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    • Hugh Dickins's avatar
      [PATCH] unpaged: fix sound Bad page states · f3d48f03
      Hugh Dickins authored 
      

Earlier I unifdefed PageCompound, so that snd_pcm_mmap_control_nopage and
others can give out a 0-order component of a higher-order page, which won't
be mistakenly freed when zap_pte_range unmaps it.  But many Bad page states
reported a PG_reserved was freed after all: I had missed that we need to
say __GFP_COMP to get compound page behaviour.

Some of these higher-order pages are allocated by snd_malloc_pages, some by
snd_malloc_dev_pages; or if SBUS, by sbus_alloc_consistent - but that has
no gfp arg, so add __GFP_COMP into its sparc32/64 implementations.

I'm still rather puzzled that DRM seems not to need a similar change.

Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      f3d48f03
    • Hugh Dickins's avatar
      [PATCH] unpaged: VM_UNPAGED · 0b14c179
      Hugh Dickins authored 
      

Although we tend to associate VM_RESERVED with remap_pfn_range, quite a few
drivers set VM_RESERVED on areas which are then populated by nopage.  The
PageReserved removal in 2.6.15-rc1 changed VM_RESERVED not to free pages in
zap_pte_range, without changing those drivers not to set it: so their pages
just leak away.

Let's not change miscellaneous drivers now: introduce VM_UNPAGED at the core,
to flag the special areas where the ptes may have no struct page, or if they
have then it's not to be touched.  Replace most instances of VM_RESERVED in
core mm by VM_UNPAGED.  Force it on in remap_pfn_range, and the sparc and
sparc64 io_remap_pfn_range.

Revert addition of VM_RESERVED to powerpc vdso, it's not needed there.  Is it
needed anywhere?  It still governs the mm->reserved_vm statistic, and special
vmas not to be merged, and areas not to be core dumped; but could probably be
eliminated later (the drivers are probably specifying it because in 2.4 it
kept swapout off the vma, but in 2.6 we work from the LRU, which these pages
don't get on).

Use the VM_SHM slot for VM_UNPAGED, and define VM_SHM to 0: it serves no
purpose whatsoever, and should be removed from drivers when we clean up.

Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: default avatarWilliam Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      0b14c179
    • Jeff Dike's avatar
      [PATCH] uml: eliminate use of libc PAGE_SIZE · aa1a64ee
      Jeff Dike authored 
      

On some systems, libc PAGE_SIZE calls getpagesize, which can't happen from a
stub.  So, I use UM_KERN_PAGE_SIZE, which is less variable in its definition,
instead.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      aa1a64ee
    • Jeff Dike's avatar
      [PATCH] uml: properly invoke x86_64 system calls · 17d46971
      Jeff Dike authored 
      

This patch makes stub_segv use the stub_syscall macros.  This was needed
anyway, but the bug that prompted this was the discovery that gcc was storing
stuff in RCX, which is trashed across a system call.  This is exactly the sort
of problem that the new macros fix.

There is a stub_syscall0 for getpid.  stub_segv was changed to be a libc file,
and that caused some include changes.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      17d46971