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2010-08-20mm: fix page table unmap for stack guard page properlyLinus Torvalds
commit 11ac552477e32835cb6970bf0a70c210807f5673 upstream. We do in fact need to unmap the page table _before_ doing the whole stack guard page logic, because if it is needed (mainly 32-bit x86 with PAE and CONFIG_HIGHPTE, but other architectures may use it too) then it will do a kmap_atomic/kunmap_atomic. And those kmaps will create an atomic region that we cannot do allocations in. However, the whole stack expand code will need to do anon_vma_prepare() and vma_lock_anon_vma() and they cannot do that in an atomic region. Now, a better model might actually be to do the anon_vma_prepare() when _creating_ a VM_GROWSDOWN segment, and not have to worry about any of this at page fault time. But in the meantime, this is the straightforward fix for the issue. See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16588 for details. Reported-by: Wylda <wylda@volny.cz> Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Reported-by: Mike Pagano <mpagano@gentoo.org> Reported-by: François Valenduc <francois.valenduc@tvcablenet.be> Tested-by: Ed Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-20mm: pass correct mm when growing stackHugh Dickins
commit 05fa199d45c54a9bda7aa3ae6537253d6f097aa9 upstream. Tetsuo Handa reports seeing the WARN_ON(current->mm == NULL) in security_vm_enough_memory(), when do_execve() is touching the target mm's stack, to set up its args and environment. Yes, a UMH_NO_WAIT or UMH_WAIT_PROC call_usermodehelper() spawns an mm-less kernel thread to do the exec. And in any case, that vm_enough_memory check when growing stack ought to be done on the target mm, not on the execer's mm (though apart from the warning, it only makes a slight tweak to OVERCOMMIT_NEVER behaviour). Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-20mm: fix missing page table unmap for stack guard page failure caseLinus Torvalds
commit 5528f9132cf65d4d892bcbc5684c61e7822b21e9 upstream. .. which didn't show up in my tests because it's a no-op on x86-64 and most other architectures. But we enter the function with the last-level page table mapped, and should unmap it at exit. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-20mm: keep a guard page below a grow-down stack segmentLinus Torvalds
commit 320b2b8de12698082609ebbc1a17165727f4c893 upstream. This is a rather minimally invasive patch to solve the problem of the user stack growing into a memory mapped area below it. Whenever we fill the first page of the stack segment, expand the segment down by one page. Now, admittedly some odd application might _want_ the stack to grow down into the preceding memory mapping, and so we may at some point need to make this a process tunable (some people might also want to have more than a single page of guarding), but let's try the minimal approach first. Tested with trivial application that maps a single page just below the stack, and then starts recursing. Without this, we will get a SIGSEGV _after_ the stack has smashed the mapping. With this patch, we'll get a nice SIGBUS just as the stack touches the page just above the mapping. Requested-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-13mm/backing-dev.c: remove recently-added WARN_ON()Andrew Morton
commit 69fc208be5b7eb18d22d1eca185b201400fd5ffc upstream. On second thoughts, this is just going to disturb people while telling us things which we already knew. Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-13bdi: register sysfs bdi device only once per queueKay Sievers
commit f1d0b063d993527754f062c589b73f125024d216 upstream. Devices which share the same queue, like floppies and mtd devices, get registered multiple times in the bdi interface, but bdi accounts only the last registered device of the devices sharing one queue. On remove, all earlier registered devices leak, stay around in sysfs, and cause "duplicate filename" errors if the devices are re-created. This prevents the creation of multiple bdi interfaces per queue, and the bdi device will carry the dev_t name of the block device which is the first one registered, of the pool of devices using the same queue. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add a WARN_ON so we know which drivers are misbehaving] Tested-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-07-05do_generic_file_read: clear page errors when issuing a fresh read of the pageJeff Moyer
commit 91803b499cca2fe558abad709ce83dc896b80950 upstream. I/O errors can happen due to temporary failures, like multipath errors or losing network contact with the iSCSI server. Because of that, the VM will retry readpage on the page. However, do_generic_file_read does not clear PG_error. This causes the system to be unable to actually use the data in the page cache page, even if the subsequent readpage completes successfully! The function filemap_fault has had a ClearPageError before readpage forever. This patch simply adds the same to do_generic_file_read. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-26nfsd: fix vm overcommit crashAlan Cox
commit 731572d39fcd3498702eda4600db4c43d51e0b26 upstream. Junjiro R. Okajima reported a problem where knfsd crashes if you are using it to export shmemfs objects and run strict overcommit. In this situation the current->mm based modifier to the overcommit goes through a NULL pointer. We could simply check for NULL and skip the modifier but we've caught other real bugs in the past from mm being NULL here - cases where we did need a valid mm set up (eg the exec bug about a year ago). To preserve the checks and get the logic we want shuffle the checking around and add a new helper to the vm_ security wrappers Also fix a current->mm reference in nommu that should use the passed mm [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] Reported-by: Junjiro R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@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>
2010-05-26vfs: Remove the range_cont writeback mode.Aneesh Kumar K.V
commit 74baaaaec8b4f22e1ae279f5ecca4ff705b28912 upstream. Ext4 was the only user of range_cont writeback mode and ext4 switched to a different method. So remove the range_cont mode which is not used in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> CC: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jayson R. King <dev@jaysonking.com> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-04-01tmpfs: cleanup mpol_parse_str()KOSAKI Motohiro
commit 926f2ae04f183098cf9a30521776fb2759c8afeb upstream. mpol_parse_str() made lots 'err' variable related bug. Because it is ugly and reviewing unfriendly. This patch simplifies it. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> 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>
2010-04-01tmpfs: handle MPOL_LOCAL mount option properlyKOSAKI Motohiro
commit 12821f5fb942e795f8009ece14bde868893bd811 upstream. commit 71fe804b6d5 (mempolicy: use struct mempolicy pointer in shmem_sb_info) added mpol=local mount option. but its feature is broken since it was born. because such code always return 1 (i.e. mount failure). This patch fixes it. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> 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>
2010-04-01tmpfs: mpol=bind:0 don't cause mount error.KOSAKI Motohiro
commit d69b2e63e9172afb4d07c305601b79a55509ac4c upstream. Currently, following mount operation cause mount error. % mount -t tmpfs -ompol=bind:0 none /tmp Because commit 71fe804b6d5 (mempolicy: use struct mempolicy pointer in shmem_sb_info) corrupted MPOL_BIND parse code. This patch restore the needed one. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> 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>
2010-04-01tmpfs: fix oops on mounts with mpol=defaultRavikiran G Thirumalai
commit 413b43deab8377819aba1dbad2abf0c15d59b491 upstream. Fix an 'oops' when a tmpfs mount point is mounted with the mpol=default mempolicy. Upon remounting a tmpfs mount point with 'mpol=default' option, the mount code crashed with a null pointer dereference. The initial problem report was on 2.6.27, but the problem exists in mainline 2.6.34-rc as well. On examining the code, we see that mpol_new returns NULL if default mempolicy was requested. This 'NULL' mempolicy is accessed to store the node mask resulting in oops. The following patch fixes it. Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> 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>
2010-04-01Fix potential crash with sys_move_pagesLinus Torvalds
commit 6f5a55f1a6c5abee15a0e878e5c74d9f1569b8b0 upstream. We incorrectly depended on the 'node_state/node_isset()' functions testing the node range, rather than checking it explicitly. That's not reliable, even if it might often happen to work. So do the proper explicit test. Reported-by: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de> Acked-and-tested-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-11-09mbind(): fix leak of never putback pagesKOSAKI Motohiro
commit ab8a3e14e6f8e567560f664bbd29aefb306a274e upstream. If mbind() receives an invalid address, do_mbind leaks a page. The following test program detects this leak. This patch fixes it. migrate_efault.c ======================================= #include <numaif.h> #include <numa.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> static unsigned long pagesize; static void* make_hole_mapping(void) { void* addr; addr = mmap(NULL, pagesize*3, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_ANON|MAP_PRIVATE, 0, 0); if (addr == MAP_FAILED) return NULL; /* make page populate */ memset(addr, 0, pagesize*3); /* make memory hole */ munmap(addr+pagesize, pagesize); return addr; } int main(int argc, char** argv) { void* addr; int ch; int node; struct bitmask *nmask = numa_allocate_nodemask(); int err; int node_set = 0; while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "n:")) != -1){ switch (ch){ case 'n': node = strtol(optarg, NULL, 0); numa_bitmask_setbit(nmask, node); node_set = 1; break; default: ; } } argc -= optind; argv += optind; if (!node_set) numa_bitmask_setbit(nmask, 0); pagesize = getpagesize(); addr = make_hole_mapping(); err = mbind(addr, pagesize*3, MPOL_BIND, nmask->maskp, nmask->size, MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL); if (err) perror("mbind "); return 0; } ======================================= Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.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>
2009-10-05mmap: avoid unnecessary anon_vma lock acquisition in vma_adjust()Lee Schermerhorn
commit 252c5f94d944487e9f50ece7942b0fbf659c5c31 upstream. We noticed very erratic behavior [throughput] with the AIM7 shared workload running on recent distro [SLES11] and mainline kernels on an 8-socket, 32-core, 256GB x86_64 platform. On the SLES11 kernel [2.6.27.19+] with Barcelona processors, as we increased the load [10s of thousands of tasks], the throughput would vary between two "plateaus"--one at ~65K jobs per minute and one at ~130K jpm. The simple patch below causes the results to smooth out at the ~130k plateau. But wait, there's more: We do not see this behavior on smaller platforms--e.g., 4 socket/8 core. This could be the result of the larger number of cpus on the larger platform--a scalability issue--or it could be the result of the larger number of interconnect "hops" between some nodes in this platform and how the tasks for a given load end up distributed over the nodes' cpus and memories--a stochastic NUMA effect. The variability in the results are less pronounced [on the same platform] with Shanghai processors and with mainline kernels. With 31-rc6 on Shanghai processors and 288 file systems on 288 fibre attached storage volumes, the curves [jpm vs load] are both quite flat with the patched kernel consistently producing ~3.9% better throughput [~80K jpm vs ~77K jpm] than the unpatched kernel. Profiling indicated that the "slow" runs were incurring high[er] contention on an anon_vma lock in vma_adjust(), apparently called from the sbrk() system call. The patch: A comment in mm/mmap.c:vma_adjust() suggests that we don't really need the anon_vma lock when we're only adjusting the end of a vma, as is the case for brk(). The comment questions whether it's worth while to optimize for this case. Apparently, on the newer, larger x86_64 platforms, with interesting NUMA topologies, it is worth while--especially considering that the patch [if correct!] is quite simple. We can detect this condition--no overlap with next vma--by noting a NULL "importer". The anon_vma pointer will also be NULL in this case, so simply avoid loading vma->anon_vma to avoid the lock. However, we DO need to take the anon_vma lock when we're inserting a vma ['insert' non-NULL] even when we have no overlap [NULL "importer"], so we need to check for 'insert', as well. And Hugh points out that we should also take it when adjusting vm_start (so that rmap.c can rely upon vma_address() while it holds the anon_vma lock). akpm: Zhang Yanmin reprts a 150% throughput improvement with aim7, so it might be -stable material even though thiss isn't a regression: "this issue is not clear on dual socket Nehalem machine (2*4*2 cpu), but is severe on large machine (4*8*2 cpu)" [hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: test vma start too] Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Tested-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@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>
2009-10-05mm: fix anonymous dirtyingHugh Dickins
commit 1ac0cb5d0e22d5e483f56b2bc12172dec1cf7536 upstream. do_anonymous_page() has been wrong to dirty the pte regardless. If it's not going to mark the pte writable, then it won't help to mark it dirty here, and clogs up memory with pages which will need swap instead of being thrown away. Especially wrong if no overcommit is chosen, and this vma is not yet VM_ACCOUNTed - we could exceed the limit and OOM despite no overcommit. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.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>
2009-10-05hugetlb: restore interleaving of bootmem huge pages (2.6.31)Lee Schermerhorn
Not upstream as it is fixed differently in .32 I noticed that alloc_bootmem_huge_page() will only advance to the next node on failure to allocate a huge page. I asked about this on linux-mm and linux-numa, cc'ing the usual huge page suspects. Mel Gorman responded: I strongly suspect that the same node being used until allocation failure instead of round-robin is an oversight and not deliberate at all. It appears to be a side-effect of a fix made way back in commit 63b4613c3f0d4b724ba259dc6c201bb68b884e1a ["hugetlb: fix hugepage allocation with memoryless nodes"]. Prior to that patch it looked like allocations would always round-robin even when allocation was successful. Andy Whitcroft countered that the existing behavior looked like Andi Kleen's original implementation and suggested that we ask him. We did and Andy replied that his intention was to interleave the allocations. So, ... This patch moves the advance of the hstate next node from which to allocate up before the test for success of the attempted allocation. This will unconditionally advance the next node from which to alloc, interleaving successful allocations over the nodes with sufficient contiguous memory, and skipping over nodes that fail the huge page allocation attempt. Note that alloc_bootmem_huge_page() will only be called for huge pages of order > MAX_ORDER. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15slub: Fix kmem_cache_destroy() with SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCUEric Dumazet
commit d76b1590e06a63a3d8697168cd0aabf1c4b3cb3a upstream. kmem_cache_destroy() should call rcu_barrier() *after* kmem_cache_close() and *before* sysfs_slab_remove() or risk rcu_free_slab() being called after kmem_cache is deleted (kfreed). rmmod nf_conntrack can crash the machine because it has to kmem_cache_destroy() a SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU enabled cache. Reported-by: Zdenek Kabelac <zdenek.kabelac@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-08-16page-allocator: preserve PFN ordering when __GFP_COLD is setMel Gorman
commit e084b2d95e48b31aa45f9c49ffc6cdae8bdb21d4 upstream. Fix a post-2.6.24 performace regression caused by 3dfa5721f12c3d5a441448086bee156887daa961 ("page-allocator: preserve PFN ordering when __GFP_COLD is set"). Narayanan reports "The regression is around 15%. There is no disk controller as our setup is based on Samsung OneNAND used as a memory mapped device on a OMAP2430 based board." The page allocator tries to preserve contiguous PFN ordering when returning pages such that repeated callers to the allocator have a strong chance of getting physically contiguous pages, particularly when external fragmentation is low. However, of the bulk of the allocations have __GFP_COLD set as they are due to aio_read() for example, then the PFNs are in reverse PFN order. This can cause performance degration when used with IO controllers that could have merged the requests. This patch attempts to preserve the contiguous ordering of PFNs for users of __GFP_COLD. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reported-by: Narayananu Gopalakrishnan <narayanan.g@samsung.com> Tested-by: Narayanan Gopalakrishnan <narayanan.g@samsung.com> 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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-08-16hugetlbfs: fix i_blocks accountingEric Sandeen
commit e4c6f8bed01f9f9a5c607bd689bf67e7b8a36bd8 upstream. As reported in Red Hat bz #509671, i_blocks for files on hugetlbfs get accounting wrong when doing something like: $ > foo $ date > foo date: write error: Invalid argument $ /usr/bin/stat foo File: `foo' Size: 0 Blocks: 18446744073709547520 IO Block: 2097152 regular ... This is because hugetlb_unreserve_pages() is unconditionally removing blocks_per_huge_page(h) on each call rather than using the freed amount. If there were 0 blocks, it goes negative, resulting in the above. This is a regression from commit a5516438959d90b071ff0a484ce4f3f523dc3152 ("hugetlb: modular state for hugetlb page size") which did: - inode->i_blocks -= BLOCKS_PER_HUGEPAGE * freed; + inode->i_blocks -= blocks_per_huge_page(h); so just put back the freed multiplier, and it's all happy again. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.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>
2009-07-30mm: mark page accessed before we write_end()Josef Bacik
commit c8236db9cd7aa492dcfcdcca702638e704abed49 upstream. In testing a backport of the write_begin/write_end AOPs, a 10% re-read regression was noticed when running iozone. This regression was introduced because the old AOPs would always do a mark_page_accessed(page) after the commit_write, but when the new AOPs where introduced, the only place this was kept was in pagecache_write_end(). This patch does the same thing in the generic case as what is done in pagecache_write_end(), which is just to mark the page accessed before we do write_end(). Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@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>
2009-07-30fix RCU-callback-after-kmem_cache_destroy problem in sl[aou]bPaul E. McKenney
commit 7ed9f7e5db58c6e8c2b4b738a75d5dcd8e17aad5 upstream. Jesper noted that kmem_cache_destroy() invokes synchronize_rcu() rather than rcu_barrier() in the SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU case, which could result in RCU callbacks accessing a kmem_cache after it had been destroyed. Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-07-19security: use mmap_min_addr indepedently of security modelsChristoph Lameter
commit e0a94c2a63f2644826069044649669b5e7ca75d3 upstream. This patch removes the dependency of mmap_min_addr on CONFIG_SECURITY. It also sets a default mmap_min_addr of 4096. mmapping of addresses below 4096 will only be possible for processes with CAP_SYS_RAWIO. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Looks-ok-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-07-02mm: fix handling of pagesets for downed cpusDimitri Sivanich
commit 364df0ebfbbb1330bfc6ca159f4d6020efc15a12 upstream. After downing/upping a cpu, an attempt to set /proc/sys/vm/percpu_pagelist_fraction results in an oops in percpu_pagelist_fraction_sysctl_handler(). If a processor is downed then we need to set the pageset pointer back to the boot pageset. Updates of the high water marks should not access pagesets of unpopulated zones (those pointer go to the boot pagesets which would be no longer functional if their size would be increased beyond zero). Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> 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>
2009-06-11mm: account for MAP_SHARED mappings using VM_MAYSHARE and not VM_SHARED in ↵Mel Gorman
hugetlbfs commit f83a275dbc5ca1721143698e844243fcadfabf6a upstream. Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13302 hugetlbfs reserves huge pages but does not fault them at mmap() time to ensure that future faults succeed. The reservation behaviour differs depending on whether the mapping was mapped MAP_SHARED or MAP_PRIVATE. For MAP_SHARED mappings, hugepages are reserved when mmap() is first called and are tracked based on information associated with the inode. Other processes mapping MAP_SHARED use the same reservation. MAP_PRIVATE track the reservations based on the VMA created as part of the mmap() operation. Each process mapping MAP_PRIVATE must make its own reservation. hugetlbfs currently checks if a VMA is MAP_SHARED with the VM_SHARED flag and not VM_MAYSHARE. For file-backed mappings, such as hugetlbfs, VM_SHARED is set only if the mapping is MAP_SHARED and the file was opened read-write. If a shared memory mapping was mapped shared-read-write for populating of data and mapped shared-read-only by other processes, then hugetlbfs would account for the mapping as if it was MAP_PRIVATE. This causes processes to fail to map the file MAP_SHARED even though it should succeed as the reservation is there. This patch alters mm/hugetlb.c and replaces VM_SHARED with VM_MAYSHARE when the intent of the code was to check whether the VMA was mapped MAP_SHARED or MAP_PRIVATE. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: <starlight@binnacle.cx> Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.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>
2009-05-19mm: close page_mkwrite racesNick Piggin
commit b827e496c893de0c0f142abfaeb8730a2fd6b37f upstream mm: close page_mkwrite races Change page_mkwrite to allow implementations to return with the page locked, and also change it's callers (in page fault paths) to hold the lock until the page is marked dirty. This allows the filesystem to have full control of page dirtying events coming from the VM. Rather than simply hold the page locked over the page_mkwrite call, we call page_mkwrite with the page unlocked and allow callers to return with it locked, so filesystems can avoid LOR conditions with page lock. The problem with the current scheme is this: a filesystem that wants to associate some metadata with a page as long as the page is dirty, will perform this manipulation in its ->page_mkwrite. It currently then must return with the page unlocked and may not hold any other locks (according to existing page_mkwrite convention). In this window, the VM could write out the page, clearing page-dirty. The filesystem has no good way to detect that a dirty pte is about to be attached, so it will happily write out the page, at which point, the filesystem may manipulate the metadata to reflect that the page is no longer dirty. It is not always possible to perform the required metadata manipulation in ->set_page_dirty, because that function cannot block or fail. The filesystem may need to allocate some data structure, for example. And the VM cannot mark the pte dirty before page_mkwrite, because page_mkwrite is allowed to fail, so we must not allow any window where the page could be written to if page_mkwrite does fail. This solution of holding the page locked over the 3 critical operations (page_mkwrite, setting the pte dirty, and finally setting the page dirty) closes out races nicely, preventing page cleaning for writeout being initiated in that window. This provides the filesystem with a strong synchronisation against the VM here. - Sage needs this race closed for ceph filesystem. - Trond for NFS (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12913). - I need it for fsblock. - I suspect other filesystems may need it too (eg. btrfs). - I have converted buffer.c to the new locking. Even simple block allocation under dirty pages might be susceptible to i_size changing under partial page at the end of file (we also have a buffer.c-side problem here, but it cannot be fixed properly without this patch). - Other filesystems (eg. NFS, maybe btrfs) will need to change their page_mkwrite functions themselves. [ This also moves page_mkwrite another step closer to fault, which should eventually allow page_mkwrite to be moved into ->fault, and thus avoiding a filesystem calldown and page lock/unlock cycle in __do_fault. ] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix derefs of NULL ->mapping] Cc: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Cc: <stable@kernel.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>
2009-05-19mm: page_mkwrite change prototype to match faultNick Piggin
commit c2ec175c39f62949438354f603f4aa170846aabb upstream mm: page_mkwrite change prototype to match fault Change the page_mkwrite prototype to take a struct vm_fault, and return VM_FAULT_xxx flags. There should be no functional change. This makes it possible to return much more detailed error information to the VM (and also can provide more information eg. virtual_address to the driver, which might be important in some special cases). This is required for a subsequent fix. And will also make it easier to merge page_mkwrite() with fault() in future. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> Cc: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.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>
2009-05-08Ignore madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) for hugetlbfs-backed regionsMel Gorman
commit a425a638c858fd10370b573bde81df3ba500e271 upstream. madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) forces page cache readahead on a range of memory backed by a file. The assumption is made that the page required is order-0 and "normal" page cache. On hugetlbfs, this assumption is not true and order-0 pages are allocated and inserted into the hugetlbfs page cache. This leaks hugetlbfs page reservations and can cause BUGs to trigger related to corrupted page tables. This patch causes MADV_WILLNEED to be ignored for hugetlbfs-backed regions. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-05-02mm: check for no mmaps in exit_mmap()Johannes Weiner
commit dcd4a049b9751828c516c59709f3fdf50436df85 upstream. When dup_mmap() ooms we can end up with mm->mmap == NULL. The error path does mmput() and unmap_vmas() gets a NULL vma which it dereferences. In exit_mmap() there is nothing to do at all for this case, we can cancel the callpath right there. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add sorely-needed comment] Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reported-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Reported-by: Kir Kolyshkin <kir@openvz.org> Tested-by: Kir Kolyshkin <kir@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-05-02mm: do_xip_mapping_read: fix length calculationMartin Schwidefsky
upstream commit: 58984ce21d315b70df1a43644df7416ea7c9bfd8 The calculation of the value nr in do_xip_mapping_read is incorrect. If the copy required more than one iteration in the do while loop the copies variable will be non-zero. The maximum length that may be passed to the call to copy_to_user(buf+copied, xip_mem+offset, nr) is len-copied but the check only compares against (nr > len). This bug is the cause for the heap corruption Carsten has been chasing for so long:
2009-03-16mm: fix memmap init for handling memory holeKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
commit cc2559bccc72767cb446f79b071d96c30c26439b upstream. Now, early_pfn_in_nid(PFN, NID) may returns false if PFN is a hole. and memmap initialization was not done. This was a trouble for sparc boot. To fix this, the PFN should be initialized and marked as PG_reserved. This patch changes early_pfn_in_nid() return true if PFN is a hole. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemlloft.net> Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.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>
2009-03-16mm: clean up for early_pfn_to_nid()KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
commit f2dbcfa738368c8a40d4a5f0b65dc9879577cb21 upstream. What's happening is that the assertion in mm/page_alloc.c:move_freepages() is triggering: BUG_ON(page_zone(start_page) != page_zone(end_page)); Once I knew this is what was happening, I added some annotations: if (unlikely(page_zone(start_page) != page_zone(end_page))) { printk(KERN_ERR "move_freepages: Bogus zones: " "start_page[%p] end_page[%p] zone[%p]\n", start_page, end_page, zone); printk(KERN_ERR "move_freepages: " "start_zone[%p] end_zone[%p]\n", page_zone(start_page), page_zone(end_page)); printk(KERN_ERR "move_freepages: " "start_pfn[0x%lx] end_pfn[0x%lx]\n", page_to_pfn(start_page), page_to_pfn(end_page)); printk(KERN_ERR "move_freepages: " "start_nid[%d] end_nid[%d]\n", page_to_nid(start_page), page_to_nid(end_page)); ... And here's what I got: move_freepages: Bogus zones: start_page[2207d0000] end_page[2207dffc0] zone[fffff8103effcb00] move_freepages: start_zone[fffff8103effcb00] end_zone[fffff8003fffeb00] move_freepages: start_pfn[0x81f600] end_pfn[0x81f7ff] move_freepages: start_nid[1] end_nid[0] My memory layout on this box is: [ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges: [ 0.000000] Normal 0x00000000 -> 0x0081ff5d [ 0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node [ 0.000000] early_node_map[8] active PFN ranges [ 0.000000] 0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00020000 [ 0.000000] 1: 0x00800000 -> 0x0081f7ff [ 0.000000] 1: 0x0081f800 -> 0x0081fe50 [ 0.000000] 1: 0x0081fed1 -> 0x0081fed8 [ 0.000000] 1: 0x0081feda -> 0x0081fedb [ 0.000000] 1: 0x0081fedd -> 0x0081fee5 [ 0.000000] 1: 0x0081fee7 -> 0x0081ff51 [ 0.000000] 1: 0x0081ff59 -> 0x0081ff5d So it's a block move in that 0x81f600-->0x81f7ff region which triggers the problem. This patch: Declaration of early_pfn_to_nid() is scattered over per-arch include files, and it seems it's complicated to know when the declaration is used. I think it makes fix-for-memmap-init not easy. This patch moves all declaration to include/linux/mm.h After this, if !CONFIG_NODES_POPULATES_NODE_MAP && !CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID -> Use static definition in include/linux/mm.h else if !CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID -> Use generic definition in mm/page_alloc.c else -> per-arch back end function will be called. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemlloft.net> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.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>
2009-02-17writeback: fix break conditionFederico Cuello
commit 89e1219004b3657cc014521663eeef0744f1c99d upstream. Commit dcf6a79dda5cc2a2bec183e50d829030c0972aaa ("write-back: fix nr_to_write counter") fixed nr_to_write counter, but didn't set the break condition properly. If nr_to_write == 0 after being decremented it will loop one more time before setting done = 1 and breaking the loop. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@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>
2009-02-17write-back: fix nr_to_write counterArtem Bityutskiy
commit dcf6a79dda5cc2a2bec183e50d829030c0972aaa upstream. Commit 05fe478dd04e02fa230c305ab9b5616669821dd3 introduced some @wbc->nr_to_write breakage. It made the following changes: 1. Decrement wbc->nr_to_write instead of nr_to_write 2. Decrement wbc->nr_to_write _only_ if wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE 3. If synced nr_to_write pages, stop only if if wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE, otherwise keep going. However, according to the commit message, the intention was to only make change 3. Change 1 is a bug. Change 2 does not seem to be necessary, and it breaks UBIFS expectations, so if needed, it should be done separately later. And change 2 does not seem to be documented in the commit message. This patch does the following: 1. Undo changes 1 and 2 2. Add a comment explaining change 3 (it very useful to have comments in _code_, not only in the commit). Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-02-17Fix page writeback thinko, causing Berkeley DB slowdownNick Piggin
commit 3a4c6800f31ea8395628af5e7e490270ee5d0585 upstream. A bug was introduced into write_cache_pages cyclic writeout by commit 31a12666d8f0c22235297e1c1575f82061480029 ("mm: write_cache_pages cyclic fix"). The intention (and comments) is that we should cycle back and look for more dirty pages at the beginning of the file if there is no more work to be done. But the !done condition was dropped from the test. This means that any time the page writeout loop breaks (eg. due to nr_to_write == 0), we will set index to 0, then goto again. This will set done_index to index, then find done is set, so will proceed to the end of the function. When updating mapping->writeback_index for cyclic writeout, we now use done_index == 0, so we're always cycling back to 0. This seemed to be causing random mmap writes (slapadd and iozone) to start writing more pages from the LRU and writeout would slowdown, and caused bugzilla entry http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12604 about Berkeley DB slowing down dramatically. With this patch, iozone random write performance is increased nearly 5x on my system (iozone -B -r 4k -s 64k -s 512m -s 1200m on ext2). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Reported-and-tested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-02-12mm: remove UP version of lru_add_drain_all()KOSAKI Motohiro
commit 6841c8e26357904ef462650273f5d5015f7bb370 upstream. Currently, lru_add_drain_all() has two version. (1) use schedule_on_each_cpu() (2) don't use schedule_on_each_cpu() Gerald Schaefer reported it doesn't work well on SMP (not NUMA) S390 machine. offline_pages() calls lru_add_drain_all() followed by drain_all_pages(). While drain_all_pages() works on each cpu, lru_add_drain_all() only runs on the current cpu for architectures w/o CONFIG_NUMA. This let us run into the BUG_ON(!PageBuddy(page)) in __offline_isolated_pages() during memory hotplug stress test on s390. The page in question was still on the pcp list, because of a race with lru_add_drain_all() and drain_all_pages() on different cpus. Actually, Almost machine has CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU=y. Then almost machine use (1) version lru_add_drain_all although the machine is UP. Then this ifdef is not valueable. simple removing is better. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-01-24mm: direct IO starvation improvementNick Piggin
commit 48b47c561e41525061b5bc0cfd67d6367fd11dc4 upstream. Direct IO can invalidate and sync a lot of pagecache pages in the mapping. A 4K direct IO will actually try to sync and/or invalidate the pagecache of the entire file, for example (which might be many GB or TB large). Improve this by doing range syncs. Also, memory no longer has to be unmapped to catch the dirty bits for syncing, as dirty bits would remain coherent due to dirty mmap accounting. This fixes the immediate DM deadlocks when doing direct IO reads to block device with a mounted filesystem, if only by papering over the problem somewhat rather than addressing the fsync starvation cases. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@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>
2009-01-24mm: write_cache_pages more terminate quicklyAndrew Morton
commit 82fd1a9a8ced9607312b54859572bcc6211e8919 upstream. Now that we have the early-termination logic in place, it makes sense to bail out early in all other cases where done is set to 1. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.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>
2009-01-24mm: write_cache_pages terminate quicklyNick Piggin
commit d5482cdf8a0aacb1e6468a97d5544f5829c8d8c4 upstream. Terminate the write_cache_pages loop upon encountering the first page past end, without locking the page. Pages cannot have their index change when we have a reference on them (truncate, eg truncate_inode_pages_range performs the same check without the page lock). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.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>
2009-01-24mm: write_cache_pages optimise page cleaningNick Piggin
commit 515f4a037fb9ab736f8bad733fcd2ffd350cf265 upstream. In write_cache_pages, if we get stuck behind another process that is cleaning pages, we will be forced to wait for them to finish, then perform our own writeout (if it was redirtied during the long wait), then wait for that. If a page under writeout is still clean, we can skip waiting for it (if we're part of a data integrity sync, we'll be waiting for all writeout pages afterwards, so we'll still be waiting for the other guy's write that's cleaned the page). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.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>
2009-01-24mm: write_cache_pages cleanupsNick Piggin
commit 5a3d5c9813db56a75934eb1015367fda23a8b0b4 upstream. Get rid of some complex expressions from flow control statements, add a comment, remove some duplicate code. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.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>
2009-01-24mm: write_cache_pages integrity fixNick Piggin
commit 05fe478dd04e02fa230c305ab9b5616669821dd3 upstream. In write_cache_pages, nr_to_write is heeded even for data-integrity syncs, so the function will return success after writing out nr_to_write pages, even if that was not sufficient to guarantee data integrity. The callers tend to set it to values that could break data interity semantics easily in practice. For example, nr_to_write can be set to mapping->nr_pages * 2, however if a file has a single, dirty page, then fsync is called, subsequent pages might be concurrently added and dirtied, then write_cache_pages might writeout two of these newly dirty pages, while not writing out the old page that should have been written out. Fix this by ignoring nr_to_write if it is a data integrity sync. This is a data integrity bug. The reason this has been done in the past is to avoid stalling sync operations behind page dirtiers. "If a file has one dirty page at offset 1000000000000000 then someone does an fsync() and someone else gets in first and starts madly writing pages at offset 0, we want to write that page at 1000000000000000. Somehow." What we do today is return success after an arbitrary amount of pages are written, whether or not we have provided the data-integrity semantics that the caller has asked for. Even this doesn't actually fix all stall cases completely: in the above situation, if the file has a huge number of pages in pagecache (but not dirty), then mapping->nrpages is going to be huge, even if pages are being dirtied. This change does indeed make the possibility of long stalls lager, and that's not a good thing, but lying about data integrity is even worse. We have to either perform the sync, or return -ELINUXISLAME so at least the caller knows what has happened. There are subsequent competing approaches in the works to solve the stall problems properly, without compromising data integrity. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.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>
2009-01-24mm: write_cache_pages writepage error fixNick Piggin
commit 00266770b8b3a6a77f896ca501a0613739086832 upstream. In write_cache_pages, if ret signals a real error, but we still have some pages left in the pagevec, done would be set to 1, but the remaining pages would continue to be processed and ret will be overwritten in the process. It could easily be overwritten with success, and thus success will be returned even if there is an error. Thus the caller is told all writes succeeded, wheras in reality some did not. Fix this by bailing immediately if there is an error, and retaining the first error code. This is a data integrity bug. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.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>
2009-01-24mm: write_cache_pages early loop terminationNick Piggin
commit bd19e012f6fd3b7309689165ea865cbb7bb88c1e upstream. We'd like to break out of the loop early in many situations, however the existing code has been setting mapping->writeback_index past the final page in the pagevec lookup for cyclic writeback. This is a problem if we don't process all pages up to the final page. Currently the code mostly keeps writeback_index reasonable and hacked around this by not breaking out of the loop or writing pages outside the range in these cases. Keep track of a real "done index" that enables us to terminate the loop in a much more flexible manner. Needed by the subsequent patch to preserve writepage errors, and then further patches to break out of the loop early for other reasons. However there are no functional changes with this patch alone. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.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>
2009-01-24mm: write_cache_pages cyclic fixNick Piggin
commit 31a12666d8f0c22235297e1c1575f82061480029 upstream. In write_cache_pages, scanned == 1 is supposed to mean that cyclic writeback has circled through zero, thus we should not circle again. However it gets set to 1 after the first successful pagevec lookup. This leads to cases where not enough data gets written. Counterexample: file with first 10 pages dirty, writeback_index == 5, nr_to_write == 10. Then the 5 last pages will be found, and scanned will be set to 1, after writing those out, we will not cycle back to get the first 5. Rework this logic, now we'll always cycle unless we started off from index 0. When cycling, only write out as far as 1 page before the start page from the first cycle (so we don't write parts of the file twice). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.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>
2009-01-18fs: symlink write_begin allocation context fixNick Piggin
commit 54566b2c1594c2326a645a3551f9d989f7ba3c5e upstream. With the write_begin/write_end aops, page_symlink was broken because it could no longer pass a GFP_NOFS type mask into the point where the allocations happened. They are done in write_begin, which would always assume that the filesystem can be entered from reclaim. This bug could cause filesystem deadlocks. The funny thing with having a gfp_t mask there is that it doesn't really allow the caller to arbitrarily tinker with the context in which it can be called. It couldn't ever be GFP_ATOMIC, for example, because it needs to take the page lock. The only thing any callers care about is __GFP_FS anyway, so turn that into a single flag. Add a new flag for write_begin, AOP_FLAG_NOFS. Filesystems can now act on this flag in their write_begin function. Change __grab_cache_page to accept a nofs argument as well, to honour that flag (while we're there, change the name to grab_cache_page_write_begin which is more instructive and does away with random leading underscores). This is really a more flexible way to go in the end anyway -- if a filesystem happens to want any extra allocations aside from the pagecache ones in ints write_begin function, it may now use GFP_KERNEL (rather than GFP_NOFS) for common case allocations (eg. ocfs2_alloc_write_ctxt, for a random example). [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix ubifs] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix fuse] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [ Cleaned up the calling convention: just pass in the AOP flags untouched to the grab_cache_page_write_begin() function. That just simplifies everybody, and may even allow future expansion of the logic. - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-01-18System call wrappers part 28Heiko Carstens
commit 938bb9f5e840eddbf54e4f62f6c5ba9b3ae12c9d upstream. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-01-18System call wrappers part 26Heiko Carstens
commit c4ea37c26a691ad0b7e86aa5884aab27830e95c9 upstream. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-01-18System call wrappers part 14Heiko Carstens
commit 3480b25743cb7404928d57efeaa3d085708b04c2 upstream. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>