mm, pcp: allow restoring percpu_pagelist_fraction default

Oleg reports a division by zero error on zero-length write() to the
percpu_pagelist_fraction sysctl:

    divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
    CPU: 1 PID: 9142 Comm: badarea_io Not tainted 3.15.0-rc2-vm-nfs+ #19
    Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
    task: ffff8800d5aeb6e0 ti: ffff8800d87a2000 task.ti: ffff8800d87a2000
    RIP: 0010: percpu_pagelist_fraction_sysctl_handler+0x84/0x120
    RSP: 0018:ffff8800d87a3e78  EFLAGS: 00010246
    RAX: 0000000000000f89 RBX: ffff88011f7fd000 RCX: 0000000000000000
    RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000010
    RBP: ffff8800d87a3e98 R08: ffffffff81d002c8 R09: ffff8800d87a3f50
    R10: 000000000000000b R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000060
    R13: ffffffff81c3c3e0 R14: ffffffff81cfddf8 R15: ffff8801193b0800
    FS:  00007f614f1e9740(0000) GS:ffff88011f440000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
    CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
    CR2: 00007f614f1fa000 CR3: 00000000d9291000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
    Call Trace:
      proc_sys_call_handler+0xb3/0xc0
      proc_sys_write+0x14/0x20
      vfs_write+0xba/0x1e0
      SyS_write+0x46/0xb0
      tracesys+0xe1/0xe6

However, if the percpu_pagelist_fraction sysctl is set by the user, it
is also impossible to restore it to the kernel default since the user
cannot write 0 to the sysctl.

This patch allows the user to write 0 to restore the default behavior.
It still requires a fraction equal to or larger than 8, however, as
stated by the documentation for sanity.  If a value in the range [1, 7]
is written, the sysctl will return EINVAL.

This successfully solves the divide by zero issue at the same time.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reported-by: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
index bd4b34c0373878afc200173b4955724ab9899fa2..4415aa91568104fbcfa9cc594373513180a29c24 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt
@@ -702,7 +702,8 @@ The batch value of each per cpu pagelist is also updated as a result.  It is
 set to pcp->high/4.  The upper limit of batch is (PAGE_SHIFT * 8)
 
 The initial value is zero.  Kernel does not use this value at boot time to set
-the high water marks for each per cpu page list.
+the high water marks for each per cpu page list.  If the user writes '0' to this
+sysctl, it will revert to this default behavior.
 
 ==============================================================
 

diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 7de6555cfea0f3484e8decbf927c7c456c227175..075d1903138fd2ce2c212ab0e88beeed3c034c3a 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -136,7 +136,6 @@ static unsigned long dirty_bytes_min = 2 * PAGE_SIZE;
 /* this is needed for the proc_dointvec_minmax for [fs_]overflow UID and GID */
 static int maxolduid = 65535;
 static int minolduid;
-static int min_percpu_pagelist_fract = 8;
 
 static int ngroups_max = NGROUPS_MAX;
 static const int cap_last_cap = CAP_LAST_CAP;
@@ -1317,7 +1316,7 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
                .maxlen         = sizeof(percpu_pagelist_fraction),
                .mode           = 0644,
                .proc_handler   = percpu_pagelist_fraction_sysctl_handler,
-               .extra1         = &min_percpu_pagelist_fract,
+               .extra1         = &zero,
        },
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
        {

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 4f59fa29eda8b9b22e9532f27a3ffc5535893452..20d17f8266fed9e482055c5c68034b8149f3329c 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
 
 /* prevent >1 _updater_ of zone percpu pageset ->high and ->batch fields */
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(pcp_batch_high_lock);
+#define MIN_PERCPU_PAGELIST_FRACTION   (8)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, numa_node);
@@ -4145,7 +4146,7 @@ static void __meminit zone_init_free_lists(struct zone *zone)
        memmap_init_zone((size), (nid), (zone), (start_pfn), MEMMAP_EARLY)
 #endif
 
-static int __meminit zone_batchsize(struct zone *zone)
+static int zone_batchsize(struct zone *zone)
 {
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
        int batch;
@@ -4261,8 +4262,8 @@ static void pageset_set_high(struct per_cpu_pageset *p,
        pageset_update(&p->pcp, high, batch);
 }
 
-static void __meminit pageset_set_high_and_batch(struct zone *zone,
-               struct per_cpu_pageset *pcp)
+static void pageset_set_high_and_batch(struct zone *zone,
+                                      struct per_cpu_pageset *pcp)
 {
        if (percpu_pagelist_fraction)
                pageset_set_high(pcp,
@@ -5881,23 +5882,38 @@ int percpu_pagelist_fraction_sysctl_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
        void __user *buffer, size_t *length, loff_t *ppos)
 {
        struct zone *zone;
-       unsigned int cpu;
+       int old_percpu_pagelist_fraction;
        int ret;
 
+       mutex_lock(&pcp_batch_high_lock);
+       old_percpu_pagelist_fraction = percpu_pagelist_fraction;
+
        ret = proc_dointvec_minmax(table, write, buffer, length, ppos);
-       if (!write || (ret < 0))
-               return ret;
+       if (!write || ret < 0)
+               goto out;
+
+       /* Sanity checking to avoid pcp imbalance */
+       if (percpu_pagelist_fraction &&
+           percpu_pagelist_fraction < MIN_PERCPU_PAGELIST_FRACTION) {
+               percpu_pagelist_fraction = old_percpu_pagelist_fraction;
+               ret = -EINVAL;
+               goto out;
+       }
+
+       /* No change? */
+       if (percpu_pagelist_fraction == old_percpu_pagelist_fraction)
+               goto out;
 
-       mutex_lock(&pcp_batch_high_lock);
        for_each_populated_zone(zone) {
-               unsigned long  high;
-               high = zone->managed_pages / percpu_pagelist_fraction;
+               unsigned int cpu;
+
                for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
-                       pageset_set_high(per_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset, cpu),
-                                        high);
+                       pageset_set_high_and_batch(zone,
+                                       per_cpu_ptr(zone->pageset, cpu));
        }
+out:
        mutex_unlock(&pcp_batch_high_lock);
-       return 0;
+       return ret;
 }
 
 int hashdist = HASHDIST_DEFAULT;