linux/arch/h8300
David Howells 8feae13110 NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linux
Make VMAs per mm_struct as for MMU-mode linux.  This solves two problems:

 (1) In SYSV SHM where nattch for a segment does not reflect the number of
     shmat's (and forks) done.

 (2) In mmap() where the VMA's vm_mm is set to point to the parent mm by an
     exec'ing process when VM_EXECUTABLE is specified, regardless of the fact
     that a VMA might be shared and already have its vm_mm assigned to another
     process or a dead process.

A new struct (vm_region) is introduced to track a mapped region and to remember
the circumstances under which it may be shared and the vm_list_struct structure
is discarded as it's no longer required.

This patch makes the following additional changes:

 (1) Regions are now allocated with alloc_pages() rather than kmalloc() and
     with no recourse to __GFP_COMP, so the pages are not composite.  Instead,
     each page has a reference on it held by the region.  Anything else that is
     interested in such a page will have to get a reference on it to retain it.
     When the pages are released due to unmapping, each page is passed to
     put_page() and will be freed when the page usage count reaches zero.

 (2) Excess pages are trimmed after an allocation as the allocation must be
     made as a power-of-2 quantity of pages.

 (3) VMAs are added to the parent MM's R/B tree and mmap lists.  As an MM may
     end up with overlapping VMAs within the tree, the VMA struct address is
     appended to the sort key.

 (4) Non-anonymous VMAs are now added to the backing inode's prio list.

 (5) Holes may be punched in anonymous VMAs with munmap(), releasing parts of
     the backing region.  The VMA and region structs will be split if
     necessary.

 (6) sys_shmdt() only releases one attachment to a SYSV IPC shared memory
     segment instead of all the attachments at that addresss.  Multiple
     shmat()'s return the same address under NOMMU-mode instead of different
     virtual addresses as under MMU-mode.

 (7) Core dumping for ELF-FDPIC requires fewer exceptions for NOMMU-mode.

 (8) /proc/maps is now the global list of mapped regions, and may list bits
     that aren't actually mapped anywhere.

 (9) /proc/meminfo gains a line (tagged "MmapCopy") that indicates the amount
     of RAM currently allocated by mmap to hold mappable regions that can't be
     mapped directly.  These are copies of the backing device or file if not
     anonymous.

These changes make NOMMU mode more similar to MMU mode.  The downside is that
NOMMU mode requires some extra memory to track things over NOMMU without this
patch (VMAs are no longer shared, and there are now region structs).

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2009-01-08 12:04:47 +00:00
..
boot inflate: refactor inflate malloc code 2008-07-25 10:53:28 -07:00
include/asm NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linux 2009-01-08 12:04:47 +00:00
kernel take init_fs to saner place 2008-12-31 18:07:42 -05:00
lib kbuild: fix AFLAGS use in h8300 and m68knommu 2007-10-15 21:03:59 +02:00
mm h8300: GENERIC_BUG support 2008-10-16 11:21:29 -07:00
platform h8300: update timer handler - delete files 2008-10-16 11:21:29 -07:00
defconfig h8300: defconfig update 2008-02-23 17:12:16 -08:00
Kconfig Staging: Kconfig for ARCH=arm,8300, cris 2009-01-06 13:51:38 -08:00
Kconfig.cpu h8300: update timer handler - misc update 2008-10-16 11:21:29 -07:00
Kconfig.debug H8300: Typo: "buildin" -> "builtin" 2007-10-20 00:26:06 +02:00
Kconfig.ide Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
Makefile kbuild: enable 'make AFLAGS=...' to add additional options to AS 2007-10-15 21:59:31 +02:00
README Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00

linux-2.6 for H8/300 README
Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>

* Supported CPU
H8/300H and H8S

* Supported Target
1.simulator of GDB
  require patches.

2.AE 3068/AE 3069
  more information 
  MICROTRONIQUE <http://www.microtronique.com/>
  Akizuki Denshi Tsusho Ltd. <http://www.akizuki.ne.jp> (Japanese Only)

3.H8MAX 
  see http://ip-sol.jp/h8max/ (Japanese Only)

4.EDOSK2674
  see http://www.eu.renesas.com/products/mpumcu/tool/edk/support/edosk2674.html
      http://www.azpower.com/H8-uClinux/

* Toolchain Version
gcc-3.1 or higher and patch
see arch/h8300/tools_patch/README
binutils-2.12 or higher
gdb-5.2 or higher
The environment that can compile a h8300-elf binary is necessary.

* Userland Develop environment
used h8300-elf toolchains.
see http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/ports/h8/

* A few words of thanks
Porting to H8/300 serieses is support of Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan.
I thank support.
and All developer/user.