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2009-09-21Merge branch 'perfcounters-rename-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perfcounters-rename-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: perf: Tidy up after the big rename perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events perf_counter: Rename 'event' to event_id/hw_event perf_counter: Rename list_entry -> group_entry, counter_list -> group_list Manually resolved some fairly trivial conflicts with the tracing tree in include/trace/ftrace.h and kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c.
2009-09-21writeback: make balance_dirty_pages() gradually back more offJens Axboe
Currently it just sleeps for a very short time, just 1 jiffy. If we keep looping in there, continually delay for a little longer of up to 100msec in total. That was the old limit for congestion wait. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-21writeback: don't use schedule_timeout() without setting runstateJens Axboe
Just use schedule_timeout_interruptible(), saves a call to set_current_state(). Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-21perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance EventsIngo Molnar
Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events! In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging, monitoring, analysis facility. Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem 'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and less appropriate. All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion) The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well. Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and suggested a rename. User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to keep the size down.) This patch has been generated via the following script: FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config') sed -i \ -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \ -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \ -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \ -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \ -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \ -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \ $FILES for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g') mv $N $M done FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*) sed -i \ -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \ -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \ -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \ -e 's/counter/event/g' \ -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \ $FILES ... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches is the smallest: the end of the merge window. Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch. ( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but in case there's something left where 'counter' would be better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. ) Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-18headers: taskstats_kern.h trimAlexey Dobriyan
Remove net/genetlink.h inclusion, now sched.c won't be recompiled because of some networking changes. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-18mm: Fix problem of parameter in noteJianjun Kong
'current' is a pointer, so the right form is 'down_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem)'. Signed-off-by: Jianjun Kong <jianjun@zeuux.org> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-16Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 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
2009-09-16Merge branch 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* '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
2009-09-16writeback: splice dirty inode entries to default bdi on bdi_destroy()Jens Axboe
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>
2009-09-16writeback: separate starting of sync vs opportunistic writebackJens Axboe
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>
2009-09-16writeback: use RCU to protect bdi_listJens Axboe
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>
2009-09-16writeback: get rid of wbc->for_writepagesJens Axboe
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>
2009-09-15slub: Fix build error in kmem_cache_open() with !CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUGIngo Molnar
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>
2009-09-15Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /devKay Sievers
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>
2009-09-15Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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
2009-09-15Merge branch 'x86-pat-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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
2009-09-15Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linusTejun Heo
* 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
2009-09-14Merge branch 'for-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* '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 ...
2009-09-14Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds
* '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 ...
2009-09-14Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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
2009-09-14Merge branches 'slab/cleanups' and 'slab/fixes' into for-linusPekka Enberg
2009-09-14vfs: Remove generic_osync_inode() and sync_page_range{_nolock}()Jan Kara
Remove these three functions since nobody uses them anymore. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14vfs: Introduce new helpers for syncing after writing to O_SYNC file or ↵Jan Kara
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>
2009-09-14vfs: Rename generic_file_aio_write_nolockChristoph Hellwig
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>
2009-09-14vfs: Remove syncing from generic_file_direct_write() and ↵Jan Kara
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>
2009-09-14vfs: Export __generic_file_aio_write() and add some commentsJan Kara
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>
2009-09-14vfs: Introduce filemap_fdatawait_rangeJan Kara
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>
2009-09-14block: use blkdev_issue_discard in blk_ioctl_discardChristoph Hellwig
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>
2009-09-14slub: fix slab_pad_check()Eric Dumazet
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>
2009-09-11Merge branch 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* '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
2009-09-11Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* '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
2009-09-11kmemleak: Improve the "Early log buffer exceeded" error messageCatalin Marinas
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>
2009-09-11writeback: check for registered bdi in flusher add and inode dirtyJens Axboe
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>
2009-09-11writeback: add name to backing_dev_infoJens Axboe
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>
2009-09-11writeback: add some debug inode list counters to bdi statsJens Axboe
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>
2009-09-11writeback: get rid of pdflush completelyJens Axboe
It is now unused, so kill it off. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11writeback: switch to per-bdi threads for flushing dataJens Axboe
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>
2009-09-11writeback: move dirty inodes from super_block to backing_dev_infoJens Axboe
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>
2009-09-10hugetlbfs: export vma_kernel_pagsize to modulesJoerg Roedel
This function is required by KVM. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-08shmfs: use 'check_acl' instead of 'permission'Linus Torvalds
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>
2009-09-08kmemleak: fix sparse warning for static declarationsLuis R. Rodriguez
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>
2009-09-08kmemleak: fix sparse warning over overshadowed flagsLuis R. Rodriguez
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>
2009-09-08kmemleak: move common painting code togetherLuis R. Rodriguez
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>
2009-09-08kmemleak: add clear command supportLuis R. Rodriguez
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>
2009-09-08kmemleak: use bool for true/false questionsLuis R. Rodriguez
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>
2009-09-08kmemleak: Do no create the clean-up thread during kmemleak_disable()Catalin Marinas
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>
2009-09-05Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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
2009-09-05Merge branch 'slab/urgent' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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
2009-09-05page-allocator: always change pageblock ownership when anti-fragmentation is ↵Mel Gorman
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 49255c619fbd482d704289b5eb2795f8e3b7ff2e [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>
2009-09-05nommu: fix error handling in do_mmap_pgoff()David Howells
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>