- 26 Jul, 2011 40 commits
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Hugh Dickins authored
We can now simplify shmem_getpage_gfp(): there is no longer a dilemma of filepage passed in via shmem_readpage(), then swappage found, which must then be copied over to it. Although at first it's tempting to replace the **pagep arg by returning struct page *, that makes a mess of IS_ERR_OR_NULL(page)s in all the callers, so leave as is. Insert BUG_ON(!PageUptodate) when we find and lock page: some of the complication came from uninitialized pages inserted into filecache prior to readpage; but now we're in control, and only release pagelock on filecache once it's uptodate (if an error occurs in reading back from swap, the page remains in swapcache, never moved to filecache). Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Hugh Dickins authored
The prealloc_page handling in shmem_getpage_gfp() is unnecessarily complicated: first simplify that before going on to filepage/swappage. That's right, don't report ENOMEM when the preallocation fails: we may or may not need the page. But simply report ENOMEM once we find we do need it, instead of dropping lock, repeating allocation, unwinding on failure etc. And leave the out label on the fast path, don't goto. Fix something that looks like a bug but turns out not to be: set PageSwapBacked on prealloc_page before its mem_cgroup_cache_charge(), as the removed case was doing. That's important before adding to LRU (determines which LRU the page goes on), and does affect which path it takes through memcontrol.c, but in the end MEM_CGROUP_CHANGE_TYPE_ SHMEM is handled no differently from CACHE. Signed-off-by:
Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin.zhang@intel.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
Remove that pernicious shmem_readpage() at last: the things we needed it for (splice, loop, sendfile, i915 GEM) are now fully taken care of by shmem_file_splice_read() and shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp(). This removal clears the way for a simpler shmem_getpage_gfp(), since page is never passed in; but leave most of that cleanup until after. sys_readahead() and sys_fadvise(POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED) will now EINVAL, instead of unexpectedly trying to read ahead on tmpfs: if that proves to be an issue for someone, then we can either arrange for them to return success instead, or try to implement async readahead on tmpfs. Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
Make shmem_getpage() a wrapper, passing mapping_gfp_mask() down to shmem_getpage_gfp(), which in turn passes gfp down to shmem_swp_alloc(). Change shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp() to use shmem_getpage_gfp() in the CONFIG_SHMEM case; but leave tiny !SHMEM using read_cache_page_gfp(). Add a BUG_ON() in case anyone happens to call this on a non-shmem mapping; though we might later want to let that case route to read_cache_page_gfp(). It annoys me to have these two almost-redundant args, gfp and fault_type: I can't find a better way; but initialize fault_type only in shmem_fault(). Note that before, read_cache_page_gfp() was allocating i915_gem's pages with __GFP_NORETRY as intended; but the corresponding swap vector pages got allocated without it, leaving a small possibility of OOM. Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
Tidy up shmem_file_splice_read(): Remove readahead: okay, we could implement shmem readahead on swap, but have never done so before, swap being the slow exceptional path. Use shmem_getpage() instead of find_or_create_page() plus ->readpage(). Remove several comments: sorry, I found them more distracting than helpful, and this will not be the reference version of splice_read(). Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
Copy __generic_file_splice_read() and generic_file_splice_read() from fs/splice.c to shmem_file_splice_read() in mm/shmem.c. Make page_cache_pipe_buf_ops and spd_release_page() accessible to it. Signed-off-by:
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
I haven't reproduced it myself but the fail scenario is that on such machines (notably ARM and some embedded powerpc), if you manage to hit that futex path on a writable page whose dirty bit has gone from the PTE, you'll livelock inside the kernel from what I can tell. It will go in a loop of trying the atomic access, failing, trying gup to "fix it up", getting succcess from gup, go back to the atomic access, failing again because dirty wasn't fixed etc... So I think you essentially hang in the kernel. The scenario is probably rare'ish because affected architecture are embedded and tend to not swap much (if at all) so we probably rarely hit the case where dirty is missing or young is missing, but I think Shan has a piece of SW that can reliably reproduce it using a shared writable mapping & fork or something like that. On archs who use SW tracking of dirty & young, a page without dirty is effectively mapped read-only and a page without young unaccessible in the PTE. Additionally, some architectures might lazily flush the TLB when relaxing write protection (by doing only a local flush), and expect a fault to invalidate the stale entry if it's still present on another processor. The futex code assumes that if the "in_atomic()" access -EFAULT's, it can "fix it up" by causing get_user_pages() which would then be equivalent to taking the fault. However that isn't the case. get_user_pages() will not call handle_mm_fault() in the case where the PTE seems to have the right permissions, regardless of the dirty and young state. It will eventually update those bits ... in the struct page, but not in the PTE. Additionally, it will not handle the lazy TLB flushing that can be required by some architectures in the fault case. Basically, gup is the wrong interface for the job. The patch provides a more appropriate one which boils down to just calling handle_mm_fault() since what we are trying to do is simulate a real page fault. The futex code currently attempts to write to user memory within a pagefault disabled section, and if that fails, tries to fix it up using get_user_pages(). This doesn't work on archs where the dirty and young bits are maintained by software, since they will gate access permission in the TLB, and will not be updated by gup(). In addition, there's an expectation on some archs that a spurious write fault triggers a local TLB flush, and that is missing from the picture as well. I decided that adding those "features" to gup() would be too much for this already too complex function, and instead added a new simpler fixup_user_fault() which is essentially a wrapper around handle_mm_fault() which the futex code can call. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix some nits Darren saw, fiddle comment layout] Signed-off-by:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Reported-by:
Shan Hai <haishan.bai@gmail.com> Tested-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Darren Hart <darren.hart@intel.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Konstantin Khlebnikov authored
radix_tree_tagged() is lockless - it reads from a member of the raid-tree root node. It does not require any protection. Signed-off-by:
Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
With zone_reclaim_mode enabled, it's possible for zones to be considered full in the zonelist_cache so they are skipped in the future. If the process enters direct reclaim, the ZLC may still consider zones to be full even after reclaiming pages. Reconsider all zones for allocation if direct reclaim returns successfully. Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
There have been a small number of complaints about significant stalls while copying large amounts of data on NUMA machines reported on a distribution bugzilla. In these cases, zone_reclaim was enabled by default due to large NUMA distances. In general, the complaints have not been about the workload itself unless it was a file server (in which case the recommendation was disable zone_reclaim). The stalls are mostly due to significant amounts of time spent scanning the preferred zone for pages to free. After a failure, it might fallback to another node (as zonelists are often node-ordered rather than zone-ordered) but stall quickly again when the next allocation attempt occurs. In bad cases, each page allocated results in a full scan of the preferred zone. Patch 1 checks the preferred zone for recent allocation failure which is particularly important if zone_reclaim has failed recently. This avoids rescanning the zone in the near future and instead falling back to another node. This may hurt node locality in some cases but a failure to zone_reclaim is more expensive than a remote access. Patch 2 clears the zlc information after direct reclaim. Otherwise, zone_reclaim can mark zones full, direct reclaim can reclaim enough pages but the zone is still not considered for allocation. This was tested on a 24-thread 2-node x86_64 machine. The tests were focused on large amounts of IO. All tests were bound to the CPUs on node-0 to avoid disturbances due to processes being scheduled on different nodes. The kernels tested are 3.0-rc6-vanilla Vanilla 3.0-rc6 zlcfirst Patch 1 applied zlcreconsider Patches 1+2 applied FS-Mark ./fs_mark -d /tmp/fsmark-10813 -D 100 -N 5000 -n 208 -L 35 -t 24 -S0 -s 524288 fsmark-3.0-rc6 3.0-rc6 3.0-rc6 vanilla zlcfirs zlcreconsider Files/s min 54.90 ( 0.00%) 49.80 (-10.24%) 49.10 (-11.81%) Files/s mean 100.11 ( 0.00%) 135.17 (25.94%) 146.93 (31.87%) Files/s stddev 57.51 ( 0.00%) 138.97 (58.62%) 158.69 (63.76%) Files/s max 361.10 ( 0.00%) 834.40 (56.72%) 802.40 (55.00%) Overhead min 76704.00 ( 0.00%) 76501.00 ( 0.27%) 77784.00 (-1.39%) Overhead mean 1485356.51 ( 0.00%) 1035797.83 (43.40%) 1594680.26 (-6.86%) Overhead stddev 1848122.53 ( 0.00%) 881489.88 (109.66%) 1772354.90 ( 4.27%) Overhead max 7989060.00 ( 0.00%) 3369118.00 (137.13%) 10135324.00 (-21.18%) MMTests Statistics: duration User/Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 501.49 493.91 499.93 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 2451.57 2257.48 2215.92 MMTests Statistics: vmstat Page Ins 46268 63840 66008 Page Outs 90821596 90671128 88043732 Swap Ins 0 0 0 Swap Outs 0 0 0 Direct pages scanned 13091697 8966863 8971790 Kswapd pages scanned 0 1830011 1831116 Kswapd pages reclaimed 0 1829068 1829930 Direct pages reclaimed 13037777 8956828 8648314 Kswapd efficiency 100% 99% 99% Kswapd velocity 0.000 810.643 826.346 Direct efficiency 99% 99% 96% Direct velocity 5340.128 3972.068 4048.788 Percentage direct scans 100% 83% 83% Page writes by reclaim 0 3 0 Slabs scanned 796672 720640 720256 Direct inode steals 7422667 7160012 7088638 Kswapd inode steals 0 1736840 2021238 Test completes far faster with a large increase in the number of files created per second. Standard deviation is high as a small number of iterations were much higher than the mean. The number of pages scanned by zone_reclaim is reduced and kswapd is used for more work. LARGE DD 3.0-rc6 3.0-rc6 3.0-rc6 vanilla zlcfirst zlcreconsider download tar 59 ( 0.00%) 59 ( 0.00%) 55 ( 7.27%) dd source files 527 ( 0.00%) 296 (78.04%) 320 (64.69%) delete source 36 ( 0.00%) 19 (89.47%) 20 (80.00%) MMTests Statistics: duration User/Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 125.03 118.98 122.01 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 624.56 375.02 398.06 MMTests Statistics: vmstat Page Ins 3594216f 439368 407032 Page Outs 23380832 23380488 23377444 Swap Ins 0 0 0 Swap Outs 0 436 287 Direct pages scanned 17482342 69315973 82864918 Kswapd pages scanned 0 519123 575425 Kswapd pages reclaimed 0 466501 522487 Direct pages reclaimed 5858054 2732949 2712547 Kswapd efficiency 100% 89% 90% Kswapd velocity 0.000 1384.254 1445.574 Direct efficiency 33% 3% 3% Direct velocity 27991.453 184832.737 208171.929 Percentage direct scans 100% 99% 99% Page writes by reclaim 0 5082 13917 Slabs scanned 17280 29952 35328 Direct inode steals 115257 1431122 332201 Kswapd inode steals 0 0 979532 This test downloads a large tarfile and copies it with dd a number of times - similar to the most recent bug report I've dealt with. Time to completion is reduced. The number of pages scanned directly is still disturbingly high with a low efficiency but this is likely due to the number of dirty pages encountered. The figures could probably be improved with more work around how kswapd is used and how dirty pages are handled but that is separate work and this result is significant on its own. Streaming Mapped Writer MMTests Statistics: duration User/Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 124.47 111.67 112.64 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 2138.14 1816.30 1867.56 MMTests Statistics: vmstat Page Ins 90760 89124 89516 Page Outs 121028340 120199524 120736696 Swap Ins 0 86 55 Swap Outs 0 0 0 Direct pages scanned 114989363 96461439 96330619 Kswapd pages scanned 56430948 56965763 57075875 Kswapd pages reclaimed 27743219 27752044 27766606 Direct pages reclaimed 49777 46884 36655 Kswapd efficiency 49% 48% 48% Kswapd velocity 26392.541 31363.631 30561.736 Direct efficiency 0% 0% 0% Direct velocity 53780.091 53108.759 51581.004 Percentage direct scans 67% 62% 62% Page writes by reclaim 385 122 1513 Slabs scanned 43008 39040 42112 Direct inode steals 0 10 8 Kswapd inode steals 733 534 477 This test just creates a large file mapping and writes to it linearly. Time to completion is again reduced. The gains are mostly down to two things. In many cases, there is less scanning as zone_reclaim simply gives up faster due to recent failures. The second reason is that memory is used more efficiently. Instead of scanning the preferred zone every time, the allocator falls back to another zone and uses it instead improving overall memory utilisation. This patch: initialise ZLC for first zone eligible for zone_reclaim. The zonelist cache (ZLC) is used among other things to record if zone_reclaim() failed for a particular zone recently. The intention is to avoid a high cost scanning extremely long zonelists or scanning within the zone uselessly. Currently the zonelist cache is setup only after the first zone has been considered and zone_reclaim() has been called. The objective was to avoid a costly setup but zone_reclaim is itself quite expensive. If it is failing regularly such as the first eligible zone having mostly mapped pages, the cost in scanning and allocation stalls is far higher than the ZLC initialisation step. This patch initialises ZLC before the first eligible zone calls zone_reclaim(). Once initialised, it is checked whether the zone failed zone_reclaim recently. If it has, the zone is skipped. As the first zone is now being checked, additional care has to be taken about zones marked full. A zone can be marked "full" because it should not have enough unmapped pages for zone_reclaim but this is excessive as direct reclaim or kswapd may succeed where zone_reclaim fails. Only mark zones "full" after zone_reclaim fails if it failed to reclaim enough pages after scanning. Signed-off-by: -
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki authored
Currently we are keeping faulted page locked throughout whole __do_fault call (except for page_mkwrite code path) after calling file system's fault code. If we do early COW, we allocate a new page which has to be charged for a memcg (mem_cgroup_newpage_charge). This function, however, might block for unbounded amount of time if memcg oom killer is disabled or fork-bomb is running because the only way out of the OOM situation is either an external event or OOM-situation fix. In the end we are keeping the faulted page locked and blocking other processes from faulting it in which is not good at all because we are basically punishing potentially an unrelated process for OOM condition in a different group (I have seen stuck system because of ld-2.11.1.so being locked). We can do test easily. % cgcreate -g memory:A % cgset -r memory.limit_in_bytes=64M A % cgset -r memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes=64M A % cd kernel_dir; cgexec -g memory:A make -j Then, the whole system will live-locked until you kill 'make -j' by hands (or push reboot...) This is because some important page in a a shared library are locked. Considering again, the new page is not necessary to be allocated with lock_page() held. And usual page allocation may dive into long memory reclaim loop with holding lock_page() and can cause very long latency. There are 3 ways. 1. do allocation/charge before lock_page() Pros. - simple and can handle page allocation in the same manner. This will reduce holding time of lock_page() in general. Cons. - we do page allocation even if ->fault() returns error. 2. do charge after unlock_page(). Even if charge fails, it's just OOM. Pros. - no impact to non-memcg path. Cons. - implemenation requires special cares of LRU and we need to modify page_add_new_anon_rmap()... 3. do unlock->charge->lock again method. Pros. - no impact to non-memcg path. Cons. - This may kill LOCK_PAGE_RETRY optimization. We need to release lock and get it again... This patch moves "charge" and memory allocation for COW page before lock_page(). Then, we can avoid scanning LRU with holding a lock on a page and latency under lock_page() will be reduced. Then, above livelock disappears. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix code layout] Signed-off-by:KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reported-by:
Lutz Vieweg <lvml@5t9.de> Original-idea-by:
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
2.6.36's 7e496299 ("tmpfs: make tmpfs scalable with percpu_counter for used blocks") to make tmpfs scalable with percpu_counter used inode->i_lock in place of sbinfo->stat_lock around i_blocks updates; but that was adverse to scalability, and unnecessary, since info->lock is already held there in the fast paths. Remove those uses of i_lock, and add info->lock in the three error paths where it's then needed across shmem_free_blocks(). It's not actually needed across shmem_unacct_blocks(), but they're so often paired that it looks wrong to split them apart. Signed-off-by:
Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
truncate_inode_pages_range()'s final loop has a nice pincer property, bringing start and end together, squeezing out the last pages. But the range handling missed out on that, just sliding up the range, perhaps letting pages come in behind it. Add one more test to give it the same pincer effect. Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
Make the pagevec_lookup loops in truncate_inode_pages_range(), invalidate_mapping_pages() and invalidate_inode_pages2_range() more consistent with each other. They were relying upon page->index of an unlocked page, but apologizing for it: accept it, embrace it, add comments and WARN_ONs, and simplify the index handling. invalidate_inode_pages2_range() had special handling for a wrapped page->index + 1 = 0 case; but MAX_LFS_FILESIZE doesn't let us anywhere near there, and a corrupt page->index in the radix_tree could cause more trouble than that would catch. Remove that wrapped handling. invalidate_inode_pages2_range() uses min() to limit the pagevec_lookup when near the end of the range: copy that into the other two, although it's less useful than you might think (it limits the use of the buffer, rather than the indices looked up). Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
Use consistent variable names in truncate_pagecache(), truncate_setsize(), vmtruncate() and vmtruncate_range(). unmap_mapping_range() and vmtruncate_range() have mismatched interfaces: don't change either, but make the vmtruncates more precise about what they expect unmap_mapping_range() to do. vmtruncate_range() is currently called only with page-aligned start and end+1: can handle unaligned start, but unaligned end+1 would hit BUG_ON in truncate_inode_pages_range() (lacks partial clearing of the end page). Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
Correct comment on truncate_inode_pages*() in linux/mm.h; and remove declaration of page_unuse(), it didn't exist even in 2.2.26 or 2.4.0! Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
The often-NULL data arg to read_cache_page() and read_mapping_page() functions is misdescribed as "destination for read data": no, it's the first arg to the filler function, often struct file * to ->readpage(). Satisfy checkpatch.pl on those filler prototypes, and tidy up the declarations in linux/pagemap.h. Signed-off-by:
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David S. Miller authored
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David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by:
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David S. Miller authored
Luckily there are still a few software PTE bits remaining and they even match up in both the sun4u and sun4v pte layouts. Signed-off-by:
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David S. Miller authored
Make use of the generic RCU page table freeing on Sparc64, doing so allows for race-free software page-table walkers like gup_fast(). Signed-off-by:
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David S. Miller authored
With the recent mmu_gather changes that included generic RCU freeing of page-tables, it is now quite straightforward to implement gup_fast() on sparc64. This patch: Remove the page table quicklists. They are pointless and make it harder to use RCU page table freeing and share code with other architectures. BTW, this is the second time this has happened, see commit 3c936465 ("[SPARC64]: Kill pgtable quicklists and use SLAB.") Signed-off-by:
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Dmitry Fink authored
- shmem pages are not immediately available, but they are not potentially available either, even if we swap them out, they will just relocate from memory into swap, total amount of immediate and potentially available memory is not going to be affected, so we shouldn't count them as potentially free in the first place. - nr_free_pages() is not an expensive operation anymore, there is no need to split the decision making in two halves and repeat code. Signed-off-by:
Dmitry Fink <dmitry.fink@palm.com> Reviewed-by:
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
RED_INACTIVE is a slab thing, and reusing it for memblock was inappropriate, because memblock is dealing with phys_addr_t's which have a Kconfigurable sizeof(). Create a new poison type for this application. Fixes the sparse warning warning: cast truncates bits from constant value (9f911029d74e35b becomes 9d74e35b) Reported-by:H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@visionengravers.com> Tested-by:
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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David Rientjes authored
/proc/pid/oom_adj is deprecated and scheduled for removal in August 2012 according to Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt. This patch makes the warning more verbose by making it appear as a more serious problem (the presence of a stack trace and being multiline should attract more attention) so that applications still using the old interface can get fixed. Very popular users of the old interface have been converted since the oom killer rewrite has been introduced. udevd switched to the /proc/pid/oom_score_adj interface for v162, kde switched in 4.6.1, and opensshd switched in 5.7p1. At the start of 2012, this should be changed into a WARN() to emit all such incidents and then finally remove the tunable in August 2012 as scheduled. Signed-off-by:
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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David Rientjes authored
The badness() function in the oom killer was renamed to oom_badness() in a63d83f4 ("oom: badness heuristic rewrite") since it is a globally exported function for clarity. The prototype for the old function still existed in linux/oom.h, so remove it. There are no existing users. Also fixes documentation and comment references to badness() and adjusts them accordingly. Signed-off-by:
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
ZAP_BLOCK_SIZE became unused in the preemptible-mmu_gather work ("mm: Remove i_mmap_lock lockbreak"). So zap it. Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: -
Chris Forbes authored
Fix coding style issues flagged by checkpatch.pl Signed-off-by:
Chris Forbes <chrisf@ijw.co.nz> Acked-by:
Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Signed-off-by:
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Chris Wright authored
The lock is released first thing in all three branches. Simplify this by unconditionally releasing lock and remove else clause which was only there to be sure lock was released. Signed-off-by:
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Reviewed-by:
Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Daniel Kiper authored
Commit a539f353 ("mm: add SECTION_ALIGN_UP() and SECTION_ALIGN_DOWN() macro") introduced the SECTION_ALIGN_UP() and SECTION_ALIGN_DOWN() macros. Use those macros to increase code readability. Signed-off-by:
Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl> Acked-by:
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WANG Cong authored
In commit a2c8990a ("memsw: remove noswapaccount kernel parameter"), Michal forgot to remove some left pieces of noswapaccount in the tree, this patch removes them all. Signed-off-by:
WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Acked-by:
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
Commit bae9c19b ("thp: split_huge_page_mm/vma") changed locking behavior of walk_page_range(). Thus this patch changes the comment too. Signed-off-by:
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
Originally, walk_hugetlb_range() didn't require a caller take any lock. But commit d33b9f45 ("mm: hugetlb: fix hugepage memory leak in walk_page_range") changed its rule. Because it added find_vma() call in walk_hugetlb_range(). Any locking-rule change commit should write a doc too. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: clarify comment] Signed-off-by:
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
Currently, walk_page_range() calls find_vma() every page table for walk iteration. but it's completely unnecessary if walk->hugetlb_entry is unused. And we don't have to assume find_vma() is a lightweight operation. So this patch checks the walk->hugetlb_entry and avoids the find_vma() call if possible. This patch also makes some cleanups. 1) remove ugly uninitialized_var() and 2) #ifdef in function body. Signed-off-by:
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
The doc of find_vma() says, /* Look up the first VMA which satisfies addr < vm_end, NULL if none. */ struct vm_area_struct *find_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr) { (snip) Thus, caller should confirm whether the returned vma matches a desired one. Signed-off-by: -
KOSAKI Motohiro authored
Document some swap token aging design decisions. Signed-off-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
global_faults and last_aging are only used in grab_swap_token(). Move them into grab_swap_token(). Signed-off-by:
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
http://www.cs.wm.edu/~sjiang/token.pdf is now dead. Replace it with an alive alternative. Signed-off-by:
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Daniel Kiper authored
Memory hotplug support for Xen balloon driver. It should be mentioned that hotplugged memory is not onlined automatically. It should be onlined by user through standard sysfs interface. Memory could be hotplugged in following steps: 1) dom0: xl mem-max <domU> <maxmem> where <maxmem> is >= requested memory size, 2) dom0: xl mem-set <domU> <memory> where <memory> is requested memory size; alternatively memory could be added by writing proper value to /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/target or /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/target_kb on dumU, 3) domU: for i in /sys/devices/system/memory/memory*/state; do \ [ "`cat "$i"`" = offline ] && echo online > "$i"; done Memory could be onlined automatically on domU by adding following line to udev rules: SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/bin/sh -c '[ -f /sys$devpath/state ] && echo online > /sys$devpath/state'" In that case step 3 should be omitted. Signed-off-by:Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by:
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Daniel Kiper authored
This patch contains online_page_callback and apropriate functions for registering/unregistering online page callbacks. It allows to do some machine specific tasks during online page stage which is required to implement memory hotplug in virtual machines. Currently this patch is required by latest memory hotplug support for Xen balloon driver patch which will be posted soon. Additionally, originial online_page() function was splited into following functions doing "atomic" operations: - __online_page_set_limits() - set new limits for memory management code, - __online_page_increment_counters() - increment totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages, - __online_page_free() - free page to allocator. It was done to: - not duplicate existing code, - ease hotplug code devolpment by usage of well defined interface, - avoid stupid bugs which are unavoidable when the same code (by design) is developed in many places. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use explicit indirect-call syntax] Signed-off-by: -
Axel Lin authored
Since commit a19a6ee6 "backlight: Allow properties to be passed at registration" and commit bb7ca747 "backlight: add backlight type", we can set backlight type and max_brightness before backlights are registered. Some newly added drivers did not set it properly, let's fix it. Signed-off-by:
Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Cc: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com> Cc: Donghwa Lee <dh09.lee@samsung.com> Cc: InKi Dae <inki.dae@samsung.com> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by:
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