- 22 Sep, 2009 40 commits
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Felipe Contreras authored
Otherwise 'arch/arm/*omap*/foo.c' wouldn't match Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Felipe Contreras authored
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joe Perches authored
Previous behavior was "bottom-up" in each section from the pattern "F:" entry that matched. Now information is entered into the various lists in the "as entered" order for each matched section. This also allows the F: entry to be put anywhere in a section, not just as the last entries in the section. And a couple of improvements: Don't alphabetically sort before outputting the matched scm, status, subsystem and web sections. Ignore content after a single email address so these entries are acceptable M: name <address> whatever other comment And a fix: Make an M: entry without a name again use the name from an immediately preceding P: line if it exists. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joe Perches authored
Allow control over the elimination of duplicate email names and addresses --remove-duplicates will use the first email name or address presented --noremove-duplicates will emit all names and addresses --remove-duplicates is enabled by default For instance: $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f --noremove-duplicates drivers/char/tty_ioctl.c Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Using --remove-duplicates could eliminate multiple maintainers that share the same name but not the same email address. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joe Perches authored
If a person sets a separator, it's only used if --nomultiline is set. Don't make the command line also include --nomultiline in that case. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joe Perches authored
Add reading and using .mailmap file if it exists Convert address entries in .mailmap to first encountered address Don't terminate shell commands with \n Strip characters found after sign-offs by: name <address> [stripped] Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joe Perches authored
Added format_email and parse_email routines to reduce inline use. Added email_address_inuse to eliminate multiple maintainer entries for the same email address, the first name encountered is used. Used internal perl equivalents of shell cmd use of grep|cut|sort|uniq Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joe Perches authored
--pattern-depth is used to control how many levels of directory traversal should be performed to find maintainers. default is 0 (all directory levels). For instance: MAINTAINERS currently has multiple M: and F: entries that match net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_app.c IPVS M: Wensong Zhang <wensong@linux-vs.org> M: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> M: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> [...] F: net/netfilter/ipvs/ NETFILTER/IPTABLES/IPCHAINS [...] M: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> [...] F: net/netfilter/ NETWORKING [GENERAL] M: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> [...] F: net/ THE REST M: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [...] F: */ Using this command will return all of those maintainers: (except Linus unless --git-chief-maintainers is specified) $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit -nol \ -f net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_app.c Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Wensong Zhang <wensong@linux-vs.org> Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Adding --pattern-depth=1 will match at the deepest level $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit -nol --pattern-depth=1 \ -f net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_app.c Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Wensong Zhang <wensong@linux-vs.org> Adding --pattern-depth=2 will match at the deepest level and 1 higher $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit -nol --pattern-depth=2 \ -f net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_app.c Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Wensong Zhang <wensong@linux-vs.org> Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> and so on. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joe Perches authored
Before this change, matched sections were added in the order of appearance in the normally alphabetic section order of the MAINTAINERS file. For instance, finding the maintainer for drivers/scsi/wd7000.c would first find "SCSI SUBSYSTEM", then "WD7000 SCSI SUBSYSTEM", then "THE REST". before patch: $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit -f drivers/scsi/wd7000.c James E.J. Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Miroslav Zagorac <zaga@fly.cc.fer.hr> linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org get_maintainer.pl now selects matched sections by longest pattern match. Longest is the number of "/"s and any specific file pattern. This changes the example output order of MAINTAINERS to whatever is selected in "WD7000 SUBSYSTEM", then "SCSI SYSTEM", then "THE REST". after patch: $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --nogit -f drivers/scsi/wd7000.c Miroslav Zagorac <zaga@fly.cc.fer.hr> James E.J. Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joe Perches authored
Julia Lawall suggested that get_maintainers.pl should have the ability to include signatories of commits that are modified by a particular patch. Vegard Nossum did something similar once. http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/29/449 The modified script looks the commits for all lines in the patch, and includes the "-by:" signatories for those commits. It uses the same git-min-percent, git-max-maintainers, and git-min-signatures options. git-since is ignored. It can be used independently from the --git default, so ./scripts/get_maintainers.pl --nogit --git-blame <patch> or ./scripts/get_maintainers.pl --nogit --git-blame -f <file> is acceptable. If used with -f <file>, all lines/commits for the file are checked. --git-blame can be slow if used with -f <file> --git-blame does not work with -f <directory> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Hannes Eder authored
Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <heder@google.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Roel Kluin authored
If pmd_alloc() fails we should only free the prior allocated pud, if pte_alloc_map() fails, we should free pmd as well. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Corrado Zoccolo authored
Move the state residency accounting and statistics computation off the hot exit path. On exit, the need to recompute statistics is recorded, and new statistics will be computed when menu_select is called again. The expected effect is to reduce processor wakeup latency from sleep (C-states). We are speaking of few hundreds of cycles reduction out of a several microseconds latency (determined by the hardware transition), so it is difficult to measure. Signed-off-by: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Arjan van de Ven authored
Fix the menu idle governor which balances power savings, energy efficiency and performance impact. The reason for a reworked governor is that there have been serious performance issues reported with the existing code on Nehalem server systems. To show this I'm sure Andrew wants to see benchmark results: (benchmark is "fio", "no cstates" is using "idle=poll") no cstates current linux new algorithm 1 disk 107 Mb/s 85 Mb/s 105 Mb/s 2 disks 215 Mb/s 123 Mb/s 209 Mb/s 12 disks 590 Mb/s 320 Mb/s 585 Mb/s In various power benchmark measurements, no degredation was found by our measurement&diagnostics team. Obviously a small percentage more power was used in the "fio" benchmark, due to the much higher performance. While it would be a novel idea to describe the new algorithm in this commit message, I cheaped out and described it in comments in the code instead. [changes since first post: spelling fixes from akpm, review feedback, folded menu-tng into menu.c] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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john stultz authored
Convert m68k to use GENERIC_TIME via the arch_getoffset() infrastructure, reducing the amount of arch specific code we need to maintain. I've taken my best swing at converting this, but I'm not 100% confident I got it right. My cross-compiler is now out of date (gcc4.2) so I wasn't able to check if it compiled. Any assistance from arch maintainers or testers to get this merged would be great. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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john stultz authored
Convert m32r to use GENERIC_TIME via the arch_getoffset() infrastructure, reducing the amount of arch specific code we need to maintain. I also noted that m32r doesn't seem to be taking the xtime write lock before calling do_timer()! That looks like a pretty bad bug to me. If folks agree, let me know and I can move the lock grab to the correct spot. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Roel Kluin authored
`off' and `max_cpus' are unsigned. When negative they are wrapped and caught by the other test. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Marcin Slusarz authored
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Roel Kluin authored
The incorrect variable is tested. fd is used for another open() and is already tested. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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john stultz authored
Converts alpha to use GENERIC_TIME via the arch_getoffset() infrastructure, reducing the amount of arch specific code we need to maintain. I suspect the alpha arch could even be further improved to provide and rpcc() based clocksource, but not having the hardware, I don't feel comfortable attempting the more complicated conversion (but I'd be glad to help if anyone else is interested). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Bernd Schmidt authored
Some architectures (like the Blackfin arch) implement some of the "simpler" features that one would expect out of a MMU such as memory protection. In our case, we actually get read/write/exec protection down to the page boundary so processes can't stomp on each other let alone the kernel. There is a performance decrease (which depends greatly on the workload) however as the hardware/software interaction was not optimized at design time. Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@t-online.de> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kristoffer Ericson authored
Clean up the /drivers/pcmcia/sa1100_jornada.c file with respect to formatting. It also changes a build warning into a code comment (since its a pain to watch every build and havent seen any problems with driver in 3.5years). Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Ericson <kristoffer.ericson@gmail.com> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Roel Kluin authored
If count > 0 and dev->rlen == dev->rpos and dev->proto == 0 then we read and write dev->rbuf[-1]; Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Cc: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mike Frysinger authored
The remove member of the pci_driver yenta_cardbus_driver uses __devexit_p(), so the remove function itself should be marked with __devexit. Even more so considering the probe function is marked with __devinit. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz-ml@swissonline.ch> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Michael S. Tsirkin authored
When the mm being switched to matches the active mm, we don't need to increment and then drop the mm count. In a simple benchmark this happens in about 50% of time. Making that conditional reduces contention on that cacheline on SMP systems. Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Michael S. Tsirkin authored
Anyone who wants to do copy to/from user from a kernel thread, needs use_mm (like what fs/aio has). Move that into mm/, to make reusing and exporting easier down the line, and make aio use it. Next intended user, besides aio, will be vhost-net. Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Pekka Enberg authored
Fixes the following kmemcheck false positive (the compiler is using a 32-bit mov to load the 16-bit sbinfo->mode in shmem_fill_super): [ 0.337000] Total of 1 processors activated (3088.38 BogoMIPS). [ 0.352000] CPU0 attaching NULL sched-domain. [ 0.360000] WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read from uninitialized memory (9f8020fc) [ 0.361000] a44240820000000041f6998100000000000000000000000000000000ff030000 [ 0.368000] i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i u u u u i i i i i i i i i i u u [ 0.375000] ^ [ 0.376000] [ 0.377000] Pid: 9, comm: khelper Not tainted (2.6.31-tip #206) P4DC6 [ 0.378000] EIP: 0060:[<810a3a95>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0 [ 0.379000] EIP is at shmem_fill_super+0xb5/0x120 [ 0.380000] EAX: 00000000 EBX: 9f845400 ECX: 824042a4 EDX: 8199f641 [ 0.381000] ESI: 9f8020c0 EDI: 9f845400 EBP: 9f81af68 ESP: 81cd6eec [ 0.382000] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 [ 0.383000] CR0: 8005003b CR2: 9f806200 CR3: 01ccd000 CR4: 000006d0 [ 0.384000] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000 [ 0.385000] DR6: ffff4ff0 DR7: 00000400 [ 0.386000] [<810c25fc>] get_sb_nodev+0x3c/0x80 [ 0.388000] [<810a3514>] shmem_get_sb+0x14/0x20 [ 0.390000] [<810c207f>] vfs_kern_mount+0x4f/0x120 [ 0.392000] [<81b2849e>] init_tmpfs+0x7e/0xb0 [ 0.394000] [<81b11597>] do_basic_setup+0x17/0x30 [ 0.396000] [<81b11907>] kernel_init+0x57/0xa0 [ 0.398000] [<810039b7>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 [ 0.400000] [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff [ 0.402000] khelper used greatest stack depth: 2820 bytes left [ 0.407000] calling init_mmap_min_addr+0x0/0x10 @ 1 [ 0.408000] initcall init_mmap_min_addr+0x0/0x10 returned 0 after 0 usecs Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Analysed-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
A number of architectures have identical asm/mman.h files so they can all be merged by using the new generic file. The remaining asm/mman.h files are substantially different from each other. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Eric B Munson authored
Add an example of how to use the MAP_HUGETLB flag to the vm documentation directory and a reference to the example in hugetlbpage.txt. Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Eric B Munson authored
Add a flag for mmap that will be used to request a huge page region that will look like anonymous memory to userspace. This is accomplished by using a file on the internal vfsmount. MAP_HUGETLB is a modifier of MAP_ANONYMOUS and so must be specified with it. The region will behave the same as a MAP_ANONYMOUS region using small pages. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch definitions of MAP_HUGETLB] Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
Add a flag for mmap that will be used to request a huge page region that will look like anonymous memory to user space. This is accomplished by using a file on the internal vfsmount. MAP_HUGETLB is a modifier of MAP_ANONYMOUS and so must be specified with it. The region will behave the same as a MAP_ANONYMOUS region using small pages. The patch also adds the MAP_STACK flag, which was previously defined only on some architectures but not on others. Since MAP_STACK is meant to be a hint only, architectures can define it without assigning a specific meaning to it. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Eric B Munson authored
This patchset adds a flag to mmap that allows the user to request that an anonymous mapping be backed with huge pages. This mapping will borrow functionality from the huge page shm code to create a file on the kernel internal mount and use it to approximate an anonymous mapping. The MAP_HUGETLB flag is a modifier to MAP_ANONYMOUS and will not work without both flags being preset. A new flag is necessary because there is no other way to hook into huge pages without creating a file on a hugetlbfs mount which wouldn't be MAP_ANONYMOUS. To userspace, this mapping will behave just like an anonymous mapping because the file is not accessible outside of the kernel. This patchset is meant to simplify the programming model. Presently there is a large chunk of boiler platecode, contained in libhugetlbfs, required to create private, hugepage backed mappings. This patch set would allow use of hugepages without linking to libhugetlbfs or having hugetblfs mounted. Unification of the VM code would provide these same benefits, but it has been resisted each time that it has been suggested for several reasons: it would break PAGE_SIZE assumptions across the kernel, it makes page-table abstractions really expensive, and it does not provide any benefit on architectures that do not support huge pages, incurring fast path penalties without providing any benefit on these architectures. This patch: There are two means of creating mappings backed by huge pages: 1. mmap() a file created on hugetlbfs 2. Use shm which creates a file on an internal mount which essentially maps it MAP_SHARED The internal mount is only used for shared mappings but there is very little that stops it being used for private mappings. This patch extends hugetlbfs_file_setup() to deal with the creation of files that will be mapped MAP_PRIVATE on the internal hugetlbfs mount. This extended API is used in a subsequent patch to implement the MAP_HUGETLB mmap() flag. Signed-off-by: Eric Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Huang Shijie authored
shmem_zero_setup() does not change vm_start, pgoff or vm_flags, only some drivers change them (such as /driver/video/bfin-t350mcqb-fb.c). Move these codes to a more proper place to save cycles for shared anonymous mapping. Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Lee Schermerhorn authored
We noticed very erratic behavior [throughput] with the AIM7 shared workload running on recent distro [SLES11] and mainline kernels on an 8-socket, 32-core, 256GB x86_64 platform. On the SLES11 kernel [2.6.27.19+] with Barcelona processors, as we increased the load [10s of thousands of tasks], the throughput would vary between two "plateaus"--one at ~65K jobs per minute and one at ~130K jpm. The simple patch below causes the results to smooth out at the ~130k plateau. But wait, there's more: We do not see this behavior on smaller platforms--e.g., 4 socket/8 core. This could be the result of the larger number of cpus on the larger platform--a scalability issue--or it could be the result of the larger number of interconnect "hops" between some nodes in this platform and how the tasks for a given load end up distributed over the nodes' cpus and memories--a stochastic NUMA effect. The variability in the results are less pronounced [on the same platform] with Shanghai processors and with mainline kernels. With 31-rc6 on Shanghai processors and 288 file systems on 288 fibre attached storage volumes, the curves [jpm vs load] are both quite flat with the patched kernel consistently producing ~3.9% better throughput [~80K jpm vs ~77K jpm] than the unpatched kernel. Profiling indicated that the "slow" runs were incurring high[er] contention on an anon_vma lock in vma_adjust(), apparently called from the sbrk() system call. The patch: A comment in mm/mmap.c:vma_adjust() suggests that we don't really need the anon_vma lock when we're only adjusting the end of a vma, as is the case for brk(). The comment questions whether it's worth while to optimize for this case. Apparently, on the newer, larger x86_64 platforms, with interesting NUMA topologies, it is worth while--especially considering that the patch [if correct!] is quite simple. We can detect this condition--no overlap with next vma--by noting a NULL "importer". The anon_vma pointer will also be NULL in this case, so simply avoid loading vma->anon_vma to avoid the lock. However, we DO need to take the anon_vma lock when we're inserting a vma ['insert' non-NULL] even when we have no overlap [NULL "importer"], so we need to check for 'insert', as well. And Hugh points out that we should also take it when adjusting vm_start (so that rmap.c can rely upon vma_address() while it holds the anon_vma lock). akpm: Zhang Yanmin reprts a 150% throughput improvement with aim7, so it might be -stable material even though thiss isn't a regression: "this issue is not clear on dual socket Nehalem machine (2*4*2 cpu), but is severe on large machine (4*8*2 cpu)" [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: test vma start too] Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Tested-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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