07 Nov, 2015
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Hugh has pointed that compound_head() call can be unsafe in some
context. There's one example:CPU0 CPU1
isolate_migratepages_block()
page_count()
compound_head()
!!PageTail() == true
put_page()
tail->first_page = NULL
head = tail->first_page
alloc_pages(__GFP_COMP)
prep_compound_page()
tail->first_page = head
__SetPageTail(p);
!!PageTail() == true
The race is pure theoretical. I don't it's possible to trigger it in
practice. But who knows.We can fix the race by changing how encode PageTail() and compound_head()
within struct page to be able to update them in one shot.The patch introduces page->compound_head into third double word block in
front of compound_dtor and compound_order. Bit 0 encodes PageTail() and
the rest bits are pointer to head page if bit zero is set.The patch moves page->pmd_huge_pte out of word, just in case if an
architecture defines pgtable_t into something what can have the bit 0
set.hugetlb_cgroup uses page->lru.next in the second tail page to store
pointer struct hugetlb_cgroup. The patch switch it to use page->private
in the second tail page instead. The space is free since ->first_page is
removed from the union.The patch also opens possibility to remove HUGETLB_CGROUP_MIN_ORDER
limitation, since there's now space in first tail page to store struct
hugetlb_cgroup pointer. But that's out of scope of the patch.That means page->compound_head shares storage space with:
- page->lru.next;
- page->next;
- page->rcu_head.next;That's too long list to be absolutely sure, but looks like nobody uses
bit 0 of the word.page->rcu_head.next guaranteed[1] to have bit 0 clean as long as we use
call_rcu(), call_rcu_bh(), call_rcu_sched(), or call_srcu(). But future
call_rcu_lazy() is not allowed as it makes use of the bit and we can
get false positive PageTail().[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20150827163634.GD4029@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Vlastimil Babka
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
06 Nov, 2015
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The cost of faulting in all memory to be locked can be very high when
working with large mappings. If only portions of the mapping will be used
this can incur a high penalty for locking.For the example of a large file, this is the usage pattern for a large
statical language model (probably applies to other statical or graphical
models as well). For the security example, any application transacting in
data that cannot be swapped out (credit card data, medical records, etc).This patch introduces the ability to request that pages are not
pre-faulted, but are placed on the unevictable LRU when they are finally
faulted in. The VM_LOCKONFAULT flag will be used together with VM_LOCKED
and has no effect when set without VM_LOCKED. Setting the VM_LOCKONFAULT
flag for a VMA will cause pages faulted into that VMA to be added to the
unevictable LRU when they are faulted or if they are already present, but
will not cause any missing pages to be faulted in.Exposing this new lock state means that we cannot overload the meaning of
the FOLL_POPULATE flag any longer. Prior to this patch it was used to
mean that the VMA for a fault was locked. This means we need the new
FOLL_MLOCK flag to communicate the locked state of a VMA. FOLL_POPULATE
will now only control if the VMA should be populated and in the case of
VM_LOCKONFAULT, it will not be set.Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Jonathan Corbet
Cc: Catalin Marinas
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
Cc: Guenter Roeck
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Cc: Michael Kerrisk
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Shuah Khan
Cc: Stephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 Sep, 2015
1 commit
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Knowing the portion of memory that is not used by a certain application or
memory cgroup (idle memory) can be useful for partitioning the system
efficiently, e.g. by setting memory cgroup limits appropriately.
Currently, the only means to estimate the amount of idle memory provided
by the kernel is /proc/PID/{clear_refs,smaps}: the user can clear the
access bit for all pages mapped to a particular process by writing 1 to
clear_refs, wait for some time, and then count smaps:Referenced. However,
this method has two serious shortcomings:- it does not count unmapped file pages
- it affects the reclaimer logicTo overcome these drawbacks, this patch introduces two new page flags,
Idle and Young, and a new sysfs file, /sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap.
A page's Idle flag can only be set from userspace by setting bit in
/sys/kernel/mm/page_idle/bitmap at the offset corresponding to the page,
and it is cleared whenever the page is accessed either through page tables
(it is cleared in page_referenced() in this case) or using the read(2)
system call (mark_page_accessed()). Thus by setting the Idle flag for
pages of a particular workload, which can be found e.g. by reading
/proc/PID/pagemap, waiting for some time to let the workload access its
working set, and then reading the bitmap file, one can estimate the amount
of pages that are not used by the workload.The Young page flag is used to avoid interference with the memory
reclaimer. A page's Young flag is set whenever the Access bit of a page
table entry pointing to the page is cleared by writing to the bitmap file.
If page_referenced() is called on a Young page, it will add 1 to its
return value, therefore concealing the fact that the Access bit was
cleared.Note, since there is no room for extra page flags on 32 bit, this feature
uses extended page flags when compiled on 32 bit.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: kpageidle requires an MMU]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: decouple from page-flags rework]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov
Reviewed-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Raghavendra K T
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Greg Thelen
Cc: Michel Lespinasse
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov
Cc: Jonathan Corbet
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
14 May, 2015
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The term "ftrace" is really the infrastructure of the function hooks,
and not the trace events. Rename ftrace_event.h to trace_events.h to
represent the trace_event infrastructure and decouple the term ftrace
from it.Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
12 Feb, 2015
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Dave noticed that unprivileged process can allocate significant amount of
memory -- >500 MiB on x86_64 -- and stay unnoticed by oom-killer and
memory cgroup. The trick is to allocate a lot of PMD page tables. Linux
kernel doesn't account PMD tables to the process, only PTE.The use-cases below use few tricks to allocate a lot of PMD page tables
while keeping VmRSS and VmPTE low. oom_score for the process will be 0.#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include#define PUD_SIZE (1UL << 30)
#define PMD_SIZE (1UL << 21)#define NR_PUD 130000
int main(void)
{
char *addr = NULL;
unsigned long i;prctl(PR_SET_THP_DISABLE);
for (i = 0; i < NR_PUD ; i++) {
addr = mmap(addr + PUD_SIZE, PUD_SIZE, PROT_WRITE|PROT_READ,
MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_PRIVATE, -1, 0);
if (addr == MAP_FAILED) {
perror("mmap");
break;
}
*addr = 'x';
munmap(addr, PMD_SIZE);
mmap(addr, PMD_SIZE, PROT_WRITE|PROT_READ,
MAP_ANONYMOUS|MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, -1, 0);
if (addr == MAP_FAILED)
perror("re-mmap"), exit(1);
}
printf("PID %d consumed %lu KiB in PMD page tables\n",
getpid(), i * 4096 >> 10);
return pause();
}The patch addresses the issue by account PMD tables to the process the
same way we account PTE.The main place where PMD tables is accounted is __pmd_alloc() and
free_pmd_range(). But there're few corner cases:- HugeTLB can share PMD page tables. The patch handles by accounting
the table to all processes who share it.- x86 PAE pre-allocates few PMD tables on fork.
- Architectures with FIRST_USER_ADDRESS > 0. We need to adjust sanity
check on exit(2).Accounting only happens on configuration where PMD page table's level is
present (PMD is not folded). As with nr_ptes we use per-mm counter. The
counter value is used to calculate baseline for badness score by
oom-killer.Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov
Reported-by: Dave Hansen
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov
Cc: David Rientjes
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 Feb, 2015
1 commit
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One bit in ->vm_flags is unused now!
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov
Cc: Dan Carpenter
Cc: Michal Hocko
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 Dec, 2014
1 commit
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Now that the external page_cgroup data structure and its lookup is
gone, let the generic bad_page() check for page->mem_cgroup sanity.Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner
Acked-by: Michal Hocko
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov
Acked-by: David S. Miller
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov"
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
10 Oct, 2014
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- s/KERN_ALERT/pr_emerg/: we're going BUG so let's maximize the changes
of getting the message out.- convert debug.c to pr_foo()
Cc: Sasha Levin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Very similar to VM_BUG_ON_PAGE and VM_BUG_ON_VMA, dump struct_mm when the
bug is hit.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[mhocko@suse.cz: fix build]
[mhocko@suse.cz: fix build some more]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: do strange things to avoid doing strange things for the comma separators]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin
Cc: Dave Jones
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
dump_page() and dump_vma() are not specific to page_alloc.c, move them out
so page_alloc.c won't turn into the unofficial debug repository.Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
