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  1. Jun 17, 2009
    • Benjamin Herrenschmidt's avatar
      mm: Move pgtable_cache_init() earlier · c868d550
      Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
      
      Some architectures need to initialize SLAB caches to be able
      to allocate page tables. They do that from pgtable_cache_init()
      so the later should be called earlier now, best is before
      vmalloc_init().
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      c868d550
    • Miao Xie's avatar
      cpuset,mm: update tasks' mems_allowed in time · 58568d2a
      Miao Xie authored
      
      Fix allocating page cache/slab object on the unallowed node when memory
      spread is set by updating tasks' mems_allowed after its cpuset's mems is
      changed.
      
      In order to update tasks' mems_allowed in time, we must modify the code of
      memory policy.  Because the memory policy is applied in the process's
      context originally.  After applying this patch, one task directly
      manipulates anothers mems_allowed, and we use alloc_lock in the
      task_struct to protect mems_allowed and memory policy of the task.
      
      But in the fast path, we didn't use lock to protect them, because adding a
      lock may lead to performance regression.  But if we don't add a lock,the
      task might see no nodes when changing cpuset's mems_allowed to some
      non-overlapping set.  In order to avoid it, we set all new allowed nodes,
      then clear newly disallowed ones.
      
      [lee.schermerhorn@hp.com:
        The rework of mpol_new() to extract the adjusting of the node mask to
        apply cpuset and mpol flags "context" breaks set_mempolicy() and mbind()
        with MPOL_PREFERRED and a NULL nodemask--i.e., explicit local
        allocation.  Fix this by adding the check for MPOL_PREFERRED and empty
        node mask to mpol_new_mpolicy().
      
        Remove the now unneeded 'nodes = NULL' from mpol_new().
      
        Note that mpol_new_mempolicy() is always called with a non-NULL
        'nodes' parameter now that it has been removed from mpol_new().
        Therefore, we don't need to test nodes for NULL before testing it for
        'empty'.  However, just to be extra paranoid, add a VM_BUG_ON() to
        verify this assumption.]
      [lee.schermerhorn@hp.com:
      
        I don't think the function name 'mpol_new_mempolicy' is descriptive
        enough to differentiate it from mpol_new().
      
        This function applies cpuset set context, usually constraining nodes
        to those allowed by the cpuset.  However, when the 'RELATIVE_NODES flag
        is set, it also translates the nodes.  So I settled on
        'mpol_set_nodemask()', because the comment block for mpol_new() mentions
        that we need to call this function to "set nodes".
      
        Some additional minor line length, whitespace and typo cleanup.]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMiao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
      Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
      Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      58568d2a
  2. Jun 16, 2009
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  6. Jun 11, 2009
    • Eric Paris's avatar
      inotify: reimplement inotify using fsnotify · 63c882a0
      Eric Paris authored
      
      Reimplement inotify_user using fsnotify.  This should be feature for feature
      exactly the same as the original inotify_user.  This does not make any changes
      to the in kernel inotify feature used by audit.  Those patches (and the eventual
      removal of in kernel inotify) will come after the new inotify_user proves to be
      working correctly.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      63c882a0
    • Pekka Enberg's avatar
      init: introduce mm_init() · 444f478f
      Pekka Enberg authored
      
      As suggested by Christoph Lameter, introduce mm_init() now that we initialize
      all the kernel memory allocations together.
      
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
      444f478f
    • Pekka Enberg's avatar
      vmalloc: use kzalloc() instead of alloc_bootmem() · 43ebdac4
      Pekka Enberg authored
      
      We can call vmalloc_init() after kmem_cache_init() and use kzalloc() instead of
      the bootmem allocator when initializing vmalloc data structures.
      
      Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
      43ebdac4
    • Pekka Enberg's avatar
      slab: setup allocators earlier in the boot sequence · 83b519e8
      Pekka Enberg authored
      
      This patch makes kmalloc() available earlier in the boot sequence so we can get
      rid of some bootmem allocations. The bulk of the changes are due to
      kmem_cache_init() being called with interrupts disabled which requires some
      changes to allocator boostrap code.
      
