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2008-12-30Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6: slub: avoid leaking caches or refcounts on sysfs error slab: Fix comment on #endif slab: remove GFP_THISNODE clearing from alloc_slabmgmt() slub: Add might_sleep_if() to slab_alloc() SLUB: failslab support slub: Fix incorrect use of loose slab: Update the kmem_cache_create documentation regarding the name parameter slub: make early_kmem_cache_node_alloc void slab: unsigned slabp->inuse cannot be less than 0 slub - fix get_object_page comment SLUB: Replace __builtin_return_address(0) with _RET_IP_. SLUB: cleanup - define macros instead of hardcoded numbers
2008-12-30Merge branch 'for-2.6.29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-2.6.29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (43 commits) bio: get rid of bio_vec clearing bounce: don't rely on a zeroed bio_vec list cciss: simplify parameters to deregister_disk function cfq-iosched: fix race between exiting queue and exiting task loop: Do not call loop_unplug for not configured loop device. loop: Flush possible running bios when loop device is released. alpha: remove dead BIO_VMERGE_BOUNDARY Get rid of CONFIG_LSF block: make blk_softirq_init() static block: use min_not_zero in blk_queue_stack_limits block: add one-hit cache for disk partition lookup cfq-iosched: remove limit of dispatch depth of max 4 times quantum nbd: tell the block layer that it is not a rotational device block: get rid of elevator_t typedef aio: make the lookup_ioctx() lockless bio: add support for inlining a number of bio_vecs inside the bio bio: allow individual slabs in the bio_set bio: move the slab pointer inside the bio_set bio: only mempool back the largest bio_vec slab cache block: don't use plugging on SSD devices ...
2008-12-30Merge branch 'core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (63 commits) stacktrace: provide save_stack_trace_tsk() weak alias rcu: provide RCU options on non-preempt architectures too printk: fix discarding message when recursion_bug futex: clean up futex_(un)lock_pi fault handling "Tree RCU": scalable classic RCU implementation futex: rename field in futex_q to clarify single waiter semantics x86/swiotlb: add default swiotlb_arch_range_needs_mapping x86/swiotlb: add default phys<->bus conversion x86: unify pci iommu setup and allow swiotlb to compile for 32 bit x86: add swiotlb allocation functions swiotlb: consolidate swiotlb info message printing swiotlb: support bouncing of HighMem pages swiotlb: factor out copy to/from device swiotlb: add arch hook to force mapping swiotlb: allow architectures to override phys<->bus<->phys conversions swiotlb: add comment where we handle the overflow of a dma mask on 32 bit rcu: fix rcutorture behavior during reboot resources: skip sanity check of busy resources swiotlb: move some definitions to header swiotlb: allow architectures to override swiotlb pool allocation ... Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/Makefile arch/x86/mm/init_32.c include/linux/hardirq.h as per Ingo's suggestions.
2008-12-29Merge branch 'topic/failslab' into for-linusPekka Enberg
Conflicts: mm/slub.c Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-12-29Merge branches 'topic/fixes', 'topic/cleanups' and 'topic/documentation' ↵Pekka Enberg
into for-linus
2008-12-29slub: avoid leaking caches or refcounts on sysfs errorDavid Rientjes
If a slab cache is mergeable and the sysfs alias cannot be added, the target cache shall have its refcount decremented. kmem_cache_create() will return NULL, so if kmem_cache_destroy() is ever called on the target cache, it will never be freed if the refcount has been leaked. Likewise, if a slab cache is not mergeable and the sysfs link cannot be added, the new cache shall be removed from the slab_caches list. kmem_cache_create() will return NULL, so it will be impossible to call kmem_cache_destroy() on it. Both of these operations require slub_lock since refcount of all slab caches and slab_caches are protected by the lock. In the mergeable case, it would be better to restore objsize and offset back to their original values, but this could race with another merge since slub_lock was dropped. Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-12-29slab: remove GFP_THISNODE clearing from alloc_slabmgmt()Pekka Enberg
Commit 6cb062296f73e74768cca2f3eaf90deac54de02d ("Categorize GFP flags") left one call-site in alloc_slabmgmt() to clear GFP_THISNODE instead of GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK. Unfortunately, that ends up clearing __GFP_NOWARN and __GFP_NORETRY as well which is not what we want. As the only caller of alloc_slabmgmt() already clears GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK before passing local_flags to it, we can just remove the clearing of GFP_THISNODE. This patch should fix spurious page allocation failure warnings on the mempool_alloc() path. See the following URL for the original discussion of the bug: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/27/100 Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Reported-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-12-29slub: Add might_sleep_if() to slab_alloc()OGAWA Hirofumi
Currently SLUB doesn't warn about __GFP_WAIT. Add it into slab_alloc(). Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-12-29SLUB: failslab supportAkinobu Mita
Currently fault-injection capability for SLAB allocator is only available to SLAB. This patch makes it available to SLUB, too. [penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: unify slab and slub implementations] Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-12-29bounce: don't rely on a zeroed bio_vec listJens Axboe
__blk_queue_bounce() relies on a zeroed bio_vec list, since it looks up arbitrary indexes in the allocated bio. The block layer only guarentees that added entries are valid, so clear memory after alloc. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-12-28Merge branch 'tracing-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (241 commits) sched, trace: update trace_sched_wakeup() tracing/ftrace: don't trace on early stage of a secondary cpu boot, v3 Revert "x86: disable X86_PTRACE_BTS" ring-buffer: prevent false positive warning ring-buffer: fix dangling commit race ftrace: enable format arguments checking x86, bts: memory accounting x86, bts: add fork and exit handling ftrace: introduce tracing_reset_online_cpus() helper tracing: fix warnings in kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c tracing: fix warning in kernel/trace/trace.c tracing/ring-buffer: remove unused ring_buffer size trace: fix task state printout ftrace: add not to regex on filtering functions trace: better use of stack_trace_enabled for boot up code trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracer x86: entry_64 - introduce FTRACE_ frame macro v2 tracing/ftrace: add the printk-msg-only option tracing/ftrace: use preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace in ring_buffer_time_stamp() x86, bts: correctly report invalid bts records ... Fixed up trivial conflict in scripts/recordmcount.pl due to SH bits being already partly merged by the SH merge.
2008-12-28Merge branch 'x86-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (246 commits) x86: traps.c replace #if CONFIG_X86_32 with #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 x86: PAT: fix address types in track_pfn_vma_new() x86: prioritize the FPU traps for the error code x86: PAT: pfnmap documentation update changes x86: PAT: move track untrack pfnmap stubs to asm-generic x86: PAT: remove follow_pfnmap_pte in favor of follow_phys x86: PAT: modify follow_phys to return phys_addr prot and return value x86: PAT: clarify is_linear_pfn_mapping() interface x86: ia32_signal: remove unnecessary declaration x86: common.c boot_cpu_stack and boot_exception_stacks should be static x86: fix intel x86_64 llc_shared_map/cpu_llc_id anomolies x86: fix warning in arch/x86/kernel/microcode_amd.c x86: ia32.h: remove unused struct sigfram32 and rt_sigframe32 x86: asm-offset_64: use rt_sigframe_ia32 x86: sigframe.h: include headers for dependency x86: traps.c declare functions before they get used x86: PAT: update documentation to cover pgprot and remap_pfn related changes - v3 x86: PAT: add pgprot_writecombine() interface for drivers - v3 x86: PAT: change pgprot_noncached to uc_minus instead of strong uc - v3 x86: PAT: implement track/untrack of pfnmap regions for x86 - v3 ...
2008-12-25Merge commit 'v2.6.28' into core/coreIngo Molnar
2008-12-25Merge branch 'next' into for-linusJames Morris
2008-12-23Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/cpufeature', ↵Ingo Molnar
'x86/crashdump', 'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/detect-hyper', 'x86/doc', 'x86/dumpstack', 'x86/early-printk', 'x86/fpu', 'x86/idle', 'x86/io', 'x86/memory-corruption-check', 'x86/microcode', 'x86/mm', 'x86/mtrr', 'x86/nmi-watchdog', 'x86/pat2', 'x86/pci-ioapic-boot-irq-quirks', 'x86/ptrace', 'x86/quirks', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/setup-memory', 'x86/signal', 'x86/sparse-fixes', 'x86/time', 'x86/uv' and 'x86/xen' into x86/core
2008-12-20x86, bts: memory accountingMarkus Metzger
Impact: move the BTS buffer accounting to the mlock bucket Add alloc_locked_buffer() and free_locked_buffer() functions to mm/mlock.c to kalloc a buffer and account the locked memory to current. Account the memory for the BTS buffer to the tracer. Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-19x86: PAT: move track untrack pfnmap stubs to asm-genericvenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Impact: Cleanup and branch hints only. Move the track and untrack pfn stub routines from memory.c to asm-generic. Also add unlikely to pfnmap related calls in fork and exit path. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-12-19x86: PAT: remove follow_pfnmap_pte in favor of follow_physvenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Impact: Cleanup - removes a new function in favor of a recently modified older one. Replace follow_pfnmap_pte in pat code with follow_phys. follow_phys lso returns protection eliminating the need of pte_pgprot call. Using follow_phys also eliminates the need for pte_pa. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-12-19x86: PAT: modify follow_phys to return phys_addr prot and return valuevenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Impact: Changes and globalizes an existing static interface. Follow_phys does similar things as follow_pfnmap_pte. Make a minor change to follow_phys so that it can be used in place of follow_pfnmap_pte. Physical address return value with 0 as error return does not work in follow_phys as the actual physical address 0 mapping may exist in pte. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-12-19Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/ring-buffer' and 'tracing/urgent' ↵Ingo Molnar
into tracing/core Conflicts: include/linux/ftrace.h
2008-12-18x86: PAT: hooks in generic vm code to help archs to track pfnmap regions - v3venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Impact: Introduces new hooks, which are currently null. Introduce generic hooks in remap_pfn_range and vm_insert_pfn and corresponding copy and free routines with reserve and free tracking. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-12-18x86: PAT: add follow_pfnmp_pte routine to help tracking pfnmap pages - v3venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Impact: New currently unused interface. Add a generic interface to follow pfn in a pfnmap vma range. This is used by one of the subsequent x86 PAT related patch to keep track of memory types for vma regions across vma copy and free. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-12-18x86: PAT: store vm_pgoff for all linear_over_vma_region mappings - v3venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Impact: Code transformation, new functions added should have no effect. Drivers use mmap followed by pgprot_* and remap_pfn_range or vm_insert_pfn, in order to export reserved memory to userspace. Currently, such mappings are not tracked and hence not kept consistent with other mappings (/dev/mem, pci resource, ioremap) for the sme memory, that may exist in the system. The following patchset adds x86 PAT attribute tracking and untracking for pfnmap related APIs. First three patches in the patchset are changing the generic mm code to fit in this tracking. Last four patches are x86 specific to make things work with x86 PAT code. The patchset aso introduces pgprot_writecombine interface, which gives writecombine mapping when enabled, falling back to pgprot_noncached otherwise. This patch: While working on x86 PAT, we faced some hurdles with trackking remap_pfn_range() regions, as we do not have any information to say whether that PFNMAP mapping is linear for the entire vma range or it is smaller granularity regions within the vma. A simple solution to this is to use vm_pgoff as an indicator for linear mapping over the vma region. Currently, remap_pfn_range only sets vm_pgoff for COW mappings. Below patch changes the logic and sets the vm_pgoff irrespective of COW. This will still not be enough for the case where pfn is zero (vma region mapped to physical address zero). But, for all the other cases, we can look at pfnmap VMAs and say whether the mappng is for the entire vma region or not. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-12-16x86: consolidate __swp_XXX() macrosJan Beulich
Impact: cleanup, code robustization The __swp_...() macros silently relied upon which bits are used for _PAGE_FILE and _PAGE_PROTNONE. After having changed _PAGE_PROTNONE in our Xen kernel to no longer overlap _PAGE_PAT, live locks and crashes were reported that could have been avoided if these macros properly used the symbolic constants. Since, as pointed out earlier, for Xen Dom0 support mainline likewise will need to eliminate the conflict between _PAGE_PAT and _PAGE_PROTNONE, this patch does all the necessary adjustments, plus it introduces a mechanism to check consistency between MAX_SWAPFILES_SHIFT and the actual encoding macros. This also fixes a latent bug in that x86-64 used a 6-bit mask in __swp_type(), and if MAX_SWAPFILES_SHIFT was increased beyond 5 in (the seemingly unrelated) linux/swap.h, this would have resulted in a collision with _PAGE_FILE. Non-PAE 32-bit code gets similarly adjusted for its pte_to_pgoff() and pgoff_to_pte() calculations. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-12-16mm: Don't touch uninitialized variable in do_pages_stat_array()KOSAKI Motohiro
Commit 80bba1290ab5122c60cdb73332b26d288dc8aedd removed one necessary variable initialization. As a result following warning happened: CC mm/migrate.o mm/migrate.c: In function 'sys_move_pages': mm/migrate.c:1001: warning: 'err' may be used uninitialized in this function More unfortunately, if find_vma() failed, kernel read uninitialized memory. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> CC: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-15slob: do not pass the SLAB flags as GFP in kmem_cache_create()Catalin Marinas
The kmem_cache_create() function in the slob allocator passes the SLAB flags as GFP flags to the slob_alloc() function. The patch changes this call to pass GFP_KERNEL as the other allocators seem to do. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-10KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN fixesHugh Dickins
Miles Lane tailing /sys files hit a BUG which Pekka Enberg has tracked to my 966c8c12dc9e77f931e2281ba25d2f0244b06949 sprint_symbol(): use less stack exposing a bug in slub's list_locations() - kallsyms_lookup() writes a 0 to namebuf[KSYM_NAME_LEN-1], but that was beyond the end of page provided. The 100 slop which list_locations() allows at end of page looks roughly enough for all the other stuff it might print after the symbol before it checks again: break out KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN earlier than before. Latencytop and ftrace and are using KSYM_NAME_LEN buffers where they need KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN buffers, and vmallocinfo a 2*KSYM_NAME_LEN buffer where it wants a KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN buffer: fix those before anyone copies them. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: ftrace.h needs module.h] Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-10mm: no get_user/put_user while holding mmap_sem in do_pages_stat?Brice Goglin
Since commit 2f007e74bb85b9fc4eab28524052161703300f1a, do_pages_stat() gets the page address from user-space and puts the corresponding status back while holding the mmap_sem for read. There is no need to hold mmap_sem there while some page-faults may occur. This patch adds a temporary address and status buffer so as to only hold mmap_sem while working on these kernel buffers. This is implemented by extracting do_pages_stat_array() out of do_pages_stat(). Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-10page_cgroup should ignore empty nodesKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Fix a total bootup freeze on ia64. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-10mm: remove UP version of lru_add_drain_all()KOSAKI Motohiro
Currently, lru_add_drain_all() has two version. (1) use schedule_on_each_cpu() (2) don't use schedule_on_each_cpu() Gerald Schaefer reported it doesn't work well on SMP (not NUMA) S390 machine. offline_pages() calls lru_add_drain_all() followed by drain_all_pages(). While drain_all_pages() works on each cpu, lru_add_drain_all() only runs on the current cpu for architectures w/o CONFIG_NUMA. This let us run into the BUG_ON(!PageBuddy(page)) in __offline_isolated_pages() during memory hotplug stress test on s390. The page in question was still on the pcp list, because of a race with lru_add_drain_all() and drain_all_pages() on different cpus. Actually, Almost machine has CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU=y. Then almost machine use (1) version lru_add_drain_all although the machine is UP. Then this ifdef is not valueable. simple removing is better. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-10mm/backing-dev.c: remove recently-added WARN_ON()Andrew Morton
On second thoughts, this is just going to disturb people while telling us things which we already knew. Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-08slub: Fix incorrect use of looseNick Andrew
It should be 'lose', not 'loose'. Signed-off-by: Nick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-12-05Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/function-graph-tracer' and ↵Ingo Molnar
'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core
2008-12-04Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc7' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar
2008-12-04Merge branch 'master' into nextJames Morris
Conflicts: fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c Manually fixed above to use new creds API functions, e.g. nfs4_save_creds(). Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-12-02vmscan: evict streaming IO firstRik van Riel
Count the insertion of new pages in the statistics used to drive the pageout scanning code. This should help the kernel quickly evict streaming file IO. We count on the fact that new file pages start on the inactive file LRU and new anonymous pages start on the active anon list. This means streaming file IO will increment the recent scanned file statistic, while leaving the recent rotated file statistic alone, driving pageout scanning to the file LRUs. Pageout activity does its own list manipulation. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-02bdi: register sysfs bdi device only once per queueKay Sievers
