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Bart Oldeman
d5cd4aadd3 [PATCH] x86: initialise tss->io_bitmap_owner to something
There exists a field io_bitmap_owner in the TSS that is only checked, but
never set to anything else but NULL.

Signed-off-by: Bart Oldeman <bartoldeman@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:11 -08:00
Shaohua Li
08967f941a [PATCH] FPU context corrupted after resume
mxcsr_feature_mask_init isn't needed in suspend/resume time (we can use
boot time mask).  And actually it's harmful, as it clear task's saved
fxsave in resume.  This bug is widely seen by users using zsh.

(akpm: my eyes.  Fixed some surrounding whitespace mess)

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li<shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:11 -08:00
Jan Beulich
8896fab35e [PATCH] x86: cmpxchg improvements
This adjusts i386's cmpxchg patterns so that

- for word and long cmpxchg-es the compiler can utilize all possible
  registers

- cmpxchg8b gets disabled when the minimum specified hardware architectur
  doesn't support it (like was already happening for the byte, word, and
  long ones).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:11 -08:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
dacb16b1a0 [PATCH] i386 and x86_64 TSC set_cyc2ns_scale imprecision
I just found out that some precision is unnecessarily lost in the
arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c:set_cyc2ns_scale function.  It uses a
cpu_mhz parameter when it could use a cpu_khz.  In the specific case of an
Intel P4 running at 3001.171 Mhz, the truncation to 3001 Mhz leads to an
imprecision of 19 microseconds per second : this is very sad for a timer with
nearly nanosecond accuracy.

Fix the x86_64 architecture too.

Cc: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:11 -08:00
Davi Arnaut
bfd51626cb [PATCH] SELinux: remove unecessary size_t checks in selinuxfs
This patch removes a bunch of unecessary checks for (size_t < 0) in
selinuxfs.

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:11 -08:00
Andrew Morton
ce4c2bd1a9 [PATCH] selinux-canonicalize-getxattr-fix
security/selinux/hooks.c: In function `selinux_inode_getxattr':
security/selinux/hooks.c:2193: warning: unused variable `sbsec'

Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:11 -08:00
James Morris
d381d8a9a0 [PATCH] SELinux: canonicalize getxattr()
This patch allows SELinux to canonicalize the value returned from
getxattr() via the security_inode_getsecurity() hook, which is called after
the fs level getxattr() function.

The purpose of this is to allow the in-core security context for an inode
to override the on-disk value.  This could happen in cases such as
upgrading a system to a different labeling form (e.g.  standard SELinux to
MLS) without needing to do a full relabel of the filesystem.

In such cases, we want getxattr() to return the canonical security context
that the kernel is using rather than what is stored on disk.

The implementation hooks into the inode_getsecurity(), adding another
parameter to indicate the result of the preceding fs-level getxattr() call,
so that SELinux knows whether to compare a value obtained from disk with
the kernel value.

We also now allow getxattr() to work for mountpoint labeled filesystems
(i.e.  mount with option context=foo_t), as we are able to return the
kernel value to the user.

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:11 -08:00
James Morris
89d155ef62 [PATCH] SELinux: convert to kzalloc
This patch converts SELinux code from kmalloc/memset to the new kazalloc
unction.  On i386, this results in a text saving of over 1K.

Before:
text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
86319    4642   15236  106197   19ed5 security/selinux/built-in.o

After:
text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
85278    4642   15236  105156   19ac4 security/selinux/built-in.o

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:11 -08:00
Brian Gerst
0d078f6f96 [PATCH] CONFIG_IA32
Add CONFIG_X86_32 for i386.  This allows selecting options that only apply
to 32-bit systems.

(X86 && !X86_64) becomes X86_32
(X86 ||  X86_64) becomes X86

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:10 -08:00
Brian Gerst
4276d32260 [PATCH] Remove redundant configs.o
Since CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC already depends on CONFIG_IKCONFIG, adding
configs.o again is redundant.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:10 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
6e9d6b8ee4 Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev 2005-10-30 14:47:58 -08:00
Trond Myklebust
d3f8cf4899 [PATCH] NFS: Remove unbalanced spin_unlock() calls from nfs_refresh_inode()
Doh!

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 14:46:47 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
08db2a701b Fix PIIX4 SMB region size
Petr Vandrovec correctly points out that the SMB region of the PIIX4 is
just 16 bytes, not 32.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 14:40:07 -08:00
Jeff Garzik
a9524a76f7 [libata] use dev_printk() throughout drivers
A few drivers were not following the standard meme of printing out
their driver name and version at module load time; this is fixed
as well.
2005-10-30 14:39:11 -05:00
Jeff Garzik
fbf30fbaa6 [libata ata_piix] fix native mode probe, after recent updates 2005-10-30 07:57:31 -05:00
Jeff Garzik
6248e64721 [libata ata_piix] use dev_printk() where appropriate 2005-10-30 06:42:18 -05:00
Jeff Garzik
0f0d519269 [libata] fix legacy IDE probing
ata_pci_init_one() receives an array of struct ata_port_info.  Recent
updates to the code had always obtained port information from
array element 0, rather than array element N.

Change to avoid hardcoding port_info[0], thereby restoring proper
hardware information to secondary legacy ports.
2005-10-30 06:41:29 -05:00
Jeff Garzik
a7dac447bb [libata] change ata_qc_complete() to take error mask as second arg
The second argument to ata_qc_complete() was being used for two
purposes: communicate the ATA Status register to the completion
function, and indicate an error.  On legacy PCI IDE hardware, the latter
is often implicit in the former.  On more modern hardware, the driver
often completely emulated a Status register value, passing ATA_ERR as an
indication that something went wrong.

Now that previous code changes have eliminated the need to use drv_stat
arg to communicate the ATA Status register value, we can convert it to a
mask of possible error classes.

This will lead to more flexible error handling in the future.
2005-10-30 04:44:42 -05:00
Jeff Garzik
81cfb8864c Merge branch 'master' 2005-10-30 01:56:31 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
9f75e1eff3 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2005-10-29 21:48:06 -07:00
Nikita Danilov
b1459461f1 [PATCH] mm/filemap.c:filemap_populate(): move export.
move EXPORT_SYMBOL(filemap_populate) to the proper place: just after
function itself: it's easy to miss that function is exported otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Nikita Danilov <nikita@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:45 -07:00
John Hawkes
2f96996de0 [PATCH] mm: wider use of for_each_*cpu()
In 'mm' change the explicit use of a for-loop using NR_CPUS into the
general for_each_cpu() constructs.  This widens the scope of potential
future optimizations of the general constructs, as well as takes advantage
of the existing optimizations of first_cpu() and next_cpu(), which is
advantageous when the true CPU count is much smaller than NR_CPUS.

Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:45 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
5fcbb23050 [PATCH] Remove policy contextualization from mbind
Policy contextualization is only useful for task based policies and not for
vma based policies.  It may be useful to define allowed nodes that are not
accessible from this thread because other threads may have access to these
nodes.  Without this patch strange memory policy situations may cause an
application to fail with out of memory.

Example:

Let's say we have two threads A and B that share the same address space and
a huge array computational array X.

Thread A is restricted by its cpuset to nodes 0 and 1 and thread B is
restricted by its cpuset to nodes 2 and 3.

Thread A now wants to restrict allocations to the first node and thus
applies a BIND policy on X to node 0 and 2.  The cpuset limits this to node
0.  Thus pages for X must be allocated on node 0 now.

Thread B now touches a page that has never been used in X and faults in a
page.  According to the BIND policy of the vma for X the page must be
allocated on page 0.  However, the cpuset of B does not allow allocation on
0 and 1.  Now the application fails in alloc_pages with out of memory.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:45 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
8bccd85ffb [PATCH] Implement sys_* do_* layering in the memory policy layer.
- Do a separation between do_xxx and sys_xxx functions. sys_xxx functions
  take variable sized bitmaps from user space as arguments. do_xxx functions
  take fixed sized nodemask_t as arguments and may be used from inside the
  kernel. Doing so simplifies the initialization code. There is no
  fs = kernel_ds assumption anymore.

- Split up get_nodes into get_nodes (which gets the node list) and
  contextualize_policy which restricts the nodes to those accessible
  to the task and updates cpusets.

- Add comments explaining limitations of bind policy

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:45 -07:00
Dave Hansen
bb7e7e032d [PATCH] memory hotplug: ppc64 specific hot-add functions
Here is a set of ppc64 specific patches that at least allow
compilation/booting with the following configurations:

FLATMEM
SPARSEMEN
SPARSEMEM + MEMORY_HOTPLUG

Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com>
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>
2005-10-29 21:40:45 -07:00
Dave Hansen
05039b9263 [PATCH] memory hotplug: i386 addition functions
Adds the necessary for non-NUMA hot-add of highmem to an existing zone on
i386.

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>
2005-10-29 21:40:45 -07:00
Dave Hansen
61b13993a8 [PATCH] memory hotplug: call setup_per_zone_pages_min after hotplug
From: IWAMOTO Toshihiro <iwamoto@valinux.co.jp>
> I found the tests does not work well with Dave's patchset.
> I've found the followings:
>
> 	- setup_per_zone_pages_min() calls should be added in
> 	   capture_page_range() and online_pages()
> 	- lru_add_drain() should be called before try_to_migrate_pages()

The following patch deals with the first item.

Signed-off-by: IWAMOTO Toshihiro <iwamoto@valinux.co.jp>
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>
2005-10-29 21:40:44 -07:00
Dave Hansen
0b0acbec1b [PATCH] memory hotplug: move section_mem_map alloc to sparse.c
This basically keeps up from having to extern __kmalloc_section_memmap().

The vaddr_in_vmalloc_area() helper could go in a vmalloc header, but that
header gets hard to work with, because it needs some arch-specific macros.
Just stick it in here for now, instead of creating another header.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Lion Vollnhals <webmaster@schiggl.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
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>
2005-10-29 21:40:44 -07:00
Dave Hansen
3947be1969 [PATCH] memory hotplug: sysfs and add/remove functions
This adds generic memory add/remove and supporting functions for memory
hotplug into a new file as well as a memory hotplug kernel config option.

Individual architecture patches will follow.

For now, disable memory hotplug when swsusp is enabled.  There's a lot of
churn there right now.  We'll fix it up properly once it calms down.

Signed-off-by: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
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>
2005-10-29 21:40:44 -07:00
Dave Hansen
bdc8cb9845 [PATCH] memory hotplug locking: zone span seqlock
See the "fixup bad_range()" patch for more information, but this actually
creates a the lock to protect things making assumptions about a zone's size
staying constant at runtime.

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>
2005-10-29 21:40:44 -07:00
Dave Hansen
208d54e551 [PATCH] memory hotplug locking: node_size_lock
pgdat->node_size_lock is basically only neeeded in one place in the normal
code: show_mem(), which is the arch-specific sysrq-m printing function.

Strictly speaking, the architectures not doing memory hotplug do no need this
locking in show_mem().  However, they are all included for completeness.  This
should also make any future consolidation of all of the implementations a
little more straightforward.

This lock is also held in the sparsemem code during a memory removal, as
sections are invalidated.  This is the place there pfn_valid() is made false
for a memory area that's being removed.  The lock is only required when doing
pfn_valid() operations on memory which the user does not already have a
reference on the page, such as in show_mem().

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>
2005-10-29 21:40:44 -07:00
Dave Hansen
c6a57e19e4 [PATCH] memory hotplug prep: fixup bad_range()
When doing memory hotplug operations, the size of existing zones can obviously
change.  This means that zone->zone_{start_pfn,spanned_pages} can change.

There are currently no locks that protect these structure members.  However,
they are rarely accessed at runtime.  Outside of swsusp, the only place that I
can find is bad_range().

So, split bad_range() up into two pieces: one that needs to be locked and
anther that doesn't.

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>
2005-10-29 21:40:44 -07:00
Dave Hansen
4ca644d970 [PATCH] memory hotplug prep: __section_nr helper
A little helper that we use in the hotplug code.

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>
2005-10-29 21:40:44 -07:00
Dave Hansen
ed8ece2ec8 [PATCH] memory hotplug prep: break out zone initialization
If a zone is empty at boot-time and then hot-added to later, it needs to run
the same init code that would have been run on it at boot.

This patch breaks out zone table and per-cpu-pages functions for use by the
hotplug code.  You can almost see all of the free_area_init_core() function on
one page now.  :)

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>
2005-10-29 21:40:44 -07:00
Dave Hansen
2774812f41 [PATCH] memory hotplug prep: kill local_mapnr
The following series implements memory hot-add for ppc64 and i386.  There are
x86_64 and ia64 implementations that will be submitted shortly as well,
through the normal maintainers.

This patch:

local_mapnr is unused, except for in an alpha header.  Keep the alpha one,
kill the rest.

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>
2005-10-29 21:40:44 -07:00
Andrea Arcangeli
1a44e14908 [PATCH] .text page fault SMP scalability optimization
We had a problem on ppc64 where with more than 4 threads a large system
wouldn't scale well while faulting in the .text (most of the time was spent
in the kernel despite it was an userland compute intensive app).  The
reason is the useless overwrite of the same pte from all cpu.

I fixed it this way (verified on an older kernel but the forward port is
almost identical).  This will benefit all archs not just ppc64.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:43 -07:00
Adam Litke
2e9b367c22 [PATCH] hugetlb: overcommit accounting check
Basic overcommit checking for hugetlb_file_map() based on an implementation
used with demand faulting in SLES9.

Since demand faulting can't guarantee the availability of pages at mmap
time, this patch implements a basic sanity check to ensure that the number
of huge pages required to satisfy the mmap are currently available.
Despite the obvious race, I think it is a good start on doing proper
accounting.  I'd like to work towards an accounting system that mimics the
semantics of normal pages (especially for the MAP_PRIVATE/COW case).  That
work is underway and builds on what this patch starts.

Huge page shared memory segments are simpler and still maintain their
commit on shmget semantics.

Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:43 -07:00
Adam Litke
4c88726597 [PATCH] hugetlb: demand fault handler
Below is a patch to implement demand faulting for huge pages.  The main
motivation for changing from prefaulting to demand faulting is so that huge
page memory areas can be allocated according to NUMA policy.

Thanks to consolidated hugetlb code, switching the behavior requires changing
only one fault handler.  The bulk of the patch just moves the logic from
hugelb_prefault() to hugetlb_pte_fault() and find_get_huge_page().

Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:43 -07:00
Krishnakumar R
551110a94a [PATCH] hugetlb: remove repeated code
Clean up some repeated code related to HugeTLB.  hugetlb_zero_setup would
have already allocated the file->f_op.

Signed-off-by: Krishnakumar. R <rkrishnakumar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:43 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
0b1533f67c [PATCH] cleanup hugelbfs_forget_inode
Reformat hugelbfs_forget_inode and add the missing but harmless
write_inode_now call.  It looks the same as generic_forget_inode now except
for the call to truncate_hugepages instead of truncate_inode_pages.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:43 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
6b09b9df05 [PATCH] kill hugelbfs_do_delete_inode
hugetlbfs_do_delete_inode is the same as generic_delete_inode now, so remove
it in favour of the latter.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:43 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
149f4211af [PATCH] hugetlbfs: clean up hugetlbfs_delete_inode
Make hugetlbfs looks the same as generic_detelte_inode, fixing a bunch of
missing updates to it at the same time.  Rename it to
hugetlbfs_do_delete_inode and add a real hugetlbfs_delete_inode that
implements ->delete_inode.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:43 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
96527980d4 [PATCH] hugetlbfs: move free_inodes accounting
Move hugetlbfs accounting into ->alloc_inode / ->destroy_inode.  This keeps
the code simpler, fixes a loeak where a failing inode allocation wouldn't
decrement the counter and moves hugetlbfs_delete_inode and
hugetlbfs_forget_inode closer to their generic counterparts.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:43 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
b8072f099b [PATCH] mm: update comments to pte lock
Updated several references to page_table_lock in common code comments.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
f412ac08c9 [PATCH] mm: fix rss and mmlist locking
A couple of oddities were guarded by page_table_lock, no longer properly
guarded when that is split.

The mm_counters of file_rss and anon_rss: make those an atomic_t, or an
atomic64_t if the architecture supports it, in such a case.  Definitions by
courtesy of Christoph Lameter: who spent considerable effort on more scalable
ways of counting, but found insufficient benefit in practice.

And adding an mm with swap to the mmlist for swapoff: the list is well-
guarded by its own lock, but the list_empty check now has to be repeated
inside it.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
4c21e2f244 [PATCH] mm: split page table lock
Christoph Lameter demonstrated very poor scalability on the SGI 512-way, with
a many-threaded application which concurrently initializes different parts of
a large anonymous area.

This patch corrects that, by using a separate spinlock per page table page, to
guard the page table entries in that page, instead of using the mm's single
page_table_lock.  (But even then, page_table_lock is still used to guard page
table allocation, and anon_vma allocation.)

In this implementation, the spinlock is tucked inside the struct page of the
page table page: with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case it overflows - which it would in
the case of 32-bit PA-RISC with spinlock debugging enabled.

Splitting the lock is not quite for free: another cacheline access.  Ideally,
I suppose we would use split ptlock only for multi-threaded processes on
multi-cpu machines; but deciding that dynamically would have its own costs.
So for now enable it by config, at some number of cpus - since the Kconfig
language doesn't support inequalities, let preprocessor compare that with
NR_CPUS.  But I don't think it's worth being user-configurable: for good
testing of both split and unsplit configs, split now at 4 cpus, and perhaps
change that to 8 later.

There is a benefit even for singly threaded processes: kswapd can be attacking
one part of the mm while another part is busy faulting.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
b38c6845b6 [PATCH] mm: uml kill unused
In worrying over the various pte operations in different architectures, I came
across some unused functions in UML: remove mprotect_kernel_vm,
protect_vm_page and addr_pte.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
8f5cd76c18 [PATCH] mm: uml pte atomicity
There's usually a good reason when a pte is examined without the lock; but it
makes me nervous when the pointer is dereferenced more than once.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
a7e4705b24 [PATCH] mm: cris v32 mmu_context_lock
The cris v32 switch_mm guards get_mmu_context with next->page_table_lock: good
it's not really SMP yet, since get_mmu_context messes with global variables
affecting other mms.  Replace by global mmu_context_lock.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
92dc6fcc84 [PATCH] mm: parisc pte atomicity
There's a worrying function translation_exists in parisc cacheflush.h,
unaffected by split ptlock since flush_dcache_page is using it on some other
mm, without any relevant lock.  Oh well, make it a slightly more robust by
factoring the pfn check within it.  And it looked liable to confuse a
camouflaged swap or file entry with a good pte: fix that too.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:42 -07:00