06 Feb, 2008
2 commits
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Fix following warning:
WARNING: mm/built-in.o(.text+0x22069): Section mismatch in reference from the function sparse_early_usemap_alloc() to the function .init.text:__alloc_bootmem_node()static sparse_early_usemap_alloc() were used only by sparse_init()
and with sparse_init() annotated _init it is safe to
annotate sparse_early_usemap_alloc with __init too.Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
Cc: Andy Whitcroft
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Checking if an address is a vmalloc address is done in a couple of places.
Define a common version in mm.h and replace the other checks.Again the include structures suck. The definition of VMALLOC_START and
VMALLOC_END is not available in vmalloc.h since highmem.c cannot be included
there.Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Nick Piggin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
18 Dec, 2007
2 commits
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Improve the error handling for mm/sparse.c::sparse_add_one_section(). And I
see no reason to check 'usemap' until holding the 'pgdat_resize_lock'.[geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com: sparse_index_init() returns -EEXIST]
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Acked-by: Dave Hansen
Cc: Rik van Riel
Acked-by: Yasunori Goto
Cc: Andy Whitcroft
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Since sparse_index_alloc() can return NULL on memory allocation failure,
we must deal with the failure condition when calling it.Signed-off-by: WANG Cong
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Rik van Riel
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
30 Oct, 2007
1 commit
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This reverts commit 2e1c49db4c640b35df13889b86b9d62215ade4b6.
First off, testing in Fedora has shown it to cause boot failures,
bisected down by Martin Ebourne, and reported by Dave Jobes. So the
commit will likely be reverted in the 2.6.23 stable kernels.Secondly, in the 2.6.24 model, x86-64 has now grown support for
SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, which disables the relevant code anyway, so while the
bug is not visible any more, it's become invisible due to the code just
being irrelevant and no longer enabled on the only architecture that
this ever affected.Reported-by: Dave Jones
Tested-by: Martin Ebourne
Cc: Zou Nan hai
Cc: Suresh Siddha
Cc: Andrew Morton
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Oct, 2007
5 commits
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This patch is to avoid panic when memory hot-add is executed with
sparsemem-vmemmap. Current vmemmap-sparsemem code doesn't support memory
hot-add. Vmemmap must be populated when hot-add. This is for
2.6.23-rc2-mm2.Todo: # Even if this patch is applied, the message "[xxxx-xxxx] potential
offnode page_structs" is displayed. To allocate memmap on its node,
memmap (and pgdat) must be initialized itself like chicken and
egg relationship.# vmemmap_unpopulate will be necessary for followings.
- For cancel hot-add due to error.
- For unplug.Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto
Cc: Andy Whitcroft
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Mel Gorman
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
There are problems in the use of SPARSEMEM and pageblock flags that causes
problems on ia64.The first part of the problem is that units are incorrect in
SECTION_BLOCKFLAGS_BITS computation. This results in a map_section's
section_mem_map being treated as part of a bitmap which isn't good. This
was evident with an invalid virtual address when mem_init attempted to free
bootmem pages while relinquishing control from the bootmem allocator.The second part of the problem occurs because the pageblock flags bitmap is
be located with the mem_section. The SECTIONS_PER_ROOT computation using
sizeof (mem_section) may not be a power of 2 depending on the size of the
bitmap. This renders masks and other such things not power of 2 base.
This issue was seen with SPARSEMEM_EXTREME on ia64. This patch moves the
bitmap outside of mem_section and uses a pointer instead in the
mem_section. The bitmaps are allocated when the section is being
initialised.Note that sparse_early_usemap_alloc() does not use alloc_remap() like
sparse_early_mem_map_alloc(). The allocation required for the bitmap on
x86, the only architecture that uses alloc_remap is typically smaller than
a cache line. alloc_remap() pads out allocations to the cache size which
would be a needless waste.Credit to Bob Picco for identifying the original problem and effecting a
fix for the SECTION_BLOCKFLAGS_BITS calculation. Credit to Andy Whitcroft
for devising the best way of allocating the bitmaps only when required for
the section.[wli@holomorphy.com: warning fix]
Signed-off-by: Bob Picco
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Cc: "Luck, Tony"
Signed-off-by: William Irwin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
SPARSEMEM is a pretty nice framework that unifies quite a bit of code over all
the arches. It would be great if it could be the default so that we can get
rid of various forms of DISCONTIG and other variations on memory maps. So far
what has hindered this are the additional lookups that SPARSEMEM introduces
for virt_to_page and page_address. This goes so far that the code to do this
has to be kept in a separate function and cannot be used inline.This patch introduces a virtual memmap mode for SPARSEMEM, in which the memmap
is mapped into a virtually contigious area, only the active sections are
physically backed. This allows virt_to_page page_address and cohorts become
simple shift/add operations. No page flag fields, no table lookups, nothing
involving memory is required.The two key operations pfn_to_page and page_to_page become:
#define __pfn_to_page(pfn) (vmemmap + (pfn))
#define __page_to_pfn(page) ((page) - vmemmap)By having a virtual mapping for the memmap we allow simple access without
wasting physical memory. As kernel memory is typically already mapped 1:1
this introduces no additional overhead. The virtual mapping must be big
enough to allow a struct page to be allocated and mapped for all valid
physical pages. This vill make a virtual memmap difficult to use on 32 bit
platforms that support 36 address bits.However, if there is enough virtual space available and the arch already maps
its 1-1 kernel space using TLBs (f.e. true of IA64 and x86_64) then this
technique makes SPARSEMEM lookups even more efficient than CONFIG_FLATMEM.
FLATMEM needs to read the contents of the mem_map variable to get the start of
the memmap and then add the offset to the required entry. vmemmap is a
constant to which we can simply add the offset.This patch has the potential to allow us to make SPARSMEM the default (and
even the only) option for most systems. It should be optimal on UP, SMP and
NUMA on most platforms. Then we may even be able to remove the other memory
models: FLATMEM, DISCONTIG etc.[apw@shadowen.org: config cleanups, resplit code etc]
[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: Fix sparsemem_vmemmap init]
[apw@shadowen.org: vmemmap: remove excess debugging]
[apw@shadowen.org: simplify initialisation code and reduce duplication]
[apw@shadowen.org: pull out the vmemmap code into its own file]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft
Acked-by: Mel Gorman
Cc: "Luck, Tony"
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
We have flags to indicate whether a section actually has a valid mem_map
associated with it. This is never set and we rely solely on the present bit
to indicate a section is valid. By definition a section is not valid if it
has no mem_map and there is a window during init where the present bit is set
but there is no mem_map, during which pfn_valid() will return true
incorrectly.Use the existing SECTION_HAS_MEM_MAP flag to indicate the presence of a valid
mem_map. Switch valid_section{,_nr} and pfn_valid() to this bit. Add a new
present_section{,_nr} and pfn_present() interfaces for those users who care to
know that a section is going to be valid.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-syle fixes]
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft
Acked-by: Mel Gorman
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: "Luck, Tony"
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
SPARSEMEM is a pretty nice framework that unifies quite a bit of code over all
the arches. It would be great if it could be the default so that we can get
rid of various forms of DISCONTIG and other variations on memory maps. So far
what has hindered this are the additional lookups that SPARSEMEM introduces
for virt_to_page and page_address. This goes so far that the code to do this
has to be kept in a separate function and cannot be used inline.This patch introduces a virtual memmap mode for SPARSEMEM, in which the memmap
is mapped into a virtually contigious area, only the active sections are
physically backed. This allows virt_to_page page_address and cohorts become
simple shift/add operations. No page flag fields, no table lookups, nothing
involving memory is required.The two key operations pfn_to_page and page_to_page become:
#define __pfn_to_page(pfn) (vmemmap + (pfn))
#define __page_to_pfn(page) ((page) - vmemmap)By having a virtual mapping for the memmap we allow simple access without
wasting physical memory. As kernel memory is typically already mapped 1:1
this introduces no additional overhead. The virtual mapping must be big
enough to allow a struct page to be allocated and mapped for all valid
physical pages. This vill make a virtual memmap difficult to use on 32 bit
platforms that support 36 address bits.However, if there is enough virtual space available and the arch already maps
its 1-1 kernel space using TLBs (f.e. true of IA64 and x86_64) then this
technique makes SPARSEMEM lookups even more efficient than CONFIG_FLATMEM.
FLATMEM needs to read the contents of the mem_map variable to get the start of
the memmap and then add the offset to the required entry. vmemmap is a
constant to which we can simply add the offset.This patch has the potential to allow us to make SPARSMEM the default (and
even the only) option for most systems. It should be optimal on UP, SMP and
NUMA on most platforms. Then we may even be able to remove the other memory
models: FLATMEM, DISCONTIG etc.The current aim is to bring a common virtually mapped mem_map to all
architectures. This should facilitate the removal of the bespoke
implementations from the architectures. This also brings performance
improvements for most architecture making sparsmem vmemmap the more desirable
memory model. The ultimate aim of this work is to expand sparsemem support to
encompass all the features of the other memory models. This could allow us to
drop support for and remove the other models in the longer term.Below are some comparitive kernbench numbers for various architectures,
comparing default memory model against SPARSEMEM VMEMMAP. All but ia64 show
marginal improvement; we expect the ia64 figures to be sorted out when the
larger mapping support returns.x86-64 non-NUMA
Base VMEMAP % change (-ve good)
User 85.07 84.84 -0.26
System 34.32 33.84 -1.39
Total 119.38 118.68 -0.59ia64
Base VMEMAP % change (-ve good)
User 1016.41 1016.93 0.05
System 50.83 51.02 0.36
Total 1067.25 1067.95 0.07x86-64 NUMA
Base VMEMAP % change (-ve good)
User 30.77 431.73 0.22
System 45.39 43.98 -3.11
Total 476.17 475.71 -0.10ppc64
Base VMEMAP % change (-ve good)
User 488.77 488.35 -0.09
System 56.92 56.37 -0.97
Total 545.69 544.72 -0.18Below are some AIM bencharks on IA64 and x86-64 (thank Bob). The seems
pretty much flat as you would expect.ia64 results 2 cpu non-numa 4Gb SCSI disk
Benchmark Version Machine Run Date
AIM Multiuser Benchmark - Suite VII "1.1" extreme Jun 1 07:17:24 2007Tasks Jobs/Min JTI Real CPU Jobs/sec/task
1 98.9 100 58.9 1.3 1.6482
101 5547.1 95 106.0 79.4 0.9154
201 6377.7 95 183.4 158.3 0.5288
301 6932.2 95 252.7 237.3 0.3838
401 7075.8 93 329.8 316.7 0.2941
501 7235.6 94 403.0 396.2 0.2407
600 7387.5 94 472.7 475.0 0.2052Benchmark Version Machine Run Date
AIM Multiuser Benchmark - Suite VII "1.1" vmemmap Jun 1 09:59:04 2007Tasks Jobs/Min JTI Real CPU Jobs/sec/task
1 99.1 100 58.8 1.2 1.6509
101 5480.9 95 107.2 79.2 0.9044
201 6490.3 95 180.2 157.8 0.5382
301 6886.6 94 254.4 236.8 0.3813
401 7078.2 94 329.7 316.0 0.2942
501 7250.3 95 402.2 395.4 0.2412
600 7399.1 94 471.9 473.9 0.2055open power 710 2 cpu, 4 Gb, SCSI and configured physically
Benchmark Version Machine Run Date
AIM Multiuser Benchmark - Suite VII "1.1" extreme May 29 15:42:53 2007Tasks Jobs/Min JTI Real CPU Jobs/sec/task
1 25.7 100 226.3 4.3 0.4286
101 1096.0 97 536.4 199.8 0.1809
201 1236.4 96 946.1 389.1 0.1025
301 1280.5 96 1368.0 582.3 0.0709
401 1270.2 95 1837.4 771.0 0.0528
