user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/mm.h, branch v2.6.34.6

pagemap: fix pfn calculation for hugepage

2010-04-07T15:38:04Z

When we look into pagemap using page-types with option -p, the value of pfn for hugepages looks wrong (see below.) This is because pte was evaluated only once for one vma although it should be updated for each hugepage. This patch fixes it. $ page-types -p 3277 -Nl -b huge voffset offset len flags 7f21e8a00 11e400 1 ___U___________H_G________________ 7f21e8a01 11e401 1ff ________________TG________________ ^^^ 7f21e8c00 11e400 1 ___U___________H_G________________ 7f21e8c01 11e401 1ff ________________TG________________ ^^^ One hugepage contains 1 head page and 511 tail pages in x86_64 and each two lines represent each hugepage. Voffset and offset mean virtual address and physical address in the page unit, respectively. The different hugepages should not have the same offset value. With this patch applied: $ page-types -p 3386 -Nl -b huge voffset offset len flags 7fec7a600 112c00 1 ___UD__________H_G________________ 7fec7a601 112c01 1ff ________________TG________________ ^^^ 7fec7a800 113200 1 ___UD__________H_G________________ 7fec7a801 113201 1ff ________________TG________________ ^^^ OK More info: - This patch modifies walk_page_range()'s hugepage walker. But the change only affects pagemap_read(), which is the only caller of hugepage callback. - Without this patch, hugetlb_entry() callback is called per vma, that doesn't match the natural expectation from its name. - With this patch, hugetlb_entry() is called per hugepte entry and the callback can become much simpler. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Acked-by: Matt Mackall Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: introduce dump_page() and print symbolic flag names

2010-03-12T23:52:28Z

- introduce dump_page() to print the page info for debugging some error condition. - convert three mm users: bad_page(), print_bad_pte() and memory offline failure. - print an extra field: the symbolic names of page->flags Example dump_page() output: [ 157.521694] page:ffffea0000a7cba8 count:2 mapcount:1 mapping:ffff88001c901791 index:0x147 [ 157.525570] page flags: 0x100000000100068(uptodate|lru|active|swapbacked) Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Alex Chiang Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

nommu: fix build breakage

2010-03-12T23:52:28Z

Commit 34e55232e59f7b19050267a05ff1226e5cd122a5 ("mm: avoid false sharing of mm_counter") added sync_mm_rss() for syncing loosely accounted rss counters. It's for CONFIG_MMU but sync_mm_rss is called even in NOMMU enviroment (kerne/exit.c, fs/exec.c). Above commit doesn't handle it well. This patch changes SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING depends on SPLIT_PTLOCKS && CONFIG_MMU And for avoid unnecessary function calls, sync_mm_rss changed to be inlined noop function in header file. Reported-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger Signed-off-by: Michal Simek Signed-off-by: David Howells Cc: Greg Ungerer Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove VM_LOCK_RMAP code

2010-03-06T19:26:26Z

When a VMA is in an inconsistent state during setup or teardown, the worst that can happen is that the rmap code will not be able to find the page. The mapping is in the process of being torn down (PTEs just got invalidated by munmap), or set up (no PTEs have been instantiated yet). It is also impossible for the rmap code to follow a pointer to an already freed VMA, because the rmap code holds the anon_vma->lock, which the VMA teardown code needs to take before the VMA is removed from the anon_vma chain. Hence, we should not need the VM_LOCK_RMAP locking at all. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Larry Woodman Cc: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: change anon_vma linking to fix multi-process server scalability issue

2010-03-06T19:26:26Z

The old anon_vma code can lead to scalability issues with heavily forking workloads. Specifically, each anon_vma will be shared between the parent process and all its child processes. In a workload with 1000 child processes and a VMA with 1000 anonymous pages per process that get COWed, this leads to a system with a million anonymous pages in the same anon_vma, each of which is mapped in just one of the 1000 processes. However, the current rmap code needs to walk them all, leading to O(N) scanning complexity for each page. This can result in systems where one CPU is walking the page tables of 1000 processes in page_referenced_one, while all other CPUs are stuck on the anon_vma lock. This leads to catastrophic failure for a benchmark like AIM7, where the total number of processes can reach in the tens of thousands. Real workloads are still a factor 10 less process intensive than AIM7, but they are catching up. This patch changes the way anon_vmas and VMAs are linked, which allows us to associate multiple anon_vmas with a VMA. At fork time, each child process gets its own anon_vmas, in which its COWed pages will be instantiated. The parents' anon_vma is also linked to the VMA, because non-COWed pages could be present in any of the children. This reduces rmap scanning complexity to O(1) for the pages of the 1000 child processes, with O(N) complexity for at most 1/N pages in the system. This reduces the average scanning cost in heavily forking workloads from O(N) to 2. The only real complexity in this patch stems from the fact that linking a VMA to anon_vmas now involves memory allocations. This means vma_adjust can fail, if it needs to attach a VMA to anon_vma structures. This in turn means error handling needs to be added to the calling functions. A second source of complexity is that, because there can be multiple anon_vmas, the anon_vma linking in vma_adjust can no longer be done under "the" anon_vma lock. To prevent the rmap code from walking up an incomplete VMA, this patch introduces the VM_LOCK_RMAP VMA flag. This bit flag uses the same slot as the NOMMU VM_MAPPED_COPY, with an ifdef in mm.h to make sure it is impossible to compile a kernel that needs both symbolic values for the same bitflag. Some test results: Without the anon_vma changes, when AIM7 hits around 9.7k users (on a test box with 16GB RAM and not quite enough IO), the system ends up running >99% in system time, with every CPU on the same anon_vma lock in the pageout code. With these changes, AIM7 hits the cross-over point around 29.7k users. This happens with ~99% IO wait time, there never seems to be any spike in system time. The anon_vma lock contention appears to be resolved. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Larry Woodman Cc: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: avoid false sharing of mm_counter

2010-03-06T19:26:24Z

Considering the nature of per mm stats, it's the shared object among threads and can be a cache-miss point in the page fault path. This patch adds per-thread cache for mm_counter. RSS value will be counted into a struct in task_struct and synchronized with mm's one at events. Now, in this patch, the event is the number of calls to handle_mm_fault. Per-thread value is added to mm at each 64 calls. rough estimation with small benchmark on parallel thread (2threads) shows [before] 4.5 cache-miss/faults [after] 4.0 cache-miss/faults Anyway, the most contended object is mmap_sem if the number of threads grows. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: clean up mm_counter

2010-03-06T19:26:23Z

Presently, per-mm statistics counter is defined by macro in sched.h This patch modifies it to - defined in mm.h as inlinf functions - use array instead of macro's name creation. This patch is for reducing patch size in future patch to modify implementation of per-mm counter. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'x86-bootmem-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2010-03-03T16:15:05Z

* 'x86-bootmem-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (30 commits) early_res: Need to save the allocation name in drop_range_partial() sparsemem: Fix compilation on PowerPC early_res: Add free_early_partial() x86: Fix non-bootmem compilation on PowerPC core: Move early_res from arch/x86 to kernel/ x86: Add find_fw_memmap_area Move round_up/down to kernel.h x86: Make 32bit support NO_BOOTMEM early_res: Enhance check_and_double_early_res x86: Move back find_e820_area to e820.c x86: Add find_early_area_size x86: Separate early_res related code from e820.c x86: Move bios page reserve early to head32/64.c sparsemem: Put mem map for one node together. sparsemem: Put usemap for one node together x86: Make 64 bit use early_res instead of bootmem before slab x86: Only call dma32_reserve_bootmem 64bit !CONFIG_NUMA x86: Make early_node_mem get mem > 4 GB if possible x86: Dynamically increase early_res array size x86: Introduce max_early_res and early_res_count ...

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu

2010-03-03T15:34:18Z

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to what's left percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to fs percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to core kernel subsystems local_t: Remove leftover local.h this_cpu: Remove pageset_notifier this_cpu: Page allocator conversion percpu, x86: Generic inc / dec percpu instructions local_t: Move local.h include to ringbuffer.c and ring_buffer_benchmark.c module: Use this_cpu_xx to dynamically allocate counters local_t: Remove cpu_local_xx macros percpu: refactor the code in pcpu_[de]populate_chunk() percpu: remove compile warnings caused by __verify_pcpu_ptr() percpu: make accessors check for percpu pointer in sparse percpu: add __percpu for sparse. percpu: make access macros universal percpu: remove per_cpu__ prefix.

Merge branch 'linus' into x86/mm

2010-02-17T17:28:05Z

x86/mm is on 32-rc4 and missing the spinlock namespace changes which are needed for further commits into this topic. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner