Dan Ballard [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:58:42 +0000 (01:58 +1100)]
kernel/sysctl.c: add cap_last_cap to /proc/sys/kernel
Userspace needs to know the highest valid capability of the running
kernel, which right now cannot reliably be retrieved from the header files
only. The fact that this value cannot be determined properly right now
creates various problems for libraries compiled on newer header files
which are run on older kernels. They assume capabilities are available
which actually aren't. libcap-ng is one example. And we ran into the
same problem with systemd too.
Now the capability is exported in /proc/sys/kernel/cap_last_cap.
Signed-off-by: Dan Ballard <dan@mindstab.net> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@akkadia.org> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Vasily Averin [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:58:41 +0000 (01:58 +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@linux-foundation.org>
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> Acked-by: 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>
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Subject: stop_machine-make-stop_machine-safe-and-efficient-to-call-early-v3.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Subject: stop_machine-make-stop_machine-safe-and-efficient-to-call-early-v3.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Peter Korsgaard [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:58:40 +0000 (01:58 +1100)]
drivers/misc/ad525x_dpot-i2c.c: add i2c support for AD5161
Commit 6c536e4ce8e ("ad525x_dpot: add support for SPI parts") added
support for the AD5161 through SPI, but the device supports both I2C and
SPI (depending on the DIS pin), so add it to -i2c as well.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk> Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Acked-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mark Brown [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:58:40 +0000 (01:58 +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@linux-foundation.org>
Jonathan Cameron [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:58:35 +0000 (01:58 +1100)]
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 [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:58:34 +0000 (01:58 +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 [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:58:33 +0000 (01:58 +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 [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:58:33 +0000 (01:58 +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 [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:58:32 +0000 (01:58 +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 [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:58:32 +0000 (01:58 +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 [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:58:31 +0000 (01:58 +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>
Hugh Dickins [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:58:30 +0000 (01:58 +1100)]
mm: munlock use mapcount to avoid terrible overhead
A process spent 30 minutes exiting, just munlocking the pages of a large
anonymous area that had been alternately mprotected into page-sized vmas:
for every single page there's an anon_vma walk through all the other
little vmas to find the right one.
A general fix to that would be a lot more complicated (use prio_tree on
anon_vma?), but there's one very simple thing we can do to speed up the
common case: if a page to be munlocked is mapped only once, then it is our
vma that it is mapped into, and there's no need whatever to walk through
all the others.
Okay, there is a very remote race in munlock_vma_pages_range(), if between
its follow_page() and lock_page(), another process were to munlock the
same page, then page reclaim remove it from our vma, then another process
mlock it again. We would find it with page_mapcount 1, yet it's still
mlocked in another process. But never mind, that's much less likely than
the down_read_trylock() failure which munlocking already tolerates (in
try_to_unmap_one()): in due course page reclaim will discover and move the
page to unevictable instead.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Hillf Danton [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:58:30 +0000 (01:58 +1100)]
mm/huge_memory: fix typo when updating mmu cache
There are three cases of update_mmu_cache() in the file, and the case in
function collapse_huge_page() has a typo, namely the last parameter used,
which is corrected based on the other two cases.
Due to the define of update_mmu_cache by X86, the only arch that
implements THP currently, the change here has no really crystal point, but
one or two minutes of efforts could be saved for those archs that are
likely to support THP in future.
Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Hillf Danton [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:58:12 +0000 (01:58 +1100)]
mm/huge_memory: fix copying user highpage
The THP copy-on-write handler falls back to regular-sized pages for a huge
page replacement upon allocation failure or if THP has been individually
disabled in the target VMA. The loop responsible for copying page-sized
chunks accidentally uses multiples of PAGE_SHIFT instead of PAGE_SIZE as
the virtual address arg for copy_user_highpage().
Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
David Rientjes [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:54:32 +0000 (01:54 +1100)]
oom: thaw threads if oom killed thread is frozen before deferring
If a thread has been oom killed and is frozen, thaw it before returning to
the page allocator. Otherwise, it can stay frozen indefinitely and no
memory will be freed.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reported-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Nicolas Pitre [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:54:32 +0000 (01:54 +1100)]
mm: add vm_area_add_early()
The existing vm_area_register_early() allows for early vmalloc space
allocation. However upcoming cleanups in the ARM architecture require
that some fixed locations in the vmalloc area be reserved also very early.
The name "vm_area_register_early" would have been a good name for the
reservation part without the allocation. Since it is already in use with
Both vm_area_register_early() and vm_area_add_early() can be used together
meaning that the former is now implemented using the later where it is
ensured that no conflicting areas are added, but no attempt is made to
make the allocation scheme in vm_area_register_early() more sophisticated.
After all, you must know what you're doing when using those functions.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mel Gorman [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:54:31 +0000 (01:54 +1100)]
vmscan: abort reclaim/compaction if compaction can proceed
If compaction can proceed, shrink_zones() stops doing any work but its
callers still call shrink_slab() which raises the priority and potentially
sleeps. This is unnecessary and wasteful so this patch aborts direct
reclaim/compaction entirely if compaction can proceed.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Rik van Riel [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:54:31 +0000 (01:54 +1100)]
vmscan: limit direct reclaim for higher order allocations
When suffering from memory fragmentation due to unfreeable pages, THP page
faults will repeatedly try to compact memory. Due to the unfreeable
pages, compaction fails.
Needless to say, at that point page reclaim also fails to create free
contiguous 2MB areas. However, that doesn't stop the current code from
trying, over and over again, and freeing a minimum of 4MB (2UL <<
sc->order pages) at every single invocation.
This resulted in my 12GB system having 2-3GB free memory, a corresponding
amount of used swap and very sluggish response times.
This can be avoided by having the direct reclaim code not reclaim from
zones that already have plenty of free memory available for compaction.
If compaction still fails due to unmovable memory, doing additional
reclaim will only hurt the system, not help.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Minchan Kim [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:54:30 +0000 (01:54 +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@linux-foundation.org>
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 [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:54:28 +0000 (01:54 +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 [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:54:28 +0000 (01:54 +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 [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:54:27 +0000 (01:54 +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 [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:54:27 +0000 (01:54 +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 [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:54:26 +0000 (01:54 +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 [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:54:26 +0000 (01:54 +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>
Andrea Arcangeli [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:54:23 +0000 (01:54 +1100)]
s390: gup_huge_pmd() return 0 if pte changes
s390 didn't return 0 in that case, if it's rolling back the *nr pointer it
should also return zero to avoid adding pages to the array at the wrong
offset.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Andrea Arcangeli [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:54:23 +0000 (01:54 +1100)]
powerpc: gup_huge_pmd() return 0 if pte changes
powerpc didn't return 0 in that case, if it's rolling back the *nr pointer
it should also return zero to avoid adding pages to the array at the wrong
offset.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Andrea Arcangeli [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:54:22 +0000 (01:54 +1100)]
powerpc: get_hugepte() don't put_page() the wrong page
"page" may have changed to point to the next hugepage after the loop
completed, The references have been taken on the head page, so the
put_page must happen there too.
This is a longstanding issue pre-thp inclusion.
It's totally unclear how these page_cache_add_speculative and pte_val(pte)
!= pte_val(*ptep) checks are necessary across all the powerpc gup_fast
code, when x86 doesn't need any of that: there's no way the page can be
freed with irq disabled so we're guaranteed the atomic_inc will happen on
a page with page_count > 0 (so not needing the speculative check). The
pte check is also meaningless on x86: no need to rollback on x86 if the
pte changed, because the pte can still change a CPU tick after the check
succeeded and it won't be rolled back in that case. The important thing
is we got a reference on a valid page that was mapped there a CPU tick
ago. So not knowing the soft tlb refill code of ppc64 in great detail I'm
not removing the "speculative" page_count increase and the pte checks
across all the code, but unless there's a strong reason for it they should
be later cleaned up too.
If a pte can change from huge to non-huge (like it could happen with THP)
passing a pte_t *ptep to gup_hugepte() would also require to repeat the
is_hugepd in gup_hugepte(), but that shouldn't happen with hugetlbfs only
so I'm not altering that.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Andrea Arcangeli [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:54:21 +0000 (01:54 +1100)]
powerpc: remove superfluous PageTail checks on the pte gup_fast
This part of gup_fast doesn't seem capable of handling hugetlbfs ptes,
those should be handled by gup_hugepd only, so these checks are
superfluous.
Plus if this wasn't a noop, it would have oopsed because, the insistence
of using the speculative refcounting would trigger a VM_BUG_ON if a tail
page was encountered in the page_cache_get_speculative().
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Andrea Arcangeli [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:54:21 +0000 (01:54 +1100)]
mm: thp: tail page refcounting fix
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> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Rik van Riel [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:54:20 +0000 (01:54 +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 [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:54:20 +0000 (01:54 +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.
Testing results from Satoru Moriya:
: I ran some sample workloads and measure memory allocation latency
: (latency of __alloc_page_nodemask()).
: The test is like following:
:
: - CPU: 1 socket, 4 core
: - Memory: 4GB
:
: - Background load:
: $ dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/tmp/tmp1
: $ dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/tmp/tmp2
: $ dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/tmp/tmp3
:
: - Main load:
: $ mapped-file-stream 1 $((1024 * 1024 * 640)) --(*)
:
: (*) This is made by Johannes Weiner
: https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/30/226
:
: It allocates/access 640MByte memory at a burst.
:
: The result is follwoing:
:
: | | extra |
: | default | kbytes |
: --------------------------------------------------------------
: min_free_kbytes | 8113 | 8113 |
: extra_free_kbytes | 0 | 640*1024 | (KB)
: --------------------------------------------------------------
: worst latency | 517.762 | 20.775 | (usec)
: --------------------------------------------------------------
: vmstat result | | |
: nr_vmscan_write | 0 | 0 |
: pgsteal_dma | 0 | 0 |
: pgsteal_dma32 | 143667 | 144882 |
: pgsteal_normal | 31486 | 27001 |
: pgsteal_movable | 0 | 0 |
: pgscan_kswapd_dma | 0 | 0 |
: pgscan_kswapd_dma32 | 138617 | 156351 |
: pgscan_kswapd_normal | 30593 | 27955 |
: pgscan_kswapd_movable | 0 | 0 |
: pgscan_direct_dma | 0 | 0 |
: pgscan_direct_dma32 | 5050 | 0 |
: pgscan_direct_normal | 896 | 0 |
: pgscan_direct_movable | 0 | 0 |
: kswapd_steal | 169207 | 171883 |
: kswapd_inodesteal | 0 | 0 |
: kswapd_low_wmark_hit_quickly | 43 | 45 |
: kswapd_high_wmark_hit_quickly | 1 | 0 |
: allocstall | 32 | 0 |
:
:
: As you can see, in the default case there were 32 direct reclaim
: (allocstal= l) and its worst latency was 517.762 usecs. This value may be
: larger if a process would sleep or issue I/O in the direct reclaim path.
: OTOH, ii the other case where I add extra free bytes, there were no direct
: reclaim and its worst latency was 20.775 usecs.
:
: In this test case, we can avoid direct reclaim and keep a latency low.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Tested-by: Satoru Moriya <satoru.moriya@hds.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 [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:54:18 +0000 (01:54 +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>
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 [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:54:17 +0000 (01:54 +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 [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:54:16 +0000 (01:54 +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 [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:54:15 +0000 (01:54 +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 [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:54:15 +0000 (01:54 +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>
Andrea Arcangeli [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:54:13 +0000 (01:54 +1100)]
mremap: avoid sending one IPI per page
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>
Andrea Arcangeli [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:54:13 +0000 (01:54 +1100)]
mremap: check for overflow using deltas
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 [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:54:12 +0000 (01:54 +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>
Mitsuo Hayasaka [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:54:11 +0000 (01:54 +1100)]
mm: avoid null pointer access in vm_struct via /proc/vmallocinfo
The /proc/vmallocinfo shows information about vmalloc allocations in
vmlist that is a linklist of vm_struct. It, however, may access pages
field of vm_struct where a page was not allocated. This results in a null
pointer access and leads to a kernel panic.
Why this happens: In __vmalloc_node_range() called from vmalloc(), newly
allocated vm_struct is added to vmlist at __get_vm_area_node() and then,
some fields of vm_struct such as nr_pages and pages are set at
__vmalloc_area_node(). In other words, it is added to vmlist before it is
fully initialized. At the same time, when the /proc/vmallocinfo is read,
it accesses the pages field of vm_struct according to the nr_pages field
at show_numa_info(). Thus, a null pointer access happens.
The patch adds the newly allocated vm_struct to the vmlist *after* it is
fully initialized. So, it can avoid accessing the pages field with
unallocated page when show_numa_info() is called.
Signed-off-by: Mitsuo Hayasaka <mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@hitachi.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Use atomic-long operations instead of looping around cmpxchg().
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
A shrinker function can return -1, means that it cannot do anything
without a risk of deadlock. For example prune_super() does this if it
cannot grab a superblock refrence, even if nr_to_scan=0. Currently we
interpret this -1 as a ULONG_MAX size shrinker and evaluate `total_scan'
according to this. So the next time around this shrinker can cause really
big pressure. Let's skip such shrinkers instead.
Also make total_scan signed, otherwise the check (total_scan < 0) below
never works.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Akinobu Mita [Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:54:09 +0000 (01:54 +1100)]
lib/string.c: introduce memchr_inv()
memchr_inv() is mainly used to check whether the whole buffer is filled
with just a specified byte.
The function name and prototype are stolen from logfs and the
implementation is from SLUB.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Acked-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org> Cc: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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