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Mark Fasheh
d23a147bb6 [PATCH] Export should_remove_suid()
This helps us avoid replicating the same logic within file system drivers.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2006-12-01 18:28:38 -08:00
Mel Gorman
1abbfb412b [PATCH] x86_64: fix bad page state in process 'swapper'
find_min_pfn_for_node() and find_min_pfn_with_active_regions() both
depend on a sorted early_node_map[].  However, sort_node_map() is being
called after fin_min_pfn_with_active_regions() in
free_area_init_nodes().

In most cases, this is ok, but on at least one x86_64, the SRAT table
caused the E820 ranges to be registered out of order.  This gave the
wrong values for the min PFN range resulting in some pages not being
initialised.

This patch sorts the early_node_map in find_min_pfn_for_node().  It has
been boot tested on x86, x86_64, ppc64 and ia64.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-23 09:30:38 -08:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
31be830953 [PATCH] Fix strange size check in __get_vm_area_node()
Recently, __get_vm_area_node() was changed like following

 	if (unlikely(!area))
 		return NULL;

-	if (unlikely(!size)) {
-		kfree (area);
+	if (unlikely(!size))
 		return NULL;
-	}

It is leaking `area', also original code seems strange already.
Probably, we wanted to do this patch.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-16 11:43:38 -08:00
Hugh Dickins
cd2579d7aa [PATCH] hugetlb: fix error return for brk() entering a hugepage region
Commit cb07c9a186 causes the wrong return
value.  is_hugepage_only_range() is a boolean, so we should return
-EINVAL rather than 1.

Also - we can use "mm" instead of looking up "current->mm" again.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-14 15:15:01 -08:00
David Gibson
cb07c9a186 [PATCH] hugetlb: check for brk() entering a hugepage region
Unlike mmap(), the codepath for brk() creates a vma without first checking
that it doesn't touch a region exclusively reserved for hugepages.  On
powerpc, this can allow it to create a normal page vma in a hugepage
region, causing oopses and other badness.

Add a test to prevent this.  With this patch, brk() will simply fail if it
attempts to move the break into a hugepage reserved region.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-14 09:09:27 -08:00
Hugh Dickins
68589bc353 [PATCH] hugetlb: prepare_hugepage_range check offset too
(David:)

If hugetlbfs_file_mmap() returns a failure to do_mmap_pgoff() - for example,
because the given file offset is not hugepage aligned - then do_mmap_pgoff
will go to the unmap_and_free_vma backout path.

But at this stage the vma hasn't been marked as hugepage, and the backout path
will call unmap_region() on it.  That will eventually call down to the
non-hugepage version of unmap_page_range().  On ppc64, at least, that will
cause serious problems if there are any existing hugepage pagetable entries in
the vicinity - for example if there are any other hugepage mappings under the
same PUD.  unmap_page_range() will trigger a bad_pud() on the hugepage pud
entries.  I suspect this will also cause bad problems on ia64, though I don't
have a machine to test it on.

(Hugh:)

prepare_hugepage_range() should check file offset alignment when it checks
virtual address and length, to stop MAP_FIXED with a bad huge offset from
unmapping before it fails further down.  PowerPC should apply the same
prepare_hugepage_range alignment checks as ia64 and all the others do.

Then none of the alignment checks in hugetlbfs_file_mmap are required (nor
is the check for too small a mapping); but even so, move up setting of
VM_HUGETLB and add a comment to warn of what David Gibson discovered - if
hugetlbfs_file_mmap fails before setting it, do_mmap_pgoff's unmap_region
when unwinding from error will go the non-huge way, which may cause bad
behaviour on architectures (powerpc and ia64) which segregate their huge
mappings into a separate region of the address space.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-14 09:09:27 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
2b4ac44e7c [PATCH] vmalloc: optimization, cleanup, bugfixes
- reorder 'struct vm_struct' to speedup lookups on CPUS with small cache
  lines.  The fields 'next,addr,size' should be now in the same cache line,
  to speedup lookups.

- One minor cleanup in __get_vm_area_node()

- Bugfixes in vmalloc_user() and vmalloc_32_user() NULL returns from
  __vmalloc() and __find_vm_area() were not tested.

[akpm@osdl.org: remove redundant BUG_ONs]
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-13 07:40:42 -08:00
Stephen Rothwell
8ce08464d2 [PATCH] Fix sys_move_pages when a NULL node list is passed
sys_move_pages() uses vmalloc() to allocate an array of structures that is
fills with information passed from user mode and then passes to
do_stat_pages() (in the case the node list is NULL).  do_stat_pages()
depends on a marker in the node field of the structure to decide how large
the array is and this marker is correctly inserted into the last element of
the array.  However, vmalloc() doesn't zero the memory it allocates and if
the user passes NULL for the node list, then the node fields are not filled
in (except for the end marker).  If the memory the vmalloc() returned
happend to have a word with the marker value in it in just the right place,
do_pages_stat will fail to fill the status field of part of the array and
we will return (random) kernel data to user mode.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-03 12:27:59 -08:00
Daniel Yeisley
7f6b8876c7 [PATCH] init_reap_node() initialization fix
It looks like there is a bug in init_reap_node() in slab.c that can cause
multiple oops's on certain ES7000 configurations.  The variable reap_node
is defined per cpu, but only initialized on a single CPU.  This causes an
oops in next_reap_node() when __get_cpu_var(reap_node) returns the wrong
value.  Fix is below.

Signed-off-by: Dan Yeisley <dan.yeisley@unisys.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-03 12:27:58 -08:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
029e332ea7 [PATCH] Cleanup read_pages()
Current read_pages() assume ->readpages() frees the passed pages.

This patch free the pages in ->read_pages(), if those were remaining in the
pages_list.  So, readpages() just can ignore the remaining pages in
pages_list.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-03 12:27:56 -08:00
nkalmala
941c7105dc [PATCH] mm: un-needed add-store operation wastes a few bytes
Un-needed add-store operation wastes a few bytes.
8 bytes wasted with -O2, on a ppc.

Signed-off-by: nkalmala <nkalmala@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-03 12:27:56 -08:00
Giridhar Pemmasani
5211e6e6c6 [PATCH] Fix GFP_HIGHMEM slab panic
As reported by Martin J. Bligh <mbligh@google.com>, we let through some
non-slab bits to slab allocation through __get_vm_area_node when doing a
vmalloc.

I haven't been able to reproduce this, although I understand why it
happens: vmalloc allocates memory with

GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_HIGHMEM

and commit 52fd24ca1d resulted in the same
flags are passed down to cache_alloc_refill, causing the BUG.  The
following patch fixes it.

Note that when calling kmalloc_node, I am masking off __GFP_HIGHMEM with
GFP_LEVEL_MASK, whereas __vmalloc_area_node does the same with

~(__GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_ZERO).

IMHO, using GFP_LEVEL_MASK is preferable, but either should fix this
problem.

Signed-off-by: Giridhar Pemmasani (pgiri@yahoo.com)
Cc: Martin J. Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-29 08:01:58 -08:00
Mel Gorman
0c6cb97463 [PATCH] Calculation fix for memory holes beyong the end of physical memory
absent_pages_in_range() made the assumption that users of the
arch-independent zone-sizing API would not care about holes beyound the end
of physical memory.  This was not the case and was "fixed" in a patch
called "Account for holes that are outside the range of physical memory".
However, when given a range that started before a hole in "real" memory and
ended beyond the end of memory, it would get the result wrong.  The bug is
in mainline but a patch is below.

It has been tested successfully on a number of machines and architectures.
Additional credit to Keith Mannthey for discovering the problem, helping
identify the correct fix and confirming it Worked For Him.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: keith mannthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-28 11:30:55 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
ebed4bfc8d [PATCH] hugetlb: fix absurd HugePages_Rsvd
If you truncated an mmap'ed hugetlbfs file, then faulted on the truncated
area, /proc/meminfo's HugePages_Rsvd wrapped hugely "negative".  Reinstate my
preliminary i_size check before attempting to allocate the page (though this
only fixes the most obvious case: more work will be needed here).

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-28 11:30:53 -07:00
Giridhar Pemmasani
52fd24ca1d [PATCH] __vmalloc with GFP_ATOMIC causes 'sleeping from invalid context'
If __vmalloc is called to allocate memory with GFP_ATOMIC in atomic
context, the chain of calls results in __get_vm_area_node allocating memory
for vm_struct with GFP_KERNEL, causing the 'sleeping from invalid context'
warning.  This patch fixes it by passing the gfp flags along so
__get_vm_area_node allocates memory for vm_struct with the same flags.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-28 11:30:52 -07:00
Yasunori Goto
f2d0aa5bf8 [PATCH] memory hotplug: __GFP_NOWARN is better for __kmalloc_section_memmap()
Add __GFP_NOWARN flag to calling of __alloc_pages() in
__kmalloc_section_memmap().  It can reduce noisy failure message.

In ia64, section size is 1 GB, this means that order 8 pages are necessary
for each section's memmap.  It is often very hard requirement under heavy
memory pressure as you know.  So, __alloc_pages() gives up allocation and
shows many noisy stack traces which means no page for each sections.
(Current my environment shows 32 times of stack trace....)

But, __kmalloc_section_memmap() calls vmalloc() after failure of it, and it
can succeed allocation of memmap.  So, its stack trace warning becomes just
noisy.  I suppose it shouldn't be shown.

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-28 11:30:52 -07:00
Martin Bligh
bbdb396a60 [PATCH] Use min of two prio settings in calculating distress for reclaim
If try_to_free_pages / balance_pgdat are called with a gfp_mask specifying
GFP_IO and/or GFP_FS, they will reclaim the requisite number of pages, and the
reset prev_priority to DEF_PRIORITY (or to some other high (ie: unurgent)
value).

However, another reclaimer without those gfp_mask flags set (say, GFP_NOIO)
may still be struggling to reclaim pages.  The concurrent overwrite of
zone->prev_priority will cause this GFP_NOIO thread to unexpectedly cease
deactivating mapped pages, thus causing reclaim difficulties.

Fix this is to key the distress calculation not off zone->prev_priority, but
also take into account the local caller's priority by using
min(zone->prev_priority, sc->priority)

Signed-off-by: Martin J. Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-28 11:30:51 -07:00
Martin Bligh
3bb1a852ab [PATCH] vmscan: Fix temp_priority race
The temp_priority field in zone is racy, as we can walk through a reclaim
path, and just before we copy it into prev_priority, it can be overwritten
(say with DEF_PRIORITY) by another reclaimer.

The same bug is contained in both try_to_free_pages and balance_pgdat, but
it is fixed slightly differently.  In balance_pgdat, we keep a separate
priority record per zone in a local array.  In try_to_free_pages there is
no need to do this, as the priority level is the same for all zones that we
reclaim from.

Impact of this bug is that temp_priority is copied into prev_priority, and
setting this artificially high causes reclaimers to set distress
artificially low.  They then fail to reclaim mapped pages, when they are,
in fact, under severe memory pressure (their priority may be as low as 0).
This causes the OOM killer to fire incorrectly.

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

__zone_reclaim() isn't modifying zone->prev_priority.  But zone->prev_priority
is used in the decision whether or not to bring mapped pages onto the inactive
list.  Hence there's a risk here that __zone_reclaim() will fail because
zone->prev_priority ir large (ie: low urgency) and lots of mapped pages end up
stuck on the active list.

Fix that up by decreasing (ie making more urgent) zone->prev_priority as
__zone_reclaim() scans the zone's pages.

This bug perhaps explains why ZONE_RECLAIM_PRIORITY was created.  It should be
possible to remove that now, and to just start out at DEF_PRIORITY?

Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-28 11:30:50 -07:00
Nick Piggin
2ae88149a2 [PATCH] mm: clean up pagecache allocation
- Consolidate page_cache_alloc

- Fix splice: only the pagecache pages and filesystem data need to use
  mapping_gfp_mask.

- Fix grab_cache_page_nowait: same as splice, also honour NUMA placement.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-28 11:30:50 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
aedb0eb107 [PATCH] Slab: Do not fallback to nodes that have not been bootstrapped yet
The zonelist may contain zones of nodes that have not been bootstrapped and
we will oops if we try to allocate from those zones.  So check if the node
information for the slab and the node have been setup before attempting an
allocation.  If it has not been setup then skip that zone.

Usually we will not encounter this situation since the slab bootstrap code
avoids falling back before we have setup the respective nodes but we seem
to have a special needs for pppc.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Will Schmidt <will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-21 13:35:06 -07:00
Andy Whitcroft
7516795739 [PATCH] Reintroduce NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES for powerpc
Reintroduce NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES for powerpc

Revert "[PATCH] Remove SPAN_OTHER_NODES config definition"
    This reverts commit f62859bb68.
Revert "[PATCH] mm: remove arch independent NODES_SPAN_OTHER_NODES"
    This reverts commit a94b3ab7ea.

Also update the comments to indicate that this is still required
and where its used.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Will Schmidt <will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-21 13:35:06 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
7b7fc708b5 Merge branch 'splice' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block
* 'splice' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
  [PATCH] Remove SUID when splicing into an inode
  [PATCH] Add lockless helpers for remove_suid()
  [PATCH] Introduce generic_file_splice_write_nolock()
  [PATCH] Take i_mutex in splice_from_pipe()
2006-10-21 10:01:52 -07:00
Nick Piggin
82591e6ea2 [PATCH] mm: more commenting on lock ordering
Clarify lockorder comments now that sys_msync dropps mmap_sem before
calling do_fsync.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-20 10:26:44 -07:00
Dmitriy Monakhov
c4ec7b0de4 [PATCH] mm: D-cache aliasing issue in cow_user_page
--=-=-=

 from mm/memory.c:
  1434  static inline void cow_user_page(struct page *dst, struct page *src, unsigned long va)
  1435  {
  1436          /*
  1437           * If the source page was a PFN mapping, we don't have
  1438           * a "struct page" for it. We do a best-effort copy by
  1439           * just copying from the original user address. If that
  1440           * fails, we just zero-fill it. Live with it.
  1441           */
  1442          if (unlikely(!src)) {
  1443                  void *kaddr = kmap_atomic(dst, KM_USER0);
  1444                  void __user *uaddr = (void __user *)(va & PAGE_MASK);
  1445
  1446                  /*
  1447                   * This really shouldn't fail, because the page is there
  1448                   * in the page tables. But it might just be unreadable,
  1449                   * in which case we just give up and fill the result with
  1450                   * zeroes.
  1451                   */
  1452                  if (__copy_from_user_inatomic(kaddr, uaddr, PAGE_SIZE))
  1453                          memset(kaddr, 0, PAGE_SIZE);
  1454                  kunmap_atomic(kaddr, KM_USER0);
  #### D-cache have to be flushed here.
  #### It seems it is just forgotten.

  1455                  return;
  1456
  1457          }
  1458          copy_user_highpage(dst, src, va);
  #### Ok here. flush_dcache_page() called from this func if arch need it
  1459  }

Following is the patch  fix this issue:

Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-20 10:26:43 -07:00
Andrew Morton
6220ec7844 [PATCH] highest_possible_node_id() linkage fix
Qooting Adrian:

- net/sunrpc/svc.c uses highest_possible_node_id()

- include/linux/nodemask.h says highest_possible_node_id() is
  out-of-line #if MAX_NUMNODES > 1

- the out-of-line highest_possible_node_id() is in lib/cpumask.c

- lib/Makefile: lib-$(CONFIG_SMP) += cpumask.o
  CONFIG_ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE=y, CONFIG_SMP=n, CONFIG_SUNRPC=y

-> highest_possible_node_id() is used in net/sunrpc/svc.c
   CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT defined and > 0

-> include/linux/numa.h: MAX_NUMNODES > 1

-> compile error

The bug is not present on architectures where ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE
depends on NUMA (but m32r isn't the only affected architecture).

So move the function into page_alloc.c

Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-20 10:26:43 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
8ac773b4f7 [PATCH] OOM killer meets userspace headers
Despite mm.h is not being exported header, it does contain one thing
which is part of userspace ABI -- value disabling OOM killer for given
process. So,
a) create and export include/linux/oom.h
b) move OOM_DISABLE define there.
c) turn bounding values of /proc/$PID/oom_adj into defines and export
   them too.

Note: mass __KERNEL__ removal will be done later.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-20 10:26:38 -07:00
Andrew Morton
3fcfab16c5 [PATCH] separate bdi congestion functions from queue congestion functions
Separate out the concept of "queue congestion" from "backing-dev congestion".
Congestion is a backing-dev concept, not a queue concept.

The blk_* congestion functions are retained, as wrappers around the core
backing-dev congestion functions.

This proper layering is needed so that NFS can cleanly use the congestion
functions, and so that CONFIG_BLOCK=n actually links.

Cc: "Thomas Maier" <balagi@justmail.de>
Cc: "Jens Axboe" <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-20 10:26:35 -07:00
Jeff Moyer
fb5527e68d [PATCH] direct-io: sync and invalidate file region when falling back to buffered write
When direct-io falls back to buffered write, it will just leave the dirty data
floating about in pagecache, pending regular writeback.

But normal direct-io semantics are that IO is synchronous, and that it leaves
no pagecache behind.

So change the fallback-to-buffered-write code to sync the file region and to
then strip away the pagecache, just as a regular direct-io write would do.

Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-20 10:26:35 -07:00
Jens Axboe
01de85e057 [PATCH] Add lockless helpers for remove_suid()
Right now users have to grab i_mutex before calling remove_suid(), in the
unlikely event that a call to ->setattr() may be needed. Split up the
function in two parts:

- One to check if we need to remove suid
- One to actually remove it

The first we can call lockless.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2006-10-19 20:53:08 +02:00
Andrew Morton
286e1ea3ac [PATCH] vmalloc(): don't pass __GFP_ZERO to slab
A recent change to the vmalloc() code accidentally resulted in us passing
__GFP_ZERO into the slab allocator.  But we only wanted __GFP_ZERO for the
actual pages whcih are being vmalloc()ed, and passing __GFP_ZERO into slab is
not a rational thing to ask for.

Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-17 08:18:44 -07:00
David M. Grimes
91828a405a [PATCH] knfsd: add nfs-export support to tmpfs
We need to encode a decode the 'file' part of a handle.  We simply use the
inode number and generation number to construct the filehandle.

The generation number is the time when the file was created.  As inode numbers
cycle through the full 32 bits before being reused, there is no real chance of
the same inum being allocated to different files in the same second so this is
suitably unique.  Using time-of-day rather than e.g.  jiffies makes it less
likely that the same filehandle can be created after a reboot.

In order to be able to decode a filehandle we need to be able to lookup by
inum, which means that the inode needs to be added to the inode hash table
(tmpfs doesn't currently hash inodes as there is never a need to lookup by
inum).  To avoid overhead when not exporting, we only hash an inode when it is
first exported.  This requires a lock to ensure it isn't hashed twice.

This code is separate from the patch posted in June06 from Atal Shargorodsky
which provided the same functionality, but does borrow slightly from it.

Locking comment: Most filesystems that hash their inodes do so at the point
where the 'struct inode' is initialised, and that has suitable locking
(I_NEW).  Here in shmem, we are hashing the inode later, the first time we
need an NFS file handle for it.  We no longer have I_NEW to ensure only one
thread tries to add it to the hash table.

Cc: Atal Shargorodsky <atal@codefidence.com>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@codefidence.com>
Signed-off-by: David M. Grimes <dgrimes@navisite.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-17 08:18:43 -07:00
Andrew Morton
a649fd9271 [PATCH] invalidate: remove_mapping() fix
If remove_mapping() failed to remove the page from its mapping, don't go and
mark it not uptodate!  Makes kernel go dead.

(Actually, I don't think the ClearPageUptodate is needed there at all).

Says Nick Piggin:

   "Right, it isn't needed because at this point the page is guaranteed
    by remove_mapping to have no references (except us) and cannot pick
    up any new ones because it is removed from pagecache.

    We can delete it."

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-17 08:18:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
80c5606c3b Fix VM_MAYEXEC calculation
.. and clean up the file mapping code while at it.  No point in having a
"if (file)" repeated twice, and generally doing similar checks in two
different sections of the same code

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-15 14:09:55 -07:00
Aneesh Kumar
53bc5b2db1 [PATCH] Fix typos in mm/shmem_acl.c
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:23 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
887ed2f3ae [PATCH] VM: Fix the gfp_mask in invalidate_complete_page2
If try_to_release_page() is called with a zero gfp mask, then the
filesystem is effectively denied the possibility of sleeping while
attempting to release the page.  There doesn't appear to be any valid
reason why this should be banned, given that we're not calling this from a
memory allocation context.

For this reason, change the gfp_mask argument of the call to GFP_KERNEL.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:22 -07:00
Andrew Morton
8258d4a574 [PATCH] invalidate_inode_pages2_range() debug
A failure in invalidate_inode_pages2_range() can result in unpleasant things
happening in NFS (at least).  Stick a WARN_ON_ONCE() in there so we can find
out if it happens, and maybe why.

(akpm: might be a -mm-only patch, we'll see..)

Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:22 -07:00
Nick Piggin
9858db504c [PATCH] mm: locks_freed fix
Move the lock debug checks below the page reserved checks.  Also, having
debug_check_no_locks_freed in kernel_map_pages is wrong.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:19 -07:00
Nick Piggin
dafb13673c [PATCH] mm: arch_free_page fix
After the PG_reserved check was added, arch_free_page was being called in the
wrong place (it could be called for a page we don't actually want to free).
Fix that.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:19 -07:00
Keith Owens
6993974997 [PATCH] Fix do_mbind warning with CONFIG_MIGRATION=n
With CONFIG_MIGRATION=n

mm/mempolicy.c: In function 'do_mbind':
mm/mempolicy.c:796: warning: passing argument 2 of 'migrate_pages' from incompatible pointer type

Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:19 -07:00
Dave Jones
b16bc64d1a [PATCH] move rmap BUG_ON outside DEBUG_VM
We have a persistent dribble of reports of this BUG triggering.  Its extended
diagnostics were recently made conditional on CONFIG_DEBUG_VM, which was a bad
idea - we want to know about it.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:19 -07:00
Chen, Kenneth W
502717f4e1 [PATCH] hugetlb: fix linked list corruption in unmap_hugepage_range()
commit fe1668ae5b causes kernel to oops with
libhugetlbfs test suite.  The problem is that hugetlb pages can be shared
by multiple mappings.  Multiple threads can fight over page->lru in the
unmap path and bad things happen.  We now serialize __unmap_hugepage_range
to void concurrent linked list manipulation.  Such serialization is also
needed for shared page table page on hugetlb area.  This patch will fixed
the bug and also serve as a prepatch for shared page table.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:15 -07:00
Mel Gorman
b888132b0f [PATCH] mm: remove memmap_zone_idx()
memmap_zone_idx() is not used anymore.  It was required by an earlier
version of
account-for-memmap-and-optionally-the-kernel-image-as-holes.patch but not
any more.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11 11:14:14 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
dcbd4ec4c2 [PATCH] slab: remove wrongly placed BUG_ON
Init list is called with a list parameter that is not equal to the
cachep->nodelists entry under NUMA if more than one node exists.  This is
fully legitimatei.  One may want to populate the list fields before
switching nodelist pointers.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-07 10:51:14 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
7f7bbbe50b [PATCH] page fault retry with NOPAGE_REFAULT
Add a way for a no_page() handler to request a retry of the faulting
instruction.  It goes back to userland on page faults and just tries again
in get_user_pages().  I added a cond_resched() in the loop in that later
case.

The problem I have with signal and spufs is an actual bug affecting apps and I
don't see other ways of fixing it.

In addition, we are having issues with infiniband and 64k pages (related to
the way the hypervisor deals with some HV cards) that will require us to muck
around with the MMU from within the IB driver's no_page() (it's a pSeries
specific driver) and return to the caller the same way using NOPAGE_REFAULT.

And to add to this, the graphics folks have been following a new approach of
memory management that involves transparently swapping objects between video
ram and main meory.  To do that, they need installing PTEs from a no_page()
handler as well and that also requires returning with NOPAGE_REFAULT.

(For the later, they are currently using io_remap_pfn_range to install one PTE
from no_page() which is a bit racy, we need to add a check for the PTE having
already been installed afer taking the lock, but that's ok, they are only at
the proof-of-concept stage.  I'll send a patch adding a "clean" function to do
that, we can use that from spufs too and get rid of the sparsemem hacks we do
to create struct page for SPEs.  Basically, that provides a generic solution
for being able to have no_page() map hardware devices, which is something that
I think sound driver folks have been asking for some time too).

All of these things depend on having the NOPAGE_REFAULT exit path from
no_page() handlers.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenchmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-06 08:53:40 -07:00
Pekka Enberg
1ca4cb2418 [PATCH] slab: reduce numa text size
Reduce the NUMA text size of mm/slab.o a little on x86 by using a local
variable to store the result of numa_node_id().

    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   16858    2584      16   19458    4c02 mm/slab.o (before)
   16804    2584      16   19404    4bcc mm/slab.o (after)

[akpm@osdl.org: use better names]
[pbadari@us.ibm.com: fix that]
Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-06 08:53:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
fefd26b3b8 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/configh
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/configh:
  Remove all inclusions of <linux/config.h>

Manually resolved trivial path conflicts due to removed files in
the sound/oss/ subdirectory.
2006-10-04 09:59:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
4a61f17378 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6: (292 commits)
  [GFS2] Fix endian bug for de_type
  [GFS2] Initialize SELinux extended attributes at inode creation time.
  [GFS2] Move logging code into log.c (mostly)
  [GFS2] Mark nlink cleared so VFS sees it happen
  [GFS2] Two redundant casts removed
  [GFS2] Remove uneeded endian conversion
  [GFS2] Remove duplicate sb reading code
  [GFS2] Mark metadata reads for blktrace
  [GFS2] Remove iflags.h, use FS_
  [GFS2] Fix code style/indent in ops_file.c
  [GFS2] streamline-generic_file_-interfaces-and-filemap gfs fix
  [GFS2] Remove readv/writev methods and use aio_read/aio_write instead (gfs bits)
  [GFS2] inode-diet: Eliminate i_blksize from the inode structure
  [GFS2] inode_diet: Replace inode.u.generic_ip with inode.i_private (gfs)
  [GFS2] Fix typo in last patch
  [GFS2] Fix direct i/o logic in filemap.c
  [GFS2] Fix bug in Makefiles for lock modules
  [GFS2] Remove (extra) fs_subsys declaration
  [GFS2/DLM] Fix trailing whitespace
  [GFS2] Tidy up meta_io code
  ...
2006-10-04 09:06:16 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
1d2c8eea69 [PATCH] slab: clean up leak tracking ifdefs a little bit
- rename ____kmalloc to kmalloc_track_caller so that people have a chance
  to guess what it does just from it's name.  Add a comment describing it
  for those who don't.  Also move it after kmalloc in slab.h so people get
  less confused when they are just looking for kmalloc - move things around
  in slab.c a little to reduce the ifdef mess.

[penberg@cs.helsinki.fi: Fix up reversed #ifdef]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-04 07:55:13 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
88ca3b94e8 [PATCH] page_alloc: fix kernel-doc and func. declaration
Fix kernel-doc and function declaration (missing "void") in
mm/page_alloc.c.

Add mm/page_alloc.c to kernel-api.tmpl in DocBook.

mm/page_alloc.c:2589:38: warning: non-ANSI function declaration of function 'remove_all_active_ranges'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-04 07:55:12 -07:00
Chen, Kenneth W
fe1668ae5b [PATCH] enforce proper tlb flush in unmap_hugepage_range
Spotted by Hugh that hugetlb page is free'ed back to global pool before
performing any TLB flush in unmap_hugepage_range().  This potentially allow
threads to abuse free-alloc race condition.

The generic tlb gather code is unsuitable to use by hugetlb, I just open
coded a page gathering list and delayed put_page until tlb flush is
performed.

Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-04 07:55:12 -07:00