user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/mm.h, branch v3.4.67

mm, show_mem: suppress page counts in non-blockable contexts

2013-10-13T22:42:49Z

commit 4b59e6c4730978679b414a8da61514a2518da512 upstream. On large systems with a lot of memory, walking all RAM to determine page types may take a half second or even more. In non-blockable contexts, the page allocator will emit a page allocation failure warning unless __GFP_NOWARN is specified. In such contexts, irqs are typically disabled and such a lengthy delay may even result in NMI watchdog timeouts. To fix this, suppress the page walk in such contexts when printing the page allocation failure warning. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Cc: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Cc: Xishi Qiu Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vm: add vm_iomap_memory() helper function

2013-04-26T04:19:56Z

commit b4cbb197c7e7a68dbad0d491242e3ca67420c13e upstream. Various drivers end up replicating the code to mmap() their memory buffers into user space, and our core memory remapping function may be very flexible but it is unnecessarily complicated for the common cases to use. Our internal VM uses pfn's ("page frame numbers") which simplifies things for the VM, and allows us to pass physical addresses around in a denser and more efficient format than passing a "phys_addr_t" around, and having to shift it up and down by the page size. But it just means that drivers end up doing that shifting instead at the interface level. It also means that drivers end up mucking around with internal VM things like the vma details (vm_pgoff, vm_start/end) way more than they really need to. So this just exports a function to map a certain physical memory range into user space (using a phys_addr_t based interface that is much more natural for a driver) and hides all the complexity from the driver. Some drivers will still end up tweaking the vm_page_prot details for things like prefetching or cacheability etc, but that's actually relevant to the driver, rather than caring about what the page offset of the mapping is into the particular IO memory region. Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

x86/mce: Fix siginfo_t->si_addr value for non-recoverable memory faults

2012-08-09T15:31:29Z

commit 6751ed65dc6642af64f7b8a440a75563c8aab7ae upstream. In commit dad1743e5993f1 ("x86/mce: Only restart instruction after machine check recovery if it is safe") we fixed mce_notify_process() to force a signal to the current process if it was not restartable (RIPV bit not set in MCG_STATUS). But doing it here means that the process doesn't get told the virtual address of the fault via siginfo_t->si_addr. This would prevent application level recovery from the fault. Make a new MF_MUST_KILL flag bit for memory_failure() et al. to use so that we will provide the right information with the signal. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck Acked-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kill mm argument of vm_munmap()

2012-04-21T05:58:20Z

it's always current->mm Signed-off-by: Al Viro

VM: add "vm_mmap()" helper function

2012-04-21T00:29:13Z

This continues the theme started with vm_brk() and vm_munmap(): vm_mmap() does the same thing as do_mmap(), but additionally does the required VM locking. This uninlines (and rewrites it to be clearer) do_mmap(), which sadly duplicates it in mm/mmap.c and mm/nommu.c. But that way we don't have to export our internal do_mmap_pgoff() function. Some day we hopefully don't have to export do_mmap() either, if all modular users can become the simpler vm_mmap() instead. We're actually very close to that already, with the notable exception of the (broken) use in i810, and a couple of stragglers in binfmt_elf. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

VM: add "vm_munmap()" helper function

2012-04-21T00:29:13Z

Like the vm_brk() function, this is the same as "do_munmap()", except it does the VM locking for the caller. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

VM: add "vm_brk()" helper function

2012-04-21T00:28:17Z

It does the same thing as "do_brk()", except it handles the VM locking too. It turns out that all external callers want that anyway, so we can make do_brk() static to just mm/mmap.c while at it. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)

2012-03-29T00:19:28Z

Merge third batch of patches from Andrew Morton: - Some MM stragglers - core SMP library cleanups (on_each_cpu_mask) - Some IPI optimisations - kexec - kdump - IPMI - the radix-tree iterator work - various other misc bits. "That'll do for -rc1. I still have ~10 patches for 3.4, will send those along when they've baked a little more." * emailed from Andrew Morton : (35 commits) backlight: fix typo in tosa_lcd.c crc32: add help text for the algorithm select option mm: move hugepage test examples to tools/testing/selftests/vm mm: move slabinfo.c to tools/vm mm: move page-types.c from Documentation to tools/vm selftests/Makefile: make `run_tests' depend on `all' selftests: launch individual selftests from the main Makefile radix-tree: use iterators in find_get_pages* functions radix-tree: rewrite gang lookup using iterator radix-tree: introduce bit-optimized iterator fs/proc/namespaces.c: prevent crash when ns_entries[] is empty nbd: rename the nbd_device variable from lo to nbd pidns: add reboot_pid_ns() to handle the reboot syscall sysctl: use bitmap library functions ipmi: use locks on watchdog timeout set on reboot ipmi: simplify locking ipmi: fix message handling during panics ipmi: use a tasklet for handling received messages ipmi: increase KCS timeouts ipmi: decrease the IPMI message transaction time in interrupt mode ...

mm for fs: add truncate_pagecache_range()

2012-03-29T00:14:35Z

Holepunching filesystems ext4 and xfs are using truncate_inode_pages_range but forgetting to unmap pages first (ocfs2 remembers). This is not really a bug, since races already require truncate_inode_page() to handle that case once the page is locked; but it can be very inefficient if the file being punched happens to be mapped into many vmas. Provide a drop-in replacement truncate_pagecache_range() which does the unmapping pass first, handling the awkward mismatch between arguments to truncate_inode_pages_range() and arguments to unmap_mapping_range(). Note that holepunching does not unmap privately COWed pages in the range: POSIX requires that we do so when truncating, but it's hard to justify, difficult to implement without an i_size cutoff, and no filesystem is attempting to implement it. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: Andreas Dilger Cc: Mark Fasheh Cc: Joel Becker Cc: Ben Myers Cc: Alex Elder Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system

2012-03-28T22:58:21Z

Pull "Disintegrate and delete asm/system.h" from David Howells: "Here are a bunch of patches to disintegrate asm/system.h into a set of separate bits to relieve the problem of circular inclusion dependencies. I've built all the working defconfigs from all the arches that I can and made sure that they don't break. The reason for these patches is that I recently encountered a circular dependency problem that came about when I produced some patches to optimise get_order() by rewriting it to use ilog2(). This uses bitops - and on the SH arch asm/bitops.h drags in asm-generic/get_order.h by a circuituous route involving asm/system.h. The main difficulty seems to be asm/system.h. It holds a number of low level bits with no/few dependencies that are commonly used (eg. memory barriers) and a number of bits with more dependencies that aren't used in many places (eg. switch_to()). These patches break asm/system.h up into the following core pieces: (1) asm/barrier.h Move memory barriers here. This already done for MIPS and Alpha. (2) asm/switch_to.h Move switch_to() and related stuff here. (3) asm/exec.h Move arch_align_stack() here. Other process execution related bits could perhaps go here from asm/processor.h. (4) asm/cmpxchg.h Move xchg() and cmpxchg() here as they're full word atomic ops and frequently used by atomic_xchg() and atomic_cmpxchg(). (5) asm/bug.h Move die() and related bits. (6) asm/auxvec.h Move AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH here. Other arch headers are created as needed on a per-arch basis." Fixed up some conflicts from other header file cleanups and moving code around that has happened in the meantime, so David's testing is somewhat weakened by that. We'll find out anything that got broken and fix it.. * tag 'split-asm_system_h-for-linus-20120328' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-asm_system: (38 commits) Delete all instances of asm/system.h Remove all #inclusions of asm/system.h Add #includes needed to permit the removal of asm/system.h Move all declarations of free_initmem() to linux/mm.h Disintegrate asm/system.h for OpenRISC Split arch_align_stack() out from asm-generic/system.h Split the switch_to() wrapper out of asm-generic/system.h Move the asm-generic/system.h xchg() implementation to asm-generic/cmpxchg.h Create asm-generic/barrier.h Make asm-generic/cmpxchg.h #include asm-generic/cmpxchg-local.h Disintegrate asm/system.h for Xtensa Disintegrate asm/system.h for Unicore32 [based on ver #3, changed by gxt] Disintegrate asm/system.h for Tile Disintegrate asm/system.h for Sparc Disintegrate asm/system.h for SH Disintegrate asm/system.h for Score Disintegrate asm/system.h for S390 Disintegrate asm/system.h for PowerPC Disintegrate asm/system.h for PA-RISC Disintegrate asm/system.h for MN10300 ...