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Mel Gorman
f3a310bc4e mm: vmscan: rename lumpy_mode to reclaim_mode
With compaction being used instead of lumpy reclaim, the name lumpy_mode
and associated variables is a bit misleading.  Rename lumpy_mode to
reclaim_mode which is a better fit.  There is no functional change.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:34 -08:00
Mel Gorman
9927af740b mm: compaction: perform a faster migration scan when migrating asynchronously
try_to_compact_pages() is initially called to only migrate pages
asychronously and kswapd always compacts asynchronously.  Both are being
optimistic so it is important to complete the work as quickly as possible
to minimise stalls.

This patch alters the scanner when asynchronous to only consider
MIGRATE_MOVABLE pageblocks as migration candidates.  This reduces stalls
when allocating huge pages while not impairing allocation success rates as
a full scan will be performed if necessary after direct reclaim.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:34 -08:00
Mel Gorman
7f0f24967b mm: migration: cleanup migrate_pages API by matching types for offlining and sync
With the introduction of the boolean sync parameter, the API looks a
little inconsistent as offlining is still an int.  Convert offlining to a
bool for the sake of being tidy.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:34 -08:00
Mel Gorman
77f1fe6b08 mm: migration: allow migration to operate asynchronously and avoid synchronous compaction in the faster path
Migration synchronously waits for writeback if the initial passes fails.
Callers of memory compaction do not necessarily want this behaviour if the
caller is latency sensitive or expects that synchronous migration is not
going to have a significantly better success rate.

This patch adds a sync parameter to migrate_pages() allowing the caller to
indicate if wait_on_page_writeback() is allowed within migration or not.
For reclaim/compaction, try_to_compact_pages() is first called
asynchronously, direct reclaim runs and then try_to_compact_pages() is
called synchronously as there is a greater expectation that it'll succeed.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build/merge fix]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:34 -08:00
Mel Gorman
3e7d344970 mm: vmscan: reclaim order-0 and use compaction instead of lumpy reclaim
Lumpy reclaim is disruptive.  It reclaims a large number of pages and
ignores the age of the pages it reclaims.  This can incur significant
stalls and potentially increase the number of major faults.

Compaction has reached the point where it is considered reasonably stable
(meaning it has passed a lot of testing) and is a potential candidate for
displacing lumpy reclaim.  This patch introduces an alternative to lumpy
reclaim whe compaction is available called reclaim/compaction.  The basic
operation is very simple - instead of selecting a contiguous range of
pages to reclaim, a number of order-0 pages are reclaimed and then
compaction is later by either kswapd (compact_zone_order()) or direct
compaction (__alloc_pages_direct_compact()).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use conventional task_struct naming]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:33 -08:00
Mel Gorman
ee64fc9354 mm: vmscan: convert lumpy_mode into a bitmask
Currently lumpy_mode is an enum and determines if lumpy reclaim is off,
syncronous or asyncronous.  In preparation for using compaction instead of
lumpy reclaim, this patch converts the flags into a bitmap.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:33 -08:00
Mel Gorman
b7aba6984d mm: compaction: add trace events for memory compaction activity
In preparation for a patches promoting the use of memory compaction over
lumpy reclaim, this patch adds trace points for memory compaction
activity.  Using them, we can monitor the scanning activity of the
migration and free page scanners as well as the number and success rates
of pages passed to page migration.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:33 -08:00
Joe Perches
62c70bce8a mm: convert sprintf_symbol to %pS
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:33 -08:00
Nick Piggin
9cbb4cb21b mm: find_get_pages_contig fixlet
Testing ->mapping and ->index without a ref is not stable as the page
may have been reused at this point.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:32 -08:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
f0bc0a60b1 vmscan: factor out kswapd sleeping logic from kswapd()
Currently, kswapd() has deep nesting and is slightly hard to read.  Clean
this up.

Signed-off-by: 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>
2011-01-13 17:32:32 -08:00
Bob Liu
c3f0da6315 mm/page-writeback.c: fix __set_page_dirty_no_writeback() return value
__set_page_dirty_no_writeback() should return true if it actually
transitioned the page from a clean to dirty state although it seems nobody
uses its return value at present.

Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:32 -08:00
Mel Gorman
b44129b306 mm: vmstat: use a single setter function and callback for adjusting percpu thresholds
reduce_pgdat_percpu_threshold() and restore_pgdat_percpu_threshold() exist
to adjust the per-cpu vmstat thresholds while kswapd is awake to avoid
errors due to counter drift.  The functions duplicate some code so this
patch replaces them with a single set_pgdat_percpu_threshold() that takes
a callback function to calculate the desired threshold as a parameter.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: readability tweak]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(): don't use for_each_online_cpu]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-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>
2011-01-13 17:32:31 -08:00
Mel Gorman
88f5acf88a mm: page allocator: adjust the per-cpu counter threshold when memory is low
Commit aa45484 ("calculate a better estimate of NR_FREE_PAGES when memory
is low") noted that watermarks were based on the vmstat NR_FREE_PAGES.  To
avoid synchronization overhead, these counters are maintained on a per-cpu
basis and drained both periodically and when a threshold is above a
threshold.  On large CPU systems, the difference between the estimate and
real value of NR_FREE_PAGES can be very high.  The system can get into a
case where pages are allocated far below the min watermark potentially
causing livelock issues.  The commit solved the problem by taking a better
reading of NR_FREE_PAGES when memory was low.

Unfortately, as reported by Shaohua Li this accurate reading can consume a
large amount of CPU time on systems with many sockets due to cache line
bouncing.  This patch takes a different approach.  For large machines
where counter drift might be unsafe and while kswapd is awake, the per-cpu
thresholds for the target pgdat are reduced to limit the level of drift to
what should be a safe level.  This incurs a performance penalty in heavy
memory pressure by a factor that depends on the workload and the machine
but the machine should function correctly without accidentally exhausting
all memory on a node.  There is an additional cost when kswapd wakes and
sleeps but the event is not expected to be frequent - in Shaohua's test
case, there was one recorded sleep and wake event at least.

To ensure that kswapd wakes up, a safe version of zone_watermark_ok() is
introduced that takes a more accurate reading of NR_FREE_PAGES when called
from wakeup_kswapd, when deciding whether it is really safe to go back to
sleep in sleeping_prematurely() and when deciding if a zone is really
balanced or not in balance_pgdat().  We are still using an expensive
function but limiting how often it is called.

When the test case is reproduced, the time spent in the watermark
functions is reduced.  The following report is on the percentage of time
spent cumulatively spent in the functions zone_nr_free_pages(),
zone_watermark_ok(), __zone_watermark_ok(), zone_watermark_ok_safe(),
zone_page_state_snapshot(), zone_page_state().

vanilla                      11.6615%
disable-threshold            0.2584%

David said:

: We had to pull aa454840 "mm: page allocator: calculate a better estimate
: of NR_FREE_PAGES when memory is low and kswapd is awake" from 2.6.36
: internally because tests showed that it would cause the machine to stall
: as the result of heavy kswapd activity.  I merged it back with this fix as
: it is pending in the -mm tree and it solves the issue we were seeing, so I
: definitely think this should be pushed to -stable (and I would seriously
: consider it for 2.6.37 inclusion even at this late date).

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reported-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Tested-by: Nicolas Bareil <nico@chdir.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.37.1, 2.6.36.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:31 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
275220f0fc Merge branch 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (43 commits)
  block: ensure that completion error gets properly traced
  blktrace: add missing probe argument to block_bio_complete
  block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_group
  block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_queue
  block: trace event block fix unassigned field
  block: add internal hd part table references
  block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges
  kref: add kref_test_and_get
  bio-integrity: mark kintegrityd_wq highpri and CPU intensive
  block: make kblockd_workqueue smarter
  Revert "sd: implement sd_check_events()"
  block: Clean up exit_io_context() source code.
  Fix compile warnings due to missing removal of a 'ret' variable
  fs/block: type signature of major_to_index(int) to major_to_index(unsigned)
  block: convert !IS_ERR(p) && p to !IS_ERR_NOR_NULL(p)
  cfq-iosched: don't check cfqg in choose_service_tree()
  fs/splice: Pull buf->ops->confirm() from splice_from_pipe actors
  cdrom: export cdrom_check_events()
  sd: implement sd_check_events()
  sr: implement sr_check_events()
  ...
2011-01-13 10:45:01 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
008d23e485 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits)
  Documentation/trace/events.txt: Remove obsolete sched_signal_send.
  writeback: fix global_dirty_limits comment runtime -> real-time
  ppc: fix comment typo singal -> signal
  drivers: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
  m68k: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
  wireless: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
  media: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
  remove doc for obsolete dynamic-printk kernel-parameter
  remove extraneous 'is' from Documentation/iostats.txt
  Fix spelling milisec -> ms in snd_ps3 module parameter description
  Fix spelling mistakes in comments
  Revert conflicting V4L changes
  i7core_edac: fix typos in comments
  mm/rmap.c: fix comment
  sound, ca0106: Fix assignment to 'channel'.
  hrtimer: fix a typo in comment
  init/Kconfig: fix typo
  anon_inodes: fix wrong function name in comment
  fix comment typos concerning "consistent"
  poll: fix a typo in comment
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in:
 - drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c (moved to iwl-legacy.c)
 - fs/ext4/ext4.h

Also fix missed 'diabled' typo in drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h while at it.
2011-01-13 10:05:56 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
a1e8fad590 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
  slub: Fix a crash during slabinfo -v
  tracing/slab: Move kmalloc tracepoint out of inline code
  slub: Fix slub_lock down/up imbalance
  slub: Fix build breakage in Documentation/vm
  slub tracing: move trace calls out of always inlined functions to reduce kernel code size
  slub: move slabinfo.c to tools/slub/slabinfo.c
2011-01-10 08:38:01 -08:00
Pekka Enberg
a45b0616e7 Merge branch 'slab/next' into for-linus 2011-01-09 11:05:53 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
72eb6a7914 Merge branch 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (30 commits)
  gameport: use this_cpu_read instead of lookup
  x86: udelay: Use this_cpu_read to avoid address calculation
  x86: Use this_cpu_inc_return for nmi counter
  x86: Replace uses of current_cpu_data with this_cpu ops
  x86: Use this_cpu_ops to optimize code
  vmstat: User per cpu atomics to avoid interrupt disable / enable
  irq_work: Use per cpu atomics instead of regular atomics
  cpuops: Use cmpxchg for xchg to avoid lock semantics
  x86: this_cpu_cmpxchg and this_cpu_xchg operations
  percpu: Generic this_cpu_cmpxchg() and this_cpu_xchg support
  percpu,x86: relocate this_cpu_add_return() and friends
  connector: Use this_cpu operations
  xen: Use this_cpu_inc_return
  taskstats: Use this_cpu_ops
  random: Use this_cpu_inc_return
  fs: Use this_cpu_inc_return in buffer.c
  highmem: Use this_cpu_xx_return() operations
  vmstat: Use this_cpu_inc_return for vm statistics
  x86: Support for this_cpu_add, sub, dec, inc_return
  percpu: Generic support for this_cpu_add, sub, dec, inc_return
  ...

Fixed up conflicts: in arch/x86/kernel/{apic/nmi.c, apic/x2apic_uv_x.c, process.c}
as per Tejun.
2011-01-07 17:02:58 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
23d69b09b7 Merge branch 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
* 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (33 commits)
  usb: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  speedtch: don't abuse struct delayed_work
  media/video: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  media/video: explicitly flush request_module work
  ioc4: use static work_struct for ioc4_load_modules()
  init: don't call flush_scheduled_work() from do_initcalls()
  s390: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  rtc: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  mmc: update workqueue usages
  mfd: update workqueue usages
  dvb: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  leds-wm8350: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  mISDN: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  macintosh/ams: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  vmwgfx: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  tpm: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  sonypi: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  hvsi: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  xen: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  gdrom: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflict in drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-input.c
as per Tejun.
2011-01-07 16:58:04 -08:00
Nick Piggin
fa0d7e3de6 fs: icache RCU free inodes
RCU free the struct inode. This will allow:

- Subsequent store-free path walking patch. The inode must be consulted for
  permissions when walking, so an RCU inode reference is a must.
- sb_inode_list_lock to be moved inside i_lock because sb list walkers who want
  to take i_lock no longer need to take sb_inode_list_lock to walk the list in
  the first place. This will simplify and optimize locking.
- Could remove some nested trylock loops in dcache code
- Could potentially simplify things a bit in VM land. Do not need to take the
  page lock to follow page->mapping.

The downsides of this is the performance cost of using RCU. In a simple
creat/unlink microbenchmark, performance drops by about 10% due to inability to
reuse cache-hot slab objects. As iterations increase and RCU freeing starts
kicking over, this increases to about 20%.

In cases where inode lifetimes are longer (ie. many inodes may be allocated
during the average life span of a single inode), a lot of this cache reuse is
not applicable, so the regression caused by this patch is smaller.

The cache-hot regression could largely be avoided by using SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU,
however this adds some complexity to list walking and store-free path walking,
so I prefer to implement this at a later date, if it is shown to be a win in
real situations. I haven't found a regression in any non-micro benchmark so I
doubt it will be a problem.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:26 +11:00
Nick Piggin
b5c84bf6f6 fs: dcache remove dcache_lock
dcache_lock no longer protects anything. remove it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:23 +11:00
Nick Piggin
ccd35fb9f4 kernel: kmem_ptr_validate considered harmful
This is a nasty and error prone API. It is no longer used, remove it.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07 17:50:16 +11:00
Minchan Kim
ebd1373d40 writeback: fix global_dirty_limits comment runtime -> real-time
Change runtime with real-time

Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-01-04 11:09:29 +01:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
ebb76ce16d memcg: fix wrong VM_BUG_ON() in try_charge()'s mm->owner check
At __mem_cgroup_try_charge(), VM_BUG_ON(!mm->owner) is checked.
But as commented in mem_cgroup_from_task(), mm->owner can be NULL
in some racy case. This check of VM_BUG_ON() is bad.

A possible story to hit this is at swapoff()->try_to_unuse(). It passes
mm_struct to mem_cgroup_try_charge_swapin() while mm->owner is NULL. If we
can't get proper mem_cgroup from swap_cgroup information, mm->owner is used
as charge target and we see NULL.

Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reported-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-12-30 10:07:06 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
ffc96d628b Merge branch 'nommu-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/nommu-2.6
* 'nommu-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/nommu-2.6:
  nommu: Provide stubbed alloc/free_vm_area() implementation.
  nommu: Fix up vmalloc_node() symbol export regression.
2010-12-27 10:36:27 -08:00
Figo.zhang
23a0790af2 mm/rmap.c: fix comment
clean up comment.

Signed-off-by: Figo.zhang <figo1802@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-12-27 15:14:06 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
a4790c9457 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  percpu: print out alloc information with KERN_DEBUG instead of KERN_INFO
  kthread_work: make lockdep happy
2010-12-24 12:59:09 -08:00
Paul Mundt
29c185e5c6 nommu: Provide stubbed alloc/free_vm_area() implementation.
Now that these have been introduced in to the vmalloc API, sync up the
nommu side of things. At present we don't deal with VMAs as such, so for
the time being these will simply BUG() out. In the future it should be
possible to support this interface by layering on top of the vm_regions.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2010-12-24 12:08:30 +09:00
Paul Mundt
9a14f653df nommu: Fix up vmalloc_node() symbol export regression.
Commit e1ca778 ("mm: add vzalloc() and vzalloc_node() helpers") ended up
accidentally deleting the vmalloc_node() symbol export, resulting in:

"vmalloc_node" [net/core/pktgen.ko] undefined!
"vmalloc_node" [net/netfilter/x_tables.ko] undefined!

regressions.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2010-12-24 11:50:34 +09:00
Michal Nazarewicz
0d1836c366 mm/migrate.c: fix compilation error
GCC complained about update_mmu_cache() not being defined in migrate.c.
Including <asm/tlbflush.h> seems to solve the problem.

Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <m.nazarewicz@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-12-22 19:43:34 -08:00
Wu Fengguang
d153ba6445 writeback: do uninterruptible sleep in balance_dirty_pages()
Using TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE in balance_dirty_pages() seems wrong.  If it's
going to do that then it must break out if signal_pending(), otherwise
it's pretty much guaranteed to degenerate into a busywait loop.  Plus we
*do* want these processes to appear in D state and to contribute to load
average.

So it should be TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE.                 -- Andrew Morton

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-12-22 19:43:33 -08:00
Minchan Kim
dd9e5efe3a mm/compaction.c: avoid double mem_cgroup_del_lru()
del_page_from_lru_list() already called mem_cgroup_del_lru().  So we must
not call it again.  It adds unnecessary overhead.

It was not a runtime bug because the TestClearPageCgroupAcctLRU() early in
mem_cgroup_del_lru_list() will prevent any double-deletion, etc.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-12-22 19:43:33 -08:00
Jiri Kosina
4b7bd36470 Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Conflicts:
	MAINTAINERS
	arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm24xx.c
	drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_fcpim.c

Needed to update to apply fixes for which the old branch was too
outdated.
2010-12-22 18:57:02 +01:00
Tejun Heo
bcbea798f8 percpu: print out alloc information with KERN_DEBUG instead of KERN_INFO
Now that percpu allocator is mostly stable, there is no reason to
print alloc information with KERN_INFO and clutter the boot messages.
Switch it to KERN_DEBUG.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
2010-12-22 14:19:14 +01:00
Christoph Lameter
7c83912062 vmstat: User per cpu atomics to avoid interrupt disable / enable
Currently the operations to increment vm counters must disable interrupts
in order to not mess up their housekeeping of counters.

So use this_cpu_cmpxchg() to avoid the overhead. Since we can no longer
count on preremption being disabled we still have some minor issues.
The fetching of the counter thresholds is racy.
A threshold from another cpu may be applied if we happen to be
rescheduled on another cpu.  However, the following vmstat operation
will then bring the counter again under the threshold limit.

The operations for __xxx_zone_state are not changed since the caller
has taken care of the synchronization needs (and therefore the cycle
count is even less than the optimized version for the irq disable case
provided here).

The optimization using this_cpu_cmpxchg will only be used if the arch
supports efficient this_cpu_ops (must have CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL set!)

The use of this_cpu_cmpxchg reduces the cycle count for the counter
operations by %80 (inc_zone_page_state goes from 170 cycles to 32).

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
2010-12-18 15:54:49 +01:00
Christoph Lameter
908ee0f122 vmstat: Use this_cpu_inc_return for vm statistics
this_cpu_inc_return() saves us a memory access there. Code
size does not change.

V1->V2:
	- Fixed the location of the __per_cpu pointer attributes
	- Sparse checked
V2->V3:
	- Move fixes to __percpu attribute usage to earlier patch

Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-12-17 15:18:04 +01:00
Tejun Heo
275c8b9328 Merge branch 'this_cpu_ops' into for-2.6.38 2010-12-17 15:16:46 +01:00
Christoph Lameter
909ea96468 core: Replace __get_cpu_var with __this_cpu_read if not used for an address.
__get_cpu_var() can be replaced with this_cpu_read and will then use a
single read instruction with implied address calculation to access the
correct per cpu instance.

However, the address of a per cpu variable passed to __this_cpu_read()
cannot be determined (since it's an implied address conversion through
segment prefixes).  Therefore apply this only to uses of __get_cpu_var
where the address of the variable is not used.

Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-12-17 15:07:19 +01:00
Christoph Lameter
12938a9220 vmstat: Optimize zone counter modifications through the use of this cpu operations
this cpu operations can be used to slightly optimize the function. The
changes will avoid some address calculations and replace them with the
use of the percpu segment register.

If one would have this_cpu_inc_return and this_cpu_dec_return then it
would be possible to optimize inc_zone_page_state and
dec_zone_page_state even more.

V1->V2:
	- Fix __dec_zone_state overflow handling
	- Use s8 variables for temporary storage.

V2->V3:
	- Put __percpu annotations in correct places.

Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-12-17 15:07:18 +01:00
Tavis Ormandy
462e635e5b install_special_mapping skips security_file_mmap check.
The install_special_mapping routine (used, for example, to setup the
vdso) skips the security check before insert_vm_struct, allowing a local
attacker to bypass the mmap_min_addr security restriction by limiting
the available pages for special mappings.

bprm_mm_init() also skips the check, and although I don't think this can
be used to bypass any restrictions, I don't see any reason not to have
the security check.

  $ uname -m
  x86_64
  $ cat /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr
  65536
  $ cat install_special_mapping.s
  section .bss
      resb BSS_SIZE
  section .text
      global _start
      _start:
          mov     eax, __NR_pause
          int     0x80
  $ nasm -D__NR_pause=29 -DBSS_SIZE=0xfffed000 -f elf -o install_special_mapping.o install_special_mapping.s
  $ ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext=0x10000 -Tbss=0x11000 -o install_special_mapping install_special_mapping.o
  $ ./install_special_mapping &
  [1] 14303
  $ cat /proc/14303/maps
  0000f000-00010000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                                  [vdso]
  00010000-00011000 r-xp 00001000 00:19 2453665                            /home/taviso/install_special_mapping
  00011000-ffffe000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0                                  [stack]

It's worth noting that Red Hat are shipping with mmap_min_addr set to
4096.

Signed-off-by: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@google.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com>
Acked-by: Robert Swiecki <swiecki@google.com>
[ Changed to not drop the error code - akpm ]
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-12-15 12:30:36 -08:00
Tejun Heo
afe2c511fb workqueue: convert cancel_rearming_delayed_work[queue]() users to cancel_delayed_work_sync()
cancel_rearming_delayed_work[queue]() has been superceded by
cancel_delayed_work_sync() quite some time ago.  Convert all the
in-kernel users.  The conversions are completely equivalent and
trivial.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <cbou@mail.ru>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
2010-12-15 10:56:11 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
38971ce2fa Merge branch 'bugfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6
* 'bugfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6:
  NFS: Fix panic after nfs_umount()
  nfs: remove extraneous and problematic calls to nfs_clear_request
  nfs: kernel should return EPROTONOSUPPORT when not support NFSv4
  NFS: Fix fcntl F_GETLK not reporting some conflicts
  nfs: Discard ACL cache on mode update
  NFS: Readdir cleanups
  NFS: nfs_readdir_search_for_cookie() don't mark as eof if cookie not found
  NFS: Fix a memory leak in nfs_readdir
  Call the filesystem back whenever a page is removed from the page cache
  NFS: Ensure we use the correct cookie in nfs_readdir_xdr_filler
2010-12-14 08:51:12 -08:00
Jesper Juhl
7af4c09324 percpu: zero memory more efficiently in mm/percpu.c::pcpu_mem_alloc()
Don't do vmalloc() + memset() when vzalloc() will do.

tj: dropped unnecessary temp variable ptr.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-12-07 14:47:23 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
7787d2c2f4 Merge branch 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6
* 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6:
  PM / Hibernate: Fix memory corruption related to swap
  PM / Hibernate: Use async I/O when reading compressed hibernation image
2010-12-06 15:51:14 -08:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
c9e664f1fd PM / Hibernate: Fix memory corruption related to swap
There is a problem that swap pages allocated before the creation of
a hibernation image can be released and used for storing the contents
of different memory pages while the image is being saved.  Since the
kernel stored in the image doesn't know of that, it causes memory
corruption to occur after resume from hibernation, especially on
systems with relatively small RAM that need to swap often.

This issue can be addressed by keeping the GFP_IOFS bits clear
in gfp_allowed_mask during the entire hibernation, including the
saving of the image, until the system is finally turned off or
the hibernation is aborted.  Unfortunately, for this purpose
it's necessary to rework the way in which the hibernate and
suspend code manipulates gfp_allowed_mask.

This change is based on an earlier patch from Hugh Dickins.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Reported-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-12-06 23:52:08 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
771f8bc71c Merge branch 'slab/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6
* 'slab/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
  slub: Fix a crash during slabinfo -v
2010-12-05 16:45:02 -08:00
Tero Roponen
37d57443d5 slub: Fix a crash during slabinfo -v
Commit f7cb193362 ("SLUB: Pass active
and inactive redzone flags instead of boolean to debug functions")
missed two instances of check_object(). This caused a lot of warnings
during 'slabinfo -v' finally leading to a crash:

  BUG ext4_xattr: Freepointer corrupt
  ...
  BUG buffer_head: Freepointer corrupt
  ...
  BUG ext4_alloc_context: Freepointer corrupt
  ...
  ...
  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
  IP: [<ffffffff810a291f>] file_sb_list_del+0x1c/0x35
  PGD 79d78067 PUD 79e67067 PMD 0
  Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
  last sysfs file: /sys/kernel/slab/:t-0000192/validate

This patch fixes the problem by converting the two missed instances.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Tero Roponen <tero.roponen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-12-04 09:53:49 +02:00
Tero Roponen
8165984acf slub: Fix a crash during slabinfo -v
Commit f7cb193362 ("SLUB: Pass active
and inactive redzone flags instead of boolean to debug functions")
missed two instances of check_object(). This caused a lot of warnings
during 'slabinfo -v' finally leading to a crash:

  BUG ext4_xattr: Freepointer corrupt
  ...
  BUG buffer_head: Freepointer corrupt
  ...
  BUG ext4_alloc_context: Freepointer corrupt
  ...
  ...
  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
  IP: [<ffffffff810a291f>] file_sb_list_del+0x1c/0x35
  PGD 79d78067 PUD 79e67067 PMD 0
  Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
  last sysfs file: /sys/kernel/slab/:t-0000192/validate

This patch fixes the problem by converting the two missed instances.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Tero Roponen <tero.roponen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-12-04 09:40:16 +02:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
a0b0f58cdd ksm: annotate ksm_thread_mutex is no deadlock source
commit 62b61f611e ("ksm: memory hotremove migration only") caused the
following new lockdep warning.

  =======================================================
  [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
  -------------------------------------------------------
  bash/1621 is trying to acquire lock:
   ((memory_chain).rwsem){.+.+.+}, at: [<ffffffff81079339>]
  __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x69/0xc0

  but task is already holding lock:
   (ksm_thread_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8113a3aa>]
  ksm_memory_callback+0x3a/0xc0

  which lock already depends on the new lock.

  the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

  -> #1 (ksm_thread_mutex){+.+.+.}:
       [<ffffffff8108b70a>] lock_acquire+0xaa/0x140
       [<ffffffff81505d74>] __mutex_lock_common+0x44/0x3f0
       [<ffffffff81506228>] mutex_lock_nested+0x48/0x60
       [<ffffffff8113a3aa>] ksm_memory_callback+0x3a/0xc0
       [<ffffffff8150c21c>] notifier_call_chain+0x8c/0xe0
       [<ffffffff8107934e>] __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x7e/0xc0
       [<ffffffff810793a6>] blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x16/0x20
       [<ffffffff813afbfb>] memory_notify+0x1b/0x20
       [<ffffffff81141b7c>] remove_memory+0x1cc/0x5f0
       [<ffffffff813af53d>] memory_block_change_state+0xfd/0x1a0
       [<ffffffff813afd62>] store_mem_state+0xe2/0xf0
       [<ffffffff813a0bb0>] sysdev_store+0x20/0x30
       [<ffffffff811bc116>] sysfs_write_file+0xe6/0x170
       [<ffffffff8114f398>] vfs_write+0xc8/0x190
       [<ffffffff8114fc14>] sys_write+0x54/0x90
       [<ffffffff810028b2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

  -> #0 ((memory_chain).rwsem){.+.+.+}:
       [<ffffffff8108b5ba>] __lock_acquire+0x155a/0x1600
       [<ffffffff8108b70a>] lock_acquire+0xaa/0x140
       [<ffffffff81506601>] down_read+0x51/0xa0
       [<ffffffff81079339>] __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x69/0xc0
       [<ffffffff810793a6>] blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x16/0x20
       [<ffffffff813afbfb>] memory_notify+0x1b/0x20
       [<ffffffff81141f1e>] remove_memory+0x56e/0x5f0
       [<ffffffff813af53d>] memory_block_change_state+0xfd/0x1a0
       [<ffffffff813afd62>] store_mem_state+0xe2/0xf0
       [<ffffffff813a0bb0>] sysdev_store+0x20/0x30
       [<ffffffff811bc116>] sysfs_write_file+0xe6/0x170
       [<ffffffff8114f398>] vfs_write+0xc8/0x190
       [<ffffffff8114fc14>] sys_write+0x54/0x90
       [<ffffffff810028b2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

But it's a false positive.  Both memory_chain.rwsem and ksm_thread_mutex
have an outer lock (mem_hotplug_mutex).  So they cannot deadlock.

Thus, This patch annotate ksm_thread_mutex is not deadlock source.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: update comment, from Hugh]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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>
2010-12-02 14:51:15 -08:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
20d6c96b5f mem-hotplug: introduce {un}lock_memory_hotplug()
Presently hwpoison is using lock_system_sleep() to prevent a race with
memory hotplug.  However lock_system_sleep() is a no-op if
CONFIG_HIBERNATION=n.  Therefore we need a new lock.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Suggested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-12-02 14:51:15 -08:00