)]}' { "log": [ { "commit": "0ed361dec36945f3116ee1338638ada9a8920905", "tree": "3e0fc6319ef49f6cac82e8203a8aa199302ab9c5", "parents": [ "62e1c55300f306e06478f460a7eefba085206e0b" ], "author": { "name": "Nick Piggin", "email": "npiggin@suse.de", "time": "Mon Feb 04 22:29:34 2008 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org", "time": "Tue Feb 05 09:44:19 2008 -0800" }, "message": "mm: fix PageUptodate data race\n\nAfter running SetPageUptodate, preceeding stores to the page contents to\nactually bring it uptodate may not be ordered with the store to set the\npage uptodate.\n\nTherefore, another CPU which checks PageUptodate is true, then reads the\npage contents can get stale data.\n\nFix this by having an smp_wmb before SetPageUptodate, and smp_rmb after\nPageUptodate.\n\nMany places that test PageUptodate, do so with the page locked, and this\nwould be enough to ensure memory ordering in those places if\nSetPageUptodate were only called while the page is locked. Unfortunately\nthat is not always the case for some filesystems, but it could be an idea\nfor the future.\n\nAlso bring the handling of anonymous page uptodateness in line with that of\nfile backed page management, by marking anon pages as uptodate when they\n_are_ uptodate, rather than when our implementation requires that they be\nmarked as such. Doing allows us to get rid of the smp_wmb\u0027s in the page\ncopying functions, which were especially added for anonymous pages for an\nanalogous memory ordering problem. Both file and anonymous pages are\nhandled with the same barriers.\n\nFAQ:\nQ. Why not do this in flush_dcache_page?\nA. Firstly, flush_dcache_page handles only one side (the smb side) of the\nordering protocol; we\u0027d still need smp_rmb somewhere. Secondly, hiding away\nmemory barriers in a completely unrelated function is nasty; at least in the\nPageUptodate macros, they are located together with (half) the operations\ninvolved in the ordering. Thirdly, the smp_wmb is only required when first\nbringing the page uptodate, wheras flush_dcache_page should be called each time\nit is written to through the kernel mapping. It is logically the wrong place to\nput it.\n\nQ. Why does this increase my text size / reduce my performance / etc.\nA. Because it is adding the necessary instructions to eliminate the data-race.\n\nQ. Can it be improved?\nA. Yes, eg. if you were to create a rule that all SetPageUptodate operations\nrun under the page lock, we could avoid the smp_rmb places where PageUptodate\nis queried under the page lock. Requires audit of all filesystems and at least\nsome would need reworking. That\u0027s great you\u0027re interested, I\u0027m eagerly awaiting\nyour patches.\n\nSigned-off-by: Nick Piggin \u003cnpiggin@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "6712ecf8f648118c3363c142196418f89a510b90", "tree": "347d39a7d5a7ed96d3b1afecd28de2a0f98b98c9", "parents": [ "5bb23a688b2de23d7765a1dd439d89c038378978" ], "author": { "name": "NeilBrown", "email": "neilb@suse.de", "time": "Thu Sep 27 12:47:43 2007 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Jens Axboe", "email": "axboe@carl.home.kernel.dk", "time": "Wed Oct 10 09:25:57 2007 +0200" }, "message": "Drop \u0027size\u0027 argument from bio_endio and bi_end_io\n\nAs bi_end_io is only called once when the reqeust is complete,\nthe \u0027size\u0027 argument is now redundant. Remove it.\n\nNow there is no need for bio_endio to subtract the size completed\nfrom bi_size. So don\u0027t do that either.\n\nWhile we are at it, change bi_end_io to return void.\n\nSigned-off-by: Neil Brown \u003cneilb@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Jens Axboe \u003cjens.axboe@oracle.com\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "3aef83e0ef1ffb8ea3bea97be46821a45c952173", "tree": "f73878eb2ecce804c9eea6fbb13603907b3674b4", "parents": [ "3fc6b34f4803b959c1e30c15247e2180cd529115" ], "author": { "name": "Rafael J. Wysocki", "email": "rjw@sisk.pl", "time": "Wed Dec 06 20:34:10 2006 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@woody.osdl.org", "time": "Thu Dec 07 08:39:27 2006 -0800" }, "message": "[PATCH] swsusp: use block device offsets to identify swap locations\n\nMake swsusp use block device offsets instead of swap offsets to identify swap\nlocations and make it use the same code paths for writing as well as for\nreading data.\n\nThis allows us to use the same code for handling swap files and swap\npartitions and to simplify the code, eg. by dropping rw_swap_page_sync().\n\nSigned-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki \u003crjw@sisk.pl\u003e\nCc: Pavel Machek \u003cpavel@ucw.cz\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "546e0d271941dd1ff6961e2a1f7eac75f1fc277e", "tree": "60c74a9598f7cb4622c1b6acd25df5df67284353", "parents": [ "8c002494b55119a3fd1dddee83b4fb75cfda47e5" ], "author": { "name": "Andrew Morton", "email": "akpm@osdl.org", "time": "Mon Sep 25 23:32:44 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Tue Sep 26 08:48:58 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] swsusp: read speedup\n\nImplement async reads for swsusp resuming.\n\nCrufty old PIII testbox:\n\t15.7 MB/s -\u003e 20.3 MB/s\n\nSony Vaio:\n\t14.6 MB/s -\u003e 33.3 MB/s\n\nI didn\u0027t implement the post-resume bio_set_pages_dirty(). I don\u0027t really\nunderstand why resume needs to run set_page_dirty() against these pages.\n\nIt might be a worry that this code modifies PG_Uptodate, PG_Error and\nPG_Locked against the image pages. Can this possibly affect the resumed-into\nkernel? Hopefully not, if we\u0027re atomically restoring its mem_map?\n\nCc: Pavel Machek \u003cpavel@ucw.cz\u003e\nCc: \"Rafael J. Wysocki\" \u003crjw@sisk.pl\u003e\nCc: Jens Axboe \u003caxboe@suse.de\u003e\nCc: Laurent Riffard \u003claurent.riffard@free.fr\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "ab954160350c91c77ae03740ef90458c3ad5412c", "tree": "28f99d765c2c6d497a1f5543b1867875cd6102a5", "parents": [ "3a4f7577c9ef393ca80c783f02ffbc125de771c7" ], "author": { "name": "Andrew Morton", "email": "akpm@osdl.org", "time": "Mon Sep 25 23:32:42 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Tue Sep 26 08:48:58 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] swsusp: write speedup\n\nSwitch the swsusp writeout code from 4k-at-a-time to 4MB-at-a-time.\n\nCrufty old PIII testbox:\n\t12.9 MB/s -\u003e 20.9 MB/s\n\nSony Vaio:\n\t14.7 MB/s -\u003e 26.5 MB/s\n\nThe implementation is crude. A better one would use larger BIOs, but wouldn\u0027t\ngain any performance.\n\nThe memcpys will be mostly pipelined with the IO and basically come for free.\n\nThe ENOMEM path has not been tested. It should be.\n\nCc: Pavel Machek \u003cpavel@ucw.cz\u003e\nCc: \"Rafael J. Wysocki\" \u003crjw@sisk.pl\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "6ddab3b9ebebc88bfdd8107c64f12d7e4480c559", "tree": "192edd3a85d3665bb7e44c429609a7357ba12bac", "parents": [ "ca5f9703dffa012cc46166e6206c5a992910e041" ], "author": { "name": "Peter Zijlstra", "email": "a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl", "time": "Mon Sep 25 23:31:26 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Tue Sep 26 08:48:48 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] mm: swap write failure fixup\n\nCurrently we can silently drop data if the write to swap failed. It\nusually doesn\u0027t result in data-corruption because on page-in the process\nwill receive SIGBUS (assuming write-failure implies read-failure).\n\nThis assumption might or might not be valid.\n\nThis patch will avoid the page being discarded after a failed write. But\nwill print a warning the sysadmin _should_ take to heart, if a lot of swap\nspace becomes un-writeable, OOM is not far off.\n\nTested by making the write fail \u0027randomly\u0027 once every 50 writes or so.\n\n[akpm@osdl.org: printk warning fix]\nSigned-off-by: Peter Zijlstra \u003ca.p.zijlstra@chello.nl\u003e\nCc: Hugh Dickins \u003chugh@veritas.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "f8891e5e1f93a128c3900f82035e8541357896a7", "tree": "97b078ac97970962b17c85d39fd64cb48dc01168", "parents": [ "ca889e6c45e0b112cb2ca9d35afc66297519b5d5" ], "author": { "name": "Christoph Lameter", "email": "clameter@sgi.com", "time": "Fri Jun 30 01:55:45 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Jun 30 11:25:36 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] Light weight event counters\n\nThe remaining counters in page_state after the zoned VM counter patches\nhave been applied are all just for show in /proc/vmstat. They have no\nessential function for the VM.\n\nWe use a simple increment of per cpu variables. In order to avoid the most\nsevere races we disable preempt. Preempt does not prevent the race between\nan increment and an interrupt handler incrementing the same statistics\ncounter. However, that race is exceedingly rare, we may only loose one\nincrement or so and there is no requirement (at least not in kernel) that\nthe vm event counters have to be accurate.\n\nIn the non preempt case this results in a simple increment for each\ncounter. For many architectures this will be reduced by the compiler to a\nsingle instruction. This single instruction is atomic for i386 and x86_64.\n And therefore even the rare race condition in an interrupt is avoided for\nboth architectures in most cases.\n\nThe patchset also adds an off switch for embedded systems that allows a\nbuilding of linux kernels without these counters.\n\nThe implementation of these counters is through inline code that hopefully\nresults in only a single instruction increment instruction being emitted\n(i386, x86_64) or in the increment being hidden though instruction\nconcurrency (EPIC architectures such as ia64 can get that done).\n\nBenefits:\n- VM event counter operations usually reduce to a single inline instruction\n on i386 and x86_64.\n- No interrupt disable, only preempt disable for the preempt case.\n Preempt disable can also be avoided by moving the counter into a spinlock.\n- Handling is similar to zoned VM counters.\n- Simple and easily extendable.\n- Can be omitted to reduce memory use for embedded use.\n\nReferences:\n\nRFC http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l\u003dlinux-kernel\u0026m\u003d113512330605497\u0026w\u003d2\nRFC http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l\u003dlinux-kernel\u0026m\u003d114988082814934\u0026w\u003d2\nlocal_t http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l\u003dlinux-kernel\u0026m\u003d114991748606690\u0026w\u003d2\nV2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t\u003d115014808400007\u0026r\u003d1\u0026w\u003d2\nV3 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l\u003dlinux-kernel\u0026m\u003d115024767022346\u0026w\u003d2\nV4 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l\u003dlinux-kernel\u0026m\u003d115047968808926\u0026w\u003d2\n\nSigned-off-by: Christoph Lameter \u003cclameter@sgi.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "4c21e2f2441dc5fbb957b030333f5a3f2d02dea7", "tree": "1f76d33bb1d76221c6424bc5fed080a4f91349a6", "parents": [ "b38c6845b695141259019e2b7c0fe6c32a6e720d" ], "author": { "name": "Hugh Dickins", "email": "hugh@veritas.com", "time": "Sat Oct 29 18:16:40 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Oct 29 21:40:42 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] mm: split page table lock\n\nChristoph Lameter demonstrated very poor scalability on the SGI 512-way, with\na many-threaded application which concurrently initializes different parts of\na large anonymous area.\n\nThis patch corrects that, by using a separate spinlock per page table page, to\nguard the page table entries in that page, instead of using the mm\u0027s single\npage_table_lock. (But even then, page_table_lock is still used to guard page\ntable allocation, and anon_vma allocation.)\n\nIn this implementation, the spinlock is tucked inside the struct page of the\npage table page: with a BUILD_BUG_ON in case it overflows - which it would in\nthe case of 32-bit PA-RISC with spinlock debugging enabled.\n\nSplitting the lock is not quite for free: another cacheline access. Ideally,\nI suppose we would use split ptlock only for multi-threaded processes on\nmulti-cpu machines; but deciding that dynamically would have its own costs.\nSo for now enable it by config, at some number of cpus - since the Kconfig\nlanguage doesn\u0027t support inequalities, let preprocessor compare that with\nNR_CPUS. But I don\u0027t think it\u0027s worth being user-configurable: for good\ntesting of both split and unsplit configs, split now at 4 cpus, and perhaps\nchange that to 8 later.\n\nThere is a benefit even for singly threaded processes: kswapd can be attacking\none part of the mm while another part is busy faulting.\n\nSigned-off-by: Hugh Dickins \u003chugh@veritas.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "dd0fc66fb33cd610bc1a5db8a5e232d34879b4d7", "tree": "51f96a9db96293b352e358f66032e1f4ff79fafb", "parents": [ "3b0e77bd144203a507eb191f7117d2c5004ea1de" ], "author": { "name": "Al Viro", "email": "viro@ftp.linux.org.uk", "time": "Fri Oct 07 07:46:04 2005 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Oct 08 15:00:57 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1\n\n - added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t;\n\n - replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly\n the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn\u0027t change\n generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with\n typedef) and documents what\u0027s going on far better.\n\nSigned-off-by: Al Viro \u003cviro@zeniv.linux.org.uk\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "648be3188135add682349e86d46d07cc11c8eb57", "tree": "d6c4b7e1408baebb97dc4cd8d7a435ac3eb4cad0", "parents": [ "fc5fb2c609c6acef15a8b062063e9135fb08b4d2" ], "author": { "name": "Pavel Machek", "email": "pavel@ucw.cz", "time": "Sat Jun 25 14:55:09 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Jun 25 16:24:32 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] swsusp: kill config_pm_disk\n\nCONFIG_PM_DISK is long gone, but it still managed to survived at few\nplaces.\n\nSigned-off-by: Pavel Machek \u003cpavel@suse.cz\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2", "tree": "0bba044c4ce775e45a88a51686b5d9f90697ea9d", "parents": [], "author": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Apr 16 15:20:36 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Sat Apr 16 15:20:36 2005 -0700" }, "message": "Linux-2.6.12-rc2\n\nInitial git repository build. I\u0027m not bothering with the full history,\neven though we have it. We can create a separate \"historical\" git\narchive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it\u0027s about\n3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early\ngit days unnecessarily complicated, when we don\u0027t have a lot of good\ninfrastructure for it.\n\nLet it rip!\n" } ] }