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    • Johannes Weiner's avatar
      powerpc: use generic show_mem() · bda2fa53
      Johannes Weiner authored
      
      
      Remove arch-specific show_mem() in favor of the generic version.
      
      This also removes the following redundant information display:
      
      	- pages in swapcache, printed by show_swap_cache_info()
      
      where show_mem() calls show_free_areas(), which calls
      show_swap_cache_info().
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      bda2fa53
    • Alexey Dobriyan's avatar
      SL*B: drop kmem cache argument from constructor · 51cc5068
      Alexey Dobriyan authored
      
      
      Kmem cache passed to constructor is only needed for constructors that are
      themselves multiplexeres.  Nobody uses this "feature", nor does anybody uses
      passed kmem cache in non-trivial way, so pass only pointer to object.
      
      Non-trivial places are:
      	arch/powerpc/mm/init_64.c
      	arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
      
      This is flag day, yes.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
      Acked-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
      Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/slab.c]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ubifs]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      51cc5068
    • Huang Ying's avatar
      kexec jump · 3ab83521
      Huang Ying authored
      This patch provides an enhancement to kexec/kdump.  It implements the
      following features:
      
      - Backup/restore memory used by the original kernel before/after
        kexec.
      
      - Save/restore CPU state before/after kexec.
      
      The features of this patch can be used as a general method to call program in
      physical mode (paging turning off).  This can be used to call BIOS code under
      Linux.
      
      kexec-tools needs to be patched to support kexec jump. The patches and
      the precompiled kexec can be download from the following URL:
      
             source: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-src_git_kh10.tar.bz2
             patches: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-patches_git_kh10.tar.bz2
             binary: http://khibernation.sourceforge.net/download/release_v10/kexec-tools/kexec_git_kh10
      
      
      
      Usage example of calling some physical mode code and return:
      
      1. Compile and install patched kernel with following options selected:
      
      CONFIG_X86_32=y
      CONFIG_KEXEC=y
      CONFIG_PM=y
      CONFIG_KEXEC_JUMP=y
      
      2. Build patched kexec-tool or download the pre-built one.
      
      3. Build some physical mode executable named such as "phy_mode"
      
      4. Boot kernel compiled in step 1.
      
      5. Load physical mode executable with /sbin/kexec. The shell command
         line can be as follow:
      
         /sbin/kexec --load-preserve-context --args-none phy_mode
      
      6. Call physical mode executable with following shell command line:
      
         /sbin/kexec -e
      
      Implementation point:
      
      To support jumping without reserving memory.  One shadow backup page (source
      page) is allocated for each page used by kexeced code image (destination
      page).  When do kexec_load, the image of kexeced code is loaded into source
      pages, and before executing, the destination pages and the source pages are
      swapped, so the contents of destination pages are backupped.  Before jumping
      to the kexeced code image and after jumping back to the original kernel, the
      destination pages and the source pages are swapped too.
      
      C ABI (calling convention) is used as communication protocol between
      kernel and called code.
      
      A flag named KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT for sys_kexec_load is added to
      indicate that the loaded kernel image is used for jumping back.
      
      Now, only the i386 architecture is supported.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHuang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarVivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
      Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
      Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
      Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3ab83521
    • FUJITA Tomonori's avatar
      dma-mapping: add the device argument to dma_mapping_error() · 8d8bb39b
      FUJITA Tomonori authored
      Add per-device dma_mapping_ops support for CONFIG_X86_64 as POWER
      architecture does:
      
      This enables us to cleanly fix the Calgary IOMMU issue that some devices
      are not behind the IOMMU (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/8/423
      
      ).
      
      I think that per-device dma_mapping_ops support would be also helpful for
      KVM people to support PCI passthrough but Andi thinks that this makes it
      difficult to support the PCI passthrough (see the above thread).  So I
      CC'ed this to KVM camp.  Comments are appreciated.
      
      A pointer to dma_mapping_ops to struct dev_archdata is added.  If the
      pointer is non NULL, DMA operations in asm/dma-mapping.h use it.  If it's
      NULL, the system-wide dma_ops pointer is used as before.
      
      If it's useful for KVM people, I plan to implement a mechanism to register
      a hook called when a new pci (or dma capable) device is created (it works
      with hot plugging).  It enables IOMMUs to set up an appropriate
      dma_mapping_ops per device.
      
      The major obstacle is that dma_mapping_error doesn't take a pointer to the
      device unlike other DMA operations.  So x86 can't have dma_mapping_ops per
      device.  Note all the POWER IOMMUs use the same dma_mapping_error function
      so this is not a problem for POWER but x86 IOMMUs use different
      dma_mapping_error functions.
      
      The first patch adds the device argument to dma_mapping_error.  The patch
      is trivial but large since it touches lots of drivers and dma-mapping.h in
      all the architecture.
      
      This patch:
      
      dma_mapping_error() doesn't take a pointer to the device unlike other DMA
      operations.  So we can't have dma_mapping_ops per device.
      
      Note that POWER already has dma_mapping_ops per device but all the POWER
      IOMMUs use the same dma_mapping_error function.  x86 IOMMUs use device
      argument.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sge]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix svc_rdma]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix bnx2x]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix s2io]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix pasemi_mac]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sdhci]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc]
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix ibmvscsi]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
      Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8d8bb39b
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