- 09 Jan, 2006 40 commits
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Paul Jackson authored
Restructure code layout of the kernel/cpuset.c update_nodemask() routine, removing embedded returns and nested if's in favor of goto completion labels. This is being done in anticipation of adding more logic to this routine, which will favor the goto style structure. Signed-off-by:
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Paul Jackson authored
Four trivial cpuset fixes: remove extra spaces, remove useless initializers, mark one __read_mostly. Signed-off-by:
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Paul Jackson authored
Remove documentation for the cpuset 'marker_pid' feature, that was in the patch "cpuset: change marker for relative numbering" That patch was previously pulled from *-mm at my (pj) request. Signed-off-by:
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Paul Jackson authored
Document the additional cpuset features: notify_on_release marker_pid memory_pressure memory_pressure_enabled Rearrange and improve formatting of existing documentation for cpu_exclusive and mem_exclusive features. Signed-off-by:
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Paul Jackson authored
Provide a simple per-cpuset metric of memory pressure, tracking the -rate- that the tasks in a cpuset call try_to_free_pages(), the synchronous (direct) memory reclaim code. This enables batch managers monitoring jobs running in dedicated cpusets to efficiently detect what level of memory pressure that job is causing. This is useful both on tightly managed systems running a wide mix of submitted jobs, which may choose to terminate or reprioritize jobs that are trying to use more memory than allowed on the nodes assigned them, and with tightly coupled, long running, massively parallel scientific computing jobs that will dramatically fail to meet required performance goals if they start to use more memory than allowed to them. This patch just provides a very economical way for the batch manager to monitor a cpuset for signs of memory pressure. It's up to the batch manager or other user code to decide what to do about it and take action. ==> Unless this feature is enabled by writing "1" to the special file /dev/cpuset/memory_pressure_enabled, the hook in the rebalance code of __alloc_pages() for this metric reduces to simply noticing that the cpuset_memory_pressure_enabled flag is zero. So only systems that enable this feature will compute the metric. Why a per-cpuset, running average: Because this meter is per-cpuset, rather than per-task or mm, the system load imposed by a batch scheduler monitoring this metric is sharply reduced on large systems, because a scan of the tasklist can be avoided on each set of queries. Because this meter is a running average, instead of an accumulating counter, a batch scheduler can detect memory pressure with a single read, instead of having to read and accumulate results for a period of time. Because this meter is per-cpuset rather than per-task or mm, the batch scheduler can obtain the key information, memory pressure in a cpuset, with a single read, rather than having to query and accumulate results over all the (dynamically changing) set of tasks in the cpuset. A per-cpuset simple digital filter (requires a spinlock and 3 words of data per-cpuset) is kept, and updated by any task attached to that cpuset, if it enters the synchronous (direct) page reclaim code. A per-cpuset file provides an integer number representing the recent (half-life of 10 seconds) rate of direct page reclaims caused by the tasks in the cpuset, in units of reclaims attempted per second, times 1000. Signed-off-by: -
Paul Jackson authored
Finish converting mm/mempolicy.c from bitmaps to nodemasks. The previous conversion had left one routine using bitmaps, since it involved a corresponding change to kernel/cpuset.c Fix that interface by replacing with a simple macro that calls nodes_subset(), or if !CONFIG_CPUSET, returns (1). Signed-off-by:
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Paul Jackson authored
Fix the default behaviour for the remap operators in bitmap, cpumask and nodemask. As previously submitted, the pair of masks <A, B> defined a map of the positions of the set bits in A to the corresponding bits in B. This is still true. The issue is how to map the other positions, corresponding to the unset (0) bits in A. As previously submitted, they were all mapped to the first set bit position in B, a constant map. When I tried to code per-vma mempolicy rebinding using these remap operators, I realized this was wrong. This patch changes the default to map all the unset bit positions in A to the same positions in B, the identity map. For example, if A has bits 4-7 set, and B has bits 9-12 set, then the map defined by the pair <A, B> maps each bit position in the first 32 bits as follows: 0 ==> 0 ... 3 ==> 3 4 ==> 9 ... 7 ==> 12 8 ==> 8 9 ==> 9 ... 31 ==> 31 This now corresponds to the typical behaviour desired when migrating pages and policies from one cpuset to another. The pages on nodes within the original cpuset, and the references in memory policies to nodes within the original cpuset, are migrated to the corresponding cpuset-relative nodes in the destination cpuset. Other pages and node references are left untouched. Signed-off-by:
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Matt Mackall authored
configurable replacement for slab allocator This adds a CONFIG_SLAB option under CONFIG_EMBEDDED. When CONFIG_SLAB is disabled, the kernel falls back to using the 'SLOB' allocator. SLOB is a traditional K&R/UNIX allocator with a SLAB emulation layer, similar to the original Linux kmalloc allocator that SLAB replaced. It's signicantly smaller code and is more memory efficient. But like all similar allocators, it scales poorly and suffers from fragmentation more than SLAB, so it's only appropriate for small systems. It's been tested extensively in the Linux-tiny tree. I've also stress-tested it with make -j 8 compiles on a 3G SMP+PREEMPT box (not recommended). Here's a comparison for otherwise identical builds, showing SLOB saving nearly half a megabyte of RAM: $ size vmlinux* text data bss dec hex filename 3336372 529360 190812 4056544 3de5e0 vmlinux-slab 3323208 527948 190684 4041840 3dac70 vmlinux-slob $ size mm/{slab,slob}.o text data bss dec hex filename 13221 752 48 14021 36c5 mm/slab.o 1896 52 8 1956 7a4 mm/slob.o /proc/meminfo: SLAB SLOB delta MemTotal: 27964 kB 27980 kB +16 kB MemFree: 24596 kB 25092 kB +496 kB Buffers: 36 kB 36 kB 0 kB Cached: 1188 kB 1188 kB 0 kB SwapCached: 0 kB 0 kB 0 kB Active: 608 kB 600 kB -8 kB Inactive: 808 kB 812 kB +4 kB HighTotal: 0 kB 0 kB 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB 0 kB 0 kB LowTotal: 27964 kB 27980 kB +16 kB LowFree: 24596 kB 25092 kB +496 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB 0 kB 0 kB SwapFree: 0 kB 0 kB 0 kB Dirty: 4 kB 12 kB +8 kB Writeback: 0 kB 0 kB 0 kB Mapped: 560 kB 556 kB -4 kB Slab: 1756 kB 0 kB -1756 kB CommitLimit: 13980 kB 13988 kB +8 kB Committed_AS: 4208 kB 4208 kB 0 kB PageTables: 28 kB 28 kB 0 kB VmallocTotal: 1007312 kB 1007312 kB 0 kB VmallocUsed: 48 kB 48 kB 0 kB VmallocChunk: 1007264 kB 1007264 kB 0 kB (this work has been sponsored in part by CELF) From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Fix 32-bitness bugs in mm/slob.c. Signed-off-by:Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
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Matt Mackall authored
Add mm/util.c for functions common between SLAB and SLOB. Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
Make DEBUG_SLAB depend on SLAB. Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
Shrink the height of a radix tree when it is partially truncated - we only do shrinkage of full truncation at present. Signed-off-by:
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
Correctly determine the tags to be cleared in radix_tree_delete() so we don't keep moving up the tree clearing tags that we don't need to. For example, if a tag is simply not set in the deleted item, nor anywhere up the tree, radix_tree_delete() would attempt to clear it up the entire height of the tree. Also, tag_set() was made conditional so as not to dirty too many cachelines high up in the radix tree. Instead, put this logic into radix_tree_tag_set(). Signed-off-by:
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Nick Piggin authored
Introduce helper any_tag_set() rather than repeat the same code sequence 4 times. Signed-off-by:
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Paul E. McKenney authored
The latest set of signal-RCU patches does not use get_task_struct_rcu(). Attached is a patch that removes it. Signed-off-by:
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Some simplification in checking signal delivery against concurrent exit. Instead of using get_task_struct_rcu(), which increments the task_struct reference count, check the reference count after acquiring sighand lock. Signed-off-by:
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Ingo Molnar authored
RCU tasklist_lock and RCU signal handling: send signals RCU-read-locked instead of tasklist_lock read-locked. This is a scalability improvement on SMP and a preemption-latency improvement under PREEMPT_RCU. Signed-off-by:
William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by:
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Applying RCU to the task structure broke oprofile, because free_task_notify() can now be called from softirq. This means that the task_mortuary lock must be acquired with irq disabled in order to avoid intermittent self-deadlock. Since irq is now disabled, the critical section within process_task_mortuary() has been restructured to be O(1) in order to maximize scalability and minimize realtime latency degradation. Kudos to Wu Fengguang for finding this problem! CC: Wu Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr> Cc: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org> Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
If MODE_TT=n, MODE_SKAS must be y. Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by:
Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by:
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Jeff Dike authored
This fixes some mangled whitespace added by the earlier trap_user.c patch. Signed-off-by:
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Jeff Dike authored
Most of the architectures have the same asm/futex.h. This consolidates them into asm-generic, with the arches including it from their own asm/futex.h. In the case of UML, this reverts the old broken futex.h and goes back to using the same one as almost everyone else. Signed-off-by:
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Gennady Sharapov authored
The serial UML OS-abstraction layer patch (um/kernel dir). This joins trap_user.c and trap_kernel.c files. Signed-off-by:
Gennady Sharapov <Gennady.V.Sharapov@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Gennady Sharapov authored
The serial UML OS-abstraction layer patch (um/kernel dir). This moves all systemcalls from trap_user.c file under os-Linux dir Signed-off-by:
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Gennady Sharapov authored
The serial UML OS-abstraction layer patch (um/kernel dir). This moves all systemcalls from signal_user.c file under os-Linux dir Signed-off-by:
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Woody Suwalski authored
ds1620 module is using gpio_read symbol, so works only if "built-in" symbol needs to be exported from the kernel image Signed-off-by:
Woody Suwalski <woodys@xandros.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Ravikiran G Thirumalai authored
Kill L1_CACHE_SHIFT from all arches. Since L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAX is not used anymore with the introduction of INTERNODE_CACHE, kill L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAX. Signed-off-by:
Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by:
Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Ravikiran G Thirumalai authored
____cacheline_maxaligned_in_smp is currently used to align critical structures and avoid false sharing. It uses per-arch L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAX and people find L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAX useless. However, we have been using ____cacheline_maxaligned_in_smp to align structures on the internode cacheline size. As per Andi's suggestion, following patch kills ____cacheline_maxaligned_in_smp and introduces INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT, which defaults to L1_CACHE_SHIFT for all arches. Arches needing L3/Internode cacheline alignment can define INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT in the arch asm/cache.h. Patch replaces ____cacheline_maxaligned_in_smp with ____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp With this patch, L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAX can be killed Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
Fix an uninitialised variable warning in the serverworks driver. Signed-off-by:
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
Fix an uninitialised variable warning in the atm nicstar driver. Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
Fix a number of miscellanous items: (1) Declare lock sections in the linker script. (2) Recurse in the correct manner in the arch makefile. (3) asm/bug.h requires asm/linkage.h to be included first. One C file puts asm/bug.h first. (4) Add an empty RTC header file to avoid missing header file errors. (5) sg_dma_address() should use the dma_address member of a scatter list. (6) Add trivial pci_unmap support. (7) Add pgprot_noncached() (8) Discard u_quad_t. (9) Use ~0UL rather than ULONG_MAX in unistd.h in case the latter isn't declared. (10) Add an empty VGA header file to avoid missing header file errors. (11) Add an XOR header file to use the generic XOR stuff. Signed-off-by: -
David Howells authored
Make the get_user macro cast the source pointer to an appropriate type for the specified size. Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
Force the 8230 serial driver to be built in if the on-CPU UARTs are to be used. It can't be used as a module because the arch setup needs to call into it. Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
Fix PCMCIA configuration for FRV by including the stock PCMCIA configuration description file. Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
Implement pci_iomap() for FRV. Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
Add stubs for FRV module support. Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
Supply various I/O access primitives that are missing for the FRV arch: (*) mmiowb() (*) read*_relaxed() (*) ioport_*map() (*) ioread*(), iowrite*(), ioread*_rep() and iowrite*_rep() (*) pci_io*map() (*) check_signature() The patch also makes __is_PCI_addr() more efficient. Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
Fix the exception table handling so that modules exceptions are dealt with. Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
Export a number of features required to build all the modules. It also implements the following simple features: (*) csum_partial_copy_from_user() for MMU as well as no-MMU. (*) __ucmpdi2(). so that they can be exported too. Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
Drop support for debugging features that aren't supported on FRV: (*) EARLY_PRINTK The on-chip UARTs are set up early enough that this isn't required, and VGA support isn't available. There's also a gdbstub available. (*) DEBUG_PAGEALLOC This can't be easily be done since we use huge static mappings to cover the kernel, not pages. Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
Drop support for 8-bit and 16-bit xchg and cmpxchg emulation and implements 32-bit xchg with the SWAP/SWAPI instruction. Signed-off-by:
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David Howells authored
Suppress configuration of certain features for the FRV arch as they can't be built for FRV at the moment: (*) RTC (*) HISAX_* (*) PARPORT_PC (*) VGA_CONSOLE (*) BINFMT_ELF Signed-off-by:
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