While the introduction of __copy_from_user_nocache (see commit:
0812a579c9) may have been an improvement
for sufficiently large writes, there is evidence to show that it is
deterimental for small writes. Unixbench's fstime test gives the
following results for 256 byte writes with MAX_BLOCK of 2000:
2.6.29-rc6 ( 5 samples, each in KB/sec ):
283750, 295200, 294500, 293000, 293300
2.6.29-rc6 + this patch (5 samples, each in KB/sec):
313050, 3106750, 293350, 306300, 307900
2.6.18
395700, 342000, 399100, 366050, 359850
See w_test() in src/fstime.c in unixbench version 4.1.0. Basically, the above test
consists of counting how much we can write in this manner:
alarm(10);
while (!sigalarm) {
for (f_blocks = 0; f_blocks < 2000; ++f_blocks) {
write(f, buf, 256);
}
lseek(f, 0L, 0);
}
Note, there are other components to the write syscall regression
that are not addressed here.
Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: minor change to populate_extra_pte() and addition of pmd flavor
Update populate_extra_pte() to return pointer to the pte_t for the
specified address and add populate_extra_pmd() which only populates
till the pmd and returns pointer to the pmd entry for the address.
For 64bit, pud/pmd/pte fill functions are separated out from
set_pte_vaddr[_pud]() and used for set_pte_vaddr[_pud]() and
populate_extra_{pte|pmd}().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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>
Impact: cleanup
Make x86_quirks support more transparent. The highlevel
methods are now named:
extern void x86_quirk_pre_intr_init(void);
extern void x86_quirk_intr_init(void);
extern void x86_quirk_trap_init(void);
extern void x86_quirk_pre_time_init(void);
extern void x86_quirk_time_init(void);
This makes it clear that if some platform extension has to
do something here that it is considered ... weird, and is
discouraged.
Also remove arch_hooks.h and move it into setup.h (and other
header files where appropriate).
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: remove dead code
Remove:
- pre_setup_arch_hook()
- mca_nmi_hook()
If needed they can be added back via an x86_quirk handler.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: remove unused/broken code
The Voyager subarch last built successfully on the v2.6.26 kernel
and has been stale since then and does not build on the v2.6.27,
v2.6.28 and v2.6.29-rc5 kernels.
No actual users beyond the maintainer reported this breakage.
Patches were sent and most of the fixes were accepted but the
discussion around how to do a few remaining issues cleanly
fizzled out with no resolution and the code remained broken.
In the v2.6.30 x86 tree development cycle 32-bit subarch support
has been reworked and removed - and the Voyager code, beyond the
build problems already known, needs serious and significant
changes and probably a rewrite to support it.
CONFIG_X86_VOYAGER has been marked BROKEN then. The maintainer has
been notified but no patches have been sent so far to fix it.
While all other subarchs have been converted to the new scheme,
voyager is still broken. We'd prefer to receive patches which
clean up the current situation in a constructive way, but even in
case of removal there is no obstacle to add that support back
after the issues have been sorted out in a mutually acceptable
fashion.
So remove this inactive code for now.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
If BIOS hands over the control to OS in legacy xapic mode, select
legacy xapic related ops in the early apic probe and shift to x2apic
ops later in the boot sequence, only after enabling x2apic mode.
If BIOS hands over the control in x2apic mode, select x2apic related
ops in the early apic probe.
This fixes the early boot panic, where we were selecting x2apic ops,
while the cpu is still in legacy xapic mode.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Rename TASK_SIZE64 to TASK_SIZE_MAX, and provide the
define on 32-bit too. (mapped to TASK_SIZE)
This allows 32-bit code to make use of the (former-) TASK_SIZE64
symbol as well, in a clean way.
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: use new dynamic allocator, unified access to static/dynamic
percpu memory
Convert to the new dynamic percpu allocator.
* implement populate_extra_pte() for both 32 and 64
* update setup_per_cpu_areas() to use pcpu_setup_static()
* define __addr_to_pcpu_ptr() and __pcpu_ptr_to_addr()
* define config HAVE_DYNAMIC_PER_CPU_AREA
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Impact: cleanup
There was an attempt to bring build-time checking for
missed ENTRY_X86/END_X86 and KPROBE... pairs. Using
them will add messy in code. Get just rid of them.
This commit could be easily restored if the need appear
in future.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
If the code is time critical and this entry is called
from other places we use ENTRY to have it globally defined
and especially aligned.
Contrary we have some snippets which are size
critical. So we use plane ".globl name; name:"
directive. Introduce GLOBAL macro for this.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
What's happening is that the assertion in mm/page_alloc.c:move_freepages()
is triggering:
BUG_ON(page_zone(start_page) != page_zone(end_page));
Once I knew this is what was happening, I added some annotations:
if (unlikely(page_zone(start_page) != page_zone(end_page))) {
printk(KERN_ERR "move_freepages: Bogus zones: "
"start_page[%p] end_page[%p] zone[%p]\n",
start_page, end_page, zone);
printk(KERN_ERR "move_freepages: "
"start_zone[%p] end_zone[%p]\n",
page_zone(start_page), page_zone(end_page));
printk(KERN_ERR "move_freepages: "
"start_pfn[0x%lx] end_pfn[0x%lx]\n",
page_to_pfn(start_page), page_to_pfn(end_page));
printk(KERN_ERR "move_freepages: "
"start_nid[%d] end_nid[%d]\n",
page_to_nid(start_page), page_to_nid(end_page));
...
And here's what I got:
move_freepages: Bogus zones: start_page[2207d0000] end_page[2207dffc0] zone[fffff8103effcb00]
move_freepages: start_zone[fffff8103effcb00] end_zone[fffff8003fffeb00]
move_freepages: start_pfn[0x81f600] end_pfn[0x81f7ff]
move_freepages: start_nid[1] end_nid[0]
My memory layout on this box is:
[ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[ 0.000000] Normal 0x00000000 -> 0x0081ff5d
[ 0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node
[ 0.000000] early_node_map[8] active PFN ranges
[ 0.000000] 0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00020000
[ 0.000000] 1: 0x00800000 -> 0x0081f7ff
[ 0.000000] 1: 0x0081f800 -> 0x0081fe50
[ 0.000000] 1: 0x0081fed1 -> 0x0081fed8
[ 0.000000] 1: 0x0081feda -> 0x0081fedb
[ 0.000000] 1: 0x0081fedd -> 0x0081fee5
[ 0.000000] 1: 0x0081fee7 -> 0x0081ff51
[ 0.000000] 1: 0x0081ff59 -> 0x0081ff5d
So it's a block move in that 0x81f600-->0x81f7ff region which triggers
the problem.
This patch:
Declaration of early_pfn_to_nid() is scattered over per-arch include
files, and it seems it's complicated to know when the declaration is used.
I think it makes fix-for-memmap-init not easy.
This patch moves all declaration to include/linux/mm.h
After this,
if !CONFIG_NODES_POPULATES_NODE_MAP && !CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID
-> Use static definition in include/linux/mm.h
else if !CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID
-> Use generic definition in mm/page_alloc.c
else
-> per-arch back end function will be called.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemlloft.net>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x, 2.6.27.x, 2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, vm86: fix preemption bug
x86, olpc: fix model detection without OFW
x86, hpet: fix for LS21 + HPET = boot hang
x86: CPA avoid repeated lazy mmu flush
x86: warn if arch_flush_lazy_mmu_cpu is called in preemptible context
x86/paravirt: make arch_flush_lazy_mmu/cpu disable preemption
x86, pat: fix warn_on_once() while mapping 0-1MB range with /dev/mem
x86/cpa: make sure cpa is safe to call in lazy mmu mode
x86, ptrace, mm: fix double-free on race
Impact: Cleanup; fix inappropriate macro use
ISA addresses on x86 are mapped 1:1 with the physical address space.
Since the ISA address space is only 24 bits (32 for VLB or LPC) it
will always fit in an unsigned int, and at least in the aha1542 driver
using a wider type would cause an undesirable promotion. Hence
explicitly cast the ISA bus addresses to unsigned int.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Impact: cleanup
Now that all APIC code is consolidated there's nothing 'gen' about
apics anymore - so rename 'struct genapic' to 'struct apic'.
This shortens the code and is nicer to read as well.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
- misc other cleanups that change the md5 signature
- consolidate global variables
- remove unnecessary __numaq_mps_oem_check() wrapper
- make numaq_mps_oem_check static
- update copyrights
- misc other cleanups pointed out by checkpatch
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Reduce the number of include files to worry about.
Also, most of the users of APIC facilities had to
include genapic.h already, which embedded apic.h,
so the distinction was meaningless.
[ include apic.h from genapic.h for compatibility. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
make it simpler, don't need have one extra struct.
v2: fix the sgi_uv build
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
so could deselect x2apic
and INTR_REMAP will select x2apic
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When testing for a dom0/initial/privileged domain, make sure the
predicate evaluates to a compile-time 0 if CONFIG_XEN_DOM0 isn't
enabled. This will make most of the dom0 code evaporate without
much more effort.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Kconfig symbols are not available in userspace, and are not stripped by
headers-install. Avoid their use by adding #defines in <asm/kvm.h> to
suit each architecture.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Commit 976e8f677e ("x86: asm/io.h: unify
virt_to_phys/phys_to_virt") changed the return of virt_to_phys from long
to phys_addr_t which is unsigned long long on a PAE platform.
So, I could suggest a fix below since isa addresses may never be above
32 bits.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
