linux.git/mm/internal.h, branch v2.6.26

memory hotplug: free memmaps allocated by bootmem

2008-04-28T15:58:26+00:00

This patch is to free memmaps which is allocated by bootmem.

Freeing usemap is not necessary.  The pages of usemap may be necessary for
other sections.

If removing section is last section on the node, its section is the final user
of usemap page.  (usemaps are allocated on its section by previous patch.) But
it shouldn't be freed too, because the section must be logical offline state
which all pages are isolated against page allocater.  If it is freed, page
alloctor may use it which will be removed physically soon.  It will be
disaster.  So, this patch keeps it as it is.

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto 
Cc: Badari Pulavarty 
Cc: Yinghai Lu 
Cc: Yasunori Goto 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Solve section mismatch for free_area_init_core.

2008-02-24T01:13:24+00:00

WARNING: vmlinux.o(.meminit.text+0x649):
Section mismatch in reference from the
function free_area_init_core() to the function .init.text:setup_usemap()
The function __meminit free_area_init_core() references
a function __init setup_usemap().
If free_area_init_core is only used by setup_usemap then
annotate free_area_init_core with a matching annotation.

The warning is covers this stack of functions in mm/page_alloc.c:

alloc_bootmem_node must be marked __init.
alloc_bootmem_node is used by setup_usemap, if !SPARSEMEM.
(usemap_size is only used by setup_usemap, if !SPARSEMEM.)
setup_usemap is only used by free_area_init_core.
free_area_init_core is only used by free_area_init_node.

free_area_init_node is used by:
arch/alpha/mm/numa.c: __init paging_init()
arch/arm/mm/init.c: __init bootmem_init_node()
arch/avr32/mm/init.c: __init paging_init()
arch/cris/arch-v10/mm/init.c: __init paging_init()
arch/cris/arch-v32/mm/init.c: __init paging_init()
arch/m32r/mm/discontig.c: __init zone_sizes_init()
arch/m32r/mm/init.c: __init zone_sizes_init()
arch/m68k/mm/motorola.c: __init paging_init()
arch/m68k/mm/sun3mmu.c: __init paging_init()
arch/mips/sgi-ip27/ip27-memory.c: __init paging_init()
arch/parisc/mm/init.c: __init paging_init()
arch/sparc/mm/srmmu.c: __init srmmu_paging_init()
arch/sparc/mm/sun4c.c: __init sun4c_paging_init()
arch/sparc64/mm/init.c: __init paging_init()
mm/page_alloc.c: __init free_area_init_nodes()
mm/page_alloc.c: __init free_area_init()
and
mm/memory_hotplug.c: hotadd_new_pgdat()

hotadd_new_pgdat can not be an __init function, but:

It is compiled for MEMORY_HOTPLUG configurations only
MEMORY_HOTPLUG depends on SPARSEMEM || X86_64_ACPI_NUMA
X86_64_ACPI_NUMA depends on X86_64
ARCH_FLATMEM_ENABLE depends on X86_32
ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE depends on X86_32
So X86_64_ACPI_NUMA implies SPARSEMEM, right?

So we can mark the stack of functions __init for !SPARSEMEM, but we must mark
them __meminit for SPARSEMEM configurations.  This is ok, because then the
calls to alloc_bootmem_node are also avoided.

Compile-tested on:
silly minimal config
defconfig x86_32
defconfig x86_64
defconfig x86_64 -HIBERNATION +MEMORY_HOTPLUG

Signed-off-by: Alexander van Heukelum 
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg 
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

set_page_refcounted() VM_BUG_ON fix

2008-02-05T17:44:19+00:00

The current PageTail semantic is that a PageTail page is first a
PageCompound page.  So remove the redundant PageCompound test in
set_page_refcounted().

Signed-off-by: Qi Yong 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove fastcall from mm/

2008-02-05T17:44:18+00:00

fastcall is always defined to be empty, remove it

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Breakout page_order() to internal.h to avoid special knowledge of the buddy allocator

2007-10-16T16:43:01+00:00

The statistics patch later needs to know what order a free page is on the free
lists.  Rather than having special knowledge of page_private() when
PageBuddy() is set, this patch places out page_order() in internal.h and adds
a VM_BUG_ON to catch using it on non-PageBuddy pages.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter 
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Make page->private usable in compound pages

2007-05-07T19:12:53+00:00

If we add a new flag so that we can distinguish between the first page and the
tail pages then we can avoid to use page->private in the first page.
page->private == page for the first page, so there is no real information in
there.

Freeing up page->private makes the use of compound pages more transparent.
They become more usable like real pages.  Right now we have to be careful f.e.
 if we are going beyond PAGE_SIZE allocations in the slab on i386 because we
can then no longer use the private field.  This is one of the issues that
cause us not to support debugging for page size slabs in SLAB.

Having page->private available for SLUB would allow more meta information in
the page struct.  I can probably avoid the 16 bit ints that I have in there
right now.

Also if page->private is available then a compound page may be equipped with
buffer heads.  This may free up the way for filesystems to support larger
blocks than page size.

We add PageTail as an alias of PageReclaim.  Compound pages cannot currently
be reclaimed.  Because of the alias one needs to check PageCompound first.

The RFC for the this approach was discussed at
http://marc.info/?t=117574302800001&r=1&w=2

[nacc@us.ibm.com: fix hugetlbfs]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mm: VM_BUG_ON

2006-09-26T15:48:44+00:00

Introduce a VM_BUG_ON, which is turned on with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM.  Use this
in the lightweight, inline refcounting functions; PageLRU and PageActive
checks in vmscan, because they're pretty well confined to vmscan.  And in
page allocate/free fastpaths which can be the hottest parts of the kernel
for kbuilds.

Unlike BUG_ON, VM_BUG_ON must not be used to execute statements with
side-effects, and should not be used outside core mm code.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] remove set_page_count() outside mm/

2006-03-22T15:54:02+00:00

set_page_count usage outside mm/ is limited to setting the refcount to 1.
Remove set_page_count from outside mm/, and replace those users with
init_page_count() and set_page_refcounted().

This allows more debug checking, and tighter control on how code is allowed
to play around with page->_count.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mm: nommu use compound pages

2006-03-22T15:54:01+00:00

Now that compound page handling is properly fixed in the VM, move nommu
over to using compound pages rather than rolling their own refcounting.

nommu vm page refcounting is broken anyway, but there is no need to have
divergent code in the core VM now, nor when it gets fixed.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin 
Cc: David Howells 

(Needs testing, please).
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mm: make __put_page internal

2006-03-22T15:54:01+00:00

Remove __put_page from outside the core mm/.  It is dangerous because it does
not handle compound pages nicely, and misses 1->0 transitions.  If a user
later appears that really needs the extra speed we can reevaluate.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds