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When DEBUG_LL is not set, we don't want __error_a re-entering
__lookup_machine_type - we want it to go to the error function. This
used to be the case before we reorganized the layout for hotplug cpu,
as we used to fall through to __error. With the changed layout, we
need an explicit branch here instead.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
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Drive strength for PXA910 is a 2 bit value but because of the mapping in
plat-pxa/mfp.h needs to be shifted up one bit to handle real
location in mfp registers. (MMP2 and PXA910 drive strength start
at bit 11 while PXA168 starts at bit 10).
Values 0, 1, 2, and 3 effectively need to be
0, 2, 4, and 6 to fit into register. 8 does not work.
Signed-off-by: Philip Rakity <prakity@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
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Drive strength for MMP2 is a 2 bit value but because of the mapping in
plat-pxa/mfp.h needs to be shifted up one bit to handle real
location in mfp registers. (MMP2 and PXA910 drive strength start
at bit 11 while PXA168 starts at bit 10).
Values 0, 1, 2, and 3 effectively need to be
0, 2, 4, and 6 to fit into register. 8 does not work.
Signed-off-by: Philip Rakity <prakity@marvell.com>
Tested-by: John Watlington <wad@laptop.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
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Rabin Vincent reports:
| On SMP, this BUG() in save_stack_trace_tsk() can be easily triggered
| from user space by reading /proc/$PID/stack, where $PID is any pid but
| the current process:
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| if (tsk != current) {
| #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
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| * What guarantees do we have here that 'tsk'
| * is not running on another CPU?
| */
| BUG();
| #else
Fix this by replacing the BUG() with an entry to terminate the stack
trace, returning an empty trace - I'd rather not expose the dwarf
unwinder to a volatile stack of a running thread.
Reported-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Tested-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Build errors similar this appeared in todays kautobuild for the above
targets:
In file included from arch/arm/include/asm/pgtable.h:461,
from arch/arm/mach-pxa/generic.c:26:
include/asm-generic/pgtable.h: In function 'ptep_test_and_clear_young':
include/asm-generic/pgtable.h:29: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
None of the .c files including asm/pgtable.h with this error is using
this header, so simply remove the include.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Fixes this build error:
ERROR: "arbitrary_virt_to_machine" [drivers/xen/xen-gntdev.ko] undefined!
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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devel-stable
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Do not use memory bank info to request the "system ram" resources as
they do not track holes created by memblock_remove inside
machine's reserve callback. If the removed memory is passed as
platform_device's ioresource, then drivers that call
request_mem_region would fail due to a conflict with the incorrectly
configured system ram resource.
Instead, iterate through the regions of memblock.memory and add
those as "System RAM" resources.
Signed-off-by: Dima Zavin <dima@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6
* 'omap-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6: (27 commits)
omap4: Fix ULPI PHY init for ES1.0 SDP
omap3: beaglexm: fix power on of DVI
omap3: igep3: Add omap_reserve functionality
omap3: beaglexm: fix DVI reset GPIO
omap3: beaglexm: fix EHCI power up GPIO dir
omap3: igep2: Add keypad support
omap3: igep3: Fix IGEP module second MMC channel power supply
omap3: igep3: Add USB EHCI support for IGEP module
omap3: clocks: Fix build error 'CK_3430ES2' undeclared here
arm: omap4: pandaboard: turn on PHY reference clock at init
omap2plus: prm: Trvial build break fix for undefined reference to 'omap2_prm_read_mod_reg'
omap2plus: voltage: Trivial linking fix for 'EINVAL' undeclared
omap2plus: voltage: Trivial linking fix 'undefined reference'
omap2plus: voltage: Trivial warning fix 'no return statement'
omap2plus: clockdomain: Trivial fix for build break because of clktrctrl_mask
arm: omap: gpio: don't access irq_desc array directly
omap2+: pm_bus: make functions used as pointers as static
OMAP: GPIO: fix _set_gpio_triggering() for OMAP2+
OMAP2+: TWL: include pm header for init protos
OMAP2+: TWL: make conversion routines static
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Fix up conflicts in arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-omap3beagle.c ("DVI reset
GPIO" vs "use generic DPI panel driver")
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] fix ia64 build failure in pmdp_get_and_clear
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OLPC uses select for OLPC_OPENFIRMWARE, which means OLPC has to
enforce the dependencies for OLPC_OPENFIRMWARE. Make sure it does so.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
Cc: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
LKML-Reference: <20100923162846.D8D409D401B@zog.reactivated.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> 2.6.37
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Offlining the secondary CPU causes the timer irq affinity to be set to
CPU 0. When the secondary CPU is back online again, the wrong irq
affinity will be used.
This patch ensures secondary per CPU timer always has the correct
IRQ affinity when enabled.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1294963604-18111-1-git-send-email-jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> 2.6.37
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Implement __pmd macro for ia64 too.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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The GS_IA18_S (GMS) is a carrier board from GeoSIG Ltd used with the
Stamp9G20 SoM from Taskit company.
It operate as an internet accelerometer.
Signed-off-by: Igor Plyatov <plyatov@gmail.com>
[nicolas.ferre@atmel.com: rm Kconfig, whitespace fixes, change machine name]
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
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Signed-off-by: Sergio Tanzilli <tanzilli@acmesystems.it>
[nicolas.ferre@atmel.com: whitespace fixes, change machine name]
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
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Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
PCI/PM: Report wakeup events before resuming devices
PCI/PM: Use pm_wakeup_event() directly for reporting wakeup events
PCI: sysfs: Update ROM to include default owner write access
x86/PCI: make Broadcom CNB20LE driver EMBEDDED and EXPERIMENTAL
x86/PCI: don't use native Broadcom CNB20LE driver when ACPI is available
PCI/ACPI: Request _OSC control once for each root bridge (v3)
PCI: enable pci=bfsort by default on future Dell systems
PCI/PCIe: Clear Root PME Status bits early during system resume
PCI: pci-stub: ignore zero-length id parameters
x86/PCI: irq and pci_ids patch for Intel Patsburg
PCI: Skip id checking if no id is passed
PCI: fix __pci_device_probe kernel-doc warning
PCI: make pci_restore_state return void
PCI: Disable ASPM if BIOS asks us to
PCI: Add mask bit definition for MSI-X table
PCI: MSI: Move MSI-X entry definition to pci_regs.h
Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/net/{skge.c,sky2.c} that had in the
meantime been converted to not use legacy PCI power management, and thus
no longer use pci_restore_state() at all (and that caused trivial
conflicts with the "make pci_restore_state return void" patch)
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Konrad Wilk reported that the new delayed calibration crashes with a
divide by zero on Xen. The reason is that Xen sets the pmtimer
address, but reading from it returns 0xffffff. That results in the
ref_start and ref_stop value being the same, so the delta is zero
which causes the divide by zero later in the calculation.
The conditional (!hpet && !ref_start && !ref_stop) which sanity checks
the calibration reference values doesn't really make sense. If the
refs are null, but hpet is on, we still want to break out.
The div by zero would be possible to trigger by chance if both reads
from the hardware provided the exact same value (due to hardware
wrapping).
So checking if both the ref values are the same should handle if we
don't have hardware (both null) or if they are the same value (either by
invalid hardware, or by chance), avoiding the div by zero issue.
[ tglx: Applied the same fix to native_calibrate_tsc() where this
check was copied from ]
Reported-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1295024788-15619-1-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sameo/mfd-2.6
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sameo/mfd-2.6: (59 commits)
mfd: ab8500-core chip version cut 2.0 support
mfd: Flag WM831x /IRQ as a wake source
mfd: Convert WM831x away from legacy I2C PM operations
regulator: Support MAX8998/LP3974 DVS-GPIO
mfd: Support LP3974 RTC
i2c: Convert SCx200 driver from using raw PCI to platform device
x86: OLPC: convert olpc-xo1 driver from pci device to platform device
mfd: MAX8998/LP3974 hibernation support
mfd/ab8500: remove spi support
mfd: Remove ARCH_U8500 dependency from AB8500
misc: Make AB8500_PWM driver depend on U8500 due to PWM breakage
mfd: Add __devexit annotation for vx855_remove
mfd: twl6030 irq_data conversion.
gpio: Fix cs5535 printk warnings
misc: Fix cs5535 printk warnings
mfd: Convert Wolfson MFD drivers to use irq_data accessor function
mfd: Convert TWL4030 to new irq_ APIs
mfd: Convert tps6586x driver to new irq_ API
mfd: Convert tc6393xb driver to new irq_ APIs
mfd: Convert t7166xb driver to new irq_ API
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This functionality is known to be incomplete, so discourage its use in
general-purpose kernels.
