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  1. 15 Aug, 2008 2 commits
    • Michael Kerrisk's avatar
      Documentation/vm/page_migration: update reference to numa_maps + fix download URI · 6acb2ece
      Michael Kerrisk authored 
      With man-pages-3.07, the numa_maps documentation home is now proc(5), so
the reference in Documentation/vm/page_migration needs updating.
(Cliff/Lee are removing numa_maps.5 from the numactl package.) Also, the
download location for the numactl package changed a while back.  This
patch fixes both things, as well as a typo (provided-->provides).
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      6acb2ece
    • Mikulas Patocka's avatar
      bootmem allocator: alloc_bootmem_core(): page-align the end offset · 627240aa
      Mikulas Patocka authored 
      This is the minimal sequence that jams the allocator:

void *p, *q, *r;
p = alloc_bootmem(PAGE_SIZE);
q = alloc_bootmem(64);
free_bootmem(p, PAGE_SIZE);
p = alloc_bootmem(PAGE_SIZE);
r = alloc_bootmem(64);

after this sequence (assuming that the allocator was empty or page-aligned
before), pointer "q" will be equal to pointer "r".

What's hapenning inside the allocator:
p = alloc_bootmem(PAGE_SIZE);
in allocator: last_end_off == PAGE_SIZE, bitmap contains bits 10000...
q = alloc_bootmem(64);
in allocator: last_end_off == PAGE_SIZE + 64, bitmap contains 11000...
free_bootmem(p, PAGE_SIZE);
in allocator: last_end_off == PAGE_SIZE + 64, bitmap contains 01000...
p = alloc_bootmem(PAGE_SIZE);
in allocator: last_end_off == PAGE_SIZE, bitmap contains 11000...
r = alloc_bootmem(64);

and now:

it finds bit "2", as a place where to allocate (sidx)

it hits the condition

if (bdata->last_end_off && PFN_DOWN(bdata->last_end_off) + 1 == sidx))
start_off = ALIGN(bdata->last_end_off, align);

-you can see that the condition is true, so it assigns start_off =
ALIGN(bdata->last_end_off, align); (that is PAGE_SIZE) and allocates
over already allocated block.

With the patch it tries to continue at the end of previous allocation only
if the previous allocation ended in the middle of the page.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      627240aa
  3. 14 Aug, 2008 38 commits