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1984 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Anton Altaparmakov
92fe7b9ea8 Merge branch 'master' of /usr/src/ntfs-2.6/ 2006-03-23 17:06:08 +00:00
Anton Altaparmakov
e750d1c7cc NTFS: 2.1.27 - Various bug fixes and cleanups.
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2006-03-23 17:04:12 +00:00
Ingo Molnar
4e5e529ad6 NTFS: Semaphore to mutex conversion.
The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2006-03-23 16:57:48 +00:00
Anton Altaparmakov
834ba600ce NTFS: Handle the recently introduced -ENAMETOOLONG return value from
fs/ntfs/unistr.c::ntfs_nlstoucs() in fs/ntfs/namei.c::ntfs_lookup().

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2006-03-23 16:25:23 +00:00
Anton Altaparmakov
20fdcf1d54 NTFS: Add a missing call to flush_dcache_mft_record_page() in
fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_write_inode().

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2006-03-23 16:21:02 +00:00
Anton Altaparmakov
a778f21732 NTFS: Fix a bug in fs/ntfs/inode.c::ntfs_read_locked_index_inode() where we
forgot to update a temporary variable so loading index inodes which
      have an index allocation attribute failed.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2006-03-23 16:18:23 +00:00
Anton Altaparmakov
2c2c8c1c21 NTFS: Improve comments on file attribute flags in fs/ntfs/layout.h.
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2006-03-23 16:09:40 +00:00
Anton Altaparmakov
d4faf636d6 NTFS: Limit name length in fs/ntfs/unistr.c::ntfs_nlstoucs() to maximum
allowed by NTFS, i.e. 255 Unicode characters, not including the
      terminating NULL (which is not stored on disk).

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2006-03-23 16:05:11 +00:00
Anton Altaparmakov
f95c4018fd NTFS: Remove all the make_bad_inode() calls. This should only be called
from read inode and new inode code paths.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2006-03-23 15:59:32 +00:00
Anton Altaparmakov
a0646a1f04 NTFS: Add support for sparse files which have a compression unit of 0.
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2006-03-23 15:53:03 +00:00
Benjamin LaHaise
b0e6e96299 [PATCH] reduce size of bio mempools
The biovec default mempool limit of 256 entries results in over 3MB of RAM
being permanently pinned, even on systems with only 128MB of RAM.  Since
mempool tries to allocate from the system pool first, it makes sense to
reduce the size of the mempool fallbacks to a more reasonable limit of 1-5
entries -- enough for the system to be able to make progress even under
load.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:18 -08:00
Andrew Morton
394e3902c5 [PATCH] more for_each_cpu() conversions
When we stop allocating percpu memory for not-possible CPUs we must not touch
the percpu data for not-possible CPUs at all.  The correct way of doing this
is to test cpu_possible() or to use for_each_cpu().

This patch is a kernel-wide sweep of all instances of NR_CPUS.  I found very
few instances of this bug, if any.  But the patch converts lots of open-coded
test to use the preferred helper macros.

Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Christian Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:17 -08:00
Benjamin LaHaise
5a6b7951bf [PATCH] get_empty_filp tweaks, inline epoll_init_file()
Eliminate a handful of cache references by keeping current in a register
instead of reloading (helps x86) and avoiding the overhead of a function
call.  Inlining eventpoll_init_file() saves 24 bytes.  Also reorder file
initialization to make writes occur more sequentially.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:17 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
713729e8b9 [PATCH] fs/*/file.c: drop insane header dependencies
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:17 -08:00
Domen Puncer
7a673c6b8f [PATCH] devpts: use lib/parser.c for parsing mount options
Item from "2.6 should fix" list.

Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:17 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
3257545e40 [PATCH] ufs: switch to inode_inc_count, inode_dec_count
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:16 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
a513b035ea [PATCH] ext2: switch to inode_inc_count, inode_dec_count
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:16 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
4e907c3d45 [PATCH] sysv: switch to inode_inc_count, inode_dec_count
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:15 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
78ec7b6917 [PATCH] minix: switch to inode_inc_link_count, inode_dec_link_count
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:15 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
a7ccf00718 [PATCH] fs/ufs/file.c: drop insane header dependencies
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:15 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
6b9438e132 [PATCH] fat_lock is used as a mutex, convert it to using the new mutex primitive
The fat code uses the fat_lock always in a mutex way (taking and releasing
the lock in the same function), the patch below converts it into the new
mutex primitive.  Please consider this patch for the code.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:15 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
1e7933defd [PATCH] sem2mutex: UDF
Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:14 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
8e3f90459b [PATCH] sem2mutex: NCPFS
Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:14 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
9746151861 [PATCH] convert ext3's truncate_sem to a mutex
ext3's truncate_sem is always released in the same function it's taken
and it otherwise is a mutex as well..

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:14 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
7bf6d78dd9 [PATCH] sem2mutex: HPFS
Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:13 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
1d5599e397 [PATCH] sem2mutex: autofs4 wq_sem
Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:13 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
1eb0d67007 [PATCH] sem2mutex: JFFS
Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:13 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
0ac1759abc [PATCH] sem2mutex: fs/seq_file.c
Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:12 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
7cf34c761d [PATCH] sem2mutex: fs/libfs.c
Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:12 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
2c68ee754c [PATCH] sem2mutex: jbd, j_checkpoint_mutex
Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:12 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
f24075bd0c [PATCH] sem2mutex: iprune
Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:12 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
a11f3a0574 [PATCH] sem2mutex: vfs_rename_mutex
Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:12 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
144efe3e3e [PATCH] sem2mutex: eventpoll
Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:12 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
d4f9af9dac [PATCH] sem2mutex: inotify
Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Acked-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:11 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
d3be915fc5 [PATCH] sem2mutex: quota
Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:11 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
c039e3134a [PATCH] sem2mutex: blockdev #2
Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:11 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
4f7a07b887 [PATCH] convert fs/9p/ to mutexes, fix locking bugs
Convert fs/9p/mux.c from semaphore to mutex.

NOTE: fixed locking bugs in the process - the code was using semaphores
the other way around.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:10 -08:00
Jan Kara
6362e4d4ed [PATCH] Fix oops in invalidate_dquots()
When quota is being turned off we assumed that all the references to dquots
were already dropped.  That need not be true as inodes being deleted are
not on superblock's inodes list and hence we need not reach it when
removing quota references from inodes.  So invalidate_dquots() has to wait
for all the users of dquots (as quota is already marked as turned off, no
new references can be acquired and so this is bound to happen rather
early).  When we do this, we can also remove the iprune_sem locking as it
was protecting us against exactly the same problem when freeing inodes
icache memory.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:10 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
0c9e63fd38 [PATCH] Shrinks sizeof(files_struct) and better layout
1) Reduce the size of (struct fdtable) to exactly 64 bytes on 32bits
   platforms, lowering kmalloc() allocated space by 50%.

2) Reduce the size of (files_struct), using a special 32 bits (or
   64bits) embedded_fd_set, instead of a 1024 bits fd_set for the
   close_on_exec_init and open_fds_init fields.  This save some ram (248
   bytes per task) as most tasks dont open more than 32 files.  D-Cache
   footprint for such tasks is also reduced to the minimum.

3) Reduce size of allocated fdset.  Currently two full pages are
   allocated, that is 32768 bits on x86 for example, and way too much.  The
   minimum is now L1_CACHE_BYTES.

UP and SMP should benefit from this patch, because most tasks will touch
only one cache line when open()/close() stdin/stdout/stderr (0/1/2),
(next_fd, close_on_exec_init, open_fds_init, fd_array[0 ..  2] being in the
same cache line)

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:09 -08:00
Andrew Morton
d8733c2956 [PATCH] ext3_readdir: use generic readahead
Linus points out that ext3_readdir's readahead only cuts in when
ext3_readdir() is operating at the very start of the directory.  So for large
directories we end up performing no readahead at all and we suck.

So take it all out and use the core VM's page_cache_readahead().  This means
that ext3 directory reads will use all of readahead's dynamic sizing goop.

Note that we're using the directory's filp->f_ra to hold the readahead state,
but readahead is actually being performed against the underlying blockdev's
address_space.  Fortunately the readahead code is all set up to handle this.

Tested with printk.  It works.  I was struggling to find a real workload which
actually cared.

(The patch also exports page_cache_readahead() to GPL modules)

Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:09 -08:00
Neil Horman
5be0e95119 [PATCH] proc: fix duplicate line in /proc/devices
Fix a duplicate block device line printed after the "Block device" header
in /proc/devices.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23 07:38:02 -08:00
Anton Altaparmakov
949763b2b8 NTFS: Fix comparison of $MFT and $MFTMirr to not bail out when there are
unused, invalid mft records which are the same in both $MFT and
      $MFTMirr.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2006-03-23 15:34:13 +00:00
Anton Altaparmakov
78264bd9c2 NTFS: Use buffer_migrate_page() for the ->migratepage function of all ntfs
address space operations.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2006-03-23 15:06:18 +00:00
Anton Altaparmakov
3ccc7384db NTFS: Fix a buggette in an "should be impossible" case handling where we
continued the attribute lookup loop instead of aborting it.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2006-03-23 15:03:11 +00:00
Anton Altaparmakov
67b1dfe77a NTFS: Fix an (innocent) off-by-one error in the runlist code.
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2006-03-23 14:57:43 +00:00
Anton Altaparmakov
b4d8d1a93c Merge branch 'master' of /usr/src/ntfs-2.6/ 2006-03-23 14:50:51 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
8b4b6707ee Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial:
  fixed path to moved file in include/linux/device.h
  Fix spelling in E1000_DISABLE_PACKET_SPLIT Kconfig description
  Documentation/dvb/get_dvb_firmware: fix firmware URL
  Documentation: Update to BUG-HUNTING
  Remove superfluous NOTIFY_COOKIE_LEN define
  add "tags" to .gitignore
  Fix "frist", "fisrt", typos
  fix rwlock usage example
  It's UTF-8
2006-03-22 10:58:05 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
b20a35035f [PATCH] page migration reorg
Centralize the page migration functions in anticipation of additional
tinkering.  Creates a new file mm/migrate.c

1. Extract buffer_migrate_page() from fs/buffer.c

2. Extract central migration code from vmscan.c

3. Extract some components from mempolicy.c

4. Export pageout() and remove_from_swap() from vmscan.c

5. Make it possible to configure NUMA systems without page migration
   and non-NUMA systems with page migration.

I had to so some #ifdeffing in mempolicy.c that may need a cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:54:06 -08:00
Chen, Kenneth W
bba1e9b211 [PATCH] convert hugetlbfs_counter to atomic
Implementation of hugetlbfs_counter() is functionally equivalent to
atomic_inc_return().  Use the simpler atomic form.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:54:04 -08:00
David Gibson
b45b5bd65f [PATCH] hugepage: Strict page reservation for hugepage inodes
These days, hugepages are demand-allocated at first fault time.  There's a
somewhat dubious (and racy) heuristic when making a new mmap() to check if
there are enough available hugepages to fully satisfy that mapping.

A particularly obvious case where the heuristic breaks down is where a
process maps its hugepages not as a single chunk, but as a bunch of
individually mmap()ed (or shmat()ed) blocks without touching and
instantiating the pages in between allocations.  In this case the size of
each block is compared against the total number of available hugepages.
It's thus easy for the process to become overcommitted, because each block
mapping will succeed, although the total number of hugepages required by
all blocks exceeds the number available.  In particular, this defeats such
a program which will detect a mapping failure and adjust its hugepage usage
downward accordingly.

The patch below addresses this problem, by strictly reserving a number of
physical hugepages for hugepage inodes which have been mapped, but not
instatiated.  MAP_SHARED mappings are thus "safe" - they will fail on
mmap(), not later with an OOM SIGKILL.  MAP_PRIVATE mappings can still
trigger an OOM.  (Actually SHARED mappings can technically still OOM, but
only if the sysadmin explicitly reduces the hugepage pool between mapping
and instantiation)

This patch appears to address the problem at hand - it allows DB2 to start
correctly, for instance, which previously suffered the failure described
above.

This patch causes no regressions on the libhugetblfs testsuite, and makes a
test (designed to catch this problem) pass which previously failed (ppc64,
POWER5).

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22 07:54:03 -08:00