03 Aug, 2018
1 commit
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[ Upstream commit f3c01d2f3ade6790db67f80fef60df84424f8964 ]
Currently, __vunmap flow is,
1) Release the VM area
2) Free the debug objects corresponding to that vm area.This leave some race window open.
1) Release the VM area
1.5) Some other client gets the same vm area
1.6) This client allocates new debug objects on the same
vm area
2) Free the debug objects corresponding to this vm area.Here, we actually free 'other' client's debug objects.
Fix this by freeing the debug objects first and then releasing the VM
area.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1523961828-9485-2-git-send-email-cpandya@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Chintan Pandya
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel
Cc: Byungchul Park
Cc: Catalin Marinas
Cc: Florian Fainelli
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Laura Abbott
Cc: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Wei Yang
Cc: Yisheng Xie
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
25 Feb, 2018
1 commit
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commit 698d0831ba87b92ae10b15e8203cfd59f5a59a35 upstream.
Kai Heng Feng has noticed that BUG_ON(PageHighMem(pg)) triggers in
drivers/media/common/saa7146/saa7146_core.c since 19809c2da28a ("mm,
vmalloc: use __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly").saa7146_vmalloc_build_pgtable uses vmalloc_32 and it is reasonable to
expect that the resulting page is not in highmem. The above commit
aimed to add __GFP_HIGHMEM only for those requests which do not specify
any zone modifier gfp flag. vmalloc_32 relies on GFP_VMALLOC32 which
should do the right thing. Except it has been missed that GFP_VMALLOC32
is an alias for GFP_KERNEL on 32b architectures. Thanks to Matthew to
notice this.Fix the problem by unconditionally setting GFP_DMA32 in GFP_VMALLOC32
for !64b arches (as a bailout). This should do the right thing and use
ZONE_NORMAL which should be always below 4G on 32b systems.Debugged by Matthew Wilcox.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180212095019.GX21609@dhcp22.suse.cz
Fixes: 19809c2da28a ("mm, vmalloc: use __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly”)
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko
Reported-by: Kai Heng Feng
Cc: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: Laura Abbott
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
14 Oct, 2017
1 commit
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This reverts commits 5d17a73a2ebe ("vmalloc: back off when the current
task is killed") and 171012f56127 ("mm: don't warn when vmalloc() fails
due to a fatal signal").Commit 5d17a73a2ebe ("vmalloc: back off when the current task is
killed") made all vmalloc allocations from a signal-killed task fail.
We have seen crashes in the tty driver from this, where a killed task
exiting tries to switch back to N_TTY, fails n_tty_open because of the
vmalloc failing, and later crashes when dereferencing tty->disc_data.Arguably, relying on a vmalloc() call to succeed in order to properly
exit a task is not the most robust way of doing things. There will be a
follow-up patch to the tty code to fall back to the N_NULL ldisc.But the justification to make that vmalloc() call fail like this isn't
convincing, either. The patch mentions an OOM victim exhausting the
memory reserves and thus deadlocking the machine. But the OOM killer is
only one, improbable source of fatal signals. It doesn't make sense to
fail allocations preemptively with plenty of memory in most cases.The patch doesn't mention real-life instances where vmalloc sites would
exhaust memory, which makes it sound more like a theoretical issue to
begin with. But just in case, the OOM access to memory reserves has
been restricted on the allocator side in cd04ae1e2dc8 ("mm, oom: do not
rely on TIF_MEMDIE for memory reserves access"), which should take care
of any theoretical concerns on that front.Revert this patch, and the follow-up that suppresses the allocation
warnings when we fail the allocations due to a signal.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171004185906.GB2136@cmpxchg.org
Fixes: 171012f56127 ("mm: don't warn when vmalloc() fails due to a fatal signal")
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Cc: Alan Cox
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
07 Sep, 2017
2 commits
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Although llist provides proper APIs, they are not used. Make them used.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502095374-16112-1-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park
Cc: zijun_hu
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Joel Fernandes
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
In pcpu_get_vm_areas(), it checks each range is not overlapped. To make
sure it is, only (N^2)/2 comparison is necessary, while current code
does N^2 times. By starting from the next range, it achieves the goal
and the continue could be removed.Also,
- the overlap check of two ranges could be done with one clause
- one typo in comment is fixed.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170803063822.48702-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Yang
Acked-by: Tejun Heo
Cc: Michal Hocko
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
19 Aug, 2017
1 commit
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Commit 19809c2da28a ("mm, vmalloc: use __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly") added
use of __GFP_HIGHMEM for allocations. vmalloc_32 may use
GFP_DMA/GFP_DMA32 which does not play nice with __GFP_HIGHMEM and will
trigger a BUG in gfp_zone.Only add __GFP_HIGHMEM if we aren't using GFP_DMA/GFP_DMA32.
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1482249
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170816220705.31374-1-labbott@redhat.com
Fixes: 19809c2da28a ("mm, vmalloc: use __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly")
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Cc: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov"
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
13 Jul, 2017
1 commit
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__GFP_REPEAT was designed to allow retry-but-eventually-fail semantic to
the page allocator. This has been true but only for allocations
requests larger than PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER. It has been always
ignored for smaller sizes. This is a bit unfortunate because there is
no way to express the same semantic for those requests and they are
considered too important to fail so they might end up looping in the
page allocator for ever, similarly to GFP_NOFAIL requests.Now that the whole tree has been cleaned up and accidental or misled
usage of __GFP_REPEAT flag has been removed for !costly requests we can
give the original flag a better name and more importantly a more useful
semantic. Let's rename it to __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL which tells the user
that the allocator would try really hard but there is no promise of a
success. This will work independent of the order and overrides the
default allocator behavior. Page allocator users have several levels of
guarantee vs. cost options (take GFP_KERNEL as an example)- GFP_KERNEL & ~__GFP_RECLAIM - optimistic allocation without _any_
attempt to free memory at all. The most light weight mode which even
doesn't kick the background reclaim. Should be used carefully because
it might deplete the memory and the next user might hit the more
aggressive reclaim- GFP_KERNEL & ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM (or GFP_NOWAIT)- optimistic
allocation without any attempt to free memory from the current
context but can wake kswapd to reclaim memory if the zone is below
the low watermark. Can be used from either atomic contexts or when
the request is a performance optimization and there is another
fallback for a slow path.- (GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_HIGH) & ~__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM (aka GFP_ATOMIC) -
non sleeping allocation with an expensive fallback so it can access
some portion of memory reserves. Usually used from interrupt/bh
context with an expensive slow path fallback.- GFP_KERNEL - both background and direct reclaim are allowed and the
_default_ page allocator behavior is used. That means that !costly
allocation requests are basically nofail but there is no guarantee of
that behavior so failures have to be checked properly by callers
(e.g. OOM killer victim is allowed to fail currently).- GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NORETRY - overrides the default allocator behavior
and all allocation requests fail early rather than cause disruptive
reclaim (one round of reclaim in this implementation). The OOM killer
is not invoked.- GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL - overrides the default allocator
behavior and all allocation requests try really hard. The request
will fail if the reclaim cannot make any progress. The OOM killer
won't be triggered.- GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL - overrides the default allocator behavior
and all allocation requests will loop endlessly until they succeed.
This might be really dangerous especially for larger orders.Existing users of __GFP_REPEAT are changed to __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL
because they already had their semantic. No new users are added.
__alloc_pages_slowpath is changed to bail out for __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL if
there is no progress and we have already passed the OOM point.This means that all the reclaim opportunities have been exhausted except
the most disruptive one (the OOM killer) and a user defined fallback
behavior is more sensible than keep retrying in the page allocator.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/sparc/kernel/mdesc.c]
[mhocko@suse.com: semantic fix]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170626123847.GM11534@dhcp22.suse.cz
[mhocko@kernel.org: address other thing spotted by Vlastimil]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170626124233.GN11534@dhcp22.suse.cz
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170623085345.11304-3-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Alex Belits
Cc: Chris Wilson
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Darrick J. Wong
Cc: David Daney
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: NeilBrown
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 Jul, 2017
1 commit
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When ioremap a 67112960 bytes vm_area with the vmallocinfo:
[..]
0xec79b000-0xec7fa000 389120 ftl_add_mtd+0x4d0/0x754 pages=94 vmalloc
0xec800000-0xecbe1000 4067328 kbox_proc_mem_write+0x104/0x1c4 phys=8b520000 ioremapwe get the result:
0xf1000000-0xf5001000 67112960 devm_ioremap+0x38/0x7c phys=40000000 ioremapFor the align for ioremap must be less than '1 << IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER':
if (flags & VM_IOREMAP)
align = 1ul << clamp_t(int, get_count_order_long(size),
PAGE_SHIFT, IOREMAP_MAX_ORDER);So it makes idiot like me a litte puzzled why this was a jump the
vm_area from 0xec800000-0xecbe1000 to 0xf1000000-0xf5001000, and leaving
0xed000000-0xf1000000 as a big hole.This patch is to show all of vm_area, including vmas which are freeing
but still in the vmap_area_list, to make it more clear about why we will
get 0xf1000000-0xf5001000 in the above case. And we will get a
vmallocinfo like:[..]
0xec79b000-0xec7fa000 389120 ftl_add_mtd+0x4d0/0x754 pages=94 vmalloc
0xec800000-0xecbe1000 4067328 kbox_proc_mem_write+0x104/0x1c4 phys=8b520000 ioremap
[..]
0xece7c000-0xece7e000 8192 unpurged vm_area
0xece7e000-0xece83000 20480 vm_map_ram
0xf0099000-0xf00aa000 69632 vm_map_ramafter this patch.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1496649682-20710-1-git-send-email-xieyisheng1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Yisheng Xie
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: zijun_hu
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov"
Cc: Tim Chen
Cc: Hanjun Guo
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
07 Jul, 2017
1 commit
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Kmemleak requires that vmalloc'ed objects have a minimum reference count
of 2: one in the corresponding vm_struct object and the other owned by
the vmalloc() caller. There are cases, however, where the original
vmalloc() returned pointer is lost and, instead, a pointer to vm_struct
is stored (see free_thread_stack()). Kmemleak currently reports such
objects as leaks.This patch adds support for treating any surplus references to an object
as additional references to a specified object. It introduces the
kmemleak_vmalloc() API function which takes a vm_struct pointer and sets
its surplus reference passing to the actual vmalloc() returned pointer.
The __vmalloc_node_range() calling site has been modified accordingly.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1495726937-23557-4-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas
Reported-by: "Luis R. Rodriguez"
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
24 Jun, 2017
1 commit
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Existing code that uses vmalloc_to_page() may assume that any address
for which is_vmalloc_addr() returns true may be passed into
vmalloc_to_page() to retrieve the associated struct page.This is not un unreasonable assumption to make, but on architectures
that have CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP=y, it no longer holds, and we need
to ensure that vmalloc_to_page() does not go off into the weeds trying
to dereference huge PUDs or PMDs as table entries.Given that vmalloc() and vmap() themselves never create huge mappings or
deal with compound pages at all, there is no correct answer in this
case, so return NULL instead, and issue a warning.When reading /proc/kcore on arm64, you will hit an oops as soon as you
hit the huge mappings used for the various segments that make up the
mapping of vmlinux. With this patch applied, you will no longer hit the
oops, but the kcore contents willl be incorrect (these regions will be
zeroed out)We are fixing this for kcore specifically, so it avoids vread() for
those regions. At least one other problematic user exists, i.e.,
/dev/kmem, but that is currently broken on arm64 for other reasons.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170609082226.26152-1-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel
Acked-by: Mark Rutland
Reviewed-by: Laura Abbott
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: zhong jiang
Cc: Dave Hansen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
13 May, 2017
1 commit
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Commit 1f5307b1e094 ("mm, vmalloc: properly track vmalloc users") has
pulled asm/pgtable.h include dependency to linux/vmalloc.h and that
turned out to be a bad idea for some architectures. E.g. m68k fails
withIn file included from arch/m68k/include/asm/pgtable_mm.h:145:0,
from arch/m68k/include/asm/pgtable.h:4,
from include/linux/vmalloc.h:9,
from arch/m68k/kernel/module.c:9:
arch/m68k/include/asm/mcf_pgtable.h: In function 'nocache_page':
>> arch/m68k/include/asm/mcf_pgtable.h:339:43: error: 'init_mm' undeclared (first use in this function)
#define pgd_offset_k(address) pgd_offset(&init_mm, address)as spotted by kernel build bot. nios2 fails for other reason
In file included from include/asm-generic/io.h:767:0,
from arch/nios2/include/asm/io.h:61,
from include/linux/io.h:25,
from arch/nios2/include/asm/pgtable.h:18,
from include/linux/mm.h:70,
from include/linux/pid_namespace.h:6,
from include/linux/ptrace.h:9,
from arch/nios2/include/uapi/asm/elf.h:23,
from arch/nios2/include/asm/elf.h:22,
from include/linux/elf.h:4,
from include/linux/module.h:15,
from init/main.c:16:
include/linux/vmalloc.h: In function '__vmalloc_node_flags':
include/linux/vmalloc.h:99:40: error: 'PAGE_KERNEL' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'GFP_KERNEL'?which is due to the newly added #include , which on nios2
includes and thus and which
again includes .Tweaking that around just turns out a bigger headache than necessary.
This patch reverts 1f5307b1e094 and reimplements the original fix in a
different way. __vmalloc_node_flags can stay static inline which will
cover vmalloc* functions. We only have one external user
(kvmalloc_node) and we can export __vmalloc_node_flags_caller and
provide the caller directly. This is much simpler and it doesn't really
need any games with header files.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[mhocko@kernel.org: revert old comment]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170509211054.GB16325@dhcp22.suse.cz
Fixes: 1f5307b1e094 ("mm, vmalloc: properly track vmalloc users")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170509153702.GR6481@dhcp22.suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko
Cc: Tobias Klauser
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
12 May, 2017
1 commit
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Pull more arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
- Silence module allocation failures when CONFIG_ARM*_MODULE_PLTS is
enabled. This requires a check for __GFP_NOWARN in alloc_vmap_area()- Improve/sanitise user tagged pointers handling in the kernel
- Inline asm fixes/cleanups
* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux:
arm64: Silence first allocation with CONFIG_ARM64_MODULE_PLTS=y
ARM: Silence first allocation with CONFIG_ARM_MODULE_PLTS=y
mm: Silence vmap() allocation failures based on caller gfp_flags
arm64: uaccess: suppress spurious clang warning
arm64: atomic_lse: match asm register sizes
arm64: armv8_deprecated: ensure extension of addr
arm64: uaccess: ensure extension of access_ok() addr
arm64: ensure extension of smp_store_release value
arm64: xchg: hazard against entire exchange variable
arm64: documentation: document tagged pointer stack constraints
arm64: entry: improve data abort handling of tagged pointers
arm64: hw_breakpoint: fix watchpoint matching for tagged pointers
arm64: traps: fix userspace cache maintenance emulation on a tagged pointer
11 May, 2017
1 commit
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If the caller has set __GFP_NOWARN don't print the following message:
vmap allocation for size 15736832 failed: use vmalloc= to increase
size.This can happen with the ARM/Linux or ARM64/Linux module loader built
with CONFIG_ARM{,64}_MODULE_PLTS=y which does a first attempt at loading
a large module from module space, then falls back to vmalloc space.Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas
09 May, 2017
3 commits
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__vmalloc* allows users to provide gfp flags for the underlying
allocation. This API is quite popular$ git grep "=[[:space:]]__vmalloc\|return[[:space:]]*__vmalloc" | wc -l
77The only problem is that many people are not aware that they really want
to give __GFP_HIGHMEM along with other flags because there is really no
reason to consume precious lowmemory on CONFIG_HIGHMEM systems for pages
which are mapped to the kernel vmalloc space. About half of users don't
use this flag, though. This signals that we make the API unnecessarily
too complex.This patch simply uses __GFP_HIGHMEM implicitly when allocating pages to
be mapped to the vmalloc space. Current users which add __GFP_HIGHMEM
are simplified and drop the flag.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170307141020.29107-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: Al Viro
Cc: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Cristopher Lameter
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
__vmalloc_node_flags used to be static inline but this has changed by
"mm: introduce kv[mz]alloc helpers" because kvmalloc_node needs to use
it as well and the code is outside of the vmalloc proper. I haven't
realized that changing this will lead to a subtle bug though. The
function is responsible to track the caller as well. This caller is
then printed by /proc/vmallocinfo. If __vmalloc_node_flags is not
inline then we would get only direct users of __vmalloc_node_flags as
callers (e.g. v[mz]alloc) which reduces usefulness of this debugging
feature considerably. It simply doesn't help to see that the given
range belongs to vmalloc as a caller:0xffffc90002c79000-0xffffc90002c7d000 16384 vmalloc+0x16/0x18 pages=3 vmalloc N0=3
0xffffc90002c81000-0xffffc90002c85000 16384 vmalloc+0x16/0x18 pages=3 vmalloc N1=3
0xffffc90002c8d000-0xffffc90002c91000 16384 vmalloc+0x16/0x18 pages=3 vmalloc N1=3
0xffffc90002c95000-0xffffc90002c99000 16384 vmalloc+0x16/0x18 pages=3 vmalloc N1=3We really want to catch the _caller_ of the vmalloc function. Fix this
issue by making __vmalloc_node_flags static inline again.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170502134657.12381-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko
Cc: Vlastimil Babka
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Patch series "kvmalloc", v5.
There are many open coded kmalloc with vmalloc fallback instances in the
tree. Most of them are not careful enough or simply do not care about
the underlying semantic of the kmalloc/page allocator which means that
a) some vmalloc fallbacks are basically unreachable because the kmalloc
part will keep retrying until it succeeds b) the page allocator can
invoke a really disruptive steps like the OOM killer to move forward
which doesn't sound appropriate when we consider that the vmalloc
fallback is available.As it can be seen implementing kvmalloc requires quite an intimate
knowledge if the page allocator and the memory reclaim internals which
strongly suggests that a helper should be implemented in the memory
subsystem proper.Most callers, I could find, have been converted to use the helper
instead. This is patch 6. There are some more relying on __GFP_REPEAT
in the networking stack which I have converted as well and Eric Dumazet
was not opposed [2] to convert them as well.[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170130094940.13546-1-mhocko@kernel.org
[2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485273626.16328.301.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.comThis patch (of 9):
Using kmalloc with the vmalloc fallback for larger allocations is a
common pattern in the kernel code. Yet we do not have any common helper
for that and so users have invented their own helpers. Some of them are
really creative when doing so. Let's just add kv[mz]alloc and make sure
it is implemented properly. This implementation makes sure to not make
a large memory pressure for > PAGE_SZE requests (__GFP_NORETRY) and also
to not warn about allocation failures. This also rules out the OOM
killer as the vmalloc is a more approapriate fallback than a disruptive
user visible action.This patch also changes some existing users and removes helpers which
are specific for them. In some cases this is not possible (e.g.
ext4_kvmalloc, libcfs_kvzalloc) because those seems to be broken and
require GFP_NO{FS,IO} context which is not vmalloc compatible in general
(note that the page table allocation is GFP_KERNEL). Those need to be
fixed separately.While we are at it, document that __vmalloc{_node} about unsupported gfp
mask because there seems to be a lot of confusion out there.
kvmalloc_node will warn about GFP_KERNEL incompatible (which are not
superset) flags to catch new abusers. Existing ones would have to die
slowly.[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: f2fs fixup]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170320163735.332e64b7@canb.auug.org.au
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170306103032.2540-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger [ext4 part]
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: John Hubbard
Cc: David Miller
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
03 May, 2017
1 commit
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Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet:
"A reasonably busy cycle for documentation this time around. There is a
new guide for user-space API documents, rather sparsely populated at
the moment, but it's a start. Markus improved the infrastructure for
converting diagrams. Mauro has converted much of the USB documentation
over to RST. Plus the usual set of fixes, improvements, and tweaks.There's a bit more than the usual amount of reaching out of
Documentation/ to fix comments elsewhere in the tree; I have acks for
those where I could get them"* tag 'docs-4.12' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (74 commits)
docs: Fix a couple typos
docs: Fix a spelling error in vfio-mediated-device.txt
docs: Fix a spelling error in ioctl-number.txt
MAINTAINERS: update file entry for HSI subsystem
Documentation: allow installing man pages to a user defined directory
Doc/PM: Sync with intel_powerclamp code behavior
zr364xx.rst: usb/devices is now at /sys/kernel/debug/
usb.rst: move documentation from proc_usb_info.txt to USB ReST book
convert philips.txt to ReST and add to media docs
docs-rst: usb: update old usbfs-related documentation
arm: Documentation: update a path name
docs: process/4.Coding.rst: Fix a couple of document refs
docs-rst: fix usb cross-references
usb: gadget.h: be consistent at kernel doc macros
usb: composite.h: fix two warnings when building docs
usb: get rid of some ReST doc build errors
usb.rst: get rid of some Sphinx errors
usb/URB.txt: convert to ReST and update it
usb/persist.txt: convert to ReST and add to driver-api book
usb/hotplug.txt: convert to ReST and add to driver-api book
...
03 Apr, 2017
1 commit
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./lib/string.c:134: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
./mm/filemap.c:522: WARNING: Inline interpreted text or phrase reference start-string without end-string.
./mm/filemap.c:1283: ERROR: Unexpected indentation.
./mm/filemap.c:3003: WARNING: Inline interpreted text or phrase reference start-string without end-string.
./mm/vmalloc.c:1544: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
./mm/page_alloc.c:4245: ERROR: Unexpected indentation.
./ipc/util.c:676: ERROR: Unexpected indentation.
./drivers/pci/irq.c:35: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
./security/security.c:109: ERROR: Unexpected indentation.
./security/security.c:110: WARNING: Definition list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
./block/genhd.c:275: WARNING: Inline strong start-string without end-string.
./block/genhd.c:283: WARNING: Inline strong start-string without end-string.
./include/linux/clk.h:134: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
./include/linux/clk.h:134: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
./ipc/util.c:477: ERROR: Unknown target name: "s".Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
17 Mar, 2017
1 commit
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When vmalloc() fails it prints a very lengthy message with all the
details about memory consumption assuming that it happened due to OOM.However, vmalloc() can also fail due to fatal signal pending. In such
case the message is quite confusing because it suggests that it is OOM
but the numbers suggest otherwise. The messages can also pollute
console considerably.Don't warn when vmalloc() fails due to fatal signal pending.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170313114425.72724-1-dvyukov@google.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
10 Mar, 2017
1 commit
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Convert all non-architecture-specific code to 5-level paging.
It's mostly mechanical adding handling one more page table level in
places where we deal with pud_t.Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
03 Mar, 2017
1 commit
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…sors into <linux/sched/signal.h>
task_struct::signal and task_struct::sighand are pointers, which would normally make it
straightforward to not define those types in sched.h.That is not so, because the types are accompanied by a myriad of APIs (macros and inline
functions) that dereference them.Split the types and the APIs out of sched.h and move them into a new header, <linux/sched/signal.h>.
With this change sched.h does not know about 'struct signal' and 'struct sighand' anymore,
trying to put accessors into sched.h as a test fails the following way:./include/linux/sched.h: In function ‘test_signal_types’:
./include/linux/sched.h:2461:18: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type ‘struct signal_struct’
^This reduces the size and complexity of sched.h significantly.
Update all headers and .c code that relied on getting the signal handling
functionality from <linux/sched.h> to include <linux/sched/signal.h>.The list of affected files in the preparatory patch was partly generated by
grepping for the APIs, and partly by doing coverage build testing, both
all[yes|mod|def|no]config builds on 64-bit and 32-bit x86, and an array of
cross-architecture builds.Nevertheless some (trivial) build breakage is still expected related to rare
Kconfig combinations and in-flight patches to various kernel code, but most
of it should be handled by this patch.Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
25 Feb, 2017
2 commits
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cleanup rest of dma_addr_t and phys_addr_t type casting in mm
use %pad for dma_addr_t
use %pa for phys_addr_tLink: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486618489-13912-1-git-send-email-miles.chen@mediatek.com
Signed-off-by: Miles Chen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
__vmalloc_area_node() allocates pages to cover the requested vmalloc
size. This can be a lot of memory. If the current task is killed by
the OOM killer, and thus has an unlimited access to memory reserves, it
can consume all the memory theoretically. Fix this by checking for
fatal_signal_pending and back off early.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170201092706.9966-4-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Tetsuo Handa
Cc: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
23 Feb, 2017
2 commits
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warn_alloc is currently used for to report an allocation failure or an
allocation stall. We print some details of the allocation request like
the gfp mask and the request order. We do not print the allocation
nodemask which is important when debugging the reason for the allocation
failure as well. We alreaddy print the nodemask in the OOM report.Add nodemask to warn_alloc and print it in warn_alloc as well.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170117091543.25850-3-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko
Acked-by: Mel Gorman
Acked-by: Hillf Danton
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: David Rientjes
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Use rb_entry_safe() instead of open-coding it.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/81bb9820e5b9e4a1c596b3e76f88abf8c4a76cb0.1482221947.git.geliangtang@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
25 Dec, 2016
1 commit
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This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:
PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*'
sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include !" \
$(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.
Requested-by: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
13 Dec, 2016
8 commits
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Use cond_resched_lock to avoid holding the vmap_area_lock for a
potentially long time and thus creating bad latencies for various
workloads.[hch: split from a larger patch by Joel, wrote the crappy changelog]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479474236-4139-11-git-send-email-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Tested-by: Jisheng Zhang
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin
Cc: Chris Wilson
Cc: John Dias
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The purge_lock spinlock causes high latencies with non RT kernel. This
has been reported multiple times on lkml [1] [2] and affects
applications like audio.This patch replaces it with a mutex to allow preemption while holding
the lock.Thanks to Joel Fernandes for the detailed report and analysis as well as
an earlier attempt at fixing this issue.[1] http://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2016/03/23/29
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/10/9/59Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479474236-4139-10-git-send-email-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Tested-by: Jisheng Zhang
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin
Cc: Joel Fernandes
Cc: Chris Wilson
Cc: John Dias
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
We will take a sleeping lock in later in this series, so this adds the
proper safeguards.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479474236-4139-9-git-send-email-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Tested-by: Jisheng Zhang
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin
Cc: Joel Fernandes
Cc: Chris Wilson
Cc: John Dias
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
We are going to use sleeping lock for freeing vmap. However some
vfree() users want to free memory from atomic (but not from interrupt)
context. For this we add vfree_atomic() - deferred variation of vfree()
which can be used in any atomic context (except NMIs).[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment grammar]
[aryabinin@virtuozzo.com: use raw_cpu_ptr() instead of this_cpu_ptr()]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481553981-3856-1-git-send-email-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479474236-4139-5-git-send-email-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Joel Fernandes
Cc: Jisheng Zhang
Cc: Chris Wilson
Cc: John Dias
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Move the purge_lock synchronization to the callers, move the call to
purge_fragmented_blocks_allcpus at the beginning of the function to the
callers that need it, move the force_flush behavior to the caller that
needs it, and pass start and end by value instead of by reference.No change in behavior.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479474236-4139-4-git-send-email-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Tested-by: Jisheng Zhang
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin
Cc: Joel Fernandes
Cc: Chris Wilson
Cc: John Dias
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Just inline it into the only caller.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479474236-4139-3-git-send-email-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Tested-by: Jisheng Zhang
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin
Cc: Joel Fernandes
Cc: Chris Wilson
Cc: John Dias
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Patch series "reduce latency in __purge_vmap_area_lazy", v2.
This patch (of 10):
Sort out the long lock hold times in __purge_vmap_area_lazy. It is
based on a patch from Joel.Inline free_unmap_vmap_area_noflush() it into the only caller.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479474236-4139-2-git-send-email-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Tested-by: Jisheng Zhang
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin
Cc: Joel Fernandes
Cc: Chris Wilson
Cc: John Dias
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Many seq_file helpers exist for simplifying implementation of virtual
files especially, for /proc nodes. however, the helpers for iteration
over list_head are available but aren't adopted to implement
/proc/vmallocinfo currently.Simplify /proc/vmallocinfo implementation by using existing seq_file
helpers.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/57FDF2E5.1000201@zoho.com
Signed-off-by: zijun_hu
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Stephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
08 Oct, 2016
2 commits
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warn_alloc_failed is currently used from the page and vmalloc
allocators. This is a good reuse of the code except that vmalloc would
appreciate a slightly different warning message. This is already
handled by the fmt parameter except that"%s: page allocation failure: order:%u, mode:%#x(%pGg)"
is printed anyway. This might be quite misleading because it might be a
vmalloc failure which leads to the warning while the page allocator is
not the culprit here. Fix this by always using the fmt string and only
print the context that makes sense for the particular context (e.g.
order makes only very little sense for the vmalloc context).Rename the function to not miss any user and also because a later patch
will reuse it also for !failure cases.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160929084407.7004-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Tetsuo Handa
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Dave Hansen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
It causes double align requirement for __get_vm_area_node() if parameter
size is power of 2 and VM_IOREMAP is set in parameter flags, for example
size=0x10000 -> fls_long(0x10000)=17 -> align=0x20000get_count_order_long() is implemented and can be used instead of
fls_long() for fixing the bug, for example size=0x10000 ->
get_count_order_long(0x10000)=16 -> align=0x10000[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/get_order_long()/get_count_order_long()/]
[zijun_hu@zoho.com: fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/57AABC8B.1040409@zoho.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: locate get_count_order_long() next to get_count_order()]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: move get_count_order[_long] definitions to pick up fls_long()]
[zijun_hu@htc.com: move out get_count_order[_long]() from __KERNEL__ scope]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/57B2C4CE.80303@zoho.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/fc045ecf-20fa-0722-b3ac-9a6140488fad@zoho.com
Signed-off-by: zijun_hu
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: David Rientjes
Signed-off-by: zijun_hu
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 Jul, 2016
1 commit
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Currently, to charge a non-slab allocation to kmemcg one has to use
alloc_kmem_pages helper with __GFP_ACCOUNT flag. A page allocated with
this helper should finally be freed using free_kmem_pages, otherwise it
won't be uncharged.This API suits its current users fine, but it turns out to be impossible
to use along with page reference counting, i.e. when an allocation is
supposed to be freed with put_page, as it is the case with pipe or unix
socket buffers.To overcome this limitation, this patch moves charging/uncharging to
generic page allocator paths, i.e. to __alloc_pages_nodemask and
free_pages_prepare, and zaps alloc/free_kmem_pages helpers. This way,
one can use any of the available page allocation functions to get the
allocated page charged to kmemcg - it's enough to pass __GFP_ACCOUNT,
just like in case of kmalloc and friends. A charged page will be
automatically uncharged on free.To make it possible, we need to mark pages charged to kmemcg somehow.
To avoid introducing a new page flag, we make use of page->_mapcount for
marking such pages. Since pages charged to kmemcg are not supposed to
be mapped to userspace, it should work just fine. There are other
(ab)users of page->_mapcount - buddy and balloon pages - but we don't
conflict with them.In case kmemcg is compiled out or not used at runtime, this patch
introduces no overhead to generic page allocator paths. If kmemcg is
used, it will be plus one gfp flags check on alloc and plus one
page->_mapcount check on free, which shouldn't hurt performance, because
the data accessed are hot.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a9736d856f895bcb465d9f257b54efe32eda6f99.1464079538.git.vdavydov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Eric Dumazet
Cc: Minchan Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
04 Jun, 2016
1 commit
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When remapping pages accounting for 4G or more memory space, the
operation 'count << PAGE_SHIFT' overflows as it is performed on an
integer. Solution: cast before doing the bitshift.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix vm_unmap_ram() also]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix vmap() as well, per Guillermo]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/etPan.57175fb3.7a271c6b.2bd@naudit.es
Signed-off-by: Guillermo Julián Moreno
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
24 May, 2016
1 commit
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Pull drm updates from Dave Airlie:
"Here's the main drm pull request for 4.7, it's been a busy one, and
I've been a bit more distracted in real life this merge window. Lots
more ARM drivers, not sure if it'll ever end. I think I've at least
one more coming the next merge window.But changes are all over the place, support for AMD Polaris GPUs is in
here, some missing GM108 support for nouveau (found in some Lenovos),
a bunch of MST and skylake fixes.I've also noticed a few fixes from Arnd in my inbox, that I'll try and
get in asap, but I didn't think they should hold this up.New drivers:
- Hisilicon kirin display driver
- Mediatek MT8173 display driver
- ARC PGU - bitstreamer on Synopsys ARC SDP boards
- Allwinner A13 initial RGB output driver
- Analogix driver for DisplayPort IP found in exynos and rockchipDRM Core:
- UAPI headers fixes and C++ safety
- DRM connector reference counting
- DisplayID mode parsing for Dell 5K monitors
- Removal of struct_mutex from drivers
- Connector registration cleanups
- MST robustness fixes
- MAINTAINERS updates
- Lockless GEM object freeing
- Generic fbdev deferred IO supportpanel:
- Support for a bunch of new panelsi915:
- VBT refactoring
- PLL computation cleanups
- DSI support for BXT
- Color manager support
- More atomic patches
- GEM improvements
- GuC fw loading fixes
- DP detection fixes
- SKL GPU hang fixes
- Lots of BXT fixesradeon/amdgpu:
- Initial Polaris support
- GPUVM/Scheduler/Clock/Power improvements
- ASYNC pageflip support
- New mesa feature supportnouveau:
- GM108 support
- Power sensor support improvements
- GR init + ucode fixes.
- Use GPU provided topology informationvmwgfx:
- Add host messaging supportgma500:
- Some cleanups and fixesatmel:
- Bridge support
- Async atomic commit supportfsl-dcu:
- Timing controller for LCD support
- Pixel clock polarity supportrcar-du:
- Misc fixesexynos:
- Pipeline clock support
- Exynoss4533 SoC support
- HW trigger mode support
- export HDMI_PHY clock
- DECON5433 fixes
- Use generic prime functions
- use DMA mapping APIsrockchip:
- Lots of little fixesvc4:
- Render node support
- Gamma ramp support
- DPI output supportmsm:
- Mostly cleanups and fixes
- Conversion to generic struct fenceetnaviv:
- Fix for prime buffer handling
- Allow hangcheck to be coalesced with other wakeupstegra:
- Gamme table size fix"* 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (1050 commits)
drm/edid: add displayid detailed 1 timings to the modelist. (v1.1)
drm/edid: move displayid validation to it's own function.
drm/displayid: Iterate over all DisplayID blocks
drm/edid: move displayid tiled block parsing into separate function.
drm: Nuke ->vblank_disable_allowed
drm/vmwgfx: Report vmwgfx version to vmware.log
drm/vmwgfx: Add VMWare host messaging capability
drm/vmwgfx: Kill some lockdep warnings
drm/nouveau/gr/gf100-: fix race condition in fecs/gpccs ucode
drm/nouveau/core: recognise GM108 chipsets
drm/nouveau/gr/gm107-: fix touching non-existent ppcs in attrib cb setup
drm/nouveau/gr/gk104-: share implementation of ppc exception init
drm/nouveau/gr/gk104-: move rop_active_fbps init to nonctx
drm/nouveau/bios/pll: check BIT table version before trying to parse it
drm/nouveau/bios/pll: prevent oops when limits table can't be parsed
drm/nouveau/volt/gk104: round up in gk104_volt_set
drm/nouveau/fb/gm200: setup mmu debug buffer registers at init()
drm/nouveau/fb/gk20a,gm20b: setup mmu debug buffer registers at init()
drm/nouveau/fb/gf100-: allocate mmu debug buffers
drm/nouveau/fb: allow chipset-specific actions for oneinit()
...
21 May, 2016
1 commit
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When mixing lots of vmallocs and set_memory_*() (which calls
vm_unmap_aliases()) I encountered situations where the performance
degraded severely due to the walking of the entire vmap_area list each
invocation.One simple improvement is to add the lazily freed vmap_area to a
separate lockless free list, such that we then avoid having to walk the
full list on each purge.Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson
Reviewed-by: Roman Pen
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin
Cc: Daniel Vetter
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Roman Pen
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Toshi Kani
Cc: Shawn Lin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
