This is the third version of the patchset previously sent [1]. I have
basically only rebased it on top of 4.7-rc1 tree and dropped "dm: get
rid of superfluous gfp flags" which went through dm tree. I am sending
it now because it is tree wide and chances for conflicts are reduced
considerably when we want to target rc2. I plan to send the next step
and rename the flag and move to a better semantic later during this
release cycle so we will have a new semantic ready for 4.8 merge window
hopefully.
Motivation:
While working on something unrelated I've checked the current usage of
__GFP_REPEAT in the tree. It seems that a majority of the usage is and
always has been bogus because __GFP_REPEAT has always been about costly
high order allocations while we are using it for order-0 or very small
orders very often. It seems that a big pile of them is just a
copy&paste when a code has been adopted from one arch to another.
I think it makes some sense to get rid of them because they are just
making the semantic more unclear. Please note that GFP_REPEAT is
documented as
* __GFP_REPEAT: Try hard to allocate the memory, but the allocation attempt
* _might_ fail. This depends upon the particular VM implementation.
while !costly requests have basically nofail semantic. So one could
reasonably expect that order-0 request with __GFP_REPEAT will not loop
for ever. This is not implemented right now though.
I would like to move on with __GFP_REPEAT and define a better semantic
for it.
$ git grep __GFP_REPEAT origin/master | wc -l
111
$ git grep __GFP_REPEAT | wc -l
36
So we are down to the third after this patch series. The remaining
places really seem to be relying on __GFP_REPEAT due to large allocation
requests. This still needs some double checking which I will do later
after all the simple ones are sorted out.
I am touching a lot of arch specific code here and I hope I got it right
but as a matter of fact I even didn't compile test for some archs as I
do not have cross compiler for them. Patches should be quite trivial to
review for stupid compile mistakes though. The tricky parts are usually
hidden by macro definitions and thats where I would appreciate help from
arch maintainers.
[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461849846-27209-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
This patch (of 19):
__GFP_REPEAT has a rather weak semantic but since it has been introduced
around 2.6.12 it has been ignored for low order allocations. Yet we
have the full kernel tree with its usage for apparently order-0
allocations. This is really confusing because __GFP_REPEAT is
explicitly documented to allow allocation failures which is a weaker
semantic than the current order-0 has (basically nofail).
Let's simply drop __GFP_REPEAT from those places. This would allow to
identify place which really need allocator to retry harder and formulate
a more specific semantic for what the flag is supposed to do actually.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464599699-30131-2-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> [for tile]
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org>
Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In the file sun3_pgalloc.h we should remove #define_KERNPG_TABLE equals 0
as this define statement hasn't been used since kernel verison 2.5.18 and
is now no longer needed.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb()
Upcoming paches to support the new 64-bit "BookE" powerpc architecture
will need to have the virtual address corresponding to PTE page when
freeing it, due to the way the HW table walker works.
Basically, the TLB can be loaded with "large" pages that cover the whole
virtual space (well, sort-of, half of it actually) represented by a PTE
page, and which contain an "indirect" bit indicating that this TLB entry
RPN points to an array of PTEs from which the TLB can then create direct
entries. Thus, in order to invalidate those when PTE pages are deleted,
we need the virtual address to pass to tlbilx or tlbivax instructions.
The old trick of sticking it somewhere in the PTE page struct page sucks
too much, the address is almost readily available in all call sites and
almost everybody implemets these as macros, so we may as well add the
argument everywhere. I added it to the pmd and pud variants for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> [MN10300 & FRV]
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> [s390]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Merge header files for m68k and m68knommu to the single location:
arch/m68k/include/asm
The majority of this patch was the result of the
script that is included in the changelog below.
The script was originally written by Arnd Bergman and
exten by me to cover a few more files.
When the header files differed the script uses the following:
The original m68k file is named <file>_mm.h [mm for memory manager]
The m68knommu file is named <file>_no.h [no for no memory manager]
The files uses the following include guard:
This include gaurd works as the m68knommu toolchain set
the __uClinux__ symbol - so this should work in userspace too.
Merging the header files for m68k and m68knommu exposes the
(unexpected?) ABI differences thus it is easier to actually
identify these and thus to fix them.
The commit has been build tested with both a m68k and
a m68knommu toolchain - with success.
The commit has also been tested with "make headers_check"
and this patch fixes make headers_check for m68knommu.
The script used:
TARGET=arch/m68k/include/asm
SOURCE=arch/m68knommu/include/asm
INCLUDE="cachectl.h errno.h fcntl.h hwtest.h ioctls.h ipcbuf.h \
linkage.h math-emu.h md.h mman.h movs.h msgbuf.h openprom.h \
oplib.h poll.h posix_types.h resource.h rtc.h sembuf.h shmbuf.h \
shm.h shmparam.h socket.h sockios.h spinlock.h statfs.h stat.h \
termbits.h termios.h tlb.h types.h user.h"
EQUAL="auxvec.h cputime.h device.h emergency-restart.h futex.h \
ioctl.h irq_regs.h kdebug.h local.h mutex.h percpu.h \
sections.h topology.h"
NOMUUFILES="anchor.h bootstd.h coldfire.h commproc.h dbg.h \
elia.h flat.h m5206sim.h m520xsim.h m523xsim.h m5249sim.h \
m5272sim.h m527xsim.h m528xsim.h m5307sim.h m532xsim.h \
m5407sim.h m68360_enet.h m68360.h m68360_pram.h m68360_quicc.h \
m68360_regs.h MC68328.h MC68332.h MC68EZ328.h MC68VZ328.h \
mcfcache.h mcfdma.h mcfmbus.h mcfne.h mcfpci.h mcfpit.h \
mcfsim.h mcfsmc.h mcftimer.h mcfuart.h mcfwdebug.h \
nettel.h quicc_simple.h smp.h"
FILES="atomic.h bitops.h bootinfo.h bug.h bugs.h byteorder.h cache.h \
cacheflush.h checksum.h current.h delay.h div64.h \
dma-mapping.h dma.h elf.h entry.h fb.h fpu.h hardirq.h hw_irq.h io.h \
irq.h kmap_types.h machdep.h mc146818rtc.h mmu.h mmu_context.h \
module.h page.h page_offset.h param.h pci.h pgalloc.h \
pgtable.h processor.h ptrace.h scatterlist.h segment.h \
setup.h sigcontext.h siginfo.h signal.h string.h system.h swab.h \
thread_info.h timex.h tlbflush.h traps.h uaccess.h ucontext.h \
unaligned.h unistd.h"
mergefile() {
BASE=${1%.h}
git mv ${SOURCE}/$1 ${TARGET}/${BASE}_no.h
git mv ${TARGET}/$1 ${TARGET}/${BASE}_mm.h
cat << EOF > ${TARGET}/$1
EOF
git add ${TARGET}/$1
}
set -e
mkdir -p ${TARGET}
git mv include/asm-m68k/* ${TARGET}
rmdir include/asm-m68k
git rm ${SOURCE}/Kbuild
for F in $INCLUDE $EQUAL; do
git rm ${SOURCE}/$F
done
for F in $NOMUUFILES; do
git mv ${SOURCE}/$F ${TARGET}/$F
done
for F in $FILES ; do
mergefile $F
done
rmdir arch/m68knommu/include/asm
rmdir arch/m68knommu/include
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