Devices which share the same queue, like floppies and mtd devices, get registered multiple times in the bdi interface, but bdi accounts only the last registered device of the devices sharing one queue. On remove, all earlier registered devices leak, stay around in sysfs, and cause "duplicate filename" errors if the devices are re-created. This prevents the creation of multiple bdi interfaces per queue, and the bdi device will carry the dev_t name of the block device which is the first one registered, of the pool of devices using the same queue. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add a WARN_ON so we know which drivers are misbehaving] Tested-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-01memcg: memory hotplug fix for notifier callbackKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Fixes for memcg/memory hotplug. While memory hotplug allocate/free memmap, page_cgroup doesn't free page_cgroup at OFFLINE when page_cgroup is allocated via bootomem. (Because freeing bootmem requires special care.) Then, if page_cgroup is allocated by bootmem and memmap is freed/allocated by memory hotplug, page_cgroup->page == page is no longer true. But current MEM_ONLINE handler doesn't check it and update page_cgroup->page if it's not necessary to allocate page_cgroup. (This was not found because memmap is not freed if SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is y.) And I noticed that MEM_ONLINE can be called against "part of section". So, freeing page_cgroup at CANCEL_ONLINE will cause trouble. (freeing used page_cgroup) Don't rollback at CANCEL. One more, current memory hotplug notifier is stopped by slub because it sets NOTIFY_STOP_MASK to return vaule. So, page_cgroup's callback never be called. (low priority than slub now.) I think this slub's behavior is not intentional(BUG). and fixes it. Another way to be considered about page_cgroup allocation: - free page_cgroup at OFFLINE even if it's from bootmem and remove specieal handler. But it requires more changes. Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12041 Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiruyoki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Tested-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-01mm: vmalloc fix lazy unmapping cache aliasingNick Piggin
Jim Radford has reported that the vmap subsystem rewrite was sometimes causing his VIVT ARM system to behave strangely (seemed like going into infinite loops trying to fault in pages to userspace). We determined that the problem was most likely due to a cache aliasing issue. flush_cache_vunmap was only being called at the moment the page tables were to be taken down, however with lazy unmapping, this can happen after the page has subsequently been freed and allocated for something else. The dangling alias may still have dirty data attached to it. The fix for this problem is to do the cache flushing when the caller has called vunmap -- it would be a bug for them to write anything else to the mapping at that point. That appeared to solve Jim's problems. Reported-by: Jim Radford <radford@blackbean.org> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-01vmscan: protect zone rotation stats by lru lockJohannes Weiner
The zone's rotation statistics must not be accessed without the corresponding LRU lock held. Fix an unprotected write in shrink_active_list(). Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-30meminit section warningsAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-26slab: Update the kmem_cache_create documentation regarding the name parameterCatalin Marinas
kmem_cache implementations like slub are allowed to merge multiple caches but only the initial name is preserved. Therefore, kmem_cache_name() is not guaranteed to return the same pointer passed to the former function. This patch updates the documentation to make this clearer. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-11-26slub: make early_kmem_cache_node_alloc voidDavid Rientjes
The return value for early_kmem_cache_node_alloc() is unused, so it is better defined as void. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-11-26slab: unsigned slabp->inuse cannot be less than 0roel kluin
unsigned slabp->inuse cannot be less than 0 Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-11-26slub - fix get_object_page commentCyrill Gorcunov
Use 'slab page' instead of 'slab object'. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-11-26SLUB: Replace __builtin_return_address(0) with _RET_IP_.Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
This patch replaces __builtin_return_address(0) with _RET_IP_, since a previous patch moved _RET_IP_ and _THIS_IP_ to include/linux/kernel.h and they're widely available now. This makes for shorter and easier to read code. [penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: remove _RET_IP_ casts to void pointer] Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-11-26SLUB: cleanup - define macros instead of hardcoded numbersCyrill Gorcunov
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-11-26blktrace: port to tracepoints, updateIngo Molnar
Port to the new tracepoints API: split DEFINE_TRACE() and DECLARE_TRACE() sites. Spread them out to the usage sites, as suggested by Mathieu Desnoyers. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
2008-11-26blktrace: port to tracepointsArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
This was a forward port of work done by Mathieu Desnoyers, I changed it to encode the 'what' parameter on the tracepoint name, so that one can register interest in specific events and not on classes of events to then check the 'what' parameter. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24Merge branches 'core/debug', 'core/futexes', 'core/locking', 'core/rcu', ↵Ingo Molnar
'core/signal', 'core/urgent' and 'core/xen' into core/core