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2007-10-16uml: fix hostfs styleJeff Dike3-172/+202
Style fixes in hostfs. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16uml: remove unneeded if from hostfsJeff Dike1-1/+1
Get rid of an empty if statement which might look like a bug to a casual reader. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16UML: remove unnecessary hostfs_getattr()Miklos Szeredi1-9/+0
Currently hostfs_getattr() just defines the default behavior. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16hugetlbfs read() supportBadari Pulavarty1-0/+125
Support for reading from hugetlbfs files. libhugetlbfs lets application text/data to be placed in large pages. When we do that, oprofile doesn't work - since libbfd tries to read from it. This code is very similar to what do_generic_mapping_read() does, but I can't use it since it has PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumptions. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups, fix leak] [bunk@stusta.de: make hugetlbfs_read() static] Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: William Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com> Tested-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16hugetlb: allow extending ftruncate on hugetlbfsKen Chen1-7/+1
For historical reason, expanding ftruncate that increases file size on hugetlbfs is not allowed due to pages were pre-faulted and lack of fault handler. Now that we have demand faulting on hugetlb since 2.6.15, there is no reason to hold back that limitation. This will make hugetlbfs behave more like a normal fs. I'm writing a user level code that uses hugetlbfs but will fall back to tmpfs if there are no hugetlb page available in the system. Having hugetlbfs specific ftruncate behavior is a bit quirky and I would like to remove that artificial limitation. Signed-off-by: <kenchen@google.com> Acked-by: Wiliam Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16Print out statistics in relation to fragmentation avoidance to ↵Mel Gorman1-0/+14
/proc/pagetypeinfo This patch provides fragmentation avoidance statistics via /proc/pagetypeinfo. The information is collected only on request so there is no runtime overhead. The statistics are in three parts: The first part prints information on the size of blocks that pages are being grouped on and looks like Page block order: 10 Pages per block: 1024 The second part is a more detailed version of /proc/buddyinfo and looks like Free pages count per migrate type at order 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Node 0, zone DMA, type Unmovable 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Node 0, zone DMA, type Reclaimable 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Node 0, zone DMA, type Movable 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Node 0, zone DMA, type Reserve 0 4 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 Node 0, zone Normal, type Unmovable 111 8 4 4 2 3 1 0 0 0 0 Node 0, zone Normal, type Reclaimable 293 89 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Node 0, zone Normal, type Movable 1 6 13 9 7 6 3 0 0 0 0 Node 0, zone Normal, type Reserve 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 The third part looks like Number of blocks type Unmovable Reclaimable Movable Reserve Node 0, zone DMA 0 1 2 1 Node 0, zone Normal 3 17 94 4 To walk the zones within a node with interrupts disabled, walk_zones_in_node() is introduced and shared between /proc/buddyinfo, /proc/zoneinfo and /proc/pagetypeinfo to reduce code duplication. It seems specific to what vmstat.c requires but could be broken out as a general utility function in mmzone.c if there were other other potential users. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16Group short-lived and reclaimable kernel allocationsMel Gorman6-13/+17
This patch marks a number of allocations that are either short-lived such as network buffers or are reclaimable such as inode allocations. When something like updatedb is called, long-lived and unmovable kernel allocations tend to be spread throughout the address space which increases fragmentation. This patch groups these allocations together as much as possible by adding a new MIGRATE_TYPE. The MIGRATE_RECLAIMABLE type is for allocations that can be reclaimed on demand, but not moved. i.e. they can be migrated by deleting them and re-reading the information from elsewhere. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16fs: remove some AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGENick Piggin1-30/+10
prepare/commit_write no longer returns AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE since OCFS2 and GFS2 were converted to the new aops, so we can make some simplifications for that. [michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com: fix warning] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16fs: restore nobhNick Piggin3-85/+171
Implement nobh in new aops. This is a bit tricky. FWIW, nobh_truncate is now implemented in a way that does not create blocks in sparse regions, which is a silly thing for it to have been doing (isn't it?) ext2 survives fsx and fsstress. jfs is converted as well... ext3 should be easy to do (but not done yet). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16ocfs2: convert to new aopsNick Piggin3-266/+22
Plug ocfs2 into the ->write_begin and ->write_end aops. A bunch of custom code is now gone - the iovec iteration stuff during write and the ocfs2 splice write actor. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16fs: affs convert to new aopsNick Piggin1-42/+59
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16fs: adfs convert to new aopsNick Piggin1-5/+9
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16jfs: convert to new aopsNick Piggin1-7/+10
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16minixfs: convert to new aopsNick Piggin3-22/+53
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16sysv: convert to new aopsNick Piggin3-24/+52
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16udf: convert to new aopsNick Piggin2-26/+22
Convert udf to new aops. Also seem to have fixed pagecache corruption in udf_adinicb_commit_write -- page was marked uptodate when it is not. Also, fixed the silly setup where prepare_write was doing a kmap to be used in commit_write: just do kmap_atomic in write_end. Use libfs helpers to make this easier. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: <bfennema@falcon.csc.calpoly.edu> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16ufs: convert to new aopsNick Piggin3-23/+58
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16jffs2: convert to new aopsNick Piggin1-39/+66
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16hostfs: convert to new aopsNick Piggin1-41/+27
This also gets rid of a lot of useless read_file stuff. And also optimises the full page write case by marking a !uptodate page uptodate. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16fuse: convert to new aopsNick Piggin1-14/+32
[mszeredi] - don't send zero length write requests - it is not legal for the filesystem to return with zero written bytes Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16smbfs: convert to new aopsNick Piggin1-8/+24
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16nfs: convert to new aopsNick Piggin1-20/+60
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix against git-nfs] [peterz@infradead.org: fix against git-nfs] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16With reiserfs no longer using the weird generic_cont_expand, remove it ↵Nick Piggin1-20/+0
completely. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16reiserfs: use generic_cont_expand_simpleVladimir Saveliev1-2/+11
This patch makes reiserfs to use AOP_FLAG_CONT_EXPAND in order to get rid of the special generic_cont_expand routine Signed-off-by: Vladimir Saveliev <vs@namesys.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16reiserfs: convert to new aopsVladimir Saveliev3-19/+183
Convert reiserfs to new aops Signed-off-by: Vladimir Saveliev <vs@namesys.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16reiserfs: use generic writeVladimir Saveliev1-1239/+1
Make reiserfs to write via generic routines. Original reiserfs write optimized for big writes is deadlock rone Signed-off-by: Vladimir Saveliev <vs@namesys.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16qnx4: convert to new aopsNick Piggin1-7/+12
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Anders Larsen <al@alarsen.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16bfs: convert to new aopsNick Piggin1-4/+8
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16hpfs: convert to new aopsNick Piggin1-5/+13
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16hfsplus: convert to new aopsNick Piggin2-19/+20
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16hfs: convert to new aopsNick Piggin2-18/+19
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16fat: convert to new aopsNick Piggin1-11/+16
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16fs: new cont helpersNick Piggin1-100/+94
Rework the generic block "cont" routines to handle the new aops. Supporting cont_prepare_write would take quite a lot of code to support, so remove it instead (and we later convert all filesystems to use it). write_begin gets passed AOP_FLAG_CONT_EXPAND when called from generic_cont_expand, so filesystems can avoid the old hacks they used. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16gfs2: convert to new aopsSteven Whitehouse1-84/+127
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16xfs: convert to new aopsNick Piggin2-30/+24
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Cc: Timothy Shimmin <tes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16ext4: convert to new aopsNick Piggin1-54/+120
Convert ext4 to use write_begin()/write_end() methods. Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@sw.ru> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16ext3: convert to new aopsNick Piggin1-48/+115
Various fixes and improvements Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16ext2: convert to new aopsNick Piggin3-29/+53
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16block_dev: convert to new aopsNick Piggin1-6/+18
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16implement simple fs aopsNick Piggin5-14/+18
Implement new aops for some of the simpler filesystems. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16fs: introduce write_begin, write_end, and perform_write aopsNick Piggin4-129/+231
These are intended to replace prepare_write and commit_write with more flexible alternatives that are also able to avoid the buffered write deadlock problems efficiently (which prepare_write is unable to do). [mark.fasheh@oracle.com: API design contributions, code review and fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: various fixes] [dmonakhov@sw.ru: new aop block_write_begin fix] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16fs: fix data-loss on errorNick Piggin1-0/+2
New buffers against uptodate pages are simply be marked uptodate, while the buffer_new bit remains set. This causes error-case code to zero out parts of those buffers because it thinks they contain stale data: wrong, they are actually uptodate so this is a data loss situation. Fix this by actually clearning buffer_new and marking the buffer dirty. It makes sense to always clear buffer_new before setting a buffer uptodate. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16mm: buffered write cleanupNick Piggin1-8/+2
Quite a bit of code is used in maintaining these "cached pages" that are probably pretty unlikely to get used. It would require a narrow race where the page is inserted concurrently while this process is allocating a page in order to create the spare page. Then a multi-page write into an uncached part of the file, to make use of it. Next, the buffered write path (and others) uses its own LRU pagevec when it should be just using the per-CPU LRU pagevec (which will cut down on both data and code size cacheline footprint). Also, these private LRU pagevecs are emptied after just a very short time, in contrast with the per-CPU pagevecs that are persistent. Net result: 7.3 times fewer lru_lock acquisitions required to add the pages to pagecache for a bulk write (in 4K chunks). [this gets rid of some cond_resched() calls in readahead.c and mpage.c due to clashes in -mm. What put them there, and why? ] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16fs: fix nobh error handlingNick Piggin1-56/+82
nobh mode error handling is not just pretty slack, it's wrong. One cannot zero out the whole page to ensure new blocks are zeroed, because it just brings the whole page "uptodate" with zeroes even if that may not be the correct uptodate data. Also, other parts of the page may already contain dirty data which would get lost by zeroing it out. Thirdly, the writeback of zeroes to the new blocks will also erase existing blocks. All these conditions are pagecache and/or filesystem corruption. The problem comes about because we didn't keep track of which buffers actually are new or old. However it is not enough just to keep only this state, because at the point we start dirtying parts of the page (new blocks, with zeroes), the handling of IO errors becomes impossible without buffers because the page may only be partially uptodate, in which case the page flags allone cannot capture the state of the parts of the page. So allocate all buffers for the page upfront, but leave them unattached so that they don't pick up any other references and can be freed when we're done. If the error path is hit, then zero the new buffers as the regular buffer path does, then attach the buffers to the page so that it can actually be written out correctly and be subject to the normal IO error handling paths. As an upshot, we save 1K of kernel stack on ia64 or powerpc 64K page systems. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16mm: add end_buffer_read helper functionDmitry Monakhov1-15/+17
Move duplicated code from end_buffer_read_XXX methods to separate helper function. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16remove ZERO_PAGENick Piggin3-4/+4
The commit b5810039a54e5babf428e9a1e89fc1940fabff11 contains the note A last caveat: the ZERO_PAGE is now refcounted and managed with rmap (and thus mapcounted and count towards shared rss). These writes to the struct page could cause excessive cacheline bouncing on big systems. There are a number of ways this could be addressed if it is an issue. And indeed this cacheline bouncing has shown up on large SGI systems. There was a situation where an Altix system was essentially livelocked tearing down ZERO_PAGE pagetables when an HPC app aborted during startup. This situation can be avoided in userspace, but it does highlight the potential scalability problem with refcounting ZERO_PAGE, and corner cases where it can really hurt (we don't want the system to livelock!). There are several broad ways to fix this problem: 1. add back some special casing to avoid refcounting ZERO_PAGE 2. per-node or per-cpu ZERO_PAGES 3. remove the ZERO_PAGE completely I will argue for 3. The others should also fix the problem, but they result in more complex code than does 3, with little or no real benefit that I can see. Why? Inserting a ZERO_PAGE for anonymous read faults appears to be a false optimisation: if an application is performance critical, it would not be doing many read faults of new memory, or at least it could be expected to write to that memory soon afterwards. If cache or memory use is critical, it should not be working with a significant number of ZERO_PAGEs anyway (a more compact representation of zeroes should be used). As a sanity check -- mesuring on my desktop system, there are never many mappings to the ZERO_PAGE (eg. 2 or 3), thus memory usage here should not increase much without it. When running a make -j4 kernel compile on my dual core system, there are about 1,000 mappings to the ZERO_PAGE created per second, but about 1,000 ZERO_PAGE COW faults per second (less than 1 ZERO_PAGE mapping per second is torn down without being COWed). So removing ZERO_PAGE will save 1,000 page faults per second when running kbuild, while keeping it only saves less than 1 page clearing operation per second. 1 page clear is cheaper than a thousand faults, presumably, so there isn't an obvious loss. Neither the logical argument nor these basic tests give a guarantee of no regressions. However, this is a reasonable opportunity to try to remove the ZERO_PAGE from the pagefault path. If it is found to cause regressions, we can reintroduce it and just avoid refcounting it. The /dev/zero ZERO_PAGE usage and TLB tricks also get nuked. I don't see much use to them except on benchmarks. All other users of ZERO_PAGE are converted just to use ZERO_PAGE(0) for simplicity. We can look at replacing them all and maybe ripping out ZERO_PAGE completely when we are more satisfied with this solution. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus "snif" Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16readahead: combine file_ra_state.prev_index/prev_offset into prev_posFengguang Wu3-3/+3
Combine the file_ra_state members unsigned long prev_index unsigned int prev_offset into loff_t prev_pos It is more consistent and better supports huge files. Thanks to Peter for the nice proposal! [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix shift overflow] Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-15docbook: fix filesystems contentRandy Dunlap1-6/+35
Fix filesystems docbook warnings. Warning(linux-2.6.23-git8//fs/debugfs/file.c:241): No description found for parameter 'name' Warning(linux-2.6.23-git8//fs/debugfs/file.c:241): No description found for parameter 'mode' Warning(linux-2.6.23-git8//fs/debugfs/file.c:241): No description found for parameter 'parent' Warning(linux-2.6.23-git8//fs/debugfs/file.c:241): No description found for parameter 'value' Warning(linux-2.6.23-git8//include/linux/jbd.h:404): No description found for parameter 'h_lockdep_map' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-15Merge branch 'locks' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linuxLinus Torvalds9-131/+109
* 'locks' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: nfsd: remove IS_ISMNDLCK macro Rework /proc/locks via seq_files and seq_list helpers fs/locks.c: use list_for_each_entry() instead of list_for_each() NFS: clean up explicit check for mandatory locks AFS: clean up explicit check for mandatory locks 9PFS: clean up explicit check for mandatory locks GFS2: clean up explicit check for mandatory locks Cleanup macros for distinguishing mandatory locks Documentation: move locks.txt in filesystems/ locks: add warning about mandatory locking races Documentation: move mandatory locking documentation to filesystems/ locks: Fix potential OOPS in generic_setlease() Use list_first_entry in locks_wake_up_blocks locks: fix flock_lock_file() comment Memory shortage can result in inconsistent flocks state locks: kill redundant local variable locks: reverse order of posix_locks_conflict() arguments
2007-10-15Merge git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6Linus Torvalds26-846/+787
* git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6: (131 commits) NFSv4: Fix a typo in nfs_inode_reclaim_delegation NFS: Add a boot parameter to disable 64 bit inode numbers NFS: nfs_refresh_inode should clear cache_validity flags on success NFS: Fix a connectathon regression in NFSv3 and NFSv4 NFS: Use nfs_refresh_inode() in ops that aren't expected to change the inode SUNRPC: Don't call xprt_release in call refresh SUNRPC: Don't call xprt_release() if call_allocate fails SUNRPC: Fix buggy UDP transmission [23/37] Clean up duplicate includes in [2.6 patch] net/sunrpc/rpcb_clnt.c: make struct rpcb_program static SUNRPC: Use correct type in buffer length calculations SUNRPC: Fix default hostname created in rpc_create() nfs: add server port to rpc_pipe info file NFS: Get rid of some obsolete macros NFS: Simplify filehandle revalidation NFS: Ensure that nfs_link() returns a hashed dentry NFS: Be strict about dentry revalidation when doing exclusive create NFS: Don't zap the readdir caches upon error NFS: Remove the redundant nfs_reval_fsid() NFSv3: Always use directory post-op attributes in nfs3_proc_lookup ... Fix up trivial conflict due to sock_owned_by_user() cleanup manually in net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
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