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<title>linux-toradex.git/include/linux/mm.h, branch v2.6.15.1</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Make sure we copy pages inserted with "vm_insert_page()" on fork</title>
<updated>2005-12-16T18:21:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@g5.osdl.org</email>
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<published>2005-12-16T18:21:23+00:00</published>
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The logic that decides that a fork() might be able to avoid copying a VM
area when it can be re-created by page faults didn't know about the new
vm_insert_page() case.

Also make some things a bit more anal wrt VM_PFNMAP.

Pointed out by Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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The logic that decides that a fork() might be able to avoid copying a VM
area when it can be re-created by page faults didn't know about the new
vm_insert_page() case.

Also make some things a bit more anal wrt VM_PFNMAP.

Pointed out by Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<title>Remove (at least temporarily) the "incomplete PFN mapping" support</title>
<updated>2005-12-12T03:57:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@g5.osdl.org</email>
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<published>2005-12-12T03:57:52+00:00</published>
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With the previous commit, we can handle arbitrary shared re-mappings
even without this complexity, and since the only known private mappings
are for strange users of /dev/mem (which never create an incomplete one),
there seems to be no reason to support it.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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With the previous commit, we can handle arbitrary shared re-mappings
even without this complexity, and since the only known private mappings
are for strange users of /dev/mem (which never create an incomplete one),
there seems to be no reason to support it.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<title>VM: add "vm_insert_page()" function</title>
<updated>2005-11-30T17:35:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@g5.osdl.org</email>
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<published>2005-11-30T17:35:19+00:00</published>
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This is what a lot of drivers will actually want to use to insert
individual pages into a user VMA.  It doesn't have the old PageReserved
restrictions of remap_pfn_range(), and it doesn't complain about partial
remappings.

The page you insert needs to be a nice clean kernel allocation, so you
can't insert arbitrary page mappings with this, but that's not what
people want.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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This is what a lot of drivers will actually want to use to insert
individual pages into a user VMA.  It doesn't have the old PageReserved
restrictions of remap_pfn_range(), and it doesn't complain about partial
remappings.

The page you insert needs to be a nice clean kernel allocation, so you
can't insert arbitrary page mappings with this, but that's not what
people want.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<title>VM: add common helper function to create the page tables</title>
<updated>2005-11-29T22:03:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@g5.osdl.org</email>
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<published>2005-11-29T22:03:14+00:00</published>
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This logic was duplicated four times, for no good reason.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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This logic was duplicated four times, for no good reason.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<title>Support strange discontiguous PFN remappings</title>
<updated>2005-11-29T21:01:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@g5.osdl.org</email>
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<published>2005-11-29T21:01:56+00:00</published>
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These get created by some drivers that don't generally even want a pfn
remapping at all, but would really mostly prefer to just map pages
they've allocated individually instead.

For now, create a helper function that turns such an incomplete PFN
remapping call into a loop that does that explicit mapping.  In the long
run we almost certainly want to export a totally different interface for
that, though.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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These get created by some drivers that don't generally even want a pfn
remapping at all, but would really mostly prefer to just map pages
they've allocated individually instead.

For now, create a helper function that turns such an incomplete PFN
remapping call into a loop that does that explicit mapping.  In the long
run we almost certainly want to export a totally different interface for
that, though.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<title>mm: re-architect the VM_UNPAGED logic</title>
<updated>2005-11-28T22:34:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@g5.osdl.org</email>
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<published>2005-11-28T22:34:23+00:00</published>
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This replaces the (in my opinion horrible) VM_UNMAPPED logic with very
explicit support for a "remapped page range" aka VM_PFNMAP.  It allows a
VM area to contain an arbitrary range of page table entries that the VM
never touches, and never considers to be normal pages.

Any user of "remap_pfn_range()" automatically gets this new
functionality, and doesn't even have to mark the pages reserved or
indeed mark them any other way.  It just works.  As a side effect, doing
mmap() on /dev/mem works for arbitrary ranges.

Sparc update from David in the next commit.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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This replaces the (in my opinion horrible) VM_UNMAPPED logic with very
explicit support for a "remapped page range" aka VM_PFNMAP.  It allows a
VM area to contain an arbitrary range of page table entries that the VM
never touches, and never considers to be normal pages.

Any user of "remap_pfn_range()" automatically gets this new
functionality, and doesn't even have to mark the pages reserved or
indeed mark them any other way.  It just works.  As a side effect, doing
mmap() on /dev/mem works for arbitrary ranges.

Sparc update from David in the next commit.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] unpaged: VM_UNPAGED</title>
<updated>2005-11-22T17:13:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hugh@veritas.com</email>
</author>
<published>2005-11-22T05:32:15+00:00</published>
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Although we tend to associate VM_RESERVED with remap_pfn_range, quite a few
drivers set VM_RESERVED on areas which are then populated by nopage.  The
PageReserved removal in 2.6.15-rc1 changed VM_RESERVED not to free pages in
zap_pte_range, without changing those drivers not to set it: so their pages
just leak away.

Let's not change miscellaneous drivers now: introduce VM_UNPAGED at the core,
to flag the special areas where the ptes may have no struct page, or if they
have then it's not to be touched.  Replace most instances of VM_RESERVED in
core mm by VM_UNPAGED.  Force it on in remap_pfn_range, and the sparc and
sparc64 io_remap_pfn_range.

Revert addition of VM_RESERVED to powerpc vdso, it's not needed there.  Is it
needed anywhere?  It still governs the mm-&gt;reserved_vm statistic, and special
vmas not to be merged, and areas not to be core dumped; but could probably be
eliminated later (the drivers are probably specifying it because in 2.4 it
kept swapout off the vma, but in 2.6 we work from the LRU, which these pages
don't get on).

Use the VM_SHM slot for VM_UNPAGED, and define VM_SHM to 0: it serves no
purpose whatsoever, and should be removed from drivers when we clean up.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
Acked-by: William Irwin &lt;wli@holomorphy.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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Although we tend to associate VM_RESERVED with remap_pfn_range, quite a few
drivers set VM_RESERVED on areas which are then populated by nopage.  The
PageReserved removal in 2.6.15-rc1 changed VM_RESERVED not to free pages in
zap_pte_range, without changing those drivers not to set it: so their pages
just leak away.

Let's not change miscellaneous drivers now: introduce VM_UNPAGED at the core,
to flag the special areas where the ptes may have no struct page, or if they
have then it's not to be touched.  Replace most instances of VM_RESERVED in
core mm by VM_UNPAGED.  Force it on in remap_pfn_range, and the sparc and
sparc64 io_remap_pfn_range.

Revert addition of VM_RESERVED to powerpc vdso, it's not needed there.  Is it
needed anywhere?  It still governs the mm-&gt;reserved_vm statistic, and special
vmas not to be merged, and areas not to be core dumped; but could probably be
eliminated later (the drivers are probably specifying it because in 2.4 it
kept swapout off the vma, but in 2.6 we work from the LRU, which these pages
don't get on).

Use the VM_SHM slot for VM_UNPAGED, and define VM_SHM to 0: it serves no
purpose whatsoever, and should be removed from drivers when we clean up.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
Acked-by: William Irwin &lt;wli@holomorphy.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<title>[PATCH] unpaged: unifdefed PageCompound</title>
<updated>2005-11-22T17:13:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hugh Dickins</name>
<email>hugh@veritas.com</email>
</author>
<published>2005-11-22T05:32:14+00:00</published>
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It looks like snd_xxx is not the only nopage to be using PageReserved as a way
of holding a high-order page together: which no longer works, but is masked by
our failure to free from VM_RESERVED areas.  We cannot fix that bug without
first substituting another way to hold the high-order page together, while
farming out the 0-order pages from within it.

That's just what PageCompound is designed for, but it's been kept under
CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE.  Remove the #ifdefs: which saves some space (out- of-line
put_page), doesn't slow down what most needs to be fast (already using
hugetlb), and unifies the way we handle high-order pages.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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It looks like snd_xxx is not the only nopage to be using PageReserved as a way
of holding a high-order page together: which no longer works, but is masked by
our failure to free from VM_RESERVED areas.  We cannot fix that bug without
first substituting another way to hold the high-order page together, while
farming out the 0-order pages from within it.

That's just what PageCompound is designed for, but it's been kept under
CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE.  Remove the #ifdefs: which saves some space (out- of-line
put_page), doesn't slow down what most needs to be fast (already using
hugetlb), and unifies the way we handle high-order pages.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<title>[PARISC] Fix compile warning caused by conflicting types of expand_upwards()</title>
<updated>2005-11-18T21:16:42+00:00</updated>
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<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>willy@parisc-linux.org</email>
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<published>2005-11-18T21:16:42+00:00</published>
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Fix compile warning caused by conflicting types of expand_upwards. IA64
requires it to not be static inline, as it's used outside mm/mmap.c

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@parisc-linux.org&gt;
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Fix compile warning caused by conflicting types of expand_upwards. IA64
requires it to not be static inline, as it's used outside mm/mmap.c

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin &lt;kyle@parisc-linux.org&gt;
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<title>Merge x86-64 update from Andi</title>
<updated>2005-11-15T03:56:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@g5.osdl.org</email>
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<published>2005-11-15T03:56:02+00:00</published>
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