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The bootmem wrapper with memblock supports top-down now, so we do not need
to set the low limit to __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS).
The logic should be: good to allocate above __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS), but it
is ok if we can not find memory above 16M on system that has a small
amount of RAM.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai LU <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Stefan found nobootmem does not work on his system that has only 8M of
RAM. This causes an early panic:
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-88: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
BIOS-88: 0000000000100000 - 0000000000840000 (usable)
bootconsole [earlyser0] enabled
Notice: NX (Execute Disable) protection missing in CPU or disabled in BIOS!
DMI not present or invalid.
last_pfn = 0x840 max_arch_pfn = 0x100000
init_memory_mapping: 0000000000000000-0000000000840000
8MB LOWMEM available.
mapped low ram: 0 - 00840000
low ram: 0 - 00840000
Zone PFN ranges:
DMA 0x00000001 -> 0x00001000
Normal empty
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges
0: 0x00000001 -> 0x0000009f
0: 0x00000100 -> 0x00000840
BUG: Int 6: CR2 (null)
EDI c034663c ESI (null) EBP c0329f38 ESP c0329ef4
EBX c0346380 EDX 00000006 ECX ffffffff EAX fffffff4
err (null) EIP c0353191 CS c0320060 flg 00010082
Stack: (null) c030c533 000007cd (null) c030c533 00000001 (null) (null)
00000003 0000083f 00000018 00000002 00000002 c0329f6c c03534d6 (null)
(null) 00000100 00000840 (null) c0329f64 00000001 00001000 (null)
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.36 #5
Call Trace:
[<c02e3707>] ? 0xc02e3707
[<c035e6e5>] 0xc035e6e5
[<c0353191>] ? 0xc0353191
[<c03534d6>] 0xc03534d6
[<c034f1cd>] 0xc034f1cd
[<c034a824>] 0xc034a824
[<c03513cb>] ? 0xc03513cb
[<c0349432>] 0xc0349432
[<c0349066>] 0xc0349066
It turns out that we should ignore the low limit of 16M.
Use alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic() in this case.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: less mess]
Signed-off-by: Yinghai LU <yinghai@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Stefan Hellermann <stefan@the2masters.de>
Tested-by: Stefan Hellermann <stefan@the2masters.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.34+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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setup_elfcorehdr and saved_max_pfn
The Xen PV drivers in a crashed HVM guest can not connect to the dom0
backend drivers because both frontend and backend drivers are still in
connected state. To run the connection reset function only in case of a
crashdump, the is_kdump_kernel() function needs to be available for the PV
driver modules.
Consolidate elfcorehdr_addr, setup_elfcorehdr and saved_max_pfn into
kernel/crash_dump.c Also export elfcorehdr_addr to make is_kdump_kernel()
usable for modules.
Leave 'elfcorehdr' as early_param(). This changes powerpc from __setup()
to early_param(). It adds an address range check from x86 also on ia64
and powerpc.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: additional #includes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove elfcorehdr_addr export]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix for Tejun's mm/nobootmem.c changes]
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add an alloc_bootmem_align() interface to allocate bootmem with
specified alignment. This is necessary to be able to allocate the
xsave area in a subsequent patch.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20101116212441.977574826@sbsiddha-MOBL3.sc.intel.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
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Finally we can use early_res to replace bootmem for x86_64 now.
Still can use CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM to enable it or not.
-v2: fix 32bit compiling about MAX_DMA32_PFN
-v3: folded bug fix from LKML message below
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B747239.4070907@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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Add a new function for freeing bootmem after the bootmem
allocator has been released and the unreserved pages given to
the page allocator.
This allows us to reserve bootmem and then release it if we
later discover it was not needed.
( This new API will be used by the swiotlb code to recover
a significant amount of RAM (64MB). )
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: chrisw@sous-sol.org
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org
Cc: joerg.roedel@amd.com
Cc: muli@il.ibm.com
Cc: hannes@cmpxchg.org
Cc: tj@kernel.org
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <1257849980-22640-7-git-send-email-fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This is being done by allowing boot time allocations to specify that they
may want a sub-page sized amount of memory.
Overall this seems more consistent with the other hash table allocations,
and allows making two supposedly mm-only variables really mm-only
(nr_{kernel,all}_pages).
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On PowerPC we allocate large boot time hashes on node 0. This leads to an
imbalance in the free memory, for example on a 64GB box (4 x 16GB nodes):
Free memory:
Node 0: 97.03%
Node 1: 98.54%
Node 2: 98.42%
Node 3: 98.53%
If we switch to using vmalloc (like ia64 and x86-64) things are more
balanced:
Free memory:
Node 0: 97.53%
Node 1: 98.35%
Node 2: 98.33%
Node 3: 98.33%
For many HPC applications we are limited by the free available memory on
the smallest node, so even though the same amount of memory is used the
better balancing helps.
Since all 64bit NUMA capable architectures should have sufficient vmalloc
space, it makes sense to enable it via CONFIG_64BIT.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Impact: cleanup and addition of missing interface wrapper
The interface functions in bootmem.h was ordered in not so orderly
manner. Reorder them such that
* functions allocating the same area group together -
ie. alloc_bootmem group and alloc_bootmem_low group.
* functions w/o node parameter come before the ones w/ node parameter.
* nopanic variants are immediately below their panicky counterparts.
While at it, add alloc_bootmem_pages_node_nopanic() which was missing.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
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Impact: cleaner and consistent bootmem wrapping
By setting CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM_NODE, archs can define
arch-specific wrappers for bootmem allocation. However, this is done
a bit strangely in that only the high level convenience macros can be
changed while lower level, but still exported, interface functions
can't be wrapped. This not only is messy but also leads to strange
situation where alloc_bootmem() does what the arch wants it to do but
the equivalent __alloc_bootmem() call doesn't although they should be
able to be used interchangeably.
This patch updates bootmem such that archs can override / wrap the
backend function - alloc_bootmem_core() instead of the highlevel
interface functions to allow simpler and consistent wrapping. Also,
HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM_NODE is renamed to HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
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alloc_large_system_hash()
.. since a failed allocation is being (initially) handled gracefully, and
panic()-ed upon failure explicitly in the function if retries with smaller
sizes failed.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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These got unintentionally moved, put them back as x86 provides its own
versions.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Almost all users of this field need a PFN instead of a physical address,
so replace node_boot_start with node_min_pfn.
[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: fix spurious BUG_ON() in mark_bootmem()]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeureba.de>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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alloc_bootmem_core has become quite nasty to read over time. This is a
clean rewrite that keeps the semantics.
bdata->last_pos has been dropped.
bdata->last_success has been renamed to hint_idx and it is now an index
relative to the node's range. Since further block searching might start
at this index, it is now set to the end of a succeeded allocation rather
than its beginning.
bdata->last_offset has been renamed to last_end_off to be more clear that
it represents the ending address of the last allocation relative to the
node.
[y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com: fix new alloc_bootmem_core()]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This only reorders functions so that further patches will be easier to
read. No code changed.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Straight forward variant of the existing __alloc_bootmem_node, only
subsequent patch when allocating giant hugepages at boot -- don't want to
panic if we can't allocate as many as the user asked for.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This function has no external callers, so unexport it. Also fix its naming
inconsistency.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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There are a lot of places that define either a single bootmem descriptor or an
array of them. Use only one central array with MAX_NUMNODES items instead.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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1. add reserve_bootmem_generic for 32bit
2. change len to unsigned long
3. make early_res_to_bootmem to use it
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This patch changes the function reserve_bootmem_node() from void to int,
returning -ENOMEM if the allocation fails.
This fixes a build problem on x86 with CONFIG_KEXEC=y and
CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES=y
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Reported-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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alloc_bootmem_section() can allocate specified section's area. This is used
for usemap to keep same section with pgdat by later patch.
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patchset adds a flags variable to reserve_bootmem() and uses the
BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE flag in crashkernel reservation code to detect collisions
between crashkernel area and already used memory.
This patch:
Change the reserve_bootmem() function to accept a new flag BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE.
If that flag is set, the function returns with -EBUSY if the memory already
has been reserved in the past. This is to avoid conflicts.
Because that code runs before SMP initialisation, there's no race condition
inside reserve_bootmem_core().
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc build]
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This reverts commit 2e1c49db4c640b35df13889b86b9d62215ade4b6.
First off, testing in Fedora has shown it to cause boot failures,
bisected down by Martin Ebourne, and reported by Dave Jobes. So the
commit will likely be reverted in the 2.6.23 stable kernels.
Secondly, in the 2.6.24 model, x86-64 has now grown support for
SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, which disables the relevant code anyway, so while the
bug is not visible any more, it's become invisible due to the code just
being irrelevant and no longer enabled on the only architecture that
this ever affected.
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Martin Ebourne <fedora@ebourne.me.uk>
Cc: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On systems with huge amount of physical memory, VFS cache and memory memmap
may eat all available system memory under 4G, then the system may fail to
allocate swiotlb bounce buffer.
There was a fix for this issue in arch/x86_64/mm/numa.c, but that fix dose
not cover sparsemem model.
This patch add fix to sparsemem model by first try to allocate memmap above
4G.
Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Enable system hashtable memory to be distributed among nodes on x86_64 NUMA
Forcing the kernel to use node interleaved vmalloc instead of bootmem for
the system hashtable memory (alloc_large_system_hash) reduces the memory
imbalance on node 0 by around 40MB on a 8 node x86_64 NUMA box:
Before the following patch, on bootup of a 8 node box:
Node 0 MemTotal: 3407488 kB
Node 0 MemFree: 3206296 kB
Node 0 MemUsed: 201192 kB
Node 0 Active: 7012 kB
Node 0 Inactive: 512 kB
Node 0 Dirty: 0 kB
Node 0 Writeback: 0 kB
Node 0 FilePages: 1912 kB
Node 0 Mapped: 420 kB
Node 0 AnonPages: 5612 kB
Node 0 PageTables: 468 kB
Node 0 NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Node 0 Bounce: 0 kB
Node 0 Slab: 5408 kB
Node 0 SReclaimable: 644 kB
Node 0 SUnreclaim: 4764 kB
After the patch (or using hashdist=1 on the kernel command line):
Node 0 MemTotal: 3407488 kB
Node 0 MemFree: 3247608 kB
Node 0 MemUsed: 159880 kB
Node 0 Active: 3012 kB
Node 0 Inactive: 616 kB
Node 0 Dirty: 0 kB
Node 0 Writeback: 0 kB
Node 0 FilePages: 2424 kB
Node 0 Mapped: 380 kB
Node 0 AnonPages: 1200 kB
Node 0 PageTables: 396 kB
Node 0 NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Node 0 Bounce: 0 kB
Node 0 Slab: 6304 kB
Node 0 SReclaimable: 1596 kB
Node 0 SUnreclaim: 4708 kB
I guess it is a good idea to keep HASHDIST_DEFAULT "on" for x86_64 NUMA
since x86_64 has no dearth of vmalloc space? Or maybe enable hash
distribution for all 64bit NUMA arches? The following patch does it only
for x86_64.
I ran a HPC MPI benchmark -- 'Ansys wingsolid', which takes up quite a bit of
memory and uses up tlb entries. This was on a 4 way, 2 socket
Tyan AMD box (non vsmp), with 8G total memory (4G pernode).
The results with and without hash distribution are:
1. Vanilla - runtime of 1188.000s
2. With hashdist=1 runtime of 1154.000s
Oprofile output for the duration of run is:
1. Vanilla:
PU: AMD64 processors, speed 2411.16 MHz (estimated)
Counted L1_AND_L2_DTLB_MISSES events (L1 and L2 DTLB misses) with a unit
mask of 0x00 (No unit mask) count 500
samples % app name symbol name
163054 6.5513 libansys1.so MultiFront::decompose(int, int,
Elemset *, int *, int, int, int)
162061 6.5114 libansys3.so blockSaxpy6L_fd
162042 6.5107 libansys3.so blockInnerProduct6L_fd
156286 6.2794 libansys3.so maxb33_
87879 3.5309 libansys1.so elmatrixmultpcg_
84857 3.4095 libansys4.so saxpy_pcg
58637 2.3560 libansys4.so .st4560
46612 1.8728 libansys4.so .st4282
43043 1.7294 vmlinux-t copy_user_generic_string
41326 1.6604 libansys3.so blockSaxpyBackSolve6L_fd
41288 1.6589 libansys3.so blockInnerProductBackSolve6L_fd
2. With hashdist=1
CPU: AMD64 processors, speed 2411.13 MHz (estimated)
Counted L1_AND_L2_DTLB_MISSES events (L1 and L2 DTLB misses) with a unit
mask of 0x00 (No unit mask) count 500
samples % app name symbol name
162993 6.9814 libansys1.so MultiFront::decompose(int, int,
Elemset *, int *, int, int, int)
160799 6.8874 libansys3.so blockInnerProduct6L_fd
160459 6.8729 libansys3.so blockSaxpy6L_fd
156018 6.6826 libansys3.so maxb33_
84700 3.6279 libansys4.so saxpy_pcg
83434 3.5737 libansys1.so elmatrixmultpcg_
58074 2.4875 libansys4.so .st4560
46000 1.9703 libansys4.so .st4282
41166 1.7632 libansys3.so blockSaxpyBackSolve6L_fd
41033 1.7575 libansys3.so blockInnerProductBackSolve6L_fd
35762 1.5318 libansys1.so inner_product_sub
35591 1.5245 libansys1.so inner_product_sub2
28259 1.2104 libansys4.so addVectors
Signed-off-by: Pravin B. Shelar <pravin.shelar@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix unannotated variable declarations. Variables that have allocation
section annotations (such as __meminitdata) on their definitions must also
have them on their declarations as not doing so may affect the addressing
mode used by the compiler and may result in a linker error.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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It has no users and it's doubtful that we'll need it again.
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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It fixes various coding style issues, specially when spaces are useless. For
example '*' go next to the function name.
Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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__init in headers is pretty useless because the compiler doesn't check it, and
they get out of sync relatively frequently. So if you see an __init in a
header file, it's quite unreliable and you need to check the definition
anyway.
Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The grow algorithm is simple, we grow if:
1) we see a hash chain collision at insert, and
2) we haven't hit the hash size limit (currently 1*1024*1024 slots), and
3) the number of xfrm_state objects is > the current hash mask
All of this needs some tweaking.
Remove __initdata from "hashdist" so we can use it safely at run time.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Fix some FRV arch compile errors, including:
(*) Marking nr_kernel_pages as __meminitdata so that references to it end up
being properly calculated rather than being assumed to be in the small
data section (and thus calculated wrt the GP register). Not doing this
causes the linker to emit errors as the offset is too big to fit into the
load instruction.
(*) Move pm_power_off into an unconditionally compiled .c file as it's now
unconditionally accessed.
(*) Declare frv_change_cmode() in a header file rather than in a .c file, and
declare it asmlinkage.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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meminit for build_zonelist
Change definitions of some functions and data from __init to __meminit.
These functions and data can be used after bootup by this patch to be used for
hot-add codes.
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The node setup code would try to allocate the node metadata in the node
itself, but that fails if there is no memory in there.
This can happen with memory hotplug when the hotplug area defines an so
far empty node.
Now use bootmem to try to allocate the mem_map in other nodes.
And if it fails don't panic, but just ignore the node.
To make this work I added a new __alloc_bootmem_nopanic function that
does what its name implies.
TBD should try to use nearby nodes here. Currently we just use any.
It's hard to do it better because bootmem doesn't have proper fallback
lists yet.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Add a list_head to bootmem_data_t and make bootmems use it. bootmem list is
sorted by node_boot_start.
Only nodes against which init_bootmem() is called are linked to the list.
(i386 allocates bootmem only from one node(0) not from all online nodes.)
A summary:
1. for_each_online_pgdat() traverses all *online* nodes.
2. alloc_bootmem() allocates memory only from initialized-for-bootmem nodes.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This fixes problems with very large nodes (over 128GB) filling up all of
the first 4GB with their mem_map and not leaving enough space for the
swiotlb.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Patch cleans up the alloc_bootmem fix for swiotlb. Patch removes
alloc_bootmem_*_limit api and fixes alloc_boot_*low api to do the right
thing -- allocate from low32 memory.
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This introduces a limit parameter to the core bootmem allocator; The new
parameter indicates that physical memory allocated by the bootmem
allocator should be within the requested limit.
We also introduce alloc_bootmem_low_pages_limit, alloc_bootmem_node_limit,
alloc_bootmem_low_pages_node_limit apis, but alloc_bootmem_low_pages_limit
is the only api used for swiotlb.
The existing alloc_bootmem_low_pages() api could instead have been
changed and made to pass right limit to the core allocator. But that
would make the patch more intrusive for 2.6.14, as other arches use
alloc_bootmem_low_pages(). We may be done that post 2.6.14 as a
cleanup.
With this, swiotlb gets memory within 4G for both x86_64 and ia64
arches.
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch retrieves the max_pfn being used by previous kernel and stores it
in a safe location (saved_max_pfn) before it is overwritten due to user
defined memory map. This pfn is used to make sure that user does not try to
read the physical memory beyond saved_max_pfn.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Introduce a simple allocator for the NUMA remap space. This space is very
scarce, used for structures which are best allocated node local.
This mechanism is also used on non-NUMA ia64 systems with a vmem_map to keep
the pgdat->node_mem_map initialized in a consistent place for all
architectures.
Issues:
o alloc_remap takes a node_id where we might expect a pgdat which was intended
to allow us to allocate the pgdat's using this mechanism; which we do not yet
do. Could have alloc_remap_node() and alloc_remap_nid() for this purpose.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The attached patch marks a variable as __initdata in a header file so that
the FRV gcc generates the correct access method as initdata variables are
too far from the GPREL pointer to access directly.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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NUMA systems running current Linux kernels suffer from substantial inequities
in the amount of memory allocated from each NUMA node during boot. In
particular, several large hashes are allocated using alloc_bootmem, and as
such are allocated contiguously from a single node each.
This becomes a problem for certain workloads that are relatively common on
big-iron HPC NUMA systems. In particular, a number of MPI and OpenMP
applications which require nearly all available processors in the system and
nearly all the memory on each node run into difficulties. Due to the uneven
memory distribution onto a few nodes, any thread on those nodes will require a
portion of its memory be allocated from remote nodes. Any access to those
memory locations will be slower than local accesses, and thereby slows down
the effective computation rate for the affected CPUs/threads. This problem is
further amplified if the application is tightly synchronized between threads
(as is often the case), as they entire job can run only at the speed of the
slowest thread.
Additionally since these hashes are usually accessed by all CPUS in the
system, the NUMA network link on the node which hosts the hash experiences
disproportionate traffic levels, thereby reducing the memory bandwidth
available to that node's CPUs, and further penalizing performance of the
threads executed thereupon.
As such, it is desired to find a way to distribute these large hash
allocations more evenly across NUMA nodes. Fortunately current kernels do
perform allocation interleaving for vmalloc() during boot, which provides a
stepping stone to a solution.
This series of patches enables (but does not require) the kernel to allocate
several boot time hashes using vmalloc rather than alloc_bootmem, thereby
causing the hashes to be interleaved amongst NUMA nodes. In particular the
dentry cache, inode cache, TCP ehash, and TCP bhash have been changed to be
allocated in this manner. Due to the limited vmalloc space on architectures
such as i386, this behavior is turned on by default only for IA64 NUMA systems
(though there is no reason other interested architectures could not enable it
if desired). Non-IA64 and non-NUMA systems continue to use the existing
alloc_bootmem() allocation mechanism. A boot line parameter "hashdist" can be
set to override the default behavior.
The following two sets of example output show the uneven distribution just
after boot, using init=/bin/sh to eliminate as much non-kernel allocation as
possible.
Without the boot hash distribution patches:
Nid MemTotal MemFree MemUsed (in kB)
0 3870656 3697696 172960
1 3882992 3866656 16336
2 3883008 3866784 16224
3 3882992 3866464 16528
4 3883008 3866592 16416
5 3883008 3866720 16288
6 3882992 3342176 540816
7 3883008 3865440 17568
8 3882992 3866560 16432
9 3883008 3866400 16608
10 3882992 3866592 16400
11 3883008 3866400 16608
12 3882992 3866400 16592
13 3883008 3866432 16576
14 3883008 3866528 16480
15 3864768 3848256 16512
ToT 62097440 61152096 945344
Notice that nodes 0 and 6 have a substantially larger memory utilization
than all other nodes.
With the boot hash distribution patch:
Nid MemTotal MemFree MemUsed (in kB)
0 3870656 3789792 80864
1 3882992 3843776 39216
2 3883008 3843808 39200
3 3882992 3843904 39088
4 3883008 3827488 55520
5 3883008 3843712 39296
6 3882992 3843936 39056
7 3883008 3844096 38912
8 3882992 3843712 39280
9 3883008 3844000 39008
10 3882992 3843872 39120
11 3883008 3843872 39136
12 3882992 3843808 39184
13 3883008 3843936 39072
14 3883008 3843712 39296
15 3864768 3825760 39008
ToT 62097440 61413184 684256
While not perfectly even, we can see that there is a substantial improvement
in the spread of memory allocated by the kernel during boot. The remaining
uneveness may be due in part to further boot time allocations that could be
addressed in a similar manner, but some difference is due to the somewhat
special nature of node 0 during boot. However the uneveness has fallen to a
much more acceptable level (at least to a level that SGI isn't concerned
about).
The astute reader will also notice that in this example, with this patch
approximately 256 MB less memory was allocated during boot. This is due to
the size limits of a single vmalloc. More specifically, this is because the
automatically computed size of the TCP ehash exceeds the maximum size which a
single vmalloc can accomodate. However this is of little practical concern as
the vmalloc size limit simply reduces one ridiculously large allocation
(512MB) to a slightly less ridiculously large allocation (256MB). In practice
machines with large memory configurations are using the thash_entries setting
to limit the size of the TCP ehash _much_ lower than either of the
automatically computed values. Illustrative of the exceedingly large nature
of the automatically computed size, SGI currently recommends that customers
boot with thash_entries=2097152, which works out to a 32MB allocation. In any
case, setting hashdist=0 will allow for allocations in excess of vmalloc
limits, if so desired.
Other than the vmalloc limit, great care was taken to ensure that the size of
TCP hash allocations was not altered by this patch. Due to slightly different
computation techniques between the existing TCP code and
alloc_large_system_hash (which is now utilized), some of the magic constants
in the TCP hash allocation code were changed. On all sizes of system (128MB
through 64GB) that I had access to, the patched code preserves the previous
hash size, as long as the vmalloc limit (256MB on IA64) is not encountered.
There was concern that changing the TCP-related hashes to use vmalloc space
may adversely impact network performance. To this end the netperf set of
benchmarks was run. Some individual tests seemed to benefit slightly, some
seemed to be harmed slightly, but in all cases the average difference with and
without these patches was well within the variabilty I would see from run to
run.
The following is the overall netperf averages (30 10 second runs each) against
an older kernel with these same patches. These tests were run over loopback
as GigE results were so inconsistent run to run both with and without these
patches that they provided no meaningful comparison that I could discern. I
used the same kernel (IA64 generic) for each run, simply varying the new
"hashdist" boot parameter to turn on or off the new allocation behavior. In
all cases the thash_entries value was manually specified as discussed
previously to eliminate any variability that might result from that size
difference.
HP ZX1, hashdist=0
==================
TCP_RR = 19389
TCP_MAERTS = 6561
TCP_STREAM = 6590
TCP_CC = 9483
TCP_CRR = 8633
HP ZX1, hashdist=1
==================
TCP_RR = 19411
TCP_MAERTS = 6559
TCP_STREAM = 6584
TCP_CC = 9454
TCP_CRR = 8626
SGI Altix, hashdist=0
=====================
TCP_RR = 16871
TCP_MAERTS = 3925
TCP_STREAM = 4055
TCP_CC = 8438
TCP_CRR = 7750
SGI Altix, hashdist=1
=====================
TCP_RR = 17040
TCP_MAERTS = 3913
TCP_STREAM = 4044
TCP_CC = 8367
TCP_CRR = 7538
I believe the TCP_CC and TCP_CRR are the tests most sensitive to this
particular change. But again, I want to emphasize that even the differences
you see above are _well_ within the variability I saw from run to run of any
given test.
In addition, Jose Santos at IBM has run specSFS, which has been particularly
sensitive to TLB issues, against these patches and saw no performance
degredation (differences down in the noise).
This patch:
Modifies alloc_large_system_hash to enable the use of vmalloc to alleviate
boottime allocation imbalances on NUMA systems.
Due to limited vmalloc space on some architectures (i.e. x86), the use of
vmalloc is enabled by default only on NUMA IA64 kernels. There should be
no problem enabling this change for any other interested NUMA architecture.
Signed-off-by: Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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A 4GB, 4-way Opteron would create the smallest size table (16 entries) because
pidhash_init is called before mem_init which is where x86-64 sets up max_pfn.
nr_kernel_pages is setup by paging_init, called from setup_arch, which is also
where i386 sets up max_pfn.
So export nr_kernel_pages, nr_all_pages. Use nr_kernel_pages when sizing the
PID hash. This fixes the problem.
This also makes the pid hash dependant on the size of ZONE_NORMAL instead of
total size of memory.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Here's a patch to allocate memory for big system hash tables with the
bootmem allocator rather than with main page allocator.
It is needed for three reasons:
(1) So that the size can be bigger than MAX_ORDER. IBM have done some
testing on their big PPC64 systems (64GB of RAM) with linux-2.4 and found
that they get better performance if the sizes of the inode cache hash,
dentry cache hash, buffer head hash and page cache hash are increased
beyond MAX_ORDER (order 11).
Now the main allocator can't allocate anything larger than MAX_ORDER, but
the bootmem allocator can.
In 2.6 it appears that only the inode and dentry hashes remain of those
four, but there are other hash tables that could use this service.
(2) Changing MAX_ORDER appears to have a number of effects beyond just
limiting the maximum size that can be allocated in one go.
(3) Should someone want a hash table in which each bucket isn't a power of
two in size, memory will be wasted as the chunk of memory allocated will
be a power of two in size (to hold a power of two number of buckets).
On the other hand, using the bootmem allocator means the allocation
will only take up sufficient pages to hold it, rather than the next power
of two up.
Admittedly, this point doesn't apply to the dentry and inode hashes,
but it might to another hash table that might want to use this service.
I've coelesced the meat of the inode and dentry allocation routines into
one such routine in mm/page_alloc.c that the the respective initialisation
functions now call before mem_init() is called.
This routine gets it's approximation of memory size by counting up the
ZONE_NORMAL and ZONE_DMA pages (and ZONE_HIGHMEM if requested) in all the
nodes passed to the main allocator by paging_init() (or wherever the arch
does it). It does not use max_low_pfn as that doesn't seem to be available
on all archs, and it doesn't use num_physpages since that includes highmem
pages not available to the kernel for allocating data structures upon -
which may not be appropriate when calculating hash table size.
On the off chance that the size of each hash bucket may not be exactly a
power of two, the routine will only allocate as many pages as is necessary
to ensure that the number of buckets is exactly a power of two, rather than
allocating the smallest power-of-two sized chunk of memory that will hold
the same array of buckets.
The maximum size of any single hash table is given by
MAX_SYS_HASH_TABLE_ORDER, as is now defined in linux/mmzone.h.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
This patch is from the IA64 tree, with some minor cleanups by me.
David described it as:
This is a performance speed up and some minor indendation fixups.
The problem is that the bootmem code is (a) hugely slow and (b) has
execution that grow quadratically with the size of the bootmap bitmap.
This causes noticable slowdowns, especially on machines with (relatively)
large holes in the physical memory map. Issue (b) is addressed by
maintaining the "last_success" cache, so that we start the next search
from the place where we last found some memory (this part of the patch
could stand additional reviewing/testing). Issue (a) is addressed by
using find_next_zero_bit() instead of the slow bit-by-bit testing.
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- All the support macros which assume a linear mem_map[] have been
wrapped in !CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM. pfn_to_page, page_to_pfn,
page_to_phys, pmd_page, kern_addr_valid.
- Move some initialsation macros into setup.h so they can be used in
the i386 discontig.c (INITRD_START, INITRD_SIZE).
- Alternate version of the bootmem allocator
- add i386 discontig support and numaq support.
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- Greg KH: USB update
- Richard Gooch: refcounting for devfs
- Jens Axboe: start of new block IO layer
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