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<title>include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h</title>
<updated>2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-24T08:04:11+00:00</published>
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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 -&gt; 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 &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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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 -&gt; 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 &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm/migrate.c: kill anon local variable from migrate_page_copy</title>
<updated>2010-03-06T19:26:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>KOSAKI Motohiro</name>
<email>kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-05T21:42:00+00:00</published>
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commit 01b1ae63c2 ("memcg: simple migration handling") removed
mem_cgroup_uncharge_cache_page() call from migrate_page_copy.  Local
variable `anon' is now unused.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura &lt;nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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commit 01b1ae63c2 ("memcg: simple migration handling") removed
mem_cgroup_uncharge_cache_page() call from migrate_page_copy.  Local
variable `anon' is now unused.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura &lt;nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm</title>
<updated>2010-03-01T17:15:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-01T17:15:15+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (100 commits)
  ARM: Eliminate decompressor -Dstatic= PIC hack
  ARM: 5958/1: ARM: U300: fix inverted clk round rate
  ARM: 5956/1: misplaced parentheses
  ARM: 5955/1: ep93xx: move timer defines into core.c and document
  ARM: 5954/1: ep93xx: move gpio interrupt support to gpio.c
  ARM: 5953/1: ep93xx: fix broken build of clock.c
  ARM: 5952/1: ARM: MM: Add ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_6 for handle inside each ARCH Kconfig
  ARM: 5949/1: NUC900 add gpio virtual memory map
  ARM: 5948/1: Enable timer0 to time4 clock support for nuc910
  ARM: 5940/2: ARM: MMCI: remove custom DBG macro and printk
  ARM: make_coherent(): fix problems with highpte, part 2
  MM: Pass a PTE pointer to update_mmu_cache() rather than the PTE itself
  ARM: 5945/1: ep93xx: include correct irq.h in core.c
  ARM: 5933/1: amba-pl011: support hardware flow control
  ARM: 5930/1: Add PKMAP area description to memory.txt.
  ARM: 5929/1: Add checks to detect overlap of memory regions.
  ARM: 5928/1: Change type of VMALLOC_END to unsigned long.
  ARM: 5927/1: Make delimiters of DMA area globally visibly.
  ARM: 5926/1: Add "Virtual kernel memory..." printout.
  ARM: 5920/1: OMAP4: Enable L2 Cache
  ...

Fix up trivial conflict in arch/arm/mach-mx25/clock.c
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* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (100 commits)
  ARM: Eliminate decompressor -Dstatic= PIC hack
  ARM: 5958/1: ARM: U300: fix inverted clk round rate
  ARM: 5956/1: misplaced parentheses
  ARM: 5955/1: ep93xx: move timer defines into core.c and document
  ARM: 5954/1: ep93xx: move gpio interrupt support to gpio.c
  ARM: 5953/1: ep93xx: fix broken build of clock.c
  ARM: 5952/1: ARM: MM: Add ARM_L1_CACHE_SHIFT_6 for handle inside each ARCH Kconfig
  ARM: 5949/1: NUC900 add gpio virtual memory map
  ARM: 5948/1: Enable timer0 to time4 clock support for nuc910
  ARM: 5940/2: ARM: MMCI: remove custom DBG macro and printk
  ARM: make_coherent(): fix problems with highpte, part 2
  MM: Pass a PTE pointer to update_mmu_cache() rather than the PTE itself
  ARM: 5945/1: ep93xx: include correct irq.h in core.c
  ARM: 5933/1: amba-pl011: support hardware flow control
  ARM: 5930/1: Add PKMAP area description to memory.txt.
  ARM: 5929/1: Add checks to detect overlap of memory regions.
  ARM: 5928/1: Change type of VMALLOC_END to unsigned long.
  ARM: 5927/1: Make delimiters of DMA area globally visibly.
  ARM: 5926/1: Add "Virtual kernel memory..." printout.
  ARM: 5920/1: OMAP4: Enable L2 Cache
  ...

Fix up trivial conflict in arch/arm/mach-mx25/clock.c
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<entry>
<title>mm: Make copy_from_user() in migrate.c statically predictable</title>
<updated>2010-02-21T16:57:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-19T00:13:40+00:00</published>
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x86-32 has had a static test for copy_on_user() overflow for a while.
This test currently fails in mm/migrate.c resulting in an
allyesconfig/allmodconfig build failure on x86-32:

In function ‘copy_from_user’,
    inlined from ‘do_pages_stat’ at
    /home/hpa/kernel/git/mm/migrate.c:1012:
/home/hpa/kernel/git/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_32.h:212: error:
    call to ‘copy_from_user_overflow’ declared

Make the logic more explicit and therefore easier for gcc to
understand.

v2: rewrite the loop entirely using a more normal structure for a
    chunked-data loop (Linus Torvalds)

Reported-by: Len Brown &lt;lenb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Reviewed-and-Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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x86-32 has had a static test for copy_on_user() overflow for a while.
This test currently fails in mm/migrate.c resulting in an
allyesconfig/allmodconfig build failure on x86-32:

In function ‘copy_from_user’,
    inlined from ‘do_pages_stat’ at
    /home/hpa/kernel/git/mm/migrate.c:1012:
/home/hpa/kernel/git/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_32.h:212: error:
    call to ‘copy_from_user_overflow’ declared

Make the logic more explicit and therefore easier for gcc to
understand.

v2: rewrite the loop entirely using a more normal structure for a
    chunked-data loop (Linus Torvalds)

Reported-by: Len Brown &lt;lenb@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Reviewed-and-Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>MM: Pass a PTE pointer to update_mmu_cache() rather than the PTE itself</title>
<updated>2010-02-20T16:41:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-18T16:40:18+00:00</published>
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On VIVT ARM, when we have multiple shared mappings of the same file
in the same MM, we need to ensure that we have coherency across all
copies.  We do this via make_coherent() by making the pages
uncacheable.

This used to work fine, until we allowed highmem with highpte - we
now have a page table which is mapped as required, and is not available
for modification via update_mmu_cache().

Ralf Beache suggested getting rid of the PTE value passed to
update_mmu_cache():

  On MIPS update_mmu_cache() calls __update_tlb() which walks pagetables
  to construct a pointer to the pte again.  Passing a pte_t * is much
  more elegant.  Maybe we might even replace the pte argument with the
  pte_t?

Ben Herrenschmidt would also like the pte pointer for PowerPC:

  Passing the ptep in there is exactly what I want.  I want that
  -instead- of the PTE value, because I have issue on some ppc cases,
  for I$/D$ coherency, where set_pte_at() may decide to mask out the
  _PAGE_EXEC.

So, pass in the mapped page table pointer into update_mmu_cache(), and
remove the PTE value, updating all implementations and call sites to
suit.

Includes a fix from Stephen Rothwell:

  sparc: fix fallout from update_mmu_cache API change

  Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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On VIVT ARM, when we have multiple shared mappings of the same file
in the same MM, we need to ensure that we have coherency across all
copies.  We do this via make_coherent() by making the pages
uncacheable.

This used to work fine, until we allowed highmem with highpte - we
now have a page table which is mapped as required, and is not available
for modification via update_mmu_cache().

Ralf Beache suggested getting rid of the PTE value passed to
update_mmu_cache():

  On MIPS update_mmu_cache() calls __update_tlb() which walks pagetables
  to construct a pointer to the pte again.  Passing a pte_t * is much
  more elegant.  Maybe we might even replace the pte argument with the
  pte_t?

Ben Herrenschmidt would also like the pte pointer for PowerPC:

  Passing the ptep in there is exactly what I want.  I want that
  -instead- of the PTE value, because I have issue on some ppc cases,
  for I$/D$ coherency, where set_pte_at() may decide to mask out the
  _PAGE_EXEC.

So, pass in the mapped page table pointer into update_mmu_cache(), and
remove the PTE value, updating all implementations and call sites to
suit.

Includes a fix from Stephen Rothwell:

  sparc: fix fallout from update_mmu_cache API change

  Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Fix potential crash with sys_move_pages</title>
<updated>2010-02-06T21:00:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-06T00:16:50+00:00</published>
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We incorrectly depended on the 'node_state/node_isset()' functions
testing the node range, rather than checking it explicitly.  That's not
reliable, even if it might often happen to work.  So do the proper
explicit test.

Reported-by: Marcus Meissner &lt;meissner@suse.de&gt;
Acked-and-tested-by: Brice Goglin &lt;Brice.Goglin@inria.fr&gt;
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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We incorrectly depended on the 'node_state/node_isset()' functions
testing the node range, rather than checking it explicitly.  That's not
reliable, even if it might often happen to work.  So do the proper
explicit test.

Reported-by: Marcus Meissner &lt;meissner@suse.de&gt;
Acked-and-tested-by: Brice Goglin &lt;Brice.Goglin@inria.fr&gt;
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>mm: remove unevictable_migrate_page function</title>
<updated>2009-12-15T16:53:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lee Schermerhorn</name>
<email>Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-15T01:59:54+00:00</published>
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unevictable_migrate_page() in mm/internal.h is a relic of the since
removed UNEVICTABLE_LRU Kconfig option.  This patch removes the function
and open codes the test in migrate_page_copy().

Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;lee.schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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unevictable_migrate_page() in mm/internal.h is a relic of the since
removed UNEVICTABLE_LRU Kconfig option.  This patch removes the function
and open codes the test in migrate_page_copy().

Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;lee.schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ksm: memory hotremove migration only</title>
<updated>2009-12-15T16:53:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-15T01:59:33+00:00</published>
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The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets
into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock
operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose
lock is to be used for that.  Another layer of locking would fix it, but
do we need that yet?

Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages?  Yes, memory hotremove
needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm
pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
candidates for migration.

But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages
from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use
MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA.  So no, NUMA page migration of
ksm pages does not make sense yet.

So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe.
ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and
release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE.  But if mapped pages
are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still
pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the
stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then
it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE.

And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved.
But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken
and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from
being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm
page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Izik Eidus &lt;ieidus@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The previous patch enables page migration of ksm pages, but that soon gets
into trouble: not surprising, since we're using the ksm page lock to lock
operations on its stable_node, but page migration switches the page whose
lock is to be used for that.  Another layer of locking would fix it, but
do we need that yet?

Do we actually need page migration of ksm pages?  Yes, memory hotremove
needs to offline sections of memory: and since we stopped allocating ksm
pages with GFP_HIGHUSER, they will tend to be GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
candidates for migration.

But KSM is currently unconscious of NUMA issues, happily merging pages
from different NUMA nodes: at present the rule must be, not to use
MADV_MERGEABLE where you care about NUMA.  So no, NUMA page migration of
ksm pages does not make sense yet.

So, to complete support for ksm swapping we need to make hotremove safe.
ksm_memory_callback() take ksm_thread_mutex when MEM_GOING_OFFLINE and
release it when MEM_OFFLINE or MEM_CANCEL_OFFLINE.  But if mapped pages
are freed before migration reaches them, stable_nodes may be left still
pointing to struct pages which have been removed from the system: the
stable_node needs to identify a page by pfn rather than page pointer, then
it can safely prune them when MEM_OFFLINE.

And make NUMA migration skip PageKsm pages where it skips PageReserved.
But it's only when we reach unmap_and_move() that the page lock is taken
and we can be sure that raised pagecount has prevented a PageAnon from
being upgraded: so add offlining arg to migrate_pages(), to migrate ksm
page when offlining (has sufficient locking) but reject it otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Izik Eidus &lt;ieidus@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ksm: rmap_walk to remove_migation_ptes</title>
<updated>2009-12-15T16:53:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-15T01:59:31+00:00</published>
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A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed
on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to
page migration.

Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and
rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c.  Perhaps some
consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet
(try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does
not).

rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like
remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling
page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which
fails when all migration ptes are in place.  That was valid when NUMA page
migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee
that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not
valid in the memory hotremove case added since.

For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that
unlikely race later on.  When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on
hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various
exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its
page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded).

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Izik Eidus &lt;ieidus@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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A side-effect of making ksm pages swappable is that they have to be placed
on the LRUs: which then exposes them to isolate_lru_page() and hence to
page migration.

Add rmap_walk() for remove_migration_ptes() to use: rmap_walk_anon() and
rmap_walk_file() in rmap.c, but rmap_walk_ksm() in ksm.c.  Perhaps some
consolidation with existing code is possible, but don't attempt that yet
(try_to_unmap needs to handle nonlinears, but migration pte removal does
not).

rmap_walk() is sadly less general than it appears: rmap_walk_anon(), like
remove_anon_migration_ptes() which it replaces, avoids calling
page_lock_anon_vma(), because that includes a page_mapped() test which
fails when all migration ptes are in place.  That was valid when NUMA page
migration was introduced (holding mmap_sem provided the missing guarantee
that anon_vma's slab had not already been destroyed), but I believe not
valid in the memory hotremove case added since.

For now do the same as before, and consider the best way to fix that
unlikely race later on.  When fixed, we can probably use rmap_walk() on
hwpoisoned ksm pages too: for now, they remain among hwpoison's various
exceptions (its PageKsm test comes before the page is locked, but its
page_lock_anon_vma fails safely if an anon gets upgraded).

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Izik Eidus &lt;ieidus@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: define PAGE_MAPPING_FLAGS</title>
<updated>2009-12-15T16:53:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-15T01:58:57+00:00</published>
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At present we define PageAnon(page) by the low PAGE_MAPPING_ANON bit set
in page-&gt;mapping, with the higher bits a pointer to the anon_vma; and have
defined PageKsm(page) as that with NULL anon_vma.

But KSM swapping will need to store a pointer there: so in preparation for
that, now define PAGE_MAPPING_FLAGS as the low two bits, including
PAGE_MAPPING_KSM (always set along with PAGE_MAPPING_ANON, until some
other use for the bit emerges).

Declare page_rmapping(page) to return the pointer part of page-&gt;mapping,
and page_anon_vma(page) to return the anon_vma pointer when that's what it
is.  Use these in a few appropriate places: notably, unuse_vma() has been
testing page-&gt;mapping, but is better to be testing page_anon_vma() (cases
may be added in which flag bits are set without any pointer).

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Izik Eidus &lt;ieidus@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@suse.de&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan.kim@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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At present we define PageAnon(page) by the low PAGE_MAPPING_ANON bit set
in page-&gt;mapping, with the higher bits a pointer to the anon_vma; and have
defined PageKsm(page) as that with NULL anon_vma.

But KSM swapping will need to store a pointer there: so in preparation for
that, now define PAGE_MAPPING_FLAGS as the low two bits, including
PAGE_MAPPING_KSM (always set along with PAGE_MAPPING_ANON, until some
other use for the bit emerges).

Declare page_rmapping(page) to return the pointer part of page-&gt;mapping,
and page_anon_vma(page) to return the anon_vma pointer when that's what it
is.  Use these in a few appropriate places: notably, unuse_vma() has been
testing page-&gt;mapping, but is better to be testing page_anon_vma() (cases
may be added in which flag bits are set without any pointer).

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Izik Eidus &lt;ieidus@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Nick Piggin &lt;npiggin@suse.de&gt;
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki &lt;kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Cc: Wu Fengguang &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Minchan Kim &lt;minchan.kim@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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