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Revision e8a03feb54ca7f1768bbdc2b491f9ef654e6d01d authored by Rik van Riel on 14 April 2010, 21:59:28 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 19 April 2010, 23:28:20 UTC 
rmap: add exclusively owned pages to the newest anon_vma
 
The recent anon_vma fixes cause many anonymous pages to end up
in the parent process anon_vma, even when the page is exclusively
owned by the current process.

Adding exclusively owned anonymous pages to the top anon_vma
reduces rmap scanning overhead, especially in workloads with
forking servers.

This patch adds a parameter to __page_set_anon_rmap that can
be used to indicate whether or not the added page is exclusively
owned by the current process.

Pages added through page_add_new_anon_rmap are exclusively
owned by the current process, and can be added to the top
anon_vma.

Pages added through page_add_anon_rmap can be either shared
or exclusively owned, so we do the conservative thing and
add it to the oldest anon_vma.

A next step would be to add the exclusive parameter to
page_add_anon_rmap, to be used from functions where we do
know for sure whether a page is exclusively owned.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Lightly-tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
[ Edited to look nicer  - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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noinitramfs.c 
/*
 * init/noinitramfs.c
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2006, NXP Semiconductors, All Rights Reserved
 * Author: Jean-Paul Saman <jean-paul.saman@nxp.com>
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
 */
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/stat.h>
#include <linux/kdev_t.h>
#include <linux/syscalls.h>

/*
 * Create a simple rootfs that is similar to the default initramfs
 */
static int __init default_rootfs(void)
{
	int err;

	err = sys_mkdir("/dev", 0755);
	if (err < 0)
		goto out;

	err = sys_mknod((const char __user *) "/dev/console",
			S_IFCHR | S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR,
			new_encode_dev(MKDEV(5, 1)));
	if (err < 0)
		goto out;

	err = sys_mkdir("/root", 0700);
	if (err < 0)
		goto out;

	return 0;

out:
	printk(KERN_WARNING "Failed to create a rootfs\n");
	return err;
}
rootfs_initcall(default_rootfs);
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