kernel_optimize_test/mm
Nick Piggin 54cb8821de mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear)
Nonlinear mappings are (AFAIKS) simply a virtual memory concept that encodes
the virtual address -> file offset differently from linear mappings.

->populate is a layering violation because the filesystem/pagecache code
should need to know anything about the virtual memory mapping.  The hitch here
is that the ->nopage handler didn't pass down enough information (ie.  pgoff).
 But it is more logical to pass pgoff rather than have the ->nopage function
calculate it itself anyway (because that's a similar layering violation).

Having the populate handler install the pte itself is likewise a nasty thing
to be doing.

This patch introduces a new fault handler that replaces ->nopage and
->populate and (later) ->nopfn.  Most of the old mechanism is still in place
so there is a lot of duplication and nice cleanups that can be removed if
everyone switches over.

The rationale for doing this in the first place is that nonlinear mappings are
subject to the pagefault vs invalidate/truncate race too, and it seemed stupid
to duplicate the synchronisation logic rather than just consolidate the two.

After this patch, MAP_NONBLOCK no longer sets up ptes for pages present in
pagecache.  Seems like a fringe functionality anyway.

NOPAGE_REFAULT is removed.  This should be implemented with ->fault, and no
users have hit mainline yet.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: doc. fixes for readahead]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:41 -07:00
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allocpercpu.c Slab allocators: Replace explicit zeroing with __GFP_ZERO 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
backing-dev.c remove mm/backing-dev.c:congestion_wait_interruptible() 2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
bootmem.c
bounce.c
fadvise.c
filemap_xip.c mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear) 2007-07-19 10:04:41 -07:00
filemap.c mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear) 2007-07-19 10:04:41 -07:00
filemap.h
fremap.c mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear) 2007-07-19 10:04:41 -07:00
highmem.c Create the ZONE_MOVABLE zone 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
hugetlb.c MM: Make needlessly global hugetlb_no_page() static. 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
internal.h
Kconfig CONFIG_BOUNCE to avoid useless inclusion of bounce buffer logic 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
madvise.c speed up madvise_need_mmap_write() usage 2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
Makefile CONFIG_BOUNCE to avoid useless inclusion of bounce buffer logic 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c memory hotplug: fix unnecessary calling of init_currenty_empty_zone() 2007-06-01 08:18:29 -07:00
memory.c mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear) 2007-07-19 10:04:41 -07:00
mempolicy.c Allow huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
mempool.c Slab allocators: Replace explicit zeroing with __GFP_ZERO 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
migrate.c Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may be migrated 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
mincore.c
mlock.c do not limit locked memory when RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is RLIM_INFINITY 2007-07-16 09:05:37 -07:00
mmap.c mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear) 2007-07-19 10:04:41 -07:00
mmzone.c
mprotect.c
mremap.c security: Protection for exploiting null dereference using mmap 2007-07-11 22:52:29 -04:00
msync.c Detach sched.h from mm.h 2007-05-21 09:18:19 -07:00
nommu.c mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear) 2007-07-19 10:04:41 -07:00
oom_kill.c
page_alloc.c knfsd: nfsd4: vary maximum delegation limit based on RAM size 2007-07-17 10:23:07 -07:00
page_io.c
page-writeback.c fs: introduce some page/buffer invariants 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
pdflush.c Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c
readahead.c
rmap.c mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear) 2007-07-19 10:04:41 -07:00
shmem_acl.c
shmem.c mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear) 2007-07-19 10:04:41 -07:00
slab.c kallsyms: make KSYM_NAME_LEN include space for trailing '\0' 2007-07-17 10:23:03 -07:00
slob.c Slab allocators: Cleanup zeroing allocations 2007-07-17 10:23:01 -07:00
slub.c SLUB: Fix CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG use for CONFIG_NUMA 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
sparse.c Move three functions that are only needed for CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG 2007-06-08 17:23:33 -07:00
swap_state.c Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations from high memory that may be migrated 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
swap.c
swapfile.c vmscan: fix comments related to shrink_list() 2007-07-16 09:05:35 -07:00
thrash.c Bug in mm/thrash.c function grab_swap_token() 2007-05-11 08:29:32 -07:00
tiny-shmem.c
truncate.c mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear) 2007-07-19 10:04:41 -07:00
util.c add kstrndup 2007-07-18 08:47:39 -07:00
vmalloc.c Allocate and free vmalloc areas 2007-07-18 08:47:41 -07:00
vmscan.c Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
vmstat.c Create the ZONE_MOVABLE zone 2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00