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Mike Christie 70c7c88a1a [SCSI] libiscsi_tcp: use kmap in xmit path
The xmit path can sleep with a page kmapped in the network
xmit code while it waits for space to open up, so we have to use
kmap instead of kmap atomic in that path.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2011-03-23 11:36:58 -05:00
Nicholas Bellinger 12d2338429 [SCSI] target: add initial statistics
This patch adds a target_core_mib.c statistics conversion for
backend context struct se_subsystem_dev + struct se_device config_group
based statistics in target_core_device.c using CONFIGFS_EATTR()
based struct config_item_types from target_core_stat.c code.

The conversion from backend /proc/scsi_target/mib/ context output to configfs
default groups+attributes include scsi_dev, scsi_lu, and scsi_tgt_dev output
from within individual:

	/sys/kernel/config/target/core/$HBA/DEV/

The legacy procfs output now appear as individual configfs attributes under:

*) $HBA/$DEV/statistics/scsi_dev:

|-- indx
|-- inst
|-- ports
`-- role

*) $HBA/$DEV/statistics/scsi_lu:

|-- creation_time
|-- dev
|-- dev_type
|-- full_stat
|-- hs_num_cmds
|-- indx
|-- inst
|-- lu_name
|-- lun
|-- num_cmds
|-- prod
|-- read_mbytes
|-- resets
|-- rev
|-- state_bit
|-- status
|-- vend
`-- write_mbytes

*) $HBA/$DEV/statistics/scsi_tgt_dev:

|-- indx
|-- inst
|-- non_access_lus
|-- num_lus
|-- resets
`-- status

The conversion from backend /proc/scsi_target/mib/ context output to configfs
default groups+attributes include scsi_port, scsi_tgt_port and scsi_transport
output from within individual:

	/sys/kernel/config/target/fabric/$WWN/tpgt_$TPGT/lun/lun_$LUN_ID/statistics/

The legacy procfs output now appear as individual configfs attributes under:

*) fabric/$WWN/tpgt_$TPGT/lun/lun_$LUN_ID/statistics/scsi_port

|-- busy_count
|-- dev
|-- indx
|-- inst
`-- role

*) fabric/$WWN/tpgt_$TPGT/lun/lun_$LUN_ID/statistics/scsi_tgt_port

|-- dev
|-- hs_in_cmds
|-- in_cmds
|-- indx
|-- inst
|-- name
|-- port_index
|-- read_mbytes
`-- write_mbytes

*) fabric/$WWN/tpgt_$TPGT/lun/lun_$LUN_ID/statistics/scsi_transport

|-- dev_name
|-- device
|-- indx
`-- inst

The conversion from backend /proc/scsi_target/mib/ context output to configfs
default groups+attributes include scsi_att_intr_port and scsi_auth_intr output
from within individual:

	/sys/kernel/config/target/fabric/$WWN/tpgt_$TPGT/acls/$INITIATOR_WWN/lun_$LUN_ID/statistics/

The legacy procfs output now appear as individual configfs attributes under:

*) acls/$INITIATOR_WWN/lun_$LUN_ID/statistics/scsi_att_intr_port

|-- dev
|-- indx
|-- inst
|-- port
|-- port_auth_indx
`-- port_ident

*) acls/$INITIATOR_WWN/lun_$LUN_ID/statistics/scsi_auth_intr

|-- att_count
|-- creation_time
|-- dev
|-- dev_or_port
|-- hs_num_cmds
|-- indx
|-- inst
|-- intr_name
|-- map_indx
|-- num_cmds
|-- port
|-- read_mbytes
|-- row_status
`-- write_mbytes

Also, this includes adding struct target_fabric_configfs_template->
tfc_wwn_fabric_stats_cit and ->tfc_tpg_nacl_stat_cit respectively for
use during target_core_fabric_configfs.c:target_fabric_setup_cits()

Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2011-03-23 11:36:50 -05:00
Nicholas Bellinger 15fb48cc40 [SCSI] target: update version to v4.0.0-rc7-ml
Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2011-03-23 11:36:49 -05:00
Nicholas Bellinger 5c6cd61319 [SCSI] target: Convert TMR REQ/RSP definitions to target namespace
This patch changes include/target/target_core_tmr.h code to use
target specific 'TMR_*' prefixed definitions for fabric independent
SCSI Task Management Request/Request naming in include/scsi/scsi.h
definitions for mainline target code.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2011-03-23 11:36:35 -05:00
Nicholas Bellinger 35ce9e26d7 [SCSI] target: Remove spurious double cast from structure macro accessors
Reported-by: Fubo Chen <fubo.chen@gmail.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2011-03-23 11:36:32 -05:00
Dan Carpenter 5dd7ed2e81 [SCSI] target: Minor sparse warning fixes and annotations
This patch addresses the majority of sparse warnings and adds
proper locking annotations.  It also fixes the dubious one-bit signed
bitfield, for which the signed one-bit types can be 0 or -1 which can
cause a problem if someone ever checks if (foo->lu_gp_assoc == 1).
The current code is fine because everyone just checks zero vs non-zero.
But Sparse complains about it so lets change it.  The warnings look like
this:

include/target/target_core_base.h:228:26: error: dubious one-bit signed bitfield

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Fubo Chen <fubo.chen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2011-03-23 11:36:29 -05:00
Krishnasamy, Somasundaram d1e12de804 [SCSI] ses: Avoid kernel panic when lun 0 is not mapped
During device discovery, scsi mid layer sends INQUIRY command to LUN
0. If the LUN 0 is not mapped to host, it creates a temporary
scsi_device with LUN id 0 and sends REPORT_LUNS command to it. After
the REPORT_LUNS succeeds, it walks through the LUN table and adds each
LUN found to sysfs. At the end of REPORT_LUNS lun table scan, it will
delete the temporary scsi_device of LUN 0.

When scsi devices are added to sysfs, it calls add_dev function of all
the registered class interfaces. If ses driver has been registered,
ses_intf_add() of ses module will be called. This function calls
scsi_device_enclosure() to check the inquiry data for EncServ
bit. Since inquiry was not allocated for temporary LUN 0 scsi_device,
it will cause NULL pointer exception.

To fix the problem, sdev->inquiry is checked for NULL before reading it.

Signed-off-by: Somasundaram Krishnasamy <Somasundaram.Krishnasamy@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@lsi.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2011-03-23 11:36:01 -05:00
Heiko Carstens 04948c7f80 smp: add missing init.h include
Commit 34db18a054 ("smp: move smp setup functions to kernel/smp.c")
causes this build error on s390 because of a missing init.h include:

  CC      arch/s390/kernel/asm-offsets.s
  In file included from /home2/heicarst/linux-2.6/arch/s390/include/asm/spinlock.h:14:0,
  from include/linux/spinlock.h:87,
  from include/linux/seqlock.h:29,
  from include/linux/time.h:8,
  from include/linux/timex.h:56,
  from include/linux/sched.h:57,
  from arch/s390/kernel/asm-offsets.c:10:
  include/linux/smp.h:117:20: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'setup_nr_cpu_ids'
  include/linux/smp.h:118:20: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'smp_init'

Fix it by adding the include statement.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-23 07:48:42 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 6447f55da9 Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx: (66 commits)
  avr32: at32ap700x: fix typo in DMA master configuration
  dmaengine/dmatest: Pass timeout via module params
  dma: let IMX_DMA depend on IMX_HAVE_DMA_V1 instead of an explicit list of SoCs
  fsldma: make halt behave nicely on all supported controllers
  fsldma: reduce locking during descriptor cleanup
  fsldma: support async_tx dependencies and automatic unmapping
  fsldma: fix controller lockups
  fsldma: minor codingstyle and consistency fixes
  fsldma: improve link descriptor debugging
  fsldma: use channel name in printk output
  fsldma: move related helper functions near each other
  dmatest: fix automatic buffer unmap type
  drivers, pch_dma: Fix warning when CONFIG_PM=n.
  dmaengine/dw_dmac fix: use readl & writel instead of __raw_readl & __raw_writel
  avr32: at32ap700x: Specify DMA Flow Controller, Src and Dst msize
  dw_dmac: Setting Default Burst length for transfers as 16.
  dw_dmac: Allow src/dst msize & flow controller to be configured at runtime
  dw_dmac: Changing type of src_master and dest_master to u8.
  dw_dmac: Pass Channel Priority from platform_data
  dw_dmac: Pass Channel Allocation Order from platform_data
  ...
2011-03-22 17:53:13 -07:00
Jim Keniston 565d76cb7d zlib: slim down zlib_deflate() workspace when possible
Instead of always creating a huge (268K) deflate_workspace with the
maximum compression parameters (windowBits=15, memLevel=8), allow the
caller to obtain a smaller workspace by specifying smaller parameter
values.

For example, when capturing oops and panic reports to a medium with
limited capacity, such as NVRAM, compression may be the only way to
capture the whole report.  In this case, a small workspace (24K works
fine) is a win, whether you allocate the workspace when you need it (i.e.,
during an oops or panic) or at boot time.

I've verified that this patch works with all accepted values of windowBits
(positive and negative), memLevel, and compression level.

Signed-off-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:17 -07:00
Konstantin Khlebnikov d03e1617f0 crc32: add missed brackets in macro
Add brackets around typecasted argument in crc32() macro.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:15 -07:00
Mike Frysinger e359dc24d3 sigma-firmware: loader for Analog Devices' SigmaStudio
Analog Devices' SigmaStudio can produce firmware blobs for devices with
these DSPs embedded (like some audio codecs).  Allow these device drivers
to easily parse and load them.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:15 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 33ee3b2e2e kstrto*: converting strings to integers done (hopefully) right
1. simple_strto*() do not contain overflow checks and crufty,
   libc way to indicate failure.
2. strict_strto*() also do not have overflow checks but the name and
   comments pretend they do.
3. Both families have only "long long" and "long" variants,
   but users want strtou8()
4. Both "simple" and "strict" prefixes are wrong:
   Simple doesn't exactly say what's so simple, strict should not exist
   because conversion should be strict by default.

The solution is to use "k" prefix and add convertors for more types.
Enter
	kstrtoull()
	kstrtoll()
	kstrtoul()
	kstrtol()
	kstrtouint()
	kstrtoint()

	kstrtou64()
	kstrtos64()
	kstrtou32()
	kstrtos32()
	kstrtou16()
	kstrtos16()
	kstrtou8()
	kstrtos8()

Include runtime testsuite (somewhat incomplete) as well.

strict_strto*() become deprecated, stubbed to kstrto*() and
eventually will be removed altogether.

Use kstrto*() in code today!

Note: on some archs _kstrtoul() and _kstrtol() are left in tree, even if
      they'll be unused at runtime. This is temporarily solution,
      because I don't want to hardcode list of archs where these
      functions aren't needed. Current solution with sizeof() and
      __alignof__ at least always works.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:14 -07:00
Amerigo Wang 34db18a054 smp: move smp setup functions to kernel/smp.c
Move setup_nr_cpu_ids(), smp_init() and some other SMP boot parameter
setup functions from init/main.c to kenrel/smp.c, saves some #ifdef
CONFIG_SMP.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:11 -07:00
Uwe Kleine-König fa9ee9c4b9 include/linux/err.h: add a function to cast error-pointers to a return value
PTR_RET() can be used if you have an error-pointer and are only interested
in the eventual error value, but not the pointer.  Yields the usual 0 for
no error, -ESOMETHING otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:11 -07:00
Richard Kennedy f3ccfcdaf3 fs.h: remove 8 bytes of padding from block_device on 64bit builds
Re-ordering struct block_inode to remove 8 bytes of padding on 64 bit
builds, which also shrinks bdev_inode by 8 bytes (776 -> 768) allowing it
to fit into one fewer cache lines.

Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:10 -07:00
Borislav Petkov c837fb37a6 include/linux/compiler-gcc*.h: unify macro definitions
Unify identical gcc3.x and gcc4.x macros.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:10 -07:00
FUJITA Tomonori 3e50594e8e add the common dma_addr_t typedef to include/linux/types.h
All architectures can use the common dma_addr_t typedef now. We can
remove the arch specific dma_addr_t.

Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:09 -07:00
Andi Kleen 78afd5612d mm: add __GFP_OTHER_NODE flag
Add a new __GFP_OTHER_NODE flag to tell the low level numa statistics in
zone_statistics() that an allocation is on behalf of another thread.  This
way the local and remote counters can be still correct, even when
background daemons like khugepaged are changing memory mappings.

This only affects the accounting, but I think it's worth doing that right
to avoid confusing users.

I first tried to just pass down the right node, but this required a lot of
changes to pass down this parameter and at least one addition of a 10th
argument to a 9 argument function.  Using the flag is a lot less
intrusive.

Open: should be also used for migration?

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:05 -07:00
Mel Gorman 8afdcece49 mm: vmscan: kswapd should not free an excessive number of pages when balancing small zones
When reclaiming for order-0 pages, kswapd requires that all zones be
balanced.  Each cycle through balance_pgdat() does background ageing on
all zones if necessary and applies equal pressure on the inactive zone
unless a lot of pages are free already.

A "lot of free pages" is defined as a "balance gap" above the high
watermark which is currently 7*high_watermark.  Historically this was
reasonable as min_free_kbytes was small.  However, on systems using huge
pages, it is recommended that min_free_kbytes is higher and it is tuned
with hugeadm --set-recommended-min_free_kbytes.  With the introduction of
transparent huge page support, this recommended value is also applied.  On
X86-64 with 4G of memory, min_free_kbytes becomes 67584 so one would
expect around 68M of memory to be free.  The Normal zone is approximately
35000 pages so under even normal memory pressure such as copying a large
file, it gets exhausted quickly.  As it is getting exhausted, kswapd
applies pressure equally to all zones, including the DMA32 zone.  DMA32 is
approximately 700,000 pages with a high watermark of around 23,000 pages.
In this situation, kswapd will reclaim around (23000*8 where 8 is the high
watermark + balance gap of 7 * high watermark) pages or 718M of pages
before the zone is ignored.  What the user sees is that free memory far
higher than it should be.

To avoid an excessive number of pages being reclaimed from the larger
zones, explicitely defines the "balance gap" to be either 1% of the zone
or the low watermark for the zone, whichever is smaller.  While kswapd
will check all zones to apply pressure, it'll ignore zones that meets the
(high_wmark + balance_gap) watermark.

To test this, 80G were copied from a partition and the amount of memory
being used was recorded.  A comparison of a patch and unpatched kernel can
be seen at
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/postings/minfree-20110222/memory-usage-hydra.ps
and shows that kswapd is not reclaiming as much memory with the patch
applied.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: "Chen, Tim C" <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:04 -07:00
Dave Hansen 033193275b pagewalk: only split huge pages when necessary
Right now, if a mm_walk has either ->pte_entry or ->pmd_entry set, it will
unconditionally split any transparent huge pages it runs in to.  In
practice, that means that anyone doing a

	cat /proc/$pid/smaps

will unconditionally break down every huge page in the process and depend
on khugepaged to re-collapse it later.  This is fairly suboptimal.

This patch changes that behavior.  It teaches each ->pmd_entry handler
(there are five) that they must break down the THPs themselves.  Also, the
_generic_ code will never break down a THP unless a ->pte_entry handler is
actually set.

This means that the ->pmd_entry handlers can now choose to deal with THPs
without breaking them down.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Tested-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Michael J Wolf <mjwolf@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:04 -07:00
Minchan Kim 3f58a82943 memcg: move memcg reclaimable page into tail of inactive list
The rotate_reclaimable_page function moves just written out pages, which
the VM wanted to reclaim, to the end of the inactive list.  That way the
VM will find those pages first next time it needs to free memory.

This patch applies the rule in memcg.  It can help to prevent unnecessary
working page eviction of memcg.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:03 -07:00
Minchan Kim 315601809d mm: deactivate invalidated pages
Recently, there are reported problem about thrashing.
(http://marc.info/?l=rsync&m=128885034930933&w=2) It happens by backup
workloads(ex, nightly rsync).  That's because the workload makes just
use-once pages and touches pages twice.  It promotes the page into active
list so that it results in working set page eviction.

Some app developer want to support POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE.  But other OSes
don't support it, either.
(http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=128928979512086&w=2)

By other approach, app developers use POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED.  But it has a
problem.  If kernel meets page is writing during invalidate_mapping_pages,
it can't work.  It makes for application programmer to use it since they
always have to sync data before calling fadivse(..POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED) to
make sure the pages could be discardable.  At last, they can't use
deferred write of kernel so that they could see performance loss.
(http://insights.oetiker.ch/linux/fadvise.html)

In fact, invalidation is very big hint to reclaimer.  It means we don't
use the page any more.  So let's move the writing page into inactive
list's head if we can't truncate it right now.

Why I move page to head of lru on this patch, Dirty/Writeback page would
be flushed sooner or later.  It can prevent writeout of pageout which is
less effective than flusher's writeout.

Originally, I reused lru_demote of Peter with some change so added his
Signed-off-by.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:03 -07:00
Richard Kennedy 481b4bb5e3 mm: mm_struct: remove 16 bytes of alignment padding on 64 bit builds
Reorder mm_struct to remove 16 bytes of alignment padding on 64 bit
builds.  On my config this shrinks mm_struct by enough to fit in one
fewer cache lines and allows more objects per slab in mm_struct
kmem_cache under SLUB.

slabinfo before patch :-
    Sizes (bytes)     Slabs
    --------------------------------
    Object :     848  Total  :       9
    SlabObj:     896  Full   :       2
    SlabSiz:   16384  Partial:       5
    Loss   :      48  CpuSlab:       2
    Align  :      64  Objects:      18

 slabinfo after :-
    Sizes (bytes)     Slabs
    --------------------------------
    Object :     832  Total  :       7
    SlabObj:     832  Full   :       2
    SlabSiz:   16384  Partial:       3
    Loss   :       0  CpuSlab:       2
    Align  :      64  Objects:      19

Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:03 -07:00
Michel Lespinasse cb240452bf mm: remove unused TestSetPageLocked() interface
TestSetPageLocked() isn't being used anywhere.  Also, using it would
likely be an error, since the proper interface trylock_page() provides
stronger ordering guarantees.

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:03 -07:00