linux.git/arch/mips/mm, branch v3.3.6

MIPS: fault.c: Port OOM changes to do_page_fault

2012-02-20T17:33:19+00:00

Commit d065bd810b6deb67d4897a14bfe21f8eb526ba99
(mm: retry page fault when blocking on disk transfer) and
commit 37b23e0525d393d48a7d59f870b3bc061a30ccdb
(x86,mm: make pagefault killable)

The above commits introduced changes into the x86 pagefault handler
for making the page fault handler retryable as well as killable.

These changes reduce the mmap_sem hold time, which is crucial
during OOM killer invocation.

Port these changes to MIPS.

Without these changes, my MIPS board encounters many hang and livelock
scenarios.
After applying this patch, OOM feature performance improves according to
my testing.

Signed-off-by: Mohd. Faris 
Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/3217/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

Merge branches 'next/ar7', 'next/ath79', 'next/bcm63xx', 'next/bmips', 'next/cavium', 'next/generic', 'next/kprobes', 'next/lantiq', 'next/perf' and 'next/raza' into mips-for-linux-next

2012-01-11T14:42:31+00:00

Merge branch 'next/generic' into mips-for-linux-next

2012-01-11T14:41:47+00:00

MIPS: Delete unused function add_temporary_entry.

2012-01-11T14:37:16+00:00

Only available for R4000 style TLBs anyway and proper ordering of
initialization code made this crude interface unncecessary.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Flush huge TLB

2012-01-11T14:37:13+00:00

When flushing TLB, if @vma is backed by huge page, we could flush huge
TLB, due to that huge page is defined to be far from normal page.

Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton 
Acked-by: David Daney 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: "Jayachandran C." 
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2825/
Signed-off-by: David Daney 
Acked-by: Hillf Danton 
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/3114/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Netlogic: Add XLP makefiles and config

2011-12-07T22:04:56+00:00

- Add CPU_XLP and NLM_XLR_BOARD to arch/mips/Kconfig for Netlogic XLP boards
- Update mips Makefiles to add XLP

Signed-off-by: Jayachandran C 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2968/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Netlogic: XLP CPU support.

2011-12-07T22:04:55+00:00

Add support for Netlogic's XLP MIPS SoC. This patch adds:
* XLP processor ID in cpu_probe.c and asm/cpu.h
* XLP case to asm/module.h
* CPU_XLP case to mm/tlbex.c
* minor change to r4k cache handling to ignore XLP secondary cache
* XLP cpu overrides to mach-netlogic/cpu-feature-overrides.h

Signed-off-by: Jayachandran C 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2966/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Handle initmem in systems with kernel not in add_memory_region() mem

2011-12-07T22:03:45+00:00

This patch addresses a couple of related problems:

1) The kernel may reside in physical memory outside of the ranges set
   by plat_mem_setup().  If this is the case, init mem cannot be
   reused as it resides outside of the range of pages that the kernel
   memory allocators control.

2) initrd images might be loaded in physical memory outside of the
   ranges set by plat_mem_setup().  The memory likewise cannot be
   reused.  The patch doesn't handle this specific case, but the
   infrastructure is useful for future patches that do.

The crux of the problem is that there are memory regions that need be
memory_present(), but that cannot be free_bootmem() at the time of
arch_mem_init().  We create a new type of memory (BOOT_MEM_INIT_RAM)
for use with add_memory_region().  Then arch_mem_init() adds the init
mem with this type if the init mem is not already covered by existing
ranges.

When memory is being freed into the bootmem allocator, we skip the
BOOT_MEM_INIT_RAM ranges so they are not clobbered, but we do signal
them as memory_present().  This way when they are later freed, the
necessary memory manager structures have initialized and the Sparse
allocater is prevented from crashing.

The Octeon specific code that handled this case is removed, because
the new general purpose code handles the case.

Signed-off-by: David Daney 
To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1988/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Add fast get_user_pages

2011-12-07T22:03:45+00:00

Gup is used in a few cases, say futex.

This work is derived from the x86 version, and operations of pte and pmd are
adapted to the defines of MIPS in straight forward manner.

[ralf@linux-mips.org: Fixed up reject in arch/mips/mm/Makefile due to
whitespace formatting differences.  Fixed build error in gup.c due to
conflicting changes elsewhere in the kernel.]

Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton 
Cc: David Daney 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/2859/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

MIPS: Fix Jazz 64-bit build error.

2011-12-07T22:01:45+00:00

Move add_wired_entry to its own header file from where it will be
always included.  Patch up other users of add_wired_entry to also include
the header as needed.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle