linux.git/arch/alpha/mm, branch v2.6.35

alpha: invoke oom-killer from page fault

2010-05-25T22:40:28+00:00

As explained in commit 1c0fe6e3bd, we want to call the architecture
independent oom killer when getting an unexplained OOM from
handle_mm_fault, rather than simply killing current.

[mattst88: kill now unused 'survive' label]
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner 
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn

tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place

2009-12-04T14:39:55+00:00

That is "success", "unknown", "through", "performance", "[re|un]mapping"
, "access", "default", "reasonable", "[con]currently", "temperature"
, "channel", "[un]used", "application", "example","hierarchy", "therefore"
, "[over|under]flow", "contiguous", "threshold", "enough" and others.

Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

arches: drop superfluous casts in nr_free_pages() callers

2009-09-22T14:17:34+00:00

Commit 96177299416dbccb73b54e6b344260154a445375 ("Drop free_pages()")
modified nr_free_pages() to return 'unsigned long' instead of 'unsigned
int'.  This made the casts to 'unsigned long' in most callers superfluous,
so remove them.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Acked-by: Russell King 
Acked-by: David S. Miller 
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin 
Acked-by: WANG Cong 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen 
Cc: Mikael Starvik 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Hirokazu Takata 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: David Howells 
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Paul Mundt 
Cc: Chris Zankel 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Move FAULT_FLAG_xyz into handle_mm_fault() callers

2009-06-21T20:08:22+00:00

This allows the callers to now pass down the full set of FAULT_FLAG_xyz
flags to handle_mm_fault().  All callers have been (mechanically)
converted to the new calling convention, there's almost certainly room
for architectures to clean up their code and then add FAULT_FLAG_RETRY
when that support is added.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

alpha: bad macro expansion, parameter is member

2009-06-17T02:47:46+00:00

`for_each_mem_cluster(x, y, z)' will expand to
`for ((x) = (y)->x ...' but correct is `for ((x) = (y)->cluster ...'

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

module: trim exception table on init free.

2009-06-12T12:17:04+00:00

It's theoretically possible that there are exception table entries
which point into the (freed) init text of modules.  These could cause
future problems if other modules get loaded into that memory and cause
an exception as we'd see the wrong fixup.  The only case I know of is
kvm-intel.ko (when CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=n).

Amerigo fixed this long-standing FIXME in the x86 version, but this
patch is more general.

This implements trim_init_extable(); most archs are simple since they
use the standard lib/extable.c sort code.  Alpha and IA64 use relative
addresses in their fixups, so thier trimming is a slight variation.

Sparc32 is unique; it doesn't seem to define ARCH_HAS_SORT_EXTABLE,
yet it defines its own sort_extable() which overrides the one in lib.
It doesn't sort, so we have to mark deleted entries instead of
actually trimming them.

Inspired-by: Amerigo Wang 
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell 
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org

alpha: exception table sorting

2009-05-02T22:36:10+00:00

Exception fixups for sections other than .text (like one in futex_init())
break the natural ordering of fixup entries, so sorting is required.

Without that the result of the exception table search depends on phase of
the moon.

Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

alpha: fix typo in recent early vmalloc change

2009-03-01T07:03:16+00:00

Impact: fix build

Add missing 'o' in variable name.  Compile tested.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky

vmalloc: add @align to vm_area_register_early()

2009-02-24T02:57:21+00:00

Impact: allow larger alignment for early vmalloc area allocation

Some early vmalloc users might want larger alignment, for example, for
custom large page mapping.  Add @align to vm_area_register_early().
While at it, drop docbook comment on non-existent @size.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky