- 16 Oct, 2007 40 commits
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Jeff Dike authored
Added vde network backend in uml to introduce native Virtual Distributed Ethernet support (using libvdeplug). Signed-off-by:
Luca Bigliardi <shammash@artha.org> Signed-off-by:
Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jeff Dike authored
Tidying of the UML physical memory system. These are mostly style fixes, however the includes were cleaned as well. This uncovered a need for mem_user.h to be included in mode_kern_skas.h. Signed-off-by:
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Jeff Dike authored
Throw out a lot of code dealing with saving and restoring floating-point state. In skas mode, where processes run in a restoring floating-point state on kernel entry and exit is pointless. This eliminates most of arch/um/os-Linux/sys-{i386,x86_64}/registers.c. Most of what remained is now arch-indpendent, and can be moved up to arch/um/os-Linux/registers.c. Both arches need the jmp_buf accessor get_thread_reg, and i386 needs {save,restore}_fp_regs because it cheats during sigreturn by getting the fp state using ptrace rather than copying it out of the process sigcontext. After this, it turns out that arch/um/include/skas/mode-skas.h is almost completely unneeded. The declarations in it are variables which either don't exist or which don't have global scope. The one exception is kill_off_processes_skas. If that's removed, this header can be deleted. This uncovered a bug in user.h, which wasn't correctly making sure that a size_t definition was available to both userspace and kernelspace files. Signed-off-by: -
Jeff Dike authored
Map all of physical memory as executable to avoid having to change stack protections during fork and exit. unprotect_stack is now called only from MODE_TT code, so it is marked as such. Signed-off-by:
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Jeff Dike authored
The UML watchdog driver was using the wrong config variable to control whether it can be unloaded once active. Signed-off-by:
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Jeff Dike authored
On some systems, with IPV6 configured, there is a clash between the kernel's in6addr_any and the one in libc. This is handled in the usual (gross) way of defining the kernel symbol out of the way on the gcc command line. Signed-off-by:
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Jeff Dike authored
Remove includes of asm/page.h from libc code. This header seems to be disappearing, and UML doesn't make much use of it anyway. The one use, PAGE_SHIFT in stub.h, is handled by copying the constant from the kernel side of the house in common_offsets.h. Signed-off-by:
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Jeff Dike authored
Tidy line.c: The includes are more minimal Lots of style fixes All the printks have severities Removed some commented-out code Deleted a useless printk when ioctl is called Fixed some whitespace damage Signed-off-by:
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Jeff Dike authored
The previous console cleanup patch switched generic_read and generic_write from calling os_{read,write}_file to calling read and write directly. Because the calling convention is different, they now need to get any error from errno rather than the return value. I did this for generic_read, but forgot about generic_write. While chasing some output corruption, I noticed that line_write was unnecessarily calling flush_buffer, and deleted it. I don't understand why, but the corruption disappeared. This is unneeded because there already is a perfectly good mechanism for finding out when the host output device has some room to write data - there is an interrupt that comes in when writes can happen again. line_write calling flush_buffer seemed to just be an attempt to opportunistically get some data out to the host. I also made write_chan short-circuit calling into the host-level code for zero-length writes. Calling libc write with a length of zero conflated write not being able to write anything with asking it not to write anything. Better to just cut it off as soon as possible. Signed-off-by: -
Jeff Dike authored
This does a lot of cleanup on the UML console system. This patch should be entirely non-functional. The tidying is as follows: header cleanups - the includes should be closer to minimal and complete all printks now have a severity lots of style fixes fd_close is restructured a little in order to reduce the nesting some functions were calling the os_* wrappers when they can call libc directly port_accept had a unnecessary variable it also tested a pid unecessarily before killing it some functions were made static xterm_free is gone, as it was identical to generic_free Signed-off-by:
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Jeff Dike authored
I messed up the error cleanup ordering in the console port driver. Signed-off-by:
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Jeff Dike authored
Now that the generic console operations are in a userspace file, we can do the following: directly call into libc instead of through the os_* wrappers eliminate os_window_size since it has only one user Signed-off-by:
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Jeff Dike authored
Move some code from a kernelspace file to a userspace file where it fits better. This enables some tidying which is the subject of a later patch. Signed-off-by:
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Alan Cox authored
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Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by:
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Thomas Gleixner authored
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Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Convert m32r to the generic sys_ptrace. The conversion requires an architecture hook after ptrace_attach which this patch adds. The hook will also be needed for a conersion of ia64 to the generic ptrace code. Thanks to Hirokazu Takata for fixing a bug in the first version of this code. Signed-off-by:
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by:
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Hirokazu Takata authored
Remove an unused symbol M32R_SIO_SHARE_IRQS from drivers/serial/m32r_sio.h. Signed-off-by:
Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by:
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Thomas Gleixner authored
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Mariusz Kozlowski authored
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Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by:
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Sam Ravnborg authored
Introduced a consistent style in vmlinux.lds and it now matches the soon-to-be common style for all arch's vmlinux.lds files. In addition: - Replaced hardcoded constant with PAGE_SIZE - Fix page.h so PAGE_SIZE can be used from assembler and in lds files - Move a few labels inside brackets so linker alignment will not make label point ot a too low address - Replaced DWARF and STABS sections with definitions from asm-generic Signed-off-by:
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Signed-off-by:
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Christoph Hellwig authored
This patch converts alpha to the generic sys_ptrace. We use force_successful_syscall_return to avoid having to pass the pt_regs pointer down to the function. I think the removal of the assemly stub is correct, but I could only compile-test this patch, so please give it a spin before commiting :) Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
- binutils 2.7 is far below the current minimum supported version, and there's therefore no longer a need for an extra test - since even gcc 3.2 already supports all options used we can use them unconditionally Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by:
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Greg Ungerer authored
Remove unused config symbol CONFIG_DISKtel. Pointed out by Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>. Signed-off-by:
Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Signed-off-by:
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Thomas Gleixner authored
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Mariusz Kozlowski authored
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David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
frv is the last user in the tree of that dubious hook, and it's my understanding that it's not even needed. It's only called by memory.c free_pgd_range() which is always called within an mmu_gather, and tlb_flush() on frv will do a flush_tlb_mm(), which from my reading of the code, seems to do what flush_tlb_ptables() does, which is to clear the cached PGE. Signed-off-by:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-By:
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Lee Schermerhorn authored
Add a per node state sysfs class attribute file to /sys/devices/system/node to display node state masks. E.g., on a 4-cell HP ia64 NUMA platform, we have 5 nodes: 4 representing the actual hardware cells and one memory-only pseudo-node representing a small amount [512MB] of "hardware interleaved" memory. With this patch, in /sys/devices/system/node we see: #ls -1F /sys/devices/system/node has_cpu has_normal_memory node0/ node1/ node2/ node3/ node4/ online possible #cat /sys/devices/system/node/possible 0-255 #cat /sys/devices/system/node/online 0-4 #cat /sys/devices/system/node/has_normal_memory 0-4 #cat /sys/devices/system/node/has_cpu 0-3 Signed-off-by:
Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by:
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
This patch contains the following cleanups: - make the needlessly global setup_vmstat() static - remove the unused refresh_vm_stats() Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
This patch contains the following cleanups: - every file should include the headers containing the prototypes for its global functions - make the follosing needlessly global functions static: - migrate_to_node() - do_mbind() - sp_alloc() - mpol_rebind_policy() [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix uninitialised var warning] Signed-off-by:
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Adrian Bunk authored
This patch makes three needlessly global functions static. Signed-off-by:
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Adam Litke authored
When gather_surplus_pages() fails to allocate enough huge pages to satisfy the requested reservation, it frees what it did allocate back to the buddy allocator. put_page() should be called instead of update_and_free_page() to ensure that pool counters are updated as appropriate and the page's refcount is decremented. Signed-off-by:
Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Acked-by:
Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by:
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Nishanth Aravamudan authored
Anton found a problem with the hugetlb pool allocation when some nodes have no memory (http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=118133042025995&w=2). Lee worked on versions that tried to fix it, but none were accepted. Christoph has created a set of patches which allow for GFP_THISNODE allocations to fail if the node has no memory. Currently, alloc_fresh_huge_page() returns NULL when it is not able to allocate a huge page on the current node, as specified by its custom interleave variable. The callers of this function, though, assume that a failure in alloc_fresh_huge_page() indicates no hugepages can be allocated on the system period. This might not be the case, for instance, if we have an uneven NUMA system, and we happen to try to allocate a hugepage on a node with less memory and fail, while there is still plenty of free memory on the other nodes. To correct this, make alloc_fresh_huge_page() search through all online nodes before deciding no hugepages can be allocated. Add a helper function for actually allocating the hugepage. Use a new global nid iterator to control which nid to allocate on. Note: we expect particular semantics for __GFP_THISNODE, which are now enforced even for memoryless nodes. That is, there is should be no fallback to other nodes. Therefore, we rely on the nid passed into alloc_pages_node() to be the nid the page comes from. If this is incorrect, accounting will break. Tested on x86 !NUMA, x86 NUMA, x86_64 NUMA and ppc64 NUMA (with 2 memoryless nodes). Before on the ppc64 box: Trying to clear the hugetlb pool Done. 0 free Trying to resize the pool to 100 Node 0 HugePages_Free: 25 Node 1 HugePages_Free: 75 Node 2 HugePages_Free: 0 Node 3 HugePages_Free: 0 Done. Initially 100 free Trying to resize the pool to 200 Node 0 HugePages_Free: 50 Node 1 HugePages_Free: 150 Node 2 HugePages_Free: 0 Node 3 HugePages_Free: 0 Done. 200 free After: Trying to clear the hugetlb pool Done. 0 free Trying to resize the pool to 100 Node 0 HugePages_Free: 50 Node 1 HugePages_Free: 50 Node 2 HugePages_Free: 0 Node 3 HugePages_Free: 0 Done. Initially 100 free Trying to resize the pool to 200 Node 0 HugePages_Free: 100 Node 1 HugePages_Free: 100 Node 2 HugePages_Free: 0 Node 3 HugePages_Free: 0 Done. 200 free Signed-off-by:
Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Acked-by:
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Adam Litke authored
When shrinking the size of the hugetlb pool via the nr_hugepages sysctl, we are careful to keep enough pages around to satisfy reservations. But the calculation is flawed for the following scenario: Action Pool Counters (Total, Free, Resv) ====== ============= Set pool to 1 page 1 1 0 Map 1 page MAP_PRIVATE 1 1 0 Touch the page to fault it in 1 0 0 Set pool to 3 pages 3 2 0 Map 2 pages MAP_SHARED 3 2 2 Set pool to 2 pages 2 1 2 <-- Mistake, should be 3 2 2 Touch the 2 shared pages 2 0 1 <-- Program crashes here The last touch above will terminate the process due to lack of huge pages. This patch corrects the calculation so that it factors in pages being used for private mappings. Andrew, this is a standalone fix suitable for mainline. It is also now corrected in my latest dynamic pool resizing patchset which I will send out soon. Signed-off-by:
Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by:
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Badari Pulavarty authored
Support for reading from hugetlbfs files. libhugetlbfs lets application text/data to be placed in large pages. When we do that, oprofile doesn't work - since libbfd tries to read from it. This code is very similar to what do_generic_mapping_read() does, but I can't use it since it has PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumptions. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups, fix leak] [bunk@stusta.de: make hugetlbfs_read() static] Signed-off-by:
Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Acked-by:
William Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com> Tested-by:
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Ken Chen authored
For historical reason, expanding ftruncate that increases file size on hugetlbfs is not allowed due to pages were pre-faulted and lack of fault handler. Now that we have demand faulting on hugetlb since 2.6.15, there is no reason to hold back that limitation. This will make hugetlbfs behave more like a normal fs. I'm writing a user level code that uses hugetlbfs but will fall back to tmpfs if there are no hugetlb page available in the system. Having hugetlbfs specific ftruncate behavior is a bit quirky and I would like to remove that artificial limitation. Signed-off-by: <kenchen@google.com> Acked-by:
Wiliam Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Adam Litke authored
The maximum size of the huge page pool can be controlled using the overall size of the hugetlb filesystem (via its 'size' mount option). However in the common case the this will not be set as the pool is traditionally fixed in size at boot time. In order to maintain the expected semantics, we need to prevent the pool expanding by default. This patch introduces a new sysctl controlling dynamic pool resizing. When this is enabled the pool will expand beyond its base size up to the size of the hugetlb filesystem. It is disabled by default. Signed-off-by:
Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Acked-by:
Dave McCracken <dave.mccracken@oracle.com> Cc: William Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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Adam Litke authored
Shared mappings require special handling because the huge pages needed to fully populate the VMA must be reserved at mmap time. If not enough pages are available when making the reservation, allocate all of the shortfall at once from the buddy allocator and add the pages directly to the hugetlb pool. If they cannot be allocated, then fail the mapping. The page surplus is accounted for in the same way as for private mappings; faulted surplus pages will be freed at unmap time. Reserved, surplus pages that have not been used must be freed separately when their reservation has been released. Signed-off-by:
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Adam Litke authored
