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2012-06-01mm: mempolicy: Let vma_merge and vma_split handle vma->vm_policy linkagesMel Gorman
commit 05f144a0d5c2207a0349348127f996e104ad7404 upstream. Dave Jones' system call fuzz testing tool "trinity" triggered the following bug error with slab debugging enabled ============================================================================= BUG numa_policy (Not tainted): Poison overwritten ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- INFO: 0xffff880146498250-0xffff880146498250. First byte 0x6a instead of 0x6b INFO: Allocated in mpol_new+0xa3/0x140 age=46310 cpu=6 pid=32154 __slab_alloc+0x3d3/0x445 kmem_cache_alloc+0x29d/0x2b0 mpol_new+0xa3/0x140 sys_mbind+0x142/0x620 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b INFO: Freed in __mpol_put+0x27/0x30 age=46268 cpu=6 pid=32154 __slab_free+0x2e/0x1de kmem_cache_free+0x25a/0x260 __mpol_put+0x27/0x30 remove_vma+0x68/0x90 exit_mmap+0x118/0x140 mmput+0x73/0x110 exit_mm+0x108/0x130 do_exit+0x162/0xb90 do_group_exit+0x4f/0xc0 sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b INFO: Slab 0xffffea0005192600 objects=27 used=27 fp=0x (null) flags=0x20000000004080 INFO: Object 0xffff880146498250 @offset=592 fp=0xffff88014649b9d0 This implied a reference counting bug and the problem happened during mbind(). mbind() applies a new memory policy to a range and uses mbind_range() to merge existing VMAs or split them as necessary. In the event of splits, mpol_dup() will allocate a new struct mempolicy and maintain existing reference counts whose rules are documented in Documentation/vm/numa_memory_policy.txt . The problem occurs with shared memory policies. The vm_op->set_policy increments the reference count if necessary and split_vma() and vma_merge() have already handled the existing reference counts. However, policy_vma() screws it up by replacing an existing vma->vm_policy with one that potentially has the wrong reference count leading to a premature free. This patch removes the damage caused by policy_vma(). With this patch applied Dave's trinity tool runs an mbind test for 5 minutes without error. /proc/slabinfo reported that there are no numa_policy or shared_policy_node objects allocated after the test completed and the shared memory region was deleted. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Stephen Wilson <wilsons@start.ca> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-05-19memcg,thp: fix res_counter:96 regressionHugh Dickins
Occasionally, testing memcg's move_charge_at_immigrate on rc7 shows a flurry of hundreds of warnings at kernel/res_counter.c:96, where res_counter_uncharge_locked() does WARN_ON(counter->usage < val). The first trace of each flurry implicates __mem_cgroup_cancel_charge() of mc.precharge, and an audit of mc.precharge handling points to mem_cgroup_move_charge_pte_range()'s THP handling in commit 12724850e806 ("memcg: avoid THP split in task migration"). Checking !mc.precharge is good everywhere else, when a single page is to be charged; but here the "mc.precharge -= HPAGE_PMD_NR" likely to follow, is liable to result in underflow (a lot can change since the precharge was estimated). Simply check against HPAGE_PMD_NR: there's probably a better alternative, trying precharge for more, splitting if unsuccessful; but this one-liner is safer for now - no kernel/res_counter.c:96 warnings seen in 26 hours. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-17slub: missing test for partial pages flush work in flush_all()majianpeng
I found some kernel messages such as: SLUB raid5-md127: kmem_cache_destroy called for cache that still has objects. Pid: 6143, comm: mdadm Tainted: G O 3.4.0-rc6+ #75 Call Trace: kmem_cache_destroy+0x328/0x400 free_conf+0x2d/0xf0 [raid456] stop+0x41/0x60 [raid456] md_stop+0x1a/0x60 [md_mod] do_md_stop+0x74/0x470 [md_mod] md_ioctl+0xff/0x11f0 [md_mod] blkdev_ioctl+0xd8/0x7a0 block_ioctl+0x3b/0x40 do_vfs_ioctl+0x96/0x560 sys_ioctl+0x91/0xa0 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Then using kmemleak I found these messages: unreferenced object 0xffff8800b6db7380 (size 112): comm "mdadm", pid 5783, jiffies 4294810749 (age 90.589s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 01 01 db b6 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff .....N.......... ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 98 40 4a 82 ff ff ff ff .........@J..... backtrace: kmemleak_alloc+0x21/0x50 kmem_cache_alloc+0xeb/0x1b0 kmem_cache_open+0x2f1/0x430 kmem_cache_create+0x158/0x320 setup_conf+0x649/0x770 [raid456] run+0x68b/0x840 [raid456] md_run+0x529/0x940 [md_mod] do_md_run+0x18/0xc0 [md_mod] md_ioctl+0xba8/0x11f0 [md_mod] blkdev_ioctl+0xd8/0x7a0 block_ioctl+0x3b/0x40 do_vfs_ioctl+0x96/0x560 sys_ioctl+0x91/0xa0 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b This bug was introduced by commit a8364d5555b ("slub: only IPI CPUs that have per cpu obj to flush"), which did not include checks for per cpu partial pages being present on a cpu. Signed-off-by: majianpeng <majianpeng@gmail.com> Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-11mm: raise MemFree by reverting percpu_pagelist_fraction to 0Hugh Dickins
Why is there less MemFree than there used to be? It perturbed a test, so I've just been bisecting linux-next, and now find the offender went upstream yesterday. Commit 93278814d359 "mm: fix division by 0 in percpu_pagelist_fraction()" mistakenly initialized percpu_pagelist_fraction to the sysctl's minimum 8, which leaves 1/8th of memory on percpu lists (on each cpu??); but most of us expect it to be left unset at 0 (and it's not then used as a divisor). MemTotal: 8061476kB 8061476kB 8061476kB 8061476kB 8061476kB 8061476kB Repetitive test with percpu_pagelist_fraction 8: MemFree: 6948420kB 6237172kB 6949696kB 6840692kB 6949048kB 6862984kB Same test with percpu_pagelist_fraction back to 0: MemFree: 7945000kB 7944908kB 7948568kB 7949060kB 7948796kB 7948812kB Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> [ We really should fix the crazy sysctl interface too, but that's a separate thing - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-10Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)Linus Torvalds
Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton. * emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (8 patches) MAINTAINERS: add maintainer for LED subsystem mm: nobootmem: fix sign extend problem in __free_pages_memory() drivers/leds: correct __devexit annotations memcg: free spare array to avoid memory leak namespaces, pid_ns: fix leakage on fork() failure hugetlb: prevent BUG_ON in hugetlb_fault() -> hugetlb_cow() mm: fix division by 0 in percpu_pagelist_fraction() proc/pid/pagemap: correctly report non-present ptes and holes between vmas
2012-05-10mm: nobootmem: fix sign extend problem in __free_pages_memory()Russ Anderson
Systems with 8 TBytes of memory or greater can hit a problem where only the the first 8 TB of memory shows up. This is due to "int i" being smaller than "unsigned long start_aligned", causing the high bits to be dropped. The fix is to change `i' to unsigned long to match start_aligned and end_aligned. Thanks to Jack Steiner for assistance tracking this down. Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-10memcg: free spare array to avoid memory leakSha Zhengju
When the last event is unregistered, there is no need to keep the spare array anymore. So free it to avoid memory leak. Signed-off-by: Sha Zhengju <handai.szj@taobao.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-10hugetlb: prevent BUG_ON in hugetlb_fault() -> hugetlb_cow()Chris Metcalf
Commit 66aebce747eaf ("hugetlb: fix race condition in hugetlb_fault()") added code to avoid a race condition by elevating the page refcount in hugetlb_fault() while calling hugetlb_cow(). However, one code path in hugetlb_cow() includes an assertion that the page count is 1, whereas it may now also have the value 2 in this path. The consensus is that this BUG_ON has served its purpose, so rather than extending it to cover both cases, we just remove it. Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.0.29+, 3.2.16+, 3.3.3+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-10mm: fix division by 0 in percpu_pagelist_fraction()Sasha Levin
percpu_pagelist_fraction_sysctl_handler() has only considered -EINVAL as a possible error from proc_dointvec_minmax(). If any other error is returned, it would proceed to divide by zero since percpu_pagelist_fraction wasn't getting initialized at any point. For example, writing 0 bytes into the proc file would trigger the issue. Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-05-09kmemleak: Fix the kmemleak tracking of the percpu areas with !SMPCatalin Marinas
Kmemleak tracks the percpu allocations via a specific API and the originally allocated areas must be removed from kmemleak (via kmemleak_free). The code was already doing this for SMP systems. Reported-by: Sami Liedes <sami.liedes@iki.fi> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2012-05-09percpu: pcpu_embed_first_chunk() should free unused parts after all allocs ↵Tejun Heo
are complete pcpu_embed_first_chunk() allocates memory for each node, copies percpu data and frees unused portions of it before proceeding to the next group. This assumes that allocations for different nodes doesn't overlap; however, depending on memory topology, the bootmem allocator may end up allocating memory from a different node than the requested one which may overlap with the portion freed from one of the previous percpu areas. This leads to percpu groups for different nodes overlapping which is a serious bug. This patch separates out copy & partial free from the allocation loop such that all allocations are complete before partial frees happen. This also fixes overlapping frees which could happen on allocation failure path - out_free_areas path frees whole groups but the groups could have portions freed at that point. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: "Pavel V. Panteleev" <pp_84@mail.ru> Tested-by: "Pavel V. Panteleev" <pp_84@mail.ru> LKML-Reference: <E1SNhwY-0007ui-V7.pp_84-mail-ru@f220.mail.ru>
2012-05-08Merge branch 'for-3.4-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu Pull two percpu fixes from Tejun Heo: "One adds missing KERN_CONT on split printk()s and the other makes the percpu allocator avoid using PMD_SIZE as atom_size on x86_32. Using PMD_SIZE led to vmalloc area exhaustion on certain configurations (x86_32 android) and the only cost of using PAGE_SIZE instead is static percpu area not being aligned to large page mapping." * 'for-3.4-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: percpu, x86: don't use PMD_SIZE as embedded atom_size on 32bit percpu: use KERN_CONT in pcpu_dump_alloc_info()
2012-04-26Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)Linus Torvalds
Merge fixes from Andrew Morton: "13 fixes. The acerhdf patches aren't (really) fixes. But they've been stuck in my tree for up to two years, sent to Matthew multiple times and the developers are unhappy." * emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (13 patches) mm: fix NULL ptr dereference in move_pages mm: fix NULL ptr dereference in migrate_pages revert "proc: clear_refs: do not clear reserved pages" drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1307.c: fix BUG shown with lock debugging enabled arch/arm/mach-ux500/mbox-db5500.c: world-writable sysfs fifo file hugetlbfs: lockdep annotate root inode properly acerhdf: lowered default temp fanon/fanoff values acerhdf: add support for new hardware acerhdf: add support for Aspire 1410 BIOS v1.3314 fs/buffer.c: remove BUG() in possible but rare condition mm: fix up the vmscan stat in vmstat epoll: clear the tfile_check_list on -ELOOP mm/hugetlb: fix warning in alloc_huge_page/dequeue_huge_page_vma
2012-04-25mm: fix NULL ptr dereference in move_pagesSasha Levin
Commit 3268c63 ("mm: fix move/migrate_pages() race on task struct") has added an odd construct where 'mm' is checked for being NULL, and if it is, it would get dereferenced anyways by mput()ing it. Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-04-25mm: fix NULL ptr dereference in migrate_pagesSasha Levin
Commit 3268c63 ("mm: fix move/migrate_pages() race on task struct") has added an odd construct where 'mm' is checked for being NULL, and if it is, it would get dereferenced anyways by mput()ing it. This would lead to the following NULL ptr deref and BUG() when calling migrate_pages() with a pid that has no mm struct: [25904.193704] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000050 [25904.194235] IP: [<ffffffff810b0de7>] mmput+0x27/0xf0 [25904.194235] PGD 773e6067 PUD 77da0067 PMD 0 [25904.194235] Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [25904.194235] CPU 2 [25904.194235] Pid: 31608, comm: trinity Tainted: G W 3.4.0-rc2-next-20120412-sasha #69 [25904.194235] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810b0de7>] [<ffffffff810b0de7>] mmput+0x27/0xf0 [25904.194235] RSP: 0018:ffff880077d49e08 EFLAGS: 00010202 [25904.194235] RAX: 0000000000000286 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 [25904.194235] RDX: ffff880075ef8000 RSI: 000000000000023d RDI: 0000000000000286 [25904.194235] RBP: ffff880077d49e18 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000001 [25904.194235] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 [25904.194235] R13: 00000000ffffffea R14: ffff880034287740 R15: ffff8800218d3010 [25904.194235] FS: 00007fc8b244c700(0000) GS:ffff880029800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [25904.194235] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [25904.194235] CR2: 0000000000000050 CR3: 00000000767c6000 CR4: 00000000000406e0 [25904.194235] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [25904.194235] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [25904.194235] Process trinity (pid: 31608, threadinfo ffff880077d48000, task ffff880075ef8000) [25904.194235] Stack: [25904.194235] ffff8800342876c0 0000000000000000 ffff880077d49f78 ffffffff811b8020 [25904.194235] ffffffff811b7d91 ffff880075ef8000 ffff88002256d200 0000000000000000 [25904.194235] 00000000000003ff 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 [25904.194235] Call Trace: [25904.194235] [<ffffffff811b8020>] sys_migrate_pages+0x340/0x3a0 [25904.194235] [<ffffffff811b7d91>] ? sys_migrate_pages+0xb1/0x3a0 [25904.194235] [<ffffffff8266cbb9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [25904.194235] Code: c9 c3 66 90 55 31 d2 48 89 e5 be 3d 02 00 00 48 83 ec 10 48 89 1c 24 4c 89 64 24 08 48 89 fb 48 c7 c7 cf 0e e1 82 e8 69 18 03 00 <f0> ff 4b 50 0f 94 c0 84 c0 0f 84 aa 00 00 00 48 89 df e8 72 f1 [25904.194235] RIP [<ffffffff810b0de7>] mmput+0x27/0xf0 [25904.194235] RSP <ffff880077d49e08> [25904.194235] CR2: 0000000000000050 [25904.348999] ---[ end trace a307b3ed40206b4b ]--- Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-04-25mm: fix up the vmscan stat in vmstatYing Han
The "pgsteal" stat is confusing because it counts both direct reclaim as well as background reclaim. However, we have "kswapd_steal" which also counts background reclaim value. This patch fixes it and also makes it match the existng "pgscan_" stats. Test: pgsteal_kswapd_dma32 447623 pgsteal_kswapd_normal 42272677 pgsteal_kswapd_movable 0 pgsteal_direct_dma32 2801 pgsteal_direct_normal 44353270 pgsteal_direct_movable 0 Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-04-25mm/hugetlb: fix warning in alloc_huge_page/dequeue_huge_page_vmaKonstantin Khlebnikov
Fix a gcc warning (and bug?) introduced in cc9a6c877 ("cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3") Local variable "page" can be uninitialized if the nodemask from vma policy does not intersects with nodemask from cpuset. Even if it doesn't happens it is better to initialize this variable explicitly than to introduce a kernel oops in a weird corner case. mm/hugetlb.c: In function `alloc_huge_page': mm/hugetlb.c:1135:5: warning: `page' may be used uninitialized in this function Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> 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>
2012-04-25mm: memcg: move pc lookup point to commit_charge()Johannes Weiner
None of the callsites actually need the page_cgroup descriptor themselves, so just pass the page and do the look up in there. We already had two bugs (6568d4a 'mm: memcg: update the correct soft limit tree during migration' and 'memcg: fix Bad page state after replace_page_cache') where the passed page and pc were not referring to the same page frame. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-04-25mm: nobootmem: Correct alloc_bootmem semantics.David Miller
The comments above __alloc_bootmem_node() claim that the code will first try the allocation using 'goal' and if that fails it will try again but with the 'goal' requirement dropped. Unfortunately, this is not what the code does, so fix it to do so. This is important for nobootmem conversions to architectures such as sparc where MAX_DMA_ADDRESS is infinity. On such architectures all of the allocations done by generic spots, such as the sparse-vmemmap implementation, will pass in: __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS) as the goal, and with the limit given as "-1" this will always fail unless we add the appropriate fallback logic here. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-04-23mm: fix s390 BUG by __set_page_dirty_no_writeback on swapHugh Dickins
Mel reports a BUG_ON(slot == NULL) in radix_tree_tag_set() on s390 3.0.13: called from __set_page_dirty_nobuffers() when page_remove_rmap() tries to transfer dirty flag from s390 storage key to struct page and radix_tree. That would be because of reclaim's shrink_page_list() calling add_to_swap() on this page at the same time: first PageSwapCache is set (causing page_mapping(page) to appear as &swapper_space), then page->private set, then tree_lock taken, then page inserted into radix_tree - so there's an interval before taking the lock when the radix_tree slot is empty. We could fix this by moving __add_to_swap_cache()'s spin_lock_irq up before the SetPageSwapCache. But a better fix is simply to do what's five years overdue: Ken Chen introduced __set_page_dirty_no_writeback() (if !PageDirty TestSetPageDirty) for tmpfs to skip all the radix_tree overhead, and swap is just the same - it ignores the radix_tree tag, and does not participate in dirty page accounting, so should be using __set_page_dirty_no_writeback() too. s390 testing now confirms that this does indeed fix the problem. Reported-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-04-21kill mm argument of vm_munmap()Al Viro
it's always current->mm Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-04-20VM: add "vm_mmap()" helper functionLinus Torvalds
This continues the theme started with vm_brk() and vm_munmap(): vm_mmap() does the same thing as do_mmap(), but additionally does the required VM locking. This uninlines (and rewrites it to be clearer) do_mmap(), which sadly duplicates it in mm/mmap.c and mm/nommu.c. But that way we don't have to export our internal do_mmap_pgoff() function. Some day we hopefully don't have to export do_mmap() either, if all modular users can become the simpler vm_mmap() instead. We're actually very close to that already, with the notable exception of the (broken) use in i810, and a couple of stragglers in binfmt_elf. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-04-20VM: add "vm_munmap()" helper functionLinus Torvalds
Like the vm_brk() function, this is the same as "do_munmap()", except it does the VM locking for the caller. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-04-20VM: add "vm_brk()" helper functionLinus Torvalds
It does the same thing as "do_brk()", except it handles the VM locking too. It turns out that all external callers want that anyway, so we can make do_brk() static to just mm/mmap.c while at it. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-04-20memblock: memblock should be able to handle zero length operationsTejun Heo
Commit 24aa07882b ("memblock, x86: Replace memblock_x86_reserve/ free_range() with generic ones") replaced x86 specific memblock operations with the generic ones; unfortunately, it lost zero length operation handling in the process making the kernel panic if somebody tries to reserve zero length area. There isn't much to be gained by being cranky to zero length operations and panicking is almost the worst response. Drop the BUG_ON() in memblock_reserve() and update memblock_add_region/isolate_range() so that all zero length operations are handled as noops. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Valere Monseur <valere.monseur@ymail.com> Bisected-by: Joseph Freeman <jfree143dev@gmail.com> Tested-by: Joseph Freeman <jfree143dev@gmail.com> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43098 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-04-18memcg: fix Bad page state after replace_page_cacheHugh Dickins
My 9ce70c0240d0 "memcg: fix deadlock by inverting lrucare nesting" put a nasty little bug into v3.3's version of mem_cgroup_replace_page_cache(), sometimes used for FUSE. Replacing __mem_cgroup_commit_charge_lrucare() by __mem_cgroup_commit_charge(), I used the "pc" pointer set up earlier: but it's for oldpage, and needs now to be for newpage. Once oldpage was freed, its PageCgroupUsed bit (cleared above but set again here) caused "Bad page state" messages - and perhaps worse, being missed from newpage. (I didn't find this by using FUSE, but in reusing the function for tmpfs.) Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [v3.3 only] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-04-12Revert "mm: vmscan: fix misused nr_reclaimed in shrink_mem_cgroup_zone()"Ying Han
This reverts commit c38446cc65e1f2b3eb8630c53943b94c4f65f670. Before the commit, the code makes senses to me but not after the commit. The "nr_reclaimed" is the number of pages reclaimed by scanning through the memcg's lru lists. The "nr_to_reclaim" is the target value for the whole function. For example, we like to early break the reclaim if reclaimed 32 pages under direct reclaim (not DEF_PRIORITY). After the reverted commit, the target "nr_to_reclaim" is decremented each time by "nr_reclaimed" but we still use it to compare the "nr_reclaimed". It just doesn't make sense to me... Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-04-12hugetlb: fix race condition in hugetlb_fault()Chris Metcalf
The race is as follows: Suppose a multi-threaded task forks a new process (on cpu A), thus bumping up the ref count on all the pages. While the fork is occurring (and thus we have marked all the PTEs as read-only), another thread in the original process (on cpu B) tries to write to a huge page, taking an access violation from the write-protect and calling hugetlb_cow(). Now, suppose the fork() fails. It will undo the COW and decrement the ref count on the pages, so the ref count on the huge page drops back to 1. Meanwhile hugetlb_cow() also decrements the ref count by one on the original page, since the original address space doesn't need it any more, having copied a new page to replace the original page. This leaves the ref count at zero, and when we call unlock_page(), we panic. fork on CPU A fault on CPU B ============= ============== ... down_write(&parent->mmap_sem); down_write_nested(&child->mmap_sem); ... while duplicating vmas if error break; ... up_write(&child->mmap_sem); up_write(&parent->mmap_sem); ... down_read(&parent->mmap_sem); ... lock_page(page); handle COW page_mapcount(old_page) == 2 alloc and prepare new_page ... handle error page_remove_rmap(page); put_page(page); ... fold new_page into pte page_remove_rmap(page); put_page(page); ... oops ==> unlock_page(page); up_read(&parent->mmap_sem); The solution is to take an extra reference to the page while we are holding the lock on it. Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-04-12memcg: do not open code accesses to res_counter membersGlauber Costa
We should use the accessor res_counter_read_u64 for that. Although a purely cosmetic change is sometimes better delayed, to avoid conflicting with other people's work, we are starting to have people touching this code as well, and reproducing the open code behavior because that's the standard =) Time to fix it, then. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: 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>
2012-04-12memcg: fix broken boolen expressionKirill A. Shutemov
action != CPU_DEAD || action != CPU_DEAD_FROZEN is always true. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-29percpu: use KERN_CONT in pcpu_dump_alloc_info()Tejun Heo
pcpu_dump_alloc_info() was printing continued lines without KERN_CONT. Use it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
2012-03-28Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)Linus Torvalds
Merge third batch of patches from Andrew Morton: - Some MM stragglers - core SMP library cleanups (on_each_cpu_mask) - Some IPI optimisations - kexec - kdump - IPMI - the radix-tree iterator work - various other misc bits. "That'll do for -rc1. I still have ~10 patches for 3.4, will send those along when they've baked a little more." * emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (35 commits) backlight: fix typo in tosa_lcd.c crc32: add help text for the algorithm select option mm: move hugepage test examples to tools/testing/selftests/vm mm: move slabinfo.c to tools/vm mm: move page-types.c from Documentation to tools/vm selftests/Makefile: make `run_tests' depend on `all' selftests: launch individual selftests from the main Makefile radix-tree: use iterators in find_get_pages* functions radix-tree: rewrite gang lookup using iterator radix-tree: introduce bit-optimized iterator fs/proc/namespaces.c: prevent crash when ns_entries[] is empty nbd: rename the nbd_device variable from lo to nbd pidns: add reboot_pid_ns() to handle the reboot syscall sysctl: use bitmap library functions ipmi: use locks on watchdog timeout set on reboot ipmi: simplify locking ipmi: fix message handling during panics ipmi: use a tasklet for handling received messages ipmi: increase KCS timeouts ipmi: decrease the IPMI message transaction time in interrupt mode ...
2012-03-28radix-tree: use iterators in find_get_pages* functionsKonstantin Khlebnikov
Replace radix_tree_gang_lookup_slot() and radix_tree_gang_lookup_tag_slot() in page-cache lookup functions with brand-new radix-tree direct iterating. This avoids the double-scanning and pointer copying. Iterator don't stop after nr_pages page-get fails in a row, it continue lookup till the radix-tree end. Thus we can safely remove these restart conditions. Unfortunately, old implementation didn't forbid nr_pages == 0, this corner case does not fit into new code, so the patch adds an extra check at the beginning. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Tested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-28mm: only IPI CPUs to drain local pages if they existGilad Ben-Yossef
Calculate a cpumask of CPUs with per-cpu pages in any zone and only send an IPI requesting CPUs to drain these pages to the buddy allocator if they actually have pages when asked to flush. This patch saves 85%+ of IPIs asking to drain per-cpu pages in case of severe memory pressure that leads to OOM since in these cases multiple, possibly concurrent, allocation requests end up in the direct reclaim code path so when the per-cpu pages end up reclaimed on first allocation failure for most of the proceeding allocation attempts until the memory pressure is off (possibly via the OOM killer) there are no per-cpu pages on most CPUs (and there can easily be hundreds of them). This also has the side effect of shortening the average latency of direct reclaim by 1 or more order of magnitude since waiting for all the CPUs to ACK the IPI takes a long time. Tested by running "hackbench 400" on a 8 CPU x86 VM and observing the difference between the number of direct reclaim attempts that end up in drain_all_pages() and those were more then 1/2 of the online CPU had any per-cpu page in them, using the vmstat counters introduced in the next patch in the series and using proc/interrupts. In the test sceanrio, this was seen to save around 3600 global IPIs after trigerring an OOM on a concurrent workload: $ cat /proc/vmstat | tail -n 2 pcp_global_drain 0 pcp_global_ipi_saved 0 $ cat /proc/interrupts | grep CAL CAL: 1 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 Function call interrupts $ hackbench 400 [OOM messages snipped] $ cat /proc/vmstat | tail -n 2 pcp_global_drain 3647 pcp_global_ipi_saved 3642 $ cat /proc/interrupts | grep CAL CAL: 6 13 6 3 3 3 1 2 7 Function call interrupts Please note that if the global drain is removed from the direct reclaim path as a patch from Mel Gorman currently suggests this should be replaced with an on_each_cpu_cond invocation. Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-28slub: only IPI CPUs that have per cpu obj to flushGilad Ben-Yossef
flush_all() is called for each kmem_cache_destroy(). So every cache being destroyed dynamically ends up sending an IPI to each CPU in the system, regardless if the cache has ever been used there. For example, if you close the Infinband ipath driver char device file, the close file ops calls kmem_cache_destroy(). So running some infiniband config tool on one a single CPU dedicated to system tasks might interrupt the rest of the 127 CPUs dedicated to some CPU intensive or latency sensitive task. I suspect there is a good chance that every line in the output of "git grep kmem_cache_destroy linux/ | grep '\->'" has a similar scenario. This patch attempts to rectify this issue by sending an IPI to flush the per cpu objects back to the free lists only to CPUs that seem to have such objects. The check which CPU to IPI is racy but we don't care since asking a CPU without per cpu objects to flush does no damage and as far as I can tell the flush_all by itself is racy against allocs on remote CPUs anyway, so if you required the flush_all to be determinstic, you had to arrange for locking regardless. Without this patch the following artificial test case: $ cd /sys/kernel/slab $ for DIR in *; do cat $DIR/alloc_calls > /dev/null; done produces 166 IPIs on an cpuset isolated CPU. With it it produces none. The code path of memory allocation failure for CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y config was tested using fault injection framework. Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.org> Cc: Kosaki Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Cc: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-28swapon: check validity of swap_flagsHugh Dickins
Most system calls taking flags first check that the flags passed in are valid, and that helps userspace to detect when new flags are supported. But swapon never did so: start checking now, to help if we ever want to support more swap_flags in future. It's difficult to get stray bits set in an int, and swapon is not widely used, so this is most unlikely to break any userspace; but we can just revert if it turns out to do so. 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>
