Constify struct sysfs_ops.
This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.
Benefits of this constification:
* prevents modification of data that is shared
(referenced) by many other structure instances
at runtime
* detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
modification attempts on archs that enforce
read-only kernel data at runtime
* potentially better optimized code as the compiler
can assume that the const data cannot be changed
* the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
and therefore exclude them from false sharing
Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The old anon_vma code can lead to scalability issues with heavily forking
workloads. Specifically, each anon_vma will be shared between the parent
process and all its child processes.
In a workload with 1000 child processes and a VMA with 1000 anonymous
pages per process that get COWed, this leads to a system with a million
anonymous pages in the same anon_vma, each of which is mapped in just one
of the 1000 processes. However, the current rmap code needs to walk them
all, leading to O(N) scanning complexity for each page.
This can result in systems where one CPU is walking the page tables of
1000 processes in page_referenced_one, while all other CPUs are stuck on
the anon_vma lock. This leads to catastrophic failure for a benchmark
like AIM7, where the total number of processes can reach in the tens of
thousands. Real workloads are still a factor 10 less process intensive
than AIM7, but they are catching up.
This patch changes the way anon_vmas and VMAs are linked, which allows us
to associate multiple anon_vmas with a VMA. At fork time, each child
process gets its own anon_vmas, in which its COWed pages will be
instantiated. The parents' anon_vma is also linked to the VMA, because
non-COWed pages could be present in any of the children.
This reduces rmap scanning complexity to O(1) for the pages of the 1000
child processes, with O(N) complexity for at most 1/N pages in the system.
This reduces the average scanning cost in heavily forking workloads from
O(N) to 2.
The only real complexity in this patch stems from the fact that linking a
VMA to anon_vmas now involves memory allocations. This means vma_adjust
can fail, if it needs to attach a VMA to anon_vma structures. This in
turn means error handling needs to be added to the calling functions.
A second source of complexity is that, because there can be multiple
anon_vmas, the anon_vma linking in vma_adjust can no longer be done under
"the" anon_vma lock. To prevent the rmap code from walking up an
incomplete VMA, this patch introduces the VM_LOCK_RMAP VMA flag. This bit
flag uses the same slot as the NOMMU VM_MAPPED_COPY, with an ifdef in mm.h
to make sure it is impossible to compile a kernel that needs both symbolic
values for the same bitflag.
Some test results:
Without the anon_vma changes, when AIM7 hits around 9.7k users (on a test
box with 16GB RAM and not quite enough IO), the system ends up running
>99% in system time, with every CPU on the same anon_vma lock in the
pageout code.
With these changes, AIM7 hits the cross-over point around 29.7k users.
This happens with ~99% IO wait time, there never seems to be any spike in
system time. The anon_vma lock contention appears to be resolved.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (25 commits)
x86: Fix out of order of gsi
x86: apic: Fix mismerge, add arch_probe_nr_irqs() again
x86, irq: Keep chip_data in create_irq_nr and destroy_irq
xen: Remove unnecessary arch specific xen irq functions.
smp: Use nr_cpus= to set nr_cpu_ids early
x86, irq: Remove arch_probe_nr_irqs
sparseirq: Use radix_tree instead of ptrs array
sparseirq: Change irq_desc_ptrs to static
init: Move radix_tree_init() early
irq: Remove unnecessary bootmem code
x86: Add iMac9,1 to pci_reboot_dmi_table
x86: Convert i8259_lock to raw_spinlock
x86: Convert nmi_lock to raw_spinlock
x86: Convert ioapic_lock and vector_lock to raw_spinlock
x86: Avoid race condition in pci_enable_msix()
x86: Fix SCI on IOAPIC != 0
x86, ia32_aout: do not kill argument mapping
x86, irq: Move __setup_vector_irq() before the first irq enable in cpu online path
x86, irq: Update the vector domain for legacy irqs handled by io-apic
x86, irq: Don't block IRQ0_VECTOR..IRQ15_VECTOR's on all cpu's
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1341 commits)
virtio_net: remove forgotten assignment
be2net: fix tx completion polling
sis190: fix cable detect via link status poll
net: fix protocol sk_buff field
bridge: Fix build error when IGMP_SNOOPING is not enabled
bnx2x: Tx barriers and locks
scm: Only support SCM_RIGHTS on unix domain sockets.
vhost-net: restart tx poll on sk_sndbuf full
vhost: fix get_user_pages_fast error handling
vhost: initialize log eventfd context pointer
vhost: logging thinko fix
wireless: convert to use netdev_for_each_mc_addr
ethtool: do not set some flags, if others failed
ipoib: returned back addrlen check for mc addresses
netlink: Adding inode field to /proc/net/netlink
axnet_cs: add new id
bridge: Make IGMP snooping depend upon BRIDGE.
bridge: Add multicast count/interval sysfs entries
bridge: Add hash elasticity/max sysfs entries
bridge: Add multicast_snooping sysfs toggle
...
Trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
* 'acpica' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6:
ACPI: replace acpi_integer by u64
ACPICA: Update version to 20100121.
ACPICA: Remove unused uint32_struct type
ACPICA: Disassembler: Remove obsolete "Integer64" field in parse object
ACPICA: Remove obsolete ACPI_INTEGER (acpi_integer) type
ACPICA: Predefined name repair: fix NULL package elements
ACPICA: AcpiGetDevices: Eliminate unnecessary _STA calls
ACPICA: Update all ACPICA copyrights and signons to 2010
ACPICA: Update for new gcc-4 warning options
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] wrong attribute of HUB chip written in uv_setup()
[IA64] remove trailing space in messages
[IA64] use asm-generic/scatterlist.h
[IA64] build arch/ia64/kernel/acpi-ext.o when CONFIG_ACPI
[IA64] Only build arch/ia64/kernel/acpi.o when CONFIG_ACPI
[IA64] Remove COMPAT_IA32 support
If KVM_CREATE_IRQCHIP fail due to kvm_setup_default_irq_routing(),
ioapic device is not destroyed and kvm->arch.vioapic is not set to
NULL, this may cause KVM_GET_IRQCHIP and KVM_SET_IRQCHIP access to
unexcepted memory.
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
String constants that are continued on subsequent lines with \
are not good.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Use two steps for memslot deletion: mark the slot invalid (which stops
instantiation of new shadow pages for that slot, but allows destruction),
then instantiate the new empty slot.
Also simplifies kvm_handle_hva locking.
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Have a pointer to an allocated region inside struct kvm.
[alex: fix ppc book 3s]
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Emese Revfy
Daisuke HATAYAMA
Rik van Riel
Linus Torvalds
Wei Yongjun
Joe Perches
Marcelo Tosatti
Roel Kluin
Avi Kivity
David S. Miller