07 Jan, 2012
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
04 Jan, 2012
5 commits
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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vfs_create() ignores everything outside of 16bit subset of its
mode argument; switching it to umode_t is obviously equivalent
and it's the only caller of the methodSigned-off-by: Al Viro
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vfs_mkdir() gets int, but immediately drops everything that might not
fit into umode_t and that's the only caller of ->mkdir()...Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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Seeing that just about every destructor got that INIT_LIST_HEAD() copied into
it, there is no point whatsoever keeping this INIT_LIST_HEAD in inode_init_once();
the cost of taking it into inode_init_always() will be negligible for pipes
and sockets and negative for everything else. Not to mention the removal of
boilerplate code from ->destroy_inode() instances...Signed-off-by: Al Viro
07 Nov, 2011
1 commit
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* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
of_platform.h: delete needless include
acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
device_cgroup.h: delete needless include
net: sch_generic remove redundant use of
net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need
...Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
- drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
- drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
- drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
- include/linux/dmaengine.h
02 Nov, 2011
1 commit
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Replace direct i_nlink updates with the respective updater function
(inc_nlink, drop_nlink, clear_nlink, inode_dec_link_count).Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi
01 Nov, 2011
1 commit
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When a race between putback_lru_page() and shmem_lock with lock=0 happens,
progrom execution order is as follows, but clear_bit in processor #1 could
be reordered right before spin_unlock of processor #1. Then, the page
would be stranded on the unevictable list.spin_lock
SetPageLRU
spin_unlock
clear_bit(AS_UNEVICTABLE)
spin_lock
if PageLRU()
if !test_bit(AS_UNEVICTABLE)
move evictable list
smp_mb
if !test_bit(AS_UNEVICTABLE)
move evictable list
spin_unlockBut, pagevec_lookup() in scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() has
rcu_read_[un]lock() so it could protect reordering before reaching
test_bit(AS_UNEVICTABLE) on processor #1 so this problem never happens.
But it's a unexpected side effect and we should solve this problem
properly.This patch adds a barrier after mapping_clear_unevictable.
I didn't meet this problem but just found during review.
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Rik van Riel
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
31 Oct, 2011
1 commit
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The files changed within are only using the EXPORT_SYMBOL
macro variants. They are not using core modular infrastructure
and hence don't need module.h but only the export.h header.Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker
09 Aug, 2011
1 commit
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Conflicts:
fs/attr.cResolve conflict manually.
Signed-off-by: James Morris
04 Aug, 2011
11 commits
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Make the radix_tree exceptional cases, mostly in filemap.c, clearer.
It's hard to devise a suitable snappy name that illuminates the use by
shmem/tmpfs for swap, while keeping filemap/pagecache/radix_tree
generality. And akpm points out that /* radix_tree_deref_retry(page) */
comments look like calls that have been commented out for unknown
reason.Skirt the naming difficulty by rearranging these blocks to handle the
transient radix_tree_deref_retry(page) case first; then just explain the
remaining shmem/tmpfs swap case in a comment.Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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We have already acknowledged that swapoff of a tmpfs file is slower than
it was before conversion to the generic radix_tree: a little slower
there will be acceptable, if the hotter paths are faster.But it was a shock to find swapoff of a 500MB file 20 times slower on my
laptop, taking 10 minutes; and at that rate it significantly slows down
my testing.Now, most of that turned out to be overhead from PROVE_LOCKING and
PROVE_RCU: without those it was only 4 times slower than before; and
more realistic tests on other machines don't fare as badly.I've tried a number of things to improve it, including tagging the swap
entries, then doing lookup by tag: I'd expected that to halve the time,
but in practice it's erratic, and often counter-productive.The only change I've so far found to make a consistent improvement, is
to short-circuit the way we go back and forth, gang lookup packing
entries into the array supplied, then shmem scanning that array for the
target entry. Scanning in place doubles the speed, so it's now only
twice as slow as before (or three times slower when the PROVEs are on).So, add radix_tree_locate_item() as an expedient, once-off,
single-caller hack to do the lookup directly in place. #ifdef it on
CONFIG_SHMEM and CONFIG_SWAP, as much to document its limited
applicability as save space in other configurations. And, sadly,
#include sched.h for cond_resched().Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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But we've not yet removed the old swp_entry_t i_direct[16] from
shmem_inode_info. That's because it was still being shared with the
inline symlink. Remove it now (saving 64 or 128 bytes from shmem inode
size), and use kmemdup() for short symlinks, say, those up to 128 bytes.I wonder why mpol_free_shared_policy() is done in shmem_destroy_inode()
rather than shmem_evict_inode(), where we usually do such freeing? I
guess it doesn't matter, and I'm not into NUMA mpol testing right now.Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Acked-by: Rik van Riel
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Convert shmem_writepage() to use shmem_delete_from_page_cache() to use
shmem_radix_tree_replace() to substitute swap entry for page pointer
atomically in the radix tree.As with shmem_add_to_page_cache(), it's not entirely satisfactory to be
copying such code from delete_from_swap_cache, but again judged easier
to sell than making its other callers go through the extras.Remove the toy implementation's shmem_put_swap() and shmem_get_swap(),
now unreferenced, and the hack to disable swap: it's now good to go.The way things have worked out, info->lock no longer helps to guard the
shmem_swaplist: we increment swapped under shmem_swaplist_mutex only.
That global mutex exclusion between shmem_writepage() and shmem_unuse()
is not pretty, and we ought to find another way; but it's been forced on
us by recent race discoveries, not a consequence of this patchset.And what has become of the WARN_ON_ONCE(1) free_swap_and_cache() if a
swap entry was found already present? That's no longer possible, the
(unknown) one inserting this page into filecache would hit the swap
entry occupying that slot.Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Acked-by: Rik van Riel
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Remove mem_cgroup_shmem_charge_fallback(): it was only required when we
had to move swappage to filecache with GFP_NOWAIT.Remove the GFP_NOWAIT special case from mem_cgroup_cache_charge(), by
moving its call out from shmem_add_to_page_cache() to two of thats three
callers. But leave it doing mem_cgroup_uncharge_cache_page() on error:
although asymmetrical, it's easier for all 3 callers to handle.These two changes would also be appropriate if anyone were to start
using shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp() with GFP_NOWAIT.Remove mem_cgroup_get_shmem_target(): mc_handle_file_pte() can test
radix_tree_exceptional_entry() to get what it needs for itself.Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Acked-by: Rik van Riel
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Convert shmem_getpage_gfp(), the engine-room of shmem, to expect page or
swap entry returned from radix tree by find_lock_page().Whereas the repetitive old method proceeded mainly under info->lock,
dropping and repeating whenever one of the conditions needed was not
met, now we can proceed without it, leaving shmem_add_to_page_cache() to
check for a race.This way there is no need to preallocate a page, no need for an early
radix_tree_preload(), no need for mem_cgroup_shmem_charge_fallback().Move the error unwinding down to the bottom instead of repeating it
throughout. ENOSPC handling is a little different from before: there is
no longer any race between find_lock_page() and finding swap, but we can
arrive at ENOSPC before calling shmem_recalc_inode(), which might
occasionally discover freed space.Be stricter to check i_size before returning. info->lock is used for
little but alloced, swapped, i_blocks updates. Move i_blocks updates
out from under the max_blocks check, so even an unlimited size=0 mount
can show accurate du.Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Acked-by: Rik van Riel
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Convert shmem_unuse_inode() to use a lockless gang lookup of the radix
tree, searching for matching swap.This is somewhat slower than the old method: because of repeated radix
tree descents, because of copying entries up, but probably most because
the old method noted and skipped once a vector page was cleared of swap.
Perhaps we can devise a use of radix tree tagging to achieve that later.shmem_add_to_page_cache() uses shmem_radix_tree_replace() to compensate
for the lockless lookup by checking that the expected entry is in place,
under lock. It is not very satisfactory to be copying this much from
add_to_page_cache_locked(), but I think easier to sell than insisting
that every caller of add_to_page_cache*() go through the extras.Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Acked-by: Rik van Riel
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Disable the toy swapping implementation in shmem_writepage() - it's hard
to support two schemes at once - and convert shmem_truncate_range() to a
lockless gang lookup of swap entries along with pages, freeing both.Since the second loop tightens its noose until all entries of either
kind have been squeezed out (and we shall make sure that there's not an
instant when neither is visible), there is no longer a need for yet
another pass below.shmem_radix_tree_replace() compensates for the lockless lookup by
checking that the expected entry is in place, under lock, before
replacing it. Here it just deletes, but will be used in later patches
to substitute swap entry for page or page for swap entry.Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Acked-by: Rik van Riel
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Bring truncate.c's code for truncate_inode_pages_range() inline into
shmem_truncate_range(), replacing its first call (there's a followup
call below, but leave that one, it will disappear next).Don't play with it yet, apart from leaving out the cleancache flush, and
(importantly) the nrpages == 0 skip, and moving shmem_setattr()'s
partial page preparation into its partial page handling.Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Acked-by: Rik van Riel
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
While it's at its least, make a number of boring nitpicky cleanups to
shmem.c, mostly for consistency of variable naming. Things like "swap"
instead of "entry", "pgoff_t index" instead of "unsigned long idx".And since everything else here is prefixed "shmem_", better change
init_tmpfs() to shmem_init().Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Acked-by: Rik van Riel
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The maximum size of a shmem/tmpfs file has been limited by the maximum
size of its triple-indirect swap vector. With 4kB page size, maximum
filesize was just over 2TB on a 32-bit kernel, but sadly one eighth of
that on a 64-bit kernel. (With 8kB page size, maximum filesize was just
over 4TB on a 64-bit kernel, but 16TB on a 32-bit kernel,
MAX_LFS_FILESIZE being then more restrictive than swap vector layout.)It's a shame that tmpfs should be more restrictive than ramfs, and this
limitation has now been noticed. Add another level to the swap vector?
No, it became obscure and hard to maintain, once I complicated it to
make use of highmem pages nine years ago: better choose another way.Surely, if 2.4 had had the radix tree pagecache introduced in 2.5, then
tmpfs would never have invented its own peculiar radix tree: we would
have fitted swap entries into the common radix tree instead, in much the
same way as we fit swap entries into page tables.And why should each file have a separate radix tree for its pages and
for its swap entries? The swap entries are required precisely where and
when the pages are not. We want to put them together in a single radix
tree: which can then avoid much of the locking which was needed to
prevent them from being exchanged underneath us.This also avoids the waste of memory devoted to swap vectors, first in
the shmem_inode itself, then at least two more pages once a file grew
beyond 16 data pages (pages accounted by df and du, but not by memcg).
Allocated upfront, to avoid allocation when under swapping pressure, but
pure waste when CONFIG_SWAP is not set - I have never spattered around
the ifdefs to prevent that, preferring this move to sharing the common
radix tree instead.There are three downsides to sharing the radix tree. One, that it binds
tmpfs more tightly to the rest of mm, either requiring knowledge of swap
entries in radix tree there, or duplication of its code here in shmem.c.
I believe that the simplications and memory savings (and probable higher
performance, not yet measured) justify that.Two, that on HIGHMEM systems with SWAP enabled, it's the lowmem radix
nodes that cannot be freed under memory pressure - whereas before it was
the less precious highmem swap vector pages that could not be freed.
I'm hoping that 64-bit has now been accessible for long enough, that the
highmem argument has grown much less persuasive.Three, that swapoff is slower than it used to be on tmpfs files, since
it's using a simple generic mechanism not tailored to it: I find this
noticeable, and shall want to improve, but maybe nobody else will
notice.So... now remove most of the old swap vector code from shmem.c. But,
for the moment, keep the simple i_direct vector of 16 pages, with simple
accessors shmem_put_swap() and shmem_get_swap(), as a toy implementation
to help mark where swap needs to be handled in subsequent patches.Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Acked-by: Rik van Riel
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
26 Jul, 2011
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* Merge akpm patch series: (122 commits)
drivers/connector/cn_proc.c: remove unused local
Documentation/SubmitChecklist: add RCU debug config options
reiserfs: use hweight_long()
reiserfs: use proper little-endian bitops
pnpacpi: register disabled resources
drivers/rtc/rtc-tegra.c: properly initialize spinlock
drivers/rtc/rtc-twl.c: check return value of twl_rtc_write_u8() in twl_rtc_set_time()
drivers/rtc: add support for Qualcomm PMIC8xxx RTC
drivers/rtc/rtc-s3c.c: support clock gating
drivers/rtc/rtc-mpc5121.c: add support for RTC on MPC5200
init: skip calibration delay if previously done
misc/eeprom: add eeprom access driver for digsy_mtc board
misc/eeprom: add driver for microwire 93xx46 EEPROMs
checkpatch.pl: update $logFunctions
checkpatch: make utf-8 test --strict
checkpatch.pl: add ability to ignore various messages
checkpatch: add a "prefer __aligned" check
checkpatch: validate signature styles and To: and Cc: lines
checkpatch: add __rcu as a sparse modifier
checkpatch: suggest using min_t or max_t
...Did this as a merge because of (trivial) conflicts in
- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
- arch/xtensa/include/asm/uaccess.h
that were just easier to fix up in the merge than in the patch series. -
shmem_unuse_inode() and shmem_writepage() contain a little code to cope
with pages inserted independently into the filecache, probably by a
filesystem stacked on top of tmpfs, then fed to its ->readpage() or
->writepage().Unionfs was indeed experimenting with working in that way three years ago,
but I find no current examples: nowadays the stacking filesystems use vfs
interfaces to the lower filesystem.It's now illegal: remove most of that code, adding some WARN_ON_ONCEs.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
We can now simplify shmem_getpage_gfp(): there is no longer a dilemma of
filepage passed in via shmem_readpage(), then swappage found, which must
then be copied over to it.Although at first it's tempting to replace the **pagep arg by returning
struct page *, that makes a mess of IS_ERR_OR_NULL(page)s in all the
callers, so leave as is.Insert BUG_ON(!PageUptodate) when we find and lock page: some of the
complication came from uninitialized pages inserted into filecache prior
to readpage; but now we're in control, and only release pagelock on
filecache once it's uptodate (if an error occurs in reading back from
swap, the page remains in swapcache, never moved to filecache).Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The prealloc_page handling in shmem_getpage_gfp() is unnecessarily
complicated: first simplify that before going on to filepage/swappage.That's right, don't report ENOMEM when the preallocation fails: we may or
may not need the page. But simply report ENOMEM once we find we do need
it, instead of dropping lock, repeating allocation, unwinding on failure
etc. And leave the out label on the fast path, don't goto.Fix something that looks like a bug but turns out not to be: set
PageSwapBacked on prealloc_page before its mem_cgroup_cache_charge(), as
the removed case was doing. That's important before adding to LRU
(determines which LRU the page goes on), and does affect which path it
takes through memcontrol.c, but in the end MEM_CGROUP_CHANGE_TYPE_ SHMEM
is handled no differently from CACHE.Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Acked-by: Shaohua Li
Cc: "Zhang, Yanmin"
Cc: Tim Chen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Remove that pernicious shmem_readpage() at last: the things we needed it
for (splice, loop, sendfile, i915 GEM) are now fully taken care of by
shmem_file_splice_read() and shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp().This removal clears the way for a simpler shmem_getpage_gfp(), since page
is never passed in; but leave most of that cleanup until after.sys_readahead() and sys_fadvise(POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED) will now EINVAL,
instead of unexpectedly trying to read ahead on tmpfs: if that proves to
be an issue for someone, then we can either arrange for them to return
success instead, or try to implement async readahead on tmpfs.Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Make shmem_getpage() a wrapper, passing mapping_gfp_mask() down to
shmem_getpage_gfp(), which in turn passes gfp down to shmem_swp_alloc().Change shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp() to use shmem_getpage_gfp() in the
CONFIG_SHMEM case; but leave tiny !SHMEM using read_cache_page_gfp().Add a BUG_ON() in case anyone happens to call this on a non-shmem mapping;
though we might later want to let that case route to read_cache_page_gfp().It annoys me to have these two almost-redundant args, gfp and fault_type:
I can't find a better way; but initialize fault_type only in shmem_fault().Note that before, read_cache_page_gfp() was allocating i915_gem's pages
with __GFP_NORETRY as intended; but the corresponding swap vector pages
got allocated without it, leaving a small possibility of OOM.Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Tidy up shmem_file_splice_read():
Remove readahead: okay, we could implement shmem readahead on swap,
but have never done so before, swap being the slow exceptional path.Use shmem_getpage() instead of find_or_create_page() plus ->readpage().
Remove several comments: sorry, I found them more distracting than
helpful, and this will not be the reference version of splice_read().Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Copy __generic_file_splice_read() and generic_file_splice_read() from
fs/splice.c to shmem_file_splice_read() in mm/shmem.c. Make
page_cache_pipe_buf_ops and spd_release_page() accessible to it.Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Jens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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2.6.36's 7e496299d4d2 ("tmpfs: make tmpfs scalable with percpu_counter for
used blocks") to make tmpfs scalable with percpu_counter used
inode->i_lock in place of sbinfo->stat_lock around i_blocks updates; but
that was adverse to scalability, and unnecessary, since info->lock is
already held there in the fast paths.Remove those uses of i_lock, and add info->lock in the three error paths
where it's then needed across shmem_free_blocks(). It's not actually
needed across shmem_unacct_blocks(), but they're so often paired that it
looks wrong to split them apart.Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Acked-by: Tim Chen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Replace the ->check_acl method with a ->get_acl method that simply reads an
ACL from disk after having a cache miss. This means we can replace the ACL
checking boilerplate code with a single implementation in namei.c.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
19 Jul, 2011
1 commit
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This patch changes the security_inode_init_security API by adding a
filesystem specific callback to write security extended attributes.
This change is in preparation for supporting the initialization of
multiple LSM xattrs and the EVM xattr. Initially the callback function
walks an array of xattrs, writing each xattr separately, but could be
optimized to write multiple xattrs at once.For existing security_inode_init_security() calls, which have not yet
been converted to use the new callback function, such as those in
reiserfs and ocfs2, this patch defines security_old_inode_init_security().Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar
28 Jun, 2011
2 commits
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Although it is used (by i915) on nothing but tmpfs, read_cache_page_gfp()
is unsuited to tmpfs, because it inserts a page into pagecache before
calling the filesystem's ->readpage: tmpfs may have pages in swapcache
which only it knows how to locate and switch to filecache.At present tmpfs provides a ->readpage method, and copes with this by
copying pages; but soon we can simplify it by removing its ->readpage.
Provide shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp() now, ready for that transition,Export shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp() and add it to list in shmem_fs.h,
with shmem_read_mapping_page() inline for the common mapping_gfp case.(shmem_read_mapping_page_gfp or shmem_read_cache_page_gfp? Generally the
read_mapping_page functions use the mapping's ->readpage, and the
read_cache_page functions use the supplied filler, so I think
read_cache_page_gfp was slightly misnamed.)Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
2.6.35's new truncate convention gave tmpfs the opportunity to control
its file truncation, no longer enforced from outside by vmtruncate().
We shall want to build upon that, to handle pagecache and swap together.Slightly redefine the ->truncate_range interface: let it now be called
between the unmap_mapping_range()s, with the filesystem responsible for
doing the truncate_inode_pages_range() from it - just as the filesystem
is nowadays responsible for doing that from its ->setattr.Let's rename shmem_notify_change() to shmem_setattr(). Instead of
calling the generic truncate_setsize(), bring that code in so we can
call shmem_truncate_range() - which will later be updated to perform its
own variant of truncate_inode_pages_range().Remove the punch_hole unmap_mapping_range() from shmem_truncate_range():
now that the COW's unmap_mapping_range() comes after ->truncate_range,
there is no need to call it a third time.Export shmem_truncate_range() and add it to the list in shmem_fs.h, so
that i915_gem_object_truncate() can call it explicitly in future; get
this patch in first, then update drm/i915 once this is available (until
then, i915 will just be doing the truncate_inode_pages() twice).Though introduced five years ago, no other filesystem is implementing
->truncate_range, and its only other user is madvise(,,MADV_REMOVE): we
expect to convert it to fallocate(,FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE,,) shortly,
whereupon ->truncate_range can be removed from inode_operations -
shmem_truncate_range() will help i915 across that transition too.Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
29 May, 2011
1 commit
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While running fsx on tmpfs with a memhog then swapoff, swapoff was hanging
(interruptibly), repeatedly failing to locate the owner of a 0xff entry in
the swap_map.Although shmem_writepage() does abandon when it sees incoming page index
is beyond eof, there was still a window in which shmem_truncate_range()
could come in between writepage's dropping lock and updating swap_map,
find the half-completed swap_map entry, and in trying to free it,
leave it in a state that swap_shmem_alloc() could not correct.Arguably a bug in __swap_duplicate()'s and swap_entry_free()'s handling
of the different cases, but easiest to fix by moving swap_shmem_alloc()
under cover of the lock.More interesting than the bug: it's been there since 2.6.33, why could
I not see it with earlier kernels? The mmotm of two weeks ago seems to
have some magic for generating races, this is just one of three I found.With yesterday's git I first saw this in mainline, bisected in search of
that magic, but the easy reproducibility evaporated. Oh well, fix the bug.Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 May, 2011
1 commit
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Two new stats in per-memcg memory.stat which tracks the number of page
faults and number of major page faults."pgfault"
"pgmajfault"They are different from "pgpgin"/"pgpgout" stat which count number of
pages charged/discharged to the cgroup and have no meaning of reading/
writing page to disk.It is valuable to track the two stats for both measuring application's
performance as well as the efficiency of the kernel page reclaim path.
Counting pagefaults per process is useful, but we also need the aggregated
value since processes are monitored and controlled in cgroup basis in
memcg.Functional test: check the total number of pgfault/pgmajfault of all
memcgs and compare with global vmstat value:$ cat /proc/vmstat | grep fault
pgfault 1070751
pgmajfault 553$ cat /dev/cgroup/memory.stat | grep fault
pgfault 1071138
pgmajfault 553
total_pgfault 1071142
total_pgmajfault 553$ cat /dev/cgroup/A/memory.stat | grep fault
pgfault 199
pgmajfault 0
total_pgfault 199
total_pgmajfault 0Performance test: run page fault test(pft) wit 16 thread on faulting in
15G anon pages in 16G container. There is no regression noticed on the
"flt/cpu/s"Sample output from pft:
TAG pft:anon-sys-default:
Gb Thr CLine User System Wall flt/cpu/s fault/wsec
15 16 1 0.67s 233.41s 14.76s 16798.546 266356.260+-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 10 16682.962 17344.027 16913.524 16928.812 166.5362
+ 10 16695.568 16923.896 16820.604 16824.652 84.816568
No difference proven at 95.0% confidence[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[hughd@google.com: shmem fix]
Signed-off-by: Ying Han
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura
Acked-by: Balbir Singh
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
25 May, 2011
1 commit
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Implement generic xattrs for tmpfs filesystems. The Feodra project, while
trying to replace suid apps with file capabilities, realized that tmpfs,
which is used on the build systems, does not support file capabilities and
thus cannot be used to build packages which use file capabilities. Xattrs
are also needed for overlayfs.The xattr interface is a bit odd. If a filesystem does not implement any
{get,set,list}xattr functions the VFS will call into some random LSM hooks
and the running LSM can then implement some method for handling xattrs.
SELinux for example provides a method to support security.selinux but no
other security.* xattrs.As it stands today when one enables CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL tmpfs will have
xattr handler routines specifically to handle acls. Because of this tmpfs
would loose the VFS/LSM helpers to support the running LSM. To make up
for that tmpfs had stub functions that did nothing but call into the LSM
hooks which implement the helpers.This new patch does not use the LSM fallback functions and instead just
implements a native get/set/list xattr feature for the full security.* and
trusted.* namespace like a normal filesystem. This means that tmpfs can
now support both security.selinux and security.capability, which was not
previously possible.The basic implementation is that I attach a:
struct shmem_xattr {
struct list_head list; /* anchored by shmem_inode_info->xattr_list */
char *name;
size_t size;
char value[0];
};Into the struct shmem_inode_info for each xattr that is set. This
implementation could easily support the user.* namespace as well, except
some care needs to be taken to prevent large amounts of unswappable memory
being allocated for unprivileged users.[mszeredi@suse.cz: new config option, suport trusted.*, support symlinks]
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Tested-by: Serge Hallyn
Cc: Kyle McMartin
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins
Tested-by: Jordi Pujol
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
21 May, 2011
1 commit
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Commit 778dd893ae78 ("tmpfs: fix race between umount and swapoff")
forgot the new rules for strict atomic kmap nesting, causingWARNING: at arch/x86/mm/highmem_32.c:81
from __kunmap_atomic(), then
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fffb9000
from shmem_swp_set() when shmem_unuse_inode() is handling swapoff with
highmem in use. My disgrace again.See
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35352Reported-by: Witold Baryluk
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
15 May, 2011
1 commit
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Shame on me! Commit b1dea800ac39 "tmpfs: fix race between umount and
writepage" fixed the advertized race, but introduced another: as even
its comment makes clear, we cannot safely rely on a peek at list_empty()
while holding no lock - until info->swapped is set, shmem_unuse_inode()
may delete any formerly-swapped inode from the shmem_swaplist, which
in this case would leave a swap area impossible to swapoff.Although I don't relish taking the mutex every time, I don't care much
for the alternatives either; and at least the peek at list_empty() in
shmem_evict_inode() (a hotter path since most inodes would never have
been swapped) remains safe, because we already truncated the whole file.Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds