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2012-02-02Fix race in process_vm_rw_coreChristopher Yeoh
This fixes the race in process_vm_core found by Oleg (see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1235667/ for details). This has been updated since I last sent it as the creation of the new mm_access() function did almost exactly the same thing as parts of the previous version of this patch did. In order to use mm_access() even when /proc isn't enabled, we move it to kernel/fork.c where other related process mm access functions already are. Signed-off-by: Chris Yeoh <yeohc@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-26Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip * 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: rcu: Add missing __cpuinit annotation in rcutorture code sched: Add "const" to is_idle_task() parameter rcu: Make rcutorture bool parameters really bool (core code) memblock: Fix alloc failure due to dumb underflow protection in memblock_find_in_range_node()
2012-01-24Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netLinus Torvalds
Davem says: 1) Fix JIT code generation on x86-64 for divide by zero, from Eric Dumazet. 2) tg3 header length computation correction from Eric Dumazet. 3) More build and reference counting fixes for socket memory cgroup code from Glauber Costa. 4) module.h snuck back into a core header after all the hard work we did to remove that, from Paul Gortmaker and Jesper Dangaard Brouer. 5) Fix PHY naming regression and add some new PCI IDs in stmmac, from Alessandro Rubini. 6) Netlink message generation fix in new team driver, should only advertise the entries that changed during events, from Jiri Pirko. 7) SRIOV VF registration and unregistration fixes, and also add a missing PCI ID, from Roopa Prabhu. 8) Fix infinite loop in tx queue flush code of brcmsmac, from Stanislaw Gruszka. 9) ftgmac100/ftmac100 build fix, missing interrupt.h include. 10) Memory leak fix in net/hyperv do_set_mutlicast() handling, from Wei Yongjun. 11) Off by one fix in netem packet scheduler, from Vijay Subramanian. 12) TCP loss detection fix from Yuchung Cheng. 13) TCP reset packet MD5 calculation uses wrong address, fix from Shawn Lu. 14) skge carrier assertion and DMA mapping fixes from Stephen Hemminger. 15) Congestion recovery undo performed at the wrong spot in BIC and CUBIC congestion control modules, fix from Neal Cardwell. 16) Ethtool ETHTOOL_GSSET_INFO is unnecessarily restrictive, from Michał Mirosław. 17) Fix triggerable race in ipv6 sysctl handling, from Francesco Ruggeri. 18) Statistics bug fixes in mlx4 from Eugenia Emantayev. 19) rds locking bug fix during info dumps, from your's truly. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (67 commits) rds: Make rds_sock_lock BH rather than IRQ safe. netprio_cgroup.h: dont include module.h from other includes net: flow_dissector.c missing include linux/export.h team: send only changed options/ports via netlink net/hyperv: fix possible memory leak in do_set_multicast() drivers/net: dsa/mv88e6xxx.c files need linux/module.h stmmac: added PCI identifiers llc: Fix race condition in llc_ui_recvmsg stmmac: fix phy naming inconsistency dsa: Add reporting of silicon revision for Marvell 88E6123/88E6161/88E6165 switches. tg3: fix ipv6 header length computation skge: add byte queue limit support mv643xx_eth: Add Rx Discard and Rx Overrun statistics bnx2x: fix compilation error with SOE in fw_dump bnx2x: handle CHIP_REVISION during init_one bnx2x: allow user to change ring size in ISCSI SD mode bnx2x: fix Big-Endianess in ethtool -t bnx2x: fixed ethtool statistics for MF modes bnx2x: credit-leakage fixup on vlan_mac_del_all macvlan: fix a possible use after free ...
2012-01-23mm: fix rss count leakage during migrationKonstantin Khlebnikov
Memory migration fills a pte with a migration entry and it doesn't update the rss counters. Then it replaces the migration entry with the new page (or the old one if migration failed). But between these two passes this pte can be unmaped, or a task can fork a child and it will get a copy of this migration entry. Nobody accounts for this in the rss counters. This patch properly adjust rss counters for migration entries in zap_pte_range() and copy_one_pte(). Thus we avoid extra atomic operations on the migration fast-path. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.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>
2012-01-23SHM_UNLOCK: fix Unevictable pages stranded after swapHugh Dickins
Commit cc39c6a9bbde ("mm: account skipped entries to avoid looping in find_get_pages") correctly fixed an infinite loop; but left a problem that find_get_pages() on shmem would return 0 (appearing to callers to mean end of tree) when it meets a run of nr_pages swap entries. The only uses of find_get_pages() on shmem are via pagevec_lookup(), called from invalidate_mapping_pages(), and from shmctl SHM_UNLOCK's scan_mapping_unevictable_pages(). The first is already commented, and not worth worrying about; but the second can leave pages on the Unevictable list after an unusual sequence of swapping and locking. Fix that by using shmem_find_get_pages_and_swap() (then ignoring the swap) instead of pagevec_lookup(). But I don't want to contaminate vmscan.c with shmem internals, nor shmem.c with LRU locking. So move scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() into shmem.c, renaming it shmem_unlock_mapping(); and rename check_move_unevictable_page() to check_move_unevictable_pages(), looping down an array of pages, oftentimes under the same lock. Leave out the "rotate unevictable list" block: that's a leftover from when this was used for /proc/sys/vm/scan_unevictable_pages, whose flawed handling involved looking at pages at tail of LRU. Was there significance to the sequence first ClearPageUnevictable, then test page_evictable, then SetPageUnevictable here? I think not, we're under LRU lock, and have no barriers between those. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [back to 3.1 but will need respins] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-23SHM_UNLOCK: fix long unpreemptible sectionHugh Dickins
scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() is used to make SysV SHM_LOCKed pages evictable again once the shared memory is unlocked. It does this with pagevec_lookup()s across the whole object (which might occupy most of memory), and takes 300ms to unlock 7GB here. A cond_resched() every PAGEVEC_SIZE pages would be good. However, KOSAKI-san points out that this is called under shmem.c's info->lock, and it's also under shm.c's shm_lock(), both spinlocks. There is no strong reason for that: we need to take these pages off the unevictable list soonish, but those locks are not required for it. So move the call to scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() from shmem.c's unlock handling up to shm.c's unlock handling. Remove the recently added barrier, not needed now we have spin_unlock() before the scan. Use get_file(), with subsequent fput(), to make sure we have a reference to mapping throughout scan_mapping_unevictable_pages(): that's something that was previously guaranteed by the shm_lock(). Remove shmctl's lru_add_drain_all(): we don't fault in pages at SHM_LOCK time, and we lazily discover them to be Unevictable later, so it serves no purpose for SHM_LOCK; and serves no purpose for SHM_UNLOCK, since pages still on pagevec are not marked Unevictable. The original code avoided redundant rescans by checking VM_LOCKED flag at its level: now avoid them by checking shp's SHM_LOCKED. The original code called scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() on a locked area at shm_destroy() time: perhaps we once had accounting cross-checks which required that, but not now, so skip the overhead and just let inode eviction deal with them. Put check_move_unevictable_page() and scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() under CONFIG_SHMEM (with stub for the TINY case when ramfs is used), more as comment than to save space; comment them used for SHM_UNLOCK. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-23mm/hugetlb.c: undo change to page mapcount in fault handlerHillf Danton
Page mapcount should be updated only if we are sure that the page ends up in the page table otherwise we would leak if we couldn't COW due to reservations or if idx is out of bounds. Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-23mm: memcg: update the correct soft limit tree during migrationJohannes Weiner
end_migration() passes the old page instead of the new page to commit the charge. This page descriptor is not used for committing itself, though, since we also pass the (correct) page_cgroup descriptor. But it's used to find the soft limit tree through the page's zone, so the soft limit tree of the old page's zone is updated instead of that of the new page's, which might get slightly out of date until the next charge reaches the ratelimit point. This glitch has been present since 5564e88 ("memcg: condense page_cgroup-to-page lookup points"). This fixes a bug that I introduced in 2.6.38. It's benign enough (to my knowledge) that we probably don't want this for stable. Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-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>
2012-01-23mm: __count_immobile_pages(): make sure the node is onlineMichal Hocko
page_zone() requires an online node otherwise we are accessing NULL NODE_DATA. This is not an issue at the moment because node_zones are located at the structure beginning but this might change in the future so better be careful about that. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-23mm: fix NULL ptr dereference in __count_immobile_pagesMichal Hocko
Fix the following NULL ptr dereference caused by cat /sys/devices/system/memory/memory0/removable Pid: 13979, comm: sed Not tainted 3.0.13-0.5-default #1 IBM BladeCenter LS21 -[7971PAM]-/Server Blade RIP: __count_immobile_pages+0x4/0x100 Process sed (pid: 13979, threadinfo ffff880221c36000, task ffff88022e788480) Call Trace: is_pageblock_removable_nolock+0x34/0x40 is_mem_section_removable+0x74/0xf0 show_mem_removable+0x41/0x70 sysfs_read_file+0xfe/0x1c0 vfs_read+0xc7/0x130 sys_read+0x53/0xa0 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b We are crashing because we are trying to dereference NULL zone which came from pfn=0 (struct page ffffea0000000000). According to the boot log this page is marked reserved: e820 update range: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000010000 (usable) ==> (reserved) and early_node_map confirms that: early_node_map[3] active PFN ranges 1: 0x00000010 -> 0x0000009c 1: 0x00000100 -> 0x000bffa3 1: 0x00100000 -> 0x00240000 The problem is that memory_present works in PAGE_SECTION_MASK aligned blocks so the reserved range sneaks into the the section as well. This also means that free_area_init_node will not take care of those reserved pages and they stay uninitialized. When we try to read the removable status we walk through all available sections and hope that the zone is valid for all pages in the section. But this is not true in this case as the zone and nid are not initialized. We have only one node in this particular case and it is marked as node=1 (rather than 0) and that made the problem visible because page_to_nid will return 0 and there are no zones on the node. Let's check that the zone is valid and that the given pfn falls into its boundaries and mark the section not removable. This might cause some false positives, probably, but we do not have any sane way to find out whether the page is reserved by the platform or it is just not used for whatever other reasons. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@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>
2012-01-22net: fix socket memcg build with !CONFIG_NETGlauber Costa
There is still a build bug with the sock memcg code, that triggers with !CONFIG_NET, that survived my series of randconfig builds. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> CC: Hiroyouki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-01-17Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (47 commits) tg3: Fix single-vector MSI-X code openvswitch: Fix multipart datapath dumps. ipv6: fix per device IP snmp counters inetpeer: initialize ->redirect_genid in inet_getpeer() net: fix NULL-deref in WARN() in skb_gso_segment() net: WARN if skb_checksum_help() is called on skb requiring segmentation caif: Remove bad WARN_ON in caif_dev caif: Fix typo in Vendor/Product-ID for CAIF modems bnx2x: Disable AN KR work-around for BCM57810 bnx2x: Remove AutoGrEEEn for BCM84833 bnx2x: Remove 100Mb force speed for BCM84833 bnx2x: Fix PFC setting on BCM57840 bnx2x: Fix Super-Isolate mode for BCM84833 net: fix some sparse errors net: kill duplicate included header net: sh-eth: Fix build error by the value which is not defined net: Use device model to get driver name in skb_gso_segment() bridge: BH already disabled in br_fdb_cleanup() net: move sock_update_memcg outside of CONFIG_INET mwl8k: Fixing Sparse ENDIAN CHECK warning ...
2012-01-17net: move sock_update_memcg outside of CONFIG_INETGlauber Costa
Although only used currently for tcp sockets, this function is now used in common sock code (for sock_clone()) Commit 475f1b52645a29936b9df1d8fcd45f7e56bd4a9f moved the declaration of sock_update_clone() to inside sock.c, but this only fixes the problem when CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM is also not defined. This patch here is verified to fix both problems, although reverting the previous one is not necessary. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> CC: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> CC: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-01-16memblock: Fix alloc failure due to dumb underflow protection in ↵Tejun Heo
memblock_find_in_range_node() 7bd0b0f0da ("memblock: Reimplement memblock allocation using reverse free area iterator") implemented a simple top-down allocator using a reverse memblock iterator. To avoid underflow in the allocator loop, it simply raised the lower boundary to the requested size under the assumption that requested size would be far smaller than available memblocks. This causes early page table allocation failure under certain configurations in Xen. Fix it by checking for underflow directly instead of bumping up lower bound. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: rjw@sisk.pl Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120113181412.GA11112@google.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2012-01-14Merge tag 'kmemleak' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux Kmemleak patches Main features: - Handle percpu memory allocations (only scanning them, not actually reporting). - Memory hotplug support. Usability improvements: - Show the origin of early allocations. - Report previously found leaks even if kmemleak has been disabled by some error. * tag 'kmemleak' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux: kmemleak: Add support for memory hotplug kmemleak: Handle percpu memory allocation kmemleak: Report previously found leaks even after an error kmemleak: When the early log buffer is exceeded, report the actual number kmemleak: Show where early_log issues come from
2012-01-12mm/vmalloc.c: eliminate extra loop in pcpu_get_vm_areas error pathKautuk Consul
If either of the vas or vms arrays are not properly kzalloced, then the code jumps to the err_free label. The err_free label runs a loop to check and free each of the array members of the vas and vms arrays which is not required for this situation as none of the array members have been allocated till this point. Eliminate the extra loop we have to go through by introducing a new label err_free2 and then jumping to it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove now-unneeded tests] Signed-off-by: Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12mm: rearrange putback_inactive_pagesHugh Dickins
There is sometimes confusion between the global putback_lru_pages() in migrate.c and the static putback_lru_pages() in vmscan.c: rename the latter putback_inactive_pages(): it helps shrink_inactive_list() rather as move_active_pages_to_lru() helps shrink_active_list(). Remove unused scan_control arg from putback_inactive_pages() and from update_isolated_counts(). Move clear_active_flags() inside update_isolated_counts(). Move NR_ISOLATED accounting up into shrink_inactive_list() itself, so the balance is clearer. Do the spin_lock_irq() before calling putback_inactive_pages() and spin_unlock_irq() after return from it, so that it better matches update_isolated_counts() and move_active_pages_to_lru(). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12mm: remove isolate_pages()Hugh Dickins
The isolate_pages() level in vmscan.c offers little but indirection: merge it into isolate_lru_pages() as the compiler does, and use the names nr_to_scan and nr_scanned in each case. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12mm: remove del_page_from_lru, add page_off_lruHugh Dickins
del_page_from_lru() repeats del_page_from_lru_list(), also working out which LRU the page was on, clearing the relevant bits. Decouple those functions: remove del_page_from_lru() and add page_off_lru(). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12mm: enum lru_list lruHugh Dickins
Mostly we use "enum lru_list lru": change those few "l"s to "lru"s. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12mm: no blank line after EXPORT_SYMBOL in swap.cHugh Dickins
checkpatch rightly protests WARNING: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its function/variable so fix the five offenders in mm/swap.c. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12mm: fewer underscores in ____pagevec_lru_addHugh Dickins
What's so special about ____pagevec_lru_add() that it needs four leading underscores? Nothing, it just helped to distinguish from __pagevec_lru_add() in 2.6.28 development. Cut two leading underscores. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12mm: take pagevecs off reclaim stackHugh Dickins
Replace pagevecs in putback_lru_pages() and move_active_pages_to_lru() by lists of pages_to_free: then apply Konstantin Khlebnikov's free_hot_cold_page_list() to them instead of pagevec_release(). Which simplifies the flow (no need to drop and retake lock whenever pagevec fills up) and reduces stale addresses in stack backtraces (which often showed through the pagevecs); but more importantly, removes another 120 bytes from the deepest stacks in page reclaim. Although I've not recently seen an actual stack overflow here with a vanilla kernel, move_active_pages_to_lru() has often featured in deep backtraces. However, free_hot_cold_page_list() does not handle compound pages (nor need it: a Transparent HugePage would have been split by the time it reaches the call in shrink_page_list()), but it is possible for putback_lru_pages() or move_active_pages_to_lru() to be left holding the last reference on a THP, so must exclude the unlikely compound case before putting on pages_to_free. Remove pagevec_strip(), its work now done in move_active_pages_to_lru(). The pagevec in scan_mapping_unevictable_pages() remains in mm/vmscan.c, but that is never on the reclaim path, and cannot be replaced by a list. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> 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>
2012-01-12memcg: fix mem_cgroup_print_bad_pageHugh Dickins
If DEBUG_VM, mem_cgroup_print_bad_page() is called whenever bad_page() shows a "Bad page state" message, removes page from circulation, adds a taint and continues. This is at a very low level, often when a spinlock is held (sometimes when page table lock is held, for example). We want to recover from this badness, not make it worse: we must not kmalloc memory here, we must not do a cgroup path lookup via dubious pointers. No doubt that code was useful to debug a particular case at one time, and may be again, but take it out of the mainline kernel. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12memcg: fix split_huge_page_refcounts()Hugh Dickins
This patch started off as a cleanup: __split_huge_page_refcounts() has to cope with two scenarios, when the hugepage being split is already on LRU, and when it is not; but why does it have to split that accounting across three different sites? Consolidate it in lru_add_page_tail(), handling evictable and unevictable alike, and use standard add_page_to_lru_list() when accounting is needed (when the head is not yet on LRU). But a recent regression in -next, I guess the removal of PageCgroupAcctLRU test from mem_cgroup_split_huge_fixup(), makes this now a necessary fix: under load, the MEM_CGROUP_ZSTAT count was wrapping to a huge number, messing up reclaim calculations and causing a freeze at rmdir of cgroup. Add a VM_BUG_ON to mem_cgroup_lru_del_list() when we're about to wrap that count - this has not been the only such incident. Document that lru_add_page_tail() is for Transparent HugePages by #ifdef around it. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12mm: vmscan: check if reclaim should really abort even if compaction_ready() ↵Mel Gorman
is true for one zone If compaction can proceed for a given zone, shrink_zones() does not reclaim any more pages from it. After commit [e0c2327: vmscan: abort reclaim/compaction if compaction can proceed], do_try_to_free_pages() tries to finish as soon as possible once one zone can compact. This was intended to prevent slabs being shrunk unnecessarily but there are side-effects. One is that a small zone that is ready for compaction will abort reclaim even if the chances of successfully allocating a THP from that zone is small. It also means that reclaim can return too early even though sc->nr_to_reclaim pages were not reclaimed. This partially reverts the commit until it is proven that slabs are really being shrunk unnecessarily but preserves the check to return 1 to avoid OOM if reclaim was aborted prematurely. [aarcange@redhat.com: This patch replaces a revert from Andrea] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> Cc: Nai Xia <nai.xia@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12mm: vmscan: when reclaiming for compaction, ensure there are sufficient free ↵Mel Gorman
pages available In commit e0887c19 ("vmscan: limit direct reclaim for higher order allocations"), Rik noted that reclaim was too aggressive when THP was enabled. In his initial patch he used the number of free pages to decide if reclaim should abort for compaction. My feedback was that reclaim and compaction should be using the same logic when deciding if reclaim should be aborted. Unfortunately, this had the effect of reducing THP success rates when the workload included something like streaming reads that continually allocated pages. The window during which compaction could run and return a THP was too small. This patch combines Rik's two patches together. compaction_suitable() is still used to decide if reclaim should be aborted to allow compaction is used. However, it will also ensure that there is a reasonable buffer of free pages available. This improves upon the THP allocation success rates but bounds the number of pages that are freed for compaction. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> Cc: Nai Xia <nai.xia@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compactionMel Gorman
This patch adds a lightweight sync migrate operation MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT mode that avoids writing back pages to backing storage. Async compaction maps to MIGRATE_ASYNC while sync compaction maps to MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT. For other migrate_pages users such as memory hotplug, MIGRATE_SYNC is used. This avoids sync compaction stalling for an excessive length of time, particularly when copying files to a USB stick where there might be a large number of dirty pages backed by a filesystem that does not support ->writepages. [aarcange@redhat.com: This patch is heavily based on Andrea's work] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/nfs/write.c build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/btrfs/disk-io.c build] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> Cc: Nai Xia <nai.xia@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12mm: page allocator: do not call direct reclaim for THP allocations while ↵Mel Gorman
compaction is deferred If compaction is deferred, direct reclaim is used to try to free enough pages for the allocation to succeed. For small high-orders, this has a reasonable chance of success. However, if the caller has specified __GFP_NO_KSWAPD to limit the disruption to the system, it makes more sense to fail the allocation rather than stall the caller in direct reclaim. This patch skips direct reclaim if compaction is deferred and the caller specifies __GFP_NO_KSWAPD. Async compaction only considers a subset of pages so it is possible for compaction to be deferred prematurely and not enter direct reclaim even in cases where it should. To compensate for this, this patch also defers compaction only if sync compaction failed. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> Cc: Nai Xia <nai.xia@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page() filter-aware againMel Gorman
Commit 39deaf85 ("mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page() filter-aware") noted that compaction does not migrate dirty or writeback pages and that is was meaningless to pick the page and re-add it to the LRU list. This had to be partially reverted because some dirty pages can be migrated by compaction without blocking. This patch updates "mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page" by skipping over pages that migration has no possibility of migrating to minimise LRU disruption. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> Cc: Nai Xia <nai.xia@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12mm: compaction: determine if dirty pages can be migrated without blocking ↵Mel Gorman
within ->migratepage Asynchronous compaction is used when allocating transparent hugepages to avoid blocking for long periods of time. Due to reports of stalling, there was a debate on disabling synchronous compaction but this severely impacted allocation success rates. Part of the reason was that many dirty pages are skipped in asynchronous compaction by the following check; if (PageDirty(page) && !sync && mapping->a_ops->migratepage != migrate_page) rc = -EBUSY; This skips over all mapping aops using buffer_migrate_page() even though it is possible to migrate some of these pages without blocking. This patch updates the ->migratepage callback with a "sync" parameter. It is the responsibility of the callback to fail gracefully if migration would block. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> Cc: Nai Xia <nai.xia@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12mm: vmscan: do not OOM if aborting reclaim to start compactionMel Gorman
During direct reclaim it is possible that reclaim will be aborted so that compaction can be attempted to satisfy a high-order allocation. If this decision is made before any pages are reclaimed, it is possible that 0 is returned to the page allocator potentially triggering an OOM. This has not been observed but it is a possibility so this patch addresses it. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> Cc: Nai Xia <nai.xia@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12mm: vmscan: check if we isolated a compound page during lumpy scanAndrea Arcangeli
Properly take into account if we isolated a compound page during the lumpy scan in reclaim and skip over the tail pages when encountered. This corrects the values given to the tracepoint for number of lumpy pages isolated and will avoid breaking the loop early if compound pages smaller than the requested allocation size are requested. [mgorman@suse.de: Updated changelog] Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> Cc: Nai Xia <nai.xia@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12mm: compaction: use synchronous compaction for /proc/sys/vm/compact_memoryMel Gorman
When asynchronous compaction was introduced, the /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory handler should have been updated to always use synchronous compaction. This did not happen so this patch addresses it. The assumption is if a user writes to /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory, they are willing for that process to stall. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> Cc: Nai Xia <nai.xia@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12mm: compaction: allow compaction to isolate dirty pagesMel Gorman
Short summary: There are severe stalls when a USB stick using VFAT is used with THP enabled that are reduced by this series. If you are experiencing this problem, please test and report back and considering I have seen complaints from openSUSE and Fedora users on this as well as a few private mails, I'm guessing it's a widespread issue. This is a new type of USB-related stall because it is due to synchronous compaction writing where as in the past the big problem was dirty pages reaching the end of the LRU and being written by reclaim. Am cc'ing Andrew this time and this series would replace mm-do-not-stall-in-synchronous-compaction-for-thp-allocations.patch. I'm also cc'ing Dave Jones as he might have merged that patch to Fedora for wider testing and ideally it would be reverted and replaced by this series. That said, the later patches could really do with some review. If this series is not the answer then a new direction needs to be discussed because as it is, the stalls are unacceptable as the results in this leader show. For testers that try backporting this to 3.1, it won't work because there is a non-obvious dependency on not writing back pages in direct reclaim so you need those patches too. Changelog since V5 o Rebase to 3.2-rc5 o Tidy up the changelogs a bit Changelog since V4 o Added reviewed-bys, credited Andrea properly for sync-light o Allow dirty pages without mappings to be considered for migration o Bound the number of pages freed for compaction o Isolate PageReclaim pages on their own LRU list This is against 3.2-rc5 and follows on from discussions on "mm: Do not stall in synchronous compaction for THP allocations" and "[RFC PATCH 0/5] Reduce compaction-related stalls". Initially, the proposed patch eliminated stalls due to compaction which sometimes resulted in user-visible interactivity problems on browsers by simply never using sync compaction. The downside was that THP success allocation rates were lower because dirty pages were not being migrated as reported by Andrea. His approach at fixing this was nacked on the grounds that it reverted fixes from Rik merged that reduced the amount of pages reclaimed as it severely impacted his workloads performance. This series attempts to reconcile the requirements of maximising THP usage, without stalling in a user-visible fashion due to compaction or cheating by reclaiming an excessive number of pages. Patch 1 partially reverts commit 39deaf85 to allow migration to isolate dirty pages. This is because migration can move some dirty pages without blocking. Patch 2 notes that the /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory handler is not using synchronous compaction when it should be. This is unrelated to the reported stalls but is worth fixing. Patch 3 checks if we isolated a compound page during lumpy scan and account for it properly. For the most part, this affects tracing so it's unrelated to the stalls but worth fixing. Patch 4 notes that it is possible to abort reclaim early for compaction and return 0 to the page allocator potentially entering the "may oom" path. This has not been observed in practice but the rest of the series potentially makes it easier to happen. Patch 5 adds a sync parameter to the migratepage callback and gives the callback responsibility for migrating the page without blocking if sync==false. For example, fallback_migrate_page will not call writepage if sync==false. This increases the number of pages that can be handled by asynchronous compaction thereby reducing stalls. Patch 6 restores filter-awareness to isolate_lru_page for migration. In practice, it means that pages under writeback and pages without a ->migratepage callback will not be isolated for migration. Patch 7 avoids calling direct reclaim if compaction is deferred but makes sure that compaction is only deferred if sync compaction was used. Patch 8 introduces a sync-light migration mechanism that sync compaction uses. The objective is to allow some stalls but to not call ->writepage which can lead to significant user-visible stalls. Patch 9 notes that while we want to abort reclaim ASAP to allow compation to go ahead that we leave a very small window of opportunity for compaction to run. This patch allows more pages to be freed by reclaim but bounds the number to a reasonable level based on the high watermark on each zone. Patch 10 allows slabs to be shrunk even after compaction_ready() is true for one zone. This is to avoid a problem whereby a single small zone can abort reclaim even though no pages have been reclaimed and no suitably large zone is in a usable state. Patch 11 fixes a problem with the rate of page scanning. As reclaim is rarely stalling on pages under writeback it means that scan rates are very high. This is particularly true for direct reclaim which is not calling writepage. The vmstat figures implied that much of this was busy work with PageReclaim pages marked for immediate reclaim. This patch is a prototype that moves these pages to their own LRU list. This has been tested and other than 2 USB keys getting trashed, nothing horrible fell out. That said, I am a bit unhappy with the rescue logic in patch 11 but did not find a better way around it. It does significantly reduce scan rates and System CPU time indicating it is the right direction to take. What is of critical importance is that stalls due to compaction are massively reduced even though sync compaction was still allowed. Testing from people complaining about stalls copying to USBs with THP enabled are particularly welcome. The following tests all involve THP usage and USB keys in some way. Each test follows this type of pattern 1. Read from some fast fast storage, be it raw device or file. Each time the copy finishes, start again until the test ends 2. Write a large file to a filesystem on a USB stick. Each time the copy finishes, start again until the test ends 3. When memory is low, start an alloc process that creates a mapping the size of physical memory to stress THP allocation. This is the "real" part of the test and the part that is meant to trigger stalls when THP is enabled. Copying continues in the background. 4. Record the CPU usage and time to execute of the alloc process 5. Record the number of THP allocs and fallbacks as well as the number of THP pages in use a the end of the test just before alloc exited 6. Run the test 5 times to get an idea of variability 7. Between each run, sync is run and caches dropped and the test waits until nr_dirty is a small number to avoid interference or caching between iterations that would skew the figures. The individual tests were then writebackCPDeviceBasevfat Disable THP, read from a raw device (sda), vfat on USB stick writebackCPDeviceBaseext4 Disable THP, read from a raw device (sda), ext4 on USB stick writebackCPDevicevfat THP enabled, read from a raw device (sda), vfat on USB stick writebackCPDeviceext4 THP enabled, read from a raw device (sda), ext4 on USB stick writebackCPFilevfat THP enabled, read from a file on fast storage and USB, both vfat writebackCPFileext4 THP enabled, read from a file on fast storage and USB, both ext4 The kernels tested were 3.1 3.1 vanilla 3.2-rc5 freemore Patches 1-10 immediate Patches 1-11 andrea The 8 patches Andrea posted as a basis of comparison The results are very long unfortunately. I'll start with the case where we are not using THP at all writebackCPDeviceBasevfat 3.1.0-vanilla rc5-vanilla freemore-v6r1 isolate-v6r1 andrea-v2r1 System Time 1.28 ( 0.00%) 54.49 (-4143.46%) 48.63 (-3687.69%) 4.69 ( -265.11%) 51.88 (-3940.81%) +/- 0.06 ( 0.00%) 2.45 (-4305.55%) 4.75 (-8430.57%) 7.46 (-13282.76%) 4.76 (-8440.70%) User Time 0.09 ( 0.00%) 0.05 ( 40.91%) 0.06 ( 29.55%) 0.07 ( 15.91%) 0.06 ( 27.27%) +/- 0.02 ( 0.00%) 0.01 ( 45.39%) 0.02 ( 25.07%) 0.00 ( 77.06%) 0.01 ( 52.24%) Elapsed Time 110.27 ( 0.00%) 56.38 ( 48.87%) 49.95 ( 54.70%) 11.77 ( 89.33%) 53.43 ( 51.54%) +/- 7.33 ( 0.00%) 3.77 ( 48.61%) 4.94 ( 32.63%) 6.71 ( 8.50%) 4.76 ( 35.03%) THP Active 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) +/- 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Fault Alloc 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) +/- 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) Fault Fallback 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) +/- 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%) The THP figures are obviously all 0 because THP was enabled. The main thing to watch is the elapsed times and how they compare to times when THP is enabled later. It's also important to note that elapsed time is improved by this series as System CPu time is much reduced. writebackCPDevicevfat 3.1.0-vanilla rc5-vanilla freemore-v6r1 isolate-v6r1 andrea-v2r1 System Time 1.22 ( 0.00%) 13.89 (-1040.72%) 46.40 (-3709.20%) 4.44 ( -264.37%) 47.37 (-3789.33%) +/- 0.06 ( 0.00%) 22.82 (-37635.56%) 3.84 (-6249.44%) 6.48 (-10618.92%) 6.60 (-10818.53%) User Time 0.06 ( 0.00%) 0.06 ( -6.90%) 0.05 ( 17.24%) 0.05 ( 13.79%) 0.04 ( 31.03%) +/- 0.01 ( 0.00%) 0.01 ( 33.33%) 0.01 ( 33.33%) 0.01 ( 39.14%) 0.01 ( 25.46%) Elapsed Time 10445.54 ( 0.00%) 2249.92 ( 78.46%) 70.06 ( 99.33%) 16.59 ( 99.84%) 472.43 ( 95.48%) +/- 643.98 ( 0.00%) 811.62 ( -26.03%) 10.02 ( 98.44%) 7.03 ( 98.91%) 59.99 ( 90.68%) THP Active 15.60 ( 0.00%) 35.20 ( 225.64%) 65.00 ( 416.67%) 70.80 ( 453.85%) 62.20 ( 398.72%) +/- 18.48 ( 0.00%) 51.29 ( 277.59%) 15.99 ( 86.52%) 37.91 ( 205.18%) 22.02 ( 119.18%) Fault Alloc 121.80 ( 0.00%) 76.60 ( 62.89%) 155.40 ( 127.59%) 181.20 ( 148.77%) 286.60 ( 235.30%) +/- 73.51 ( 0.00%) 61.11 ( 83.12%) 34.89 ( 47.46%) 31.88 ( 43.36%) 68.13 ( 92.68%) Fault Fallback 881.20 ( 0.00%) 926.60 ( -5.15%) 847.60 ( 3.81%) 822.00 ( 6.72%) 716.60 ( 18.68%) +/- 73.51 ( 0.00%) 61.26 ( 16.67%) 34.89 ( 52.54%) 31.65 ( 56.94%) 67.75 ( 7.84%) MMTests Statistics: duration User/Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 3540.88 1945.37 716.04 64.97 1937.03 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 52417.33 11425.90 501.02 230.95 2520.28 The first thing to note is the "Elapsed Time" for the vanilla kernels of 2249 seconds versus 56 with THP disabled which might explain the reports of USB stalls with THP enabled. Applying the patches brings performance in line with THP-disabled performance while isolating pages for immediate reclaim from the LRU cuts down System CPU time. The "Fault Alloc" success rate figures are also improved. The vanilla kernel only managed to allocate 76.6 pages on average over the course of 5 iterations where as applying the series allocated 181.20 on average albeit it is well within variance. It's worth noting that applies the series at least descreases the amount of variance which implies an improvement. Andrea's series had a higher success rate for THP allocations but at a severe cost to elapsed time which is still better than vanilla but still much worse than disabling THP altogether. One can bring my series close to Andrea's by removing this check /* * If compaction is deferred for high-order allocations, it is because * sync compaction recently failed. In this is the case and the caller * has requested the system not be heavily disrupted, fail the * allocation now instead of entering direct reclaim */ if (deferred_compaction && (gfp_mask & __GFP_NO_KSWAPD)) goto nopage; I didn't include a patch that removed the above check because hurting overall performance to improve the THP figure is not what the average user wants. It's something to consider though if someone really wants to maximise THP usage no matter what it does to the workload initially. This is summary of vmstat figures from the same test. 3.1.0-vanilla rc5-vanilla freemore-v6r1 isolate-v6r1 andrea-v2r1 Page Ins 3257266139 1111844061 17263623 10901575 161423219 Page Outs 81054922 30364312 3626530 3657687 8753730 Swap Ins 3294 2851 6560 4964 4592 Swap Outs 390073 528094 620197 790912 698285 Direct pages scanned 1077581700 3024951463 1764930052 115140570 5901188831 Kswapd pages scanned 34826043 7112868 2131265 1686942 1893966 Kswapd pages reclaimed 28950067 4911036 1246044 966475 1497726 Direct pages reclaimed 805148398 280167837 3623473 2215044 40809360 Kswapd efficiency 83% 69% 58% 57% 79% Kswapd velocity 664.399 622.521 4253.852 7304.360 751.490 Direct efficiency 74% 9% 0% 1% 0% Direct velocity 20557.737 264745.137 3522673.849 498551.938 2341481.435 Percentage direct scans 96% 99% 99% 98% 99% Page writes by reclaim 722646 529174 620319 791018 699198 Page writes file 332573 1080 122 106 913 Page writes anon 390073 528094 620197 790912 698285 Page reclaim immediate 0 2552514720 1635858848 111281140 5478375032 Page rescued immediate 0 0 0 87848 0 Slabs scanned 23552 23552 9216 8192 9216 Direct inode steals 231 0 0 0 0 Kswapd inode steals 0 0 0 0 0 Kswapd skipped wait 28076 786 0 61 6 THP fault alloc 609 383 753 906 1433 THP collapse alloc 12 6 0 0 6 THP splits 536 211 456 593 1136 THP fault fallback 4406 4633 4263 4110 3583 THP collapse fail 120 127 0 0 4 Compaction stalls 1810 728 623 779 3200 Compaction success 196 53 60 80 123 Compaction failures 1614 675 563 699 3077 Compaction pages moved 193158 53545 243185 333457 226688 Compaction move failure 9952 9396 16424 23676 45070 The main things to look at are 1. Page In/out figures are much reduced by the series. 2. Direct page scanning is incredibly high (264745.137 pages scanned per second on the vanilla kernel) but isolating PageReclaim pages on their own list reduces the number of pages scanned significantly. 3. The fact that "Page rescued immediate" is a positive number implies that we sometimes race removing pages from the LRU_IMMEDIATE list that need to be put back on a normal LRU but it happens only for 0.07% of the pages marked for immediate reclaim. writebackCPDeviceext4 3.1.0-vanilla rc5-vanilla freemore-v6r1 isolate-v6r1 andrea-v2r1 System Time 1.51 ( 0.00%) 1.77 ( -17.66%) 1.46 ( 2.92%) 1.15 ( 23.77%) 1.89 ( -25.63%) +/- 0.27 ( 0.00%) 0.67 ( -148.52%) 0.33 ( -22.76%) 0.30 ( -11.15%) 0.19 ( 30.16%) User Time 0.03 ( 0.00%) 0.04 ( -37.50%) 0.05 ( -62.50%) 0.07 ( -112.50%) 0.04 ( -18.75%) +/- 0.01 ( 0.00%) 0.02 ( -146.64%) 0.02 ( -97.91%) 0.02 ( -75.59%) 0.02 ( -63.30%) Elapsed Time 124.93 ( 0.00%) 114.49 ( 8.36%) 96.77 ( 22.55%) 27.48 ( 78.00%) 205.70 ( -64.65%) +/- 20.20 ( 0.00%) 74.39 ( -268.34%) 59.88 ( -196.48%) 7.72 ( 61.79%) 25.03 ( -23.95%) THP Active 161.80 ( 0.00%) 83.60 ( 51.67%) 141.20 ( 87.27%) 84.60 ( 52.29%) 82.60 ( 51.05%) +/- 71.95 ( 0.00%) 43.80 ( 60.88%) 26.91 ( 37.40%) 59.02 ( 82.03%) 52.13 ( 72.45%) Fault Alloc 471.40 ( 0.00%) 228.60 ( 48.49%) 282.20 ( 59.86%) 225.20 ( 47.77%) 388.40 ( 82.39%) +/- 88.07 ( 0.00%) 87.42 ( 99.26%) 73.79 ( 83.78%) 109.62 ( 124.47%) 82.62 ( 93.81%) Fault Fallback 531.60 ( 0.00%) 774.60 ( -45.71%) 720.80 ( -35.59%) 777.80 ( -46.31%) 614.80 ( -15.65%) +/- 88.07 ( 0.00%) 87.26 ( 0.92%) 73.79 ( 16.22%) 109.62 ( -24.47%) 82.29 ( 6.56%) MMTests Statistics: duration User/Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 50.22 33.76 30.65 24.14 128.45 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 1113.73 1132.19 1029.45 759.49 1707.26 Similar test but the USB stick is using ext4 instead of vfat. As ext4 does not use writepage for migration, the large stalls due to compaction when THP is enabled are not observed. Still, isolating PageReclaim pages on their own list helped completion time largely by reducing the number of pages scanned by direct reclaim although time spend in congestion_wait could also be a factor. Again, Andrea's series had far higher success rates for THP allocation at the cost of elapsed time. I didn't look too closely but a quick look at the vmstat figures tells me kswapd reclaimed 8 times more pages than the patch series and direct reclaim reclaimed roughly three times as many pages. It follows that if memory is aggressively reclaimed, there will be more available for THP. writebackCPFilevfat 3.1.0-vanilla rc5-vanilla freemore-v6r1 isolate-v6r1 andrea-v2r1 System Time 1.76 ( 0.00%) 29.10 (-1555.52%) 46.01 (-2517.18%) 4.79 ( -172.35%) 54.89 (-3022.53%) +/- 0.14 ( 0.00%) 25.61 (-18185.17%) 2.15 (-1434.83%) 6.60 (-4610.03%) 9.75 (-6863.76%) User Time 0.05 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( -45.83%) 0.05 ( -4.17%) 0.06 ( -29.17%) 0.06 ( -16.67%) +/- 0.02 ( 0.00%) 0.02 ( 20.11%) 0.02 ( -3.14%) 0.01 ( 31.58%) 0.01 ( 47.41%) Elapsed Time 22520.79 ( 0.00%) 1082.85 ( 95.19%) 73.30 ( 99.67%) 32.43 ( 99.86%) 291.84 ( 98.70%) +/- 7277.23 ( 0.00%) 706.29 ( 90.29%) 19.05 ( 99.74%) 17.05 ( 99.77%) 125.55 ( 98.27%) THP Active 83.80 ( 0.00%) 12.80 ( 15.27%) 15.60 ( 18.62%) 13.00 ( 15.51%) 0.80 ( 0.95%) +/- 66.81 ( 0.00%) 20.19 ( 30.22%) 5.92 ( 8.86%) 15.06 ( 22.54%) 1.17 ( 1.75%) Fault Alloc 171.00 ( 0.00%) 67.80 ( 39.65%) 97.40 ( 56.96%) 125.60 ( 73.45%) 133.00 ( 77.78%) +/- 82.91 ( 0.00%) 30.69 ( 37.02%) 53.91 ( 65.02%) 55.05 ( 66.40%) 21.19 ( 25.56%) Fault Fallback 832.00 ( 0.00%) 935.20 ( -12.40%) 906.00 ( -8.89%) 877.40 ( -5.46%) 870.20 ( -4.59%) +/- 82.91 ( 0.00%) 30.69 ( 62.98%) 54.01 ( 34.86%) 55.05 ( 33.60%) 20.91 ( 74.78%) MMTests Statistics: duration User/Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 7229.81 928.42 704.52 80.68 1330.76 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 112849.04 5618.69 571.11 360.54 1664.28 In this case, the test is reading/writing only from filesystems but as it's vfat, it's slow due to calling writepage during compaction. Little to observe really - the time to complete the test goes way down with the series applied and THP allocation success rates go up in comparison to 3.2-rc5. The success rates are lower than 3.1.0 but the elapsed time for that kernel is abysmal so it is not really a sensible comparison. As before, Andrea's series allocates more THPs at the cost of overall performance. writebackCPFileext4 3.1.0-vanilla rc5-vanilla freemore-v6r1 isolate-v6r1 andrea-v2r1 System Time 1.51 ( 0.00%) 1.77 ( -17.66%) 1.46 ( 2.92%) 1.15 ( 23.77%) 1.89 ( -25.63%) +/- 0.27 ( 0.00%) 0.67 ( -148.52%) 0.33 ( -22.76%) 0.30 ( -11.15%) 0.19 ( 30.16%) User Time 0.03 ( 0.00%) 0.04 ( -37.50%) 0.05 ( -62.50%) 0.07 ( -112.50%) 0.04 ( -18.75%) +/- 0.01 ( 0.00%) 0.02 ( -146.64%) 0.02 ( -97.91%) 0.02 ( -75.59%) 0.02 ( -63.30%) Elapsed Time 124.93 ( 0.00%) 114.49 ( 8.36%) 96.77 ( 22.55%) 27.48 ( 78.00%) 205.70 ( -64.65%) +/- 20.20 ( 0.00%) 74.39 ( -268.34%) 59.88 ( -196.48%) 7.72 ( 61.79%) 25.03 ( -23.95%) THP Active 161.80 ( 0.00%) 83.60 ( 51.67%) 141.20 ( 87.27%) 84.60 ( 52.29%) 82.60 ( 51.05%) +/- 71.95 ( 0.00%) 43.80 ( 60.88%) 26.91 ( 37.40%) 59.02 ( 82.03%) 52.13 ( 72.45%) Fault Alloc 471.40 ( 0.00%) 228.60 ( 48.49%) 282.20 ( 59.86%) 225.20 ( 47.77%) 388.40 ( 82.39%) +/- 88.07 ( 0.00%) 87.42 ( 99.26%) 73.79 ( 83.78%) 109.62 ( 124.47%) 82.62 ( 93.81%) Fault Fallback 531.60 ( 0.00%) 774.60 ( -45.71%) 720.80 ( -35.59%) 777.80 ( -46.31%) 614.80 ( -15.65%) +/- 88.07 ( 0.00%) 87.26 ( 0.92%) 73.79 ( 16.22%) 109.62 ( -24.47%) 82.29 ( 6.56%) MMTests Statistics: duration User/Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 50.22 33.76 30.65 24.14 128.45 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 1113.73 1132.19 1029.45 759.49 1707.26 Same type of story - elapsed times go down. In this case, allocation success rates are roughtly the same. As before, Andrea's has higher success rates but takes a lot longer. Overall the series does reduce latencies and while the tests are inherency racy as alloc competes with the cp processes, the variability was included. The THP allocation rates are not as high as they could be but that is because we would have to be more aggressive about reclaim and compaction impacting overall performance. This patch: Commit 39deaf85 ("mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page() filter-aware") noted that compaction does not migrate dirty or writeback pages and that is was meaningless to pick the page and re-add it to the LRU list. What was missed during review is that asynchronous migration moves dirty pages if their ->migratepage callback is migrate_page() because these can be moved without blocking. This potentially impacted hugepage allocation success rates by a factor depending on how many dirty pages are in the system. This patch partially reverts 39deaf85 to allow migration to isolate dirty pages again. This increases how much compaction disrupts the LRU but that is addressed later in the series. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> Cc: Nai Xia <nai.xia@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12vmscan/trace: Add 'file' info to trace_mm_vmscan_lru_isolate()Tao Ma
In trace_mm_vmscan_lru_isolate(), we don't output 'file' information to the trace event and it is a bit inconvenient for the user to get the real information(like pasted below). mm_vmscan_lru_isolate: isolate_mode=2 order=0 nr_requested=32 nr_scanned=32 nr_taken=32 contig_taken=0 contig_dirty=0 contig_failed=0 'active' can be obtained by analyzing mode(Thanks go to Minchan and Mel), So this patch adds 'file' to the trace event and it now looks like: mm_vmscan_lru_isolate: isolate_mode=2 order=0 nr_requested=32 nr_scanned=32 nr_taken=32 contig_taken=0 contig_dirty=0 contig_failed=0 file=0 Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@taobao.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12thp: improve order in lru list for split huge pageShaohua Li
Put the tail subpages of an isolated hugepage under splitting in the lru reclaim head as they supposedly should be isolated too next. Queues the subpages in physical order in the lru for non isolated hugepages under splitting. That might provide some theoretical cache benefit to the buddy allocator later. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> 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>
2012-01-12thp: add tlb_remove_pmd_tlb_entryShaohua Li
We have tlb_remove_tlb_entry to indicate a pte tlb flush entry should be flushed, but not a corresponding API for pmd entry. This isn't a problem so far because THP is only for x86 currently and tlb_flush() under x86 will flush entire TLB. But this is confusion and could be missed if thp is ported to other arch. Also convert tlb->need_flush = 1 to a VM_BUG_ON(!tlb->need_flush) in __tlb_remove_page() as suggested by Andrea Arcangeli. The __tlb_remove_page() function is supposed to be called after tlb_remove_xxx_tlb_entry() and we can catch any misuse. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> 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>
2012-01-12thp: remove unnecessary tlb flush for mprotectShaohua Li
change_protection() will do TLB flush later, don't need duplicate tlb flush. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> 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>
2012-01-12thp: improve the error code pathShaohua Li
Improve the error code path. Delete unnecessary sysfs file for example. Also remove the #ifdef xxx to make code better. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> 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>
2012-01-12page_cgroup: drop multi CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUGBob Liu
No need for two CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG blocks. Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12page_alloc: break early in check_for_regular_memory()Bob Liu
If there is a zone below ZONE_NORMAL has present_pages, we can set node state to N_NORMAL_MEMORY, no need to loop to end. Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12memcg: cleanup for_each_node_state()Bob Liu
We already have for_each_node(node) define in nodemask.h, better to use it. Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12memcg: simplify LRU handling by new ruleKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Now, at LRU handling, memory cgroup needs to do complicated works to see valid pc->mem_cgroup, which may be overwritten. This patch is for relaxing the protocol. This patch guarantees - when pc->mem_cgroup is overwritten, page must not be on LRU. By this, LRU routine can believe pc->mem_cgroup and don't need to check bits on pc->flags. This new rule may adds small overheads to swapin. But in most case, lru handling gets faster. After this patch, PCG_ACCT_LRU bit is obsolete and removed. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded VM_BUG_ON(), restore hannes's christmas tree] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: clean up code comment] [hughd@google.com: fix NULL mem_cgroup_try_charge] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12memcg: clear pc->mem_cgroup if necessary.KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
This is a preparation before removing a flag PCG_ACCT_LRU in page_cgroup and reducing atomic ops/complexity in memcg LRU handling. In some cases, pages are added to lru before charge to memcg and pages are not classfied to memory cgroup at lru addtion. Now, the lru where the page should be added is determined a bit in page_cgroup->flags and pc->mem_cgroup. I'd like to remove the check of flag. To handle the case pc->mem_cgroup may contain stale pointers if pages are added to LRU before classification. This patch resets pc->mem_cgroup to root_mem_cgroup before lru additions. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_CONT=n build] [hughd@google.com: fix CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR=y CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP=n build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: ksm.c needs memcontrol.h, per Michal] [hughd@google.com: stop oops in mem_cgroup_reset_owner()] [hughd@google.com: fix page migration to reset_owner] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-12memcg: simplify corner case handling of LRU.KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
This patch simplifies LRU handling of racy case (memcg+SwapCache). At charging, SwapCache tend to be on LRU already. So, before overwriting pc->mem_cgroup, the page must be removed from LRU and added to LRU later. This patch does spin_lock(zone->lru_lock); if (PageLRU(page)) remove from LRU overwrite pc->mem_cgroup if (PageLRU(page)) add to new LRU. spin_unlock(zone->lru_lock); And guarantee all pages are not on LRU at modifying pc->mem_cgroup. This patch also unfies lru handling of replace_page_cache() and swapin. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.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>
2012-01-12memcg: simplify page cache chargingKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
This patch is a clean up. No functional/logical changes. Because of commit ef6a3c6311 ("mm: add replace_page_cache_page() function") , FUSE uses replace_page_cache() instead of add_to_page_cache(). Then, mem_cgroup_cache_charge() is not called against FUSE's pages from splice. So now, mem_cgroup_cache_charge() gets pages that are not on the LRU with the exception of PageSwapCache pages. For checking, WARN_ON_ONCE(PageLRU(page)) is added. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.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>
2012-01-12oom, memcg: fix exclusion of memcg threads after they have detached their mmDavid Rientjes
The oom killer relies on logic that identifies threads that have already been oom killed when scanning the tasklist and, if found, deferring until such threads have exited. This is done by checking for any candidate threads that have the TIF_MEMDIE bit set. For memcg ooms, candidate threads are first found by calling task_in_mem_cgroup() since the oom killer should not defer if there's an oom killed thread in another memcg. Unfortunately, task_in_mem_cgroup() excludes threads if they have detached their mm in the process of exiting so TIF_MEMDIE is never detected for such conditions. This is different for global, mempolicy, and cpuset oom conditions where a detached mm is only excluded after checking for TIF_MEMDIE and deferring, if necessary, in select_bad_process(). The fix is to return true if a task has a detached mm but is still in the memcg or its hierarchy that is currently oom. This will allow the oom killer to appropriately defer rather than kill unnecessarily or, in the worst case, panic the machine if nothing else is available to kill. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> 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>
2012-01-12memcg: free entries in soft_limit_tree if allocation failsMichal Hocko
If we are not able to allocate tree nodes for all NUMA nodes then we should release those that were allocated. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.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>
2012-01-12page_cgroup: add helper function to get swap_cgroupBob Liu
There are multiple places which need to get the swap_cgroup address, so add a helper function: static struct swap_cgroup *swap_cgroup_getsc(swp_entry_t ent, struct swap_cgroup_ctrl **ctrl); to simplify the code. Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>