for all its padding around instructions,
rather than sometimes zeros, and nop-pads the end of the area containing
instructions to a 32-byte cache line, to keep text and data in separate
lines.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This is subarch update for ES7000. I've modified platform check code and
removed unnecessary OEM table parsing for newer systems that don't use OEM
information during boot. Parsing the table in fact is causing problems,
and the platform doesn't get recognized. The patch only affects the ES7000
subach.
Signed-off-by: <Natalie.Protasevich@unisys.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The VIA VT8237's IOAPIC sends 'APIC De-Assert Messages' by default, causing
another CPU interrupt when the IRQ pin is de-asserted. This feature is
switched off by the patch to get rid of doubled ioapic level interrupt
rates.
[PATCH] x86: sutomatically enable bigsmp when we have more than 8 CPUs
i386 generic subarchitecture requires explicit dmi strings or command line
to enable bigsmp mode. The patch below removes that restriction, and uses
bigsmp as soon as it finds more than 8 logical CPUs, Intel processors and
xAPIC support.
[PATCH] kdump: Save parameter segment in protected mode (x86)
o With introduction of kexec as boot-loader, the assumption that parameter
segment will always be loaded at lower address than kernel and will be
addressable by early bootup page tables is no longer valid. In kexec on
panic case parameter segment might well be loaded beyond kernel image and
might not be addressable by early boot page tables.
o This case might hit in the scenario where user has reserved a chunk of
memory for second kernel, for example 16MB to 64MB, and has also built
second kernel for physical memory location 16MB. In this case kexec has no
choice but to load the parameter segment at a higher address than new kernel
image at safe location where new kernel does not stomp it.
o Though problem should automatically go away once relocatable kernel for i386
is in place and kexec can determine the location of new kernel at run time
and load parameter segment at lower address than kernel image. But till then
this patch can go in (assuming it does not break something else).
o This patch moves up the boot parameter saving code. Now boot parameters
are copied out in protected mode before page tables are initialized. This
will ensure that parameter segment is always addressable irrespective of
its physical location.
Petr Tesarik [Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:56:28 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
[PATCH] vm86: Honor TF bit when emulating an instruction
If the virtual 86 machine reaches an instruction which raises a General
Protection Fault (such as CLI or STI), the instruction is emulated (in
handle_vm86_fault). However, the emulation ignored the TF bit, so the
hardware debug interrupt was not invoked after such an emulated instruction
(and the DOS debugger missed it).
This patch fixes the problem by emulating the hardware debug interrupt as
the last action before control is returned to the VM86 program.
Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <kernel@tesarici.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matt Tolentino [Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:56:27 +0000 (15:56 -0700)]
[PATCH] x86: fix EFI memory map parsing
The memory descriptors that comprise the EFI memory map are not fixed in
stone such that the size could change in the future. This uses the memory
descriptor size obtained from EFI to iterate over the memory map entries
during boot. This enables the removal of an x86 specific pad (and ifdef)
in the EFI header. I also couldn't stomach the broken up nature of the
function to put EFI runtime calls into virtual mode any longer so I fixed
that up a bit as well.
For reference, this patch only impacts x86.
Signed-off-by: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] hpet: use read_timer_tsc only when CPU has TSC
Only use read_timer_tsc only when CPU has TSC. Thanks to Andrea for
pointing this out. Should not be issue on any platforms as all recent
systems that has HPET also has CPUs that supports TSC. The patch is still
required for correctness.
[PATCH] x86: compress the stack layout of do_page_fault()
This patch pushes the creation of a rare signal frame (SIGBUS or SIGSEGV)
into a separate function, thus saving stackspace in the main
do_page_fault() stackframe. The effect is 132 bytes less of stack used by
the typical do_page_fault() invocation - resulting in a denser
cache-layout.
(Another minor effect is that in case of kernel crashes that come from a
pagefault, we add less space to the already existing frame, giving the
crash functions a slightly higher chance to do their stuff without
overflowing the stack.)
(The changes also result in slightly cleaner code.)
argument bugfix from "Guillaume C." <guichaz@gmail.com>
arch/mips/kernel/genex.S:250:5: warning: "CONFIG_64BIT" is not defined
arch/mips/math-emu/cp1emu.c:1128:5: warning: "__mips64" is not defined
arch/mips/math-emu/cp1emu.c:1206:5: warning: "__mips64" is not defined
arch/mips/math-emu/cp1emu.c:1270:5: warning: "__mips64" is not defined
arch/mips/math-emu/cp1emu.c:323:5: warning: "__mips64" is not defined
arch/mips/math-emu/cp1emu.c:808:5: warning: "__mips64" is not defined
arch/mips/math-emu/cp1emu.c:953:5: warning: "__mips64" is not defined
arch/mips/mm/tlbex.c:519:5: warning: "CONFIG_64BIT" is not defined
include/asm/reg.h:73:5: warning: "CONFIG_64BIT" is not defined
[PATCH] mips: add more SYS_SUPPORT_*_KERNEL and CPU_SUPPORTS_*_KERNEL
The addtion of SYS_SUPPORTS_*_KERNEL and CPU_SUPPORTS_*_KERNEL is halfway.
This patch has added more SYS_SUPPORTS_*_KERNEL and CPU_SUPPORTS_*_KERNEL
to arch/mips/Kconfig. Please apply.
[PATCH] fix warning of TANBAC_TB0219 in drivers/char/Kconfig
$ make menuconfig
scripts/kconfig/mconf arch/i386/Kconfig
drivers/char/Kconfig:847:warning: 'select' used by config symbol
'TANBAC_TB0219' refer to undefined symbol 'PCI_VR41XX'
There seem to be no more users or interest in the NEC Osprey evaluation
system for the NEC VR4181 SOC which is an old part anyway, so remove the
code. More information on the Osprey can be found at
http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/Osprey.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] ppc64: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep_interruptible()
Use msleep_interruptible() instead of schedule_timeout() in ppc64-specific
code to cleanup/simplify the sleeping logic. Change the units of the
parameter of do_event_scan_all_cpus() to milliseconds from jiffies. The
return value of rtas_extended_busy_delay_time() was incorrectly being used
as a jiffies value (it is actually milliseconds), which is fixed by using
the value as a parameter to msleep_interruptible(). Also, use
rtas_extended_busy_delay_time() in another case where similar logic is
duplicated.
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Olof Johansson [Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:55:59 +0000 (15:55 -0700)]
[PATCH] ppc64: Add VMX save flag to VPA
We need to indicate to the hypervisor that it needs to save our VMX
registers when switching partitions on a shared-processor system, just as
it needs to for FP and PMC registers.
This could be made to be on-demand when VMX is used, but we don't do that
for FP nor PMC right now either so let's not overcomplicate things.
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: <engebret@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Mark A. Greer [Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:55:57 +0000 (15:55 -0700)]
[PATCH] ppc32: katana updates
Update the katana platform support code:
- if booted as zImage, pass mem size in via bi_req from bootwrapper
- if booted as uImage, get mem size from bd_info passed in from u-boot
- add support for 82544 present on katana 752i's
- set cacheline size on pci devices
- some minor fixups
Signed-off-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Mark A. Greer [Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:55:56 +0000 (15:55 -0700)]
[PATCH] ppc32: mv64x60 updates & enhancements
Updates and enhancement to the ppc32 mv64x60 code:
- move code to get mem size from mem ctlr to bootwrapper
- address some errata in the mv64360 pic code
- some minor cleanups
- export one of the bridge's regs via sysfs so user daemon can watch for
extraction events
Signed-off-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add declaration and cacheable_memcpy(). I'll be needing this function in
new 4xx EMAC driver I'm going to submit to netdev soon.
IMHO, the better place for the declaration would be asm-powerpc/string.h,
unfortunately, ppc64 doesn't have this function, so asm-ppc/system.h is the
next best place.
Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Arthur Othieno [Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:55:51 +0000 (15:55 -0700)]
[PATCH] ppc32: Re-order cputable for 750CXe DD2.4 entry
"745/755" (pvr_value:0x00083000) is a catch-all entry.
Since arch/ppc/kernel/misc.S:identify_cpu() returns on first match,
move this lower in the table so 750CXe DD2.4 (pvr_value:0x00083214)
may be correctly enumerated.
Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <a.othieno@bluewin.ch> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Kumar Gala [Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:55:50 +0000 (15:55 -0700)]
[PATCH] ppc32: Added PCI support MPC83xx
Adds support for the two PCI busses on MPC83xx and the MPC834x SYS/PIBS
reference board.
The code initializes PCI inbound/outbound windows, allocates and registers
PCI memory/io space. Be aware that setup of the PCI buses on the PIBs
board is expected to be done by the firmware.
Signed-off-by: Tony Li <tony.li@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Lee Nicks [Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:55:48 +0000 (15:55 -0700)]
[PATCH] ppc32: add support for Marvell EV64360BP board
This patch adds support for Marvell EV64360BP board. So far, it supports
mpsc serial console, gigabit ethernet, jffs2 root filesystem, etc. Other
device support, like watchdog, RTC, will be added later.
Signed-off-by: Lee Nicks <allinux@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Kumar Gala [Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:55:47 +0000 (15:55 -0700)]
[PATCH] ppc32: add CONFIG_HZ
While ppc32 has the CONFIG_HZ Kconfig option, it wasnt actually being used.
Connect it up and set all platforms to 250Hz. This pretty much mimics the
ppc64 patch from Anton Blanchard.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Kumar Gala [Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:55:46 +0000 (15:55 -0700)]
[PATCH] ppc32: ppc_sys system on chip identification additions
Add the ability to identify an SOC by a name and id. There are cases in
which the integer identifier is not sufficient to specify a specific SOC.
In these cases we can use a string to further qualify the match.
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Roland Dreier [Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:55:43 +0000 (15:55 -0700)]
[PATCH] ppc32: Don't sleep in flush_dcache_icache_page()
flush_dcache_icache_page() will be called on an instruction page fault. We
can't sleep in the fault handler, so use kmap_atomic() instead of just
kmap() for the Book-E case.
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Acked-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Kumar Gala [Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:55:39 +0000 (15:55 -0700)]
[PATCH] ppc32: Cleaned up global namespace of Book-E watchdog variables
Renamed global variables used to convey if the watchdog is enabled and
periodicity of the timer and moved the declarations into a header for these
variables
Signed-off-by: Matt McClintock <msm@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Kumar Gala [Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:55:36 +0000 (15:55 -0700)]
[PATCH] cpm_uart: Fix 2nd serial port on MPC8560 ADS
The 2nd serial port on the MPC8560 ADS was not being configured correctly
and thus could not be used as a console. Updated the defconfig for the
board to configure the proper SCC channel for the 2nd serial port.
Signed-off-by: Roy Zang <tie-fei.zang@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matt Porter [Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:55:35 +0000 (15:55 -0700)]
[PATCH] ppc32: add phy excluded features to ocp_func_emac_data
This patch adds a field to struct ocp_func_emac_data that allows
platform-specific unsupported PHY features to be passed in to the ibm_emac
ethernet driver.
This patch also adds some logic for the Bamboo eval board to populate this
field based on the dip switches on the board. This is a workaround for the
improperly biased RJ-45 sockets on the Rev. 0 Bamboo.
Signed-off-by: Wade Farnsworth <wfarnsworth@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Kumar Gala [Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:55:34 +0000 (15:55 -0700)]
[PATCH] ppc32: Add ppc_sys descriptions for PowerQUICC II devices
Added ppc_sys device and system definitions for PowerQUICC II devices.
This will allow drivers for PQ2 to be proper platform device drivers.
Which can be shared on PQ3 processors with the same peripherals.
Signed-off-by: Matt McClintock <msm@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Kumar Gala [Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:55:33 +0000 (15:55 -0700)]
[PATCH] ppc32: Added support for the Book-E style Watchdog Timer
PowerPC 40x and Book-E processors support a watchdog timer at the processor
core level. The timer has implementation dependent timeout frequencies
that can be configured by software.
One the first Watchdog timeout we get a critical exception. It is left to
board specific code to determine what should happen at this point. If
nothing is done and another timeout period expires the processor may
attempt to reset the machine.
Stephen Smalley [Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:55:18 +0000 (15:55 -0700)]
[PATCH] Generic VFS fallback for security xattrs
This patch modifies the VFS setxattr, getxattr, and listxattr code to fall
back to the security module for security xattrs if the filesystem does not
support xattrs natively. This allows security modules to export the incore
inode security label information to userspace even if the filesystem does
not provide xattr storage, and eliminates the need to individually patch
various pseudo filesystem types to provide such access. The patch removes
the existing xattr code from devpts and tmpfs as it is then no longer
needed.
The patch restructures the code flow slightly to reduce duplication between
the normal path and the fallback path, but this should only have one
user-visible side effect - a program may get -EACCES rather than
-EOPNOTSUPP if policy denied access but the filesystem didn't support the
operation anyway. Note that the post_setxattr hook call is not needed in
the fallback case, as the inode_setsecurity hook call handles the incore
inode security state update directly. In contrast, we do call fsnotify in
both cases.
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>
Stephen Smalley [Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:55:16 +0000 (15:55 -0700)]
[PATCH] selinux: Reduce memory use by avtab
This patch improves memory use by SELinux by both reducing the avtab node
size and reducing the number of avtab nodes. The memory savings are
substantial, e.g. on a 64-bit system after boot, James Morris reported the
following data for the targeted and strict policies:
The improvement in memory use comes at a cost in the speed of security
server computations of access vectors, but these computations are only
required on AVC cache misses, and performance measurements by James Morris
using a number of benchmarks have shown that the change does not cause any
significant degradation.
Note that a rebuilt policy via an updated policy toolchain
(libsepol/checkpolicy) is required in order to gain the full benefits of
this patch, although some memory savings benefits are immediately applied
even to older policies (in particular, the reduction in avtab node size).
Sources for the updated toolchain are presently available from the
sourceforge CVS tree (http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=21266), and
tarballs are available from http://www.flux.utah.edu/~sds.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Martin Hicks [Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:55:11 +0000 (15:55 -0700)]
[PATCH] VM: add page_state info to per-node meminfo
Add page_state info to the per-node meminfo file in sysfs. This is mostly
just for informational purposes.
The lack of this information was brought up recently during a discussion
regarding pagecache clearing, and I put this patch together to test out one
of the suggestions.
It seems like interesting info to have, so I'm submitting the patch.
Signed-off-by: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Mauricio Lin [Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:55:10 +0000 (15:55 -0700)]
[PATCH] add /proc/pid/smaps
Add a "smaps" entry to /proc/pid: show howmuch memory is resident in each
mapping.
People that want to perform a memory consumption analysing can use it
mainly if someone needs to figure out which libraries can be reduced for
embedded systems. So the new features are the physical size of shared and
clean [or dirty]; private and clean [or dirty].
(Includes a cleanup from "Richard Purdie" <rpurdie@rpsys.net>)
From: Torsten Foertsch <torsten.foertsch@gmx.net>
show_smap calls first show_map and then prints its additional information to
the seq_file. show_map checks if all it has to print fits into the buffer and
if yes marks the current vma as written. While that is correct for show_map
it is not for show_smap. Here the vma should be marked as written only after
the additional information is also written.
The attached patch cures the problem. It moves the functionality of the
show_map function to a new function show_map_internal that is called with an
additional struct mem_size_stats* argument. Then show_map calls
show_map_internal with NULL as struct mem_size_stats* whereas show_smap calls
it with a real pointer. Now the final
if (m->count < m->size) /* vma is copied successfully */
m->version = (vma != get_gate_vma(task))? vma->vm_start: 0;
is done only if the whole entry fits into the buffer.
Proposed by and based on a patch from Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>:
This patch removes unnecessary critical section in ksize() function, as
cli/sti are rather expensive on modern CPUS.
It additionally adds a docbook entry for ksize() and further simplifies the
code.
Eric Dumazet [Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:55:06 +0000 (15:55 -0700)]
[PATCH] mm/slab.c: prefetchw the start of new allocated objects
Mostobjects returned by __cache_alloc() will be written by the caller,
(but not all callers want to write all the object, but just at the
begining) prefetchw() tells the modern CPU to think about the future
writes, ie start some memory transactions in advance.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] x86_64: avoid some atomic operations during address space destruction
Any architecture that has hardware updated A/D bits that require
synchronization against other processors during PTE operations can benefit
from doing non-atomic PTE updates during address space destruction.
Originally done on i386, now ported to x86_64.
Doing a read/write pair instead of an xchg() operation saves the implicit
lock, which turns out to be a big win on 32-bit (esp w PAE).
Add a new accessor for PTEs, which passes the full hint from the mmu_gather
struct; this allows architectures with hardware pagetables to optimize away
atomic PTE operations when destroying an address space. Removing the
locked operation should allow better pipelining of memory access in this
loop. I measured an average savings of 30-35 cycles per zap_pte_range on
the first 500 destructions on Pentium-M, but I believe the optimization
would win more on older processors which still assert the bus lock on xchg
for an exclusive cacheline.
Update: I made some new measurements, and this saves exactly 26 cycles over
ptep_get_and_clear on Pentium M. On P4, with a PAE kernel, this saves 180
cycles per ptep_get_and_clear, for a whopping 92160 cycles savings for a
full address space destruction.
pte_clear_full is not yet used, but is provided for future optimizations
(in particular, when running inside of a hypervisor that queues page table
updates, the full hint allows us to avoid queueing unnecessary page table
update for an address space in the process of being destroyed.
This is not a huge win, but it does help a bit, and sets the stage for
further hypervisor optimization of the mm layer on all architectures.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] remove hugetlb_clean_stale_pgtable() and fix huge_pte_alloc()
I don't think we need to call hugetlb_clean_stale_pgtable() anymore
in 2.6.13 because of the rework with free_pgtables(). It now collect
all the pte page at the time of munmap. It used to only collect page
table pages when entire one pgd can be freed and left with staled pte
pages. Not anymore with 2.6.13. This function will never be called
and We should turn it into a BUG_ON.
I also spotted two problems here, not Adam's fault :-)
(1) in huge_pte_alloc(), it looks like a bug to me that pud is not
checked before calling pmd_alloc()
(2) in hugetlb_clean_stale_pgtable(), it also missed a call to
pmd_free_tlb. I think a tlb flush is required to flush the mapping
for the page table itself when we clear out the pmd pointing to a
pte page. However, since hugetlb_clean_stale_pgtable() is never
called, so it won't trigger the bug.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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