501 1251.4 96 2330.1 955.9 0.0416
601 1252.6 96 2792.4 1139.2 0.0347
701 1245.2 96 3276.5 1334.6 0.0296
918 1229.5 96 4345.4 1728.7 0.0223Benchmark Version Machine Run Date
AIM Multiuser Benchmark - Suite VII "1.1" vmemmap May 30 07:28:26 2007Tasks Jobs/Min JTI Real CPU Jobs/sec/task
1 25.6 100 226.9 4.3 0.4275
101 1049.3 97 560.2 198.1 0.1731
201 1199.1 97 975.6 390.7 0.0994
301 1261.7 96 1388.5 591.5 0.0699
401 1256.1 96 1858.1 771.9 0.0522
501 1220.1 96 2389.7 955.3 0.0406
601 1224.6 96 2856.3 1133.4 0.0340
701 1252.0 96 3258.7 1314.1 0.0298
915 1232.8 96 4319.7 1704.0 0.0225amd64 2 2-core, 4Gb and SATA
Benchmark Version Machine Run Date
AIM Multiuser Benchmark - Suite VII "1.1" extreme Jun 2 03:59:48 2007Tasks Jobs/Min JTI Real CPU Jobs/sec/task
1 13.0 100 446.4 2.1 0.2173
101 533.4 97 1102.0 110.2 0.0880
201 578.3 97 2022.8 220.8 0.0480
301 583.8 97 3000.6 332.3 0.0323
401 580.5 97 4020.1 442.2 0.0241
501 574.8 98 5072.8 558.8 0.0191
600 566.5 98 6163.8 671.0 0.0157Benchmark Version Machine Run Date
AIM Multiuser Benchmark - Suite VII "1.1" vmemmap Jun 3 04:19:31 2007Tasks Jobs/Min JTI Real CPU Jobs/sec/task
1 13.0 100 447.8 2.0 0.2166
101 536.5 97 1095.6 109.7 0.0885
201 567.7 97 2060.5 219.3 0.0471
301 582.1 96 3009.4 330.2 0.0322
401 578.2 96 4036.4 442.4 0.0240
501 585.1 98 4983.2 555.1 0.0195
600 565.5 98 6175.2 660.6 0.0157This patch:
Fix some spelling errors.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft
Acked-by: Mel Gorman
Cc: "Luck, Tony"
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
23 Aug, 2007
1 commit
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Booting SPARSEMEM on NUMA systems trips a BUG in page_alloc.c:
Initializing HighMem for node 0 (00038000:00100000)
Initializing HighMem for node 1 (00100000:001ffe00)
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at /home/apw/git/linux-2.6/mm/page_alloc.c:456!
[...]This occurs because the section to node id mapping is not being
setup correctly during init under SPARSEMEM_STATIC, leading to an
attempt to free pages from all nodes into the zones on node 0.When the zone_table[] was removed in the following commit, a new
section to node mapping table was introduced:commit 89689ae7f95995723fbcd5c116c47933a3bb8b13
[PATCH] Get rid of zone_table[]That conversion inadvertantly only initialised the node mapping in
SPARSEMEM_EXTREME. Ensure we initialise the node mapping in
SPARSEMEM_STATIC.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make the stubs static inline]
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
23 Jul, 2007
1 commit
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Fix following warning:
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x188ea): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:__alloc_bootmem_core (between 'alloc_bootmem_high_node' and 'get_gate_vma')alloc_bootmem_high_node() is only used from __init scope so declare it __init.
And in addition declare the weak variant __init too.Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
09 Jun, 2007
1 commit
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into the appropriate #ifdef.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell
Cc: Yasunori Goto
Cc: Andy Whitcroft
Cc: Badari Pulavarty
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
01 Jun, 2007
1 commit
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On systems with huge amount of physical memory, VFS cache and memory memmap
may eat all available system memory under 4G, then the system may fail to
allocate swiotlb bounce buffer.There was a fix for this issue in arch/x86_64/mm/numa.c, but that fix dose
not cover sparsemem model.This patch add fix to sparsemem model by first try to allocate memmap above
4G.Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai
Acked-by: Suresh Siddha
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
19 May, 2007
1 commit
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modpost had two cases hardcoded for mm/
Shift over to __init_refok and kill the
hardcoded function names in modpost.This has the drawback that the functions
will always be kept no matter configuration.
With previous code the function were placed in
init section if configuration allowed it.Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
09 May, 2007
2 commits
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This patch is add white list into modpost.c for some functions and
ia64's section to fix section mismatchs.sparse_index_alloc() and zone_wait_table_init() calls bootmem allocator
at boot time, and kmalloc/vmalloc at hotplug time. If config
memory hotplug is on, there are references of bootmem allocater(init text)
from them (normal text). This is cause of section mismatch.Bootmem is called by many functions and it must be
used only at boot time. I think __init of them should keep for
section mismatch check. So, I would like to register sparse_index_alloc()
and zone_wait_table_init() into white list.In addition, ia64's .machvec section is function table of some platform
dependent code. It is mixture of .init.text and normal text. These
reference of __init functions are valid too.Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto
Cc: Sam Ravnborg
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This is to fix many section mismatches of code related to memory hotplug.
I checked compile with memory hotplug on/off on ia64 and x86-64 box.Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
07 May, 2007
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
08 Dec, 2006
2 commits
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NUMA node ids are passed as either int or unsigned int almost exclusivly
page_to_nid and zone_to_nid both return unsigned long. This is a throw
back to when page_to_nid was a #define and was thus exposing the real type
of the page flags field.In addition to fixing up the definitions of page_to_nid and zone_to_nid I
audited the users of these functions identifying the following incorrect
uses:1) mm/page_alloc.c show_node() -- printk dumping the node id,
2) include/asm-ia64/pgalloc.h pgtable_quicklist_free() -- comparison
against numa_node_id() which returns an int from cpu_to_node(), and
3) mm/mpolicy.c check_pte_range -- used as an index in node_isset which
uses bit_set which in generic code takes an int.Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: "Luck, Tony"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The zone table is mostly not needed. If we have a node in the page flags
then we can get to the zone via NODE_DATA() which is much more likely to be
already in the cpu cache.In case of SMP and UP NODE_DATA() is a constant pointer which allows us to
access an exact replica of zonetable in the node_zones field. In all of
the above cases there will be no need at all for the zone table.The only remaining case is if in a NUMA system the node numbers do not fit
into the page flags. In that case we make sparse generate a table that
maps sections to nodes and use that table to to figure out the node number.
This table is sized to fit in a single cache line for the known 32 bit
NUMA platform which makes it very likely that the information can be
obtained without a cache miss.For sparsemem the zone table seems to be have been fairly large based on
the maximum possible number of sections and the number of zones per node.
There is some memory saving by removing zone_table. The main benefit is to
reduce the cache foootprint of the VM from the frequent lookups of zones.
Plus it simplifies the page allocator.[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Andy Whitcroft
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
29 Oct, 2006
1 commit
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Add __GFP_NOWARN flag to calling of __alloc_pages() in
__kmalloc_section_memmap(). It can reduce noisy failure message.In ia64, section size is 1 GB, this means that order 8 pages are necessary
for each section's memmap. It is often very hard requirement under heavy
memory pressure as you know. So, __alloc_pages() gives up allocation and
shows many noisy stack traces which means no page for each sections.
(Current my environment shows 32 times of stack trace....)But, __kmalloc_section_memmap() calls vmalloc() after failure of it, and it
can succeed allocation of memmap. So, its stack trace warning becomes just
noisy. I suppose it shouldn't be shown.Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
01 Jul, 2006
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
28 Jun, 2006
1 commit
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locking init cleanups:
- convert " = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED" to spin_lock_init() or DEFINE_SPINLOCK()
- convert rwlocks in a similar mannerthis patch was generated automatically.
Motivation:
- cleanliness
- lockdep needs control of lock initialization, which the open-coded
variants do not give
- it's also useful for -rt and for lock debugging in generalSigned-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
23 Jun, 2006
1 commit
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Record the node id as we mark sections for instantiation. Use this nid
during instantiation to direct allocations.Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft
Cc: Mike Kravetz
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Bob Picco
Cc: Jack Steiner
Cc: Yasunori Goto
Cc: Martin Bligh
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
22 May, 2006
1 commit
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A bad calculation/loop in __section_nr() could result in incorrect section
information being put into sysfs memory entries. This primarily impacts
memory add operations as the sysfs information is used while onlining new
memory.Fix suggested by Dave Hansen.
Note that the bug may not be obvious from the patch. It actually occurs in
the function's return statement:return (root_nr * SECTIONS_PER_ROOT) + (ms - root);
In the existing code, root_nr has already been multiplied by
SECTIONS_PER_ROOT.Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Andy Whitcroft
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
16 May, 2006
1 commit
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slab_is_available() indicates slab based allocators are available for use.
SPARSEMEM code needs to know this as it can be called at various times
during the boot process.Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
02 May, 2006
1 commit
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This patch fixes two bugs with the way sparsemem interacts with memory add.
They are:- memory leak if memmap for section already exists
- calling alloc_bootmem_node() after boot
These bugs were discovered and a first cut at the fixes were provided by
Arnd Bergmann and Joel Schopp .Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz
Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
09 Jan, 2006
1 commit
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____cacheline_maxaligned_in_smp is currently used to align critical structures
and avoid false sharing. It uses per-arch L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAX and people find
L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAX useless.However, we have been using ____cacheline_maxaligned_in_smp to align
structures on the internode cacheline size. As per Andi's suggestion,
following patch kills ____cacheline_maxaligned_in_smp and introduces
INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT, which defaults to L1_CACHE_SHIFT for all arches.
Arches needing L3/Internode cacheline alignment can define
INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT in the arch asm/cache.h. Patch replaces
____cacheline_maxaligned_in_smp with ____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smpWith this patch, L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAX can be killed
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
30 Oct, 2005
2 commits
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This basically keeps up from having to extern __kmalloc_section_memmap().
The vaddr_in_vmalloc_area() helper could go in a vmalloc header, but that
header gets hard to work with, because it needs some arch-specific macros.
Just stick it in here for now, instead of creating another header.Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen
Signed-off-by: Lion Vollnhals
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
A little helper that we use in the hotplug code.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
05 Sep, 2005
3 commits
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This splits up sparse_index_alloc() into two pieces. This is needed
because we'll allocate the memory for the second level in a different place
from where we actually consume it to keep the allocation from happening
underneath a lockSigned-off-by: Dave Hansen
Signed-off-by: Bob Picco
Cc: Andy Whitcroft
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
With cleanups from Dave Hansen
SPARSEMEM_EXTREME makes mem_section a one dimensional array of pointers to
mem_sections. This two level layout scheme is able to achieve smaller
memory requirements for SPARSEMEM with the tradeoff of an additional shift
and load when fetching the memory section. The current SPARSEMEM
implementation is a one dimensional array of mem_sections which is the
default SPARSEMEM configuration. The patch attempts isolates the
implementation details of the physical layout of the sparsemem section
array.SPARSEMEM_EXTREME requires bootmem to be functioning at the time of
memory_present() calls. This is not always feasible, so architectures
which do not need it may allocate everything statically by using
SPARSEMEM_STATIC.Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft
Signed-off-by: Bob Picco
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
A new option for SPARSEMEM is ARCH_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME. Architecture
platforms with a very sparse physical address space would likely want to
select this option. For those architecture platforms that don't select the
option, the code generated is equivalent to SPARSEMEM currently in -mm.
I'll be posting a patch on ia64 ml which uses this new SPARSEMEM feature.ARCH_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME makes mem_section a one dimensional array of
pointers to mem_sections. This two level layout scheme is able to achieve
smaller memory requirements for SPARSEMEM with the tradeoff of an
additional shift and load when fetching the memory section. The current
SPARSEMEM -mm implementation is a one dimensional array of mem_sections
which is the default SPARSEMEM configuration. The patch attempts isolates
the implementation details of the physical layout of the sparsemem section
array.ARCH_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME depends on 64BIT and is by default boolean false.
I've boot tested under aim load ia64 configured for ARCH_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME.
I've also boot tested a 4 way Opteron machine with !ARCH_SPARSEMEM_EXTREME
and tested with aim.Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft
Signed-off-by: Bob Picco
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
24 Jun, 2005
2 commits
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Make sparse's initalization be accessible at runtime. This allows sparse
mappings to be created after boot in a hotplug situation.This patch is separated from the previous one just to give an indication how
much of the sparse infrastructure is *just* for hotplug memory.The section_mem_map doesn't really store a pointer. It stores something that
is convenient to do some math against to get a pointer. It isn't valid to
just do *section_mem_map, so I don't think it should be stored as a pointer.There are a couple of things I'd like to store about a section. First of all,
the fact that it is !NULL does not mean that it is present. There could be
such a combination where section_mem_map *is* NULL, but the math gets you
properly to a real mem_map. So, I don't think that check is safe.Since we're storing 32-bit-aligned structures, we have a few bits in the
bottom of the pointer to play with. Use one bit to encode whether there's
really a mem_map there, and the other one to tell whether there's a valid
section there. We need to distinguish between the two because sometimes
there's a gap between when a section is discovered to be present and when we
can get the mem_map for it.Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner
Signed-off-by: Bob Picco
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Sparsemem abstracts the use of discontiguous mem_maps[]. This kind of
mem_map[] is needed by discontiguous memory machines (like in the old
CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM case) as well as memory hotplug systems. Sparsemem
replaces DISCONTIGMEM when enabled, and it is hoped that it can eventually
become a complete replacement.A significant advantage over DISCONTIGMEM is that it's completely separated
from CONFIG_NUMA. When producing this patch, it became apparent in that NUMA
and DISCONTIG are often confused.Another advantage is that sparse doesn't require each NUMA node's ranges to be
contiguous. It can handle overlapping ranges between nodes with no problems,
where DISCONTIGMEM currently throws away that memory.Sparsemem uses an array to provide different pfn_to_page() translations for
each SECTION_SIZE area of physical memory. This is what allows the mem_map[]
to be chopped up.In order to do quick pfn_to_page() operations, the section number of the page
is encoded in page->flags. Part of the sparsemem infrastructure enables
sharing of these bits more dynamically (at compile-time) between the
page_zone() and sparsemem operations. However, on 32-bit architectures, the
number of bits is quite limited, and may require growing the size of the
page->flags type in certain conditions. Several things might force this to
occur: a decrease in the SECTION_SIZE (if you want to hotplug smaller areas of
memory), an increase in the physical address space, or an increase in the
number of used page->flags.One thing to note is that, once sparsemem is present, the NUMA node
information no longer needs to be stored in the page->flags. It might provide
speed increases on certain platforms and will be stored there if there is
room. But, if out of room, an alternate (theoretically slower) mechanism is
used.This patch introduces CONFIG_FLATMEM. It is used in almost all cases where
there used to be an #ifndef DISCONTIG, because SPARSEMEM and DISCONTIGMEM
often have to compile out the same areas of code.Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen
Signed-off-by: Martin Bligh
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto
Signed-off-by: Bob Picco
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds