13 Jan, 2009

1 commit


25 Jul, 2008

1 commit

  • free_area_init_node() gets passed in the node id as well as the node
    descriptor. This is redundant as the function can trivially get the node
    descriptor itself by means of NODE_DATA() and the node's id.

    I checked all the users and NODE_DATA() seems to be usable everywhere
    from where this function is called.

    Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Johannes Weiner
     

21 Jul, 2008

1 commit

  • As noted by Akinobu Mita in patch b1fceac2b9e04d278316b2faddf276015fc06e3b,
    alloc_bootmem and related functions never return NULL and always return a
    zeroed region of memory. Thus a NULL test or memset after calls to these
    functions is unnecessary.

    This was fixed using the following semantic patch.
    (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

    //
    @@
    expression E;
    statement S;
    @@

    E = \(alloc_bootmem\|alloc_bootmem_low\|alloc_bootmem_pages\|alloc_bootmem_low_pages\)(...)
    .. when != E
    (
    - BUG_ON (E == NULL);
    |
    - if (E == NULL) S
    )

    @@
    expression E,E1;
    @@

    E = \(alloc_bootmem\|alloc_bootmem_low\|alloc_bootmem_pages\|alloc_bootmem_low_pages\)(...)
    .. when != E
    - memset(E,0,E1);
    //

    Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall
    Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Julia Lawall
     

23 Aug, 2007

1 commit


31 May, 2007

2 commits

  • Fix support for discontinuous memory

    Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel
    Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Roman Zippel
     
  • Add the basic infrastructure to allow runtime patching of kernel and modules
    to optimize a few functions with parameters, which are only calculated once
    during bootup and are otherwise constant. Use this for the conversion between
    virtual and physical addresses.

    Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel
    Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Roman Zippel
     

04 Oct, 2006

1 commit


01 Jul, 2006

1 commit


23 Jun, 2006

1 commit


22 Mar, 2006

1 commit

  • set_page_count usage outside mm/ is limited to setting the refcount to 1.
    Remove set_page_count from outside mm/, and replace those users with
    init_page_count() and set_page_refcounted().

    This allows more debug checking, and tighter control on how code is allowed
    to play around with page->_count.

    Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Nick Piggin
     

17 Apr, 2005

1 commit

  • Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
    even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
    archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
    3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
    git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
    infrastructure for it.

    Let it rip!

    Linus Torvalds