kernel.git/arch/tile/mm, branch linux-3.11.y

mm: remove free_area_cache

2013-07-11T01:11:34Z

Since all architectures have been converted to use vm_unmapped_area(), there is no remaining use for the free_area_cache. Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse Acked-by: Rik van Riel Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: David Howells Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Matt Turner Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Richard Henderson Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: invoke oom-killer from remaining unconverted page fault handlers

2013-07-09T17:33:20Z

A few remaining architectures directly kill the page faulting task in an out of memory situation. This is usually not a good idea since that task might not even use a significant amount of memory and so may not be the optimal victim to resolve the situation. Since 2.6.29's 1c0fe6e ("mm: invoke oom-killer from page fault") there is a hook that architecture page fault handlers are supposed to call to invoke the OOM killer and let it pick the right task to kill. Convert the remaining architectures over to this hook. To have the previous behavior of simply taking out the faulting task the vm.oom_kill_allocating_task sysctl can be set to 1. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Acked-by: David Rientjes Acked-by: Vineet Gupta [arch/arc bits] Cc: James Hogan Cc: David Howells Cc: Jonas Bonn Cc: Chen Liqin Cc: Lennox Wu Cc: Chris Metcalf Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/tile: prepare for removing num_physpages and simplify mem_init()

2013-07-03T23:07:37Z

Prepare for removing num_physpages and simplify mem_init(). Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu Acked-by: Chris Metcalf Cc: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Wen Congyang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tile: normalize global variables exported by vmlinux.lds

2013-07-03T23:07:34Z

Normalize global variables exported by vmlinux.lds to conform usage guidelines from include/asm-generic/sections.h. 1) Use _text to mark the start of the kernel image including the head text, and _stext to mark the start of the .text section. 2) Export mandatory global variables __init_begin and __init_end. Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu Acked-by: Chris Metcalf Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Wen Congyang Cc: David Howells Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: concentrate modification of totalram_pages into the mm core

2013-07-03T23:07:33Z

Concentrate code to modify totalram_pages into the mm core, so the arch memory initialized code doesn't need to take care of it. With these changes applied, only following functions from mm core modify global variable totalram_pages: free_bootmem_late(), free_all_bootmem(), free_all_bootmem_node(), adjust_managed_page_count(). With this patch applied, it will be much more easier for us to keep totalram_pages and zone->managed_pages in consistence. Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu Acked-by: David Howells Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Jianguo Wu Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Marek Szyprowski Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Michel Lespinasse Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Tang Chen Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Wen Congyang Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu Cc: Yinghai Lu Cc: Russell King Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/tile: use common help functions to free reserved pages

2013-07-03T23:07:33Z

Use common help functions to free reserved pages. Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Wen Congyang Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: David Howells Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Jianguo Wu Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Marek Szyprowski Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Michel Lespinasse Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Tang Chen Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu Cc: Yinghai Lu Cc: Russell King Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, vmalloc: change iterating a vmlist to find_vm_area()

2013-04-29T22:54:33Z

This patchset removes vm_struct list management after initializing vmalloc. Adding and removing an entry to vmlist is linear time complexity, so it is inefficient. If we maintain this list, overall time complexity of adding and removing area to vmalloc space is O(N), although we use rbtree for finding vacant place and it's time complexity is just O(logN). And vmlist and vmlist_lock is used many places of outside of vmalloc.c. It is preferable that we hide this raw data structure and provide well-defined function for supporting them, because it makes that they cannot mistake when manipulating theses structure and it makes us easily maintain vmalloc layer. For kexec and makedumpfile, I export vmap_area_list, instead of vmlist. This comes from Atsushi's recommendation. For more information, please refer below link. https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/6/184 This patch: The purpose of iterating a vmlist is finding vm area with specific virtual address. find_vm_area() is provided for this purpose and more efficient, because it uses a rbtree. So change it. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim Acked-by: Guan Xuetao Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Chris Metcalf Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Atsushi Kumagai Cc: Dave Anderson Cc: Eric Biederman Cc: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

swap: add per-partition lock for swapfile

2013-02-24T01:50:17Z

swap_lock is heavily contended when I test swap to 3 fast SSD (even slightly slower than swap to 2 such SSD). The main contention comes from swap_info_get(). This patch tries to fix the gap with adding a new per-partition lock. Global data like nr_swapfiles, total_swap_pages, least_priority and swap_list are still protected by swap_lock. nr_swap_pages is an atomic now, it can be changed without swap_lock. In theory, it's possible get_swap_page() finds no swap pages but actually there are free swap pages. But sounds not a big problem. Accessing partition specific data (like scan_swap_map and so on) is only protected by swap_info_struct.lock. Changing swap_info_struct.flags need hold swap_lock and swap_info_struct.lock, because scan_scan_map() will check it. read the flags is ok with either the locks hold. If both swap_lock and swap_info_struct.lock must be hold, we always hold the former first to avoid deadlock. swap_entry_free() can change swap_list. To delete that code, we add a new highest_priority_index. Whenever get_swap_page() is called, we check it. If it's valid, we use it. It's a pity get_swap_page() still holds swap_lock(). But in practice, swap_lock() isn't heavily contended in my test with this patch (or I can say there are other much more heavier bottlenecks like TLB flush). And BTW, looks get_swap_page() doesn't really need the lock. We never free swap_info[] and we check SWAP_WRITEOK flag. The only risk without the lock is we could swapout to some low priority swap, but we can quickly recover after several rounds of swap, so sounds not a big deal to me. But I'd prefer to fix this if it's a real problem. "swap: make each swap partition have one address_space" improved the swapout speed from 1.7G/s to 2G/s. This patch further improves the speed to 2.3G/s, so around 15% improvement. It's a multi-process test, so TLB flush isn't the biggest bottleneck before the patches. [arnd@arndb.de: fix it for nommu] [hughd@google.com: add missing unlock] [minchan@kernel.org: get rid of lockdep whinge on sys_swapon] Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Seth Jennings Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Xiao Guangrong Cc: Dan Magenheimer Cc: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

memory-hotplug: introduce new arch_remove_memory() for removing page table

2013-02-24T01:50:12Z

For removing memory, we need to remove page tables. But it depends on architecture. So the patch introduce arch_remove_memory() for removing page table. Now it only calls __remove_pages(). Note: __remove_pages() for some archtecuture is not implemented (I don't know how to implement it for s390). Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang Signed-off-by: Tang Chen Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Jiang Liu Cc: Jianguo Wu Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki Cc: Lai Jiangshan Cc: Wu Jianguo Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove flags argument to mmap_region

2013-02-24T01:50:11Z

After the MAP_POPULATE handling has been moved to mmap_region() call sites, the only remaining use of the flags argument is to pass the MAP_NORESERVE flag. This can be just as easily handled by do_mmap_pgoff(), so do that and remove the mmap_region() flags parameter. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove double parens] Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse Acked-by: Rik van Riel Tested-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Greg Ungerer Cc: David Howells Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds