- 17 Oct, 2007 40 commits
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Turns out that compiler writers are a bit more aggressive about optimizing than one might expect. This patch prevents a number of such optimizations from messing up rcu_deference(). This is not merely a theoretical problem, as evidenced by the rmb() in mce_log(). Signed-off-by:
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by:
Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
list_del() hardly can fail, so checking for return value is pointless (and current code always return 0). Nobody really cared that return value anyway. Signed-off-by:
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru> Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
Switch single-linked binfmt formats list to usual list_head's. This leads to one-liners in register_binfmt() and unregister_binfmt(). The downside is one pointer more in struct linux_binfmt. This is not a problem, since the set of registered binfmts on typical box is very small -- (ELF + something distro enabled for you). Test-booted, played with executable .txt files, modprobe/rmmod binfmt_misc. Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
- remove the following no longer used functions: - bitmap.c: reiserfs_claim_blocks_to_be_allocated() - bitmap.c: reiserfs_release_claimed_blocks() - bitmap.c: reiserfs_can_fit_pages() - make the following functions static: - inode.c: restart_transaction() - journal.c: reiserfs_async_progress_wait() Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by:
Vladimir V. Saveliev <vs@namesys.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
This is a writeback-internal marker but we're propagating it all the way back to userspace!. Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
zone->lock is quite an "inner" lock and mostly constrained to page alloc as well, so like slab locks, it probably isn't something that is critically important to document here. However unlike slab locks, zone lock could be used more widely in future, and page_alloc.c might possibly have more business to do tricky things with pagecache than does slab. So... I don't think it hurts to document it. Signed-off-by:
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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David Rientjes authored
Introduces new zone flag interface for testing and setting flags: int zone_test_and_set_flag(struct zone *zone, zone_flags_t flag) Instead of setting and clearing ZONE_RECLAIM_LOCKED each time shrink_zone() is called, this flag is test and set before starting zone reclaim. Zone reclaim starts in __alloc_pages() when a zone's watermark fails and the system is in zone_reclaim_mode. If it's already in reclaim, there's no need to start again so it is simply considered full for that allocation attempt. There is a change of behavior with regard to concurrent zone shrinking. It is now possible for try_to_free_pages() or kswapd to already be shrinking a particular zone when __alloc_pages() starts zone reclaim. In this case, it is possible for two concurrent threads to invoke shrink_zone() for a single zone. This change forbids a zone to be in zone reclaim twice, which was always the behavior, but allows for concurrent try_to_free_pages() or kswapd shrinking when starting zone reclaim. Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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David Rientjes authored
There's no reason to sleep in try_set_zone_oom() or clear_zonelist_oom() if the lock can't be acquired; it will be available soon enough once the zonelist scanning is done. All other threads waiting for the OOM killer are also contingent on the exiting task being able to acquire the lock in clear_zonelist_oom() so it doesn't make sense to put it to sleep. Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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David Rientjes authored
Preprocess include/linux/oom.h before exporting it to userspace. Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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David Rientjes authored
It's not necessary to include all of linux/sched.h in linux/oom.h. Instead, simply include prototypes for the relevant structs and include linux/types.h for gfp_t. Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by:
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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David Rientjes authored
Since no task descriptor's 'cpuset' field is dereferenced in the execution of the OOM killer anymore, it is no longer necessary to take callback_mutex. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: restore cpuset_lock for other patches] Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Acked-by:
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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David Rientjes authored
Instead of testing for overlap in the memory nodes of the the nearest exclusive ancestor of both current and the candidate task, it is better to simply test for intersection between the task's mems_allowed in their task descriptors. This does not require taking callback_mutex since it is only used as a hint in the badness scoring. Tasks that do not have an intersection in their mems_allowed with the current task are not explicitly restricted from being OOM killed because it is quite possible that the candidate task has allocated memory there before and has since changed its mems_allowed. Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Acked-by:
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David Rientjes authored
Suppresses the extraneous stack and memory dump when a parallel OOM killing has been found. There's no need to fill the ring buffer with this information if its already been printed and the condition that triggered the previous OOM killer has not yet been alleviated. Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Acked-by:
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David Rientjes authored
Adds a new sysctl, 'oom_kill_allocating_task', which will automatically kill the OOM-triggering task instead of scanning through the tasklist to find a memory-hogging target. This is helpful for systems with an insanely large number of tasks where scanning the tasklist significantly degrades performance. Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Acked-by:
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David Rientjes authored
A final allocation attempt with a very high watermark needs to be attempted before invoking out_of_memory(). OOM killer serialization needs to occur before this final attempt, otherwise tasks attempting to OOM-lock all zones in its zonelist may spin and acquire the lock unnecessarily after the OOM condition has already been alleviated. If the final allocation does succeed, the zonelist is simply OOM-unlocked and __alloc_pages() returns the page. Otherwise, the OOM killer is invoked. If the task cannot acquire OOM-locks on all zones in its zonelist, it is put to sleep and the allocation is retried when it gets rescheduled. One of its zones is already marked as being in the OOM killer so it'll hopefully be getting some free memory soon, at least enough to satisfy a high watermark allocation attempt. This prevents needlessly killing a task when the OOM condition would have already been alleviated if it had simply been given enough time. Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Acked-by:
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David Rientjes authored
OOM killer synchronization should be done with zone granularity so that memory policy and cpuset allocations may have their corresponding zones locked and allow parallel kills for other OOM conditions that may exist elsewhere in the system. DMA allocations can be targeted at the zone level, which would not be possible if locking was done in nodes or globally. Synchronization shall be done with a variation of "trylocks." The goal is to put the current task to sleep and restart the failed allocation attempt later if the trylock fails. Otherwise, the OOM killer is invoked. Each zone in the zonelist that __alloc_pages() was called with is checked for the newly-introduced ZONE_OOM_LOCKED flag. If any zone has this flag present, the "trylock" to serialize the OOM killer fails and returns zero. Otherwise, all the zones have ZONE_OOM_LOCKED set and the try_set_zone_oom() function returns non-zero. Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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David Rientjes authored
Convert the int all_unreclaimable member of struct zone to unsigned long flags. This can now be used to specify several different zone flags such as all_unreclaimable and reclaim_in_progress, which can now be removed and converted to a per-zone flag. Flags are set and cleared as follows: zone_set_flag(struct zone *zone, zone_flags_t flag) zone_clear_flag(struct zone *zone, zone_flags_t flag) Defines the first zone flags, ZONE_ALL_UNRECLAIMABLE and ZONE_RECLAIM_LOCKED, which have the same semantics as the old zone->all_unreclaimable and zone->reclaim_in_progress, respectively. Also converts all current users that set or clear either flag to use the new interface. Helper functions are defined to test the flags: int zone_is_all_unreclaimable(const struct zone *zone) int zone_is_reclaim_locked(const struct zone *zone) All flag operators are of the atomic variety because there are currently readers that are implemented that do not take zone->lock. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add needed include] Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Acked-by:
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David Rientjes authored
The OOM killer's CONSTRAINT definitions are really more appropriate in an enum, so define them in include/linux/oom.h. Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Acked-by:
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David Rientjes authored
Move the OOM killer's extern function prototypes to include/linux/oom.h and include it where necessary. [clg@fr.ibm.com: build fix] Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de> Acked-by:
Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Lameter authored
Slab constructors currently have a flags parameter that is never used. And the order of the arguments is opposite to other slab functions. The object pointer is placed before the kmem_cache pointer. Convert ctor(void *object, struct kmem_cache *s, unsigned long flags) to ctor(struct kmem_cache *s, void *object) throughout the kernel [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coupla fixes] Signed-off-by: -
Christoph Lameter authored
Move irq handling out of new slab into __slab_alloc. That is useful for Mathieu's cmpxchg_local patchset and also allows us to remove the crude local_irq_off in early_kmem_cache_alloc(). Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Based on ideas of Andrew: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=102912915020543&w=2 Scale the bdi dirty limit inversly with the tasks dirty rate. This makes heavy writers have a lower dirty limit than the occasional writer. Andrea proposed something similar: http://lwn.net/Articles/152277/ The main disadvantage to his patch is that he uses an unrelated quantity to measure time, which leaves him with a workload dependant tunable. Other than that the two approaches appear quite similar. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning] Signed-off-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Scale writeback cache per backing device, proportional to its writeout speed. By decoupling the BDI dirty thresholds a number of problems we currently have will go away, namely: - mutual interference starvation (for any number of BDIs); - deadlocks with stacked BDIs (loop, FUSE and local NFS mounts). It might be that all dirty pages are for a single BDI while other BDIs are idling. By giving each BDI a 'fair' share of the dirty limit, each one can have dirty pages outstanding and make progress. A global threshold also creates a deadlock for stacked BDIs; when A writes to B, and A generates enough dirty pages to get throttled, B will never start writeback until the dirty pages go away. Again, by giving each BDI its own 'independent' dirty limit, this problem is avoided. So the problem is to determine how to distribute the total dirty limit across the BDIs fairly and efficiently. A DBI that has a large dirty limit but does not have any dirty pages outstanding is a waste. What is done is to keep a floating proportion between the DBIs based on writeback completions. This way faster/more active devices get a larger share than slower/idle devices. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings] [hugh@veritas.com: Fix occasional hang when a task couldn't get out of balance_dirty_pages] Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Given a set of objects, floating proportions aims to efficiently give the proportional 'activity' of a single item as compared to the whole set. Where 'activity' is a measure of a temporal property of the items. It is efficient in that it need not inspect any other items of the set in order to provide the answer. It is not even needed to know how many other items there are. It has one parameter, and that is the period of 'time' over which the 'activity' is measured. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Count per BDI writeback pages. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Count per BDI reclaimable pages; nr_reclaimable = nr_dirty + nr_unstable. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Provide scalable per backing_dev_info statistics counters. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
provide BDI constructor/destructor hooks [akpm@linux-foundation.org: compile fix] Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
provide a way to tell lockdep about percpu_counters that are supposed to be used from irq safe contexts. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
alloc_percpu can fail, propagate that error. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Provide an accurate version of percpu_counter_read. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
s/percpu_counter_sum/&_positive/ Because its consitent with percpu_counter_read* Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Provide a method to set a percpu counter to a specified value. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
percpu_counter is a s64 counter, make _add consitent. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Because the current batch setup has an quadric error bound on the counter, allow for an alternative setup. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Hugh spotted that some code does: percpu_counter_add(&counter, -unsignedlong) which, when the amount argument is of type s32, sort-of works thanks to two's-complement. However when we'd change the type to s64 this breaks on 32bit machines, because the promotion rules zero extend the unsigned number. Provide percpu_counter_sub() to hide the s64 cast. That is: percpu_counter_sub(&counter, foo) is equal to: percpu_counter_add(&counter, -(s64)foo); Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
s/percpu_counter_mod/percpu_counter_add/ Because its a better name, _mod implies modulo. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
These patches aim to improve balance_dirty_pages() and directly address three issues: 1) inter device starvation 2) stacked device deadlocks 3) inter process starvation 1 and 2 are a direct result from removing the global dirty limit and using per device dirty limits. By giving each device its own dirty limit is will no longer starve another device, and the cyclic dependancy on the dirty limit is broken. In order to efficiently distribute the dirty limit across the independant devices a floating proportion is used, this will allocate a share of the total limit proportional to the device's recent activity. 3 is done by also scaling the dirty limit proportional to the current task's recent dirty rate. This patch: nfs: remove congestion_end(). It's redundant, clear_bdi_congested() already wakes the waiters. Signed-off-by:
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Mark Nelson authored
Update dump_task_altivec() (which has so far never been put to use) so that it dumps the Altivec/VMX registers (VR[0] - VR[31], VSCR and VRSAVE) in the same format as the ptrace get_vrregs(), and add the appropriate glue typedef and #defines to make it work. A new note type of NT_PPC_VMX was chosen to be 0x100 (arbitrarily) because it allows the low range values to be used for more generic purposes and 0x100 seems an adequate starting point for PowerPC extensions. Signed-off-by:
Mark Nelson <markn@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Mark Nelson authored
Replace NT_PRXFPREG with ELF_CORE_XFPREG_TYPE in the coredump code which allows for more flexibility in the note type for the state of 'extended floating point' implementations in coredumps. New note types can now be added with an appropriate #define. This does #define ELF_CORE_XFPREG_TYPE to be NT_PRXFPREG in all current users so there's are no change in behaviour. This will let us use different note types on powerpc for the Altivec/VMX state that some PowerPC cpus have (G4, PPC970, POWER6) and for the SPE (signal processing extension) state that some embedded PowerPC cpus from Freescale have. Signed-off-by:
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