- 08 Jan, 2005 40 commits
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Andrew Morton authored
- When invalidating pages, take care to shoot down any ptes which map them as well. This ensures that the next mmap access to the page will generate a major fault, so NFS's server-side modifications are picked up. This also allows us to call invalidate_complete_page() on all pages, so filesytems such as ext3 get a chance to invalidate the buffer_heads. - Don't mark in-pagetable pages as non-uptodate any more. That broke a previous guarantee that mapped-into-user-process pages are always uptodate. - Check the return value of invalidate_complete_page(). It can fail if someone redirties a page after generic_file_direct_IO() write it back. But we still have a problem. If invalidate_inode_pages2() calls unmap_mapping_range(), that can cause zap_pte_range() to dirty the pagecache pages. That will redirty the page's buffers and will cause invalidate_complete_page() to fail. So, in generic_file_direct_IO() we do a complete pte shootdown on the file up-front, prior to writing back dirty pagecache. This is only done for O_DIRECT writes. It _could_ be done for O_DIRECT reads too, providing full mmap-vs-direct-IO coherency for both O_DIRECT reads and O_DIRECT writes, but permitting the pte shootdown on O_DIRECT reads trivially allows people to nuke other people's mapped pagecache. NFS also uses invalidate_inode_pages2() for handling server-side modification notifications. But in the NFS case the clear_page_dirty() in invalidate_inode_pages2() is sufficient, because NFS doesn't have to worry about the "dirty buffers against a clean page" problem. (I think) Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
A while ago we merged a patch which tried to solve a problem wherein a concurrent read() and invalidate_inode_pages() would cause the read() to return -EIO because invalidate cleared PageUptodate() at the wrong time. That patch tests for (page_count(page) != 2) in invalidate_complete_page() and bales out if false. Problem is, the page may be in the per-cpu LRU front-ends over in lru_cache_add. This elevates the refcount pending spillage of the page onto the LRU for real. That causes a false positive in invalidate_complete_page(), causing the page to not get invalidated. This screws up the logic in my new O_DIRECT-vs-buffered coherency fix. So let's solve the invalidate-vs-read in a different manner. Over on the read() side, add an explicit check to see if the page was invalidated. If so, just drop it on the floor and redo the read from scratch. Note that only do_generic_mapping_read() needs treatment. filemap_nopage(), filemap_getpage() and read_cache_page() are already doing the oh-it-was-invalidated-so-try-again thing. Signed-off-by:
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Rusty Russell authored
Vadim Lobanov points out that EXPORT_SYMBOL_NOVERS is no longer used; in fact, SH still uses it, but once we fix that, the kernel is clean. Remove it. Signed-off-by:
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H. Peter Anvin authored
This patch adds Altivec support for RAID-6, if appropriately configured on the ppc or ppc64 architectures. Note that it changes the compile flags for ppc64 in order to handle -maltivec correctly; this change was vetted on the ppc64 mailing list and OK'd by paulus. Signed-off-by:
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David Brownell authored
I got tired of not seeing the boot time penguin on my Shuttle SN41G2, and not having a decently large text display when I bypass X11. XFree86 says it's "Chipset GeForce4 MX Integrated GPU", and the kernel driver has hooks for this chip ID although it doesn't have a #define to match. Signed-off-by:
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Kamezawa Hiroyuki authored
This patch is for ia64 kernel, and defines CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE in arch/ia64/Kconfig. IA64 has memory holes smaller than its MAX_ORDER and its virtual memmap allows holes in a zone's memmap. This patch makes vmemmap aligned with IA64_GRANULE_SIZE in arch/ia64/mm/init.c. Signed-off-by:
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Kamezawa Hiroyuki authored
This patch removes bitmaps from page allocator in mm/page_alloc.c. This buddy system uses page->private field to record free page's order instead of using bitmaps. The algorithm of the buddy system is unchanged. Only bitmaps are removed. In this buddy system, 2 pages,a page and "buddy", can be coalesced when (buddy->private & PG_private) && (page_order(page)) == (page_order(buddy)) && !PageReserved(buddy) && page_count(buddy) == 0 this also means "buddy" is a head of continuous free pages of length of (1 << page_order(buddy)). bad_range() is called from inner loop of __free_pages_bulk(). In many archs, bad_range() is only a sanity check, it will always return 0. But if a zone's memmap has a hole, it sometimes returns 1. An architecture with memory holes in a zone has to define CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE. When CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE is defined, pfn_valid() is called for checking whether a buddy pages is valid or not. Signed-off-by:
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Kamezawa Hiroyuki authored
Followings are patches for removing bitmaps from the buddy allocator. This is benefical to memory-hot-plug stuffs, because this removes a data structure which must meet to a host's physical memory layout. This is one step to manage physical memory in nonlinear / discontiguous way and will reduce some amounts of codes to implement memory-hot-plug. This patch removes bitmaps from zone->free_area[] in include/linux/mmzone.h, and adds some comments on page->private field in include/linux/mm.h. non-atomic ops for changing PG_private bit is added in include/page-flags.h. zone->lock is always acquired when PG_private of "a free page" is changed. Signed-off-by:
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William Lee Irwin III authored
All in-tree references to remap_page_range() have been removed by prior patches in the series. This patch, intended to be applied after some waiting period for people to adjust to the API change, notice __deprecated, etc., does the final removal of remap_page_range() as a function symbol declared within kernel headers and/or implemented in kernel sources. Signed-off-by:
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Neil Brown authored
The hashtable that linear uses to find the right device stores two pointers for every entry. The second is always one of: The first plus 1 NULL When NULL, it is never accessed, so any value can be stored. Thus it could always be "first plus 1", and so we don't need to store it as it is trivial to calculate. This patch halves the size of this table, which results in some simpler code as well. Signed-off-by:
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Nathan Lynch authored
Fix (harmless?) smp_processor_id() usage in preemptible section of cpu_down. Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
From: Peter Zijlstra <peter@programming.kicks-ass.net> I have to use oprofile a lot but do want to enable preemption checks. This gives some noise; I think andrew allready mentioned fixin this. The following patch fixes about half of the warnings. Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
This is the current remove-BKL patch. I test-booted it on x86 and x64, trying every conceivable combination of SMP, PREEMPT and PREEMPT_BKL. All other architectures should compile as well. (most of the testing was done with the zaphod patch undone but it applies cleanly on vanilla -mm3 as well and should work fine.) this is the debugging-enabled variant of the patch which has two main debugging features: - debug potentially illegal smp_processor_id() use. Has caught a number of real bugs - e.g. look at the printk.c fix in the patch. - make it possible to enable/disable the BKL via a .config. If this goes upstream we dont want this of course, but for now it gives people a chance to find out whether any particular problem was caused by this patch. This patch has one important fix over the previous BKL patch: on PREEMPT kernels if we preempted BKL-using code then the code still auto-dropped the BKL by mistake. This caused a number of breakages for testers, which breakages went away once this bug was fixed. Also the debugging mechanism has been improved alot relative to the previous BKL patch. Would be nice to test-drive this in -mm. There will likely be some more smp_processor_id() false positives but they are 1) harmless 2) easy to fix up. We could as well find more real smp_processor_id() related breakages as well. The most noteworthy fact is that no BKL-using code was found yet that relied on smp_processor_id(), which is promising from a compatibility POV. Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
Despite its restart_pgoff pretentions, unmap_mapping_range_vma was fatally unable to distinguish a vma to be restarted from the case where that vma has been freed, and its vm_area_struct reused for the top part of a !new_below split of an isomorphic vma yet to be scanned. The obvious answer is to note restart_vma in the struct address_space, and cancel it when that vma is freed; but I'm reluctant to enlarge every struct inode just for this. Another answer is to flag valid restart in the vm_area_struct; but vm_flags is protected by down_write of mmap_sem, which we cannot take within down_write of i_sem. If we're going to need yet another field, better to record the restart_addr itself: restart_vma only recorded the last restart, but a busy tree could well use more. Actually, we don't need another field: we can neatly (though naughtily) keep restart_addr in vm_truncate_count, provided mapping->truncate_count leaps over those values which look like a page-aligned address. Zero remains good for forcing a scan (though now interpreted as restart_addr 0), and it turns out no change is needed to any of the vm_truncate_count settings in dup_mmap, vma_link, vma_adjust, move_one_page. Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
If unmap_mapping_range (and mapping->truncate_count) are doing their jobs right, truncate_complete_page should never find the page mapped: add BUG_ON for our immediate testing, but this patch should probably not go to mainline - a mapped page here is not a catastrophe. Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
Fix some unlikely races in respect of vm_truncate_count. Firstly, it's supposed to be guarded by i_mmap_lock, but some places copy a vma structure by *new_vma = *old_vma: if the compiler implements that with a bytewise copy, new_vma->vm_truncate_count could be munged, and new_vma later appear up-to-date when it's not; so set it properly once under lock. vma_link set vm_truncate_count to mapping->truncate_count when adding an empty vma: if new vmas are being added profusely while vmtruncate is in progess, this lets them be skipped without scanning. vma_adjust has vm_truncate_count problem much like it had with anon_vma under mprotect merge: when merging be careful not to leave vma marked as up-to-date when it might not be, lest unmap_mapping_range in progress - set vm_truncate_count 0 when in doubt. Similarly when mremap moving ptes from one vma to another. Cut a little code from __anon_vma_merge: now vma_adjust sets "importer" in the remove_next case (to get its vm_truncate_count right), its anon_vma is already linked by the time __anon_vma_merge is called. Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
vmtruncate (or more generally, unmap_mapping_range) has been observed responsible for very high latencies: the lockbreak work in unmap_vmas is good for munmap or exit_mmap, but no use while mapping->i_mmap_lock is held, to keep our place in the prio_tree (or list) of a file's vmas. Extend the zap_details block with i_mmap_lock pointer, so unmap_vmas can detect if that needs lockbreak, and break_addr so it can notify where it left off. Add unmap_mapping_range_vma, used from both prio_tree and nonlinear list handlers. This is what now calls zap_page_range (above unmap_vmas), but handles the lockbreak and restart issues: letting unmap_mapping_range_ tree or list know when they need to start over because lock was dropped. When restarting, of course there's a danger of never making progress. Add vm_truncate_count field to vm_area_struct, update that to mapping-> truncate_count once fully scanned, skip up-to-date vmas without a scan (and without dropping i_mmap_lock). Further danger of never making progress if a vma is very large: when breaking out, save restart_vma and restart_addr (and restart_pgoff to confirm, in case vma gets reused), to help continue where we left off. Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
Move unmap_mapping_range's nonlinear vma handling out to its own inline, parallel to the prio_tree handling; unmap_mapping_range_list is a better name for the nonlinear list, rename the other unmap_mapping_range_tree. Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
The low-latency unmap_vmas patch silently moved the zap_bytes test after the TLB finish and lockbreak and regather: why? That not only makes zap_bytes redundant (might as well use ZAP_BLOCK_SIZE), it makes the unmap_vmas level redundant too - it's all about saving TLB flushes when unmapping a series of small vmas. Move zap_bytes test back before the lockbreak, and delete the curious comment that a small zap block size doesn't matter: it's true need_flush prevents TLB flush when no page has been unmapped, but unmapping pages in small blocks involves many more TLB flushes than in large blocks. Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
Why is mapping->truncate_count atomic? It's incremented inside i_mmap_lock (and i_sem), and the reads don't need it to be atomic. And why smp_rmb() before call to ->nopage? The compiler cannot reorder the initial assignment of sequence after the call to ->nopage, and no cpu (yet!) can read from the future, which is all that matters there. And delete totally bogus reset of truncate_count from blkmtd add_device. truncate_count is all about detecting i_size changes: i_size does not change there; and if it did, the count should be incremented not reset. Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
blockmtd doesn't need to initialise address_space.truncate_count: open_bdev_excl did that. Plus I have a patch queued up which removes ->truncate_count. Signed-off-by:
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Matthew Dobson authored
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Without passing this parameter by reference, the changes to used_node_mask are meaningless and do not affect the caller's copy. This leads to boot-time failure. This proposed fix passes it by reference. Signed-off-by:
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Matthew Dobson authored
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Matthew Dobson authored
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Matthew Dobson authored
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Matthew Dobson authored
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Matthew Dobson authored
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Matthew Dobson authored
From: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> Here are some compile fixes for this patch. Looks like simple typos. Signed-off-by:
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Matthew Dobson authored
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Nick Piggin authored
Change the sched-domain debug routine to be called on a per-CPU basis, and executed before the domain is actually attached to the CPU. Previously, all CPUs would have their new domains attached, and then the debug routine would loop over all of them. This has two advantages: First, there is no longer any theoretical races: we are running the debug routine on a domain that isn't yet active, and should have no racing access from another CPU. Second, if there is a problem with a domain, the validator will have a better chance to catch the error and print a diagnostic _before_ the domain is attached, which may take down the system. Also, change reporting of detected error conditions to KERN_ERR instead of KERN_DEBUG, so they have a better chance of being seen in a hang on boot situation. The patch also does an unrelated (and harmless) cleanup in migration_thread(). Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
The patch below fixes smp_processor_id() warnings that are triggered by numa_node_id(). All uses of numa_node_id() in mm/mempolicy.c seem to use it as a 'hint' only, not as a correctness number. Once a node is established, it's used in a preemption-safe way. So the simple fix is to disable the checking for numa_node_id(). But additional review would be more than welcome, because this patch turns off the preemption-checking of numa_node_id() permanently. Tested on amd64. Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
Clean up a few suspicious-looking uses of smp_processor_id() in preemptible code. The current_cpu_data use is unclean but most likely safe. I haven't seen any outright bugs. Since oprofile does not seem to be ready for different-type CPUs (do we even care?), the patch below documents this property by using boot_cpu_data. Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
The early bootup stage is pretty fragile because the idle thread is not yet functioning as such and so we need preemption disabled. Whether the bootup fails or not seems to depend on timing details so e.g. the presence of SCHED_SMT makes it go away. Disabling preemption explicitly has another advantage: the atomicity check in schedule() will catch early-bootup schedule() calls from now on. The patch also fixes another preempt-bkl buglet: interrupt-driven forced-preemption didnt go through preempt_schedule() so it resulted in auto-dropping of the BKL. Now we go through preempt_schedule() which properly deals with the BKL. Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
This patch adds a handful of cond_resched() points to a number of key, scheduling-latency related non-inlined functions. This reduces preemption latency for !PREEMPT kernels. These are scheduling points complementary to PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY scheduling points (might_sleep() places) - i.e. these are all points where an explicit cond_resched() had to be added. Has been tested as part of the -VP patchset. Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
This patch fixes scheduling latencies in vgacon_do_font_op(). The code is protected by vga_lock already so it's safe to drop (and re-acquire) the BKL. Has been tested in the -VP patchset. Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
Fix scheduling latencies in the MTRR-setting codepath. Also, fix bad bug: MTRR's _must_ be set with interrupts disabled! From: Bernard Blackham <bernard@blackham.com.au> The patch sched-fix-scheduling-latencies-in-mttr in recent -mm kernels has the bad side-effect of re-enabling interrupts even if they were disabled. This caused bugs in Software Suspend 2 which reenabled MTRRs whilst interrupts were already disabled. Attached is a replacement patch which uses spin_lock_irqsave instead of spin_lock_irq. Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
We dont want to execute off keventd since it might hold a semaphore our callers hold too. This can happen when kthread_create() is called from within keventd. This happened due to the IRQ threading patches but it could happen with other code too. Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
The attached patch, written by Andrew Morton, fixes long scheduling latencies in filemap_sync(). Has been tested as part of the -VP patchset. Signed-off-by:
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