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Russell King
92a8cbed29 [PATCH] ARM: Remove explicit page-alignments in memory init
Since meminfo.bank[] array contains page-aligned start/size, we
no longer need to explicitly round up/down the addresses when
converting to PFNs.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-06-22 21:47:25 +01:00
Wolfgang Wander
1363c3cd86 [PATCH] Avoiding mmap fragmentation
Ingo recently introduced a great speedup for allocating new mmaps using the
free_area_cache pointer which boosts the specweb SSL benchmark by 4-5% and
causes huge performance increases in thread creation.

The downside of this patch is that it does lead to fragmentation in the
mmap-ed areas (visible via /proc/self/maps), such that some applications
that work fine under 2.4 kernels quickly run out of memory on any 2.6
kernel.

The problem is twofold:

  1) the free_area_cache is used to continue a search for memory where
     the last search ended.  Before the change new areas were always
     searched from the base address on.

     So now new small areas are cluttering holes of all sizes
     throughout the whole mmap-able region whereas before small holes
     tended to close holes near the base leaving holes far from the base
     large and available for larger requests.

  2) the free_area_cache also is set to the location of the last
     munmap-ed area so in scenarios where we allocate e.g.  five regions of
     1K each, then free regions 4 2 3 in this order the next request for 1K
     will be placed in the position of the old region 3, whereas before we
     appended it to the still active region 1, placing it at the location
     of the old region 2.  Before we had 1 free region of 2K, now we only
     get two free regions of 1K -> fragmentation.

The patch addresses thes issues by introducing yet another cache descriptor
cached_hole_size that contains the largest known hole size below the
current free_area_cache.  If a new request comes in the size is compared
against the cached_hole_size and if the request can be filled with a hole
below free_area_cache the search is started from the base instead.

The results look promising: Whereas 2.6.12-rc4 fragments quickly and my
(earlier posted) leakme.c test program terminates after 50000+ iterations
with 96 distinct and fragmented maps in /proc/self/maps it performs nicely
(as expected) with thread creation, Ingo's test_str02 with 20000 threads
requires 0.7s system time.

Taking out Ingo's patch (un-patch available per request) by basically
deleting all mentions of free_area_cache from the kernel and starting the
search for new memory always at the respective bases we observe: leakme
terminates successfully with 11 distinctive hardly fragmented areas in
/proc/self/maps but thread creating is gringdingly slow: 30+s(!) system
time for Ingo's test_str02 with 20000 threads.

Now - drumroll ;-) the appended patch works fine with leakme: it ends with
only 7 distinct areas in /proc/self/maps and also thread creation seems
sufficiently fast with 0.71s for 20000 threads.

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Wander <wwc@rentec.com>
Credit-to: "Richard Purdie" <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> (partly)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21 18:46:16 -07:00
Bellido Nicolas
038c5b6025 [PATCH] ARM: 2686/2: AAEC-2000 Core support
Patch from Bellido Nicolas

Core support for AAEC-2000 based platforms.
This is an updated version of the previous patch, and takes
into account Russell's comments.
AAED-2000 default configuration will follow as soon
as some problems with the bootloader are sorted out...

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Bellido
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-06-20 18:51:05 +01:00
Russell King
09f0551d20 [PATCH] ARM: Add iomap support for ARM
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-06-20 18:44:37 +01:00
Russell King
b8a9b66fbe [PATCH] ARM: Add common CACHE_COLOUR macro
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-06-20 11:31:09 +01:00
Russell King
8830f04a09 [PATCH] ARM: Fix delayed dcache flush for ARMv6 non-aliasing caches
flush_dcache_page() did nothing for these caches, but since they
suffer from I/D cache coherency issues, we need to ensure that data
is written back to RAM.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-06-20 09:51:03 +01:00
Russell King
4e71e47da3 [PATCH] ARM: Remove zero-byte sized file
Remove the remaining zero byte file left over from the Xscale
fixes.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-06-09 16:53:28 +01:00
Nicolas Pitre
dcef1f6346 [PATCH] ARM: 2664/2: add support for atomic ops on pre-ARMv6 SMP systems
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

Not that there might be many of them on the planet, but at least RMK
apparently has one.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-06-08 19:00:47 +01:00
Russell King
f8f98a9335 [PATCH] ARM: Fix Xscale copy_page implementation
The ARM copypage changes in 2.6.12-rc4-git1 removed the preempt locking
from the copypage functions which broke the XScale implementation.
This patch fixes the locking on XScale and removes the now unneeded
minicache code.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Checked-by: Richard Purdie
2005-06-08 15:28:24 +01:00
Russell King
8711a1b902 [PATCH] ARM: Fix build error
Mainline kernels don't have VECTORS_HIGH nor COPYPAGE_MINICACHE yet.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-05-16 23:36:22 +01:00
Nicolas Pitre
70489c88d0 [PATCH] ARM: 2680/1: refine TLS reg availability some more again
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

Not all ARMv6 processors implement the TLS register.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-05-12 19:27:12 +01:00
Nicolas Pitre
fa4354359f [PATCH] ARM: 2663/2: I can't type
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-05-10 17:36:29 +01:00
Russell King
8d802d28c2 [PATCH] ARM: Add V6 aliasing cache flush
Add cache flushing support for aliased V6 caches to
flush_dcache_page.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-05-10 17:31:43 +01:00
Russell King
08ee4e4c5f [PATCH] ARM: Use top_pmd for V6 copy/clear user_page
Remove needless page table walking for v6 page operations.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-05-10 17:30:47 +01:00
Russell King
d2bab05ac1 [PATCH] ARM: Move copy/clear user_page locking into implementation
Move the locking for copy_user_page() and clear_user_page() into
the implementations which require locking.  For simple memcpy/
memset based implementations, the locking is extra overhead which
is not necessary, and prevents preemption occuring.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-05-10 14:23:01 +01:00
Russell King
c4e1f6f6bf [PATCH] ARM: Add top_pmd, which points at the top-most page table
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-05-10 10:40:19 +01:00
Russell King
155bb14482 [PATCH] ARM: Add inline functions to find the pmd from virtual address
Add pmd_off() and pmd_off_k() to obtain the pmd pointer for a
virtual address, and use them throughout the mm initialisation.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-05-09 20:52:51 +01:00
Nicolas Pitre
4b0e07a556 [PATCH] ARM: 2663/1: straightify TLS register emulation a bit more
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

This better express things, and should cover RMK's weird SMP toys.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-05-05 23:24:45 +01:00
Nicolas Pitre
48af721540 [PATCH] ARM: 2662/1: missing "default y" for CONFIG_HAS_TLS_REG
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-05-03 22:57:56 +01:00
George G. Davis
ca315159df [PATCH] ARM: 2656/1: Access permission bits are wrong for kernel XIP sections on ARMv6
Patch from George G. Davis

This patch is required for kernel XIP support on ARMv6 machines.  It ensures that the access permission bits for kernel XIP section descriptors are APX=1 and AP[1:0]=01, which is Kernel read-only/User no access permissions.  Prior to this change, kernel XIP section descriptor access permissions were set to Kernel no access/User no access on ARMv6 machines and the kernel would therefore hang upon entry to userspace when set_fs(USER_DS) was executed.

Signed-off-by: Steve Longerbeam
Signed-off-by: George G. Davis
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-04-29 22:08:35 +01:00
Nicolas Pitre
2d2669b629 [PATCH] ARM: 2651/3: kernel helpers for NPTL support
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

This patch entirely reworks the kernel assistance for NPTL on ARM.
In particular this provides an efficient way to retrieve the TLS
value and perform atomic operations without any instruction emulation
nor special system call.  This even allows for pre ARMv6 binaries to
be forward compatible with SMP systems without any penalty.
The problematic and performance critical operations are performed
through segment of kernel provided user code reachable from user space
at a fixed address in kernel memory.  Those fixed entry points are
within the vector page so we basically get it for free as no extra
memory page is required and nothing else may be mapped at that
location anyway.
This is different from (but doesn't preclude) a full blown VDSO
implementation, however a VDSO would prevent some assembly tricks with
constants that allows for efficient branching to those code segments.
And since those code segments only use a few cycles before returning to
user code, the overhead of a VDSO far call would add a significant
overhead to such minimalistic operations.
The ARM_NR_set_tls syscall also changed number.  This is done for two
reasons:
1) this patch changes the way the TLS value was previously meant to be
   retrieved, therefore we ensure whatever library using the old way
   gets fixed (they only exist in private tree at the moment since the
   NPTL work is still progressing).
2) the previous number was allocated in a range causing an undefined
   instruction trap on kernels not supporting that syscall and it was
   determined that allocating it in a range returning -ENOSYS would be
   much nicer for libraries trying to determine if the feature is
   present or not.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-04-29 22:08:33 +01:00
George G. Davis
3a1e501511 [PATCH] ARM: 2655/1: ARM1136 SWP instruction abort handler fix
Patch from George G. Davis

As noted in http://www.arm.com/linux/patch-2.6.9-arm1.gz, the "Faulty SWP instruction on 1136 doesn't set bit 11 in DFSR." So the v6_early_abort handler does not report the correct rd/wr direction for the SWP instruction which may result in SEGVS or hangs. In order to work around this problem, this patch merely updates the fix contained in the ARM Ltd. patch to use the macroised abort handler fixups.

Signed-off-by: George G. Davis
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-04-29 22:08:33 +01:00
akpm@osdl.org
d42ce812b8 [PATCH] arm: add comment about max_low_pfn/max_pfn
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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>

Oddly, max_low_pfn/max_pfn end up being the number of pages in the system,
rather than the maximum PFN on ARM.  This doesn't seem to cause any problems,
so just add a note about it.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:23:57 -07:00
akpm@osdl.org
2d137c24e9 [PATCH] arm: fix SIGBUS handling
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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>

ARM wasn't raising a SIGBUS with a siginfo structure.  Fix
__do_user_fault() to allow us to use it for SIGBUS conditions, and arrange
for the sigbus path to use this.

We need to prevent the siginfo code being called if we do not have a user
space context to call it, so consolidate the "user_mode()" tests.

Thanks to Ian Campbell who spotted this oversight.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16 15:23:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00