- 06 Jan, 2006 40 commits
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Andrew Morton authored
Revert a patch which went into 2.6.8-rc1. The changelog for that patch was: The shrink_zone() logic can, under some circumstances, cause far too many pages to be reclaimed. Say, we're scanning at high priority and suddenly hit a large number of reclaimable pages on the LRU. Change things so we bale out when SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages have been reclaimed. Problem is, this change caused significant imbalance in inter-zone scan balancing by truncating scans of larger zones. Suppose, for example, ZONE_HIGHMEM is 10x the size of ZONE_NORMAL. The zone balancing algorithm would require that if we're scanning 100 pages of ZONE_HIGHMEM, we should scan 10 pages of ZONE_NORMAL. But this logic will cause the scanning of ZONE_HIGHMEM to bale out after only 32 pages are reclaimed. Thus effectively causing smaller zones to be scanned relatively harder than large ones. Now I need to remember what the workload was which caused me to write this patch originally, then fix it up in a different way... Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Nick Piggin authored
This atomic operation is superfluous: the pte will be added with the referenced bit set, and the page will be referenced through this mapping after the page fault handler returns anyway. Signed-off-by:
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
Optimise rmap functions by minimising atomic operations when we know there will be no concurrent modifications. Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
Cut down size slightly by not passing bad_page the function name (it should be able to be determined by dump_stack()). And cut down the number of printks in bad_page. Also, cut down some branching in the destroy_compound_page path. Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
Add dma32 to zone statistics. Also attempt to arrange struct page_state a bit better (visually). Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
Remove the last bits of Martin's ill-fated sys_set_zone_reclaim(). Cc: Martin Hicks <mort@wildopensource.com> Signed-off-by:
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Nikita Danilov authored
As find_lock_page() already checks with TestSetPageLocked() that page is locked, there is no need to call lock_page() that will try-lock page again (chances of page being unlocked in between are small). Call __lock_page() directly, this saves one atomic operation. Also, mark truncate-while-slept path as unlikely while we are here. (akpm: ug. But this is actually a common path for normal old read()s against a page which is under readahead I/O so ho-hum.) Signed-off-by:
Nikita Danilov <danilov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
The attached patch cleans up the way the bootmem allocator frees pages. A new function, __free_pages_bootmem(), is provided in mm/page_alloc.c that is called from mm/bootmem.c to turn pages over to the main allocator. All the bits of code to initialise pages (clearing PG_reserved and setting the page count) are moved to here. The checks on page validity are removed, on the assumption that the struct page arrays will have been prepared correctly. Signed-off-by:
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Ravikiran G Thirumalai authored
Patch cleans up the alloc_bootmem fix for swiotlb. Patch removes alloc_bootmem_*_limit api and fixes alloc_boot_*low api to do the right thing -- allocate from low32 memory. Signed-off-by:
Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
Small cleanups that does not change generated code with the gcc's I've tested with. Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
read_page_state and __get_page_state only traverse online CPUs, which will cause results to fluctuate when CPUs are plugged in or out. Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
struct per_cpu_pages.low is useless. Remove it. Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
bad_range is supposed to be a temporary check. It would be a pity to throw it out. Make it depend on CONFIG_DEBUG_VM instead. CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE systems were relying on this to check pfn_valid in the page allocator. Add that to page_is_buddy instead. Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
Micro optimise some conditionals where we don't need lazy evaluation. Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
Inline set_page_refs. Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
Slightly optimise some page allocation and freeing functions by taking advantage of knowing whether or not interrupts are disabled. Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
Minor optimization (though it doesn't help in the PREEMPT case, severely constrained by small ZAP_BLOCK_SIZE). free_pages_and_swap_cache works in chunks of 16, calling release_pages which works in chunks of PAGEVEC_SIZE. But PAGEVEC_SIZE was dropped from 16 to 14 in 2.6.10, so we're now doing more spin_lock_irq'ing than necessary: use PAGEVEC_SIZE throughout. Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by:
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by:
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Andy Whitcroft authored
Before SPARSEMEM is initialised we cannot provide an efficient pfn_to_nid() implmentation; before initialisation is complete we use early_pfn_to_nid() to provide location information. Until recently there was no non-init user of this functionality. Provide a post init pfn_to_nid() implementation. Note that this implmentation assumes that the pfn passed has been validated with pfn_valid(). The current single user of this function already has this check. Signed-off-by:
Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by:
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Andy Whitcroft authored
There are three places we define pfn_to_nid(). Two in linux/mmzone.h and one in asm/mmzone.h. These in essence represent the three memory models. The definition in linux/mmzone.h under !NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES is both the FLATMEM definition and the optimisation for single NUMA nodes; the one under SPARSEMEM is the NUMA sparsemem one; the one in asm/mmzone.h under DISCONTIGMEM is the discontigmem one. This is not in the least bit obvious, particularly the connection between the non-NUMA optimisations and the memory models. Two patches: flatmem-split-out-memory-model: simplifies the selection of pfn_to_nid() implementations. The selection is based primarily off the memory model selected. Optimisations for non-NUMA are applied where needed. sparse-provide-pfn_to_nid: implement pfn_to_nid() for SPARSEMEM This patch: pfn_to_nid is memory model specific The pfn_to_nid() call is memory model specific. It represents the locality identifier for the memory passed. Classically this would be a NUMA node, but not a chunk of memory under DISCONTIGMEM. The SPARSEMEM and FLATMEM memory model non-NUMA versions of pfn_to_nid() are folded together under NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES, while DISCONTIGMEM has its own optimisation. This is all very confusing. This patch splits out each implementation of pfn_to_nid() so that we can see them and the optimisations to each. Signed-off-by:
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Russell King authored
Fix two warnings in ipc/shm.c ipc/shm.c:122: warning: statement with no effect ipc/shm.c:560: warning: statement with no effect by converting the macros to empty inline functions. For safety, let's do all three. This also has the advantage that typechecking gets performed even without CONFIG_SHMEM enabled. Signed-off-by:
Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mike Kravetz authored
The NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES config option was created so that DISCONTIGMEM could handle pSeries numa layouts. However, support for DISCONTIGMEM has been replaced by SPARSEMEM on powerpc. As a result, this config option and supporting code is no longer needed. I have already sent a patch to Paul that removes the option from powerpc specific code. This removes the arch independent piece. Doesn't really matter which is applied first. Signed-off-by:
Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andy Whitcroft authored
pfn_to_pgdat() isn't used in common code. Remove definition. Signed-off-by:
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Andy Whitcroft authored
kvaddr_to_nid() isn't used in common code nor in i386 code. Remove these definitions. Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Lameter authored
The number of parameters for find_or_alloc_page increases significantly after policy support is added to huge pages. Simplify the code by folding find_or_alloc_huge_page() into hugetlb_no_page(). Adam Litke objected to this piece in an earlier patch but I think this is a good simplification. Diffstat shows that we can get rid of almost half of the lines of find_or_alloc_page(). If we can find no consensus then lets simply drop this patch. Signed-off-by:
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Acked-by:
William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Lameter authored
mempolicy.c contains provisional interface for huge page allocation based on node numbers. This is in use in SLES9 but was never used (AFAIK) in upstream versions of Linux. Huge page allocations now use zonelists to figure out where to allocate pages. The use of zonelists allows us to find the closest hugepage which was the consideration of the NUMA distance for huge page allocations. Remove the obsolete functions. Signed-off-by:
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Lameter authored
The huge_zonelist() function in the memory policy layer provides an list of zones ordered by NUMA distance. The hugetlb layer will walk that list looking for a zone that has available huge pages but is also in the nodeset of the current cpuset. This patch does not contain the folding of find_or_alloc_huge_page() that was controversial in the earlier discussion. Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Lameter authored
This was discussed at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113166526217117&w=2 This patch changes the dequeueing to select a huge page near the node executing instead of always beginning to check for free nodes from node 0. This will result in a placement of the huge pages near the executing processor improving performance. The existing implementation can place the huge pages far away from the executing processor causing significant degradation of performance. The search starting from zero also means that the lower zones quickly run out of memory. Selecting a huge page near the process distributed the huge pages better. Signed-off-by:
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David Gibson authored
Implement copy-on-write support for hugetlb mappings so MAP_PRIVATE can be supported. This helps us to safely use hugetlb pages in many more applications. The patch makes the following changes. If needed, I also have it broken out according to the following paragraphs. 1. Add a pair of functions to set/clear write access on huge ptes. The writable check in make_huge_pte is moved out to the caller for use by COW later. 2. Hugetlb copy-on-write requires special case handling in the following situations: - copy_hugetlb_page_range() - Copied pages must be write protected so a COW fault will be triggered (if necessary) if those pages are written to. - find_or_alloc_huge_page() - Only MAP_SHARED pages are added to the page cache. MAP_PRIVATE pages still need to be locked however. 3. Provide hugetlb_cow() and calls from hugetlb_fault() and hugetlb_no_page() which handles the COW fault by making the actual copy. 4. Remove the check in hugetlbfs_file_map() so that MAP_PRIVATE mmaps will be allowed. Make MAP_HUGETLB exempt from the depricated VM_RESERVED mapping check. Signed-off-by:David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by:
Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Adam Litke authored
This patch splits the "no_page()" type activity into its own function, hugetlb_no_page(). hugetlb_fault() becomes the entry point for hugetlb faults and delegates to the appropriate handler depending on the type of fault. Right now we still have only hugetlb_no_page() but a later patch introduces a COW fault. Signed-off-by:
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Adam Litke authored
find_lock_huge_page() isn't a great name, since it does extra things not analagous to find_lock_page(). Rename it find_or_alloc_huge_page() which is closer to the mark. Signed-off-by:
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Adam Litke authored
cleanup Signed-off-by:
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Badari Pulavarty authored
Here is the patch to implement madvise(MADV_REMOVE) - which frees up a given range of pages & its associated backing store. Current implementation supports only shmfs/tmpfs and other filesystems return -ENOSYS. "Some app allocates large tmpfs files, then when some task quits and some client disconnect, some memory can be released. However the only way to release tmpfs-swap is to MADV_REMOVE". - Andrea Arcangeli Databases want to use this feature to drop a section of their bufferpool (shared memory segments) - without writing back to disk/swap space. This feature is also useful for supporting hot-plug memory on UML. Concerns raised by Andrew Morton: - "We have no plan for holepunching! If we _do_ have such a plan (or might in the future) then what would the API look like? I think sys_holepunch(fd, start, len), so we should start out with that." - Using madvise is very weird, because people will ask "why do I need to mmap my file before I can stick a hole in it?" - None of the other madvise operations call into the filesystem in this manner. A broad question is: is this capability an MM operation or a filesytem operation? truncate, for example, is a filesystem operation which sometimes has MM side-effects. madvise is an mm operation and with this patch, it gains FS side-effects, only they're really, really significant ones." Comments: - Andrea suggested the fs operation too but then it's more efficient to have it as a mm operation with fs side effects, because they don't immediatly know fd and physical offset of the range. It's possible to fixup in userland and to use the fs operation but it's more expensive, the vmas are already in the kernel and we can use them. Short term plan & Future Direction: - We seem to need this interface only for shmfs/tmpfs files in the short term. We have to add hooks into the filesystem for correctness and completeness. This is what this patch does. - In the future, plan is to support both fs and mmap apis also. This also involves (other) filesystem specific functions to be implemented. - Current patch doesn't support VM_NONLINEAR - which can be addressed in the future. Signed-off-by:
Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Hans Reiser authored
This patch makes truncate_inode_pages_range from truncate_inode_pages. truncate_inode_pages became a one-liner call to truncate_inode_pages_range. Reiser4 needs truncate_inode_pages_ranges because it tries to keep correspondence between existences of metadata pointing to data pages and pages to which those metadata point to. So, when metadata of certain part of file is removed from filesystem tree, only pages of corresponding range are to be truncated. (Needed by the madvise(MADV_REMOVE) patch) Signed-off-by:
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Andy Whitcroft authored
register_memory is global and declared so in linux/memory.h. Update the HOTPLUG specific definition to match. This fixes a compile warning when HOTPLUG is enabled. Signed-off-by:
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Andy Whitcroft authored
Both register_memory_notifer and unregister_memory_notifier are global and declared so in linux/memory.h. Update the HOTPLUG specific definitions to match. This fixes a compile warning when HOTPLUG is enabled. Signed-off-by:
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Andy Whitcroft authored
__add_section defines an unused pointer to the zones pgdat. Remove this definition. This fixes a compile warning. Signed-off-by:
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Paul Jackson authored
Two changes to the setting of the ALLOC_CPUSET flag in mm/page_alloc.c:__alloc_pages() - A bug fix - the "ignoring mins" case should not be honoring ALLOC_CPUSET. This case of all cases, since it is handling a request that will free up more memory than is asked for (exiting tasks, e.g.) should be allowed to escape cpuset constraints when memory is tight. - A logic change to make it simpler. Honor cpusets even on GFP_ATOMIC (!wait) requests. With this, cpuset confinement applies to all requests except ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS, so that in a subsequent cleanup patch, I can remove the ALLOC_CPUSET flag entirely. Since I don't know any real reason this logic has to be either way, I am choosing the path of the simplest code. Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
- This function returns -EINVAL all the time. Fix. - Decruftify it a bit too. - Writing to it doesn't seem to do what it's suppoed to do. Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Signed-off-by:
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NeilBrown authored
The hash.h hash_long function, when used on a 64 bit machine, ignores many of the middle-order bits. (The prime chosen it too bit-sparse). IP addresses for clients of an NFS server are very likely to differ only in the low-order bits. As addresses are stored in network-byte-order, these bits become middle-order bits in a little-endian 64bit 'long', and so do not contribute to the hash. Thus you can have the situation where all clients appear on one hash chain. So, until hash_long is fixed (or maybe forever), us a hash function that works well on IP addresses - xor the bytes together. Thanks to "Iozone" <capps@iozone.org> for identifying this problem. Cc: "Iozone" <capps@iozone.org> Signed-off-by:
Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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