- 01 Apr, 2009 40 commits
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Tony Battersby authored
ep_call_nested() (formerly ep_poll_safewake()) uses "current" (without dereferencing it) to detect callback recursion, but it may be called from irq context where the use of current is generally discouraged. It would be better to use get_cpu() and put_cpu() to detect the callback recursion. Signed-off-by:
Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com> Acked-by:
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Davide Libenzi authored
Remove debugging code from epoll. There's no need for it to be included into mainline code. Signed-off-by:
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Davide Libenzi authored
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Davide Libenzi authored
Fix a bug inside the epoll's f_op->poll() code, that returns POLLIN even though there are no actual ready monitored fds. The bug shows up if you add an epoll fd inside another fd container (poll, select, epoll). The problem is that callback-based wake ups used by epoll does not carry (patches will follow, to fix this) any information about the events that actually happened. So the callback code, since it can't call the file* ->poll() inside the callback, chains the file* into a ready-list. So, suppose you added an fd with EPOLLOUT only, and some data shows up on the fd, the file* mapped by the fd will be added into the ready-list (via wakeup callback). During normal epoll_wait() use, this condition is sorted out at the time we're actually able to call the file*'s f_op->poll(). Inside the old epoll's f_op->poll() though, only a quick check !list_empty(ready-list) was performed, and this could have led to reporting POLLIN even though no ready fds would show up at a following epoll_wait(). In order to correctly report the ready status for an epoll fd, the ready-list must be checked to see if any really available fd+event would be ready in a following epoll_wait(). Operation (calling f_op->poll() from inside f_op->poll()) that, like wake ups, must be handled with care because of the fact that epoll fds can be added to other epoll fds. Test code: /* * epoll_test by Davide Libenzi (Simple code to test epoll internals) * Copyright (C) 2008 Davide Libenzi * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA * * Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> * */ #include <sys/types.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <errno.h> #include <signal.h> #include <limits.h> #include <poll.h> #include <sys/epoll.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #define EPWAIT_TIMEO (1 * 1000) #ifndef POLLRDHUP #define POLLRDHUP 0x2000 #endif #define EPOLL_MAX_CHAIN 100L #define EPOLL_TF_LOOP (1 << 0) struct epoll_test_cfg { long size; long flags; }; static int xepoll_create(int n) { int epfd; if ((epfd = epoll_create(n)) == -1) { perror("epoll_create"); exit(2); } return epfd; } static void xepoll_ctl(int epfd, int cmd, int fd, struct epoll_event *evt) { if (epoll_ctl(epfd, cmd, fd, evt) < 0) { perror("epoll_ctl"); exit(3); } } static void xpipe(int *fds) { if (pipe(fds)) { perror("pipe"); exit(4); } } static pid_t xfork(void) { pid_t pid; if ((pid = fork()) == (pid_t) -1) { perror("pipe"); exit(5); } return pid; } static int run_forked_proc(int (*proc)(void *), void *data) { int status; pid_t pid; if ((pid = xfork()) == 0) exit((*proc)(data)); if (waitpid(pid, &status, 0) != pid) { perror("waitpid"); return -1; } return WIFEXITED(status) ? WEXITSTATUS(status): -2; } static int check_events(int fd, int timeo) { struct pollfd pfd; fprintf(stdout, "Checking events for fd %d\n", fd); memset(&pfd, 0, sizeof(pfd)); pfd.fd = fd; pfd.events = POLLIN | POLLOUT; if (poll(&pfd, 1, timeo) < 0) { perror("poll()"); return 0; } if (pfd.revents & POLLIN) fprintf(stdout, "\tPOLLIN\n"); if (pfd.revents & POLLOUT) fprintf(stdout, "\tPOLLOUT\n"); if (pfd.revents & POLLERR) fprintf(stdout, "\tPOLLERR\n"); if (pfd.revents & POLLHUP) fprintf(stdout, "\tPOLLHUP\n"); if (pfd.revents & POLLRDHUP) fprintf(stdout, "\tPOLLRDHUP\n"); return pfd.revents; } static int epoll_test_tty(void *data) { int epfd, ifd = fileno(stdin), res; struct epoll_event evt; if (check_events(ifd, 0) != POLLOUT) { fprintf(stderr, "Something is cooking on STDIN (%d)\n", ifd); return 1; } epfd = xepoll_create(1); fprintf(stdout, "Created epoll fd (%d)\n", epfd); memset(&evt, 0, sizeof(evt)); evt.events = EPOLLIN; xepoll_ctl(epfd, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, ifd, &evt); if (check_events(epfd, 0) & POLLIN) { res = epoll_wait(epfd, &evt, 1, 0); if (res == 0) { fprintf(stderr, "Epoll fd (%d) is ready when it shouldn't!\n", epfd); return 2; } } return 0; } static int epoll_wakeup_chain(void *data) { struct epoll_test_cfg *tcfg = data; int i, res, epfd, bfd, nfd, pfds[2]; pid_t pid; struct epoll_event evt; memset(&evt, 0, sizeof(evt)); evt.events = EPOLLIN; epfd = bfd = xepoll_create(1); for (i = 0; i < tcfg->size; i++) { nfd = xepoll_create(1); xepoll_ctl(bfd, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, nfd, &evt); bfd = nfd; } xpipe(pfds); if (tcfg->flags & EPOLL_TF_LOOP) { xepoll_ctl(bfd, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, epfd, &evt); /* * If we're testing for loop, we want that the wakeup * triggered by the write to the pipe done in the child * process, triggers a fake event. So we add the pipe * read size with EPOLLOUT events. This will trigger * an addition to the ready-list, but no real events * will be there. The the epoll kernel code will proceed * in calling f_op->poll() of the epfd, triggering the * loop we want to test. */ evt.events = EPOLLOUT; } xepoll_ctl(bfd, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, pfds[0], &evt); /* * The pipe write must come after the poll(2) call inside * check_events(). This tests the nested wakeup code in * fs/eventpoll.c:ep_poll_safewake() * By having the check_events() (hence poll(2)) happens first, * we have poll wait queue filled up, and the write(2) in the * child will trigger the wakeup chain. */ if ((pid = xfork()) == 0) { sleep(1); write(pfds[1], "w", 1); exit(0); } res = check_events(epfd, 2000) & POLLIN; if (waitpid(pid, NULL, 0) != pid) { perror("waitpid"); return -1; } return res; } static int epoll_poll_chain(void *data) { struct epoll_test_cfg *tcfg = data; int i, res, epfd, bfd, nfd, pfds[2]; pid_t pid; struct epoll_event evt; memset(&evt, 0, sizeof(evt)); evt.events = EPOLLIN; epfd = bfd = xepoll_create(1); for (i = 0; i < tcfg->size; i++) { nfd = xepoll_create(1); xepoll_ctl(bfd, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, nfd, &evt); bfd = nfd; } xpipe(pfds); if (tcfg->flags & EPOLL_TF_LOOP) { xepoll_ctl(bfd, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, epfd, &evt); /* * If we're testing for loop, we want that the wakeup * triggered by the write to the pipe done in the child * process, triggers a fake event. So we add the pipe * read size with EPOLLOUT events. This will trigger * an addition to the ready-list, but no real events * will be there. The the epoll kernel code will proceed * in calling f_op->poll() of the epfd, triggering the * loop we want to test. */ evt.events = EPOLLOUT; } xepoll_ctl(bfd, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, pfds[0], &evt); /* * The pipe write mush come before the poll(2) call inside * check_events(). This tests the nested f_op->poll calls code in * fs/eventpoll.c:ep_eventpoll_poll() * By having the pipe write(2) happen first, we make the kernel * epoll code to load the ready lists, and the following poll(2) * done inside check_events() will test nested poll code in * ep_eventpoll_poll(). */ if ((pid = xfork()) == 0) { write(pfds[1], "w", 1); exit(0); } sleep(1); res = check_events(epfd, 1000) & POLLIN; if (waitpid(pid, NULL, 0) != pid) { perror("waitpid"); return -1; } return res; } int main(int ac, char **av) { int error; struct epoll_test_cfg tcfg; fprintf(stdout, "\n********** Testing TTY events\n"); error = run_forked_proc(epoll_test_tty, NULL); fprintf(stdout, error == 0 ? "********** OK\n": "********** FAIL (%d)\n", error); tcfg.size = 3; tcfg.flags = 0; fprintf(stdout, "\n********** Testing short wakeup chain\n"); error = run_forked_proc(epoll_wakeup_chain, &tcfg); fprintf(stdout, error == POLLIN ? "********** OK\n": "********** FAIL (%d)\n", error); tcfg.size = EPOLL_MAX_CHAIN; tcfg.flags = 0; fprintf(stdout, "\n********** Testing long wakeup chain (HOLD ON)\n"); error = run_forked_proc(epoll_wakeup_chain, &tcfg); fprintf(stdout, error == 0 ? "********** OK\n": "********** FAIL (%d)\n", error); tcfg.size = 3; tcfg.flags = 0; fprintf(stdout, "\n********** Testing short poll chain\n"); error = run_forked_proc(epoll_poll_chain, &tcfg); fprintf(stdout, error == POLLIN ? "********** OK\n": "********** FAIL (%d)\n", error); tcfg.size = EPOLL_MAX_CHAIN; tcfg.flags = 0; fprintf(stdout, "\n********** Testing long poll chain (HOLD ON)\n"); error = run_forked_proc(epoll_poll_chain, &tcfg); fprintf(stdout, error == 0 ? "********** OK\n": "********** FAIL (%d)\n", error); tcfg.size = 3; tcfg.flags = EPOLL_TF_LOOP; fprintf(stdout, "\n********** Testing loopy wakeup chain (HOLD ON)\n"); error = run_forked_proc(epoll_wakeup_chain, &tcfg); fprintf(stdout, error == 0 ? "********** OK\n": "********** FAIL (%d)\n", error); tcfg.size = 3; tcfg.flags = EPOLL_TF_LOOP; fprintf(stdout, "\n********** Testing loopy poll chain (HOLD ON)\n"); error = run_forked_proc(epoll_poll_chain, &tcfg); fprintf(stdout, error == 0 ? "********** OK\n": "********** FAIL (%d)\n", error); return 0; } Signed-off-by: -
Daniel Mack authored
Add a driver for Intersil's ISL29003 ambient light sensor device plus some documentation. Inspired by tsl2550.c, a driver for a similar device. It is put in drivers/misc for now until the industrial I/O framework gets merged. Signed-off-by:
Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de> Acked-by:
Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by:
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David Altobelli authored
Change hpilo open and close logic to spin for 10usec between checking device, rather than every usec. Because the loop is coded to take up to 10ms, it seemed prudent to increase the interval between polling the device, to reduce the load on the system and allow more other work to happen. Signed-off-by:
David Altobelli <david.altobelli@hp.com> Signed-off-by:
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Harvey Harrison authored
The base versions handle constant folding now and are shorter than these private wrappers, use them directly. Signed-off-by:
Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net> Signed-off-by:
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Cyrill Gorcunov authored
We cover all log-levels by pr_... macros except KERN_CONT one. Add it for convenience. Signed-off-by:
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Hannes Eder authored
Impact: Attribute function 'init_post' with __releases(...). Fix these sparse warnings: init/main.c:805:21: warning: context imbalance in 'init_post' - unexpected unlock init/main.c:899:9: warning: context imbalance in 'kernel_init' - wrong count at exit Signed-off-by:
Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Michael Buesch authored
The GPIO API is supposed to return 0 or a negative error code, but the SSB GPIO functions return the bitmask of the GPIO register. Fix this by ignoring the bitmask and always returning 0. The SSB GPIO functions can't fail. Signed-off-by:
Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by:
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H Hartley Sweeten authored
Remove PARPORT dependency for Auxiliary Display support. This is not needed since the dependency for the KS0108 driver is PARPORT_PC. Signed-off-by:
H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Cc: Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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FUJITA Tomonori authored
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FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by:
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Eric Sandeen authored
Now that the filesystem freeze operation has been elevated to the VFS, and is just an ioctl away, some sort of safety net for unintentionally frozen root filesystems may be in order. The timeout thaw originally proposed did not get merged, but perhaps something like this would be useful in emergencies. For example, freeze /path/to/mountpoint may freeze your root filesystem if you forgot that you had that unmounted. I chose 'j' as the last remaining character other than 'h' which is sort of reserved for help (because help is generated on any unknown character). I've tested this on a non-root fs with multiple (nested) freezers, as well as on a system rendered unresponsive due to a frozen root fs. [randy.dunlap@oracle.com: emergency thaw only if CONFIG_BLOCK enabled] Signed-off-by:
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Cc: Takashi Sato <t-sato@yk.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by:
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Wolfram Strepp authored
Tfour 4 redundant if-conditions in function __rb_erase_color() in lib/rbtree.c are removed. In pseudo-source-code, the structure of the code is as follows: if ((!A || B) && (!C || D)) { . . . } else { if (!C || D) {//if this is true, it implies: (A == true) && (B == false) if (A) {//hence this always evaluates to 'true'... . } . //at this point, C always becomes true, because of: __rb_rotate_right/left(); //and: other = parent->rb_right/left; } . . if (C) {//...and this too ! . } } Signed-off-by:Wolfram Strepp <wstrepp@gmx.de> Acked-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by:
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J. R. Okajima authored
Add the ability to 'resize' the loop device on the fly. One practical application is a loop file with XFS filesystem, already mounted: You can easily enlarge the file (append some bytes) and then call ioctl(fd, LOOP_SET_CAPACITY, new); The loop driver will learn about the new size and you can use xfs_growfs later on, which will allow you to use full capacity of the loop file without the need to unmount. Test app: #include <linux/fs.h> #include <linux/loop.h> #include <sys/ioctl.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <assert.h> #include <errno.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> #define _GNU_SOURCE #include <getopt.h> char *me; void usage(FILE *f) { fprintf(f, "%s [options] loop_dev [backend_file]\n" "-s, --set new_size_in_bytes\n" "\twhen backend_file is given, " "it will be expanded too while keeping the original contents\n", me); } struct option opts[] = { { .name = "set", .has_arg = 1, .flag = NULL, .val = 's' }, { .name = "help", .has_arg = 0, .flag = NULL, .val = 'h' } }; void err_size(char *name, __u64 old) { fprintf(stderr, "size must be larger than current %s (%llu)\n", name, old); } int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int fd, err, c, i, bfd; ssize_t ssz; size_t sz; __u64 old, new, append; char a[BUFSIZ]; struct stat st; FILE *out; char *backend, *dev; err = EINVAL; out = stderr; me = argv[0]; new = 0; while ((c = getopt_long(argc, argv, "s:h", opts, &i)) != -1) { switch (c) { case 's': errno = 0; new = strtoull(optarg, NULL, 0); if (errno) { err = errno; perror(argv[i]); goto out; } break; case 'h': err = 0; out = stdout; goto err; default: perror(argv[i]); goto err; } } if (optind < argc) dev = argv[optind++]; else goto err; fd = open(dev, O_RDONLY); if (fd < 0) { err = errno; perror(dev); goto out; } err = ioctl(fd, BLKGETSIZE64, &old); if (err) { err = errno; perror("ioctl BLKGETSIZE64"); goto out; } if (!new) { printf("%llu\n", old); goto out; } if (new < old) { err = EINVAL; err_size(dev, old); goto out; } if (optind < argc) { backend = argv[optind++]; bfd = open(backend, O_WRONLY|O_APPEND); if (bfd < 0) { err = errno; perror(backend); goto out; } err = fstat(bfd, &st); if (err) { err = errno; perror(backend); goto out; } if (new < st.st_size) { err = EINVAL; err_size(backend, st.st_size); goto out; } append = new - st.st_size; sz = sizeof(a); while (append > 0) { if (append < sz) sz = append; ssz = write(bfd, a, sz); if (ssz != sz) { err = errno; perror(backend); goto out; } append -= sz; } err = fsync(bfd); if (err) { err = errno; perror(backend); goto out; } } err = ioctl(fd, LOOP_SET_CAPACITY, new); if (err) { err = errno; perror("ioctl LOOP_SET_CAPACITY"); } goto out; err: usage(out); out: return err; } Signed-off-by:J. R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp> Signed-off-by:
Tomas Matejicek <tomas@slax.org> Cc: <util-linux-ng@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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WANG Cong authored
These comments are useless now, remove them. Signed-off-by:
WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by:
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WANG Cong authored
These error messages are from check_sysemu(), not check_ptrace(). Signed-off-by:
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WANG Cong authored
uml uses a concatenated string literal to store the contents of .config, but .config file content is varaible, it can be very long. Use an array of string literals instead. Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
MAJOR_NR isn't needed anymore since very early 2.5 kernels. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by:
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Magnus Damm authored
Remove unused/duplicate cruft from asm/suspend.h: - x86_32: remove unused acpi code - powerpc: remove duplicate prototypes, see linux/suspend.h Signed-off-by:
Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by:
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by:
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Magnus Damm authored
Make the following header file changes: - remove arch ifdefs and asm/suspend.h from linux/suspend.h - add asm/suspend.h to disk.c (for arch_prepare_suspend()) - add linux/io.h to swsusp.c (for ioremap()) - x86 32/64 bit compile fixes Signed-off-by:
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Randy Dunlap authored
Convert alpha architecture to use u64 as unsigned long long. This is being done so that (a) all arches use u64 as unsigned long long and (b) printk of a u64 as %ll[ux] will not generate format warnings by gcc. The only gcc cross-compiler that I have is 4.0.2, which generates errors about miscompiling __weak references, so I have commented out that line in compiler-gcc4.h so that most of these compile, but more builds and real machine testing would be Real Good. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
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Ivan Kokshaysky authored
- "_local" versions of xchg/cmpxchg functions duplicate code of non-local ones (quite a few pages of assembler), except memory barriers. We can generate these two variants from a single header file using simple macros; - convert xchg macro back to inline function using always_inline attribute; - use proper argument types for cmpxchg_u8/u16 functions to fix a problem with negative arguments. Signed-off-by:
Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Signed-off-by:
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Cheng Renquan authored
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Cheng Renquan <crquan@gmail.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by:
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Roel Kluin authored
When this macros isn't called with 'fixup', e.g. with foo this will incorectly expand to foo->foo.bits.errreg 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:
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Hugh Dickins authored
Synopsis: if shmem_writepage calls swap_writepage directly, most shmem swap loads benefit, and a catastrophic interaction between SLUB and some flash storage is avoided. shmem_writepage() has always been peculiar in making no attempt to write: it has just transferred a shmem page from file cache to swap cache, then let that page make its way around the LRU again before being written and freed. The idea was that people use tmpfs because they want those pages to stay in RAM; so although we give it an overflow to swap, we should resist writing too soon, giving those pages a second chance before they can be reclaimed. That was always questionable, and I've toyed with this patch for years; but never had a clear justification to depart from the original design. It became more questionable in 2.6.28, when the split LRU patches classed shmem and tmpfs pages as SwapBacked rather than as file_cache: that in itself gives them more resistance to reclaim than normal file pages. I prepared this patch for 2.6.29, but the merge window arrived before I'd completed gathering statistics to justify sending it in. Then while comparing SLQB against SLUB, running SLUB on a laptop I'd habitually used with SLAB, I found SLUB to run my tmpfs kbuild swapping tests five times slower than SLAB or SLQB - other machines slower too, but nowhere near so bad. Simpler "cp -a" swapping tests showed the same. slub_max_order=0 brings sanity to all, but heavy swapping is too far from normal to justify such a tuning. The crucial factor on that laptop turns out to be that I'm using an SD card for swap. What happens is this: By default, SLUB uses order-2 pages for shmem_inode_cache (and many other fs inodes), so creating tmpfs files under memory pressure brings lumpy reclaim into play. One subpage of the order is chosen from the bottom of the LRU as usual, then the other three picked out from their random positions on the LRUs. In a tmpfs load, many of these pages will be ones which already passed through shmem_writepage, so already have swap allocated. And though their offsets on swap were probably allocated sequentially, now that the pages are picked off at random, their swap offsets are scattered. But the flash storage on the SD card is very sensitive to having its writes merged: once swap is written at scattered offsets, performance falls apart. Rotating disk seeks increase too, but less disastrously. So: stop giving shmem/tmpfs pages a second pass around the LRU, write them out to swap as soon as their swap has been allocated. It's surely possible to devise an artificial load which runs faster the old way, one whose sizing is such that the tmpfs pages on their second pass are the ones that are wanted again, and other pages not. But I've not yet found such a load: on all machines, under the loads I've tried, immediate swap_writepage speeds up shmem swapping: especially when using the SLUB allocator (and more effectively than slub_max_order=0), but also with the others; and it also reduces the variance between runs. How much faster varies widely: a factor of five is rare, 5% is common. One load which might have suffered: imagine a swapping shmem load in a limited mem_cgroup on a machine with plenty of memory. Before 2.6.29 the swapcache was not charged, and such a load would have run quickest with the shmem swapcache never written to swap. But now swapcache is charged, so even this load benefits from shmem_writepage directly to swap. Apologies for the #ifndef CONFIG_SWAP swap_writepage() stub in swap.h: it's silly because that will never get called; but refactoring shmem.c sensibly according to CONFIG_SWAP will be a separate task. Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by:
Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki authored
try_to_free_pages() is used for the direct reclaim of up to SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages when watermarks are low. The caller to alloc_pages_nodemask() can specify a nodemask of nodes that are allowed to be used but this is not passed to try_to_free_pages(). This can lead to unnecessary reclaim of pages that are unusable by the caller and int the worst case lead to allocation failure as progress was not been make where it is needed. This patch passes the nodemask used for alloc_pages_nodemask() to try_to_free_pages(). Reviewed-by:
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by:
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by:
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
Instead of open-coding the lru-list-add pagevec batching when expanding a file mapping from zero, defer to the appropriate page cache function that also takes care of adding the page to the lru list. This is cleaner, saves code and reduces the stack footprint by 16 words worth of pagevec. Signed-off-by:
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by:
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by:
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David Rientjes authored
When a shrinker has a negative number of objects to delete, the symbol name of the shrinker should be printed, not shrink_slab. This also makes the error message slightly more informative. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
Make CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU available when CONFIG_MMU=n. There's no logical reason it shouldn't be available, and it can be used for ramfs. Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
The mlock() facility does not exist for NOMMU since all mappings are effectively locked anyway, so we don't make the bits available when they're not useful. Signed-off-by:
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Akinobu Mita authored
Use debug_kmap_atomic in kmap_atomic, kmap_atomic_pfn, and iomap_atomic_prot_pfn. Signed-off-by:
Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Akinobu Mita authored
x86 has debug_kmap_atomic_prot() which is error checking function for kmap_atomic. It is usefull for the other architectures, although it needs CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT. This patch exposes it to the other architectures. Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
Fix warnings and return values in sysfs bin_page_mkwrite(), fixing fs/sysfs/bin.c: In function `bin_page_mkwrite': fs/sysfs/bin.c:250: warning: passing argument 2 of `bb->vm_ops->page_mkwrite' from incompatible pointer type fs/sysfs/bin.c: At top level: fs/sysfs/bin.c:280: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type Expects to have my [PATCH next] sysfs: fix some bin_vm_ops errors Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
page_mkwrite is called with neither the page lock nor the ptl held. This means a page can be concurrently truncated or invalidated out from underneath it. Callers are supposed to prevent truncate races themselves, however previously the only thing they can do in case they hit one is to raise a SIGBUS. A sigbus is wrong for the case that the page has been invalidated or truncated within i_size (eg. hole punched). Callers may also have to perform memory allocations in this path, where again, SIGBUS would be wrong. The previous patch ("mm: page_mkwrite change prototype to match fault") made it possible to properly specify errors. Convert the generic buffer.c code and btrfs to return sane error values (in the case of page removed from pagecache, VM_FAULT_NOPAGE will cause the fault handler to exit without doing anything, and the fault will be retried properly). This fixes core code, and converts btrfs as a template/example. All other filesystems defining their own page_mkwrite should be fixed in a similar manner. Acked-by:Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
Change the page_mkwrite prototype to take a struct vm_fault, and return VM_FAULT_xxx flags. There should be no functional change. This makes it possible to return much more detailed error information to the VM (and also can provide more information eg. virtual_address to the driver, which might be important in some special cases). This is required for a subsequent fix. And will also make it easier to merge page_mkwrite() with fault() in future. Signed-off-by:
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Anton Blanchard authored
On PowerPC we allocate large boot time hashes on node 0. This leads to an imbalance in the free memory, for example on a 64GB box (4 x 16GB nodes): Free memory: Node 0: 97.03% Node 1: 98.54% Node 2: 98.42% Node 3: 98.53% If we switch to using vmalloc (like ia64 and x86-64) things are more balanced: Free memory: Node 0: 97.53% Node 1: 98.35% Node 2: 98.33% Node 3: 98.33% For many HPC applications we are limited by the free available memory on the smallest node, so even though the same amount of memory is used the better balancing helps. Since all 64bit NUMA capable architectures should have sufficient vmalloc space, it makes sense to enable it via CONFIG_64BIT. Signed-off-by:
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by:
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Signed-off-by:
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9838 On i386, HZ=1000, jiffies_to_clock_t() converts time in a somewhat strange way from the user's point of view: # echo 500 >/proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs # cat /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs 499 So, we have 5000 jiffies converted to only 499 clock ticks and reported back. TICK_NSEC = 999848 ACTHZ = 256039 Keeping in-kernel variable in units passed from userspace will fix issue of course, but this probably won't be right for every sysctl. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by:
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Akinobu Mita authored
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:
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Li Zefan authored
I notice there are many places doing copy_from_user() which follows kmalloc(): dst = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL); if (!dst) return -ENOMEM; if (copy_from_user(dst, src, len)) { kfree(dst); return -EFAULT } memdup_user() is a wrapper of the above code. With this new function, we don't have to write 'len' twice, which can lead to typos/mistakes. It also produces smaller code and kernel text. A quick grep shows 250+ places where memdup_user() *may* be used. I'll prepare a patchset to do this conversion. Signed-off-by:Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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