History log of /drivers/base/memory.c
Revision Date Author Comments
321bf4ed5ff5f7c62ef59f33b7eec5b154391f0a 30-Jan-2012 Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> drivers/base/memory.c: fix memory_dev_init() long delay

One system with 2048g ram, reported soft lockup on recent kernel.

[ 34.426749] cpu_dev_init done
[ 61.166399] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [swapper/0:1]
[ 61.166733] Modules linked in:
[ 61.166904] irq event stamp: 1935610
[ 61.178431] hardirqs last enabled at (1935609): [<ffffffff81ce8c05>] mutex_lock_nested+0x299/0x2b4
[ 61.178923] hardirqs last disabled at (1935610): [<ffffffff81cf2bab>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6b/0x80
[ 61.198767] softirqs last enabled at (1935476): [<ffffffff8106e59c>] __do_softirq+0x195/0x1ab
[ 61.218604] softirqs last disabled at (1935471): [<ffffffff81cf359c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
[ 61.238408] CPU 0
[ 61.238549] Modules linked in:
[ 61.238744]
[ 61.238825] Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.3.0-rc1-tip-yh-02076-g962f689-dirty #171
[ 61.278212] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810b3e3a>] [<ffffffff810b3e3a>] lock_release+0x90/0x9c
[ 61.278627] RSP: 0018:ffff883f64dbfd70 EFLAGS: 00000246
[ 61.298287] RAX: ffff883f64dc0000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 000000000000008b
[ 61.298690] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
[ 61.318383] RBP: ffff883f64dbfda0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 000000000000008b
[ 61.338215] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff883f64dbfd10
[ 61.338610] R13: ffff883f64dc0708 R14: ffff883f64dc0708 R15: ffffffff81095657
[ 61.358299] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff883f7d600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 61.378118] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
[ 61.378450] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000024af000 CR4: 00000000000007f0
[ 61.398144] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 61.417918] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 61.418260] Process swapper/0 (pid: 1, threadinfo ffff883f64dbe000, task ffff883f64dc0000)
[ 61.445358] Stack:
[ 61.445511] 0000000000000002 ffff897f649ba168 ffff883f64dbfe10 ffff88ff64bb57a8
[ 61.458040] 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff883f64dbfdc0 ffffffff81ceb1b4
[ 61.458491] 000000000011608c ffff88ff64bb58a8 ffff883f64dbfdf0 ffffffff81c57638
[ 61.478215] Call Trace:
[ 61.478367] [<ffffffff81ceb1b4>] _raw_spin_unlock+0x21/0x2e
[ 61.497994] [<ffffffff81c57638>] klist_next+0x9e/0xbc
[ 61.498264] [<ffffffff8148ba99>] next_device+0xe/0x1e
[ 61.517867] [<ffffffff8148c0cc>] subsys_find_device_by_id+0xb7/0xd6
[ 61.518197] [<ffffffff81498846>] find_memory_block_hinted+0x3d/0x66
[ 61.537927] [<ffffffff8149887f>] find_memory_block+0x10/0x12
[ 61.538193] [<ffffffff814988b6>] add_memory_section+0x35/0x9e
[ 61.557932] [<ffffffff827fecef>] memory_dev_init+0x68/0xda
[ 61.558227] [<ffffffff827fec01>] driver_init+0x97/0xa7
[ 61.577853] [<ffffffff827cdf3c>] kernel_init+0xf6/0x1c0
[ 61.578140] [<ffffffff81cf34a4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[ 61.597850] [<ffffffff81ceb59d>] ? retint_restore_args+0xe/0xe
[ 61.598144] [<ffffffff827cde46>] ? start_kernel+0x3ab/0x3ab
[ 61.617826] [<ffffffff81cf34a0>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb
[ 61.618060] Code: 10 48 83 3b 00 eb e8 4c 89 f2 44 89 fe 4c 89 ef e8 e1 fe ff ff 65 48 8b 04 25 40 bc 00 00 c7 80 cc 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 41 54 9d <5e> 5b 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 89 cf
[ 89.285380] memory_dev_init done

Finally it takes about 55s to create 16400 memory entries.

Root cause: for x86_64, 2048g (with 2g hole at [2g,4g), and TOP2 will be 2050g), will have 16400 memory block.

find_memory_block/subsys_find_device_by_id will be expensive with that many entries.

Actually, we don't need to find that memory block for BOOT path.

Skip that finding make it get back to normal.

[ 34.466696] cpu_dev_init done
[ 35.290080] memory_dev_init done

Also solved the delay with topology_init when sections_per_block is not 1.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
f5138e42211d4e8bfbd6ac5b3816348da1533433 13-Jan-2012 Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com> kdump: add udev events for memory online/offline

Currently no udev events for memory hotplug "online" and "offline" are
generated:

# udevadm monitor
# echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory4/state
==> No event

When kdump is loaded, kexec detects the current memory configuration and
stores it in the pre-allocated ELF core header. Therefore, for kdump it
is necessary to reload the kdump kernel with kexec when the memory
configuration changes (e.g. for online/offline hotplug memory).

In order to do this automatically, udev rules should be used. This kernel
patch adds udev events for "online" and "offline". Together with this
kernel patch, the following udev rules for online/offline have to be added
to "/etc/udev/rules.d/98-kexec.rules":

SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ACTION=="online", PROGRAM="/etc/init.d/kdump restart"
SUBSYSTEM=="memory", ACTION=="offline", PROGRAM="/etc/init.d/kdump restart"

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fixups for class to subsystem conversion]
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
cd42f4a3b2b1c4cbd997363dc57821953d73fd87 15-Dec-2011 Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> HWPOISON: Clean up memory_failure() vs. __memory_failure()

There is only one caller of memory_failure(), all other users call
__memory_failure() and pass in the flags argument explicitly. The
lone user of memory_failure() will soon need to pass flags too.

Add flags argument to the callsite in mce.c. Delete the old memory_failure()
function, and then rename __memory_failure() without the leading "__".

Provide clearer message when action optional memory errors are ignored.

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
10fbcf4c6cb122005cdf36fc24d7683da92c7a27 21-Dec-2011 Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> convert 'memory' sysdev_class to a regular subsystem

This moves the 'memory sysdev_class' over to a regular 'memory' subsystem
and converts the devices to regular devices. The sysdev drivers are
implemented as subsystem interfaces now.

After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2bbcb8788311a40714b585fc11b51da6ffa2ab92 17-Oct-2011 Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> mm: memory hotplug: Check if pages are correctly reserved on a per-section basis

(Resending as I am not seeing it in -next so maybe it got lost)

mm: memory hotplug: Check if pages are correctly reserved on a per-section basis

It is expected that memory being brought online is PageReserved
similar to what happens when the page allocator is being brought up.
Memory is onlined in "memory blocks" which consist of one or more
sections. Unfortunately, the code that verifies PageReserved is
currently assuming that the memmap backing all these pages is virtually
contiguous which is only the case when CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP is set.
As a result, memory hot-add is failing on those configurations with
the message;

kernel: section number XXX page number 256 not reserved, was it already online?

This patch updates the PageReserved check to lookup struct page once
per section to guarantee the correct struct page is being checked.

[Check pages within sections properly: rientjes@google.com]
[original patch by: nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
de0ed36a3ecc0b51da4f16fa0af47ba6b7ffad22 18-Oct-2011 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Revert "memory hotplug: Correct page reservation checking"

This reverts commit 54f23eb7ba7619de85d8edca6e5336bc33072dbd.

Turns out this patch is wrong, another correct one will follow it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
54f23eb7ba7619de85d8edca6e5336bc33072dbd 26-Sep-2011 Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com> memory hotplug: Correct page reservation checking

The check to ensure that pages of recently added memory sections are correctly
marked as reserved before trying to online the memory is broken. The request
to online the memory fails with the following:

kernel: section number XXX page number 256 not reserved, was it already online?

This updates the page reservation checking to check the pages of each memory
section of the memory block being onlined individually.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
61b94feafa1c59a1de2719d23294dea6fd4ca362 14-Sep-2011 Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> memory hotplug: Refuse to add unaligned memory regions

The sysfs memory probe interface allows unaligned regions
to be added:

# echo 0xffffff > /sys/devices/system/memory/probe

# cat /proc/iomem
00ffffff-01fffffe : System RAM
01ffffff-02fffffe : System RAM
02ffffff-03fffffe : System RAM
03ffffff-04fffffe : System RAM
04ffffff-05fffffe : System RAM

Return -EINVAL instead of creating these bad regions.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
60063497a95e716c9a689af3be2687d261f115b4 27-Jul-2011 Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com> atomic: use <linux/atomic.h>

This allows us to move duplicated code in <asm/atomic.h>
(atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to <linux/atomic.h>

Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
a63fdc5156f2ef5690b6cf03d72b0c4917efbba7 14-Jun-2011 Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> mm: Move definition of MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE to a header

The macro MIN_MEMORY_BLOCK_SIZE is currently defined twice in two .c
files, and I need it in a third one to fix a powerpc bug, so let's
first move it into a header

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
a236c71766a5f69edf189e2eaeb0aa587c8c5684 12-May-2011 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> drivers/base/memory.c: fix warning due to "memory hotplug: Speed up add/remove when blocks are larger than PAGES_PER_SECTION"

drivers/base/memory.c: In function 'memory_block_change_state':
drivers/base/memory.c:281: warning: unused variable 'i'

less beer, more testing

Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
5409d2cd841cf2c76396470e566500f6505f8d2a 11-May-2011 Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> memory hotplug: Speed up add/remove when blocks are larger than PAGES_PER_SECTION

On ppc64 the minimum memory section for hotplug is 16MB but most
recent machines have a memory block size of 256MB. This means
memory_block_change_state does 16 separate calls to
memory_section_action.

This also means we call the notifiers 16 times and the hook
in the ehea network driver is quite costly. To offline one 256MB
region takes:

# time echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory32/state
7.9s

This patch removes the loop and calls online_pages or
remove_memory once for the entire region and in doing so makes
the logic simpler since we don't have to back out if things fail
part way through.

The same test to offline one region now takes:

# time echo online > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory32/state
0.67s

Over 11 times faster.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
85723943537bf6a73bdf1140b2088fbe0c17c3c2 23-Apr-2011 Wanlong Gao <wanlong.gao@gmail.com> drivers:base:fix the coding format of memory.c

Fix the line longer than 80 of memory_uevent function .

Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <wanlong.gao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
9f0af69b2dd34d2c21817d599db7bdb3c972a759 24-Mar-2011 Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> sysfs-memory: fix uninitialized variable warning and clean-up code.

sysfs-memory: Fix uninitialized variable warning and clean-up code.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
6add7cd618b4d4dc525731beb539c5e06e891855 31-Jan-2011 Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com> memory hotplug: sysfs probe routine should add all memory sections

As a follow-on to the recent patches I submitted that allowed for a sysfs
memory block to span multiple memory sections, we should also update the
probe routine to online all of the memory sections in a memory block. Without
this patch the current code will only add a single memory section. I think
the probe routine should add all of the memory sections in the specified memory
block so that its behavior is in line with memory hotplug actions through
the sysfs interfaces.

This patch applies on top of the previous sysfs memory updates to allow
a sysfs directory o span multiple memory sections.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/1/20/245

Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
d33601644cd3b09afb2edd9474517edc441c8fad 20-Jan-2011 Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com> memory hotplug: Update phys_index to [start|end]_section_nr

Update the 'phys_index' property of a the memory_block struct to be
called start_section_nr, and add a end_section_nr property. The
data tracked here is the same but the updated naming is more in line
with what is stored here, namely the first and last section number
that the memory block spans.

The names presented to userspace remain the same, phys_index for
start_section_nr and end_phys_index for end_section_nr, to avoid breaking
anything in userspace.

This also updates the node sysfs code to be aware of the new capability for
a memory block to contain multiple memory sections and be aware of the memory
block structure name changes (start_section_nr). This requires an additional
parameter to unregister_mem_sect_under_nodes so that we know which memory
section of the memory block to unregister.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
0c2c99b1b8ab5d294f176d631e945ebdefcce4cd 20-Jan-2011 Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com> memory hotplug: Allow memory blocks to span multiple memory sections

Update the memory sysfs code such that each sysfs memory directory is now
considered a memory block that can span multiple memory sections per
memory block. The default size of each memory block is SECTION_SIZE_BITS
to maintain the current behavior of having a single memory section per
memory block (i.e. one sysfs directory per memory section).

For architectures that want to have memory blocks span multiple
memory sections they need only define their own memory_block_size_bytes()
routine.

Update the memory hotplug documentation to reflect the new behaviors of
memory blocks reflected in sysfs.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
07681215975e05a1454b0afdeef07deb0db626ee 19-Oct-2010 Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com> Driver core: Add section count to memory_block struct

Add a section count property to the memory_block struct to track the number
of memory sections that have been added/removed from a memory block. This
allows us to know when the last memory section of a memory block has been
removed so we can remove the memory block.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2938ffbd466d2811a6012609684a2298eef35065 19-Oct-2010 Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com> Driver core: Add mutex for adding/removing memory blocks

Add a new mutex for use in adding and removing of memory blocks. This
is needed to avoid any race conditions in which the same memory block could
be added and removed at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Reviewed-By: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
e4619c857d1d769b1172a75ba6b6ebd1186a9c58 19-Oct-2010 Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com> Driver core: Move find_memory_block routine

Move the find_memory_block() routine up to avoid needing a forward
declaration in subsequent patches.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Reviewed-By: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
98383031ed77c6eb49ab612166fef9c0efe1604a 29-Sep-2010 Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> driver core: Introduce find_memory_block_hinted which utilizes kset_find_obj_hinted.

Introduce a find_memory_block_hinted() which utilizes the
recently added kset_find_obj_hinted().

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
To: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
4dc86ae1f925b2121d4e75058675895f83e54c71 09-Apr-2010 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Revert "memory-hotplug: add 0x prefix to HEX block_size_bytes"

This reverts commit ba168fc37dea145deeb8fa9e7e71c748d2e00d74.

It changes user-visible sysfs interfaces, and breaks some existing user
space applications which apparently rely on the fact that the output
does not contain the "0x" prefix.

Requested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
5a0e3ad6af8660be21ca98a971cd00f331318c05 24-Mar-2010 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.

2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
bc32df00894f0e1dbf583cc3dab210d2969b078a 15-Mar-2010 Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> memory hotplug: allow setting of phys_device

/sys/devices/system/memory/memoryX/phys_device is supposed to contain the
number of the physical device that the corresponding piece of memory
belongs to.

In case a physical device should be replaced or taken offline for whatever
reason it is necessary to set all corresponding memory pieces offline.
The current implementation always sets phys_device to '0' and there is no
way or hook to change that. Seems like there was a plan to implement that
but it wasn't finished for whatever reason.

So add a weak function which architectures can override to actually set
the phys_device from within add_memory_block().

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
9cd43611ccfb46632bfa7d19f688924ea93f1613 31-Dec-2009 Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> kobject: Constify struct kset_uevent_ops

Constify struct kset_uevent_ops.

This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.

Benefits of this constification:

* prevents modification of data that is shared
(referenced) by many other structure instances
at runtime

* detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
modification attempts on archs that enforce
read-only kernel data at runtime

* potentially better optimized code as the compiler
can assume that the const data cannot be changed

* the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
and therefore exclude them from false sharing

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
28812fe11a21826ba4c97c6c7971a619987cd912 05-Jan-2010 Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> driver-core: Add attribute argument to class_attribute show/store

Passing the attribute to the low level IO functions allows all kinds
of cleanups, by sharing low level IO code without requiring
an own function for every piece of data.

Also drivers can extend the attributes with own data fields
and use that in the low level function.

This makes the class attributes the same as sysdev_class attributes
and plain attributes.

This will allow further cleanups in drivers.

Full tree sweep converting all users.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
8564a6c140317de04a71eb203bdbb58845d69f9c 05-Jan-2010 Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> sysdev: Fix type of sysdev class attribute in memory driver

This attribute is really a sysdev_class attribute, not a plain class attribute.

They are identical in layout currently, but this might not always be
the case.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
bd796671f093d5b1841d383674d5650f5ec6c9c6 19-Jan-2010 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Revert "sysdev: fix prototype for memory_sysdev_class show/store functions"

This reverts commit 8ff410daa009c4b44be445ded5b0cec00abc0426

It should not have been sent to Linus's tree yet, as it depends
on changes that are queued up in my driver-core for the .34 kernel
merge.

Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "Zheng, Shaohui" <shaohui.zheng@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
8ff410daa009c4b44be445ded5b0cec00abc0426 16-Jan-2010 Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> sysdev: fix prototype for memory_sysdev_class show/store functions

The function prototype mismatches in call stack:

[<ffffffff81494268>] print_block_size+0x58/0x60
[<ffffffff81487e3f>] sysdev_class_show+0x1f/0x30
[<ffffffff811d629b>] sysfs_read_file+0xcb/0x1f0
[<ffffffff81176328>] vfs_read+0xc8/0x180

Due to prototype mismatch, print_block_size() will sprintf() into
*attribute instead of *buf, hence user space will read the initial
zeros from *buf:
$ hexdump /sys/devices/system/memory/block_size_bytes
0000000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000008

After patch:
cat /sys/devices/system/memory/block_size_bytes
0x8000000

This complements commits c29af9636 and 4a0b2b4dbe.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: "Zheng, Shaohui" <shaohui.zheng@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ba168fc37dea145deeb8fa9e7e71c748d2e00d74 16-Jan-2010 Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> memory-hotplug: add 0x prefix to HEX block_size_bytes

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
925cc71e512a29e2594bcc17dc58d0a0e9c4d524 17-Dec-2009 Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> mm: Add notifier in pageblock isolation for balloon drivers

Memory balloon drivers can allocate a large amount of memory which is not
movable but could be freed to accomodate memory hotplug remove.

Prior to calling the memory hotplug notifier chain the memory in the
pageblock is isolated. Currently, if the migrate type is not
MIGRATE_MOVABLE the isolation will not proceed, causing the memory removal
for that page range to fail.

Rather than failing pageblock isolation if the migrateteype is not
MIGRATE_MOVABLE, this patch checks if all of the pages in the pageblock,
and not on the LRU, are owned by a registered balloon driver (or other
entity) using a notifier chain. If all of the non-movable pages are owned
by a balloon, they can be freed later through the memory notifier chain
and the range can still be isolated in set_migratetype_isolate().

Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <geralds@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
facb6011f3993947283fa15d039dacb4ad140230 16-Dec-2009 Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> HWPOISON: Add soft page offline support

This is a simpler, gentler variant of memory_failure() for soft page
offlining controlled from user space. It doesn't kill anything, just
tries to invalidate and if that doesn't work migrate the
page away.

This is useful for predictive failure analysis, where a page has
a high rate of corrected errors, but hasn't gone bad yet. Instead
it can be offlined early and avoided.

The offlining is controlled from sysfs, including a new generic
entry point for hard page offlining for symmetry too.

We use the page isolate facility to prevent re-allocation
race. Normally this is only used by memory hotplug. To avoid
races with memory allocation I am using lock_system_sleep().
This avoids the situation where memory hotplug is about
to isolate a page range and then hwpoison undoes that work.
This is a big hammer currently, but the simplest solution
currently.

When the page is not free or LRU we try to free pages
from slab and other caches. The slab freeing is currently
quite dumb and does not try to focus on the specific slab
cache which might own the page. This could be potentially
improved later.

Thanks to Fengguang Wu and Haicheng Li for some fixes.

[Added fix from Andrew Morton to adapt to new migrate_pages prototype]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
c04fc586c1a480ba198f03ae7b6cbd7b57380b91 06-Jan-2009 Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com> mm: show node to memory section relationship with symlinks in sysfs

Show node to memory section relationship with symlinks in sysfs

Add /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/memoryY symlinks for all
the memory sections located on nodeX. For example:
/sys/devices/system/node/node1/memory135 -> ../../memory/memory135
indicates that memory section 135 resides on node1.

Also revises documentation to cover this change as well as updating
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory to include descriptions
of memory hotremove files 'phys_device', 'phys_index', and 'state'
that were previously not described there.

In addition to it always being a good policy to provide users with
the maximum possible amount of physical location information for
resources that can be hot-added and/or hot-removed, the following
are some (but likely not all) of the user benefits provided by
this change.
Immediate:
- Provides information needed to determine the specific node
on which a defective DIMM is located. This will reduce system
downtime when the node or defective DIMM is swapped out.
- Prevents unintended onlining of a memory section that was
previously offlined due to a defective DIMM. This could happen
during node hot-add when the user or node hot-add assist script
onlines _all_ offlined sections due to user or script inability
to identify the specific memory sections located on the hot-added
node. The consequences of reintroducing the defective memory
could be ugly.
- Provides information needed to vary the amount and distribution
of memory on specific nodes for testing or debugging purposes.
Future:
- Will provide information needed to identify the memory
sections that need to be offlined prior to physical removal
of a specific node.

Symlink creation during boot was tested on 2-node x86_64, 2-node
ppc64, and 2-node ia64 systems. Symlink creation during physical
memory hot-add tested on a 2-node x86_64 system.

Signed-off-by: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
9f1b16a51ea7180eca8a0d76a6bd587385a30757 19-Oct-2008 Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> memory_probe: fix wrong sysfs file attribute

This attribute just has a write operation.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use S_IWUSR as suggested by Randy]
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
1f07be1c31cf898e5e3708d52e38db0803c62924 28-Jul-2008 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> more sysdev API change fallout - drivers/base/memory.c

Noticed because of this warning:

drivers/base/memory.c:279: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
f810a5cf28a818db96333cd23646f0227ec015b4 26-Jul-2008 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Use WARN() in drivers/base/

Use WARN() instead of a printk+WARN_ON() pair; this way the message
becomes part of the warning section for better reporting/collection.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
5c755e9fd813810680abd56ec09a5f90143e815b 24-Jul-2008 Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> memory-hotplug: add sysfs removable attribute for hotplug memory remove

Memory may be hot-removed on a per-memory-block basis, particularly on
POWER where the SPARSEMEM section size often matches the memory-block
size. A user-level agent must be able to identify which sections of
memory are likely to be removable before attempting the potentially
expensive operation. This patch adds a file called "removable" to the
memory directory in sysfs to help such an agent. In this patch, a memory
block is considered removable if;

o It contains only MOVABLE pageblocks
o It contains only pageblocks with free pages regardless of pageblock type

On the other hand, a memory block starting with a PageReserved() page will
never be considered removable. Without this patch, the user-agent is
forced to choose a memory block to remove randomly.

Sample output of the sysfs files:

./memory/memory0/removable: 0
./memory/memory1/removable: 0
./memory/memory2/removable: 0
./memory/memory3/removable: 0
./memory/memory4/removable: 0
./memory/memory5/removable: 0
./memory/memory6/removable: 0
./memory/memory7/removable: 1
./memory/memory8/removable: 0
./memory/memory9/removable: 0
./memory/memory10/removable: 0
./memory/memory11/removable: 0
./memory/memory12/removable: 0
./memory/memory13/removable: 0
./memory/memory14/removable: 0
./memory/memory15/removable: 0
./memory/memory16/removable: 0
./memory/memory17/removable: 1
./memory/memory18/removable: 1
./memory/memory19/removable: 1
./memory/memory20/removable: 1
./memory/memory21/removable: 1
./memory/memory22/removable: 1

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
4a0b2b4dbe1335b8b9886ba3dc85a145d5d938ed 01-Jul-2008 Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> sysdev: Pass the attribute to the low level sysdev show/store function

This allow to dynamically generate attributes and share show/store
functions between attributes. Right now most attributes are generated
by special macros and lots of duplicated code. With the attribute
passed it's instead possible to attach some data to the attribute
and then use that in shared low level functions to do different things.

I need this for the dynamically generated bank attributes in the x86
machine check code, but it'll allow some further cleanups.

I converted all users in tree to the new show/store prototype. It's a single
huge patch to avoid unbisectable sections.

Runtime tested: x86-32, x86-64
Compiled only: ia64, powerpc
Not compile tested/only grep converted: sh, arm, avr32

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
3c82c30cd5963a4523a6ec5f32fc2d20a5bb672a 07-May-2008 Hannes Hering <hannes.hering@linux.vnet.ibm.com> memory: Introduce exports for memory notifiers

This patch introduces two exports to allow modules to use memory notifiers.

Signed-off-by: Hannes Hering <hering2@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2b3a302a09735276e13421db56c20045a48eb06d 05-Mar-2008 Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> driver core: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences

__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
00a41db522c77af33ea5ee9837d4f043ce150249 11-Feb-2008 Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> driver core: register_memory/unregister_memory clean ups and bugfix

register_memory()/unregister_memory() never gets called with
"root". unregister_memory() is accessing kobject_name of
the object just freed up. Since no one uses the code,
lets take the code out. And also, make register_memory() static.

Another bug fix - before calling unregister_memory()
remove_memory_block() gets a ref on kobject. unregister_memory()
need to drop that ref before calling sysdev_unregister().

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
da19cbcf71cde3c09587b5924d113f0c7f1fd23a 05-Feb-2008 Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> driver core: memory: semaphore to mutex

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
af5ca3f4ec5cc4432a42a73b050dd8898ce8fd00 20-Dec-2007 Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Driver core: change sysdev classes to use dynamic kobject names

All kobjects require a dynamically allocated name now. We no longer
need to keep track if the name is statically assigned, we can just
unconditionally free() all kobject names on cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
7b78d335ac15b10bbcb0397c635d7f0d569b0270 22-Oct-2007 Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> memory hotplug: rearrange memory hotplug notifier

Current memory notifier has some defects yet. (Fortunately, nothing uses
it.) This patch is to fix and rearrange for them.

- Add information of start_pfn, nr_pages, and node id if node status is
changes from/to memoryless node for callback functions.
Callbacks can't do anything without those information.
- Add notification going-online status.
It is necessary for creating per node structure before the node's
pages are available.
- Move GOING_OFFLINE status notification after page isolation.
It is good place for return memory like cache for callback,
because returned page is not used again.
- Make CANCEL events for rollingback when error occurs.
- Delete MEM_MAPPING_INVALID notification. It will be not used.
- Fix compile error of (un)register_memory_notifier().

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
540557b9439ec19668553830c90222f9fb0c2e95 16-Oct-2007 Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> sparsemem: record when a section has a valid mem_map

We have flags to indicate whether a section actually has a valid mem_map
associated with it. This is never set and we rely solely on the present bit
to indicate a section is valid. By definition a section is not valid if it
has no mem_map and there is a window during init where the present bit is set
but there is no mem_map, during which pfn_valid() will return true
incorrectly.

Use the existing SECTION_HAS_MEM_MAP flag to indicate the presence of a valid
mem_map. Switch valid_section{,_nr} and pfn_valid() to this bit. Add a new
present_section{,_nr} and pfn_present() interfaces for those users who care to
know that a section is going to be valid.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-syle fixes]
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
9ec0fd4e37c7167e4f9780d5834a1d1ed8263566 14-Oct-2007 Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> more uevent fallout (drivers/base/memory.c)

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
7eff2e7a8b65c25920207324e56611150eb1cd9a 14-Aug-2007 Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Driver core: change add_uevent_var to use a struct

This changes the uevent buffer functions to use a struct instead of a
long list of parameters. It does no longer require the caller to do the
proper buffer termination and size accounting, which is currently wrong
in some places. It fixes a known bug where parts of the uevent
environment are overwritten because of wrong index calculations.

Many thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers for finding bugs and improving the
error handling.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
28ec24e23229ae3d333f8d7f0e6b31fa8ea7bf46 07-Dec-2006 Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> [PATCH] driver/base/memory.c: handle errors properly

Do proper error-checking and propagation in drivers/base/memory.c, hence fix
__must_check warnings.

Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
bc02af93dd2bbddce1b55e0a493f833a1b7cf140 27-Jun-2006 Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> [PATCH] pgdat allocation for new node add (specify node id)

Change the name of old add_memory() to arch_add_memory. And use node id to
get pgdat for the node at NODE_DATA().

Note: Powerpc's old add_memory() is defined as __devinit. However,
add_memory() is usually called only after bootup.
I suppose it may be redundant. But, I'm not well known about powerpc.
So, I keep it. (But, __meminit is better at least.)

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
e041c683412d5bf44dc2b109053e3b837b71742d 27-Mar-2006 Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> [PATCH] Notifier chain update: API changes

The kernel's implementation of notifier chains is unsafe. There is no
protection against entries being added to or removed from a chain while the
chain is in use. The issues were discussed in this thread:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113018709002036&w=2

We noticed that notifier chains in the kernel fall into two basic usage
classes:

"Blocking" chains are always called from a process context
and the callout routines are allowed to sleep;

"Atomic" chains can be called from an atomic context and
the callout routines are not allowed to sleep.

We decided to codify this distinction and make it part of the API. Therefore
this set of patches introduces three new, parallel APIs: one for blocking
notifiers, one for atomic notifiers, and one for "raw" notifiers (which is
really just the old API under a new name). New kinds of data structures are
used for the heads of the chains, and new routines are defined for
registration, unregistration, and calling a chain. The three APIs are
explained in include/linux/notifier.h and their implementation is in
kernel/sys.c.

With atomic and blocking chains, the implementation guarantees that the chain
links will not be corrupted and that chain callers will not get messed up by
entries being added or removed. For raw chains the implementation provides no
guarantees at all; users of this API must provide their own protections. (The
idea was that situations may come up where the assumptions of the atomic and
blocking APIs are not appropriate, so it should be possible for users to
handle these things in their own way.)

There are some limitations, which should not be too hard to live with. For
atomic/blocking chains, registration and unregistration must always be done in
a process context since the chain is protected by a mutex/rwsem. Also, a
callout routine for a non-raw chain must not try to register or unregister
entries on its own chain. (This did happen in a couple of places and the code
had to be changed to avoid it.)

Since atomic chains may be called from within an NMI handler, they cannot use
spinlocks for synchronization. Instead we use RCU. The overhead falls almost
entirely in the unregister routine, which is okay since unregistration is much
less frequent that calling a chain.

Here is the list of chains that we adjusted and their classifications. None
of them use the raw API, so for the moment it is only a placeholder.

ATOMIC CHAINS
-------------
arch/i386/kernel/traps.c: i386die_chain
arch/ia64/kernel/traps.c: ia64die_chain
arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c: powerpc_die_chain
arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c: sparc64die_chain
arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c: die_chain
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c: xaction_notifier_list
kernel/panic.c: panic_notifier_list
kernel/profile.c: task_free_notifier
net/bluetooth/hci_core.c: hci_notifier
net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c: ip_conntrack_chain
net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c: ip_conntrack_expect_chain
net/ipv6/addrconf.c: inet6addr_chain
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: nf_conntrack_chain
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: nf_conntrack_expect_chain
net/netlink/af_netlink.c: netlink_chain

BLOCKING CHAINS
---------------
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c: pSeries_reconfig_chain
arch/s390/kernel/process.c: idle_chain
arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c idle_notifier
drivers/base/memory.c: memory_chain
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c cpufreq_policy_notifier_list
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c cpufreq_transition_notifier_list
drivers/macintosh/adb.c: adb_client_list
drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c sleep_notifier_list
drivers/macintosh/via-pmu68k.c sleep_notifier_list
drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c wf_client_list
drivers/usb/core/notify.c usb_notifier_list
drivers/video/fbmem.c fb_notifier_list
kernel/cpu.c cpu_chain
kernel/module.c module_notify_list
kernel/profile.c munmap_notifier
kernel/profile.c task_exit_notifier
kernel/sys.c reboot_notifier_list
net/core/dev.c netdev_chain
net/decnet/dn_dev.c: dnaddr_chain
net/ipv4/devinet.c: inetaddr_chain

It's possible that some of these classifications are wrong. If they are,
please let us know or submit a patch to fix them. Note that any chain that
gets called very frequently should be atomic, because the rwsem read-locking
used for blocking chains is very likely to incur cache misses on SMP systems.
(However, if the chain's callout routines may sleep then the chain cannot be
atomic.)

The patch set was written by Alan Stern and Chandra Seetharaman, incorporating
material written by Keith Owens and suggestions from Paul McKenney and Andrew
Morton.

[jes@sgi.com: restructure the notifier chain initialization macros]
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
be7ee9b2f5ef11448f79c2ff7f47eb21b7c008b4 01-Feb-2006 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> [PATCH] fix __user annotations in drivers/base/memory.c

sysfs store doesn't deal with userland pointers

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
c59ede7b78db329949d9cdcd7064e22d357560ef 11-Jan-2006 Randy.Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> [PATCH] move capable() to capability.h

- Move capable() from sched.h to capability.h;

- Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used
(in include/, block/, ipc/, kernel/, a few drivers/,
mm/, security/, & sound/;
many more drivers/ to go)

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
900b2b463dc6e65ec474d6880412c63c25b3aea9 06-Jan-2006 Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> [PATCH] memhotplug: register_memory should be global

register_memory is global and declared so in linux/memory.h. Update the
HOTPLUG specific definition to match. This fixes a compile warning when
HOTPLUG is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
98a38ebdda69f1498be4f618d8d919695c8d6352 06-Jan-2006 Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> [PATCH] memhotplug: register_ and unregister_memory_notifier should be global

Both register_memory_notifer and unregister_memory_notifier are global and
declared so in linux/memory.h. Update the HOTPLUG specific definitions to
match. This fixes a compile warning when HOTPLUG is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
312c004d36ce6c739512bac83b452f4c20ab1f62 16-Nov-2005 Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> [PATCH] driver core: replace "hotplug" by "uevent"

Leave the overloaded "hotplug" word to susbsystems which are handling
real devices. The driver core does not "plug" anything, it just exports
the state to userspace and generates events.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2f40fb72a2121da44c35f2588ee9abce1dffa2a9 15-Dec-2005 Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> [PATCH] drivers/base/memory.c: unexport the static (sic) memory_sysdev_class

We can't export a static struct to modules.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
0b0acbec1bed75ec1e1daa7f7006323a2a2b2844 30-Oct-2005 Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> [PATCH] memory hotplug: move section_mem_map alloc to sparse.c

This basically keeps up from having to extern __kmalloc_section_memmap().

The vaddr_in_vmalloc_area() helper could go in a vmalloc header, but that
header gets hard to work with, because it needs some arch-specific macros.
Just stick it in here for now, instead of creating another header.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Lion Vollnhals <webmaster@schiggl.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
3947be1969a9ce455ec30f60ef51efb10e4323d1 30-Oct-2005 Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> [PATCH] memory hotplug: sysfs and add/remove functions

This adds generic memory add/remove and supporting functions for memory
hotplug into a new file as well as a memory hotplug kernel config option.

Individual architecture patches will follow.

For now, disable memory hotplug when swsusp is enabled. There's a lot of
churn there right now. We'll fix it up properly once it calms down.

Signed-off-by: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.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>