2012-03-28mm, coredump: fail allocations when coredumping instead of oom killingDavid Rientjes
The size of coredump files is limited by RLIMIT_CORE, however, allocating large amounts of memory results in three negative consequences: - the coredumping process may be chosen for oom kill and quickly deplete all memory reserves in oom conditions preventing further progress from being made or tasks from exiting, - the coredumping process may cause other processes to be oom killed without fault of their own as the result of a SIGSEGV, for example, in the coredumping process, or - the coredumping process may result in a livelock while writing to the dump file if it needs memory to allocate while other threads are in the exit path waiting on the coredumper to complete. This is fixed by implying __GFP_NORETRY in the page allocator for coredumping processes when reclaim has failed so the allocations fail and the process continues to exit. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-28mm: thp: fix up pmd_trans_unstable() locationsAndrea Arcangeli
pmd_trans_unstable() should be called before pmd_offset_map() in the locations where the mmap_sem is held for reading. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-28mm for fs: add truncate_pagecache_range()Hugh Dickins
Holepunching filesystems ext4 and xfs are using truncate_inode_pages_range but forgetting to unmap pages first (ocfs2 remembers). This is not really a bug, since races already require truncate_inode_page() to handle that case once the page is locked; but it can be very inefficient if the file being punched happens to be mapped into many vmas. Provide a drop-in replacement truncate_pagecache_range() which does the unmapping pass first, handling the awkward mismatch between arguments to truncate_inode_pages_range() and arguments to unmap_mapping_range(). Note that holepunching does not unmap privately COWed pages in the range: POSIX requires that we do so when truncating, but it's hard to justify, difficult to implement without an i_size cutoff, and no filesystem is attempting to implement it. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Cc: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com> Cc: Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-28Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux Pull SLAB changes from Pekka Enberg: "There's the new kmalloc_array() API, minor fixes and performance improvements, but quite honestly, nothing terribly exciting." * 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux: mm: SLAB Out-of-memory diagnostics slab: introduce kmalloc_array() slub: per cpu partial statistics change slub: include include for prefetch slub: Do not hold slub_lock when calling sysfs_slab_add() slub: prefetch next freelist pointer in slab_alloc() slab, cleanup: remove unneeded return
2012-03-28Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 Pull ext4 updates for 3.4 from Ted Ts'o: "Ext4 commits for 3.3 merge window; mostly cleanups and bug fixes The changes to export dirty_writeback_interval are from Artem's s_dirt cleanup patch series. The same is true of the change to remove the s_dirt helper functions which never got used by anyone in-tree. I've run these changes by Al Viro, and am carrying them so that Artem can more easily fix up the rest of the file systems during the next merge window. (Originally we had hopped to remove the use of s_dirt from ext4 during this merge window, but his patches had some bugs, so I ultimately ended dropping them from the ext4 tree.)" * tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (66 commits) vfs: remove unused superblock helpers mm: export dirty_writeback_interval ext4: remove useless s_dirt assignment ext4: write superblock only once on unmount ext4: do not mark superblock as dirty unnecessarily ext4: correct ext4_punch_hole return codes ext4: remove restrictive checks for EOFBLOCKS_FL ext4: always set then trimmed blocks count into len ext4: fix trimmed block count accunting ext4: fix start and len arguments handling in ext4_trim_fs() ext4: update s_free_{inodes,blocks}_count during online resize ext4: change some printk() calls to use ext4_msg() instead ext4: avoid output message interleaving in ext4_error_<foo>() ext4: remove trailing newlines from ext4_msg() and ext4_error() messages ext4: add no_printk argument validation, fix fallout ext4: remove redundant "EXT4-fs: " from uses of ext4_msg ext4: give more helpful error message in ext4_ext_rm_leaf() ext4: remove unused code from ext4_ext_map_blocks() ext4: rewrite punch hole to use ext4_ext_remove_space() jbd2: cleanup journal tail after transaction commit ...
2012-03-24Fix potential endless loop in kswapd when compaction is not enabledRik van Riel
We should only test compaction_suitable if the kernel is built with CONFIG_COMPACTION, otherwise the stub compaction_suitable function will always return COMPACT_SKIPPED and send kswapd into an infinite loop. Reported-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-23coredump: add VM_NODUMP, MADV_NODUMP, MADV_CLEAR_NODUMPJason Baron
Since we no longer need the VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag, let's use the freed bit for 'VM_NODUMP' flag. The idea is is to add a new madvise() flag: MADV_DONTDUMP, which can be set by applications to specifically request memory regions which should not dump core. The specific application I have in mind is qemu: we can add a flag there that wouldn't dump all of guest memory when qemu dumps core. This flag might also be useful for security sensitive apps that want to absolutely make sure that parts of memory are not dumped. To clear the flag use: MADV_DODUMP. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/MADV_NODUMP/MADV_DONTDUMP/, s/MADV_CLEAR_NODUMP/MADV_DODUMP/, per Roland] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up the architectures which broke] Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-23coredump: remove VM_ALWAYSDUMP flagJason Baron
The motivation for this patchset was that I was looking at a way for a qemu-kvm process, to exclude the guest memory from its core dump, which can be quite large. There are already a number of filter flags in /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter, however, these allow one to specify 'types' of kernel memory, not specific address ranges (which is needed in this case). Since there are no more vma flags available, the first patch eliminates the need for the 'VM_ALWAYSDUMP' flag. The flag is used internally by the kernel to mark vdso and vsyscall pages. However, it is simple enough to check if a vma covers a vdso or vsyscall page without the need for this flag. The second patch then replaces the 'VM_ALWAYSDUMP' flag with a new 'VM_NODUMP' flag, which can be set by userspace using new madvise flags: 'MADV_DONTDUMP', and unset via 'MADV_DODUMP'. The core dump filters continue to work the same as before unless 'MADV_DONTDUMP' is set on the region. The qemu code which implements this features is at: http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/qemu-dump/qemu-dump.patch In my testing the qemu core dump shrunk from 383MB -> 13MB with this patch. I also believe that the 'MADV_DONTDUMP' flag might be useful for security sensitive apps, which might want to select which areas are dumped. This patch: The VM_ALWAYSDUMP flag is currently used by the coredump code to indicate that a vma is part of a vsyscall or vdso section. However, we can determine if a vma is in one these sections by checking it against the gate_vma and checking for a non-NULL return value from arch_vma_name(). Thus, freeing a valuable vma bit. Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Acked-by: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-23signal: oom_kill_task: use SEND_SIG_FORCED instead of force_sig()Oleg Nesterov
Change oom_kill_task() to use do_send_sig_info(SEND_SIG_FORCED) instead of force_sig(SIGKILL). With the recent changes we do not need force_ to kill the CLONE_NEWPID tasks. And this is more correct. force_sig() can race with the exiting thread even if oom_kill_task() checks p->mm != NULL, while do_send_sig_info(group => true) kille the whole process. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-23mm: hugetlb: cleanup duplicated code in unmapping vm rangeHillf Danton
Fix code duplication in __unmap_hugepage_range(), such as pte_page() and huge_pte_none(). Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-23mm: fix testorder interaction between two kswapd patchesHugh Dickins
Adjusting cc715d99e529 "mm: vmscan: forcibly scan highmem if there are too many buffer_heads pinning highmem" for -stable reveals that it was slightly wrong once on top of fe2c2a106663 "vmscan: reclaim at order 0 when compaction is enabled", which specifically adds testorder for the zone_watermark_ok_safe() test. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-22Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.4' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/mm Pull cleancache changes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk: "This has some patches for the cleancache API that should have been submitted a _long_ time ago. They are basically cleanups: - rename of flush to invalidate - moving reporting of statistics into debugfs - use __read_mostly as necessary. Oh, and also the MAINTAINERS file change. The files (except the MAINTAINERS file) have been in #linux-next for months now. The late addition of MAINTAINERS file is a brain-fart on my side - didn't realize I needed that just until I was typing this up - and I based that patch on v3.3 - so the tree is on top of v3.3." * tag 'stable/for-linus-3.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/mm: MAINTAINERS: Adding cleancache API to the list. mm: cleancache: Use __read_mostly as appropiate. mm: cleancache: report statistics via debugfs instead of sysfs. mm: zcache/tmem/cleancache: s/flush/invalidate/ mm: cleancache: s/flush/invalidate/
2012-03-22Merge branch 'x86-mce-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull MCE changes from Ingo Molnar. * 'x86-mce-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/mce: Fix return value of mce_chrdev_read() when erst is disabled x86/mce: Convert static array of pointers to per-cpu variables x86/mce: Replace hard coded hex constants with symbolic defines x86/mce: Recognise machine check bank signature for data path error x86/mce: Handle "action required" errors x86/mce: Add mechanism to safely save information in MCE handler x86/mce: Create helper function to save addr/misc when needed HWPOISON: Add code to handle "action required" errors. HWPOISON: Clean up memory_failure() vs. __memory_failure()
2012-03-22Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)Linus Torvalds
Merge first batch of patches from Andrew Morton: "A few misc things and all the MM queue" * emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (92 commits) memcg: avoid THP split in task migration thp: add HPAGE_PMD_* definitions for !CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE memcg: clean up existing move charge code mm/memcontrol.c: remove unnecessary 'break' in mem_cgroup_read() mm/memcontrol.c: remove redundant BUG_ON() in mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event() mm/memcontrol.c: s/stealed/stolen/ memcg: fix performance of mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat() memcg: remove PCG_FILE_MAPPED memcg: use new logic for page stat accounting memcg: remove PCG_MOVE_LOCK flag from page_cgroup memcg: simplify move_account() check memcg: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(mem_cgroup_update_page_stat) memcg: kill dead prev_priority stubs memcg: remove PCG_CACHE page_cgroup flag memcg: let css_get_next() rely upon rcu_read_lock() cgroup: revert ss_id_lock to spinlock idr: make idr_get_next() good for rcu_read_lock() memcg: remove unnecessary thp check in page stat accounting memcg: remove redundant returns memcg: enum lru_list lru ...