linux-toradex.git/drivers/base/memory.c, branch v3.2-rc5

mm: memory hotplug: Check if pages are correctly reserved on a per-section basis

2011-10-18T21:01:24+00:00

(Resending as I am not seeing it in -next so maybe it got lost)

mm: memory hotplug: Check if pages are correctly reserved on a per-section basis

It is expected that memory being brought online is PageReserved
similar to what happens when the page allocator is being brought up.
Memory is onlined in "memory blocks" which consist of one or more
sections. Unfortunately, the code that verifies PageReserved is
currently assuming that the memmap backing all these pages is virtually
contiguous which is only the case when CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is set.
As a result, memory hot-add is failing on those configurations with
the message;

kernel: section number XXX page number 256 not reserved, was it already online?

This patch updates the PageReserved check to lookup struct page once
per section to guarantee the correct struct page is being checked.

[Check pages within sections properly: rientjes@google.com]
[original patch by: nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Tested-by: Nathan Fontenot 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "memory hotplug: Correct page reservation checking"

2011-10-18T21:00:57+00:00

This reverts commit 54f23eb7ba7619de85d8edca6e5336bc33072dbd.

Turns out this patch is wrong, another correct one will follow it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

memory hotplug: Correct page reservation checking

2011-09-26T23:21:14+00:00

The check to ensure that pages of recently added memory sections are correctly
marked as reserved before trying to online the memory is broken.  The request
to online the memory fails with the following:

kernel: section number XXX page number 256 not reserved, was it already online?

This updates the page reservation checking to check the pages of each memory
section of the memory block being onlined individually.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

memory hotplug: Refuse to add unaligned memory regions

2011-09-26T23:21:14+00:00

The sysfs memory probe interface allows unaligned regions
to be added:

# echo 0xffffff > /sys/devices/system/memory/probe

# cat /proc/iomem
00ffffff-01fffffe : System RAM
01ffffff-02fffffe : System RAM
02ffffff-03fffffe : System RAM
03ffffff-04fffffe : System RAM
04ffffff-05fffffe : System RAM

Return -EINVAL instead of creating these bad regions.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

atomic: use

2011-07-26T23:49:47+00:00

This allows us to move duplicated code in 
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to 

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma 
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: Eric Dumazet 
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: Move definition of MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE to a header

2011-07-12T01:08:01+00:00

The macro MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE is currently defined twice in two .c
files, and I need it in a third one to fix a powerpc bug, so let's
first move it into a header

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2011-05-23T16:12:26+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
  b43: fix comment typo reqest -> request
  Haavard Skinnemoen has left Atmel
  cris: typo in mach-fs Makefile
  Kconfig: fix copy/paste-ism for dell-wmi-aio driver
  doc: timers-howto: fix a typo ("unsgined")
  perf: Only include annotate.h once in tools/perf/util/ui/browsers/annotate.c
  md, raid5: Fix spelling error in comment ('Ofcourse' --> 'Of course').
  treewide: fix a few typos in comments
  regulator: change debug statement be consistent with the style of the rest
  Revert "arm: mach-u300/gpio: Fix mem_region resource size miscalculations"
  audit: acquire creds selectively to reduce atomic op overhead
  rtlwifi: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal
  treewide: cleanup continuations and remove logging message whitespace
  ath9k_hw: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal
  include/linux/leds-regulator.h: fix syntax in example code
  tty: fix typo in descripton of tty_termios_encode_baud_rate
  xtensa: remove obsolete BKL kernel option from defconfig
  m68k: fix comment typo 'occcured'
  arch:Kconfig.locks Remove unused config option.
  treewide: remove extra semicolons
  ...

drivers/base/memory.c: fix warning due to "memory hotplug: Speed up add/remove when blocks are larger than PAGES_PER_SECTION"

2011-05-12T20:27:19+00:00

drivers/base/memory.c: In function 'memory_block_change_state':
drivers/base/memory.c:281: warning: unused variable 'i'

less beer, more testing

Cc: Anton Blanchard 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

memory hotplug: Speed up add/remove when blocks are larger than PAGES_PER_SECTION

2011-05-11T22:19:27+00:00

On ppc64 the minimum memory section for hotplug is 16MB but most
recent machines have a memory block size of 256MB. This means
memory_block_change_state does 16 separate calls to
memory_section_action.

This also means we call the notifiers 16 times and the hook
in the ehea network driver is quite costly. To offline one 256MB
region takes:

# time echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory32/state
7.9s

This patch removes the loop and calls online_pages or
remove_memory once for the entire region and in doing so makes
the logic simpler since we don't have to back out if things fail
part way through.

The same test to offline one region now takes:

# time echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory32/state
0.67s

Over 11 times faster.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

drivers:base:fix the coding format of memory.c

2011-04-25T22:52:40+00:00

Fix the line longer than 80 of memory_uevent function .

Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman