24 Jun, 2009
1 commit
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handle_mm_fault() is now passing fault flags rather than write_access
down to hugetlb_fault(), so better recognize that in hugetlb_fault(),
and in hugetlb_no_page().Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Jun, 2009
1 commit
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A series of patches to enhance the /proc/pagemap interface and to add a
userspace executable which can be used to present the pagemap data.Export 10 more flags to end users (and more for kernel developers):
11. KPF_MMAP (pseudo flag) memory mapped page
12. KPF_ANON (pseudo flag) memory mapped page (anonymous)
13. KPF_SWAPCACHE page is in swap cache
14. KPF_SWAPBACKED page is swap/RAM backed
15. KPF_COMPOUND_HEAD (*)
16. KPF_COMPOUND_TAIL (*)
17. KPF_HUGE hugeTLB pages
18. KPF_UNEVICTABLE page is in the unevictable LRU list
19. KPF_HWPOISON hardware detected corruption
20. KPF_NOPAGE (pseudo flag) no page frame at the address(*) For compound pages, exporting _both_ head/tail info enables
users to tell where a compound page starts/ends, and its order.a simple demo of the page-types tool
# ./page-types -h
page-types [options]
-r|--raw Raw mode, for kernel developers
-a|--addr addr-spec Walk a range of pages
-b|--bits bits-spec Walk pages with specified bits
-l|--list Show page details in ranges
-L|--list-each Show page details one by one
-N|--no-summary Don't show summay info
-h|--help Show this usage message
addr-spec:
N one page at offset N (unit: pages)
N+M pages range from N to N+M-1
N,M pages range from N to M-1
N, pages range from N to end
,M pages range from 0 to M
bits-spec:
bit1,bit2 (flags & (bit1|bit2)) != 0
bit1,bit2=bit1 (flags & (bit1|bit2)) == bit1
bit1,~bit2 (flags & (bit1|bit2)) == bit1
=bit1,bit2 flags == (bit1|bit2)
bit-names:
locked error referenced uptodate
dirty lru active slab
writeback reclaim buddy mmap
anonymous swapcache swapbacked compound_head
compound_tail huge unevictable hwpoison
nopage reserved(r) mlocked(r) mappedtodisk(r)
private(r) private_2(r) owner_private(r) arch(r)
uncached(r) readahead(o) slob_free(o) slub_frozen(o)
slub_debug(o)
(r) raw mode bits (o) overloaded bits# ./page-types
flags page-count MB symbolic-flags long-symbolic-flags
0x0000000000000000 487369 1903 _________________________________
0x0000000000000014 5 0 __R_D____________________________ referenced,dirty
0x0000000000000020 1 0 _____l___________________________ lru
0x0000000000000024 34 0 __R__l___________________________ referenced,lru
0x0000000000000028 3838 14 ___U_l___________________________ uptodate,lru
0x0001000000000028 48 0 ___U_l_______________________I___ uptodate,lru,readahead
0x000000000000002c 6478 25 __RU_l___________________________ referenced,uptodate,lru
0x000100000000002c 47 0 __RU_l_______________________I___ referenced,uptodate,lru,readahead
0x0000000000000040 8344 32 ______A__________________________ active
0x0000000000000060 1 0 _____lA__________________________ lru,active
0x0000000000000068 348 1 ___U_lA__________________________ uptodate,lru,active
0x0001000000000068 12 0 ___U_lA______________________I___ uptodate,lru,active,readahead
0x000000000000006c 988 3 __RU_lA__________________________ referenced,uptodate,lru,active
0x000100000000006c 48 0 __RU_lA______________________I___ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,readahead
0x0000000000004078 1 0 ___UDlA_______b__________________ uptodate,dirty,lru,active,swapbacked
0x000000000000407c 34 0 __RUDlA_______b__________________ referenced,uptodate,dirty,lru,active,swapbacked
0x0000000000000400 503 1 __________B______________________ buddy
0x0000000000000804 1 0 __R________M_____________________ referenced,mmap
0x0000000000000828 1029 4 ___U_l_____M_____________________ uptodate,lru,mmap
0x0001000000000828 43 0 ___U_l_____M_________________I___ uptodate,lru,mmap,readahead
0x000000000000082c 382 1 __RU_l_____M_____________________ referenced,uptodate,lru,mmap
0x000100000000082c 12 0 __RU_l_____M_________________I___ referenced,uptodate,lru,mmap,readahead
0x0000000000000868 192 0 ___U_lA____M_____________________ uptodate,lru,active,mmap
0x0001000000000868 12 0 ___U_lA____M_________________I___ uptodate,lru,active,mmap,readahead
0x000000000000086c 800 3 __RU_lA____M_____________________ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mmap
0x000100000000086c 31 0 __RU_lA____M_________________I___ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mmap,readahead
0x0000000000004878 2 0 ___UDlA____M__b__________________ uptodate,dirty,lru,active,mmap,swapbacked
0x0000000000001000 492 1 ____________a____________________ anonymous
0x0000000000005808 4 0 ___U_______Ma_b__________________ uptodate,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked
0x0000000000005868 2839 11 ___U_lA____Ma_b__________________ uptodate,lru,active,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked
0x000000000000586c 30 0 __RU_lA____Ma_b__________________ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked
total 513968 2007# ./page-types -r
flags page-count MB symbolic-flags long-symbolic-flags
0x0000000000000000 468002 1828 _________________________________
0x0000000100000000 19102 74 _____________________r___________ reserved
0x0000000000008000 41 0 _______________H_________________ compound_head
0x0000000000010000 188 0 ________________T________________ compound_tail
0x0000000000008014 1 0 __R_D__________H_________________ referenced,dirty,compound_head
0x0000000000010014 4 0 __R_D___________T________________ referenced,dirty,compound_tail
0x0000000000000020 1 0 _____l___________________________ lru
0x0000000800000024 34 0 __R__l__________________P________ referenced,lru,private
0x0000000000000028 3794 14 ___U_l___________________________ uptodate,lru
0x0001000000000028 46 0 ___U_l_______________________I___ uptodate,lru,readahead
0x0000000400000028 44 0 ___U_l_________________d_________ uptodate,lru,mappedtodisk
0x0001000400000028 2 0 ___U_l_________________d_____I___ uptodate,lru,mappedtodisk,readahead
0x000000000000002c 6434 25 __RU_l___________________________ referenced,uptodate,lru
0x000100000000002c 47 0 __RU_l_______________________I___ referenced,uptodate,lru,readahead
0x000000040000002c 14 0 __RU_l_________________d_________ referenced,uptodate,lru,mappedtodisk
0x000000080000002c 30 0 __RU_l__________________P________ referenced,uptodate,lru,private
0x0000000800000040 8124 31 ______A_________________P________ active,private
0x0000000000000040 219 0 ______A__________________________ active
0x0000000800000060 1 0 _____lA_________________P________ lru,active,private
0x0000000000000068 322 1 ___U_lA__________________________ uptodate,lru,active
0x0001000000000068 12 0 ___U_lA______________________I___ uptodate,lru,active,readahead
0x0000000400000068 13 0 ___U_lA________________d_________ uptodate,lru,active,mappedtodisk
0x0000000800000068 12 0 ___U_lA_________________P________ uptodate,lru,active,private
0x000000000000006c 977 3 __RU_lA__________________________ referenced,uptodate,lru,active
0x000100000000006c 48 0 __RU_lA______________________I___ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,readahead
0x000000040000006c 5 0 __RU_lA________________d_________ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mappedtodisk
0x000000080000006c 3 0 __RU_lA_________________P________ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,private
0x0000000c0000006c 3 0 __RU_lA________________dP________ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mappedtodisk,private
0x0000000c00000068 1 0 ___U_lA________________dP________ uptodate,lru,active,mappedtodisk,private
0x0000000000004078 1 0 ___UDlA_______b__________________ uptodate,dirty,lru,active,swapbacked
0x000000000000407c 34 0 __RUDlA_______b__________________ referenced,uptodate,dirty,lru,active,swapbacked
0x0000000000000400 538 2 __________B______________________ buddy
0x0000000000000804 1 0 __R________M_____________________ referenced,mmap
0x0000000000000828 1029 4 ___U_l_____M_____________________ uptodate,lru,mmap
0x0001000000000828 43 0 ___U_l_____M_________________I___ uptodate,lru,mmap,readahead
0x000000000000082c 382 1 __RU_l_____M_____________________ referenced,uptodate,lru,mmap
0x000100000000082c 12 0 __RU_l_____M_________________I___ referenced,uptodate,lru,mmap,readahead
0x0000000000000868 192 0 ___U_lA____M_____________________ uptodate,lru,active,mmap
0x0001000000000868 12 0 ___U_lA____M_________________I___ uptodate,lru,active,mmap,readahead
0x000000000000086c 800 3 __RU_lA____M_____________________ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mmap
0x000100000000086c 31 0 __RU_lA____M_________________I___ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mmap,readahead
0x0000000000004878 2 0 ___UDlA____M__b__________________ uptodate,dirty,lru,active,mmap,swapbacked
0x0000000000001000 492 1 ____________a____________________ anonymous
0x0000000000005008 2 0 ___U________a_b__________________ uptodate,anonymous,swapbacked
0x0000000000005808 4 0 ___U_______Ma_b__________________ uptodate,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked
0x000000000000580c 1 0 __RU_______Ma_b__________________ referenced,uptodate,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked
0x0000000000005868 2839 11 ___U_lA____Ma_b__________________ uptodate,lru,active,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked
0x000000000000586c 29 0 __RU_lA____Ma_b__________________ referenced,uptodate,lru,active,mmap,anonymous,swapbacked
total 513968 2007# ./page-types --raw --list --no-summary --bits reserved
offset count flags
0 15 _____________________r___________
31 4 _____________________r___________
159 97 _____________________r___________
4096 2067 _____________________r___________
6752 2390 _____________________r___________
9355 3 _____________________r___________
9728 14526 _____________________r___________This patch:
Introduce PageHuge(), which identifies huge/gigantic pages by their
dedicated compound destructor functions.Also move prep_compound_gigantic_page() to hugetlb.c and make
__free_pages_ok() non-static.Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Matt Mackall
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 Feb, 2009
2 commits
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Fix regression due to 5a6fe125950676015f5108fb71b2a67441755003,
"Do not account for the address space used by hugetlbfs using VM_ACCOUNT"
which added an argument to the function hugetlb_file_setup() but not to
the macro hugetlb_file_setup().Reported-by: Chris Clayton
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter
Acked-by: Mel Gorman
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
When overcommit is disabled, the core VM accounts for pages used by anonymous
shared, private mappings and special mappings. It keeps track of VMAs that
should be accounted for with VM_ACCOUNT and VMAs that never had a reserve
with VM_NORESERVE.Overcommit for hugetlbfs is much riskier than overcommit for base pages
due to contiguity requirements. It avoids overcommiting on both shared and
private mappings using reservation counters that are checked and updated
during mmap(). This ensures (within limits) that hugepages exist in the
future when faults occurs or it is too easy to applications to be SIGKILLed.As hugetlbfs makes its own reservations of a different unit to the base page
size, VM_ACCOUNT should never be set. Even if the units were correct, we would
double account for the usage in the core VM and hugetlbfs. VM_NORESERVE may
be set because an application can request no reserves be made for hugetlbfs
at the risk of getting killed later.With commit fc8744adc870a8d4366908221508bb113d8b72ee, VM_NORESERVE and
VM_ACCOUNT are getting unconditionally set for hugetlbfs-backed mappings. This
breaks the accounting for both the core VM and hugetlbfs, can trigger an
OOM storm when hugepage pools are too small lockups and corrupted counters
otherwise are used. This patch brings hugetlbfs more in line with how the
core VM treats VM_NORESERVE but prevents VM_ACCOUNT being set.Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
07 Jan, 2009
2 commits
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The KernelPageSize entry in /proc/pid/smaps is the pagesize used by the
kernel to back a VMA. This matches the size used by the MMU in the
majority of cases. However, one counter-example occurs on PPC64 kernels
whereby a kernel using 64K as a base pagesize may still use 4K pages for
the MMU on older processor. To distinguish, this patch reports
MMUPageSize as the pagesize used by the MMU in /proc/pid/smaps.Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Cc: "KOSAKI Motohiro"
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
It is useful to verify a hugepage-aware application is using the expected
pagesizes for its memory regions. This patch creates an entry called
KernelPageSize in /proc/pid/smaps that is the size of page used by the
kernel to back a VMA. The entry is not called PageSize as it is possible
the MMU uses a different size. This extension should not break any sensible
parser that skips lines containing unrecognised information.Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Acked-by: "KOSAKI Motohiro"
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
23 Oct, 2008
1 commit
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and move it to fs/proc/meminfo.c while I'm at it.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
27 Jul, 2008
1 commit
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Remove the following warning when CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE is not set:
ipc/shm.c: In function `shm_get_stat':
ipc/shm.c:565: warning: unused variable `h'[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use tabs, not spaces]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
25 Jul, 2008
8 commits
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Allow alloc_bootmem_huge_page() to be overridden by architectures that
can't always use bootmem. This requires huge_boot_pages to be available
for use by this function.This is required for powerpc 16G pages, which have to be reserved prior to
boot-time. The location of these pages are indicated in the device tree.Acked-by: Adam Litke
Signed-off-by: Jon Tollefson
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Straight forward extensions for huge pages located in the PUD instead of
PMDs.Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Provide new hugepages user APIs that are more suited to multiple hstates
in sysfs. There is a new directory, /sys/kernel/hugepages. Underneath
that directory there will be a directory per-supported hugepage size,
e.g.:/sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64kB
/sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-16384kB
/sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-16777216kBcorresponding to 64k, 16m and 16g respectively. Within each
hugepages-size directory there are a number of files, corresponding to the
tracked counters in the hstate, e.g.:/sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64/nr_hugepages
/sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64/nr_overcommit_hugepages
/sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64/free_hugepages
/sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64/resv_hugepages
/sys/kernel/hugepages/hugepages-64/surplus_hugepagesOf these files, the first two are read-write and the latter three are
read-only. The size of the hugepage being manipulated is trivially
deducible from the enclosing directory and is always expressed in kB (to
match meminfo).[dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com: fix build]
[nacc@us.ibm.com: hugetlb: hang off of /sys/kernel/mm rather than /sys/kernel]
[nacc@us.ibm.com: hugetlb: remove CONFIG_SYSFS dependency]
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
Cc: Dave Hansen
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Add the ability to configure the hugetlb hstate used on a per mount basis.
- Add a new pagesize= option to the hugetlbfs mount that allows setting
the page size
- This option causes the mount code to find the hstate corresponding to the
specified size, and sets up a pointer to the hstate in the mount's
superblock.
- Change the hstate accessors to use this information rather than the
global_hstate they were using (requires a slight change in mm/memory.c
so we don't NULL deref in the error-unmap path -- see comments).[np: take hstate out of hugetlbfs inode and vma->vm_private_data]
Acked-by: Adam Litke
Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Add basic support for more than one hstate in hugetlbfs. This is the key
to supporting multiple hugetlbfs page sizes at once.- Rather than a single hstate, we now have an array, with an iterator
- default_hstate continues to be the struct hstate which we use by default
- Add functions for architectures to register new hstates[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Acked-by: Adam Litke
Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The goal of this patchset is to support multiple hugetlb page sizes. This
is achieved by introducing a new struct hstate structure, which
encapsulates the important hugetlb state and constants (eg. huge page
size, number of huge pages currently allocated, etc).The hstate structure is then passed around the code which requires these
fields, they will do the right thing regardless of the exact hstate they
are operating on.This patch adds the hstate structure, with a single global instance of it
(default_hstate), and does the basic work of converting hugetlb to use the
hstate.Future patches will add more hstate structures to allow for different
hugetlbfs mounts to have different page sizes.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Acked-by: Adam Litke
Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
…n hugetlbfs will succeed
After patch 2 in this series, a process that successfully calls mmap() for
a MAP_PRIVATE mapping will be guaranteed to successfully fault until a
process calls fork(). At that point, the next write fault from the parent
could fail due to COW if the child still has a reference.We only reserve pages for the parent but a copy must be made to avoid
leaking data from the parent to the child after fork(). Reserves could be
taken for both parent and child at fork time to guarantee faults but if
the mapping is large it is highly likely we will not have sufficient pages
for the reservation, and it is common to fork only to exec() immediatly
after. A failure here would be very undesirable.Note that the current behaviour of mainline with MAP_PRIVATE pages is
pretty bad. The following situation is allowed to occur today.1. Process calls mmap(MAP_PRIVATE)
2. Process calls mlock() to fault all pages and makes sure it succeeds
3. Process forks()
4. Process writes to MAP_PRIVATE mapping while child still exists
5. If the COW fails at this point, the process gets SIGKILLed even though it
had taken care to ensure the pages existedThis patch improves the situation by guaranteeing the reliability of the
process that successfully calls mmap(). When the parent performs COW, it
will try to satisfy the allocation without using reserves. If that fails
the parent will steal the page leaving any children without a page.
Faults from the child after that point will result in failure. If the
child COW happens first, an attempt will be made to allocate the page
without reserves and the child will get SIGKILLed on failure.To summarise the new behaviour:
1. If the original mapper performs COW on a private mapping with multiple
references, it will attempt to allocate a hugepage from the pool or
the buddy allocator without using the existing reserves. On fail, VMAs
mapping the same area are traversed and the page being COW'd is unmapped
where found. It will then steal the original page as the last mapper in
the normal way.2. The VMAs the pages were unmapped from are flagged to note that pages
with data no longer exist. Future no-page faults on those VMAs will
terminate the process as otherwise it would appear that data was corrupted.
A warning is printed to the console that this situation occured.2. If the child performs COW first, it will attempt to satisfy the COW
from the pool if there are enough pages or via the buddy allocator if
overcommit is allowed and the buddy allocator can satisfy the request. If
it fails, the child will be killed.If the pool is large enough, existing applications will not notice that
the reserves were a factor. Existing applications depending on the
no-reserves been set are unlikely to exist as for much of the history of
hugetlbfs, pages were prefaulted at mmap(), allocating the pages at that
point or failing the mmap().[npiggin@suse.de: fix CONFIG_HUGETLB=n build]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> -
This patch reserves huge pages at mmap() time for MAP_PRIVATE mappings in
a similar manner to the reservations taken for MAP_SHARED mappings. The
reserve count is accounted both globally and on a per-VMA basis for
private mappings. This guarantees that a process that successfully calls
mmap() will successfully fault all pages in the future unless fork() is
called.The characteristics of private mappings of hugetlbfs files behaviour after
this patch are;1. The process calling mmap() is guaranteed to succeed all future faults until
it forks().
2. On fork(), the parent may die due to SIGKILL on writes to the private
mapping if enough pages are not available for the COW. For reasonably
reliable behaviour in the face of a small huge page pool, children of
hugepage-aware processes should not reference the mappings; such as
might occur when fork()ing to exec().
3. On fork(), the child VMAs inherit no reserves. Reads on pages already
faulted by the parent will succeed. Successful writes will depend on enough
huge pages being free in the pool.
4. Quotas of the hugetlbfs mount are checked at reserve time for the mapper
and at fault time otherwise.Before this patch, all reads or writes in the child potentially needs page
allocations that can later lead to the death of the parent. This applies
to reads and writes of uninstantiated pages as well as COW. After the
patch it is only a write to an instantiated page that causes problems.Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Acked-by: Adam Litke
Cc: Andy Whitcroft
Cc: William Lee Irwin III
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
28 Apr, 2008
1 commit
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This patch moves all architecture functions for hugetlb to architecture header
files (include/asm-foo/hugetlb.h) and converts all macros to inline functions.
It also removes (!) ARCH_HAS_HUGEPAGE_ONLY_RANGE,
ARCH_HAS_HUGETLB_FREE_PGD_RANGE, ARCH_HAS_PREPARE_HUGEPAGE_RANGE,
ARCH_HAS_SETCLEAR_HUGE_PTE and ARCH_HAS_HUGETLB_PREFAULT_HOOK.Getting rid of the ARCH_HAS_xxx #ifdef and macro fugliness should increase
readability and maintainability, at the price of some code duplication. An
asm-generic common part would have reduced the loc, but we would end up with
new ARCH_HAS_xxx defines eventually.Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer
Cc: Paul Mundt
Cc: "Luck, Tony"
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
14 Feb, 2008
1 commit
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proc_doulongvec_minmax() calls copy_to_user()/copy_from_user(), so we can't
hold hugetlb_lock over the call. Use a dummy variable to store the sysctl
result, like in hugetlb_sysctl_handler(), then grab the lock to update
nr_overcommit_huge_pages.Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan
Reported-by: Miles Lane
Cc: Adam Litke
Cc: David Gibson
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
09 Feb, 2008
1 commit
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When I replaced hugetlb_dynamic_pool with nr_overcommit_hugepages I used
proc_doulongvec_minmax() directly. However, hugetlb.c's locking rules
require that all counter modifications occur under the hugetlb_lock. Add a
callback into the hugetlb code similar to the one for nr_hugepages. Grab
the lock around the manipulation of nr_overcommit_hugepages in
proc_doulongvec_minmax().Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan
Acked-by: Adam Litke
Cc: David Gibson
Cc: William Lee Irwin III
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
18 Dec, 2007
2 commits
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This reverts commit 54f9f80d6543fb7b157d3b11e2e7911dc1379790 ("hugetlb:
Add hugetlb_dynamic_pool sysctl")Given the new sysctl nr_overcommit_hugepages, the boolean dynamic pool
sysctl is not needed, as its semantics can be expressed by 0 in the
overcommit sysctl (no dynamic pool) and non-0 in the overcommit sysctl
(pool enabled).(Needed in 2.6.24 since it reverts a post-2.6.23 userspace-visible change)
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan
Acked-by: Adam Litke
Cc: William Lee Irwin III
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: David Gibson
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
hugetlb: introduce nr_overcommit_hugepages sysctl
While examining the code to support /proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_dynamic_pool, I
became convinced that having a boolean sysctl was insufficient:1) To support per-node control of hugepages, I have previously submitted
patches to add a sysfs attribute related to nr_hugepages. However, with
a boolean global value and per-mount quota enforcement constraining the
dynamic pool, adding corresponding control of the dynamic pool on a
per-node basis seems inconsistent to me.2) Administration of the hugetlb dynamic pool with multiple hugetlbfs
mount points is, arguably, more arduous than it needs to be. Each quota
would need to be set separately, and the sum would need to be monitored.To ease the administration, and to help make the way for per-node
control of the static & dynamic hugepage pool, I added a separate
sysctl, nr_overcommit_hugepages. This value serves as a high watermark
for the overall hugepage pool, while nr_hugepages serves as a low
watermark. The boolean sysctl can then be removed, as the conditionnr_overcommit_hugepages > 0
indicates the same administrative setting as
hugetlb_dynamic_pool == 1
Quotas still serve as local enforcement of the size of the pool on a
per-mount basis.A few caveats:
1) There is a race whereby the global surplus huge page counter is
incremented before a hugepage has allocated. Another process could then
try grow the pool, and fail to convert a surplus huge page to a normal
huge page and instead allocate a fresh huge page. I believe this is
benign, as no memory is leaked (the actual pages are still tracked
correctly) and the counters won't go out of sync.2) Shrinking the static pool while a surplus is in effect will allow the
number of surplus huge pages to exceed the overcommit value. As long as
this condition holds, however, no more surplus huge pages will be
allowed on the system until one of the two sysctls are increased
sufficiently, or the surplus huge pages go out of use and are freed.Successfully tested on x86_64 with the current libhugetlbfs snapshot,
modified to use the new sysctl.Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan
Acked-by: Adam Litke
Cc: William Lee Irwin III
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: David Gibson
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
15 Nov, 2007
3 commits
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For administrative purpose, we want to query actual block usage for
hugetlbfs file via fstat. Currently, hugetlbfs always return 0. Fix that
up since kernel already has all the information to track it properly.Signed-off-by: Ken Chen
Acked-by: Adam Litke
Cc: Badari Pulavarty
Cc: David Gibson
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Add a second parameter 'delta' to hugetlb_get_quota and hugetlb_put_quota to
allow bulk updating of the sbinfo->free_blocks counter. This will be used by
the next patch in the series.Signed-off-by: Adam Litke
Cc: Ken Chen
Cc: Andy Whitcroft
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: David Gibson
Cc: William Lee Irwin III
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
When calling get_user_pages(), a write flag is passed in by the caller to
indicate if write access is required on the faulted-in pages. Currently,
follow_hugetlb_page() ignores this flag and always faults pages for
read-only access. This can cause data corruption because a device driver
that calls get_user_pages() with write set will not expect COW faults to
occur on the returned pages.This patch passes the write flag down to follow_hugetlb_page() and makes
sure hugetlb_fault() is called with the right write_access parameter.[ezk@cs.sunysb.edu: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Adam Litke
Reviewed-by: Ken Chen
Cc: David Gibson
Cc: William Lee Irwin III
Cc: Badari Pulavarty
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Oct, 2007
1 commit
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The maximum size of the huge page pool can be controlled using the overall
size of the hugetlb filesystem (via its 'size' mount option). However in the
common case the this will not be set as the pool is traditionally fixed in
size at boot time. In order to maintain the expected semantics, we need to
prevent the pool expanding by default.This patch introduces a new sysctl controlling dynamic pool resizing. When
this is enabled the pool will expand beyond its base size up to the size of
the hugetlb filesystem. It is disabled by default.Signed-off-by: Adam Litke
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft
Acked-by: Dave McCracken
Cc: William Irwin
Cc: David Gibson
Cc: Ken Chen
Cc: Badari Pulavarty
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
31 Aug, 2007
1 commit
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For hugepage mappings, the file offset, like the address and size, needs to
be aligned to the size of a hugepage.In commit 68589bc353037f233fe510ad9ff432338c95db66, the check for this was
moved into prepare_hugepage_range() along with the address and size checks.
But since BenH's rework of the get_unmapped_area() paths leading up to
commit 4b1d89290b62bb2db476c94c82cf7442aab440c8, prepare_hugepage_range()
is only called for MAP_FIXED mappings, not for other mappings. This means
we're no longer ever checking for an aligned offset - I've confirmed that
mmap() will (apparently) succeed with a misaligned offset on both powerpc
and i386 at least.This patch restores the check, removing it from prepare_hugepage_range()
and putting it back into hugetlbfs_file_mmap(). I'm putting it there,
rather than in the get_unmapped_area() path so it only needs to go in one
place, than separately in the half-dozen or so arch-specific
implementations of hugetlb_get_unmapped_area().Signed-off-by: David Gibson
Cc: Adam Litke
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
30 Jul, 2007
1 commit
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Remove fs.h from mm.h. For this,
1) Uninline vma_wants_writenotify(). It's pretty huge anyway.
2) Add back fs.h or less bloated headers (err.h) to files that need it.As result, on x86_64 allyesconfig, fs.h dependencies cut down from 3929 files
rebuilt down to 3444 (-12.3%).Cross-compile tested without regressions on my two usual configs and (sigh):
alpha arm-mx1ads mips-bigsur powerpc-ebony
alpha-allnoconfig arm-neponset mips-capcella powerpc-g5
alpha-defconfig arm-netwinder mips-cobalt powerpc-holly
alpha-up arm-netx mips-db1000 powerpc-iseries
arm arm-ns9xxx mips-db1100 powerpc-linkstation
arm-assabet arm-omap_h2_1610 mips-db1200 powerpc-lite5200
arm-at91rm9200dk arm-onearm mips-db1500 powerpc-maple
arm-at91rm9200ek arm-picotux200 mips-db1550 powerpc-mpc7448_hpc2
arm-at91sam9260ek arm-pleb mips-ddb5477 powerpc-mpc8272_ads
arm-at91sam9261ek arm-pnx4008 mips-decstation powerpc-mpc8313_rdb
arm-at91sam9263ek arm-pxa255-idp mips-e55 powerpc-mpc832x_mds
arm-at91sam9rlek arm-realview mips-emma2rh powerpc-mpc832x_rdb
arm-ateb9200 arm-realview-smp mips-excite powerpc-mpc834x_itx
arm-badge4 arm-rpc mips-fulong powerpc-mpc834x_itxgp
arm-carmeva arm-s3c2410 mips-ip22 powerpc-mpc834x_mds
arm-cerfcube arm-shannon mips-ip27 powerpc-mpc836x_mds
arm-clps7500 arm-shark mips-ip32 powerpc-mpc8540_ads
arm-collie arm-simpad mips-jazz powerpc-mpc8544_ds
arm-corgi arm-spitz mips-jmr3927 powerpc-mpc8560_ads
arm-csb337 arm-trizeps4 mips-malta powerpc-mpc8568mds
arm-csb637 arm-versatile mips-mipssim powerpc-mpc85xx_cds
arm-ebsa110 i386 mips-mpc30x powerpc-mpc8641_hpcn
arm-edb7211 i386-allnoconfig mips-msp71xx powerpc-mpc866_ads
arm-em_x270 i386-defconfig mips-ocelot powerpc-mpc885_ads
arm-ep93xx i386-up mips-pb1100 powerpc-pasemi
arm-footbridge ia64 mips-pb1500 powerpc-pmac32
arm-fortunet ia64-allnoconfig mips-pb1550 powerpc-ppc64
arm-h3600 ia64-bigsur mips-pnx8550-jbs powerpc-prpmc2800
arm-h7201 ia64-defconfig mips-pnx8550-stb810 powerpc-ps3
arm-h7202 ia64-gensparse mips-qemu powerpc-pseries
arm-hackkit ia64-sim mips-rbhma4200 powerpc-up
arm-integrator ia64-sn2 mips-rbhma4500 s390
arm-iop13xx ia64-tiger mips-rm200 s390-allnoconfig
arm-iop32x ia64-up mips-sb1250-swarm s390-defconfig
arm-iop33x ia64-zx1 mips-sead s390-up
arm-ixp2000 m68k mips-tb0219 sparc
arm-ixp23xx m68k-amiga mips-tb0226 sparc-allnoconfig
arm-ixp4xx m68k-apollo mips-tb0287 sparc-defconfig
arm-jornada720 m68k-atari mips-workpad sparc-up
arm-kafa m68k-bvme6000 mips-wrppmc sparc64
arm-kb9202 m68k-hp300 mips-yosemite sparc64-allnoconfig
arm-ks8695 m68k-mac parisc sparc64-defconfig
arm-lart m68k-mvme147 parisc-allnoconfig sparc64-up
arm-lpd270 m68k-mvme16x parisc-defconfig um-x86_64
arm-lpd7a400 m68k-q40 parisc-up x86_64
arm-lpd7a404 m68k-sun3 powerpc x86_64-allnoconfig
arm-lubbock m68k-sun3x powerpc-cell x86_64-defconfig
arm-lusl7200 mips powerpc-celleb x86_64-up
arm-mainstone mips-atlas powerpc-chrp32Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
18 Jul, 2007
1 commit
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Huge pages are not movable so are not allocated from ZONE_MOVABLE. However,
as ZONE_MOVABLE will always have pages that can be migrated or reclaimed, it
can be used to satisfy hugepage allocations even when the system has been
running a long time. This allows an administrator to resize the hugepage pool
at runtime depending on the size of ZONE_MOVABLE.This patch adds a new sysctl called hugepages_treat_as_movable. When a
non-zero value is written to it, future allocations for the huge page pool
will use ZONE_MOVABLE. Despite huge pages being non-movable, we do not
introduce additional external fragmentation of note as huge pages are always
the largest contiguous block we care about.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: various fixes]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Jun, 2007
1 commit
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Some user space tools need to identify SYSV shared memory when examining
/proc//maps. To do so they look for a block device with major zero, a
dentry named SYSV, and having the minor of the internal sysv
shared memory kernel mount.To help these tools and to make it easier for people just browsing
/proc//maps this patch modifies hugetlb sysv shared memory to use the
SYSV dentry naming convention.User space tools will still have to be aware that hugetlb sysv shared
memory lives on a different internal kernel mount and so has a different
block device minor number from the rest of sysv shared memory.Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn"
Cc: Albert Cahalan
Cc: Badari Pulavarty
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
08 May, 2007
1 commit
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Add a proper prototype for hugetlb_get_unmapped_area() in
include/linux/hugetlb.h.Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
Acked-by: William Irwin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
02 Mar, 2007
1 commit
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This patch provides the following hugetlb-related fixes to the recent stacked
shm files changes:
- Update is_file_hugepages() so it will reconize hugetlb shm segments.
- get_unmapped_area must be called with the nested file struct to handle
the sfd->file->f_ops->get_unmapped_area == NULL case.
- The fsync f_op must be wrapped since it is specified in the hugetlbfs
f_ops.This is based on proposed fixes from Eric Biederman that were debugged and
tested by me. Without it, attempting to use hugetlb shared memory segments
on powerpc (and likely ia64) will kill your box.Signed-off-by: Adam Litke
Cc: Eric Biederman
Cc: Andrew Morton
Acked-by: William Irwin
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
08 Dec, 2006
1 commit
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Following up with the work on shared page table done by Dave McCracken. This
set of patch target shared page table for hugetlb memory only.The shared page table is particular useful in the situation of large number of
independent processes sharing large shared memory segments. In the normal
page case, the amount of memory saved from process' page table is quite
significant. For hugetlb, the saving on page table memory is not the primary
objective (as hugetlb itself already cuts down page table overhead
significantly), instead, the purpose of using shared page table on hugetlb is
to allow faster TLB refill and smaller cache pollution upon TLB miss.With PT sharing, pte entries are shared among hundreds of processes, the cache
consumption used by all the page table is smaller and in return, application
gets much higher cache hit ratio. One other effect is that cache hit ratio
with hardware page walker hitting on pte in cache will be higher and this
helps to reduce tlb miss latency. These two effects contribute to higher
application performance.Signed-off-by: Ken Chen
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Dave McCracken
Cc: William Lee Irwin III
Cc: "Luck, Tony"
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: David Gibson
Cc: Adam Litke
Cc: Paul Mundt
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
15 Nov, 2006
1 commit
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(David:)
If hugetlbfs_file_mmap() returns a failure to do_mmap_pgoff() - for example,
because the given file offset is not hugepage aligned - then do_mmap_pgoff
will go to the unmap_and_free_vma backout path.But at this stage the vma hasn't been marked as hugepage, and the backout path
will call unmap_region() on it. That will eventually call down to the
non-hugepage version of unmap_page_range(). On ppc64, at least, that will
cause serious problems if there are any existing hugepage pagetable entries in
the vicinity - for example if there are any other hugepage mappings under the
same PUD. unmap_page_range() will trigger a bad_pud() on the hugepage pud
entries. I suspect this will also cause bad problems on ia64, though I don't
have a machine to test it on.(Hugh:)
prepare_hugepage_range() should check file offset alignment when it checks
virtual address and length, to stop MAP_FIXED with a bad huge offset from
unmapping before it fails further down. PowerPC should apply the same
prepare_hugepage_range alignment checks as ia64 and all the others do.Then none of the alignment checks in hugetlbfs_file_mmap are required (nor
is the check for too small a mapping); but even so, move up setting of
VM_HUGETLB and add a comment to warn of what David Gibson discovered - if
hugetlbfs_file_mmap fails before setting it, do_mmap_pgoff's unmap_region
when unwinding from error will go the non-huge way, which may cause bad
behaviour on architectures (powerpc and ia64) which segregate their huge
mappings into a separate region of the address space.Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Cc: "Luck, Tony"
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Acked-by: Adam Litke
Acked-by: David Gibson
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
12 Oct, 2006
1 commit
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commit fe1668ae5bf0145014c71797febd9ad5670d5d05 causes kernel to oops with
libhugetlbfs test suite. The problem is that hugetlb pages can be shared
by multiple mappings. Multiple threads can fight over page->lru in the
unmap path and bad things happen. We now serialize __unmap_hugepage_range
to void concurrent linked list manipulation. Such serialization is also
needed for shared page table page on hugetlb area. This patch will fixed
the bug and also serve as a prepatch for shared page table.Signed-off-by: Ken Chen
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Cc: David Gibson
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
23 Jun, 2006
1 commit
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Current hugetlb strict accounting for shared mapping always assume mapping
starts at zero file offset and reserves pages between zero and size of the
file. This assumption often reserves (or lock down) a lot more pages then
necessary if application maps at none zero file offset. libhugetlbfs is
one example that requires proper reservation on shared mapping starts at
none zero offset.This patch extends the reservation and hugetlb strict accounting to support
any arbitrary pair of (offset, len), resulting a much more robust and
accurate scheme. More importantly, it won't lock down any hugetlb pages
outside file mapping.Signed-off-by: Ken Chen
Acked-by: Adam Litke
Cc: David Gibson
Cc: William Lee Irwin III
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
29 Mar, 2006
1 commit
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This is a conversion to make the various file_operations structs in fs/
const. Basically a regexp job, with a few manual fixupsThe goal is both to increase correctness (harder to accidentally write to
shared datastructures) and reducing the false sharing of cachelines with
things that get dirty in .data (while .rodata is nicely read only and thus
cache clean)Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
22 Mar, 2006
4 commits
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Quite a long time back, prepare_hugepage_range() replaced
is_aligned_hugepage_range() as the callback from mm/mmap.c to arch code to
verify if an address range is suitable for a hugepage mapping.
is_aligned_hugepage_range() stuck around, but only to implement
prepare_hugepage_range() on archs which didn't implement their own.Most archs (everything except ia64 and powerpc) used the same
implementation of is_aligned_hugepage_range(). On powerpc, which
implements its own prepare_hugepage_range(), the custom version was never
used.In addition, "is_aligned_hugepage_range()" was a bad name, because it
suggests it returns true iff the given range is a good hugepage range,
whereas in fact it returns 0-or-error (so the sense is reversed).This patch cleans up by abolishing is_aligned_hugepage_range(). Instead
prepare_hugepage_range() is defined directly. Most archs use the default
version, which simply checks the given region is aligned to the size of a
hugepage. ia64 and powerpc define custom versions. The ia64 one simply
checks that the range is in the correct address space region in addition to
being suitably aligned. The powerpc version (just as previously) checks
for suitable addresses, and if necessary performs low-level MMU frobbing to
set up new areas for use by hugepages.No libhugetlbfs testsuite regressions on ppc64 (POWER5 LPAR).
Signed-off-by: David Gibson
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: William Lee Irwin III
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The optional hugepage callback, hugetlb_free_pgd_range() is presently
implemented non-trivially only on ia64 (but I plan to add one for powerpc
shortly). It has its own prototype for the function in asm-ia64/pgtable.h.
However, since the function is called from generic code, it make sense for
its prototype to be in the generic hugetlb.h header file, as the protypes
other arch callbacks already are (prepare_hugepage_range(),
set_huge_pte_at(), etc.). This patch makes it so.Signed-off-by: David Gibson
Cc: William Lee Irwin III
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
free_pgtables() has special logic to call hugetlb_free_pgd_range() instead
of the normal free_pgd_range() on hugepage VMAs. However, the test it uses
to do so is incorrect: it calls is_hugepage_only_range on a hugepage sized
range at the start of the vma. is_hugepage_only_range() will return true
if the given range has any intersection with a hugepage address region, and
in this case the given region need not be hugepage aligned. So, for
example, this test can return true if called on, say, a 4k VMA immediately
preceding a (nicely aligned) hugepage VMA.At present we get away with this because the powerpc version of
hugetlb_free_pgd_range() is just a call to free_pgd_range(). On ia64 (the
only other arch with a non-trivial is_hugepage_only_range()) we get away
with it for a different reason; the hugepage area is not contiguous with
the rest of the user address space, and VMAs are not permitted in between,
so the test can't return a false positive there.Nonetheless this should be fixed. We do that in the patch below by
replacing the is_hugepage_only_range() test with an explicit test of the
VMA using is_vm_hugetlb_page().This in turn changes behaviour for platforms where is_hugepage_only_range()
returns false always (everything except powerpc and ia64). We address this
by ensuring that hugetlb_free_pgd_range() is defined to be identical to
free_pgd_range() (instead of a no-op) on everything except ia64. Even so,
it will prevent some otherwise possible coalescing of calls down to
free_pgd_range(). Since this only happens for hugepage VMAs, removing this
small optimization seems unlikely to cause any trouble.This patch causes no regressions on the libhugetlbfs testsuite - ppc64
POWER5 (8-way), ppc64 G5 (2-way) and i386 Pentium M (UP).Signed-off-by: David Gibson
Cc: William Lee Irwin III
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Originally, mm/hugetlb.c just handled the hugepage physical allocation path
and its {alloc,free}_huge_page() functions were used from the arch specific
hugepage code. These days those functions are only used with mm/hugetlb.c
itself. Therefore, this patch makes them static and removes their
prototypes from hugetlb.h. This requires a small rearrangement of code in
mm/hugetlb.c to avoid a forward declaration.This patch causes no regressions on the libhugetlbfs testsuite (ppc64,
POWER5).Signed-off-by: David Gibson
Cc: William Lee Irwin III
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds