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2006-04-11[PATCH] s390: increase cio_trace debug event sizePeter Oberparleiter
Debugging events in cio_trace/hex_ascii are truncated for some trace entries. Increase trace event size to 16 bytes to cover longer text events, make CIO_HEX_EVENT an inline function that loops to cover bigger hex events. Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] s390: wrong return codes in cio_ignore_proc_init()Cornelia Huck
cio_ignore_proc_init() returns 1 in case of success and 0 in case of failure. The caller tests for != 0, so better return 0 in case of success and -ENOENT in case of failure. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] s390: invalid check after kzalloc()Peter Oberparleiter
Typo. After the call to kzalloc() for kdb->key_maps the test for NULL checks the wrong variable. Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] s390: ebdic to ascii conversion tablesPeter Oberparleiter
Make the length of ebcdic<->ascii conversion arrays known. This avoid warnings with source code checking tools. Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] s390: update default configurationMartin Schwidefsky
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] uml: avoid warnings for diffent names for an unsigned quadwordPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Since on some 64-bit systems __u64 is rightfully defined to unsigned long and GCC recognizes anyway unsigned long and unsigned long long as different, fix some types back to being unsigned long long to avoid warnings and errors (for prototype mismatch) on those systems. Thanks to the report by Wesley Emeneker wesleyemeneker (at) google (dot) com Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] uml: fix parallel make early failure on clean treePaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Parallel make failed once for me - fix this by adding the appropriate command (mkdir before creating a link in that dir). Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] uml: local_irq_save, not local_save_flagsPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
The call to local_save_flags seems bogus since it is followed by local_irq_restore, and it's intended to lock the list from concurrent mconsole_interrupt invocations. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] uml: fix big stack userPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Switch this proc from storing 4k of data (a whole path) on the stack to keeping it on the heap. Maybe it's not called in process context but only in early boot context (where in UML you have a normal process stack on the host) but just to be safe, fix it. While at it some little readability simplifications. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] uml: fix failure path after conversionPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Little fix for error paths in this code. - Some bug come from conversion to os-Linux (open() doesn't follow the kernel -errno return convention, while the old code called os_open_file() which followed it). This caused the wrong return code to be printed. - Then be more precise about what happened and do some whitespace fixes. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] uml: fix hang on run_helper() failure on uml_netPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Fix an hang on a pipe when run_helper() fails when called by change_tramp() (i.e. when calling uml_net) - reproduced the bug and verified this fixes it. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] uml: move outside spinlock call not needing itPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Move a call to kfree on a local variable out of a spinlock - there's no need to have it in. Done on a just merged patch. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] uml: support sparse for userspace filesPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Make sparse checker work for userspace files - it normally gets -nostdinc separately, so avoid having it for userspace files. Also, add -D$(SUBARCH) for multiarch hosts (i.e. AMD64 with compatibility headers). It works, the only problem is a bit of bogus warnings for system headers, but they're not too many. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] uml: fix critical typo for TT modePaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Noticed this for a compilation-time warning, so I'm fixing it even for TT mode - this is not put_user, but copy_to_user, so we need a pointer to sp, not sp itself (we're trying to write the word pointed to by the "sp" var.). Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] uml: fix "extern-vs-static" proto conflict in TLS codePaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Move the prototype from arch-generic to arch-specific includes because on x86_64 these functions are two static inlines. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] uml: fix some double export warningsPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Some functions are exported twice in current code - remove the excess export. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] uml: fix format errorsPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Now that GCC warns about format errors, fix them. Nothing able to cause a crash, however. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] uml: request format warnings to GCC for appropriate functionsPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Add the format attribute to prototypes so GCC warns about improper usage. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] uml: fix 2 harmless cast warnings for 64-bitPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
Fix two harmless warnings in 64-bit compilation (the 2nd doesn't trigger for now because of a missing __attribute((format)) for cow_printf, but next patches fix that). Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] uml: safe migration path to the correct V3 COW formatPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
- Correct the layout of all header versions - make all them well-specified for any external event. As we don't have 1-byte or 2-byte wide fields, the 32-bit layout (historical one) has no extra padding, so we can safely add __attribute__((packed)). - Add detection and reading of the broken 64-bit COW format which has been around for a while - to allow safe migration to the correct 32-bit format. Safe detection is possible, thanks to some luck with the existing format, and it works in practice. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] uml: make 64-bit COW files compatible with 32-bit onesPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
This is the minimal fix to make 64-bit UML binaries create 32-bit compatible COW files and read them. I've indeed tested that current code doesn't do this - the code gets SIGFPE for a division by a value read at the wrong place, where 0 is found. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] uml: memory hotplug cleanupsJeff Dike
Change memory hotplug to use GFP_NOWAIT instead of GFP_ATOMIC, so that it will grab memory without sleeping, but doesn't try to use the emergency pools. A small list initialization suggested by Daniel Phillips - don't initialize lists which are just about to be list_add-ed. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] Add GFP_NOWAITJeff Dike
Introduce GFP_NOWAIT, as an alias for GFP_ATOMIC & ~__GFP_HIGH. This also changes XFS, which is the only in-tree user of this idiom that I could find. The XFS piece is compile-tested only. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Acked-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] UML: TLS fixletsJeff Dike
Two small TLS fixes - arch/um/os-Linux/sys-i386/tls.c uses errno and -E* so it should include errno.h __setup_host_supports_tls returns 1, but as an initcall, it should return 0 Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] m32r: Remove symbols exported twiceHirokazu Takata
Remove multi-exported symbols from arch/m32r/kernel/m32r_ksyms.c. WARNING: vmlinux: 'enable_irq' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux WARNING: vmlinux: 'disable_irq' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux WARNING: vmlinux: 'disable_irq_nosync' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux WARNING: vmlinux: 'synchronize_irq' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux WARNING: vmlinux: 'memchr' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux WARNING: vmlinux: 'strstr' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux WARNING: vmlinux: 'memscan' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux WARNING: vmlinux: 'memcmp' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux WARNING: vmlinux: 'memmove' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux WARNING: vmlinux: 'strnlen' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux WARNING: vmlinux: 'strchr' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux WARNING: vmlinux: 'strncmp' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux WARNING: vmlinux: 'strcmp' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux WARNING: vmlinux: 'strncat' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux WARNING: vmlinux: 'strcat' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux WARNING: vmlinux: 'strncpy' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux WARNING: vmlinux: 'strcpy' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] Remove unused prepare_to_switch macroHirokazu Takata
Remove unused prepare_to_switch() macros. Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] m32r: security fix of {get,put}_user macrosHirokazu Takata
Update {get,put}_user macros for m32r kernel. - Modify get_user to use __get_user_asm macro, instead of __get_user_x macro. - Remove arch/m32r/lib/{get,put}user.S. - Some cosmetic updates. I would like to thank NIIBE Yutaka for his reporting about the m32r kernel's security problem in {get,put}_user macros. There were no address checking for user space access in {get,put}_user macros. ;-) Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe@fsij.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] m32r: Fix cpu_possible_map and cpu_present_map initialization for ↵Hirokazu Takata
SMP kernel This patch fixes a boot problem of the m32r SMP kernel 2.6.16-rc1-mm3 or later. In this patch, cpu_possible_map is statically initialized, and cpu_present_map is also copied from cpu_possible_map in smp_prepare_cpus(), because the m32r architecture has not supported CPU hotplug yet. Signed-off-by: Hayato Fujiwara <fujiwara.hayato@renesas.com> Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] alpha: SMP boot fixesBrian Uhrain says
I've encountered two problems with 2.6.16 and newer kernels on my API CS20 (dual 833MHz Alpha 21264b processors). The first is the kernel OOPSing because of a NULL pointer dereference while trying to populate SysFS with the CPU information. The other is that only one processor was being brought up. I've included a small Alpha-specific patch that fixes both problems. The first problem was caused by the CPUs never being properly registered using register_cpu(), the way it's done on other architectures. The second problem has to do with the removal of hwrpb_cpu_present_mask in arch/alpha/kernel/smp.c. In setup_smp() in the 2.6.15 kernel sources, hwrpb_cpu_present_mask has a bit set for each processor that is probed, and afterwards cpu_present_mask is set to the cpumask for the boot CPU. In the same function of the same file in the 2.6.16 sources, instead of hwrpb_cpu_present_mask being set, cpu_possible_map is updated for each probed CPU. cpu_present_mask is still set to the cpumask of the boot CPU afterwards. The problem lies in include/asm-alpha/smp.h, where cpu_possible_map is #define'd to be cpu_present_mask. Cleanups from: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> - cpu_present_mask and cpu_possible_map are essentially the same thing on alpha, as it doesn't support CPU hotplug; - allocate "struct cpu" only for present CPUs, like sparc64 does. Static array of "struct cpu" is just a waste of memory. Signed-off-by: Brian Uhrain <buhrain@rosettastone.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] Enable TSC for AMD Geode GX/LXJordan Crouse
Geode GX/LX should enable X86_TSC. Pointed out by Adrian Bunk. Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] i386: move SMP option above subarch selectionAdrian Bunk
Since several subarchs depend on SMP, the SMP option should be above the subarch selection. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] mptspec: remove duplicate #includeRandy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] mpparse: prevent table index out-of-boundsRandy Dunlap
John Z. Bohach <jzb@aexorsyst.com> found this bug: If the board has more than 32 PCI busses on it, the mptable bus array will overwrite its bounds for the PCI busses, and stomp on anything that's after it. Prevent possible table overflow and unknown data corruption. Code is in an __init section so it will be discarded after init. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] menu: relocate DOUBLEFAULT optionRandy Dunlap
Move the DOUBLEFAULT option from the top-level menu to the EMBEDDED menu. Only applicable to X86_32. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] i386: print EIP/ESP lastRandy Dunlap
Print summary registers (EIP and SS:ESP only) as last death info. This makes this important data visible in case it had scrolled off the top of the display. Similar to what x86_64 does. Suggested by Andi Kleen. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] swsusp: don't require bigsmpAshok Raj
Switching to automatic bigsmp causes a misleading error message, that more then 8 cpus are detected, and user needs to select either X86_GENERICARCH or X86_BIGSMP to handle. Reason is we switched to bigsmp to avoid IP race when new cpu is comming up. [bigsmp is nothing but using physical flat mode that can work for 1 .. 255 cpus] [default is X86_PC, that uses logical flat mode up to 8 CPUs max] Current x86_64 code uses bigsmp as default when hotplug is enabled. It would be preferable to make bigsmp as default, and work the dependencies of other related code like SMP_SUSPEND, and some related to memory hotplug code for i386. Current logical flat mode doesnt use shortcuts that cause the race by using the send_IPI_mask() instead of shortcuts when HOTPLUG_CPU is enabled. In the meantime this patch is the path of lease resistance. We will switch to bigsmp default sometime soon, when we get to work it again. Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] frv: define MMU mode specific syscalls as 'cond_syscall' and clean ↵Hyok S. Choi
up unneeded macros For some architectures, a few syscalls are not linked in noMMU mode. In that case, the MMU depending syscalls are needed to be defined as 'cond_syscall'. For example, ARM architecture selectively links sys_mlock by the mode configuration. In case of FRV, it has been managed by #ifdef CONFIG_MMU macro in arch/frv/kernel/entry.S. However these conditional macros are just duplicates if they were defined as cond_syscall. Compilation test is done with FRV toolchains for both of MMU and noMMU mode. Signed-off-by: Hyok S. Choi <hyok.choi@samsung.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] hugetlbfs doc. updateRandy Dunlap
Fix typos, spelling, etc., in Doc/vm/hugetlbpage.txt. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] mm/migrate.c: don't export a static functionAdrian Bunk
EXPORT_SYMBOL'ing of a static function is not a good idea. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] page flags: add commentry regarding field reservationAndy Whitcroft
Add some documentation regarding the utilisation of the flags field in struct page. This field is overloaded for per page bits and to hold node, zone and SPARSEMEM information. Make it clear which areas are used for what and how many bits are in each area. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] overcommit: use totalreserve_pages for nommuHideo AOKI
This patch is an enhancement of OVERCOMMIT_GUESS algorithm in __vm_enough_memory() in mm/nommu.c. When the OVERCOMMIT_GUESS algorithm calculates the number of free pages, the algorithm subtracts the number of reserved pages from the result nr_free_pages(). Signed-off-by: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] overcommit: use totalreserve_pagesHideo AOKI
This patch is an enhancement of OVERCOMMIT_GUESS algorithm in __vm_enough_memory() in mm/mmap.c. When the OVERCOMMIT_GUESS algorithm calculates the number of free pages, the algorithm subtracts the number of reserved pages from the result nr_free_pages(). Signed-off-by: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] overcommit: add calculate_totalreserve_pages()Hideo AOKI
These patches are an enhancement of OVERCOMMIT_GUESS algorithm in __vm_enough_memory(). - why the kernel needed patching When the kernel can't allocate anonymous pages in practice, currnet OVERCOMMIT_GUESS could return success. This implementation might be the cause of oom kill in memory pressure situation. If the Linux runs with page reservation features like /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_ratio and without swap region, I think the oom kill occurs easily. - the overall design approach in the patch When the OVERCOMMET_GUESS algorithm calculates number of free pages, the reserved free pages are regarded as non-free pages. This change helps to avoid the pitfall that the number of free pages become less than the number which the kernel tries to keep free. - testing results I tested the patches using my test kernel module. If the patches aren't applied to the kernel, __vm_enough_memory() returns success in the situation but autual page allocation is failed. On the other hand, if the patches are applied to the kernel, memory allocation failure is avoided since __vm_enough_memory() returns failure in the situation. I checked that on i386 SMP 16GB memory machine. I haven't tested on nommu environment currently. This patch adds totalreserve_pages for __vm_enough_memory(). Calculate_totalreserve_pages() checks maximum lowmem_reserve pages and pages_high in each zone. Finally, the function stores the sum of each zone to totalreserve_pages. The totalreserve_pages is calculated when the VM is initilized. And the variable is updated when /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_raito or /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes are changed. Signed-off-by: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] Some page migration fixupsChristoph Lameter
- Remove sparse comment - Remove duplicated include - Return the correct error condition in migrate_page_remove_references(). Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] mm: fix bug in brk()Ram Gupta
The code checks for newbrk with oldbrk which are page aligned before making a check for the memory limit set of data segment. If the memory limit is not page aligned in that case it bypasses the test for the limit if the memory allocation is still for the same page. Signed-off-by: Ram Gupta <ram.gupta5@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] nommu: use compound page in slab allocatorLuke Yang
The earlier patch to consolidate mmu and nommu page allocation and refcounting by using compound pages for nommu allocations had a bug: kmalloc slabs who's pages were initially allocated by a non-__GFP_COMP allocator could be passed into mm/nommu.c kmalloc allocations which really wanted __GFP_COMP underlying pages. Fix that by having nommu pass __GFP_COMP to all higher order slab allocations. Signed-off-by: Luke Yang <luke.adi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] slab: add statistics for alien cache overflowsRavikiran G Thirumalai
Add a statistics counter which is incremented everytime the alien cache overflows. alien_cache limit is hardcoded to 12 right now. We can use this statistics to tune alien cache if needed in the future. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com> Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] slab: allocate node local memory for off-slab slabmanagementRavikiran G Thirumalai
Allocate off-slab slab descriptors from node local memory. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com> Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: sparc64KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
for_each_cpu() actually iterates across all possible CPUs. We've had mistakes in the past where people were using for_each_cpu() where they should have been iterating across only online or present CPUs. This is inefficient and possibly buggy. We're renaming for_each_cpu() to for_each_possible_cpu() to avoid this in the future. This patch replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu. for sparc64. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: sparcKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
for_each_cpu() actually iterates across all possible CPUs. We've had mistakes in the past where people were using for_each_cpu() where they should have been iterating across only online or present CPUs. This is inefficient and possibly buggy. We're renaming for_each_cpu() to for_each_possible_cpu() to avoid this in the future. This patch replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>