linux.git/arch/alpha/mm, branch v2.6.27

alpha: use generic show_mem()

2008-07-26T19:00:10+00:00

Remove arch-specific show_mem() in favor of the generic version.

This also removes the following redundant information display:

	- free pages, printed by show_free_areas()
	- free swap pages, printed by show_swap_cache_info()
	- pages in swapcache, printed by show_swap_cache_info()

where show_mem() calls show_free_areas(), which calls
show_swap_cache_info().

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

bootmem: replace node_boot_start in struct bootmem_data

2008-07-24T17:47:20+00:00

Almost all users of this field need a PFN instead of a physical address,
so replace node_boot_start with node_min_pfn.

[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: fix spurious BUG_ON() in mark_bootmem()]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: drop unneeded pgdat argument from free_area_init_node()

2008-07-24T17:47:16+00:00

free_area_init_node() gets passed in the node id as well as the node
descriptor.  This is redundant as the function can trivially get the node
descriptor itself by means of NODE_DATA() and the node's id.

I checked all the users and NODE_DATA() seems to be usable everywhere
from where this function is called.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: move bootmem descriptors definition to a single place

2008-07-24T17:47:14+00:00

There are a lot of places that define either a single bootmem descriptor or an
array of them.  Use only one central array with MAX_NUMNODES items instead.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Tony Luck 
Cc: Hirokazu Takata 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Kyle McMartin 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Yinghai Lu 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Andy Whitcroft 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Introduce flags for reserve_bootmem()

2008-02-07T16:42:25+00:00

This patchset adds a flags variable to reserve_bootmem() and uses the
BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE flag in crashkernel reservation code to detect collisions
between crashkernel area and already used memory.

This patch:

Change the reserve_bootmem() function to accept a new flag BOOTMEM_EXCLUSIVE.
If that flag is set, the function returns with -EBUSY if the memory already
has been reserved in the past.  This is to avoid conflicts.

Because that code runs before SMP initialisation, there's no race condition
inside reserve_bootmem_core().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc build]
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle 
Cc: 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Vivek Goyal 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

spelling fixes: arch/alpha/

2007-10-19T23:04:37+00:00

Spelling fixes in arch/alpha/.

Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

Use helpers to obtain task pid in printks (arch code)

2007-10-19T18:53:43+00:00

One of the easiest things to isolate is the pid printed in kernel log.
There was a patch, that made this for arch-independent code, this one makes
so for arch/xxx files.

It took some time to cross-compile it, but hopefully these are all the
printks in arch code.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

pid namespaces: define is_global_init() and is_container_init()

2007-10-19T18:53:37+00:00

is_init() is an ambiguous name for the pid==1 check.  Split it into
is_global_init() and is_container_init().

A cgroup init has it's tsk->pid == 1.

A global init also has it's tsk->pid == 1 and it's active pid namespace
is the init_pid_ns.  But rather than check the active pid namespace,
compare the task structure with 'init_pid_ns.child_reaper', which is
initialized during boot to the /sbin/init process and never changes.

Changelog:

	2.6.22-rc4-mm2-pidns1:
	- Use 'init_pid_ns.child_reaper' to determine if a given task is the
	  global init (/sbin/init) process. This would improve performance
	  and remove dependence on the task_pid().

	2.6.21-mm2-pidns2:

	- [Sukadev Bhattiprolu] Changed is_container_init() calls in {powerpc,
	  ppc,avr32}/traps.c for the _exception() call to is_global_init().
	  This way, we kill only the cgroup if the cgroup's init has a
	  bug rather than force a kernel panic.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment]
[sukadev@us.ibm.com: Use is_global_init() in arch/m32r/mm/fault.c]
[bunk@stusta.de: kernel/pid.c: remove unused exports]
[sukadev@us.ibm.com: Fix capability.c to work with threaded init]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn 
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu 
Acked-by: Pavel Emelianov 
Cc: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: Cedric Le Goater 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Herbert Poetzel 
Cc: Kirill Korotaev 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

During VM oom condition, kill all threads in process group

2007-10-16T16:42:52+00:00

We have had complaints where a threaded application is left in a bad state
after one of it's threads is killed when we hit a VM: out_of_memory
condition.

Killing just one of the process threads can leave the application in a bad
state, whereas killing the entire process group would allow for the
application to restart, or be otherwise handled, and makes it very obvious
that something has gone wrong.

This change allows the entire process group to be taken down, rather
than just the one thread.

Signed-off-by: Will Schmidt 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Ian Molton 
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen 
Cc: Mikael Starvik 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Hirokazu Takata 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Roman Zippel 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Kyle McMartin 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima 
Cc: Richard Curnow 
Cc: William Lee Irwin III 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Chris Zankel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

alpha: fix two section mismatch warnings

2007-07-31T22:39:38+00:00

Fix the following section mismatch warnings:

WARNING: o-alpha/vmlinux.o(.text+0x1a4d4): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:free_area_init (between 'paging_init' and 'srm_paging_stop')
WARNING: o-alpha/vmlinux.o(.text+0x1a4dc): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:free_area_init (between 'paging_init' and 'srm_paging_stop')

One instance of paging_init() was declared __init but not the other one -
used by defconfig.  Fixed by declaring the second instance ___init too.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds