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Gilad Ben-Yossef
74046494ea mm: only IPI CPUs to drain local pages if they exist
Calculate a cpumask of CPUs with per-cpu pages in any zone and only send
an IPI requesting CPUs to drain these pages to the buddy allocator if they
actually have pages when asked to flush.

This patch saves 85%+ of IPIs asking to drain per-cpu pages in case of
severe memory pressure that leads to OOM since in these cases multiple,
possibly concurrent, allocation requests end up in the direct reclaim code
path so when the per-cpu pages end up reclaimed on first allocation
failure for most of the proceeding allocation attempts until the memory
pressure is off (possibly via the OOM killer) there are no per-cpu pages
on most CPUs (and there can easily be hundreds of them).

This also has the side effect of shortening the average latency of direct
reclaim by 1 or more order of magnitude since waiting for all the CPUs to
ACK the IPI takes a long time.

Tested by running "hackbench 400" on a 8 CPU x86 VM and observing the
difference between the number of direct reclaim attempts that end up in
drain_all_pages() and those were more then 1/2 of the online CPU had any
per-cpu page in them, using the vmstat counters introduced in the next
patch in the series and using proc/interrupts.

In the test sceanrio, this was seen to save around 3600 global
IPIs after trigerring an OOM on a concurrent workload:

$ cat /proc/vmstat | tail -n 2
pcp_global_drain 0
pcp_global_ipi_saved 0

$ cat /proc/interrupts | grep CAL
CAL:          1          2          1          2
          2          2          2          2   Function call interrupts

$ hackbench 400
[OOM messages snipped]

$ cat /proc/vmstat | tail -n 2
pcp_global_drain 3647
pcp_global_ipi_saved 3642

$ cat /proc/interrupts | grep CAL
CAL:          6         13          6          3
          3          3         1 2          7   Function call interrupts

Please note that if the global drain is removed from the direct reclaim
path as a patch from Mel Gorman currently suggests this should be replaced
with an on_each_cpu_cond invocation.

Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-28 17:14:35 -07:00
David Rientjes
29fd66d289 mm, coredump: fail allocations when coredumping instead of oom killing
The size of coredump files is limited by RLIMIT_CORE, however, allocating
large amounts of memory results in three negative consequences:

 - the coredumping process may be chosen for oom kill and quickly deplete
   all memory reserves in oom conditions preventing further progress from
   being made or tasks from exiting,

 - the coredumping process may cause other processes to be oom killed
   without fault of their own as the result of a SIGSEGV, for example, in
   the coredumping process, or

 - the coredumping process may result in a livelock while writing to the
   dump file if it needs memory to allocate while other threads are in
   the exit path waiting on the coredumper to complete.

This is fixed by implying __GFP_NORETRY in the page allocator for
coredumping processes when reclaim has failed so the allocations fail and
the process continues to exit.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-28 17:14:35 -07:00
Kautuk Consul
b224ef856b page_alloc: remove unused find_zone_movable_pfns_for_nodes() argument
find_zone_movable_pfns_for_nodes() does not use its argument.

Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.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>
2012-03-21 17:55:00 -07:00
Kautuk Consul
8d13bddd11 page_alloc.c: remove add_from_early_node_map()
add_from_early_node_map() is unused.

Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-21 17:55:00 -07:00
Mel Gorman
cc9a6c8776 cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3
Commit c0ff7453bb ("cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when
changing cpuset's mems") wins a super prize for the largest number of
memory barriers entered into fast paths for one commit.

[get|put]_mems_allowed is incredibly heavy with pairs of full memory
barriers inserted into a number of hot paths.  This was detected while
investigating at large page allocator slowdown introduced some time
after 2.6.32.  The largest portion of this overhead was shown by
oprofile to be at an mfence introduced by this commit into the page
allocator hot path.

For extra style points, the commit introduced the use of yield() in an
implementation of what looks like a spinning mutex.

This patch replaces the full memory barriers on both read and write
sides with a sequence counter with just read barriers on the fast path
side.  This is much cheaper on some architectures, including x86.  The
main bulk of the patch is the retry logic if the nodemask changes in a
manner that can cause a false failure.

While updating the nodemask, a check is made to see if a false failure
is a risk.  If it is, the sequence number gets bumped and parallel
allocators will briefly stall while the nodemask update takes place.

In a page fault test microbenchmark, oprofile samples from
__alloc_pages_nodemask went from 4.53% of all samples to 1.15%.  The
actual results were

                             3.3.0-rc3          3.3.0-rc3
                             rc3-vanilla        nobarrier-v2r1
    Clients   1 UserTime       0.07 (  0.00%)   0.08 (-14.19%)
    Clients   2 UserTime       0.07 (  0.00%)   0.07 (  2.72%)
    Clients   4 UserTime       0.08 (  0.00%)   0.07 (  3.29%)
    Clients   1 SysTime        0.70 (  0.00%)   0.65 (  6.65%)
    Clients   2 SysTime        0.85 (  0.00%)   0.82 (  3.65%)
    Clients   4 SysTime        1.41 (  0.00%)   1.41 (  0.32%)
    Clients   1 WallTime       0.77 (  0.00%)   0.74 (  4.19%)
    Clients   2 WallTime       0.47 (  0.00%)   0.45 (  3.73%)
    Clients   4 WallTime       0.38 (  0.00%)   0.37 (  1.58%)
    Clients   1 Flt/sec/cpu  497620.28 (  0.00%) 520294.53 (  4.56%)
    Clients   2 Flt/sec/cpu  414639.05 (  0.00%) 429882.01 (  3.68%)
    Clients   4 Flt/sec/cpu  257959.16 (  0.00%) 258761.48 (  0.31%)
    Clients   1 Flt/sec      495161.39 (  0.00%) 517292.87 (  4.47%)
    Clients   2 Flt/sec      820325.95 (  0.00%) 850289.77 (  3.65%)
    Clients   4 Flt/sec      1020068.93 (  0.00%) 1022674.06 (  0.26%)
    MMTests Statistics: duration
    Sys Time Running Test (seconds)             135.68    132.17
    User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds)         164.2    160.13
    Total Elapsed Time (seconds)                123.46    120.87

The overall improvement is small but the System CPU time is much
improved and roughly in correlation to what oprofile reported (these
performance figures are without profiling so skew is expected).  The
actual number of page faults is noticeably improved.

For benchmarks like kernel builds, the overall benefit is marginal but
the system CPU time is slightly reduced.

To test the actual bug the commit fixed I opened two terminals.  The
first ran within a cpuset and continually ran a small program that
faulted 100M of anonymous data.  In a second window, the nodemask of the
cpuset was continually randomised in a loop.

Without the commit, the program would fail every so often (usually
within 10 seconds) and obviously with the commit everything worked fine.
With this patch applied, it also worked fine so the fix should be
functionally equivalent.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-21 17:54:59 -07:00
Konstantin Khlebnikov
f0cb3c76ae mm: drain percpu lru add/rotate page-vectors on cpu hot-unplug
This cpu hotplug hook was accidentally removed in commit 00a62ce91e
("mm: fix Committed_AS underflow on large NR_CPUS environment")

The visible effect of this accident: some pages are borrowed in per-cpu
page-vectors.  Truncate can deal with it, but these pages cannot be
reused while this cpu is offline.  So this is like a temporary memory
leak.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@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>
2012-03-21 17:54:58 -07:00
David Rientjes
08ab9b10d4 mm, oom: force oom kill on sysrq+f
The oom killer chooses not to kill a thread if:

 - an eligible thread has already been oom killed and has yet to exit,
   and

 - an eligible thread is exiting but has yet to free all its memory and
   is not the thread attempting to currently allocate memory.

SysRq+F manually invokes the global oom killer to kill a memory-hogging
task.  This is normally done as a last resort to free memory when no
progress is being made or to test the oom killer itself.

For both uses, we always want to kill a thread and never defer.  This
patch causes SysRq+F to always kill an eligible thread and can be used to
force a kill even if another oom killed thread has failed to exit.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-21 17:54:58 -07:00
Rik van Riel
aff622495c vmscan: only defer compaction for failed order and higher
Currently a failed order-9 (transparent hugepage) compaction can lead to
memory compaction being temporarily disabled for a memory zone.  Even if
we only need compaction for an order 2 allocation, eg.  for jumbo frames
networking.

The fix is relatively straightforward: keep track of the highest order at
which compaction is succeeding, and only defer compaction for orders at
which compaction is failing.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-21 17:54:56 -07:00
Dimitri Sivanich
074b85175a vfs: fix panic in __d_lookup() with high dentry hashtable counts
When the number of dentry cache hash table entries gets too high
(2147483648 entries), as happens by default on a 16TB system, use of a
signed integer in the dcache_init() initialization loop prevents the
dentry_hashtable from getting initialized, causing a panic in
__d_lookup().  Fix this in dcache_init() and similar areas.

Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-02-13 20:45:38 -05:00
Michal Hocko
656a070629 mm: __count_immobile_pages(): make sure the node is online
page_zone() requires an online node otherwise we are accessing NULL
NODE_DATA.  This is not an issue at the moment because node_zones are
located at the structure beginning but this might change in the future
so better be careful about that.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-23 08:38:47 -08:00
Michal Hocko
687875fb7d mm: fix NULL ptr dereference in __count_immobile_pages
Fix the following NULL ptr dereference caused by

  cat /sys/devices/system/memory/memory0/removable

Pid: 13979, comm: sed Not tainted 3.0.13-0.5-default #1 IBM BladeCenter LS21 -[7971PAM]-/Server Blade
RIP: __count_immobile_pages+0x4/0x100
Process sed (pid: 13979, threadinfo ffff880221c36000, task ffff88022e788480)
Call Trace:
  is_pageblock_removable_nolock+0x34/0x40
  is_mem_section_removable+0x74/0xf0
  show_mem_removable+0x41/0x70
  sysfs_read_file+0xfe/0x1c0
  vfs_read+0xc7/0x130
  sys_read+0x53/0xa0
  system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

We are crashing because we are trying to dereference NULL zone which
came from pfn=0 (struct page ffffea0000000000). According to the boot
log this page is marked reserved:
e820 update range: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000010000 (usable) ==> (reserved)

and early_node_map confirms that:
early_node_map[3] active PFN ranges
    1: 0x00000010 -> 0x0000009c
    1: 0x00000100 -> 0x000bffa3
    1: 0x00100000 -> 0x00240000

The problem is that memory_present works in PAGE_SECTION_MASK aligned
blocks so the reserved range sneaks into the the section as well.  This
also means that free_area_init_node will not take care of those reserved
pages and they stay uninitialized.

When we try to read the removable status we walk through all available
sections and hope that the zone is valid for all pages in the section.
But this is not true in this case as the zone and nid are not initialized.

We have only one node in this particular case and it is marked as node=1
(rather than 0) and that made the problem visible because page_to_nid will
return 0 and there are no zones on the node.

Let's check that the zone is valid and that the given pfn falls into its
boundaries and mark the section not removable.  This might cause some
false positives, probably, but we do not have any sane way to find out
whether the page is reserved by the platform or it is just not used for
whatever other reasons.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-23 08:38:47 -08:00
Hugh Dickins
4111304dab mm: enum lru_list lru
Mostly we use "enum lru_list lru": change those few "l"s to "lru"s.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.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>
2012-01-12 20:13:10 -08:00
Mel Gorman
66199712e9 mm: page allocator: do not call direct reclaim for THP allocations while compaction is deferred
If compaction is deferred, direct reclaim is used to try to free enough
pages for the allocation to succeed.  For small high-orders, this has a
reasonable chance of success.  However, if the caller has specified
__GFP_NO_KSWAPD to limit the disruption to the system, it makes more sense
to fail the allocation rather than stall the caller in direct reclaim.
This patch skips direct reclaim if compaction is deferred and the caller
specifies __GFP_NO_KSWAPD.

Async compaction only considers a subset of pages so it is possible for
compaction to be deferred prematurely and not enter direct reclaim even in
cases where it should.  To compensate for this, this patch also defers
compaction only if sync compaction failed.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>
Cc: Nai Xia <nai.xia@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12 20:13:09 -08:00
Bob Liu
d0048b0e59 page_alloc: break early in check_for_regular_memory()
If there is a zone below ZONE_NORMAL has present_pages, we can set node
state to N_NORMAL_MEMORY, no need to loop to end.

Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: 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>
2012-01-12 20:13:07 -08:00
Johannes Weiner
6290df5458 mm: collect LRU list heads into struct lruvec
Having a unified structure with a LRU list set for both global zones and
per-memcg zones allows to keep that code simple which deals with LRU
lists and does not care about the container itself.

Once the per-memcg LRU lists directly link struct pages, the isolation
function and all other list manipulations are shared between the memcg
case and the global LRU case.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12 20:13:05 -08:00
Johannes Weiner
c3993076f8 mm: page_alloc: generalize order handling in __free_pages_bootmem()
__free_pages_bootmem() used to special-case higher-order frees to save
individual page checking with free_pages_bulk().

Nowadays, both zero order and non-zero order frees use free_pages(), which
checks each individual page anyway, and so there is little point in making
the distinction anymore.  The higher-order loop will work just fine for
zero order pages.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-10 16:30:44 -08:00
Michal Hocko
df0a6daa01 mm: fix off-by-two in __zone_watermark_ok()
Commit 88f5acf88a ("mm: page allocator: adjust the per-cpu counter
threshold when memory is low") changed the form how free_pages is
calculated but it forgot that we used to do free_pages - ((1 << order) -
1) so we ended up with off-by-two when calculating free_pages.

Reported-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-10 16:30:44 -08:00
Johannes Weiner
a756cf5908 mm: try to distribute dirty pages fairly across zones
The maximum number of dirty pages that exist in the system at any time is
determined by a number of pages considered dirtyable and a user-configured
percentage of those, or an absolute number in bytes.

This number of dirtyable pages is the sum of memory provided by all the
zones in the system minus their lowmem reserves and high watermarks, so
that the system can retain a healthy number of free pages without having
to reclaim dirty pages.

But there is a flaw in that we have a zoned page allocator which does not
care about the global state but rather the state of individual memory
zones.  And right now there is nothing that prevents one zone from filling
up with dirty pages while other zones are spared, which frequently leads
to situations where kswapd, in order to restore the watermark of free
pages, does indeed have to write pages from that zone's LRU list.  This
can interfere so badly with IO from the flusher threads that major
filesystems (btrfs, xfs, ext4) mostly ignore write requests from reclaim
already, taking away the VM's only possibility to keep such a zone
balanced, aside from hoping the flushers will soon clean pages from that
zone.

Enter per-zone dirty limits.  They are to a zone's dirtyable memory what
the global limit is to the global amount of dirtyable memory, and try to
make sure that no single zone receives more than its fair share of the
globally allowed dirty pages in the first place.  As the number of pages
considered dirtyable excludes the zones' lowmem reserves and high
watermarks, the maximum number of dirty pages in a zone is such that the
zone can always be balanced without requiring page cleaning.

As this is a placement decision in the page allocator and pages are
dirtied only after the allocation, this patch allows allocators to pass
__GFP_WRITE when they know in advance that the page will be written to and
become dirty soon.  The page allocator will then attempt to allocate from
the first zone of the zonelist - which on NUMA is determined by the task's
NUMA memory policy - that has not exceeded its dirty limit.

At first glance, it would appear that the diversion to lower zones can
increase pressure on them, but this is not the case.  With a full high
zone, allocations will be diverted to lower zones eventually, so it is
more of a shift in timing of the lower zone allocations.  Workloads that
previously could fit their dirty pages completely in the higher zone may
be forced to allocate from lower zones, but the amount of pages that
"spill over" are limited themselves by the lower zones' dirty constraints,
and thus unlikely to become a problem.

For now, the problem of unfair dirty page distribution remains for NUMA
configurations where the zones allowed for allocation are in sum not big
enough to trigger the global dirty limits, wake up the flusher threads and
remedy the situation.  Because of this, an allocation that could not
succeed on any of the considered zones is allowed to ignore the dirty
limits before going into direct reclaim or even failing the allocation,
until a future patch changes the global dirty throttling and flusher
thread activation so that they take individual zone states into account.

			Test results

15M DMA + 3246M DMA32 + 504 Normal = 3765M memory
40% dirty ratio
16G USB thumb drive
10 runs of dd if=/dev/zero of=disk/zeroes bs=32k count=$((10 << 15))

		seconds			nr_vmscan_write
		        (stddev)	       min|     median|        max
xfs
vanilla:	 549.747( 3.492)	     0.000|      0.000|      0.000
patched:	 550.996( 3.802)	     0.000|      0.000|      0.000

fuse-ntfs
vanilla:	1183.094(53.178)	 54349.000|  59341.000|  65163.000
patched:	 558.049(17.914)	     0.000|      0.000|     43.000

btrfs
vanilla:	 573.679(14.015)	156657.000| 460178.000| 606926.000
patched:	 563.365(11.368)	     0.000|      0.000|   1362.000

ext4
vanilla:	 561.197(15.782)	     0.000|2725438.000|4143837.000
patched:	 568.806(17.496)	     0.000|      0.000|      0.000

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-10 16:30:43 -08:00
Johannes Weiner
ab8fabd46f mm: exclude reserved pages from dirtyable memory
Per-zone dirty limits try to distribute page cache pages allocated for
writing across zones in proportion to the individual zone sizes, to reduce
the likelihood of reclaim having to write back individual pages from the
LRU lists in order to make progress.

This patch:

The amount of dirtyable pages should not include the full number of free
pages: there is a number of reserved pages that the page allocator and
kswapd always try to keep free.

The closer (reclaimable pages - dirty pages) is to the number of reserved
pages, the more likely it becomes for reclaim to run into dirty pages:

       +----------+ ---
       |   anon   |  |
       +----------+  |
       |          |  |
       |          |  -- dirty limit new    -- flusher new
       |   file   |  |                     |
       |          |  |                     |
       |          |  -- dirty limit old    -- flusher old
       |          |                        |
       +----------+                       --- reclaim
       | reserved |
       +----------+
       |  kernel  |
       +----------+

This patch introduces a per-zone dirty reserve that takes both the lowmem
reserve as well as the high watermark of the zone into account, and a
global sum of those per-zone values that is subtracted from the global
amount of dirtyable pages.  The lowmem reserve is unavailable to page
cache allocations and kswapd tries to keep the high watermark free.  We
don't want to end up in a situation where reclaim has to clean pages in
order to balance zones.

Not treating reserved pages as dirtyable on a global level is only a
conceptual fix.  In reality, dirty pages are not distributed equally
across zones and reclaim runs into dirty pages on a regular basis.

But it is important to get this right before tackling the problem on a
per-zone level, where the distance between reclaim and the dirty pages is
mostly much smaller in absolute numbers.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix highmem build]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-10 16:30:43 -08:00
Stanislaw Gruszka
c0a32fc5a2 mm: more intensive memory corruption debugging
With CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC configured, the CPU will generate an exception
on access (read,write) to an unallocated page, which permits us to catch
code which corrupts memory.  However the kernel is trying to maximise
memory usage, hence there are usually few free pages in the system and
buggy code usually corrupts some crucial data.

This patch changes the buddy allocator to keep more free/protected pages
and to interlace free/protected and allocated pages to increase the
probability of catching corruption.

When the kernel is compiled with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC,
debug_guardpage_minorder defines the minimum order used by the page
allocator to grant a request.  The requested size will be returned with
the remaining pages used as guard pages.

The default value of debug_guardpage_minorder is zero: no change from
current behaviour.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak documentation, s/flg/flag/]
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
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>
2012-01-10 16:30:42 -08:00
Mel Gorman
f90ac3982a mm: avoid livelock on !__GFP_FS allocations
Colin Cross reported;

  Under the following conditions, __alloc_pages_slowpath can loop forever:
  gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT is true
  gfp_mask & __GFP_FS is false
  reclaim and compaction make no progress
  order <= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER

  These conditions happen very often during suspend and resume,
  when pm_restrict_gfp_mask() effectively converts all GFP_KERNEL
  allocations into __GFP_WAIT.

  The oom killer is not run because gfp_mask & __GFP_FS is false,
  but should_alloc_retry will always return true when order is less
  than PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER.

In his fix, he avoided retrying the allocation if reclaim made no progress
and __GFP_FS was not set.  The problem is that this would result in
GFP_NOIO allocations failing that previously succeeded which would be very
unfortunate.

The big difference between GFP_NOIO and suspend converting GFP_KERNEL to
behave like GFP_NOIO is that normally flushers will be cleaning pages and
kswapd reclaims pages allowing GFP_NOIO to succeed after a short delay.
The same does not necessarily apply during suspend as the storage device
may be suspended.

This patch special cases the suspend case to fail the page allocation if
reclaim cannot make progress and adds some documentation on how
gfp_allowed_mask is currently used.  Failing allocations like this may
cause suspend to abort but that is better than a livelock.

[mgorman@suse.de: Rework fix to be suspend specific]
[rientjes@google.com: Move suspended device check to should_alloc_retry]
Reported-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-10 16:30:42 -08:00
Mel Gorman
938929f14c mm: reduce the amount of work done when updating min_free_kbytes
When min_free_kbytes is updated, some pageblocks are marked
MIGRATE_RESERVE.  Ordinarily, this work is unnoticable as it happens early
in boot but on large machines with 1TB of memory, this has been reported
to delay boot times, probably due to the NUMA distances involved.

The bulk of the work is due to calling calling pageblock_is_reserved() an
unnecessary amount of times and accessing far more struct page metadata
than is necessary.  This patch significantly reduces the amount of work
done by setup_zone_migrate_reserve() improving boot times on 1TB machines.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-10 16:30:42 -08:00
Konstantin Khlebnikov
b413d48aa7 mm-tracepoint: rename page-free events
Rename mm_page_free_direct into mm_page_free and mm_pagevec_free into
mm_page_free_batched

Since v2.6.33-5426-gc475dab the kernel triggers mm_page_free_direct for
all freed pages, not only for directly freed.  So, let's name it properly.
 For pages freed via page-list we also trigger mm_page_free_batched event.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-10 16:30:41 -08:00
Konstantin Khlebnikov
da066ad357 mm: remove unused pagevec_free
It not exported and now nobody uses it.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.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>
2012-01-10 16:30:41 -08:00
Konstantin Khlebnikov
cc59850ef9 mm: add free_hot_cold_page_list() helper
This patch adds helper free_hot_cold_page_list() to free list of 0-order
pages.  It frees pages directly from list without temporary page-vector.
It also calls trace_mm_pagevec_free() to simulate pagevec_free()
behaviour.

bloat-o-meter:

add/remove: 1/1 grow/shrink: 1/3 up/down: 267/-295 (-28)
function                                     old     new   delta
free_hot_cold_page_list                        -     264    +264
get_page_from_freelist                      2129    2132      +3
__pagevec_free                               243     239      -4
split_free_page                              380     373      -7
release_pages                                606     510     -96
free_page_list                               188       -    -188

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.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>
2012-01-10 16:30:41 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
98793265b4 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (53 commits)
  Kconfig: acpi: Fix typo in comment.
  misc latin1 to utf8 conversions
  devres: Fix a typo in devm_kfree comment
  btrfs: free-space-cache.c: remove extra semicolon.
  fat: Spelling s/obsolate/obsolete/g
  SCSI, pmcraid: Fix spelling error in a pmcraid_err() call
  tools/power turbostat: update fields in manpage
  mac80211: drop spelling fix
  types.h: fix comment spelling for 'architectures'
  typo fixes: aera -> area, exntension -> extension
  devices.txt: Fix typo of 'VMware'.
  sis900: Fix enum typo 'sis900_rx_bufer_status'
  decompress_bunzip2: remove invalid vi modeline
  treewide: Fix comment and string typo 'bufer'
  hyper-v: Update MAINTAINERS
  treewide: Fix typos in various parts of the kernel, and fix some comments.
  clockevents: drop unknown Kconfig symbol GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_MIGR
  gpio: Kconfig: drop unknown symbol 'CS5535_GPIO'
  leds: Kconfig: Fix typo 'D2NET_V2'
  sound: Kconfig: drop unknown symbol ARCH_CLPS7500
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/powerpc/platforms/40x/Kconfig (some new
kconfig additions, close to removed commented-out old ones)
2012-01-08 13:21:22 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
972b2c7199 Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
* 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (165 commits)
  reiserfs: Properly display mount options in /proc/mounts
  vfs: prevent remount read-only if pending removes
  vfs: count unlinked inodes
  vfs: protect remounting superblock read-only
  vfs: keep list of mounts for each superblock
  vfs: switch ->show_options() to struct dentry *
  vfs: switch ->show_path() to struct dentry *
  vfs: switch ->show_devname() to struct dentry *
  vfs: switch ->show_stats to struct dentry *
  switch security_path_chmod() to struct path *
  vfs: prefer ->dentry->d_sb to ->mnt->mnt_sb
  vfs: trim includes a bit
  switch mnt_namespace ->root to struct mount
  vfs: take /proc/*/mounts and friends to fs/proc_namespace.c
  vfs: opencode mntget() mnt_set_mountpoint()
  vfs: spread struct mount - remaining argument of next_mnt()
  vfs: move fsnotify junk to struct mount
  vfs: move mnt_devname
  vfs: move mnt_list to struct mount
  vfs: switch pnode.h macros to struct mount *
  ...
2012-01-08 12:19:57 -08:00
Al Viro
f4ae40a6a5 switch debugfs to umode_t
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:54:56 -05:00
Ingo Molnar
45aa0663cc Merge branch 'memblock-kill-early_node_map' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc into core/memblock 2011-12-20 12:14:26 +01:00
Michal Hocko
d021563888 mm: Ensure that pfn_valid() is called once per pageblock when reserving pageblocks
setup_zone_migrate_reserve() expects that zone->start_pfn starts at
pageblock_nr_pages aligned pfn otherwise we could access beyond an
existing memblock resulting in the following panic if
CONFIG_HOLES_IN_ZONE is not configured and we do not check pfn_valid:

  IP: [<c02d331d>] setup_zone_migrate_reserve+0xcd/0x180
  *pdpt = 0000000000000000 *pde = f000ff53f000ff53
  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
  Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.0.7-0.7-pae #1 VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform
  EIP: 0060:[<c02d331d>] EFLAGS: 00010006 CPU: 0
  EIP is at setup_zone_migrate_reserve+0xcd/0x180
  EAX: 000c0000 EBX: f5801fc0 ECX: 000c0000 EDX: 00000000
  ESI: 000c01fe EDI: 000c01fe EBP: 00140000 ESP: f2475f58
  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
  Process swapper (pid: 1, ti=f2474000 task=f2472cd0 task.ti=f2474000)
  Call Trace:
  [<c02d389c>] __setup_per_zone_wmarks+0xec/0x160
  [<c02d3a1f>] setup_per_zone_wmarks+0xf/0x20
  [<c08a771c>] init_per_zone_wmark_min+0x27/0x86
  [<c020111b>] do_one_initcall+0x2b/0x160
  [<c086639d>] kernel_init+0xbe/0x157
  [<c05cae26>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0xd
  Code: a5 39 f5 89 f7 0f 46 fd 39 cf 76 40 8b 03 f6 c4 08 74 32 eb 91 90 89 c8 c1 e8 0e 0f be 80 80 2f 86 c0 8b 14 85 60 2f 86 c0 89 c8 <2b> 82 b4 12 00 00 c1 e0 05 03 82 ac 12 00 00 8b 00 f6 c4 08 0f
  EIP: [<c02d331d>] setup_zone_migrate_reserve+0xcd/0x180 SS:ESP 0068:f2475f58
  CR2: 00000000000012b4

We crashed in pageblock_is_reserved() when accessing pfn 0xc0000 because
highstart_pfn = 0x36ffe.

The issue was introduced in 3.0-rc1 by 6d3163ce ("mm: check if any page
in a pageblock is reserved before marking it MIGRATE_RESERVE").

Make sure that start_pfn is always aligned to pageblock_nr_pages to
ensure that pfn_valid s always called at the start of each pageblock.
Architectures with holes in pageblocks will be correctly handled by
pfn_valid_within in pageblock_is_reserved.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Tested-by: Dang Bo <bdang@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Arve Hjnnevg <arve@android.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[3.0+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-12-09 07:50:28 -08:00
Youquan Song
58a84aa927 thp: set compound tail page _count to zero
Commit 70b50f94f1 ("mm: thp: tail page refcounting fix") keeps all
page_tail->_count zero at all times.  But the current kernel does not
set page_tail->_count to zero if a 1GB page is utilized.  So when an
IOMMU 1GB page is used by KVM, it wil result in a kernel oops because a
tail page's _count does not equal zero.

  kernel BUG at include/linux/mm.h:386!
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
  Call Trace:
    gup_pud_range+0xb8/0x19d
    get_user_pages_fast+0xcb/0x192
    ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xd/0xf
    hva_to_pfn+0x119/0x2f2
    gfn_to_pfn_memslot+0x2c/0x2e
    kvm_iommu_map_pages+0xfd/0x1c1
    kvm_iommu_map_memslots+0x7c/0xbd
    kvm_iommu_map_guest+0xaa/0xbf
    kvm_vm_ioctl_assigned_device+0x2ef/0xa47
    kvm_vm_ioctl+0x36c/0x3a2
    do_vfs_ioctl+0x49e/0x4e4
    sys_ioctl+0x5a/0x7c
    system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
  RIP  gup_huge_pud+0xf2/0x159

Signed-off-by: Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-12-09 07:50:28 -08:00
Tejun Heo
0ee332c145 memblock: Kill early_node_map[]
Now all ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP archs select HAVE_MEBLOCK_NODE_MAP -
there's no user of early_node_map[] left.  Kill early_node_map[] and
replace ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP with HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP.  Also,
relocate for_each_mem_pfn_range() and helper from mm.h to memblock.h
as page_alloc.c would no longer host an alternative implementation.

This change is ultimately one to one mapping and shouldn't cause any
observable difference; however, after the recent changes, there are
some functions which now would fit memblock.c better than page_alloc.c
and dependency on HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP instead of HAVE_MEMBLOCK
doesn't make much sense on some of them.  Further cleanups for
functions inside HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP in mm.h would be nice.

-v2: Fix compile bug introduced by mis-spelling
 CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP to CONFIG_MEMBLOCK_HAVE_NODE_MAP in
 mmzone.h.  Reported by Stephen Rothwell.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
2011-12-08 10:22:09 -08:00
Tejun Heo
d4bbf7e775 Merge branch 'master' into x86/memblock
Conflicts & resolutions:

* arch/x86/xen/setup.c

	dc91c728fd "xen: allow extra memory to be in multiple regions"
	24aa07882b "memblock, x86: Replace memblock_x86_reserve/free..."

	conflicted on xen_add_extra_mem() updates.  The resolution is
	trivial as the latter just want to replace
	memblock_x86_reserve_range() with memblock_reserve().

* drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c

	166e9278a3 "x86/ia64: intel-iommu: move to drivers/iommu/"
	5dfe8660a3 "bootmem: Replace work_with_active_regions() with..."

	conflicted as the former moved the file under drivers/iommu/.
	Resolved by applying the chnages from the latter on the moved
	file.

* mm/Kconfig

	6661672053 "memblock: add NO_BOOTMEM config symbol"
	c378ddd53f "memblock, x86: Make ARCH_DISCARD_MEMBLOCK a config option"

	conflicted trivially.  Both added config options.  Just
	letting both add their own options resolves the conflict.

* mm/memblock.c

	d1f0ece6cd "mm/memblock.c: small function definition fixes"
	ed7b56a799 "memblock: Remove memblock_memory_can_coalesce()"

	confliected.  The former updates function removed by the
	latter.  Resolution is trivial.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2011-11-28 09:46:22 -08:00
Wang Sheng-Hui
6416b9fa43 mm: cleanup the comment for head/tail pages of compound pages in mm/page_alloc.c
Only tail pages point at the head page using their ->first_page fields.

Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-11-17 10:53:50 +01:00
Joe Perches
3ee9a4f086 mm: neaten warn_alloc_failed
Add __attribute__((format (printf...) to the function to validate format
and arguments.  Use vsprintf extension %pV to avoid any possible message
interleaving.  Coalesce format string.  Convert printks/pr_warning to
pr_warn.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use the __printf() macro]
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31 17:30:48 -07:00
Dave Jones
4f31888c10 mm: output a list of loaded modules when we hit bad_page()
When we get a bad_page bug report, it's useful to see what modules the
user had loaded.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31 17:30:45 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
dd48c085c1 fault-injection: add ability to export fault_attr in arbitrary directory
init_fault_attr_dentries() is used to export fault_attr via debugfs.
But it can only export it in debugfs root directory.

Per Forlin is working on mmc_fail_request which adds support to inject
data errors after a completed host transfer in MMC subsystem.

The fault_attr for mmc_fail_request should be defined per mmc host and
export it in debugfs directory per mmc host like
/sys/kernel/debug/mmc0/mmc_fail_request.

init_fault_attr_dentries() doesn't help for mmc_fail_request.  So this
introduces fault_create_debugfs_attr() which is able to create a
directory in the arbitrary directory and replace
init_fault_attr_dentries().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: extraneous semicolon, per Randy]
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Per Forlin <per.forlin@linaro.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-08-03 14:25:20 -10:00
Akinobu Mita
b2588c4b4c fail_page_alloc: simplify debugfs initialization
Now cleanup_fault_attr_dentries() recursively removes a directory, So we
can simplify the error handling in the initialization code and no need
to hold dentry structs for each debugfs file.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:46 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
7f5ddcc8d3 fault-injection: use debugfs_remove_recursive
Use debugfs_remove_recursive() to simplify initialization and
deinitialization of fault injection debugfs files.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:46 -07:00
Mel Gorman
76d3fbf8fb mm: page allocator: reconsider zones for allocation after direct reclaim
With zone_reclaim_mode enabled, it's possible for zones to be considered
full in the zonelist_cache so they are skipped in the future.  If the
process enters direct reclaim, the ZLC may still consider zones to be full
even after reclaiming pages.  Reconsider all zones for allocation if
direct reclaim returns successfully.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25 20:57:10 -07:00
Mel Gorman
cd38b115d5 mm: page allocator: initialise ZLC for first zone eligible for zone_reclaim
There have been a small number of complaints about significant stalls
while copying large amounts of data on NUMA machines reported on a
distribution bugzilla.  In these cases, zone_reclaim was enabled by
default due to large NUMA distances.  In general, the complaints have not
been about the workload itself unless it was a file server (in which case
the recommendation was disable zone_reclaim).

The stalls are mostly due to significant amounts of time spent scanning
the preferred zone for pages to free.  After a failure, it might fallback
to another node (as zonelists are often node-ordered rather than
zone-ordered) but stall quickly again when the next allocation attempt
occurs.  In bad cases, each page allocated results in a full scan of the
preferred zone.

Patch 1 checks the preferred zone for recent allocation failure
        which is particularly important if zone_reclaim has failed
        recently.  This avoids rescanning the zone in the near future and
        instead falling back to another node.  This may hurt node locality
        in some cases but a failure to zone_reclaim is more expensive than
        a remote access.

Patch 2 clears the zlc information after direct reclaim.
        Otherwise, zone_reclaim can mark zones full, direct reclaim can
        reclaim enough pages but the zone is still not considered for
        allocation.

This was tested on a 24-thread 2-node x86_64 machine.  The tests were
focused on large amounts of IO.  All tests were bound to the CPUs on
node-0 to avoid disturbances due to processes being scheduled on different
nodes.  The kernels tested are

3.0-rc6-vanilla		Vanilla 3.0-rc6
zlcfirst		Patch 1 applied
zlcreconsider		Patches 1+2 applied

FS-Mark
./fs_mark  -d  /tmp/fsmark-10813  -D  100  -N  5000  -n  208  -L  35  -t  24  -S0  -s  524288
                fsmark-3.0-rc6       3.0-rc6       		3.0-rc6
                   vanilla			 zlcfirs 	zlcreconsider
Files/s  min          54.90 ( 0.00%)       49.80 (-10.24%)       49.10 (-11.81%)
Files/s  mean        100.11 ( 0.00%)      135.17 (25.94%)      146.93 (31.87%)
Files/s  stddev       57.51 ( 0.00%)      138.97 (58.62%)      158.69 (63.76%)
Files/s  max         361.10 ( 0.00%)      834.40 (56.72%)      802.40 (55.00%)
Overhead min       76704.00 ( 0.00%)    76501.00 ( 0.27%)    77784.00 (-1.39%)
Overhead mean    1485356.51 ( 0.00%)  1035797.83 (43.40%)  1594680.26 (-6.86%)
Overhead stddev  1848122.53 ( 0.00%)   881489.88 (109.66%)  1772354.90 ( 4.27%)
Overhead max     7989060.00 ( 0.00%)  3369118.00 (137.13%) 10135324.00 (-21.18%)
MMTests Statistics: duration
User/Sys Time Running Test (seconds)        501.49    493.91    499.93
Total Elapsed Time (seconds)               2451.57   2257.48   2215.92

MMTests Statistics: vmstat
Page Ins                                       46268       63840       66008
Page Outs                                   90821596    90671128    88043732
Swap Ins                                           0           0           0
Swap Outs                                          0           0           0
Direct pages scanned                        13091697     8966863     8971790
Kswapd pages scanned                               0     1830011     1831116
Kswapd pages reclaimed                             0     1829068     1829930
Direct pages reclaimed                      13037777     8956828     8648314
Kswapd efficiency                               100%         99%         99%
Kswapd velocity                                0.000     810.643     826.346
Direct efficiency                                99%         99%         96%
Direct velocity                             5340.128    3972.068    4048.788
Percentage direct scans                         100%         83%         83%
Page writes by reclaim                             0           3           0
Slabs scanned                                 796672      720640      720256
Direct inode steals                          7422667     7160012     7088638
Kswapd inode steals                                0     1736840     2021238

Test completes far faster with a large increase in the number of files
created per second.  Standard deviation is high as a small number of
iterations were much higher than the mean.  The number of pages scanned by
zone_reclaim is reduced and kswapd is used for more work.

LARGE DD
               		3.0-rc6       3.0-rc6       3.0-rc6
                   	vanilla     zlcfirst     zlcreconsider
download tar           59 ( 0.00%)   59 ( 0.00%)   55 ( 7.27%)
dd source files       527 ( 0.00%)  296 (78.04%)  320 (64.69%)
delete source          36 ( 0.00%)   19 (89.47%)   20 (80.00%)
MMTests Statistics: duration
User/Sys Time Running Test (seconds)        125.03    118.98    122.01
Total Elapsed Time (seconds)                624.56    375.02    398.06

MMTests Statistics: vmstat
Page Ins                                     3594216      439368      407032
Page Outs                                   23380832    23380488    23377444
Swap Ins                                           0           0           0
Swap Outs                                          0         436         287
Direct pages scanned                        17482342    69315973    82864918
Kswapd pages scanned                               0      519123      575425
Kswapd pages reclaimed                             0      466501      522487
Direct pages reclaimed                       5858054     2732949     2712547
Kswapd efficiency                               100%         89%         90%
Kswapd velocity                                0.000    1384.254    1445.574
Direct efficiency                                33%          3%          3%
Direct velocity                            27991.453  184832.737  208171.929
Percentage direct scans                         100%         99%         99%
Page writes by reclaim                             0        5082       13917
Slabs scanned                                  17280       29952       35328
Direct inode steals                           115257     1431122      332201
Kswapd inode steals                                0           0      979532

This test downloads a large tarfile and copies it with dd a number of
times - similar to the most recent bug report I've dealt with.  Time to
completion is reduced.  The number of pages scanned directly is still
disturbingly high with a low efficiency but this is likely due to the
number of dirty pages encountered.  The figures could probably be improved
with more work around how kswapd is used and how dirty pages are handled
but that is separate work and this result is significant on its own.

Streaming Mapped Writer
MMTests Statistics: duration
User/Sys Time Running Test (seconds)        124.47    111.67    112.64
Total Elapsed Time (seconds)               2138.14   1816.30   1867.56

MMTests Statistics: vmstat
Page Ins                                       90760       89124       89516
Page Outs                                  121028340   120199524   120736696
Swap Ins                                           0          86          55
Swap Outs                                          0           0           0
Direct pages scanned                       114989363    96461439    96330619
Kswapd pages scanned                        56430948    56965763    57075875
Kswapd pages reclaimed                      27743219    27752044    27766606
Direct pages reclaimed                         49777       46884       36655
Kswapd efficiency                                49%         48%         48%
Kswapd velocity                            26392.541   31363.631   30561.736
Direct efficiency                                 0%          0%          0%
Direct velocity                            53780.091   53108.759   51581.004
Percentage direct scans                          67%         62%         62%
Page writes by reclaim                           385         122        1513
Slabs scanned                                  43008       39040       42112
Direct inode steals                                0          10           8
Kswapd inode steals                              733         534         477

This test just creates a large file mapping and writes to it linearly.
Time to completion is again reduced.

The gains are mostly down to two things.  In many cases, there is less
scanning as zone_reclaim simply gives up faster due to recent failures.
The second reason is that memory is used more efficiently.  Instead of
scanning the preferred zone every time, the allocator falls back to
another zone and uses it instead improving overall memory utilisation.

This patch: initialise ZLC for first zone eligible for zone_reclaim.

The zonelist cache (ZLC) is used among other things to record if
zone_reclaim() failed for a particular zone recently.  The intention is to
avoid a high cost scanning extremely long zonelists or scanning within the
zone uselessly.

Currently the zonelist cache is setup only after the first zone has been
considered and zone_reclaim() has been called.  The objective was to avoid
a costly setup but zone_reclaim is itself quite expensive.  If it is
failing regularly such as the first eligible zone having mostly mapped
pages, the cost in scanning and allocation stalls is far higher than the
ZLC initialisation step.

This patch initialises ZLC before the first eligible zone calls
zone_reclaim().  Once initialised, it is checked whether the zone failed
zone_reclaim recently.  If it has, the zone is skipped.  As the first zone
is now being checked, additional care has to be taken about zones marked
full.  A zone can be marked "full" because it should not have enough
unmapped pages for zone_reclaim but this is excessive as direct reclaim or
kswapd may succeed where zone_reclaim fails.  Only mark zones "full" after
zone_reclaim fails if it failed to reclaim enough pages after scanning.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25 20:57:10 -07:00
Tejun Heo
7c0caeb866 memblock: Add optional region->nid
From 83103b92f3234ec830852bbc5c45911bd6cbdb20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:22:16 +0200

Add optional region->nid which can be enabled by arch using
CONFIG_HAVE_MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP.  When enabled, memblock also carries
NUMA node information and replaces early_node_map[].

Newly added memblocks have MAX_NUMNODES as nid.  Arch can then call
memblock_set_node() to set node information.  memblock takes care of
merging and node affine allocations w.r.t. node information.

When MEMBLOCK_NODE_MAP is enabled, early_node_map[], related data
structures and functions to manipulate and iterate it are disabled.
memblock version of __next_mem_pfn_range() is provided such that
for_each_mem_pfn_range() behaves the same and its users don't have to
be updated.

-v2: Yinghai spotted section mismatch caused by missing
     __init_memblock in memblock_set_node().  Fixed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110714094342.GF3455@htj.dyndns.org
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-07-14 11:47:43 -07:00
Tejun Heo
eb40c4c27f memblock, x86: Replace memblock_x86_find_in_range_node() with generic memblock calls
With the previous changes, generic NUMA aware memblock API has feature
parity with memblock_x86_find_in_range_node().  There currently are
two users - x86 setup_node_data() and __alloc_memory_core_early() in
nobootmem.c.

This patch converts the former to use memblock_alloc_nid() and the
latter memblock_find_range_in_node(), and kills
memblock_x86_find_in_range_node() and related functions including
find_memory_early_core_early() in page_alloc.c.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1310460395-30913-9-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-07-14 11:45:35 -07:00
Tejun Heo
c13291a536 bootmem: Use for_each_mem_pfn_range() in page_alloc.c
The previous patch added for_each_mem_pfn_range() which is more
versatile than for_each_active_range_index_in_nid().  This patch
replaces for_each_active_range_index_in_nid() and open coded
early_node_map[] walks with for_each_mem_pfn_range().

All conversions in this patch are straight-forward and shouldn't cause
any functional difference.  After the conversions,
for_each_active_range_index_in_nid() doesn't have any user left and is
removed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1310460395-30913-4-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-07-14 11:45:31 -07:00
Tejun Heo
96e907d136 bootmem: Reimplement __absent_pages_in_range() using for_each_mem_pfn_range()
__absent_pages_in_range() was needlessly complex.  Reimplement it
using for_each_mem_pfn_range().

Also, update zone_absent_pages_in_node() such that it doesn't call
__absent_pages_in_range() with @zone_start_pfn which is larger than
@zone_end_pfn.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1310460395-30913-3-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-07-14 11:45:30 -07:00
Tejun Heo
5dfe8660a3 bootmem: Replace work_with_active_regions() with for_each_mem_pfn_range()
Callback based iteration is cumbersome and much less useful than
for_each_*() iterator.  This patch implements for_each_mem_pfn_range()
which replaces work_with_active_regions().  All the current users of
work_with_active_regions() are converted.

This simplifies walking over early_node_map and will allow converting
internal logics in page_alloc to use iterator instead of walking
early_node_map directly, which in turn will enable moving node
information to memblock.

powerpc change is only compile tested.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110714074610.GD3455@htj.dyndns.org
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-07-14 11:45:29 -07:00
Tejun Heo
1f5026a7e2 memblock: Kill MEMBLOCK_ERROR
25818f0f28 (memblock: Make MEMBLOCK_ERROR be 0) thankfully made
MEMBLOCK_ERROR 0 and there already are codes which expect error return
to be 0.  There's no point in keeping MEMBLOCK_ERROR around.  End its
misery.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1310457490-3356-6-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-07-13 16:36:01 -07:00
Tejun Heo
53348f2716 bootmem: Fix __free_pages_bootmem() to use @order properly
a226f6c899 (FRV: Clean up bootmem allocator's page freeing algorithm)
separated out __free_pages_bootmem() from free_all_bootmem_core().
__free_pages_bootmem() takes @order argument but it assumes @order is
either 0 or ilog2(BITS_PER_LONG).  Note that all the current users
match that assumption and this doesn't cause actual problems.

Fix it by using 1 << order instead of BITS_PER_LONG.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1310457490-3356-3-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-07-13 16:35:56 -07:00
Tejun Heo
1e01979c8f x86, numa: Implement pfn -> nid mapping granularity check
SPARSEMEM w/o VMEMMAP and DISCONTIGMEM, both used only on 32bit, use
sections array to map pfn to nid which is limited in granularity.  If
NUMA nodes are laid out such that the mapping cannot be accurate, boot
will fail triggering BUG_ON() in mminit_verify_page_links().

On 32bit, it's 512MiB w/ PAE and SPARSEMEM.  This seems to have been
granular enough until commit 2706a0bf7b (x86, NUMA: Enable
CONFIG_AMD_NUMA on 32bit too).  Apparently, there is a machine which
aligns NUMA nodes to 128MiB and has only AMD NUMA but not SRAT.  This
led to the following BUG_ON().

 On node 0 totalpages: 2096615
   DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
   DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
   DMA zone: 3927 pages, LIFO batch:0
   Normal zone: 1740 pages used for memmap
   Normal zone: 220978 pages, LIFO batch:31
   HighMem zone: 16405 pages used for memmap
   HighMem zone: 1853533 pages, LIFO batch:31
 BUG: Int 6: CR2   (null)
      EDI   (null)  ESI 00000002  EBP 00000002  ESP c1543ecc
      EBX f2400000  EDX 00000006  ECX   (null)  EAX 00000001
      err   (null)  EIP c16209aa   CS 00000060  flg 00010002
 Stack: f2400000 00220000 f7200800 c1620613 00220000 01000000 04400000 00238000
          (null) f7200000 00000002 f7200b58 f7200800 c1620929 000375fe   (null)
        f7200b80 c16395f0 00200a02 f7200a80   (null) 000375fe 00000002   (null)
 Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.39-rc5-00181-g2706a0b #17
 Call Trace:
  [<c136b1e5>] ? early_fault+0x2e/0x2e
  [<c16209aa>] ? mminit_verify_page_links+0x12/0x42
  [<c1620613>] ? memmap_init_zone+0xaf/0x10c
  [<c1620929>] ? free_area_init_node+0x2b9/0x2e3
  [<c1607e99>] ? free_area_init_nodes+0x3f2/0x451
  [<c1601d80>] ? paging_init+0x112/0x118
  [<c15f578d>] ? setup_arch+0x791/0x82f
  [<c15f43d9>] ? start_kernel+0x6a/0x257

This patch implements node_map_pfn_alignment() which determines
maximum internode alignment and update numa_register_memblks() to
reject NUMA configuration if alignment exceeds the pfn -> nid mapping
granularity of the memory model as determined by PAGES_PER_SECTION.

This makes the problematic machine boot w/ flatmem by rejecting the
NUMA config and provides protection against crazy NUMA configurations.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110712074534.GB2872@htj.dyndns.org
LKML-Reference: <20110628174613.GP478@escobedo.osrc.amd.com>
Reported-and-Tested-by: Hans Rosenfeld <hans.rosenfeld@amd.com>
Cc: Conny Seidel <conny.seidel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2011-07-12 21:58:29 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1fa7b6a29c Revert "mm: fail GFP_DMA allocations when ZONE_DMA is not configured"
This reverts commit a197b59ae6.

As rmk says:
 "Commit a197b59ae6 (mm: fail GFP_DMA allocations when ZONE_DMA is not
  configured) is causing regressions on ARM with various drivers which
  use GFP_DMA.

  The behaviour up until now has been to silently ignore that flag when
  CONFIG_ZONE_DMA is not enabled, and to allocate from the normal zone.
  However, as a result of the above commit, such allocations now fail
  which causes drivers to fail.  These are regressions compared to the
  previous kernel version."

so just revert it.

Requested-by: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-02 06:11:24 +09:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
246e87a939 memcg: fix get_scan_count() for small targets
During memory reclaim we determine the number of pages to be scanned per
zone as

	(anon + file) >> priority.
Assume
	scan = (anon + file) >> priority.

If scan < SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, the scan will be skipped for this time and
priority gets higher.  This has some problems.

  1. This increases priority as 1 without any scan.
     To do scan in this priority, amount of pages should be larger than 512M.
     If pages>>priority < SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, it's recorded and scan will be
     batched, later. (But we lose 1 priority.)
     If memory size is below 16M, pages >> priority is 0 and no scan in
     DEF_PRIORITY forever.

  2. If zone->all_unreclaimabe==true, it's scanned only when priority==0.
     So, x86's ZONE_DMA will never be recoverred until the user of pages
     frees memory by itself.

  3. With memcg, the limit of memory can be small. When using small memcg,
     it gets priority < DEF_PRIORITY-2 very easily and need to call
     wait_iff_congested().
     For doing scan before priorty=9, 64MB of memory should be used.

Then, this patch tries to scan SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX of pages in force...when

  1. the target is enough small.
  2. it's kswapd or memcg reclaim.

Then we can avoid rapid priority drop and may be able to recover
all_unreclaimable in a small zones.  And this patch removes nr_saved_scan.
 This will allow scanning in this priority even when pages >> priority is
very small.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
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>
2011-05-26 17:12:35 -07:00
Andrew Barry
cfa54a0fcf mm/page_alloc.c: prevent unending loop in __alloc_pages_slowpath()
I believe I found a problem in __alloc_pages_slowpath, which allows a
process to get stuck endlessly looping, even when lots of memory is
available.

Running an I/O and memory intensive stress-test I see a 0-order page
allocation with __GFP_IO and __GFP_WAIT, running on a system with very
little free memory.  Right about the same time that the stress-test gets
killed by the OOM-killer, the utility trying to allocate memory gets stuck
in __alloc_pages_slowpath even though most of the systems memory was freed
by the oom-kill of the stress-test.

The utility ends up looping from the rebalance label down through the
wait_iff_congested continiously.  Because order=0,
__alloc_pages_direct_compact skips the call to get_page_from_freelist.
Because all of the reclaimable memory on the system has already been
reclaimed, __alloc_pages_direct_reclaim skips the call to
get_page_from_freelist.  Since there is no __GFP_FS flag, the block with
__alloc_pages_may_oom is skipped.  The loop hits the wait_iff_congested,
then jumps back to rebalance without ever trying to
get_page_from_freelist.  This loop repeats infinitely.

The test case is pretty pathological.  Running a mix of I/O stress-tests
that do a lot of fork() and consume all of the system memory, I can pretty
reliably hit this on 600 nodes, in about 12 hours.  32GB/node.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Barry <abarry@cray.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25 08:39:36 -07:00
David Rientjes
a197b59ae6 mm: fail GFP_DMA allocations when ZONE_DMA is not configured
The page allocator will improperly return a page from ZONE_NORMAL even
when __GFP_DMA is passed if CONFIG_ZONE_DMA is disabled.  The caller
expects DMA memory, perhaps for ISA devices with 16-bit address registers,
and may get higher memory resulting in undefined behavior.

This patch causes the page allocator to return NULL in such circumstances
with a warning emitted to the kernel log on the first occurrence.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: 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>
2011-05-25 08:39:29 -07:00
Arve Hjønnevåg
6d3163ce86 mm: check if any page in a pageblock is reserved before marking it MIGRATE_RESERVE
This fixes a problem where the first pageblock got marked MIGRATE_RESERVE
even though it only had a few free pages.  eg, On current ARM port, The
kernel starts at offset 0x8000 to leave room for boot parameters, and the
memory is freed later.

This in turn caused no contiguous memory to be reserved and frequent
kswapd wakeups that emptied the caches to get more contiguous memory.

Unfortunatelly, ARM needs order-2 allocation for pgd (see
arm/mm/pgd.c#pgd_alloc()).  Therefore the issue is not minor nor easy
avoidable.

[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: added some explanation]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: add !pfn_valid_within() to check]
[minchan.kim@gmail.com: check end_pfn in pageblock_is_reserved]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25 08:39:24 -07:00
Dave Hansen
a238ab5b02 mm: break out page allocation warning code
This originally started as a simple patch to give vmalloc() some more
verbose output on failure on top of the plain page allocator messages.
Johannes suggested that it might be nicer to lead with the vmalloc() info
_before_ the page allocator messages.

But, I do think there's a lot of value in what __alloc_pages_slowpath()
does with its filtering and so forth.

This patch creates a new function which other allocators can call instead
of relying on the internal page allocator warnings.  It also gives this
function private rate-limiting which separates it from other
printk_ratelimit() users.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25 08:39:21 -07:00
Andrea Arcangeli
c6a140bf16 mm/compaction: reverse the change that forbade sync migraton with __GFP_NO_KSWAPD
It's uncertain this has been beneficial, so it's safer to undo it.  All
other compaction users would still go in synchronous mode if a first
attempt at async compaction failed.  Hopefully we don't need to force
special behavior for THP (which is the only __GFP_NO_KSWAPD user so far
and it's the easier to exercise and to be noticeable).  This also make
__GFP_NO_KSWAPD return to its original strict semantics specific to bypass
kswapd, as THP allocations have khugepaged for the async THP
allocations/compactions.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Alex Villacis Lasso <avillaci@fiec.espol.edu.ec>
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>
2011-05-25 08:39:10 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
a6cccdc36c mm, mem-hotplug: update pcp->stat_threshold when memory hotplug occur
Currently, cpu hotplug updates pcp->stat_threshold, but memory hotplug
doesn't.  There is no reason for this.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_SMP=n build]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
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>
2011-05-25 08:39:09 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
1b79acc911 mm, mem-hotplug: recalculate lowmem_reserve when memory hotplug occurs
Currently, memory hotplug calls setup_per_zone_wmarks() and
calculate_zone_inactive_ratio(), but doesn't call
setup_per_zone_lowmem_reserve().

It means the number of reserved pages aren't updated even if memory hot
plug occur.  This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
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>
2011-05-25 08:39:09 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
839a4fcc8a mm, mem-hotplug: fix section mismatch. setup_per_zone_inactive_ratio() should be __meminit.
Commit bce7394a3e ("page-allocator: reset wmark_min and inactive ratio of
zone when hotplug happens") introduced invalid section references.  Now,
setup_per_zone_inactive_ratio() is marked __init and then it can't be
referenced from memory hotplug code.

This patch marks it as __meminit and also marks caller as __ref.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25 08:39:08 -07:00
Sergey Senozhatsky
ac3bbec5ec mm: remove unused zone_idx variable from set_migratetype_isolate
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25 08:39:04 -07:00
David Rientjes
7bf02ea22c arch, mm: filter disallowed nodes from arch specific show_mem functions
Architectures that implement their own show_mem() function did not pass
the filter argument to show_free_areas() to appropriately avoid emitting
the state of nodes that are disallowed in the current context.  This patch
now passes the filter argument to show_free_areas() so those nodes are now
avoided.

This patch also removes the show_free_areas() wrapper around
__show_free_areas() and converts existing callers to pass an empty filter.

ia64 emits additional information for each node, so skip_free_areas_zone()
must be made global to filter disallowed nodes and it is converted to use
a nid argument rather than a zone for this use case.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25 08:39:03 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
57d19e80f4 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
  b43: fix comment typo reqest -> request
  Haavard Skinnemoen has left Atmel
  cris: typo in mach-fs Makefile
  Kconfig: fix copy/paste-ism for dell-wmi-aio driver
  doc: timers-howto: fix a typo ("unsgined")
  perf: Only include annotate.h once in tools/perf/util/ui/browsers/annotate.c
  md, raid5: Fix spelling error in comment ('Ofcourse' --> 'Of course').
  treewide: fix a few typos in comments
  regulator: change debug statement be consistent with the style of the rest
  Revert "arm: mach-u300/gpio: Fix mem_region resource size miscalculations"
  audit: acquire creds selectively to reduce atomic op overhead
  rtlwifi: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal
  treewide: cleanup continuations and remove logging message whitespace
  ath9k_hw: don't touch with treewide double semicolon removal
  include/linux/leds-regulator.h: fix syntax in example code
  tty: fix typo in descripton of tty_termios_encode_baud_rate
  xtensa: remove obsolete BKL kernel option from defconfig
  m68k: fix comment typo 'occcured'
  arch:Kconfig.locks Remove unused config option.
  treewide: remove extra semicolons
  ...
2011-05-23 09:12:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
268bb0ce3e sanitize <linux/prefetch.h> usage
Commit e66eed651f ("list: remove prefetching from regular list
iterators") removed the include of prefetch.h from list.h, which
uncovered several cases that had apparently relied on that rather
obscure header file dependency.

So this fixes things up a bit, using

   grep -L linux/prefetch.h $(git grep -l '[^a-z_]prefetchw*(' -- '*.[ch]')
   grep -L 'prefetchw*(' $(git grep -l 'linux/prefetch.h' -- '*.[ch]')

to guide us in finding files that either need <linux/prefetch.h>
inclusion, or have it despite not needing it.

There are more of them around (mostly network drivers), but this gets
many core ones.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-20 12:50:29 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
b5e6ab589d mm: fix kernel-doc warning in page_alloc.c
Fix new kernel-doc warning in mm/page_alloc.c:

  Warning(mm/page_alloc.c:2370): No description found for parameter 'nid'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-16 18:34:30 -07:00
Andi Kleen
ee85c2e145 mm: add alloc_pages_exact_nid()
Add a alloc_pages_exact_nid() that allocates on a specific node.

The naming is quite broken, but fixing that would need a larger renaming
action.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-11 18:50:45 -07:00
Yinghai Lu
8f389a99b6 mm: use alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic() on really needed path
Stefan found nobootmem does not work on his system that has only 8M of
RAM.  This causes an early panic:

  BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
   BIOS-88: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable)
   BIOS-88: 0000000000100000 - 0000000000840000 (usable)
  bootconsole [earlyser0] enabled
  Notice: NX (Execute Disable) protection missing in CPU or disabled in BIOS!
  DMI not present or invalid.
  last_pfn = 0x840 max_arch_pfn = 0x100000
  init_memory_mapping: 0000000000000000-0000000000840000
  8MB LOWMEM available.
    mapped low ram: 0 - 00840000
    low ram: 0 - 00840000
  Zone PFN ranges:
    DMA      0x00000001 -> 0x00001000
    Normal   empty
  Movable zone start PFN for each node
  early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges
      0: 0x00000001 -> 0x0000009f
      0: 0x00000100 -> 0x00000840
  BUG: Int 6: CR2 (null)
       EDI c034663c  ESI (null)  EBP c0329f38  ESP c0329ef4
       EBX c0346380  EDX 00000006  ECX ffffffff  EAX fffffff4
       err (null)  EIP c0353191   CS c0320060  flg 00010082
  Stack: (null) c030c533 000007cd (null) c030c533 00000001 (null) (null)
         00000003 0000083f 00000018 00000002 00000002 c0329f6c c03534d6 (null)
         (null) 00000100 00000840 (null) c0329f64 00000001 00001000 (null)
  Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.36 #5
  Call Trace:
   [<c02e3707>] ? 0xc02e3707
   [<c035e6e5>] 0xc035e6e5
   [<c0353191>] ? 0xc0353191
   [<c03534d6>] 0xc03534d6
   [<c034f1cd>] 0xc034f1cd
   [<c034a824>] 0xc034a824
   [<c03513cb>] ? 0xc03513cb
   [<c0349432>] 0xc0349432
   [<c0349066>] 0xc0349066

It turns out that we should ignore the low limit of 16M.

Use alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic() in this case.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: less mess]
Signed-off-by: Yinghai LU <yinghai@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Stefan Hellermann <stefan@the2masters.de>
Tested-by: Stefan Hellermann <stefan@the2masters.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.34+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-11 18:50:44 -07:00
Jiri Kosina
07f9479a40 Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Fast-forwarded to current state of Linus' tree as there are patches to be
applied for files that didn't exist on the old branch.
2011-04-26 10:22:59 +02:00
Paul Mundt
9f6ae448bf mm/page_alloc.c: silence build_all_zonelists() section mismatch
The memory hotplug case involves calling to build_all_zonelists() which
in turns calls in to setup_zone_pageset().  The latter is marked
__meminit while build_all_zonelists() itself has no particular
annotation.  build_all_zonelists() is only handed a non-NULL pointer in
the case of memory hotplug through an existing __meminit path, so the
setup_zone_pageset() reference is always safe.

The options as such are either to flag build_all_zonelists() as __ref (as
per __build_all_zonelists()), or to simply discard the __meminit
annotation from setup_zone_pageset().

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-04-14 16:06:54 -07:00
Nikanth Karthikesan
58c2ee4007 mm: Fix section mismatch for setup_zone_pageset()
build_all_zonelists() which is not __meminit, calls setup_zone_pageset().

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-04-10 17:01:03 +02:00
Lucas De Marchi
25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
David Rientjes
b2b755b5f1 lib, arch: add filter argument to show_mem and fix private implementations
Commit ddd588b5dd ("oom: suppress nodes that are not allowed from
meminfo on oom kill") moved lib/show_mem.o out of lib/lib.a, which
resulted in build warnings on all architectures that implement their own
versions of show_mem():

	lib/lib.a(show_mem.o): In function `show_mem':
	show_mem.c:(.text+0x1f4): multiple definition of `show_mem'
	arch/sparc/mm/built-in.o:(.text+0xd70): first defined here

The fix is to remove __show_mem() and add its argument to show_mem() in
all implementations to prevent this breakage.

Architectures that implement their own show_mem() actually don't do
anything with the argument yet, but they could be made to filter nodes
that aren't allowed in the current context in the future just like the
generic implementation.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Reported-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-24 17:49:37 -07:00
Daisuke Nishimura
f212ad7cf9 memcg: add memcg sanity checks at allocating and freeing pages
Add checks at allocating or freeing a page whether the page is used (iow,
charged) from the view point of memcg.

This check may be useful in debugging a problem and we did similar checks
before the commit 52d4b9ac(memcg: allocate all page_cgroup at boot).

This patch adds some overheads at allocating or freeing memory, so it's
enabled only when CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2011-03-23 19:46:25 -07:00
Kirill A. Shutemov
84be48d84a mm/page_alloc.c: use list_move() instead of list_del()/list_add() combination
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:09 -07:00
Andi Kleen
78afd5612d mm: add __GFP_OTHER_NODE flag
Add a new __GFP_OTHER_NODE flag to tell the low level numa statistics in
zone_statistics() that an allocation is on behalf of another thread.  This
way the local and remote counters can be still correct, even when
background daemons like khugepaged are changing memory mappings.

This only affects the accounting, but I think it's worth doing that right
to avoid confusing users.

I first tried to just pass down the right node, but this required a lot of
changes to pass down this parameter and at least one addition of a 10th
argument to a 9 argument function.  Using the flag is a lot less
intrusive.

Open: should be also used for migration?

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@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>
2011-03-22 17:44:05 -07:00
Andrea Arcangeli
11bc82d67d mm: compaction: Use async migration for __GFP_NO_KSWAPD and enforce no writeback
__GFP_NO_KSWAPD allocations are usually very expensive and not mandatory
to succeed as they have graceful fallback.  Waiting for I/O in those,
tends to be overkill in terms of latencies, so we can reduce their latency
by disabling sync migrate.

Unfortunately, even with async migration it's still possible for the
process to be blocked waiting for a request slot (e.g.  get_request_wait
in the block layer) when ->writepage is called.  To prevent
__GFP_NO_KSWAPD blocking, this patch prevents ->writepage being called on
dirty page cache for asynchronous migration.

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31142

[mel@csn.ul.ie: Avoid writebacks for NFS, retry locked pages, use bool]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <cladisch@googlemail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Alex Villacis Lasso <avillaci@ceibo.fiec.espol.edu.ec>
Tested-by: Alex Villacis Lasso <avillaci@ceibo.fiec.espol.edu.ec>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:05 -07:00
Namhyung Kim
1d16871d8c mm: batch-free pcp list if possible
free_pcppages_bulk() frees pages from pcp lists in a round-robin fashion
by keeping batch_free counter.  But it doesn't need to spin if there is
only one non-empty list.  This can be checked by batch_free ==
MIGRATE_PCPTYPES.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment]
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
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>
2011-03-22 17:44:02 -07:00
David Rientjes
cbf978bfb1 oom: suppress nodes that are not allowed from meminfo on page alloc failure
Displaying extremely verbose meminfo for all nodes on the system is
overkill for page allocation failures when the context restricts that
allocation to only a subset of nodes.  We don't particularly care about
the state of all nodes when some are not allowed in the current context,
they can have an abundance of memory but we can't allocate from that part
of memory.

This patch suppresses disallowed nodes from the meminfo dump on a page
allocation failure if the context requires it.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: 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>
2011-03-22 17:44:01 -07:00
David Rientjes
29423e77c0 oom: suppress show_mem() for many nodes in irq context on page alloc failure
When a page allocation failure occurs, show_mem() is called to dump the
state of the VM so users may understand what happened to get into that
condition.

This output, however, can be extremely verbose.  In irq context, it may
result in significant delays that incur NMI watchdog timeouts when the
machine is large (we use CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT > 8 here to define a "large"
machine since the length of the show_mem() output is proportional to the
number of possible nodes).

This patch suppresses the show_mem() call in irq context when the kernel
has CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT > 8.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: 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>
2011-03-22 17:44:01 -07:00
David Rientjes
ddd588b5dd oom: suppress nodes that are not allowed from meminfo on oom kill
The oom killer is extremely verbose for machines with a large number of
cpus and/or nodes.  This verbosity can often be harmful if it causes other
important messages to be scrolled from the kernel log and incurs a
signicant time delay, specifically for kernels with CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT >
8.

This patch causes only memory information to be displayed for nodes that
are allowed by current's cpuset when dumping the VM state.  Information
for all other nodes is irrelevant to the oom condition; we don't care if
there's an abundance of memory elsewhere if we can't access it.

This only affects the behavior of dumping memory information when an oom
is triggered.  Other dumps, such as for sysrq+m, still display the
unfiltered form when using the existing show_mem() interface.

Additionally, the per-cpu pageset statistics are extremely verbose in oom
killer output, so it is now suppressed.  This removes

	nodes_weight(current->mems_allowed) * (1 + nr_cpus)

lines from the oom killer output.

Callers may use __show_mem(SHOW_MEM_FILTER_NODES) to filter disallowed
nodes.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: 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>
2011-03-22 17:44:01 -07:00
Andrea Arcangeli
ef2b4b95a6 mm: PageBuddy and mapcount robustness
Change the _mapcount value indicating PageBuddy from -2 to -128 for
more robusteness against page_mapcount() undeflows.

Use reset_page_mapcount instead of __ClearPageBuddy in bad_page to
ignore the previous retval of PageBuddy().

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-17 16:31:13 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
8460b3e5bc Merge commit 'v2.6.38' into x86/mm
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mm/numa_64.c

Merge reason: Resolve the conflict, update the branch to .38.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-03-15 08:29:44 +01:00
Yinghai Lu
cc28989437 mm: Move early_node_map[] reverse scan helpers under HAVE_MEMBLOCK
Heiko found recent memblock change triggers these warnings on s390:

  mm/page_alloc.c:3623:22: warning: 'last_active_region_index_in_nid' defined but not used
  mm/page_alloc.c:3638:22: warning: 'previous_active_region_index_in_nid' defined but not used

Need to move those two function under HAVE_MEMBLOCK with its only
user, find_memory_core_early().

-tj: Minor updates to description.

Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2011-02-26 13:05:43 +01:00
Namhyung Kim
29723fccc8 mm: fix dubious code in __count_immobile_pages()
When pfn_valid_within() failed 'iter' was incremented twice.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-25 15:07:37 -08:00
Yinghai Lu
8bc1f91e1f bootmem: Move __alloc_memory_core_early() to nobootmem.c
Now that bootmem.c and nobootmem.c are separate, there's no reason to
define __alloc_memory_core_early(), which is used only by nobootmem,
inside #ifdef in page_alloc.c.  Move it to nobootmem.c and make it
static.

This patch doesn't introduce any behavior change.

-tj: Updated commit description.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2011-02-24 14:43:06 +01:00
Yinghai Lu
e782ab421b bootmem: Move contig_page_data definition to bootmem.c/nobootmem.c
Now that bootmem.c and nobootmem.c are separate, it's cleaner to
define contig_page_data in each file than in page_alloc.c with #ifdef.
Move it.

This patch doesn't introduce any behavior change.

-v2: According to Andrew, fixed the struct layout.
-tj: Updated commit description.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2011-02-24 14:43:06 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
d2137d5af4 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/bootmem
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mm/numa_64.c

Merge reason: fix the conflict, update to latest -rc and pick up this
              dependent fix from Yinghai:

  e6d2e2b2b1: memblock: don't adjust size in memblock_find_base()

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-02-14 11:55:18 +01:00
David Rientjes
2ff754fa8f mm: clear pages_scanned only if draining a pcp adds pages to the buddy allocator
Commit 0e093d9976 ("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") uncovered a livelock in the page
allocator that resulted in tasks infinitely looping trying to find
memory and kswapd running at 100% cpu.

The issue occurs because drain_all_pages() is called immediately
following direct reclaim when no memory is freed and try_to_free_pages()
returns non-zero because all zones in the zonelist do not have their
all_unreclaimable flag set.

When draining the per-cpu pagesets back to the buddy allocator for each
zone, the zone->pages_scanned counter is cleared to avoid erroneously
setting zone->all_unreclaimable later.  The problem is that no pages may
actually be drained and, thus, the unreclaimable logic never fails
direct reclaim so the oom killer may be invoked.

This apparently only manifested after wait_iff_congested() was
introduced and the zone was full of anonymous memory that would not
congest the backing store.  The page allocator would infinitely loop if
there were no other tasks waiting to be scheduled and clear
zone->pages_scanned because of drain_all_pages() as the result of this
change before kswapd could scan enough pages to trigger the reclaim
logic.  Additionally, with every loop of the page allocator and in the
reclaim path, kswapd would be kicked and would end up running at 100%
cpu.  In this scenario, current and kswapd are all running continuously
with kswapd incrementing zone->pages_scanned and current clearing it.

The problem is even more pronounced when current swaps some of its
memory to swap cache and the reclaimable logic then considers all active
anonymous memory in the all_unreclaimable logic, which requires a much
higher zone->pages_scanned value for try_to_free_pages() to return zero
that is never attainable in this scenario.

Before wait_iff_congested(), the page allocator would incur an
unconditional timeout and allow kswapd to elevate zone->pages_scanned to
a level that the oom killer would be called the next time it loops.

The fix is to only attempt to drain pcp pages if there is actually a
quantity to be drained.  The unconditional clearing of
zone->pages_scanned in free_pcppages_bulk() need not be changed since
other callers already ensure that draining will occur.  This patch
ensures that free_pcppages_bulk() will actually free memory before
calling into it from drain_all_pages() so zone->pages_scanned is only
cleared if appropriate.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: 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>
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>
2011-01-26 10:50:01 +10:00
David Rientjes
f33261d75b mm: fix deferred congestion timeout if preferred zone is not allowed
Before 0e093d9976 ("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"), preferred_zone was only used for NUMA
statistics, to determine the zoneidx from which to allocate from given
the type requested, and whether to utilize memory compaction.

wait_iff_congested(), though, uses preferred_zone to determine if the
congestion wait should be deferred because its dirty pages are backed by
a congested bdi.  This incorrectly defers the timeout and busy loops in
the page allocator with various cond_resched() calls if preferred_zone
is not allowed in the current context, usually consuming 100% of a cpu.

This patch ensures preferred_zone is an allowed zone in the fastpath
depending on whether current is constrained by its cpuset or nodes in
its mempolicy (when the nodemask passed is non-NULL).  This is correct
since the fastpath allocation always passes ALLOC_CPUSET when trying to
allocate memory.  In the slowpath, this patch resets preferred_zone to
the first zone of the allowed type when the allocation is not
constrained by current's cpuset, i.e.  it does not pass ALLOC_CPUSET.

This patch also ensures preferred_zone is from the set of allowed nodes
when called from within direct reclaim since allocations are always
constrained by cpusets in this context (it is blockable).

Both of these uses of cpuset_current_mems_allowed are protected by
get_mems_allowed().

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: 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>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-26 10:50:00 +10:00
Andrew Morton
c06b1fca18 mm/page_alloc.c: don't cache `current' in a local
It's old-fashioned and unneeded.

akpm:/usr/src/25> size mm/page_alloc.o
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  39884 1241317   18808 1300009  13d629 mm/page_alloc.o (before)
  39838 1241317   18808 1299963  13d5fb mm/page_alloc.o (after)

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:49 -08:00
KyongHo Cho
43506fad21 mm/page_alloc.c: simplify calculation of combined index of adjacent buddy lists
The previous approach of calucation of combined index was

	page_idx & ~(1 << order))

but we have same result with

	page_idx & buddy_idx

This reduces instructions slightly as well as enhances readability.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix used-unintialised warning]
Signed-off-by: KyongHo Cho <pullip.cho@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:48 -08:00
Andrea Arcangeli
5f24ce5fd3 thp: remove PG_buddy
PG_buddy can be converted to _mapcount == -2.  So the PG_compound_lock can
be added to page->flags without overflowing (because of the sparse section
bits increasing) with CONFIG_X86_PAE=y and CONFIG_X86_PAT=y.  This also
has to move the memory hotplug code from _mapcount to lru.next to avoid
any risk of clashes.  We can't use lru.next for PG_buddy removal, but
memory hotplug can use lru.next even more easily than the mapcount
instead.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:43 -08:00
Andrea Arcangeli
5c3240d92e thp: don't alloc harder for gfp nomemalloc even if nowait
Not worth throwing away the precious reserved free memory pool for
allocations that can fail gracefully (either through mempool or because
they're transhuge allocations later falling back to 4k allocations).

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.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>
2011-01-13 17:32:42 -08:00
Andrea Arcangeli
32dba98e08 thp: _GFP_NO_KSWAPD
Transparent hugepage allocations must be allowed not to invoke kswapd or
any other kind of indirect reclaim (especially when the defrag sysfs is
control disabled).  It's unacceptable to swap out anonymous pages
(potentially anonymous transparent hugepages) in order to create new
transparent hugepages.  This is true for the MADV_HUGEPAGE areas too
(swapping out a kvm virtual machine and so having it suffer an unbearable
slowdown, so another one with guest physical memory marked MADV_HUGEPAGE
can run 30% faster if it is running memory intensive workloads, makes no
sense).  If a transparent hugepage allocation fails the slowdown is minor
and there is total fallback, so kswapd should never be asked to swapout
memory to allow the high order allocation to succeed.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.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>
2011-01-13 17:32:41 -08:00
Andrea Arcangeli
59ff421631 thp: comment reminder in destroy_compound_page
Warn destroy_compound_page that __split_huge_page_refcount is heavily
dependent on its internal behavior.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.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>
2011-01-13 17:32:39 -08:00
Andrea Arcangeli
8dd60a3a65 thp: clear compound mapping
Clear compound mapping for anonymous compound pages like it already
happens for regular anonymous pages.  But crash if mapping is set for any
tail page, also the PageAnon check is meaningless for tail pages.  This
check only makes sense for the head page, for tail page it can only hide
bugs and we definitely don't want to hide bugs.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.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>
2011-01-13 17:32:39 -08:00
Andrea Arcangeli
4e9f64c42d thp: fix bad_page to show the real reason the page is bad
page_count shows the count of the head page, but the actual check is done
on the tail page, so show what is really being checked.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
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>
2011-01-13 17:32:38 -08:00
Volodymyr G. Lukiianyk
ecb256f815 mm: set correct numa_zonelist_order string when configured on the kernel command line
When numa_zonelist_order parameter is set to "node" or "zone" on the
command line it's still showing as "default" in sysctl.  That's because
early_param parsing function changes only user_zonelist_order variable.
Fix this by copying user-provided string to numa_zonelist_order if it was
successfully parsed.

Signed-off-by: Volodymyr G Lukiianyk <volodymyrgl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 17:32:37 -08:00
Mel Gorman
9950474883 mm: kswapd: stop high-order balancing when any suitable zone is balanced
Simon Kirby reported the following problem

   We're seeing cases on a number of servers where cache never fully
   grows to use all available memory.  Sometimes we see servers with 4 GB
   of memory that never seem to have less than 1.5 GB free, even with a
   constantly-active VM.  In some cases, these servers also swap out while
   this happens, even though they are constantly reading the working set
   into memory.  We have been seeing this happening for a long time; I
   don't think it's anything recent, and it still happens on 2.6.36.

After some debugging work by Simon, Dave Hansen and others, the prevaling
theory became that kswapd is reclaiming order-3 pages requested by SLUB
too aggressive about it.

There are two apparent problems here.  On the target machine, there is a
small Normal zone in comparison to DMA32.  As kswapd tries to balance all
zones, it would continually try reclaiming for Normal even though DMA32
was balanced enough for callers.  The second problem is that
sleeping_prematurely() does not use the same logic as balance_pgdat() when
deciding whether to sleep or not.  This keeps kswapd artifically awake.

A number of tests were run and the figures from previous postings will
look very different for a few reasons.  One, the old figures were forcing
my network card to use GFP_ATOMIC in attempt to replicate Simon's problem.
 Second, I previous specified slub_min_order=3 again in an attempt to
reproduce Simon's problem.  In this posting, I'm depending on Simon to say
whether his problem is fixed or not and these figures are to show the
impact to the ordinary cases.  Finally, the "vmscan" figures are taken
from /proc/vmstat instead of the tracepoints.  There is less information
but recording is less disruptive.

The first test of relevance was postmark with a process running in the
background reading a large amount of anonymous memory in blocks.  The
objective was to vaguely simulate what was happening on Simon's machine
and it's memory intensive enough to have kswapd awake.

POSTMARK
                                            traceonly          kanyzone
Transactions per second:              156.00 ( 0.00%)   153.00 (-1.96%)
Data megabytes read per second:        21.51 ( 0.00%)    21.52 ( 0.05%)
Data megabytes written per second:     29.28 ( 0.00%)    29.11 (-0.58%)
Files created alone per second:       250.00 ( 0.00%)   416.00 (39.90%)
Files create/transact per second:      79.00 ( 0.00%)    76.00 (-3.95%)
Files deleted alone per second:       520.00 ( 0.00%)   420.00 (-23.81%)
Files delete/transact per second:      79.00 ( 0.00%)    76.00 (-3.95%)

MMTests Statistics: duration
User/Sys Time Running Test (seconds)         16.58      17.4
Total Elapsed Time (seconds)                218.48    222.47

VMstat Reclaim Statistics: vmscan
Direct reclaims                                  0          4
Direct reclaim pages scanned                     0        203
Direct reclaim pages reclaimed                   0        184
Kswapd pages scanned                        326631     322018
Kswapd pages reclaimed                      312632     309784
Kswapd low wmark quickly                         1          4
Kswapd high wmark quickly                      122        475
Kswapd skip congestion_wait                      1          0
Pages activated                             700040     705317
Pages deactivated                           212113     203922
Pages written                                 9875       6363

Total pages scanned                         326631    322221
Total pages reclaimed                       312632    309968
%age total pages scanned/reclaimed          95.71%    96.20%
%age total pages scanned/written             3.02%     1.97%

proc vmstat: Faults
Major Faults                                   300       254
Minor Faults                                645183    660284
Page ins                                    493588    486704
Page outs                                  4960088   4986704
Swap ins                                      1230       661
Swap outs                                     9869      6355

Performance is mildly affected because kswapd is no longer doing as much
work and the background memory consumer process is getting in the way.
Note that kswapd scanned and reclaimed fewer pages as it's less aggressive
and overall fewer pages were scanned and reclaimed.  Swap in/out is
particularly reduced again reflecting kswapd throwing out fewer pages.

The slight performance impact is unfortunate here but it looks like a
direct result of kswapd being less aggressive.  As the bug report is about
too many pages being freed by kswapd, it may have to be accepted for now.

The second test is a streaming IO benchmark that was previously used by
Johannes to show regressions in page reclaim.

MICRO
					 traceonly  kanyzone
User/Sys Time Running Test (seconds)         29.29     28.87
Total Elapsed Time (seconds)                492.18    488.79

VMstat Reclaim Statistics: vmscan
Direct reclaims                               2128       1460
Direct reclaim pages scanned               2284822    1496067
Direct reclaim pages reclaimed              148919     110937
Kswapd pages scanned                      15450014   16202876
Kswapd pages reclaimed                     8503697    8537897
Kswapd low wmark quickly                      3100       3397
Kswapd high wmark quickly                     1860       7243
Kswapd skip congestion_wait                    708        801
Pages activated                               9635       9573
Pages deactivated                             1432       1271
Pages written                                  223       1130

Total pages scanned                       17734836  17698943
Total pages reclaimed                      8652616   8648834
%age total pages scanned/reclaimed          48.79%    48.87%
%age total pages scanned/written             0.00%     0.01%

proc vmstat: Faults
Major Faults                                   165       221
Minor Faults                               9655785   9656506
Page ins                                      3880      7228
Page outs                                 37692940  37480076
Swap ins                                         0        69
Swap outs                                       19        15

Again fewer pages are scanned and reclaimed as expected and this time the
test completed faster.  Note that kswapd is hitting its watermarks faster
(low and high wmark quickly) which I expect is due to kswapd reclaiming
fewer pages.

I also ran fs-mark, iozone and sysbench but there is nothing interesting
to report in the figures.  Performance is not significantly changed and
the reclaim statistics look reasonable.

Tgis patch:

When the allocator enters its slow path, kswapd is woken up to balance the
node.  It continues working until all zones within the node are balanced.
For order-0 allocations, this makes perfect sense but for higher orders it
can have unintended side-effects.  If the zone sizes are imbalanced,
kswapd may reclaim heavily within a smaller zone discarding an excessive
number of pages.  The user-visible behaviour is that kswapd is awake and
reclaiming even though plenty of pages are free from a suitable zone.

This patch alters the "balance" logic for high-order reclaim allowing
kswapd to stop if any suitable zone becomes balanced to reduce the number
of pages it reclaims from other zones.  kswapd still tries to ensure that
order-0 watermarks for all zones are met before sleeping.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2011-01-13 17:32:37 -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