linux/arch
Nick Piggin b5810039a5 [PATCH] core remove PageReserved
Remove PageReserved() calls from core code by tightening VM_RESERVED
handling in mm/ to cover PageReserved functionality.

PageReserved special casing is removed from get_page and put_page.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Refcount bug fix for filemap_xip.c

Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:39 -07:00
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alpha [PATCH] gfp_t: remaining bits of arch/* 2005-10-28 08:16:51 -07:00
arm Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2005-10-29 14:02:16 -07:00
arm26 [PATCH] Remove arch/arm26/boot/compressed/hw-bse.c 2005-09-17 11:49:59 -07:00
cris [NETFILTER]: Fix OOPSes on machines with discontiguous cpu numbering. 2005-10-13 14:41:23 -07:00
frv [PATCH] missing exports of do_settimeofday() variants 2005-10-29 10:35:07 -07:00
h8300 kbuild: h8300,m68knommu,sh,sh64 use generic asm-offsets.h support 2005-09-09 20:28:49 +02:00
i386 [PATCH] PCI fixup for Toshiba laptops and ohci1394 2005-10-28 15:37:02 -07:00
ia64 [PATCH] mm: vm_stat_account unshackled 2005-10-29 21:40:37 -07:00
m32r [PATCH] m32r: Fix smp.c for preempt kernel 2005-10-14 17:10:12 -07:00
m68k [PATCH] mm: m68k kill stram swap 2005-10-29 21:40:38 -07:00
m68knommu [PATCH] m68knommu: startup code for the Drangen Engine 68328 based board 2005-09-12 20:04:15 -07:00
mips [PATCH] mm: mm_init set_mm_counters 2005-10-29 21:40:38 -07:00
parisc Auto-update from upstream 2005-10-28 12:18:07 -04:00
ppc [PATCH] gfp_t: remaining bits of arch/* 2005-10-28 08:16:51 -07:00
ppc64 [PATCH] core remove PageReserved 2005-10-29 21:40:39 -07:00
s390 [PATCH] s390 signal annotations 2005-09-29 08:46:27 -07:00
sh [PATCH] mm: sh64 hugetlbpage.c 2005-10-29 21:40:38 -07:00
sh64 [PATCH] mm: sh64 hugetlbpage.c 2005-10-29 21:40:38 -07:00
sparc [PATCH] core remove PageReserved 2005-10-29 21:40:39 -07:00
sparc64 [PATCH] core remove PageReserved 2005-10-29 21:40:39 -07:00
um [PATCH] gfp_t: remaining bits of arch/* 2005-10-28 08:16:51 -07:00
v850 [PATCH] V850: C99 initializers for hw_interrupt_type structures 2005-09-10 10:06:27 -07:00
x86_64 [PATCH] mm: mm_init set_mm_counters 2005-10-29 21:40:38 -07:00
xtensa [PATCH] gfp_t: dma-mapping (xtensa) 2005-10-28 08:16:49 -07:00