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18 years ago[PATCH] m68k: cleanup unistd.h
Roman Zippel [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:54 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] m68k: cleanup unistd.h

Remove long obsolete kernel syscalls, only execve is still used.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] m68k: atyfb_base compile fix for CONFIG_PCI=n
Roman Zippel [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:53 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] m68k: atyfb_base compile fix for CONFIG_PCI=n

The atyfb_driver structure is only available if CONFIG_PCI is set.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] m68k: completely initialize hw_regs_t in ide_setup_ports
Roman Zippel [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:51 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] m68k: completely initialize hw_regs_t in ide_setup_ports

ide_setup_ports does not completely initialize the hw_regs_t structure which
can cause random failures, as the structure is often on the stack.  None of
the callers expect a partially initialized structure, i.e.  none of them do
any setup of their own before calling ide_setup_ports().

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] move do_suspend_lowlevel to correct segment
Shaohua Li [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:50 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] move do_suspend_lowlevel to correct segment

Move do_suspend_lowlevel to correct segment.  If it is in the same hugepage
with ro data, mark_rodata_ro will make it unexecutable.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] swsusp: documentation updates
Pavel Machek [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:50 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] swsusp: documentation updates

Update documentation a bit, add more machines to video.txt list.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] don't use flush_tlb_all in suspend time
Shaohua Li [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:49 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] don't use flush_tlb_all in suspend time

flush_tlb_all uses on_each_cpu, which will disable/enable interrupt.
In suspend/resume time, this will make interrupt wrongly enabled.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] swsusp: use less memory during resume
Rafael J. Wysocki [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:48 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] swsusp: use less memory during resume

Make swsusp allocate only as much memory as needed to store the image data
and metadata during resume.

Without this patch swsusp additionally allocates many page frames that will
conflict with the "original" locations of the image data and are considered
as "unsafe", treating them as "eaten" pages (ie.  allocated but unusable).

The patch makes swsusp allocate as many pages as it'll need to store the
data read from the image in one shot, creating a list of allocated "safe"
pages, and use the observation that all pages allocated by it are marked
with the PG_nosave and PG_nosave_free flags set.   Namely, when it's about
to load an image page, swsusp can check whether the page frame
corresponding to the "original" location of this page has been allocated
(ie.  if the page frame has the PG_nosave and PG_nosave_free flags set) and
if so, it can load the page directly into this page frame.   Otherwise it
uses an allocated "safe" page from the list to store the data that will be
copied to their "original" location later on.

This allows us to save many page copyings and page allocations during
resume and in the future it may allow us to load images greater than 50% of
the normal zone.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: "Pavel Machek" <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] kernel/power/snapshot.c: cleanups
Adrian Bunk [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:47 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] kernel/power/snapshot.c: cleanups

- make needlessly global functions static
- make dummy functions static inline

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] swsusp: take lowmem reserves into account
Rafael J. Wysocki [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:46 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] swsusp: take lowmem reserves into account

swsusp allocates memory from the normal zone, so it cannot use lowmem
reserve pages from the lower zones.  Therefore it should not count these
pages as available to it.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] swsusp: x86_64 mark special saveable/unsaveable pages
Shaohua Li [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:46 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] swsusp: x86_64 mark special saveable/unsaveable pages

Pages (Reserved/ACPI NVS/ACPI Data) below end_pfn will be saved/restored by S4
currently.  We should mark 'Reserved' pages not saveable.

Pages (Reserved/ACPI NVS/ACPI Data) above end_pfn will not be saved/restored
by S4 currently.  We should save the 'ACPI NVS/ACPI Data' pages.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] swsusp: i386 mark special saveable/unsaveable pages
Shaohua Li [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:45 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] swsusp: i386 mark special saveable/unsaveable pages

Pages (Reserved/ACPI NVS/ACPI Data) below max_low_pfn will be saved/restored
by S4 currently.  We should mark 'Reserved' pages not saveable.

Pages (Reserved/ACPI NVS/ACPI Data) above max_low_pfn will not be
saved/restored by S4 currently.  We should save the 'ACPI NVS/ACPI Data'
pages.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] swsusp: add architecture special saveable pages support
Shaohua Li [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:44 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] swsusp: add architecture special saveable pages support

1. Add architecture specific pages save/restore support.  Next two patches
   will use this to save/restore 'ACPI NVS' pages.

2. Allow reserved pages 'nosave'.  This could avoid save/restore BIOS
   reserved pages.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Remove duplicate symbol exports on Alpha
Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:40 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] Remove duplicate symbol exports on Alpha

WARNING: vmlinux: 'enable_irq' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux
WARNING: vmlinux: 'disable_irq' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux
WARNING: vmlinux: 'disable_irq_nosync' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux
WARNING: vmlinux: 'probe_irq_mask' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux
WARNING: vmlinux: 'sys_open' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux
WARNING: vmlinux: 'sys_read' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux
WARNING: vmlinux: 'strstr' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux
WARNING: vmlinux: 'memscan' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux
WARNING: vmlinux: 'memcmp' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux
WARNING: vmlinux: 'strnlen' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux
WARNING: vmlinux: 'strncmp' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux
WARNING: vmlinux: 'strcmp' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer <mchouque@free.fr>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86: compile fix for asm-i386/alternatives.h
Kirill Smelkov [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:33 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] x86: compile fix for asm-i386/alternatives.h

compile fix:  <asm-i386/alternative.h>  needs  <asm/types.h> for 'u8' --
just look at struct alt_instr.

My module includes <asm/bitops.h> as the first header, and as of 2.6.17 this
leads to compilation errors.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86: VIA C7 CPU flags
Michal Ludvig [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:32 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] x86: VIA C7 CPU flags

New CPU flags for next generation of crypto engine as found in VIA C7
processors.

Signed-off-by: Michal Ludvig <michal@logix.cz>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] i386: extra checks in show_registers()
Chuck Ebbert [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:31 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] i386: extra checks in show_registers()

Sometimes thread_info and task_struct get out-of-sync with each other.
Printing task.thread_info in show_registers() can help spot this.  And when
task_struct is corrupt then task.comm can contain garbage, so only print as
many characters as it can hold.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86: fix __range_ok constraint
Roman Zippel [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:31 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] x86: fix __range_ok constraint

An immediate operand can't be the destination of the cmpl instruction,
so exclude it.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] i386: don't try kprobes for v8086 mode
Zachary Amsden [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:30 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] i386: don't try kprobes for v8086 mode

Never allow int3 traps from V8086 mode to enter the kprobes handler.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] i386: fix get_segment_eip() with vm86 segments
Chuck Ebbert [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:29 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] i386: fix get_segment_eip() with vm86 segments

We need to check for vm86 mode first before looking at selector privilege
bits.

Segment limit is always base + 64k and only the low 16 bits of EIP are
significant in vm86 mode.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Rohit Seth <rohitseth@google.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86: use proper defines for i8259A I/O
Andreas Mohr [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:28 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] x86: use proper defines for i8259A I/O

Use proper defines instead of open-coded values.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86: constify arch/i386/pci/irq.c
Andreas Mohr [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:28 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] x86: constify arch/i386/pci/irq.c

constify structs and add one __initdata.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] make ACPI errata __read_mostly
Andreas Mohr [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:27 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] make ACPI errata __read_mostly

Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86: make i387 mxcsr_feature_mask __read_mostly
Andreas Mohr [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:26 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] x86: make i387 mxcsr_feature_mask __read_mostly

Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86: cyrix code CONFIG_PCI fix / add __initdata
Andreas Mohr [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:26 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] x86: cyrix code CONFIG_PCI fix / add __initdata

PCI code was outside of CONFIG_PCI, add __initdata at cyrix_55x0 (since
accessed within __init function only).

Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86: make using_apic_timer __read_mostly
Andreas Mohr [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:25 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] x86: make using_apic_timer __read_mostly

Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] i386: let usermode execute the "enter" instruction
Chuck Ebbert [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:23 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] i386: let usermode execute the "enter" instruction

The i386 page fault handler does not allow enough slack when checking for
userspace access below the current stack pointer.  This prevents use of the
enter instruction by user code.  Fix this by allowing enough slack for
"enter $65535,$31" to execute.

Problem reported by Tomasz Malesinski <tmal@mimuw.edu.pl>

Tested using this program, based on the original from Tomasz:

.file "ovflow.S"
.version "01.01"
gcc2_compiled.:
.section .rodata
.LC0:
.string "asdf\n"
.text
.align 4
.globl main
.type  main,@function
main:
nest_level=0
.rept 30
enter $0,$nest_level
nest_level=nest_level+1
.endr
enter $65535,$30
enter $65535,$31
addl $-12,%esp
pushl $.LC0
call printf
addl $16,%esp
.L2:
.rept 32
leave
.endr
ret
.Lfe1:
.size  main,.Lfe1-main
.ident "GCC: (GNU) 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)"

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86: kernel irq balance doesn't work
Zhang Yanmin [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:22 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] x86: kernel irq balance doesn't work

On i386, kernel irq balance doesn't work.

1) In function do_irq_balance, after kernel finds the min_loaded cpu but
   before calling set_pending_irq to really pin the selected_irq to the
   target cpu, kernel does a cpus_and with irq_affinity[selected_irq].
   Later on, when the irq is acked, kernel would calls
   move_native_irq=>desc->handler->set_affinity to change the irq affinity.
    However, every function pointed by
   hw_interrupt_type->set_affinity(unsigned int irq, cpumask_t cpumask)
   always changes irq_affinity[irq] to cpumask.  Next time when recalling
   do_irq_balance, it has to do cpu_ands again with
   irq_affinity[selected_irq], but irq_affinity[selected_irq] already
   becomes one cpu selected by the first irq balance.

2) Function balance_irq in file arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c has the same
   issue.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86: call eisa_set_level_irq() in pbibios_lookup_irq()
Linus Torvalds [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:21 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] x86: call eisa_set_level_irq() in pbibios_lookup_irq()

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Don't trigger full rebuild via CONFIG_X86_MCE
Alexey Dobriyan [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:20 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] Don't trigger full rebuild via CONFIG_X86_MCE

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] i386: break out of recursion in stackframe walk
Ingo Molnar [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:20 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] i386: break out of recursion in stackframe walk

If CONFIG_FRAME_POINTERS is enabled, and one does a dump_stack() during
early SMP init, an infinite stackdump and a bootup hang happens:

 [<c0104e7f>] show_trace+0xd/0xf
 [<c0104e96>] dump_stack+0x15/0x17
 [<c01440df>] save_trace+0xc3/0xce
 [<c014527d>] mark_lock+0x8c/0x4fe
 [<c0145df5>] __lockdep_acquire+0x44e/0xaa5
 [<c0146798>] lockdep_acquire+0x68/0x84
 [<c1048699>] _spin_lock+0x21/0x2f
 [<c010d918>] prepare_set+0xd/0x5d
 [<c010daa8>] generic_set_all+0x1d/0x201
 [<c010ca9a>] mtrr_ap_init+0x23/0x3b
 [<c010ada8>] identify_cpu+0x2a7/0x2af
 [<c01192a7>] smp_store_cpu_info+0x2f/0xb4
 [<c01197d0>] start_secondary+0xb5/0x3ec
 [<c104ec11>] end_of_stack_stop_unwind_function+0x1/0x4
 [<c104ec11>] end_of_stack_stop_unwind_function+0x1/0x4
 [<c104ec11>] end_of_stack_stop_unwind_function+0x1/0x4
 [<c104ec11>] end_of_stack_stop_unwind_function+0x1/0x4
 [<c104ec11>] end_of_stack_stop_unwind_function+0x1/0x4
 [<c104ec11>] end_of_stack_stop_unwind_function+0x1/0x4
 [<c104ec11>] end_of_stack_stop_unwind_function+0x1/0x4
 [<c104ec11>] end_of_stack_stop_unwind_function+0x1/0x4
 [...]

Due to "end_of_stack_stop_unwind_function" recursing back to itself in the
EBP stackframe-walker.  So avoid this type of recursion when walking the
stack .

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] fix x86 microcode driver handling of multiple matching revisions
Jan Beulich [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:19 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] fix x86 microcode driver handling of multiple matching revisions

When multiple updates matching a given CPU are found in the update file, the
action taken by the microcode update driver was inappropriate:

- when lower revision microcode was found before matching or higher revision
  one, the driver would needlessly complain that it would not downgrade the
  CPU
- when microcode matching the currently installed revision was found before
  newer revision code, no update would actually take place

To change this behavior, the driver now concludes about possibly updates and
issues messages only when the entire input was parsed.

Additionally, this adds back (in different places, and conditionalized upon
a new module option) some messages removed by a previous patch.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran_aivazian@symantec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Don't trigger full rebuild via CONFIG_MTRR
Alexey Dobriyan [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:18 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] Don't trigger full rebuild via CONFIG_MTRR

Only drm, framebuffer, mtrr parts + misc files here and there.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] i386 apm.c optimization
Andreas Mohr [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:17 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] i386 apm.c optimization

- avoid expensive modulo (integer division) which happened
  since APM_MAX_EVENTS is 20 (non-power-of-2)
- kill compiler warnings by initializing two variables
- add __read_mostly to some important static variables that are read often
  (by idle loop etc.)
- constify several structures

Signed-off-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] arch/i386/kernel/apic.c: make modern_apic() static
Adrian Bunk [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:17 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] arch/i386/kernel/apic.c: make modern_apic() static

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86: cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll()
Hiro Yoshioka [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:16 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] x86: cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll()

Use the x86 cache-bypassing copy instructions for copy_from_user().

Some performance data are

Total of GLOBAL_POWER_EVENTS (CPU cycle samples)

2.6.12.4.orig    1921587
2.6.12.4.nt      1599424
1599424/1921587=83.23% (16.77% reduction)

BSQ_CACHE_REFERENCE (L3 cache miss)
2.6.12.4.orig      57427
2.6.12.4.nt        20858
20858/57427=36.32% (63.7% reduction)

L3 cache miss reduction of __copy_from_user_ll
samples  %
37408    65.1412  vmlinux                  __copy_from_user_ll
23        0.1103  vmlinux                  __copy_user_zeroing_intel_nocache
23/37408=0.061% (99.94% reduction)

Top 5 of 2.6.12.4.nt
Counted GLOBAL_POWER_EVENTS events (time during which processor is not stopped) with a unit mask of 0x01 (mandatory) count 100000
samples  %        app name                 symbol name
128392    8.0274  vmlinux                  __copy_user_zeroing_intel_nocache
64206     4.0143  vmlinux                  journal_add_journal_head
59746     3.7355  vmlinux                  do_get_write_access
47674     2.9807  vmlinux                  journal_put_journal_head
46021     2.8774  vmlinux                  journal_dirty_metadata
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011728/summary.out

Counted BSQ_CACHE_REFERENCE events (cache references seen by the bus unit) with a unit mask of 0x3f (multiple flags) count 3000
samples  %        app name                 symbol name
69755     4.2861  vmlinux                  __copy_user_zeroing_intel_nocache
55685     3.4215  vmlinux                  journal_add_journal_head
52371     3.2179  vmlinux                  __find_get_block
45504     2.7960  vmlinux                  journal_put_journal_head
36005     2.2123  vmlinux                  journal_stop
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011744/summary.out

Counted BSQ_CACHE_REFERENCE events (cache references seen by the bus unit) with a unit mask of 0x200 (read 3rd level cache miss) count 3000
samples  %        app name                 symbol name
1147      5.4994  vmlinux                  journal_add_journal_head
881       4.2240  vmlinux                  journal_dirty_data
872       4.1809  vmlinux                  blk_rq_map_sg
734       3.5192  vmlinux                  journal_commit_transaction
617       2.9582  vmlinux                  radix_tree_delete
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011731/summary.out

iozone results are

original 2.6.12.4 CPU time = 207.768 sec
cache aware       CPU time = 184.783 sec
(three times run)
184.783/207.768=88.94% (11.06% reduction)

original:
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-08191720/iozone.out:  CPU Utilization: Wall time   45.997    CPU time   64.527    CPU utilization 140.28 %
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-08191741/iozone.out:  CPU Utilization: Wall time   46.878    CPU time   71.933    CPU utilization 153.45 %
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-08191743/iozone.out:  CPU Utilization: Wall time   45.152    CPU time   71.308    CPU utilization 157.93 %

cache awre:
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011728/iozone.out:  CPU Utilization: Wall time   44.842    CPU time   62.465    CPU utilization 139.30 %
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011731/iozone.out:  CPU Utilization: Wall time   44.718    CPU time   59.273    CPU utilization 132.55 %
pattern9-0-cpu4-0-09011744/iozone.out:  CPU Utilization: Wall time   44.367    CPU time   63.045    CPU utilization 142.10 %

Signed-off-by: Hiro Yoshioka <hyoshiok@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] mips: fix number of mremap arguments
Yoichi Yuasa [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:14 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] mips: fix number of mremap arguments

mremap syscall takes 5 arguments. Fixed by Ralf Baechle.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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>
18 years ago[PATCH] Au1550/1200: add missing PSC #define's, make OSS driver use the proper ones
Sergei Shtylyov [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:13 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] Au1550/1200: add missing PSC #define's, make OSS driver use the proper ones

Add missing PSC #define's required for the drivers using PSC on DBAu1550
board (also fixing Au1550 PSC3 address) and all Au1200-based boards as
well.  Make the OSS driver use the correct PSC definitions fo each board.

Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] frv: clean frv unistd.h
Al Viro [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:13 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] frv: clean frv unistd.h

Remove _syscall invocations that aren't used in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] frv: trivial cleanups in frv_ksyms.c
Al Viro [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:12 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] frv: trivial cleanups in frv_ksyms.c

Remove duplicate EXPORT_SYMBOL annotations from the FRV arch.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] frv: Add missing qualifier to memcpy_fromio() prototype
Al Viro [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:11 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] frv: Add missing qualifier to memcpy_fromio() prototype

The memcpy_fromio() function should have a const qualifier on its source
pointer.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] frv: ieee1394 is borken on frv
Al Viro [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:10 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] frv: ieee1394 is borken on frv

The ieee1394 assumes it may make direct use of ->count in the semaphore
structure.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Jody McIntyre <scjody@modernduck.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] frv: NULL noise removal in frv xchg()
Al Viro [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:09 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] frv: NULL noise removal in frv xchg()

Clean up the FRV arch's xchg() function.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] frv: initrd is grossly broken on frv (never built)
Al Viro [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:09 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] frv: initrd is grossly broken on frv (never built)

The FRV arch doesn't currently support initrd, so it should be disabled
automatically for the moment.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ext2 XIP won't build without MMU
Al Viro [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:08 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] ext2 XIP won't build without MMU

Disable Ext2 XIP if the kernel is configured in no-MMU mode as the former
won't build.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] frv: wrong syscall
Al Viro [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:07 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] frv: wrong syscall

The FRV arch should use fstatat64 not newfstatat.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] frv: misc sparse annotations
Al Viro [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:07 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] frv: misc sparse annotations

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] frv: misc __user annotations
Al Viro [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:06 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] frv: misc __user annotations

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] frv: binfmt_elf_fdpic __user annotations
Al Viro [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:05 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] frv: binfmt_elf_fdpic __user annotations

Add __user annotations to binfmt_elf_fdpic.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] frv: sysctl __user annotations
Al Viro [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:05 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] frv: sysctl __user annotations

Add __user annotations to FRV-specific sysctl stuff.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] frv: signal annotations
Al Viro [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:04 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] frv: signal annotations

Add annotations to the FRV signal handling for sparse.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] frv: basic __iomem annotations
Al Viro [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:03 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] frv: basic __iomem annotations

Add annotations to the FRV I/O handling functions for sparse.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] frv: __user infrastructure
Al Viro [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:03 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] frv: __user infrastructure

Add general annotations to the FRV arch for sparse.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] SELinux: add security_task_movememory calls to mm code
David Quigley [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:02 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] SELinux: add security_task_movememory calls to mm code

This patch inserts security_task_movememory hook calls into memory management
code to enable security modules to mediate this operation between tasks.

Since the last posting, the hook has been renamed following feedback from
Christoph Lameter.

Signed-off-by: David Quigley <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] SELinux: add task_movememory hook
David Quigley [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:01 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] SELinux: add task_movememory hook

This patch adds new security hook, task_movememory, to be called when memory
owened by a task is to be moved (e.g.  when migrating pages to a this hook is
identical to the setscheduler implementation, but a separate hook introduced
to allow this check to be specialized in the future if necessary.

Since the last posting, the hook has been renamed following feedback from
Christoph Lameter.

Signed-off-by: David Quigley <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] SELinux: add security hook call to mediate attach_task (kernel/cpuset.c)
David Quigley [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:04:00 +0000 (02:04 -0700)]
[PATCH] SELinux: add security hook call to mediate attach_task (kernel/cpuset.c)

Add a security hook call to enable security modules to control the ability
to attach a task to a cpuset.  While limited control over this operation is
possible via permission checks on the pseudo fs interface, those checks are
not sufficient to control access to the target task, which is looked up in
this function.  The existing task_setscheduler hook is re-used for this
operation since this falls under the same class of operations.

Signed-off-by: David Quigley <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] SELinux: add security hooks to {get,set}affinity
David Quigley [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:59 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] SELinux: add security hooks to {get,set}affinity

This patch adds LSM hooks into the setaffinity and getaffinity functions to
enable security modules to control these operations between tasks with
task_setscheduler and task_getscheduler LSM hooks.

Signed-off-by: David Quigley <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-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>
18 years ago[PATCH] lsm: add task_setioprio hook
James Morris [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:58 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] lsm: add task_setioprio hook

Implement an LSM hook for setting a task's IO priority, similar to the hook
for setting a tasks's nice value.

A previous version of this LSM hook was included in an older version of
multiadm by Jan Engelhardt, although I don't recall it being submitted
upstream.

Also included is the corresponding SELinux hook, which re-uses the setsched
permission in the proccess class.

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] move_pages: fix 32 -> 64 bit compat function
Christoph Lameter [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:57 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] move_pages: fix 32 -> 64 bit compat function

The definition of the third parameter is a pointer to an array of virtual
addresses which give us some trouble.  The existing code calculated the
wrong address in the array since I used void to avoid having to specify a
type.

I now use the correct type "compat_uptr_t __user *" in the definition of
the function in kernel/compat.c.

However, I used __u32 in syscalls.h.  Would have to include compat.h there
in order to provide the same definition which would generate an ugly
include situation.

On both ia64 and x86_64 compat_uptr_t is u32. So this works although
parameter declarations differ.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] sys_move_pages: 32bit support (i386, x86_64)
Christoph Lameter [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:56 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] sys_move_pages: 32bit support (i386, x86_64)

sys_move_pages() support for 32bit (i386 plus x86_64 compat layer)

Add support for move_pages() on i386 and also add the compat functions
necessary to run 32 bit binaries on x86_64.

Add compat_sys_move_pages to the x86_64 32bit binary layer.  Note that it is
not up to date so I added the missing pieces.  Not sure if this is done the
right way.

[akpm@osdl.org: compile fix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] sys_move_pages: x86_64 support
Christoph Lameter [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:56 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] sys_move_pages: x86_64 support

sys_move_pages support for x86_64

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] page migration: sys_move_pages(): support moving of individual pages
Christoph Lameter [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:55 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] page migration: sys_move_pages(): support moving of individual pages

move_pages() is used to move individual pages of a process. The function can
be used to determine the location of pages and to move them onto the desired
node. move_pages() returns status information for each page.

long move_pages(pid, number_of_pages_to_move,
addresses_of_pages[],
nodes[] or NULL,
status[],
flags);

The addresses of pages is an array of void * pointing to the
pages to be moved.

The nodes array contains the node numbers that the pages should be moved
to. If a NULL is passed instead of an array then no pages are moved but
the status array is updated. The status request may be used to determine
the page state before issuing another move_pages() to move pages.

The status array will contain the state of all individual page migration
attempts when the function terminates. The status array is only valid if
move_pages() completed successfullly.

Possible page states in status[]:

0..MAX_NUMNODES The page is now on the indicated node.

-ENOENT Page is not present

-EACCES Page is mapped by multiple processes and can only
be moved if MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL is specified.

-EPERM The page has been mlocked by a process/driver and
cannot be moved.

-EBUSY Page is busy and cannot be moved. Try again later.

-EFAULT Invalid address (no VMA or zero page).

-ENOMEM Unable to allocate memory on target node.

-EIO Unable to write back page. The page must be written
back in order to move it since the page is dirty and the
filesystem does not provide a migration function that
would allow the moving of dirty pages.

-EINVAL A dirty page cannot be moved. The filesystem does not provide
a migration function and has no ability to write back pages.

The flags parameter indicates what types of pages to move:

MPOL_MF_MOVE Move pages that are only mapped by the process.

MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL Also move pages that are mapped by multiple processes.
Requires sufficient capabilities.

Possible return codes from move_pages()

-ENOENT No pages found that would require moving. All pages
are either already on the target node, not present, had an
invalid address or could not be moved because they were
mapped by multiple processes.

-EINVAL Flags other than MPOL_MF_MOVE(_ALL) specified or an attempt
to migrate pages in a kernel thread.

-EPERM MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL specified without sufficient priviledges.
or an attempt to move a process belonging to another user.

-EACCES One of the target nodes is not allowed by the current cpuset.

-ENODEV One of the target nodes is not online.

-ESRCH Process does not exist.

-E2BIG Too many pages to move.

-ENOMEM Not enough memory to allocate control array.

-EFAULT Parameters could not be accessed.

A test program for move_pages() may be found with the patches
on ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/christoph/pmig/patches-2.6.17-rc4-mm3

From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>

  Detailed results for sys_move_pages()

  Pass a pointer to an integer to get_new_page() that may be used to
  indicate where the completion status of a migration operation should be
  placed.  This allows sys_move_pags() to report back exactly what happened to
  each page.

  Wish there would be a better way to do this. Looks a bit hacky.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] page migration: use allocator function for migrate_pages()
Christoph Lameter [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:53 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] page migration: use allocator function for migrate_pages()

Instead of passing a list of new pages, pass a function to allocate a new
page.  This allows the correct placement of MPOL_INTERLEAVE pages during page
migration.  It also further simplifies the callers of migrate pages.
migrate_pages() becomes similar to migrate_pages_to() so drop
migrate_pages_to().  The batching of new page allocations becomes unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] page migration: handle freeing of pages in migrate_pages()
Christoph Lameter [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:52 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] page migration: handle freeing of pages in migrate_pages()

Do not leave pages on the lists passed to migrate_pages().  Seems that we will
not need any postprocessing of pages.  This will simplify the handling of
pages by the callers of migrate_pages().

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] page migration: simplify migrate_pages()
Christoph Lameter [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:51 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] page migration: simplify migrate_pages()

Currently migrate_pages() is mess with lots of goto.  Extract two functions
from migrate_pages() and get rid of the gotos.

Plus we can just unconditionally set the locked bit on the new page since we
are the only one holding a reference.  Locking is to stop others from
accessing the page once we establish references to the new page.

Remove the list_del from move_to_lru in order to have finer control over list
processing.

[akpm@osdl.org: add debug check]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] printk() should not be called under zone->lock
Kirill Korotaev [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:50 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] printk() should not be called under zone->lock

This patch fixes printk() under zone->lock in show_free_areas().  It can be
unsafe to call printk() under this lock, since caller can try to
allocate/free some memory and selfdeadlock on this lock.  I found
allocations/freeing mem both in netconsole and serial console.

This issue was faced in reallity when meminfo was periodically printed for
debug purposes and netconsole was used.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Delete unused definitions of kvaddr_to_nid
Ralf Baechle [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:50 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] Delete unused definitions of kvaddr_to_nid

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] kernel-doc for mm/filemap.c
Randy Dunlap [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:49 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] kernel-doc for mm/filemap.c

mm/filemap.c:
- add lots of kernel-doc;
- fix some typos and kernel-doc errors;
- drop some blank lines between function close and EXPORT_SYMBOL();

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] slab: kmalloc, kzalloc comments cleanup and fix
Paul Drynoff [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:48 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] slab: kmalloc, kzalloc comments cleanup and fix

- Move comments for kmalloc to right place, currently it near __do_kmalloc

- Comments for kzalloc

- More detailed comments for kmalloc

- Appearance of "kmalloc" and "kzalloc" man pages after "make mandocs"

[rdunlap@xenotime.net: simplification]
Signed-off-by: Paul Drynoff <pauldrynoff@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
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>
18 years ago[PATCH] update vm_total_pages at memory hotadd
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:47 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] update vm_total_pages at memory hotadd

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] initialise total_memory() earlier
Andrew Morton [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:47 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] initialise total_memory() earlier

Initialise total_memory earlier in boot.  Because if for some reason we run
page reclaim early in boot, we don't want total_memory to be zero when we use
it as a divisor.

And rename total_memory to vm_total_pages to avoid naming clashes with
architectures.

Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] mm/slab.c: fix early init assumption
Ingo Molnar [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:46 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] mm/slab.c: fix early init assumption

The SLAB bootstrap code assumes that the first two kmalloc caches created
(the INDEX_AC and INDEX_L3 kmalloc caches) wont be off-slab.  But due to AC
and L3 structure size increase in lockdep, one of them ended up being
off-slab, and subsequently crashing with:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 RIP:
 [<ffffffff80267478>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x26/0x7d

The fix is to introduce a bootstrap flag and to use it to prevent off-slab
caches being created so early during bootup.

(The calculation for off-slab caches is quite complex so i didnt want to
complicate things with introducing yet another INDEX_ calculation, the flag
approach is simpler and smaller.)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] fix update_mmu_cache in fremap.c
Hugh Dickins [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:45 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] fix update_mmu_cache in fremap.c

There are two calls to update_mmu_cache in fremap.c, both defective.
The one in install_page needs to be accompanied by lazy_mmu_prot_update
(some other cleanup time, move that into ia64 update_mmu_cache itself); and
the one in install_file_pte should be removed since the pte is not present.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] remove unused o_flags from do_shmat
Hugh Dickins [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:45 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] remove unused o_flags from do_shmat

Remove the unused variable o_flags from do_shmat.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] swapoff: use atomic_inc_not_zero() on mm_users
Hugh Dickins [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:44 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] swapoff: use atomic_inc_not_zero() on mm_users

Now that we have atomic_inc_not_zero, it's more elegant for try_to_unuse to
use that on mm_users: doesn't actually matter at present, but safer to be
sure that once mm_users has gone to 0, nothing raises it for an instant.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] add page_mkwrite() vm_operations method
David Howells [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:43 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] add page_mkwrite() vm_operations method

Add a new VMA operation to notify a filesystem or other driver about the
MMU generating a fault because userspace attempted to write to a page
mapped through a read-only PTE.

This facility permits the filesystem or driver to:

 (*) Implement storage allocation/reservation on attempted write, and so to
     deal with problems such as ENOSPC more gracefully (perhaps by generating
     SIGBUS).

 (*) Delay making the page writable until the contents have been written to a
     backing cache. This is useful for NFS/AFS when using FS-Cache/CacheFS.
     It permits the filesystem to have some guarantee about the state of the
     cache.

 (*) Account and limit number of dirty pages. This is one piece of the puzzle
     needed to make shared writable mapping work safely in FUSE.

Needed by cachefs (Or is it cachefiles?  Or fscache? <head spins>).

At least four other groups have stated an interest in it or a desire to use
the functionality it provides: FUSE, OCFS2, NTFS and JFFS2.  Also, things like
EXT3 really ought to use it to deal with the case of shared-writable mmap
encountering ENOSPC before we permit the page to be dirtied.

From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

  get_user_pages(.write=1, .force=1) can generate COW hits on read-only
  shared mappings, this patch traps those as mkpage_write candidates and fails
  to handle them the old way.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] mm: fix swap unused warning
Con Kolivas [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:42 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] mm: fix swap unused warning

If CONFIG_SWAP is not defined we get:

mm/vmscan.c: In function â\80\98remove_mappingâ\80\99:
mm/vmscan.c:387: warning: unused variable â\80\98swapâ\80\99

Convert defines in swap.h into blank inline functions to fix this warning
and be consistent.

Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] sparsemem: record nid during memory present
Andy Whitcroft [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:41 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] sparsemem: record nid during memory present

Record the node id as we mark sections for instantiation.  Use this nid
during instantiation to direct allocations.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] slab: verify pointers before free
Pekka Enberg [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:40 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] slab: verify pointers before free

Passing an invalid pointer to kfree() and kmem_cache_free() is likely to
cause bad memory corruption or even take down the whole system because the
bad pointer is likely reused immediately due to the per-CPU caches.  Until
now, we don't do any verification for this if CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB is
disabled.

As suggested by Linus, add PageSlab check to page_to_cache() and
page_to_slab() to verify pointers passed to kfree().  Also, move the
stronger check from cache_free_debugcheck() to kmem_cache_free() to ensure
the passed pointer actually belongs to the cache we're about to free the
object.

For page_to_cache() and page_to_slab(), the assertions should have
virtually no extra cost (two instructions, no data cache pressure) and for
kmem_cache_free() the overhead should be minimal.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] page migration: Update documentation
Christoph Lameter [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:39 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] page migration: Update documentation

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] More page migration: use migration entries for file pages
Christoph Lameter [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:38 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] More page migration: use migration entries for file pages

This implements the use of migration entries to preserve ptes of file backed
pages during migration.  Processes can therefore be migrated back and forth
without loosing their connection to pagecache pages.

Note that we implement the migration entries only for linear mappings.
Nonlinear mappings still require the unmapping of the ptes for migration.

And another writepage() ugliness shows up.  writepage() can drop the page
lock.  Therefore we have to remove migration ptes before calling writepages()
in order to avoid having migration entries point to unlocked 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>
18 years ago[PATCH] More page migration: do not inc/dec rss counters
Christoph Lameter [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:38 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] More page migration: do not inc/dec rss counters

If we install a migration entry then the rss not really decreases since the
page is just moved somewhere else.  We can save ourselves the work of
decrementing and later incrementing which will just eventually cause cacheline
bouncing.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Swapless page migration: modify core logic
Christoph Lameter [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:37 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] Swapless page migration: modify core logic

Use the migration entries for page migration

This modifies the migration code to use the new migration entries.  It now
becomes possible to migrate anonymous pages without having to add a swap
entry.

We add a couple of new functions to replace migration entries with the proper
ptes.

We cannot take the tree_lock for migrating anonymous pages anymore.  However,
we know that we hold the only remaining reference to the page when the page
count reaches 1.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Swapless page migration: rip out swap based logic
Christoph Lameter [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:36 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] Swapless page migration: rip out swap based logic

Rip the page migration logic out.

Remove all code that has to do with swapping during page migration.

This also guts the ability to migrate pages to swap.  No one used that so lets
let it go for good.

Page migration should be a bit broken after this patch.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Swapless page migration: add R/W migration entries
Christoph Lameter [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:35 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] Swapless page migration: add R/W migration entries

Implement read/write migration ptes

We take the upper two swapfiles for the two types of migration ptes and define
a series of macros in swapops.h.

The VM is modified to handle the migration entries.  migration entries can
only be encountered when the page they are pointing to is locked.  This limits
the number of places one has to fix.  We also check in copy_pte_range and in
mprotect_pte_range() for migration ptes.

We check for migration ptes in do_swap_cache and call a function that will
then wait on the page lock.  This allows us to effectively stop all accesses
to apge.

Migration entries are created by try_to_unmap if called for migration and
removed by local functions in migrate.c

From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>

  Several times while testing swapless page migration (I've no NUMA, just
  hacking it up to migrate recklessly while running load), I've hit the
  BUG_ON(!PageLocked(p)) in migration_entry_to_page.

  This comes from an orphaned migration entry, unrelated to the current
  correctly locked migration, but hit by remove_anon_migration_ptes as it
  checks an address in each vma of the anon_vma list.

  Such an orphan may be left behind if an earlier migration raced with fork:
  copy_one_pte can duplicate a migration entry from parent to child, after
  remove_anon_migration_ptes has checked the child vma, but before it has
  removed it from the parent vma.  (If the process were later to fault on this
  orphaned entry, it would hit the same BUG from migration_entry_wait.)

  This could be fixed by locking anon_vma in copy_one_pte, but we'd rather
  not.  There's no such problem with file pages, because vma_prio_tree_add
  adds child vma after parent vma, and the page table locking at each end is
  enough to serialize.  Follow that example with anon_vma: add new vmas to the
  tail instead of the head.

  (There's no corresponding problem when inserting migration entries,
  because a missed pte will leave the page count and mapcount high, which is
  allowed for.  And there's no corresponding problem when migrating via swap,
  because a leftover swap entry will be correctly faulted.  But the swapless
  method has no refcounting of its entries.)

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

  pte_unmap_unlock() takes the pte pointer as an argument.

From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>

  Several times while testing swapless page migration, gcc has tried to exec
  a pointer instead of a string: smells like COW mappings are not being
  properly write-protected on fork.

  The protection in copy_one_pte looks very convincing, until at last you
  realize that the second arg to make_migration_entry is a boolean "write",
  and SWP_MIGRATION_READ is 30.

  Anyway, it's better done like in change_pte_range, using
  is_write_migration_entry and make_migration_entry_read.

From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>

  Remove unnecessary obfuscation from sys_swapon's range check on swap type,
  which blew up causing memory corruption once swapless migration made
  MAX_SWAPFILES no longer 2 ^ MAX_SWAPFILES_SHIFT.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] page migration cleanup: move fallback handling into special function
Christoph Lameter [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:33 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] page migration cleanup: move fallback handling into special function

Move the fallback code into a new fallback function and make the function
behave like any other migration function.  This requires retaking the lock if
pageout() drops it.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] page migration cleanup: pass "mapping" to migration functions
Christoph Lameter [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:33 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] page migration cleanup: pass "mapping" to migration functions

Change handling of address spaces.

Pass a pointer to the address space in which the page is migrated to all
migration function.  This avoids repeatedly having to retrieve the address
space pointer from the page and checking it for validity.  The old page
mapping will change once migration has gone to a certain step, so it is less
confusing to have the pointer always available.

Move the setting of the mapping and index for the new page into
migrate_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>
18 years ago[PATCH] page migration cleanup: extract try_to_unmap from migration functions
Christoph Lameter [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:32 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] page migration cleanup: extract try_to_unmap from migration functions

Extract try_to_unmap and rename remove_references -> move_mapping

try_to_unmap() may significantly change the page state by for example setting
the dirty bit.  It is therefore best to unmap in migrate_pages() before
calling any migration functions.

migrate_page_remove_references() will then only move the new page in place of
the old page in the mapping.  Rename the function to
migrate_page_move_mapping().

This allows us to get rid of the special unmapping for the fallback path.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] page migration cleanup: drop nr_refs in remove_references()
Christoph Lameter [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:29 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] page migration cleanup: drop nr_refs in remove_references()

Drop nr_refs parameter from migrate_page_remove_references()

The nr_refs parameter is not really useful since the number of remaining
references is always

1 for anonymous pages without a mapping
2 for pages with a mapping
3 for pages with a mapping and PagePrivate set.

Remove the early check for the number of references since we are checking
page_mapcount() earlier.  Ultimately only the refcount matters after the
tree_lock has been obtained.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.coim>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] page migration cleanup: remove useless definitions
Christoph Lameter [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:29 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] page migration cleanup: remove useless definitions

Remove the export for migrate_page_remove_references() and migrate_page_copy()
that are unlikely to be used directly by filesystems implementing migration.
The export was useful when buffer_migrate_page() lived in fs/buffer.c but it
has now been moved to migrate.c in the migration reorg.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] page migration cleanup: group functions
Christoph Lameter [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:28 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] page migration cleanup: group functions

Reorder functions in migrate.c.  Group all migration functions for struct
address_space_operations together.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] page migration cleanup: rename "ignrefs" to "migration"
Christoph Lameter [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:27 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] page migration cleanup: rename "ignrefs" to "migration"

migrate is a better name since it is only used by page migration.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] writeback: fix range handling
OGAWA Hirofumi [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:26 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] writeback: fix range handling

When a writeback_control's `start' and `end' fields are used to
indicate a one-byte-range starting at file offset zero, the required
values of .start=0,.end=0 mean that the ->writepages() implementation
has no way of telling that it is being asked to perform a range
request.  Because we're currently overloading (start == 0 && end == 0)
to mean "this is not a write-a-range request".

To make all this sane, the patch changes range of writeback_control.

So caller does: If it is calling ->writepages() to write pages, it
sets range (range_start/end or range_cyclic) always.

And if range_cyclic is true, ->writepages() thinks the range is
cyclic, otherwise it just uses range_start and range_end.

This patch does,

    - Add LLONG_MAX, LLONG_MIN, ULLONG_MAX to include/linux/kernel.h
      -1 is usually ok for range_end (type is long long). But, if someone did,

range_end += val; range_end is "val - 1"
u64val = range_end >> bits; u64val is "~(0ULL)"

      or something, they are wrong. So, this adds LLONG_MAX to avoid nasty
      things, and uses LLONG_MAX for range_end.

    - All callers of ->writepages() sets range_start/end or range_cyclic.

    - Fix updates of ->writeback_index. It seems already bit strange.
      If it starts at 0 and ended by check of nr_to_write, this last
      index may reduce chance to scan end of file.  So, this updates
      ->writeback_index only if range_cyclic is true or whole-file is
      scanned.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] buglet in radix_tree_tag_set
Peter Zijlstra [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:25 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] buglet in radix_tree_tag_set

The comment states: 'Setting a tag on a not-present item is a BUG.' Hence
if 'index' is larger than the maxindex; the item _cannot_ be presen; it
should also be a BUG.

Also, this allows the following statement (assume a fresh tree):

  radix_tree_tag_set(root, 16, 1);

to fail silently, but when preceded by:

  radix_tree_insert(root, 32, item);

it would BUG, because the height has been extended by the insert.

In neither case was 16 present.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] slab: redzone double-free detection
Pekka Enberg [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:24 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] slab: redzone double-free detection

At present our slab debugging tells us that it detected a double-free or
corruption - it does not distinguish between them.  Sometimes it's useful
to be able to differentiate between these two types of information.

Add double-free detection to redzone verification when freeing an object.
As explained by Manfred, when we are freeing an object, both redzones
should be RED_ACTIVE.  However, if both are RED_INACTIVE, we are trying to
free an object that was already free'd.

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
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>
18 years ago[PATCH] likely cleanup: remove unlikely in sys_mprotect()
Hua Zhong [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:23 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] likely cleanup: remove unlikely in sys_mprotect()

With likely/unlikely profiling on my not-so-busy-typical-developmentsystem
there are 5k misses vs 2k hits.  So I guess we should remove the unlikely.

Signed-off-by: Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] radix-tree: small
Nick Piggin [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:22 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] radix-tree: small

Reduce radix tree node memory usage by about a factor of 4 for small files
(< 64K).  There are pointer traversal and memory usage costs for large
files with dense pagecache.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] radix-tree: direct data
Nick Piggin [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:22 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] radix-tree: direct data

The ability to have height 0 radix trees (a direct pointer to the data item
rather than going through a full node->slot) quietly disappeared with
old-2.6-bkcvs commit ffee171812d51652f9ba284302d9e5c5cc14bdfd.  On 64-bit
machines this causes nearly 600 bytes to be used for every <= 4K file in
pagecache.

Re-introduce this feature, root tags stored in spare ->gfp_mask bits.

Simplify radix_tree_delete's complex tag clearing arrangement (which would
become even more complex) by just falling back to tag clearing functions
(the pagecache radix-tree never uses this path anyway, so the icache
savings will mean it's actually a speedup).

On my 4GB G5, this saves 8MB RAM per kernel kernel source+object tree in
pagecache.

Pagecache lookup, insertion, and removal speed for small files will also be
improved.

This makes RCU radix tree harder, but it's worth it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] change gen_pool allocator to not touch managed memory
Dean Nelson [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:21 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] change gen_pool allocator to not touch managed memory

Modify the gen_pool allocator (lib/genalloc.c) to utilize a bitmap scheme
instead of the buddy scheme.  The purpose of this change is to eliminate
the touching of the actual memory being allocated.

Since the change modifies the interface, a change to the uncached allocator
(arch/ia64/kernel/uncached.c) is also required.

Both Andrey Volkov and Jes Sorenson have expressed a desire that the
gen_pool allocator not write to the memory being managed. See the
following:

  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113518602713125&w=2
  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113533568827916&w=2

Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrey Volkov <avolkov@varma-el.com>
Acked-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] mm: introduce remap_vmalloc_range()
Nick Piggin [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:20 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] mm: introduce remap_vmalloc_range()

Add remap_vmalloc_range, vmalloc_user, and vmalloc_32_user so that drivers
can have a nice interface for remapping vmalloc memory.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Unify pxm_to_node() and node_to_pxm()
Yasunori Goto [Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:03:19 +0000 (02:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] Unify pxm_to_node() and node_to_pxm()

Consolidate the various arch-specific implementations of pxm_to_node() and
node_to_pxm() into a single generic version.

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>