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2011-12-09mm: vmalloc: check for page allocation failure before vmlist insertionMel Gorman
Commit f5252e00 ("mm: avoid null pointer access in vm_struct via /proc/vmallocinfo") adds newly allocated vm_structs to the vmlist after it is fully initialised. Unfortunately, it did not check that __vmalloc_area_node() successfully populated the area. In the event of allocation failure, the vmalloc area is freed but the pointer to freed memory is inserted into the vmlist leading to a a crash later in get_vmalloc_info(). This patch adds a check for ____vmalloc_area_node() failure within __vmalloc_node_range. It does not use "goto fail" as in the previous error path as a warning was already displayed by __vmalloc_area_node() before it called vfree in its failure path. Credit goes to Luciano Chavez for doing all the real work of identifying exactly where the problem was. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reported-by: Luciano Chavez <lnx1138@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Luciano Chavez <lnx1138@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.1.x+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-12-09mm: Ensure that pfn_valid() is called once per pageblock when reserving ↵Michal Hocko
pageblocks setup_zone_migrate_reserve() expects that zone->start_pfn starts at pageblock_nr_pages aligned pfn otherwise we could access beyond an existing memblock resulting in the following panic if CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE is not configured and we do not check pfn_valid: IP: [<c02d331d>] setup_zone_migrate_reserve+0xcd/0x180 *pdpt = 0000000000000000 *pde = f000ff53f000ff53 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.0.7-0.7-pae #1 VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform EIP: 0060:[<c02d331d>] EFLAGS: 00010006 CPU: 0 EIP is at setup_zone_migrate_reserve+0xcd/0x180 EAX: 000c0000 EBX: f5801fc0 ECX: 000c0000 EDX: 00000000 ESI: 000c01fe EDI: 000c01fe EBP: 00140000 ESP: f2475f58 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 Process swapper (pid: 1, ti=f2474000 task=f2472cd0 task.ti=f2474000) Call Trace: [<c02d389c>] __setup_per_zone_wmarks+0xec/0x160 [<c02d3a1f>] setup_per_zone_wmarks+0xf/0x20 [<c08a771c>] init_per_zone_wmark_min+0x27/0x86 [<c020111b>] do_one_initcall+0x2b/0x160 [<c086639d>] kernel_init+0xbe/0x157 [<c05cae26>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0xd Code: a5 39 f5 89 f7 0f 46 fd 39 cf 76 40 8b 03 f6 c4 08 74 32 eb 91 90 89 c8 c1 e8 0e 0f be 80 80 2f 86 c0 8b 14 85 60 2f 86 c0 89 c8 <2b> 82 b4 12 00 00 c1 e0 05 03 82 ac 12 00 00 8b 00 f6 c4 08 0f EIP: [<c02d331d>] setup_zone_migrate_reserve+0xcd/0x180 SS:ESP 0068:f2475f58 CR2: 00000000000012b4 We crashed in pageblock_is_reserved() when accessing pfn 0xc0000 because highstart_pfn = 0x36ffe. The issue was introduced in 3.0-rc1 by 6d3163ce ("mm: check if any page in a pageblock is reserved before marking it MIGRATE_RESERVE"). Make sure that start_pfn is always aligned to pageblock_nr_pages to ensure that pfn_valid s always called at the start of each pageblock. Architectures with holes in pageblocks will be correctly handled by pfn_valid_within in pageblock_is_reserved. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Tested-by: Dang Bo <bdang@vmware.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Arve Hjnnevg <arve@android.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.0+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-12-09mm/migrate.c: pair unlock_page() and lock_page() when migrating huge pagesHillf Danton
Avoid unlocking and unlocked page if we failed to lock it. Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-12-09thp: set compound tail page _count to zeroYouquan Song
Commit 70b50f94f1644 ("mm: thp: tail page refcounting fix") keeps all page_tail->_count zero at all times. But the current kernel does not set page_tail->_count to zero if a 1GB page is utilized. So when an IOMMU 1GB page is used by KVM, it wil result in a kernel oops because a tail page's _count does not equal zero. kernel BUG at include/linux/mm.h:386! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP Call Trace: gup_pud_range+0xb8/0x19d get_user_pages_fast+0xcb/0x192 ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xd/0xf hva_to_pfn+0x119/0x2f2 gfn_to_pfn_memslot+0x2c/0x2e kvm_iommu_map_pages+0xfd/0x1c1 kvm_iommu_map_memslots+0x7c/0xbd kvm_iommu_map_guest+0xaa/0xbf kvm_vm_ioctl_assigned_device+0x2ef/0xa47 kvm_vm_ioctl+0x36c/0x3a2 do_vfs_ioctl+0x49e/0x4e4 sys_ioctl+0x5a/0x7c system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b RIP gup_huge_pud+0xf2/0x159 Signed-off-by: Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-12-09thp: reduce khugepaged freezing latencyAndrea Arcangeli
khugepaged can sometimes cause suspend to fail, requiring that the user retry the suspend operation. Use wait_event_freezable_timeout() instead of schedule_timeout_interruptible() to avoid missing freezer wakeups. A try_to_freeze() would have been needed in the khugepaged_alloc_hugepage tight loop too in case of the allocation failing repeatedly, and wait_event_freezable_timeout will provide it too. khugepaged would still freeze just fine by trying again the next minute but it's better if it freezes immediately. Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-12-09vmscan: use atomic-long for shrinker batchingKonstantin Khlebnikov
Use atomic-long operations instead of looping around cmpxchg(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: massage atomic.h inclusions] Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-12-09vmscan: fix initial shrinker size handlingKonstantin Khlebnikov
A shrinker function can return -1, means that it cannot do anything without a risk of deadlock. For example prune_super() does this if it cannot grab a superblock refrence, even if nr_to_scan=0. Currently we interpret this -1 as a ULONG_MAX size shrinker and evaluate `total_scan' according to this. So the next time around this shrinker can cause really big pressure. Let's skip such shrinkers instead. Also make total_scan signed, otherwise the check (total_scan < 0) below never works. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-12-05slab, lockdep: Fix silly bugPeter Zijlstra
Commit 30765b92 ("slab, lockdep: Annotate the locks before using them") moves the init_lock_keys() call from after g_cpucache_up = FULL, to before it. And overlooks the fact that init_node_lock_keys() tests for it and ignores everything !FULL. Introduce a LATE stage and change the lockdep test to be <LATE. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-11-29Merge branch 'slab/urgent' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux * 'slab/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux: slub: avoid potential NULL dereference or corruption slub: use irqsafe_cpu_cmpxchg for put_cpu_partial slub: move discard_slab out of node lock slub: use correct parameter to add a page to partial list tail
2011-11-28Merge branch 'for-3.2-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu * 'for-3.2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: percpu: explain why per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() is more complicated than necessary percpu: fix chunk range calculation percpu: rename pcpu_mem_alloc to pcpu_mem_zalloc
2011-11-24slub: avoid potential NULL dereference or corruptionEric Dumazet
show_slab_objects() can trigger NULL dereferences or memory corruption. Another cpu can change its c->page to NULL or c->node to NUMA_NO_NODE while we use them. Use ACCESS_ONCE(c->page) and ACCESS_ONCE(c->node) to make sure this cannot happen. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-11-24slub: use irqsafe_cpu_cmpxchg for put_cpu_partialChristoph Lameter
The cmpxchg must be irq safe. The fallback for this_cpu_cmpxchg only disables preemption which results in per cpu partial page operation potentially failing on non x86 platforms. This patch fixes the following problem reported by Christian Kujau: I seem to hit it with heavy disk & cpu IO is in progress on this PowerBook G4. Full dmesg & .config: http://nerdbynature.de/bits/3.2.0-rc1/oops/ I've enabled some debug options and now it really points to slub.c:2166 http://nerdbynature.de/bits/3.2.0-rc1/oops/oops4m.jpg With debug options enabled I'm currently in the xmon debugger, not sure what to make of it yet, I'll try to get something useful out of it :) Reported-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de> Tested-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-11-23percpu: explain why per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() is more complicated than necessaryDave Young
Add comments about current per_cpu_ptr_to_phys implementation to explain why the logic is more complicated than necessary. -tj: relocated comment into kerneldoc comment Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2011-11-22Merge branch 'writeback-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux * 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux: writeback: remove vm_dirties and task->dirties writeback: hard throttle 1000+ dd on a slow USB stick mm: Make task in balance_dirty_pages() killable
2011-11-22percpu: fix chunk range calculationTejun Heo
Percpu allocator recorded the cpus which map to the first and last units in pcpu_first/last_unit_cpu respectively and used them to determine the address range of a chunk - e.g. it assumed that the first unit has the lowest address in a chunk while the last unit has the highest address. This simply isn't true. Groups in a chunk can have arbitrary positive or negative offsets from the previous one and there is no guarantee that the first unit occupies the lowest offset while the last one the highest. Fix it by actually comparing unit offsets to determine cpus occupying the lowest and highest offsets. Also, rename pcu_first/last_unit_cpu to pcpu_low/high_unit_cpu to avoid confusion. The chunk address range is used to flush cache on vmalloc area map/unmap and decide whether a given address is in the first chunk by per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() and the bug was discovered by invalid per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() translation for crash_note. Kudos to Dave Young for tracking down the problem. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Reported-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Tested-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <4EC21F67.10905@redhat.com> Cc: stable @kernel.org
2011-11-22percpu: rename pcpu_mem_alloc to pcpu_mem_zallocBob Liu
Currently pcpu_mem_alloc() is implemented always return zeroed memory. So rename it to make user like pcpu_get_pages_and_bitmap() know don't reinit it. Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2011-11-18Merge branch 'stable/for-linus-fixes-3.2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen * 'stable/for-linus-fixes-3.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen: xen-gntalloc: signedness bug in add_grefs() xen-gntalloc: integer overflow in gntalloc_ioctl_alloc() xen-gntdev: integer overflow in gntdev_alloc_map() xen:pvhvm: enable PVHVM VCPU placement when using more than 32 CPUs. xen/balloon: Avoid OOM when requesting highmem xen: Remove hanging references to CONFIG_XEN_PLATFORM_PCI xen: map foreign pages for shared rings by updating the PTEs directly
2011-11-18Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: block: add missed trace_block_plug paride: fix potential information leak in pg_read() bio: change some signed vars to unsigned block: avoid unnecessary plug list flush cciss: auto engage SCSI mid layer at driver load time loop: cleanup set_status interface include/linux/bio.h: use a static inline function for bio_integrity_clone() loop: prevent information leak after failed read block: Always check length of all iov entries in blk_rq_map_user_iov() The Windows driver .inf disables ASPM on all cciss devices. Do the same. backing-dev: ensure wakeup_timer is deleted block: Revert "[SCSI] genhd: add a new attribute "alias" in gendisk"
2011-11-17writeback: remove vm_dirties and task->dirtiesWu Fengguang
They are not used any more. Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-11-17writeback: hard throttle 1000+ dd on a slow USB stickWu Fengguang
The sleep based balance_dirty_pages() can pause at most MAX_PAUSE=200ms on every 1 4KB-page, which means it cannot throttle a task under 4KB/200ms=20KB/s. So when there are more than 512 dd writing to a 10MB/s USB stick, its bdi dirty pages could grow out of control. Even if we can increase MAX_PAUSE, the minimal (task_ratelimit = 1) means a limit of 4KB/s. They can eventually be safeguarded by the global limit check (nr_dirty < dirty_thresh). However if someone is also writing to an HDD at the same time, it'll get poor HDD write performance. We at least want to maintain good write performance for other devices when one device is attacked by some "massive parallel" workload, or suffers from slow write bandwidth, or somehow get stalled due to some error condition (eg. NFS server not responding). For a stalled device, we need to completely block its dirtiers, too, before its bdi dirty pages grow all the way up to the global limit and leave no space for the other functional devices. So change the loop exit condition to /* * Always enforce global dirty limit; also enforce bdi dirty limit * if the normal max_pause sleeps cannot keep things under control. */ if (nr_dirty < dirty_thresh && (bdi_dirty < bdi_thresh || bdi->dirty_ratelimit > 1)) break; which can be further simplified to if (task_ratelimit) break; Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-11-16xen: map foreign pages for shared rings by updating the PTEs directlyDavid Vrabel
When mapping a foreign page with xenbus_map_ring_valloc() with the GNTTABOP_map_grant_ref hypercall, set the GNTMAP_contains_pte flag and pass a pointer to the PTE (in init_mm). After the page is mapped, the usual fault mechanism can be used to update additional MMs. This allows the vmalloc_sync_all() to be removed from alloc_vm_area(). Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [v1: Squashed fix by Michal for no-mmu case] Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
2011-11-16mm: Make task in balance_dirty_pages() killableJan Kara
There is no reason why task in balance_dirty_pages() shouldn't be killable and it helps in recovering from some error conditions (like when filesystem goes in error state and cannot accept writeback anymore but we still want to kill processes using it to be able to unmount it). There will be follow up patches to further abort the generic_perform_write() and other filesystem write loops, to avoid large write + SIGKILL combination exceeding the dirty limit and possibly strange OOM. Reported-by: Kazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com> Tested-by: Kazuya Mio <k-mio@sx.jp.nec.com> Reviewed-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-11-15hugetlb: release pages in the error path of hugetlb_cow()Hillf Danton
If we fail to prepare an anon_vma, the {new, old}_page should be released, or they will leak. Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-15oom: do not kill tasks with oom_score_adj OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MINMichal Hocko
Commit c9f01245 ("oom: remove oom_disable_count") has removed the oom_disable_count counter which has been used for early break out from oom_badness so we could never select a task with oom_score_adj set to OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN (oom disabled). Now that the counter is gone we are always going through heuristics calculation and we always return a non zero positive value. This means that we can end up killing a task with OOM disabled because it is indistinguishable from regular tasks with 1% resp. CAP_SYS_ADMIN tasks with 3% usage of memory or tasks with oom_score_adj set but OOM enabled. Let's break out early if the task should have OOM disabled. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-15slub: move discard_slab out of node lockShaohua Li
Lockdep reports there is potential deadlock for slub node list_lock. discard_slab() is called with the lock hold in unfreeze_partials(), which could trigger a slab allocation, which could hold the lock again. discard_slab() doesn't need hold the lock actually, if the slab is already removed from partial list. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Reported-and-tested-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Reported-and-tested-by: Julie Sullivan <kernelmail.jms@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-11-15slub: use correct parameter to add a page to partial list tailShaohua Li
unfreeze_partials() needs add the page to partial list tail, since such page hasn't too many free objects. We now explictly use DEACTIVATE_TO_TAIL for this, while DEACTIVATE_TO_TAIL != 1. This will cause performance regression (eg, more lock contention in node->list_lock) without below fix. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-11-11backing-dev: ensure wakeup_timer is deletedRabin Vincent
bdi_prune_sb() in bdi_unregister() attempts to removes the bdi links from all super_blocks and then del_timer_sync() the writeback timer. However, this can race with __mark_inode_dirty(), leading to bdi_wakeup_thread_delayed() rearming the writeback timer on the bdi we're unregistering, after we've called del_timer_sync(). This can end up with the bdi being freed with an active timer inside it, as in the case of the following dump after the removal of an SD card. Fix this by redoing the del_timer_sync() in bdi_destory(). ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at /home/rabin/kernel/arm/lib/debugobjects.c:262 debug_print_object+0x9c/0xc8() ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object type: timer_list hint: wakeup_timer_fn+0x0/0x180 Modules linked in: Backtrace: [<c00109dc>] (dump_backtrace+0x0/0x110) from [<c0236e4c>] (dump_stack+0x18/0x1c) r6:c02bc638 r5:00000106 r4:c79f5d18 r3:00000000 [<c0236e34>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x1c) from [<c0025e6c>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x54/0x6c) [<c0025e18>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x0/0x6c) from [<c0025f28>] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x38/0x40) r8:20000013 r7:c780c6f0 r6:c031613c r5:c780c6f0 r4:c02b1b29 r3:00000009 [<c0025ef0>] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x0/0x40) from [<c015eb4c>] (debug_print_object+0x9c/0xc8) r3:c02b1b29 r2:c02bc662 [<c015eab0>] (debug_print_object+0x0/0xc8) from [<c015f574>] (debug_check_no_obj_freed+0xac/0x1dc) r6:c7964000 r5:00000001 r4:c7964000 [<c015f4c8>] (debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x0/0x1dc) from [<c00a9e38>] (kmem_cache_free+0x88/0x1f8) [<c00a9db0>] (kmem_cache_free+0x0/0x1f8) from [<c014286c>] (blk_release_queue+0x70/0x78) [<c01427fc>] (blk_release_queue+0x0/0x78) from [<c015290c>] (kobject_release+0x70/0x84) r5:c79641f0 r4:c796420c [<c015289c>] (kobject_release+0x0/0x84) from [<c0153ce4>] (kref_put+0x68/0x80) r7:00000083 r6:c74083d0 r5:c015289c r4:c796420c [<c0153c7c>] (kref_put+0x0/0x80) from [<c01527d0>] (kobject_put+0x48/0x5c) r5:c79643b4 r4:c79641f0 [<c0152788>] (kobject_put+0x0/0x5c) from [<c013ddd8>] (blk_cleanup_queue+0x68/0x74) r4:c7964000 [<c013dd70>] (blk_cleanup_queue+0x0/0x74) from [<c01a6370>] (mmc_blk_put+0x78/0xe8) r5:00000000 r4:c794c400 [<c01a62f8>] (mmc_blk_put+0x0/0xe8) from [<c01a64b4>] (mmc_blk_release+0x24/0x38) r5:c794c400 r4:c0322824 [<c01a6490>] (mmc_blk_release+0x0/0x38) from [<c00de11c>] (__blkdev_put+0xe8/0x170) r5:c78d5e00 r4:c74083c0 [<c00de034>] (__blkdev_put+0x0/0x170) from [<c00de2c0>] (blkdev_put+0x11c/0x12c) r8:c79f5f70 r7:00000001 r6:c74083d0 r5:00000083 r4:c74083c0 r3:00000000 [<c00de1a4>] (blkdev_put+0x0/0x12c) from [<c00b0724>] (kill_block_super+0x60/0x6c) r7:c7942300 r6:c79f4000 r5:00000083 r4:c74083c0 [<c00b06c4>] (kill_block_super+0x0/0x6c) from [<c00b0a94>] (deactivate_locked_super+0x44/0x70) r6:c79f4000 r5:c031af64 r4:c794dc00 r3:c00b06c4 [<c00b0a50>] (deactivate_locked_super+0x0/0x70) from [<c00b1358>] (deactivate_super+0x6c/0x70) r5:c794dc00 r4:c794dc00 [<c00b12ec>] (deactivate_super+0x0/0x70) from [<c00c88b0>] (mntput_no_expire+0x188/0x194) r5:c794dc00 r4:c7942300 [<c00c8728>] (mntput_no_expire+0x0/0x194) from [<c00c95e0>] (sys_umount+0x2e4/0x310) r6:c7942300 r5:00000000 r4:00000000 r3:00000000 [<c00c92fc>] (sys_umount+0x0/0x310) from [<c000d940>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x30) ---[ end trace e5c83c92ada51c76 ]--- Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@stericsson.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2011-11-07writeback: fix uninitialized task_ratelimitWu Fengguang
In balance_dirty_pages() task_ratelimit may be not initialized (initialization skiped by goto pause), and then used when calling tracing hook. Fix it by moving the task_ratelimit assignment before goto pause. Reported-by: Witold Baryluk <baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
2011-11-06Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux * 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits) Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h" irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules. bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h of_platform.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h> acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h device_cgroup.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h> net: sch_generic remove redundant use of <linux/module.h> net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need <linux/module.h> ... Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in - drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c - drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c} - drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c - include/linux/dmaengine.h
2011-11-06Merge branch 'writeback-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux * 'writeback-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wfg/linux: writeback: Add a 'reason' to wb_writeback_work writeback: send work item to queue_io, move_expired_inodes writeback: trace event balance_dirty_pages writeback: trace event bdi_dirty_ratelimit writeback: fix ppc compile warnings on do_div(long long, unsigned long) writeback: per-bdi background threshold writeback: dirty position control - bdi reserve area writeback: control dirty pause time writeback: limit max dirty pause time writeback: IO-less balance_dirty_pages() writeback: per task dirty rate limit writeback: stabilize bdi->dirty_ratelimit writeback: dirty rate control writeback: add bg_threshold parameter to __bdi_update_bandwidth() writeback: dirty position control writeback: account per-bdi accumulated dirtied pages
2011-11-04Merge branch 'for-3.2/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-3.2/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (29 commits) block: don't call blk_drain_queue() if elevator is not up blk-throttle: use queue_is_locked() instead of lockdep_is_held() blk-throttle: Take blkcg->lock while traversing blkcg->policy_list blk-throttle: Free up policy node associated with deleted rule block: warn if tag is greater than real_max_depth. block: make gendisk hold a reference to its queue blk-flush: move the queue kick into blk-flush: fix invalid BUG_ON in blk_insert_flush block: Remove the control of complete cpu from bio. block: fix a typo in the blk-cgroup.h file block: initialize the bounce pool if high memory may be added later block: fix request_queue lifetime handling by making blk_queue_cleanup() properly shutdown block: drop @tsk from attempt_plug_merge() and explain sync rules block: make get_request[_wait]() fail if queue is dead block: reorganize throtl_get_tg() and blk_throtl_bio() block: reorganize queue draining block: drop unnecessary blk_get/put_queue() in scsi_cmd_ioctl() and blk_get_tg() block: pass around REQ_* flags instead of broken down booleans during request alloc/free block: move blk_throtl prototypes to block/blk.h block: fix genhd refcounting in blkio_policy_parse_and_set() ... Fix up trivial conflicts due to "mddev_t" -> "struct mddev" conversion and making the request functions be of type "void" instead of "int" in - drivers/md/{faulty.c,linear.c,md.c,md.h,multipath.c,raid0.c,raid1.c,raid10.c,raid5.c} - drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
2011-11-02Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's incoming - part two)Linus Torvalds
Says Andrew: "60 patches. That's good enough for -rc1 I guess. I have quite a lot of detritus to be rechecked, work through maintainers, etc. - most of the remains of MM - rtc - various misc - cgroups - memcg - cpusets - procfs - ipc - rapidio - sysctl - pps - w1 - drivers/misc - aio" * akpm: (60 commits) memcg: replace ss->id_lock with a rwlock aio: allocate kiocbs in batches drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c: fix typo in code comment drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c: determine page allocation flag can_sleep outside loop w1: disable irqs in critical section drivers/w1/w1_int.c: multiple masters used same init_name drivers/power/ds2780_battery.c: fix deadlock upon insertion and removal drivers/power/ds2780_battery.c: add a nolock function to w1 interface drivers/power/ds2780_battery.c: create central point for calling w1 interface w1: ds2760 and ds2780, use ida for id and ida_simple_get() to get it pps gpio client: add missing dependency pps: new client driver using GPIO pps: default echo function include/linux/dma-mapping.h: add dma_zalloc_coherent() sysctl: make CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL default to n sysctl: add support for poll() RapidIO: documentation update drivers/net/rionet.c: fix ethernet address macros for LE platforms RapidIO: fix potential null deref in rio_setup_device() RapidIO: add mport driver for Tsi721 bridge ...
2011-11-02mm/page_cgroup.c: quiet sparse noiseH Hartley Sweeten
warning: symbol 'swap_cgroup_ctrl' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-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>
2011-11-02memcg: Fix race condition in memcg_check_events() with this_cpu usageSteven Rostedt
Various code in memcontrol.c () calls this_cpu_read() on the calculations to be done from two different percpu variables, or does an open-coded read-modify-write on a single percpu variable. Disable preemption throughout these operations so that the writes go to the correct palces. [hannes@cmpxchg.org: added this_cpu to __this_cpu conversion] Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02memcg: close race between charge and putbackJohannes Weiner
There is a potential race between a thread charging a page and another thread putting it back to the LRU list: charge: putback: SetPageCgroupUsed SetPageLRU PageLRU && add to memcg LRU PageCgroupUsed && add to memcg LRU The order of setting one flag and checking the other is crucial, otherwise the charge may observe !PageLRU while the putback observes !PageCgroupUsed and the page is not linked to the memcg LRU at all. Global memory pressure may fix this by trying to isolate and putback the page for reclaim, where that putback would link it to the memcg LRU again. Without that, the memory cgroup is undeletable due to a charge whose physical page can not be found and moved out. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02memcg: skip scanning active lists based on individual sizeJohannes Weiner
Reclaim decides to skip scanning an active list when the corresponding inactive list is above a certain size in comparison to leave the assumed working set alone while there are still enough reclaim candidates around. The memcg implementation of comparing those lists instead reports whether the whole memcg is low on the requested type of inactive pages, considering all nodes and zones. This can lead to an oversized active list not being scanned because of the state of the other lists in the memcg, as well as an active list being scanned while its corresponding inactive list has enough pages. Not only is this wrong, it's also a scalability hazard, because the global memory state over all nodes and zones has to be gathered for each memcg and zone scanned. Make these calculations purely based on the size of the two LRU lists that are actually affected by the outcome of the decision. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02memcg: do not expose uninitialized mem_cgroup_per_node to worldIgor Mammedov
If somebody is touching data too early, it might be easier to diagnose a problem when dereferencing NULL at mem->info.nodeinfo[node] than trying to understand why mem_cgroup_per_zone is [un|partly]initialized. Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> 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>
2011-11-02memcg: fix oom schedule_timeout()KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Before calling schedule_timeout(), task state should be changed. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02memcg: rename mem variable to memcgRaghavendra K T
The memcg code sometimes uses "struct mem_cgroup *mem" and sometimes uses "struct mem_cgroup *memcg". Rename all mem variables to memcg in source file. Signed-off-by: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02cgroup/kmemleak: Annotate alloc_page() for cgroup allocationsSteven Rostedt
When the cgroup base was allocated with kmalloc, it was necessary to annotate the variable with kmemleak_not_leak(). But because it has recently been changed to be allocated with alloc_page() (which skips kmemleak checks) causes a warning on boot up. I was triggering this output: allocated 8388608 bytes of page_cgroup please try 'cgroup_disable=memory' option if you don't want memory cgroups kmemleak: Trying to color unknown object at 0xf5840000 as Grey Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.0.0-test #12 Call Trace: [<c17e34e6>] ? printk+0x1d/0x1f^M [<c10e2941>] paint_ptr+0x4f/0x78 [<c178ab57>] kmemleak_not_leak+0x58/0x7d [<c108ae9f>] ? __rcu_read_unlock+0x9/0x7d [<c1cdb462>] kmemleak_init+0x19d/0x1e9 [<c1cbf771>] start_kernel+0x346/0x3ec [<c1cbf1b4>] ? loglevel+0x18/0x18 [<c1cbf0aa>] i386_start_kernel+0xaa/0xb0 After a bit of debugging I tracked the object 0xf840000 (and others) down to the cgroup code. The change from allocating base with kmalloc to alloc_page() has the base not calling kmemleak_alloc() which adds the pointer to the object_tree_root, but kmemleak_not_leak() adds it to the crt_early_log[] table. On kmemleak_init(), the entry is found in the early_log[] but not the object_tree_root, and this error message is displayed. If alloc_page() fails then it defaults back to vmalloc() which still uses the kmemleak_alloc() which makes us still need the kmemleak_not_leak() call. The solution is to call the kmemleak_alloc() directly if the alloc_page() succeeds. Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02mm: thp: tail page refcounting fixAndrea Arcangeli
Michel while working on the working set estimation code, noticed that calling get_page_unless_zero() on a random pfn_to_page(random_pfn) wasn't safe, if the pfn ended up being a tail page of a transparent hugepage under splitting by __split_huge_page_refcount(). He then found the problem could also theoretically materialize with page_cache_get_speculative() during the speculative radix tree lookups that uses get_page_unless_zero() in SMP if the radix tree page is freed and reallocated and get_user_pages is called on it before page_cache_get_speculative has a chance to call get_page_unless_zero(). So the best way to fix the problem is to keep page_tail->_count zero at all times. This will guarantee that get_page_unless_zero() can never succeed on any tail page. page_tail->_mapcount is guaranteed zero and is unused for all tail pages of a compound page, so we can simply account the tail page references there and transfer them to tail_page->_count in __split_huge_page_refcount() (in addition to the head_page->_mapcount). While debugging this s/_count/_mapcount/ change I also noticed get_page is called by direct-io.c on pages returned by get_user_pages. That wasn't entirely safe because the two atomic_inc in get_page weren't atomic. As opposed to other get_user_page users like secondary-MMU page fault to establish the shadow pagetables would never call any superflous get_page after get_user_page returns. It's safer to make get_page universally safe for tail pages and to use get_page_foll() within follow_page (inside get_user_pages()). get_page_foll() is safe to do the refcounting for tail pages without taking any locks because it is run within PT lock protected critical sections (PT lock for pte and page_table_lock for pmd_trans_huge). The standard get_page() as invoked by direct-io instead will now take the compound_lock but still only for tail pages. The direct-io paths are usually I/O bound and the compound_lock is per THP so very finegrined, so there's no risk of scalability issues with it. A simple direct-io benchmarks with all lockdep prove locking and spinlock debugging infrastructure enabled shows identical performance and no overhead. So it's worth it. Ideally direct-io should stop calling get_page() on pages returned by get_user_pages(). The spinlock in get_page() is already optimized away for no-THP builds but doing get_page() on tail pages returned by GUP is generally a rare operation and usually only run in I/O paths. This new refcounting on page_tail->_mapcount in addition to avoiding new RCU critical sections will also allow the working set estimation code to work without any further complexity associated to the tail page refcounting with THP. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-02filesystems: add missing nlink wrappersMiklos Szeredi
Replace direct i_nlink updates with the respective updater function (inc_nlink, drop_nlink, clear_nlink, inode_dec_link_count). Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2011-10-31mm/vmstat.c: cache align vm_statDimitri Sivanich
Avoid false sharing of the vm_stat array. This was found to adversely affect tmpfs I/O performance. Tests run on a 640 cpu UV system. With 120 threads doing parallel writes, each to different tmpfs mounts: No patch: ~300 MB/sec With vm_stat alignment: ~430 MB/sec Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31mm: munlock use mapcount to avoid terrible overheadHugh Dickins
A process spent 30 minutes exiting, just munlocking the pages of a large anonymous area that had been alternately mprotected into page-sized vmas: for every single page there's an anon_vma walk through all the other little vmas to find the right one. A general fix to that would be a lot more complicated (use prio_tree on anon_vma?), but there's one very simple thing we can do to speed up the common case: if a page to be munlocked is mapped only once, then it is our vma that it is mapped into, and there's no need whatever to walk through all the others. Okay, there is a very remote race in munlock_vma_pages_range(), if between its follow_page() and lock_page(), another process were to munlock the same page, then page reclaim remove it from our vma, then another process mlock it again. We would find it with page_mapcount 1, yet it's still mlocked in another process. But never mind, that's much less likely than the down_read_trylock() failure which munlocking already tolerates (in try_to_unmap_one()): in due course page reclaim will discover and move the page to unevictable instead. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment] Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31mm/huge_memory: fix typo when updating mmu cacheHillf Danton
There are three cases of update_mmu_cache() in the file, and the case in function collapse_huge_page() has a typo, namely the last parameter used, which is corrected based on the other two cases. Due to the define of update_mmu_cache by X86, the only arch that implements THP currently, the change here has no really crystal point, but one or two minutes of efforts could be saved for those archs that are likely to support THP in future. Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31mm/huge_memory: fix copying user highpageHillf Danton
The THP copy-on-write handler falls back to regular-sized pages for a huge page replacement upon allocation failure or if THP has been individually disabled in the target VMA. The loop responsible for copying page-sized chunks accidentally uses multiples of PAGE_SHIFT instead of PAGE_SIZE as the virtual address arg for copy_user_highpage(). Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31mm: do not drain pagevecs for mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)Christoph Lameter
MCL_FUTURE does not move pages between lru list and draining the LRU per cpu pagevecs is a nasty activity. Avoid doing it unecessarily. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31vmscan: abort reclaim/compaction if compaction can proceedMel Gorman
If compaction can proceed, shrink_zones() stops doing any work but its callers still call shrink_slab() which raises the priority and potentially sleeps. This is unnecessary and wasteful so this patch aborts direct reclaim/compaction entirely if compaction can proceed. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31vmscan: limit direct reclaim for higher order allocationsRik van Riel
When suffering from memory fragmentation due to unfreeable pages, THP page faults will repeatedly try to compact memory. Due to the unfreeable pages, compaction fails. Needless to say, at that point page reclaim also fails to create free contiguous 2MB areas. However, that doesn't stop the current code from trying, over and over again, and freeing a minimum of 4MB (2UL << sc->order pages) at every single invocation. This resulted in my 12GB system having 2-3GB free memory, a corresponding amount of used swap and very sluggish response times. This can be avoided by having the direct reclaim code not reclaim from zones that already have plenty of free memory available for compaction. If compaction still fails due to unmovable memory, doing additional reclaim will only hurt the system, not help. [jweiner@redhat.com: change comment to explain the order check] Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31vmscan: add barrier to prevent evictable page in unevictable listMinchan Kim
When a race between putback_lru_page() and shmem_lock with lock=0 happens, progrom execution order is as follows, but clear_bit in processor #1 could be reordered right before spin_unlock of processor #1. Then, the page would be stranded on the unevictable list. spin_lock SetPageLRU spin_unlock clear_bit(AS_UNEVICTABLE) spin_lock if PageLRU() if !test_bit(AS_UNEVICTABLE) move evictable list smp_mb if !test_bit(AS_UNEVICTABLE) move evictable list spin_unlock But, pagevec_lookup() in scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() has rcu_read_[un]lock() so it could protect reordering before reaching test_bit(AS_UNEVICTABLE) on processor #1 so this problem never happens. But it's a unexpected side effect and we should solve this problem properly. This patch adds a barrier after mapping_clear_unevictable. I didn't meet this problem but just found during review. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>