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Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
[PATCH] msync(): use do_fsync() No need to duplicate all that code. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 03:18:15 -08:00
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
[PATCH] msync(): perform dirty page levelling It seems sensible to perform dirty page throttling in msync: as the application dirties pages we can kick off pdflush early, or even force the msync() caller to perform writeout, or even throttle the msync() caller. The main effect of this is to start disk writeback earlier if we've just discovered that a large amount of pagecache has been dirtied. (Otherwise it wouldn't happen for up to five seconds, next time pdflush wakes up). It also will cause the page-dirtying process to get panalised for dirtying those pages rather than whacking someone else with the problem. We should do this for munmap() and possibly even exit(), too. We drop the mmap_sem while performing the dirty page balancing. It doesn't seem right to hold mmap_sem for that long. Note that this patch only affects MS_ASYNC. MS_SYNC will be syncing all the dirty pages anyway. We note that msync(MS_SYNC) does a full-file-sync inside mmap_sem, and always has. We can fix that up... The patch also tightens up the mmap_sem coverage in sys_msync(): no point in taking it while we perform the incoming arg checking. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 03:18:12 -08:00
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
[PATCH] mm: msync() cleanup With the tracking of dirty pages properly done now, msync doesn't need to scan the PTEs anymore to determine the dirty status. From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> In looking to do that, I made some other tidyups: can remove several #includes, and sys_msync loop termination not quite right. Most of those points are criticisms of the existing sys_msync, not of your patch. In particular, the loop termination errors were introduced in 2.6.17: I did notice this shortly before it came out, but decided I was more likely to get it wrong myself, and make matters worse if I tried to rush a last-minute fix in. And it's not terribly likely to go wrong, nor disastrous if it does go wrong (may miss reporting an unmapped area; may also fsync file of a following vma). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-25 23:31:01 -07:00
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
The comment describing how MS_ASYNC works in msync.c is confusing because of a typo. This patch just changes "my" to "by", which I believe was the original intent. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-03-24 18:30:53 +01:00
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
[PATCH] mm: msync() cleanup With the tracking of dirty pages properly done now, msync doesn't need to scan the PTEs anymore to determine the dirty status. From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> In looking to do that, I made some other tidyups: can remove several #includes, and sys_msync loop termination not quite right. Most of those points are criticisms of the existing sys_msync, not of your patch. In particular, the loop termination errors were introduced in 2.6.17: I did notice this shortly before it came out, but decided I was more likely to get it wrong myself, and make matters worse if I tried to rush a last-minute fix in. And it's not terribly likely to go wrong, nor disastrous if it does go wrong (may miss reporting an unmapped area; may also fsync file of a following vma). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-25 23:31:01 -07:00
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
[PATCH] msync: fix return value msync() does a strange thing. Essentially: vma = find_vma(); for ( ; ; ) { if (!vma) return -ENOMEM; ... vma = vma->vm_next; } so an msync() request which starts within or before a valid VMA and which ends within or beyond the final VMA will incorrectly return -ENOMEM. Fix. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 03:18:14 -08:00
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
[PATCH] mm: msync() cleanup With the tracking of dirty pages properly done now, msync doesn't need to scan the PTEs anymore to determine the dirty status. From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> In looking to do that, I made some other tidyups: can remove several #includes, and sys_msync loop termination not quite right. Most of those points are criticisms of the existing sys_msync, not of your patch. In particular, the loop termination errors were introduced in 2.6.17: I did notice this shortly before it came out, but decided I was more likely to get it wrong myself, and make matters worse if I tried to rush a last-minute fix in. And it's not terribly likely to go wrong, nor disastrous if it does go wrong (may miss reporting an unmapped area; may also fsync file of a following vma). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-25 23:31:01 -07:00
[PATCH] msync(): perform dirty page levelling It seems sensible to perform dirty page throttling in msync: as the application dirties pages we can kick off pdflush early, or even force the msync() caller to perform writeout, or even throttle the msync() caller. The main effect of this is to start disk writeback earlier if we've just discovered that a large amount of pagecache has been dirtied. (Otherwise it wouldn't happen for up to five seconds, next time pdflush wakes up). It also will cause the page-dirtying process to get panalised for dirtying those pages rather than whacking someone else with the problem. We should do this for munmap() and possibly even exit(), too. We drop the mmap_sem while performing the dirty page balancing. It doesn't seem right to hold mmap_sem for that long. Note that this patch only affects MS_ASYNC. MS_SYNC will be syncing all the dirty pages anyway. We note that msync(MS_SYNC) does a full-file-sync inside mmap_sem, and always has. We can fix that up... The patch also tightens up the mmap_sem coverage in sys_msync(): no point in taking it while we perform the incoming arg checking. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 03:18:12 -08:00
[PATCH] mm: msync() cleanup With the tracking of dirty pages properly done now, msync doesn't need to scan the PTEs anymore to determine the dirty status. From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> In looking to do that, I made some other tidyups: can remove several #includes, and sys_msync loop termination not quite right. Most of those points are criticisms of the existing sys_msync, not of your patch. In particular, the loop termination errors were introduced in 2.6.17: I did notice this shortly before it came out, but decided I was more likely to get it wrong myself, and make matters worse if I tried to rush a last-minute fix in. And it's not terribly likely to go wrong, nor disastrous if it does go wrong (may miss reporting an unmapped area; may also fsync file of a following vma). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-25 23:31:01 -07:00
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
[PATCH] mm: msync() cleanup With the tracking of dirty pages properly done now, msync doesn't need to scan the PTEs anymore to determine the dirty status. From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> In looking to do that, I made some other tidyups: can remove several #includes, and sys_msync loop termination not quite right. Most of those points are criticisms of the existing sys_msync, not of your patch. In particular, the loop termination errors were introduced in 2.6.17: I did notice this shortly before it came out, but decided I was more likely to get it wrong myself, and make matters worse if I tried to rush a last-minute fix in. And it's not terribly likely to go wrong, nor disastrous if it does go wrong (may miss reporting an unmapped area; may also fsync file of a following vma). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-25 23:31:01 -07:00
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
[PATCH] mm: msync() cleanup With the tracking of dirty pages properly done now, msync doesn't need to scan the PTEs anymore to determine the dirty status. From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> In looking to do that, I made some other tidyups: can remove several #includes, and sys_msync loop termination not quite right. Most of those points are criticisms of the existing sys_msync, not of your patch. In particular, the loop termination errors were introduced in 2.6.17: I did notice this shortly before it came out, but decided I was more likely to get it wrong myself, and make matters worse if I tried to rush a last-minute fix in. And it's not terribly likely to go wrong, nor disastrous if it does go wrong (may miss reporting an unmapped area; may also fsync file of a following vma). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-25 23:31:01 -07:00
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
[PATCH] msync(): perform dirty page levelling It seems sensible to perform dirty page throttling in msync: as the application dirties pages we can kick off pdflush early, or even force the msync() caller to perform writeout, or even throttle the msync() caller. The main effect of this is to start disk writeback earlier if we've just discovered that a large amount of pagecache has been dirtied. (Otherwise it wouldn't happen for up to five seconds, next time pdflush wakes up). It also will cause the page-dirtying process to get panalised for dirtying those pages rather than whacking someone else with the problem. We should do this for munmap() and possibly even exit(), too. We drop the mmap_sem while performing the dirty page balancing. It doesn't seem right to hold mmap_sem for that long. Note that this patch only affects MS_ASYNC. MS_SYNC will be syncing all the dirty pages anyway. We note that msync(MS_SYNC) does a full-file-sync inside mmap_sem, and always has. We can fix that up... The patch also tightens up the mmap_sem coverage in sys_msync(): no point in taking it while we perform the incoming arg checking. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 03:18:12 -08:00
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
[PATCH] mm: msync() cleanup With the tracking of dirty pages properly done now, msync doesn't need to scan the PTEs anymore to determine the dirty status. From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> In looking to do that, I made some other tidyups: can remove several #includes, and sys_msync loop termination not quite right. Most of those points are criticisms of the existing sys_msync, not of your patch. In particular, the loop termination errors were introduced in 2.6.17: I did notice this shortly before it came out, but decided I was more likely to get it wrong myself, and make matters worse if I tried to rush a last-minute fix in. And it's not terribly likely to go wrong, nor disastrous if it does go wrong (may miss reporting an unmapped area; may also fsync file of a following vma). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-25 23:31:01 -07:00
[PATCH] msync(MS_SYNC): don't hold mmap_sem while syncing It seems bad to hold mmap_sem while performing synchronous disk I/O. Alter the msync(MS_SYNC) code so that the lock is released while we sync the file. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 03:18:13 -08:00
[PATCH] mm: msync() cleanup With the tracking of dirty pages properly done now, msync doesn't need to scan the PTEs anymore to determine the dirty status. From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> In looking to do that, I made some other tidyups: can remove several #includes, and sys_msync loop termination not quite right. Most of those points are criticisms of the existing sys_msync, not of your patch. In particular, the loop termination errors were introduced in 2.6.17: I did notice this shortly before it came out, but decided I was more likely to get it wrong myself, and make matters worse if I tried to rush a last-minute fix in. And it's not terribly likely to go wrong, nor disastrous if it does go wrong (may miss reporting an unmapped area; may also fsync file of a following vma). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-25 23:31:01 -07:00
[PATCH] msync(): use do_fsync() No need to duplicate all that code. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 03:18:15 -08:00
[PATCH] msync(MS_SYNC): don't hold mmap_sem while syncing It seems bad to hold mmap_sem while performing synchronous disk I/O. Alter the msync(MS_SYNC) code so that the lock is released while we sync the file. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 03:18:13 -08:00
[PATCH] mm: msync() cleanup With the tracking of dirty pages properly done now, msync doesn't need to scan the PTEs anymore to determine the dirty status. From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> In looking to do that, I made some other tidyups: can remove several #includes, and sys_msync loop termination not quite right. Most of those points are criticisms of the existing sys_msync, not of your patch. In particular, the loop termination errors were introduced in 2.6.17: I did notice this shortly before it came out, but decided I was more likely to get it wrong myself, and make matters worse if I tried to rush a last-minute fix in. And it's not terribly likely to go wrong, nor disastrous if it does go wrong (may miss reporting an unmapped area; may also fsync file of a following vma). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-25 23:31:01 -07:00
[PATCH] msync(): perform dirty page levelling It seems sensible to perform dirty page throttling in msync: as the application dirties pages we can kick off pdflush early, or even force the msync() caller to perform writeout, or even throttle the msync() caller. The main effect of this is to start disk writeback earlier if we've just discovered that a large amount of pagecache has been dirtied. (Otherwise it wouldn't happen for up to five seconds, next time pdflush wakes up). It also will cause the page-dirtying process to get panalised for dirtying those pages rather than whacking someone else with the problem. We should do this for munmap() and possibly even exit(), too. We drop the mmap_sem while performing the dirty page balancing. It doesn't seem right to hold mmap_sem for that long. Note that this patch only affects MS_ASYNC. MS_SYNC will be syncing all the dirty pages anyway. We note that msync(MS_SYNC) does a full-file-sync inside mmap_sem, and always has. We can fix that up... The patch also tightens up the mmap_sem coverage in sys_msync(): no point in taking it while we perform the incoming arg checking. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 03:18:12 -08:00
[PATCH] mm: msync() cleanup With the tracking of dirty pages properly done now, msync doesn't need to scan the PTEs anymore to determine the dirty status. From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> In looking to do that, I made some other tidyups: can remove several #includes, and sys_msync loop termination not quite right. Most of those points are criticisms of the existing sys_msync, not of your patch. In particular, the loop termination errors were introduced in 2.6.17: I did notice this shortly before it came out, but decided I was more likely to get it wrong myself, and make matters worse if I tried to rush a last-minute fix in. And it's not terribly likely to go wrong, nor disastrous if it does go wrong (may miss reporting an unmapped area; may also fsync file of a following vma). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-25 23:31:01 -07:00
[PATCH] msync(): perform dirty page levelling It seems sensible to perform dirty page throttling in msync: as the application dirties pages we can kick off pdflush early, or even force the msync() caller to perform writeout, or even throttle the msync() caller. The main effect of this is to start disk writeback earlier if we've just discovered that a large amount of pagecache has been dirtied. (Otherwise it wouldn't happen for up to five seconds, next time pdflush wakes up). It also will cause the page-dirtying process to get panalised for dirtying those pages rather than whacking someone else with the problem. We should do this for munmap() and possibly even exit(), too. We drop the mmap_sem while performing the dirty page balancing. It doesn't seem right to hold mmap_sem for that long. Note that this patch only affects MS_ASYNC. MS_SYNC will be syncing all the dirty pages anyway. We note that msync(MS_SYNC) does a full-file-sync inside mmap_sem, and always has. We can fix that up... The patch also tightens up the mmap_sem coverage in sys_msync(): no point in taking it while we perform the incoming arg checking. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 03:18:12 -08:00
[PATCH] mm: msync() cleanup With the tracking of dirty pages properly done now, msync doesn't need to scan the PTEs anymore to determine the dirty status. From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> In looking to do that, I made some other tidyups: can remove several #includes, and sys_msync loop termination not quite right. Most of those points are criticisms of the existing sys_msync, not of your patch. In particular, the loop termination errors were introduced in 2.6.17: I did notice this shortly before it came out, but decided I was more likely to get it wrong myself, and make matters worse if I tried to rush a last-minute fix in. And it's not terribly likely to go wrong, nor disastrous if it does go wrong (may miss reporting an unmapped area; may also fsync file of a following vma). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-25 23:31:01 -07:00
[PATCH] msync(): perform dirty page levelling It seems sensible to perform dirty page throttling in msync: as the application dirties pages we can kick off pdflush early, or even force the msync() caller to perform writeout, or even throttle the msync() caller. The main effect of this is to start disk writeback earlier if we've just discovered that a large amount of pagecache has been dirtied. (Otherwise it wouldn't happen for up to five seconds, next time pdflush wakes up). It also will cause the page-dirtying process to get panalised for dirtying those pages rather than whacking someone else with the problem. We should do this for munmap() and possibly even exit(), too. We drop the mmap_sem while performing the dirty page balancing. It doesn't seem right to hold mmap_sem for that long. Note that this patch only affects MS_ASYNC. MS_SYNC will be syncing all the dirty pages anyway. We note that msync(MS_SYNC) does a full-file-sync inside mmap_sem, and always has. We can fix that up... The patch also tightens up the mmap_sem coverage in sys_msync(): no point in taking it while we perform the incoming arg checking. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 03:18:12 -08:00
[PATCH] mm: msync() cleanup With the tracking of dirty pages properly done now, msync doesn't need to scan the PTEs anymore to determine the dirty status. From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> In looking to do that, I made some other tidyups: can remove several #includes, and sys_msync loop termination not quite right. Most of those points are criticisms of the existing sys_msync, not of your patch. In particular, the loop termination errors were introduced in 2.6.17: I did notice this shortly before it came out, but decided I was more likely to get it wrong myself, and make matters worse if I tried to rush a last-minute fix in. And it's not terribly likely to go wrong, nor disastrous if it does go wrong (may miss reporting an unmapped area; may also fsync file of a following vma). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-25 23:31:01 -07:00
[PATCH] msync(): perform dirty page levelling It seems sensible to perform dirty page throttling in msync: as the application dirties pages we can kick off pdflush early, or even force the msync() caller to perform writeout, or even throttle the msync() caller. The main effect of this is to start disk writeback earlier if we've just discovered that a large amount of pagecache has been dirtied. (Otherwise it wouldn't happen for up to five seconds, next time pdflush wakes up). It also will cause the page-dirtying process to get panalised for dirtying those pages rather than whacking someone else with the problem. We should do this for munmap() and possibly even exit(), too. We drop the mmap_sem while performing the dirty page balancing. It doesn't seem right to hold mmap_sem for that long. Note that this patch only affects MS_ASYNC. MS_SYNC will be syncing all the dirty pages anyway. We note that msync(MS_SYNC) does a full-file-sync inside mmap_sem, and always has. We can fix that up... The patch also tightens up the mmap_sem coverage in sys_msync(): no point in taking it while we perform the incoming arg checking. Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 03:18:12 -08:00
[PATCH] mm: msync() cleanup With the tracking of dirty pages properly done now, msync doesn't need to scan the PTEs anymore to determine the dirty status. From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> In looking to do that, I made some other tidyups: can remove several #includes, and sys_msync loop termination not quite right. Most of those points are criticisms of the existing sys_msync, not of your patch. In particular, the loop termination errors were introduced in 2.6.17: I did notice this shortly before it came out, but decided I was more likely to get it wrong myself, and make matters worse if I tried to rush a last-minute fix in. And it's not terribly likely to go wrong, nor disastrous if it does go wrong (may miss reporting an unmapped area; may also fsync file of a following vma). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-25 23:31:01 -07:00
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00