      Note: 32-bit x86 does WP protect test in mem_init() so we must setup traps
      before we call mem_init() during boot as reported by Ingo Molnar:
      
        We have a hard crash in the WP-protect code:
      
        [    0.000000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...BUG: Int 14: CR2 ffcff000
        [    0.000000]      EDI 00000188  ESI 00000ac7  EBP c17eaf9c  ESP c17eaf8c
        [    0.000000]      EBX 000014e0  EDX 0000000e  ECX 01856067  EAX 00000001
        [    0.000000]      err 00000003  EIP c10135b1   CS 00000060  flg 00010002
        [    0.000000] Stack: c17eafa8 c17fd410 c16747bc c17eafc4 c17fd7e5 000011fd f8616000 c18237cc
        [    0.000000]        00099800 c17bb000 c17eafec c17f1668 000001c5 c17f1322 c166e039 c1822bf0
        [    0.000000]        c166e033 c153a014 c18237cc 00020800 c17eaff8 c17f106a 00020800 01ba5003
        [    0.000000] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-tip-02161-g7a74539-dirty #52203
        [    0.000000] Call Trace:
        [    0.000000]  [<c15357c2>] ? printk+0x14/0x16
        [    0.000000]  [<c10135b1>] ? do_test_wp_bit+0x19/0x23
        [    0.000000]  [<c17fd410>] ? test_wp_bit+0x26/0x64
        [    0.000000]  [<c17fd7e5>] ? mem_init+0x1ba/0x1d8
        [    0.000000]  [<c17f1668>] ? start_kernel+0x164/0x2f7
        [    0.000000]  [<c17f1322>] ? unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x19c
        [    0.000000]  [<c17f106a>] ? __init_begin+0x6a/0x6f
      
      Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Acked-by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
      Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
      Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
      83b519e8
    • Catalin Marinas's avatar
      kmemleak: Add the base support · 3c7b4e6b
      Catalin Marinas authored
      
      This patch adds the base support for the kernel memory leak
      detector. It traces the memory allocation/freeing in a way similar to
      the Boehm's conservative garbage collector, the difference being that
      the unreferenced objects are not freed but only shown in
      /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak. Enabling this feature introduces an
      overhead to memory allocations.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Acked-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      3c7b4e6b
    • Ingo Molnar's avatar
      perf_counter: Turn off by default · 8dc8e5e8
      Ingo Molnar authored
      
      Perfcounters were enabled by default to help testing - but now that we
      are submitting it upstream, make it default-disabled.
      
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      8dc8e5e8
  7. Jun 09, 2009
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  10. Apr 16, 2009
    • Magnus Damm's avatar
      Driver Core: early platform driver · 13977091
      Magnus Damm authored
      
      V3 of the early platform driver implementation.
      
      Platform drivers are great for embedded platforms because we can separate
      driver configuration from the actual driver.  So base addresses,
      interrupts and other configuration can be kept with the processor or board
      code, and the platform driver can be reused by many different platforms.
      
      For early devices we have nothing today.  For instance, to configure early
      timers and early serial ports we cannot use platform devices.  This
      because the setup order during boot.  Timers are needed before the
      platform driver core code is available.  The same goes for early printk
      support.  Early in this case means before initcalls.
      
      These early drivers today have their configuration either hard coded or
      they receive it using some special configuration method.  This is working
      quite well, but if we want to support both regular kernel modules and
      early devices then we need to have two ways of configuring the same
      driver.  A single way would be better.
      
      The early platform driver patch is basically a set of functions that allow
      drivers to register themselves and architecture code to locate them and
      probe.  Registration happens through early_param().  The time for the
      probe is decided by the architecture code.
      
      See Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt for more details.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMagnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
      Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
      Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      13977091
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