The only reason to use this driver is to support PCI hotplug on CNB20LE-
based machines that don't have ACPI, and there are very few such
systems.
Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=665109
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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The broadcom_bus.c quirk was written (without benefit of documentation)
to support PCI hotplug on an old system that doesn't have ACPI. As
such, we should only use it when the system doesn't have ACPI.
If the system does have ACPI and we need the host bridge description, we
should get it from the ACPI _CRS method. On machines older than 2008,
we currently ignore _CRS, but that doesn't mean we should use
broadcom_bus.c. It means we should either (a) do what we've done in the
past and assume everything in the PCI gap is routed to bus 0 (so hotplug
may not work), or (b) arrange to use _CRS. This patch does (a).
Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=665109
Acked-by: Ira W. Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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This patch enables pci=bfsort by default on future Dell systems.
It reads SMBIOS type 0xB1 vendor specific record and sets pci=bfsort
accordingly.
Offset Name Length Value Description
04 Flags0 Word Varies Bits 9-10
- 10:9 = 00 Unknown
- 10:9 = 01 Breadth First
- 10:9 = 10 Depth First
- 10:9 = 11 Reserved
1. Any time pci=bfsort has to be enabled on a system, we need to add the
model number of the system to the white list. With this patch, that
is not required.
2. Typically, model number has to be added to the white list when the
system is under development. With this change, that is not required.
Signed-off-by: Jordan Hargrave <jordan_hargrave@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Narendra K <narendra_k@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
[S390] MAINTAINERS: Update zcrypt driver entry
[S390] Randomize PIEs
[S390] Randomise the brk region
[S390] Add is_32bit_task() helper function
[S390] Randomize lower bits of stack address
[S390] Randomize mmap start address
[S390] Rearrange mmap.c
[S390] Enable flexible mmap layout for 64 bit processes
[S390] vdso: dont map at mmap_base
[S390] reduce miminum gap between stack and mmap_base
[S390] mmap: consider stack address randomization
[S390] Update default configuration
[S390] cio: path_event overindication after resume
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Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
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Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pma@sysgo.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
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devel-stable
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e3d9c625 (ARM: CPU hotplug: fix hard-coded control register constants)
changed the wrong constants in the hotplug assembly code. Fix this.
Reported-by: viresh kumar <viresh.kumar@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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The cs5535-mfd driver now takes care of the PCI BAR handling; this
means the olpc-xo1 driver shouldn't be touching the PCI device at all.
This patch uses both cs5535-acpi and cs5535-pms platform devices rather
than a single platform device because the cs5535-mfd driver may be used
by other CS5535 platform-specific drivers; OLPC doesn't get to dictate
that ACPI and PMS will always be used together.
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
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Since commit
6d803ba (ARM: 6483/1: arm & sh: factorised duplicated clkdev.c)
platforms need to select CLKDEV_LOOKUP instead of COMMON_CLKDEV and need
to include <linux/clkdev.h>.
Cc: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@freescale.com>
Cc: Lothar Waßmann <LW@KARO-electronics.de>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
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This depends on !XIP_KERNEL and not !XIP.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Commit d30e45e (ARM: pgtable: switch order of Linux vs hardware page tables)
introduced a pre-increment addressing offset which is out of range for
Thumb-2. Thumb-2 only permits offsets <256. So split the intruction in
two for Thumb-2.
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (59 commits)
ACPI / PM: Fix build problems for !CONFIG_ACPI related to NVS rework
ACPI: fix resource check message
ACPI / Battery: Update information on info notification and resume
ACPI: Drop device flag wake_capable
ACPI: Always check if _PRW is present before trying to evaluate it
ACPI / PM: Check status of power resources under mutexes
ACPI / PM: Rename acpi_power_off_device()
ACPI / PM: Drop acpi_power_nocheck
ACPI / PM: Drop acpi_bus_get_power()
Platform / x86: Make fujitsu_laptop use acpi_bus_update_power()
ACPI / Fan: Rework the handling of power resources
ACPI / PM: Register power resource devices as soon as they are needed
ACPI / PM: Register acpi_power_driver early
ACPI / PM: Add function for updating device power state consistently
ACPI / PM: Add function for device power state initialization
ACPI / PM: Introduce __acpi_bus_get_power()
ACPI / PM: Introduce function for refcounting device power resources
ACPI / PM: Add functions for manipulating lists of power resources
ACPI / PM: Prevent acpi_power_get_inferred_state() from making changes
ACPICA: Update version to 20101209
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6
* 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6:
cpuidle/x86/perf: fix power:cpu_idle double end events and throw cpu_idle events from the cpuidle layer
intel_idle: open broadcast clock event
cpuidle: CPUIDLE_FLAG_CHECK_BM is omap3_idle specific
cpuidle: CPUIDLE_FLAG_TLB_FLUSHED is specific to intel_idle
cpuidle: delete unused CPUIDLE_FLAG_SHALLOW, BALANCED, DEEP definitions
SH, cpuidle: delete use of NOP CPUIDLE_FLAGS_SHALLOW
cpuidle: delete NOP CPUIDLE_FLAG_POLL
ACPI: processor_idle: delete use of NOP CPUIDLE_FLAGs
cpuidle: Rename X86 specific idle poll state[0] from C0 to POLL
ACPI, intel_idle: Cleanup idle= internal variables
cpuidle: Make cpuidle_enable_device() call poll_idle_init()
intel_idle: update Sandy Bridge core C-state residency targets
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen
* 'stable/gntdev' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
xen/p2m: Fix module linking error.
xen p2m: clear the old pte when adding a page to m2p_override
xen gntdev: use gnttab_map_refs and gnttab_unmap_refs
xen: introduce gnttab_map_refs and gnttab_unmap_refs
xen p2m: transparently change the p2m mappings in the m2p override
xen/gntdev: Fix circular locking dependency
xen/gntdev: stop using "token" argument
xen: gntdev: move use of GNTMAP_contains_pte next to the map_op
xen: add m2p override mechanism
xen: move p2m handling to separate file
xen/gntdev: add VM_PFNMAP to vma
xen/gntdev: allow usermode to map granted pages
xen: define gnttab_set_map_op/unmap_op
Fix up trivial conflict in drivers/xen/Kconfig
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Define MADV_NOHUGEPAGE.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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For GRU and EPT, we need gup-fast to set referenced bit too (this is why
it's correct to return 0 when shadow_access_mask is zero, it requires
gup-fast to set the referenced bit). qemu-kvm access already sets the
young bit in the pte if it isn't zero-copy, if it's zero copy or a shadow
paging EPT minor fault we relay on gup-fast to signal the page is in
use...
We also need to check the young bits on the secondary pagetables for NPT
and not nested shadow mmu as the data may never get accessed again by the
primary pte.
Without this closer accuracy, we'd have to remove the heuristic that
avoids collapsing hugepages in hugepage virtual regions that have not even
a single subpage in use.
->test_young is full backwards compatible with GRU and other usages that
don't have young bits in pagetables set by the hardware and that should
nuke the secondary mmu mappings when ->clear_flush_young runs just like
EPT does.
Removing the heuristic that checks the young bit in
khugepaged/collapse_huge_page completely isn't so bad either probably but
I thought it was worth it and this makes it reliable.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Archs implementing Transparent Hugepage Support must implement a function
called has_transparent_hugepage to be sure the virtual or physical CPU
supports Transparent Hugepages.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add pmd_modify() for use with mprotect() on huge pmds.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add support for transparent hugepages to x86 32bit.
