- Jan 06, 2009
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Nicholas Piggin authored
Rather than have the pagefault handler kill a process directly if it gets a VM_FAULT_OOM, have it call into the OOM killer. With increasingly sophisticated oom behaviour (cpusets, memory cgroups, oom killing throttling, oom priority adjustment or selective disabling, panic on oom, etc), it's silly to unconditionally kill the faulting process at page fault time. Create a hook for pagefault oom path to call into instead. Only converted x86 and uml so far. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make __out_of_memory() static] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment] Signed-off-by:
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Acked-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Brice Goglin authored
pp->page is never used when not set to the right page, so there is no need to set it to ZERO_PAGE(0) by default. Signed-off-by:
Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr> Acked-by:
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by:
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Brice Goglin authored
Rework do_pages_move() to work by page-sized chunks of struct page_to_node that are passed to do_move_page_to_node_array(). We now only have to allocate a single page instead a possibly very large vmalloc area to store all page_to_node entries. As a result, new_page_node() will now have a very small lookup, hidding much of the overall sys_move_pages() overhead. Signed-off-by:
Nathalie Furmento <Nathalie.Furmento@labri.fr> Acked-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
Following "mm: don't mark_page_accessed in fault path", which now places a mark_page_accessed() in zap_pte_range(), we should remove the mark_page_accessed() from shmem_fault(). Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Signed-off-by:
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Nicholas Piggin authored
Doing a mark_page_accessed at fault-time, then doing SetPageReferenced at unmap-time if the pte is young has a number of problems. mark_page_accessed is supposed to be roughly the equivalent of a young pte for unmapped references. Unfortunately it doesn't come with any context: after being called, reclaim doesn't know who or why the page was touched. So calling mark_page_accessed not only adds extra lru or PG_referenced manipulations for pages that are already going to have pte_young ptes anyway, but it also adds these references which are difficult to work with from the context of vma specific references (eg. MADV_SEQUENTIAL pte_young may not wish to contribute to the page being referenced). Then, simply doing SetPageReferenced when zapping a pte and finding it is young, is not a really good solution either. SetPageReferenced does not correctly promote the page to the active list for example. So after removing mark_page_accessed from the fault path, several mmap()+touch+munmap() would have a very different result from several read(2) calls for example, which is not really desirable. Signed-off-by:
Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
The KernelPageSize entry in /proc/pid/smaps is the pagesize used by the kernel to back a VMA. This matches the size used by the MMU in the majority of cases. However, one counter-example occurs on PPC64 kernels whereby a kernel using 64K as a base pagesize may still use 4K pages for the MMU on older processor. To distinguish, this patch reports MMUPageSize as the pagesize used by the MMU in /proc/pid/smaps. Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: "KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
It is useful to verify a hugepage-aware application is using the expected pagesizes for its memory regions. This patch creates an entry called KernelPageSize in /proc/pid/smaps that is the size of page used by the kernel to back a VMA. The entry is not called PageSize as it is possible the MMU uses a different size. This extension should not break any sensible parser that skips lines containing unrecognised information. Signed-off-by:
"KOSAKI Motohiro" <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alan Cox authored
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Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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- Jan 05, 2009
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Fsync currently has a fdatawrite/fdatawait pair around the method call, and a mutex_lock/unlock of the inode mutex. All callers of fsync have to duplicate this, but we have a few and most of them don't quite get it right. This patch adds a new vfs_fsync that takes care of this. It's a little more complicated as usual as ->fsync might get a NULL file pointer and just a dentry from nfsd, but otherwise gets afile and we want to take the mapping and file operations from it when it is there. Notes on the fsync callers: - ecryptfs wasn't calling filemap_fdatawrite / filemap_fdatawait on the lower file - coda wasn't calling filemap_fdatawrite / filemap_fdatawait on the host file, and returning 0 when ->fsync was missing - shm wasn't calling either filemap_fdatawrite / filemap_fdatawait nor taking i_mutex. Now given that shared memory doesn't have disk backing not doing anything in fsync seems fine and I left it out of the vfs_fsync conversion for now, but in that case we might just not pass it through to the lower file at all but just call the no-op simple_sync_file directly. [and now actually export vfs_fsync] Signed-off-by:
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by:
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
We used to have rather schizophrenic set of checks for NULL ->i_op even though it had been eliminated years ago. You'd need to go out of your way to set it to NULL explicitly _and_ a bunch of code would die on such inodes anyway. After killing two remaining places that still did that bogosity, all that crap can go away. Signed-off-by: -
Dmitri Monakhov authored
We don't have to do it because it is useless for non regular files. In fact block device may trigger this path without dentry->d_inode->i_mutex. (akpm: concerns were expressed (by me) about S_ISDIR inodes) Signed-off-by:
Dmitri Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by:
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- Jan 04, 2009
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Nicholas Piggin authored
With the write_begin/write_end aops, page_symlink was broken because it could no longer pass a GFP_NOFS type mask into the point where the allocations happened. They are done in write_begin, which would always assume that the filesystem can be entered from reclaim. This bug could cause filesystem deadlocks. The funny thing with having a gfp_t mask there is that it doesn't really allow the caller to arbitrarily tinker with the context in which it can be called. It couldn't ever be GFP_ATOMIC, for example, because it needs to take the page lock. The only thing any callers care about is __GFP_FS anyway, so turn that into a single flag. Add a new flag for write_begin, AOP_FLAG_NOFS. Filesystems can now act on this flag in their write_begin function. Change __grab_cache_page to accept a nofs argument as well, to honour that flag (while we're there, change the name to grab_cache_page_write_begin which is more instructive and does away with random leading underscores). This is really a more flexible way to go in the end anyway -- if a filesystem happens to want any extra allocations aside from the pagecache ones in ints write_begin function, it may now use GFP_KERNEL (rather than GFP_NOFS) for common case allocations (eg. ocfs2_alloc_write_ctxt, for a random example). [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix ubifs] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix fuse] Signed-off-by:
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Adam Lackorzynski authored
The flush_cache_vmap in vmap_page_range() is called with the end of the range twice. The following patch fixes this for me. Signed-off-by:
Adam Lackorzynski <adam@os.inf.tu-dresden.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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- Dec 31, 2008
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Rusty Russell authored
Impact: Use new API Convert kernel mm functions to use struct cpumask. We skip include/linux/percpu.h and mm/allocpercpu.c, which are in flux. Signed-off-by:
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by:
Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Reviewed-by:
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Rusty Russell authored
Impact: Remove obsolete API usage any_online_cpu() is a good name, but it takes a cpumask_t, not a pointer. There are several places where any_online_cpu() doesn't really want a mask arg at all. Replace all callers with cpumask_any() and cpumask_any_and(). Signed-off-by:
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- Dec 29, 2008
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David Rientjes authored
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>
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Pekka Enberg authored
Commit 6cb06229 ("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:
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by:
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OGAWA Hirofumi authored
Currently SLUB doesn't warn about __GFP_WAIT. Add it into slab_alloc(). Acked-by:
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by:
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Akinobu Mita authored
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:
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Jens Axboe authored
__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>
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- Dec 20, 2008
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Markus Metzger authored
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:
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- Dec 19, 2008
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venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com authored
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>
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venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com authored
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:
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venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com authored
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:
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- Dec 18, 2008
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venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com authored
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:
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venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com authored
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:
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venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com authored
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:
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- Dec 16, 2008
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Jan Beulich authored
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:
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
Commit 80bba129 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:
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Catalin Marinas authored
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:
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- Dec 13, 2008
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Rusty Russell authored
cpumask: change cpumask_scnprintf, cpumask_parse_user, cpulist_parse, and cpulist_scnprintf to take pointers. Impact: change calling convention of existing cpumask APIs Most cpumask functions started with cpus_: these have been replaced by cpumask_ ones which take struct cpumask pointers as expected. These four functions don't have good replacement names; fortunately they're rarely used, so we just change them over. Signed-off-by:
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- Dec 10, 2008
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Hugh Dickins authored
Miles Lane tailing /sys files hit a BUG which Pekka Enberg has tracked to my 966c8c12 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:
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by:
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Brice Goglin authored
Since commit 2f007e74, 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:
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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki authored
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:
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KOSAKI Motohiro authored
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:
Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
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:
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- Dec 08, 2008
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Nick Andrew authored
It should be 'lose', not 'loose'. Signed-off-by:
Nick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net> Signed-off-by:
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- Dec 02, 2008
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Rik van Riel authored
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:
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Kay Sievers authored
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:
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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki authored
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:Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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