kernel.git/include/linux/mm.h, branch linux-2.6.22.y

page_mapping must avoid slub pages

2007-06-21T22:55:12Z

Nicolas Ferre reports oops from flush_dcache_page() on ARM when using SLUB: which reuses page->mapping as page->slab. The page_mapping() function, used by ARM and PA-RISC flush_dcache_page() implementations, must not confuse SLUB pages with those which have page->mapping set. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Cc: Nicolas Ferre Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Detach sched.h from mm.h

2007-05-21T16:18:19Z

First thing mm.h does is including sched.h solely for can_do_mlock() inline function which has "current" dereference inside. By dealing with can_do_mlock() mm.h can be detached from sched.h which is good. See below, why. This patch a) removes unconditional inclusion of sched.h from mm.h b) makes can_do_mlock() normal function in mm/mlock.c c) exports can_do_mlock() to not break compilation d) adds sched.h inclusions back to files that were getting it indirectly. e) adds less bloated headers to some files (asm/signal.h, jiffies.h) that were getting them indirectly Net result is: a) mm.h users would get less code to open, read, preprocess, parse, ... if they don't need sched.h b) sched.h stops being dependency for significant number of files: on x86_64 allmodconfig touching sched.h results in recompile of 4083 files, after patch it's only 3744 (-8.3%). Cross-compile tested on all arm defconfigs, all mips defconfigs, all powerpc defconfigs, alpha alpha-up arm i386 i386-up i386-defconfig i386-allnoconfig ia64 ia64-up m68k mips parisc parisc-up powerpc powerpc-up s390 s390-up sparc sparc-up sparc64 sparc64-up um-x86_64 x86_64 x86_64-up x86_64-defconfig x86_64-allnoconfig as well as my two usual configs. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Add virt_to_head_page and consolidate code in slab and slub

2007-05-07T19:12:54Z

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: optimize compound_head() by avoiding a shared page flag

2007-05-07T19:12:53Z

The patch adds PageTail(page) and PageHead(page) to check if a page is the head or the tail of a compound page. This is done by masking the two bits describing the state of a compound page and then comparing them. So one comparision and a branch instead of two bit checks and two branches. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Make page->private usable in compound pages

2007-05-07T19:12:53Z

If we add a new flag so that we can distinguish between the first page and the tail pages then we can avoid to use page->private in the first page. page->private == page for the first page, so there is no real information in there. Freeing up page->private makes the use of compound pages more transparent. They become more usable like real pages. Right now we have to be careful f.e. if we are going beyond PAGE_SIZE allocations in the slab on i386 because we can then no longer use the private field. This is one of the issues that cause us not to support debugging for page size slabs in SLAB. Having page->private available for SLUB would allow more meta information in the page struct. I can probably avoid the 16 bit ints that I have in there right now. Also if page->private is available then a compound page may be equipped with buffer heads. This may free up the way for filesystems to support larger blocks than page size. We add PageTail as an alias of PageReclaim. Compound pages cannot currently be reclaimed. Because of the alias one needs to check PageCompound first. The RFC for the this approach was discussed at http://marc.info/?t=117574302800001&r=1&w=2 [nacc@us.ibm.com: fix hugetlbfs] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove gcc workaround

2007-05-07T19:12:51Z

Minimum gcc version is 3.2 now. However, with likely profiling, even modern gcc versions cannot always eliminate the call. Replace the placeholder functions with the more conventional empty static inlines, which should be optimal for everyone. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Add apply_to_page_range() which applies a function to a pte range

2007-05-07T19:12:51Z

Add a new mm function apply_to_page_range() which applies a given function to every pte in a given virtual address range in a given mm structure. This is a generic alternative to cut-and-pasting the Linux idiomatic pagetable walking code in every place that a sequence of PTEs must be accessed. Although this interface is intended to be useful in a wide range of situations, it is currently used specifically by several Xen subsystems, for example: to ensure that pagetables have been allocated for a virtual address range, and to construct batched special pagetable update requests to map I/O memory (in ioremap()). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning, unpleasantly] Signed-off-by: Ian Pratt Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Matt Mackall Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mm/{,tiny-}shmem.c cleanups

2007-03-01T22:53:35Z

shmem_{nopage,mmap} are no longer used in ipc/shm.c Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Add NOPFN_REFAULT result from vm_ops->nopfn()

2007-02-12T17:48:27Z

Add a NOPFN_REFAULT return code for vm_ops->nopfn() equivalent to NOPAGE_REFAULT for vmops->nopage() indicating that the handler requests a re-execution of the faulting instruction Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] add vm_insert_pfn()

2007-02-12T17:48:27Z

Add a vm_insert_pfn helper, so that ->fault handlers can have nopfn functionality by installing their own pte and returning NULL. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds