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Paul Jackson
4eac915d02 [PATCH] mm: gfp_atomic comments
Clarify in comments that GFP_ATOMIC means both "don't sleep" and "use
emergency pools", hence both ALLOC_HARDER and ALLOC_HIGH.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:09 -08:00
Hugh Dickins
7365f3d169 [PATCH] Restore KERN_EMERG to each line printed by bad_page
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:08 -08:00
David Woodhouse
a4fc7ab1d0 [PATCH] fix/simplify mutex debugging code
Let's switch mutex_debug_check_no_locks_freed() to take (addr, len) as
arguments instead, since all its callers were just calculating the 'to'
address for themselves anyway... (and sometimes doing so badly).

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 08:14:16 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
de5097c2e7 [PATCH] mutex subsystem, more debugging code
more mutex debugging: check for held locks during memory freeing,
task exit, enable sysrq printouts, etc.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
2006-01-09 15:59:21 -08:00
Paul Jackson
3e0d98b9f1 [PATCH] cpuset: memory pressure meter
Provide a simple per-cpuset metric of memory pressure, tracking the -rate-
that the tasks in a cpuset call try_to_free_pages(), the synchronous
(direct) memory reclaim code.

This enables batch managers monitoring jobs running in dedicated cpusets to
efficiently detect what level of memory pressure that job is causing.

This is useful both on tightly managed systems running a wide mix of
submitted jobs, which may choose to terminate or reprioritize jobs that are
trying to use more memory than allowed on the nodes assigned them, and with
tightly coupled, long running, massively parallel scientific computing jobs
that will dramatically fail to meet required performance goals if they
start to use more memory than allowed to them.

This patch just provides a very economical way for the batch manager to
monitor a cpuset for signs of memory pressure.  It's up to the batch
manager or other user code to decide what to do about it and take action.

==> Unless this feature is enabled by writing "1" to the special file
    /dev/cpuset/memory_pressure_enabled, the hook in the rebalance
    code of __alloc_pages() for this metric reduces to simply noticing
    that the cpuset_memory_pressure_enabled flag is zero.  So only
    systems that enable this feature will compute the metric.

Why a per-cpuset, running average:

    Because this meter is per-cpuset, rather than per-task or mm, the
    system load imposed by a batch scheduler monitoring this metric is
    sharply reduced on large systems, because a scan of the tasklist can be
    avoided on each set of queries.

    Because this meter is a running average, instead of an accumulating
    counter, a batch scheduler can detect memory pressure with a single
    read, instead of having to read and accumulate results for a period of
    time.

    Because this meter is per-cpuset rather than per-task or mm, the
    batch scheduler can obtain the key information, memory pressure in a
    cpuset, with a single read, rather than having to query and accumulate
    results over all the (dynamically changing) set of tasks in the cpuset.

A per-cpuset simple digital filter (requires a spinlock and 3 words of data
per-cpuset) is kept, and updated by any task attached to that cpuset, if it
enters the synchronous (direct) page reclaim code.

A per-cpuset file provides an integer number representing the recent
(half-life of 10 seconds) rate of direct page reclaims caused by the tasks
in the cpuset, in units of reclaims attempted per second, times 1000.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:42 -08:00
Nick Piggin
48db57f8ff [PATCH] mm: free_pages opt
Try to streamline free_pages_bulk by ensuring callers don't pass in a
'count' that exceeds the list size.

Some cleanups:
Rename __free_pages_bulk to __free_one_page.
Put the page list manipulation from __free_pages_ok into free_one_page.
Make __free_pages_ok static.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:12:40 -08:00
Nick Piggin
23316bc86f [PATCH] mm: cleanup zone_pcp
Use zone_pcp everywhere even though NUMA code "knows" the internal details
of the zone.  Stop other people trying to copy, and it looks nicer.

Also, only print the pagesets of online cpus in zoneinfo.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:12:40 -08:00
Rohit Seth
8ad4b1fb82 [PATCH] Make high and batch sizes of per_cpu_pagelists configurable
As recently there has been lot of traffic on the right values for batch and
high water marks for per_cpu_pagelists.  This patch makes these two
variables configurable through /proc interface.

A new tunable /proc/sys/vm/percpu_pagelist_fraction is added.  This entry
controls the fraction of pages at most in each zone that are allocated for
each per cpu page list.  The min value for this is 8.  It means that we
don't allow more than 1/8th of pages in each zone to be allocated in any
single per_cpu_pagelist.

The batch value of each per cpu pagelist is also updated as a result.  It
is set to pcp->high/4.  The upper limit of batch is (PAGE_SHIFT * 8)

Signed-off-by: Rohit Seth <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:12:40 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
bec6b0c89b [PATCH] slab: remove nested #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
For some reason there is an #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA within another #ifdef
CONFIG_NUMA in the page allocator.  Remove innermost #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:12:40 -08:00
Andrew Morton
84c2008af0 [PATCH] revert "mm: page_state fixes"
Hugh says:

page_alloc_cpu_notify() specifically contains code to

 		/* Add dead cpu's page_states to our own. */

which handles this more efficiently.

Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:12:38 -08:00
Nick Piggin
a74609fafa [PATCH] mm: page_state opt
Optimise page_state manipulations by introducing interrupt unsafe accessors
to page_state fields.  Callers must provide their own locking (either
disable interrupts or not update from interrupt context).

Switch over the hot callsites that can easily be moved under interrupts off
sections.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:29 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
070f80326a [PATCH] build_zonelists_node(): rename args
Give j and r meaningful names.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:28 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
02a68a5ebc [PATCH] Fix zone policy determination
The use k in the inner loop means that the highest zone nr is always used
if any zone of a node is populated.  This means that the policy zone is not
correctly determined on arches that do no use HIGHMEM like ia64.

Change the loop to decrement k which also simplifies the BUG_ON.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:28 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
4be38e351c [PATCH] mm: move determination of policy_zone into page allocator
Currently the function to build a zonelist for a BIND policy has the side
effect to set the policy_zone.  This seems to be a bit strange.  policy
zone seems to not be initialized elsewhere and therefore 0.  Do we police
ZONE_DMA if no bind policy has been used yet?

This patch moves the determination of the zone to apply policies to into
the page allocator.  We determine the zone while building the zonelist for
nodes.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:28 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
1a93205bdf [PATCH] mm: simplify build_zonelists_node by removing the case statement.
Simplify build_zonelists_node by removing the case statement.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:28 -08:00
Con Kolivas
f3fe65122d [PATCH] mm: add populated_zone() helper
There are numerous places we check whether a zone is populated or not.

Provide a helper function to check for populated zones and convert all
checks for zone->present_pages.

Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:28 -08:00
Nick Piggin
224abf92b2 [PATCH] mm: bad_page optimisation
Cut down size slightly by not passing bad_page the function name (it should be
able to be determined by dump_stack()).  And cut down the number of printks in
bad_page.

Also, cut down some branching in the destroy_compound_page path.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:26 -08:00
Nick Piggin
9328b8faae [PATCH] mm: dma32 zone statistics
Add dma32 to zone statistics.  Also attempt to arrange struct page_state a
bit better (visually).

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:26 -08:00
David Howells
a226f6c899 [PATCH] FRV: Clean up bootmem allocator's page freeing algorithm
The attached patch cleans up the way the bootmem allocator frees pages.

A new function, __free_pages_bootmem(), is provided in mm/page_alloc.c that is
called from mm/bootmem.c to turn pages over to the main allocator.  All the
bits of code to initialise pages (clearing PG_reserved and setting the page
count) are moved to here.  The checks on page validity are removed, on the
assumption that the struct page arrays will have been prepared correctly.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:26 -08:00
Nick Piggin
085cc7d5de [PATCH] mm: page_alloc cleanups
Small cleanups that does not change generated code with the gcc's I've tested
with.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:25 -08:00
Nick Piggin
a86b1f5316 [PATCH] mm: page_state fixes
read_page_state and __get_page_state only traverse online CPUs, which will
cause results to fluctuate when CPUs are plugged in or out.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:25 -08:00
Nick Piggin
2d92c5c915 [PATCH] mm: remove pcp low
struct per_cpu_pages.low is useless.  Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:25 -08:00
Nick Piggin
13e7444b0e [PATCH] mm: remove bad_range
bad_range is supposed to be a temporary check.  It would be a pity to throw it
out.  Make it depend on CONFIG_DEBUG_VM instead.

CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE systems were relying on this to check pfn_valid in the
page allocator.  Add that to page_is_buddy instead.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:25 -08:00
Nick Piggin
92be2e33b1 [PATCH] mm: microopt conditions
Micro optimise some conditionals where we don't need lazy evaluation.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:25 -08:00
Nick Piggin
77a8a78834 [PATCH] mm: set_page_refs opt
Inline set_page_refs.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:25 -08:00
Nick Piggin
c54ad30c78 [PATCH] mm: pagealloc opt
Slightly optimise some page allocation and freeing functions by taking
advantage of knowing whether or not interrupts are disabled.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:25 -08:00
Mike Kravetz
a94b3ab7ea [PATCH] mm: remove arch independent NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES
The NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES config option was created so that DISCONTIGMEM
could handle pSeries numa layouts.  However, support for DISCONTIGMEM has
been replaced by SPARSEMEM on powerpc.  As a result, this config option and
supporting code is no longer needed.

I have already sent a patch to Paul that removes the option from powerpc
specific code.  This removes the arch independent piece.  Doesn't really
matter which is applied first.

Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:24 -08:00
Paul Jackson
47f3a867f6 [PATCH] mm: fix __alloc_pages cpuset ALLOC_* flags
Two changes to the setting of the ALLOC_CPUSET flag in
mm/page_alloc.c:__alloc_pages()

- A bug fix - the "ignoring mins" case should not be honoring ALLOC_CPUSET.
  This case of all cases, since it is handling a request that will free up
  more memory than is asked for (exiting tasks, e.g.) should be allowed to
  escape cpuset constraints when memory is tight.

- A logic change to make it simpler.  Honor cpusets even on GFP_ATOMIC
  (!wait) requests.  With this, cpuset confinement applies to all requests
  except ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS, so that in a subsequent cleanup patch, I can
  remove the ALLOC_CPUSET flag entirely.  Since I don't know any real reason
  this logic has to be either way, I am choosing the path of the simplest
  code.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:21 -08:00
Al Viro
78d9955bb0 [PATCH] missing prototype (mm/page_alloc.c)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-12-15 10:04:30 -08:00
Nick Piggin
0ceaacc978 [PATCH] Fix up per-cpu page batch sizes
The code to clamp batch sizes to 2^n - 1 went missing and an extra
check got added, which must have been a hunk of the "higer order pcp
batch refills" work sneaking in.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-12-03 20:46:40 -08:00
Nick Piggin
3148890bfa [PATCH] mm: __alloc_pages cleanup fix
I believe this patch is required to fix breakage in the asynch reclaim
watermark logic introduced by this patch:

http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=7fb1d9fca5c6e3b06773b69165a73f3fb786b8ee

Just some background of the watermark logic in case it isn't clear...
Basically what we have is this:

 ---  pages_high
   |
   | (a)
   |
 ---  pages_low
   |
   | (b)
   |
 ---  pages_min
   |
   | (c)
   |
 ---  0

Now when pages_low is reached, we want to kick asynch reclaim, which gives us
an interval of "b" before we must start synch reclaim, and gives kswapd an
interval of "a" before it need go back to sleep.

When pages_min is reached, normal allocators must enter synch reclaim, but
PF_MEMALLOC, ALLOC_HARDER, and ALLOC_HIGH (ie.  atomic allocations, recursive
allocations, etc.) get access to varying amounts of the reserve "c".

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-28 14:42:24 -08:00
Hugh Dickins
689bcebfda [PATCH] unpaged: PG_reserved bad_page
It used to be the case that PG_reserved pages were silently never freed, but
in 2.6.15-rc1 they may be freed with a "Bad page state" message.  We should
work through such cases as they appear, fixing the code; but for now it's
safer to issue the message without freeing the page, leaving PG_reserved set.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-22 09:13:42 -08:00
Hugh Dickins
664beed019 [PATCH] unpaged: unifdefed PageCompound
It looks like snd_xxx is not the only nopage to be using PageReserved as a way
of holding a high-order page together: which no longer works, but is masked by
our failure to free from VM_RESERVED areas.  We cannot fix that bug without
first substituting another way to hold the high-order page together, while
farming out the 0-order pages from within it.

That's just what PageCompound is designed for, but it's been kept under
CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE.  Remove the #ifdefs: which saves some space (out- of-line
put_page), doesn't slow down what most needs to be fast (already using
hugetlb), and unifies the way we handle high-order pages.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-22 09:13:42 -08:00
Jens Axboe
6b1de9161e [PATCH] VM: fix zone list restart in page allocatate
We must reassign z before looping through the zones kicking kswapd,
since it will be NULL if we hit an OOM condition and jump back to the
beginning again. 'z' is initially assigned before the restart: label. So
move the restart label up a little.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-17 12:43:01 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
4060994c3e Merge x86-64 update from Andi 2005-11-14 19:56:02 -08:00
Andi Kleen
07808b74e7 [PATCH] x86_64: Remove obsolete ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC_UNSIGNED and page_flags_t
Has been introduced for x86-64 at some point to save memory
in struct page, but has been obsolete for some time. Just
remove it.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-14 19:55:14 -08:00
Andi Kleen
b0d4169321 [PATCH] x86_64: When cpu_up fails clean up page allocator properly
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-14 19:55:13 -08:00
Andi Kleen
a2f1b42490 [PATCH] x86_64: Add 4GB DMA32 zone
Add a new 4GB GFP_DMA32 zone between the GFP_DMA and GFP_NORMAL zones.

