linux-toradex.git/include/linux/memory.h, branch tegra-10.9.9

Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2009-04-05T18:04:19+00:00

* 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (413 commits)
  tracing, net: fix net tree and tracing tree merge interaction
  tracing, powerpc: fix powerpc tree and tracing tree interaction
  ring-buffer: do not remove reader page from list on ring buffer free
  function-graph: allow unregistering twice
  trace: make argument 'mem' of trace_seq_putmem() const
  tracing: add missing 'extern' keywords to trace_output.h
  tracing: provide trace_seq_reserve()
  blktrace: print out BLK_TN_MESSAGE properly
  blktrace: extract duplidate code
  blktrace: fix memory leak when freeing struct blk_io_trace
  blktrace: fix blk_probes_ref chaos
  blktrace: make classic output more classic
  blktrace: fix off-by-one bug
  blktrace: fix the original blktrace
  blktrace: fix a race when creating blk_tree_root in debugfs
  blktrace: fix timestamp in binary output
  tracing, Text Edit Lock: cleanup
  tracing: filter fix for TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT events
  ftrace: Using FTRACE_WARN_ON() to check "freed record" in ftrace_release()
  x86: kretprobe-booster interrupt emulation code fix
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in
 arch/parisc/include/asm/ftrace.h
 include/linux/memory.h
 kernel/extable.c
 kernel/module.c

memory_accessor: new interface for reading/writing persistent memory

2009-04-03T02:04:50+00:00

Add an interface by which other kernel code can read/write persistent
memory such as I2C or SPI EEPROMs, or devices which provide NVRAM.  Use
cases include storage of board-specific configuration data like Ethernet
addresses and sensor calibrations.

Original idea, review and improvement suggestions by David Brownell.

Acked-by: David Brownell 
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman 
Cc: Jean Delvare 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tracing, Text Edit Lock - Architecture Independent Code

2009-03-06T15:48:59+00:00

This is an architecture independant synchronization around kernel text
modifications through use of a global mutex.

A mutex has been chosen so that kprobes, the main user of this, can sleep
during memory allocation between the memory read of the instructions it
must replace and the memory write of the breakpoint.

Other user of this interface: immediate values.

Paravirt and alternatives are always done when SMP is inactive, so there
is no need to use locks.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers 
LKML-Reference: <49B142D8.7020601@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

mm: show node to memory section relationship with symlinks in sysfs

2009-01-06T23:59:00+00:00

Show node to memory section relationship with symlinks in sysfs

Add /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/memoryY symlinks for all
the memory sections located on nodeX.  For example:
/sys/devices/system/node/node1/memory135 -> ../../memory/memory135
indicates that memory section 135 resides on node1.

Also revises documentation to cover this change as well as updating
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory to include descriptions
of memory hotremove files 'phys_device', 'phys_index', and 'state'
that were previously not described there.

In addition to it always being a good policy to provide users with
the maximum possible amount of physical location information for
resources that can be hot-added and/or hot-removed, the following
are some (but likely not all) of the user benefits provided by
this change.
Immediate:
  - Provides information needed to determine the specific node
    on which a defective DIMM is located.  This will reduce system
    downtime when the node or defective DIMM is swapped out.
  - Prevents unintended onlining of a memory section that was
    previously offlined due to a defective DIMM.  This could happen
    during node hot-add when the user or node hot-add assist script
    onlines _all_ offlined sections due to user or script inability
    to identify the specific memory sections located on the hot-added
    node.  The consequences of reintroducing the defective memory
    could be ugly.
  - Provides information needed to vary the amount and distribution
    of memory on specific nodes for testing or debugging purposes.
Future:
  - Will provide information needed to identify the memory
    sections that need to be offlined prior to physical removal
    of a specific node.

Symlink creation during boot was tested on 2-node x86_64, 2-node
ppc64, and 2-node ia64 systems.  Symlink creation during physical
memory hot-add tested on a 2-node x86_64 system.

Signed-off-by: Gary Hade 
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

hotplug_memory_notifier section annotation

2008-11-30T18:03:38+00:00

Same as for hotplug_cpu - we want static notifier_block in there in meminitdata,
to avoid false positives whenever it's used.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc: recompute msgmni on memory add / remove

2008-04-29T15:06:12+00:00

Introduce the registration of a callback routine that recomputes msg_ctlmni
upon memory add / remove.

A single notifier block is registered in the hotplug memory chain for all the
ipc namespaces.

Since the ipc namespaces are not linked together, they have their own
notification chain: one notifier_block is defined per ipc namespace.

Each time an ipc namespace is created (removed) it registers (unregisters) its
notifier block in (from) the ipcns chain.  The callback routine registered in
the memory chain invokes the ipcns notifier chain with the IPCNS_LOWMEM event.
 Each callback routine registered in the ipcns namespace, in turn, recomputes
msgmni for the owning namespace.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey 
Cc: Yasunori Goto 
Cc: Matt Helsley 
Cc: Mingming Cao 
Cc: Pierre Peiffer 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ipc: define the slab_memory_callback priority as a constant

2008-04-29T15:06:12+00:00

This is a trivial patch that defines the priority of slab_memory_callback in
the callback chain as a constant.  This is to prepare for next patch in the
series.

Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey 
Cc: Yasunori Goto 
Cc: Matt Helsley 
Cc: Mingming Cao 
Cc: Pierre Peiffer 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

driver core: memory: semaphore to mutex

2008-04-20T02:10:19+00:00

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

memory hotplug: make kmem_cache_node for SLUB on memory online avoid panic

2007-10-22T15:13:17+00:00

Fix a panic due to access NULL pointer of kmem_cache_node at discard_slab()
after memory online.

When memory online is called, kmem_cache_nodes are created for all SLUBs
for new node whose memory are available.

slab_mem_going_online_callback() is called to make kmem_cache_node() in
callback of memory online event.  If it (or other callbacks) fails, then
slab_mem_offline_callback() is called for rollback.

In memory offline, slab_mem_going_offline_callback() is called to shrink
all slub cache, then slab_mem_offline_callback() is called later.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: locking fix]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

memory hotplug: rearrange memory hotplug notifier

2007-10-22T15:13:17+00:00

Current memory notifier has some defects yet.  (Fortunately, nothing uses
it.) This patch is to fix and rearrange for them.

  - Add information of start_pfn, nr_pages, and node id if node status is
    changes from/to memoryless node for callback functions.
    Callbacks can't do anything without those information.
  - Add notification going-online status.
    It is necessary for creating per node structure before the node's
    pages are available.
  - Move GOING_OFFLINE status notification after page isolation.
    It is good place for return memory like cache for callback,
    because returned page is not used again.
  - Make CANCEL events for rollingback when error occurs.
  - Delete MEM_MAPPING_INVALID notification. It will be not used.
  - Fix compile error of (un)register_memory_notifier().

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds