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Linus Torvalds ab86e5765d Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6:
  Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev
  debugfs: Modify default debugfs directory for debugging pktcdvd.
  debugfs: Modified default dir of debugfs for debugging UHCI.
  debugfs: Change debugfs directory of IWMC3200
  debugfs: Change debuhgfs directory of trace-events-sample.h
  debugfs: Fix mount directory of debugfs by default in events.txt
  hpilo: add poll f_op
  hpilo: add interrupt handler
  hpilo: staging for interrupt handling
  driver core: platform_device_add_data(): use kmemdup()
  Driver core: Add support for compatibility classes
  uio: add generic driver for PCI 2.3 devices
  driver-core: move dma-coherent.c from kernel to driver/base
  mem_class: fix bug
  mem_class: use minor as index instead of searching the array
  driver model: constify attribute groups
  UIO: remove 'default n' from Kconfig
  Driver core: Add accessor for device platform data
  Driver core: move dev_get/set_drvdata to drivers/base/dd.c
  Driver core: add new device to bus's list before probing
2009-09-16 08:27:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds a3eb51ecfa Merge branch 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  writeback: fix possible bdi writeback refcounting problem
  writeback: Fix bdi use after free in wb_work_complete()
  writeback: improve scalability of bdi writeback work queues
  writeback: remove smp_mb(), it's not needed with list_add_tail_rcu()
  writeback: use schedule_timeout_interruptible()
  writeback: add comments to bdi_work structure
  writeback: splice dirty inode entries to default bdi on bdi_destroy()
  writeback: separate starting of sync vs opportunistic writeback
  writeback: inline allocation failure handling in bdi_alloc_queue_work()
  writeback: use RCU to protect bdi_list
  writeback: only use bdi_writeback_all() for WB_SYNC_NONE writeout
  fs: Assign bdi in super_block
  writeback: make wb_writeback() take an argument structure
  writeback: merely wakeup flusher thread if work allocation fails for WB_SYNC_NONE
  writeback: get rid of wbc->for_writepages
  fs: remove bdev->bd_inode_backing_dev_info
2009-09-16 07:45:38 -07:00
Jens Axboe ce5f8e7795 writeback: splice dirty inode entries to default bdi on bdi_destroy()
We cannot safely ensure that the inodes are all gone at this point
in time, and we must not destroy this bdi with inodes having off it.
So just splice our entries to the default bdi since that one will
always persist.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-16 15:18:52 +02:00
Jens Axboe b6e51316da writeback: separate starting of sync vs opportunistic writeback
bdi_start_writeback() is currently split into two paths, one for
WB_SYNC_NONE and one for WB_SYNC_ALL. Add bdi_sync_writeback()
for WB_SYNC_ALL writeback and let bdi_start_writeback() handle
only WB_SYNC_NONE.

Push down the writeback_control allocation and only accept the
parameters that make sense for each function. This cleans up
the API considerably.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-16 15:18:52 +02:00
Jens Axboe cfc4ba5365 writeback: use RCU to protect bdi_list
Now that bdi_writeback_all() no longer handles integrity writeback,
it doesn't have to block anymore. This means that we can switch
bdi_list reader side protection to RCU.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-16 15:18:51 +02:00
Jens Axboe 1fe06ad892 writeback: get rid of wbc->for_writepages
It's only set, it's never checked. Kill it.

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-16 15:16:18 +02:00
Ingo Molnar fdaa45e95d slub: Fix build error in kmem_cache_open() with !CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG
This build bug:

 mm/slub.c: In function 'kmem_cache_open':
 mm/slub.c:2476: error: 'disable_higher_order_debug' undeclared (first use in this function)
 mm/slub.c:2476: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
 mm/slub.c:2476: error: for each function it appears in.)

Triggers because there's no !CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG definition for
disable_higher_order_debug.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-09-15 22:32:10 +03:00
Kay Sievers 2b2af54a5b Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev
Devtmpfs lets the kernel create a tmpfs instance called devtmpfs
very early at kernel initialization, before any driver-core device
is registered. Every device with a major/minor will provide a
device node in devtmpfs.

Devtmpfs can be changed and altered by userspace at any time,
and in any way needed - just like today's udev-mounted tmpfs.
Unmodified udev versions will run just fine on top of it, and will
recognize an already existing kernel-created device node and use it.
The default node permissions are root:root 0600. Proper permissions
and user/group ownership, meaningful symlinks, all other policy still
needs to be applied by userspace.

If a node is created by devtmps, devtmpfs will remove the device node
when the device goes away. If the device node was created by
userspace, or the devtmpfs created node was replaced by userspace, it
will no longer be removed by devtmpfs.

If it is requested to auto-mount it, it makes init=/bin/sh work
without any further userspace support. /dev will be fully populated
and dynamic, and always reflect the current device state of the kernel.
With the commonly used dynamic device numbers, it solves the problem
where static devices nodes may point to the wrong devices.

It is intended to make the initial bootup logic simpler and more robust,
by de-coupling the creation of the inital environment, to reliably run
userspace processes, from a complex userspace bootstrap logic to provide
a working /dev.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Tested-By: Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>
Tested-By: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 09:50:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds ada3fa1505 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (46 commits)
  powerpc64: convert to dynamic percpu allocator
  sparc64: use embedding percpu first chunk allocator
  percpu: kill lpage first chunk allocator
  x86,percpu: use embedding for 64bit NUMA and page for 32bit NUMA
  percpu: update embedding first chunk allocator to handle sparse units
  percpu: use group information to allocate vmap areas sparsely
  vmalloc: implement pcpu_get_vm_areas()
  vmalloc: separate out insert_vmalloc_vm()
  percpu: add chunk->base_addr
  percpu: add pcpu_unit_offsets[]
  percpu: introduce pcpu_alloc_info and pcpu_group_info
  percpu: move pcpu_lpage_build_unit_map() and pcpul_lpage_dump_cfg() upward
  percpu: add @align to pcpu_fc_alloc_fn_t
  percpu: make @dyn_size mandatory for pcpu_setup_first_chunk()
  percpu: drop @static_size from first chunk allocators
  percpu: generalize first chunk allocator selection
  percpu: build first chunk allocators selectively
  percpu: rename 4k first chunk allocator to page
  percpu: improve boot messages
  percpu: fix pcpu_reclaim() locking
  ...

Fix trivial conflict as by Tejun Heo in kernel/sched.c
2009-09-15 09:39:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 227423904c Merge branch 'x86-pat-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-pat-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, pat: Fix cacheflush address in change_page_attr_set_clr()
  mm: remove !NUMA condition from PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED condition set
  x86: Fix earlyprintk=dbgp for machines without NX
  x86, pat: Sanity check remap_pfn_range for RAM region
  x86, pat: Lookup the protection from memtype list on vm_insert_pfn()
  x86, pat: Add lookup_memtype to get the current memtype of a paddr
  x86, pat: Use page flags to track memtypes of RAM pages
  x86, pat: Generalize the use of page flag PG_uncached
  x86, pat: Add rbtree to do quick lookup in memtype tracking
  x86, pat: Add PAT reserve free to io_mapping* APIs
  x86, pat: New i/f for driver to request memtype for IO regions
  x86, pat: ioremap to follow same PAT restrictions as other PAT users
  x86, pat: Keep identity maps consistent with mmaps even when pat_disabled
  x86, mtrr: make mtrr_aps_delayed_init static bool
  x86, pat/mtrr: Rendezvous all the cpus for MTRR/PAT init
  generic-ipi: Allow cpus not yet online to call smp_call_function with irqs disabled
  x86: Fix an incorrect argument of reserve_bootmem()
  x86: Fix system crash when loading with "reservetop" parameter
2009-09-15 09:19:38 -07:00
Tejun Heo 5579fd7e6a Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus
* pcpu_chunk_page_occupied() doesn't exist in for-next.
* pcpu_chunk_addr_search() updated to use raw_smp_processor_id().

Conflicts:
	mm/percpu.c
2009-09-15 09:57:19 +09:00
Linus Torvalds 355bbd8cb8 Merge branch 'for-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (29 commits)
  block: use blkdev_issue_discard in blk_ioctl_discard
  Make DISCARD_BARRIER and DISCARD_NOBARRIER writes instead of reads
  block: don't assume device has a request list backing in nr_requests store
  block: Optimal I/O limit wrapper
  cfq: choose a new next_req when a request is dispatched
  Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests
  aoe: end barrier bios with EOPNOTSUPP
  block: trace bio queueing trial only when it occurs
  block: enable rq CPU completion affinity by default
  cfq: fix the log message after dispatched a request
  block: use printk_once
  cciss: memory leak in cciss_init_one()
  splice: update mtime and atime on files
  block: make blk_iopoll_prep_sched() follow normal 0/1 return convention
  cfq-iosched: get rid of must_alloc flag
  block: use interrupts disabled version of raise_softirq_irqoff()
  block: fix comment in blk-iopoll.c
  block: adjust default budget for blk-iopoll
  block: fix long lines in block/blk-iopoll.c
  block: add blk-iopoll, a NAPI like approach for block devices
  ...
2009-09-14 17:55:15 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 69def9f05d Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (202 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: update KVM entry
  KVM: correct error-handling code
  KVM: fix compile warnings on s390
  KVM: VMX: Check cpl before emulating debug register access
  KVM: fix misreporting of coalesced interrupts by kvm tracer
  KVM: x86: drop duplicate kvm_flush_remote_tlb calls
  KVM: VMX: call vmx_load_host_state() only if msr is cached
  KVM: VMX: Conditionally reload debug register 6
  KVM: Use thread debug register storage instead of kvm specific data
  KVM guest: do not batch pte updates from interrupt context
  KVM: Fix coalesced interrupt reporting in IOAPIC
  KVM guest: fix bogus wallclock physical address calculation
  KVM: VMX: Fix cr8 exiting control clobbering by EPT
  KVM: Optimize kvm_mmu_unprotect_page_virt() for tdp
  KVM: Document KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP
  KVM: Protect update_cr8_intercept() when running without an apic
  KVM: VMX: Fix EPT with WP bit change during paging
  KVM: Use kvm_{read,write}_guest_virt() to read and write segment descriptors
  KVM: x86 emulator: Add adc and sbb missing decoder flags
  KVM: Add missing #include
  ...
2009-09-14 17:43:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds bb193c986a Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
  slub: fix slab_pad_check()
  slub: release kobject if sysfs_create_group failed in sysfs_slab_add
  SLUB: fix ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN cases 64 and 256
  SLUB: Fix some coding style issues
  SLUB: Drop write permission to /proc/slabinfo
  slab: remove duplicate kmem_cache_init_late() declarations
  slub: change kmem_cache->align to record the real alignment
  slub: use size and objsize orders to disable debug flags
  slub: add option to disable higher order debugging slabs
2009-09-14 17:38:52 -07:00
Pekka Enberg aceda77360 Merge branches 'slab/cleanups' and 'slab/fixes' into for-linus 2009-09-14 20:19:06 +03:00
Jan Kara 18f2ee705d vfs: Remove generic_osync_inode() and sync_page_range{_nolock}()
Remove these three functions since nobody uses them anymore.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14 17:08:17 +02:00
Jan Kara 148f948ba8 vfs: Introduce new helpers for syncing after writing to O_SYNC file or IS_SYNC inode
Introduce new function for generic inode syncing (vfs_fsync_range) and use
it from fsync() path. Introduce also new helper for syncing after a sync
write (generic_write_sync) using the generic function.

Use these new helpers for syncing from generic VFS functions. This makes
O_SYNC writes to block devices acquire i_mutex for syncing. If we really
care about this, we can make block_fsync() drop the i_mutex and reacquire
it before it returns.

CC: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
CC: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
CC: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
CC: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
CC: xfs@oss.sgi.com
CC: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
CC: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
CC: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
CC: tytso@mit.edu
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14 17:08:15 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig eef9938067 vfs: Rename generic_file_aio_write_nolock
generic_file_aio_write_nolock() is now used only by block devices and raw
character device. Filesystems should use __generic_file_aio_write() in case
generic_file_aio_write() doesn't suit them. So rename the function to
blkdev_aio_write() and move it to fs/blockdev.c.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14 17:08:15 +02:00
Jan Kara c7b50db21f vfs: Remove syncing from generic_file_direct_write() and generic_file_buffered_write()
generic_file_direct_write() and generic_file_buffered_write() called
generic_osync_inode() if it was called on O_SYNC file or IS_SYNC inode. But
this is superfluous since generic_file_aio_write() does the syncing as well.
Also XFS and OCFS2 which call these functions directly handle syncing
themselves. So let's have a single place where syncing happens:
generic_file_aio_write().

We slightly change the behavior by syncing only the range of file to which the
write happened for buffered writes but that should be all that is required.

CC: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
CC: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
CC: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
CC: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14 17:08:15 +02:00
Jan Kara e4dd9de3c6 vfs: Export __generic_file_aio_write() and add some comments
Rename __generic_file_aio_write_nolock() to __generic_file_aio_write(), add
comments to write helpers explaining how they should be used and export
__generic_file_aio_write() since it will be used by some filesystems.

CC: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
CC: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14 17:08:14 +02:00
Jan Kara d3bccb6f4b vfs: Introduce filemap_fdatawait_range
This simple helper saves some filesystems conversion from byte offset
to page numbers and also makes the fdata* interface more complete.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14 17:08:14 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig 746cd1e7e4 block: use blkdev_issue_discard in blk_ioctl_discard
blk_ioctl_discard duplicates large amounts of code from blkdev_issue_discard,
the only difference between the two is that blkdev_issue_discard needs to
send a barrier discard request and blk_ioctl_discard a non-barrier one,
and blk_ioctl_discard needs to wait on the request.  To facilitates this
add a flags argument to blkdev_issue_discard to control both aspects of the
behaviour.  This will be very useful later on for using the waiting
funcitonality for other callers.

Based on an earlier patch from Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-14 08:24:53 +02:00
Eric Dumazet 8a3d271deb slub: fix slab_pad_check()
When SLAB_POISON is used and slab_pad_check() finds an overwrite of the
slab padding, we call restore_bytes() on the whole slab, not only
on the padding.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameer <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zdenek.kabelac@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-09-14 07:57:55 +03:00
Linus Torvalds a12e4d304c Merge branch 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  writeback: check for registered bdi in flusher add and inode dirty
  writeback: add name to backing_dev_info
  writeback: add some debug inode list counters to bdi stats
  writeback: get rid of pdflush completely
  writeback: switch to per-bdi threads for flushing data
  writeback: move dirty inodes from super_block to backing_dev_info
  writeback: get rid of generic_sync_sb_inodes() export
2009-09-11 09:17:05 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1b195b170d Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6
* 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6:
  kmemleak: Improve the "Early log buffer exceeded" error message
  kmemleak: fix sparse warning for static declarations
  kmemleak: fix sparse warning over overshadowed flags
  kmemleak: move common painting code together
  kmemleak: add clear command support
  kmemleak: use bool for true/false questions
  kmemleak: Do no create the clean-up thread during kmemleak_disable()
  kmemleak: Scan all thread stacks
  kmemleak: Don't scan uninitialized memory when kmemcheck is enabled
  kmemleak: Ignore the aperture memory hole on x86_64
  kmemleak: Printing of the objects hex dump
  kmemleak: Do not report alloc_bootmem blocks as leaks
  kmemleak: Save the stack trace for early allocations
  kmemleak: Mark the early log buffer as __initdata
  kmemleak: Dump object information on request
  kmemleak: Allow rescheduling during an object scanning
2009-09-11 09:16:22 -07:00
Catalin Marinas addd72c1a9 kmemleak: Improve the "Early log buffer exceeded" error message
Based on a suggestion from Jaswinder, clarify what the user would need
to do to avoid this error message from kmemleak.

Reported-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-09-11 10:42:09 +01:00
Jens Axboe 500b067c5e writeback: check for registered bdi in flusher add and inode dirty
Also a debugging aid. We want to catch dirty inodes being added to
backing devices that don't do writeback.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 09:20:26 +02:00
Jens Axboe d993831fa7 writeback: add name to backing_dev_info
This enables us to track who does what and print info. Its main use
is catching dirty inodes on the default_backing_dev_info, so we can
fix that up.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 09:20:26 +02:00
Jens Axboe f09b00d3e7 writeback: add some debug inode list counters to bdi stats
Add some debug entries to be able to inspect the internal state of
the writeback details.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 09:20:26 +02:00
Jens Axboe d0bceac747 writeback: get rid of pdflush completely
It is now unused, so kill it off.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 09:20:25 +02:00
Jens Axboe 03ba3782e8 writeback: switch to per-bdi threads for flushing data
This gets rid of pdflush for bdi writeout and kupdated style cleaning.
pdflush writeout suffers from lack of locality and also requires more
threads to handle the same workload, since it has to work in a
non-blocking fashion against each queue. This also introduces lumpy
behaviour and potential request starvation, since pdflush can be starved
for queue access if others are accessing it. A sample ffsb workload that
does random writes to files is about 8% faster here on a simple SATA drive
during the benchmark phase. File layout also seems a LOT more smooth in
vmstat:

 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy id wa
 0  1      0 608848   2652 375372    0    0     0 71024  604    24  1 10 48 42
 0  1      0 549644   2712 433736    0    0     0 60692  505    27  1  8 48 44
 1  0      0 476928   2784 505192    0    0     4 29540  553    24  0  9 53 37
 0  1      0 457972   2808 524008    0    0     0 54876  331    16  0  4 38 58
 0  1      0 366128   2928 614284    0    0     4 92168  710    58  0 13 53 34
 0  1      0 295092   3000 684140    0    0     0 62924  572    23  0  9 53 37
 0  1      0 236592   3064 741704    0    0     4 58256  523    17  0  8 48 44
 0  1      0 165608   3132 811464    0    0     0 57460  560    21  0  8 54 38
 0  1      0 102952   3200 873164    0    0     4 74748  540    29  1 10 48 41
 0  1      0  48604   3252 926472    0    0     0 53248  469    29  0  7 47 45

where vanilla tends to fluctuate a lot in the creation phase:

 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy id wa
 1  1      0 678716   5792 303380    0    0     0 74064  565    50  1 11 52 36
 1  0      0 662488   5864 319396    0    0     4   352  302   329  0  2 47 51
 0  1      0 599312   5924 381468    0    0     0 78164  516    55  0  9 51 40
 0  1      0 519952   6008 459516    0    0     4 78156  622    56  1 11 52 37
 1  1      0 436640   6092 541632    0    0     0 82244  622    54  0 11 48 41
 0  1      0 436640   6092 541660    0    0     0     8  152    39  0  0 51 49
 0  1      0 332224   6200 644252    0    0     4 102800  728    46  1 13 49 36
 1  0      0 274492   6260 701056    0    0     4 12328  459    49  0  7 50 43
 0  1      0 211220   6324 763356    0    0     0 106940  515    37  1 10 51 39
 1  0      0 160412   6376 813468    0    0     0  8224  415    43  0  6 49 45
 1  1      0  85980   6452 886556    0    0     4 113516  575    39  1 11 54 34
 0  2      0  85968   6452 886620    0    0     0  1640  158   211  0  0 46 54

A 10 disk test with btrfs performs 26% faster with per-bdi flushing. A
SSD based writeback test on XFS performs over 20% better as well, with
the throughput being very stable around 1GB/sec, where pdflush only
manages 750MB/sec and fluctuates wildly while doing so. Random buffered
writes to many files behave a lot better as well, as does random mmap'ed
writes.

A separate thread is added to sync the super blocks. In the long term,
adding sync_supers_bdi() functionality could get rid of this thread again.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 09:20:25 +02:00
Jens Axboe 66f3b8e2e1 writeback: move dirty inodes from super_block to backing_dev_info
This is a first step at introducing per-bdi flusher threads. We should
have no change in behaviour, although sb_has_dirty_inodes() is now
ridiculously expensive, as there's no easy way to answer that question.
Not a huge problem, since it'll be deleted in subsequent patches.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 09:20:25 +02:00
Joerg Roedel f340ca0f06 hugetlbfs: export vma_kernel_pagsize to modules
This function is required by KVM.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:33:01 +03:00
Linus Torvalds 6d848a488a shmfs: use 'check_acl' instead of 'permission'
shmfs wants purely standard POSIX ACL semantics, so we can use the new
generic VFS layer POSIX ACL checking rather than cooking our own
'permission()' function.

Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-08 11:08:46 -07:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 7eb0d5e5be kmemleak: fix sparse warning for static declarations
This fixes these sparse warnings:

mm/kmemleak.c:1179:6: warning: symbol 'start_scan_thread' was not declared. Should it be static?
mm/kmemleak.c:1194:6: warning: symbol 'stop_scan_thread' was not declared. Should it be static?

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-09-08 17:34:07 +01:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 0580a1819c kmemleak: fix sparse warning over overshadowed flags
A secondary irq_save is not required as a locking before it was
already disabling irqs.

This fixes this sparse warning:
mm/kmemleak.c:512:31: warning: symbol 'flags' shadows an earlier one
mm/kmemleak.c:448:23: originally declared here

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-09-08 17:34:06 +01:00
Luis R. Rodriguez a1084c8779 kmemleak: move common painting code together
When painting grey or black we do the same thing, bring
this together into a helper and identify coloring grey or
black explicitly with defines. This makes this a little
easier to read.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-09-08 17:22:20 +01:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 30b3710105 kmemleak: add clear command support
In an ideal world your kmemleak output will be small, when its
not (usually during initial bootup) you can use the clear command
to ingore previously reported and unreferenced kmemleak objects. We
do this by painting all currently reported unreferenced objects grey.
We paint them grey instead of black to allow future scans on the same
objects as such objects could still potentially reference newly
allocated objects in the future.

To test a critical section on demand with a clean
/sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak you can do:

echo clear > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
        test your kernel or modules
echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak

Then as usual to get your report with:

cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-09-08 16:36:08 +01:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 4a558dd6f9 kmemleak: use bool for true/false questions
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-09-08 16:34:50 +01:00
Catalin Marinas 179a8100e1 kmemleak: Do no create the clean-up thread during kmemleak_disable()
The kmemleak_disable() function could be called from various contexts
including IRQ. It creates a clean-up thread but the kthread_create()
function has restrictions on which contexts it can be called from,
mainly because of the kthread_create_lock. The patch changes the
kmemleak clean-up thread to a workqueue.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2009-09-08 16:31:15 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 931f70350e Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  percpu: don't assume existence of cpu0
2009-09-05 14:22:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e305fc5ecd Merge branch 'slab/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'slab/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
  slub: Fix kmem_cache_destroy() with SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU
2009-09-05 13:57:53 -07:00
Mel Gorman dd5d241ea9 page-allocator: always change pageblock ownership when anti-fragmentation is disabled
On low-memory systems, anti-fragmentation gets disabled as fragmentation
cannot be avoided on a sufficiently large boundary to be worthwhile.  Once
disabled, there is a period of time when all the pageblocks are marked
MOVABLE and the expectation is that they get marked UNMOVABLE at each call
to __rmqueue_fallback().

However, when MAX_ORDER is large the pageblocks do not change ownership
because the normal criteria are not met.  This has the effect of
prematurely breaking up too many large contiguous blocks.  This is most
serious on NOMMU systems which depend on high-order allocations to boot.
This patch causes pageblocks to change ownership on every fallback when
anti-fragmentation is disabled.  This prevents the large blocks being
prematurely broken up.

This is a fix to commit 49255c619f [page
allocator: move check for disabled anti-fragmentation out of fastpath] and
the problem affects 2.6.31-rc8.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Tested-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-05 11:30:42 -07:00
David Howells a190887b58 nommu: fix error handling in do_mmap_pgoff()
Fix the error handling in do_mmap_pgoff().  If do_mmap_shared_file() or
do_mmap_private() fail, we jump to the error_put_region label at which
point we cann __put_nommu_region() on the region - but we haven't yet
added the region to the tree, and so __put_nommu_region() may BUG
because the region tree is empty or it may corrupt the region tree.

To get around this, we can afford to add the region to the region tree
before calling do_mmap_shared_file() or do_mmap_private() as we keep
nommu_region_sem write-locked, so no-one can race with us by seeing a
transient region.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-05 11:30:42 -07:00
Catalin Marinas 43ed5d6ee0 kmemleak: Scan all thread stacks
This patch changes the for_each_process() loop with the
do_each_thread()/while_each_thread() pair.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-09-04 16:05:55 +01:00
Pekka Enberg 8e019366ba kmemleak: Don't scan uninitialized memory when kmemcheck is enabled
Ingo Molnar reported the following kmemcheck warning when running both
kmemleak and kmemcheck enabled:

  PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa7
  WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read from uninitialized memory
  (f6f6e1a4)
  d873f9f600000000c42ae4c1005c87f70000000070665f666978656400000000
   i i i i u u u u i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i u u u
           ^

  Pid: 3091, comm: kmemleak Not tainted (2.6.31-rc7-tip #1303) P4DC6
  EIP: 0060:[<c110301f>] EFLAGS: 00010006 CPU: 0
  EIP is at scan_block+0x3f/0xe0
  EAX: f40bd700 EBX: f40bd780 ECX: f16b46c0 EDX: 00000001
  ESI: f6f6e1a4 EDI: 00000000 EBP: f10f3f4c ESP: c2605fcc
   DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
  CR0: 8005003b CR2: e89a4844 CR3: 30ff1000 CR4: 000006f0
  DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
  DR6: ffff4ff0 DR7: 00000400
   [<c110313c>] scan_object+0x7c/0xf0
   [<c1103389>] kmemleak_scan+0x1d9/0x400
   [<c1103a3c>] kmemleak_scan_thread+0x4c/0xb0
   [<c10819d4>] kthread+0x74/0x80
   [<c10257db>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x3c
   [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
  kmemleak: 515 new suspected memory leaks (see
  /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)
  kmemleak: 42 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)

The problem here is that kmemleak will scan partially initialized
objects that makes kmemcheck complain. Fix that up by skipping
uninitialized memory regions when kmemcheck is enabled.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-09-04 16:05:55 +01:00
Eric Dumazet d76b1590e0 slub: Fix kmem_cache_destroy() with SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU
kmem_cache_destroy() should call rcu_barrier() *after* kmem_cache_close() and
*before* sysfs_slab_remove() or risk rcu_free_slab() being called after
kmem_cache is deleted (kfreed).

rmmod nf_conntrack can crash the machine because it has to kmem_cache_destroy()
a SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU enabled cache.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zdenek.kabelac@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-09-03 22:38:59 +03:00
Xiaotian Feng 5788d8ad6c slub: release kobject if sysfs_create_group failed in sysfs_slab_add
When CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is enabled, sysfs_slab_add should unlink and put the
kobject if sysfs_create_group failed. Otherwise, sysfs_slab_add returns error
then free kmem_cache s, thus memory of s->kobj is leaked.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-09-03 21:11:41 +03:00
Tejun Heo 04a13c7c63 percpu: don't assume existence of cpu0
percpu incorrectly assumed that cpu0 was always there which led to the
following warning and eventual oops on sparc machines w/o cpu0.

  WARNING: at mm/percpu.c:651 pcpu_map+0xdc/0x100()
  Modules linked in:
  Call Trace:
    [000000000045eb70] warn_slowpath_common+0x50/0xa0
    [000000000045ebdc] warn_slowpath_null+0x1c/0x40
    [00000000004d493c] pcpu_map+0xdc/0x100
    [00000000004d59a4] pcpu_alloc+0x3e4/0x4e0
    [00000000004d5af8] __alloc_percpu+0x18/0x40
    [00000000005b112c] __percpu_counter_init+0x4c/0xc0
  ...
  Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
  ...
   I7: <sysfs_new_dirent+0x30/0x120>
   Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
   Caller[000000000053c1b0]: sysfs_new_dirent+0x30/0x120
   Caller[000000000053c7a4]: create_dir+0x24/0xc0
   Caller[000000000053c870]: sysfs_create_dir+0x30/0x80
   Caller[00000000005990e8]: kobject_add_internal+0xc8/0x200
  ...
   Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!

This patch fixes the problem by backporting parts from devel branch to
make percpu core not depend on the existence of cpu0.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-01 21:23:18 +09:00
H. Peter Anvin a269cca992 mm: remove !NUMA condition from PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED condition set
CONFIG_PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED disables a trick to conserve pageflags.
This trick is indended to be enabled when the pressure on page flags
is very high.

The previous condition was:

-       depends on 64BIT || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP || !NUMA || !SPARSEMEM

... however, the sparsemem code already has a way to crowd out the
node number from the pageflags, which means that !NUMA actually
doesn't contribute to hard pageflags exhaustion.

This is required for the new PG_uncached flag to not cause pageflags
exhaustion on x86_32 + PAE + SPARSEMEM + !NUMA.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A9828F4.4040905@zytor.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.siddha@intel.com>
2009-08-31 11:17:44 -07:00