12 Jul, 2012
9 commits
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memblock_free_reserved_regions() calls memblock_free(), but
memblock_free() would double reserved.regions too, so we could free the
old range for reserved.regions.Also tj said there is another bug which could be related to this.
| I don't think we're saving any noticeable
| amount by doing this "free - give it to page allocator - reserve
| again" dancing. We should just allocate regions aligned to page
| boundaries and free them later when memblock is no longer in use.in that case, when DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, will get panic:
memblock_free: [0x0000102febc080-0x0000102febf080] memblock_free_reserved_regions+0x37/0x39
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff88102febd948
IP: [] __next_free_mem_range+0x9b/0x155
PGD 4826063 PUD cf67a067 PMD cf7fa067 PTE 800000102febd160
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
CPU 0
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.5.0-rc2-next-20120614-sasha #447
RIP: 0010:[] [] __next_free_mem_range+0x9b/0x155See the discussion at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/13/469
So try to allocate with PAGE_SIZE alignment and free it later.
Reported-by: Sasha Levin
Acked-by: Tejun Heo
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
After commit f5bf18fa22f8 ("bootmem/sparsemem: remove limit constraint
in alloc_bootmem_section"), usemap allocations may easily be placed
outside the optimal section that holds the node descriptor, even if
there is space available in that section. This results in unnecessary
hotplug dependencies that need to have the node unplugged before the
section holding the usemap.The reason is that the bootmem allocator doesn't guarantee a linear
search starting from the passed allocation goal but may start out at a
much higher address absent an upper limit.Fix this by trying the allocation with the limit at the section end,
then retry without if that fails. This keeps the fix from f5bf18fa22f8
of not panicking if the allocation does not fit in the section, but
still makes sure to try to stay within the section at first.Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner
Cc: [3.3.x, 3.4.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Commit 238305bb4d41 ("mm: remove sparsemem allocation details from the
bootmem allocator") introduced a bug in the allocation goal calculation
that put section usemaps not in the same section as the node
descriptors, creating unnecessary hotplug dependencies between them:node 0 must be removed before remove section 16399
node 1 must be removed before remove section 16399
node 2 must be removed before remove section 16399
node 3 must be removed before remove section 16399
node 4 must be removed before remove section 16399
node 5 must be removed before remove section 16399
node 6 must be removed before remove section 16399The reason is that it applies PAGE_SECTION_MASK to the physical address
of the node descriptor when finding a suitable place to put the usemap,
when this mask is actually intended to be used with PFNs. Because the
PFN mask is wider, the target address will point beyond the wanted
section holding the node descriptor and the node must be offlined before
the section holding the usemap can go.Fix this by extending the mask to address width before use.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
shmem_add_to_page_cache() has three callsites, but only one of them wants
the radix_tree_preload() (an exceptional entry guarantees that the radix
tree node is present in the other cases), and only that site can achieve
mem_cgroup_uncharge_cache_page() (PageSwapCache makes it a no-op in the
other cases). We did it this way originally to reflect
add_to_page_cache_locked(); but it's confusing now, so move the radix_tree
preloading and mem_cgroup uncharging to that one caller.Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: Michal Hocko
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
When adding the page_private checks before calling shmem_replace_page(), I
did realize that there is a further race, but thought it too unlikely to
need a hurried fix.But independently I've been chasing why a mem cgroup's memory.stat
sometimes shows negative rss after all tasks have gone: I expected it to
be a stats gathering bug, but actually it's shmem swapping's fault.It's an old surprise, that when you lock_page(lookup_swap_cache(swap)),
the page may have been removed from swapcache before getting the lock; or
it may have been freed and reused and be back in swapcache; and it can
even be using the same swap location as before (page_private same).The swapoff case is already secure against this (swap cannot be reused
until the whole area has been swapped off, and a new swapped on); and
shmem_getpage_gfp() is protected by shmem_add_to_page_cache()'s check for
the expected radix_tree entry - but a little too late.By that time, we might have already decided to shmem_replace_page(): I
don't know of a problem from that, but I'd feel more at ease not to do so
spuriously. And we have already done mem_cgroup_cache_charge(), on
perhaps the wrong mem cgroup: and this charge is not then undone on the
error path, because PageSwapCache ends up preventing that.It's this last case which causes the occasional negative rss in
memory.stat: the page is charged here as cache, but (sometimes) found to
be anon when eventually it's uncharged - and in between, it's an
undeserved charge on the wrong memcg.Fix this by adding an earlier check on the radix_tree entry: it's
inelegant to descend the tree twice, but swapping is not the fast path,
and a better solution would need a pair (try+commit) of memcg calls, and a
rework of shmem_replace_page() to keep out of the swapcache.We can use the added shmem_confirm_swap() function to replace the
find_get_page+page_cache_release we were already doing on the error path.
And add a comment on that -EEXIST: it seems a peculiar errno to be using,
but originates from its use in radix_tree_insert().[It can be surprising to see positive rss left in a memcg's memory.stat
after all tasks have gone, since it is supposed to count anonymous but not
shmem. Aside from sharing anon pages via fork with a task in some other
memcg, it often happens after swapping: because a swap page can't be freed
while under writeback, nor while locked. So it's not an error, and these
residual pages are easily freed once pressure demands.]Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: Michal Hocko
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Revert 4fb5ef089b28 ("tmpfs: support SEEK_DATA and SEEK_HOLE"). I believe
it's correct, and it's been nice to have from rc1 to rc6; but as the
original commit said:I don't know who actually uses SEEK_DATA or SEEK_HOLE, and whether it
would be of any use to them on tmpfs. This code adds 92 lines and 752
bytes on x86_64 - is that bloat or worthwhile?Nobody asked for it, so I conclude that it's bloat: let's revert tmpfs to
the dumb generic support for v3.5. We can always reinstate it later if
useful, and anyone needing it in a hurry can just get it out of git.Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Josef Bacik
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Andreas Dilger
Cc: Dave Chinner
Cc: Marco Stornelli
Cc: Jeff liu
Cc: Chris Mason
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
We should goto error to release memory resource if hotadd_new_pgdat()
failed.Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang
Cc: Yasuaki ISIMATU
Acked-by: David Rientjes
Cc: Len Brown
Cc: "Brown, Len"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
If page migration cannot charge the temporary page to the memcg,
migrate_pages() will return -ENOMEM. This isn't considered in memory
compaction however, and the loop continues to iterate over all
pageblocks trying to isolate and migrate pages. If a small number of
very large memcgs happen to be oom, however, these attempts will mostly
be futile leading to an enormous amout of cpu consumption due to the
page migration failures.This patch will short circuit and fail memory compaction if
migrate_pages() returns -ENOMEM. COMPACT_PARTIAL is returned in case
some migrations were successful so that the page allocator will retry.Signed-off-by: David Rientjes
Acked-by: Mel Gorman
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki
Cc: Rik van Riel
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
kswapd_stop() is called to destroy the kswapd work thread when all memory
of a NUMA node has been offlined. But kswapd_stop() only terminates the
work thread without resetting NODE_DATA(nid)->kswapd to NULL. The stale
pointer will prevent kswapd_run() from creating a new work thread when
adding memory to the memory-less NUMA node again. Eventually the stale
pointer may cause invalid memory access.An example stack dump as below. It's reproduced with 2.6.32, but latest
kernel has the same issue.BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
IP: [] exit_creds+0x12/0x78
PGD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/memory/memory391/state
CPU 11
Modules linked in: cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave acpi_cpufreq microcode fuse loop dm_mod tpm_tis rtc_cmos i2c_i801 rtc_core tpm serio_raw pcspkr sg tpm_bios igb i2c_core iTCO_wdt rtc_lib mptctl iTCO_vendor_support button dca bnx2 usbhid hid uhci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore sd_mod crc_t10dif edd ext3 mbcache jbd fan ide_pci_generic ide_core ata_generic ata_piix libata thermal processor thermal_sys hwmon mptsas mptscsih mptbase scsi_transport_sas scsi_mod
Pid: 7949, comm: sh Not tainted 2.6.32.12-qiuxishi-5-default #92 Tecal RH2285
RIP: 0010:exit_creds+0x12/0x78
RSP: 0018:ffff8806044f1d78 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff880604f22140 RCX: 0000000000019502
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000202 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff880604f22150 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffff81a4dc10
R10: 00000000000032a0 R11: ffff880006202500 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000c40000 R14: 0000000000008000 R15: 0000000000000001
FS: 00007fbc03d066f0(0000) GS:ffff8800282e0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000060f029000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process sh (pid: 7949, threadinfo ffff8806044f0000, task ffff880603d7c600)
Stack:
ffff880604f22140 ffffffff8103aac5 ffff880604f22140 ffffffff8104d21e
ffff880006202500 0000000000008000 0000000000c38000 ffffffff810bd5b1
0000000000000000 ffff880603d7c600 00000000ffffdd29 0000000000000003
Call Trace:
__put_task_struct+0x5d/0x97
kthread_stop+0x50/0x58
offline_pages+0x324/0x3da
memory_block_change_state+0x179/0x1db
store_mem_state+0x9e/0xbb
sysfs_write_file+0xd0/0x107
vfs_write+0xad/0x169
sys_write+0x45/0x6e
system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Code: ff 4d 00 0f 94 c0 84 c0 74 08 48 89 ef e8 1f fd ff ff 5b 5d 31 c0 41 5c c3 53 48 8b 87 20 06 00 00 48 89 fb 48 8b bf 18 06 00 00 00 48 c7 83 18 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 f0 ff 0f 0f 94 c0 84 c0
RIP exit_creds+0x12/0x78
RSP
CR2: 0000000000000000[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add pglist_data.kswapd locking comments]
Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu
Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
Acked-by: Mel Gorman
Acked-by: David Rientjes
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
07 Jul, 2012
1 commit
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Otherwise the code races with munmap (causing a use-after-free
of the vma) or with close (causing a use-after-free of the struct
file).The bug was introduced by commit 90ed52ebe481 ("[PATCH] holepunch: fix
mmap_sem i_mutex deadlock")Cc: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Miklos Szeredi
Cc: Badari Pulavarty
Cc: Nick Piggin
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
04 Jul, 2012
1 commit
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Pull block bits from Jens Axboe:
"As vacation is coming up, thought I'd better get rid of my pending
changes in my for-linus branch for this iteration. It contains:- Two patches for mtip32xx. Killing a non-compliant sysfs interface
and moving it to debugfs, where it belongs.- A few patches from Asias. Two legit bug fixes, and one killing an
interface that is no longer in use.- A patch from Jan, making the annoying partition ioctl warning a bit
less annoying, by restricting it to !CAP_SYS_RAWIO only.- Three bug fixes for drbd from Lars Ellenberg.
- A fix for an old regression for umem, it hasn't really worked since
the plugging scheme was changed in 3.0.- A few fixes from Tejun.
- A splice fix from Eric Dumazet, fixing an issue with pipe
resizing."* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
scsi: Silence unnecessary warnings about ioctl to partition
block: Drop dead function blk_abort_queue()
block: Mitigate lock unbalance caused by lock switching
block: Avoid missed wakeup in request waitqueue
umem: fix up unplugging
splice: fix racy pipe->buffers uses
drbd: fix null pointer dereference with on-congestion policy when diskless
drbd: fix list corruption by failing but already aborted reads
drbd: fix access of unallocated pages and kernel panic
xen/blkfront: Add WARN to deal with misbehaving backends.
blkcg: drop local variable @q from blkg_destroy()
mtip32xx: Create debugfs entries for troubleshooting
mtip32xx: Remove 'registers' and 'flags' from sysfs
blkcg: fix blkg_alloc() failure path
block: blkcg_policy_cfq shouldn't be used if !CONFIG_CFQ_GROUP_IOSCHED
block: fix return value on cfq_init() failure
mtip32xx: Remove version.h header file inclusion
xen/blkback: Copy id field when doing BLKIF_DISCARD.
21 Jun, 2012
7 commits
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If the range passed to mbind() is not allocated on nodes set in the
nodemask, it migrates the pages to respect the constraint.The final formal of migrate_pages() is a mode of type enum migrate_mode,
not a boolean. do_mbind() is currently passing "true" which is the
equivalent of MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT. This should instead be MIGRATE_SYNC
for synchronous page migration.Signed-off-by: David Rientjes
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
__alloc_memory_core_early() asks memblock for a range of memory then try
to reserve it. If the reserved region array lacks space for the new
range, memblock_double_array() is called to allocate more space for the
array. If memblock is used to allocate memory for the new array it can
end up using a range that overlaps with the range originally allocated in
__alloc_memory_core_early(), leading to possible data corruption.With this patch memblock_double_array() now calls memblock_find_in_range()
with a narrowed candidate range (in cases where the reserved.regions array
is being doubled) so any memory allocated will not overlap with the
original range that was being reserved. The range is narrowed by passing
in the starting address and size of the previously allocated range. Then
the range above the ending address is searched and if a candidate is not
found, the range below the starting address is searched.Signed-off-by: Greg Pearson
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu
Acked-by: Tejun Heo
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Fix kernel-doc warnings in mm/memory.c:
Warning(mm/memory.c:1377): No description found for parameter 'start'
Warning(mm/memory.c:1377): Excess function parameter 'address' description in 'zap_page_range'Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Fix kernel-doc warnings such as
Warning(../mm/page_cgroup.c:432): No description found for parameter 'id'
Warning(../mm/page_cgroup.c:432): Excess function parameter 'mem' description in 'swap_cgroup_record'Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li
Cc: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Andrea asked for addr, end, vma->vm_start, and vma->vm_end to be emitted
when !rwsem_is_locked(&tlb->mm->mmap_sem). Otherwise, debugging the
underlying issue is more difficult.Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
If use_hierarchy is set, reclaim testing soon oopses in css_is_ancestor()
called from __mem_cgroup_same_or_subtree() called from page_referenced():
when processes are exiting, it's easy for mm_match_cgroup() to pass along
a NULL memcg coming from a NULL mm->owner.Check for that in __mem_cgroup_same_or_subtree(). Return true or false?
False because we cannot know if it was in the hierarchy, but also false
because it's better not to count a reference from an exiting process.Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner
Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The divide in p->signal->oom_score_adj * totalpages / 1000 within
oom_badness() was causing an overflow of the signed long data type.This adds both the root bias and p->signal->oom_score_adj before doing the
normalization which fixes the issue and also cleans up the calculation.Tested-by: Dave Jones
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
16 Jun, 2012
2 commits
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Minchan Kim reports that when a system has many swap areas, and tmpfs
swaps out to the ninth or more, shmem_getpage_gfp()'s attempts to read
back the page cannot locate it, and the read fails with -ENOMEM.Whoops. Yes, I blindly followed read_swap_header()'s pte_to_swp_entry(
swp_entry_to_pte()) technique for determining maximum usable swap
offset, without stopping to realize that that actually depends upon the
pte swap encoding shifting swap offset to the higher bits and truncating
it there. Whereas our radix_tree swap encoding leaves offset in the
lower bits: it's swap "type" (that is, index of swap area) that was
truncated.Fix it by reducing the SWP_TYPE_SHIFT() in swapops.h, and removing the
broken radix_to_swp_entry(swp_to_radix_entry()) from read_swap_header().This does not reduce the usable size of a swap area any further, it
leaves it as claimed when making the original commit: no change from 3.0
on x86_64, nor on i386 without PAE; but 3.0's 512GB is reduced to 128GB
per swapfile on i386 with PAE. It's not a change I would have risked
five years ago, but with x86_64 supported for ten years, I believe it's
appropriate now.Hmm, and what if some architecture implements its swap pte with offset
encoded below type? That would equally break the maximum usable swap
offset check. Happily, they all follow the same tradition of encoding
offset above type, but I'll prepare a check on that for next.Reported-and-Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Minchan Kim
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Pull core updates (RCU and locking) from Ingo Molnar:
"Most of the diffstat comes from the RCU slow boot regression fixes,
but there's also a debuggability improvements/fixes."* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
memblock: Document memblock_is_region_{memory,reserved}()
rcu: Precompute RCU_FAST_NO_HZ timer offsets
rcu: Move RCU_FAST_NO_HZ per-CPU variables to rcu_dynticks structure
rcu: Update RCU_FAST_NO_HZ tracing for lazy callbacks
rcu: RCU_FAST_NO_HZ detection of callback adoption
spinlock: Indicate that a lockup is only suspected
kdump: Execute kmsg_dump(KMSG_DUMP_PANIC) after smp_send_stop()
panic: Make panic_on_oops configurable
14 Jun, 2012
1 commit
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Dave Jones reported a kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3474! triggered
by splice_shrink_spd() called from vmsplice_to_pipe()commit 35f3d14dbbc5 (pipe: add support for shrinking and growing pipes)
added capability to adjust pipe->buffers.Problem is some paths don't hold pipe mutex and assume pipe->buffers
doesn't change for their duration.Fix this by adding nr_pages_max field in struct splice_pipe_desc, and
use it in place of pipe->buffers where appropriate.splice_shrink_spd() loses its struct pipe_inode_info argument.
Reported-by: Dave Jones
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet
Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc: Alexander Viro
Cc: Tom Herbert
Cc: stable # 2.6.35
Tested-by: Dave Jones
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
09 Jun, 2012
1 commit
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If the privileges given to root threads (3% of allowable memory) or a
negative value of /proc/pid/oom_score_adj happen to exceed the amount of
rss of a thread, its badness score overflows as a result of commit
a7f638f999ff ("mm, oom: normalize oom scores to oom_score_adj scale only
for userspace").Fix this by making the type signed and return 1, meaning the thread is
still eligible for kill, if the value is negative.Reported-by: Dave Jones
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
08 Jun, 2012
2 commits
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At first glance one would think that memblock_is_region_memory()
and memblock_is_region_reserved() would be implemented in the
same way. Unfortunately they aren't and the former returns
whether the region specified is a subset of a memory bank while
the latter returns whether the region specified intersects with
reserved memory.Document the two functions so that users aren't tempted to
make the implementation the same between them and to clarify the
purpose of the functions.Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd
Cc: Tejun Heo
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1337845521-32755-1-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
Commit bde05d1ccd51 ("shmem: replace page if mapping excludes its zone")
is not at all likely to break for anyone, but it was an earlier version
from before review feedback was incorporated. Fix that up now.* shmem_replace_page must flush_dcache_page after copy_highpage [akpm]
* Expand comment on why shmem_unuse_inode needs page_swapcount [akpm]
* Remove excess of VM_BUG_ONs from shmem_replace_page [wangcong]
* Check page_private matches swap before calling shmem_replace_page [hughd]
* shmem_replace_page allow for unexpected race in radix_tree lookup [hughd]Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Cong Wang
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: Alan Cox
Cc: Stephane Marchesin
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Dave Airlie
Cc: Daniel Vetter
Cc: Rob Clark
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
05 Jun, 2012
3 commits
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Pull signal and vfs compile breakage fixes from Al Viro.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
fixups for signal breakage* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
nommu: fix compilation of nommu.c -
Compiling 3.5-rc1 for nommu targets gives:
CC mm/nommu.o
mm/nommu.c: In function ‘sys_mmap_pgoff’:
mm/nommu.c:1489:2: error: ‘ret’ undeclared (first use in this function)
mm/nommu.c:1489:2: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears inIt is trivially fixed by replacing 'ret' with the local variable that is
already defined for the return value 'retval'.Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer
Signed-off-by: Al Viro -
Pull frontswap feature from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
"Frontswap provides a "transcendent memory" interface for swap pages.
In some environments, dramatic performance savings may be obtained
because swapped pages are saved in RAM (or a RAM-like device) instead
of a swap disk. This tag provides the basic infrastructure along with
some changes to the existing backends."Fix up trivial conflict in mm/Makefile due to removal of swap token code
changing a line next to the new frontswap entry.This pull request came in before the merge window even opened, it got
delayed to after the merge window by me just wanting to make sure it had
actual users. Apparently IBM is using this on their embedded side, and
Jan Beulich says that it's already made available for SLES and OpenSUSE
users.Also acked by Rik van Riel, and Konrad points to other people liking it
too. So in it goes.By Dan Magenheimer (4) and Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (2)
via Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
* tag 'stable/frontswap.v16-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/mm:
frontswap: s/put_page/store/g s/get_page/load
MAINTAINER: Add myself for the frontswap API
mm: frontswap: config and doc files
mm: frontswap: core frontswap functionality
mm: frontswap: core swap subsystem hooks and headers
mm: frontswap: add frontswap header file
04 Jun, 2012
2 commits
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This reverts commit 5ceb9ce6fe9462a298bb2cd5c9f1ca6cb80a0199.
That commit seems to be the cause of the mm compation list corruption
issues that Dave Jones reported. The locking (or rather, absense
there-of) is dubious, as is the use of the 'page' variable once it has
been found to be outside the pageblock range.So revert it for now, we can re-visit this for 3.6. If we even need to:
as Minchan Kim says, "The patch wasn't a bug fix and even test workload
was very theoretical".Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Jones
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
Acked-by: Minchan Kim
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Cc: Kyungmin Park
Cc: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
New tmpfs use of !PageUptodate pages for fallocate() is triggering the
WARNING: at mm/page-writeback.c:1990 when __set_page_dirty_nobuffers()
is called from migrate_page_copy() for compaction.It is anomalous that migration should use __set_page_dirty_nobuffers()
on an address_space that does not participate in dirty and writeback
accounting; and this has also been observed to insert surprising dirty
tags into a tmpfs radix_tree, despite tmpfs not using tags at all.We should probably give migrate_page_copy() a better way to preserve the
tag and migrate accounting info, when mapping_cap_account_dirty(). But
that needs some more work: so in the interim, avoid the warning by using
a simple SetPageDirty on PageSwapBacked pages.Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Jones
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
02 Jun, 2012
3 commits
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Pull slab updates from Pekka Enberg:
"Mainly a bunch of SLUB fixes from Joonsoo Kim"* 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux:
slub: use __SetPageSlab function to set PG_slab flag
slub: fix a memory leak in get_partial_node()
slub: remove unused argument of init_kmem_cache_node()
slub: fix a possible memory leak
Documentations: Fix slabinfo.c directory in vm/slub.txt
slub: fix incorrect return type of get_any_partial() -
Pull vfs changes from Al Viro.
"A lot of misc stuff. The obvious groups:
* Miklos' atomic_open series; kills the damn abuse of
->d_revalidate() by NFS, which was the major stumbling block for
all work in that area.
* ripping security_file_mmap() and dealing with deadlocks in the
area; sanitizing the neighborhood of vm_mmap()/vm_munmap() in
general.
* ->encode_fh() switched to saner API; insane fake dentry in
mm/cleancache.c gone.
* assorted annotations in fs (endianness, __user)
* parts of Artem's ->s_dirty work (jff2 and reiserfs parts)
* ->update_time() work from Josef.
* other bits and pieces all over the place.Normally it would've been in two or three pull requests, but
signal.git stuff had eaten a lot of time during this cycle ;-/"Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt (the
'truncate_range' inode method was removed by the VM changes, the VFS
update adds an 'update_time()' method), and in fs/btrfs/ulist.[ch] (due
to sparse fix added twice, with other changes nearby).* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (95 commits)
nfs: don't open in ->d_revalidate
vfs: retry last component if opening stale dentry
vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): don't throw away file on error
vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): inline __dentry_open()
vfs: do_dentry_open(): don't put filp
vfs: split __dentry_open()
vfs: do_last() common post lookup
vfs: do_last(): add audit_inode before open
vfs: do_last(): only return EISDIR for O_CREAT
vfs: do_last(): check LOOKUP_DIRECTORY
vfs: do_last(): make ENOENT exit RCU safe
vfs: make follow_link check RCU safe
vfs: do_last(): use inode variable
vfs: do_last(): inline walk_component()
vfs: do_last(): make exit RCU safe
vfs: split do_lookup()
Btrfs: move over to use ->update_time
fs: introduce inode operation ->update_time
reiserfs: get rid of resierfs_sync_super
reiserfs: mark the superblock as dirty a bit later
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Btrfs has to make sure we have space to allocate new blocks in order to modify
the inode, so updating time can fail. We've gotten around this by having our
own file_update_time but this is kind of a pain, and Christoph has indicated he
would like to make xfs do something different with atime updates. So introduce
->update_time, where we will deal with i_version an a/m/c time updates and
indicate which changes need to be made. The normal version just does what it
has always done, updates the time and marks the inode dirty, and then
filesystems can choose to do something different.I've gone through all of the users of file_update_time and made them check for
errors with the exception of the fault code since it's complicated and I wasn't
quite sure what to do there, also Jan is going to be pushing the file time
updates into page_mkwrite for those who have it so that should satisfy btrfs and
make it not a big deal to check the file_update_time() return code in the
generic fault path. Thanks,Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik
01 Jun, 2012
8 commits
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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take it to mm/util.c, convert vm_mmap() to use of that one and
take it to mm/util.c as well, convert both sys_mmap_pgoff() to
use of vm_mmap_pgoff()Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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just pull into vm_mmap()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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after all, 0 bytes and 0 pages is the same thing...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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it really should be done by get_unmapped_area(); that cuts down on
the amount of callers considerably and it's the right place for
that stuff anyway.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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Merge misc patches from Andrew Morton:
- the "misc" tree - stuff from all over the map
- checkpatch updates
- fatfs
- kmod changes
- procfs
- cpumask
- UML
- kexec
- mqueue
- rapidio
- pidns
- some checkpoint-restore feature work. Reluctantly. Most of it
delayed a release. I'm still rather worried that we don't have a
clear roadmap to completion for this work.* emailed from Andrew Morton : (78 patches)
kconfig: update compression algorithm info
c/r: prctl: add ability to set new mm_struct::exe_file
c/r: prctl: extend PR_SET_MM to set up more mm_struct entries
c/r: procfs: add arg_start/end, env_start/end and exit_code members to /proc/$pid/stat
syscalls, x86: add __NR_kcmp syscall
fs, proc: introduce /proc//task//children entry
sysctl: make kernel.ns_last_pid control dependent on CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
aio/vfs: cleanup of rw_copy_check_uvector() and compat_rw_copy_check_uvector()
eventfd: change int to __u64 in eventfd_signal()
fs/nls: add Apple NLS
pidns: make killed children autoreap
pidns: use task_active_pid_ns in do_notify_parent
rapidio/tsi721: add DMA engine support
rapidio: add DMA engine support for RIO data transfers
ipc/mqueue: add rbtree node caching support
tools/selftests: add mq_perf_tests
ipc/mqueue: strengthen checks on mqueue creation
ipc/mqueue: correct mq_attr_ok test
ipc/mqueue: improve performance of send/recv
selftests: add mq_open_tests
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A cleanup of rw_copy_check_uvector and compat_rw_copy_check_uvector after
changes made to support CMA in an earlier patch.Rather than having an additional check_access parameter to these
functions, the first paramater type is overloaded to allow the caller to
specify CHECK_IOVEC_ONLY which means check that the contents of the iovec
are valid, but do not check the memory that they point to. This is used
by process_vm_readv/writev where we need to validate that a iovec passed
to the syscall is valid but do not want to check the memory that it points
to at this point because it refers to an address space in another process.Signed-off-by: Chris Yeoh
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
