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Author SHA1 Message Date
Linus Torvalds
1f0324caef Merge branch 'stable/bug-fixes-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen
* 'stable/bug-fixes-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
  xen/setup: Route halt operations to safe_halt pvop.
  xen/e820: Guard against E820_RAM not having page-aligned size or start.
  xen/p2m: Mark INVALID_P2M_ENTRY the mfn_list past max_pfn.
2011-01-28 12:24:34 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
f7b548fa3d Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  percpu, x86: Fix percpu_xchg_op()
  x86: Remove left over system_64.h
  x86-64: Don't use pointer to out-of-scope variable in dump_trace()
2011-01-28 06:43:41 +10:00
Stefano Stabellini
23febeddbe xen/setup: Route halt operations to safe_halt pvop.
With this patch, the cpuidle driver does not load and
does not issue the mwait operations. Instead the hypervisor
is doing them (b/c we call the safe_halt pvops call).

This fixes quite a lot of bootup issues wherein the user had
to force interrupts for the continuation of the bootup.

Details are discussed in:

http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-01/msg00535.html

[v2: Wrote the commit description]

Reported-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Tested-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-01-27 12:00:24 -05:00
Stefano Stabellini
7cb31b752c xen/e820: Guard against E820_RAM not having page-aligned size or start.
Under Dell Inspiron 1525, and Intel SandyBridge SDP's the
BIOS e820 RAM is not page-aligned:

[   0.000000]  Xen: 0000000000100000 - 00000000df66d800 (usable)

We were not handling that and ended up setting up a pagetable
that included up to df66e000 with the disastrous effect that when

        memset(NODE_DATA(nodeid), 0, sizeof(pg_data_t));

tried to clear the page it would crash at the 2K mark.

Initially reported by Michael Young @
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2011-01/msg00108.html

The fix is to page-align the size and also take into consideration
the start of the E820 (in case that is not page-aligned either). This
fixes the bootup failure on those affected machines.

This patch is a rework of the Micheal A Young initial patch and
considers the case if the start is not page-aligned.

Reported-by: Michael A Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael A Young <m.a.young@durham.ac.uk>
2011-01-27 10:49:35 -05:00
Stefan Bader
cf04d120d9 xen/p2m: Mark INVALID_P2M_ENTRY the mfn_list past max_pfn.
In case the mfn_list does not have enough entries to fill
a p2m page we do not want the entries from max_pfn up to
the boundary to be filled with unknown values. Hence
set them to INVALID_P2M_ENTRY.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-01-27 10:49:34 -05:00
Eric Dumazet
889a7a6a5d percpu, x86: Fix percpu_xchg_op()
These recent percpu commits:

  2485b6464c: x86,percpu: Move out of place 64 bit ops into X86_64 section
  8270137a0d: cpuops: Use cmpxchg for xchg to avoid lock semantics

Caused this 'perf top' crash:

 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
 Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G     D
 2.6.38-rc2-00181-gef71723 #413 Call Trace: <IRQ> [<ffffffff810465b5>]
    ? panic
    ? kmsg_dump
    ? kmsg_dump
    ? oops_end
    ? no_context
    ? __bad_area_nosemaphore
    ? perf_output_begin
    ? bad_area_nosemaphore
    ? do_page_fault
    ? __task_pid_nr_ns
    ? perf_event_tid
    ? __perf_event_header__init_id
    ? validate_chain
    ? perf_output_sample
    ? trace_hardirqs_off
    ? page_fault
    ? irq_work_run
    ? update_process_times
    ? tick_sched_timer
    ? tick_sched_timer
    ? __run_hrtimer
    ? hrtimer_interrupt
    ? account_system_vtime
    ? smp_apic_timer_interrupt
    ? apic_timer_interrupt
 ...

Looking at assembly code, I found:

list = this_cpu_xchg(irq_work_list, NULL);

gives this wrong code : (gcc-4.1.2 cross compiler)

ffffffff810bc45e:
	mov    %gs:0xead0,%rax
	cmpxchg %rax,%gs:0xead0
	jne    ffffffff810bc45e <irq_work_run+0x3e>
	test   %rax,%rax
	je     ffffffff810bc4aa <irq_work_run+0x8a>

Tell gcc we dirty eax/rax register in percpu_xchg_op()

Compiler must use another register to store pxo_new__

We also dont need to reload percpu value after a jump,
since a 'failed' cmpxchg already updated eax/rax

Wrong generated code was :
	xor     %rax,%rax   /* load 0 into %rax */
1:	mov     %gs:0xead0,%rax
	cmpxchg %rax,%gs:0xead0
	jne     1b
	test    %rax,%rax

After patch :

	xor     %rdx,%rdx   /* load 0 into %rdx */
	mov     %gs:0xead0,%rax
1:	cmpxchg %rdx,%gs:0xead0
	jne     1b:
	test    %rax,%rax

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <1295973114.3588.312.camel@edumazet-laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-26 08:10:49 +01:00
Yinghai Lu
9a57c3e487 x86: Remove left over system_64.h
Left-over from the x86 merge ...

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4D3E23D1.7010405@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-26 08:05:58 +01:00
Andrea Arcangeli
cacf061c5e thp: fix PARAVIRT x86 32bit noPAE
This fixes TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE=y with PARAVIRT=y and HIGHMEM64=n.

The #ifdef that this patch removes was erratically introduced to fix a
build error for noPAE (where pmd.pmd doesn't exist).  So then the kernel
built but it failed at runtime because set_pmd_at was a noop.  This will
correct it by enabling set_pmd_at for noPAE mode too.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reported-by: werner <w.landgraf@ru.ru>
Reported-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-26 10:49:57 +10:00
Jesper Juhl
2e5aa6824d x86-64: Don't use pointer to out-of-scope variable in dump_trace()
In arch/x86/kernel/dumpstack_64.c::dump_trace() we have this code:

...
  		if (!stack) {
  			unsigned long dummy;
  			stack = &dummy;
  			if (task && task != current)
  				stack = (unsigned long *)task->thread.sp;
  		}

  		bp = stack_frame(task, regs);
  		/*
  		 * Print function call entries in all stacks, starting at the
  		 * current stack address. If the stacks consist of nested
  		 * exceptions
  		 */
  		tinfo = task_thread_info(task);

  		for (;;) {
  			char *id;
  			unsigned long *estack_end;
  			estack_end = in_exception_stack(cpu, (unsigned long)stack,
  							&used, &id);
...

You'll notice that we assign to 'stack' the address of the variable
'dummy' which is only in-scope inside the 'if (!stack)'. So when we later
access stack (at the end of the above, and assuming we did not take the
'if (task && task != current)' branch) we'll be using the address of a
variable that is no longer in scope. I believe this patch is the proper
fix, but I freely admit that I'm not 100% certain.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1101242232590.10252@swampdragon.chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-01-24 13:46:15 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
4398f31ca7 Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: Fix jump label with RO/NX module protection crash
  x86, hotplug: Fix powersavings with offlined cores on AMD
  x86, mcheck, therm_throt.c: Export symbol platform_thermal_notify to allow coretemp to handler intr
  x86: Use asm-generic/cacheflush.h
  x86: Update CPU cache attributes table descriptors
2011-01-25 05:24:12 +10:00
matthieu castet
8969691343 x86: Fix jump label with RO/NX module protection crash
If we use jump table in module init, there are marked
as removed in __jump_table section after init is done.

But we already applied ro permissions on the module, so
we can't modify a read only section (crash in
remove_jump_label_module_init).

Make the __jump_table section rw.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Cc: Xiaotian Feng <xtfeng@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Siarhei Liakh <sliakh.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Xuxian Jiang <jiang@cs.ncsu.edu>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4D3C3F20.7030203@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-23 16:12:45 +01:00
Borislav Petkov
93789b32db x86, hotplug: Fix powersavings with offlined cores on AMD
ea53069231 made a CPU use monitor/mwait
when offline. This is not the optimal choice for AMD wrt to powersavings
and we'd prefer our cores to halt (i.e. enter C1) instead. For this, the
same selection whether to use monitor/mwait has to be used as when we
select the idle routine for the machine.

With this patch, offlining cores 1-5 on a X6 machine allows core0 to
boost again.

[ hpa: putting this in urgent since it is a (power) regression fix ]

Reported-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 37.x
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.hl>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
LKML-Reference: <1295534572-10730-1-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-01-21 18:14:54 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
ebe0d80507 Merge branch 'fixes-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'fixes-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  x86,percpu: Move out of place 64 bit ops into X86_64 section
2011-01-21 13:43:21 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
cfd74486ea Merge branch 'stable/bug-fixes-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen
* 'stable/bug-fixes-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
  xen: p2m: correctly initialize partial p2m leaf
  xen: fix non-ANSI function warning in irq.c
2011-01-21 13:35:10 -08:00
Stefan Bader
8e1b4cf210 xen: p2m: correctly initialize partial p2m leaf
After changing the p2m mapping to a tree by

  commit 58e05027b5
    xen: convert p2m to a 3 level tree

and trying to boot a DomU with 615MB of memory, the following crash was
observed in the dump:

kernel direct mapping tables up to 26f00000 @ 1ec4000-1fff000
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
IP: [<c0107397>] xen_set_pte+0x27/0x60
*pdpt = 0000000000000000 *pde = 0000000000000000

Adding further debug statements showed that when trying to set up
pfn=0x26700 the returned mapping was invalid.

pfn=0x266ff calling set_pte(0xc1fe77f8, 0x6b3003)
pfn=0x26700 calling set_pte(0xc1fe7800, 0x3)

Although the last_pfn obtained from the startup info is 0x26700, which
should in turn not be hit, the additional 8MB which are added as extra
memory normally seem to be ok. This lead to looking into the initial
p2m tree construction, which uses the smaller value and assuming that
there is other code handling the extra memory.

When the p2m tree is set up, the leaves are directly pointed to the
array which the domain builder set up. But if the mapping is not on a
boundary that fits into one p2m page, this will result in the last leaf
being only partially valid. And as the invalid entries are not
initialized in that case, things go badly wrong.

I am trying to fix that by checking whether the current leaf is a
complete map and if not, allocate a completely new page and copy only
the valid pointers there. This may not be the most efficient or elegant
solution, but at least it seems to allow me booting DomUs with memory
assignments all over the range.

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/686692
[v2: Redid a bit of commit wording and fixed a compile warning]

Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-01-21 11:24:14 -05:00
Fenghua Yu
f21bbec9ff x86, mcheck, therm_throt.c: Export symbol platform_thermal_notify to allow coretemp to handler intr
In therm_throt.c, commit
9e76a97efd patch doesn't export
the symbol platform_thermal_notify.

Other drivers (e.g. drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c) can not find the
symbol platform_thermal_notify when defining threshould
interrupt handler.

Please apply this patch to allow threshold interrupt handler in
coretemp.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: R Durgadoss <durgadoss.r@intel.com>
Cc: khali@linux-fr.org <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org <lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110121041239.GB26954@linux-os.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-21 14:11:12 +01:00
Akinobu Mita
cc67ba6352 x86: Use asm-generic/cacheflush.h
The implementation of the cache flushing interfaces on the x86
is identical with the default implementation in asm-generic.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
LKML-Reference: <1295523136-4277-2-git-send-email-akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-21 14:11:12 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
2b1caf6ed7 Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  smp: Allow on_each_cpu() to be called while early_boot_irqs_disabled status to init/main.c
  lockdep: Move early boot local IRQ enable/disable status to init/main.c
2011-01-20 18:30:37 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
8d99641f6c Merge branch 'akpm'
* akpm:
  kernel/smp.c: consolidate writes in smp_call_function_interrupt()
  kernel/smp.c: fix smp_call_function_many() SMP race
  memcg: correctly order reading PCG_USED and pc->mem_cgroup
  backlight: fix 88pm860x_bl macro collision
  drivers/leds/ledtrig-gpio.c: make output match input, tighten input checking
  MAINTAINERS: update Atmel AT91 entry
  mm: fix truncate_setsize() comment
  memcg: fix rmdir, force_empty with THP
  memcg: fix LRU accounting with THP
  memcg: fix USED bit handling at uncharge in THP
  memcg: modify accounting function for supporting THP better
  fs/direct-io.c: don't try to allocate more than BIO_MAX_PAGES in a bio
  mm: compaction: prevent division-by-zero during user-requested compaction
  mm/vmscan.c: remove duplicate include of compaction.h
  memblock: fix memblock_is_region_memory()
  thp: keep highpte mapped until it is no longer needed
  kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT
2011-01-20 17:02:14 -08:00
David Rientjes
6a108a14fa kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT
The meaning of CONFIG_EMBEDDED has long since been obsoleted; the option
is used to configure any non-standard kernel with a much larger scope than
only small devices.

This patch renames the option to CONFIG_EXPERT in init/Kconfig and fixes
references to the option throughout the kernel.  A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED
option is added that automatically selects CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and
can be used in the future to isolate options that should only be
considered for embedded systems (RISC architectures, SLOB, etc).

Calling the option "EXPERT" more accurately represents its intention: only
expert users who understand the impact of the configuration changes they
are making should enable it.

Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <david.woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-20 17:02:05 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
e55fdbd741 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
  virtio: remove virtio-pci root device
  LGUEST_GUEST: fix unmet direct dependencies (VIRTUALIZATION && VIRTIO)
  lguest: compile fixes
  lguest: Use this_cpu_ops
  lguest: document --rng in example Launcher
  lguest: example launcher to use guard pages, drop PROT_EXEC, fix limit logic
  lguest: --username and --chroot options
2011-01-20 16:31:20 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
7d81c3b9e2 xen: fix non-ANSI function warning in irq.c
Fix sparse warning for non-ANSI function declaration:

arch/x86/xen/irq.c:129:30: warning: non-ANSI function declaration of function 'xen_init_irq_ops'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2011-01-20 14:52:13 -05:00
Tejun Heo
2ce802f62b lockdep: Move early boot local IRQ enable/disable status to init/main.c
During early boot, local IRQ is disabled until IRQ subsystem is
properly initialized.  During this time, no one should enable
local IRQ and some operations which usually are not allowed with
IRQ disabled, e.g. operations which might sleep or require
communications with other processors, are allowed.

lockdep tracked this with early_boot_irqs_off/on() callbacks.
As other subsystems need this information too, move it to
init/main.c and make it generally available.  While at it,
toggle the boolean to early_boot_irqs_disabled instead of
enabled so that it can be initialized with %false and %true
indicates the exceptional condition.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110120110635.GB6036@htj.dyndns.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-20 13:32:33 +01:00
Dave Jones
fb87ec382f x86: Update CPU cache attributes table descriptors
Update to latest definitions in:

   http://www.intel.com/Assets/PDF/appnote/241618.pdf

[ Note, this update of the doc has removed some old values which
  we have listed.  I think until we have clarification that they
  were never used in production, they should be left there. ]

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110120012055.GA15985@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-20 12:13:20 +01:00
Randy Dunlap
2b8216e635 LGUEST_GUEST: fix unmet direct dependencies (VIRTUALIZATION && VIRTIO)
Honor the kconfig menu hierarchy to remove kconfig dependency warnings:
VIRTIO and VIRTIO_RING are subordinate to VIRTUALIZATION.

warning: (LGUEST_GUEST) selects VIRTIO which has unmet direct dependencies (VIRTUALIZATION)
warning: (LGUEST_GUEST && VIRTIO_PCI && VIRTIO_BALLOON) selects VIRTIO_RING which has unmet direct dependencies (VIRTUALIZATION && VIRTIO)

Reported-by: Toralf F_rster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-01-20 21:37:30 +10:30
Rusty Russell
ced05dd741 lguest: compile fixes
arch/x86/lguest/boot.c: In function ‘lguest_init_IRQ’:
arch/x86/lguest/boot.c:824: error: macro "__this_cpu_write" requires 2 arguments, but only 1 given
arch/x86/lguest/boot.c:824: error: ‘__this_cpu_write’ undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/x86/lguest/boot.c:824: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
arch/x86/lguest/boot.c:824: error: for each function it appears in.)

drivers/lguest/x86/core.c: In function ‘copy_in_guest_info’:
drivers/lguest/x86/core.c:94: error: lvalue required as left operand of assignment

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-01-20 21:37:29 +10:30
Christoph Lameter
c9f2954964 lguest: Use this_cpu_ops
Use this_cpu_ops in a couple of places in lguest.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2011-01-20 21:37:29 +10:30
Jan Beulich
9032160275 x86: Unify "numa=" command line option handling
In order to be able to suppress the use of SRAT tables that
32-bit Linux can't deal with (in one case known to lead to a
non-bootable system, unless disabling ACPI altogether), move the
"numa=" option handling to common code.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
LKML-Reference: <4D36B581020000780002D0FF@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-19 10:25:18 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
6b35eb9ddc Revert "x86: Make relocatable kernel work with new binutils"
This reverts commit 86b1e8dd83 ("x86: Make relocatable kernel work with
new binutils").

Markus Trippelsdorf reported a boot failure caused by this patch.

The real solution to the original patch will likely involve an
arch-generic solution to define an overlaid jiffies_64 and jiffies
variables.

Until that's done and tested on all architectures revert this commit to
solve the regression.

Reported-and-bisected-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: "Lu, Hongjiu" <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
LKML-Reference: <4D36A759.60704@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-19 10:09:42 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
404cbbd52f Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: Clear irqstack thread_info
  x86: Make relocatable kernel work with new binutils
2011-01-18 14:29:21 -08:00
Brian Gerst
7b698ea377 x86: Clear irqstack thread_info
Mathias Merz reported that v2.6.37 failed to boot on his
system.

Make sure that the thread_info part of the irqstack is
initialized to zeroes.

Reported-and-Tested-by: Matthias Merz <linux@merz-ka.de>
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <AANLkTimyKXfJ1x8tgwrr1hYnNLrPfgE1NTe4z7L6tUDm@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-18 14:58:37 +01:00
Shaohua Li
86b1e8dd83 x86: Make relocatable kernel work with new binutils
The CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y option is broken with new binutils, which will make
boot panic.

According to Lu Hongjiu, the affected binutils are from 2.20.51.0.12 to
2.21.51.0.3, which are release since Oct 22 this year. At least ubuntu 10.10 is
using such binutils. See:

    http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12327

The reason of the boot panic is that we have 'jiffies = jiffies_64;' in
vmlinux.lds.S. The jiffies isn't in any section. In kernel build, there is
warning saying jiffies is an absolute address and can't be relocatable. At
runtime, jiffies will have virtual address 0.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li<shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Lu Hongjiu<hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
LKML-Reference: <1295312269.1949.725.camel@sli10-conroe>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-18 09:05:33 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
f9ee7f60d6 Merge branches 'core-fixes-for-linus', 'x86-fixes-for-linus', 'timers-fixes-for-linus' and 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  rcu: avoid pointless blocked-task warnings
  rcu: demote SRCU_SYNCHRONIZE_DELAY from kernel-parameter status
  rtmutex: Fix comment about why new_owner can be NULL in wake_futex_pi()

* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, olpc: Add missing Kconfig dependencies
  x86, mrst: Set correct APB timer IRQ affinity for secondary cpu
  x86: tsc: Fix calibration refinement conditionals to avoid divide by zero
  x86, ia64, acpi: Clean up x86-ism in drivers/acpi/numa.c

* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  timekeeping: Make local variables static
  time: Rename misnamed minsec argument of clocks_calc_mult_shift()

* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  tracing: Remove syscall_exit_fields
  tracing: Only process module tracepoints once
  perf record: Add "nodelay" mode, disabled by default
  perf sched: Fix list of events, dropping unsupported ':r' modifier
  Revert "perf tools: Emit clearer message for sys_perf_event_open ENOENT return"
  perf top: Fix annotate segv
  perf evsel: Fix order of event list deletion
2011-01-15 12:45:00 -08:00
Stephen Rothwell
de23be5f35 xen: export arbitrary_virt_to_machine
Fixes this build error:

 ERROR: "arbitrary_virt_to_machine" [drivers/xen/xen-gntdev.ko] undefined!

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-14 16:11:12 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
76d1f7bfcd x86, olpc: Add missing Kconfig dependencies
OLPC uses select for OLPC_OPENFIRMWARE, which means OLPC has to
enforce the dependencies for OLPC_OPENFIRMWARE.  Make sure it does so.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
Cc: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
LKML-Reference: <20100923162846.D8D409D401B@zog.reactivated.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> 2.6.37
2011-01-14 11:57:06 -08:00
Jacob Pan
6550904ddb x86, mrst: Set correct APB timer IRQ affinity for secondary cpu
Offlining the secondary CPU causes the timer irq affinity to be set to
CPU 0. When the secondary CPU is back online again, the wrong irq
affinity will be used.

This patch ensures secondary per CPU timer always has the correct
IRQ affinity when enabled.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1294963604-18111-1-git-send-email-jacob.jun.pan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> 2.6.37
2011-01-14 11:53:44 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
d73b388459 Merge branch 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
  PCI/PM: Report wakeup events before resuming devices
  PCI/PM: Use pm_wakeup_event() directly for reporting wakeup events
  PCI: sysfs: Update ROM to include default owner write access
  x86/PCI: make Broadcom CNB20LE driver EMBEDDED and EXPERIMENTAL
  x86/PCI: don't use native Broadcom CNB20LE driver when ACPI is available
  PCI/ACPI: Request _OSC control once for each root bridge (v3)
  PCI: enable pci=bfsort by default on future Dell systems
  PCI/PCIe: Clear Root PME Status bits early during system resume
  PCI: pci-stub: ignore zero-length id parameters
  x86/PCI: irq and pci_ids patch for Intel Patsburg
  PCI: Skip id checking if no id is passed
  PCI: fix __pci_device_probe kernel-doc warning
  PCI: make pci_restore_state return void
  PCI: Disable ASPM if BIOS asks us to
  PCI: Add mask bit definition for MSI-X table
  PCI: MSI: Move MSI-X entry definition to pci_regs.h

Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/net/{skge.c,sky2.c} that had in the
meantime been converted to not use legacy PCI power management, and thus
no longer use pci_restore_state() at all (and that caused trivial
conflicts with the "make pci_restore_state return void" patch)
2011-01-14 09:29:05 -08:00
John Stultz
62627bec8a x86: tsc: Fix calibration refinement conditionals to avoid divide by zero
Konrad Wilk reported that the new delayed calibration crashes with a
divide by zero on Xen. The reason is that Xen sets the pmtimer
address, but reading from it returns 0xffffff. That results in the
ref_start and ref_stop value being the same, so the delta is zero
which causes the divide by zero later in the calculation.

The conditional (!hpet && !ref_start && !ref_stop) which sanity checks
the calibration reference values doesn't really make sense. If the
refs are null, but hpet is on, we still want to break out.

The div by zero would be possible to trigger by chance if both reads
from the hardware provided the exact same value (due to hardware
wrapping).

So checking if both the ref values are the same should handle if we
don't have hardware (both null) or if they are the same value (either by
invalid hardware, or by chance), avoiding the div by zero issue.

[ tglx: Applied the same fix to native_calibrate_tsc() where this
  	check was copied from ]

Reported-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1295024788-15619-1-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2011-01-14 18:28:01 +01:00
Bjorn Helgaas
64a5fed666 x86/PCI: make Broadcom CNB20LE driver EMBEDDED and EXPERIMENTAL
This functionality is known to be incomplete, so discourage its use in
general-purpose kernels.

The only reason to use this driver is to support PCI hotplug on CNB20LE-
based machines that don't have ACPI, and there are very few such
systems.

Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=665109
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2011-01-14 08:55:42 -08:00
Bjorn Helgaas
30e664afb5 x86/PCI: don't use native Broadcom CNB20LE driver when ACPI is available
The broadcom_bus.c quirk was written (without benefit of documentation)
to support PCI hotplug on an old system that doesn't have ACPI.  As
such, we should only use it when the system doesn't have ACPI.

If the system does have ACPI and we need the host bridge description, we
should get it from the ACPI _CRS method.  On machines older than 2008,
we currently ignore _CRS, but that doesn't mean we should use
broadcom_bus.c.  It means we should either (a) do what we've done in the
past and assume everything in the PCI gap is routed to bus 0 (so hotplug
may not work), or (b) arrange to use _CRS.  This patch does (a).

Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=665109
Acked-by: Ira W. Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2011-01-14 08:55:41 -08:00
Narendra_K@Dell.com
6e8af08dfa PCI: enable pci=bfsort by default on future Dell systems
This patch enables pci=bfsort by default on future Dell systems.
It reads SMBIOS type 0xB1 vendor specific record and sets pci=bfsort
accordingly.

Offset  Name    Length  Value   Description

04      Flags0  Word    Varies  Bits 9-10
                                - 10:9 = 00  Unknown
                                - 10:9 = 01  Breadth First
                                - 10:9 = 10  Depth First
                                - 10:9 = 11  Reserved

1. Any time pci=bfsort has to be enabled on a system, we need to add the
   model number of the system to the white list. With this patch, that
   is not required.

2. Typically, model number has to be added to the white list when the
   system is under development. With this change, that is not required.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Hargrave <jordan_hargrave@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Narendra K <narendra_k@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2011-01-14 08:55:41 -08:00
Andres Salomon
419cdc54ea x86: OLPC: convert olpc-xo1 driver from pci device to platform device
The cs5535-mfd driver now takes care of the PCI BAR handling; this
means the olpc-xo1 driver shouldn't be touching the PCI device at all.

This patch uses both cs5535-acpi and cs5535-pms platform devices rather
than a single platform device because the cs5535-mfd driver may be used
by other CS5535 platform-specific drivers; OLPC doesn't get to dictate
that ACPI and PMS will always be used together.

Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
2011-01-14 12:38:15 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
52cfd503ad Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (59 commits)
  ACPI / PM: Fix build problems for !CONFIG_ACPI related to NVS rework
  ACPI: fix resource check message
  ACPI / Battery: Update information on info notification and resume
  ACPI: Drop device flag wake_capable
  ACPI: Always check if _PRW is present before trying to evaluate it
  ACPI / PM: Check status of power resources under mutexes
  ACPI / PM: Rename acpi_power_off_device()
  ACPI / PM: Drop acpi_power_nocheck
  ACPI / PM: Drop acpi_bus_get_power()
  Platform / x86: Make fujitsu_laptop use acpi_bus_update_power()
  ACPI / Fan: Rework the handling of power resources
  ACPI / PM: Register power resource devices as soon as they are needed
  ACPI / PM: Register acpi_power_driver early
  ACPI / PM: Add function for updating device power state consistently
  ACPI / PM: Add function for device power state initialization
  ACPI / PM: Introduce __acpi_bus_get_power()
  ACPI / PM: Introduce function for refcounting device power resources
  ACPI / PM: Add functions for manipulating lists of power resources
  ACPI / PM: Prevent acpi_power_get_inferred_state() from making changes
  ACPICA: Update version to 20101209
  ...
2011-01-13 20:15:35 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
dc8e7e3ec6 Merge branch 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6
* 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6:
  cpuidle/x86/perf: fix power:cpu_idle double end events and throw cpu_idle events from the cpuidle layer
  intel_idle: open broadcast clock event
  cpuidle: CPUIDLE_FLAG_CHECK_BM is omap3_idle specific
  cpuidle: CPUIDLE_FLAG_TLB_FLUSHED is specific to intel_idle
  cpuidle: delete unused CPUIDLE_FLAG_SHALLOW, BALANCED, DEEP definitions
  SH, cpuidle: delete use of NOP CPUIDLE_FLAGS_SHALLOW
  cpuidle: delete NOP CPUIDLE_FLAG_POLL
  ACPI: processor_idle: delete use of NOP CPUIDLE_FLAGs
  cpuidle: Rename X86 specific idle poll state[0] from C0 to POLL
  ACPI, intel_idle: Cleanup idle= internal variables
  cpuidle: Make cpuidle_enable_device() call poll_idle_init()
  intel_idle: update Sandy Bridge core C-state residency targets
2011-01-13 20:15:18 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
9c4bc1c2be Merge branch 'stable/gntdev' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen
* 'stable/gntdev' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
  xen/p2m: Fix module linking error.
  xen p2m: clear the old pte when adding a page to m2p_override
  xen gntdev: use gnttab_map_refs and gnttab_unmap_refs
  xen: introduce gnttab_map_refs and gnttab_unmap_refs
  xen p2m: transparently change the p2m mappings in the m2p override
  xen/gntdev: Fix circular locking dependency
  xen/gntdev: stop using "token" argument
  xen: gntdev: move use of GNTMAP_contains_pte next to the map_op
  xen: add m2p override mechanism
  xen: move p2m handling to separate file
  xen/gntdev: add VM_PFNMAP to vma
  xen/gntdev: allow usermode to map granted pages
  xen: define gnttab_set_map_op/unmap_op

Fix up trivial conflict in drivers/xen/Kconfig
2011-01-13 18:46:48 -08:00
Andrea Arcangeli
8ee53820ed thp: mmu_notifier_test_young
For GRU and EPT, we need gup-fast to set referenced bit too (this is why
it's correct to return 0 when shadow_access_mask is zero, it requires
gup-fast to set the referenced bit).  qemu-kvm access already sets the
young bit in the pte if it isn't zero-copy, if it's zero copy or a shadow
paging EPT minor fault we relay on gup-fast to signal the page is in
use...

We also need to check the young bits on the secondary pagetables for NPT
and not nested shadow mmu as the data may never get accessed again by the
primary pte.

Without this closer accuracy, we'd have to remove the heuristic that
avoids collapsing hugepages in hugepage virtual regions that have not even
a single subpage in use.

->test_young is full backwards compatible with GRU and other usages that
don't have young bits in pagetables set by the hardware and that should
nuke the secondary mmu mappings when ->clear_flush_young runs just like
EPT does.

Removing the heuristic that checks the young bit in
khugepaged/collapse_huge_page completely isn't so bad either probably but
I thought it was worth it and this makes it reliable.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:46 -08:00
Andrea Arcangeli
4b7167b9ff thp: don't allow transparent hugepage support without PSE
Archs implementing Transparent Hugepage Support must implement a function
called has_transparent_hugepage to be sure the virtual or physical CPU
supports Transparent Hugepages.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:45 -08:00
Johannes Weiner
c489f1257b thp: add pmd_modify
Add pmd_modify() for use with mprotect() on huge pmds.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:44 -08:00
Johannes Weiner
f2d6bfe9ff thp: add x86 32bit support
Add support for transparent hugepages to x86 32bit.

Share the same VM_ bitflag for VM_MAPPED_COPY.  mm/nommu.c will never
support transparent hugepages.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:44 -08:00
Andrea Arcangeli
71e3aac072 thp: transparent hugepage core
Lately I've been working to make KVM use hugepages transparently without
the usual restrictions of hugetlbfs.  Some of the restrictions I'd like to
see removed:

1) hugepages have to be swappable or the guest physical memory remains
   locked in RAM and can't be paged out to swap

2) if a hugepage allocation fails, regular pages should be allocated
   instead and mixed in the same vma without any failure and without
   userland noticing

3) if some task quits and more hugepages become available in the
   buddy, guest physical memory backed by regular pages should be
   relocated on hugepages automatically in regions under
   madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) (ideally event driven by waking up the
   kernel deamon if the order=HPAGE_PMD_SHIFT-PAGE_SHIFT list becomes
   not null)

4) avoidance of reservation and maximization of use of hugepages whenever
   possible. Reservation (needed to avoid runtime fatal faliures) may be ok for
   1 machine with 1 database with 1 database cache with 1 database cache size
   known at boot time. It's definitely not feasible with a virtualization
   hypervisor usage like RHEV-H that runs an unknown number of virtual machines
   with an unknown size of each virtual machine with an unknown amount of
   pagecache that could be potentially useful in the host for guest not using
   O_DIRECT (aka cache=off).

hugepages in the virtualization hypervisor (and also in the guest!) are
much more important than in a regular host not using virtualization,
becasue with NPT/EPT they decrease the tlb-miss cacheline accesses from 24
to 19 in case only the hypervisor uses transparent hugepages, and they
decrease the tlb-miss cacheline accesses from 19 to 15 in case both the
linux hypervisor and the linux guest both uses this patch (though the
guest will limit the addition speedup to anonymous regions only for
now...).  Even more important is that the tlb miss handler is much slower
on a NPT/EPT guest than for a regular shadow paging or no-virtualization
scenario.  So maximizing the amount of virtual memory cached by the TLB
pays off significantly more with NPT/EPT than without (even if there would
be no significant speedup in the tlb-miss runtime).

The first (and more tedious) part of this work requires allowing the VM to
handle anonymous hugepages mixed with regular pages transparently on
regular anonymous vmas.  This is what this patch tries to achieve in the
least intrusive possible way.  We want hugepages and hugetlb to be used in
a way so that all applications can benefit without changes (as usual we
leverage the KVM virtualization design: by improving the Linux VM at
large, KVM gets the performance boost too).

The most important design choice is: always fallback to 4k allocation if
the hugepage allocation fails!  This is the _very_ opposite of some large
pagecache patches that failed with -EIO back then if a 64k (or similar)
allocation failed...

Second important decision (to reduce the impact of the feature on the
existing pagetable handling code) is that at any time we can split an
hugepage into 512 regular pages and it has to be done with an operation
that can't fail.  This way the reliability of the swapping isn't decreased
(no need to allocate memory when we are short on memory to swap) and it's
trivial to plug a split_huge_page* one-liner where needed without
polluting the VM.  Over time we can teach mprotect, mremap and friends to
handle pmd_trans_huge natively without calling split_huge_page*.  The fact
it can't fail isn't just for swap: if split_huge_page would return -ENOMEM
(instead of the current void) we'd need to rollback the mprotect from the
middle of it (ideally including undoing the split_vma) which would be a
big change and in the very wrong direction (it'd likely be simpler not to
call split_huge_page at all and to teach mprotect and friends to handle
hugepages instead of rolling them back from the middle).  In short the
very value of split_huge_page is that it can't fail.

The collapsing and madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) part will remain separated and
incremental and it'll just be an "harmless" addition later if this initial
part is agreed upon.  It also should be noted that locking-wise replacing
regular pages with hugepages is going to be very easy if compared to what
I'm doing below in split_huge_page, as it will only happen when
page_count(page) matches page_mapcount(page) if we can take the PG_lock
and mmap_sem in write mode.  collapse_huge_page will be a "best effort"
that (unlike split_huge_page) can fail at the minimal sign of trouble and
we can try again later.  collapse_huge_page will be similar to how KSM
works and the madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) will work similar to
madvise(MADV_MERGEABLE).

The default I like is that transparent hugepages are used at page fault
time.  This can be changed with
/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled.  The control knob can be set
to three values "always", "madvise", "never" which mean respectively that
hugepages are always used, or only inside madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) regions,
or never used.  /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag instead
controls if the hugepage allocation should defrag memory aggressively
"always", only inside "madvise" regions, or "never".

The pmd_trans_splitting/pmd_trans_huge locking is very solid.  The
put_page (from get_user_page users that can't use mmu notifier like
O_DIRECT) that runs against a __split_huge_page_refcount instead was a
pain to serialize in a way that would result always in a coherent page
count for both tail and head.  I think my locking solution with a
compound_lock taken only after the page_first is valid and is still a
PageHead should be safe but it surely needs review from SMP race point of
view.  In short there is no current existing way to serialize the O_DIRECT
final put_page against split_huge_page_refcount so I had to invent a new
one (O_DIRECT loses knowledge on the mapping status by the time gup_fast
returns so...).  And I didn't want to impact all gup/gup_fast users for
now, maybe if we change the gup interface substantially we can avoid this
locking, I admit I didn't think too much about it because changing the gup
unpinning interface would be invasive.

If we ignored O_DIRECT we could stick to the existing compound refcounting
code, by simply adding a get_user_pages_fast_flags(foll_flags) where KVM
(and any other mmu notifier user) would call it without FOLL_GET (and if
FOLL_GET isn't set we'd just BUG_ON if nobody registered itself in the
current task mmu notifier list yet).  But O_DIRECT is fundamental for
decent performance of virtualized I/O on fast storage so we can't avoid it
to solve the race of put_page against split_huge_page_refcount to achieve
a complete hugepage feature for KVM.

Swap and oom works fine (well just like with regular pages ;).  MMU
notifier is handled transparently too, with the exception of the young bit
on the pmd, that didn't have a range check but I think KVM will be fine
because the whole point of hugepages is that EPT/NPT will also use a huge
pmd when they notice gup returns pages with PageCompound set, so they
won't care of a range and there's just the pmd young bit to check in that
case.

NOTE: in some cases if the L2 cache is small, this may slowdown and waste
memory during COWs because 4M of memory are accessed in a single fault
instead of 8k (the payoff is that after COW the program can run faster).
So we might want to switch the copy_huge_page (and clear_huge_page too) to
not temporal stores.  I also extensively researched ways to avoid this
cache trashing with a full prefault logic that would cow in 8k/16k/32k/64k
up to 1M (I can send those patches that fully implemented prefault) but I
concluded they're not worth it and they add an huge additional complexity
and they remove all tlb benefits until the full hugepage has been faulted
in, to save a little bit of memory and some cache during app startup, but
they still don't improve substantially the cache-trashing during startup
if the prefault happens in >4k chunks.  One reason is that those 4k pte
entries copied are still mapped on a perfectly cache-colored hugepage, so
the trashing is the worst one can generate in those copies (cow of 4k page
copies aren't so well colored so they trashes less, but again this results
in software running faster after the page fault).  Those prefault patches
allowed things like a pte where post-cow pages were local 4k regular anon
pages and the not-yet-cowed pte entries were pointing in the middle of
some hugepage mapped read-only.  If it doesn't payoff substantially with
todays hardware it will payoff even less in the future with larger l2
caches, and the prefault logic would blot the VM a lot.  If one is
emebdded transparent_hugepage can be disabled during boot with sysfs or
with the boot commandline parameter transparent_hugepage=0 (or
transparent_hugepage=2 to restrict hugepages inside madvise regions) that
will ensure not a single hugepage is allocated at boot time.  It is simple
enough to just disable transparent hugepage globally and let transparent
hugepages be allocated selectively by applications in the MADV_HUGEPAGE
region (both at page fault time, and if enabled with the
collapse_huge_page too through the kernel daemon).

This patch supports only hugepages mapped in the pmd, archs that have
smaller hugepages will not fit in this patch alone.  Also some archs like
power have certain tlb limits that prevents mixing different page size in
the same regions so they will not fit in this framework that requires
"graceful fallback" to basic PAGE_SIZE in case of physical memory
fragmentation.  hugetlbfs remains a perfect fit for those because its
software limits happen to match the hardware limits.  hugetlbfs also
remains a perfect fit for hugepage sizes like 1GByte that cannot be hoped
to be found not fragmented after a certain system uptime and that would be
very expensive to defragment with relocation, so requiring reservation.
hugetlbfs is the "reservation way", the point of transparent hugepages is
not to have any reservation at all and maximizing the use of cache and
hugepages at all times automatically.

Some performance result:

vmx andrea # LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libhugetlbfs.so HUGETLB_MORECORE=yes HUGETLB_PATH=/mnt/huge/ ./largep
ages3
memset page fault 1566023
memset tlb miss 453854
memset second tlb miss 453321
random access tlb miss 41635
random access second tlb miss 41658
vmx andrea # LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libhugetlbfs.so HUGETLB_MORECORE=yes HUGETLB_PATH=/mnt/huge/ ./largepages3
memset page fault 1566471
memset tlb miss 453375
memset second tlb miss 453320
random access tlb miss 41636
random access second tlb miss 41637
vmx andrea # ./largepages3
memset page fault 1566642
memset tlb miss 453417
memset second tlb miss 453313
random access tlb miss 41630
random access second tlb miss 41647
vmx andrea # ./largepages3
memset page fault 1566872
memset tlb miss 453418
memset second tlb miss 453315
random access tlb miss 41618
random access second tlb miss 41659
vmx andrea # echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/transparent_hugepage
vmx andrea # ./largepages3
memset page fault 2182476
memset tlb miss 460305
memset second tlb miss 460179
random access tlb miss 44483
random access second tlb miss 44186
vmx andrea # ./largepages3
memset page fault 2182791
memset tlb miss 460742
memset second tlb miss 459962
random access tlb miss 43981
random access second tlb miss 43988

============
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/time.h>

#define SIZE (3UL*1024*1024*1024)

int main()
{
	char *p = malloc(SIZE), *p2;
	struct timeval before, after;

	gettimeofday(&before, NULL);
	memset(p, 0, SIZE);
	gettimeofday(&after, NULL);
	printf("memset page fault %Lu\n",
	       (after.tv_sec-before.tv_sec)*1000000UL +
	       after.tv_usec-before.tv_usec);

	gettimeofday(&before, NULL);
	memset(p, 0, SIZE);
	gettimeofday(&after, NULL);
	printf("memset tlb miss %Lu\n",
	       (after.tv_sec-before.tv_sec)*1000000UL +
	       after.tv_usec-before.tv_usec);

	gettimeofday(&before, NULL);
	memset(p, 0, SIZE);
	gettimeofday(&after, NULL);
	printf("memset second tlb miss %Lu\n",
	       (after.tv_sec-before.tv_sec)*1000000UL +
	       after.tv_usec-before.tv_usec);

	gettimeofday(&before, NULL);
	for (p2 = p; p2 < p+SIZE; p2 += 4096)
		*p2 = 0;
	gettimeofday(&after, NULL);
	printf("random access tlb miss %Lu\n",
	       (after.tv_sec-before.tv_sec)*1000000UL +
	       after.tv_usec-before.tv_usec);

	gettimeofday(&before, NULL);
	for (p2 = p; p2 < p+SIZE; p2 += 4096)
		*p2 = 0;
	gettimeofday(&after, NULL);
	printf("random access second tlb miss %Lu\n",
	       (after.tv_sec-before.tv_sec)*1000000UL +
	       after.tv_usec-before.tv_usec);

	return 0;
}
============

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:42 -08:00