Akinobu Mita [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:35 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
lib/spinlock_debug.c: print owner on spinlock lockup
When SPIN_BUG_ON is triggered, the lock owner information is reported.
But it is omitted when spinlock lockup is detected.
This information is useful especially on the architectures which don't
implement trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() that is called just after detecting
lockup. So report it and also avoid message format duplication.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Alexey Dobriyan [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:35 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
lib/kstrtox: common code between kstrto*() and simple_strto*() functions
Currently termination logic (\0 or \n\0) is hardcoded in _kstrtoull(),
avoid that for code reuse between kstrto*() and simple_strtoull().
Essentially, make them different only in termination logic.
simple_strtoull() (and scanf(), BTW) ignores integer overflow, that's a
bug we currently don't have guts to fix, making KSTRTOX_OVERFLOW hack
necessary.
Almost forgot: patch shrinks code size by about ~80 bytes on x86_64.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
My GPIOs are on an I2C port expander, so we must use the *_cansleep()
variant of the GPIO functions. This is was not being done in
create_gpio_led().
We can change gpio_get_value() to gpio_get_value_cansleep() because it is
only called from the platform_driver probe function, which is a context
where we can sleep.
Only tested on my gpio_cansleep() system, but it seems safe for all
systems.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Acked-by: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@gmail.com> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Magnus Damm [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:34 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
drivers/leds/leds-renesas-tpu.c: move Renesas TPU LED driver platform data
Use the platform_data include directory for the TPU LED driver, as
suggested by Paul Mundt.
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Magnus Damm [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:34 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
drivers/leds/leds-renesas-tpu.c: update driver to use workqueue
Use a workqueue in the Renesas TPU LED driver to allow the Runtime PM code
to sleep.
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Wolfram Sang [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:33 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
drivers/leds/leds-lm3530.c: remove obsolete cleanup for clientdata
A few new i2c-drivers came into the kernel which clear the
clientdata-pointer on exit or error. This is obsolete meanwhile, the core
will do it.
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Axel Lin [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:33 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
leds-renesas-tpu-led-driver-v2-fix
include linux/module.h
Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com> Cc: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Magnus Damm [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:32 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
leds: Renesas TPU LED driver
Add V2 of the LED driver for a single timer channel for the TPU hardware
block commonly found in Renesas SoCs.
The driver has been written with optimal Power Management in mind, so to
save power the LED is driven as a regular GPIO pin in case of maximum
brightness and power off which allows the TPU hardware to be idle and
which in turn allows the clocks to be stopped and the power domain to be
turned off transparently.
Any other brightness level requires use of the TPU hardware in PWM mode.
TPU hardware device clocks and power are managed through Runtime PM.
System suspend and resume is known to be working - during suspend the LED
is set to off by the generic LED code.
The TPU hardware timer is equipeed with a 16-bit counter together with an
up-to-divide-by-64 prescaler which makes the hardware suitable for
brightness control. Hardware blink is unsupported.
The LED PWM waveform has been verified with a Fluke 123 Scope meter on a
sh7372 Mackerel board. Tested with experimental sh7372 A3SP power domain
patches. Platform device bind/unbind tested ok.
V2 has been tested on the DS2 LED of the sh73a0-based AG5EVM.
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mark Brown [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:31 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
backlight: fix broken regulator API usage in l4f00242t03
The regulator support in the l4f00242t03 is very non-idiomatic. Rather
than requesting the regulators based on the device name and the supply
names used by the device the driver requires boards to pass system
specific supply names around through platform data. The driver also
conditionally requests the regulators based on this platform data, adding
unneeded conditional code to the driver.
Fix this by removing the platform data and converting to the standard
idiom, also updating all in tree users of the driver. As no datasheet
appears to be available for the LCD I'm guessing the names for the
supplies based on the existing users and I've no ability to do anything
more than compile test.
The use of regulator_set_voltage() in the driver is also problematic,
since fixed voltages are required the expectation would be that the
voltages would be fixed in the constraints set by the machines rather than
manually configured by the driver, but is less problematic.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Tested-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Wolfram Sang [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:31 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
video/backlight: remove obsolete cleanup for clientdata
A few new i2c-drivers came into the kernel which clear the
clientdata-pointer on exit or error. This is obsolete meanwhile, the core
will do it.
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Hans Verkuil [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:30 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
poll: add poll_requested_events() function
In some cases the poll() implementation in a driver has to do different
things depending on the events the caller wants to poll for. An example
is when a driver needs to start a DMA engine if the caller polls for
POLLIN, but doesn't want to do that if POLLIN is not requested but instead
only POLLOUT or POLLPRI is requested. This is something that can happen
in the video4linux subsystem.
Unfortunately, the current epoll/poll/select implementation doesn't
provide that information reliably. The poll_table_struct does have it: it
has a key field with the event mask. But once a poll() call matches one
or more bits of that mask any following poll() calls are passed a NULL
poll_table_struct pointer.
The solution is to set the qproc field to NULL in poll_table_struct once
poll() matches the events, not the poll_table_struct pointer itself. That
way drivers can obtain the mask through a new poll_requested_events
inline.
The poll_table_struct can still be NULL since some kernel code calls it
internally (netfs_state_poll() in ./drivers/staging/pohmelfs/netfs.h). In
that case poll_requested_events() returns ~0 (i.e. all events).
Since eventpoll always leaves the key field at ~0 instead of using the
requested events mask, that source was changed as well to properly fill in
the key field.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
WARNING: externs should be avoided in .c files
#99: FILE: arch/alpha/boot/misc.c:28:
+extern __printf(1, 2) long srm_printk(const char *, ...);
ERROR: space required after that ';' (ctx:VxV)
#178: FILE: arch/powerpc/boot/ps3.c:39:
+static inline __printf(1, 2) int DBG(const char *fmt, ...) {return 0;}
^
ERROR: "foo* bar" should be "foo *bar"
#225: FILE: arch/s390/include/asm/debug.h:175:
+debug_sprintf_event(debug_info_t* id, int level, char *string, ...);
ERROR: space required after that ',' (ctx:VxV)
#237: FILE: arch/s390/include/asm/debug.h:216:
+debug_sprintf_exception(debug_info_t *id, int level, char *string,...);
^
WARNING: space prohibited between function name and open parenthesis '('
#494: FILE: fs/ext2/ext2.h:139:
+void ext2_error (struct super_block *, const char *, const char *, ...);
WARNING: printk() should include KERN_ facility level
#719: FILE: fs/partitions/ldm.c:63:
+ printk("%s%s(): %pV\n", level, function, &vaf);
WARNING: space prohibited between function name and open parenthesis '('
#721: FILE: fs/partitions/ldm.c:65:
+ va_end (args);
WARNING: space prohibited between function name and open parenthesis '('
#750: FILE: fs/ufs/ufs.h:121:
+void ufs_warning (struct super_block *, const char *, const char *, ...);
WARNING: space prohibited between function name and open parenthesis '('
#752: FILE: fs/ufs/ufs.h:123:
+void ufs_error (struct super_block *, const char *, const char *, ...);
WARNING: space prohibited between function name and open parenthesis '('
#754: FILE: fs/ufs/ufs.h:125:
+void ufs_panic (struct super_block *, const char *, const char *, ...);
WARNING: space prohibited between function name and open parenthesis '('
#1074: FILE: include/linux/ext3_fs.h:941:
+void ext3_error (struct super_block *, const char *, const char *, ...);
WARNING: space prohibited between function name and open parenthesis '('
#1083: FILE: include/linux/ext3_fs.h:944:
+void ext3_abort (struct super_block *, const char *, const char *, ...);
WARNING: space prohibited between function name and open parenthesis '('
#1085: FILE: include/linux/ext3_fs.h:946:
+void ext3_warning (struct super_block *, const char *, const char *, ...);
WARNING: do not add new typedefs
#1178: FILE: include/linux/kdb.h:119:
+typedef __printf(1, 2) int (*kdb_printf_t)(const char *, ...);
ERROR: "foo * bar" should be "foo *bar"
#1203: FILE: include/linux/kernel.h:299:
+extern __printf(2, 3) int sprintf(char * buf, const char * fmt, ...);
After merging the akpm tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
ppc64_defconfig) failed like this:
In file included from arch/powerpc/boot/stdio.c:12:0:
arch/powerpc/boot/stdio.h:10:17: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before numeric constant
arch/powerpc/boot/stdio.h:10:20: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before numeric constant
arch/powerpc/boot/stdio.h:10:8: warning: return type defaults to 'int'
arch/powerpc/boot/stdio.h:10:8: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
arch/powerpc/boot/stdio.h: In function '__printf':
arch/powerpc/boot/stdio.h:14:17: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before numeric constant
arch/powerpc/boot/stdio.h:14:20: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before numeric constant
arch/powerpc/boot/stdio.h:14:23: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'int'
arch/powerpc/boot/stdio.h:16:12: error: storage class specified for parameter 'vsprintf' Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
William Douglas [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:28 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
printk: remove bounds checking for log_prefix
Currently log_prefix is testing that the first character of the log level
and facility is less than '0' and greater than '9' (which is always
false).
Since the code being updated works because strtoul bombs out (endp isn't
updated) and 0 is returned anyway just remove the check and don't change
the behavior of the function.
Signed-off-by: William Douglas <william.douglas@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
William Douglas [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:28 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
printk: fix bounds checking for log_prefix
Currently log_prefix is testing that the first character of the log level
and facility is less than '0' and greater than '9' (which is always
false). It should be testing to see if the character less than '0' or
greater than '9' instead. This patch makes that change.
The code being changed worked because strtoul bombs out (endp isn't
updated) and 0 is returned anyway.
Signed-off-by: William Douglas <william.douglas@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Jason Baron [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:26 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
dynamic_debug: fix undefined reference to `__netdev_printk'
Dynamic debug recently added support for netdev_printk. It uses
__netdev_printk() to support this functionality. However, when CONFIG_NET
is not set, we get the following error:
lib/built-in.o: In function `__dynamic_netdev_dbg':
(.text+0x9fda): undefined reference to `__netdev_printk'
Fix this by making the call to netdev_printk() contingent upon CONFIG_NET.
We could have fixed this by defining netdev_printk() to a 'no-op' in the
!CONFIG_NET case. However, this is not consistent with how the networking
layer uses netdev_printk. For example, CONFIG_NET is not set,
netdev_printk() does not have a 'no-op' definition defined.
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>
Jason Baron [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:26 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
dynamic_debug: use a single printk() to emit messages
We were using KERN_CONT to combine messages with their prefix. However,
KERN_CONT is not smp safe, in the sense that it can interleave messages.
This interleaving can result in printks coming out at the wrong loglevel.
With the high frequency of printks that dynamic debug can produce this is
not desirable.
So make dynamic_emit_prefix() fill a char buf[64] instead of doing a
printk directly. If we enable printing out of function, module, line, or
pid info, they are placed in this 64 byte buffer. In my testing 64 bytes
was enough size to fulfill all requests. Even if it's not, we can match
up the printk itself to see where it's from, so to me this is no big deal.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: convert dangerous macro to C] Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>
Vasily Averin [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:25 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
watchdog: move watchdog_*_all_cpus under CONFIG_SYSCTL
Fix compilation warnings for CONFIG_SYSCTL=n:
fixed compilation warnings in case of disabled CONFIG_SYSCTL
kernel/watchdog.c:483:13: warning: `watchdog_enable_all_cpus' defined but not used
kernel/watchdog.c:500:13: warning: `watchdog_disable_all_cpus' defined but not used
these functions are static and are used only in sysctl handler, so move
them inside #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL too
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>
stop_machine: make stop_machine safe and efficient to call early
Make stop_machine() safe to call early in boot, before SMP has been set
up, by simply calling the callback function directly if there's only one
CPU online.
[ Fixes from AKPM:
- add comment
- local_irq_flags, not save_flags
- also call hard_irq_disable() for systems which need it
Tejun suggested using an explicit flag rather than just looking at
the online cpu count. ]
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>
Mark Brown [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:23 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
lis3lv02d: make regulator API usage unconditional
The regulator API contains a range of features for stubbing itself out
when not in use and for transparently restricting the actual effect of
regulator API calls where they can't be supported on a particular system
so that drivers don't need to individually implement this. Simplify the
driver slightly by making use of this idiom.
The only in tree user is ecovec24 which does not use the regulator API.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Cc: Éric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net> Cc: Ilkka Koskinen <ilkka.koskinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ilkka Koskinen <ilkka.koskinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Éric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>From my POV, it looks like the hardware is not working as expected
and returns a bogus data rate. The driver doesn't check the result
and directly uses it as some sort of divisor in some places:
msleep(lis3->pwron_delay / lis3lv02d_get_odr());
Under this circumstances, this could very well cause the
"divide by zero" exception from above.
For now, I fixed it the easiest and most obvious way:
Check if the result is sane and if it isn't use a sane default
instead. I went for "100" in the latter case, simply because
/sys/devices/platform/lis3lv02d/rate returns it on a successful
boot.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Éric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Cc: Witold Pilat <witold.pilat@gmail.com> Cc: Lyall Pearce <lyall.pearce@hp.com> Cc: Malte Starostik <m-starostik@versanet.de> Cc: Ilkka Koskinen <ilkka.koskinen@nokia.com> Cc: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com> Cc: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>
drivers/hwmon/hwmon.c: convert idr to ida and use ida_simple_get()
A straightforward looking use of idr for a device id.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Pavel Emelyanov [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:18 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
fs/pipe.c: add ->statfs callback for pipefs
Currently a statfs on a pipe's /proc/<pid>/fd/ link returns -ENOSYS. Wire
pipfs up so that the statfs succeeds.
This is required by checkpoint-restart in the userspace to make it
possible to distinguish pipes from fifos.
When we dump information about task's open files we use the /proc/pid/fd
directoy's symlinks and the fact that opening any of them gives us exactly
the same dentry->inode pair as the original process has. Now if a task
we're dumping has opened pipe and fifo we need to detect this and act
accordingly. Knowing that an fd with type S_ISFIFO resides on a pipefs is
the most precise way.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Shaohua Li [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:17 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
intel_idle: fix API misuse
smp_call_function() only lets all other CPUs execute a specific function,
while we expect all CPUs do in intel_idle. Without the fix, we could have
one cpu which has auto_demotion enabled or has no boradcast timer setup.
Usually we don't see impact because auto demotion just harms power and the
intel_idle init is called in CPU 0, where boradcast timer delivers
interrupt, but this still could be a problem.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Michael Cree [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:17 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
alpha: wire up sendmmsg syscall
Signed-off-by: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz> Reviewed-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Michael Cree [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:17 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
alpha: wire up accept4 syscall
Somehow wiring up the accept4 syscall on Alpha was missed long ago.
This commit rectifies that oversight.
Signed-off-by: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz> Reviewed-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Magnus Lynch [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:16 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
hpet: factor timer allocate from open
The current implementation of the /dev/hpet driver couples opening the
device with allocating one of the (scarce) timers (aka comparators). This
is a limitation in that the main counter may be valuable to applications
seeking a high-resolution timer who have no use for the interrupt
generating functionality of the comparators.
This patch alters the open semantics so that when the device is opened, no
timer is allocated. Operations that depend on a timer being in context
implicitly attempt allocating a timer, to maintain backward compatibility.
There is also an IOCTL (HPET_ALLOC_TIMER _IO) added so that the
allocation may be done explicitly. (I prefer the explicit open then
allocate pattern but don't know how practical it would be to require all
existing code to be changed.)
/dev/hpet is accessed via mmap(). This is the only interface of /dev/hpet
that is actually used in practice.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style tweaks]
[arnd@arndb.de: fix build] Signed-off-by: Magnus Lynch <maglyx@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Andy Shevchenko [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:15 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
selinuxfs: remove custom hex_to_bin()
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Minchan Kim [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:15 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
vmscan: add barrier to prevent evictable page in unevictable list
When a race between putback_lru_page() and shmem_lock with lock=0 happens,
progrom execution order is as follows, but clear_bit in processor #1 could
be reordered right before spin_unlock of processor #1. Then, the page
would be stranded on the unevictable list.
spin_lock
SetPageLRU
spin_unlock
clear_bit(AS_UNEVICTABLE)
spin_lock
if PageLRU()
if !test_bit(AS_UNEVICTABLE)
move evictable list
smp_mb
if !test_bit(AS_UNEVICTABLE)
move evictable list
spin_unlock
But, pagevec_lookup() in scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() has
rcu_read_[un]lock() so it could protect reordering before reaching
test_bit(AS_UNEVICTABLE) on processor #1 so this problem never happens.
But it's a unexpected side effect and we should solve this problem
properly.
This patch adds a barrier after mapping_clear_unevictable.
I didn't meet this problem but just found during review.
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>
warning: symbol 'default_policy' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
warning: symbol 'memblock_overlaps_region' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers,com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Johannes Weiner [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:13 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
mm: disable user interface to manually rescue unevictable pages
At one point, anonymous pages were supposed to go on the unevictable list
when no swap space was configured, and the idea was to manually rescue
those pages after adding swap and making them evictable again. But
nowadays, swap-backed pages on the anon LRU list are not scanned without
available swap space anyway, so there is no point in moving them to a
separate list anymore.
The manual rescue could also be used in case pages were stranded on the
unevictable list due to race conditions. But the code has been around for
a while now and newly discovered bugs should be properly reported and
dealt with instead of relying on such a manual fixup.
In addition to the lack of a usecase, the sysfs interface to rescue pages
from a specific NUMA node has been broken since its introduction, so it's
unlikely that anybody ever relied on that.
This patch removes the functionality behind the sysctl and the
node-interface and emits a one-time warning when somebody tries to access
either of them.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Reported-by: Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Kautuk Consul [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:13 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
vmscan.c: fix invalid strict_strtoul() check in write_scan_unevictable_node()
write_scan_unevictable_node() checks the value req returned by
strict_strtoul() and returns 1 if req is 0.
However, when strict_strtoul() returns 0, it means successful conversion
of buf to unsigned long.
Due to this, the function was not proceeding to scan the zones for
unevictable pages even though we write a valid value to the
scan_unevictable_pages sys file.
Change this check slightly to check for invalid value in buf as well as 0
value stored in res after successful conversion via strict_strtoul. In
both cases, we do not perform the scanning of this node's zones.
Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Kyungmin Park [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:12 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
mm: compaction: make compact_zone_order() static
There's no compact_zone_order() user outside file scope, so make it static.
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Dean Nelson [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:12 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
HWPOISON: convert pr_debug()s to pr_info()s
Commit fb46e73520940b ("HWPOISON: Convert pr_debugs to pr_info) authored
by Andi Kleen converted a number of pr_debug()s to pr_info()s.
About the same time additional code with pr_debug()s was added by two
other commits 8c6c2ecb4466 ("HWPOSION, hugetlb: recover from free hugepage
error when !MF_COUNT_INCREASED") and d950b95882f3d ("HWPOISON, hugetlb:
soft offlining for hugepage"). And these pr_debug()s failed to get
converted to pr_info()s.
This patch converts them as well. And does some minor related whitespace
cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dnelson@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tao Ma [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:11 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
fs/buffer.c: add device information for error output in __find_get_block_slow()
On the ext4 mailing list[1], we got some report about errors in
__find_get_block_slow(), but the information is very limited.
If the device information is given, we can know the name of the sick
volume. Futhermore, we can get the corresponding status of that
block(group, inode block etc) by analyzing the disk layout.
Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Kautuk Consul [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:11 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
mm/mmap.c: eliminate the ret variable from mm_take_all_locks()
The ret variable is really not needed in mm_take_all_locks().
Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Michel while working on the working set estimation code, noticed that
calling get_page_unless_zero() on a random pfn_to_page(random_pfn) wasn't
safe, if the pfn ended up being a tail page of a transparent hugepage
under splitting by __split_huge_page_refcount(). He then found the
problem could also theoretically materialize with
page_cache_get_speculative() during the speculative radix tree lookups
that uses get_page_unless_zero() in SMP if the radix tree page is freed
and reallocated and get_user_pages is called on it before
page_cache_get_speculative has a chance to call get_page_unless_zero().
So the best way to fix the problem is to keep page_tail->_count zero at
all times. This will guarantee that get_page_unless_zero() can never
succeed on any tail page. page_tail->_mapcount is guaranteed zero and is
unused for all tail pages of a compound page, so we can simply account the
tail page references there and transfer them to tail_page->_count in
__split_huge_page_refcount() (in addition to the head_page->_mapcount).
While debugging this s/_count/_mapcount/ change I also noticed get_page is
called by direct-io.c on pages returned by get_user_pages. That wasn't
entirely safe because the two atomic_inc in get_page weren't atomic. As
opposed other get_user_page users like secondary-MMU page fault to
establish the shadow pagetables would never call any superflous get_page
after get_user_page returns. It's safer to make get_page universally safe
for tail pages and to use get_page_foll() within follow_page (inside
get_user_pages()). get_page_foll() is safe to do the refcounting for tail
pages without taking any locks because it is run within PT lock protected
critical sections (PT lock for pte and page_table_lock for
pmd_trans_huge). The standard get_page() as invoked by direct-io instead
will now take the compound_lock but still only for tail pages. The
direct-io paths are usually I/O bound and the compound_lock is per THP so
very finegrined, so there's no risk of scalability issues with it. A
simple direct-io benchmarks with all lockdep prove locking and spinlock
debugging infrastructure enabled shows identical performance and no
overhead. So it's worth it. Ideally direct-io should stop calling
get_page() on pages returned by get_user_pages(). The spinlock in
get_page() is already optimized away for no-THP builds but doing
get_page() on tail pages returned by GUP is generally a rare operation and
usually only run in I/O paths.
This new refcounting on page_tail->_mapcount in addition to avoiding new
RCU critical sections will also allow the working set estimation code to
work without any further complexity associated to the tail page
refcounting with THP.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Rik van Riel [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:08 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
mm-add-extra-free-kbytes-tunable-update
All the fixes suggested by Andrew Morton. Not much of a changelog
since the patch should probably be folded into
mm-add-extra-free-kbytes-tunable.patch
Thank you for pointing these out, Andrew.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Rik van Riel [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:08 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
mm: add extra free kbytes tunable
Add a userspace visible knob to tell the VM to keep an extra amount of
memory free, by increasing the gap between each zone's min and low
watermarks.
This is useful for realtime applications that call system calls and have a
bound on the number of allocations that happen in any short time period.
In this application, extra_free_kbytes would be left at an amount equal to
or larger than than the maximum number of allocations that happen in any
burst.
It may also be useful to reduce the memory use of virtual machines
(temporarily?), in a way that does not cause memory fragmentation like
ballooning does.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
After commit v2.6.36-5896-gd065bd8 "mm: retry page fault when blocking on
disk transfer" we usually wait in page-faults without mmap_sem held, so
all swap-token logic was broken, because it based on using
rwsem_is_locked(&mm->mmap_sem) as sign of in progress page-faults.
Add an atomic counter of in progress page-faults for mm to the mm_struct
with swap-token.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Alex,Shi [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:07 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
kswapd: assign new_order and new_classzone_idx after wakeup in sleeping
There 2 places to read pgdat in kswapd. One is return from a successful
balance, another is waked up from kswapd sleeping. The new_order and
new_classzone_idx represent the balance input order and classzone_idx.
But current new_order and new_classzone_idx are not assigned after
kswapd_try_to_sleep(), that will cause a bug in the following scenario.
1: after a successful balance, kswapd goes to sleep, and new_order = 0;
new_classzone_idx = __MAX_NR_ZONES - 1;
2: kswapd waked up with order = 3 and classzone_idx = ZONE_NORMAL
3: in the balance_pgdat() running, a new balance wakeup happened with
order = 5, and classzone_idx = ZONE_NORMAL
4: the first wakeup(order = 3) finished successufly, return order = 3
but, the new_order is still 0, so, this balancing will be treated as a
failed balance. And then the second tighter balancing will be missed.
So, to avoid the above problem, the new_order and new_classzone_idx need
to be assigned for later successful comparison.
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Tested-by: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Minchan Kim [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:06 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
mm: compaction: accounting fix
I saw the following accouting of compaction during test of the series.
compact_blocks_moved 251
compact_pages_moved 44
It's very awkward to me although it's possbile because it means we try to
compact 251 blocks but it just migrated 44 pages. As further
investigation, I found isolate_migratepages doesn't isolate any pages but
it returns ISOLATE_SUCCESS and then, it just increases
compact_blocks_moved but doesn't increased compact_pages_moved.
This patch makes accouting of compaction works only in case of success of
isolation.
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Minchan Kim [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:06 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
mm: compaction: compact unevictable pages
Presently compaction doesn't handle mlocked pages as it uses
__isolate_lru_page which doesn't consider unevicatable pages. It is used
by just lumpy so it is pointless that it isolates unevictable pages.
But the situation has changed. Compaction can handle unevictable pages
and it can help getting big contiguos pages in memory whcih is fragmented
by many pinned pages with mlock.
I tested this patch with following scenario.
1. A : allocate 80% anon pages in system
2. B : allocate 20% mlocked page in system
/* Maybe, mlocked pages are located in low pfn address */
3. kill A /* high pfn address are free */
4. echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory
old:
compact_blocks_moved 251
compact_pages_moved 44
new:
compact_blocks_moved 258
compact_pages_moved 412
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds helper free_hot_cold_page_list() to free list of 0-order
pages. It frees pages directly from list without temporary page-vector.
It also calls trace_mm_pagevec_free() to simulate pagevec_free()
behaviour.
Alex,Shi [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:04 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
kswapd: avoid unnecessary rebalance after an unsuccessful balancing
In commit 215ddd66 ("mm: vmscan: only read new_classzone_idx from pgdat
when reclaiming successfully") , Mel Gorman said kswapd is better to sleep
after a unsuccessful balancing if there is tighter reclaim request pending
in the balancing. But in the following scenario, kswapd do something that
is not matched our expectation. The patch fixes this issue.
1, Read pgdat request A (classzone_idx, order = 3)
2, balance_pgdat()
3, During pgdat, a new pgdat request B (classzone_idx, order = 5) is placed
4, balance_pgdat() returns but failed since returned order = 0
5, pgdat of request A assigned to balance_pgdat(), and do balancing again.
While the expectation behavior of kswapd should try to sleep.
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Tested-by: Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Joe Perches [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:03 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
mm: neaten warn_alloc_failed
Add __attribute__((format (printf...) to the function to validate format
and arguments. Use vsprintf extension %pV to avoid any possible message
interleaving. Coalesce format string. Convert printks/pr_warning to
pr_warn.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Jeff Layton [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:03 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
mm: iov_iter: have iov_iter_advance() decrement nr_segs appropriately
Currently, when you call iov_iter_advance, then the pointer to the iovec
array can be incremented, but it does not decrement the nr_segs value in
the iov_iter struct. The result is a iov_iter struct with a nr_segs value
that goes beyond the end of the array.
While I'm not aware of anything that's specifically broken by this, it
seems odd and a bit dangerous not to decrement that value. If someone
were to trust the nr_segs value to be correct, then they could end up
walking off the end of the array.
Changing this might also provide some micro-optimization when dealing with
the last iovec in an array. Many of the other routines that deal with
iov_iter have optimized codepaths when nr_segs == 1.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Sonic Zhang [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:02 +0000 (11:43 +1100)]
include/asm-generic/page.h: calculate virt_to_page and page_to_virt via predefined macro
On NOMMU architectures, if physical memory doesn't start from 0,
ARCH_PFN_OFFSET is defined to generate page index in mem_map array.
Because virtual address is equal to physical address, PAGE_OFFSET is
always 0. virt_to_page and page_to_virt should not index page by
PAGE_OFFSET directly.
Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
thp_split 0 confirms no thp split despite plenty of hugepages allocated.
The measurement of only the mremap time (so excluding the 3 long
memset and final long 10GB memory accessing memcmp):
THP on
usec 14824
usec 14862
usec 14859
THP off
usec 256416
usec 255981
usec 255847
With an older kernel without the mremap optimizations (the below patch
optimizes the non THP version too).
THP on
usec 392107
usec 390237
usec 404124
THP off
usec 444294
usec 445237
usec 445820
I guess with a threaded program that sends more IPI on large SMP it'd
create an even larger difference.
All debug options are off except DEBUG_VM to avoid skewing the
results.
The only problem for native 2M mremap like it happens above both the
source and destination address must be 2M aligned or the hugepmd can't be
moved without a split but that is an hardware limitation.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This replaces ptep_clear_flush() with ptep_get_and_clear() and a single
flush_tlb_range() at the end of the loop, to avoid sending one IPI for
each page.
The mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start/end section is enlarged
accordingly but this is not going to fundamentally change things. It was
more by accident that the region under mremap was for the most part still
available for secondary MMUs: the primary MMU was never allowed to
reliably access that region for the duration of the mremap (modulo
trapping SIGSEGV on the old address range which sounds unpractical and
flakey). If users wants secondary MMUs not to lose access to a large
region under mremap they should reduce the mremap size accordingly in
userland and run multiple calls. Overall this will run faster so it's
actually going to reduce the time the region is under mremap for the
primary MMU which should provide a net benefit to apps.
For KVM this is a noop because the guest physical memory is never
mremapped, there's just no point it ever moving it while guest runs. One
target of this optimization is JVM GC (so unrelated to the mmu notifier
logic).
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Using "- 1" relies on the old_end to be page aligned and PAGE_SIZE > 1,
those are reasonable requirements but the check remains obscure and it
looks more like an off by one error than an overflow check. This I feel
will improve readability.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Sam Ravnborg [Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:42:59 +0000 (11:42 +1100)]
memblock: add memblock_start_of_DRAM()
SPARC32 require access to the start address. Add a new helper
memblock_start_of_DRAM() to give access to the address of the first
memblock - which contains the lowest address.
The awkward name was chosen to match the already present
memblock_end_of_DRAM().
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
vmscan: activate executable pages after first usage
Logic added in commit 8cab4754d24a0 ("vmscan: make mapped executable pages
the first class citizen") was noticeably weakened in commit 645747462435d84 ("vmscan: detect mapped file pages used only once").
Currently these pages can become "first class citizens" only after second
usage. After this patch page_check_references() will activate they after
first usage, and executable code gets yet better chance to stay in memory.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 645747462435 ("vmscan: detect mapped file pages used only once")
greatly decreases lifetime of single-used mapped file pages.
Unfortunately it also decreases life time of all shared mapped file pages.
Because after commit bf3f3bc5e7347 ("mm: don't mark_page_accessed
in fault path") page-fault handler does not mark page active or even
referenced.
Thus page_check_references() activates file page only if it was used twice
while it stays in inactive list, meanwhile it activates anon pages after
first access. Inactive list can be small enough, this way reclaimer can
accidentally throw away any widely used page if it wasn't used twice in
short period.
After this patch page_check_references() also activate file mapped page at
first inactive list scan if this page is already used multiple times via
several ptes.
I found this while trying to fix degragation in rhel6 (~2.6.32) from rhel5
(~2.6.18). There a complete mess with >100 web/mail/spam/ftp containers,
they share all their files but there a lot of anonymous pages: ~500mb
shared file mapped memory and 15-20Gb non-shared anonymous memory. In
this situation major-pagefaults are very costly, because all containers
share the same page. In my load kernel created a disproportionate
pressure on the file memory, compared with the anonymous, they equaled
only if I raise swappiness up to 150 =)
These patches actually wasn't helped a lot in my problem, but I saw
noticable (10-20 times) reduce in count and average time of
major-pagefault in file-mapped areas.
Actually both patches are fixes for commit v2.6.33-5448-g6457474, because
it was aimed at one scenario (singly used pages), but it breaks the logic
in other scenarios (shared and/or executable pages)
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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