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2011-06-03tmpfs: fix race between truncate and writepageHugh Dickins
commit 826267cf1e6c6899eda1325a19f1b1d15c558b20 upstream. 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 <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-06-03mm/page_alloc.c: prevent unending loop in __alloc_pages_slowpath()Andrew Barry
commit cfa54a0fcfc1017c6f122b6f21aaba36daa07f71 upstream. I believe I found a problem in __alloc_pages_slowpath, which allows a process to get stuck endlessly looping, even when lots of memory is available. Running an I/O and memory intensive stress-test I see a 0-order page allocation with __GFP_IO and __GFP_WAIT, running on a system with very little free memory. Right about the same time that the stress-test gets killed by the OOM-killer, the utility trying to allocate memory gets stuck in __alloc_pages_slowpath even though most of the systems memory was freed by the oom-kill of the stress-test. The utility ends up looping from the rebalance label down through the wait_iff_congested continiously. Because order=0, __alloc_pages_direct_compact skips the call to get_page_from_freelist. Because all of the reclaimable memory on the system has already been reclaimed, __alloc_pages_direct_reclaim skips the call to get_page_from_freelist. Since there is no __GFP_FS flag, the block with __alloc_pages_may_oom is skipped. The loop hits the wait_iff_congested, then jumps back to rebalance without ever trying to get_page_from_freelist. This loop repeats infinitely. The test case is pretty pathological. Running a mix of I/O stress-tests that do a lot of fork() and consume all of the system memory, I can pretty reliably hit this on 600 nodes, in about 12 hours. 32GB/node. Signed-off-by: Andrew Barry <abarry@cray.com> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-06-03mm: vmscan: correctly check if reclaimer should schedule during shrink_slabMinchan Kim
commit f06590bd718ed950c98828e30ef93204028f3210 upstream. It has been reported on some laptops that kswapd is consuming large amounts of CPU and not being scheduled when SLUB is enabled during large amounts of file copying. It is expected that this is due to kswapd missing every cond_resched() point because; shrink_page_list() calls cond_resched() if inactive pages were isolated which in turn may not happen if all_unreclaimable is set in shrink_zones(). If for whatver reason, all_unreclaimable is set on all zones, we can miss calling cond_resched(). balance_pgdat() only calls cond_resched if the zones are not balanced. For a high-order allocation that is balanced, it checks order-0 again. During that window, order-0 might have become unbalanced so it loops again for order-0 and returns that it was reclaiming for order-0 to kswapd(). It can then find that a caller has rewoken kswapd for a high-order and re-enters balance_pgdat() without ever calling cond_resched(). shrink_slab only calls cond_resched() if we are reclaiming slab pages. If there are a large number of direct reclaimers, the shrinker_rwsem can be contended and prevent kswapd calling cond_resched(). This patch modifies the shrink_slab() case. If the semaphore is contended, the caller will still check cond_resched(). After each successful call into a shrinker, the check for cond_resched() remains in case one shrinker is particularly slow. [mgorman@suse.de: preserve call to cond_resched after each call into shrinker] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Tested-by: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> Cc: Raghavendra D Prabhu <raghu.prabhu13@gmail.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-06-03mm: vmscan: correct use of pgdat_balanced in sleeping_prematurelyJohannes Weiner
commit afc7e326a3f5bafc41324d7926c324414e343ee5 upstream. There are a few reports of people experiencing hangs when copying large amounts of data with kswapd using a large amount of CPU which appear to be due to recent reclaim changes. SLUB using high orders is the trigger but not the root cause as SLUB has been using high orders for a while. The root cause was bugs introduced into reclaim which are addressed by the following two patches. Patch 1 corrects logic introduced by commit 1741c877 ("mm: kswapd: keep kswapd awake for high-order allocations until a percentage of the node is balanced") to allow kswapd to go to sleep when balanced for high orders. Patch 2 notes that it is possible for kswapd to miss every cond_resched() and updates shrink_slab() so it'll at least reach that scheduling point. Chris Wood reports that these two patches in isolation are sufficient to prevent the system hanging. AFAIK, they should also resolve similar hangs experienced by James Bottomley. This patch: Johannes Weiner poined out that the logic in commit 1741c877 ("mm: kswapd: keep kswapd awake for high-order allocations until a percentage of the node is balanced") is backwards. Instead of allowing kswapd to go to sleep when balancing for high order allocations, it keeps it kswapd running uselessly. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Tested-by: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com> Cc: Raghavendra D Prabhu <raghu.prabhu13@gmail.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-06-03kmemleak: Do not return a pointer to an object that kmemleak did not getCatalin Marinas
commit 52c3ce4ec5601ee383a14f1485f6bac7b278896e upstream. The kmemleak_seq_next() function tries to get an object (and increment its use count) before returning it. If it could not get the last object during list traversal (because it may have been freed), the function should return NULL rather than a pointer to such object that it did not get. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reported-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> Acked-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-05-21tmpfs: fix highmem swapoff crash regressionHugh Dickins
commit e6c9366b2adb52cba64b359b3050200743c7568c upstream. Commit 778dd893ae78 ("tmpfs: fix race between umount and swapoff") forgot the new rules for strict atomic kmap nesting, causing WARNING: 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=35352 Reported-by: Witold Baryluk <baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-05-21tmpfs: fix spurious ENOSPC when racing with unswapHugh Dickins
commit 59a16ead572330deb38e5848151d30ed1af754bc upstream. Testing the shmem_swaplist replacements for igrab() revealed another bug: writes to /dev/loop0 on a tmpfs file which fills its filesystem were sometimes failing with "Buffer I/O error"s. These came from ENOSPC failures of shmem_getpage(), when racing with swapoff: the same could happen when racing with another shmem_getpage(), pulling the page in from swap in between our find_lock_page() and our taking the info->lock (though not in the single-threaded loop case). This is unacceptable, and surprising that I've not noticed it before: it dates back many years, but (presumably) was made a lot easier to reproduce in 2.6.36, which sited a page preallocation in the race window. Fix it by rechecking the page cache before settling on an ENOSPC error. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-05-21tmpfs: fix off-by-one in max_blocks checksHugh Dickins
commit fc5da22ae35d4720be59af8787a8a6d5e4da9517 upstream. 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 <hughd@google.com> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-05-21tmpfs: fix race between swapoff and writepageHugh Dickins
commit 05bf86b4ccfd0f197da61c67bd372111d15a6620 upstream. 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 <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-05-21tmpfs: fix race between umount and writepageHugh Dickins
commit b1dea800ac39599301d4bb8dcf2b1d29c2558211 upstream. Konstanin Khlebnikov reports that a dangerous race between umount and shmem_writepage can be reproduced by this script: for i in {1..300} ; do mkdir $i while true ; do mount -t tmpfs none $i dd if=/dev/zero of=$i/test bs=1M count=$(($RANDOM % 100)) umount $i done & done on a 6xCPU node with 8Gb RAM: kernel very unstable after this accident. =) Kernel log: VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of tmpfs. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day... WARNING: at lib/list_debug.c:53 __list_del_entry+0x8d/0x98() list_del corruption. prev->next should be ffff880222fdaac8, but was (null) Pid: 11222, comm: mount.tmpfs Not tainted 2.6.39-rc2+ #4 Call Trace: warn_slowpath_common+0x80/0x98 warn_slowpath_fmt+0x41/0x43 __list_del_entry+0x8d/0x98 evict+0x50/0x113 iput+0x138/0x141 ... BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffffffffffff IP: shmem_free_blocks+0x18/0x4c Pid: 10422, comm: dd Tainted: G W 2.6.39-rc2+ #4 Call Trace: shmem_recalc_inode+0x61/0x66 shmem_writepage+0xba/0x1dc pageout+0x13c/0x24c shrink_page_list+0x28e/0x4be shrink_inactive_list+0x21f/0x382 ... shmem_writepage() calls igrab() on the inode for the page which came from page reclaim, to add it later into shmem_swaplist for swapoff operation. This igrab() can race with super-block deactivating process: shrink_inactive_list() deactivate_super() pageout() tmpfs_fs_type->kill_sb() shmem_writepage() kill_litter_super() generic_shutdown_super() evict_inodes() igrab() atomic_read(&inode->i_count) skip-inode iput() if (!list_empty(&sb->s_inodes)) printk("VFS: Busy inodes after... This igrap-iput pair was added in commit 1b1b32f2c6f6 "tmpfs: fix shmem_swaplist races" based on incorrect assumptions: igrab() protects the inode from concurrent eviction by deletion, but it does nothing to protect it from concurrent unmounting, which goes ahead despite the raised i_count. So this use of igrab() was wrong all along, but the race made much worse in 2.6.37 when commit 63997e98a3be "split invalidate_inodes()" replaced two attempts at invalidate_inodes() by a single evict_inodes(). Konstantin posted a plausible patch, raising sb->s_active too: I'm unsure whether it was correct or not; but burnt once by igrab(), I am sure that we don't want to rely more deeply upon externals here. Fix it by adding the inode to shmem_swaplist earlier, while the page lock on page in page cache still secures the inode against eviction, without artifically raising i_count. It was originally added later because shmem_unuse_inode() is liable to remove an inode from the list while it's unswapped; but we can guard against that by taking spinlock before dropping mutex. Reported-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Tested-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-05-21tmpfs: fix race between umount and swapoffHugh Dickins
commit 778dd893ae785c5fd505dac30b5fc40aae188bf1 upstream. The use of igrab() in swapoff's shmem_unuse_inode() is just as vulnerable to umount as that in shmem_writepage(). Fix this instance by extending the protection of shmem_swaplist_mutex right across shmem_unuse_inode(): while it's on the list, the inode cannot be evicted (and the filesystem cannot be unmounted) without shmem_evict_inode() taking that mutex to remove it from the list. But since shmem_writepage() might take that mutex, we should avoid making memory allocations or memcg charges while holding it: prepare them at the outer level in shmem_unuse(). When mem_cgroup_cache_charge() was originally placed, we didn't know until that point that the page from swap was actually a shmem page; but nowadays it's noted in the swap_map, so we're safe to charge upfront. For the radix_tree, do as is done in shmem_getpage(): preload upfront, but don't pin to the cpu; so we make a habit of refreshing the node pool, but might dip into GFP_NOWAIT reserves on occasion if subsequently preempted. With the allocation and charge moved out from shmem_unuse_inode(), we can also hold index map and info->lock over from finding the entry. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-05-21mm: use alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic() on really needed pathYinghai Lu
commit 8f389a99b652aab5b42297280bd94d95933ad12f upstream. Stefan found nobootmem does not work on his system that has only 8M of RAM. This causes an early panic: BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-88: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f000 (usable) BIOS-88: 0000000000100000 - 0000000000840000 (usable) bootconsole [earlyser0] enabled Notice: NX (Execute Disable) protection missing in CPU or disabled in BIOS! DMI not present or invalid. last_pfn = 0x840 max_arch_pfn = 0x100000 init_memory_mapping: 0000000000000000-0000000000840000 8MB LOWMEM available. mapped low ram: 0 - 00840000 low ram: 0 - 00840000 Zone PFN ranges: DMA 0x00000001 -> 0x00001000 Normal empty Movable zone start PFN for each node early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges 0: 0x00000001 -> 0x0000009f 0: 0x00000100 -> 0x00000840 BUG: Int 6: CR2 (null) EDI c034663c ESI (null) EBP c0329f38 ESP c0329ef4 EBX c0346380 EDX 00000006 ECX ffffffff EAX fffffff4 err (null) EIP c0353191 CS c0320060 flg 00010082 Stack: (null) c030c533 000007cd (null) c030c533 00000001 (null) (null) 00000003 0000083f 00000018 00000002 00000002 c0329f6c c03534d6 (null) (null) 00000100 00000840 (null) c0329f64 00000001 00001000 (null) Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.36 #5 Call Trace: [<c02e3707>] ? 0xc02e3707 [<c035e6e5>] 0xc035e6e5 [<c0353191>] ? 0xc0353191 [<c03534d6>] 0xc03534d6 [<c034f1cd>] 0xc034f1cd [<c034a824>] 0xc034a824 [<c03513cb>] ? 0xc03513cb [<c0349432>] 0xc0349432 [<c0349066>] 0xc0349066 It turns out that we should ignore the low limit of 16M. Use alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic() in this case. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: less mess] Signed-off-by: Yinghai LU <yinghai@kernel.org> Reported-by: Stefan Hellermann <stefan@the2masters.de> Tested-by: Stefan Hellermann <stefan@the2masters.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-05-21Don't lock guardpage if the stack is growing upMikulas Patocka
commit a09a79f66874c905af35d5bb5e5f2fdc7b6b894d upstream. 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/<pid>/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 <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-05-21vm: fix vm_pgoff wrap in upward expansionHugh Dickins
commit 42c36f63ac1366ab0ecc2d5717821362c259f517 upstream. 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 <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-05-09VM: skip the stack guard page lookup in get_user_pages only for mlockLinus Torvalds
commit a1fde08c74e90accd62d4cfdbf580d2ede938fe7 upstream. 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 <walken@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-05-02mm: thp: fix /dev/zero MAP_PRIVATE and vm_flags cleanupsAndrea Arcangeli
commit 78f11a255749d09025f54d4e2df4fbcb031530e2 upstream. 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 <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Caspar Zhang <bugs@casparzhang.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-05-02mm: check if PTE is already allocated during page faultMel Gorman
commit cc03638df20acbec5d0d0d9e07234aadde9e698d upstream. 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 <raziebe@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-05-02oom: use pte pages in OOM scoreKOSAKI Motohiro
commit f755a042d82b51b54f3bdd0890e5ea56c0fb6807 upstream. 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 <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-21brk: COMPAT_BRK: fix detection of randomized brkJiri Kosina
commit 4471a675dfc7ca676c165079e91c712b09dc9ce4 upstream. 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 <jkosina@suse.cz> Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-21vmscan: all_unreclaimable() use zone->all_unreclaimable as a nameKOSAKI Motohiro
commit 929bea7c714220fc76ce3f75bef9056477c28e74 upstream. 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 allocations Two 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==0 But, 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 path But, 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. munmmap as described in http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1348725#1348725 Is 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 <avagin@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-21oom-kill: remove boost_dying_task_prio()KOSAKI Motohiro
commit 341aea2bc48bf652777fb015cc2b3dfa9a451817 upstream. 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 <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <lclaudio@uudg.org> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-21mm/thp: use conventional format for boolean attributesBen Hutchings
commit e27e6151b154ff6e5e8162efa291bc60196d29ea upstream. 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 <ben@decadent.org.uk> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Tested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-21vm: fix mlock() on stack guard pageLinus Torvalds
commit 95042f9eb78a8d9a17455e2ef263f2f310ecef15 upstream. 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 <robert@swiecki.net> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-21vm: fix vm_pgoff wrap in stack expansionLinus Torvalds
commit a626ca6a656450e9f4df91d0dda238fff23285f4 upstream. 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 <robert@swiecki.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-14mm: avoid wrapping vm_pgoff in mremap()Linus Torvalds
commit 982134ba62618c2d69fbbbd166d0a11ee3b7e3d8 upstream. 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 <robert@swiecki.net> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-27fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going awayJens Axboe
commit 95f28604a65b1c40b6c6cd95e58439cd7ded3add upstream. We don't have proper reference counting for this yet, so we run into cases where the device is pulled and we OOPS on flushing the fs data. This happens even though the dirty inodes have already been migrated to the default_backing_dev_info. Reported-by: Torsten Hilbrich <torsten.hilbrich@secunet.com> Tested-by: Torsten Hilbrich <torsten.hilbrich@secunet.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-27mm: PageBuddy and mapcount robustnessAndrea Arcangeli
commit ef2b4b95a63a1d23958dcb99eb2c6898eddc87d0 upstream. Change the _mapcount value indicating PageBuddy from -2 to -128 for more robusteness against page_mapcount() undeflows. Use reset_page_mapcount instead of __ClearPageBuddy in bad_page to ignore the previous retval of PageBuddy(). Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-27oom: avoid deferring oom killer if exiting task is being tracedDavid Rientjes
commit edd45544c6f09550df0a5491aa8a07af24767e73 upstream. The oom killer naturally defers killing anything if it finds an eligible task that is already exiting and has yet to detach its ->mm. This avoids unnecessarily killing tasks when one is already in the exit path and may free enough memory that the oom killer is no longer needed. This is detected by PF_EXITING since threads that have already detached its ->mm are no longer considered at all. The problem with always deferring when a thread is PF_EXITING, however, is that it may never actually exit when being traced, specifically if another task is tracing it with PTRACE_O_TRACEEXIT. The oom killer does not want to defer in this case since there is no guarantee that thread will ever exit without intervention. This patch will now only defer the oom killer when a thread is PF_EXITING and no ptracer has stopped its progress in the exit path. It also ensures that a child is sacrificed for the chosen parent only if it has a different ->mm as the comment implies: this ensures that the thread group leader is always targeted appropriately. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-27oom: skip zombies when iterating tasklistAndrey Vagin
commit 30e2b41f20b6238f51e7cffb879c7a0f0073f5fe upstream. We shouldn't defer oom killing if a thread has already detached its ->mm and still has TIF_MEMDIE set. Memory needs to be freed, so find kill other threads that pin the same ->mm or find another task to kill. Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-27oom: prevent unnecessary oom kills or kernel panicsDavid Rientjes
commit 3a5dda7a17cf3706f79b86293f29db02d61e0d48 upstream. This patch prevents unnecessary oom kills or kernel panics by reverting two commits: 495789a5 (oom: make oom_score to per-process value) cef1d352 (oom: multi threaded process coredump don't make deadlock) First, 495789a5 (oom: make oom_score to per-process value) ignores the fact that all threads in a thread group do not necessarily exit at the same time. It is imperative that select_bad_process() detect threads that are in the exit path, specifically those with PF_EXITING set, to prevent needlessly killing additional tasks. If a process is oom killed and the thread group leader exits, select_bad_process() cannot detect the other threads that are PF_EXITING by iterating over only processes. Thus, it currently chooses another task unnecessarily for oom kill or panics the machine when nothing else is eligible. By iterating over threads instead, it is possible to detect threads that are exiting and nominate them for oom kill so they get access to memory reserves. Second, cef1d352 (oom: multi threaded process coredump don't make deadlock) erroneously avoids making the oom killer a no-op when an eligible thread other than current isfound to be exiting. We want to detect this situation so that we may allow that exiting thread time to exit and free its memory; if it is able to exit on its own, that should free memory so current is no loner oom. If it is not able to exit on its own, the oom killer will nominate it for oom kill which, in this case, only means it will get access to memory reserves. Without this change, it is easy for the oom killer to unnecessarily target tasks when all threads of a victim don't exit before the thread group leader or, in the worst case, panic the machine. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-27mm: compaction: prevent kswapd compacting memory to reduce CPU usageAndrea Arcangeli
commit d527caf22e48480b102c7c6ee5b9ba12170148f7 upstream. This patch reverts 5a03b051 ("thp: use compaction in kswapd for GFP_ATOMIC order > 0") due to reports stating that kswapd CPU usage was higher and IRQs were being disabled more frequently. This was reported at http://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/alsa-user/msg09885.html. Without this patch applied, CPU usage by kswapd hovers around the 20% mark according to the tester (Arthur Marsh: http://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/alsa-user/msg09899.html). With this patch applied, it's around 2%. The problem is not related to THP which specifies __GFP_NO_KSWAPD but is triggered by high-order allocations hitting the low watermark for their order and waking kswapd on kernels with CONFIG_COMPACTION set. The most common trigger for this is network cards configured for jumbo frames but it's also possible it'll be triggered by fork-heavy workloads (order-1) and some wireless cards which depend on order-1 allocations. The symptoms for the user will be high CPU usage by kswapd in low-memory situations which could be confused with another writeback problem. While a patch like 5a03b051 may be reintroduced in the future, this patch plays it safe for now and reverts it. [mel@csn.ul.ie: Beefed up the changelog] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reported-by: Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net> Tested-by: Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-27mm: swap: unlock swapfile inode mutex before closing file on bad swapfilesMel Gorman
commit 52c50567d8ab0a0a87f12cceaa4194967854f0bd upstream. If an administrator tries to swapon a file backed by NFS, the inode mutex is taken (as it is for any swapfile) but later identified to be a bad swapfile due to the lack of bmap and tries to cleanup. During cleanup, an attempt is made to close the file but with inode->i_mutex still held. Closing an NFS file syncs it which tries to acquire the inode mutex leading to deadlock. If lockdep is enabled the following appears on the console; ============================================= [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] 2.6.38-rc8-autobuild #1 --------------------------------------------- swapon/2192 is trying to acquire lock: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#13){+.+.+.}, at: vfs_fsync_range+0x47/0x7c but task is already holding lock: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#13){+.+.+.}, at: sys_swapon+0x28d/0xae7 other info that might help us debug this: 1 lock held by swapon/2192: #0: (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#13){+.+.+.}, at: sys_swapon+0x28d/0xae7 stack backtrace: Pid: 2192, comm: swapon Not tainted 2.6.38-rc8-autobuild #1 Call Trace: __lock_acquire+0x2eb/0x1623 find_get_pages_tag+0x14a/0x174 pagevec_lookup_tag+0x25/0x2e vfs_fsync_range+0x47/0x7c lock_acquire+0xd3/0x100 vfs_fsync_range+0x47/0x7c nfs_flush_one+0x0/0xdf [nfs] mutex_lock_nested+0x40/0x2b1 vfs_fsync_range+0x47/0x7c vfs_fsync_range+0x47/0x7c vfs_fsync+0x1c/0x1e nfs_file_flush+0x64/0x69 [nfs] filp_close+0x43/0x72 sys_swapon+0xa39/0xae7 sysret_check+0x2e/0x69 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b This patch releases the mutex if its held before calling filep_close() so swapon fails as expected without deadlock when the swapfile is backed by NFS. If accepted for 2.6.39, it should also be considered a -stable candidate for 2.6.38 and 2.6.37. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-27shmem: let shared anonymous be nonlinear againHugh Dickins
commit bee4c36a5cf5c9f63ce1d7372aa62045fbd16d47 upstream. Up to 2.6.22, you could use remap_file_pages(2) on a tmpfs file or a shared mapping of /dev/zero or a shared anonymous mapping. In 2.6.23 we disabled it by default, but set VM_CAN_NONLINEAR to enable it on safe mappings. We made sure to set it in shmem_mmap() for tmpfs files, but missed it in shmem_zero_setup() for the others. Fix that at last. Reported-by: Kenny Simpson <theonetruekenny@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-27Revert "slab: Fix missing DEBUG_SLAB last user"Pekka Enberg
commit 3ff84a7f36554b257cd57325b1a7c1fa4b49fbe3 upstream. This reverts commit 5c5e3b33b7cb959a401f823707bee006caadd76e. The commit breaks ARM thusly: | Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 | slab error in verify_redzone_free(): cache `idr_layer_cache': memory outside object was overwritten | Backtrace: | [<c0227088>] (dump_backtrace+0x0/0x110) from [<c0431afc>] (dump_stack+0x18/0x1c) | [<c0431ae4>] (dump_stack+0x0/0x1c) from [<c0293304>] (__slab_error+0x28/0x30) | [<c02932dc>] (__slab_error+0x0/0x30) from [<c0293a74>] (cache_free_debugcheck+0x1c0/0x2b8) | [<c02938b4>] (cache_free_debugcheck+0x0/0x2b8) from [<c0293f78>] (kmem_cache_free+0x3c/0xc0) | [<c0293f3c>] (kmem_cache_free+0x0/0xc0) from [<c032b1c8>] (ida_get_new_above+0x19c/0x1c0) | [<c032b02c>] (ida_get_new_above+0x0/0x1c0) from [<c02af7ec>] (alloc_vfsmnt+0x54/0x144) | [<c02af798>] (alloc_vfsmnt+0x0/0x144) from [<c0299830>] (vfs_kern_mount+0x30/0xec) | [<c0299800>] (vfs_kern_mount+0x0/0xec) from [<c0299908>] (kern_mount_data+0x1c/0x20) | [<c02998ec>] (kern_mount_data+0x0/0x20) from [<c02146c4>] (sysfs_init+0x68/0xc8) | [<c021465c>] (sysfs_init+0x0/0xc8) from [<c02137d4>] (mnt_init+0x90/0x1b0) | [<c0213744>] (mnt_init+0x0/0x1b0) from [<c0213388>] (vfs_caches_init+0x100/0x140) | [<c0213288>] (vfs_caches_init+0x0/0x140) from [<c0208c0c>] (start_kernel+0x2e8/0x368) | [<c0208924>] (start_kernel+0x0/0x368) from [<c0208034>] (__enable_mmu+0x0/0x2c) | c0113268: redzone 1:0xd84156c5c032b3ac, redzone 2:0xd84156c5635688c0. | slab error in cache_alloc_debugcheck_after(): cache `idr_layer_cache': double free, or memory outside object was overwritten | ... | c011307c: redzone 1:0x9f91102ffffffff, redzone 2:0x9f911029d74e35b | slab: Internal list corruption detected in cache 'idr_layer_cache'(24), slabp c0113000(16). Hexdump: | | 000: 20 4f 10 c0 20 4f 10 c0 7c 00 00 00 7c 30 11 c0 | 010: 10 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 c9 17 fe ff ff ff | 020: fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff | 030: fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff | 040: fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff | 050: fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff fe ff ff ff 11 00 00 00 | 060: 12 00 00 00 13 00 00 00 14 00 00 00 15 00 00 00 | 070: 16 00 00 00 17 00 00 00 c0 88 56 63 | kernel BUG at /home/rmk/git/linux-2.6-rmk/mm/slab.c:2928! Reference: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/7/238 Reported-and-analyzed-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-14Revert "oom: oom_kill_process: fix the child_points logic"Linus Torvalds
This reverts the parent commit. I hate doing that, but it's generating some discussion ("half of it is right"), and since I am planning on doing the 2.6.38 release later today we can punt it to stable if required. Let's not rock the boat right now. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-14oom: oom_kill_process: fix the child_points logicOleg Nesterov
oom_kill_process() starts with victim_points == 0. This means that (most likely) any child has more points and can be killed erroneously. Also, "children has a different mm" doesn't match the reality, we should check child->mm != t->mm. This check is not exactly correct if t->mm == NULL but this doesn't really matter, oom_kill_task() will kill them anyway. Note: "Kill all processes sharing p->mm" in oom_kill_task() is wrong too. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-14thp+memcg-numa: fix BUG at include/linux/mm.h:370!Hugh Dickins
THP's collapse_huge_page() has an understandable but ugly difference in when its huge page is allocated: inside if NUMA but outside if not. It's hardly surprising that the memcg failure path forgot that, freeing the page in the non-NUMA case, then hitting a VM_BUG_ON in get_page() (or even worse, using the freed page). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-13thp: fix page_referenced to modify mapcount/vm_flags only if page is foundAndrea Arcangeli
When vmscan.c calls page_referenced(), if an anon page was created before a process forked, rmap will search for it in both of the processes, even though one of them might have since broken COW. If the child process mlocks the vma where the COWed page belongs to, page_referenced() running on the page mapped by the parent would lead to *vm_flags getting VM_LOCKED set erroneously (leading to the references on the parent page being ignored and evicting the parent page too early). *mapcount would also be decremented by page_referenced_one even if the page wasn't found by page_check_address. This also lets pmdp_clear_flush_young_notify() go ahead on a pmd_trans_splitting() pmd. We hold the page_table_lock so __split_huge_page_map() must wait the pmdp_clear_flush_young_notify() to complete before it can modify the pmd. The pmd is also still mapped in userland so the young bit may materialize through a tlb miss before split_huge_page_map runs. This will provide a more accurate page_referenced() behavior during split_huge_page(). Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-04mm: use correct numa policy node for transparent hugepagesAndi Kleen
Pass down the correct node for a transparent hugepage allocation. Most callers continue to use the current node, however the hugepaged daemon now uses the previous node of the first to be collapsed page instead. This ensures that khugepaged does not mess up local memory for an existing process which uses local policy. The choice of node is somewhat primitive currently: it just uses the node of the first page in the pmd range. An alternative would be to look at multiple pages and use the most popular node. I used the simplest variant for now which should work well enough for the case of all pages being on the same node. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-04mm: preserve original node for transparent huge page copiesAndi Kleen
This makes a difference for LOCAL policy, where the node cannot be determined from the policy itself, but has to be gotten from the original page. Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-04mm: change alloc_pages_vma to pass down the policy node for local policyAndi Kleen
Currently alloc_pages_vma() always uses the local node as policy node for the LOCAL policy. Pass this node down as an argument instead. No behaviour change from this patch, but will be needed for followons. Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-25memcg: more mem_cgroup_uncharge() batchingHugh Dickins
It seems odd that truncate_inode_pages_range(), called not only when truncating but also when evicting inodes, has mem_cgroup_uncharge_start and _end() batching in its second loop to clear up a few leftovers, but not in its first loop that does almost all the work: add them there too. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-25thp: fix interleaving for transparent hugepagesAndi Kleen
The THP code didn't pass the correct interleaving shift to the memory policy code. Fix this here by adjusting for the order. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-25mm: fix dubious code in __count_immobile_pages()Namhyung Kim
When pfn_valid_within() failed 'iter' was incremented twice. Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-25mm: vmscan: stop reclaim/compaction earlier due to insufficient progress if ↵Mel Gorman
!__GFP_REPEAT should_continue_reclaim() for reclaim/compaction allows scanning to continue even if pages are not being reclaimed until the full list is scanned. In terms of allocation success, this makes sense but potentially it introduces unwanted latency for high-order allocations such as transparent hugepages and network jumbo frames that would prefer to fail the allocation attempt and fallback to order-0 pages. Worse, there is a potential that the full LRU scan will clear all the young bits, distort page aging information and potentially push pages into swap that would have otherwise remained resident. This patch will stop reclaim/compaction if no pages were reclaimed in the last SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages that were considered. For allocations such as hugetlbfs that use __GFP_REPEAT and have fewer fallback options, the full LRU list may still be scanned. Order-0 allocation should not be affected because RECLAIM_MODE_COMPACTION is not set so the following avoids the gfp_mask being examined: if (!(sc->reclaim_mode & RECLAIM_MODE_COMPACTION)) return false; A tool was developed based on ftrace that tracked the latency of high-order allocations while transparent hugepage support was enabled and three benchmarks were run. The "fix-infinite" figures are 2.6.38-rc4 with Johannes's patch "vmscan: fix zone shrinking exit when scan work is done" applied. STREAM Highorder Allocation Latency Statistics fix-infinite break-early 1 :: Count 10298 10229 1 :: Min 0.4560 0.4640 1 :: Mean 1.0589 1.0183 1 :: Max 14.5990 11.7510 1 :: Stddev 0.5208 0.4719 2 :: Count 2 1 2 :: Min 1.8610 3.7240 2 :: Mean 3.4325 3.7240 2 :: Max 5.0040 3.7240 2 :: Stddev 1.5715 0.0000 9 :: Count 111696 111694 9 :: Min 0.5230 0.4110 9 :: Mean 10.5831 10.5718 9 :: Max 38.4480 43.2900 9 :: Stddev 1.1147 1.1325 Mean time for order-1 allocations is reduced. order-2 looks increased but with so few allocations, it's not particularly significant. THP mean allocation latency is also reduced. That said, allocation time varies so significantly that the reductions are within noise. Max allocation time is reduced by a significant amount for low-order allocations but reduced for THP allocations which presumably are now breaking before reclaim has done enough work. SysBench Highorder Allocation Latency Statistics fix-infinite break-early 1 :: Count 15745 15677 1 :: Min 0.4250 0.4550 1 :: Mean 1.1023 1.0810 1 :: Max 14.4590 10.8220 1 :: Stddev 0.5117 0.5100 2 :: Count 1 1 2 :: Min 3.0040 2.1530 2 :: Mean 3.0040 2.1530 2 :: Max 3.0040 2.1530 2 :: Stddev 0.0000 0.0000 9 :: Count 2017 1931 9 :: Min 0.4980 0.7480 9 :: Mean 10.4717 10.3840 9 :: Max 24.9460 26.2500 9 :: Stddev 1.1726 1.1966 Again, mean time for order-1 allocations is reduced while order-2 allocations are too few to draw conclusions from. The mean time for THP allocations is also slightly reduced albeit the reductions are within varianes. Once again, our maximum allocation time is significantly reduced for low-order allocations and slightly increased for THP allocations. Anon stream mmap reference Highorder Allocation Latency Statistics 1 :: Count 1376 1790 1 :: Min 0.4940 0.5010 1 :: Mean 1.0289 0.9732 1 :: Max 6.2670 4.2540 1 :: Stddev 0.4142 0.2785 2 :: Count 1 - 2 :: Min 1.9060 - 2 :: Mean 1.9060 - 2 :: Max 1.9060 - 2 :: Stddev 0.0000 - 9 :: Count 11266 11257 9 :: Min 0.4990 0.4940 9 :: Mean 27250.4669 24256.1919 9 :: Max 11439211.0000 6008885.0000 9 :: Stddev 226427.4624 186298.1430 This benchmark creates one thread per CPU which references an amount of anonymous memory 1.5 times the size of physical RAM. This pounds swap quite heavily and is intended to exercise THP a bit. Mean allocation time for order-1 is reduced as before. It's also reduced for THP allocations but the variations here are pretty massive due to swap. As before, maximum allocation times are significantly reduced. Overall, the patch reduces the mean and maximum allocation latencies for the smaller high-order allocations. This was with Slab configured so it would be expected to be more significant with Slub which uses these size allocations more aggressively. The mean allocation times for THP allocations are also slightly reduced. The maximum latency was slightly increased as predicted by the comments due to reclaim/compaction breaking early. However, workloads care more about the latency of lower-order allocations than THP so it's an acceptable trade-off. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-25mm: grab rcu read lock in move_pages()Greg Thelen
The move_pages() usage of find_task_by_vpid() requires rcu_read_lock() to prevent free_pid() from reclaiming the pid. Without this patch, RCU warnings are printed in v2.6.38-rc4 move_pages() with: CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR=y CONFIG_PREEMPT=y CONFIG_LOCKDEP=y CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y Previously, migrate_pages() went through a similar transformation replacing usage of tasklist_lock with rcu read lock: commit 55cfaa3cbdd29c4919ecb5fb8965c310f357e48c Author: Zeng Zhaoming <zengzm.kernel@gmail.com> Date: Thu Dec 2 14:31:13 2010 -0800 mm/mempolicy.c: add rcu read lock to protect pid structure commit 1e50df39f6e2c3a4a3394df62baa8a213df16c54 Author: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Date: Thu Jan 13 15:46:14 2011 -0800 mempolicy: remove tasklist_lock from migrate_pages Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Zeng Zhaoming <zengzm.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-24mm: fix refcounting in swaponMiklos Szeredi
Grab a reference to bdev before calling blkdev_get(), which expects the refcount to be already incremented and either returns success or decrements the refcount and returns an error. The bug was introduced by e525fd89 (block: make blkdev_get/put() handle exclusive access), which didn't take into account this behavior of blkdev_get(). Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-23mm: fix possible cause of a page_mapped BUGHugh Dickins
Robert Swiecki reported a BUG_ON(page_mapped) from a fuzzer, punching a hole with madvise(,, MADV_REMOVE). That path is under mutex, and cannot be explained by lack of serialization in unmap_mapping_range(). Reviewing the code, I found one place where vm_truncate_count handling should have been updated, when I switched at the last minute from one way of managing the restart_addr to another: mremap move changes the virtual addresses, so it ought to adjust the restart_addr. But rather than exporting the notion of restart_addr from memory.c, or converting to restart_pgoff throughout, simply reset vm_truncate_count to 0 to force a rescan if mremap move races with preempted truncation. We have no confirmation that this fixes Robert's BUG, but it is a fix that's worth making anyway. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-23mm: prevent concurrent unmap_mapping_range() on the same inodeMiklos Szeredi
Michael Leun reported that running parallel opens on a fuse filesystem can trigger a "kernel BUG at mm/truncate.c:475" Gurudas Pai reported the same bug on NFS. The reason is, unmap_mapping_range() is not prepared for more than one concurrent invocation per inode. For example: thread1: going through a big range, stops in the middle of a vma and stores the restart address in vm_truncate_count. thread2: comes in with a small (e.g. single page) unmap request on the same vma, somewhere before restart_address, finds that the vma was already unmapped up to the restart address and happily returns without doing anything. Another scenario would be two big unmap requests, both having to restart the unmapping and each one setting vm_truncate_count to its own value. This could go on forever without any of them being able to finish. Truncate and hole punching already serialize with i_mutex. Other callers of unmap_mapping_range() do not, and it's difficult to get i_mutex protection for all callers. In particular ->d_revalidate(), which calls invalidate_inode_pages2_range() in fuse, may be called with or without i_mutex. This patch adds a new mutex to 'struct address_space' to prevent running multiple concurrent unmap_mapping_range() on the same mapping. [ We'll hopefully get rid of all this with the upcoming mm preemptibility series by Peter Zijlstra, the "mm: Remove i_mmap_mutex lockbreak" patch in particular. But that is for 2.6.39 ] Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Reported-by: Michael Leun <lkml20101129@newton.leun.net> Reported-by: Gurudas Pai <gurudas.pai@oracle.com> Tested-by: Gurudas Pai <gurudas.pai@oracle.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-15thp: prevent hugepages during args/env copying into the user stackAndrea Arcangeli
Transparent hugepages can only be created if rmap is fully functional. So we must prevent hugepages to be created while is_vma_temporary_stack() is true. This also optmizes away some harmless but unnecessary setting of khugepaged_scan.address and it switches some BUG_ON to VM_BUG_ON. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>