Manfred Spraul [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:12:05 +0000 (15:12 +1100)]
ipc/sem.c: alternatives to preempt_disable()
ipc/sem.c uses a custom wakeup scheme that relies on preempt_disable().
On -RT, this causes increased latencies and debug warnings.
The patch adds two additional schemes:
- one built around a completion - could be better for -RT kernels
- one built around a spinlock - unfortunately it's broken
- and the current one
My preferred solution would be the spinlock implementation: RT would use
premptible spinlocks, mainline normal spinlocks. Thus both get the
optimal implementation without any special code in ipc/sem.c.
Unfortunately, I don't see how it could be fixed.
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Michael Holzheu [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:12:05 +0000 (15:12 +1100)]
kdump: crashk_res init check for /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size
Currently it is possible to set the crash_size via the sysfs
/sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size even if no crash kernel memory has been
defined with the "crashkernel" parameter. In this case "crashk_res" is
not initialized and crashk_res.start = crashk_res.end = 0. Unfortunately
resource_size(&crashk_res) returns 1 in this case. This breaks the s390
implementation of crash_(un)map_reserved_pages().
To fix the problem the correct "old_size" is now calculated in
crash_shrink_memory(). "old_size is set to "0" if crashk_res is not
initialized. With this change crash_shrink_memory() will do nothing, when
"crashk_res" is not initialized. It will return "0" for "echo 0 >
/sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size" and -EINVAL for "echo [not zero] >
/sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size".
In addition to that this patch also simplifies the "ret = -EINVAL" vs.
"ret = 0" logic as suggested by Simon Horman.
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
When kdump is loaded, kexec detects the current memory configuration and
stores it in the pre-allocated ELF core header. Therefore, for kdump it
is necessary to reload the kdump kernel with kexec when the memory
configuration changes (e.g. for online/offline hotplug memory).
In order to do this automatically, udev rules should be used. This kernel
patch adds udev events for "online" and "offline". Together with this
kernel patch, the following udev rules for online/offline have to be added
to "/etc/udev/rules.d/98-kexec.rules":
One result of this bug is that the memory chunk can never be set offline
using memory hotplug. With this patch I insert a new "System RAM"
resource for the released memory. Then the upper example looks like the
following:
WANG Cong [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:12:04 +0000 (15:12 +1100)]
kexec: remove KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC
KMSG_DUMP_KEXEC is useless because we already save kernel messages inside
/proc/vmcore, and it is unsafe to allow modules to do other stuffs in a
crash dump scenario.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc build] Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Reported-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
node_to_cpumask() has been replaced by cpumask_of_node(), and wholly
removed since commit 29c337a0 ("cpumask: remove obsolete node_to_cpumask
now everyone uses cpumask_of_node").
So update the comments for setup_node_to_cpumask_map().
Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tejun Heo [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:12:02 +0000 (15:12 +1100)]
workqueue: make alloc_workqueue() take printf fmt and args for name
alloc_workqueue() currently expects the passed in @name pointer to remain
accessible. This is inconvenient and a bit silly given that the whole wq
is being dynamically allocated. This patch updates alloc_workqueue() and
friends to take printf format string instead of opaque string and matching
varargs at the end. The name is allocated together with the wq and
formatted.
alloc_ordered_workqueue() is converted to a macro to unify varargs
handling with alloc_workqueue(), and, while at it, add comment to
alloc_workqueue().
None of the current in-kernel users pass in string with '%' as constant
name and this change shouldn't cause any problem.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Vasiliy Kulikov [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:12:02 +0000 (15:12 +1100)]
procfs: add hidepid= and gid= mount options
Add support for mount options to restrict access to /proc/PID/
directories. The default backward-compatible "relaxed" behaviour is left
untouched.
The first mount option is called "hidepid" and its value defines how much
info about processes we want to be available for non-owners:
hidepid=0 (default) means the old behavior - anybody may read all
world-readable /proc/PID/* files.
hidepid=1 means users may not access any /proc/<pid>/ directories, but
their own. Sensitive files like cmdline, sched*, status are now protected
against other users. As permission checking done in proc_pid_permission()
and files' permissions are left untouched, programs expecting specific
files' modes are not confused.
hidepid=2 means hidepid=1 plus all /proc/PID/ will be invisible to other
users. It doesn't mean that it hides whether a process exists (it can be
learned by other means, e.g. by kill -0 $PID), but it hides process' euid
and egid. It compicates intruder's task of gathering info about running
processes, whether some daemon runs with elevated privileges, whether
another user runs some sensitive program, whether other users run any
program at all, etc.
gid=XXX defines a group that will be able to gather all processes' info
(as in hidepid=0 mode). This group should be used instead of putting
nonroot user in sudoers file or something. However, untrusted users (like
daemons, etc.) which are not supposed to monitor the tasks in the whole
system should not be added to the group.
hidepid=1 or higher is designed to restrict access to procfs files, which
might reveal some sensitive private information like precise keystrokes
timings:
hidepid=1/2 doesn't break monitoring userspace tools. ps, top, pgrep, and
conky gracefully handle EPERM/ENOENT and behave as if the current user is
the only user running processes. pstree shows the process subtree which
contains "pstree" process.
Note: the patch doesn't deal with setuid/setgid issues of keeping
preopened descriptors of procfs files (like
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/7/368). We rely on that the leaked
information like the scheduling counters of setuid apps doesn't threaten
anybody's privacy - only the user started the setuid program may read the
counters.
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
WARNING: line over 80 characters
#286: FILE: fs/proc/base.c:2433:
+static int proc_map_files_readdir(struct file *filp, void *dirent, filldir_t filldir)
WARNING: line over 80 characters
#351: FILE: fs/proc/base.c:2498:
+ fa = flex_array_alloc(sizeof(info), nr_files, GFP_KERNEL);
WARNING: line over 80 characters
#352: FILE: fs/proc/base.c:2499:
+ if (!fa || flex_array_prealloc(fa, 0, nr_files, GFP_KERNEL)) {
WARNING: line over 80 characters
#360: FILE: fs/proc/base.c:2507:
+ for (i = 0, vma = mm->mmap, pos = 2; vma; vma = vma->vm_next) {
WARNING: line over 80 characters
#368: FILE: fs/proc/base.c:2515:
+ info.len = snprintf(info.name, sizeof(info.name),
WARNING: line over 80 characters
#424: FILE: fs/proc/base.c:3179:
+ DIR("map_files", S_IRUSR|S_IXUSR, proc_map_files_inode_operations, proc_map_files_operations),
WARNING: line over 80 characters
#437: FILE: include/linux/mm.h:1497:
+find_exact_vma(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long vm_start, unsigned long vm_end)
total: 0 errors, 7 warnings, 387 lines checked
./patches/procfs-introduce-the-proc-pid-map_files-directory.patch has style problems, please review.
If any of these errors are false positives, please report
them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
Please run checkpatch prior to sending patches
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Pavel Emelyanov [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:12:01 +0000 (15:12 +1100)]
procfs: introduce the /proc/<pid>/map_files/ directory
This one behaves similarly to the /proc/<pid>/fd/ one - it contains
symlinks one for each mapping with file, the name of a symlink is
"vma->vm_start-vma->vm_end", the target is the file. Opening a symlink
results in a file that point exactly to the same inode as them vma's one.
For example the ls -l of some arbitrary /proc/<pid>/map_files/
1. When dumping a task mappings we do know exact file that is mapped
by particular region. We do this by opening
/proc/$pid/map_files/$address symlink the way we do with file
descriptors.
2. This also helps in determining which anonymous shared mappings are
shared with each other by comparing the inodes of them.
3. When restoring a set of processes in case two of them has a mapping
shared, we map the memory by the 1st one and then open its
/proc/$pid/map_files/$address file and map it by the 2nd task.
Using /proc/$pid/maps for this is quite inconvenient since it brings
repeatable re-reading and reparsing for this text file which slows down
restore procedure significantly. Also as being pointed in (3) it is a way
easier to use top level shared mapping in children as
/proc/$pid/map_files/$address when needed.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Reviewed-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Reviewed-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Shaohua Li [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:12:00 +0000 (15:12 +1100)]
thp: improve order in lru list for split huge page
Put the tail subpages of an isolated hugepage under splitting in the
lru reclaim head as they supposedly should be isolated too next.
Queues the subpages in physical order in the lru for non isolated
hugepages under splitting. That might provide some theoretical cache
benefit to the buddy allocator later.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Shaohua Li [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:12:00 +0000 (15:12 +1100)]
thp: add tlb_remove_pmd_tlb_entry
We have tlb_remove_tlb_entry to indicate a pte tlb flush entry should be
flushed, but not a corresponding API for pmd entry. This isn't a problem
so far because THP is only for x86 currently and tlb_flush() under x86
will flush entire TLB. But this is confusion and could be missed if thp
is ported to other arch.
Also convert tlb->need_flush = 1 to a VM_BUG_ON(!tlb->need_flush) in
__tlb_remove_page() as suggested by Andrea Arcangeli. __tlb_remove_page()
is supposed to be called after tlb_remove_xxx_tlb_entry() and we can catch
any misuse.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Shaohua Li [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:59 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
thp: remove unnecessary tlb flush for mprotect
change_protection() will do TLB flush later, don't need duplicate tlb
flush.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Shaohua Li [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:59 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
thp: improve the error code path
Improve the error code path. Delete unnecessary sysfs file for example.
Also remove the #ifdef xxx to make code better.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Ying Han [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:59 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
memcg: fix pgpgin/pgpgout documentation
The two memcg stats pgpgin/pgpgout have different meaning than the ones in
vmstat, which indicates that we picked a bad naming for them. It might be
late to change the stat name, but better documentation is always helpful.
Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Johannes Weiner [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:58 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
mm: memcg: shorten preempt-disabled section around event checks
Only the ratelimit checks themselves have to run with preemption disabled,
the resulting actions - checking for usage thresholds, updating the soft
limit tree - can and should run with preemption enabled.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Reported-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Reported-by: Luis Henriques <henrix@camandro.org> Tested-by: Luis Henriques <henrix@camandro.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
memcg: make mem_cgroup_split_huge_fixup() more efficient
In split_huge_page(), mem_cgroup_split_huge_fixup() is called to handle
page_cgroup modifcations. It takes move_lock_page_cgroup() and modifies
page_cgroup and LRU accounting jobs and called HPAGE_PMD_SIZE - 1 times.
But thinking again,
- compound_lock() is held at move_accout...then, it's not necessary
to take move_lock_page_cgroup().
- LRU is locked and all tail pages will go into the same LRU as
head is now on.
- page_cgroup is contiguous in huge page range.
This patch fixes mem_cgroup_split_huge_fixup() as to be called once per
hugepage and reduce costs for spliting.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Hugh Dickins [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:57 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
mm: memcg: remove unused node/section info from pc->flags fix
Fix non-CONFIG_SPARSEMEM build, which failed with
mm/page_cgroup.c: In function `alloc_node_page_cgroup':
mm/page_cgroup.c:44: error: `start_pfn' undeclared (first use in this function)
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Johannes Weiner [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:57 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
mm: memcg: remove unused node/section info from pc->flags
To find the page corresponding to a certain page_cgroup, the pc->flags
encoded the node or section ID with the base array to compare the pc
pointer to.
Now that the per-memory cgroup LRU lists link page descriptors directly,
there is no longer any code that knows the struct page_cgroup of a PFN but
not the struct page.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Johannes Weiner [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:56 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
mm: make per-memcg LRU lists exclusive
Now that all code that operated on global per-zone LRU lists is converted
to operate on per-memory cgroup LRU lists instead, there is no reason to
keep the double-LRU scheme around any longer.
The pc->lru member is removed and page->lru is linked directly to the
per-memory cgroup LRU lists, which removes two pointers from a descriptor
that exists for every page frame in the system.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Johannes Weiner [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:56 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
mm: collect LRU list heads into struct lruvec
Having a unified structure with a LRU list set for both global zones and
per-memcg zones allows to keep that code simple which deals with LRU lists
and does not care about the container itself.
Once the per-memcg LRU lists directly link struct pages, the isolation
function and all other list manipulations are shared between the memcg
case and the global LRU case.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Johannes Weiner [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:56 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
mm: vmscan: convert global reclaim to per-memcg LRU lists
The global per-zone LRU lists are about to go away on memcg-enabled
kernels, global reclaim must be able to find its pages on the per-memcg
LRU lists.
Since the LRU pages of a zone are distributed over all existing memory
cgroups, a scan target for a zone is complete when all memory cgroups are
scanned for their proportional share of a zone's memory.
The forced scanning of small scan targets from kswapd is limited to zones
marked unreclaimable, otherwise kswapd can quickly overreclaim by
force-scanning the LRU lists of multiple memory cgroups.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Johannes Weiner [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:55 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
mm: memcg: remove optimization of keeping the root_mem_cgroup LRU lists empty
root_mem_cgroup, lacking a configurable limit, was never subject to limit
reclaim, so the pages charged to it could be kept off its LRU lists. They
would be found on the global per-zone LRU lists upon physical memory
pressure and it made sense to avoid uselessly linking them to both lists.
The global per-zone LRU lists are about to go away on memcg-enabled
kernels, with all pages being exclusively linked to their respective
per-memcg LRU lists. As a result, pages of the root_mem_cgroup must also
be linked to its LRU lists again. This is purely about the LRU list,
root_mem_cgroup is still not charged.
The overhead is temporary until the double-LRU scheme is going away
completely.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Johannes Weiner [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:55 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
mm: move memcg hierarchy reclaim to generic reclaim code
Memory cgroup limit reclaim and traditional global pressure reclaim will
soon share the same code to reclaim from a hierarchical tree of memory
cgroups.
In preparation of this, move the two right next to each other in
shrink_zone().
The mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim() polymath is split into a soft limit
reclaim function, which still does hierarchy walking on its own, and a
limit (shrinking) reclaim function, which relies on generic reclaim code
to walk the hierarchy.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Memory cgroup limit reclaim currently picks one memory cgroup out of the
target hierarchy, remembers it as the last scanned child, and reclaims all
zones in it with decreasing priority levels.
The new hierarchy reclaim code will pick memory cgroups from the same
hierarchy concurrently from different zones and priority levels, it
becomes necessary that hierarchy roots not only remember the last scanned
child, but do so for each zone and priority level.
Until now, we reclaimed memcgs like this:
mem = mem_cgroup_iter(root)
for each priority level:
for each zone in zonelist:
reclaim(mem, zone)
But subsequent patches will move the memcg iteration inside the loop over
the zones:
for each priority level:
for each zone in zonelist:
mem = mem_cgroup_iter(root)
reclaim(mem, zone)
And to keep with the original scan order - memcg -> priority -> zone - the
last scanned memcg has to be remembered per zone and per priority level.
Furthermore, global reclaim will be switched to the hierarchy walk as
well. Different from limit reclaim, which can just recheck the limit
after some reclaim progress, its target is to scan all memcgs for the
desired zone pages, proportional to the memcg size, and so reliably
detecting a full hierarchy round-trip will become crucial.
Currently, the code relies on one reclaimer encountering the same memcg
twice, but that is error-prone with concurrent reclaimers. Instead, use a
generation counter that is increased every time the child with the highest
ID has been visited, so that reclaimers can stop when the generation
changes.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Johannes Weiner [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:54 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
mm: vmscan: distinguish between memcg triggering reclaim and memcg being scanned
Memory cgroup hierarchies are currently handled completely outside of the
traditional reclaim code, which is invoked with a single memory cgroup as
an argument for the whole call stack.
Subsequent patches will switch this code to do hierarchical reclaim, so
there needs to be a distinction between a) the memory cgroup that is
triggering reclaim due to hitting its limit and b) the memory cgroup that
is being scanned as a child of a).
This patch introduces a struct mem_cgroup_zone that contains the
combination of the memory cgroup and the zone being scanned, which is then
passed down the stack instead of the zone argument.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Johannes Weiner [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:53 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
mm: vmscan: distinguish global reclaim from global LRU scanning
The traditional zone reclaim code is scanning the per-zone LRU lists
during direct reclaim and kswapd, and the per-zone per-memory cgroup LRU
lists when reclaiming on behalf of a memory cgroup limit.
Subsequent patches will convert the traditional reclaim code to reclaim
exclusively from the per-memory cgroup LRU lists. As a result, using the
predicate for which LRU list is scanned will no longer be appropriate to
tell global reclaim from limit reclaim.
This patch adds a global_reclaim() predicate to tell direct/kswapd reclaim
from memory cgroup limit reclaim and substitutes it in all places where
currently scanning_global_lru() is used for that.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Memory control groups are currently bolted onto the side of
traditional memory management in places where better integration would
be preferrable. To reclaim memory, for example, memory control groups
maintain their own LRU list and reclaim strategy aside from the global
per-zone LRU list reclaim. But an extra list head for each existing
page frame is expensive and maintaining it requires additional code.
This patchset disables the global per-zone LRU lists on memory cgroup
configurations and converts all its users to operate on the per-memory
cgroup lists instead. As LRU pages are then exclusively on one list,
this saves two list pointers for each page frame in the system:
page_cgroup array size with 4G physical memory
vanilla: [ 0.000000] allocated 31457280 bytes of page_cgroup
patched: [ 0.000000] allocated 15728640 bytes of page_cgroup
At the same time, system performance for various workloads is
unaffected:
100G sparse file cat, 4G physical memory, 10 runs, to test for code
bloat in the traditional LRU handling and kswapd & direct reclaim
paths, without/with the memory controller configured in
4 unlimited memcgs running kbuild -j32 each, 4G physical memory, 500M
swap on SSD, 10 runs, to test for regressions in kswapd & direct
reclaim using per-memcg LRU lists with multiple memcgs and multiple
allocators within each memcg
The task counter subsystem has been written assuming that
can_attach_task/attach_task/cancel_attach_task calls are serialized per
task. This is true when we attach only one task but not when we attach a
whole thread group, in which case the sequence is:
for each thread
if (can_attach_task() < 0)
goto rollback
for each_thread
attach_task()
rollback:
for each thread
cancel_attach_task()
The common ancestor, searched on task_counter_attach_task(), can thus
change between each of these calls for a given task. This breaks if some
tasks in the thread group are not in the same cgroup origin. The uncharge
made in attach_task() or the rollback in cancel_attach_task() there would
have an erroneous propagation.
This can even break seriously is some scenario. For example there
with $PID beeing the pid of a multithread process:
On the last move, attach_task() is called on the thread leader with
the wrong common_ancestor, leading to a crash because we uncharge
a res_counter that doesn't exist:
To solve this, keep the original cgroup of each thread in the thread
group cached in the flex array and pass it to can_attach_task()/attach_task()
and cancel_attach_task() so that the correct common ancestor between the old
and new cgroup can be safely retrieved for each task.
This is inspired by a previous patch from Li Zefan:
"[PATCH] cgroups: don't cache common ancestor in task counter subsys".
Reported-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu> Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org> Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Add a new subsystem to limit the number of running tasks, similar to the
NR_PROC rlimit but in the scope of a cgroup.
The user can set an upper bound limit that is checked every time a task
forks in a cgroup or is moved into a cgroup with that subsystem binded.
The primary goal is to protect against forkbombs that explode inside a
container. The traditional NR_PROC rlimit is not efficient in that case
because if we run containers in parallel under the same user, one of these
could starve all the others by spawning a high number of tasks close to
the user wide limit.
This is a prevention against forkbombs, so it's not deemed to cure the
effects of a forkbomb when the system is in a state where it's not
responsive. It's aimed at preventing from ever reaching that state and
stop the spreading of tasks early. While defining the limit on the
allowed number of tasks, it's up to the user to find the right balance
between the resource its containers may need and what it can afford to
provide.
As it's totally dissociated from the rlimit NR_PROC, both can be
complementary: the cgroup task counter can set an upper bound per
container and the rlmit can be an upper bound on the overall set of
containers.
Also this subsystem can be used to kill all the tasks in a cgroup without
races against concurrent forks, by setting the limit of tasks to 0, any
further forks can be rejected. This is a good way to kill a forkbomb in a
container, or simply kill any container without the need to retry an
unbound number of times.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Aditya Kali <adityakali@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Let the subsystem's fork callback return an error value so that they can
cancel a fork. This is going to be used by the task counter subsystem to
implement the limit.
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Aditya Kali <adityakali@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
cgroups: pull up res counter charge failure interpretation to caller
res_counter_charge() always returns -ENOMEM when the limit is reached and
the charge thus can't happen.
However it's up to the caller to interpret this failure and return the
appropriate error value. The task counter subsystem will need to report
the user that a fork() has been cancelled because of some limit reached,
not because we are too short on memory.
Fix this by returning -1 when res_counter_charge() fails.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Aditya Kali <adityakali@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
cgroups: ability to stop res charge propagation on bounded ancestor
Moving a task from a cgroup to another may require to substract its
resource charge from the old cgroup and add it to the new one.
For this to happen, the uncharge/charge propagation can just stop when we
reach the common ancestor for the two cgroups. Further the performance
reasons, we also want to avoid to temporarily overload the common
ancestors with a non-accurate resource counter usage if we charge first
the new cgroup and uncharge the old one thereafter. This is going to be a
requirement for the coming max number of task subsystem.
To solve this, provide a pair of new API that can charge/uncharge a
resource counter until we reach a given ancestor.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Aditya Kali <adityakali@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
cgroups: new cancel_attach_task() subsystem callback
To cancel a process attachment on a subsystem, we only call the
cancel_attach() callback once on the leader but we have no way to cancel
the attachment individually for each member of the process group.
This is going to be needed for the max number of tasks susbystem that is
coming.
To prepare for this integration, call a new cancel_attach_task() callback
on each task of the group until we reach the member that failed to attach.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Aditya Kali <adityakali@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Provide an API to inherit a counter value from a parent. This can be
useful to implement cgroup.clone_children on a resource counter.
Still the resources of the children are limited by those of the parent, so
this is only to provide a default setting behaviour when clone_children is
set.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Aditya Kali <adityakali@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Extend the resource counter API with a mirror of res_counter_read_u64() to
make it handy to update a resource counter value from a cgroup subsystem
u64 value file.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Aditya Kali <adityakali@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Nothing requires that we lock the filesystem until the root inode is
provided.
Also iget5_locked() triggers a warning because we are holding the
filesystem lock while allocating the inode, which result in a lockdep
suspicion that we have a lock inversion against the reclaim path:
The deadlock shouldn't happen since we are doing that allocation in the
mount path, the filesystem is not available for any reclaim. Still the
warning is annoying.
To solve this, acquire the lock later only where we need it, right before
calling reiserfs_read_locked_inode() that wants to lock to walk the tree.
Reported-by: Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@t-online.de> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
journal_init() doesn't need the lock since no operation on the filesystem
is involved there. journal_read() and get_list_bitmap() have yet to be
reviewed carefully though before removing the lock there. Just keep the
it around these two calls for safety.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
reiserfs: delay reiserfs lock until journal initialization
In the mount path, transactions that are made before journal
initialization don't involve the filesystem. We can delay the reiserfs
lock until we play with the journal.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
WARNING: line over 80 characters
#48: FILE: drivers/rtc/rtc-ab8500.c:268:
+ * Check that the calibration value (which is in units of 0.5 parts-per-million)
ERROR: need consistent spacing around '-' (ctx:WxV)
#64: FILE: drivers/rtc/rtc-ab8500.c:284:
+ rtccal = ~(calibration -1) | 0x80;
^
total: 1 errors, 1 warnings, 139 lines checked
./patches/rtc-ab8500-add-calibration-attribute-to-ab8500-rtc.patch has style problems, please review.
If any of these errors are false positives, please report
them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
Please run checkpatch prior to sending patches
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com> Cc: Mark Godfrey <mark.godfrey@stericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mark Godfrey [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:46 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
rtc/ab8500: Add calibration attribute to AB8500 RTC
The rtc_calibration attribute allows user-space to get and set the
AB8500's RtcCalibration register. The AB8500 will then use the value in
this register to compensate for RTC drift every 60 seconds.
Signed-off-by: Mark Godfrey <mark.godfrey@stericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Jonas Aaberg [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:46 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
rtc/ab8500: change to mdelay
The resolution of msleep is related to HZ, so with HZ set to 100 any
msleep of less than 10ms will become ~10ms. This does not work for us, so
stick to mdelay(1).
Signed-off-by: Jonas Aaberg <jonas.aberg@stericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Yauhen Kharuzhy [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:44 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
drivers/rtc/rtc-mxc.c: fix setting time for MX1 SoC
There is no way to track year in the i.MX1 RTC: Days Counter register is
9-bit wide only. Attempt to save date after 1970-01-01 plus 512 days
causes endless loop in mxc_rtc_set_mmss(). Fix this by resetting year to
1970.
Signed-off-by: Yauhen Kharuzhy <jekhor@gmail.com> Cc: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
David Daney [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:43 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
MIPS: randomize PIE load address
... by selecting ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE
Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
David Daney [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:43 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
fs: binfmt_elf: create Kconfig variable for PIE randomization
Randomization of PIE load address is hard coded in binfmt_elf.c for X86
and ARM. Create a new Kconfig variable
(CONFIG_ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE) for this and use it instead. Thus
architecture specific policy is pushed out of the generic binfmt_elf.c and
into the architecture Kconfig files.
X86 and ARM Kconfigs are modified to select the new variable so there is
no change in behavior. A follow on patch will select it for MIPS too.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Jason Baron [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:43 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
epoll: limit paths
The current epoll code can be tickled to run basically indefinitely in
both loop detection path check (on ep_insert()), and in the wakeup paths.
The programs that tickle this behavior set up deeply linked networks of
epoll file descriptors that cause the epoll algorithms to traverse them
indefinitely. A couple of these sample programs have been previously
posted in this thread: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/25/297.
To fix the loop detection path check algorithms, I simply keep track of
the epoll nodes that have been already visited. Thus, the loop detection
becomes proportional to the number of epoll file descriptor and links.
This dramatically decreases the run-time of the loop check algorithm. In
one diabolical case I tried it reduced the run-time from 15 mintues (all
in kernel time) to .3 seconds.
Fixing the wakeup paths could be done at wakeup time in a similar manner
by keeping track of nodes that have already been visited, but the
complexity is harder, since there can be multiple wakeups on different
cpus...Thus, I've opted to limit the number of possible wakeup paths when
the paths are created.
This is accomplished, by noting that the end file descriptor points that
are found during the loop detection pass (from the newly added link), are
actually the sources for wakeup events. I keep a list of these file
descriptors and limit the number and length of these paths that emanate
from these 'source file descriptors'. In the current implemetation I
allow 1000 paths of length 1, 500 of length 2, 100 of length 3, 50 of
length 4 and 10 of length 5. Note that it is sufficient to check the
'source file descriptors' reachable from the newly added link, since no
other 'source file descriptors' will have newly added links. This allows
us to check only the wakeup paths that may have gotten too long, and not
re-check all possible wakeup paths on the system.
In terms of the path limit selection, I think its first worth noting that
the most common case for epoll, is probably the model where you have 1
epoll file descriptor that is monitoring n number of 'source file
descriptors'. In this case, each 'source file descriptor' has a 1 path of
length 1. Thus, I believe that the limits I'm proposing are quite
reasonable and in fact may be too generous. Thus, I'm hoping that the
proposed limits will not prevent any workloads that currently work to
fail.
In terms of locking, I have extended the use of the 'epmutex' to all
epoll_ctl add and remove operations. Currently its only used in a subset
of the add paths. I need to hold the epmutex, so that we can correctly
traverse a coherent graph, to check the number of paths. I believe that
this additional locking is probably ok, since its in the setup/teardown
paths, and doesn't affect the running paths, but it certainly is going to
add some extra overhead. Also, worth noting is that the epmuex was
recently added to the ep_ctl add operations in the initial path loop
detection code using the argument that it was not on a critical path.
Another thing to note here, is the length of epoll chains that is allowed.
Currently, eventpoll.c defines:
/* Maximum number of nesting allowed inside epoll sets */
#define EP_MAX_NESTS 4
This basically means that I am limited to a graph depth of 5 (EP_MAX_NESTS
+ 1). However, this limit is currently only enforced during the loop
check detection code, and only when the epoll file descriptors are added
in a certain order. Thus, this limit is currently easily bypassed. The
newly added check for wakeup paths, stricly limits the wakeup paths to a
length of 5, regardless of the order in which ep's are linked together.
Thus, a side-effect of the new code is a more consistent enforcement of
the graph depth.
Thus far, I've tested this, using the sample programs previously
mentioned, which now either return quickly or return -EINVAL. I've also
testing using the piptest.c epoll tester, which showed no difference in
performance. I've also created a number of different epoll networks and
tested that they behave as expectded.
I believe this solves the original diabolical test cases, while still
preserving the sane epoll nesting.
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@ksplice.com> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Joakim Tjernlund [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:42 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
crc32: optimize inner loop
Taking a pointer reference to each row in the crc table matrix, one can
reduce the inner loop with a few insn's
Signed-off-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se> Cc: Bob Pearson <rpearson@systemfabricworks.com> Cc: Frank Zago <fzago@systemfabricworks.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Joe Perches [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:42 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
checkpatch: update signature "might be better as" warning
email header lines can look like signature tags. It's valid to have
multiple email recipients on a single line but not valid to have multiple
signatures on a single line.
Validate signatures only when not in the email headers.
Clear the $in_commit_log flag when the patch filename appears.
Add '-' to the valid chars in a message header for headers
like "Message-Id:" and "In-Reply-To:".
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Reported-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Changes from v1:
minor tweaks to address comments by Stephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Axel Lin [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:41 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
leds: convert leds-dac124s085 to module_spi_driver
Factor out some boilerplate code for spi driver registration into
module_spi_driver.
Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com> Cc: Haojian Zhuang <hzhuang1@marvell.com> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Michael Hennerich <hennerich@blackfin.uclinux.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport <mike@compulab.co.il> Acked-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Axel Lin [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:40 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
leds: convert led i2c drivers to module_i2c_driver
Factor out some boilerplate code for i2c driver registration
into module_i2c_driver.
Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com> Cc: Haojian Zhuang <hzhuang1@marvell.com> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Michael Hennerich <hennerich@blackfin.uclinux.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport <mike@compulab.co.il> Cc: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Axel Lin [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:40 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
leds: convert led platform drivers to module_platform_driver
Factor out some boilerplate code for platform driver registration into
module_platform_driver.
Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com> Acked-by: Haojian Zhuang <hzhuang1@marvell.com> [led-88pm860x.c] Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Michael Hennerich <hennerich@blackfin.uclinux.org> Cc: Mike Rapoport <mike@compulab.co.il> Cc: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Paul Bolle [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:40 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
backlight: remove ADX backlight device support
Support for the Avionic Design Xanthos backlight device got added in
commit 3b96ea9ef8 ("backlight: Add support for the Avionic Design Xanthos
backlight device."). That support depends on ARCH_PXA_ADX. The code that
should have provided that Kconfig symbol never got submitted. It has
never been possible to even build this driver. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Acked-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Ian Campbell [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:39 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
get_maintainers.pl: follow renames when looking up commit signers
I happen to have had a commit to various network drivers since the big
renaming/reorg which happened to drivers/net recently. This means that I
now appear to be in the top few commit signers (by %age) for many of them
so am getting sent all sorts of stuff and people who are involved with the
driver are not. e.g. (to pick one at random):
$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> (commit_signer:5/7=71%)
Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> (commit_signer:2/7=29%)
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> (commit_signer:1/7=14%)
Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> (commit_signer:1/7=14%)
Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> (commit_signer:1/7=14%)
netdev@vger.kernel.org (open list:NETWORKING DRIVERS)
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
With the following patch the renames are followed and the result appears
much more sensible:
Andrei Warkentin [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:39 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
include/log2.h: fix rounddown_pow_of_two(1)
1 is a power of two, therefore rounddown_pow_of_two(1) should return 1.
It does in case the argument is a variable but in case it's a constant it
behaves wrong and returns 0. Probably nobody ever did it so this was
never noticed, however net/drivers/vmxnet3 with latest GCC does and breaks
on unicpu systems.
This is similar to Rolf's patch to roundup_pow_of_two(1).
Cc: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Reviewed-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Signed-off-by: Andrei Warkentin <andreiw@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Andi Kleen [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:38 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
brlocks/lglocks: clean up code
lglocks and brlocks are currently generated with some complicated macros
in lglock.h. But there's no reason I can see to not just use common
utility functions that get pointers to the lglock.
Since there are at least two users it makes sense to share this code in a
library.
This will also make it later possible to dynamically allocate lglocks.
In general the users now look more like normal function calls with
pointers, not magic macros.
The patch is rather large because I move over all users in one go to keep
it bisectable. This impacts the VFS somewhat in terms of lines changed.
But no actual behaviour change.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Jesper Juhl [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:38 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
audit: always follow va_copy() with va_end()
A call to va_copy() should always be followed by a call to va_end() in the
same function. In kernel/autit.c::audit_log_vformat() this is not always
done. This patch makes sure va_end() is always called.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Heiko Carstens [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:37 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
mm,slub,x86: decouple size of struct page from CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
While implementing cmpxchg_double() on s390 I realized that we don't set
CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL besides the fact that we have support for it.
However setting that option will increase the size of struct page by eight
bytes on 64 bit, which we certainly do not want. Also, it doesn't make
sense that a present cpu feature should increase the size of struct page.
Besides that it looks like the dependency to CMPXCHG_LOCAL is wrong and
that it should depend on CMPXCHG_DOUBLE instead.
This patch:
If an architecture supports CMPXCHG_LOCAL this shouldn't result
automatically in larger struct pages if the SLUB allocator is used.
Instead introduce a new config option "HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE" which can
be selected if a double word aligned struct page is required. Also update
x86 Kconfig so that it should work as before.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
WARNING: please, no spaces at the start of a line
#57: FILE: arch/m68k/amiga/config.c:515:
+ __noreturn;$
total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 106 lines checked
./patches/treewide-convert-uses-of-attrib_noreturn-to-__noreturn.patch has style problems, please review.
If any of these errors are false positives, please report
them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
Please run checkpatch prior to sending patches
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Shaohua Li [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:34 +0000 (15:11 +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>
Magnus Lynch [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:34 +0000 (15:11 +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>
Hillf Danton [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:33 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
mm: compaction: push isolate search base of compact control one pfn ahead
After isolated the current pfn will no longer be scanned and isolated if
the next round is necessary, so push the isolate_migratepages search base
of the given compact_control one step ahead.
Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Johannes Weiner [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:33 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
Btrfs: pass __GFP_WRITE for buffered write page allocations
Tell the page allocator that pages allocated for a buffered write are
expected to become dirty soon.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Johannes Weiner [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:33 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
mm: filemap: pass __GFP_WRITE from grab_cache_page_write_begin()
Tell the page allocator that pages allocated through
grab_cache_page_write_begin() are expected to become dirty soon.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Johannes Weiner [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:32 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
mm: try to distribute dirty pages fairly across zones
The maximum number of dirty pages that exist in the system at any time is
determined by a number of pages considered dirtyable and a user-configured
percentage of those, or an absolute number in bytes.
This number of dirtyable pages is the sum of memory provided by all the
zones in the system minus their lowmem reserves and high watermarks, so
that the system can retain a healthy number of free pages without having
to reclaim dirty pages.
But there is a flaw in that we have a zoned page allocator which does not
care about the global state but rather the state of individual memory
zones. And right now there is nothing that prevents one zone from filling
up with dirty pages while other zones are spared, which frequently leads
to situations where kswapd, in order to restore the watermark of free
pages, does indeed have to write pages from that zone's LRU list. This
can interfere so badly with IO from the flusher threads that major
filesystems (btrfs, xfs, ext4) mostly ignore write requests from reclaim
already, taking away the VM's only possibility to keep such a zone
balanced, aside from hoping the flushers will soon clean pages from that
zone.
Enter per-zone dirty limits. They are to a zone's dirtyable memory what
the global limit is to the global amount of dirtyable memory, and try to
make sure that no single zone receives more than its fair share of the
globally allowed dirty pages in the first place. As the number of pages
considered dirtyable excludes the zones' lowmem reserves and high
watermarks, the maximum number of dirty pages in a zone is such that the
zone can always be balanced without requiring page cleaning.
As this is a placement decision in the page allocator and pages are
dirtied only after the allocation, this patch allows allocators to pass
__GFP_WRITE when they know in advance that the page will be written to and
become dirty soon. The page allocator will then attempt to allocate from
the first zone of the zonelist - which on NUMA is determined by the task's
NUMA memory policy - that has not exceeded its dirty limit.
At first glance, it would appear that the diversion to lower zones can
increase pressure on them, but this is not the case. With a full high
zone, allocations will be diverted to lower zones eventually, so it is
more of a shift in timing of the lower zone allocations. Workloads that
previously could fit their dirty pages completely in the higher zone may
be forced to allocate from lower zones, but the amount of pages that
"spill over" are limited themselves by the lower zones' dirty constraints,
and thus unlikely to become a problem.
For now, the problem of unfair dirty page distribution remains for NUMA
configurations where the zones allowed for allocation are in sum not big
enough to trigger the global dirty limits, wake up the flusher threads and
remedy the situation. Because of this, an allocation that could not
succeed on any of the considered zones is allowed to ignore the dirty
limits before going into direct reclaim or even failing the allocation,
until a future patch changes the global dirty throttling and flusher
thread activation so that they take individual zone states into account.
Test results
15M DMA + 3246M DMA32 + 504 Normal = 3765M memory
40% dirty ratio
16G USB thumb drive
10 runs of dd if=/dev/zero of=disk/zeroes bs=32k count=$((10 << 15))
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Tested-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Johannes Weiner [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:32 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
mm: writeback: cleanups in preparation for per-zone dirty limits
The next patch will introduce per-zone dirty limiting functions in
addition to the traditional global dirty limiting.
Rename determine_dirtyable_memory() to global_dirtyable_memory() before
adding the zone-specific version, and fix up its documentation.
Also, move the functions to determine the dirtyable memory and the
function to calculate the dirty limit based on that together so that their
relationship is more apparent and that they can be commented on as a
group.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Johannes Weiner [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:31 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
mm: exclude reserved pages from dirtyable memory
Per-zone dirty limits try to distribute page cache pages allocated for
writing across zones in proportion to the individual zone sizes, to reduce
the likelihood of reclaim having to write back individual pages from the
LRU lists in order to make progress.
This patch:
The amount of dirtyable pages should not include the full number of free
pages: there is a number of reserved pages that the page allocator and
kswapd always try to keep free.
The closer (reclaimable pages - dirty pages) is to the number of reserved
pages, the more likely it becomes for reclaim to run into dirty pages:
This patch introduces a per-zone dirty reserve that takes both the lowmem
reserve as well as the high watermark of the zone into account, and a
global sum of those per-zone values that is subtracted from the global
amount of dirtyable pages. The lowmem reserve is unavailable to page
cache allocations and kswapd tries to keep the high watermark free. We
don't want to end up in a situation where reclaim has to clean pages in
order to balance zones.
Not treating reserved pages as dirtyable on a global level is only a
conceptual fix. In reality, dirty pages are not distributed equally
across zones and reclaim runs into dirty pages on a regular basis.
But it is important to get this right before tackling the problem on a
per-zone level, where the distance between reclaim and the dirty pages is
mostly much smaller in absolute numbers.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
David Rientjes [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:31 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
mm, debug: test for online nid when allocating on single node
Calling alloc_pages_exact_node() means the allocation only passes the
zonelist of a single node into the page allocator. If that node isn't
online, it's zonelist may never have been initialized causing a strange
oops that may not immediately be clear.
I recently debugged an issue where node 0 wasn't online and an allocator
was passing 0 to alloc_pages_exact_node() and it resulted in a NULL
pointer on zonelist->_zoneref. If CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is enabled, though, it
would be nice to catch this a bit earlier.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Shawn Bohrer [Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:30 +0000 (15:11 +1100)]
fadvise: only initiate writeback for specified range with FADV_DONTNEED
Previously POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED would start writeback for the entire file
when the bdi was not write congested. This negatively impacts performance
if the file contians dirty pages outside of the requested range. This
change uses __filemap_fdatawrite_range() to only initiate writeback for
the requested range.
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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