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Hugh Dickins f8af4da3b4 ksm: the mm interface to ksm
This patch presents the mm interface to a dummy version of ksm.c, for
better scrutiny of that interface: the real ksm.c follows later.

When CONFIG_KSM is not set, madvise(2) reject MADV_MERGEABLE and
MADV_UNMERGEABLE with EINVAL, since that seems more helpful than
pretending that they can be serviced.  But when CONFIG_KSM=y, accept them
even if KSM is not currently running, and even on areas which KSM will not
touch (e.g.  hugetlb or shared file or special driver mappings).

Like other madvices, report ENOMEM despite success if any area in the
range is unmapped, and use EAGAIN to report out of memory.

Define vma flag VM_MERGEABLE to identify an area on which KSM may try
merging pages: leave it to ksm_madvise() to decide whether to set it.
Define mm flag MMF_VM_MERGEABLE to identify an mm which might contain
VM_MERGEABLE areas, to minimize callouts when forking or exiting.

Based upon earlier patches by Chris Wright and Izik Eidus.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:31 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 3866ea90d3 ksm: first tidy up madvise_vma()
madvise.c has several levels of switch statements, what to do in which?
Move MADV_DOFORK code down from madvise_vma() to madvise_behavior(), so
madvise_vma() can be a simple router, to madvise_behavior() by default.

vma->vm_flags is an unsigned long so use the same type for new_flags.  Add
missing comment lines to describe MADV_DONTFORK and MADV_DOFORK.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:31 -07:00
Izik Eidus 828502d300 ksm: add mmu_notifier set_pte_at_notify()
KSM is a linux driver that allows dynamicly sharing identical memory pages
between one or more processes.

Unlike tradtional page sharing that is made at the allocation of the
memory, ksm do it dynamicly after the memory was created.  Memory is
periodically scanned; identical pages are identified and merged.

The sharing is made in a transparent way to the processes that use it.

Ksm is highly important for hypervisors (kvm), where in production
enviorments there might be many copys of the same data data among the host
memory.  This kind of data can be: similar kernels, librarys, cache, and
so on.

Even that ksm was wrote for kvm, any userspace application that want to
use it to share its data can try it.

Ksm may be useful for any application that might have similar (page
aligment) data strctures among the memory, ksm will find this data merge
it to one copy, and even if it will be changed and thereforew copy on
writed, ksm will merge it again as soon as it will be identical again.

Another reason to consider using ksm is the fact that it might simplify
alot the userspace code of application that want to use shared private
data, instead that the application will mange shared area, ksm will do
this for the application, and even write to this data will be allowed
without any synchinization acts from the application.

Ksm was designed to be a loadable module that doesn't change the VM code
of linux.

This patch:

The set_pte_at_notify() macro allows setting a pte in the shadow page
table directly, instead of flushing the shadow page table entry and then
getting vmexit to set it.  It uses a new change_pte() callback to do so.

set_pte_at_notify() is an optimization for kvm, and other users of
mmu_notifiers, for COW pages.  It is useful for kvm when ksm is used,
because it allows kvm not to have to receive vmexit and only then map the
ksm page into the shadow page table, but instead map it directly at the
same time as Linux maps the page into the host page table.

Users of mmu_notifiers who don't implement new mmu_notifier_change_pte()
callback will just receive the mmu_notifier_invalidate_page() callback.

Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:31 -07:00
Johannes Weiner 451ea25da7 mm: perform non-atomic test-clear of PG_mlocked on free
By the time PG_mlocked is cleared in the page freeing path, nobody else is
looking at our page->flags anymore.

It is thus safe to make the test-and-clear non-atomic and thereby removing
an unnecessary and expensive operation from a hotpath.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:30 -07:00
Figo.zhang bf88c8c83e vmalloc.c: fix double error checking
There is no need for double error checking.

Signed-off-by: Figo.zhang <figo1802@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:30 -07:00
Akinobu Mita 945a11136e mm: add gfp mask checking for __get_free_pages()
__get_free_pages() with __GFP_HIGHMEM is not safe because the return
address cannot represent a highmem page.  get_zeroed_page() already has
such a debug checking.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:30 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro a26f5320c4 vmscan: kill unnecessary prefetch
The pages in the list passed move_active_pages_to_lru() are already
touched by shrink_active_list().  IOW the prefetch in
move_active_pages_to_lru() don't populate any cache.  it's pointless.

This patch remove it.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:30 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 74a1c48fb4 vmscan: kill unnecessary page flag test
The page_lru() already evaluate PageActive() and PageSwapBacked().  We
don't need to re-evaluate it.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:30 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 5205e56eea vmscan: move ClearPageActive from move_active_pages() to shrink_active_list()
The move_active_pages_to_lru() function is called under irq disabled and
ClearPageActive() doesn't need irq disabling.

Then, this patch move it into shrink_active_list().

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:30 -07:00
Minchan Kim de2e7567c7 vmscan: don't attempt to reclaim anon page in lumpy reclaim when no swap space is available
The VM already avoids attempting to reclaim anon pages in various places,
But it doesn't avoid it for lumpy reclaim.

It shuffles lru list unnecessary so that it is pointless.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:30 -07:00
Wu Fengguang adea02a1be mm: count only reclaimable lru pages
global_lru_pages() / zone_lru_pages() can be used in two ways:
- to estimate max reclaimable pages in determine_dirtyable_memory()
- to calculate the slab scan ratio

When swap is full or not present, the anon lru lists are not reclaimable
and also won't be scanned.  So the anon pages shall not be counted in both
usage scenarios.  Also rename to _reclaimable_pages: now they are counting
the possibly reclaimable lru pages.

It can greatly (and correctly) increase the slab scan rate under high
memory pressure (when most file pages have been reclaimed and swap is
full/absent), thus reduce false OOM kills.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "Li, Ming Chun" <macli@brc.ubc.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:30 -07:00
Rik van Riel 35cd78156c vmscan: throttle direct reclaim when too many pages are isolated already
When way too many processes go into direct reclaim, it is possible for all
of the pages to be taken off the LRU.  One result of this is that the next
process in the page reclaim code thinks there are no reclaimable pages
left and triggers an out of memory kill.

One solution to this problem is to never let so many processes into the
page reclaim path that the entire LRU is emptied.  Limiting the system to
only having half of each inactive list isolated for reclaim should be
safe.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:29 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro a731286de6 mm: vmstat: add isolate pages
If the system is running a heavy load of processes then concurrent reclaim
can isolate a large number of pages from the LRU. /proc/vmstat and the
output generated for an OOM do not show how many pages were isolated.

This has been observed during process fork bomb testing (mstctl11 in LTP).

This patch shows the information about isolated pages.

Reproduced via:

-----------------------
% ./hackbench 140 process 1000
   => OOM occur

active_anon:146 inactive_anon:0 isolated_anon:49245
 active_file:79 inactive_file:18 isolated_file:113
 unevictable:0 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 buffer:39
 free:370 slab_reclaimable:309 slab_unreclaimable:5492
 mapped:53 shmem:15 pagetables:28140 bounce:0

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:29 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro b35ea17b7b mm: shrink_inactive_list() nr_scan accounting fix fix
If sc->isolate_pages() return 0, we don't need to call shrink_page_list().
In past days, shrink_inactive_list() handled it properly.

But commit fb8d14e1 (three years ago commit!) breaked it.  current
shrink_inactive_list() always call shrink_page_list() although
isolate_pages() return 0.

This patch restore proper return value check.

Requirements:
  o "nr_taken == 0" condition should stay before calling shrink_page_list().
  o "nr_taken == 0" condition should stay after nr_scan related statistics
     modification.

Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:28 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 44c241f166 mm: rename pgmoved variable in shrink_active_list()
Currently the pgmoved variable has two meanings.  It causes harder
reviewing.  This patch separates it.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:27 -07:00
David Rientjes b259fbde0a mm: update alloc_flags after oom killer has been called
It is possible for the oom killer to select current as the task to kill.
When this happens, alloc_flags needs to be updated accordingly to set
ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS so the subsequent allocation attempt may use memory
reserves as the result of its thread having TIF_MEMDIE set if the
allocation is not __GFP_NOMEMALLOC.

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:27 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 4b02108ac1 mm: oom analysis: add shmem vmstat
Recently we encountered OOM problems due to memory use of the GEM cache.
Generally a large amuont of Shmem/Tmpfs pages tend to create a memory
shortage problem.

We often use the following calculation to determine the amount of shmem
pages:

shmem = NR_ACTIVE_ANON + NR_INACTIVE_ANON - NR_ANON_PAGES

however the expression does not consider isolated and mlocked pages.

This patch adds explicit accounting for pages used by shmem and tmpfs.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:27 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro c6a7f5728a mm: oom analysis: Show kernel stack usage in /proc/meminfo and OOM log output
The amount of memory allocated to kernel stacks can become significant and
cause OOM conditions.  However, we do not display the amount of memory
consumed by stacks.

Add code to display the amount of memory used for stacks in /proc/meminfo.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:27 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 71de1ccbe1 mm: oom analysis: add buffer cache information to show_free_areas()
It is often useful to know the statistics for all pages that are handled
like page cache pages when looking at OOM log output.

Therefore show_free_areas() should also display buffer cache statistics.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:27 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 4a0aa73f1d mm: oom analysis: add per-zone statistics to show_free_areas()
show_free_areas() displays only a limited amount of zone counters.  This
patch includes additional counters in the display to allow easier
debugging.  This may be especially useful if an OOM is due to running out
of DMA memory.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:27 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 3701b03323 mm: show_free_areas(): display slab pages in two separate fields
If an OOM happens, we really want to know the number of remaining
reclaimable pages.  So the reclaimable slab and unreclaimable slab fields
should not be combined for display.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro b904dcfed6 mm: clean up page_remove_rmap()
page_remove_rmap() has multiple PageAnon() tests and it has deep nesting.
Clean this up.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
Lee Schermerhorn 57dd28fb05 hugetlb: restore interleaving of bootmem huge pages
I noticed that alloc_bootmem_huge_page() will only advance to the next
node on failure to allocate a huge page, potentially filling nodes with
huge-pages.  I asked about this on linux-mm and linux-numa, cc'ing the
usual huge page suspects.

Mel Gorman responded:

	I strongly suspect that the same node being used until allocation
	failure instead of round-robin is an oversight and not deliberate
	at all. It appears to be a side-effect of a fix made way back in
	commit 63b4613c3f ["hugetlb: fix
	hugepage allocation with memoryless nodes"]. Prior to that patch
	it looked like allocations would always round-robin even when
	allocation was successful.

This patch--factored out of my "hugetlb mempolicy" series--moves the
advance of the hstate next node from which to allocate up before the test
for success of the attempted allocation.

Note that alloc_bootmem_huge_page() is only used for order > MAX_ORDER
huge pages.

I'll post a separate patch for mainline/stable, as the above mentioned
"balance freeing" series renamed the next node to alloc function.

Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
Lee Schermerhorn 685f345708 hugetlb: use free_pool_huge_page() to return unused surplus pages
Use the [modified] free_pool_huge_page() function to return unused
surplus pages.  This will help keep huge pages balanced across nodes
between freeing of unused surplus pages and freeing of persistent huge
pages [from set_max_huge_pages] by using the same node id "cursor". It
also eliminates some code duplication.

Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
Lee Schermerhorn e8c5c82498 hugetlb: balance freeing of huge pages across nodes
Free huges pages from nodes in round robin fashion in an attempt to keep
[persistent a.k.a static] hugepages balanced across nodes

New function free_pool_huge_page() is modeled on and performs roughly the
inverse of alloc_fresh_huge_page().  Replaces dequeue_huge_page() which
now has no callers, so this patch removes it.

Helper function hstate_next_node_to_free() uses new hstate member
next_to_free_nid to distribute "frees" across all nodes with huge pages.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
Randy Dunlap 55a4462af5 page_alloc: fix kernel-doc warning
Ummark function as having kernel-doc notation, fixing the kernel-doc
warning.

Warning(mm/page_alloc.c:4519): No description found for parameter 'zone'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
Shaohua Li abfc348811 memory hotplug: migrate swap cache page
In test, some pages in swap-cache can't be migrated, as they aren't rmap.

unmap_and_move() ignores swap-cache page which is just read in and hasn't
rmap (see the comments in the code), but swap_aops provides .migratepage.
Better to migrate such pages instead of ignore them.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yakui Zhao <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
Shaohua Li f52407ce2d memory hotplug: alloc page from other node in memory online
To initialize hotadded node, some pages are allocated.  At that time, the
node hasn't memory, this makes the allocation always fail.  In such case,
let's allocate pages from other nodes.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Yakui Zhao <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
Shaohua Li 8e7e40d965 memory hotplug: make pages from movable zone always isolatable
Pages on movable zone have two types, MIGRATE_MOVABLE and MIGRATE_RESERVE,
both them can be movable, because only movable memory allocation can get
pages from movable zone.  This makes pages in movable zone always be able
to migrate.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yakui Zhao <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
Shaohua Li 6fb332fabd memory hotplug: exclude isolated page from pco page alloc
Pages marked as isolated should not be allocated again.  If such pages
reside in pcp list, they can be allocated too, so there is a ping-pong
memory offline frees some pages to pcp list and the pages get allocated
and then memory offline frees them again, this loop will happen again and
again.

This should have no impact in normal code path, because in normal code
path, pages in pcp list aren't isolated, and below loop will break in the
first entry.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yakui Zhao <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:25 -07:00
Shaohua Li 112067f090 memory hotplug: update zone pcp at memory online
In my test, 128M memory is hot added, but zone's pcp batch is 0, which is
an obvious error.  When pages are onlined, zone pcp should be updated
accordingly.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yakui Zhao <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:25 -07:00
David Rientjes 478b81fd84 mm: remove obsoleted alloc_pages cpuset comment
When a cpuset's nodemask is updated, all attached tasks have their cached
task->mems_allowed updated by a heap instead of requiring an explicit call
to cpuset_update_task_memory_state(), which has since been removed in
58568d2a82 ("cpuset,mm: update tasks'
mems_allowed in time").

Remove the obsoleted comment from the page allocator.

Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:25 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 43c1266ce4 Merge branch 'perfcounters-rename-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perfcounters-rename-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf: Tidy up after the big rename
  perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events
  perf_counter: Rename 'event' to event_id/hw_event
  perf_counter: Rename list_entry -> group_entry, counter_list -> group_list

Manually resolved some fairly trivial conflicts with the tracing tree in
include/trace/ftrace.h and kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c.
2009-09-21 09:15:07 -07:00
Jens Axboe 87c6a9b253 writeback: make balance_dirty_pages() gradually back more off
Currently it just sleeps for a very short time, just 1 jiffy. If
we keep looping in there, continually delay for a little longer
of up to 100msec in total. That was the old limit for congestion
wait.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-21 15:40:33 +02:00
Jens Axboe 3542a5c0de writeback: don't use schedule_timeout() without setting runstate
Just use schedule_timeout_interruptible(), saves a call to
set_current_state().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-21 15:40:33 +02:00
Frans Pop 22f8b45822 trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options
Improve the help text for PAGE_POISONING.
Also fix some typos and improve consistency within the file.

Signed-of-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-09-21 15:14:57 +02:00
Ingo Molnar cdd6c482c9 perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance Events
Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events!

In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its
initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is
becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging,
monitoring, analysis facility.

Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem
'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending
code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and
less appropriate.

All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance
events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables
and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion)

The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes
it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well.

Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and
suggested a rename.

User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch
should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to
keep the size down.)

This patch has been generated via the following script:

  FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config')

  sed -i \
    -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \
    -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \
    -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \
    -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \
    -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \
    $FILES

  for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do
    M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g')
    mv $N $M
  done

  FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*)

  sed -i \
    -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \
    -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \
    -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \
    -e 's/counter/event/g' \
    -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \
    $FILES

... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be
used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts
a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this
change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches
is the smallest: the end of the merge window.

Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some
stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch.

( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal
  with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit
  over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but
  in case there's something left where 'counter' would be
  better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis
  instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. )

Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-21 14:28:04 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan 6952b61de9 headers: taskstats_kern.h trim
Remove net/genetlink.h inclusion, now sched.c won't be recompiled
because of some networking changes.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-18 09:48:52 -07:00
Jianjun Kong 27f5de7963 mm: Fix problem of parameter in note
'current' is a pointer, so the right form is  'down_write(&current->mm->mmap_sem)'.

Signed-off-by: Jianjun Kong <jianjun@zeuux.org>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-18 09:48:52 -07:00
Linus Torvalds ab86e5765d Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6:
  Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev
  debugfs: Modify default debugfs directory for debugging pktcdvd.
  debugfs: Modified default dir of debugfs for debugging UHCI.
  debugfs: Change debugfs directory of IWMC3200
  debugfs: Change debuhgfs directory of trace-events-sample.h
  debugfs: Fix mount directory of debugfs by default in events.txt
  hpilo: add poll f_op
  hpilo: add interrupt handler
  hpilo: staging for interrupt handling
  driver core: platform_device_add_data(): use kmemdup()
  Driver core: Add support for compatibility classes
  uio: add generic driver for PCI 2.3 devices
  driver-core: move dma-coherent.c from kernel to driver/base
  mem_class: fix bug
  mem_class: use minor as index instead of searching the array
  driver model: constify attribute groups
  UIO: remove 'default n' from Kconfig
  Driver core: Add accessor for device platform data
  Driver core: move dev_get/set_drvdata to drivers/base/dd.c
  Driver core: add new device to bus's list before probing
2009-09-16 08:27:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds a3eb51ecfa Merge branch 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  writeback: fix possible bdi writeback refcounting problem
  writeback: Fix bdi use after free in wb_work_complete()
  writeback: improve scalability of bdi writeback work queues
  writeback: remove smp_mb(), it's not needed with list_add_tail_rcu()
  writeback: use schedule_timeout_interruptible()
  writeback: add comments to bdi_work structure
  writeback: splice dirty inode entries to default bdi on bdi_destroy()
  writeback: separate starting of sync vs opportunistic writeback
  writeback: inline allocation failure handling in bdi_alloc_queue_work()
  writeback: use RCU to protect bdi_list
  writeback: only use bdi_writeback_all() for WB_SYNC_NONE writeout
  fs: Assign bdi in super_block
  writeback: make wb_writeback() take an argument structure
  writeback: merely wakeup flusher thread if work allocation fails for WB_SYNC_NONE
  writeback: get rid of wbc->for_writepages
  fs: remove bdev->bd_inode_backing_dev_info
2009-09-16 07:45:38 -07:00
Jens Axboe ce5f8e7795 writeback: splice dirty inode entries to default bdi on bdi_destroy()
We cannot safely ensure that the inodes are all gone at this point
in time, and we must not destroy this bdi with inodes having off it.
So just splice our entries to the default bdi since that one will
always persist.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-16 15:18:52 +02:00
Jens Axboe b6e51316da writeback: separate starting of sync vs opportunistic writeback
bdi_start_writeback() is currently split into two paths, one for
WB_SYNC_NONE and one for WB_SYNC_ALL. Add bdi_sync_writeback()
for WB_SYNC_ALL writeback and let bdi_start_writeback() handle
only WB_SYNC_NONE.

Push down the writeback_control allocation and only accept the
parameters that make sense for each function. This cleans up
the API considerably.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-16 15:18:52 +02:00
Jens Axboe cfc4ba5365 writeback: use RCU to protect bdi_list
Now that bdi_writeback_all() no longer handles integrity writeback,
it doesn't have to block anymore. This means that we can switch
bdi_list reader side protection to RCU.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-16 15:18:51 +02:00
Jens Axboe 1fe06ad892 writeback: get rid of wbc->for_writepages
It's only set, it's never checked. Kill it.

Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-16 15:16:18 +02:00
Andi Kleen cae681fc12 HWPOISON: Add simple debugfs interface to inject hwpoison on arbitary PFNs
Useful for some testing scenarios, although specific testing is often
done better through MADV_POISON

This can be done with the x86 level MCE injector too, but this interface
allows it to do independently from low level x86 changes.

v2: Add module license (Haicheng Li)

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-09-16 11:50:17 +02:00
Andi Kleen 9893e49d64 HWPOISON: Add madvise() based injector for hardware poisoned pages v4
Impact: optional, useful for debugging

Add a new madvice sub command to inject poison for some
pages in a process' address space.  This is useful for
testing the poison page handling.

This patch can allow root to tie up large amounts of memory.
I got feedback from container developers and they didn't see any
problem.

v2: Use write flag for get_user_pages to make sure to always get
a fresh page
v3: Don't request write mapping (Fengguang Wu)
v4: Move MADV_* number to avoid conflict with KSM (Hugh Dickins)

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-09-16 11:50:17 +02:00
Andi Kleen aa261f549d HWPOISON: Enable .remove_error_page for migration aware file systems
Enable removing of corrupted pages through truncation
for a bunch of file systems: ext*, xfs, gfs2, ocfs2, ntfs
These should cover most server needs.

I chose the set of migration aware file systems for this
for now, assuming they have been especially audited.
But in general it should be safe for all file systems
on the data area that support read/write and truncate.

Caveat: the hardware error handler does not take i_mutex
for now before calling the truncate function. Is that ok?

Cc: tytso@mit.edu
Cc: hch@infradead.org
Cc: mfasheh@suse.com
Cc: aia21@cantab.net
Cc: hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk
Cc: swhiteho@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-09-16 11:50:16 +02:00
Andi Kleen 6a46079cf5 HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v7
Add the high level memory handler that poisons pages
that got corrupted by hardware (typically by a two bit flip in a DIMM
or a cache) on the Linux level. The goal is to prevent everyone
from accessing these pages in the future.

This done at the VM level by marking a page hwpoisoned
and doing the appropriate action based on the type of page
it is.

The code that does this is portable and lives in mm/memory-failure.c

To quote the overview comment:

High level machine check handler. Handles pages reported by the
hardware as being corrupted usually due to a 2bit ECC memory or cache
failure.

This focuses on pages detected as corrupted in the background.
When the current CPU tries to consume corruption the currently
running process can just be killed directly instead. This implies
that if the error cannot be handled for some reason it's safe to
just ignore it because no corruption has been consumed yet. Instead
when that happens another machine check will happen.

Handles page cache pages in various states. The tricky part
here is that we can access any page asynchronous to other VM
users, because memory failures could happen anytime and anywhere,
possibly violating some of their assumptions. This is why this code
has to be extremely careful. Generally it tries to use normal locking
rules, as in get the standard locks, even if that means the
error handling takes potentially a long time.

Some of the operations here are somewhat inefficient and have non
linear algorithmic complexity, because the data structures have not
been optimized for this case. This is in particular the case
for the mapping from a vma to a process. Since this case is expected
to be rare we hope we can get away with this.

There are in principle two strategies to kill processes on poison:
- just unmap the data and wait for an actual reference before
killing
- kill as soon as corruption is detected.
Both have advantages and disadvantages and should be used
in different situations. Right now both are implemented and can
be switched with a new sysctl vm.memory_failure_early_kill
The default is early kill.

The patch does some rmap data structure walking on its own to collect
processes to kill. This is unusual because normally all rmap data structure
knowledge is in rmap.c only. I put it here for now to keep
everything together and rmap knowledge has been seeping out anyways

Includes contributions from Johannes Weiner, Chris Mason, Fengguang Wu,
Nick Piggin (who did a lot of great work) and others.

Cc: npiggin@suse.de
Cc: riel@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>
2009-09-16 11:50:15 +02:00
Wu Fengguang 6746aff74d HWPOISON: shmem: call set_page_dirty() with locked page
The dirtying of page and set_page_dirty() can be moved into the page lock.

- In shmem_write_end(), the page was dirtied while the page lock was held,
  but it's being marked dirty just after dropping the page lock.
- In shmem_symlink(), both dirtying and marking can be moved into page lock.

It's valuable for the hwpoison code to know whether one bad page can be dropped
without losing data. It mainly judges by testing the PG_dirty bit after taking
the page lock. So it becomes important that the dirtying of page and the
marking of dirtiness are both done inside the page lock. Which is a common
practice, but sadly not a rule.

The noticeable exceptions are
- mapped pages
- pages with buffer_heads
The above pages could go dirty at any time. Fortunately the hwpoison will
unmap the page and release the buffer_heads beforehand anyway.

Many other types of pages (eg. metadata pages) can also be dirtied at will by
their owners, the hwpoison code cannot do meaningful things to them anyway.
Only the dirtiness of pagecache pages owned by regular files are interested.

v2: AK: Add comment about set_page_dirty rules (suggested by Peter Zijlstra)

Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-09-16 11:50:14 +02:00
Andi Kleen 2571873621 HWPOISON: Define a new error_remove_page address space op for async truncation
Truncating metadata pages is not safe right now before
we haven't audited all file systems.

To enable truncation only for data address space define
a new address_space callback error_remove_page.

This is used for memory_failure.c memory error handling.

This can be then set to truncate_inode_page()

This patch just defines the new operation and adds documentation.

Callers and users come in followon patches.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-09-16 11:50:13 +02:00
Wu Fengguang 83f786680a HWPOISON: Add invalidate_inode_page
Add a simple way to invalidate a single page
This is just a refactoring of the truncate.c code.
Originally from Fengguang, modified by Andi Kleen.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-09-16 11:50:13 +02:00
Nick Piggin 750b4987b0 HWPOISON: Refactor truncate to allow direct truncating of page v2
Extract out truncate_inode_page() out of the truncate path so that
it can be used by memory-failure.c

[AK: description, headers, fix typos]
v2: Some white space changes from Fengguang Wu

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-09-16 11:50:12 +02:00
Wu Fengguang 2a7684a23e HWPOISON: check and isolate corrupted free pages v2
If memory corruption hits the free buddy pages, we can safely ignore them.
No one will access them until page allocation time, then prep_new_page()
will automatically check and isolate PG_hwpoison page for us (for 0-order
allocation).

This patch expands prep_new_page() to check every component page in a high
order page allocation, in order to completely stop PG_hwpoison pages from
being recirculated.

Note that the common case -- only allocating a single page, doesn't
do any more work than before. Allocating > order 0 does a bit more work,
but that's relatively uncommon.

This simple implementation may drop some innocent neighbor pages, hopefully
it is not a big problem because the event should be rare enough.

This patch adds some runtime costs to high order page users.

[AK: Improved description]

v2: Andi Kleen:
Port to -mm code
Move check into separate function.
Don't dump stack in bad_pages for hwpoisoned pages.
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-09-16 11:50:12 +02:00
Andi Kleen 888b9f7c58 HWPOISON: Handle hardware poisoned pages in try_to_unmap
When a page has the poison bit set replace the PTE with a poison entry.
This causes the right error handling to be done later when a process runs
into it.

v2: add a new flag to not do that (needed for the memory-failure handler
later) (Fengguang)
v3: remove unnecessary is_migration_entry() test (Fengguang, Minchan)

Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-09-16 11:50:11 +02:00
Andi Kleen 14fa31b89c HWPOISON: Use bitmask/action code for try_to_unmap behaviour
try_to_unmap currently has multiple modi (migration, munlock, normal unmap)
which are selected by magic flag variables. The logic is not very straight
forward, because each of these flag change multiple behaviours (e.g.
migration turns off aging, not only sets up migration ptes etc.)
Also the different flags interact in magic ways.

A later patch in this series adds another mode to try_to_unmap, so
this becomes quickly unmanageable.

Replace the different flags with a action code (migration, munlock, munmap)
and some additional flags as modifiers (ignore mlock, ignore aging).
This makes the logic more straight forward and allows easier extension
to new behaviours. Change all the caller to declare what they want to
do.

This patch is supposed to be a nop in behaviour. If anyone can prove
it is not that would be a bug.

Cc: Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com
Cc: npiggin@suse.de

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-09-16 11:50:10 +02:00
Andi Kleen a3b947eacf HWPOISON: Add poison check to page fault handling
Bail out early when hardware poisoned pages are found in page fault handling.
Since they are poisoned they should not be mapped freshly into processes,
because that would cause another (potentially deadly) machine check

This is generally handled in the same way as OOM, just a different
error code is returned to the architecture code.

v2: Do a page unlock if needed (Fengguang Wu)

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-09-16 11:50:08 +02:00
Andi Kleen d1737fdbec HWPOISON: Add basic support for poisoned pages in fault handler v3
- Add a new VM_FAULT_HWPOISON error code to handle_mm_fault. Right now
architectures have to explicitely enable poison page support, so
this is forward compatible to all architectures. They only need
to add it when they enable poison page support.
- Add poison page handling in swap in fault code

v2: Add missing delayacct_clear_flag (Hidehiro Kawai)
v3: Really use delayacct_clear_flag (Hidehiro Kawai)

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-09-16 11:50:06 +02:00
Andi Kleen a7420aa54d HWPOISON: Add support for poison swap entries v2
Memory migration uses special swap entry types to trigger special actions on
page faults. Extend this mechanism to also support poisoned swap entries, to
trigger poison handling on page faults. This allows follow-on patches to
prevent processes from faulting in poisoned pages again.

v2: Fix overflow in MAX_SWAPFILES (Fengguang Wu)
v3: Better overflow fix (Hidehiro Kawai)

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-09-16 11:50:05 +02:00
Andi Kleen 10be22dfe1 HWPOISON: Export some rmap vma locking to outside world
Needed for later patch that walks rmap entries on its own.

This used to be very frowned upon, but memory-failure.c does
some rather specialized rmap walking and rmap has been stable
for quite some time, so I think it's ok now to export it.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-09-16 11:50:04 +02:00
Ingo Molnar fdaa45e95d slub: Fix build error in kmem_cache_open() with !CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG
This build bug:

 mm/slub.c: In function 'kmem_cache_open':
 mm/slub.c:2476: error: 'disable_higher_order_debug' undeclared (first use in this function)
 mm/slub.c:2476: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
 mm/slub.c:2476: error: for each function it appears in.)

Triggers because there's no !CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG definition for
disable_higher_order_debug.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-09-15 22:32:10 +03:00
Kay Sievers 2b2af54a5b Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev
Devtmpfs lets the kernel create a tmpfs instance called devtmpfs
very early at kernel initialization, before any driver-core device
is registered. Every device with a major/minor will provide a
device node in devtmpfs.

Devtmpfs can be changed and altered by userspace at any time,
and in any way needed - just like today's udev-mounted tmpfs.
Unmodified udev versions will run just fine on top of it, and will
recognize an already existing kernel-created device node and use it.
The default node permissions are root:root 0600. Proper permissions
and user/group ownership, meaningful symlinks, all other policy still
needs to be applied by userspace.

If a node is created by devtmps, devtmpfs will remove the device node
when the device goes away. If the device node was created by
userspace, or the devtmpfs created node was replaced by userspace, it
will no longer be removed by devtmpfs.

If it is requested to auto-mount it, it makes init=/bin/sh work
without any further userspace support. /dev will be fully populated
and dynamic, and always reflect the current device state of the kernel.
With the commonly used dynamic device numbers, it solves the problem
where static devices nodes may point to the wrong devices.

It is intended to make the initial bootup logic simpler and more robust,
by de-coupling the creation of the inital environment, to reliably run
userspace processes, from a complex userspace bootstrap logic to provide
a working /dev.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Tested-By: Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>
Tested-By: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15 09:50:49 -07:00
Linus Torvalds ada3fa1505 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (46 commits)
  powerpc64: convert to dynamic percpu allocator
  sparc64: use embedding percpu first chunk allocator
  percpu: kill lpage first chunk allocator
  x86,percpu: use embedding for 64bit NUMA and page for 32bit NUMA
  percpu: update embedding first chunk allocator to handle sparse units
  percpu: use group information to allocate vmap areas sparsely
  vmalloc: implement pcpu_get_vm_areas()
  vmalloc: separate out insert_vmalloc_vm()
  percpu: add chunk->base_addr
  percpu: add pcpu_unit_offsets[]
  percpu: introduce pcpu_alloc_info and pcpu_group_info
  percpu: move pcpu_lpage_build_unit_map() and pcpul_lpage_dump_cfg() upward
  percpu: add @align to pcpu_fc_alloc_fn_t
  percpu: make @dyn_size mandatory for pcpu_setup_first_chunk()
  percpu: drop @static_size from first chunk allocators
  percpu: generalize first chunk allocator selection
  percpu: build first chunk allocators selectively
  percpu: rename 4k first chunk allocator to page
  percpu: improve boot messages
  percpu: fix pcpu_reclaim() locking
  ...

Fix trivial conflict as by Tejun Heo in kernel/sched.c
2009-09-15 09:39:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 227423904c Merge branch 'x86-pat-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-pat-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, pat: Fix cacheflush address in change_page_attr_set_clr()
  mm: remove !NUMA condition from PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED condition set
  x86: Fix earlyprintk=dbgp for machines without NX
  x86, pat: Sanity check remap_pfn_range for RAM region
  x86, pat: Lookup the protection from memtype list on vm_insert_pfn()
  x86, pat: Add lookup_memtype to get the current memtype of a paddr
  x86, pat: Use page flags to track memtypes of RAM pages
  x86, pat: Generalize the use of page flag PG_uncached
  x86, pat: Add rbtree to do quick lookup in memtype tracking
  x86, pat: Add PAT reserve free to io_mapping* APIs
  x86, pat: New i/f for driver to request memtype for IO regions
  x86, pat: ioremap to follow same PAT restrictions as other PAT users
  x86, pat: Keep identity maps consistent with mmaps even when pat_disabled
  x86, mtrr: make mtrr_aps_delayed_init static bool
  x86, pat/mtrr: Rendezvous all the cpus for MTRR/PAT init
  generic-ipi: Allow cpus not yet online to call smp_call_function with irqs disabled
  x86: Fix an incorrect argument of reserve_bootmem()
  x86: Fix system crash when loading with "reservetop" parameter
2009-09-15 09:19:38 -07:00
Tejun Heo 5579fd7e6a Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus
* pcpu_chunk_page_occupied() doesn't exist in for-next.
* pcpu_chunk_addr_search() updated to use raw_smp_processor_id().

Conflicts:
	mm/percpu.c
2009-09-15 09:57:19 +09:00
Linus Torvalds 355bbd8cb8 Merge branch 'for-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (29 commits)
  block: use blkdev_issue_discard in blk_ioctl_discard
  Make DISCARD_BARRIER and DISCARD_NOBARRIER writes instead of reads
  block: don't assume device has a request list backing in nr_requests store
  block: Optimal I/O limit wrapper
  cfq: choose a new next_req when a request is dispatched
  Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests
  aoe: end barrier bios with EOPNOTSUPP
  block: trace bio queueing trial only when it occurs
  block: enable rq CPU completion affinity by default
  cfq: fix the log message after dispatched a request
  block: use printk_once
  cciss: memory leak in cciss_init_one()
  splice: update mtime and atime on files
  block: make blk_iopoll_prep_sched() follow normal 0/1 return convention
  cfq-iosched: get rid of must_alloc flag
  block: use interrupts disabled version of raise_softirq_irqoff()
  block: fix comment in blk-iopoll.c
  block: adjust default budget for blk-iopoll
  block: fix long lines in block/blk-iopoll.c
  block: add blk-iopoll, a NAPI like approach for block devices
  ...
2009-09-14 17:55:15 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 69def9f05d Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.32' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (202 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: update KVM entry
  KVM: correct error-handling code
  KVM: fix compile warnings on s390
  KVM: VMX: Check cpl before emulating debug register access
  KVM: fix misreporting of coalesced interrupts by kvm tracer
  KVM: x86: drop duplicate kvm_flush_remote_tlb calls
  KVM: VMX: call vmx_load_host_state() only if msr is cached
  KVM: VMX: Conditionally reload debug register 6
  KVM: Use thread debug register storage instead of kvm specific data
  KVM guest: do not batch pte updates from interrupt context
  KVM: Fix coalesced interrupt reporting in IOAPIC
  KVM guest: fix bogus wallclock physical address calculation
  KVM: VMX: Fix cr8 exiting control clobbering by EPT
  KVM: Optimize kvm_mmu_unprotect_page_virt() for tdp
  KVM: Document KVM_CAP_IRQCHIP
  KVM: Protect update_cr8_intercept() when running without an apic
  KVM: VMX: Fix EPT with WP bit change during paging
  KVM: Use kvm_{read,write}_guest_virt() to read and write segment descriptors
  KVM: x86 emulator: Add adc and sbb missing decoder flags
  KVM: Add missing #include
  ...
2009-09-14 17:43:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds bb193c986a Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
  slub: fix slab_pad_check()
  slub: release kobject if sysfs_create_group failed in sysfs_slab_add
  SLUB: fix ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN cases 64 and 256
  SLUB: Fix some coding style issues
  SLUB: Drop write permission to /proc/slabinfo
  slab: remove duplicate kmem_cache_init_late() declarations
  slub: change kmem_cache->align to record the real alignment
  slub: use size and objsize orders to disable debug flags
  slub: add option to disable higher order debugging slabs
2009-09-14 17:38:52 -07:00
Pekka Enberg aceda77360 Merge branches 'slab/cleanups' and 'slab/fixes' into for-linus 2009-09-14 20:19:06 +03:00
Jan Kara 18f2ee705d vfs: Remove generic_osync_inode() and sync_page_range{_nolock}()
Remove these three functions since nobody uses them anymore.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14 17:08:17 +02:00
Jan Kara 148f948ba8 vfs: Introduce new helpers for syncing after writing to O_SYNC file or IS_SYNC inode
Introduce new function for generic inode syncing (vfs_fsync_range) and use
it from fsync() path. Introduce also new helper for syncing after a sync
write (generic_write_sync) using the generic function.

Use these new helpers for syncing from generic VFS functions. This makes
O_SYNC writes to block devices acquire i_mutex for syncing. If we really
care about this, we can make block_fsync() drop the i_mutex and reacquire
it before it returns.

CC: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
CC: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
CC: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
CC: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
CC: xfs@oss.sgi.com
CC: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
CC: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
CC: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
CC: tytso@mit.edu
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14 17:08:15 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig eef9938067 vfs: Rename generic_file_aio_write_nolock
generic_file_aio_write_nolock() is now used only by block devices and raw
character device. Filesystems should use __generic_file_aio_write() in case
generic_file_aio_write() doesn't suit them. So rename the function to
blkdev_aio_write() and move it to fs/blockdev.c.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14 17:08:15 +02:00
Jan Kara c7b50db21f vfs: Remove syncing from generic_file_direct_write() and generic_file_buffered_write()
generic_file_direct_write() and generic_file_buffered_write() called
generic_osync_inode() if it was called on O_SYNC file or IS_SYNC inode. But
this is superfluous since generic_file_aio_write() does the syncing as well.
Also XFS and OCFS2 which call these functions directly handle syncing
themselves. So let's have a single place where syncing happens:
generic_file_aio_write().

We slightly change the behavior by syncing only the range of file to which the
write happened for buffered writes but that should be all that is required.

CC: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
CC: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
CC: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
CC: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14 17:08:15 +02:00
Jan Kara e4dd9de3c6 vfs: Export __generic_file_aio_write() and add some comments
Rename __generic_file_aio_write_nolock() to __generic_file_aio_write(), add
comments to write helpers explaining how they should be used and export
__generic_file_aio_write() since it will be used by some filesystems.

CC: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
CC: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14 17:08:14 +02:00
Jan Kara d3bccb6f4b vfs: Introduce filemap_fdatawait_range
This simple helper saves some filesystems conversion from byte offset
to page numbers and also makes the fdata* interface more complete.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-09-14 17:08:14 +02:00
Christoph Hellwig 746cd1e7e4 block: use blkdev_issue_discard in blk_ioctl_discard
blk_ioctl_discard duplicates large amounts of code from blkdev_issue_discard,
the only difference between the two is that blkdev_issue_discard needs to
send a barrier discard request and blk_ioctl_discard a non-barrier one,
and blk_ioctl_discard needs to wait on the request.  To facilitates this
add a flags argument to blkdev_issue_discard to control both aspects of the
behaviour.  This will be very useful later on for using the waiting
funcitonality for other callers.

Based on an earlier patch from Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-14 08:24:53 +02:00
Eric Dumazet 8a3d271deb slub: fix slab_pad_check()
When SLAB_POISON is used and slab_pad_check() finds an overwrite of the
slab padding, we call restore_bytes() on the whole slab, not only
on the padding.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameer <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zdenek.kabelac@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-09-14 07:57:55 +03:00
Linus Torvalds a12e4d304c Merge branch 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  writeback: check for registered bdi in flusher add and inode dirty
  writeback: add name to backing_dev_info
  writeback: add some debug inode list counters to bdi stats
  writeback: get rid of pdflush completely
  writeback: switch to per-bdi threads for flushing data
  writeback: move dirty inodes from super_block to backing_dev_info
  writeback: get rid of generic_sync_sb_inodes() export
2009-09-11 09:17:05 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1b195b170d Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6
* 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6:
  kmemleak: Improve the "Early log buffer exceeded" error message
  kmemleak: fix sparse warning for static declarations
  kmemleak: fix sparse warning over overshadowed flags
  kmemleak: move common painting code together
  kmemleak: add clear command support
  kmemleak: use bool for true/false questions
  kmemleak: Do no create the clean-up thread during kmemleak_disable()
  kmemleak: Scan all thread stacks
  kmemleak: Don't scan uninitialized memory when kmemcheck is enabled
  kmemleak: Ignore the aperture memory hole on x86_64
  kmemleak: Printing of the objects hex dump
  kmemleak: Do not report alloc_bootmem blocks as leaks
  kmemleak: Save the stack trace for early allocations
  kmemleak: Mark the early log buffer as __initdata
  kmemleak: Dump object information on request
  kmemleak: Allow rescheduling during an object scanning
2009-09-11 09:16:22 -07:00
Catalin Marinas addd72c1a9 kmemleak: Improve the "Early log buffer exceeded" error message
Based on a suggestion from Jaswinder, clarify what the user would need
to do to avoid this error message from kmemleak.

Reported-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-09-11 10:42:09 +01:00
Jens Axboe 500b067c5e writeback: check for registered bdi in flusher add and inode dirty
Also a debugging aid. We want to catch dirty inodes being added to
backing devices that don't do writeback.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 09:20:26 +02:00
Jens Axboe d993831fa7 writeback: add name to backing_dev_info
This enables us to track who does what and print info. Its main use
is catching dirty inodes on the default_backing_dev_info, so we can
fix that up.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 09:20:26 +02:00
Jens Axboe f09b00d3e7 writeback: add some debug inode list counters to bdi stats
Add some debug entries to be able to inspect the internal state of
the writeback details.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 09:20:26 +02:00
Jens Axboe d0bceac747 writeback: get rid of pdflush completely
It is now unused, so kill it off.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 09:20:25 +02:00
Jens Axboe 03ba3782e8 writeback: switch to per-bdi threads for flushing data
This gets rid of pdflush for bdi writeout and kupdated style cleaning.
pdflush writeout suffers from lack of locality and also requires more
threads to handle the same workload, since it has to work in a
non-blocking fashion against each queue. This also introduces lumpy
behaviour and potential request starvation, since pdflush can be starved
for queue access if others are accessing it. A sample ffsb workload that
does random writes to files is about 8% faster here on a simple SATA drive
during the benchmark phase. File layout also seems a LOT more smooth in
vmstat:

 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy id wa
 0  1      0 608848   2652 375372    0    0     0 71024  604    24  1 10 48 42
 0  1      0 549644   2712 433736    0    0     0 60692  505    27  1  8 48 44
 1  0      0 476928   2784 505192    0    0     4 29540  553    24  0  9 53 37
 0  1      0 457972   2808 524008    0    0     0 54876  331    16  0  4 38 58
 0  1      0 366128   2928 614284    0    0     4 92168  710    58  0 13 53 34
 0  1      0 295092   3000 684140    0    0     0 62924  572    23  0  9 53 37
 0  1      0 236592   3064 741704    0    0     4 58256  523    17  0  8 48 44
 0  1      0 165608   3132 811464    0    0     0 57460  560    21  0  8 54 38
 0  1      0 102952   3200 873164    0    0     4 74748  540    29  1 10 48 41
 0  1      0  48604   3252 926472    0    0     0 53248  469    29  0  7 47 45

where vanilla tends to fluctuate a lot in the creation phase:

 r  b   swpd   free   buff  cache   si   so    bi    bo   in    cs us sy id wa
 1  1      0 678716   5792 303380    0    0     0 74064  565    50  1 11 52 36
 1  0      0 662488   5864 319396    0    0     4   352  302   329  0  2 47 51
 0  1      0 599312   5924 381468    0    0     0 78164  516    55  0  9 51 40
 0  1      0 519952   6008 459516    0    0     4 78156  622    56  1 11 52 37
 1  1      0 436640   6092 541632    0    0     0 82244  622    54  0 11 48 41
 0  1      0 436640   6092 541660    0    0     0     8  152    39  0  0 51 49
 0  1      0 332224   6200 644252    0    0     4 102800  728    46  1 13 49 36
 1  0      0 274492   6260 701056    0    0     4 12328  459    49  0  7 50 43
 0  1      0 211220   6324 763356    0    0     0 106940  515    37  1 10 51 39
 1  0      0 160412   6376 813468    0    0     0  8224  415    43  0  6 49 45
 1  1      0  85980   6452 886556    0    0     4 113516  575    39  1 11 54 34
 0  2      0  85968   6452 886620    0    0     0  1640  158   211  0  0 46 54

A 10 disk test with btrfs performs 26% faster with per-bdi flushing. A
SSD based writeback test on XFS performs over 20% better as well, with
the throughput being very stable around 1GB/sec, where pdflush only
manages 750MB/sec and fluctuates wildly while doing so. Random buffered
writes to many files behave a lot better as well, as does random mmap'ed
writes.

A separate thread is added to sync the super blocks. In the long term,
adding sync_supers_bdi() functionality could get rid of this thread again.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 09:20:25 +02:00
Jens Axboe 66f3b8e2e1 writeback: move dirty inodes from super_block to backing_dev_info
This is a first step at introducing per-bdi flusher threads. We should
have no change in behaviour, although sb_has_dirty_inodes() is now
ridiculously expensive, as there's no easy way to answer that question.
Not a huge problem, since it'll be deleted in subsequent patches.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-11 09:20:25 +02:00
Joerg Roedel f340ca0f06 hugetlbfs: export vma_kernel_pagsize to modules
This function is required by KVM.

Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-09-10 08:33:01 +03:00
Linus Torvalds 6d848a488a shmfs: use 'check_acl' instead of 'permission'
shmfs wants purely standard POSIX ACL semantics, so we can use the new
generic VFS layer POSIX ACL checking rather than cooking our own
'permission()' function.

Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-08 11:08:46 -07:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 7eb0d5e5be kmemleak: fix sparse warning for static declarations
This fixes these sparse warnings:

mm/kmemleak.c:1179:6: warning: symbol 'start_scan_thread' was not declared. Should it be static?
mm/kmemleak.c:1194:6: warning: symbol 'stop_scan_thread' was not declared. Should it be static?

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-09-08 17:34:07 +01:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 0580a1819c kmemleak: fix sparse warning over overshadowed flags
A secondary irq_save is not required as a locking before it was
already disabling irqs.

This fixes this sparse warning:
mm/kmemleak.c:512:31: warning: symbol 'flags' shadows an earlier one
mm/kmemleak.c:448:23: originally declared here

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-09-08 17:34:06 +01:00
Luis R. Rodriguez a1084c8779 kmemleak: move common painting code together
When painting grey or black we do the same thing, bring
this together into a helper and identify coloring grey or
black explicitly with defines. This makes this a little
easier to read.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-09-08 17:22:20 +01:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 30b3710105 kmemleak: add clear command support
In an ideal world your kmemleak output will be small, when its
not (usually during initial bootup) you can use the clear command
to ingore previously reported and unreferenced kmemleak objects. We
do this by painting all currently reported unreferenced objects grey.
We paint them grey instead of black to allow future scans on the same
objects as such objects could still potentially reference newly
allocated objects in the future.

To test a critical section on demand with a clean
/sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak you can do:

echo clear > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
        test your kernel or modules
echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak

Then as usual to get your report with:

cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-09-08 16:36:08 +01:00
Luis R. Rodriguez 4a558dd6f9 kmemleak: use bool for true/false questions
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-09-08 16:34:50 +01:00
Catalin Marinas 179a8100e1 kmemleak: Do no create the clean-up thread during kmemleak_disable()
The kmemleak_disable() function could be called from various contexts
including IRQ. It creates a clean-up thread but the kthread_create()
function has restrictions on which contexts it can be called from,
mainly because of the kthread_create_lock. The patch changes the
kmemleak clean-up thread to a workqueue.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2009-09-08 16:31:15 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 931f70350e Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  percpu: don't assume existence of cpu0
2009-09-05 14:22:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e305fc5ecd Merge branch 'slab/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'slab/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
  slub: Fix kmem_cache_destroy() with SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU
2009-09-05 13:57:53 -07:00
Mel Gorman dd5d241ea9 page-allocator: always change pageblock ownership when anti-fragmentation is disabled
On low-memory systems, anti-fragmentation gets disabled as fragmentation
cannot be avoided on a sufficiently large boundary to be worthwhile.  Once
disabled, there is a period of time when all the pageblocks are marked
MOVABLE and the expectation is that they get marked UNMOVABLE at each call
to __rmqueue_fallback().

However, when MAX_ORDER is large the pageblocks do not change ownership
because the normal criteria are not met.  This has the effect of
prematurely breaking up too many large contiguous blocks.  This is most
serious on NOMMU systems which depend on high-order allocations to boot.
This patch causes pageblocks to change ownership on every fallback when
anti-fragmentation is disabled.  This prevents the large blocks being
prematurely broken up.

This is a fix to commit 49255c619f [page
allocator: move check for disabled anti-fragmentation out of fastpath] and
the problem affects 2.6.31-rc8.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Tested-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-05 11:30:42 -07:00
David Howells a190887b58 nommu: fix error handling in do_mmap_pgoff()
Fix the error handling in do_mmap_pgoff().  If do_mmap_shared_file() or
do_mmap_private() fail, we jump to the error_put_region label at which
point we cann __put_nommu_region() on the region - but we haven't yet
added the region to the tree, and so __put_nommu_region() may BUG
because the region tree is empty or it may corrupt the region tree.

To get around this, we can afford to add the region to the region tree
before calling do_mmap_shared_file() or do_mmap_private() as we keep
nommu_region_sem write-locked, so no-one can race with us by seeing a
transient region.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-05 11:30:42 -07:00
Catalin Marinas 43ed5d6ee0 kmemleak: Scan all thread stacks
This patch changes the for_each_process() loop with the
do_each_thread()/while_each_thread() pair.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-09-04 16:05:55 +01:00
Pekka Enberg 8e019366ba kmemleak: Don't scan uninitialized memory when kmemcheck is enabled
Ingo Molnar reported the following kmemcheck warning when running both
kmemleak and kmemcheck enabled:

  PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa7
  WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read from uninitialized memory
  (f6f6e1a4)
  d873f9f600000000c42ae4c1005c87f70000000070665f666978656400000000
   i i i i u u u u i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i u u u
           ^

  Pid: 3091, comm: kmemleak Not tainted (2.6.31-rc7-tip #1303) P4DC6
  EIP: 0060:[<c110301f>] EFLAGS: 00010006 CPU: 0
  EIP is at scan_block+0x3f/0xe0
  EAX: f40bd700 EBX: f40bd780 ECX: f16b46c0 EDX: 00000001
  ESI: f6f6e1a4 EDI: 00000000 EBP: f10f3f4c ESP: c2605fcc
   DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
  CR0: 8005003b CR2: e89a4844 CR3: 30ff1000 CR4: 000006f0
  DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
  DR6: ffff4ff0 DR7: 00000400
   [<c110313c>] scan_object+0x7c/0xf0
   [<c1103389>] kmemleak_scan+0x1d9/0x400
   [<c1103a3c>] kmemleak_scan_thread+0x4c/0xb0
   [<c10819d4>] kthread+0x74/0x80
   [<c10257db>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x3c
   [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
  kmemleak: 515 new suspected memory leaks (see
  /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)
  kmemleak: 42 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)

The problem here is that kmemleak will scan partially initialized
objects that makes kmemcheck complain. Fix that up by skipping
uninitialized memory regions when kmemcheck is enabled.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-09-04 16:05:55 +01:00
Eric Dumazet d76b1590e0 slub: Fix kmem_cache_destroy() with SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU
kmem_cache_destroy() should call rcu_barrier() *after* kmem_cache_close() and
*before* sysfs_slab_remove() or risk rcu_free_slab() being called after
kmem_cache is deleted (kfreed).

rmmod nf_conntrack can crash the machine because it has to kmem_cache_destroy()
a SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU enabled cache.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zdenek.kabelac@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-09-03 22:38:59 +03:00
Xiaotian Feng 5788d8ad6c slub: release kobject if sysfs_create_group failed in sysfs_slab_add
When CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is enabled, sysfs_slab_add should unlink and put the
kobject if sysfs_create_group failed. Otherwise, sysfs_slab_add returns error
then free kmem_cache s, thus memory of s->kobj is leaked.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-09-03 21:11:41 +03:00
Tejun Heo 04a13c7c63 percpu: don't assume existence of cpu0
percpu incorrectly assumed that cpu0 was always there which led to the
following warning and eventual oops on sparc machines w/o cpu0.

  WARNING: at mm/percpu.c:651 pcpu_map+0xdc/0x100()
  Modules linked in:
  Call Trace:
    [000000000045eb70] warn_slowpath_common+0x50/0xa0
    [000000000045ebdc] warn_slowpath_null+0x1c/0x40
    [00000000004d493c] pcpu_map+0xdc/0x100
    [00000000004d59a4] pcpu_alloc+0x3e4/0x4e0
    [00000000004d5af8] __alloc_percpu+0x18/0x40
    [00000000005b112c] __percpu_counter_init+0x4c/0xc0
  ...
  Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
  ...
   I7: <sysfs_new_dirent+0x30/0x120>
   Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
   Caller[000000000053c1b0]: sysfs_new_dirent+0x30/0x120
   Caller[000000000053c7a4]: create_dir+0x24/0xc0
   Caller[000000000053c870]: sysfs_create_dir+0x30/0x80
   Caller[00000000005990e8]: kobject_add_internal+0xc8/0x200
  ...
   Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!

This patch fixes the problem by backporting parts from devel branch to
make percpu core not depend on the existence of cpu0.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-01 21:23:18 +09:00
H. Peter Anvin a269cca992 mm: remove !NUMA condition from PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED condition set
CONFIG_PAGEFLAGS_EXTENDED disables a trick to conserve pageflags.
This trick is indended to be enabled when the pressure on page flags
is very high.

The previous condition was:

-       depends on 64BIT || SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP || !NUMA || !SPARSEMEM

... however, the sparsemem code already has a way to crowd out the
node number from the pageflags, which means that !NUMA actually
doesn't contribute to hard pageflags exhaustion.

This is required for the new PG_uncached flag to not cause pageflags
exhaustion on x86_32 + PAE + SPARSEMEM + !NUMA.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A9828F4.4040905@zytor.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.siddha@intel.com>
2009-08-31 11:17:44 -07:00
Aaro Koskinen acdfcd04d9 SLUB: fix ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN cases 64 and 256
If the minalign is 64 bytes, then the 96 byte cache should not be created
because it would conflict with the 128 byte cache.

If the minalign is 256 bytes, patching the size_index table should not
result in a buffer overrun.

The calculation "(i - 1) / 8" used to access size_index[] is moved to
a separate function as suggested by Christoph Lameter.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-08-30 14:56:48 +03:00
Sergey Senozhatsky 0494e08281 kmemleak: Printing of the objects hex dump
Introducing printing of the objects hex dump to the seq file.
The number of lines to be printed is limited to HEX_MAX_LINES
to prevent seq file spamming. The actual number of printed
bytes is less than or equal to (HEX_MAX_LINES * HEX_ROW_SIZE).

(slight adjustments by Catalin Marinas)

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@mail.by>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-08-27 14:29:18 +01:00
Catalin Marinas 008139d914 kmemleak: Do not report alloc_bootmem blocks as leaks
This patch sets the min_count for alloc_bootmem objects to 0 so that
they are never reported as leaks. This is because many of these blocks
are only referred via the physical address which is not looked up by
kmemleak.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-08-27 14:29:17 +01:00
Catalin Marinas fd6789675e kmemleak: Save the stack trace for early allocations
Before slab is initialised, kmemleak save the allocations in an early
log buffer. They are later recorded as normal memory allocations. This
patch adds the stack trace saving to the early log buffer, otherwise the
information shown for such objects only refers to the kmemleak_init()
function.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-08-27 14:29:17 +01:00
Catalin Marinas a6186d89c9 kmemleak: Mark the early log buffer as __initdata
This buffer isn't needed after kmemleak was initialised so it can be
freed together with the .init.data section. This patch also marks
functions conditionally accessing the early log variables with __ref.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-08-27 14:29:16 +01:00
Catalin Marinas 189d84ed54 kmemleak: Dump object information on request
By writing dump=<addr> to the kmemleak file, kmemleak will look up an
object with that address and dump the information it has about it to
syslog. This is useful in debugging memory leaks.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-08-27 14:29:15 +01:00
Catalin Marinas af98603dad kmemleak: Allow rescheduling during an object scanning
If the object size is bigger than a predefined value (4K in this case),
release the object lock during scanning and call cond_resched().
Re-acquire the lock after rescheduling and test whether the object is
still valid.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-08-27 14:29:12 +01:00
Minchan Kim 03ef83af52 mm: fix for infinite churning of mlocked pages
An mlocked page might lose the isolatation race.  This causes the page to
clear PG_mlocked while it remains in a VM_LOCKED vma.  This means it can
be put onto the [in]active list.  We can rescue it by using try_to_unmap()
in shrink_page_list().

But now, As Wu Fengguang pointed out, vmscan has a bug.  If the page has
PG_referenced, it can't reach try_to_unmap() in shrink_page_list() but is
put into the active list.  If the page is referenced repeatedly, it can
remain on the [in]active list without being moving to the unevictable
list.

This patch fixes it.

Reported-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <<kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-26 20:06:52 -07:00
Amerigo Wang 5086c389cb SLUB: Fix some coding style issues
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-08-19 21:44:13 +03:00
Linus Torvalds 77f312a96d Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  percpu: use the right flag for get_vm_area()
  percpu, sparc64: fix sparse possible cpu map handling
  init: set nr_cpu_ids before setup_per_cpu_areas()
2009-08-18 19:41:05 -07:00
Bo Liu 7f9cfb3103 mm: build_zonelists(): move clear node_load[] to __build_all_zonelists()
If node_load[] is cleared everytime build_zonelists() is
called,node_load[] will have no help to find the next node that should
appear in the given node's fallback list.

Because of the bug, zonelist's node_order is not calculated as expected.
This bug affects on big machine, which has asynmetric node distance.

[synmetric NUMA's node distance]
     0    1    2
0   10   12   12
1   12   10   12
2   12   12   10

[asynmetric NUMA's node distance]
     0    1    2
0   10   12   20
1   12   10   14
2   20   14   10

This (my bug) is very old but no one has reported this for a long time.
Maybe because the number of asynmetric NUMA is very small and they use
cpuset for customizing node memory allocation fallback.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_NUMA=n build]
Signed-off-by: Bo Liu <bo-liu@hotmail.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-18 16:31:13 -07:00
Graff Yang 28d7a6ae92 nommu: check fd read permission in validate_mmap_request()
According to the POSIX (1003.1-2008), the file descriptor shall have been
opened with read permission, regardless of the protection options specified to
mmap().  The ltp test cases mmap06/07 need this.

Signed-off-by: Graff Yang <graff.yang@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-18 16:31:13 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 0753ba01e1 mm: revert "oom: move oom_adj value"
The commit 2ff05b2b (oom: move oom_adj value) moveed the oom_adj value to
the mm_struct.  It was a very good first step for sanitize OOM.

However Paul Menage reported the commit makes regression to his job
scheduler.  Current OOM logic can kill OOM_DISABLED process.

Why? His program has the code of similar to the following.

	...
	set_oom_adj(OOM_DISABLE); /* The job scheduler never killed by oom */
	...
	if (vfork() == 0) {
		set_oom_adj(0); /* Invoked child can be killed */
		execve("foo-bar-cmd");
	}
	....

vfork() parent and child are shared the same mm_struct.  then above
set_oom_adj(0) doesn't only change oom_adj for vfork() child, it's also
change oom_adj for vfork() parent.  Then, vfork() parent (job scheduler)
lost OOM immune and it was killed.

Actually, fork-setting-exec idiom is very frequently used in userland program.
We must not break this assumption.

Then, this patch revert commit 2ff05b2b and related commit.

Reverted commit list
---------------------
- commit 2ff05b2b4e (oom: move oom_adj value from task_struct to mm_struct)
- commit 4d8b9135c3 (oom: avoid unnecessary mm locking and scanning for OOM_DISABLE)
- commit 8123681022 (oom: only oom kill exiting tasks with attached memory)
- commit 933b787b57 (mm: copy over oom_adj value at fork time)

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-18 16:31:13 -07:00
WANG Cong cf5d11317e SLUB: Drop write permission to /proc/slabinfo
SLUB does not support writes to /proc/slabinfo so there should not be write
permission to do that either.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-08-18 19:11:40 +03:00
Eric Paris 788084aba2 Security/SELinux: seperate lsm specific mmap_min_addr
Currently SELinux enforcement of controls on the ability to map low memory
is determined by the mmap_min_addr tunable.  This patch causes SELinux to
ignore the tunable and instead use a seperate Kconfig option specific to how
much space the LSM should protect.

The tunable will now only control the need for CAP_SYS_RAWIO and SELinux
permissions will always protect the amount of low memory designated by
CONFIG_LSM_MMAP_MIN_ADDR.

This allows users who need to disable the mmap_min_addr controls (usual reason
being they run WINE as a non-root user) to do so and still have SELinux
controls preventing confined domains (like a web server) from being able to
map some area of low memory.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-08-17 15:09:11 +10:00
Tejun Heo e933a73f48 percpu: kill lpage first chunk allocator
With x86 converted to embedding allocator, lpage doesn't have any user
left.  Kill it along with cpa handling code.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
2009-08-14 15:00:53 +09:00
Tejun Heo c8826dd538 percpu: update embedding first chunk allocator to handle sparse units
Now that percpu core can handle very sparse units, given that vmalloc
space is large enough, embedding first chunk allocator can use any
memory to build the first chunk.  This patch teaches
pcpu_embed_first_chunk() about distances between cpus and to use
alloc/free callbacks to allocate node specific areas for each group
and use them for the first chunk.

This brings the benefits of embedding allocator to NUMA configurations
- no extra TLB pressure with the flexibility of unified dynamic
allocator and no need to restructure arch code to build memory layout
suitable for percpu.  With units put into atom_size aligned groups
according to cpu distances, using large page for dynamic chunks is
also easily possible with falling back to reuglar pages if large
allocation fails.

Embedding allocator users are converted to specify NULL
cpu_distance_fn, so this patch doesn't cause any visible behavior
difference.  Following patches will convert them.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-08-14 15:00:52 +09:00
Tejun Heo 6563297cea percpu: use group information to allocate vmap areas sparsely
ai->groups[] contains which units need to be put consecutively and at
what offset from the chunk base address.  Compile this information
into pcpu_group_offsets[] and pcpu_group_sizes[] in
pcpu_setup_first_chunk() and use them to allocate sparse vm areas
using pcpu_get_vm_areas().

This will be used to allow directly using sparse NUMA memories as
percpu areas.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
2009-08-14 15:00:52 +09:00
Tejun Heo ca23e405e0 vmalloc: implement pcpu_get_vm_areas()
To directly use spread NUMA memories for percpu units, percpu
allocator will be updated to allow sparsely mapping units in a chunk.
As the distances between units can be very large, this makes
allocating single vmap area for each chunk undesirable.  This patch
implements pcpu_get_vm_areas() and pcpu_free_vm_areas() which
allocates and frees sparse congruent vmap areas.

pcpu_get_vm_areas() take @offsets and @sizes array which define
distances and sizes of vmap areas.  It scans down from the top of
vmalloc area looking for the top-most address which can accomodate all
the areas.  The top-down scan is to avoid interacting with regular
vmallocs which can push up these congruent areas up little by little
ending up wasting address space and page table.

To speed up top-down scan, the highest possible address hint is
maintained.  Although the scan is linear from the hint, given the
usual large holes between memory addresses between NUMA nodes, the
scanning is highly likely to finish after finding the first hole for
the last unit which is scanned first.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
2009-08-14 15:00:52 +09:00
Tejun Heo cf88c79006 vmalloc: separate out insert_vmalloc_vm()
Separate out insert_vmalloc_vm() from __get_vm_area_node().
insert_vmalloc_vm() initializes vm_struct from vmap_area and inserts
it into vmlist.  insert_vmalloc_vm() only initializes fields which can
be determined from @vm, @flags and @caller The rest should be
initialized by the caller.  For __get_vm_area_node(), all other fields
just need to be cleared and this is done by using kzalloc instead of
kmalloc.

This will be used to implement pcpu_get_vm_areas().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
2009-08-14 15:00:52 +09:00
Tejun Heo bba174f5e0 percpu: add chunk->base_addr
The only thing percpu allocator wants to know about a vmalloc area is
the base address.  Instead of requiring chunk->vm, add
chunk->base_addr which contains the necessary value.  This simplifies
the code a bit and makes the dummy first_vm unnecessary.  This change
will ease allowing a chunk to be mapped by multiple vms.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-08-14 15:00:51 +09:00
Tejun Heo fb435d5233 percpu: add pcpu_unit_offsets[]
Currently units are mapped sequentially into address space.  This
patch adds pcpu_unit_offsets[] which allows units to be mapped to
arbitrary offsets from the chunk base address.  This is necessary to
allow sparse embedding which might would need to allocate address
ranges and memory areas which aren't aligned to unit size but
allocation atom size (page or large page size).  This also simplifies
things a bit by removing the need to calculate offset from unit
number.

With this change, there's no need for the arch code to know
pcpu_unit_size.  Update pcpu_setup_first_chunk() and first chunk
allocators to return regular 0 or -errno return code instead of unit
size or -errno.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-14 15:00:51 +09:00
Tejun Heo fd1e8a1fe2 percpu: introduce pcpu_alloc_info and pcpu_group_info
Till now, non-linear cpu->unit map was expressed using an integer
array which maps each cpu to a unit and used only by lpage allocator.
Although how many units have been placed in a single contiguos area
(group) is known while building unit_map, the information is lost when
the result is recorded into the unit_map array.  For lpage allocator,
as all allocations are done by lpages and whether two adjacent lpages
are in the same group or not is irrelevant, this didn't cause any
problem.  Non-linear cpu->unit mapping will be used for sparse
embedding and this grouping information is necessary for that.

This patch introduces pcpu_alloc_info which contains all the
information necessary for initializing percpu allocator.
pcpu_alloc_info contains array of pcpu_group_info which describes how
units are grouped and mapped to cpus.  pcpu_group_info also has
base_offset field to specify its offset from the chunk's base address.
pcpu_build_alloc_info() initializes this field as if all groups are
allocated back-to-back as is currently done but this will be used to
sparsely place groups.

pcpu_alloc_info is a rather complex data structure which contains a
flexible array which in turn points to nested cpu_map arrays.

* pcpu_alloc_alloc_info() and pcpu_free_alloc_info() are provided to
  help dealing with pcpu_alloc_info.

* pcpu_lpage_build_unit_map() is updated to build pcpu_alloc_info,
  generalized and renamed to pcpu_build_alloc_info().
  @cpu_distance_fn may be NULL indicating that all cpus are of
  LOCAL_DISTANCE.

* pcpul_lpage_dump_cfg() is updated to process pcpu_alloc_info,
  generalized and renamed to pcpu_dump_alloc_info().  It now also
  prints which group each alloc unit belongs to.

* pcpu_setup_first_chunk() now takes pcpu_alloc_info instead of the
  separate parameters.  All first chunk allocators are updated to use
  pcpu_build_alloc_info() to build alloc_info and call
  pcpu_setup_first_chunk() with it.  This has the side effect of
  packing units for sparse possible cpus.  ie. if cpus 0, 2 and 4 are
  possible, they'll be assigned unit 0, 1 and 2 instead of 0, 2 and 4.

* x86 setup_pcpu_lpage() is updated to deal with alloc_info.

* sparc64 setup_per_cpu_areas() is updated to build alloc_info.

Although the changes made by this patch are pretty pervasive, it
doesn't cause any behavior difference other than packing of sparse
cpus.  It mostly changes how information is passed among
initialization functions and makes room for more flexibility.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-08-14 15:00:51 +09:00
Tejun Heo 033e48fb82 percpu: move pcpu_lpage_build_unit_map() and pcpul_lpage_dump_cfg() upward
Unit map handling will be generalized and extended and used for
embedding sparse first chunk and other purposes.  Relocate two
unit_map related functions upward in preparation.  This patch just
moves the code without any actual change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-08-14 15:00:51 +09:00
Tejun Heo 3cbc856527 percpu: add @align to pcpu_fc_alloc_fn_t
pcpu_fc_alloc_fn_t is about to see more interesting usage, add @align
parameter.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-08-14 15:00:50 +09:00
Tejun Heo 1d9d325721 percpu: make @dyn_size mandatory for pcpu_setup_first_chunk()
Now that all actual first chunk allocation and copying happen in the
first chunk allocators and helpers, there's no reason for
pcpu_setup_first_chunk() to try to determine @dyn_size automatically.
The only left user is page first chunk allocator.  Make it determine
dyn_size like other allocators and make @dyn_size mandatory for
pcpu_setup_first_chunk().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-08-14 15:00:50 +09:00
Tejun Heo 9a7737691e percpu: drop @static_size from first chunk allocators
First chunk allocators assume percpu areas have been linked using one
of PERCPU_*() macros and depend on __per_cpu_load symbol defined by
those macros, so there isn't much point in passing in static area size
explicitly when it can be easily calculated from __per_cpu_start and
__per_cpu_end.  Drop @static_size from all percpu first chunk
allocators and helpers.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-08-14 15:00:50 +09:00
Tejun Heo f58dc01ba2 percpu: generalize first chunk allocator selection
Now that all first chunk allocators are in mm/percpu.c, it makes sense
to make generalize percpu_alloc kernel parameter.  Define PCPU_FC_*
and set pcpu_chosen_fc using early_param() in mm/percpu.c.  Arch code
can use the set value to determine which first chunk allocator to use.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-08-14 15:00:50 +09:00
Tejun Heo 08fc458061 percpu: build first chunk allocators selectively
There's no need to build unused first chunk allocators in.  Define
CONFIG_NEED_PER_CPU_*_FIRST_CHUNK and let archs enable them
selectively.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-08-14 15:00:49 +09:00
Tejun Heo 00ae4064b1 percpu: rename 4k first chunk allocator to page
Page size isn't always 4k depending on arch and configuration.  Rename
4k first chunk allocator to page.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2009-08-14 15:00:49 +09:00
Tejun Heo 004018e2c0 percpu: improve boot messages
Improve percpu boot messages such that they're uniform and contain
more information.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-14 15:00:49 +09:00
Tejun Heo 971f3918a5 percpu: fix pcpu_reclaim() locking
pcpu_reclaim() calls pcpu_depopulate_chunk() which makes use of pages
array and bitmap returned by pcpu_get_pages_and_bitmap() and thus
should be called under pcpu_alloc_mutex.  pcpu_reclaim() released the
mutex before calling depopulate leading to double free and other
strange problems caused by the unexpected concurrent usages of pages
array and bitmap.  Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-14 15:00:49 +09:00
Tejun Heo 384be2b18a Merge branch 'percpu-for-linus' into percpu-for-next
Conflicts:
	arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c
	arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c
	arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c
	drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c
	mm/percpu.c

Conflicts in core and arch percpu codes are mostly from commit
ed78e1e078dd44249f88b1dd8c76dafb39567161 which substituted many
num_possible_cpus() with nr_cpu_ids.  As for-next branch has moved all
the first chunk allocators into mm/percpu.c, the changes are moved
from arch code to mm/percpu.c.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-08-14 14:45:31 +09:00
Amerigo Wang 142d44b0dd percpu: use the right flag for get_vm_area()
get_vm_area() only accepts VM_* flags, not GFP_*.

And according to the doc of get_vm_area(), here should be
VM_ALLOC.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-14 13:21:10 +09:00
Tejun Heo 74d46d6b2d percpu, sparc64: fix sparse possible cpu map handling
percpu code has been assuming num_possible_cpus() == nr_cpu_ids which
is incorrect if cpu_possible_map contains holes.  This causes percpu
code to access beyond allocated memories and vmalloc areas.  On a
sparc64 machine with cpus 0 and 2 (u60), this triggers the following
warning or fails boot.

 WARNING: at /devel/tj/os/work/mm/vmalloc.c:106 vmap_page_range_noflush+0x1f0/0x240()
 Modules linked in:
 Call Trace:
  [00000000004b17d0] vmap_page_range_noflush+0x1f0/0x240
  [00000000004b1840] map_vm_area+0x20/0x60
  [00000000004b1950] __vmalloc_area_node+0xd0/0x160
  [0000000000593434] deflate_init+0x14/0xe0
  [0000000000583b94] __crypto_alloc_tfm+0xd4/0x1e0
  [00000000005844f0] crypto_alloc_base+0x50/0xa0
  [000000000058b898] alg_test_comp+0x18/0x80
  [000000000058dad4] alg_test+0x54/0x180
  [000000000058af00] cryptomgr_test+0x40/0x60
  [0000000000473098] kthread+0x58/0x80
  [000000000042b590] kernel_thread+0x30/0x60
  [0000000000472fd0] kthreadd+0xf0/0x160
 ---[ end trace 429b268a213317ba ]---

This patch fixes generic percpu functions and sparc64
setup_per_cpu_areas() so that they handle sparse cpu_possible_map
properly.

Please note that on x86, cpu_possible_map() doesn't contain holes and
thus num_possible_cpus() == nr_cpu_ids and this patch doesn't cause
any behavior difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-08-14 13:20:53 +09:00
Figo.zhang 5e2f89b5d5 mempool.c: clean up type-casting
clean up type-casting twice.  "size_t" is typedef as "unsigned long" in
64-bit system, and "unsigned int" in 32-bit system, and the intermediate
cast to 'long' is pointless.

Signed-off-by: Figo.zhang <figo1802@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-10 08:31:16 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4bfc44958e mm: make set_mempolicy(MPOL_INTERLEAV) N_HIGH_MEMORY aware
At first, init_task's mems_allowed is initialized as this.
 init_task->mems_allowed == node_state[N_POSSIBLE]

And cpuset's top_cpuset mask is initialized as this
 top_cpuset->mems_allowed = node_state[N_HIGH_MEMORY]

Before 2.6.29:
policy's mems_allowed is initialized as this.

  1. update tasks->mems_allowed by its cpuset->mems_allowed.
  2. policy->mems_allowed = nodes_and(tasks->mems_allowed, user's mask)

Updating task's mems_allowed in reference to top_cpuset's one.
cpuset's mems_allowed is aware of N_HIGH_MEMORY, always.

In 2.6.30: After commit 58568d2a82
("cpuset,mm: update tasks' mems_allowed in time"), policy's mems_allowed
is initialized as this.

  1. policy->mems_allowd = nodes_and(task->mems_allowed, user's mask)

Here, if task is in top_cpuset, task->mems_allowed is not updated from
init's one.  Assume user excutes command as #numactrl --interleave=all
,....

  policy->mems_allowd = nodes_and(N_POSSIBLE, ALL_SET_MASK)

Then, policy's mems_allowd can includes a possible node, which has no pgdat.

MPOL's INTERLEAVE just scans nodemask of task->mems_allowd and access this
directly.

  NODE_DATA(nid)->zonelist even if NODE_DATA(nid)==NULL

Then, what's we need is making policy->mems_allowed be aware of
N_HIGH_MEMORY.  This patch does that.  But to do so, extra nodemask will
be on statck.  Because I know cpumask has a new interface of
CPUMASK_ALLOC(), I added it to node.

This patch stands on old behavior.  But I feel this fix itself is just a
Band-Aid.  But to do fundametal fix, we have to take care of memory
hotplug and it takes time.  (task->mems_allowd should be N_HIGH_MEMORY, I
think.)

mpol_set_nodemask() should be aware of N_HIGH_MEMORY and policy's nodemask
should be includes only online nodes.

In old behavior, this is guaranteed by frequent reference to cpuset's
code.  Now, most of them are removed and mempolicy has to check it by
itself.

To do check, a few nodemask_t will be used for calculating nodemask.  But,
size of nodemask_t can be big and it's not good to allocate them on stack.

Now, cpumask_t has CPUMASK_ALLOC/FREE an easy code for get scratch area.
NODEMASK_ALLOC/FREE shoudl be there.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups & tweaks]
Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-07 10:39:55 -07:00
Wu Fengguang bbff2e433e slab: remove duplicate kmem_cache_init_late() declarations
kmem_cache_init_late() has been declared in slab.h

CC: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
CC: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
CC: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-08-06 11:36:25 +03:00
Zhang, Yanmin dcb0ce1bdf slub: change kmem_cache->align to record the real alignment
kmem_cache->align records the original align parameter value specified
by users. Function calculate_alignment might change it based on cache
line size. So change kmem_cache->align correspondingly.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-08-01 18:26:40 +03:00
Linus Torvalds 91a5698d1f Merge branch 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6
* 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6:
  PM / Hibernate: Replace bdget call with simple atomic_inc of i_count
  PM / ACPI: HP G7000 Notebook needs a SCI_EN resume quirk
2009-07-29 19:15:18 -07:00
Mel Gorman 1fc28b70fe page-allocator: allow too high-order warning messages to be suppressed with __GFP_NOWARN
The page allocator warns once when an order >= MAX_ORDER is specified.
This is to catch callers of the allocator that are always falling back to
their worst-case when it was not expected.  However, there are cases where
the caller is behaving correctly but cannot suppress the warning.  This
patch allows the warning to be suppressed by the callers by specifying
__GFP_NOWARN.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-29 19:10:35 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 887032670d cgroup avoid permanent sleep at rmdir
After commit ec64f51545 ("cgroup: fix
frequent -EBUSY at rmdir"), cgroup's rmdir (especially against memcg)
doesn't return -EBUSY by temporary ref counts.  That commit expects all
refs after pre_destroy() is temporary but...it wasn't.  Then, rmdir can
wait permanently.  This patch tries to fix that and change followings.

 - set CGRP_WAIT_ON_RMDIR flag before pre_destroy().
 - clear CGRP_WAIT_ON_RMDIR flag when the subsys finds racy case.
   if there are sleeping ones, wakes them up.
 - rmdir() sleeps only when CGRP_WAIT_ON_RMDIR flag is set.

Tested-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Reported-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Sigh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-29 19:10:35 -07:00
Eric Sandeen e4c6f8bed0 hugetlbfs: fix i_blocks accounting
As reported in Red Hat bz #509671, i_blocks for files on hugetlbfs get
accounting wrong when doing something like:

   $ > foo
   $ date  > foo
   date: write error: Invalid argument
   $ /usr/bin/stat foo
     File: `foo'
     Size: 0          Blocks: 18446744073709547520 IO Block: 2097152 regular
...

This is because hugetlb_unreserve_pages() is unconditionally removing
blocks_per_huge_page(h) on each call rather than using the freed amount.
If there were 0 blocks, it goes negative, resulting in the above.

This is a regression from commit a551643895
("hugetlb: modular state for hugetlb page size")

which did:

-	inode->i_blocks -= BLOCKS_PER_HUGEPAGE * freed;
+	inode->i_blocks -= blocks_per_huge_page(h);

so just put back the freed multiplier, and it's all happy again.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-29 19:10:35 -07:00
David Rientjes 6583bb64fc mm: avoid endless looping for oom killed tasks
If a task is oom killed and still cannot find memory when trying with
no watermarks, it's better to fail the allocation attempt than to loop
endlessly.  Direct reclaim has already failed and the oom killer will
be a no-op since current has yet to die, so there is no other
alternative for allocations that are not __GFP_NOFAIL.

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-29 19:10:34 -07:00
Mel Gorman e084b2d95e page-allocator: preserve PFN ordering when __GFP_COLD is set
Fix a post-2.6.24 performace regression caused by
3dfa5721f1 ("page-allocator: preserve PFN
ordering when __GFP_COLD is set").

Narayanan reports "The regression is around 15%.  There is no disk controller
as our setup is based on Samsung OneNAND used as a memory mapped device on a
OMAP2430 based board."

The page allocator tries to preserve contiguous PFN ordering when returning
pages such that repeated callers to the allocator have a strong chance of
getting physically contiguous pages, particularly when external fragmentation
is low.  However, of the bulk of the allocations have __GFP_COLD set as they
are due to aio_read() for example, then the PFNs are in reverse PFN order.
This can cause performance degration when used with IO controllers that could
have merged the requests.

This patch attempts to preserve the contiguous ordering of PFNs for users of
__GFP_COLD.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reported-by: Narayananu Gopalakrishnan <narayanan.g@samsung.com>
Tested-by: Narayanan Gopalakrishnan <narayanan.g@samsung.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-29 19:10:34 -07:00
Catalin Marinas f5886c7f96 kmemleak: Protect the seq start/next/stop sequence by rcu_read_lock()
Objects passed to kmemleak_seq_next() have an incremented reference
count (hence not freed) but they may point via object_list.next to
other freed objects. To avoid this, the whole start/next/stop sequence
must be protected by rcu_read_lock().

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-29 12:34:58 -07:00
Alan Jenkins dddac6a7b4 PM / Hibernate: Replace bdget call with simple atomic_inc of i_count
Create bdgrab().  This function copies an existing reference to a
block_device.  It is safe to call from any context.

Hibernation code wishes to copy a reference to the active swap device.
Right now it calls bdget() under a spinlock, but this is wrong because
bdget() can sleep.  It doesn't need a full bdget() because we already
hold a reference to active swap devices (and the spinlock protects
against swapoff).

Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13827

Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2009-07-29 21:07:55 +02:00
David Rientjes 3de472138a slub: use size and objsize orders to disable debug flags
This patch moves the masking of debugging flags which increase a cache's
min order due to metadata when `slub_debug=O' is used from
kmem_cache_flags() to kmem_cache_open().

Instead of defining the maximum metadata size increase in a preprocessor
macro, this approach uses the cache's ->size and ->objsize members to
determine if the min order increased due to debugging options.  If so,
the flags specified in the more appropriately named DEBUG_METADATA_FLAGS
are masked off.

This approach was suggested by Christoph Lameter
<cl@linux-foundation.org>.

Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-07-28 10:53:09 +03:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 9e1b32caa5 mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb()
mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb()

Upcoming paches to support the new 64-bit "BookE" powerpc architecture
will need to have the virtual address corresponding to PTE page when
freeing it, due to the way the HW table walker works.

Basically, the TLB can be loaded with "large" pages that cover the whole
virtual space (well, sort-of, half of it actually) represented by a PTE
page, and which contain an "indirect" bit indicating that this TLB entry
RPN points to an array of PTEs from which the TLB can then create direct
entries. Thus, in order to invalidate those when PTE pages are deleted,
we need the virtual address to pass to tlbilx or tlbivax instructions.

The old trick of sticking it somewhere in the PTE page struct page sucks
too much, the address is almost readily available in all call sites and
almost everybody implemets these as macros, so we may as well add the
argument everywhere. I added it to the pmd and pud variants for consistency.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> [MN10300 & FRV]
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> [s390]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-27 12:10:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 7638d5322b Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6
* 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6:
  kmemleak: Remove alloc_bootmem annotations introduced in the past
  kmemleak: Add callbacks to the bootmem allocator
  kmemleak: Allow partial freeing of memory blocks
  kmemleak: Trace the kmalloc_large* functions in slub
  kmemleak: Scan objects allocated during a scanning episode
  kmemleak: Do not acquire scan_mutex in kmemleak_open()
  kmemleak: Remove the reported leaks number limitation
  kmemleak: Add more cond_resched() calls in the scanning thread
  kmemleak: Renice the scanning thread to +10
2009-07-12 12:24:35 -07:00
Jens Axboe 8aa7e847d8 Fix congestion_wait() sync/async vs read/write confusion
Commit 1faa16d228 accidentally broke
the bdi congestion wait queue logic, causing us to wait on congestion
for WRITE (== 1) when we really wanted BLK_RW_ASYNC (== 0) instead.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-07-10 20:31:53 +02:00
David Rientjes fa5ec8a1f6 slub: add option to disable higher order debugging slabs
When debugging is enabled, slub requires that additional metadata be
stored in slabs for certain options: SLAB_RED_ZONE, SLAB_POISON, and
SLAB_STORE_USER.

Consequently, it may require that the minimum possible slab order needed
to allocate a single object be greater when using these options.  The
most notable example is for objects that are PAGE_SIZE bytes in size.

Higher minimum slab orders may cause page allocation failures when oom or
under heavy fragmentation.

This patch adds a new slub_debug option, which disables debugging by
default for caches that would have resulted in higher minimum orders:

	slub_debug=O

When this option is used on systems with 4K pages, kmalloc-4096, for
example, will not have debugging enabled by default even if
CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON is defined because it would have resulted in a
order-1 minimum slab order.

Reported-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-07-10 09:52:55 +03:00
Catalin Marinas 264ef8a904 kmemleak: Remove alloc_bootmem annotations introduced in the past
kmemleak_alloc() calls were added in some places where alloc_bootmem was
called. Since now kmemleak tracks bootmem allocations, these explicit
calls should be run.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-07-09 17:07:02 +01:00
Catalin Marinas ec3a354bd4 kmemleak: Add callbacks to the bootmem allocator
This patch adds kmemleak_alloc/free callbacks to the bootmem allocator.
This would allow scanning of such blocks and help avoiding a whole class
of false positives and more kmemleak annotations.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
2009-07-08 14:25:14 +01:00
Catalin Marinas 53238a60dd kmemleak: Allow partial freeing of memory blocks
Functions like free_bootmem() are allowed to free only part of a memory
block. This patch adds support for this via the kmemleak_free_part()
callback which removes the original object and creates one or two
additional objects as a result of the memory block split.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-07-08 14:25:14 +01:00
Catalin Marinas e4f7c0b44a kmemleak: Trace the kmalloc_large* functions in slub
The kmalloc_large() and kmalloc_large_node() functions were missed when
adding the kmemleak hooks to the slub allocator. However, they should be
traced to avoid false positives.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-07-08 14:25:14 +01:00
Catalin Marinas 2587362eaf kmemleak: Scan objects allocated during a scanning episode
Many of the false positives in kmemleak happen on busy systems where
objects are allocated during a kmemleak scanning episode. These objects
aren't scanned by default until the next memory scan. When such object
is added, for example, at the head of a list, it is possible that all
the other objects in the list become unreferenced until the next scan.

This patch adds checking for newly allocated objects at the end of the
scan and repeats the scanning on these objects. If Linux allocates
new objects at a higher rate than their scanning, it stops after a
predefined number of passes.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-07-08 14:25:13 +01:00
Catalin Marinas b87324d082 kmemleak: Do not acquire scan_mutex in kmemleak_open()
Initially, the scan_mutex was acquired in kmemleak_open() and released
in kmemleak_release() (corresponding to /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
operations). This was causing some lockdep reports when the file was
closed from a different task than the one opening it. This patch moves
the scan_mutex acquiring in kmemleak_write() or kmemleak_seq_start()
with releasing in kmemleak_seq_stop().

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-07-08 14:25:13 +01:00
Catalin Marinas 288c857d66 kmemleak: Remove the reported leaks number limitation
Since the leaks are no longer printed to the syslog, there is no point
in keeping this limitation. All the suspected leaks are shown on
/sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak file.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-07-08 14:25:12 +01:00
Catalin Marinas 4b8a96744c kmemleak: Add more cond_resched() calls in the scanning thread
Following recent fix to no longer reschedule in the scan_block()
function, the system may become unresponsive with !PREEMPT. This patch
re-adds the cond_resched() call to scan_block() but conditioned by the
allow_resched parameter.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-07 10:32:56 +01:00
Catalin Marinas bf2a76b317 kmemleak: Renice the scanning thread to +10
This is a long-running thread but not high-priority. So it makes sense
to renice it to +10.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-07-07 10:32:55 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 9861df15f4 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
  SLAB: Fix lockdep annotations
  fix RCU-callback-after-kmem_cache_destroy problem in sl[aou]b
2009-07-06 14:05:09 -07:00
Kevin Cernekee 5bfd756097 Fix virt_to_phys() warnings
These warnings were observed on MIPS32 using 2.6.31-rc1 and gcc-4.2.0:

mm/page_alloc.c: In function 'alloc_pages_exact':
mm/page_alloc.c:1986: warning: passing argument 1 of 'virt_to_phys' makes pointer from integer without a cast

drivers/usb/mon/mon_bin.c: In function 'mon_alloc_buff':
drivers/usb/mon/mon_bin.c:1264: warning: passing argument 1 of 'virt_to_phys' makes pointer from integer without a cast

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kernel/perf_counter.c too]
Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-06 13:57:03 -07:00
Josef Bacik c8236db9cd mm: mark page accessed before we write_end()
In testing a backport of the write_begin/write_end AOPs, a 10% re-read
regression was noticed when running iozone.  This regression was
introduced because the old AOPs would always do a mark_page_accessed(page)
after the commit_write, but when the new AOPs where introduced, the only
place this was kept was in pagecache_write_end().

This patch does the same thing in the generic case as what is done in
pagecache_write_end(), which is just to mark the page accessed before we
do write_end().

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-06 13:57:03 -07:00
Pekka Enberg 67fc25ef34 Merge branch 'slab/urgent' into for-linus 2009-07-06 10:51:54 +03:00
Tejun Heo a530b79586 percpu: teach large page allocator about NUMA
Large page first chunk allocator is primarily used for NUMA machines;
however, its NUMA handling is extremely simplistic.  Regardless of
their proximity, each cpu is put into separate large page just to
return most of the allocated space back wasting large amount of
vmalloc space and increasing cache footprint.

This patch teachs NUMA details to large page allocator.  Given
processor proximity information, pcpu_lpage_build_unit_map() will find
fitting cpu -> unit mapping in which cpus in LOCAL_DISTANCE share the
same large page and not too much virtual address space is wasted.

This greatly reduces the unit and thus chunk size and wastes much less
address space for the first chunk.  For example, on 4/4 NUMA machine,
the original code occupied 16MB of virtual space for the first chunk
while the new code only uses 4MB - one 2MB page for each node.

[ Impact: much better space efficiency on NUMA machines ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-04 08:11:00 +09:00
Tejun Heo 2f39e637ea percpu: allow non-linear / sparse cpu -> unit mapping
Currently cpu and unit are always identity mapped.  To allow more
efficient large page support on NUMA and lazy allocation for possible
but offline cpus, cpu -> unit mapping needs to be non-linear and/or
sparse.  This can be easily implemented by adding a cpu -> unit
mapping array and using it whenever looking up the matching unit for a
cpu.

The only unusal conversion is in pcpu_chunk_addr_search().  The passed
in address is unit0 based and unit0 might not be in use so it needs to
be converted to address of an in-use unit.  This is easily done by
adding the unit offset for the current processor.

[ Impact: allows non-linear/sparse cpu -> unit mapping, no visible change yet ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-04 08:11:00 +09:00
Tejun Heo ce3141a277 percpu: drop pcpu_chunk->page[]
percpu core doesn't need to tack all the allocated pages.  It needs to
know whether certain pages are populated and a way to reverse map
address to page when freeing.  This patch drops pcpu_chunk->page[] and
use populated bitmap and vmalloc_to_page() lookup instead.  Using
vmalloc_to_page() exclusively is also possible but complicates first
chunk handling, inflates cache footprint and prevents non-standard
memory allocation for percpu memory.

pcpu_chunk->page[] was used to track each page's allocation and
allowed asymmetric population which happens during failure path;
however, with single bitmap for all units, this is no longer possible.
Bite the bullet and rewrite (de)populate functions so that things are
done in clearly separated steps such that asymmetric population
doesn't happen.  This makes the (de)population process much more
modular and will also ease implementing non-standard memory usage in
the future (e.g. large pages).

This makes @get_page_fn parameter to pcpu_setup_first_chunk()
unnecessary.  The parameter is dropped and all first chunk helpers are
updated accordingly.  Please note that despite the volume most changes
to first chunk helpers are symbol renames for variables which don't
need to be referenced outside of the helper anymore.

This change reduces memory usage and cache footprint of pcpu_chunk.
Now only #unit_pages bits are necessary per chunk.

[ Impact: reduced memory usage and cache footprint for bookkeeping ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-04 08:11:00 +09:00
Tejun Heo c8a51be4ca percpu: reorder a few functions in mm/percpu.c
(de)populate functions are about to be reimplemented to drop
pcpu_chunk->page array.  Move a few functions so that the rewrite
patch doesn't have code movement making it more difficult to read.

[ Impact: code movement ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-04 08:10:59 +09:00
Tejun Heo 38a6be5254 percpu: simplify pcpu_setup_first_chunk()
Now that all first chunk allocator helpers allocate and map the first
chunk themselves, there's no need to have optional default alloc/map
in pcpu_setup_first_chunk().  Drop @populate_pte_fn and only leave
@dyn_size optional and make all other params mandatory.

This makes it much easier to follow what pcpu_setup_first_chunk() is
doing and what actual differences tweaking each parameter results in.

[ Impact: drop unused code path ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-04 08:10:59 +09:00
Tejun Heo 8c4bfc6e88 x86,percpu: generalize lpage first chunk allocator
Generalize and move x86 setup_pcpu_lpage() into
pcpu_lpage_first_chunk().  setup_pcpu_lpage() now is a simple wrapper
around the generalized version.  Other than taking size parameters and
using arch supplied callbacks to allocate/free/map memory,
pcpu_lpage_first_chunk() is identical to the original implementation.

This simplifies arch code and will help converting more archs to
dynamic percpu allocator.

While at it, factor out pcpu_calc_fc_sizes() which is common to
pcpu_embed_first_chunk() and pcpu_lpage_first_chunk().

[ Impact: code reorganization and generalization ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-04 08:10:59 +09:00
Tejun Heo 8f05a6a65d percpu: make 4k first chunk allocator map memory
At first, percpu first chunk was always setup page-by-page by the
generic code.  To add other allocators, different parts of the generic
initialization was made optional.  Now we have three allocators -
embed, remap and 4k.  embed and remap fully handle allocation and
mapping of the first chunk while 4k still depends on generic code for
those.  This makes the generic alloc/map paths specifci to 4k and
makes the code unnecessary complicated with optional generic
behaviors.

This patch makes the 4k allocator to allocate and map memory directly
instead of depending on the generic code.  The only outside visible
change is that now dynamic area in the first chunk is allocated
up-front instead of on-demand.  This doesn't make any meaningful
difference as the area is minimal (usually less than a page, just
enough to fill the alignment) on 4k allocator.  Plus, dynamic area in
the first chunk usually gets fully used anyway.

This will allow simplification of pcpu_setpu_first_chunk() and removal
of chunk->page array.

[ Impact: no outside visible change other than up-front allocation of dyn area ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-04 08:10:59 +09:00
Tejun Heo d4b95f8039 x86,percpu: generalize 4k first chunk allocator
Generalize and move x86 setup_pcpu_4k() into pcpu_4k_first_chunk().
setup_pcpu_4k() now is a simple wrapper around the generalized
version.  Other than taking size parameters and using arch supplied
callbacks to allocate/free memory, pcpu_4k_first_chunk() is identical
to the original implementation.

This simplifies arch code and will help converting more archs to
dynamic percpu allocator.

While at it, s/pcpu_populate_pte_fn_t/pcpu_fc_populate_pte_fn_t/ for
consistency.

[ Impact: code reorganization and generalization ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-04 08:10:59 +09:00
Tejun Heo 788e5abc54 percpu: drop @unit_size from embed first chunk allocator
The only extra feature @unit_size provides is making dead space at the
end of the first chunk which doesn't have any valid usecase.  Drop the
parameter.  This will increase consistency with generalized 4k
allocator.

James Bottomley spotted missing conversion for the default
setup_per_cpu_areas() which caused build breakage on all arcsh which
use it.

[ Impact: drop unused code path ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-04 08:10:58 +09:00
Tejun Heo 79ba6ac825 x86: make pcpu_chunk_addr_search() matching stricter
The @addr passed into pcpu_chunk_addr_search() is unit0 based address
and thus should be matched inside unit0 area.  Currently, when it uses
chunk size when determining whether the address falls in the first
chunk.  Addresses in unitN where N>0 shouldn't be passed in anyway, so
this doesn't cause any malfunction but fix it for consistency.

[ Impact: mostly cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-04 08:10:58 +09:00
Tejun Heo c43768cbb7 Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Pull linus#master to merge PER_CPU_DEF_ATTRIBUTES and alpha build fix
changes.  As alpha in percpu tree uses 'weak' attribute instead of
inline assembly, there's no need for __used attribute.

Conflicts:
	arch/alpha/include/asm/percpu.h
	arch/mn10300/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
	include/linux/percpu-defs.h
2009-07-04 07:13:18 +09:00
Linus Torvalds 5a475ce469 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6:
  sh: LCDC dcache flush for deferred io
  sh: Fix compiler error and include the definition of IS_ERR_VALUE
  sh: re-add LCDC fbdev support to the Migo-R defconfig
  sh: fix se7724 ceu names
  sh: ms7724se: Enable sh_eth in defconfig.
  arch/sh/boards/mach-se/7206/io.c: Remove unnecessary semicolons
  sh: ms7724se: Add sh_eth support
  nommu: provide follow_pfn().
  sh: Kill off unused DEBUG_BOOTMEM symbol.
  perf_counter tools: add cpu_relax()/rmb() definitions for sh.
  sh64: Hook up page fault events for software perf counters.
  sh: Hook up page fault events for software perf counters.
  sh: make set_perf_counter_pending() static inline.
  clocksource: sh_tmu: Make undefined TCOR behaviour less undefined.
2009-07-01 11:46:30 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 57d81f6f39 kmemleak: Fix scheduling-while-atomic bug
One of the kmemleak changes caused the following
scheduling-while-holding-the-tasklist-lock regression on x86:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/kmemleak.c:795
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 1737, name: kmemleak
2 locks held by kmemleak/1737:
 #0:  (scan_mutex){......}, at: [<c10c4376>] kmemleak_scan_thread+0x45/0x86
 #1:  (tasklist_lock){......}, at: [<c10c3bb4>] kmemleak_scan+0x1a9/0x39c
Pid: 1737, comm: kmemleak Not tainted 2.6.31-rc1-tip #59266
Call Trace:
 [<c105ac0f>] ? __debug_show_held_locks+0x1e/0x20
 [<c102e490>] __might_sleep+0x10a/0x111
 [<c10c38d5>] scan_yield+0x17/0x3b
 [<c10c3970>] scan_block+0x39/0xd4
 [<c10c3bc6>] kmemleak_scan+0x1bb/0x39c
 [<c10c4331>] ? kmemleak_scan_thread+0x0/0x86
 [<c10c437b>] kmemleak_scan_thread+0x4a/0x86
 [<c104d73e>] kthread+0x6e/0x73
 [<c104d6d0>] ? kthread+0x0/0x73
 [<c100959f>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
kmemleak: 834 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)

The bit causing it is highly dubious:

static void scan_yield(void)
{
        might_sleep();

        if (time_is_before_eq_jiffies(next_scan_yield)) {
                schedule();
                next_scan_yield = jiffies + jiffies_scan_yield;
        }
}

It called deep inside the codepath and in a conditional way,
and that is what crapped up when one of the new scan_block()
uses grew a tasklist_lock dependency.

This minimal patch removes that yielding stuff and adds the
proper cond_resched().

The background scanning thread could probably also be reniced
to +10.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-01 10:26:23 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e83c2b0ff3 Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6
* 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6:
  kmemleak: Inform kmemleak about pid_hash
  kmemleak: Do not warn if an unknown object is freed
  kmemleak: Do not report new leaked objects if the scanning was stopped
  kmemleak: Slightly change the policy on newly allocated objects
  kmemleak: Do not trigger a scan when reading the debug/kmemleak file
  kmemleak: Simplify the reports logged by the scanning thread
  kmemleak: Enable task stacks scanning by default
  kmemleak: Allow the early log buffer to be configurable.
2009-06-30 19:04:53 -07:00
Yinghai Lu 66918dcdf9 x86: only clear node_states for 64bit
Nathan reported that

| commit 73d60b7f74
| Author: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
| Date:   Tue Jun 16 15:33:00 2009 -0700
|
|    page-allocator: clear N_HIGH_MEMORY map before we set it again
|
|    SRAT tables may contains nodes of very small size.  The arch code may
|    decide to not activate such a node.  However, currently the early boot
|    code sets N_HIGH_MEMORY for such nodes.  These nodes therefore seem to be
|    active although these nodes have no present pages.
|
|    For 64bit N_HIGH_MEMORY == N_NORMAL_MEMORY, so that works for 64 bit too

unintentionally and incorrectly clears the cpuset.mems cgroup attribute on
an i386 kvm guest, meaning that cpuset.mems can not be used.

Fix this by only clearing node_states[N_NORMAL_MEMORY] for 64bit only.
and need to do save/restore for that in find_zone_movable_pfn

Reported-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Tested-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-30 18:56:01 -07:00
Richard Kennedy d7831a0bdf mm: prevent balance_dirty_pages() from doing too much work
balance_dirty_pages can overreact and move all of the dirty pages to
writeback unnecessarily.

balance_dirty_pages makes its decision to throttle based on the number of
dirty plus writeback pages that are over the calculated limit,so it will
continue to move pages even when there are plenty of pages in writeback
and less than the threshold still dirty.

This allows it to overshoot its limits and move all the dirty pages to
writeback while waiting for the drives to catch up and empty the writeback
list.

A simple fio test easily demonstrates this problem.

fio --name=f1 --directory=/disk1 --size=2G -rw=write --name=f2 --directory=/disk2 --size=1G --rw=write --startdelay=10

This is the simplest fix I could find, but I'm not entirely sure that it
alone will be enough for all cases.  But it certainly is an improvement on
my desktop machine writing to 2 disks.

Do we need something more for machines with large arrays where
bdi_threshold * number_of_drives is greater than the dirty_ratio ?

Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-30 18:56:01 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner c49568235d dmapools: protect page_list walk in show_pools()
show_pools() walks the page_list of a pool w/o protection against the list
modifications in alloc/free.  Take pool->lock to avoid stomping into
nirvana.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-30 18:56:00 -07:00
Catalin Marinas b6e687221e kmemleak: Do not warn if an unknown object is freed
vmap'ed memory blocks are not tracked by kmemleak (yet) but they may be
released with vfree() which is tracked. The corresponding kmemleak
warning is only enabled in debug mode. Future patch will add support for
ioremap and vmap.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-29 17:14:14 +01:00
Catalin Marinas 17bb9e0d90 kmemleak: Do not report new leaked objects if the scanning was stopped
If the scanning was stopped with a signal, it is possible that some
objects are left with a white colour (potential leaks) and reported. Add
a check to avoid reporting such objects.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-29 17:14:13 +01:00
Pekka Enberg ec5a36f94e SLAB: Fix lockdep annotations
Commit 8429db5... ("slab: setup cpu caches later on when interrupts are
enabled") broke mm/slab.c lockdep annotations:

  [   11.554715] =============================================
  [   11.555249] [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
  [   11.555560] 2.6.31-rc1 #896
  [   11.555861] ---------------------------------------------
  [   11.556127] udevd/1899 is trying to acquire lock:
  [   11.556436]  (&nc->lock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff810c337f>] kmem_cache_free+0xcd/0x25b
  [   11.557101]
  [   11.557102] but task is already holding lock:
  [   11.557706]  (&nc->lock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff810c3cd0>] kfree+0x137/0x292
  [   11.558109]
  [   11.558109] other info that might help us debug this:
  [   11.558720] 2 locks held by udevd/1899:
  [   11.558983]  #0:  (&nc->lock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff810c3cd0>] kfree+0x137/0x292
  [   11.559734]  #1:  (&parent->list_lock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff810c36c7>] __drain_alien_cache+0x3b/0xbd
  [   11.560442]
  [   11.560443] stack backtrace:
  [   11.561009] Pid: 1899, comm: udevd Not tainted 2.6.31-rc1 #896
  [   11.561276] Call Trace:
  [   11.561632]  [<ffffffff81065ed6>] __lock_acquire+0x15ec/0x168f
  [   11.561901]  [<ffffffff81065f60>] ? __lock_acquire+0x1676/0x168f
  [   11.562171]  [<ffffffff81063c52>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x113/0x13e
  [   11.562490]  [<ffffffff8150c337>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f
  [   11.562807]  [<ffffffff8106603a>] lock_acquire+0xc1/0xe5
  [   11.563073]  [<ffffffff810c337f>] ? kmem_cache_free+0xcd/0x25b
  [   11.563385]  [<ffffffff8150c8fc>] _spin_lock+0x31/0x66
  [   11.563696]  [<ffffffff810c337f>] ? kmem_cache_free+0xcd/0x25b
  [   11.563964]  [<ffffffff810c337f>] kmem_cache_free+0xcd/0x25b
  [   11.564235]  [<ffffffff8109bf8c>] ? __free_pages+0x1b/0x24
  [   11.564551]  [<ffffffff810c3564>] slab_destroy+0x57/0x5c
  [   11.564860]  [<ffffffff810c3641>] free_block+0xd8/0x123
  [   11.565126]  [<ffffffff810c372e>] __drain_alien_cache+0xa2/0xbd
  [   11.565441]  [<ffffffff810c3ce5>] kfree+0x14c/0x292
  [   11.565752]  [<ffffffff8144a007>] skb_release_data+0xc6/0xcb
  [   11.566020]  [<ffffffff81449cf0>] __kfree_skb+0x19/0x86
  [   11.566286]  [<ffffffff81449d88>] consume_skb+0x2b/0x2d
  [   11.566631]  [<ffffffff8144cbe0>] skb_free_datagram+0x14/0x3a
  [   11.566901]  [<ffffffff81462eef>] netlink_recvmsg+0x164/0x258
  [   11.567170]  [<ffffffff81443461>] sock_recvmsg+0xe5/0xfe
  [   11.567486]  [<ffffffff810ab063>] ? might_fault+0xaf/0xb1
  [   11.567802]  [<ffffffff81053a78>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x38
  [   11.568073]  [<ffffffff810d84ca>] ? core_sys_select+0x3d/0x2b4
  [   11.568378]  [<ffffffff81065f60>] ? __lock_acquire+0x1676/0x168f
  [   11.568693]  [<ffffffff81442dc1>] ? sockfd_lookup_light+0x1b/0x54
  [   11.568961]  [<ffffffff81444416>] sys_recvfrom+0xa3/0xf8
  [   11.569228]  [<ffffffff81063c8a>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
  [   11.569546]  [<ffffffff8100af2b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b#

Fix that up.

Closes-bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13654
Tested-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-29 09:57:10 +03:00
Linus Torvalds 8326e284f8 Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, delay: tsc based udelay should have rdtsc_barrier
  x86, setup: correct include file in <asm/boot.h>
  x86, setup: Fix typo "CONFIG_x86_64" in <asm/boot.h>
  x86, mce: percpu mcheck_timer should be pinned
  x86: Add sysctl to allow panic on IOCK NMI error
  x86: Fix uv bau sending buffer initialization
  x86, mce: Fix mce resume on 32bit
  x86: Move init_gbpages() to setup_arch()
  x86: ensure percpu lpage doesn't consume too much vmalloc space
  x86: implement percpu_alloc kernel parameter
  x86: fix pageattr handling for lpage percpu allocator and re-enable it
  x86: reorganize cpa_process_alias()
  x86: prepare setup_pcpu_lpage() for pageattr fix
  x86: rename remap percpu first chunk allocator to lpage
  x86: fix duplicate free in setup_pcpu_remap() failure path
  percpu: fix too lazy vunmap cache flushing
  x86: Set cpu_llc_id on AMD CPUs
2009-06-28 11:05:28 -07:00
Catalin Marinas acf4968ec9 kmemleak: Slightly change the policy on newly allocated objects
Newly allocated objects are more likely to be reported as false
positives. Kmemleak ignores the reporting of objects younger than 5
seconds. However, this age was calculated after the memory scanning
completed which usually takes longer than 5 seconds. This patch
make the minimum object age calculation in relation to the start of the
memory scanning.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-26 17:38:29 +01:00
Catalin Marinas 4698c1f2bb kmemleak: Do not trigger a scan when reading the debug/kmemleak file
Since there is a kernel thread for automatically scanning the memory, it
makes sense for the debug/kmemleak file to only show its findings. This
patch also adds support for "echo scan > debug/kmemleak" to trigger an
intermediate memory scan and eliminates the kmemleak_mutex (scan_mutex
covers all the cases now).

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-26 17:38:27 +01:00
Catalin Marinas bab4a34afc kmemleak: Simplify the reports logged by the scanning thread
Because of false positives, the memory scanning thread may print too
much information. This patch changes the scanning thread to only print
the number of newly suspected leaks. Further information can be read
from the /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak file.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-26 17:38:26 +01:00
Catalin Marinas e0a2a1601b kmemleak: Enable task stacks scanning by default
This is to reduce the number of false positives reported.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-26 17:38:25 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney 7ed9f7e5db fix RCU-callback-after-kmem_cache_destroy problem in sl[aou]b
Jesper noted that kmem_cache_destroy() invokes synchronize_rcu() rather than
rcu_barrier() in the SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU case, which could result in RCU
callbacks accessing a kmem_cache after it had been destroyed.

Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-26 12:10:47 +03:00
Paul Mundt dfc2f91ac2 nommu: provide follow_pfn().
With the introduction of follow_pfn() as an exported symbol, modules have
begun making use of it. Unfortunately this was not reflected on nommu at
the time, so the in-tree users have subsequently all blown up with link
errors there.

This provides a simple follow_pfn() that just returns addr >> PAGE_SHIFT,
which will do the right thing on nommu. There is no need to do range
checking within the vma, as the find_vma() case will already take care of
this.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2009-06-26 04:31:57 +09:00
Peter Zijlstra 9d73777e50 clarify get_user_pages() prototype
Currently the 4th parameter of get_user_pages() is called len, but its
in pages, not bytes. Rename the thing to nr_pages to avoid future
confusion.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-25 11:22:13 -07:00
Catalin Marinas a9d9058aba kmemleak: Allow the early log buffer to be configurable.
(feature suggested by Sergey Senozhatsky)

Kmemleak needs to track all the memory allocations but some of these
happen before kmemleak is initialised. These are stored in an internal
buffer which may be exceeded in some kernel configurations. This patch
adds a configuration option with a default value of 400 and also removes
the stack dump when the early log buffer is exceeded.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@mail.by>
2009-06-25 10:16:13 +01:00
Linus Torvalds c622304825 Merge branches 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/{vfs-2.6,audit-current}
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  another race fix in jfs_check_acl()
  Get "no acls for this inode" right, fix shmem breakage
  inline functions left without protection of ifdef (acl)

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current:
  audit: inode watches depend on CONFIG_AUDIT not CONFIG_AUDIT_SYSCALL
2009-06-24 14:17:14 -07:00
Al Viro 72c04902d1 Get "no acls for this inode" right, fix shmem breakage
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-24 16:58:48 -04:00