Harald Welte [Wed, 10 Aug 2005 02:58:27 +0000 (19:58 -0700)]
[NETFILTER]: Extend netfilter logging API
This patch is in preparation to nfnetlink_log:
- loggers now have to register struct nf_logger instead of nf_logfn
- nf_log_unregister() replaced by nf_log_unregister_pf() and
nf_log_unregister_logger()
- add comment to ip[6]t_LOG.h to assure nobody redefines flags
- add /proc/net/netfilter/nf_log to tell user which logger is currently
registered for which address family
- if user has configured logging, but no logging backend (logger) is
available, always spit a message to syslog, not just the first time.
- split ip[6]t_LOG.c into two parts:
Backend: Always try to register as logger for the respective address family
Frontend: Always log via nf_log_packet() API
- modify all users of nf_log_packet() to accomodate additional argument
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
From tcp_v4_rebuild_header, that already was pretty generic, I only
needed to use sk->sk_protocol instead of the hardcoded IPPROTO_TCP and
establish the requirement that INET transport layer protocols that
want to use this function map TCP_SYN_SENT to its equivalent state.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
From tcp_v4_setup_caps, that always is preceded by a call to
__sk_dst_set, so coalesce this sequence into sk_setup_caps, removing
one call to a TCP function in the IP layer.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Andrew McDonald [Wed, 10 Aug 2005 02:44:42 +0000 (19:44 -0700)]
[IPV6]: Check interface bindings on IPv6 raw socket reception
Take account of whether a socket is bound to a particular device when
selecting an IPv6 raw socket to receive a packet. Also perform this
check when receiving IPv6 packets with router alert options.
Signed-off-by: Andrew McDonald <andrew@mcdonald.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Harald Welte [Wed, 10 Aug 2005 02:44:15 +0000 (19:44 -0700)]
[NETFILTER]: Add "nfnetlink_queue" netfilter queue handler over nfnetlink
- Add new nfnetlink_queue module
- Add new ipt_NFQUEUE and ip6t_NFQUEUE modules to access queue numbers 1-65535
- Mark ip_queue and ip6_queue Kconfig options as OBSOLETE
- Update feature-removal-schedule to remove ip[6]_queue in December
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Harald Welte [Wed, 10 Aug 2005 02:43:44 +0000 (19:43 -0700)]
[NETFILTER]: Core changes required by upcoming nfnetlink_queue code
- split netfiler verdict in 16bit verdict and 16bit queue number
- add 'queuenum' argument to nf_queue_outfn_t and its users ip[6]_queue
- move NFNL_SUBSYS_ definitions from enum to #define
- introduce autoloading for nfnetlink subsystem modules
- add MODULE_ALIAS_NFNL_SUBSYS macro
- add nf_unregister_queue_handlers() to register all handlers for a given
nf_queue_outfn_t
- add more verbose DEBUGP macro definition to nfnetlink.c
- make nfnetlink_subsys_register fail if subsys already exists
- add some more comments and debug statements to nfnetlink.c
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Harald Welte [Wed, 10 Aug 2005 02:40:55 +0000 (19:40 -0700)]
[NETLINK]: Add properly module refcounting for kernel netlink sockets.
- Remove bogus code for compiling netlink as module
- Add module refcounting support for modules implementing a netlink
protocol
- Add support for autoloading modules that implement a netlink protocol
as soon as someone opens a socket for that protocol
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Harald Welte [Wed, 10 Aug 2005 02:39:00 +0000 (19:39 -0700)]
[NETFILTER]: Move ipv4 specific code from net/core/netfilter.c to net/ipv4/netfilter.c
Netfilter cleanup
- Move ipv4 code from net/core/netfilter.c to net/ipv4/netfilter.c
- Move ipv6 netfilter code from net/ipv6/ip6_output.c to net/ipv6/netfilter.c
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Adrian Bunk [Wed, 10 Aug 2005 02:35:47 +0000 (19:35 -0700)]
[IPV4]: possible cleanups
This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
- make needlessly global code static
- #if 0 the following unused global function:
- xfrm4_state.c: xfrm4_state_fini
- remove the following unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's:
- ip_output.c: ip_finish_output
- ip_output.c: sysctl_ip_default_ttl
- fib_frontend.c: ip_dev_find
- inetpeer.c: inet_peer_idlock
- ip_options.c: ip_options_compile
- ip_options.c: ip_options_undo
- net/core/request_sock.c: sysctl_max_syn_backlog
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Harald Welte [Wed, 10 Aug 2005 02:32:58 +0000 (19:32 -0700)]
[NETFILTER]: Add ctnetlink subsystem
Add ctnetlink subsystem for userspace-access to ip_conntrack table.
This allows reading and updating of existing entries, as well as
creating new ones (and new expect's) via nfnetlink.
Please note the 'strange' byte order: nfattr (tag+length) are in host
byte order, while the payload is always guaranteed to be in network
byte order. This allows a simple userspace process to encapsulate netlink
messages into arch-independent udp packets by just processing/swapping the
headers and not knowing anything about the actual payload.
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This removes the private element from skbuff, that is only used by
HIPPI. Instead it uses skb->cb[] to hold the additional data that is
needed in the output path from hard_header to device driver.
PS: The only qdisc that might potentially corrupt this cb[] is if
netem was used over HIPPI. I will take care of that by fixing netem
to use skb->stamp. I don't expect many users of netem over HIPPI
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Harald Welte [Wed, 10 Aug 2005 02:30:24 +0000 (19:30 -0700)]
[NETFITLER]: Add nfnetlink layer.
Introduce "nfnetlink" (netfilter netlink) layer. This layer is used as
transport layer for all userspace communication of the new upcoming
netfilter subsystems, such as ctnetlink, nfnetlink_queue and some day even
the mythical pkttables ;)
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Harald Welte [Wed, 10 Aug 2005 02:28:03 +0000 (19:28 -0700)]
[NETFILTER]: connection tracking event notifiers
This adds a notifier chain based event mechanism for ip_conntrack state
changes. As opposed to the previous implementations in patch-o-matic, we
do no longer need a field in the skb to achieve this.
Thanks to the valuable input from Patrick McHardy and Rusty on the idea
of a per_cpu implementation.
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
David S. Miller [Wed, 10 Aug 2005 02:25:21 +0000 (19:25 -0700)]
[NET]: Kill skb->list
Remove the "list" member of struct sk_buff, as it is entirely
redundant. All SKB list removal callers know which list the
SKB is on, so storing this in sk_buff does nothing other than
taking up some space.
Two tricky bits were SCTP, which I took care of, and two ATM
drivers which Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> fixed
up.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Harald Welte [Wed, 10 Aug 2005 02:24:19 +0000 (19:24 -0700)]
[NETFILTER]: reduce netfilter sk_buff enlargement
As discussed at netconf'05, we're trying to save every bit in sk_buff.
The patch below makes sk_buff 8 bytes smaller. I did some basic
testing on my notebook and it seems to work.
The only real in-tree user of nfcache was IPVS, who only needs a
single bit. Unfortunately I couldn't find some other free bit in
sk_buff to stuff that bit into, so I introduced a separate field for
them. Maybe the IPVS guys can resolve that to further save space.
Initially I wanted to shrink pkt_type to three bits (PACKET_HOST and
alike are only 6 values defined), but unfortunately the bluetooth code
overloads pkt_type :(
The conntrack-event-api (out-of-tree) uses nfcache, but Rusty just
came up with a way how to do it without any skb fields, so it's safe
to remove it.
- remove all never-implemented 'nfcache' code
- don't have ipvs code abuse 'nfcache' field. currently get's their own
compile-conditional skb->ipvs_property field. IPVS maintainers can
decide to move this bit elswhere, but nfcache needs to die.
- remove skb->nfcache field to save 4 bytes
- move skb->nfctinfo into three unused bits to save further 4 bytes
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
David S. Miller [Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:46:07 +0000 (12:46 -0700)]
[SPARC64]: Make debugging spinlocks usable again.
When the spinlock routines were moved out of line into
kernel/spinlock.c this made it so that the debugging
spinlocks record lock acquisition program counts in the
kernel/spinlock.c functions not in their callers.
This makes the debugging info kind of useless.
So record the correct caller's program counter and
now this feature is useful once more.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
David S. Miller [Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:45:11 +0000 (12:45 -0700)]
[SPARC64]: Revamp Spitfire error trap handling.
Current uncorrectable error handling was poor enough
that the processor could just loop taking the same
trap over and over again. Fix things up so that we
at least get a log message and perhaps even some register
state.
In the process, much consolidation became possible,
particularly with the correctable error handler.
Prefix assembler and C function names with "spitfire"
to indicate that these are for Ultra-I/II/IIi/IIe only.
More work is needed to make these routines robust and
featureful to the level of the Ultra-III error handlers.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
David S. Miller [Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:44:40 +0000 (12:44 -0700)]
[SPARC64]: Fix trap state reading for instruction_access_exception.
1) Read ASI_IMMU SFSR not ASI_DMMU.
2) IMMU has no SFAR, read TPC instead
3) Delete old and incorrect comment about the DTLB protection
trap having a dependency on the SFSR contents in order to
function correctly
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Al Viro [Sun, 28 Aug 2005 02:19:14 +0000 (03:19 +0100)]
[PATCH] mod_devicetable.h fixes
* ieee1394_device_id has kernel_ulong_t field after an odd number of
__u32 ones. Since mod_devicetable.h is included both from kernel and
from host build helper, we may be in trouble if we are building on
32bit host for 64bit target - userland sees unsigned long long,
kernel sees unsigned long and while their sizes match, alignments
might not. Fixed by forcing alignment. Fortunately, almost nobody
else needs that - the rest of such fields is naturally aligned as it
is.
* of_device_id has void * in it. Host userland helpers need
kernel_ulong_t instead, since their void * might have nothing to do
with the kernel one. Fixed in the same way it's done for similar
problems in pcmcia_device_id (ifdef __KERNEL__).
* pcmcia_device_id has the same problem as ieee1394_device_id. Fixed
the same way.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Steven Rostedt [Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:44:09 +0000 (11:44 -0400)]
[PATCH] convert signal handling of NODEFER to act like other Unix boxes.
It has been reported that the way Linux handles NODEFER for signals is
not consistent with the way other Unix boxes handle it. I've written a
program to test the behavior of how this flag affects signals and had
several reports from people who ran this on various Unix boxes,
confirming that Linux seems to be unique on the way this is handled.
The way NODEFER affects signals on other Unix boxes is as follows:
1) If NODEFER is set, other signals in sa_mask are still blocked.
2) If NODEFER is set and the signal is in sa_mask, then the signal is
still blocked. (Note: this is the behavior of all tested but Linux _and_
NetBSD 2.0 *).
The way NODEFER affects signals on Linux:
1) If NODEFER is set, other signals are _not_ blocked regardless of
sa_mask (Even NetBSD doesn't do this).
2) If NODEFER is set and the signal is in sa_mask, then the signal being
handled is not blocked.
The patch converts signal handling in all current Linux architectures to
the way most Unix boxes work.
Unix boxes that were tested: DU4, AIX 5.2, Irix 6.5, NetBSD 2.0, SFU
3.5 on WinXP, AIX 5.3, Mac OSX, and of course Linux 2.6.13-rcX.
* NetBSD was the only other Unix to behave like Linux on point #2. The
main concern was brought up by point #1 which even NetBSD isn't like
Linux. So with this patch, we leave NetBSD as the lonely one that
behaves differently here with #2.
Jeff Garzik [Mon, 29 Aug 2005 00:18:39 +0000 (20:18 -0400)]
[libata] license change, other bits
- changes license of all code from OSL+GPL to plain ole GPL
- except for NVIDIA, who hasn't yet responded about sata_nv
- copyright holders were already contacted privately
- adds info in each driver about where hardware/protocol docs may be
obtained
- where I have made major contributions, updated copyright dates
Paul Mackerras [Sat, 27 Aug 2005 23:40:01 +0000 (09:40 +1000)]
[PATCH] Remove race between con_open and con_close
[ Same race and same patch also by Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> ]
I have a laptop (G3 powerbook) which will pretty reliably hit a race
between con_open and con_close late in the boot process and oops in
vt_ioctl due to tty->driver_data being NULL.
What happens is this: process A opens /dev/tty6; it comes into
con_open() (drivers/char/vt.c) and assign a non-NULL value to
tty->driver_data. Then process A closes that and concurrently process
B opens /dev/tty6. Process A gets through con_close() and clears
tty->driver_data, since tty->count == 1. However, before process A
can decrement tty->count, we switch to process B (e.g. at the
down(&tty_sem) call at drivers/char/tty_io.c line 1626).
So process B gets to run and comes into con_open with tty->count == 2,
as tty->count is incremented (in init_dev) before con_open is called.
Because tty->count != 1, we don't set tty->driver_data. Then when the
process tries to do anything with that fd, it oopses.
The simple and effective fix for this is to test tty->driver_data
rather than tty->count in con_open. The testing and setting of
tty->driver_data is serialized with respect to the clearing of
tty->driver_data in con_close by the console_sem. We can't get a
situation where con_open sees tty->driver_data != NULL and then
con_close on a different fd clears tty->driver_data, because
tty->count is incremented before con_open is called. Thus this patch
eliminates the race, and in fact with this patch my laptop doesn't
oops.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
[ Same patch Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
in http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112450820432121&w=2 ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jan Blunck [Sat, 27 Aug 2005 18:07:52 +0000 (11:07 -0700)]
[PATCH] sg.c: fix a memory leak in devices seq_file implementation
I know that scsi procfs is legacy code but this is a fix for a memory leak.
While reading through sg.c I realized that the implementation of
/proc/scsi/sg/devices with seq_file is leaking memory due to freeing the
pointer returned by the next() iterator method. Since next() might return
NULL or an error this is wrong. This patch fixes it through using the
seq_files private field for holding the reference to the iterator object.
Here is a small bash script to trigger the leak. Use slabtop to watch
the size-32 usage grow and grow.
#!/bin/sh
while true; do
cat /proc/scsi/sg/devices > /dev/null
done
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <j.blunck@tu-harburg.de> Acked-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] fix for race problem in DVB USB drivers (dibusb)
Fixed race between submitting streaming URBs in the driver and starting
the actual transfer in hardware (demodulator and USB controller) which
sometimes lead to garbled data transfers. URBs are now submitted first,
then the transfer is enabled. Dibusb devices and clones are now fully
functional again.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher <pb@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Francois Romieu [Tue, 23 Aug 2005 23:14:23 +0000 (01:14 +0200)]
[PATCH] r8169: avoid conflict between revisions 2 and 3 of the Linksys EG1032
Both revisions share the same PCI device ID and vendor ID but revision 2
of the device uses SysKonnect's chipset whereas revision 3 of the device
uses Realtek's 8169 chipset.
Credit goes to Christiaan Lutzer <mythtv.lutzer@gmail.com> for reporting
the issue and giving the actual value for the different revisions.
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Ralf Baechle [Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:01:33 +0000 (18:01 +0100)]
[PATCH] Fix 6pack setting of MAC address
Don't check type of sax25_family; dev_set_mac_address has already done
that before and anyway, the type to check against would have been
ARPHRD_AX25. We only got away because AF_AX25 and ARPHRD_AX25 both happen
to be defined to the same value.
Don't check sax25_ndigis either; it's value is insignificant for the
purpose of setting the MAC address and the check has shown to break
some application software for no good reason.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle DL5RB <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Roland Dreier [Thu, 25 Aug 2005 20:40:04 +0000 (13:40 -0700)]
[PATCH] IB: move include files to include/rdma
Move the InfiniBand headers from drivers/infiniband/include to include/rdma.
This allows InfiniBand-using code to live elsewhere, and lets us remove the
ugly EXTRA_CFLAGS include path from the InfiniBand Makefiles.
Currently we may have work scheduled in default kernel workqueue when
the device is going down. The device could get freed before this
workqueue gets serviced. I am actually seeing this causing system
hangs.
The following patch fixes this by using ipoib_workqueue which gets
flushed when the device is going down.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Sean Hefty [Fri, 19 Aug 2005 20:46:34 +0000 (13:46 -0700)]
[PATCH] IB: fix userspace CM deadlock
Fix deadlock condition resulting from trying to destroy a cm_id
from the context of a CM thread. The synchronization around the
ucm context structure is simplified as a result, and some simple
code cleanup is included.
Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Roland Dreier [Fri, 19 Aug 2005 19:03:17 +0000 (12:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] IPoIB: Set full membership bit in P_Keys
Always make sure that the full membership bit is set in the P_Keys
that IPoIB uses. This makes sure that all hosts join the correct
multicast groups so that hosts that are partial partition members
can talk to the rest of the network.
Roland Dreier [Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:36:11 +0000 (10:36 -0700)]
[PATCH] IB/mthca: Handle context tables smaller than our chunk size
When creating a table in context memory where the table is smaller
than our chunk size, we don't want to allocate and map a full chunk.
Instead, allocate just enough memory to cover the table.
This can be pretty simple because all tables are a power-of-2 size, so
either the table is a multiple of the chunk size, or it's smaller than
one chunk.
Roland Dreier [Fri, 19 Aug 2005 17:33:35 +0000 (10:33 -0700)]
[PATCH] IB/mthca: Move WQE structures into their own header
Move the definitions of the WQE structures from mthca_qp.c into
mthca_wqe.h, so that we'll be able to share them when we add the
SRQ code in mthca_srq.c.
Roland Dreier [Fri, 19 Aug 2005 16:19:05 +0000 (09:19 -0700)]
[PATCH] IB/mthca: Simplify handling of completions with error
Mem-free HCAs never generate error CQEs that complete multiple WQEs,
so just skip the call to mthca_free_err_wqe() for them rather than
having logic to handle the mem-free case in mthca_free_err_wqe().
Roland Dreier [Thu, 18 Aug 2005 20:39:31 +0000 (13:39 -0700)]
[PATCH] IB/mthca: Factor out common queue alloc code
Clean up the allocation of memory for queues by factoring out the
common code into mthca_buf_alloc() and mthca_buf_free(). Now CQs and
QPs share the same queue allocation code, which we'll also use for SRQs.
Roland Dreier [Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:24:13 +0000 (12:24 -0700)]
[PATCH] IB: userspace SRQ support
Add SRQ support to userspace verbs module. This adds several commands
and associated structures, but it's OK to do this without bumping the
ABI version because the commands are added at the end of the list so
they don't change the existing numbering. There are two cases to
worry about:
1. New kernel, old userspace. This is OK because old userspace simply
won't try to use the new SRQ commands. None of the old commands are
changed.
2. Old kernel, new userspace. This works perfectly as long as
userspace doesn't try to use SRQ commands. If userspace tries to
use SRQ commands, it will get EINVAL, which is perfectly
reasonable: the kernel doesn't support SRQs, so we couldn't do any
better.
Roland Dreier [Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:14:11 +0000 (12:14 -0700)]
[PATCH] IB/mthca: Report correct max_msg_sz
Set the max_msg_sz port property correctly in mthca's port_query
function. Also zero out the attr struct so that we don't leave
any other members uninitialized.
Roland Dreier [Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:39:10 +0000 (07:39 -0700)]
[PATCH] IB/mthca: Use correct port width capability value
When we call the INIT_IB firmware command to bring up a port, use
the actual port width capability returned by the QUERY_DEV_LIM
command instead of always trying to enable both 1X and 4X. This
fixes breakage seen when the firmware is build to allow 4X only.
Roland Dreier [Mon, 15 Aug 2005 14:35:16 +0000 (07:35 -0700)]
[PATCH] IB: unmap FMRs when destroying FMR pool
Make sure that all FMRs are unmapped before we deallocate them so that
we don't leak references to our protection domain when destroying an
FMR pool. (Bug reported by Guy German <guyg@voltaire.com>)
James Bottomley [Sat, 27 Aug 2005 01:34:17 +0000 (18:34 -0700)]
[PATCH] Fix oops in sysfs_hash_and_remove_file()
The problem arises if an entity in sysfs is created and removed without
ever having been made completely visible. In SCSI this is triggered by
removing a device while it's initialising.
The problem appears to be that because it was never made visible in sysfs,
the sysfs dentry has a null d_inode which oopses when a reference is made
to it. The solution is simply to check d_inode and assume the object was
never made visible (and thus doesn't need deleting) if it's NULL.
(akpm: possibly a stopgap for 2.6.13 scsi problems. May not be the
long-term fix)
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Deepak Saxena [Sat, 27 Aug 2005 01:34:11 +0000 (18:34 -0700)]
[PATCH] arm: fix IXP4xx flash resource range
We are currently reserving one byte more than actually needed by the flash
device and overlapping into the next I/O expansion bus window. This a)
causes us to allocate an extra page of VM due to ARM ioremap() alignment
code and b) could cause problems if another driver tries to request the
next expansion bus window.
Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andi Kleen [Sat, 27 Aug 2005 01:34:10 +0000 (18:34 -0700)]
[PATCH] x86_64: Tell VM about holes in nodes
Some nodes can have large holes on x86-64.
This fixes problems with the VM allowing too many dirty pages because it
overestimates the number of available RAM in a node. In extreme cases you
can end up with all RAM filled with dirty pages which can lead to deadlocks
and other nasty behaviour.
This patch just tells the VM about the known holes from e820. Reserved
(like the kernel text or mem_map) is still not taken into account, but that
should be only a few percent error now.
Small detail is that the flat setup uses the NUMA free_area_init_node() now
too because it offers more flexibility.
(akpm: lotsa thanks to Martin for working this problem out)
Cc: Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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