From af4ca457eaf2d6682059c18463eb106e2ce58198 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 02:55:38 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] gfp_t: infrastructure Beginning of gfp_t annotations: - -Wbitwise added to CHECKFLAGS - old __bitwise renamed to __bitwise__ - __bitwise defined to either __bitwise__ or nothing, depending on __CHECK_ENDIAN__ being defined - gfp_t switched from __nocast to __bitwise__ - force cast to gfp_t added to __GFP_... constants - new helper - gfp_zone(); extracts zone bits out of gfp_t value and casts the result to int Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/buffer.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/buffer.c') diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index 1216c0d3c8ce..9657696fd6d7 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ static void free_more_memory(void) yield(); for_each_pgdat(pgdat) { - zones = pgdat->node_zonelists[GFP_NOFS&GFP_ZONEMASK].zones; + zones = pgdat->node_zonelists[gfp_zone(GFP_NOFS)].zones; if (*zones) try_to_free_pages(zones, GFP_NOFS); } -- cgit v1.2.3 From 27496a8c67bef4d789d8e3c8317ca35813a507ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 03:20:48 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] gfp_t: fs/* - ->releasepage() annotated (s/int/gfp_t), instances updated - missing gfp_t in fs/* added - fixed misannotation from the original sweep caught by bitwise checks: XFS used __nocast both for gfp_t and for flags used by XFS allocator. The latter left with unsigned int __nocast; we might want to add a different type for those but for now let's leave them alone. That, BTW, is a case when __nocast use had been actively confusing - it had been used in the same code for two different and similar types, with no way to catch misuses. Switch of gfp_t to bitwise had caught that immediately... One tricky bit is left alone to be dealt with later - mapping->flags is a mix of gfp_t and error indications. Left alone for now. Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/buffer.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/buffer.c') diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index 9657696fd6d7..b1667986442f 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -1571,7 +1571,7 @@ static inline void discard_buffer(struct buffer_head * bh) * * NOTE: @gfp_mask may go away, and this function may become non-blocking. */ -int try_to_release_page(struct page *page, int gfp_mask) +int try_to_release_page(struct page *page, gfp_t gfp_mask) { struct address_space * const mapping = page->mapping; -- cgit v1.2.3 From 4c21e2f2441dc5fbb957b030333f5a3f2d02dea7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hugh Dickins Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 18:16:40 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: split page table lock Christoph Lameter demonstrated very poor scalability on the SGI 512-way, with a many-threaded application which concurrently initializes different parts of a large anonymous area. This patch corrects that, by using a separate spinlock per page table page, to guard the page table entries in that page, instead of using the mm's single page_table_lock. (But even then, page_table_lock is still used to guard page table allocation, and anon_vma allocation.) In this implementation, the spinlock is tucked inside the struct page of the page table page: with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case it overflows - which it would in the case of 32-bit PA-RISC with spinlock debugging enabled. Splitting the lock is not quite for free: another cacheline access. Ideally, I suppose we would use split ptlock only for multi-threaded processes on multi-cpu machines; but deciding that dynamically would have its own costs. So for now enable it by config, at some number of cpus - since the Kconfig language doesn't support inequalities, let preprocessor compare that with NR_CPUS. But I don't think it's worth being user-configurable: for good testing of both split and unsplit configs, split now at 4 cpus, and perhaps change that to 8 later. There is a benefit even for singly threaded processes: kswapd can be attacking one part of the mm while another part is busy faulting. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/buffer.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/buffer.c') diff --git a/fs/buffer.c b/fs/buffer.c index b1667986442f..2066e4cb700c 100644 --- a/fs/buffer.c +++ b/fs/buffer.c @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ static void __clear_page_buffers(struct page *page) { ClearPagePrivate(page); - page->private = 0; + set_page_private(page, 0); page_cache_release(page); } -- cgit v1.2.3