10 May, 2011
2 commits
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Commit a626ca6a6564 ("vm: fix vm_pgoff wrap in stack expansion") fixed
the case of an expanding mapping causing vm_pgoff wrapping when you had
downward stack expansion. But there was another case where IA64 and
PA-RISC expand mappings: upward expansion.This fixes that case too.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Linux kernel excludes guard page when performing mlock on a VMA with
down-growing stack. However, some architectures have up-growing stack
and locking the guard page should be excluded in this case too.This patch fixes lvm2 on PA-RISC (and possibly other architectures with
up-growing stack). lvm2 calculates number of used pages when locking and
when unlocking and reports an internal error if the numbers mismatch.[ Patch changed fairly extensively to also fix /proc//maps for the
grows-up case, and to move things around a bit to clean it all up and
share the infrstructure with the /proc bits.Tested on ia64 that has both grow-up and grow-down segments - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka
Tested-by: Tony Luck
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
05 May, 2011
2 commits
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The logic in __get_user_pages() used to skip the stack guard page lookup
whenever the caller wasn't interested in seeing what the actual page
was. But Michel Lespinasse points out that there are cases where we
don't care about the physical page itself (so 'pages' may be NULL), but
do want to make sure a page is mapped into the virtual address space.So using the existence of the "pages" array as an indication of whether
to look up the guard page or not isn't actually so great, and we really
should just use the FOLL_MLOCK bit. But because that bit was only set
for the VM_LOCKED case (and not all vma's necessarily have it, even for
mlock()), we couldn't do that originally.Fix that by moving the VM_LOCKED check deeper into the call-chain, which
actually simplifies many things. Now mlock() gets simpler, and we can
also check for FOLL_MLOCK in __get_user_pages() and the code ends up
much more straightforward.Reported-and-reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The SLUB allocator use of the cmpxchg_double logic was wrong: it
actually needs the irq-safe one.That happens automatically when we use the native unlocked 'cmpxchg8b'
instruction, but when compiling the kernel for older x86 CPUs that do
not support that instruction, we fall back to the generic emulation
code.And if you don't specify that you want the irq-safe version, the generic
code ends up just open-coding the cmpxchg8b equivalent without any
protection against interrupts or preemption. Which definitely doesn't
work for SLUB.This was reported by Werner Landgraf , who saw
instability with his distro-kernel that was compiled to support pretty
much everything under the sun. Most big Linux distributions tend to
compile for PPro and later, and would never have noticed this problem.This also fixes the prototypes for the irqsafe cmpxchg_double functions
to use 'bool' like they should.[ Btw, that whole "generic code defaults to no protection" design just
sounds stupid - if the code needs no protection, there is no reason to
use "cmpxchg_double" to begin with. So we should probably just remove
the unprotected version entirely as pointless. - Linus ]Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Reported-and-tested-by: werner
Acked-and-tested-by: Ingo Molnar
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc: Tejun Heo
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1105041539050.3005@ionos
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
29 Apr, 2011
3 commits
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With transparent hugepage support, handle_mm_fault() has to be careful
that a normal PMD has been established before handling a PTE fault. To
achieve this, it used __pte_alloc() directly instead of pte_alloc_map as
pte_alloc_map is unsafe to run against a huge PMD. pte_offset_map() is
called once it is known the PMD is safe.pte_alloc_map() is smart enough to check if a PTE is already present
before calling __pte_alloc but this check was lost. As a consequence,
PTEs may be allocated unnecessarily and the page table lock taken. Thi
useless PTE does get cleaned up but it's a performance hit which is
visible in page_test from aim9.This patch simply re-adds the check normally done by pte_alloc_map to
check if the PTE needs to be allocated before taking the page table lock.
The effect is noticable in page_test from aim9.AIM9
2.6.38-vanilla 2.6.38-checkptenone
creat-clo 446.10 ( 0.00%) 424.47 (-5.10%)
page_test 38.10 ( 0.00%) 42.04 ( 9.37%)
brk_test 52.45 ( 0.00%) 51.57 (-1.71%)
exec_test 382.00 ( 0.00%) 456.90 (16.39%)
fork_test 60.11 ( 0.00%) 67.79 (11.34%)
MMTests Statistics: duration
Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 611.90 612.22(While this affects 2.6.38, it is a performance rather than a functional
bug and normally outside the rules -stable. While the big performance
differences are to a microbench, the difference in fork and exec
performance may be significant enough that -stable wants to consider the
patch)Reported-by: Raz Ben Yehuda
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner
Cc: [2.6.38.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
PTE pages eat up memory just like anything else, but we do not account for
them in any way in the OOM scores. They are also _guaranteed_ to get
freed up when a process is OOM killed, while RSS is not.Reported-by: Dave Hansen
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Acked-by: David Rientjes
Cc: [2.6.36+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The huge_memory.c THP page fault was allowed to run if vm_ops was null
(which would succeed for /dev/zero MAP_PRIVATE, as the f_op->mmap wouldn't
setup a special vma->vm_ops and it would fallback to regular anonymous
memory) but other THP logics weren't fully activated for vmas with vm_file
not NULL (/dev/zero has a not NULL vma->vm_file).So this removes the vm_file checks so that /dev/zero also can safely use
THP (the other albeit safer approach to fix this bug would have been to
prevent the THP initial page fault to run if vm_file was set).After removing the vm_file checks, this also makes huge_memory.c stricter
in khugepaged for the DEBUG_VM=y case. It doesn't replace the vm_file
check with a is_pfn_mapping check (but it keeps checking for VM_PFNMAP
under VM_BUG_ON) because for a is_cow_mapping() mapping VM_PFNMAP should
only be allowed to exist before the first page fault, and in turn when
vma->anon_vma is null (so preventing khugepaged registration). So I tend
to think the previous comment saying if vm_file was set, VM_PFNMAP might
have been set and we could still be registered in khugepaged (despite
anon_vma was not NULL to be registered in khugepaged) was too paranoid.
The is_linear_pfn_mapping check is also I think superfluous (as described
by comment) but under DEBUG_VM it is safe to stay.Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33682
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli
Reported-by: Caspar Zhang
Acked-by: Mel Gorman
Acked-by: Rik van Riel
Cc: [2.6.38.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
15 Apr, 2011
10 commits
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The conventional format for boolean attributes in sysfs is numeric ("0" or
"1" followed by new-line). Any boolean attribute can then be read and
written using a generic function. Using the strings "yes [no]", "[yes]
no" (read), "yes" and "no" (write) will frustrate this.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use kstrtoul()]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: test_bit() doesn't return 1/0, per Neil]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Rik van Riel
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Tested-by: David Rientjes
Cc: NeilBrown
Cc: [2.6.38.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This is an almost-revert of commit 93b43fa ("oom: give the dying task a
higher priority").That commit dramatically improved oom killer logic when a fork-bomb
occurs. But I've found that it has nasty corner case. Now cpu cgroup has
strange default RT runtime. It's 0! That said, if a process under cpu
cgroup promote RT scheduling class, the process never run at all.If an admin inserts a !RT process into a cpu cgroup by setting
rtruntime=0, usually it runs perfectly because a !RT task isn't affected
by the rtruntime knob. But if it promotes an RT task via an explicit
setscheduler() syscall or an OOM, the task can't run at all. In short,
the oom killer doesn't work at all if admins are using cpu cgroup and don't
touch the rtruntime knob.Eventually, kernel may hang up when oom kill occur. I and the original
author Luis agreed to disable this logic.Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
Acked-by: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim
Acked-by: David Rientjes
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
all_unreclaimable check in direct reclaim has been introduced at 2.6.19
by following commit.2006 Sep 25; commit 408d8544; oom: use unreclaimable info
And it went through strange history. firstly, following commit broke
the logic unintentionally.2008 Apr 29; commit a41f24ea; page allocator: smarter retry of
costly-order allocationsTwo years later, I've found obvious meaningless code fragment and
restored original intention by following commit.2010 Jun 04; commit bb21c7ce; vmscan: fix do_try_to_free_pages()
return value when priority==0But, the logic didn't works when 32bit highmem system goes hibernation
and Minchan slightly changed the algorithm and fixed it .2010 Sep 22: commit d1908362: vmscan: check all_unreclaimable
in direct reclaim pathBut, recently, Andrey Vagin found the new corner case. Look,
struct zone {
..
int all_unreclaimable;
..
unsigned long pages_scanned;
..
}zone->all_unreclaimable and zone->pages_scanned are neigher atomic
variables nor protected by lock. Therefore zones can become a state of
zone->page_scanned=0 and zone->all_unreclaimable=1. In this case, current
all_unreclaimable() return false even though zone->all_unreclaimabe=1.This resulted in the kernel hanging up when executing a loop of the form
1. fork
2. mmap
3. touch memory
4. read memory
5. munmmapas described in
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1348725#1348725Is this ignorable minor issue? No. Unfortunately, x86 has very small dma
zone and it become zone->all_unreclamble=1 easily. and if it become
all_unreclaimable=1, it never restore all_unreclaimable=0. Why? if
all_unreclaimable=1, vmscan only try DEF_PRIORITY reclaim and
a-few-lru-pages>>DEF_PRIORITY always makes 0. that mean no page scan at
all!Eventually, oom-killer never works on such systems. That said, we can't
use zone->pages_scanned for this purpose. This patch restore
all_unreclaimable() use zone->all_unreclaimable as old. and in addition,
to add oom_killer_disabled check to avoid reintroduce the issue of commit
d1908362 ("vmscan: check all_unreclaimable in direct reclaim path").Reported-by: Andrey Vagin
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Nick Piggin
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Acked-by: David Rientjes
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
In __access_remote_vm() we need to check that we have found the right
vma, not the following vma before we try to access it. Otherwise we
might call the vma's access routine with an address which does not fall
inside the vma.It was discovered on a current kernel but with an unreleased driver,
from memory it was strace leading to a kernel bad access, but it
obviously depends on what the access implementation does.Looking at other access implementations I only see:
$ git grep -A 5 vm_operations|grep access
arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c- .access = spufs_mem_mmap_access,
arch/x86/pci/i386.c- .access = generic_access_phys,
drivers/char/mem.c- .access = generic_access_phys
fs/sysfs/bin.c- .access = bin_access,The spufs one looks like it might behave badly given the wrong vma, it
assumes vma->vm_file->private_data is a spu_context, and looks like it
would probably blow up pretty quickly if it wasn't.generic_access_phys() only uses the vma to check vm_flags and get the
mm, and then walks page tables using the address. So it should bail on
the vm_flags check, or at worst let you access some other VM_IO mapping.And bin_access() just proxies to another access implementation.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
5520e89 ("brk: fix min_brk lower bound computation for COMPAT_BRK")
tried to get the whole logic of brk randomization for legacy
(libc5-based) applications finally right.It turns out that the way to detect whether brk has actually been
randomized in the end or not introduced by that patch still doesn't work
for those binaries, as reported by Geert:: /sbin/init from my old m68k ramdisk exists prematurely.
:
: Before the patch:
:
: | brk(0x80005c8e) = 0x80006000
:
: After the patch:
:
: | brk(0x80005c8e) = 0x80005c8e
:
: Old libc5 considers brk() to have failed if the return value is not
: identical to the requested value.I don't like it, but currently see no better option than a bit flag in
task_struct to catch the CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK && randomize_va_space == 2
case.Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
If you fill up a tmpfs, df was showing
tmpfs 460800 - - - /tmp
because of an off-by-one in the max_blocks checks. Fix it so df shows
tmpfs 460800 460800 0 100% /tmp
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Tim Chen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
I found it difficult to make sense of transparent huge pages without
having any counters for its actions. Add some counters to vmstat for
allocation of transparent hugepages and fallback to smaller pages.Optional patch, but useful for development and understanding the system.
Contains improvements from Andrea Arcangeli and Johannes Weiner
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[hannes@cmpxchg.org: fix vmstat_text[] entries]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The memory hotplug case involves calling to build_all_zonelists() which
in turns calls in to setup_zone_pageset(). The latter is marked
__meminit while build_all_zonelists() itself has no particular
annotation. build_all_zonelists() is only handed a non-NULL pointer in
the case of memory hotplug through an existing __meminit path, so the
setup_zone_pageset() reference is always safe.The options as such are either to flag build_all_zonelists() as __ref (as
per __build_all_zonelists()), or to simply discard the __meminit
annotation from setup_zone_pageset().Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt
Acked-by: Mel Gorman
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
If CONFIG_FLATMEM is enabled pfn is calculated in online_page() more than
once. It is possible to optimize that and use value established at
beginning of that function.Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper
Acked-by: Dave Hansen
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: Wu Fengguang
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Acked-by: David Rientjes
Reviewed-by: Jesper Juhl
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
13 Apr, 2011
2 commits
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Commit 982134ba6261 ("mm: avoid wrapping vm_pgoff in mremap()") fixed
the case of a expanding mapping causing vm_pgoff wrapping when you used
mremap. But there was another case where we expand mappings hiding in
plain sight: the automatic stack expansion.This fixes that case too.
This one also found by Robert Święcki, using his nasty system call
fuzzer tool. Good job.Reported-and-tested-by: Robert Święcki
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Commit 53a7706d5ed8 ("mlock: do not hold mmap_sem for extended periods
of time") changed mlock() to care about the exact number of pages that
__get_user_pages() had brought it. Before, it would only care about
errors.And that doesn't work, because we also handled one page specially in
__mlock_vma_pages_range(), namely the stack guard page. So when that
case was handled, the number of pages that the function returned was off
by one. In particular, it could be zero, and then the caller would end
up not making any progress at all.Rather than try to fix up that off-by-one error for the mlock case
specially, this just moves the logic to handle the stack guard page
into__get_user_pages() itself, thus making all the counts come out
right automatically.Reported-by: Robert Święcki
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
08 Apr, 2011
1 commit
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* 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6:
Fix common misspellings
07 Apr, 2011
1 commit
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The normal mmap paths all avoid creating a mapping where the pgoff
inside the mapping could wrap around due to overflow. However, an
expanding mremap() can take such a non-wrapping mapping and make it
bigger and cause a wrapping condition.Noticed by Robert Swiecki when running a system call fuzzer, where it
caused a BUG_ON() due to terminally confusing the vma_prio_tree code. A
vma dumping patch by Hugh then pinpointed the crazy wrapped case.Reported-and-tested-by: Robert Swiecki
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
31 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi
30 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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* 'frv' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-frv:
FRV: Use generic show_interrupts()
FRV: Convert genirq namespace
frv: Select GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO_DEPRECATED
frv: Convert cpu irq_chip to new functions
frv: Convert mb93493 irq_chip to new functions
frv: Convert mb93093 irq_chip to new function
frv: Convert mb93091 irq_chip to new functions
frv: Fix typo from __do_IRQ overhaul
frv: Remove stale irq_chip.end
FRV: Do some cleanups
FRV: Missing node arg in alloc_thread_info_node() macro
NOMMU: implement access_remote_vm
NOMMU: support SMP dynamic percpu_alloc
NOMMU: percpu should use is_vmalloc_addr().
29 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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Recent vm changes brought in a new function which the core procfs code
utilizes. So implement it for nommu systems too to avoid link failures.Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Tested-by: Simon Horman
Tested-by: Ithamar Adema
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer
28 Mar, 2011
2 commits
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per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() uses VMALLOC_START and VMALLOC_END to determine if an
address is in the vmalloc() region or not. This is incorrect on NOMMU as
there is no real vmalloc() capability (vmalloc() is emulated by kmalloc()).The correct way to do this is to use is_vmalloc_addr(). This encapsulates the
vmalloc() region test in MMU mode and just returns 0 in NOMMU mode.On FRV in NOMMU mode, the percpu compilation fails without this patch:
mm/percpu.c: In function 'per_cpu_ptr_to_phys':
mm/percpu.c:1011: error: 'VMALLOC_START' undeclared (first use in this function)
mm/percpu.c:1011: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
mm/percpu.c:1011: error: for each function it appears in.)
mm/percpu.c:1012: error: 'VMALLOC_END' undeclared (first use in this function)
mm/percpu.c:1018: warning: control reaches end of non-void functionSigned-off-by: David Howells
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Fix mm/memory.c incorrect kernel-doc function notation:
Warning(mm/memory.c:3718): Cannot understand * @access_remote_vm - access another process' address space
on line 3718 - I thought it was a doc lineSigned-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
25 Mar, 2011
8 commits
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
fs: simplify iget & friends
fs: pull inode->i_lock up out of writeback_single_inode
fs: rename inode_lock to inode_hash_lock
fs: move i_wb_list out from under inode_lock
fs: move i_sb_list out from under inode_lock
fs: remove inode_lock from iput_final and prune_icache
fs: Lock the inode LRU list separately
fs: factor inode disposal
fs: protect inode->i_state with inode->i_lock
autofs4: Do not potentially dereference NULL pointer returned by fget() in autofs_dev_ioctl_setpipefd()
autofs4 - remove autofs4_lock
autofs4 - fix d_manage() return on rcu-walk
autofs4 - fix autofs4_expire_indirect() traversal
autofs4 - fix dentry leak in autofs4_expire_direct()
autofs4 - reinstate last used update on access
vfs - check non-mountpoint dentry might block in __follow_mount_rcu() -
Protect the inode writeback list with a new global lock
inode_wb_list_lock and use it to protect the list manipulations and
traversals. This lock replaces the inode_lock as the inodes on the
list can be validity checked while holding the inode->i_lock and
hence the inode_lock is no longer needed to protect the list.Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner
Signed-off-by: Al Viro -
Protect inode state transitions and validity checks with the
inode->i_lock. This enables us to make inode state transitions
independently of the inode_lock and is the first step to peeling
away the inode_lock from the code.This requires that __iget() is done atomically with i_state checks
during list traversals so that we don't race with another thread
marking the inode I_FREEING between the state check and grabbing the
reference.Also remove the unlock_new_inode() memory barrier optimisation
required to avoid taking the inode_lock when clearing I_NEW.
Simplify the code by simply taking the inode->i_lock around the
state change and wakeup. Because the wakeup is no longer tricky,
remove the wake_up_inode() function and open code the wakeup where
necessary.Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner
Signed-off-by: Al Viro -
* 'slab/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6:
SLUB: Write to per cpu data when allocating it
slub: Fix debugobjects with lockless fastpath -
Commit ddd588b5dd55 ("oom: suppress nodes that are not allowed from
meminfo on oom kill") moved lib/show_mem.o out of lib/lib.a, which
resulted in build warnings on all architectures that implement their own
versions of show_mem():lib/lib.a(show_mem.o): In function `show_mem':
show_mem.c:(.text+0x1f4): multiple definition of `show_mem'
arch/sparc/mm/built-in.o:(.text+0xd70): first defined hereThe fix is to remove __show_mem() and add its argument to show_mem() in
all implementations to prevent this breakage.Architectures that implement their own show_mem() actually don't do
anything with the argument yet, but they could be made to filter nodes
that aren't allowed in the current context in the future just like the
generic implementation.Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell
Reported-by: James Bottomley
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
It turns out that the cmpxchg16b emulation has to access vmalloced
percpu memory with interrupts disabled. If the memory has never
been touched before then the fault necessary to establish the
mapping will not to occur and the kernel will fail on boot.Fix that by reusing the CONFIG_PREEMPT code that writes the
cpu number into a field on every cpu. Writing to the per cpu
area before causes the mapping to be established before we get
to a cmpxchg16b emulation.Tested-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg -
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> RIP: 0010:[] [] get_next_timer_interrupt+0x119/0x260That's a typical timer crash, but you were unable to debug it with
debugobjects because commit d3f661d6 broke those.Cc: Christoph Lameter
Tested-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg -
* 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (65 commits)
Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc.
cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking
cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt.
blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed
blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug
cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt
block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures
block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush
block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get()
cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree
fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away
block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool
jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
jbd: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging
fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug
mm: make generic_writepages() use plugging
blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used.
block: fixup plugging stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK
block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout.
blktrace: Use rq->cmd_flags directly in blk_add_trace_rq.
...Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}
24 Mar, 2011
6 commits
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
deal with races in /proc/*/{syscall,stack,personality}
proc: enable writing to /proc/pid/mem
proc: make check_mem_permission() return an mm_struct on success
proc: hold cred_guard_mutex in check_mem_permission()
proc: disable mem_write after exec
mm: implement access_remote_vm
mm: factor out main logic of access_process_vm
mm: use mm_struct to resolve gate vma's in __get_user_pages
mm: arch: rename in_gate_area_no_task to in_gate_area_no_mm
mm: arch: make in_gate_area take an mm_struct instead of a task_struct
mm: arch: make get_gate_vma take an mm_struct instead of a task_struct
x86: mark associated mm when running a task in 32 bit compatibility mode
x86: add context tag to mark mm when running a task in 32-bit compatibility mode
auxv: require the target to be tracable (or yourself)
close race in /proc/*/environ
report errors in /proc/*/*map* sanely
pagemap: close races with suid execve
make sessionid permissions in /proc/*/task/* match those in /proc/*
fix leaks in path_lookupat()Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/proc/base.c
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…p_elfcorehdr and saved_max_pfn
The Xen PV drivers in a crashed HVM guest can not connect to the dom0
backend drivers because both frontend and backend drivers are still in
connected state. To run the connection reset function only in case of a
crashdump, the is_kdump_kernel() function needs to be available for the PV
driver modules.Consolidate elfcorehdr_addr, setup_elfcorehdr and saved_max_pfn into
kernel/crash_dump.c Also export elfcorehdr_addr to make is_kdump_kernel()
usable for modules.Leave 'elfcorehdr' as early_param(). This changes powerpc from __setup()
to early_param(). It adds an address range check from x86 also on ia64
and powerpc.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: additional #includes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove elfcorehdr_addr export]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix for Tejun's mm/nobootmem.c changes]
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> -
When a memcg is oom and current has already received a SIGKILL, then give
it access to memory reserves with a higher scheduling priority so that it
may quickly exit and free its memory.This is identical to the global oom killer and is done even before
checking for panic_on_oom: a pending SIGKILL here while panic_on_oom is
selected is guaranteed to have come from userspace; the thread only needs
access to memory reserves to exit and thus we don't unnecessarily panic
the machine until the kernel has no last resort to free memory.Signed-off-by: David Rientjes
Cc: Balbir Singh
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
fs/fuse/dev.c::fuse_try_move_page() does
(1) remove a page by ->steal()
(2) re-add the page to page cache
(3) link the page to LRU if it was not on LRU at (1)This implies the page is _on_ LRU when it's added to radix-tree. So, the
page is added to memory cgroup while it's on LRU. because LRU is lazy and
no one flushs it.This is the same behavior as SwapCache and needs special care as
- remove page from LRU before overwrite pc->mem_cgroup.
- add page to LRU after overwrite pc->mem_cgroup.And we need to taking care of pagevec.
If PageLRU(page) is set before we add PCG_USED bit, the page will not be
added to memcg's LRU (in short period). So, regardlress of PageLRU(page)
value before commit_charge(), we need to check PageLRU(page) after
commit_charge().Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30432
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner
Acked-by: Daisuke Nishimura
Cc: Miklos Szeredi
Cc: Balbir Singh
Reported-by: Daniel Poelzleithner
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki noted that free_pages_cgroup doesn't have to check for
PageReserved because we never store the array on reserved pages (neither
alloc_pages_exact nor vmalloc use those pages).So we can replace the check by a BUG_ON.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: Balbir Singh
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Currently we are allocating a single page_cgroup array per memory section
(stored in mem_section->base) when CONFIG_SPARSEMEM is selected. This is
correct but memory inefficient solution because the allocated memory
(unless we fall back to vmalloc) is not kmalloc friendly:- 32b - 16384 entries (20B per entry) fit into 327680B so the
524288B slab cache is used
- 32b with PAE - 131072 entries with 2621440B fit into 4194304B
- 64b - 32768 entries (40B per entry) fit into 2097152 cacheThis is ~37% wasted space per memory section and it sumps up for the whole
memory. On a x86_64 machine it is something like 6MB per 1GB of RAM.We can reduce the internal fragmentation by using alloc_pages_exact which
allocates PAGE_SIZE aligned blocks so we will get down to
Cc: Dave Hansen
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: Balbir Singh
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