Because we overcommit hugepages for MAP_PRIVATE mappings, it is possible that the hugetlb pool will be exhausted or completely reserved when a hugepage is needed to satisfy a page fault. Before killing the process in this situation, try to allocate a hugepage directly from the buddy allocator. The explicitly configured pool size becomes a low watermark. When dynamically grown, the allocated huge pages are accounted as a surplus over the watermark. As huge pages are freed on a node, surplus pages are released to the buddy allocator so that the pool will shrink back to the watermark. Surplus accounting also allows for friendlier explicit pool resizing. When shrinking a pool that is fully in-use, increase the surplus so pages will be returned to the buddy allocator as soon as they are freed. When growing a pool that has a surplus, consume the surplus first and then allocate new pages. Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by:
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Adam Litke authored
Dynamic huge page pool resizing. In most real-world scenarios, configuring the size of the hugetlb pool correctly is a difficult task. If too few pages are allocated to the pool, applications using MAP_SHARED may fail to mmap() a hugepage region and applications using MAP_PRIVATE may receive SIGBUS. Isolating too much memory in the hugetlb pool means it is not available for other uses, especially those programs not using huge pages. The obvious answer is to let the hugetlb pool grow and shrink in response to the runtime demand for huge pages. The work Mel Gorman has been doing to establish a memory zone for movable memory allocations makes dynamically resizing the hugetlb pool reliable within the limits of that zone. This patch series implements dynamic pool resizing for private and shared mappings while being careful to maintain existing semantics. Please reply with your comments and feedback; even just to say whether it would be a useful feature to you. Thanks. How it works ============ Upon depletion of the hugetlb pool, rather than reporting an error immediately, first try and allocate the needed huge pages directly from the buddy allocator. Care must be taken to avoid unbounded growth of the hugetlb pool, so the hugetlb filesystem quota is used to limit overall pool size. The real work begins when we decide there is a shortage of huge pages. What happens next depends on whether the pages are for a private or shared mapping. Private mappings are straightforward. At fault time, if alloc_huge_page() fails, we allocate a page from the buddy allocator and increment the source node's surplus_huge_pages counter. When free_huge_page() is called for a page on a node with a surplus, the page is freed directly to the buddy allocator instead of the hugetlb pool. Because shared mappings require all of the pages to be reserved up front, some additional work must be done at mmap() to support them. We determine the reservation shortage and allocate the required number of pages all at once. These pages are then added to the hugetlb pool and marked reserved. Where that is not possible the mmap() will fail. As with private mappings, the appropriate surplus counters are updated. Since reserved huge pages won't necessarily be used by the process, we can't be sure that free_huge_page() will always be called to return surplus pages to the buddy allocator. To prevent the huge page pool from bloating, we must free unused surplus pages when their reservation has ended. Controlling it ============== With the entire patch series applied, pool resizing is off by default so unless specific action is taken, the semantics are unchanged. To take advantage of the flexibility afforded by this patch series one must tolerate a change in semantics. To control hugetlb pool growth, the following techniques can be employed: * A sysctl tunable to enable/disable the feature entirely * The size= mount option for hugetlbfs filesystems to limit pool size Performance =========== When contiguous memory is readily available, it is expected that the cost of dynamicly resizing the pool will be small. This series has been performance tested with 'stream' to measure this cost. Stream (http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/) was linked with libhugetlbfs to enable remapping of the text and data/bss segments into huge pages. Stream with small array ----------------------- Baseline: nr_hugepages = 0, No libhugetlbfs segment remapping Preallocated: nr_hugepages = 5, Text and data/bss remapping Dynamic: nr_hugepages = 0, Text and data/bss remapping Rate (MB/s) Function Baseline Preallocated Dynamic Copy: 4695.6266 5942.8371 5982.2287 Scale: 4451.5776 5017.1419 5658.7843 Add: 5815.8849 7927.7827 8119.3552 Triad: 5949.4144 8527.6492 8110.6903 Stream with large array ----------------------- Baseline: nr_hugepages = 0, No libhugetlbfs segment remapping Preallocated: nr_hugepages = 67, Text and data/bss remapping Dynamic: nr_hugepages = 0, Text and data/bss remapping Rate (MB/s) Function Baseline Preallocated Dynamic Copy: 2227.8281 2544.2732 2546.4947 Scale: 2136.3208 2430.7294 2421.2074 Add: 2773.1449 4004.0021 3999.4331 Triad: 2748.4502 3777.0109 3773.4970 * All numbers are averages taken from 10 consecutive runs with a maximum standard deviation of 1.3 percent noted. This patch: Simply move update_and_free_page() so that it can be reused later in this patch series. The implementation is not changed. Signed-off-by:
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Yasunori Goto authored
This patch is to avoid panic when memory hot-add is executed with sparsemem-vmemmap. Current vmemmap-sparsemem code doesn't support memory hot-add. Vmemmap must be populated when hot-add. This is for 2.6.23-rc2-mm2. Todo: # Even if this patch is applied, the message "[xxxx-xxxx] potential offnode page_structs" is displayed. To allocate memmap on its node, memmap (and pgdat) must be initialized itself like chicken and egg relationship. # vmemmap_unpopulate will be necessary for followings. - For cancel hot-add due to error. - For unplug. Signed-off-by:Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by:
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