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Mike Kravetz 0286486783 [PATCH] Memory Add Fixes for ppc64
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 08:12:56AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Yes, the MAX_ORDER should be different indeed. But can Kconfig do that ?
> That is have the default value be different based on a Kconfig option ?
> I don't see that ... We may have to do things differently here...

This seems to be done in other parts of the Kconfig file.  Using those
as an example, this should keep the MAX_ORDER block size at 16MB.

Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-08 11:20:00 +11:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 7d49697ef9 [PATCH] ppc64: More U3 device-tree fixes
Some more U3 revisions have the missing "interrupts" property in U3,
this adds them to the fixup code in prom_init.c

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-08 11:17:53 +11:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 183d020258 [PATCH] ppc64: SMU partition recovery
This patch adds the ability to the SMU driver to recover missing
calibration partitions from the SMU chip itself. It also adds some
dynamic mecanism to /proc/device-tree so that new properties are visible
to userland.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-08 11:17:40 +11:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 4350147a81 [PATCH] ppc64: SMU based macs cpufreq support
CPU freq support using 970FX powertune facility for iMac G5 and SMU
based single CPU desktop.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-08 11:17:34 +11:00
Paul Mackerras 24bfb00123 Merge ../linux-2.6 2005-11-08 11:14:20 +11:00
Jesper Juhl b2325fe1b7 [PATCH] kfree cleanup: arch
This is the arch/ part of the big kfree cleanup patch.

Remove pointless checks for NULL prior to calling kfree() in arch/.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:54:06 -08:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli d217d5450f [PATCH] Kprobes: preempt_disable/enable() simplification
Reorganize the preempt_disable/enable calls to eliminate the extra preempt
depth.  Changes based on Paul McKenney's review suggestions for the kprobes
RCU changeset.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:46 -08:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 991a51d83a [PATCH] Kprobes: Use RCU for (un)register synchronization - arch changes
Changes to the arch kprobes infrastructure to take advantage of the locking
changes introduced by usage of RCU for synchronization.  All handlers are now
run without any locks held, so they have to be re-entrant or provide their own
synchronization.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:46 -08:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 0dc036c91a [PATCH] Kprobes: Track kprobe on a per_cpu basis - ppc64 changes
PPC64 changes to track kprobe execution on a per-cpu basis.  We now track the
kprobe state machine independently on each cpu using an arch specific kprobe
control block.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:45 -08:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 66ff2d0691 [PATCH] Kprobes: rearrange preempt_disable/enable() calls
The following set of patches are aimed at improving kprobes scalability.  We
currently serialize kprobe registration, unregistration and handler execution
using a single spinlock - kprobe_lock.

With these changes, kprobe handlers can run without any locks held.  It also
allows for simultaneous kprobe handler executions on different processors as
we now track kprobe execution on a per processor basis.  It is now necessary
that the handlers be re-entrant since handlers can run concurrently on
multiple processors.

All changes have been tested on i386, ia64, ppc64 and x86_64, while sparc64
has been compile tested only.

The patches can be viewed as 3 logical chunks:

patch 1: 	Reorder preempt_(dis/en)able calls
patches 2-7: 	Introduce per_cpu data areas to track kprobe execution
patches 8-9: 	Use RCU to synchronize kprobe (un)registration and handler
		execution.

Thanks to Maneesh Soni, James Keniston and Anil Keshavamurthy for their
review and suggestions. Thanks again to Anil, Hien Nguyen and Kevin Stafford
for testing the patches.

This patch:

Reorder preempt_disable/enable() calls in arch kprobes files in preparation to
introduce locking changes.  No functional changes introduced by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayahanalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:45 -08:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt c8e3c8b21b [PATCH] ppc64: Fix zImage boot
The zImage wrapper has a bug where it doesn't claim() the memory for the
kernel properly, it forgets to take into account the offset between the ELF
header and the kernel itself.  This results on some machines, like G5s,
into a kernel that crashes at boot when clearing the BSS.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:23 -08:00
Olof Johansson 732ee21f28 [PATCH] POWERPC/PPC64: Fix CONFIG_SMP=n build for ppc64
Two CONFIG_SMP=n build fixes due to missing <asm/smp.h> includes.

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:23 -08:00
Paul Mackerras c613523455 Merge ../linux-2.6 2005-11-07 14:42:09 +11:00
Paul Mackerras 2249ca9d60 powerpc: Various UP build fixes
Mostly this involves adding #include <asm/smp.h>, since that defines
things like boot_cpuid[_phys] and [gs]et_hard_smp_processor_id, which
are SMP-related but still needed on UP.  This incorporates fixes
posted by Olof Johansson and Heikki Lindholm.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-07 13:18:13 +11:00
David Gibson dcad47fc42 [PATCH] powerpc: Kill ppcdebug
The ancient ppcdebug/PPCDBG mechanism is now only used in two places.
First, in the hash setup code, one of the bits allows the size of the
hash table to be reduced by a factor of 8 - which would be better
accomplished with a command line option for that purpose.  The other
was a bunch of bus walking related messages in the iSeries code, which
would seem to be insufficient reason to keep the mechanism.

This patch removes the last traces of this mechanism.

Built and booted on iSeries and pSeries POWER5 LPAR (ARCH=powerpc).

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-07 12:37:45 +11:00
John Rose ead837174d [PATCH] dlpar enable for OF pci probe
This patch contains the arch/ppc64 bits for enabling DLPAR and PCI
Hotplug for the new OF-based PCI probe mechanism.  This code path is
currently broken.

Signed-off-by: John Rose <johnrose@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-07 12:09:02 +11:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 3c726f8dee [PATCH] ppc64: support 64k pages
Adds a new CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES which, when enabled, changes the kernel
base page size to 64K.  The resulting kernel still boots on any
hardware.  On current machines with 4K pages support only, the kernel
will maintain 16 "subpages" for each 64K page transparently.

Note that while real 64K capable HW has been tested, the current patch
will not enable it yet as such hardware is not released yet, and I'm
still verifying with the firmware architects the proper to get the
information from the newer hypervisors.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-06 16:56:47 -08:00
Paul Mackerras 5ad5707861 powerpc: Merge smp.c and smp.h
This also moves setup_cpu_maps to setup-common.c (calling it
smp_setup_cpu_maps) and uses it on both 32-bit and 64-bit.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-05 10:33:55 +11:00
Paul Mackerras 292a6c58e9 Merge branch 'for-paulus' of git://kernel/home/michael/src/work/ 2005-11-04 16:17:32 +11:00
Paul Mackerras 8ad200d7b7 powerpc: Merge smp-tbsync.c (the generic timebase sync routine)
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-04 13:28:58 +11:00
Michael Ellerman dc3a9efb5e Merge with Paulus 2005-11-04 12:12:52 +11:00
Michael Ellerman b8f510219e powerpc: Implement smp_release_cpus() in C not asm
There's no reason for smp_release_cpus() to be asm, and most people can make
more sense of C code. Add an extern declaration to smp.h and remove the custom
one in machine_kexec.c

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2005-11-04 12:09:42 +11:00
Paul Mackerras d3ab57ebdc Merge git://oak/home/sfr/kernels/iseries/work 2005-11-03 17:04:08 +11:00
John Rose 8902e87f1f [PATCH] ppc64: Fix add notifier crashes
The extraction of PCI stuff from struct device_node left some false
assumptions in notifier code.  As a result, dynamic add crashes when
non-PCI nodes are added.  This patch fixes these assumptions.

Signed-off-by: John Rose <johnrose@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-03 16:53:49 +11:00
Stephen Rothwell 62f4f47da6 powerpc: move ppc64/kernel/signal.c to arch/powerpc
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2005-11-03 16:03:20 +11:00
Paul Mackerras f4fcbbe9a7 powerpc: Merge remaining RTAS code
This moves rtas-proc.c and rtas_flash.c into arch/powerpc/kernel, since
cell wants them as well as pseries (and chrp can use rtas-proc.c too,
at least in principle).  rtas_fw.c is gone, with its bits moved into
rtas_flash.c and rtas.c.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-03 14:41:19 +11:00
Stephen Rothwell 2be7a90675 Merge Paulus' tree 2005-11-02 18:15:43 +11:00
Stephen Rothwell aaf8a7a294 Merge iSeries include file move 2005-11-02 16:06:03 +11:00
David Gibson f11b7bd88f [PATCH] powerpc: Move naca.h to platforms/iseries
These days, the NACA only exists on iSeries.  Therefore, this patch
moves naca.h from include/asm-ppc64 to arch/powerpc/platforms/iseries.
There was one file including naca.h outside of platforms/iseries -
arch/ppc64/kernel/udbg_scc.c.  However, that's obviously a hangover
from older days.  The include is not necessary, so this patch simply
removes it.

Built and booted on iSeries, built for G5 (which uses udbg_scc.o).

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-02 16:05:53 +11:00
Kelly Daly c43a55ff4e merge filename and modify references to iseries/lpar_map.h
Signed-off-by: Kelly Daly <kelly@au.ibm.com>
2005-11-02 15:02:47 +11:00
Kelly Daly 8875ccfb7a merge filename and modify references to iseries/it_lp_queue.h
Signed-off-by: Kelly Daly <kelly@au.ibm.com>
2005-11-02 14:13:34 +11:00
Kelly Daly 7b487bb801 merge filename and modify references to iseries/it_exp_vpd_panel.h
Signed-off-by: Kelly Daly <kelly@au.ibm.com>
2005-11-02 13:48:25 +11:00
Kelly Daly e45423eac2 merge filename and modify references to iseries/hv_lp_event.h
Signed-off-by: Kelly Daly <kelly@au.ibm.com>
2005-11-02 12:08:31 +11:00
Kelly Daly 15b1718948 merge filename and modify reference to iseries/hv_lp_config.h
Signed-off-by: Kelly Daly <kelly@au.ibm.com>
2005-11-02 11:55:28 +11:00
David Gibson a0e60b2033 [PATCH] powerpc: Merge bitops.h
Here's a revised version.  This re-introduces the set_bits() function
from ppc64, which I removed because I thought it was unused (it exists
on no other arch).  In fact it is used in the powermac interrupt code
(but not on pSeries).

- We use LARXL/STCXL macros to generate the right (32 or 64 bit)
  instructions, similar to LDL/STL from ppc_asm.h, used in fpu.S

- ppc32 previously used a full "sync" barrier at the end of
  test_and_*_bit(), whereas ppc64 used an "isync".  The merged version
  uses "isync", since I believe that's sufficient.

- The ppc64 versions of then minix_*() bitmap functions have changed
  semantics.  Previously on ppc64, these functions were big-endian
  (that is bit 0 was the LSB in the first 64-bit, big-endian word).
  On ppc32 (and x86, for that matter, they were little-endian.  As far
  as I can tell, the big-endian usage was simply wrong - I guess
  no-one ever tried to use minixfs on ppc64.

- On ppc32 find_next_bit() and find_next_zero_bit() are no longer
  inline (they were already out-of-line on ppc64).

- For ppc64, sched_find_first_bit() has moved from mmu_context.h to
  the merged bitops.  What it was doing in mmu_context.h in the first
  place, I have no idea.

- The fls() function is now implemented using the cntlzw instruction
  on ppc64, instead of generic_fls(), as it already was on ppc32.

- For ARCH=ppc, this patch requires adding arch/powerpc/lib to the
  arch/ppc/Makefile.  This in turn requires some changes to
  arch/powerpc/lib/Makefile which didn't correctly handle ARCH=ppc.

Built and running on G5.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-01 21:49:02 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann 811d4176f4 [PATCH] powerpc: move arch/ppc64/kernel/bpa* to arch/powerpc/platforms/cell
This patch simply moves files over to arch/powerpc without making
any changes to them.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-01 21:03:07 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann edf03c1ee8 [PATCH] powerpc: move mmio_nvram.c over to arch/powerpc
The nvram code formally known as bpa_nvram.c is rather
generic really, so it is quite likely to be useful to
future boards not based on cell.

This patch puts it into arch/powerpc/sysdev.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-01 21:03:04 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann f3f66f599d [PATCH] powerpc: Rename BPA to Cell
The official name for BPA is now CBEA (Cell Broadband
Engine Architecture). This patch renames all occurences
of the term BPA to 'Cell' for easier recognition.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-11-01 21:02:44 +11:00
Stephen Rothwell 5015b49448 powerpc: fix __strnlen_user in merge tree
Change USER/KERNEL_DS so that the merged version of
__strnlen_user can be used which allows us to complete the
removal of arch/ppc64/lib/.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2005-11-01 14:34:17 +11:00
Paul Mackerras 23fd07750a Merge ../linux-2.6 by hand 2005-10-31 13:37:12 +11:00
Paul Mackerras cf00a8d18b powerpc: Fix bug arising from having multiple memory_limit variables
We had a static memory_limit in prom.c, and then another one defined
in setup_64.c and used in numa.c, which resulted in the kernel crashing
when mem=xxx was given on the command line.  This puts the declaration
in system.h and the definition in mem.c.  This also moves the
definition of tce_alloc_start/end out of setup_64.c.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-10-31 13:07:02 +11:00
Tim Schmielau 4e57b68178 [PATCH] fix missing includes
I recently picked up my older work to remove unnecessary #includes of
sched.h, starting from a patch by Dave Jones to not include sched.h
from module.h. This reduces the number of indirect includes of sched.h
by ~300. Another ~400 pointless direct includes can be removed after
this disentangling (patch to follow later).
However, quite a few indirect includes need to be fixed up for this.

In order to feed the patches through -mm with as little disturbance as
possible, I've split out the fixes I accumulated up to now (complete for
i386 and x86_64, more archs to follow later) and post them before the real
patch.  This way this large part of the patch is kept simple with only
adding #includes, and all hunks are independent of each other.  So if any
hunk rejects or gets in the way of other patches, just drop it.  My scripts
will pick it up again in the next round.

Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:32 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner ecea8d19c9 [PATCH] jiffies_64 cleanup
Define jiffies_64 in kernel/timer.c rather than having 24 duplicated
defines in each architecture.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:25 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig dfb7dac3af [PATCH] unify sys_ptrace prototype
Make sure we always return, as all syscalls should.  Also move the common
prototype to <linux/syscalls.h>

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:20 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig 9c0cbd54ce [PATCH] TIOC* compat ioctl handling
TIOCSTART and TIOCSTOP are defined in asm/ioctls.h and asm/termios.h by
various architectures but not actually implemented anywhere but in the IRIX
compatibility layer, so remove their COMPATIBLE_IOCTL from parisc, ppc64
and sparc64.

Move the TIOCSLTC COMPATIBLE_IOCTL to common code, guided by an ifdef to
only show up on architectures that support it (same as the code handling it
in tty_ioctl.c), aswell as it's brother TIOCGLTC that wasn't handled so
far.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:17 -08:00
Dave Hansen bb7e7e032d [PATCH] memory hotplug: ppc64 specific hot-add functions
Here is a set of ppc64 specific patches that at least allow
compilation/booting with the following configurations:

FLATMEM
SPARSEMEN
SPARSEMEM + MEMORY_HOTPLUG

Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:45 -07:00
Dave Hansen 208d54e551 [PATCH] memory hotplug locking: node_size_lock
pgdat->node_size_lock is basically only neeeded in one place in the normal
code: show_mem(), which is the arch-specific sysrq-m printing function.

Strictly speaking, the architectures not doing memory hotplug do no need this
locking in show_mem().  However, they are all included for completeness.  This
should also make any future consolidation of all of the implementations a
little more straightforward.

This lock is also held in the sparsemem code during a memory removal, as
sections are invalidated.  This is the place there pfn_valid() is made false
for a memory area that's being removed.  The lock is only required when doing
pfn_valid() operations on memory which the user does not already have a
reference on the page, such as in show_mem().

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:44 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 872fec16d9 [PATCH] mm: init_mm without ptlock
First step in pushing down the page_table_lock.  init_mm.page_table_lock has
been used throughout the architectures (usually for ioremap): not to serialize
kernel address space allocation (that's usually vmlist_lock), but because
pud_alloc,pmd_alloc,pte_alloc_kernel expect caller holds it.

Reverse that: don't lock or unlock init_mm.page_table_lock in any of the
architectures; instead rely on pud_alloc,pmd_alloc,pte_alloc_kernel to take
and drop it when allocating a new one, to check lest a racing task already
did.  Similarly no page_table_lock in vmalloc's map_vm_area.

Some temporary ugliness in __pud_alloc and __pmd_alloc: since they also handle
user mms, which are converted only by a later patch, for now they have to lock
differently according to whether or not it's init_mm.

If sources get muddled, there's a danger that an arch source taking
init_mm.page_table_lock will be mixed with common source also taking it (or
neither take it).  So break the rules and make another change, which should
break the build for such a mismatch: remove the redundant mm arg from
pte_alloc_kernel (ppc64 scrapped its distinct ioremap_mm in 2.6.13).

Exceptions: arm26 used pte_alloc_kernel on user mm, now pte_alloc_map; ia64
used pte_alloc_map on init_mm, now pte_alloc_kernel; parisc had bad args to
pmd_alloc and pte_alloc_kernel in unused USE_HPPA_IOREMAP code; ppc64
map_io_page forgot to unlock on failure; ppc mmu_mapin_ram and ppc64 im_free
took page_table_lock for no good reason.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:40 -07:00
Nick Piggin b5810039a5 [PATCH] core remove PageReserved
Remove PageReserved() calls from core code by tightening VM_RESERVED
handling in mm/ to cover PageReserved functionality.

PageReserved special casing is removed from get_page and put_page.

All setting and clearing of PageReserved is retained, and it is now flagged
in the page_alloc checks to help ensure we don't introduce any refcount
based freeing of Reserved pages.

MAP_PRIVATE, PROT_WRITE of VM_RESERVED regions is tentatively being
deprecated.  We never completely handled it correctly anyway, and is be
reintroduced in future if required (Hugh has a proof of concept).

Once PageReserved() calls are removed from kernel/power/swsusp.c, and all
arch/ and driver code, the Set and Clear calls, and the PG_reserved bit can
be trivially removed.

Last real user of PageReserved is swsusp, which uses PageReserved to
determine whether a struct page points to valid memory or not.  This still
needs to be addressed (a generic page_is_ram() should work).

A last caveat: the ZERO_PAGE is now refcounted and managed with rmap (and
thus mapcounted and count towards shared rss).  These writes to the struct
page could cause excessive cacheline bouncing on big systems.  There are a
number of ways this could be addressed if it is an issue.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>

Refcount bug fix for filemap_xip.c

Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:39 -07:00
Paul Mackerras 0cb7b2afd7 powerpc: Merge maple support code to arch/powerpc/platforms/maple
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-10-29 22:07:56 +10:00