As a bit of historical background: when the x86-64 port
was originally designed we had some discussion if we should
use a 16MB DMA zone like i386 or a 4GB DMA zone like IA64 or
both. Both was ruled out at this point because it was in early
2.4 when VM is still quite shakey and had bad troubles even
dealing with one DMA zone.  We settled on the 16MB DMA zone mainly
because we worried about older soundcards and the floppy.

But this has always caused problems since then because
device drivers had trouble getting enough DMA able memory. These days
the VM works much better and the wide use of NUMA has proven
it can deal with many zones successfully.

So this patch adds both zones.

This helps drivers who need a lot of memory below 4GB because
their hardware is not accessing more (graphic drivers - proprietary
and free ones, video frame buffer drivers, sound drivers etc.).
Previously they could only use IOMMU+16MB GFP_DMA, which
was not enough memory.

Another common problem is that hardware who has full memory
addressing for >4GB misses it for some control structures in memory
(like transmit rings or other metadata).  They tended to allocate memory
in the 16MB GFP_DMA or the IOMMU/swiotlb then using pci_alloc_consistent,
but that can tie up a lot of precious 16MB GFPDMA/IOMMU/swiotlb memory
(even on AMD systems the IOMMU tends to be quite small) especially if you have
many devices.  With the new zone pci_alloc_consistent can just put
this stuff into memory below 4GB which works better.

One argument was still if the zone should be 4GB or 2GB. The main
motivation for 2GB would be an unnamed not so unpopular hardware
raid controller (mostly found in older machines from a particular four letter
company) who has a strange 2GB restriction in firmware. But
that one works ok with swiotlb/IOMMU anyways, so it doesn't really
need GFP_DMA32. I chose 4GB to be compatible with IA64 and because
it seems to be the most common restriction.

The new zone is so far added only for x86-64.

For other architectures who don't set up this
new zone nothing changes. Architectures can set a compatibility
define in Kconfig CONFIG_DMA_IS_DMA32 that will define GFP_DMA32
as GFP_DMA. Otherwise it's a nop because on 32bit architectures
it's normally not needed because GFP_NORMAL (=0) is DMA able
enough.

One problem is still that GFP_DMA means different things on different
architectures. e.g. some drivers used to have #ifdef ia64  use GFP_DMA
(trusting it to be 4GB) #elif __x86_64__ (use other hacks like
the swiotlb because 16MB is not enough) ... . This was quite
ugly and is now obsolete.

These should be now converted to use GFP_DMA32 unconditionally. I haven't done
this yet. Or best only use pci_alloc_consistent/dma_alloc_coherent
which will use GFP_DMA32 transparently.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-14 19:55:13 -08:00
Nick Piggin
669ed17521 [PATCH] mm: highmem watermarks
The pages_high - pages_low and pages_low - pages_min deltas are the asynch
reclaim watermarks.  As such, the should be in the same ratios as any other
zone for highmem zones.  It is the pages_min - 0 delta which is the
PF_MEMALLOC reserve, and this is the region that isn't very useful for
highmem.

This patch ensures highmem systems have similar characteristics as non highmem
ones with the same amount of memory, and also that highmem zones get similar
reclaim pressures to other zones.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:12 -08:00
Rohit Seth
7fb1d9fca5 [PATCH] mm: __alloc_pages cleanup
Clean up of __alloc_pages.

Restoration of previous behaviour, plus further cleanups by introducing an
'alloc_flags', removing the last of should_reclaim_zone.

Signed-off-by: Rohit Seth <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:12 -08:00
Kirill Korotaev
885036d32f [PATCH] mm: __GFP_NOFAIL fix
In __alloc_pages():

if ((p->flags & (PF_MEMALLOC | PF_MEMDIE)) && !in_interrupt()) {
         /* go through the zonelist yet again, ignoring mins */
         for (i = 0; zones[i] != NULL; i++) {
                 struct zone *z = zones[i];

                 page = buffered_rmqueue(z, order, gfp_mask);
                 if (page) {
                         zone_statistics(zonelist, z);
                         goto got_pg;
                 }
         }
         goto nopage;                <<<< HERE!!! FAIL...
}

kswapd (which has PF_MEMALLOC flag) can fail to allocate memory even when
it allocates it with __GFP_NOFAIL flag.

Signed-Off-By: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@sw.ru>
Signed-Off-By: Denis Lunev <den@sw.ru>
Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:12 -08:00
Dave Jones
6b482c6779 [PATCH] Don't print per-cpu vm stats for offline cpus.
I just hit a page allocation error on a kernel configured to support
64 CPUs.  It spewed 60 completely useless unnecessary lines of info.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-10 13:25:53 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
f8b8db77b0 [PATCH] unexport nr_swap_pages
I didn't find any possible modular usage in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:54:07 -08:00
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
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
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
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