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2011-05-25lib/vsprintf.c: fix interaction of kasprintf() and vsnprintf() when using %pVJan Beulich
Otherwise, the warning at the top of vsnprintf() gets triggered by kvasprintf()'s first invocation (with NULL buffer and zero size) of vsnprintf(). Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25sparse: Undef __compiletime_{warning,error} if __CHECKER__ is definedKOSAKI Motohiro
sparse can't parse warning and error attribute. then they should be hidden from sparse. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25sparse: define __must_be_array() for __CHECKER__KOSAKI Motohiro
commit c5e631cf65f ("ARRAY_SIZE: check for type") added __must_be_array(). But sparse can't parse this gcc extention. Now make C=2 makes following sparse errors a lot. kernel/futex.c:2699:25: error: No right hand side of '+'-expression Because __must_be_array() is used for ARRAY_SIZE() macro and it is used very widely. This patch fixes it. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25sparse: define dummy BUILD_BUG_ON definition for sparseKOSAKI Motohiro
BUILD_BUG_ON() causes a syntax error to detect coding errors. So it causes sparse to detect an error too. This reduces sparse's usefulness. This patch makes a dummy BUILD_BUG_ON() definition for sparse. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25init/calibrate.c: fix for critical bogoMIPS intermittent calculation failureAndrew Worsley
A fix to the TSC (Time Stamp Counter) based bogoMIPS calculation used on secondary CPUs which has two faults: 1: Not handling wrapping of the lower 32 bits of the TSC counter on 32bit kernel - perhaps TSC is not reset by a warm reset? 2: TSC and Jiffies are no incrementing together properly. Either jiffies increment too quickly or Time Stamp Counter isn't incremented in during an SMI but the real time clock is and jiffies are incremented. Case 1 can result in a factor of 16 too large a value which makes udelay() values too small and can cause mysterious driver errors. Case 2 appears to give smaller 10-15% errors after averaging but enough to cause occasional failures on my own board I have tested this code on my own branch and attach patch suitable for current kernel code. See below for examples of the failures and how the fix handles these situations now. I reported this issue earlier here: Intermittent problem with BogoMIPs calculation on Intel AP CPUs - http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129947246316875&w=4 I suspect this issue has been seen by others but as it is intermittent and bogoMIPS for secondary CPUs are no longer printed out it might have been difficult to identify this as the cause. Perhaps these unresolved issues, although quite old, might be relevant as possibly this fault has been around for a while. In particular Case 1 may only be relevant to 32bit kernels on newer HW (most people run 64bit kernels?). Case 2 is less dramatic since the earlier fix in this area and also intermittent. Re: bogomips discrepancy on Intel Core2 Quad CPU - http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118929277524298&w=4 slow system and bogus bogomips - http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=116791286716107&w=4 Re: Re: [RFC-PATCH] clocksource: update lpj if clocksource has - http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=128952775819467&w=4 This issue is masked a little by commit feae3203d711db0a ("timers, init: Limit the number of per cpu calibration bootup messages") which only prints out the first bogoMIPS value making it much harder to notice other values differing. Perhaps it should be changed to only suppress them when they are similar values? Here are some outputs showing faults occurring and the new code handling them properly. See my earlier message for examples of the original failure. Case 1: A Time Stamp Counter wrap: ... Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 6332.70 BogoMIPS (lpj=31663540) .... calibrate_delay_direct() timer_rate_max=31666493 timer_rate_min=31666151 pre_start=4170369255 pre_end=4202035539 calibrate_delay_direct() timer_rate_max=2425955274 timer_rate_min=2425954941 pre_start=4265368533 pre_end=2396356387 calibrate_delay_direct() ignoring timer_rate as we had a TSC wrap around start=4265368581 >=post_end=2396356511 calibrate_delay_direct() timer_rate_max=31666274 timer_rate_min=31665942 pre_start=2440373374 pre_end=2472039515 calibrate_delay_direct() timer_rate_max=31666492 timer_rate_min=31666160 pre_start=2535372139 pre_end=2567038422 calibrate_delay_direct() timer_rate_max=31666455 timer_rate_min=31666207 pre_start=2630371084 pre_end=2662037415 Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 6333.28 BogoMIPS (lpj=31666428) Total of 2 processors activated (12665.99 BogoMIPS). .... Case 2: Some thing (presumably the SMM interrupt?) causing the very low increase in TSC counter for the DELAY_CALIBRATION_TICKS increase in jiffies ... Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 6333.25 BogoMIPS (lpj=31666270) ... calibrate_delay_direct() timer_rate_max=31666483 timer_rate_min=31666074 pre_start=4199536526 pre_end=4231202809 calibrate_delay_direct() timer_rate_max=864348 timer_rate_min=864016 pre_start=2405343672 pre_end=2406207897 calibrate_delay_direct() timer_rate_max=31666483 timer_rate_min=31666179 pre_start=2469540464 pre_end=2501206823 calibrate_delay_direct() timer_rate_max=31666511 timer_rate_min=31666122 pre_start=2564539400 pre_end=2596205712 calibrate_delay_direct() timer_rate_max=31666084 timer_rate_min=31665685 pre_start=2659538782 pre_end=2691204657 calibrate_delay_direct() dropping min bogoMips estimate 1 = 864348 Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 6333.27 BogoMIPS (lpj=31666390) Total of 2 processors activated (12666.53 BogoMIPS). ... After 70 boots I saw 2 variations <1% slip through [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix straggly printk mess] Signed-off-by: Andrew Worsley <amworsley@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25xattr.h: expose string defines to userspaceEric Paris
af4f136056c9 ("security: move LSM xattrnames to xattr.h") moved the XATTR_CAPS_SUFFIX define from capability.h to xattr.h. This makes sense except it was previously exports to userspace but xattr.h does not export it to userspace. This patch exports these headers to userspace to fix the ABI regression. There is some slight possibility that this will cause problems in other applications which used these #defines differently (wrongly) and I could JUST export the capabilities xattr name that we broke. Does anyonehave an idea how exposing these headers could cause a problem? Below is what is being exposed to userspace, included here since it isn't clear exactly what is going to be made available from the patch. /* Namespaces */ #define XATTR_OS2_PREFIX "os2." #define XATTR_OS2_PREFIX_LEN (sizeof (XATTR_OS2_PREFIX) - 1) #define XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX "security." #define XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX_LEN (sizeof (XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX) - 1) #define XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX "system." #define XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX_LEN (sizeof (XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX) - 1) #define XATTR_TRUSTED_PREFIX "trusted." #define XATTR_TRUSTED_PREFIX_LEN (sizeof (XATTR_TRUSTED_PREFIX) - 1) #define XATTR_USER_PREFIX "user." #define XATTR_USER_PREFIX_LEN (sizeof (XATTR_USER_PREFIX) - 1) /* Security namespace */ #define XATTR_SELINUX_SUFFIX "selinux" #define XATTR_NAME_SELINUX XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX XATTR_SELINUX_SUFFIX #define XATTR_SMACK_SUFFIX "SMACK64" #define XATTR_SMACK_IPIN "SMACK64IPIN" #define XATTR_SMACK_IPOUT "SMACK64IPOUT" #define XATTR_NAME_SMACK XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX XATTR_SMACK_SUFFIX #define XATTR_NAME_SMACKIPIN XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX XATTR_SMACK_IPIN #define XATTR_NAME_SMACKIPOUT XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX XATTR_SMACK_IPOUT #define XATTR_CAPS_SUFFIX "capability" #define XATTR_NAME_CAPS XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX XATTR_CAPS_SUFFIX Reported-by: Ozan Çaglayan <ozan@pardus.org.tr> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25bitmap, irq: add smp_affinity_list interface to /proc/irqMike Travis
Manually adjusting the smp_affinity for IRQ's becomes unwieldy when the cpu count is large. Setting smp affinity to cpus 256 to 263 would be: echo 000000ff,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000,00000000 > smp_affinity instead of: echo 256-263 > smp_affinity_list Think about what it looks like for cpus around say, 4088 to 4095. We already have many alternate "list" interfaces: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/indexY/shared_cpu_list /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings_list /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings_list /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/cpulist /sys/devices/pci***/***/local_cpulist Add a companion interface, smp_affinity_list to use cpu lists instead of cpu maps. This conforms to other companion interfaces where both a map and a list interface exists. This required adding a bitmap_parselist_user() function in a manner similar to the bitmap_parse_user() function. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make __bitmap_parselist() static] Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25fscache: remove dead code under CONFIG_WORKQUEUE_DEBUGFSAmerigo Wang
There is no CONFIG_WORKQUEUE_DEBUGFS any more, so this code is dead. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25x86: remove 32-bit versions of readq()/writeq()Roland Dreier
The presense of a writeq() implementation on 32-bit x86 that splits the 64-bit write into two 32-bit writes turns out to break the mpt2sas driver (and in general is risky for drivers as was discussed in <http://lkml.kernel.org/r/adaab6c1h7c.fsf@cisco.com>). To fix this, revert 2c5643b1c5c7 ("x86: provide readq()/writeq() on 32-bit too") and follow-on cleanups. This unfortunately leads to pushing non-atomic definitions of readq() and write() to various x86-only drivers that in the meantime started using the definitions in the x86 version of <asm/io.h>. However as discussed exhaustively, this is actually the right thing to do, because the right way to split a 64-bit transaction is hardware dependent and therefore belongs in the hardware driver (eg mpt2sas needs a spinlock to make sure no other accesses occur in between the two halves of the access). Build tested on 32- and 64-bit x86 allmodconfig. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/x86-32-writeq-is-broken@mdm.bga.com Acked-by: Hitoshi Mitake <h.mitake@gmail.com> Cc: Kashyap Desai <Kashyap.Desai@lsi.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Ravi Anand <ravi.anand@qlogic.com> Cc: Vikas Chaudhary <vikas.chaudhary@qlogic.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Uhlenkott <juhlenko@akamai.com> Acked-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@parallels.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25Remove unused PROC_CHANGE_PENALTY constantStephen Boyd
This constant hasn't been used since before the git era (2.6.12) and thus can be dropped. Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25include/linux/c2port.h: remove wrong and never used macrosWanlong Gao
The macro to_class_dev() uses the deprecated structure class_device, and the c2port_device has no member named class in the definition of the macro to_c2port_device. Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <wanlong.gao@gmail.com> Cc: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25ulimit: raise default hard ulimit on number of files to 4096Tim Gardner
Apps are increasingly using more than 1024 file descriptors. See discussion in several distro bug trackers, e.g. BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/663090 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2054 You don't want to raise the default soft limit, since that might break apps that use select(), but it's safe to raise the default hard limit; that way, apps that know they need lots of file descriptors can raise their soft limit without needing root, and without user intervention. Ubuntu is doing this with a kernel change because they have a policy of not changing kernel defaults in userland. While 4096 might not be enough for *all* apps, it seems to be plenty for the apps I've seen lately that are unhappy with 1024. Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> Cc: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25um: fix crash while os_dump_core()Richard Weinberger
os_dump_core() emits SIGTERM to terminate all UML processes. Kernel threads have to exit on SIGTERM instead of calling last_ditch_exit(). Multiple calls to last_ditch_exit() can cause a crash. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25um: include linux/prefetch.hRichard Weinberger
Fix build failures on UML. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25um: print info about fatal segfaultsRichard Weinberger
Print a short info about fatal segfaults like other archs do. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25um: add ucast ethernet transportNolan Leake
The ucast transport is similar to the mcast transport (and, in fact, shares most of its code), only it uses UDP unicast to move packets. Obviously this is only useful for point-to-point connections between virtual ethernet devices. Signed-off-by: Nolan Leake <nolan@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25um: add earlyprintk supportRichard Weinberger
User Mode Linux can also benefit from earlyprintk. UML's earlyprintk writes kernel messages directly to stdout. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25um: remove SIGHUP handlerRichard Weinberger
The UML kernel ignores SIGHUP anyway. This handler is in vain. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25um: fix UML_LIB_PATHRichard Weinberger
UML_LIB_PATH is hardcoded to /usr/lib/uml/, on 64bit systems UML_LIB_PATH needs to be /usr/lib64/uml/. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25cris: convert old cpumask API into new oneKOSAKI Motohiro
Adapt to the new API. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Cc: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mn10300: convert old cpumask API into new oneKOSAKI Motohiro
Adapt to the new API. We plan to remove old cpumask APIs later. Thus this patch converts them into the new one. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25alpha: hook up gpiolib supportMark Brown
Allow people to use gpiolib on Alpha if they want to, mostly for build coverage. The header is a stright copy of that for Microblaze, which in turn was taken from PowerPC. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: define GENERIC_GPIO] Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25alpha: replace with new cpumask APIsKOSAKI Motohiro
We plan to remove cpu_xx() old APIs. Thus convert them. This patch has no functional change. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25nommu: add page alignment to mmapBob Liu
Currently on nommu arch mmap(),mremap() and munmap() doesn't do page_align() which isn't consist with mmu arch and cause some issues. First, some drivers' mmap() function depends on vma->vm_end - vma->start is page aligned which is true on mmu arch but not on nommu. eg: uvc camera driver. Second munmap() may return -EINVAL[split file] error in cases when end is not page aligned(passed into from userspace) but vma->vm_end is aligned dure to split or driver's mmap() ops. Add page alignment to fix those issues. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm: batch activate_page() to reduce lock contentionShaohua Li
The zone->lru_lock is heavily contented in workload where activate_page() is frequently used. We could do batch activate_page() to reduce the lock contention. The batched pages will be added into zone list when the pool is full or page reclaim is trying to drain them. For example, in a 4 socket 64 CPU system, create a sparse file and 64 processes, processes shared map to the file. Each process read access the whole file and then exit. The process exit will do unmap_vmas() and cause a lot of activate_page() call. In such workload, we saw about 58% total time reduction with below patch. Other workloads with a lot of activate_page also benefits a lot too. Andrew Morton suggested activate_page() and putback_lru_pages() should follow the same path to active pages, but this is hard to implement (see commit 7a608572a282a ("Revert "mm: batch activate_page() to reduce lock contention")). On the other hand, do we really need putback_lru_pages() to follow the same path? I tested several FIO/FFSB benchmark (about 20 scripts for each benchmark) in 3 machines here from 2 sockets to 4 sockets. My test doesn't show anything significant with/without below patch (there is slight difference but mostly some noise which we found even without below patch before). Below patch basically returns to the same as my first post. I tested some microbenchmarks: case-anon-cow-rand-mt 0.58% case-anon-cow-rand -3.30% case-anon-cow-seq-mt -0.51% case-anon-cow-seq -5.68% case-anon-r-rand-mt 0.23% case-anon-r-rand 0.81% case-anon-r-seq-mt -0.71% case-anon-r-seq -1.99% case-anon-rx-rand-mt 2.11% case-anon-rx-seq-mt 3.46% case-anon-w-rand-mt -0.03% case-anon-w-rand -0.50% case-anon-w-seq-mt -1.08% case-anon-w-seq -0.12% case-anon-wx-rand-mt -5.02% case-anon-wx-seq-mt -1.43% case-fork 1.65% case-fork-sleep -0.07% case-fork-withmem 1.39% case-hugetlb -0.59% case-lru-file-mmap-read-mt -0.54% case-lru-file-mmap-read 0.61% case-lru-file-mmap-read-rand -2.24% case-lru-file-readonce -0.64% case-lru-file-readtwice -11.69% case-lru-memcg -1.35% case-mmap-pread-rand-mt 1.88% case-mmap-pread-rand -15.26% case-mmap-pread-seq-mt 0.89% case-mmap-pread-seq -69.72% case-mmap-xread-rand-mt 0.71% case-mmap-xread-seq-mt 0.38% The most significent are: case-lru-file-readtwice -11.69% case-mmap-pread-rand -15.26% case-mmap-pread-seq -69.72% which use activate_page a lot. others are basically variations because each run has slightly difference. In UP case, 'size mm/swap.o' before the two patches: text data bss dec hex filename 6466 896 4 7366 1cc6 mm/swap.o after the two patches: text data bss dec hex filename 6343 896 4 7243 1c4b mm/swap.o Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hiroyuki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyuki@gmail.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25asm-generic/cacheflush.h: flush icache when copying to user pagesMike Frysinger
The copy_to_user_page() function is supposed to flush the icache on the memory that was written, but the current asm-generic version lacks that logic. While normally it isn't a big deal as the asm-generic version of icache flushing is a stub, it is a deal for ports that want to use the asm-generic version as a baseline and then overlay its own specific parts (like icache flushing). Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm/page_alloc.c: prevent unending loop in __alloc_pages_slowpath()Andrew Barry
I believe I found a problem in __alloc_pages_slowpath, which allows a process to get stuck endlessly looping, even when lots of memory is available. Running an I/O and memory intensive stress-test I see a 0-order page allocation with __GFP_IO and __GFP_WAIT, running on a system with very little free memory. Right about the same time that the stress-test gets killed by the OOM-killer, the utility trying to allocate memory gets stuck in __alloc_pages_slowpath even though most of the systems memory was freed by the oom-kill of the stress-test. The utility ends up looping from the rebalance label down through the wait_iff_congested continiously. Because order=0, __alloc_pages_direct_compact skips the call to get_page_from_freelist. Because all of the reclaimable memory on the system has already been reclaimed, __alloc_pages_direct_reclaim skips the call to get_page_from_freelist. Since there is no __GFP_FS flag, the block with __alloc_pages_may_oom is skipped. The loop hits the wait_iff_congested, then jumps back to rebalance without ever trying to get_page_from_freelist. This loop repeats infinitely. The test case is pretty pathological. Running a mix of I/O stress-tests that do a lot of fork() and consume all of the system memory, I can pretty reliably hit this on 600 nodes, in about 12 hours. 32GB/node. Signed-off-by: Andrew Barry <abarry@cray.com> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm: add SECTION_ALIGN_UP() and SECTION_ALIGN_DOWN() macroDaniel Kiper
Add SECTION_ALIGN_UP() and SECTION_ALIGN_DOWN() macro which aligns given pfn to upper section and lower section boundary accordingly. Required for the latest memory hotplug support for the Xen balloon driver. Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl> Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25memsw: remove noswapaccount kernel parameterMichal Hocko
The noswapaccount parameter has been deprecated since 2.6.38 without any complaints from users so we can remove it. swapaccount=0|1 can be used instead. As we are removing the parameter we can also clean up swapaccount because it doesn't have to accept an empty string anymore (to match noswapaccount) and so we can push = into __setup macro rather than checking "=1" resp. "=0" strings Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Hiroyuki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyuki@gmail.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25proc: allocate storage for numa_maps statistics onceStephen Wilson
In show_numa_map() we collect statistics into a numa_maps structure. Since the number of NUMA nodes can be very large, this structure is not a candidate for stack allocation. Instead of going thru a kmalloc()+kfree() cycle each time show_numa_map() is invoked, perform the allocation just once when /proc/pid/numa_maps is opened. Performing the allocation when numa_maps is opened, and thus before a reference to the target tasks mm is taken, eliminates a potential stalemate condition in the oom-killer as originally described by Hugh Dickins: ... imagine what happens if the system is out of memory, and the mm we're looking at is selected for killing by the OOM killer: while we wait in __get_free_page for more memory, no memory is freed from the selected mm because it cannot reach exit_mmap while we hold that reference. Signed-off-by: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25proc: make struct proc_maps_private truly privateStephen Wilson
Now that mm/mempolicy.c is no longer implementing /proc/pid/numa_maps there is no need to export struct proc_maps_private to the world. Move it to fs/proc/internal.h instead. Signed-off-by: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm: proc: move show_numa_map() to fs/proc/task_mmu.cStephen Wilson
Moving show_numa_map() from mempolicy.c to task_mmu.c solves several issues. - Having the show() operation "miles away" from the corresponding seq_file iteration operations is a maintenance burden. - The need to export ad hoc info like struct proc_maps_private is eliminated. - The implementation of show_numa_map() can be improved in a simple manner by cooperating with the other seq_file operations (start, stop, etc) -- something that would be messy to do without this change. Signed-off-by: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm: declare mpol_to_str() when CONFIG_TMPFS=nStephen Wilson
When CONFIG_TMPFS=n mpol_to_str() is not declared in mempolicy.h. However, in the NUMA case, the definition is always compiled. Since it is not strictly true that tmpfs is the only client, and since the symbol was always lurking around anyways, export mpol_to_str() unconditionally. Furthermore, this will allow us to move show_numa_map() out of mempolicy.c and into the procfs subsystem. Signed-off-by: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm: remove check_huge_range()Stephen Wilson
This function has been superseded by gather_hugetbl_stats() and is no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm: make gather_stats() type-safe and remove forward declarationStephen Wilson
Improve the prototype of gather_stats() to take a struct numa_maps as argument instead of a generic void *. Update all callers to make the required type explicit. Since gather_stats() is not needed before its definition and is scheduled to be moved out of mempolicy.c the declaration is removed as well. Signed-off-by: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm: remove MPOL_MF_STATSStephen Wilson
Mapping statistics in a NUMA environment is now computed using the generic walk_page_range() logic. Remove the old/equivalent functionality. Signed-off-by: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm: use walk_page_range() instead of custom page table walking codeStephen Wilson
Converting show_numa_map() to use the generic routine decouples the function from mempolicy.c, allowing it to be moved out of the mm subsystem and into fs/proc. Also, include KSM pages in /proc/pid/numa_maps statistics. The pagewalk logic implemented by check_pte_range() failed to account for such pages as they were not applicable to the page migration case. Signed-off-by: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm: export get_vma_policy()Stephen Wilson
In commit 48fce3429d ("mempolicies: unexport get_vma_policy()") get_vma_policy() was marked static as all clients were local to mempolicy.c. However, the decision to generate /proc/pid/numa_maps in the numa memory policy code and outside the procfs subsystem introduces an artificial interdependency between the two systems. Exporting get_vma_policy() once again is the first step to clean up this interdependency. Signed-off-by: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm: remove last trace of shmem_get_unmapped_areaHugh Dickins
Remove noMMU declaration of shmem_get_unmapped_area() from mm.h: it fell out of use in 2.6.21 and ceased to exist in 2.6.29. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25tmpfs: implement generic xattr supportEric Paris
Implement generic xattrs for tmpfs filesystems. The Feodra project, while trying to replace suid apps with file capabilities, realized that tmpfs, which is used on the build systems, does not support file capabilities and thus cannot be used to build packages which use file capabilities. Xattrs are also needed for overlayfs. The xattr interface is a bit odd. If a filesystem does not implement any {get,set,list}xattr functions the VFS will call into some random LSM hooks and the running LSM can then implement some method for handling xattrs. SELinux for example provides a method to support security.selinux but no other security.* xattrs. As it stands today when one enables CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL tmpfs will have xattr handler routines specifically to handle acls. Because of this tmpfs would loose the VFS/LSM helpers to support the running LSM. To make up for that tmpfs had stub functions that did nothing but call into the LSM hooks which implement the helpers. This new patch does not use the LSM fallback functions and instead just implements a native get/set/list xattr feature for the full security.* and trusted.* namespace like a normal filesystem. This means that tmpfs can now support both security.selinux and security.capability, which was not previously possible. The basic implementation is that I attach a: struct shmem_xattr { struct list_head list; /* anchored by shmem_inode_info->xattr_list */ char *name; size_t size; char value[0]; }; Into the struct shmem_inode_info for each xattr that is set. This implementation could easily support the user.* namespace as well, except some care needs to be taken to prevent large amounts of unswappable memory being allocated for unprivileged users. [mszeredi@suse.cz: new config option, suport trusted.*, support symlinks] Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> Tested-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Tested-by: Jordi Pujol <jordipujolp@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25memblock/nobootmem: remove unneeded code from alloc_bootmem_node_high()Yinghai Lu
The bootmem wrapper with memblock supports top-down now, so we no longer need this trick. Signed-off-by: Yinghai LU <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25memblock/nobootmem: allow alloc_bootmem() to take 0 as low limitYinghai Lu
The bootmem wrapper with memblock supports top-down now, so we do not need to set the low limit to __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS). The logic should be: good to allocate above __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS), but it is ok if we can not find memory above 16M on system that has a small amount of RAM. Signed-off-by: Yinghai LU <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm: delete non-atomic mm counter implementationMatt Fleming
The problem with having two different types of counters is that developers adding new code need to keep in mind whether it's safe to use both the atomic and non-atomic implementations. For example, when adding new callers of the *_mm_counter() functions a developer needs to ensure that those paths are always executed with page_table_lock held, in case we're using the non-atomic implementation of mm counters. Hugh Dickins introduced the atomic mm counters in commit f412ac08c986 ("[PATCH] mm: fix rss and mmlist locking"). When asked why he left the non-atomic counters around he said, | The only reason was to avoid adding costly atomic operations into a | configuration that had no need for them there: the page_table_lock | sufficed. | | Certainly it would be simpler just to delete the non-atomic variant. | | And I think it's fair to say that any configuration on which we're | measuring performance to that degree (rather than "does it boot fast?" | type measurements), would already be going the split ptlocks route. Removing the non-atomic counters eases the maintenance burden because developers no longer have to mindful of the two implementations when using *_mm_counter(). Note that all architectures provide a means of atomically updating atomic_long_t variables, even if they have to revert to the generic spinlock implementation because they don't support 64-bit atomic instructions (see lib/atomic64.c). Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm: fail GFP_DMA allocations when ZONE_DMA is not configuredDavid Rientjes
The page allocator will improperly return a page from ZONE_NORMAL even when __GFP_DMA is passed if CONFIG_ZONE_DMA is disabled. The caller expects DMA memory, perhaps for ISA devices with 16-bit address registers, and may get higher memory resulting in undefined behavior. This patch causes the page allocator to return NULL in such circumstances with a warning emitted to the kernel log on the first occurrence. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm: do not define PFN_SECTION_SHIFT if !CONFIG_SPARSEMEMDaniel Kiper
Do not define PFN_SECTION_SHIFT if !CONFIG_SPARSEMEM. Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm: pfn_to_section_nr()/section_nr_to_pfn() is valid only in ↵Daniel Kiper
CONFIG_SPARSEMEM context pfn_to_section_nr()/section_nr_to_pfn() is valid only in CONFIG_SPARSEMEM context. Move it to proper place. Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm: enable set_page_section() only if CONFIG_SPARSEMEM and ↵Daniel Kiper
!CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP set_page_section() is meaningful only in CONFIG_SPARSEMEM and !CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP context. Move it to proper place and amend accordingly functions which are using it. Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm: remove dependency on CONFIG_FLATMEM from online_page()Daniel Kiper
online_pages() is only compiled for CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_SPARSE, so there is no need to support CONFIG_FLATMEM code within it. This patch removes code that is never used. Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25mm: filter unevictable page out in deactivate_page()Minchan Kim
It's pointless that deactive_page's operates on unevictable pages. This patch removes unnecessary overhead which might be a bit problem in case that there are many unevictable page in system(ex, mprotect workload) [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tidy up comment] Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25readahead: trigger mmap sequential readahead on PG_readaheadWu Fengguang
Previously the mmap sequential readahead is triggered by updating ra->prev_pos on each page fault and compare it with current page offset. It costs dirtying the cache line on each _minor_ page fault. So remove the ra->prev_pos recording, and instead tag PG_readahead to trigger the possible sequential readahead. It's not only more simple, but also will work more reliably and reduce cache line bouncing on concurrent page faults on shared struct file. In the mosbench exim benchmark which does multi-threaded page faults on shared struct file, the ra->mmap_miss and ra->prev_pos updates are found to cause excessive cache line bouncing on tmpfs, which actually disabled readahead totally (shmem_backing_dev_info.ra_pages == 0). So remove the ra->prev_pos recording, and instead tag PG_readahead to trigger the possible sequential readahead. It's not only more simple, but also will work more reliably on concurrent reads on shared struct file. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Tested-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com> Reported-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>