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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
Pull powerpc update from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
"The main highlights this time around are:
- A pile of addition POWER8 bits and nits, such as updated
performance counter support (Michael Ellerman), new branch history
buffer support (Anshuman Khandual), base support for the new PCI
host bridge when not using the hypervisor (Gavin Shan) and other
random related bits and fixes from various contributors.
- Some rework of our page table format by Aneesh Kumar which fixes a
thing or two and paves the way for THP support. THP itself will
not make it this time around however.
- More Freescale updates, including Altivec support on the new e6500
cores, new PCI controller support, and a pile of new boards support
and updates.
- The usual batch of trivial cleanups & fixes"
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (156 commits)
powerpc: Fix build error for book3e
powerpc: Context switch the new EBB SPRs
powerpc: Turn on the EBB H/FSCR bits
powerpc: Replace CPU_FTR_BCTAR with CPU_FTR_ARCH_207S
powerpc: Setup BHRB instructions facility in HFSCR for POWER8
powerpc: Fix interrupt range check on debug exception
powerpc: Update tlbie/tlbiel as per ISA doc
powerpc: Print page size info during boot
powerpc: print both base and actual page size on hash failure
powerpc: Fix hpte_decode to use the correct decoding for page sizes
powerpc: Decode the pte-lp-encoding bits correctly.
powerpc: Use encode avpn where we need only avpn values
powerpc: Reduce PTE table memory wastage
powerpc: Move the pte free routines from common header
powerpc: Reduce the PTE_INDEX_SIZE
powerpc: Switch 16GB and 16MB explicit hugepages to a different page table format
powerpc: New hugepage directory format
powerpc: Don't truncate pgd_index wrongly
powerpc: Don't hard code the size of pte page
powerpc: Save DAR and DSISR in pt_regs on MCE
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull VFS updates from Al Viro,
Misc cleanups all over the place, mainly wrt /proc interfaces (switch
create_proc_entry to proc_create(), get rid of the deprecated
create_proc_read_entry() in favor of using proc_create_data() and
seq_file etc).
7kloc removed.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (204 commits)
don't bother with deferred freeing of fdtables
proc: Move non-public stuff from linux/proc_fs.h to fs/proc/internal.h
proc: Make the PROC_I() and PDE() macros internal to procfs
proc: Supply a function to remove a proc entry by PDE
take cgroup_open() and cpuset_open() to fs/proc/base.c
ppc: Clean up scanlog
ppc: Clean up rtas_flash driver somewhat
hostap: proc: Use remove_proc_subtree()
drm: proc: Use remove_proc_subtree()
drm: proc: Use minor->index to label things, not PDE->name
drm: Constify drm_proc_list[]
zoran: Don't print proc_dir_entry data in debug
reiserfs: Don't access the proc_dir_entry in r_open(), r_start() r_show()
proc: Supply an accessor for getting the data from a PDE's parent
airo: Use remove_proc_subtree()
rtl8192u: Don't need to save device proc dir PDE
rtl8187se: Use a dir under /proc/net/r8180/
proc: Add proc_mkdir_data()
proc: Move some bits from linux/proc_fs.h to linux/{of.h,signal.h,tty.h}
proc: Move PDE_NET() to fs/proc/proc_net.c
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Use common help functions to free reserved pages.
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The Kconfig symbol MAX_ACTIVE_REGIONS is unused. Commit
0ee332c1451869963626bf9cac88f165a90990e1 ("memblock: Kill
early_node_map[]") removed the only place were it was actually used. But
it did not remove its Kconfig entries (for powerpc and sh).
Remove those two entries (and the entry for metag, that popped up in
v3.9-rc1).
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
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The only part of proc_dir_entry the code outside of fs/proc
really cares about is PDE(inode)->data. Provide a helper
for that; static inline for now, eventually will be moved
to fs/proc, along with the knowledge of struct proc_dir_entry
layout.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs pile (part one) from Al Viro:
"Assorted stuff - cleaning namei.c up a bit, fixing ->d_name/->d_parent
locking violations, etc.
The most visible changes here are death of FS_REVAL_DOT (replaced with
"has ->d_weak_revalidate()") and a new helper getting from struct file
to inode. Some bits of preparation to xattr method interface changes.
Misc patches by various people sent this cycle *and* ocfs2 fixes from
several cycles ago that should've been upstream right then.
PS: the next vfs pile will be xattr stuff."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (46 commits)
saner proc_get_inode() calling conventions
proc: avoid extra pde_put() in proc_fill_super()
fs: change return values from -EACCES to -EPERM
fs/exec.c: make bprm_mm_init() static
ocfs2/dlm: use GFP_ATOMIC inside a spin_lock
ocfs2: fix possible use-after-free with AIO
ocfs2: Fix oops in ocfs2_fast_symlink_readpage() code path
get_empty_filp()/alloc_file() leave both ->f_pos and ->f_version zero
target: writev() on single-element vector is pointless
export kernel_write(), convert open-coded instances
fs: encode_fh: return FILEID_INVALID if invalid fid_type
kill f_vfsmnt
vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op
nfsd: handle vfs_getattr errors in acl protocol
switch vfs_getattr() to struct path
default SET_PERSONALITY() in linux/elf.h
ceph: prepopulate inodes only when request is aborted
d_hash_and_lookup(): export, switch open-coded instances
9p: switch v9fs_set_create_acl() to inode+fid, do it before d_instantiate()
9p: split dropping the acls from v9fs_set_create_acl()
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For removing memory, we need to remove page tables. But it depends on
architecture. So the patch introduce arch_remove_memory() for removing
page table. Now it only calls __remove_pages().
Note: __remove_pages() for some archtecuture is not implemented
(I don't know how to implement it for s390).
Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Cc: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com>
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Wu Jianguo <wujianguo@huawei.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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The CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL config item has not carried much meaning for a
while now and is almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the
Linux kernel summit, remove it from any "depends on" lines in Kconfigs.
CC: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
CC: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma
Pull Automatic NUMA Balancing bare-bones from Mel Gorman:
"There are three implementations for NUMA balancing, this tree
(balancenuma), numacore which has been developed in tip/master and
autonuma which is in aa.git.
In almost all respects balancenuma is the dumbest of the three because
its main impact is on the VM side with no attempt to be smart about
scheduling. In the interest of getting the ball rolling, it would be
desirable to see this much merged for 3.8 with the view to building
scheduler smarts on top and adapting the VM where required for 3.9.
The most recent set of comparisons available from different people are
mel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/9/108
mingo: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/7/331
tglx: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/437
srikar: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/397
The results are a mixed bag. In my own tests, balancenuma does
reasonably well. It's dumb as rocks and does not regress against
mainline. On the other hand, Ingo's tests shows that balancenuma is
incapable of converging for this workloads driven by perf which is bad
but is potentially explained by the lack of scheduler smarts. Thomas'
results show balancenuma improves on mainline but falls far short of
numacore or autonuma. Srikar's results indicate we all suffer on a
large machine with imbalanced node sizes.
My own testing showed that recent numacore results have improved
dramatically, particularly in the last week but not universally.
We've butted heads heavily on system CPU usage and high levels of
migration even when it shows that overall performance is better.
There are also cases where it regresses. Of interest is that for
specjbb in some configurations it will regress for lower numbers of
warehouses and show gains for higher numbers which is not reported by
the tool by default and sometimes missed in treports. Recently I
reported for numacore that the JVM was crashing with
NullPointerExceptions but currently it's unclear what the source of
this problem is. Initially I thought it was in how numacore batch
handles PTEs but I'm no longer think this is the case. It's possible
numacore is just able to trigger it due to higher rates of migration.
These reports were quite late in the cycle so I/we would like to start
with this tree as it contains much of the code we can agree on and has
not changed significantly over the last 2-3 weeks."
* tag 'balancenuma-v11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma: (50 commits)
mm/rmap, migration: Make rmap_walk_anon() and try_to_unmap_anon() more scalable
mm/rmap: Convert the struct anon_vma::mutex to an rwsem
mm: migrate: Account a transhuge page properly when rate limiting
mm: numa: Account for failed allocations and isolations as migration failures
mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case build fix
mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case.
mm: sched: numa: Delay PTE scanning until a task is scheduled on a new node
mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing if !SCHED_DEBUG
mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing
mm: sched: Adapt the scanning rate if a NUMA hinting fault does not migrate
mm: numa: Use a two-stage filter to restrict pages being migrated for unlikely task<->node relationships
mm: numa: migrate: Set last_nid on newly allocated page
mm: numa: split_huge_page: Transfer last_nid on tail page
mm: numa: Introduce last_nid to the page frame
sched: numa: Slowly increase the scanning period as NUMA faults are handled
mm: numa: Rate limit setting of pte_numa if node is saturated
mm: numa: Rate limit the amount of memory that is migrated between nodes
mm: numa: Structures for Migrate On Fault per NUMA migration rate limiting
mm: numa: Migrate pages handled during a pmd_numa hinting fault
mm: numa: Migrate on reference policy
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out_of_memory() is a globally defined function to call the oom killer.
x86, sh, and powerpc all use a function of the same name within file scope
in their respective fault.c unnecessarily. Inline the functions into the
pagefault handlers to clean the code up.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
"About half of most of MM. Going very early this time due to
uncertainty over the coreautounifiednumasched things. I'll send the
other half of most of MM tomorrow. The rest of MM awaits a slab merge
from Pekka."
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton: (71 commits)
memory_hotplug: ensure every online node has NORMAL memory
memory_hotplug: handle empty zone when online_movable/online_kernel
mm, memory-hotplug: dynamic configure movable memory and portion memory
drivers/base/node.c: cleanup node_state_attr[]
bootmem: fix wrong call parameter for free_bootmem()
avr32, kconfig: remove HAVE_ARCH_BOOTMEM
mm: cma: remove watermark hacks
mm: cma: skip watermarks check for already isolated blocks in split_free_page()
mm, oom: fix race when specifying a thread as the oom origin
mm, oom: change type of oom_score_adj to short
mm: cleanup register_node()
mm, mempolicy: remove duplicate code
mm/vmscan.c: try_to_freeze() returns boolean
mm: introduce putback_movable_pages()
virtio_balloon: introduce migration primitives to balloon pages
mm: introduce compaction and migration for ballooned pages
mm: introduce a common interface for balloon pages mobility
mm: redefine address_space.assoc_mapping
mm: adjust address_space_operations.migratepage() return code
arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c: s/COLOUR/COLOR/
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Update the sh arch_get_unmapped_area[_topdown] functions to make use of
vm_unmapped_area() instead of implementing a brute force search.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove now-unused COLOUR_ALIGN_DOWN()]
Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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NOTE: This patch is based on "sched, numa, mm: Add fault driven
placement and migration policy" but as it throws away all the policy
to just leave a basic foundation I had to drop the signed-offs-by.
This patch creates a bare-bones method for setting PTEs pte_numa in the
context of the scheduler that when faulted later will be faulted onto the
node the CPU is running on. In itself this does nothing useful but any
placement policy will fundamentally depend on receiving hints on placement
from fault context and doing something intelligent about it.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
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This patch fixes the /dev/mem driver to use phys_addr_t for physical
addresses. This is required on PAE systems, especially those that run
entirely out of >4G physical memory space.
Signed-off-by: Cyril Chemparathy <cyril@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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.fault now can retry. The retry can break state machine of .fault. In
filemap_fault, if page is miss, ra->mmap_miss is increased. In the second
try, since the page is in page cache now, ra->mmap_miss is decreased. And
these are done in one fault, so we can't detect random mmap file access.
Add a new flag to indicate .fault is tried once. In the second try, skip
ra->mmap_miss decreasing. The filemap_fault state machine is ok with it.
I only tested x86, didn't test other archs, but looks the change for other
archs is obvious, but who knows :)
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@fusionio.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Presently the oops code looks for the pgd either from the mm context or
the cached TTB value. There are presently cases where the TTB can be
unset or otherwise cleared by hardware, which we weren't handling,
resulting in recursive faults on the NULL pgd. In these cases we can
simply reload from swapper_pg_dir and continue on as normal.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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WARNING: vmlinux.o(.cpuinit.text+0x280): Section mismatch in reference from the function cpu_probe() to the function .init.text:sh64_tlb_init()
The function __cpuinit cpu_probe() references
a function __init sh64_tlb_init().
If sh64_tlb_init is only used by cpu_probe then
annotate sh64_tlb_init with a matching annotation.
sh64_tlb_init() simply needs to be __cpuinit annotated, so fix that up.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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With the previous attempt reverted this switches to conditionalizing the
end address. Nominally VMALLOC_END, but extended for P3_ADDR_MAX in the
store queue case.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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This reverts commit 20e7c297efeca0861adcca073a0d283da659834b.
With store queues enabled the area above P4SEG has special properties
from the MMU's point of view, which was causing fixmap failure. We'll
have to do something else to satisfy the vmalloc range check.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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The SSR.MD status amongst other things are already made available, which
can be used for encoding a more precise fault code value.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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This unifies the fast-path TLB miss handler, allowing for further cleanup
and eventual utilization of a shared _32/_64 handler.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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Now that the fast-path handler has been moved, we also need to update the
Makefile to ensure that the same restrictions for caller-save registers
are observed.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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This brings the sh64 version in line with the sh32 one with regards to
how errors are handled. Base work for further unification of the
implementations.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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Now that we have a method for finding out if we're handling an ITLB fault
or not without passing it all the way down the chain, it's possible to
use the __update_tlb() interface in place of a special __do_tlb_refill().
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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This moves the now generic _32 page fault handling code to a shared place
and adapts the _64 implementation to make use of it.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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This was reworked some time ago to go through fixmaps instead, leaving
the range itself unused. As such, kill off the remaining references and
hand over the remaining space for fixmaps directly. This also makes it
possible to simplify the vmalloc fault case as we no longer have to care
about the special section.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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At the moment the top of the fixmap space is calculated from P4SEG, which
places it at the end of the store queue space when that API is enabled.
Make sure we use P3_ADDR_MAX here instead to find the proper address
limit. With this done, it's also possible to switch to the generic
vmalloc address range check now that VMALLOC_START/END encapsulate the
translatable areas that we care about.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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This plugs in fault code encoding for the sh64 page fault, too.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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This provides a simple interface modelled after sparc64/m32r to encode
the error code in the upper byte of thread_info for finer-grained
handling in the page fault path.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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This follows the x86 changes for tidying up the page fault error paths.
We'll build on top of this for _32/_64 unification.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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While the trap number and error code are passed around for debugging
purposes, this occurs wholly independently of the thread struct values.
These values were never part of the sigcontext ABI and are thus never
passed anywhere, so we can just kill them off across the board.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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In some cases the opps error reporting doesn't give enough information
to diagnose the problem, only printing information if it is thought
to be valid. Replace the current code with more detailed output.
This code is based on the ARM reporting, with minor changes for the SH.
[lethal@linux-sh.org: fixed up for 64-bit PTEs and pte_offset_kernel()]
Signed-off-by: Stuart Menefy <stuart.menefy@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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The problem is caused by the interaction of two features in the Linux
memory management code.
A processes address space is described by a struct mm_struct, and
every thread has a pointer to the mm it should run in. The exception
to this are kernel threads, which don't have an mm, and so borrow
the mm from the last thread which ran. The system is bootstrapped
by the initial kernel thread using init's mm (even though init hasn't
been created yet, its mm is the static init_mm).
The other feature is how the kernel handles the page table which
describes the portion of the address space which is only visible when
executing inside the kernel, and which is shared by all threads. On
the SH4 the only portion of the kernel's address space which described
using the page table is called P3, from 0xc0000000 to 0xdfffffff. This
portion of the address space is divided into three:
- mappings for dma_alloc_coherent()
- mappings for vmalloc() and ioremap()
- fixmap mappings, primarily used in copy_user_pages() to create
kernel mappings of user pages with the correct cache colour.
To optimise the TLB miss handler we don't want to add an additional
condition which checks whether the faulting address is in the user or
the kernel portion of the address space, and so all page tables have a
common portion which describes the kernel part of the address
space. As the SH4 uses a two level page table, only the kernel portion
of first level page table (the pgd entries) is duplicated. These all
point to the same second level entries (the pte's), and so no memory
is wasted.
The reference page table for the kernel is called the swapper_pg_dir,
and when a new page table is created for a new process the kernel
portion of the page table is copied from swapper_pg_dir. This works
fine when changes only occur in the second level of the kernel's page
table, or the first level entries are created before any new user
processes. However if a change occurs to the first level of the page
table, and there are existing processes which don't have this entry in
their page table, this new entry needs to be added. This is done on
demand, when the kernel accesses a P3 address which isn't mapped using
the current page table, the code in vmalloc_fault() copies the entry
from the reference page table (swapper_pg_dir) into the current
processes page table.
The bug which this patch addresses is that the code in vmalloc_fault()
was not copying addresses which fell in the dma_alloc_coherent()
portion of the address space, and it should have been copying any P3
address.
Why we hadn't seen this before, and what made this hard to reproduce,
is that normally the kernel will have called dma_alloc_coherent(), and
accessed the memory mapping created, before any user process
runs. Typically drivers such as USB or SATA will have created and used
mappings of this type during the kernel initialisation, when probing
for the attached devices, before init runs. Ethernet is slightly
different, as it normally only creates and accesses
dma_alloc_coherent() mappings when the network is brought up, but if
kernel level IP configuration is used this will also occur before any
user space process runs. So the first reproduction of this problem
which we saw was occurred when USB and SATA were removed from the
kernel, and then bring up Ethernet from user space using ifconfig.
I'd like to thank Joseph Bormolini who did the hard work reducing the
problem to this simple to reproduce criteria.
In your case the situation is slightly different, and turns out to
depends on the exact kernel configuration (which we had) and your
ramdisk contents (which we didn't - hence the need for some assumptions).
In this case the problem is a side effect of kernel level module
loading. Kernel subsystems sometimes trigger the load of kernel
modules directly, for example the crypto subsystem tries to load the
cryptomgr and MTD tries to load modules for Flash partitioning if
these are not built into the kernel. This is done by the kernel
creating a user process which runs insmod to try and load the
appropriate module.
In order for this to cause problems the system must be running with a
initrd or initramfs, which contains an insmod executable - if the
kernel can't find an insmod to run, no user process is created, and
the problem doesn't occur. If an insmod is found, a process is
created to run it, which will inherit the kernel portion of the
swapper_pg_dir first level page table. It doesn't matter whether the
inmod is successful or not, but when the the kernel scheduler context
switches back to the kernel initialisation thread, the insmod's mm is
'borrowed' by the kernel thread, as it doesn't have an address space
of its own. (Reference counting is used to ensure this mm is not
destroyed, even though the user process which caused its creation may no
longer exist.) If this address space doesn't have a first level page
table entry for the consistent mappings, and a driver tries to access
such a mapping, we are in the same situation as described above,
except this time in a kernel thread rather than a user thread
executing inside the kernel.
See bugzilla: 15425, 15836, 15862, 16106, 16793
Signed-off-by: Stuart Menefy <stuart.menefy@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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In the future we'll be unifying some of the 32/64 page fault path, so
start to tidy up the _64 one by killing off some of the unused debug
cruft.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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Reflect the sh32 OOM changes for the sh64 page fault handler, too.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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Commit d065bd810b6deb67d4897a14bfe21f8eb526ba99
(mm: retry page fault when blocking on disk transfer) and
commit 37b23e0525d393d48a7d59f870b3bc061a30ccdb
(x86,mm: make pagefault killable)
The above commits introduced changes into the x86 pagefault handler
for making the page fault handler retryable as well as killable.
These changes reduce the mmap_sem hold time, which is crucial
during OOM killer invocation.
Port these changes to the 32-bit SH platform.
Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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Pull SuperH fixes from Paul Mundt.
* tag 'sh-for-linus' of git://github.com/pmundt/linux-sh:
sh: fix clock-sh7757 for the latest sh_mobile_sdhi driver
serial: sh-sci: use serial_port_in/out vs sci_in/out.
sh: vsyscall: Fix up .eh_frame generation.
sh: dma: Fix up device attribute mismatch from sysdev fallout.
sh: dwarf unwinder depends on SHcompact.
sh: fix up fallout from system.h disintegration.
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git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping
Pull DMA mapping branch from Marek Szyprowski:
"Short summary for the whole series:
A few limitations have been identified in the current dma-mapping
design and its implementations for various architectures. There exist
more than one function for allocating and freeing the buffers:
currently these 3 are used dma_{alloc, free}_coherent,
dma_{alloc,free}_writecombine, dma_{alloc,free}_noncoherent.
For most of the systems these calls are almost equivalent and can be
interchanged. For others, especially the truly non-coherent ones
(like ARM), the difference can be easily noticed in overall driver
performance. Sadly not all architectures provide implementations for
all of them, so the drivers might need to be adapted and cannot be
easily shared between different architectures. The provided patches
unify all these functions and hide the differences under the already
existing dma attributes concept. The thread with more references is
available here:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-sh/msg09777.html
These patches are also a prerequisite for unifying DMA-mapping
implementation on ARM architecture with the common one provided by
dma_map_ops structure and extending it with IOMMU support. More
information is available in the following thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cross-arch/12819
More works on dma-mapping framework are planned, especially in the
area of buffer sharing and managing the shared mappings (together with
the recently introduced dma_buf interface: commit d15bd7ee445d
"dma-buf: Introduce dma buffer sharing mechanism").
The patches in the current set introduce a new alloc/free methods
(with support for memory attributes) in dma_map_ops structure, which
will later replace dma_alloc_coherent and dma_alloc_writecombine
functions."
People finally started piping up with support for merging this, so I'm
merging it as the last of the pending stuff from the merge window.
Looks like pohmelfs is going to wait for 3.5 and more external support
for merging.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping:
common: DMA-mapping: add NON-CONSISTENT attribute
common: DMA-mapping: add WRITE_COMBINE attribute
common: dma-mapping: introduce mmap method
common: dma-mapping: remove old alloc_coherent and free_coherent methods
Hexagon: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
Unicore32: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
Microblaze: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
SH: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
Alpha: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
SPARC: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
PowerPC: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
MIPS: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
X86 & IA64: adapt for dma_map_ops changes
common: dma-mapping: introduce generic alloc() and free() methods
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Quite a bit of fallout all over the place, nothing terribly exciting.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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Disintegrate asm/system.h for SH.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
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Adapt core SH architecture code for dma_map_ops changes: replace
alloc/free_coherent with generic alloc/free methods.
Signed-off-by: Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
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Signed-off-by: Phil Edworthy <phil.edworthy@renesas.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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The cache functions lock out interrupts for long periods; this patch
reduces the impact when operating on large address ranges. In such
cases it will:
- Invalidate the entire cache rather than individual addresses.
- Do nothing when flushing the operand cache in write-through mode.
- When flushing the operand cache in write-back mdoe, index the
search for matching addresses on the cache entires instead of the
addresses to flush
Note: sh2a__flush_purge_region was only invalidating the operand
cache, this adds flush.
Signed-off-by: Phil Edworthy <phil.edworthy@renesas.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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Now all ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP archs select HAVE_MEBLOCK_NODE_MAP -
there's no user of early_node_map[] left. Kill early_node_map[] and
replace ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP with HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP. Also,
relocate for_each_mem_pfn_range() and helper from mm.h to memblock.h
as page_alloc.c would no longer host an alternative implementation.
This change is ultimately one to one mapping and shouldn't cause any
observable difference; however, after the recent changes, there are
some functions which now would fit memblock.c better than page_alloc.c
and dependency on HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP instead of HAVE_MEMBLOCK
doesn't make much sense on some of them. Further cleanups for
functions inside HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP in mm.h would be nice.
-v2: Fix compile bug introduced by mis-spelling
CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP to CONFIG_MEMBLOCK_HAVE_NODE_MAP in
mmzone.h. Reported by Stephen Rothwell.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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The only function of memblock_analyze() is now allowing resize of
memblock region arrays. Rename it to memblock_allow_resize() and
update its users.
* The following users remain the same other than renaming.
arm/mm/init.c::arm_memblock_init()
microblaze/kernel/prom.c::early_init_devtree()
powerpc/kernel/prom.c::early_init_devtree()
openrisc/kernel/prom.c::early_init_devtree()
sh/mm/init.c::paging_init()
sparc/mm/init_64.c::paging_init()
unicore32/mm/init.c::uc32_memblock_init()
* In the following users, analyze was used to update total size which
is no longer necessary.
powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c::reserve_crashkernel()
powerpc/kernel/prom.c::early_init_devtree()
powerpc/mm/init_32.c::MMU_init()
powerpc/mm/tlb_nohash.c::__early_init_mmu()
powerpc/platforms/ps3/mm.c::ps3_mm_add_memory()
powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/wii.c::wii_memory_fixups()
sh/kernel/machine_kexec.c::reserve_crashkernel()
* x86/kernel/e820.c::memblock_x86_fill() was directly setting
memblock_can_resize before populating memblock and calling analyze
afterwards. Call memblock_allow_resize() before start populating.
memblock_can_resize is now static inside memblock.c.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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memblock_init() initializes arrays for regions and memblock itself;
however, all these can be done with struct initializers and
memblock_init() can be removed. This patch kills memblock_init() and
initializes memblock with struct initializer.
The only difference is that the first dummy entries don't have .nid
set to MAX_NUMNODES initially. This doesn't cause any behavior
difference.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux
* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
of_platform.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
device_cgroup.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
net: sch_generic remove redundant use of <linux/module.h>
net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need <linux/module.h>
...
Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
- drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
- drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
- drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
- include/linux/dmaengine.h
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