linux-toradex.git/include/linux/mmzone.h, branch v2.6.26-rc5

for_each_online_pgdat(): kerneldoc fix

2008-05-24T16:56:13+00:00

for_each_pgdat() was renamed to for_each_online_pgdat() and kerneldoc
comments should be updated accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Remove "#ifdef KERNEL" checks from unexported headers

2008-04-30T15:29:54+00:00

Remove the "#ifdef __KERNEL__" tests from unexported header files in
linux/include whose entire contents are wrapped in that preprocessor
test.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day 
Cc: David Woodhouse 
Cc: Sam Ravnborg 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: Add NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP counter

2008-04-30T15:29:50+00:00

Fuse will use temporary buffers to write back dirty data from memory mappings
(normal writes are done synchronously).  This is needed, because there cannot
be any guarantee about the time in which a write will complete.

By using temporary buffers, from the MM's point if view the page is written
back immediately.  If the writeout was due to memory pressure, this
effectively migrates data from a full zone to a less full zone.

This patch adds a new counter (NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP) for the number of pages used
as temporary buffers.

[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: add vmstat_text for NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP]
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

memory hotplug: register section/node id to free

2008-04-28T15:58:25+00:00

This patch set is to free pages which is allocated by bootmem for
memory-hotremove.  Some structures of memory management are allocated by
bootmem.  ex) memmap, etc.

To remove memory physically, some of them must be freed according to
circumstance.  This patch set makes basis to free those pages, and free
memmaps.

Basic my idea is using remain members of struct page to remember information
of users of bootmem (section number or node id).  When the section is
removing, kernel can confirm it.  By this information, some issues can be
solved.

  1) When the memmap of removing section is allocated on other
     section by bootmem, it should/can be free.
  2) When the memmap of removing section is allocated on the
     same section, it shouldn't be freed. Because the section has to be
     logical memory offlined already and all pages must be isolated against
     page allocater. If it is freed, page allocator may use it which will
     be removed physically soon.
  3) When removing section has other section's memmap,
     kernel will be able to show easily which section should be removed
     before it for user. (Not implemented yet)
  4) When the above case 2), the page isolation will be able to check and skip
     memmap's page when logical memory offline (offline_pages()).
     Current page isolation code fails in this case because this page is
     just reserved page and it can't distinguish this pages can be
     removed or not. But, it will be able to do by this patch.
     (Not implemented yet.)
  5) The node information like pgdat has similar issues. But, this
     will be able to be solved too by this.
     (Not implemented yet, but, remembering node id in the pages.)

Fortunately, current bootmem allocator just keeps PageReserved flags,
and doesn't use any other members of page struct. The users of
bootmem doesn't use them too.

This patch:

This is to register information which is node or section's id.  Kernel can
distinguish which node/section uses the pages allcated by bootmem.  This is
basis for hot-remove sections or nodes.

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto 
Cc: Badari Pulavarty 
Cc: Yinghai Lu 
Cc: Yasunori Goto 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: Get rid of __ZONE_COUNT

2008-04-28T15:58:22+00:00

It was used to compensate because MAX_NR_ZONES was not available to the
#ifdefs.  Export MAX_NR_ZONES via the new mechanism and get rid of
__ZONE_COUNT.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

pageflags: get rid of FLAGS_RESERVED

2008-04-28T15:58:21+00:00

NR_PAGEFLAGS specifies the number of page flags we are using.  From that we
can calculate the number of bits leftover that can be used for zone, node (and
maybe the sections id).  There is no need anymore for FLAGS_RESERVED if we use
NR_PAGEFLAGS.

Use the new methods to make NR_PAGEFLAGS available via the preprocessor.
NR_PAGEFLAGS is used to calculate field boundaries in the page flags fields.
These field widths have to be available to the preprocessor.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: Andy Whitcroft 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: make early_pfn_to_nid() a C function

2008-04-28T15:58:20+00:00

Fix this (sparc64)

mm/sparse-vmemmap.c: In function `vmemmap_verify':
mm/sparse-vmemmap.c:64: warning: unused variable `pfn'

by switching to a C function which touches its arg.

(reason 3,555 why macros are bad)

Also, the `nid' arg was misnamed.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter 
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: filter based on a nodemask as well as a gfp_mask

2008-04-28T15:58:19+00:00

The MPOL_BIND policy creates a zonelist that is used for allocations
controlled by that mempolicy.  As the per-node zonelist is already being
filtered based on a zone id, this patch adds a version of __alloc_pages() that
takes a nodemask for further filtering.  This eliminates the need for
MPOL_BIND to create a custom zonelist.

A positive benefit of this is that allocations using MPOL_BIND now use the
local node's distance-ordered zonelist instead of a custom node-id-ordered
zonelist.  I.e., pages will be allocated from the closest allowed node with
available memory.

[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: update stale documentation and comments]
[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: make dequeue_huge_page_vma() obey MPOL_BIND nodemask]
[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Mempolicy: make dequeue_huge_page_vma() obey MPOL_BIND nodemask rework]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: have zonelist contains structs with both a zone pointer and zone_idx

2008-04-28T15:58:18+00:00

Filtering zonelists requires very frequent use of zone_idx().  This is costly
as it involves a lookup of another structure and a substraction operation.  As
the zone_idx is often required, it should be quickly accessible.  The node idx
could also be stored here if it was found that accessing zone->node is
significant which may be the case on workloads where nodemasks are heavily
used.

This patch introduces a struct zoneref to store a zone pointer and a zone
index.  The zonelist then consists of an array of these struct zonerefs which
are looked up as necessary.  Helpers are given for accessing the zone index as
well as the node index.

[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: Suggested struct zoneref instead of embedding information in pointers]
[hugh@veritas.com: mm-have-zonelist: fix memcg ooms]
[hugh@veritas.com: just return do_try_to_free_pages]
[hugh@veritas.com: do_try_to_free_pages gfp_mask redundant]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter 
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: use two zonelist that are filtered by GFP mask