27 Oct, 2010
40 commits
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Ensure kmap_atomic() usage is strictly nested
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Russell King
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: David Miller
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
When a page has PG_referenced, shrink_page_list() discards it only if it
is not dirty. This rule works fine if the backing filesystem is a regular
one. PG_dirty is a good signal that the page was used recently because
the flusher threads clean pages periodically. In addition, page writeback
is costlier than simple page discard.However, when a page is on tmpfs this heuristic doesn't work because
flusher threads don't write back tmpfs pages. Consequently tmpfs pages
always rotate around the lru twice at least and adds unnecessary lru
churn. Simple tmpfs streaming io shouldn't cause large anonymous page
swap-out.Remove this unncessary reclaim bonus of tmpfs pages.
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel
Cc: Minchan Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The dirty_ratio was silently limited in global_dirty_limits() to >= 5%.
This is not a user expected behavior. And it's inconsistent with
calc_period_shift(), which uses the plain vm_dirty_ratio value.Let's remove the internal bound.
At the same time, fix balance_dirty_pages() to work with the
dirty_thresh=0 case. This allows applications to proceed when
dirty+writeback pages are all cleaned.And ">" fits with the name "exceeded" better than ">=" does. Neil thinks
it is an aesthetic improvement as well as a functional one :)Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang
Cc: Jan Kara
Proposed-by: Con Kolivas
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel
Reviewed-by: Neil Brown
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Michael Rubin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
…r if significant congestion is not being encountered in the current zone
If congestion_wait() is called with no BDI congested, the caller will
sleep for the full timeout and this may be an unnecessary sleep. This
patch adds a wait_iff_congested() that checks congestion and only sleeps
if a BDI is congested else, it calls cond_resched() to ensure the caller
is not hogging the CPU longer than its quota but otherwise will not sleep.This is aimed at reducing some of the major desktop stalls reported during
IO. For example, while kswapd is operating, it calls congestion_wait()
but it could just have been reclaiming clean page cache pages with no
congestion. Without this patch, it would sleep for a full timeout but
after this patch, it'll just call schedule() if it has been on the CPU too
long. Similar logic applies to direct reclaimers that are not making
enough progress.Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> -
isolate_lru_pages() does not just isolate LRU tail pages, but also
isolates neighbour pages of the eviction page. The neighbour search does
not stop even if neighbours cannot be isolated which is excessive as the
lumpy reclaim will no longer result in a successful higher order
allocation. This patch stops the PFN neighbour pages if an isolation
fails and moves on to the next block.Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Rik van Riel
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
After synchrounous lumpy reclaim, the page_list is guaranteed to not have
active pages as page activation in shrink_page_list() disables lumpy
reclaim. Remove the dead code.Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Wu Fengguang
Cc: Rik van Riel
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
shrink_page_list() can decide to give up reclaiming a page under a
number of conditions such as1. trylock_page() failure
2. page is unevictable
3. zone reclaim and page is mapped
4. PageWriteback() is true
5. page is swapbacked and swap is full
6. add_to_swap() failure
7. page is dirty and gfpmask don't have GFP_IO, GFP_FS
8. page is pinned
9. IO queue is congested
10. pageout() start IO, but not finishedWith lumpy reclaim, failures result in entering synchronous lumpy reclaim
but this can be unnecessary. In cases (2), (3), (5), (6), (7) and (8),
there is no point retrying. This patch causes lumpy reclaim to abort when
it is known it will fail.Case (9) is more interesting. current behavior is,
1. start shrink_page_list(async)
2. found queue_congested()
3. skip pageout write
4. still start shrink_page_list(sync)
5. wait on a lot of pages
6. again, found queue_congested()
7. give up pageout write againSo, it's useless time wasting. However, just skipping page reclaim is
also notgood as x86 allocating a huge page needs 512 pages for example.
It can have more dirty pages than queue congestion threshold (~=128).After this patch, pageout() behaves as follows;
- If order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER
Ignore queue congestion always.
- If order
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Wu Fengguang
Cc: Rik van Riel
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
congestion_wait() means "wait until queue congestion is cleared".
However, synchronous lumpy reclaim does not need this congestion_wait() as
shrink_page_list(PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC) uses wait_on_page_writeback() and it
provides the necessary waiting.Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: Rik van Riel
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
There is strong evidence to indicate a lot of time is being spent in
congestion_wait(), some of it unnecessarily. This patch adds a tracepoint
for congestion_wait to record when congestion_wait() was called, how long
the timeout was for and how long it actually slept.Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Wu Fengguang
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Rik van Riel
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
There have been numerous reports of stalls that pointed at the problem
being somewhere in the VM. There are multiple roots to the problems which
means dealing with any of the root problems in isolation is tricky to
justify on their own and they would still need integration testing. This
patch series puts together two different patch sets which in combination
should tackle some of the root causes of latency problems being reported.Patch 1 adds a tracepoint for shrink_inactive_list. For this series, the
most important results is being able to calculate the scanning/reclaim
ratio as a measure of the amount of work being done by page reclaim.Patch 2 accounts for time spent in congestion_wait.
Patches 3-6 were originally developed by Kosaki Motohiro but reworked for
this series. It has been noted that lumpy reclaim is far too aggressive
and trashes the system somewhat. As SLUB uses high-order allocations, a
large cost incurred by lumpy reclaim will be noticeable. It was also
reported during transparent hugepage support testing that lumpy reclaim
was trashing the system and these patches should mitigate that problem
without disabling lumpy reclaim.Patch 7 adds wait_iff_congested() and replaces some callers of
congestion_wait(). wait_iff_congested() only sleeps if there is a BDI
that is currently congested. Patch 8 notes that any BDI being congested
is not necessarily a problem because there could be multiple BDIs of
varying speeds and numberous zones. It attempts to track when a zone
being reclaimed contains many pages backed by a congested BDI and if so,
reclaimers wait on the congestion queue.I ran a number of tests with monitoring on X86, X86-64 and PPC64. Each
machine had 3G of RAM and the CPUs wereX86: Intel P4 2-core
X86-64: AMD Phenom 4-core
PPC64: PPC970MPEach used a single disk and the onboard IO controller. Dirty ratio was
left at 20. I'm just going to report for X86-64 and PPC64 in a vague
attempt to keep this report short. Four kernels were tested each based on
v2.6.36-rc4traceonly-v2r2: Patches 1 and 2 to instrument vmscan reclaims and congestion_wait
lowlumpy-v2r3: Patches 1-6 to test if lumpy reclaim is better
waitcongest-v2r3: Patches 1-7 to only wait on congestion
waitwriteback-v2r4: Patches 1-8 to detect when a zone is congestednocongest-v1r5: Patches 1-3 for testing wait_iff_congestion
nodirect-v1r5: Patches 1-10 to disable filesystem writeback for better IOThe tests run were as follows
kernbench
compile-based benchmark. Smoke test performancesysbench
OLTP read-only benchmark. Will be re-run in the future as read-writemicro-mapped-file-stream
This is a micro-benchmark from Johannes Weiner that accesses a
large sparse-file through mmap(). It was configured to run in only
single-CPU mode but can be indicative of how well page reclaim
identifies suitable pages.stress-highalloc
Tries to allocate huge pages under heavy load.kernbench, iozone and sysbench did not report any performance regression
on any machine. sysbench did pressure the system lightly and there was
reclaim activity but there were no difference of major interest between
the kernels.X86-64 micro-mapped-file-stream
traceonly-v2r2 lowlumpy-v2r3 waitcongest-v2r3 waitwriteback-v2r4
pgalloc_dma 1639.00 ( 0.00%) 667.00 (-145.73%) 1167.00 ( -40.45%) 578.00 (-183.56%)
pgalloc_dma32 2842410.00 ( 0.00%) 2842626.00 ( 0.01%) 2843043.00 ( 0.02%) 2843014.00 ( 0.02%)
pgalloc_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
pgsteal_dma 729.00 ( 0.00%) 85.00 (-757.65%) 609.00 ( -19.70%) 125.00 (-483.20%)
pgsteal_dma32 2338721.00 ( 0.00%) 2447354.00 ( 4.44%) 2429536.00 ( 3.74%) 2436772.00 ( 4.02%)
pgsteal_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
pgscan_kswapd_dma 1469.00 ( 0.00%) 532.00 (-176.13%) 1078.00 ( -36.27%) 220.00 (-567.73%)
pgscan_kswapd_dma32 4597713.00 ( 0.00%) 4503597.00 ( -2.09%) 4295673.00 ( -7.03%) 3891686.00 ( -18.14%)
pgscan_kswapd_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
pgscan_direct_dma 71.00 ( 0.00%) 134.00 ( 47.01%) 243.00 ( 70.78%) 352.00 ( 79.83%)
pgscan_direct_dma32 305820.00 ( 0.00%) 280204.00 ( -9.14%) 600518.00 ( 49.07%) 957485.00 ( 68.06%)
pgscan_direct_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
pageoutrun 16296.00 ( 0.00%) 21254.00 ( 23.33%) 18447.00 ( 11.66%) 20067.00 ( 18.79%)
allocstall 443.00 ( 0.00%) 273.00 ( -62.27%) 513.00 ( 13.65%) 1568.00 ( 71.75%)These are based on the raw figures taken from /proc/vmstat. It's a rough
measure of reclaim activity. Note that allocstall counts are higher
because we are entering direct reclaim more often as a result of not
sleeping in congestion. In itself, it's not necessarily a bad thing.
It's easier to get a view of what happened from the vmscan tracepoint
report.FTrace Reclaim Statistics: vmscan
traceonly-v2r2 lowlumpy-v2r3 waitcongest-v2r3 waitwriteback-v2r4
Direct reclaims 443 273 513 1568
Direct reclaim pages scanned 305968 280402 600825 957933
Direct reclaim pages reclaimed 43503 19005 30327 117191
Direct reclaim write file async I/O 0 0 0 0
Direct reclaim write anon async I/O 0 3 4 12
Direct reclaim write file sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Direct reclaim write anon sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Wake kswapd requests 187649 132338 191695 267701
Kswapd wakeups 3 1 4 1
Kswapd pages scanned 4599269 4454162 4296815 3891906
Kswapd pages reclaimed 2295947 2428434 2399818 2319706
Kswapd reclaim write file async I/O 1 0 1 1
Kswapd reclaim write anon async I/O 59 187 41 222
Kswapd reclaim write file sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Kswapd reclaim write anon sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Time stalled direct reclaim (seconds) 4.34 2.52 6.63 2.96
Time kswapd awake (seconds) 11.15 10.25 11.01 10.19Total pages scanned 4905237 4734564 4897640 4849839
Total pages reclaimed 2339450 2447439 2430145 2436897
%age total pages scanned/reclaimed 47.69% 51.69% 49.62% 50.25%
%age total pages scanned/written 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
%age file pages scanned/written 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Percentage Time Spent Direct Reclaim 29.23% 19.02% 38.48% 20.25%
Percentage Time kswapd Awake 78.58% 78.85% 76.83% 79.86%What is interesting here for nocongest in particular is that while direct
reclaim scans more pages, the overall number of pages scanned remains the
same and the ratio of pages scanned to pages reclaimed is more or less the
same. In other words, while we are sleeping less, reclaim is not doing
more work and as direct reclaim and kswapd is awake for less time, it
would appear to be doing less work.FTrace Reclaim Statistics: congestion_wait
Direct number congest waited 87 196 64 0
Direct time congest waited 4604ms 4732ms 5420ms 0ms
Direct full congest waited 72 145 53 0
Direct number conditional waited 0 0 324 1315
Direct time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 0ms
Direct full conditional waited 0 0 0 0
KSwapd number congest waited 20 10 15 7
KSwapd time congest waited 1264ms 536ms 884ms 284ms
KSwapd full congest waited 10 4 6 2
KSwapd number conditional waited 0 0 0 0
KSwapd time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 0ms
KSwapd full conditional waited 0 0 0 0The vanilla kernel spent 8 seconds asleep in direct reclaim and no time at
all asleep with the patches.MMTests Statistics: duration
User/Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 10.51 10.73 10.6 11.66
Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 14.19 13.00 14.33 12.76Overall, the tests completed faster. It is interesting to note that backing off further
when a zone is congested and not just a BDI was more efficient overall.PPC64 micro-mapped-file-stream
pgalloc_dma 3024660.00 ( 0.00%) 3027185.00 ( 0.08%) 3025845.00 ( 0.04%) 3026281.00 ( 0.05%)
pgalloc_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
pgsteal_dma 2508073.00 ( 0.00%) 2565351.00 ( 2.23%) 2463577.00 ( -1.81%) 2532263.00 ( 0.96%)
pgsteal_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
pgscan_kswapd_dma 4601307.00 ( 0.00%) 4128076.00 ( -11.46%) 3912317.00 ( -17.61%) 3377165.00 ( -36.25%)
pgscan_kswapd_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
pgscan_direct_dma 629825.00 ( 0.00%) 971622.00 ( 35.18%) 1063938.00 ( 40.80%) 1711935.00 ( 63.21%)
pgscan_direct_normal 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
pageoutrun 27776.00 ( 0.00%) 20458.00 ( -35.77%) 18763.00 ( -48.04%) 18157.00 ( -52.98%)
allocstall 977.00 ( 0.00%) 2751.00 ( 64.49%) 2098.00 ( 53.43%) 5136.00 ( 80.98%)Similar trends to x86-64. allocstalls are up but it's not necessarily bad.
FTrace Reclaim Statistics: vmscan
Direct reclaims 977 2709 2098 5136
Direct reclaim pages scanned 629825 963814 1063938 1711935
Direct reclaim pages reclaimed 75550 242538 150904 387647
Direct reclaim write file async I/O 0 0 0 2
Direct reclaim write anon async I/O 0 10 0 4
Direct reclaim write file sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Direct reclaim write anon sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Wake kswapd requests 392119 1201712 571935 571921
Kswapd wakeups 3 2 3 3
Kswapd pages scanned 4601307 4128076 3912317 3377165
Kswapd pages reclaimed 2432523 2318797 2312673 2144616
Kswapd reclaim write file async I/O 20 1 1 1
Kswapd reclaim write anon async I/O 57 132 11 121
Kswapd reclaim write file sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Kswapd reclaim write anon sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Time stalled direct reclaim (seconds) 6.19 7.30 13.04 10.88
Time kswapd awake (seconds) 21.73 26.51 25.55 23.90Total pages scanned 5231132 5091890 4976255 5089100
Total pages reclaimed 2508073 2561335 2463577 2532263
%age total pages scanned/reclaimed 47.95% 50.30% 49.51% 49.76%
%age total pages scanned/written 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
%age file pages scanned/written 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
Percentage Time Spent Direct Reclaim 18.89% 20.65% 32.65% 27.65%
Percentage Time kswapd Awake 72.39% 80.68% 78.21% 77.40%Again, a similar trend that the congestion_wait changes mean that direct
reclaim scans more pages but the overall number of pages scanned while
slightly reduced, are very similar. The ratio of scanning/reclaimed
remains roughly similar. The downside is that kswapd and direct reclaim
was awake longer and for a larger percentage of the overall workload.
It's possible there were big differences in the amount of time spent
reclaiming slab pages between the different kernels which is plausible
considering that the micro tests runs after fsmark and sysbench.Trace Reclaim Statistics: congestion_wait
Direct number congest waited 845 1312 104 0
Direct time congest waited 19416ms 26560ms 7544ms 0ms
Direct full congest waited 745 1105 72 0
Direct number conditional waited 0 0 1322 2935
Direct time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 12ms 312ms
Direct full conditional waited 0 0 0 3
KSwapd number congest waited 39 102 75 63
KSwapd time congest waited 2484ms 6760ms 5756ms 3716ms
KSwapd full congest waited 20 48 46 25
KSwapd number conditional waited 0 0 0 0
KSwapd time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 0ms
KSwapd full conditional waited 0 0 0 0The vanilla kernel spent 20 seconds asleep in direct reclaim and only
312ms asleep with the patches. The time kswapd spent congest waited was
also reduced by a large factor.MMTests Statistics: duration
ser/Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 26.58 28.05 26.9 28.47
Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 30.02 32.86 32.67 30.88With all patches applies, the completion times are very similar.
X86-64 STRESS-HIGHALLOC
traceonly-v2r2 lowlumpy-v2r3 waitcongest-v2r3waitwriteback-v2r4
Pass 1 82.00 ( 0.00%) 84.00 ( 2.00%) 85.00 ( 3.00%) 85.00 ( 3.00%)
Pass 2 90.00 ( 0.00%) 87.00 (-3.00%) 88.00 (-2.00%) 89.00 (-1.00%)
At Rest 92.00 ( 0.00%) 90.00 (-2.00%) 90.00 (-2.00%) 91.00 (-1.00%)Success figures across the board are broadly similar.
traceonly-v2r2 lowlumpy-v2r3 waitcongest-v2r3waitwriteback-v2r4
Direct reclaims 1045 944 886 887
Direct reclaim pages scanned 135091 119604 109382 101019
Direct reclaim pages reclaimed 88599 47535 47863 46671
Direct reclaim write file async I/O 494 283 465 280
Direct reclaim write anon async I/O 29357 13710 16656 13462
Direct reclaim write file sync I/O 154 2 2 3
Direct reclaim write anon sync I/O 14594 571 509 561
Wake kswapd requests 7491 933 872 892
Kswapd wakeups 814 778 731 780
Kswapd pages scanned 7290822 15341158 11916436 13703442
Kswapd pages reclaimed 3587336 3142496 3094392 3187151
Kswapd reclaim write file async I/O 91975 32317 28022 29628
Kswapd reclaim write anon async I/O 1992022 789307 829745 849769
Kswapd reclaim write file sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Kswapd reclaim write anon sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Time stalled direct reclaim (seconds) 4588.93 2467.16 2495.41 2547.07
Time kswapd awake (seconds) 2497.66 1020.16 1098.06 1176.82Total pages scanned 7425913 15460762 12025818 13804461
Total pages reclaimed 3675935 3190031 3142255 3233822
%age total pages scanned/reclaimed 49.50% 20.63% 26.13% 23.43%
%age total pages scanned/written 28.66% 5.41% 7.28% 6.47%
%age file pages scanned/written 1.25% 0.21% 0.24% 0.22%
Percentage Time Spent Direct Reclaim 57.33% 42.15% 42.41% 42.99%
Percentage Time kswapd Awake 43.56% 27.87% 29.76% 31.25%Scanned/reclaimed ratios again look good with big improvements in
efficiency. The Scanned/written ratios also look much improved. With a
better scanned/written ration, there is an expectation that IO would be
more efficient and indeed, the time spent in direct reclaim is much
reduced by the full series and kswapd spends a little less time awake.Overall, indications here are that allocations were happening much faster
and this can be seen with a graph of the latency figures as the
allocations were taking place
http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/postings/vmscanreduce-20101509/highalloc-interlatency-hydra-mean.psFTrace Reclaim Statistics: congestion_wait
Direct number congest waited 1333 204 169 4
Direct time congest waited 78896ms 8288ms 7260ms 200ms
Direct full congest waited 756 92 69 2
Direct number conditional waited 0 0 26 186
Direct time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 2504ms
Direct full conditional waited 0 0 0 25
KSwapd number congest waited 4 395 227 282
KSwapd time congest waited 384ms 25136ms 10508ms 18380ms
KSwapd full congest waited 3 232 98 176
KSwapd number conditional waited 0 0 0 0
KSwapd time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 0ms
KSwapd full conditional waited 0 0 0 0
KSwapd full conditional waited 318 0 312 9Overall, the time spent speeping is reduced. kswapd is still hitting
congestion_wait() but that is because there are callers remaining where it
wasn't clear in advance if they should be changed to wait_iff_congested()
or not. Overall the sleep imes are reduced though - from 79ish seconds to
about 19.MMTests Statistics: duration
User/Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 3415.43 3386.65 3388.39 3377.5
Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 5733.48 3660.33 3689.41 3765.39With the full series, the time to complete the tests are reduced by 30%
PPC64 STRESS-HIGHALLOC
traceonly-v2r2 lowlumpy-v2r3 waitcongest-v2r3waitwriteback-v2r4
Pass 1 17.00 ( 0.00%) 34.00 (17.00%) 38.00 (21.00%) 43.00 (26.00%)
Pass 2 25.00 ( 0.00%) 37.00 (12.00%) 42.00 (17.00%) 46.00 (21.00%)
At Rest 49.00 ( 0.00%) 43.00 (-6.00%) 45.00 (-4.00%) 51.00 ( 2.00%)Success rates there are *way* up particularly considering that the 16MB
huge pages on PPC64 mean that it's always much harder to allocate them.FTrace Reclaim Statistics: vmscan
stress-highalloc stress-highalloc stress-highalloc stress-highalloc
traceonly-v2r2 lowlumpy-v2r3 waitcongest-v2r3waitwriteback-v2r4
Direct reclaims 499 505 564 509
Direct reclaim pages scanned 223478 41898 51818 45605
Direct reclaim pages reclaimed 137730 21148 27161 23455
Direct reclaim write file async I/O 399 136 162 136
Direct reclaim write anon async I/O 46977 2865 4686 3998
Direct reclaim write file sync I/O 29 0 1 3
Direct reclaim write anon sync I/O 31023 159 237 239
Wake kswapd requests 420 351 360 326
Kswapd wakeups 185 294 249 277
Kswapd pages scanned 15703488 16392500 17821724 17598737
Kswapd pages reclaimed 5808466 2908858 3139386 3145435
Kswapd reclaim write file async I/O 159938 18400 18717 13473
Kswapd reclaim write anon async I/O 3467554 228957 322799 234278
Kswapd reclaim write file sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Kswapd reclaim write anon sync I/O 0 0 0 0
Time stalled direct reclaim (seconds) 9665.35 1707.81 2374.32 1871.23
Time kswapd awake (seconds) 9401.21 1367.86 1951.75 1328.88Total pages scanned 15926966 16434398 17873542 17644342
Total pages reclaimed 5946196 2930006 3166547 3168890
%age total pages scanned/reclaimed 37.33% 17.83% 17.72% 17.96%
%age total pages scanned/written 23.27% 1.52% 1.94% 1.43%
%age file pages scanned/written 1.01% 0.11% 0.11% 0.08%
Percentage Time Spent Direct Reclaim 44.55% 35.10% 41.42% 36.91%
Percentage Time kswapd Awake 86.71% 43.58% 52.67% 41.14%While the scanning rates are slightly up, the scanned/reclaimed and
scanned/written figures are much improved. The time spent in direct
reclaim and with kswapd are massively reduced, mostly by the lowlumpy
patches.FTrace Reclaim Statistics: congestion_wait
Direct number congest waited 725 303 126 3
Direct time congest waited 45524ms 9180ms 5936ms 300ms
Direct full congest waited 487 190 52 3
Direct number conditional waited 0 0 200 301
Direct time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 1904ms
Direct full conditional waited 0 0 0 19
KSwapd number congest waited 0 2 23 4
KSwapd time congest waited 0ms 200ms 420ms 404ms
KSwapd full congest waited 0 2 2 4
KSwapd number conditional waited 0 0 0 0
KSwapd time conditional waited 0ms 0ms 0ms 0ms
KSwapd full conditional waited 0 0 0 0Not as dramatic a story here but the time spent asleep is reduced and we
can still see what wait_iff_congested is going to sleep when necessary.MMTests Statistics: duration
User/Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 12028.09 3157.17 3357.79 3199.16
Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 10842.07 3138.72 3705.54 3229.85The time to complete this test goes way down. With the full series, we
are allocating over twice the number of huge pages in 30% of the time and
there is a corresponding impact on the allocation latency graph available
at.http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/postings/vmscanreduce-20101509/highalloc-interlatency-powyah-mean.ps
This patch:
Add a trace event for shrink_inactive_list() and updates the sample
postprocessing script appropriately. It can be used to determine how many
pages were reclaimed and for non-lumpy reclaim where exactly the pages
were reclaimed from.Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Wu Fengguang
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Rik van Riel
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
`priority' cannot be negative here. And the comment is obsolete.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
NODE_NOT_IN_PAGE_FLAGS is defined in mm.h when the node information is not
stored in the page flags bitmap.Unfortunately, there's a typo in one of the checks for it. This patch
fixes it (s/NODE_NOT_IN_PAGEFLAGS/NODE_NOT_IN_PAGE_FLAGS/). Since this
has been around for ages, I doubt it's been causing any serious problems.Signed-off-by: Will Deacon
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Mel Gorman
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The kernel already exposes the user desired thresholds in /proc/sys/vm
with dirty_background_ratio and background_ratio. But the kernel may
alter the number requested without giving the user any indication that is
the case.Knowing the actual ratios the kernel is honoring can help app developers
understand how their buffered IO will be sent to the disk.$ grep threshold /proc/vmstat
nr_dirty_threshold 409111
nr_dirty_background_threshold 818223Signed-off-by: Michael Rubin
Cc: Wu Fengguang
Cc: Dave Chinner
Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Nick Piggin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
For NUMA node systems it is important to have visibility in memory
characteristics. Two of the /proc/vmstat values "nr_written" and
"nr_dirtied" are added here.# cat /sys/devices/system/node/node20/vmstat
nr_written 0
nr_dirtied 0Signed-off-by: Michael Rubin
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang
Cc: Dave Chinner
Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Nick Piggin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
To help developers and applications gain visibility into writeback
behaviour adding two entries to vm_stat_items and /proc/vmstat. This will
allow us to track the "written" and "dirtied" counts.# grep nr_dirtied /proc/vmstat
nr_dirtied 3747
# grep nr_written /proc/vmstat
nr_written 3618Signed-off-by: Michael Rubin
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang
Cc: Dave Chinner
Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Nick Piggin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
To help developers and applications gain visibility into writeback
behaviour this patch adds two counters to /proc/vmstat.# grep nr_dirtied /proc/vmstat
nr_dirtied 3747
# grep nr_written /proc/vmstat
nr_written 3618These entries allow user apps to understand writeback behaviour over time
and learn how it is impacting their performance. Currently there is no
way to inspect dirty and writeback speed over time. It's not possible for
nr_dirty/nr_writeback.These entries are necessary to give visibility into writeback behaviour.
We have /proc/diskstats which lets us understand the io in the block
layer. We have blktrace for more in depth understanding. We have
e2fsprogs and debugsfs to give insight into the file systems behaviour,
but we don't offer our users the ability understand what writeback is
doing. There is no way to know how active it is over the whole system, if
it's falling behind or to quantify it's efforts. With these values
exported users can easily see how much data applications are sending
through writeback and also at what rates writeback is processing this
data. Comparing the rates of change between the two allow developers to
see when writeback is not able to keep up with incoming traffic and the
rate of dirty memory being sent to the IO back end. This allows folks to
understand their io workloads and track kernel issues. Non kernel
engineers at Google often use these counters to solve puzzling performance
problems.Patch #4 adds a pernode vmstat file with nr_dirtied and nr_written
Patch #5 add writeback thresholds to /proc/vmstat
Currently these values are in debugfs. But they should be promoted to
/proc since they are useful for developers who are writing databases
and file servers and are not debugging the kernel.The output is as below:
# grep threshold /proc/vmstat
nr_pages_dirty_threshold 409111
nr_pages_dirty_background_threshold 818223This patch:
This allows code outside of the mm core to safely manipulate page
writeback state and not worry about the other accounting. Not using these
routines means that some code will lose track of the accounting and we get
bugs.Modify nilfs2 to use interface.
Signed-off-by: Michael Rubin
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang
Cc: KONISHI Ryusuke
Cc: Jiro SEKIBA
Cc: Dave Chinner
Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Nick Piggin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Function check_range may return ERR_PTR(...). Check for it.
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov
Acked-by: David Rientjes
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Ying Han reported that backing aging of anon pages in no swap system
causes unnecessary TLB flush.When I sent a patch(69c8548175), I wanted this patch but Rik pointed out
and allowed aging of anon pages to give a chance to promote from inactive
to active LRU.It has a two problem.
1) non-swap system
Never make sense to age anon pages.
2) swap configured but still doesn't swapon
It doesn't make sense to age anon pages until swap-on time. But it's
arguable. If we have aged anon pages by swapon, VM have moved anon pages
from active to inactive. And in the time swapon by admin, the VM can't
reclaim hot pages so we can protect hot pages swapout.But let's think about it. When does swap-on happen? It depends on admin.
we can't expect it. Nonetheless, we have done aging of anon pages to
protect hot pages swapout. It means we lost run time overhead when below
high watermark but gain hot page swap-[in/out] overhead when VM decide
swapout. Is it true? Let's think more detail. We don't promote anon
pages in case of non-swap system. So even though VM does aging of anon
pages, the pages would be in inactive LRU for a long time. It means many
of pages in there would mark access bit again. So access bit hot/code
separation would be pointless.This patch prevents unnecessary anon pages demotion in not-yet-swapon and
non-configured swap system. Even, in non-configuared swap system
inactive_anon_is_low can be compiled out.It could make side effect that hot anon pages could swap out when admin
does swap on. But I think sooner or later it would be steady state. So
it's not a big problem.We could lose someting but gain more thing(TLB flush and unnecessary
function call to demote anon pages).Signed-off-by: Ying Han
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Now, sysfs interface of memory hotplug shows whether the section is
removable or not. But it checks only migrateype of pages and doesn't
check details of cluster of pages.Next, memory hotplug's set_migratetype_isolate() has the same kind of
check, too.This patch adds the function __count_unmovable_pages() and makes above 2
checks to use the same logic. Then, is_removable and hotremove code uses
the same logic. No changes in the hotremove logic itself.TODO: need to find a way to check RECLAMABLE. But, considering bit,
calling shrink_slab() against a range before starting memory hotremove
sounds better. If so, this patch's logic doesn't need to be changed.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Reported-by: Michal Hocko
Cc: Wu Fengguang
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Even if notifier cannot find any pages, it doesn't mean no pages are
available...And, if there are no notifiers registered, this condition will
be always true and memory hotplug will show -EBUSY.This is a bug but not critical.
In most case, a pageblock which will be offlined is MIGRATE_MOVABLE This
"notifier" is called only when the pageblock is _not_ MIGRATE_MOVABLE.
But if not MIGRATE_MOVABLE, it's common case that memory hotplug will
fail. So, no one notice this bug.Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Wu Fengguang
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Presently update_nr_listpages() doesn't have a role. That's because lists
passed is always empty just after calling migrate_pages. The
migrate_pages cleans up page list which have failed to migrate before
returning by aaa994b3.[PATCH] page migration: handle freeing of pages in migrate_pages()
Do not leave pages on the lists passed to migrate_pages(). Seems that we will
not need any postprocessing of pages. This will simplify the handling of
pages by the callers of migrate_pages().At that time, we thought we don't need any postprocessing of pages. But
the situation is changed. The compaction need to know the number of
failed to migrate for COMPACTPAGEFAILED statThis patch makes new rule for caller of migrate_pages to call
putback_lru_pages. So caller need to clean up the lists so it has a
chance to postprocess the pages. [suggested by Christoph Lameter]Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Andi Kleen
Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Non-NUMA systems do never create these files anyway, since they are only
created by driver subsystem when NUMA is configured.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The presently-unused macro was missing one parameter.
Signed-off-by: zeal
Acked-by: Mel Gorman
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This removes more dead code that was somehow missed by commit 0d99519efef
(writeback: remove unused nonblocking and congestion checks). There are
no behavior change except for the removal of two entries from one of the
ext4 tracing interface.The nonblocking checks in ->writepages are no longer used because the
flusher now prefer to block on get_request_wait() than to skip inodes on
IO congestion. The latter will lead to more seeky IO.The nonblocking checks in ->writepage are no longer used because it's
redundant with the WB_SYNC_NONE check.We no long set ->nonblocking in VM page out and page migration, because
a) it's effectively redundant with WB_SYNC_NONE in current code
b) it's old semantic of "Don't get stuck on request queues" is mis-behavior:
that would skip some dirty inodes on congestion and page out others, which
is unfair in terms of LRU age.Inspired by Christoph Hellwig. Thanks!
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang
Cc: Theodore Ts'o
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Sage Weil
Cc: Steve French
Cc: Chris Mason
Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The locking order in oom_adjust_write() and oom_score_adj_write() for
task->alloc_lock and task->sighand->siglock is reversed, and lockdep
notices that irqs could encounter an ABBA scenario.This fixes the locking order so that we always take task_lock(task) prior
to lock_task_sighand(task).Signed-off-by: David Rientjes
Reported-by: Andrew Morton
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Rik van Riel
Cc: Ying Han
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
It's better to use proper error handling in oom_adjust_write() and
oom_score_adj_write() instead of duplicating the locking order on various
exit paths.Suggested-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Rik van Riel
Cc: Ying Han
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
It's necessary to kill all threads that share an oom killed task's mm if
the goal is to lead to future memory freeing.This patch reintroduces the code removed in 8c5cd6f3 (oom: oom_kill
doesn't kill vfork parent (or child)) since it is obsoleted.It's now guaranteed that any task passed to oom_kill_task() does not share
an mm with any thread that is unkillable. Thus, we're safe to issue a
SIGKILL to any thread sharing the same mm.This is especially necessary to solve an mm->mmap_sem livelock issue
whereas an oom killed thread must acquire the lock in the exit path while
another thread is holding it in the page allocator while trying to
allocate memory itself (and will preempt the oom killer since a task was
already killed). Since tasks with pending fatal signals are now granted
access to memory reserves, the thread holding the lock may quickly
allocate and release the lock so that the oom killed task may exit.This mainly is for threads that are cloned with CLONE_VM but not
CLONE_THREAD, so they are in a different thread group. Non-NPTL threads
exist in the wild and this change is necessary to prevent the livelock in
such cases. We care more about preventing the livelock than incurring the
additional tasklist in the oom killer when a task has been killed.
Systems that are sufficiently large to not want the tasklist scan in the
oom killer in the first place already have the option of enabling
/proc/sys/vm/oom_kill_allocating_task, which was designed specifically for
that purpose.This code had existed in the oom killer for over eight years dating back
to the 2.4 kernel.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add nice comment]
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Rik van Riel
Cc: Ying Han
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The oom killer's goal is to kill a memory-hogging task so that it may
exit, free its memory, and allow the current context to allocate the
memory that triggered it in the first place. Thus, killing a task is
pointless if other threads sharing its mm cannot be killed because of its
/proc/pid/oom_adj or /proc/pid/oom_score_adj value.This patch checks whether any other thread sharing p->mm has an
oom_score_adj of OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN. If so, the thread cannot be killed
and oom_badness(p) returns 0, meaning it's unkillable.Signed-off-by: David Rientjes
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Rik van Riel
Cc: Ying Han
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
It's pointless to kill a task if another thread sharing its mm cannot be
killed to allow future memory freeing. A subsequent patch will prevent
kills in such cases, but first it's necessary to have a way to flag a task
that shares memory with an OOM_DISABLE task that doesn't incur an
additional tasklist scan, which would make select_bad_process() an O(n^2)
function.This patch adds an atomic counter to struct mm_struct that follows how
many threads attached to it have an oom_score_adj of OOM_SCORE_ADJ_MIN.
They cannot be killed by the kernel, so their memory cannot be freed in
oom conditions.This only requires task_lock() on the task that we're operating on, it
does not require mm->mmap_sem since task_lock() pins the mm and the
operation is atomic.[rientjes@google.com: changelog and sys_unshare() code]
[rientjes@google.com: protect oom_disable_count with task_lock in fork]
[rientjes@google.com: use old_mm for oom_disable_count in exec]
Signed-off-by: Ying Han
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Rik van Riel
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall
Cc: Nikanth Karthikesan
Cc: Balbir Singh
Cc: Wu Fengguang
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
We use vmcore in our production kernel for a long time, it is pretty
stable now. So I don't think we need to mark it as experimental any more.Signed-off-by: WANG Cong
Acked-by: Neil Horman
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Commit df9ee292 ("Fix IRQ flag handling naming") changed the IRQ flag
handling naming scheme and broke UML:In file included from arch/um/include/asm/fixmap.h:5,
from arch/um/include/shared/um_uaccess.h:10,
from arch/um/include/asm/uaccess.h:41,
from arch/um/include/asm/thread_info.h:13,
from include/linux/thread_info.h:56,
from include/linux/preempt.h:9,
from include/linux/spinlock.h:50,
from include/linux/seqlock.h:29,
from include/linux/time.h:8,
from include/linux/stat.h:60,
from include/linux/module.h:10,
from init/main.c:13:
arch/um/include/asm/system.h:11:1: warning: "local_save_flags" redefinedThis patch brings the new scheme to UML and makes it work again.
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger
Acked-by: David Howells
Cc: Jeff Dike
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
WARNING: at lib/list_debug.c:26 __list_add+0x3f/0x81()
Hardware name: Express5800/B120a [N8400-085]
list_add corruption. next->prev should be prev (ffffffff81a7ea00), but was dead000000200200. (next=ffff88080b872d58).
Modules linked in: aoe ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat nf_nat autofs4 sunrpc bridge 8021q garp stp llc ipv6 cpufreq_ondemand acpi_cpufreq freq_table dm_round_robin dm_multipath kvm_intel kvm uinput lpfc scsi_transport_fc igb ioatdma scsi_tgt i2c_i801 i2c_core dca iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support pcspkr shpchp megaraid_sas [last unloaded: aoe]
Pid: 54, comm: events/3 Tainted: G W 2.6.34-vanilla1 #1
Call Trace:
[] warn_slowpath_common+0x7c/0x94
[] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x41/0x43
[] __list_add+0x3f/0x81
[] __percpu_counter_init+0x59/0x6b
[] bdi_init+0x118/0x17e
[] blk_alloc_queue_node+0x79/0x143
[] blk_alloc_queue+0x11/0x13
[] aoeblk_gdalloc+0x8e/0x1c9 [aoe]
[] aoecmd_sleepwork+0x25/0xa8 [aoe]
[] worker_thread+0x1a9/0x237
[] ? aoecmd_sleepwork+0x0/0xa8 [aoe]
[] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x39
[] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x237
[] kthread+0x7f/0x87
[] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[] ? kthread+0x0/0x87
[] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10It's because there is no initialization code for a list_head contained in
the struct backing_dev_info under CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU, and the bug comes up
when block device drivers calling blk_alloc_queue() are used. In case of
me, I got them by using aoe.Signed-off-by: Masanori Itoh
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This helper is wrong: it coerces signed values into unsigned ones, so code
such asif (kfifo_alloc(...) < 0) {
error
}will fail to detect the error.
So let's disable __kfifo_must_check_helper() for 2.6.36.
Cc: Randy Dunlap
Cc: Stefani Seibold
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
365b1818 ("add f_flags to struct statfs(64)") resized f_spare within
struct statfs which caused a UML crash. There is no need to copy f_spare.Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger
Reported-by: Toralf Förster
Tested-by: Toralf Förster
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Al Viro
Cc: Jeff Dike
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Unloading ipmi module can trigger following error. (if
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y)[ 9633.779590] BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#1, rmmod/7170
[ 9633.779606] lock: f41f5414, .magic: 00000000, .owner:
/-1, .owner_cpu: 0
[ 9633.779626] Pid: 7170, comm: rmmod Not tainted
2.6.36-rc7-11474-gb71eb1e-dirty #328
[ 9633.779644] Call Trace:
[ 9633.779657] [] ? printk+0x18/0x1c
[ 9633.779672] [] spin_bug+0xa3/0xf0
[ 9633.779685] [] do_raw_spin_lock+0x7d/0x160
[ 9633.779702] [] ? release_sysfs_dirent+0x47/0xb0
[ 9633.779718] [] ? sysfs_addrm_finish+0xa8/0xd0
[ 9633.779734] [] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0xc/0x20
[ 9633.779752] [] cleanup_one_si+0x6a/0x200 [ipmi_si]
[ 9633.779768] [] ? sysfs_hash_and_remove+0x72/0x80
[ 9633.779786] [] ipmi_pnp_remove+0xd/0xf [ipmi_si]
[ 9633.779802] [] pnp_device_remove+0x1b/0x40Fix this by initializing spinlocks in a smi_info_alloc() helper function,
right after memory allocation and clearing.Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet
Acked-by: David Miller
Cc: Yinghai Lu
Acked-by: Corey Minyard
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This is a bug fix. Some SPI connected devices using 16/24 bit accesses,
previously failed, now work.This typo slipped in after testing, during some restructuring.
Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich
Cc: Mike Frysinger
Cc: Chris Verges
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The linker script cleanup that I did in commit 5d150a97f93 ("um: Clean up
linker script using standard macros.") (2.6.32) accidentally introduced an
ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE) when converting to use INIT_TEXT_SECTION; Richard
Weinberger reported that this causes the kernel to segfault with
CONFIG_STATIC_LINK=y.I'm not certain why this extra alignment is a problem, but it seems likely
it is because previously__init_begin = _stext = _text = _sinittext
and with the extra ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE), _sinittext becomes different from the
rest. So there is likely a bug here where something is assuming that
_sinittext is the same as one of those other symbols. But reverting the
accidental change fixes the regression, so it seems worth committing that
now.Signed-off-by: Tim Abbott
Reported-by: Richard Weinberger
Cc: Jeff Dike
Tested by: Antoine Martin
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
…structures have been torn down
Under some workloads, some channel messages have been observed being
delayed on the sending side past the point where the receiving side has
been able to tear down its partition structures.This condition is already detected in xpc_handle_activate_IRQ_uv(), but
that information is not given to xpc_handle_activate_mq_msg_uv(). As a
result, xpc_handle_activate_mq_msg_uv() assumes the structures still exist
and references them, causing a NULL-pointer deref.Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> -
This fixes a issue which was introduced by fe2cc53e ("uml: track and make
up lost ticks").timeval_to_ns() returns long long and not int. Due to that UML's timer
did not work properlt and caused timer freezes.Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg
Cc: Jeff Dike
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
