These patches are an enhancement of OVERCOMMIT_GUESS algorithm in
__vm_enough_memory().
- why the kernel needed patching
When the kernel can't allocate anonymous pages in practice, currnet
OVERCOMMIT_GUESS could return success. This implementation might be
the cause of oom kill in memory pressure situation.
If the Linux runs with page reservation features like
/proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_ratio and without swap region, I think
the oom kill occurs easily.
- the overall design approach in the patch
When the OVERCOMMET_GUESS algorithm calculates number of free pages,
the reserved free pages are regarded as non-free pages.
This change helps to avoid the pitfall that the number of free pages
become less than the number which the kernel tries to keep free.
- testing results
I tested the patches using my test kernel module.
If the patches aren't applied to the kernel, __vm_enough_memory()
returns success in the situation but autual page allocation is
failed.
On the other hand, if the patches are applied to the kernel, memory
allocation failure is avoided since __vm_enough_memory() returns
failure in the situation.
I checked that on i386 SMP 16GB memory machine. I haven't tested on
nommu environment currently.
This patch adds totalreserve_pages for __vm_enough_memory().
Calculate_totalreserve_pages() checks maximum lowmem_reserve pages and
pages_high in each zone. Finally, the function stores the sum of each
zone to totalreserve_pages.
The totalreserve_pages is calculated when the VM is initilized.
And the variable is updated when /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_raito
or /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes are changed.
Signed-off-by: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
for_each_cpu() actually iterates across all possible CPUs. We've had mistakes
in the past where people were using for_each_cpu() where they should have been
iterating across only online or present CPUs. This is inefficient and
possibly buggy.
We're renaming for_each_cpu() to for_each_possible_cpu() to avoid this in the
future.
This patch replaces for_each_cpu with for_each_possible_cpu.
for sparc64.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
reshape_position is a 64bit field that was not 64bit aligned. So swap with
new_level.
NOTE: this is a user-visible change. However:
- The bad code has not appeared in a released kernel
- This code is still marked 'experimental'
- This only affects version-1 superblock, which are not in wide use
- These field are only used (rather than simply reported) by user-space
tools in extemely rare circumstances : after a reshape crashes in the
first second of the reshape process.
So I believe that, at this stage, the change is safe. Especially if people
heed the 'help' message on use mdadm-2.4.1.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
On i386, we don't use sys_ prefix for __NR_*. This patch removes it
[FWIW, _syscall*() macros will generate foo() instead of sys_foo().]
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
net/socket.c:148: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
extern declarations in .c files! Bad boy.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
It's more efficient for sendfile() emulation. Basically we cache an
internal private pipe and just use that as the intermediate area for
pages. Direct splicing is not available from sys_splice(), it is only
meant to be used for sendfile() emulation.
Additional patch from Ingo Molnar to avoid the PIPE_BUFFERS loop at
exit for the normal fast path.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
[ARM] 3473/1: Use numbers 0-15 for the VFP double registers
[ARM] 3472/1: Use the D variants of FLDMIA/FSTMIA on ARMv6
[ARM] 3471/1: FTOSI functions should return 0 for NaN
[ARM] 3470/1: Clear the HWCAP bits for the disabled kernel features
[ARM] 3469/1: S3C24XX: clkout missing hclk selector
[ARM] 3468/1: S3C2410: SMDK common include fix
[ARM] 3461/1: ARM: OMAP: Fix clk_get() when using id and name
[ARM] 3460/1: ARM: OMAP: Remove unnecessary nop_release()
[ARM] 3459/1: ixp23xx: fix debug serial macros for big-endian operation
[ARM] Allow decompressor to be built with -ffunction-sections
[ARM] Fix SA110/SA1100 cache flushing
[ARM] ebsa110: Fix incorrect serial port address
[ARM] Fix ebsa110 debug macros
[ARM] Move FLUSH_BASE macros to asm/arch/memory.h
[ARM] Remove unnecessary extra parens in include/asm-arm/memory.h
[ARM] arm's arch_local_page_offset() fix against 2.6.17-rc1
Oleg Nesterov spotted two interesting bugs with the current de_thread
code. The simplest is a long standing double decrement of
__get_cpu_var(process_counts) in __unhash_process. Caused by
two processes exiting when only one was created.
The other is that since we no longer detach from the thread_group list
it is possible for do_each_thread when run under the tasklist_lock to
see the same task_struct twice. Once on the task list as a
thread_group_leader, and once on the thread list of another
thread.
The double appearance in do_each_thread can cause a double increment
of mm_core_waiters in zap_threads resulting in problems later on in
coredump_wait.
To remedy those two problems this patch takes the simple approach
of changing the old thread group leader into a child thread.
The only routine in release_task that cares is __unhash_process,
and it can be trivially seen that we handle cleaning up a
thread group leader properly.
Since de_thread doesn't change the pid of the exiting leader process
and instead shares it with the new leader process. I change
thread_group_leader to recognize group leadership based on the
group_leader field and not based on pids. This should also be
slightly cheaper then the existing thread_group_leader macro.
I performed a quick audit and I couldn't see any user of
thread_group_leader that cared about the difference.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Patch from Catalin Marinas
The X variants are deprecated starting with ARMv6. Using the D variants,
the fpmx_state in vfp_hard_struct is no longer needed.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Overriding the whole EH code is a per-transport, not per-host thing.
Move ->eh_strategy_handler to the transport class, same as
->eh_timed_out.
Downside is that scsi_host_alloc can't check for the total lack of EH
anymore, but the transition period from old EH where we needed it is
long gone already.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Rohit found an obscure bug causing buddy list corruption.
page_is_buddy is using a non-atomic test (PagePrivate && page_count == 0)
to determine whether or not a free page's buddy is itself free and in the
buddy lists.
Each of the conjuncts may be true at different times due to unrelated
conditions, so the non-atomic page_is_buddy test may find each conjunct to
be true even if they were not both true at the same time (ie. the page was
not on the buddy lists).
Signed-off-by: Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohit Seth <rohitseth@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Push translation of static rate to HCA format into low-level drivers,
where it belongs. For static rate encoding, use encoding of rate
field from IB standard PathRecord, with addition of value 0, for
backwards compatibility with current usage. The changes are:
- Add enum ib_rate to midlayer includes.
- Get rid of static rate translation in IPoIB; just use static rate
directly from Path and MulticastGroup records.
- Update mthca driver to translate absolute static rate into the
format used by hardware. This also fixes mthca's static rate
handling for HCAs that are capable of 4X DDR.
Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
add optional input and output offsets to sys_splice(), for seekable file
descriptors:
asmlinkage long sys_splice(int fd_in, loff_t __user *off_in,
int fd_out, loff_t __user *off_out,
size_t len, unsigned int flags);
semantics are straightforward: f_pos will be updated with the offset
provided by user-space, before the splice transfer is about to begin.
Providing a NULL offset pointer means the existing f_pos will be used
(and updated in situ). Providing an offset for a pipe results in
-ESPIPE. Providing an invalid offset pointer results in -EFAULT.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
separate out the 'internal pipe object' abstraction, and make it
usable to splice. This cleans up and fixes several aspects of the
internal splice APIs and the pipe code:
- pipes: the allocation and freeing of pipe_inode_info is now more symmetric
and more streamlined with existing kernel practices.
- splice: small micro-optimization: less pointer dereferencing in splice
methods
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Update XFS for the ->splice_read/->splice_write changes.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Deinline a few functions which produce 200+ bytes of code.
Size Uses Wasted Name and definition
===== ==== ====== ================================================
429 3 818 __inet6_lookup include/net/inet6_hashtables.h
404 2 384 __inet6_lookup_established include/net/inet6_hashtables.h
206 3 372 __inet6_hash include/net/inet6_hashtables.h
Signed-off-by: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add checksum operation which takes care of verifying the checksum and
dealing with HW checksum errors and avoids multiple checksum
operations by setting ip_summed to CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY after
successful verification.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Change the queue rerouter intrastructure to a generic usable
infrastructure for address family specific operations as a base for
some cleanups.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Move prototypes of NAT callbacks to ip_conntrack_h323.h. Because the
use of typedefs as arguments, some header files need to be moved as
well.
Signed-off-by: Jing Min Zhao <zhaojingmin@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The conntrack code doesn't do re-fragmentation of defragmented packets
anymore but relies on fragmentation in the IP layer. Purely bridged
packets don't pass through the IP layer, so the bridge netfilter code
needs to take care of fragmentation itself.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek
The debug-8250 macros do byte accesses, which means that if we're in
big-endian mode, we need to logically OR the UART address with 3, as
the LSB byte lane (where UART data and status is transferred) has the
highest byte address in the word when we are in big-endian mode.
It's unclear why this problem didn't surface earlier.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Or rather compute it based on the table length automatically.
This also has the intended side effect of not warning for new system calls
anymore.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix CONFIG_REORDER.
The value of cflags-y was assined to CFLAGS before cflags-y was assigned
the value used for CONFIG_REORDER.
Use cflags-y for all CFLAGS options in the Makefile to avoid this
happening again.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
