Mike Frysinger [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:29 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
vmlinux.lds.h: gather .data..shared_aligned sections in DATA_DATA
With the recent change "net: remove time limit in process_backlog()", the
softnet_data variable changed from "DEFINE_PER_CPU()" to
"DEFINE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED()" which moved it from the .data section to the
.data.shared_align section. I'm not saying this patch is wrong, just that
is what caused me to notice this larger problem. No one else in the
kernel is using this aligned macro variant, so I imagine that's why no one
has noticed yet.
Since .data..shared_align isn't declared in any vmlinux files that I can
see, the linker just places it last. This "just works" for most people,
but when building a ROM kernel on Blackfin systems, it causes section
overlap errors:
bfin-uclinux-ld.real:
section .init.data [
00000000202e06b8 ->
00000000202e48b7] overlaps
section .data.shared_aligned [
00000000202e06b8 ->
00000000202e0723]
I imagine other arches which support the ROM config option and thus do
funky placement would see similar issues ...
On x86, it is stuck in a dedicated section at the end:
[8] .data PROGBITS
ffffffff810ec000 2ec0000303a8 00 WA 0 0 4096
[9] .data.shared_alig PROGBITS
ffffffff8111c3c0 31c3c00000c8 00 WA 0 0 64
So make sure we include this section in the DATA_DATA macro so that it is
placed in the right location.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Edward Shishkin [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:28 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
fs/direct-io.c: fix truncation error in dio_complete() return
Fix up truncation (ssize_t->int). This only matters with >2G
reads/writes, which the kernel doesn't permit.
Signed-off-by: Edward Shishkin <edward@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mark Brown [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:28 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
ihex: add support for CS:IP/EIP records
ihex firmwares can include a jump address for starting execution. Add a
-j option which will cause this to be written into the generated file as a
record with address zero and data consisting of the address to jump to,
allowing drivers to make use of this information.
This format is chosen because it most closely follows the original ihex
format, though it may make more sense to write a record with length zero
and the address stored as the address. The records are not omitted by
default since our ihex format does not include record type information and
so including additional records may lead to confusion.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Miklos Szeredi [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:27 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
fuse: use clear_highpage() and KM_USER0 instead of KM_USER1
Commit
7909b1c640 ("fuse: don't use atomic kmap") removed KM_USER0 usage
from fuse/dev.c. Switch KM_USER1 uses to KM_USER0 for clarity. Also
replace open coded clear_highpage().
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jan Beulich [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:27 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
use clear_page()/copy_page() in favor of memset()/memcpy() on whole pages
After all that's what they are intended for.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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>
Jan Beulich [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:26 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
modules: no need to align .modinfo strings
gcc aligns strings as a performance consideration for those cases where
strings are being used a lot.
Their use is not performance critical, and hence it seems better to save
some space.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:25 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
include/linux/kernel.h: add __must_check to strict_strto*()
The whole point to using the strict functions is to check the return
value. If you don't, strict_strto*() will return you uninitialised
garbage. Offenders have been observed in the wild.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Philippe De Muyter [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:23 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
m68k{nommu}/blackfin : remove old assembler-only flags bit definitions
Long ago, PT_TRACESYS_OFF and friends were introduced as hard defines to
avoid straight constants in assembler parts of linux m68k. They are not
used anymore, and were not updated to follow changes in linux kernel.
Remove them. When similar constants are needed, they are now generated
using asm-offsets.c.
Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Hagen Paul Pfeifer [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:23 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
replace nested max/min macros with {max,min}3 macro
Use the new {max,min}3 macros to save some cycles and bytes on the stack.
This patch substitutes trivial nested macros with their counterpart.
Signed-off-by: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Hagen Paul Pfeifer [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:21 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
kernel.h: add {min,max}3 macros
Introduce two additional min/max macros to compare three operands. This
will save some cycles as well as some bytes on the stack and last but not
least more pleasing as macro nesting.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
Signed-off-by: Hagen Paul Pfeifer <hagen@jauu.net>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Richard Weinberger [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:20 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
hostfs: code cleanups
Some code cleanups for hostfs.
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Richard Weinberger [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:20 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
um: migrate from __do_IRQ() to generic_handle_irq()
This patch removes __do_IRQ() from user mode linux. __do_IRQ is deprecated.
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Roland McGrath [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:19 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
uml: fix CONFIG_STATIC_LINK=y build failure with newer glibc
With glibc 2.11 or later that was built with --enable-multi-arch, the UML
link fails with undefined references to __rel_iplt_start and similar
symbols. In recent binutils, the default linker script defines these
symbols (see ld --verbose). Fix the UML linker scripts to match the new
defaults for these sections.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
FUJITA Tomonori [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:18 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
uml: define CONFIG_NO_DMA
I think that it's better to detect DMA misuse at build time rather than
calling BUG_ON. Architectures that can't do DMA need to define
CONFIG_NO_DMA.
Thanks to Sam Ravnborg for explaining how CONFIG_NO_DMA and CONFIG_HAS_DMA
work:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=
128359913825550&w=2
HAS_DMA is defined like this:
config HAS_DMA
boolean
depends on !NO_DMA
default y
So to set HAS_DMA to true an arch should do:
1) Do not define NO_DMA
2) Define NO_DMA abd set it to 'n'
Must archs - including um - used principle 1).
In the um case we want to say that we do NOT have any DMA.
This can be done in two ways.
a) define NO_DMA and set it to 'y'
b) redefine HAS_DMA and set it to 'n'.
The patch you provided used principle b) where other archs use principle a).
So I suggest you should use principle a) for um too.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ivan Kokshaysky [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:17 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
alpha: use single HAE window on T2 core logic (gamma, sable)
T2 are the only alpha SMP systems that do HAE switching at runtime, which
is fundamentally racy on SMP. This patch limits MMIO space on T2 to HAE0
only, like we did on MCPCIA (rawhide) long ago. This leaves us with only
112 Mb of PCI MMIO (128 Mb HAE aperture minus 16 Mb reserved for EISA),
but since linux PCI allocations are reasonably tight, it should be enough
for sane hardware configurations.
Also, fix a typo in MCPCIA_FROB_MMIO macro which shouldn't call set_hae()
if MCPCIA_ONE_HAE_WINDOW is defined. It's more for correctness, as
set_hae() is a no-op anyway in that case.
Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
FUJITA Tomonori [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:15 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
alpha: enable ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Vasiliy Kulikov [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:15 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
drivers/char/hpet.c: fix information leak to userland
Structure info is copied to userland with some padding fields unitialized.
It leads to leaking of stack memory.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove now-unneeded zeroing of info->hi_ireqfreq]
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jaswinder Singh Rajput [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:14 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
Documentation/timers/hpet_example.c: add supporting info for hpet_example
$./hpet_example info /dev/hpet
-hpet: executing info
hpet_info: hi_irqfreq 0x0 hi_flags 0x0 hi_hpet 0 hi_timer 2
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: "Venkatesh Pallipadi (Venki)" <venki@google.com>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jaswinder Singh Rajput [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:13 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
hpet: fix style problems
Fix the following style problems:
WARNING: Use #include <linux/uaccess.h> instead of <asm/uaccess.h>
WARNING: Use #include <linux/io.h> instead of <asm/io.h>
ERROR: code indent should use tabs where possible
ERROR: do not initialise statics to 0 or NULL
Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Clemens Ladisch [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:13 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
hpet: fix unwanted interrupt due to stale irq status bit
Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> By executing Documentation/timers/hpet_example.c
>
> for polling, I requested for 3 iterations but it seems iteration work
> for only 2 as first expired time is always very small.
>
> # ./hpet_example poll /dev/hpet 10 3
> -hpet: executing poll
> hpet_poll: info.hi_flags 0x0
> hpet_poll: expired time = 0x13
> hpet_poll: revents = 0x1
> hpet_poll: data 0x1
> hpet_poll: expired time = 0x1868c
> hpet_poll: revents = 0x1
> hpet_poll: data 0x1
> hpet_poll: expired time = 0x18645
> hpet_poll: revents = 0x1
> hpet_poll: data 0x1
Clearing the HPET interrupt enable bit disables interrupt generation
but does not disable the timer, so the interrupt status bit will still
be set when the timer elapses. If another interrupt arrives before
the timer has been correctly programmed (due to some other device on
the same interrupt line, or CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ), this results in an
extra unwanted interrupt event because the status bit is likely to be
set from comparator matches that happened before the device was opened.
Therefore, we have to ensure that the interrupt status bit is and
stays cleared until we actually program the timer.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Reported-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderlinux@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Bob Picco <bpicco@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jiri Slaby [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:11 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
hpet: unmap unused I/O space
When the initialization code in hpet finds a memory resource and does not
find an IRQ, it does not unmap the memory resource previously mapped.
There are buggy BIOSes which report resources exactly like this and what
is worse the memory region bases point to normal RAM. This normally would
not matter since the space is not touched. But when PAT is turned on,
ioremap causes the page to be uncached and sets this bit in page->flags.
Then when the page is about to be used by the allocator, it is reported
as:
BUG: Bad page state in process md5sum pfn:3ed00
page:
ffffea0000dbd800 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping:(null) index:0x0
page flags: 0x20000001000000(uncached)
Pid: 7956, comm: md5sum Not tainted 2.6.34-12-desktop #1
Call Trace:
[<
ffffffff810df851>] bad_page+0xb1/0x100
[<
ffffffff810dfa45>] prep_new_page+0x1a5/0x1c0
[<
ffffffff810dfe01>] get_page_from_freelist+0x3a1/0x640
[<
ffffffff810e01af>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x10f/0x6b0
...
In this particular case:
1) HPET returns
3ed00000 as memory region base, but it is not in
reserved ranges reported by the BIOS (excerpt):
BIOS-e820:
0000000000100000 -
00000000af6cf000 (usable)
BIOS-e820:
00000000af6cf000 -
00000000afdcf000 (reserved)
2) there is no IRQ resource reported by HPET method. On the other
hand, the Intel HPET specs (1.0a) says (3.2.5.1):
_CRS (
// Report 1K of memory consumed by this Timer Block
memory range consumed
// Optional: only used if BIOS allocates Interrupts [1]
IRQs consumed
)
[1] For case where Timer Block is configured to consume IRQ0/IRQ8 AND
Legacy 8254/Legacy RTC hardware still exists, the device objects
associated with 8254 & RTC devices should not report IRQ0/IRQ8 as
"consumed resources".
So in theory we should check whether if it is the case and use those
interrupts instead.
Anyway the address reported by the BIOS here is bogus, so non-presence
of IRQ doesn't mean the "optional" part in point 2).
Since I got no reply previously, fix this by simply unmapping the space
when IRQ is not found and memory region was mapped previously. It would
be probably more safe to walk the resources again and unmap appropriately
depending on type. But as we now use only ioremap for both 2 memory
resource types, it is not necessarily needed right now.
Addresses https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=629908
Reported-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Bob Liu [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:10 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
mm: do_migrate_range: reduce list_empty() check
Simple code for reducing list_empty(&source) check.
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
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>
Bob Liu [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:10 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
mm: do_migrate_range: exit loop if not_managed is true
If not_managed is true all pages will be putback to lru, so break the loop
earlier to skip other pages isolate.
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
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>
Bob Liu [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:09 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
mm: page_isolation: codeclean fix comment and rm unneeded val init
__test_page_isolated_in_pageblock() returns 1 if all pages in the range
are isolated, so fix the comment. Variable `pfn' will be initialised in
the following loop so remove it.
Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
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>
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:08 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
mm: fix is_mem_section_removable() page_order BUG_ON check
page_order() is called by memory hotplug's user interface to check the
section is removable or not. (is_mem_section_removable())
It calls page_order() withoug holding zone->lock.
So, even if the caller does
if (PageBuddy(page))
ret = page_order(page) ...
The caller may hit BUG_ON().
For fixing this, there are 2 choices.
1. add zone->lock.
2. remove BUG_ON().
is_mem_section_removable() is used for some "advice" and doesn't need to
be 100% accurate. This is_removable() can be called via user program..
We don't want to take this important lock for long by user's request. So,
this patch removes BUG_ON().
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Dean Nelson [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:08 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
mm/hugetlb.c: add missing spin_lock() to hugetlb_cow()
Add missing spin_lock() of the page_table_lock before an error return in
hugetlb_cow(). Callers of hugtelb_cow() expect it to be held upon return.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dnelson@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Gleb Natapov [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:07 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
mm: fix error reporting in move_pages() syscall
The vma returned by find_vma does not necessarily include the target
address. If this happens the code tries to follow a page outside of any
vma and returns ENOENT instead of EFAULT.
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
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>
Kay Sievers [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:06 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
/proc/swaps: support polling
System management wants to subscribe to changes in swap configuration.
Make /proc/swaps pollable like /proc/mounts.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: document proc_poll_event]
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Dave Young [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:06 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
mm: add vzalloc() and vzalloc_node() helpers
Add vzalloc() and vzalloc_node() to encapsulate the
vmalloc-then-memset-zero operation.
Use __GFP_ZERO to zero fill the allocated memory.
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:05 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
mm/memory_hotplug.c: make scan_lru_pages() static
Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.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>
Andrew Morton [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:05 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
fs/fs-writeback.c: restore lost comment
I had to go back to a 2.6.20 tree to work out why we're adding a
number-of-inodes into a number-of-pages count. Restore the lost comment.
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Namhyung Kim [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:04 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
mm: fix sparse warnings on GFP_ZONE_TABLE/BAD
Introduce ___GFP_* masks in order for gfp_t to not be mixed with plain
integers which causes a lot of warnings like the following:
warning: restricted gfp_t degrades to integer
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Namhyung Kim [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:04 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
vmstat: include compaction.h when CONFIG_COMPACTION
This removes following warning from sparse:
mm/vmstat.c:466:5: warning: symbol 'fragmentation_index' was not declared. Should it be static?
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: move the include to top-of-file]
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Namhyung Kim [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:03 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
mm: declare some external symbols
Declare 'bdi_pending_list' and 'tag_pages_for_writeback()' to remove
following sparse warnings:
mm/backing-dev.c:46:1: warning: symbol 'bdi_pending_list' was not declared. Should it be static?
mm/page-writeback.c:825:6: warning: symbol 'tag_pages_for_writeback' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Namhyung Kim [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:03 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
vmalloc: annotate lock context change on s_start/stop()
s_start() and s_stop() grab/release vmlist_lock but were missing proper
annotations. Add them.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Namhyung Kim [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:02 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
vmalloc: rename temporary variable in __insert_vmap_area()
Rename redundant 'tmp' to fix following sparse warnings:
mm/vmalloc.c:296:34: warning: symbol 'tmp' shadows an earlier one
mm/vmalloc.c:293:24: originally declared here
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Namhyung Kim [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:02 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
rmap: make anon_vma_chain_free() static
Make anon_vma_chain_free() static. It is called only in rmap.c and the
corresponding alloc function is already static.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Namhyung Kim [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:01 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
rmap: wrap page_check_address() using __cond_lock()
The page_check_address() conditionally grabs *@ptlp in case of returning
non-NULL. Rename and wrap it using __cond_lock() removes following
warnings from sparse:
mm/rmap.c:472:9: warning: context imbalance in 'page_mapped_in_vma' - unexpected unlock
mm/rmap.c:524:9: warning: context imbalance in 'page_referenced_one' - unexpected unlock
mm/rmap.c:706:9: warning: context imbalance in 'page_mkclean_one' - unexpected unlock
mm/rmap.c:1066:9: warning: context imbalance in 'try_to_unmap_one' - unexpected unlock
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Namhyung Kim [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:01 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
rmap: annotate lock context change on page_[un]lock_anon_vma()
The page_lock_anon_vma() conditionally grabs RCU and anon_vma lock but
page_unlock_anon_vma() releases them unconditionally. This leads sparse
to complain about context imbalance. Annotate them.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Namhyung Kim [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:00 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
mm: wrap follow_pte() using __cond_lock()
The follow_pte() conditionally grabs *@ptlp in case of returning 0.
Rename and wrap it using __cond_lock() removes following warnings:
mm/memory.c:2337:9: warning: context imbalance in 'do_wp_page' - unexpected unlock
mm/memory.c:3142:19: warning: context imbalance in 'handle_mm_fault' - different lock contexts for basic block
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Namhyung Kim [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:22:00 +0000 (14:22 -0700)]
mm: add lock release annotation on do_wp_page()
The do_wp_page() releases @ptl but was missing proper annotation. Add it.
This removes following warnings from sparse:
mm/memory.c:2337:9: warning: context imbalance in 'do_wp_page' - unexpected unlock
mm/memory.c:3142:19: warning: context imbalance in 'handle_mm_fault' - different lock contexts for basic block
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Namhyung Kim [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:59 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
mm: wrap get_locked_pte() using __cond_lock()
The get_locked_pte() conditionally grabs 'ptl' in case of returning
non-NULL. This leads sparse to complain about context imbalance. Rename
and wrap it using __cond_lock() to make sparse happy.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Namhyung Kim [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:59 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
mm: add casts to/from gfp_t in gfp_to_alloc_flags()
This removes following warning from sparse:
mm/page_alloc.c:1934:9: warning: restricted gfp_t degrades to integer
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Namhyung Kim [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:58 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
mm: remove temporary variable on generic_file_direct_write()
'end' shadows earlier one and is not necessary at all. Remove it and use
'pos' instead. This removes following sparse warnings:
mm/filemap.c:2180:24: warning: symbol 'end' shadows an earlier one
mm/filemap.c:2132:25: originally declared here
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Michel Lespinasse [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:58 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
x86: access_error API cleanup
access_error() already takes error_code as an argument, so there is
no need for an additional write flag.
Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Michel Lespinasse [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:57 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
mm: retry page fault when blocking on disk transfer
This change reduces mmap_sem hold times that are caused by waiting for
disk transfers when accessing file mapped VMAs.
It introduces the VM_FAULT_ALLOW_RETRY flag, which indicates that the call
site wants mmap_sem to be released if blocking on a pending disk transfer.
In that case, filemap_fault() returns the VM_FAULT_RETRY status bit and
do_page_fault() will then re-acquire mmap_sem and retry the page fault.
It is expected that the retry will hit the same page which will now be
cached, and thus it will complete with a low mmap_sem hold time.
Tests:
- microbenchmark: thread A mmaps a large file and does random read accesses
to the mmaped area - achieves about 55 iterations/s. Thread B does
mmap/munmap in a loop at a separate location - achieves 55 iterations/s
before, 15000 iterations/s after.
- We are seeing related effects in some applications in house, which show
significant performance regressions when running without this change.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning & crash]
Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Michel Lespinasse [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:56 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
mm: filemap_fault: unique path for locking page
Introduce a single location where filemap_fault() locks the desired page.
There used to be two such places, depending if the initial find_get_page()
was successful or not.
Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Richard Kennedy [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:55 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
mm: remove alignment padding from anon_vma on (some) 64 bit builds
Reorder structure anon_vma to remove alignment padding on 64 builds when
(CONFIG_KSM || CONFIG_MIGRATION).
This will shrink the size of the anon_vma structure from 40 to 32 bytes
& allow more objects per slab in its kmem_cache.
Under slub the objects in the anon_vma kmem_cache will then be 40 bytes
with 102 objects per slab. (On v2.6.36 without this patch,the size is 48
bytes and 85 objects/slab.)
Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Reviewed-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>
Dima Zavin [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:54 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
mm: add a might_sleep_if() to dma_pool_alloc()
Buggy drivers (e.g. fsl_udc) could call dma_pool_alloc from atomic
context with GFP_KERNEL. In most instances, the first pool_alloc_page
call would succeed and the sleeping functions would never be called. This
allowed the buggy drivers to slip through the cracks.
Add a might_sleep_if() checking for __GFP_WAIT in flags.
Signed-off-by: Dima Zavin <dima@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Peter Zijlstra [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:54 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
mm: highmem documentation
Document outlining some of the highmem issues, started by me, edited by
David.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Peter Zijlstra [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:53 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
perf, x86: Fix up kmap_atomic() type
Now that the KM_type stuff is history, clean up the compiler warning.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Peter Zijlstra [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:52 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
mm: remove pte_*map_nested()
Since we no longer need to provide KM_type, the whole pte_*map_nested()
API is now redundant, remove it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Peter Zijlstra [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:51 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
mm: stack based kmap_atomic()
Keep the current interface but ignore the KM_type and use a stack based
approach.
The advantage is that we get rid of crappy code like:
#define __KM_PTE \
(in_nmi() ? KM_NMI_PTE : \
in_irq() ? KM_IRQ_PTE : \
KM_PTE0)
and in general can stop worrying about what context we're in and what kmap
slots might be appropriate for that.
The downside is that FRV kmap_atomic() gets more expensive.
For now we use a CPP trick suggested by Andrew:
#define kmap_atomic(page, args...) __kmap_atomic(page)
to avoid having to touch all kmap_atomic() users in a single patch.
[ not compiled on:
- mn10300: the arch doesn't actually build with highmem to begin with ]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_overlay.c]
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Peter Zijlstra [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:47 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
mm: strictly nested kmap_atomic()
Ensure kmap_atomic() usage is strictly nested
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
KOSAKI Motohiro [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:46 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
vmscan,tmpfs: treat used once pages on tmpfs as used once
When a page has PG_referenced, shrink_page_list() discards it only if it
is not dirty. This rule works fine if the backing filesystem is a regular
one. PG_dirty is a good signal that the page was used recently because
the flusher threads clean pages periodically. In addition, page writeback
is costlier than simple page discard.
However, when a page is on tmpfs this heuristic doesn't work because
flusher threads don't write back tmpfs pages. Consequently tmpfs pages
always rotate around the lru twice at least and adds unnecessary lru
churn. Simple tmpfs streaming io shouldn't cause large anonymous page
swap-out.
Remove this unncessary reclaim bonus of tmpfs pages.
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wu Fengguang [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:45 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
writeback: remove the internal 5% low bound on dirty_ratio
The dirty_ratio was silently limited in global_dirty_limits() to >= 5%.
This is not a user expected behavior. And it's inconsistent with
calc_period_shift(), which uses the plain vm_dirty_ratio value.
Let's remove the internal bound.
At the same time, fix balance_dirty_pages() to work with the
dirty_thresh=0 case. This allows applications to proceed when
dirty+writeback pages are all cleaned.
And ">" fits with the name "exceeded" better than ">=" does. Neil thinks
it is an aesthetic improvement as well as a functional one :)
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Proposed-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mel Gorman [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:45 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
writeback: do not sleep on the congestion queue if there are no congested BDIs or if significant congestion is not being encountered in the current zone
If congestion_wait() is called with no BDI congested, the caller will
sleep for the full timeout and this may be an unnecessary sleep. This
patch adds a wait_iff_congested() that checks congestion and only sleeps
if a BDI is congested else, it calls cond_resched() to ensure the caller
is not hogging the CPU longer than its quota but otherwise will not sleep.
This is aimed at reducing some of the major desktop stalls reported during
IO. For example, while kswapd is operating, it calls congestion_wait()
but it could just have been reclaiming clean page cache pages with no
congestion. Without this patch, it would sleep for a full timeout but
after this patch, it'll just call schedule() if it has been on the CPU too
long. Similar logic applies to direct reclaimers that are not making
enough progress.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
KOSAKI Motohiro [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:44 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
vmscan: isolate_lru_pages(): stop neighbour search if neighbour cannot be isolated
isolate_lru_pages() does not just isolate LRU tail pages, but also
isolates neighbour pages of the eviction page. The neighbour search does
not stop even if neighbours cannot be isolated which is excessive as the
lumpy reclaim will no longer result in a successful higher order
allocation. This patch stops the PFN neighbour pages if an isolation
fails and moves on to the next block.
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
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>
KOSAKI Motohiro [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:43 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
vmscan: remove dead code in shrink_inactive_list()
After synchrounous lumpy reclaim, the page_list is guaranteed to not have
active pages as page activation in shrink_page_list() disables lumpy
reclaim. Remove the dead code.
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.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>
KOSAKI Motohiro [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:42 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
vmscan: narrow the scenarios in whcih lumpy reclaim uses synchrounous reclaim
shrink_page_list() can decide to give up reclaiming a page under a
number of conditions such as
1. trylock_page() failure
2. page is unevictable
3. zone reclaim and page is mapped
4. PageWriteback() is true
5. page is swapbacked and swap is full
6. add_to_swap() failure
7. page is dirty and gfpmask don't have GFP_IO, GFP_FS
8. page is pinned
9. IO queue is congested
10. pageout() start IO, but not finished
With lumpy reclaim, failures result in entering synchronous lumpy reclaim
but this can be unnecessary. In cases (2), (3), (5), (6), (7) and (8),
there is no point retrying. This patch causes lumpy reclaim to abort when
it is known it will fail.
Case (9) is more interesting. current behavior is,
1. start shrink_page_list(async)
2. found queue_congested()
3. skip pageout write
4. still start shrink_page_list(sync)
5. wait on a lot of pages
6. again, found queue_congested()
7. give up pageout write again
So, it's useless time wasting. However, just skipping page reclaim is
also notgood as x86 allocating a huge page needs 512 pages for example.
It can have more dirty pages than queue congestion threshold (~=128).
After this patch, pageout() behaves as follows;
- If order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER
Ignore queue congestion always.
- If order <= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER
skip write page and disable lumpy reclaim.
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: 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>
KOSAKI Motohiro [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:41 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
vmscan: synchronous lumpy reclaim should not call congestion_wait()
congestion_wait() means "wait until queue congestion is cleared".
However, synchronous lumpy reclaim does not need this congestion_wait() as
shrink_page_list(PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC) uses wait_on_page_writeback() and it
provides the necessary waiting.
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.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>
Mel Gorman [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:41 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
writeback: account for time spent congestion_waited
There is strong evidence to indicate a lot of time is being spent in
congestion_wait(), some of it unnecessarily. This patch adds a tracepoint
for congestion_wait to record when congestion_wait() was called, how long
the timeout was for and how long it actually slept.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.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>
Mel Gorman [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:40 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
tracing, vmscan: add trace events for LRU list shrinking
There have been numerous reports of stalls that pointed at the problem
being somewhere in the VM. There are multiple roots to the problems which
means dealing with any of the root problems in isolation is tricky to
justify on their own and they would still need integration testing. This
patch series puts together two different patch sets which in combination
should tackle some of the root causes of latency problems being reported.
Patch 1 adds a tracepoint for shrink_inactive_list. For this series, the
most important results is being able to calculate the scanning/reclaim
ratio as a measure of the amount of work being done by page reclaim.
Patch 2 accounts for time spent in congestion_wait.
Patches 3-6 were originally developed by Kosaki Motohiro but reworked for
this series. It has been noted that lumpy reclaim is far too aggressive
and trashes the system somewhat. As SLUB uses high-order allocations, a
large cost incurred by lumpy reclaim will be noticeable. It was also
reported during transparent hugepage support testing that lumpy reclaim
was trashing the system and these patches should mitigate that problem
without disabling lumpy reclaim.
Patch 7 adds wait_iff_congested() and replaces some callers of
congestion_wait(). wait_iff_congested() only sleeps if there is a BDI
that is currently congested. Patch 8 notes that any BDI being congested
is not necessarily a problem because there could be multiple BDIs of
varying speeds and numberous zones. It attempts to track when a zone
being reclaimed contains many pages backed by a congested BDI and if so,
reclaimers wait on the congestion queue.
I ran a number of tests with monitoring on X86, X86-64 and PPC64. Each
machine had 3G of RAM and the CPUs were
X86: Intel P4 2-core
X86-64: AMD Phenom 4-core
PPC64: PPC970MP
Each used a single disk and the onboard IO controller. Dirty ratio was
left at 20. I'm just going to report for X86-64 and PPC64 in a vague
attempt to keep this report short. Four kernels were tested each based on
v2.6.36-rc4
traceonly-v2r2: Patches 1 and 2 to instrument vmscan reclaims and congestion_wait
lowlumpy-v2r3: Patches 1-6 to test if lumpy reclaim is better
waitcongest-v2r3: Patches 1-7 to only wait on congestion
waitwriteback-v2r4: Patches 1-8 to detect when a zone is congested
nocongest-v1r5: Patches 1-3 for testing wait_iff_congestion
nodirect-v1r5: Patches 1-10 to disable filesystem writeback for better IO
The tests run were as follows
kernbench
compile-based benchmark. Smoke test performance
sysbench
OLTP read-only benchmark. Will be re-run in the future as read-write
micro-mapped-file-stream
This is a micro-benchmark from Johannes Weiner that accesses a
large sparse-file through mmap(). It was configured to run in only
single-CPU mode but can be indicative of how well page reclaim
identifies suitable pages.
stress-highalloc
Tries to allocate huge pages under heavy load.
kernbench, iozone and sysbench did not report any performance regression
on any machine. sysbench did pressure the system lightly and there was
reclaim activity but there were no difference of major interest between
the kernels.
X86-64 micro-mapped-file-stream
traceonly-v2r2 lowlumpy-v2r3 waitcongest-v2r3 waitwriteback-v2r4
pgalloc_dma 1639.00 ( 0.00%) 667.00 (-145.73%) 1167.00 ( -40.45%) 578.00 (-183.56%)
pgalloc_dma32 2842410.00 ( 0.00%) 2842626.00 ( 0.01%) 2843043.00 ( 0.02%) 2843014.00 ( 0.02%)
pgalloc_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
pgsteal_dma 729.00 ( 0.00%) 85.00 (-757.65%) 609.00 ( -19.70%) 125.00 (-483.20%)
pgsteal_dma32 2338721.00 ( 0.00%) 2447354.00 ( 4.44%) 2429536.00 ( 3.74%) 2436772.00 ( 4.02%)
pgsteal_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
pgscan_kswapd_dma 1469.00 ( 0.00%) 532.00 (-176.13%) 1078.00 ( -36.27%) 220.00 (-567.73%)
pgscan_kswapd_dma32 4597713.00 ( 0.00%) 4503597.00 ( -2.09%) 4295673.00 ( -7.03%) 3891686.00 ( -18.14%)
pgscan_kswapd_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
pgscan_direct_dma 71.00 ( 0.00%) 134.00 ( 47.01%) 243.00 ( 70.78%) 352.00 ( 79.83%)
pgscan_direct_dma32 305820.00 ( 0.00%) 280204.00 ( -9.14%) 600518.00 ( 49.07%) 957485.00 ( 68.06%)
pgscan_direct_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
pageoutrun 16296.00 ( 0.00%) 21254.00 ( 23.33%) 18447.00 ( 11.66%) 20067.00 ( 18.79%)
allocstall 443.00 ( 0.00%) 273.00 ( -62.27%) 513.00 ( 13.65%) 1568.00 ( 71.75%)
These are based on the raw figures taken from /proc/vmstat. It's a rough
measure of reclaim activity. Note that allocstall counts are higher
because we are entering direct reclaim more often as a result of not
sleeping in congestion. In itself, it's not necessarily a bad thing.
It's easier to get a view of what happened from the vmscan tracepoint
report.
FTrace Reclaim Statistics: vmscan
traceonly-v2r2 lowlumpy-v2r3 waitcongest-v2r3 waitwriteback-v2r4
Direct reclaims 443 273 513 1568
Direct reclaim pages scanned 305968 280402 600825 957933
Direct reclaim pages reclaimed 43503 19005 30327 117191
Direct reclaim write file async I/O 0 0 0 0
Direct reclaim write anon async I/O 0 3 4 12
Direct reclaim write file sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Direct reclaim write anon sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Wake kswapd requests 187649 132338 191695 267701
Kswapd wakeups 3 1 4 1
Kswapd pages scanned 4599269 4454162 4296815 3891906
Kswapd pages reclaimed 2295947 2428434 2399818 2319706
Kswapd reclaim write file async I/O 1 0 1 1
Kswapd reclaim write anon async I/O 59 187 41 222
Kswapd reclaim write file sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Kswapd reclaim write anon sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Time stalled direct reclaim (seconds) 4.34 2.52 6.63 2.96
Time kswapd awake (seconds) 11.15 10.25 11.01 10.19
Total pages scanned 4905237 4734564 4897640 4849839
Total pages reclaimed 2339450 2447439 2430145 2436897
%age total pages scanned/reclaimed 47.69% 51.69% 49.62% 50.25%
%age total pages scanned/written 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
%age file pages scanned/written 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Percentage Time Spent Direct Reclaim 29.23% 19.02% 38.48% 20.25%
Percentage Time kswapd Awake 78.58% 78.85% 76.83% 79.86%
What is interesting here for nocongest in particular is that while direct
reclaim scans more pages, the overall number of pages scanned remains the
same and the ratio of pages scanned to pages reclaimed is more or less the
same. In other words, while we are sleeping less, reclaim is not doing
more work and as direct reclaim and kswapd is awake for less time, it
would appear to be doing less work.
FTrace Reclaim Statistics: congestion_wait
Direct number congest waited 87 196 64 0
Direct time congest waited 4604ms 4732ms 5420ms 0ms
Direct full congest waited 72 145 53 0
Direct number conditional waited 0 0 324 1315
Direct time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 0ms
Direct full conditional waited 0 0 0 0
KSwapd number congest waited 20 10 15 7
KSwapd time congest waited 1264ms 536ms 884ms 284ms
KSwapd full congest waited 10 4 6 2
KSwapd number conditional waited 0 0 0 0
KSwapd time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 0ms
KSwapd full conditional waited 0 0 0 0
The vanilla kernel spent 8 seconds asleep in direct reclaim and no time at
all asleep with the patches.
MMTests Statistics: duration
User/Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 10.51 10.73 10.6 11.66
Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 14.19 13.00 14.33 12.76
Overall, the tests completed faster. It is interesting to note that backing off further
when a zone is congested and not just a BDI was more efficient overall.
PPC64 micro-mapped-file-stream
pgalloc_dma 3024660.00 ( 0.00%) 3027185.00 ( 0.08%) 3025845.00 ( 0.04%) 3026281.00 ( 0.05%)
pgalloc_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
pgsteal_dma 2508073.00 ( 0.00%) 2565351.00 ( 2.23%) 2463577.00 ( -1.81%) 2532263.00 ( 0.96%)
pgsteal_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
pgscan_kswapd_dma 4601307.00 ( 0.00%) 4128076.00 ( -11.46%) 3912317.00 ( -17.61%) 3377165.00 ( -36.25%)
pgscan_kswapd_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
pgscan_direct_dma 629825.00 ( 0.00%) 971622.00 ( 35.18%) 1063938.00 ( 40.80%) 1711935.00 ( 63.21%)
pgscan_direct_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
pageoutrun 27776.00 ( 0.00%) 20458.00 ( -35.77%) 18763.00 ( -48.04%) 18157.00 ( -52.98%)
allocstall 977.00 ( 0.00%) 2751.00 ( 64.49%) 2098.00 ( 53.43%) 5136.00 ( 80.98%)
Similar trends to x86-64. allocstalls are up but it's not necessarily bad.
FTrace Reclaim Statistics: vmscan
Direct reclaims 977 2709 2098 5136
Direct reclaim pages scanned 629825 963814 1063938 1711935
Direct reclaim pages reclaimed 75550 242538 150904 387647
Direct reclaim write file async I/O 0 0 0 2
Direct reclaim write anon async I/O 0 10 0 4
Direct reclaim write file sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Direct reclaim write anon sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Wake kswapd requests 392119 1201712 571935 571921
Kswapd wakeups 3 2 3 3
Kswapd pages scanned 4601307 4128076 3912317 3377165
Kswapd pages reclaimed 2432523 2318797 2312673 2144616
Kswapd reclaim write file async I/O 20 1 1 1
Kswapd reclaim write anon async I/O 57 132 11 121
Kswapd reclaim write file sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Kswapd reclaim write anon sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Time stalled direct reclaim (seconds) 6.19 7.30 13.04 10.88
Time kswapd awake (seconds) 21.73 26.51 25.55 23.90
Total pages scanned 5231132 5091890 4976255 5089100
Total pages reclaimed 2508073 2561335 2463577 2532263
%age total pages scanned/reclaimed 47.95% 50.30% 49.51% 49.76%
%age total pages scanned/written 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
%age file pages scanned/written 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Percentage Time Spent Direct Reclaim 18.89% 20.65% 32.65% 27.65%
Percentage Time kswapd Awake 72.39% 80.68% 78.21% 77.40%
Again, a similar trend that the congestion_wait changes mean that direct
reclaim scans more pages but the overall number of pages scanned while
slightly reduced, are very similar. The ratio of scanning/reclaimed
remains roughly similar. The downside is that kswapd and direct reclaim
was awake longer and for a larger percentage of the overall workload.
It's possible there were big differences in the amount of time spent
reclaiming slab pages between the different kernels which is plausible
considering that the micro tests runs after fsmark and sysbench.
Trace Reclaim Statistics: congestion_wait
Direct number congest waited 845 1312 104 0
Direct time congest waited 19416ms 26560ms 7544ms 0ms
Direct full congest waited 745 1105 72 0
Direct number conditional waited 0 0 1322 2935
Direct time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 12ms 312ms
Direct full conditional waited 0 0 0 3
KSwapd number congest waited 39 102 75 63
KSwapd time congest waited 2484ms 6760ms 5756ms 3716ms
KSwapd full congest waited 20 48 46 25
KSwapd number conditional waited 0 0 0 0
KSwapd time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 0ms
KSwapd full conditional waited 0 0 0 0
The vanilla kernel spent 20 seconds asleep in direct reclaim and only
312ms asleep with the patches. The time kswapd spent congest waited was
also reduced by a large factor.
MMTests Statistics: duration
ser/Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 26.58 28.05 26.9 28.47
Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 30.02 32.86 32.67 30.88
With all patches applies, the completion times are very similar.
X86-64 STRESS-HIGHALLOC
traceonly-v2r2 lowlumpy-v2r3 waitcongest-v2r3waitwriteback-v2r4
Pass 1 82.00 ( 0.00%) 84.00 ( 2.00%) 85.00 ( 3.00%) 85.00 ( 3.00%)
Pass 2 90.00 ( 0.00%) 87.00 (-3.00%) 88.00 (-2.00%) 89.00 (-1.00%)
At Rest 92.00 ( 0.00%) 90.00 (-2.00%) 90.00 (-2.00%) 91.00 (-1.00%)
Success figures across the board are broadly similar.
traceonly-v2r2 lowlumpy-v2r3 waitcongest-v2r3waitwriteback-v2r4
Direct reclaims 1045 944 886 887
Direct reclaim pages scanned 135091 119604 109382 101019
Direct reclaim pages reclaimed 88599 47535 47863 46671
Direct reclaim write file async I/O 494 283 465 280
Direct reclaim write anon async I/O 29357 13710 16656 13462
Direct reclaim write file sync I/O 154 2 2 3
Direct reclaim write anon sync I/O 14594 571 509 561
Wake kswapd requests 7491 933 872 892
Kswapd wakeups 814 778 731 780
Kswapd pages scanned 7290822
15341158 11916436 13703442
Kswapd pages reclaimed 3587336 3142496 3094392 3187151
Kswapd reclaim write file async I/O 91975 32317 28022 29628
Kswapd reclaim write anon async I/O 1992022 789307 829745 849769
Kswapd reclaim write file sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Kswapd reclaim write anon sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Time stalled direct reclaim (seconds) 4588.93 2467.16 2495.41 2547.07
Time kswapd awake (seconds) 2497.66 1020.16 1098.06 1176.82
Total pages scanned 7425913
15460762 12025818 13804461
Total pages reclaimed 3675935 3190031 3142255 3233822
%age total pages scanned/reclaimed 49.50% 20.63% 26.13% 23.43%
%age total pages scanned/written 28.66% 5.41% 7.28% 6.47%
%age file pages scanned/written 1.25% 0.21% 0.24% 0.22%
Percentage Time Spent Direct Reclaim 57.33% 42.15% 42.41% 42.99%
Percentage Time kswapd Awake 43.56% 27.87% 29.76% 31.25%
Scanned/reclaimed ratios again look good with big improvements in
efficiency. The Scanned/written ratios also look much improved. With a
better scanned/written ration, there is an expectation that IO would be
more efficient and indeed, the time spent in direct reclaim is much
reduced by the full series and kswapd spends a little less time awake.
Overall, indications here are that allocations were happening much faster
and this can be seen with a graph of the latency figures as the
allocations were taking place
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/postings/vmscanreduce-
20101509/highalloc-interlatency-hydra-mean.ps
FTrace Reclaim Statistics: congestion_wait
Direct number congest waited 1333 204 169 4
Direct time congest waited 78896ms 8288ms 7260ms 200ms
Direct full congest waited 756 92 69 2
Direct number conditional waited 0 0 26 186
Direct time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 2504ms
Direct full conditional waited 0 0 0 25
KSwapd number congest waited 4 395 227 282
KSwapd time congest waited 384ms 25136ms 10508ms 18380ms
KSwapd full congest waited 3 232 98 176
KSwapd number conditional waited 0 0 0 0
KSwapd time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 0ms
KSwapd full conditional waited 0 0 0 0
KSwapd full conditional waited 318 0 312 9
Overall, the time spent speeping is reduced. kswapd is still hitting
congestion_wait() but that is because there are callers remaining where it
wasn't clear in advance if they should be changed to wait_iff_congested()
or not. Overall the sleep imes are reduced though - from 79ish seconds to
about 19.
MMTests Statistics: duration
User/Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 3415.43 3386.65 3388.39 3377.5
Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 5733.48 3660.33 3689.41 3765.39
With the full series, the time to complete the tests are reduced by 30%
PPC64 STRESS-HIGHALLOC
traceonly-v2r2 lowlumpy-v2r3 waitcongest-v2r3waitwriteback-v2r4
Pass 1 17.00 ( 0.00%) 34.00 (17.00%) 38.00 (21.00%) 43.00 (26.00%)
Pass 2 25.00 ( 0.00%) 37.00 (12.00%) 42.00 (17.00%) 46.00 (21.00%)
At Rest 49.00 ( 0.00%) 43.00 (-6.00%) 45.00 (-4.00%) 51.00 ( 2.00%)
Success rates there are *way* up particularly considering that the 16MB
huge pages on PPC64 mean that it's always much harder to allocate them.
FTrace Reclaim Statistics: vmscan
stress-highalloc stress-highalloc stress-highalloc stress-highalloc
traceonly-v2r2 lowlumpy-v2r3 waitcongest-v2r3waitwriteback-v2r4
Direct reclaims 499 505 564 509
Direct reclaim pages scanned 223478 41898 51818 45605
Direct reclaim pages reclaimed 137730 21148 27161 23455
Direct reclaim write file async I/O 399 136 162 136
Direct reclaim write anon async I/O 46977 2865 4686 3998
Direct reclaim write file sync I/O 29 0 1 3
Direct reclaim write anon sync I/O 31023 159 237 239
Wake kswapd requests 420 351 360 326
Kswapd wakeups 185 294 249 277
Kswapd pages scanned
15703488 16392500 17821724 17598737
Kswapd pages reclaimed 5808466 2908858 3139386 3145435
Kswapd reclaim write file async I/O 159938 18400 18717 13473
Kswapd reclaim write anon async I/O 3467554 228957 322799 234278
Kswapd reclaim write file sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Kswapd reclaim write anon sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Time stalled direct reclaim (seconds) 9665.35 1707.81 2374.32 1871.23
Time kswapd awake (seconds) 9401.21 1367.86 1951.75 1328.88
Total pages scanned
15926966 16434398 17873542 17644342
Total pages reclaimed 5946196 2930006 3166547 3168890
%age total pages scanned/reclaimed 37.33% 17.83% 17.72% 17.96%
%age total pages scanned/written 23.27% 1.52% 1.94% 1.43%
%age file pages scanned/written 1.01% 0.11% 0.11% 0.08%
Percentage Time Spent Direct Reclaim 44.55% 35.10% 41.42% 36.91%
Percentage Time kswapd Awake 86.71% 43.58% 52.67% 41.14%
While the scanning rates are slightly up, the scanned/reclaimed and
scanned/written figures are much improved. The time spent in direct
reclaim and with kswapd are massively reduced, mostly by the lowlumpy
patches.
FTrace Reclaim Statistics: congestion_wait
Direct number congest waited 725 303 126 3
Direct time congest waited 45524ms 9180ms 5936ms 300ms
Direct full congest waited 487 190 52 3
Direct number conditional waited 0 0 200 301
Direct time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 1904ms
Direct full conditional waited 0 0 0 19
KSwapd number congest waited 0 2 23 4
KSwapd time congest waited 0ms 200ms 420ms 404ms
KSwapd full congest waited 0 2 2 4
KSwapd number conditional waited 0 0 0 0
KSwapd time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 0ms
KSwapd full conditional waited 0 0 0 0
Not as dramatic a story here but the time spent asleep is reduced and we
can still see what wait_iff_congested is going to sleep when necessary.
MMTests Statistics: duration
User/Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 12028.09 3157.17 3357.79 3199.16
Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 10842.07 3138.72 3705.54 3229.85
The time to complete this test goes way down. With the full series, we
are allocating over twice the number of huge pages in 30% of the time and
there is a corresponding impact on the allocation latency graph available
at.
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/postings/vmscanreduce-
20101509/highalloc-interlatency-powyah-mean.ps
This patch:
Add a trace event for shrink_inactive_list() and updates the sample
postprocessing script appropriately. It can be used to determine how many
pages were reclaimed and for non-lumpy reclaim where exactly the pages
were reclaimed from.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.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>
Shaohua Li [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:37 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
vmscan: delete dead code
`priority' cannot be negative here. And the comment is obsolete.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Will Deacon [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:37 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
mm: fix typo in mm.h when NODE_NOT_IN_PAGE_FLAGS
NODE_NOT_IN_PAGE_FLAGS is defined in mm.h when the node information is not
stored in the page flags bitmap.
Unfortunately, there's a typo in one of the checks for it. This patch
fixes it (s/NODE_NOT_IN_PAGEFLAGS/NODE_NOT_IN_PAGE_FLAGS/). Since this
has been around for ages, I doubt it's been causing any serious problems.
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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>
Michael Rubin [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:36 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
writeback: report dirty thresholds in /proc/vmstat
The kernel already exposes the user desired thresholds in /proc/sys/vm
with dirty_background_ratio and background_ratio. But the kernel may
alter the number requested without giving the user any indication that is
the case.
Knowing the actual ratios the kernel is honoring can help app developers
understand how their buffered IO will be sent to the disk.
$ grep threshold /proc/vmstat
nr_dirty_threshold 409111
nr_dirty_background_threshold 818223
Signed-off-by: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.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>
Michael Rubin [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:35 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
writeback: add /sys/devices/system/node/<node>/vmstat
For NUMA node systems it is important to have visibility in memory
characteristics. Two of the /proc/vmstat values "nr_written" and
"nr_dirtied" are added here.
# cat /sys/devices/system/node/node20/vmstat
nr_written 0
nr_dirtied 0
Signed-off-by: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.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>
Michael Rubin [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:35 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
writeback: add nr_dirtied and nr_written to /proc/vmstat
To help developers and applications gain visibility into writeback
behaviour adding two entries to vm_stat_items and /proc/vmstat. This will
allow us to track the "written" and "dirtied" counts.
# grep nr_dirtied /proc/vmstat
nr_dirtied 3747
# grep nr_written /proc/vmstat
nr_written 3618
Signed-off-by: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.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>
Michael Rubin [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:33 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
mm: add account_page_writeback()
To help developers and applications gain visibility into writeback
behaviour this patch adds two counters to /proc/vmstat.
# grep nr_dirtied /proc/vmstat
nr_dirtied 3747
# grep nr_written /proc/vmstat
nr_written 3618
These entries allow user apps to understand writeback behaviour over time
and learn how it is impacting their performance. Currently there is no
way to inspect dirty and writeback speed over time. It's not possible for
nr_dirty/nr_writeback.
These entries are necessary to give visibility into writeback behaviour.
We have /proc/diskstats which lets us understand the io in the block
layer. We have blktrace for more in depth understanding. We have
e2fsprogs and debugsfs to give insight into the file systems behaviour,
but we don't offer our users the ability understand what writeback is
doing. There is no way to know how active it is over the whole system, if
it's falling behind or to quantify it's efforts. With these values
exported users can easily see how much data applications are sending
through writeback and also at what rates writeback is processing this
data. Comparing the rates of change between the two allow developers to
see when writeback is not able to keep up with incoming traffic and the
rate of dirty memory being sent to the IO back end. This allows folks to
understand their io workloads and track kernel issues. Non kernel
engineers at Google often use these counters to solve puzzling performance
problems.
Patch #4 adds a pernode vmstat file with nr_dirtied and nr_written
Patch #5 add writeback thresholds to /proc/vmstat
Currently these values are in debugfs. But they should be promoted to
/proc since they are useful for developers who are writing databases
and file servers and are not debugging the kernel.
The output is as below:
# grep threshold /proc/vmstat
nr_pages_dirty_threshold 409111
nr_pages_dirty_background_threshold 818223
This patch:
This allows code outside of the mm core to safely manipulate page
writeback state and not worry about the other accounting. Not using these
routines means that some code will lose track of the accounting and we get
bugs.
Modify nilfs2 to use interface.
Signed-off-by: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.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>
Vasiliy Kulikov [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:32 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
mm/mempolicy.c: check return code of check_range
Function check_range may return ERR_PTR(...). Check for it.
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Minchan Kim [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:31 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
vmscan: prevent background aging of anon page in no swap system
Ying Han reported that backing aging of anon pages in no swap system
causes unnecessary TLB flush.
When I sent a patch(
69c8548175), I wanted this patch but Rik pointed out
and allowed aging of anon pages to give a chance to promote from inactive
to active LRU.
It has a two problem.
1) non-swap system
Never make sense to age anon pages.
2) swap configured but still doesn't swapon
It doesn't make sense to age anon pages until swap-on time. But it's
arguable. If we have aged anon pages by swapon, VM have moved anon pages
from active to inactive. And in the time swapon by admin, the VM can't
reclaim hot pages so we can protect hot pages swapout.
But let's think about it. When does swap-on happen? It depends on admin.
we can't expect it. Nonetheless, we have done aging of anon pages to
protect hot pages swapout. It means we lost run time overhead when below
high watermark but gain hot page swap-[in/out] overhead when VM decide
swapout. Is it true? Let's think more detail. We don't promote anon
pages in case of non-swap system. So even though VM does aging of anon
pages, the pages would be in inactive LRU for a long time. It means many
of pages in there would mark access bit again. So access bit hot/code
separation would be pointless.
This patch prevents unnecessary anon pages demotion in not-yet-swapon and
non-configured swap system. Even, in non-configuared swap system
inactive_anon_is_low can be compiled out.
It could make side effect that hot anon pages could swap out when admin
does swap on. But I think sooner or later it would be steady state. So
it's not a big problem.
We could lose someting but gain more thing(TLB flush and unnecessary
function call to demote anon pages).
Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:30 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
memory hotplug: unify is_removable and offline detection code
Now, sysfs interface of memory hotplug shows whether the section is
removable or not. But it checks only migrateype of pages and doesn't
check details of cluster of pages.
Next, memory hotplug's set_migratetype_isolate() has the same kind of
check, too.
This patch adds the function __count_unmovable_pages() and makes above 2
checks to use the same logic. Then, is_removable and hotremove code uses
the same logic. No changes in the hotremove logic itself.
TODO: need to find a way to check RECLAMABLE. But, considering bit,
calling shrink_slab() against a range before starting memory hotremove
sounds better. If so, this patch's logic doesn't need to be changed.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reported-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.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>
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:29 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
memory hotplug: fix notifier's return value check
Even if notifier cannot find any pages, it doesn't mean no pages are
available...And, if there are no notifiers registered, this condition will
be always true and memory hotplug will show -EBUSY.
This is a bug but not critical.
In most case, a pageblock which will be offlined is MIGRATE_MOVABLE This
"notifier" is called only when the pageblock is _not_ MIGRATE_MOVABLE.
But if not MIGRATE_MOVABLE, it's common case that memory hotplug will
fail. So, no one notice this bug.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.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>
Minchan Kim [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:29 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
mm: compaction: fix COMPACTPAGEFAILED counting
Presently update_nr_listpages() doesn't have a role. That's because lists
passed is always empty just after calling migrate_pages. The
migrate_pages cleans up page list which have failed to migrate before
returning by
aaa994b3.
[PATCH] page migration: handle freeing of pages in migrate_pages()
Do not leave pages on the lists passed to migrate_pages(). Seems that we will
not need any postprocessing of pages. This will simplify the handling of
pages by the callers of migrate_pages().
At that time, we thought we don't need any postprocessing of pages. But
the situation is changed. The compaction need to know the number of
failed to migrate for COMPACTPAGEFAILED stat
This patch makes new rule for caller of migrate_pages to call
putback_lru_pages. So caller need to clean up the lists so it has a
chance to postprocess the pages. [suggested by Christoph Lameter]
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:28 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
mm: only build per-node scan_unevictable functions when NUMA is enabled
Non-NUMA systems do never create these files anyway, since they are only
created by driver subsystem when NUMA is configured.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.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>
zeal [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:27 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
include/linux/pageblock-flags.h: fix set_pageblock_flags() macro definiton
The presently-unused macro was missing one parameter.
Signed-off-by: zeal <zealcook@gmail.com>
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>
Wu Fengguang [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:26 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
writeback: remove nonblocking/encountered_congestion references
This removes more dead code that was somehow missed by commit
0d99519efef
(writeback: remove unused nonblocking and congestion checks). There are
no behavior change except for the removal of two entries from one of the
ext4 tracing interface.
The nonblocking checks in ->writepages are no longer used because the
flusher now prefer to block on get_request_wait() than to skip inodes on
IO congestion. The latter will lead to more seeky IO.
The nonblocking checks in ->writepage are no longer used because it's
redundant with the WB_SYNC_NONE check.
We no long set ->nonblocking in VM page out and page migration, because
a) it's effectively redundant with WB_SYNC_NONE in current code
b) it's old semantic of "Don't get stuck on request queues" is mis-behavior:
that would skip some dirty inodes on congestion and page out others, which
is unfair in terms of LRU age.
Inspired by Christoph Hellwig. Thanks!
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
David Rientjes [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:26 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
oom: fix locking for oom_adj and oom_score_adj
The locking order in oom_adjust_write() and oom_score_adj_write() for
task->alloc_lock and task->sighand->siglock is reversed, and lockdep
notices that irqs could encounter an ABBA scenario.
This fixes the locking order so that we always take task_lock(task) prior
to lock_task_sighand(task).
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@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>
David Rientjes [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:25 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
oom: rewrite error handling for oom_adj and oom_score_adj tunables
It's better to use proper error handling in oom_adjust_write() and
oom_score_adj_write() instead of duplicating the locking order on various
exit paths.
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@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>
David Rientjes [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:24 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
oom: kill all threads sharing oom killed task's mm
It's necessary to kill all threads that share an oom killed task's mm if
the goal is to lead to future memory freeing.
This patch reintroduces the code removed in
8c5cd6f3 (oom: oom_kill
doesn't kill vfork parent (or child)) since it is obsoleted.
It's now guaranteed that any task passed to oom_kill_task() does not share
an mm with any thread that is unkillable. Thus, we're safe to issue a
SIGKILL to any thread sharing the same mm.
This is especially necessary to solve an mm->mmap_sem livelock issue
whereas an oom killed thread must acquire the lock in the exit path while
another thread is holding it in the page allocator while trying to
allocate memory itself (and will preempt the oom killer since a task was
already killed). Since tasks with pending fatal signals are now granted
access to memory reserves, the thread holding the lock may quickly
allocate and release the lock so that the oom killed task may exit.
This mainly is for threads that are cloned with CLONE_VM but not
CLONE_THREAD, so they are in a different thread group. Non-NPTL threads
exist in the wild and this change is necessary to prevent the livelock in
such cases. We care more about preventing the livelock than incurring the
additional tasklist in the oom killer when a task has been killed.
Systems that are sufficiently large to not want the tasklist scan in the
oom killer in the first place already have the option of enabling
/proc/sys/vm/oom_kill_allocating_task, which was designed specifically for
that purpose.
This code had existed in the oom killer for over eight years dating back
to the 2.4 kernel.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add nice comment]
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@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>
David Rientjes [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:23 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
oom: avoid killing a task if a thread sharing its mm cannot be killed
The oom killer's goal is to kill a memory-hogging task so that it may
exit, free its memory, and allow the current context to allocate the
memory that triggered it in the first place. Thus, killing a task is
pointless if other threads sharing its mm cannot be killed because of its
/proc/pid/oom_adj or /proc/pid/oom_score_adj value.
This patch checks whether any other thread sharing p->mm has an
oom_score_adj of OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN. If so, the thread cannot be killed
and oom_badness(p) returns 0, meaning it's unkillable.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@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>
Ying Han [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:23 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
oom: add per-mm oom disable count
It's pointless to kill a task if another thread sharing its mm cannot be
killed to allow future memory freeing. A subsequent patch will prevent
kills in such cases, but first it's necessary to have a way to flag a task
that shares memory with an OOM_DISABLE task that doesn't incur an
additional tasklist scan, which would make select_bad_process() an O(n^2)
function.
This patch adds an atomic counter to struct mm_struct that follows how
many threads attached to it have an oom_score_adj of OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN.
They cannot be killed by the kernel, so their memory cannot be freed in
oom conditions.
This only requires task_lock() on the task that we're operating on, it
does not require mm->mmap_sem since task_lock() pins the mm and the
operation is atomic.
[rientjes@google.com: changelog and sys_unshare() code]
[rientjes@google.com: protect oom_disable_count with task_lock in fork]
[rientjes@google.com: use old_mm for oom_disable_count in exec]
Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.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>
Matt Mackall [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:22 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt: improve smaps field documentation
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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>
WANG Cong [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:21 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
vmcore: it is not experimental any more
We use vmcore in our production kernel for a long time, it is pretty
stable now. So I don't think we need to mark it as experimental any more.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Richard Weinberger [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:21 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
um: fix IRQ flag handling naming
Commit
df9ee292 ("Fix IRQ flag handling naming") changed the IRQ flag
handling naming scheme and broke UML:
In file included from arch/um/include/asm/fixmap.h:5,
from arch/um/include/shared/um_uaccess.h:10,
from arch/um/include/asm/uaccess.h:41,
from arch/um/include/asm/thread_info.h:13,
from include/linux/thread_info.h:56,
from include/linux/preempt.h:9,
from include/linux/spinlock.h:50,
from include/linux/seqlock.h:29,
from include/linux/time.h:8,
from include/linux/stat.h:60,
from include/linux/module.h:10,
from init/main.c:13:
arch/um/include/asm/system.h:11:1: warning: "local_save_flags" redefined
This patch brings the new scheme to UML and makes it work again.
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Masanori ITOH [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:20 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
percpu: fix list_head init bug in __percpu_counter_init()
WARNING: at lib/list_debug.c:26 __list_add+0x3f/0x81()
Hardware name: Express5800/B120a [N8400-085]
list_add corruption. next->prev should be prev (
ffffffff81a7ea00), but was
dead000000200200. (next=
ffff88080b872d58).
Modules linked in: aoe ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat nf_nat autofs4 sunrpc bridge 8021q garp stp llc ipv6 cpufreq_ondemand acpi_cpufreq freq_table dm_round_robin dm_multipath kvm_intel kvm uinput lpfc scsi_transport_fc igb ioatdma scsi_tgt i2c_i801 i2c_core dca iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support pcspkr shpchp megaraid_sas [last unloaded: aoe]
Pid: 54, comm: events/3 Tainted: G W 2.6.34-vanilla1 #1
Call Trace:
[<
ffffffff8104bd77>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7c/0x94
[<
ffffffff8104bde6>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x41/0x43
[<
ffffffff8120fd2e>] __list_add+0x3f/0x81
[<
ffffffff81212a12>] __percpu_counter_init+0x59/0x6b
[<
ffffffff810d8499>] bdi_init+0x118/0x17e
[<
ffffffff811f2c50>] blk_alloc_queue_node+0x79/0x143
[<
ffffffff811f2d2b>] blk_alloc_queue+0x11/0x13
[<
ffffffffa02a931d>] aoeblk_gdalloc+0x8e/0x1c9 [aoe]
[<
ffffffffa02aa655>] aoecmd_sleepwork+0x25/0xa8 [aoe]
[<
ffffffff8106186c>] worker_thread+0x1a9/0x237
[<
ffffffffa02aa630>] ? aoecmd_sleepwork+0x0/0xa8 [aoe]
[<
ffffffff81065827>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x39
[<
ffffffff810616c3>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x237
[<
ffffffff810653ad>] kthread+0x7f/0x87
[<
ffffffff8100aa24>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[<
ffffffff8106532e>] ? kthread+0x0/0x87
[<
ffffffff8100aa20>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10
It's because there is no initialization code for a list_head contained in
the struct backing_dev_info under CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU, and the bug comes up
when block device drivers calling blk_alloc_queue() are used. In case of
me, I got them by using aoe.
Signed-off-by: Masanori Itoh <itoumsn@nttdata.co.jp>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:19 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
kfifo: disable __kfifo_must_check_helper()
This helper is wrong: it coerces signed values into unsigned ones, so code
such as
if (kfifo_alloc(...) < 0) {
error
}
will fail to detect the error.
So let's disable __kfifo_must_check_helper() for 2.6.36.
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Richard Weinberger [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:18 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
hostfs: fix UML crash: remove f_spare from hostfs
365b1818 ("add f_flags to struct statfs(64)") resized f_spare within
struct statfs which caused a UML crash. There is no need to copy f_spare.
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Reported-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Eric Dumazet [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:17 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
ipmi: proper spinlock initialization
Unloading ipmi module can trigger following error. (if
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y)
[ 9633.779590] BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#1, rmmod/7170
[ 9633.779606] lock:
f41f5414, .magic:
00000000, .owner:
<none>/-1, .owner_cpu: 0
[ 9633.779626] Pid: 7170, comm: rmmod Not tainted
2.6.36-rc7-11474-gb71eb1e-dirty #328
[ 9633.779644] Call Trace:
[ 9633.779657] [<
c13921cc>] ? printk+0x18/0x1c
[ 9633.779672] [<
c11a1f33>] spin_bug+0xa3/0xf0
[ 9633.779685] [<
c11a1ffd>] do_raw_spin_lock+0x7d/0x160
[ 9633.779702] [<
c1131537>] ? release_sysfs_dirent+0x47/0xb0
[ 9633.779718] [<
c1131b78>] ? sysfs_addrm_finish+0xa8/0xd0
[ 9633.779734] [<
c1394bac>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0xc/0x20
[ 9633.779752] [<
f99d93da>] cleanup_one_si+0x6a/0x200 [ipmi_si]
[ 9633.779768] [<
c11305b2>] ? sysfs_hash_and_remove+0x72/0x80
[ 9633.779786] [<
f99dcf26>] ipmi_pnp_remove+0xd/0xf [ipmi_si]
[ 9633.779802] [<
c11f622b>] pnp_device_remove+0x1b/0x40
Fix this by initializing spinlocks in a smi_info_alloc() helper function,
right after memory allocation and clearing.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Michael Hennerich [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:16 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
drivers/misc/ad525x_dpot.c: fix typo in spi write16 and write24 transfer counts
This is a bug fix. Some SPI connected devices using 16/24 bit accesses,
previously failed, now work.
This typo slipped in after testing, during some restructuring.
Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Chris Verges <chrisv@cyberswitching.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Richard Weinberger [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:16 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
um: remove PAGE_SIZE alignment in linker script causing kernel segfault.
The linker script cleanup that I did in commit
5d150a97f93 ("um: Clean up
linker script using standard macros.") (2.6.32) accidentally introduced an
ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE) when converting to use INIT_TEXT_SECTION; Richard
Weinberger reported that this causes the kernel to segfault with
CONFIG_STATIC_LINK=y.
I'm not certain why this extra alignment is a problem, but it seems likely
it is because previously
__init_begin = _stext = _text = _sinittext
and with the extra ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE), _sinittext becomes different from the
rest. So there is likely a bug here where something is assuming that
_sinittext is the same as one of those other symbols. But reverting the
accidental change fixes the regression, so it seems worth committing that
now.
Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@ksplice.com>
Reported-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Tested by: Antoine Martin <antoine@nagafix.co.uk>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Robin Holt [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:15 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
sgi-xp: incoming XPC channel messages can come in after the channel's partition structures have been torn down
Under some workloads, some channel messages have been observed being
delayed on the sending side past the point where the receiving side has
been able to tear down its partition structures.
This condition is already detected in xpc_handle_activate_IRQ_uv(), but
that information is not given to xpc_handle_activate_mq_msg_uv(). As a
result, xpc_handle_activate_mq_msg_uv() assumes the structures still exist
and references them, causing a NULL-pointer deref.
Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Richard Weinberger [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:13 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
um: fix global timer issue when using CONFIG_NO_HZ
This fixes a issue which was introduced by
fe2cc53e ("uml: track and make
up lost ticks").
timeval_to_ns() returns long long and not int. Due to that UML's timer
did not work properlt and caused timer freezes.
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mel Gorman [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:11 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
mm, page-allocator: do not check the state of a non-existant buddy during free
There is a bug in commit
6dda9d55 ("page allocator: reduce fragmentation
in buddy allocator by adding buddies that are merging to the tail of the
free lists") that means a buddy at order MAX_ORDER is checked for merging.
A page of this order never exists so at times, an effectively random
piece of memory is being checked.
Alan Curry has reported that this is causing memory corruption in
userspace data on a PPC32 platform (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/9/32).
It is not clear why this is happening. It could be a cache coherency
problem where pages mapped in both user and kernel space are getting
different cache lines due to the bad read from kernel space
(http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/10/13/179). It could also be that there are
some special registers being io-remapped at the end of the memmap array
and that a read has special meaning on them. Compiler bugs have been
ruled out because the assembly before and after the patch looks relatively
harmless.
This patch fixes the problem by ensuring we are not reading a possibly
invalid location of memory. It's not clear why the read causes corruption
but one way or the other it is a buggy read.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Alan Curry <pacman@kosh.dhis.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:10 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
types.h: move misplaced comment
This comment landed in the wrong place.
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:21:10 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
mm: fix return value of scan_lru_pages in memory unplug
scan_lru_pages returns pfn. So, it's type should be "unsigned long"
not "int".
Note: I guess this has been work until now because memory hotplug tester's
machine has not very big memory....
physical address < 32bit << PAGE_SHIFT.
Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@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>
Roland Dreier [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:09:11 +0000 (16:09 -0700)]
Merge branches 'amso1100', 'cma', 'cxgb3', 'cxgb4', 'ehca', 'iboe', 'ipoib', 'misc', 'mlx4', 'nes', 'qib' and 'srp' into for-next
Jason Gunthorpe [Tue, 26 Oct 2010 04:19:06 +0000 (21:19 -0700)]
IB/qib: clean up properly if pci_set_consistent_dma_mask() fails
Clean up properly if pci_set_consistent_dma_mask() fails.
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Ralph Campbell [Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:29:54 +0000 (15:29 -0700)]
IB/qib: Allow driver to load if PCIe AER fails
Some PCIe root complex chip sets don't support advanced error reporting.
Allow the driver to load OK if pci_enable_pcie_error_reporting() fails.
Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <ralph.campbell@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Ralph Campbell [Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:29:46 +0000 (15:29 -0700)]
IB/qib: Fix uninitialized pointer if CONFIG_PCI_MSI not set
If CONFIG_PCI_MSI is not set, and a QLE7140 is present, the pointer
"dd" is uninitialized.
Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <ralph.campbell@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
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