30 Jan, 2015
1 commit
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The core VM already knows about VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, but cannot return a
"you should SIGSEGV" error, because the SIGSEGV case was generally
handled by the caller - usually the architecture fault handler.That results in lots of duplication - all the architecture fault
handlers end up doing very similar "look up vma, check permissions, do
retries etc" - but it generally works. However, there are cases where
the VM actually wants to SIGSEGV, and applications _expect_ SIGSEGV.In particular, when accessing the stack guard page, libsigsegv expects a
SIGSEGV. And it usually got one, because the stack growth is handled by
that duplicated architecture fault handler.However, when the generic VM layer started propagating the error return
from the stack expansion in commit fee7e49d4514 ("mm: propagate error
from stack expansion even for guard page"), that now exposed the
existing VM_FAULT_SIGBUS result to user space. And user space really
expected SIGSEGV, not SIGBUS.To fix that case, we need to add a VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV, and teach all those
duplicate architecture fault handlers about it. They all already have
the code to handle SIGSEGV, so it's about just tying that new return
value to the existing code, but it's all a bit annoying.This is the mindless minimal patch to do this. A more extensive patch
would be to try to gather up the mostly shared fault handling logic into
one generic helper routine, and long-term we really should do that
cleanup.Just from this patch, you can generally see that most architectures just
copied (directly or indirectly) the old x86 way of doing things, but in
the meantime that original x86 model has been improved to hold the VM
semaphore for shorter times etc and to handle VM_FAULT_RETRY and other
"newer" things, so it would be a good idea to bring all those
improvements to the generic case and teach other architectures about
them too.Reported-and-tested-by: Takashi Iwai
Tested-by: Jan Engelhardt
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens # "s390 still compiles and boots"
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
31 Mar, 2014
1 commit
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Need export symbol flush_icache_range() to modules, just like another
platforms have done, or can not pass compiling.The related error (with allmodconfig under avr32):
ERROR: "flush_icache_range" [drivers/misc/lkdtm.ko] undefined!
make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
make: *** [modules] Error 2Signed-off-by: Chen Gang
Acked-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt
13 Sep, 2013
2 commits
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Unlike global OOM handling, memory cgroup code will invoke the OOM killer
in any OOM situation because it has no way of telling faults occuring in
kernel context - which could be handled more gracefully - from
user-triggered faults.Pass a flag that identifies faults originating in user space from the
architecture-specific fault handlers to generic code so that memcg OOM
handling can be improved.Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: azurIt
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Kernel faults are expected to handle OOM conditions gracefully (gup,
uaccess etc.), so they should never invoke the OOM killer. Reserve this
for faults triggered in user context when it is the only option.Most architectures already do this, fix up the remaining few.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: azurIt
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
04 Jul, 2013
5 commits
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Prepare for killing free_all_bootmem_node() by using free_all_bootmem()
instead.Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Prepare for removing num_physpages and simplify mem_init().
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu
Acked-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Concentrate code to modify totalram_pages into the mm core, so the arch
memory initialized code doesn't need to take care of it. With these
changes applied, only following functions from mm core modify global
variable totalram_pages: free_bootmem_late(), free_all_bootmem(),
free_all_bootmem_node(), adjust_managed_page_count().With this patch applied, it will be much more easier for us to keep
totalram_pages and zone->managed_pages in consistence.Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu
Acked-by: David Howells
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin"
Cc:
Cc: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: Catalin Marinas
Cc: Chris Metcalf
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Cc: Jianguo Wu
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Cc: Marek Szyprowski
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Michel Lespinasse
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Rik van Riel
Cc: Rusty Russell
Cc: Tang Chen
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Wen Congyang
Cc: Will Deacon
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu
Cc: Yinghai Lu
Cc: Russell King
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Address more review comments from last round of code review.
1) Enhance free_reserved_area() to support poisoning freed memory with
pattern '0'. This could be used to get rid of poison_init_mem()
on ARM64.
2) A previous patch has disabled memory poison for initmem on s390
by mistake, so restore to the original behavior.
3) Remove redundant PAGE_ALIGN() when calling free_reserved_area().Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin"
Cc:
Cc: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: Catalin Marinas
Cc: Chris Metcalf
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Cc: Jianguo Wu
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Cc: Marek Szyprowski
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Michel Lespinasse
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Rik van Riel
Cc: Rusty Russell
Cc: Tang Chen
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Wen Congyang
Cc: Will Deacon
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu
Cc: Yinghai Lu
Cc: Russell King
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Change signature of free_reserved_area() according to Russell King's
suggestion to fix following build warnings:arch/arm/mm/init.c: In function 'mem_init':
arch/arm/mm/init.c:603:2: warning: passing argument 1 of 'free_reserved_area' makes integer from pointer without a cast [enabled by default]
free_reserved_area(__va(PHYS_PFN_OFFSET), swapper_pg_dir, 0, NULL);
^
In file included from include/linux/mman.h:4:0,
from arch/arm/mm/init.c:15:
include/linux/mm.h:1301:22: note: expected 'long unsigned int' but argument is of type 'void *'
extern unsigned long free_reserved_area(unsigned long start, unsigned long end,mm/page_alloc.c: In function 'free_reserved_area':
>> mm/page_alloc.c:5134:3: warning: passing argument 1 of 'virt_to_phys' makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
In file included from arch/mips/include/asm/page.h:49:0,
from include/linux/mmzone.h:20,
from include/linux/gfp.h:4,
from include/linux/mm.h:8,
from mm/page_alloc.c:18:
arch/mips/include/asm/io.h:119:29: note: expected 'const volatile void *' but argument is of type 'long unsigned int'
mm/page_alloc.c: In function 'free_area_init_nodes':
mm/page_alloc.c:5030:34: warning: array subscript is below array bounds [-Warray-bounds]Also address some minor code review comments.
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu
Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin"
Cc:
Cc: Catalin Marinas
Cc: Chris Metcalf
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Cc: Jianguo Wu
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Cc: Marek Szyprowski
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Michel Lespinasse
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Rik van Riel
Cc: Rusty Russell
Cc: Tang Chen
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Wen Congyang
Cc: Will Deacon
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu
Cc: Yinghai Lu
Cc: Russell King
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
30 Apr, 2013
1 commit
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Use common help functions to free reserved pages.
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu
Acked-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
09 Oct, 2012
1 commit
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.fault now can retry. The retry can break state machine of .fault. In
filemap_fault, if page is miss, ra->mmap_miss is increased. In the second
try, since the page is in page cache now, ra->mmap_miss is decreased. And
these are done in one fault, so we can't detect random mmap file access.Add a new flag to indicate .fault is tried once. In the second try, skip
ra->mmap_miss decreasing. The filemap_fault state machine is ok with it.I only tested x86, didn't test other archs, but looks the change for other
archs is obvious, but who knows :)Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li
Cc: Rik van Riel
Cc: Wu Fengguang
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
31 Jul, 2012
1 commit
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Commits d065bd810b6d ("mm: retry page fault when blocking on disk
transfer") and 37b23e0525d3 ("x86,mm: make pagefault killable")
introduced changes into the x86 pagefault handler for making the page
fault handler retryable as well as killable.These changes reduce the mmap_sem hold time, which is crucial during OOM
killer invocation.Port these changes to AVR32.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment layout]
Signed-off-by: Mohd. Faris
Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul
Acked-by: Havard Skinnemoen
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
01 Nov, 2011
1 commit
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Add it in where the module.h implicit presence was doing
the job before.Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker
25 May, 2011
1 commit
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Fold all the mmu_gather rework patches into one for submission
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Reported-by: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: David Miller
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Russell King
Cc: Paul Mundt
Cc: Jeff Dike
Cc: Richard Weinberger
Cc: Tony Luck
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Nick Piggin
Cc: Namhyung Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Feb, 2011
1 commit
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do_file_page and do_no_page don't exist anymore, but some comments
still refers them. The patch fixes them by replacing them with
existing ones.Signed-off-by: Ryota Ozaki
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
10 Aug, 2010
1 commit
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As explained in commit 1c0fe6e3bd ("mm: invoke oom-killer from page
fault") , we want to call the architecture independent oom killer when
getting an unexplained OOM from handle_mm_fault, rather than simply
killing current.Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen
Acked-by: David Rientjes
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
30 Mar, 2010
1 commit
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…it slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
21 Feb, 2010
1 commit
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On VIVT ARM, when we have multiple shared mappings of the same file
in the same MM, we need to ensure that we have coherency across all
copies. We do this via make_coherent() by making the pages
uncacheable.This used to work fine, until we allowed highmem with highpte - we
now have a page table which is mapped as required, and is not available
for modification via update_mmu_cache().Ralf Beache suggested getting rid of the PTE value passed to
update_mmu_cache():On MIPS update_mmu_cache() calls __update_tlb() which walks pagetables
to construct a pointer to the pte again. Passing a pte_t * is much
more elegant. Maybe we might even replace the pte argument with the
pte_t?Ben Herrenschmidt would also like the pte pointer for PowerPC:
Passing the ptep in there is exactly what I want. I want that
-instead- of the PTE value, because I have issue on some ppc cases,
for I$/D$ coherency, where set_pte_at() may decide to mask out the
_PAGE_EXEC.So, pass in the mapped page table pointer into update_mmu_cache(), and
remove the PTE value, updating all implementations and call sites to
suit.Includes a fix from Stephen Rothwell:
sparc: fix fallout from update_mmu_cache API change
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Signed-off-by: Russell King
24 Sep, 2009
1 commit
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: (30 commits)
Use macros for .data.page_aligned section.
Use macros for .bss.page_aligned section.
Use new __init_task_data macro in arch init_task.c files.
kbuild: Don't define ALIGN and ENTRY when preprocessing linker scripts.
arm, cris, mips, sparc, powerpc, um, xtensa: fix build with bash 4.0
kbuild: add static to prototypes
kbuild: fail build if recordmcount.pl fails
kbuild: set -fconserve-stack option for gcc 4.5
kbuild: echo the record_mcount command
gconfig: disable "typeahead find" search in treeviews
kbuild: fix cc1 options check to ensure we do not use -fPIC when compiling
checkincludes.pl: add option to remove duplicates in place
markup_oops: use modinfo to avoid confusion with underscored module names
checkincludes.pl: provide usage helper
checkincludes.pl: close file as soon as we're done with it
ctags: usability fix
kernel hacking: move STRIP_ASM_SYMS from General
gitignore usr/initramfs_data.cpio.bz2 and usr/initramfs_data.cpio.lzma
kbuild: Check if linker supports the -X option
kbuild: introduce ld-option
...Fix trivial conflict in scripts/basic/fixdep.c
22 Sep, 2009
1 commit
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Commit 96177299416dbccb73b54e6b344260154a445375 ("Drop free_pages()")
modified nr_free_pages() to return 'unsigned long' instead of 'unsigned
int'. This made the casts to 'unsigned long' in most callers superfluous,
so remove them.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar
Acked-by: Russell King
Acked-by: David S. Miller
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin
Acked-by: WANG Cong
Cc: Richard Henderson
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen
Cc: Mikael Starvik
Cc: "Luck, Tony"
Cc: Hirokazu Takata
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: David Howells
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Paul Mundt
Cc: Chris Zankel
Cc: Michal Simek
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
21 Sep, 2009
1 commit
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This patch changes the remaining direct references to
.data.page_aligned in C and assembly code to use the macros in
include/linux/linkage.h.Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: H. Peter Anvin
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
22 Jun, 2009
1 commit
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This allows the callers to now pass down the full set of FAULT_FLAG_xyz
flags to handle_mm_fault(). All callers have been (mechanically)
converted to the new calling convention, there's almost certainly room
for architectures to clean up their code and then add FAULT_FLAG_RETRY
when that support is added.Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
01 Apr, 2009
1 commit
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CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is now supported by x86, powerpc, sparc64, and
s390. This patch implements it for the rest of the architectures by
filling the pages with poison byte patterns after free_pages() and
verifying the poison patterns before alloc_pages().This generic one cannot detect invalid page accesses immediately but
invalid read access may cause invalid dereference by poisoned memory and
invalid write access can be detected after a long delay.Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
06 Jan, 2009
1 commit
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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 = \(alloc_bootmem\|alloc_bootmem_low\|alloc_bootmem_pages\|alloc_bootmem_low_pages\|alloc_bootmem_node\|alloc_bootmem_low_pages_node\|alloc_bootmem_pages_node\)(...)
... when != E
(
- BUG_ON (E == NULL);
|
- if (E == NULL) S
)@@
expression E,E1;
@@E = \(alloc_bootmem\|alloc_bootmem_low\|alloc_bootmem_pages\|alloc_bootmem_low_pages\|alloc_bootmem_node\|alloc_bootmem_low_pages_node\|alloc_bootmem_pages_node\)(...)
... when != E
- memset(E,0,E1);
//Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen
17 Dec, 2008
1 commit
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Declaring arch-dependent syscalls for avr32 architecture
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen
27 Jul, 2008
1 commit
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Remove arch-specific show_mem() in favor of the generic version.
This also removes the following redundant information display:
- free pages, printed by show_free_areas()
- pages in slabs, printed by show_free_areas()
- pages in swapcache, printed by show_swap_cache_info()where show_mem() calls show_free_areas(), which calls
show_swap_cache_info().Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
25 Jul, 2008
3 commits
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On 32-bit architectures PAGE_ALIGN() truncates 64-bit values to the 32-bit
boundary. For example:u64 val = PAGE_ALIGN(size);
always returns a value < 4GB even if size is greater than 4GB.
The problem resides in PAGE_MASK definition (from include/asm-x86/page.h for
example):#define PAGE_SHIFT 12
#define PAGE_SIZE (_AC(1,UL) << PAGE_SHIFT)
#define PAGE_MASK (~(PAGE_SIZE-1))
...
#define PAGE_ALIGN(addr) (((addr)+PAGE_SIZE-1)&PAGE_MASK)The "~" is performed on a 32-bit value, so everything in "and" with
PAGE_MASK greater than 4GB will be truncated to the 32-bit boundary.
Using the ALIGN() macro seems to be the right way, because it uses
typeof(addr) for the mask.Also move the PAGE_ALIGN() definitions out of include/asm-*/page.h in
include/linux/mm.h.See also lkml discussion: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/11/237
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_queue.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix v850]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arm]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mips]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-dvb.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/mtd/maps/uclinux.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Almost all users of this field need a PFN instead of a physical address,
so replace node_boot_start with node_min_pfn.[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: fix spurious BUG_ON() in mark_bootmem()]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
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
02 Jul, 2008
3 commits
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Instead of storing physical addresses along with page flags in the
PGD, store virtual addresses and use NULL to indicate a not present
second-level page table. A non-page-aligned page table indicates a bad
PMD.This simplifies the TLB miss handler since it no longer has to check
the Present bit and no longer has to convert the PGD entry from
physical to virtual address. Instead, it has to check for a NULL
entry, which is slightly cheaper than either.Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen
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swapper_pg_dir is stored in .bss, so it must already be zeroed out
when we get there.Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen
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This and the following patches aim to optimize the code dealing with
page tables and TLB operations. Each patch reduces the time it takes
to gzip a 16 MB file slightly, but I expect things like fork() and
mmap() will improve somewhat more.This patch deals with the low-level TLB operations:
* Remove unused _TLBEHI_I define
* Use gcc builtins instead of inline assembly
* Remove a few unnecessary pipeline flushes and nops
* Introduce NR_TLB_ENTRIES define and use it instead of hardcoding it
to 32 a few places throughout the code.
* Use sysreg bitops instead of hardcoded shifts and masks
* Make a few needlessly global functions staticSigned-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen
27 Jun, 2008
1 commit
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Fixes one of two ext4 build problems:
ERROR: "empty_zero_page" [fs/ext4/ext4dev.ko] undefined!Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen
29 Apr, 2008
1 commit
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Use proc_create() to make sure that ->proc_fops be setup before gluing PDE to
main tree.Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
20 Apr, 2008
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen
13 Feb, 2008
1 commit
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The per-task page tables only cover the first 2GiB of the address
space. For kernel addresses, we need to do the lookup in init's page
tables.This is a temporary workaround until we modify the per-task page
tables to cover the whole 4GiB address space.Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen
25 Jan, 2008
2 commits
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Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen -
dma_alloc_coherent wants to split pages after allocation in order to
reduce the memory footprint. This does not work well with GFP_COMP
pages, so drop this flag before allocation.This patch was forward-ported from BSP 2.0
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen
07 Dec, 2007
1 commit
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The current implementation of copy_to_user_page() gives "vaddr" to the
cache instruction when trying to sync the icache with the dcache. If
vaddr does not exist in the TLB, the CPU will silently abort the
operation, which may result in the caches staying out of sync.To fix this, pass the "dst" parameter to flush_icache_range() instead
-- we know this is valid because we just wrote to it.Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen
20 Oct, 2007
1 commit
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is_init() is an ambiguous name for the pid==1 check. Split it into
is_global_init() and is_container_init().A cgroup init has it's tsk->pid == 1.
A global init also has it's tsk->pid == 1 and it's active pid namespace
is the init_pid_ns. But rather than check the active pid namespace,
compare the task structure with 'init_pid_ns.child_reaper', which is
initialized during boot to the /sbin/init process and never changes.Changelog:
2.6.22-rc4-mm2-pidns1:
- Use 'init_pid_ns.child_reaper' to determine if a given task is the
global init (/sbin/init) process. This would improve performance
and remove dependence on the task_pid().2.6.21-mm2-pidns2:
- [Sukadev Bhattiprolu] Changed is_container_init() calls in {powerpc,
ppc,avr32}/traps.c for the _exception() call to is_global_init().
This way, we kill only the cgroup if the cgroup's init has a
bug rather than force a kernel panic.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment]
[sukadev@us.ibm.com: Use is_global_init() in arch/m32r/mm/fault.c]
[bunk@stusta.de: kernel/pid.c: remove unused exports]
[sukadev@us.ibm.com: Fix capability.c to work with threaded init]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu
Acked-by: Pavel Emelianov
Cc: Eric W. Biederman
Cc: Cedric Le Goater
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Herbert Poetzel
Cc: Kirill Korotaev
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