Share the same VM_ bitflag for VM_MAPPED_COPY. mm/nommu.c will never
support transparent hugepages.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Lately I've been working to make KVM use hugepages transparently without
the usual restrictions of hugetlbfs. Some of the restrictions I'd like to
see removed:
1) hugepages have to be swappable or the guest physical memory remains
locked in RAM and can't be paged out to swap
2) if a hugepage allocation fails, regular pages should be allocated
instead and mixed in the same vma without any failure and without
userland noticing
3) if some task quits and more hugepages become available in the
buddy, guest physical memory backed by regular pages should be
relocated on hugepages automatically in regions under
madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) (ideally event driven by waking up the
kernel deamon if the order=HPAGE_PMD_SHIFT-PAGE_SHIFT list becomes
not null)
4) avoidance of reservation and maximization of use of hugepages whenever
possible. Reservation (needed to avoid runtime fatal faliures) may be ok for
1 machine with 1 database with 1 database cache with 1 database cache size
known at boot time. It's definitely not feasible with a virtualization
hypervisor usage like RHEV-H that runs an unknown number of virtual machines
with an unknown size of each virtual machine with an unknown amount of
pagecache that could be potentially useful in the host for guest not using
O_DIRECT (aka cache=off).
hugepages in the virtualization hypervisor (and also in the guest!) are
much more important than in a regular host not using virtualization,
becasue with NPT/EPT they decrease the tlb-miss cacheline accesses from 24
to 19 in case only the hypervisor uses transparent hugepages, and they
decrease the tlb-miss cacheline accesses from 19 to 15 in case both the
linux hypervisor and the linux guest both uses this patch (though the
guest will limit the addition speedup to anonymous regions only for
now...). Even more important is that the tlb miss handler is much slower
on a NPT/EPT guest than for a regular shadow paging or no-virtualization
scenario. So maximizing the amount of virtual memory cached by the TLB
pays off significantly more with NPT/EPT than without (even if there would
be no significant speedup in the tlb-miss runtime).
The first (and more tedious) part of this work requires allowing the VM to
handle anonymous hugepages mixed with regular pages transparently on
regular anonymous vmas. This is what this patch tries to achieve in the
least intrusive possible way. We want hugepages and hugetlb to be used in
a way so that all applications can benefit without changes (as usual we
leverage the KVM virtualization design: by improving the Linux VM at
large, KVM gets the performance boost too).
The most important design choice is: always fallback to 4k allocation if
the hugepage allocation fails! This is the _very_ opposite of some large
pagecache patches that failed with -EIO back then if a 64k (or similar)
allocation failed...
Second important decision (to reduce the impact of the feature on the
existing pagetable handling code) is that at any time we can split an
hugepage into 512 regular pages and it has to be done with an operation
that can't fail. This way the reliability of the swapping isn't decreased
(no need to allocate memory when we are short on memory to swap) and it's
trivial to plug a split_huge_page* one-liner where needed without
polluting the VM. Over time we can teach mprotect, mremap and friends to
handle pmd_trans_huge natively without calling split_huge_page*. The fact
it can't fail isn't just for swap: if split_huge_page would return -ENOMEM
(instead of the current void) we'd need to rollback the mprotect from the
middle of it (ideally including undoing the split_vma) which would be a
big change and in the very wrong direction (it'd likely be simpler not to
call split_huge_page at all and to teach mprotect and friends to handle
hugepages instead of rolling them back from the middle). In short the
very value of split_huge_page is that it can't fail.
The collapsing and madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) part will remain separated and
incremental and it'll just be an "harmless" addition later if this initial
part is agreed upon. It also should be noted that locking-wise replacing
regular pages with hugepages is going to be very easy if compared to what
I'm doing below in split_huge_page, as it will only happen when
page_count(page) matches page_mapcount(page) if we can take the PG_lock
and mmap_sem in write mode. collapse_huge_page will be a "best effort"
that (unlike split_huge_page) can fail at the minimal sign of trouble and
we can try again later. collapse_huge_page will be similar to how KSM
works and the madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) will work similar to
madvise(MADV_MERGEABLE).
The default I like is that transparent hugepages are used at page fault
time. This can be changed with
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled. The control knob can be set
to three values "always", "madvise", "never" which mean respectively that
hugepages are always used, or only inside madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) regions,
or never used. /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag instead
controls if the hugepage allocation should defrag memory aggressively
"always", only inside "madvise" regions, or "never".
The pmd_trans_splitting/pmd_trans_huge locking is very solid. The
put_page (from get_user_page users that can't use mmu notifier like
O_DIRECT) that runs against a __split_huge_page_refcount instead was a
pain to serialize in a way that would result always in a coherent page
count for both tail and head. I think my locking solution with a
compound_lock taken only after the page_first is valid and is still a
PageHead should be safe but it surely needs review from SMP race point of
view. In short there is no current existing way to serialize the O_DIRECT
final put_page against split_huge_page_refcount so I had to invent a new
one (O_DIRECT loses knowledge on the mapping status by the time gup_fast
returns so...). And I didn't want to impact all gup/gup_fast users for
now, maybe if we change the gup interface substantially we can avoid this
locking, I admit I didn't think too much about it because changing the gup
unpinning interface would be invasive.
If we ignored O_DIRECT we could stick to the existing compound refcounting
code, by simply adding a get_user_pages_fast_flags(foll_flags) where KVM
(and any other mmu notifier user) would call it without FOLL_GET (and if
FOLL_GET isn't set we'd just BUG_ON if nobody registered itself in the
current task mmu notifier list yet). But O_DIRECT is fundamental for
decent performance of virtualized I/O on fast storage so we can't avoid it
to solve the race of put_page against split_huge_page_refcount to achieve
a complete hugepage feature for KVM.
Swap and oom works fine (well just like with regular pages ;). MMU
notifier is handled transparently too, with the exception of the young bit
on the pmd, that didn't have a range check but I think KVM will be fine
because the whole point of hugepages is that EPT/NPT will also use a huge
pmd when they notice gup returns pages with PageCompound set, so they
won't care of a range and there's just the pmd young bit to check in that
case.
NOTE: in some cases if the L2 cache is small, this may slowdown and waste
memory during COWs because 4M of memory are accessed in a single fault
instead of 8k (the payoff is that after COW the program can run faster).
So we might want to switch the copy_huge_page (and clear_huge_page too) to
not temporal stores. I also extensively researched ways to avoid this
cache trashing with a full prefault logic that would cow in 8k/16k/32k/64k
up to 1M (I can send those patches that fully implemented prefault) but I
concluded they're not worth it and they add an huge additional complexity
and they remove all tlb benefits until the full hugepage has been faulted
in, to save a little bit of memory and some cache during app startup, but
they still don't improve substantially the cache-trashing during startup
if the prefault happens in >4k chunks. One reason is that those 4k pte
entries copied are still mapped on a perfectly cache-colored hugepage, so
the trashing is the worst one can generate in those copies (cow of 4k page
copies aren't so well colored so they trashes less, but again this results
in software running faster after the page fault). Those prefault patches
allowed things like a pte where post-cow pages were local 4k regular anon
pages and the not-yet-cowed pte entries were pointing in the middle of
some hugepage mapped read-only. If it doesn't payoff substantially with
todays hardware it will payoff even less in the future with larger l2
caches, and the prefault logic would blot the VM a lot. If one is
emebdded transparent_hugepage can be disabled during boot with sysfs or
with the boot commandline parameter transparent_hugepage=0 (or
transparent_hugepage=2 to restrict hugepages inside madvise regions) that
will ensure not a single hugepage is allocated at boot time. It is simple
enough to just disable transparent hugepage globally and let transparent
hugepages be allocated selectively by applications in the MADV_HUGEPAGE
region (both at page fault time, and if enabled with the
collapse_huge_page too through the kernel daemon).
This patch supports only hugepages mapped in the pmd, archs that have
smaller hugepages will not fit in this patch alone. Also some archs like
power have certain tlb limits that prevents mixing different page size in
the same regions so they will not fit in this framework that requires
"graceful fallback" to basic PAGE_SIZE in case of physical memory
fragmentation. hugetlbfs remains a perfect fit for those because its
software limits happen to match the hardware limits. hugetlbfs also
remains a perfect fit for hugepage sizes like 1GByte that cannot be hoped
to be found not fragmented after a certain system uptime and that would be
very expensive to defragment with relocation, so requiring reservation.
hugetlbfs is the "reservation way", the point of transparent hugepages is
not to have any reservation at all and maximizing the use of cache and
hugepages at all times automatically.
Some performance result:
vmx andrea # LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libhugetlbfs.so HUGETLB_MORECORE=yes HUGETLB_PATH=/mnt/huge/ ./largep
ages3
memset page fault 1566023
memset tlb miss 453854
memset second tlb miss 453321
random access tlb miss 41635
random access second tlb miss 41658
vmx andrea # LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libhugetlbfs.so HUGETLB_MORECORE=yes HUGETLB_PATH=/mnt/huge/ ./largepages3
memset page fault 1566471
memset tlb miss 453375
memset second tlb miss 453320
random access tlb miss 41636
random access second tlb miss 41637
vmx andrea # ./largepages3
memset page fault 1566642
memset tlb miss 453417
memset second tlb miss 453313
random access tlb miss 41630
random access second tlb miss 41647
vmx andrea # ./largepages3
memset page fault 1566872
memset tlb miss 453418
memset second tlb miss 453315
random access tlb miss 41618
random access second tlb miss 41659
vmx andrea # echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/transparent_hugepage
vmx andrea # ./largepages3
memset page fault 2182476
memset tlb miss 460305
memset second tlb miss 460179
random access tlb miss 44483
random access second tlb miss 44186
vmx andrea # ./largepages3
memset page fault 2182791
memset tlb miss 460742
memset second tlb miss 459962
random access tlb miss 43981
random access second tlb miss 43988
============
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#define SIZE (3UL*1024*1024*1024)
int main()
{
char *p = malloc(SIZE), *p2;
struct timeval before, after;
gettimeofday(&before, NULL);
memset(p, 0, SIZE);
gettimeofday(&after, NULL);
printf("memset page fault %Lu\n",
(after.tv_sec-before.tv_sec)*1000000UL +
after.tv_usec-before.tv_usec);
gettimeofday(&before, NULL);
memset(p, 0, SIZE);
gettimeofday(&after, NULL);
printf("memset tlb miss %Lu\n",
(after.tv_sec-before.tv_sec)*1000000UL +
after.tv_usec-before.tv_usec);
gettimeofday(&before, NULL);
memset(p, 0, SIZE);
gettimeofday(&after, NULL);
printf("memset second tlb miss %Lu\n",
(after.tv_sec-before.tv_sec)*1000000UL +
after.tv_usec-before.tv_usec);
gettimeofday(&before, NULL);
for (p2 = p; p2 < p+SIZE; p2 += 4096)
*p2 = 0;
gettimeofday(&after, NULL);
printf("random access tlb miss %Lu\n",
(after.tv_sec-before.tv_sec)*1000000UL +
after.tv_usec-before.tv_usec);
gettimeofday(&before, NULL);
for (p2 = p; p2 < p+SIZE; p2 += 4096)
*p2 = 0;
gettimeofday(&after, NULL);
printf("random access second tlb miss %Lu\n",
(after.tv_sec-before.tv_sec)*1000000UL +
after.tv_usec-before.tv_usec);
return 0;
}
============
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This should work for both hugetlbfs and transparent hugepages.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: bring forward PageTransCompound() addition for bisectability]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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split_huge_page_pmd compat code. Each one of those would need to be
expanded to hundred of lines of complex code without a fully reliable
split_huge_page_pmd design.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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pte alloc routines must wait for split_huge_page if the pmd is not present
and not null (i.e. pmd_trans_splitting). The additional branches are
optimized away at compile time by pmd_trans_splitting if the config option
is off. However we must pass the vma down in order to know the anon_vma
lock to wait for.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Force gup_fast to take the slow path and block if the pmd is splitting,
not only if it's none.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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