user/sven/linux.git/mm/Kconfig, branch tmp/leds/core

Remove obsolete CONFIG_RESOURCES_64BIT

2009-01-06T23:59:14Z

commit 8308c54d7e312f7a03e2ce2057d0837e6fe3843f ("generic: redefine resource_size_t as phys_addr_t") made CONFIG_RESOURCES_64BIT obsolete, but didn't remove it. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Unevictable LRU Infrastructure

2008-10-20T15:50:26Z

When the system contains lots of mlocked or otherwise unevictable pages, the pageout code (kswapd) can spend lots of time scanning over these pages. Worse still, the presence of lots of unevictable pages can confuse kswapd into thinking that more aggressive pageout modes are required, resulting in all kinds of bad behaviour. Infrastructure to manage pages excluded from reclaim--i.e., hidden from vmscan. Based on a patch by Larry Woodman of Red Hat. Reworked to maintain "unevictable" pages on a separate per-zone LRU list, to "hide" them from vmscan. Kosaki Motohiro added the support for the memory controller unevictable lru list. Pages on the unevictable list have both PG_unevictable and PG_lru set. Thus, PG_unevictable is analogous to and mutually exclusive with PG_active--it specifies which LRU list the page is on. The unevictable infrastructure is enabled by a new mm Kconfig option [CONFIG_]UNEVICTABLE_LRU. A new function 'page_evictable(page, vma)' in vmscan.c tests whether or not a page may be evictable. Subsequent patches will add the various !evictable tests. We'll want to keep these tests light-weight for use in shrink_active_list() and, possibly, the fault path. To avoid races between tasks putting pages [back] onto an LRU list and tasks that might be moving the page from non-evictable to evictable state, the new function 'putback_lru_page()' -- inverse to 'isolate_lru_page()' -- tests the "evictability" of a page after placing it on the LRU, before dropping the reference. If the page has become unevictable, putback_lru_page() will redo the 'putback', thus moving the page to the unevictable list. This way, we avoid "stranding" evictable pages on the unevictable list. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fallout from out-of-order merge] [riel@redhat.com: fix UNEVICTABLE_LRU and !PROC_PAGE_MONITOR build] [nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp: remove redundant mapping check] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: unevictable-lru-infrastructure: putback_lru_page()/unevictable page handling rework] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: kill unnecessary lock_page() in vmscan.c] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: revert migration change of unevictable lru infrastructure] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: revert to unevictable-lru-infrastructure-kconfig-fix.patch] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: restore patch failure of vmstat-unevictable-and-mlocked-pages-vm-events.patch] Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Debugged-by: Benjamin Kidwell Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'core-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2008-10-16T22:17:40Z

* 'core-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: do_generic_file_read: s/EINTR/EIO/ if lock_page_killable() fails softirq, warning fix: correct a format to avoid a warning softirqs, debug: preemption check x86, pci-hotplug, calgary / rio: fix EBDA ioremap() IO resources, x86: ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests exceeding, fix IO resources, x86: ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests exceeding the BAR sizes softlockup: Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt: fix softlockup_thresh description dmi scan: warn about too early calls to dmi_check_system() generic: redefine resource_size_t as phys_addr_t generic: make PFN_PHYS explicitly return phys_addr_t generic: add phys_addr_t for holding physical addresses softirq: allocate less vectors IO resources: fix/remove printk printk: robustify printk, update comment printk: robustify printk, fix #2 printk: robustify printk, fix printk: robustify printk Fixed up conflicts in: arch/powerpc/include/asm/types.h arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype manually.

Kconfig: eliminate "def_bool n" constructs

2008-10-16T18:21:31Z

Using "def_bool n" is pointless, simply using bool here appears more appropriate. Further, retaining such options that don't have a prompt and aren't selected by anything seems also at least questionable. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Cc: Sam Ravnborg Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

generic: add phys_addr_t for holding physical addresses

2008-09-14T15:24:25Z

Add a kernel-wide "phys_addr_t" which is guaranteed to be able to hold any physical address. By default it equals the word size of the architecture, but a 32-bit architecture can set ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT if it needs a 64-bit phys_addr_t. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

mm: Make generic weak get_user_pages_fast and EXPORT_GPL it

2008-08-12T07:52:53Z

Out of line get_user_pages_fast fallback implementation, make it a weak symbol, get rid of CONFIG_HAVE_GET_USER_PAGES_FAST. Export the symbol to modules so lguest can use it. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

mmu-notifiers: core

2008-07-28T23:30:21Z

With KVM/GFP/XPMEM there isn't just the primary CPU MMU pointing to pages. There are secondary MMUs (with secondary sptes and secondary tlbs) too. sptes in the kvm case are shadow pagetables, but when I say spte in mmu-notifier context, I mean "secondary pte". In GRU case there's no actual secondary pte and there's only a secondary tlb because the GRU secondary MMU has no knowledge about sptes and every secondary tlb miss event in the MMU always generates a page fault that has to be resolved by the CPU (this is not the case of KVM where the a secondary tlb miss will walk sptes in hardware and it will refill the secondary tlb transparently to software if the corresponding spte is present). The same way zap_page_range has to invalidate the pte before freeing the page, the spte (and secondary tlb) must also be invalidated before any page is freed and reused. Currently we take a page_count pin on every page mapped by sptes, but that means the pages can't be swapped whenever they're mapped by any spte because they're part of the guest working set. Furthermore a spte unmap event can immediately lead to a page to be freed when the pin is released (so requiring the same complex and relatively slow tlb_gather smp safe logic we have in zap_page_range and that can be avoided completely if the spte unmap event doesn't require an unpin of the page previously mapped in the secondary MMU). The mmu notifiers allow kvm/GRU/XPMEM to attach to the tsk->mm and know when the VM is swapping or freeing or doing anything on the primary MMU so that the secondary MMU code can drop sptes before the pages are freed, avoiding all page pinning and allowing 100% reliable swapping of guest physical address space. Furthermore it avoids the code that teardown the mappings of the secondary MMU, to implement a logic like tlb_gather in zap_page_range that would require many IPI to flush other cpu tlbs, for each fixed number of spte unmapped. To make an example: if what happens on the primary MMU is a protection downgrade (from writeable to wrprotect) the secondary MMU mappings will be invalidated, and the next secondary-mmu-page-fault will call get_user_pages and trigger a do_wp_page through get_user_pages if it called get_user_pages with write=1, and it'll re-establishing an updated spte or secondary-tlb-mapping on the copied page. Or it will setup a readonly spte or readonly tlb mapping if it's a guest-read, if it calls get_user_pages with write=0. This is just an example. This allows to map any page pointed by any pte (and in turn visible in the primary CPU MMU), into a secondary MMU (be it a pure tlb like GRU, or an full MMU with both sptes and secondary-tlb like the shadow-pagetable layer with kvm), or a remote DMA in software like XPMEM (hence needing of schedule in XPMEM code to send the invalidate to the remote node, while no need to schedule in kvm/gru as it's an immediate event like invalidating primary-mmu pte). At least for KVM without this patch it's impossible to swap guests reliably. And having this feature and removing the page pin allows several other optimizations that simplify life considerably. Dependencies: 1) mm_take_all_locks() to register the mmu notifier when the whole VM isn't doing anything with "mm". This allows mmu notifier users to keep track if the VM is in the middle of the invalidate_range_begin/end critical section with an atomic counter incraese in range_begin and decreased in range_end. No secondary MMU page fault is allowed to map any spte or secondary tlb reference, while the VM is in the middle of range_begin/end as any page returned by get_user_pages in that critical section could later immediately be freed without any further ->invalidate_page notification (invalidate_range_begin/end works on ranges and ->invalidate_page isn't called immediately before freeing the page). To stop all page freeing and pagetable overwrites the mmap_sem must be taken in write mode and all other anon_vma/i_mmap locks must be taken too. 2) It'd be a waste to add branches in the VM if nobody could possibly run KVM/GRU/XPMEM on the kernel, so mmu notifiers will only enabled if CONFIG_KVM=m/y. In the current kernel kvm won't yet take advantage of mmu notifiers, but this already allows to compile a KVM external module against a kernel with mmu notifiers enabled and from the next pull from kvm.git we'll start using them. And GRU/XPMEM will also be able to continue the development by enabling KVM=m in their config, until they submit all GRU/XPMEM GPLv2 code to the mainline kernel. Then they can also enable MMU_NOTIFIERS in the same way KVM does it (even if KVM=n). This guarantees nobody selects MMU_NOTIFIER=y if KVM and GRU and XPMEM are all =n. The mmu_notifier_register call can fail because mm_take_all_locks may be interrupted by a signal and return -EINTR. Because mmu_notifier_reigster is used when a driver startup, a failure can be gracefully handled. Here an example of the change applied to kvm to register the mmu notifiers. Usually when a driver startups other allocations are required anyway and -ENOMEM failure paths exists already. struct kvm *kvm_arch_create_vm(void) { struct kvm *kvm = kzalloc(sizeof(struct kvm), GFP_KERNEL); + int err; if (!kvm) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&kvm->arch.active_mmu_pages); + kvm->arch.mmu_notifier.ops = &kvm_mmu_notifier_ops; + err = mmu_notifier_register(&kvm->arch.mmu_notifier, current->mm); + if (err) { + kfree(kvm); + return ERR_PTR(err); + } + return kvm; } mmu_notifier_unregister returns void and it's reliable. The patch also adds a few needed but missing includes that would prevent kernel to compile after these changes on non-x86 archs (x86 didn't need them by luck). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/filemap_xip.c build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/mmu_notifier.c build] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Cc: Jack Steiner Cc: Robin Holt Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Kanoj Sarcar Cc: Roland Dreier Cc: Steve Wise Cc: Avi Kivity Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Anthony Liguori Cc: Chris Wright Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Izik Eidus Cc: Anthony Liguori Cc: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

x86: lockless get_user_pages_fast()

2008-07-26T19:00:06Z

Implement get_user_pages_fast without locking in the fastpath on x86. Do an optimistic lockless pagetable walk, without taking mmap_sem or any page table locks or even mmap_sem. Page table existence is guaranteed by turning interrupts off (combined with the fact that we're always looking up the current mm, means we can do the lockless page table walk within the constraints of the TLB shootdown design). Basically we can do this lockless pagetable walk in a similar manner to the way the CPU's pagetable walker does not have to take any locks to find present ptes. This patch (combined with the subsequent ones to convert direct IO to use it) was found to give about 10% performance improvement on a 2 socket 8 core Intel Xeon system running an OLTP workload on DB2 v9.5 "To test the effects of the patch, an OLTP workload was run on an IBM x3850 M2 server with 2 processors (quad-core Intel Xeon processors at 2.93 GHz) using IBM DB2 v9.5 running Linux 2.6.24rc7 kernel. Comparing runs with and without the patch resulted in an overall performance benefit of ~9.8%. Correspondingly, oprofiles showed that samples from __up_read and __down_read routines that is seen during thread contention for system resources was reduced from 2.8% down to .05%. Monitoring the /proc/vmstat output from the patched run showed that the counter for fast_gup contained a very high number while the fast_gup_slow value was zero." (fast_gup is the old name for get_user_pages_fast, fast_gup_slow is a counter we had for the number of times the slowpath was invoked). The main reason for the improvement is that DB2 has multiple threads each issuing direct-IO. Direct-IO uses get_user_pages, and thus the threads contend the mmap_sem cacheline, and can also contend on page table locks. I would anticipate larger performance gains on larger systems, however I think DB2 uses an adaptive mix of threads and processes, so it could be that thread contention remains pretty constant as machine size increases. In which case, we stuck with "only" a 10% gain. The downside of using get_user_pages_fast is that if there is not a pte with the correct permissions for the access, we end up falling back to get_user_pages and so the get_user_pages_fast is a bit of extra work. However this should not be the common case in most performance critical code. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Kconfig fix] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Makefile fix/cleanup] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: warning fix] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Cc: Dave Kleikamp Cc: Andy Whitcroft Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Dave Kleikamp Cc: Badari Pulavarty Cc: Zach Brown Cc: Jens Axboe Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: make CONFIG_MIGRATION available w/o CONFIG_NUMA

2008-07-24T17:47:21Z

We'd like to support CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE on s390, which depends on CONFIG_MIGRATION. So far, CONFIG_MIGRATION is only available with NUMA support. This patch makes CONFIG_MIGRATION selectable for architectures that define ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE. When MIGRATION is enabled w/o NUMA, the kernel won't compile because migrate_vmas() does not know about vm_ops->migrate() and vma_migratable() does not know about policy_zone. To fix this, those two functions can be restricted to '#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA' because they are not being used w/o NUMA. vma_migratable() is moved over from migrate.h to mempolicy.h. [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: build fix] Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motorhiro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hskinnemoen/avr32-2.6

2008-07-14T20:37:29Z

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hskinnemoen/avr32-2.6: (31 commits) avr32: Fix typo of IFSR in a comment in the PIO header file avr32: Power Management support ("standby" and "mem" modes) avr32: Add system device for the internal interrupt controller (intc) avr32: Add simple SRAM allocator avr32: Enable SDRAMC clock at startup rtc-at32ap700x: Enable wakeup macb: Basic suspend/resume support atmel_serial: Drain console TX shifter before suspending atmel_serial: Fix build on avr32 with CONFIG_PM enabled avr32: Use a quicklist for PTE allocation as well avr32: Use a quicklist for PGD allocation avr32: Cover the kernel page tables in the user PGDs avr32: Store virtual addresses in the PGD avr32: Remove useless zeroing of swapper_pg_dir at startup avr32: Clean up and optimize the TLB operations avr32: Rename at32ap.c -> pdc.c avr32: Move setup_platform() into chip-specific file avr32: Kill special exception handler sections avr32: Kill unneeded #include from asm/mmu_context.h avr32: Clean up time.c #includes ...