linux/mm
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 8f7a66051b mm/memblock: properly handle overlaps and fix error path
Currently memblock_reserve() or memblock_free() don't handle overlaps of
any kind.  There is some special casing for coalescing exactly adjacent
regions but that's about it.

This is annoying because typically memblock_reserve() is used to mark
regions passed by the firmware as reserved and we all know how much we can
trust our firmwares...

Also, with the current code, if we do something it doesn't handle right
such as trying to memblock_reserve() a large range spanning multiple
existing smaller reserved regions for example, or doing overlapping
reservations, it can silently corrupt the internal region array, causing
odd errors much later on, such as allocations returning reserved regions
etc...

This patch rewrites the underlying functions that add or remove a region
to the arrays.  The new code is a lot more robust as it fully handles
overlapping regions.  It's also, imho, simpler than the previous
implementation.

In addition, while doing so, I found a bug where if we fail to double the
array while adding a region, we would remove the last region of the array
rather than the region we just allocated.  This fixes it too.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:09 -07:00
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backing-dev.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2010-10-26 17:58:44 -07:00
bootmem.c bootmem: Move contig_page_data definition to bootmem.c/nobootmem.c 2011-02-24 14:43:06 +01:00
bounce.c bounce: call flush_dcache_page() after bounce_copy_vec() 2010-09-09 18:57:25 -07:00
compaction.c mm: compaction: minimise the time IRQs are disabled while isolating pages for migration 2011-03-22 17:44:05 -07:00
debug-pagealloc.c
dmapool.c mm/dmapool.c: use TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE in dma_pool_alloc() 2011-01-13 17:32:48 -08:00
fadvise.c readahead: introduce FMODE_RANDOM for POSIX_FADV_RANDOM 2010-03-06 11:26:25 -08:00
failslab.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
filemap_xip.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
filemap.c mm: don't return 0 too early from find_get_pages() 2011-03-22 17:44:04 -07:00
fremap.c Avoid pgoff overflow in remap_file_pages 2010-09-25 09:34:58 -07:00
highmem.c mm,x86: fix kmap_atomic_push vs ioremap_32.c 2010-10-27 18:03:05 -07:00
huge_memory.c mm: use __GFP_OTHER_NODE for transparent huge pages 2011-03-22 17:44:05 -07:00
hugetlb.c hugetlbfs: correct handling of negative input to /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages 2011-03-22 17:44:04 -07:00
hwpoison-inject.c HWPOISON, hugetlb: support hwpoison injection for hugepage 2010-08-11 09:23:11 +02:00
init-mm.c mm: provide init_mm mm_context initializer 2010-08-09 20:44:54 -07:00
internal.h mm: export __get_user_pages 2011-03-17 13:08:27 -03:00
Kconfig mm: compaction: don't depend on HUGETLB_PAGE 2011-01-26 10:50:02 +10:00
Kconfig.debug mm: debug-pagealloc: fix kconfig dependency warning 2011-03-22 17:44:02 -07:00
kmemcheck.c kmemcheck: Fix build errors due to missing slab.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
kmemleak-test.c kmemleak: remove memset by using kzalloc 2011-01-27 18:31:51 +00:00
kmemleak.c kmemleak: Allow kmemleak metadata allocations to fail 2011-01-27 18:32:06 +00:00
ksm.c mm: rename drop_anon_vma() to put_anon_vma() 2011-03-22 17:44:03 -07:00
maccess.c MN10300: Save frame pointer in thread_info struct rather than global var 2010-10-27 17:29:01 +01:00
madvise.c thp: khugepaged: make khugepaged aware about madvise 2011-01-13 17:32:47 -08:00
Makefile bootmem: Separate out CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM code into nobootmem.c 2011-02-24 14:43:05 +01:00
memblock.c mm/memblock: properly handle overlaps and fix error path 2011-03-22 17:44:09 -07:00
memcontrol.c pagewalk: only split huge pages when necessary 2011-03-22 17:44:04 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c Merge branch 'slub/hotplug' into slab/urgent 2011-01-15 13:28:17 +02:00
memory-failure.c mm: change __remove_from_page_cache() 2011-03-22 17:44:02 -07:00
memory.c mm: allow GUP to fail instead of waiting on a page 2011-03-22 17:44:02 -07:00
mempolicy.c mempolicy: remove redundant check in __mpol_equal() 2011-03-22 17:44:04 -07:00
mempool.c mm: remove broken 'kzalloc' mempool 2009-09-22 07:17:35 -07:00
migrate.c mm: compaction: Use async migration for __GFP_NO_KSWAPD and enforce no writeback 2011-03-22 17:44:05 -07:00
mincore.c thp: mincore transparent hugepage support 2011-01-13 17:32:44 -08:00
mlock.c mlock: operate on any regions with protection != PROT_NONE 2011-02-02 10:20:50 +11:00
mm_init.c
mmap.c brk: fix min_brk lower bound computation for COMPAT_BRK 2011-01-13 17:32:48 -08:00
mmu_context.c exit: fix oops in sync_mm_rss 2010-03-24 16:31:21 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c thp: mmu_notifier_test_young 2011-01-13 17:32:46 -08:00
mmzone.c mm: page allocator: adjust the per-cpu counter threshold when memory is low 2011-01-13 17:32:31 -08:00
mprotect.c thp: mprotect: transparent huge page support 2011-01-13 17:32:44 -08:00
mremap.c mm: fix possible cause of a page_mapped BUG 2011-02-23 21:55:06 -08:00
msync.c sanitize vfs_fsync calling conventions 2010-05-21 18:31:21 -04:00
nobootmem.c bootmem: Move __alloc_memory_core_early() to nobootmem.c 2011-02-24 14:43:06 +01:00
nommu.c mlock: do not hold mmap_sem for extended periods of time 2011-01-13 17:32:36 -08:00
oom_kill.c oom: suppress nodes that are not allowed from meminfo on oom kill 2011-03-22 17:44:01 -07:00
page_alloc.c mm/page_alloc.c: use list_move() instead of list_del()/list_add() combination 2011-03-22 17:44:09 -07:00
page_cgroup.c mm: notifier_from_errno() cleanup 2011-03-22 17:44:01 -07:00
page_io.c block: unify flags for struct bio and struct request 2010-08-07 18:20:39 +02:00
page_isolation.c mm: page_isolation: codeclean fix comment and rm unneeded val init 2010-10-26 16:52:11 -07:00
page-writeback.c writeback: make mapping->writeback_index to point to the last written page 2011-03-22 17:44:09 -07:00
pagewalk.c pagewalk: only split huge pages when necessary 2011-03-22 17:44:04 -07:00
percpu-km.c percpu: clear memory allocated with the km allocator 2010-10-02 10:28:42 +03:00
percpu-vm.c mm: remove gfp mask from pcpu_get_vm_areas 2011-01-13 17:32:34 -08:00
percpu.c Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2011-01-13 10:05:56 -08:00
pgtable-generic.c mm/pgtable-generic.c: fix CONFIG_SWAP=n build 2011-01-26 10:49:58 +10:00
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
readahead.c readahead.c: fix comment 2010-05-25 08:07:00 -07:00
rmap.c mm: simplify anon_vma refcounts 2011-03-22 17:44:03 -07:00
shmem.c mm: shmem: change remove_from_page_cache 2011-03-22 17:44:02 -07:00
slab.c mm: notifier_from_errno() cleanup 2011-03-22 17:44:01 -07:00
slob.c mm: Remove support for kmem_cache_name() 2011-01-23 21:00:05 +02:00
slub.c slub: Add statistics for this_cmpxchg_double failures 2011-03-22 20:48:04 +02:00
sparse-vmemmap.c tree-wide: fix comment/printk typos 2010-11-01 15:38:34 -04:00
sparse.c thp: remove PG_buddy 2011-01-13 17:32:43 -08:00
swap_state.c thp: split_huge_page paging 2011-01-13 17:32:41 -08:00
swap.c mm: reclaim invalidated page ASAP 2011-03-22 17:44:04 -07:00
swapfile.c mm: remove inline from scan_swap_map() 2011-03-22 17:44:09 -07:00
thrash.c
truncate.c mm: deactivate invalidated pages 2011-03-22 17:44:03 -07:00
util.c kernel: kmem_ptr_validate considered harmful 2011-01-07 17:50:16 +11:00
vmalloc.c vmalloc: remove confusing comment on vwrite() 2011-03-22 17:44:09 -07:00
vmscan.c mm: vmscan: kswapd should not free an excessive number of pages when balancing small zones 2011-03-22 17:44:04 -07:00
vmstat.c mm: add __GFP_OTHER_NODE flag 2011-03-22 17:44:05 -07:00