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  1. 24 Apr, 2008 1 commit
  3. 19 Apr, 2008 1 commit
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  7. 14 Feb, 2008 1 commit
  9. 09 Feb, 2008 2 commits
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      x86: introduce page pool in cpa · 76ebd054
      Thomas Gleixner authored 
      DEBUG_PAGEALLOC was not possible on 64-bit due to its early-bootup
hardcoded reliance on PSE pages, and the unrobustness of the runtime
splitup of large pages. The splitup ended in recursive calls to
alloc_pages() when a page for a pte split was requested.

Avoid the recursion with a preallocated page pool, which is used to
split up large mappings and gets refilled in the return path of
kernel_map_pages after the split has been done. The size of the page
pool is adjusted to the available memory.

This part just implements the page pool and the initialization w/o
using it yet.
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      76ebd054
    • Ian Campbell's avatar
      x86: construct 32-bit boot time page tables in native format. · 551889a6
      Ian Campbell authored 
      Specifically the boot time page tables in a CONFIG_X86_PAE=y enabled
kernel are in PAE format.

early_ioremap is updated to use the standard page table accessors.

Clear any mappings beyond max_low_pfn from the boot page tables in
native_pagetable_setup_start because the initial mappings can extend
beyond the range of physical memory and into the vmalloc area.

Derived from patches by Eric Biederman and H. Peter Anvin.

[ jeremy@goop.org: PAE swapper_pg_dir needs to be page-sized fix ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarIan Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@kolumbus.fi>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      551889a6
  11. 04 Feb, 2008 1 commit
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  17. 15 Jan, 2008 1 commit
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      x86: fix boot crash on HIGHMEM4G && SPARSEMEM · 23be8c7d
      Ingo Molnar authored 
      Denys Fedoryshchenko reported a bootup crash when he upgraded
his system from 3GB to 4GB RAM:

   http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/7/9

the bug is due to HIGHMEM4G && SPARSEMEM kernels making pfn_to_page()
to return an invalid pointer when the pfn is in a memory hole. The
256 MB PCI aperture at the end of RAM was not mapped by sparsemem,
and hence the pfn was not valid. But set_highmem_pages_init() iterated
this range without checking the pfn's validity first.

this bug was probably present in the sparsemem code ever since sparsemem
has been introduced in v2.6.13. It was masked due to HIGHMEM64G using
larger memory regions in sparsemem_32.h:

 #ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE
 #define SECTION_SIZE_BITS       30
 #define MAX_PHYSADDR_BITS       36
 #define MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS        36
 #else
 #define SECTION_SIZE_BITS       26
 #define MAX_PHYSADDR_BITS       32
 #define MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS        32
 #endif

which creates 1GB sparsemem regions instead of 64MB sparsemem regions.
So in practice we only ever created true sparsemem holes on x86 with
HIGHMEM4G - but that was rarely used by distros.

( btw., we could probably save 2MB of mem_map[]s on X86_PAE if we reduced
  the sparsemem region size to 256 MB. )
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      23be8c7d
  19. 17 Oct, 2007 1 commit
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      x86: fix CONFIG_PAGEALLOC related boot hangs/OOMs · 509a80c4
      Ingo Molnar authored 
      if CONFIG_PAGEALLOC is enabled then X86_FEATURE_PSE is disabled and all
the kernel physical RAM pagetables are set up as 4K pages. This is
needed so that CONFIG_PAGEALLOC can do finegrained mapping and unmapping
of pages.

as a side-effect though, the total size of memory allocated as kernel
pagetables increases significantly. All these pagetables are allocated
via alloc_bootmem_low_pages(), straight out of the lowmem DMA pool. If
the system has enough RAM and a large kernel image then almost all of
the 16 MB lowmem DMA pool is allocated to the image and to pagetables -
leaving no space for __GFP_DMA allocations.

this results in drivers failing and the bootup hanging:

 swapper invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x80d1, order=0, oomkilladj=0
  [<4015059f>] out_of_memory+0x17f/0x1c0
  [<40151f3c>] __alloc_pages+0x37c/0x3a0
  [<40168cd7>] slob_new_page+0x37/0x50
  [<40168dff>] slob_alloc+0x10f/0x190
  [<40169010>] __kmalloc_node+0x80/0x90
  [<405a17e3>] scsi_host_alloc+0x33/0x2c0
  [<405a1a82>] scsi_register+0x12/0x60
  [<40d5889e>] aha1542_detect+0x9e/0x940
  [<405c5ba5>] ultrastor_detect+0x265/0x5f0
  [<401352f5>] getnstimeofday+0x35/0xf0
  [<40d58751>] init_this_scsi_driver+0x41/0xf0
  [<40d0b856>] kernel_init+0x136/0x310
  [<40d58710>] init_this_scsi_driver+0x0/0xf0
  [<40d0b720>] kernel_init+0x0/0x310
  [<40105547>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
  =======================

the fix is to first allocate from above the DMA pool, and if that fails
(for example due to it being a machine with less than 16 MB of RAM),
allocate from the DMA pool as a fallback.

With this fix applied i was able to boot a PAGEALLOC=y kernel that would
hang before.
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      509a80c4
  21. 16 Oct, 2007 2 commits
    • Jeremy Fitzhardinge's avatar
      remove dead code in pgtable_cache_init · 4f817847
      Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored 
      The conversion from using a slab cache to quicklist left some residual
dead code.

I note that in the conversion it now always allocates a whole page for
the pgd, rather than the 32 bytes needed for a PAE pgd.  Was this
intended?
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      4f817847
    • KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki's avatar
      fix memory hot remove not configured case. · 48e94196
      KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki authored 
      Now, arch dependent code around CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE is a mess.
This patch cleans up them. This is against 2.6.23-rc6-mm1.

 - fix compile failure on ia64/ CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG && !CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE case.
 - For !CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE, add generic no-op remove_memory(),
   which returns -EINVAL.
 - removed remove_pages() only used in powerpc.
 - removed no-op remove_memory() in i386, sh, sparc64, x86_64.

 - only powerpc returns -ENOSYS at memory hot remove(no-op). changes it
   to return -EINVAL.

Note:
Currently, only ia64 supports CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE. I welcome other
archs if there are requirements and testers.
Signed-off-by: default avatarKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      48e94196
  23. 11 Oct, 2007 2 commits
  25. 29 Jul, 2007 1 commit