linux/mm/memory-failure.c, branch v3.3.5

mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction

2012-01-13T04:13:09Z

This patch adds a lightweight sync migrate operation MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT mode that avoids writing back pages to backing storage. Async compaction maps to MIGRATE_ASYNC while sync compaction maps to MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT. For other migrate_pages users such as memory hotplug, MIGRATE_SYNC is used. This avoids sync compaction stalling for an excessive length of time, particularly when copying files to a USB stick where there might be a large number of dirty pages backed by a filesystem that does not support ->writepages. [aarcange@redhat.com: This patch is heavily based on Andrea's work] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/nfs/write.c build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/btrfs/disk-io.c build] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Dave Jones Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Andy Isaacson Cc: Nai Xia Cc: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux

2011-11-07T03:44:47Z

* '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

HWPOISON: convert pr_debug()s to pr_info()s

2011-11-01T00:30:49Z

Commit fb46e73520940b ("HWPOISON: Convert pr_debugs to pr_info) authored by Andi Kleen converted a number of pr_debug()s to pr_info()s. About the same time additional code with pr_debug()s was added by two other commits 8c6c2ecb4466 ("HWPOSION, hugetlb: recover from free hugepage error when !MF_COUNT_INCREASED") and d950b95882f3d ("HWPOISON, hugetlb: soft offlining for hugepage"). And these pr_debug()s failed to get converted to pr_info()s. This patch converts them as well. And does some minor related whitespace cleanup. Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL to active symbol exporters

2011-10-31T13:20:12Z

These files were getting via an implicit include path, but we want to crush those out of existence since they cost time during compiles of processing thousands of lines of headers for no reason. Give them the lightweight header that just contains the EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

HWPoison: add memory_failure_queue()

2011-08-03T15:15:58Z

memory_failure() is the entry point for HWPoison memory error recovery. It must be called in process context. But commonly hardware memory errors are notified via MCE or NMI, so some delayed execution mechanism must be used. In MCE handler, a work queue + ring buffer mechanism is used. In addition to MCE, now APEI (ACPI Platform Error Interface) GHES (Generic Hardware Error Source) can be used to report memory errors too. To add support to APEI GHES memory recovery, a mechanism similar to that of MCE is implemented. memory_failure_queue() is the new entry point that can be called in IRQ context. The next step is to make MCE handler uses this interface too. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Wu Fengguang Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Len Brown

mm/memory-failure.c: fix spinlock vs mutex order

2011-06-28T01:00:13Z

We cannot take a mutex while holding a spinlock, so flip the order and fix the locking documentation. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/memory-failure.c: fix page isolated count mismatch

2011-06-16T03:04:01Z

Pages isolated for migration are accounted with the vmstat counters NR_ISOLATE_[ANON|FILE]. Callers of migrate_pages() are expected to increment these counters when pages are isolated from the LRU. Once the pages have been migrated, they are put back on the LRU or freed and the isolated count is decremented. Memory failure is not properly accounting for pages it isolates causing the NR_ISOLATED counters to be negative. On SMP builds, this goes unnoticed as negative counters are treated as 0 due to expected per-cpu drift. On UP builds, the counter is treated by too_many_isolated() as a large value causing processes to enter D state during page reclaim or compaction. This patch accounts for pages isolated by memory failure correctly. [mel@csn.ul.ie: rewrote changelog] Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim Cc: Andi Kleen Acked-by: Mel Gorman Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vmscan: change shrinker API by passing shrink_control struct

2011-05-25T15:39:26Z

Change each shrinker's API by consolidating the existing parameters into shrink_control struct. This will simplify any further features added w/o touching each file of shrinker. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix up new shrinker API] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix xfs warning] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: update gfs2] Signed-off-by: Ying Han Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Minchan Kim Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Steven Whitehouse Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

vmscan: change shrink_slab() interfaces by passing shrink_control

2011-05-25T15:39:25Z

Consolidate the existing parameters to shrink_slab() into a new shrink_control struct. This is needed later to pass the same struct to shrinkers. Signed-off-by: Ying Han Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Minchan Kim Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mem-hwpoison: fix page refcount around isolate_lru_page()

2011-05-25T15:39:23Z

Drop first page reference only after calling isolate_lru_page() to keep page stable reference while isolating. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: Rik van Riel Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds