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2012-12-06mm: soft offline: split thp at the beginning of soft_offline_page()Naoya Horiguchi
commit 783657a7dc20e5c0efbc9a09a9dd38e238a723da upstream. When we try to soft-offline a thp tail page, put_page() is called on the tail page unthinkingly and VM_BUG_ON is triggered in put_compound_page(). This patch splits thp before going into the main body of soft-offlining. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-12-06mm: vmscan: fix endless loop in kswapd balancingJohannes Weiner
commit 60cefed485a02bd99b6299dad70666fe49245da7 upstream. Kswapd does not in all places have the same criteria for a balanced zone. Zones are only being reclaimed when their high watermark is breached, but compaction checks loop over the zonelist again when the zone does not meet the low watermark plus two times the size of the allocation. This gets kswapd stuck in an endless loop over a small zone, like the DMA zone, where the high watermark is smaller than the compaction requirement. Add a function, zone_balanced(), that checks the watermark, and, for higher order allocations, if compaction has enough free memory. Then use it uniformly to check for balanced zones. This makes sure that when the compaction watermark is not met, at least reclaim happens and progress is made - or the zone is declared unreclaimable at some point and skipped entirely. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reported-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com> Reported-by: Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@fem.tu-ilmenau.de> Reported-by: Tomas Racek <tracek@redhat.com> Tested-by: Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@fem.tu-ilmenau.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.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> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-12-06mm/vmemmap: fix wrong use of virt_to_pageJianguo Wu
commit ae64ffcac35de0db628ba9631edf8ff34c5cd7ac upstream. I enable CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL and CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, when doing memory hotremove, there is a kernel BUG at arch/x86/mm/physaddr.c:20. It is caused by free_section_usemap()->virt_to_page(), virt_to_page() is only used for kernel direct mapping address, but sparse-vmemmap uses vmemmap address, so it is going wrong here. ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at arch/x86/mm/physaddr.c:20! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: acpihp_drv acpihp_slot edd cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave acpi_cpufreq mperf fuse vfat fat loop dm_mod coretemp kvm crc32c_intel ipv6 ixgbe igb iTCO_wdt i7core_edac edac_core pcspkr iTCO_vendor_support ioatdma microcode joydev sr_mod i2c_i801 dca lpc_ich mfd_core mdio tpm_tis i2c_core hid_generic tpm cdrom sg tpm_bios rtc_cmos button ext3 jbd mbcache usbhid hid uhci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore usb_common sd_mod crc_t10dif processor thermal_sys hwmon scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh ata_generic ata_piix libata megaraid_sas scsi_mod CPU 39 Pid: 6454, comm: sh Not tainted 3.7.0-rc1-acpihp-final+ #45 QCI QSSC-S4R/QSSC-S4R RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8103c908>] [<ffffffff8103c908>] __phys_addr+0x88/0x90 RSP: 0018:ffff8804440d7c08 EFLAGS: 00010006 RAX: 0000000000000006 RBX: ffffea0012000000 RCX: 000000000000002c ... Signed-off-by: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com> Reviewd-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-12-06tmpfs: change final i_blocks BUG to WARNINGHugh Dickins
commit 0f3c42f522dc1ad7e27affc0a4aa8c790bce0a66 upstream. Under a particular load on one machine, I have hit shmem_evict_inode()'s BUG_ON(inode->i_blocks), enough times to narrow it down to a particular race between swapout and eviction. It comes from the "if (freed > 0)" asymmetry in shmem_recalc_inode(), and the lack of coherent locking between mapping's nrpages and shmem's swapped count. There's a window in shmem_writepage(), between lowering nrpages in shmem_delete_from_page_cache() and then raising swapped count, when the freed count appears to be +1 when it should be 0, and then the asymmetry stops it from being corrected with -1 before hitting the BUG. One answer is coherent locking: using tree_lock throughout, without info->lock; reasonable, but the raw_spin_lock in percpu_counter_add() on used_blocks makes that messier than expected. Another answer may be a further effort to eliminate the weird shmem_recalc_inode() altogether, but previous attempts at that failed. So far undecided, but for now change the BUG_ON to WARN_ON: in usual circumstances it remains a useful consistency check. 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> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-12-06memcg: oom: fix totalpages calculation for memory.swappiness==0Michal Hocko
commit 9a5a8f19b43430752067ecaee62fc59e11e88fa6 upstream. oom_badness() takes a totalpages argument which says how many pages are available and it uses it as a base for the score calculation. The value is calculated by mem_cgroup_get_limit which considers both limit and total_swap_pages (resp. memsw portion of it). This is usually correct but since fe35004fbf9e ("mm: avoid swapping out with swappiness==0") we do not swap when swappiness is 0 which means that we cannot really use up all the totalpages pages. This in turn confuses oom score calculation if the memcg limit is much smaller than the available swap because the used memory (capped by the limit) is negligible comparing to totalpages so the resulting score is too small if adj!=0 (typically task with CAP_SYS_ADMIN or non zero oom_score_adj). A wrong process might be selected as result. The problem can be worked around by checking mem_cgroup_swappiness==0 and not considering swap at all in such a case. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> 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> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-11-16mm: bugfix: set current->reclaim_state to NULL while returning from kswapd()Takamori Yamaguchi
commit b0a8cc58e6b9aaae3045752059e5e6260c0b94bc upstream. In kswapd(), set current->reclaim_state to NULL before returning, as current->reclaim_state holds reference to variable on kswapd()'s stack. In rare cases, while returning from kswapd() during memory offlining, __free_slab() and freepages() can access the dangling pointer of current->reclaim_state. Signed-off-by: Takamori Yamaguchi <takamori.yamaguchi@jp.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Aaditya Kumar <aaditya.kumar@ap.sony.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-10-30mm: fix XFS oops due to dirty pages without buffers on s390Jan Kara
commit ef5d437f71afdf4afdbab99213add99f4b1318fd upstream. On s390 any write to a page (even from kernel itself) sets architecture specific page dirty bit. Thus when a page is written to via buffered write, HW dirty bit gets set and when we later map and unmap the page, page_remove_rmap() finds the dirty bit and calls set_page_dirty(). Dirtying of a page which shouldn't be dirty can cause all sorts of problems to filesystems. The bug we observed in practice is that buffers from the page get freed, so when the page gets later marked as dirty and writeback writes it, XFS crashes due to an assertion BUG_ON(!PagePrivate(page)) in page_buffers() called from xfs_count_page_state(). Similar problem can also happen when zero_user_segment() call from xfs_vm_writepage() (or block_write_full_page() for that matter) set the hardware dirty bit during writeback, later buffers get freed, and then page unmapped. Fix the issue by ignoring s390 HW dirty bit for page cache pages of mappings with mapping_cap_account_dirty(). This is safe because for such mappings when a page gets marked as writeable in PTE it is also marked dirty in do_wp_page() or do_page_fault(). When the dirty bit is cleared by clear_page_dirty_for_io(), the page gets writeprotected in page_mkclean(). So pagecache page is writeable if and only if it is dirty. Thanks to Hugh Dickins for pointing out mapping has to have mapping_cap_account_dirty() for things to work and proposing a cleaned up variant of the patch. The patch has survived about two hours of running fsx-linux on tmpfs while heavily swapping and several days of running on out build machines where the original problem was triggered. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> 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> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context; in particular there is no local 'anon' in page_remove_rmap()] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-10-30tmpfs,ceph,gfs2,isofs,reiserfs,xfs: fix fh_len checkingHugh Dickins
commit 35c2a7f4908d404c9124c2efc6ada4640ca4d5d5 upstream. Fuzzing with trinity oopsed on the 1st instruction of shmem_fh_to_dentry(), u64 inum = fid->raw[2]; which is unhelpfully reported as at the end of shmem_alloc_inode(): BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff880061cd3000 IP: [<ffffffff812190d0>] shmem_alloc_inode+0x40/0x40 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC Call Trace: [<ffffffff81488649>] ? exportfs_decode_fh+0x79/0x2d0 [<ffffffff812d77c3>] do_handle_open+0x163/0x2c0 [<ffffffff812d792c>] sys_open_by_handle_at+0xc/0x10 [<ffffffff83a5f3f8>] tracesys+0xe1/0xe6 Right, tmpfs is being stupid to access fid->raw[2] before validating that fh_len includes it: the buffer kmalloc'ed by do_sys_name_to_handle() may fall at the end of a page, and the next page not be present. But some other filesystems (ceph, gfs2, isofs, reiserfs, xfs) are being careless about fh_len too, in fh_to_dentry() and/or fh_to_parent(), and could oops in the same way: add the missing fh_len checks to those. Reported-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-10-17mempolicy: fix a memory corruption by refcount imbalance in alloc_pages_vma()Mel Gorman
commit 00442ad04a5eac08a98255697c510e708f6082e2 upstream. Commit cc9a6c877661 ("cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3") introduced a potential memory corruption. shmem_alloc_page() uses a pseudo vma and it has one significant unique combination, vma->vm_ops=NULL and vma->policy->flags & MPOL_F_SHARED. get_vma_policy() does NOT increase a policy ref when vma->vm_ops=NULL and mpol_cond_put() DOES decrease a policy ref when a policy has MPOL_F_SHARED. Therefore, when a cpuset update race occurs, alloc_pages_vma() falls in 'goto retry_cpuset' path, decrements the reference count and frees the policy prematurely. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-10-17mempolicy: fix refcount leak in mpol_set_shared_policy()KOSAKI Motohiro
commit 63f74ca21f1fad36d075e063f06dcc6d39fe86b2 upstream. When shared_policy_replace() fails to allocate new->policy is not freed correctly by mpol_set_shared_policy(). The problem is that shared mempolicy code directly call kmem_cache_free() in multiple places where it is easy to make a mistake. This patch creates an sp_free wrapper function and uses it. The bug was introduced pre-git age (IOW, before 2.6.12-rc2). [mgorman@suse.de: Editted changelog] Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-10-17mempolicy: fix a race in shared_policy_replace()Mel Gorman
commit b22d127a39ddd10d93deee3d96e643657ad53a49 upstream. shared_policy_replace() use of sp_alloc() is unsafe. 1) sp_node cannot be dereferenced if sp->lock is not held and 2) another thread can modify sp_node between spin_unlock for allocating a new sp node and next spin_lock. The bug was introduced before 2.6.12-rc2. Kosaki's original patch for this problem was to allocate an sp node and policy within shared_policy_replace and initialise it when the lock is reacquired. I was not keen on this approach because it partially duplicates sp_alloc(). As the paths were sp->lock is taken are not that performance critical this patch converts sp->lock to sp->mutex so it can sleep when calling sp_alloc(). [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: Original patch] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-10-17mempolicy: remove mempolicy sharingKOSAKI Motohiro
commit 869833f2c5c6e4dd09a5378cfc665ffb4615e5d2 upstream. Dave Jones' system call fuzz testing tool "trinity" triggered the following bug error with slab debugging enabled ============================================================================= BUG numa_policy (Not tainted): Poison overwritten ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- INFO: 0xffff880146498250-0xffff880146498250. First byte 0x6a instead of 0x6b INFO: Allocated in mpol_new+0xa3/0x140 age=46310 cpu=6 pid=32154 __slab_alloc+0x3d3/0x445 kmem_cache_alloc+0x29d/0x2b0 mpol_new+0xa3/0x140 sys_mbind+0x142/0x620 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b INFO: Freed in __mpol_put+0x27/0x30 age=46268 cpu=6 pid=32154 __slab_free+0x2e/0x1de kmem_cache_free+0x25a/0x260 __mpol_put+0x27/0x30 remove_vma+0x68/0x90 exit_mmap+0x118/0x140 mmput+0x73/0x110 exit_mm+0x108/0x130 do_exit+0x162/0xb90 do_group_exit+0x4f/0xc0 sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b INFO: Slab 0xffffea0005192600 objects=27 used=27 fp=0x (null) flags=0x20000000004080 INFO: Object 0xffff880146498250 @offset=592 fp=0xffff88014649b9d0 The problem is that the structure is being prematurely freed due to a reference count imbalance. In the following case mbind(addr, len) should replace the memory policies of both vma1 and vma2 and thus they will become to share the same mempolicy and the new mempolicy will have the MPOL_F_SHARED flag. +-------------------+-------------------+ | vma1 | vma2(shmem) | +-------------------+-------------------+ | | addr addr+len alloc_pages_vma() uses get_vma_policy() and mpol_cond_put() pair for maintaining the mempolicy reference count. The current rule is that get_vma_policy() only increments refcount for shmem VMA and mpol_conf_put() only decrements refcount if the policy has MPOL_F_SHARED. In above case, vma1 is not shmem vma and vma->policy has MPOL_F_SHARED! The reference count will be decreased even though was not increased whenever alloc_page_vma() is called. This has been broken since commit [52cd3b07: mempolicy: rework mempolicy Reference Counting] in 2008. There is another serious bug with the sharing of memory policies. Currently, mempolicy rebind logic (it is called from cpuset rebinding) ignores a refcount of mempolicy and override it forcibly. Thus, any mempolicy sharing may cause mempolicy corruption. The bug was introduced by commit [68860ec1: cpusets: automatic numa mempolicy rebinding]. Ideally, the shared policy handling would be rewritten to either properly handle COW of the policy structures or at least reference count MPOL_F_SHARED based exclusively on information within the policy. However, this patch takes the easier approach of disabling any policy sharing between VMAs. Each new range allocated with sp_alloc will allocate a new policy, set the reference count to 1 and drop the reference count of the old policy. This increases the memory footprint but is not expected to be a major problem as mbind() is unlikely to be used for fine-grained ranges. It is also inefficient because it means we allocate a new policy even in cases where mbind_range() could use the new_policy passed to it. However, it is more straight-forward and the change should be invisible to the user. [mgorman@suse.de: Edited changelog] Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>, Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-10-17hugetlb: do not use vma_hugecache_offset() for vma_prio_tree_foreachMichal Hocko
commit 36e4f20af833d1ce196e6a4ade05dc26c44652d1 upstream. Commit 0c176d52b0b2 ("mm: hugetlb: fix pgoff computation when unmapping page from vma") fixed pgoff calculation but it has replaced it by vma_hugecache_offset() which is not approapriate for offsets used for vma_prio_tree_foreach() because that one expects index in page units rather than in huge_page_shift. Johannes said: : The resulting index may not be too big, but it can be too small: assume : hpage size of 2M and the address to unmap to be 0x200000. This is regular : page index 512 and hpage index 1. If you have a VMA that maps the file : only starting at the second huge page, that VMAs vm_pgoff will be 512 but : you ask for offset 1 and miss it even though it does map the page of : interest. hugetlb_cow() will try to unmap, miss the vma, and retry the : cow until the allocation succeeds or the skipped vma(s) go away. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-10-17mm: hugetlb: fix pgoff computation when unmapping page from vmaHillf Danton
commit 0c176d52b0b2619f231b2bbf329b90c028134f58 upstream. The computation for pgoff is incorrect, at least with (vma->vm_pgoff >> PAGE_SHIFT) involved. It is fixed with the available method if HPAGE_SIZE is concerned in page cache lookup. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use vma_hugecache_offset() directly, per Michal] Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-10-17mm: fix invalidate_complete_page2() lock orderingHugh Dickins
commit ec4d9f626d5908b6052c2973f37992f1db52e967 upstream. In fuzzing with trinity, lockdep protested "possible irq lock inversion dependency detected" when isolate_lru_page() reenabled interrupts while still holding the supposedly irq-safe tree_lock: invalidate_inode_pages2 invalidate_complete_page2 spin_lock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock) clear_page_mlock isolate_lru_page spin_unlock_irq(&zone->lru_lock) isolate_lru_page() is correct to enable interrupts unconditionally: invalidate_complete_page2() is incorrect to call clear_page_mlock() while holding tree_lock, which is supposed to nest inside lru_lock. Both truncate_complete_page() and invalidate_complete_page() call clear_page_mlock() before taking tree_lock to remove page from radix_tree. I guess invalidate_complete_page2() preferred to test PageDirty (again) under tree_lock before committing to the munlock; but since the page has already been unmapped, its state is already somewhat inconsistent, and no worse if clear_page_mlock() moved up. Reported-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Deciphered-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-10-17slab: fix the DEADLOCK issue on l3 alien lockMichael Wang
commit 947ca1856a7e60aa6d20536785e6a42dff25aa6e upstream. DEADLOCK will be report while running a kernel with NUMA and LOCKDEP enabled, the process of this fake report is: kmem_cache_free() //free obj in cachep -> cache_free_alien() //acquire cachep's l3 alien lock -> __drain_alien_cache() -> free_block() -> slab_destroy() -> kmem_cache_free() //free slab in cachep->slabp_cache -> cache_free_alien() //acquire cachep->slabp_cache's l3 alien lock Since the cachep and cachep->slabp_cache's l3 alien are in the same lock class, fake report generated. This should not happen since we already have init_lock_keys() which will reassign the lock class for both l3 list and l3 alien. However, init_lock_keys() was invoked at a wrong position which is before we invoke enable_cpucache() on each cache. Since until set slab_state to be FULL, we won't invoke enable_cpucache() on caches to build their l3 alien while creating them, so although we invoked init_lock_keys(), the l3 alien lock class won't change since we don't have them until invoked enable_cpucache() later. This patch will invoke init_lock_keys() after we done enable_cpucache() instead of before to avoid the fake DEADLOCK report. Michael traced the problem back to a commit in release 3.0.0: commit 30765b92ada267c5395fc788623cb15233276f5c Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Date: Thu Jul 28 23:22:56 2011 +0200 slab, lockdep: Annotate the locks before using them Fernando found we hit the regular OFF_SLAB 'recursion' before we annotate the locks, cure this. The relevant portion of the stack-trace: > [ 0.000000] [<c085e24f>] rt_spin_lock+0x50/0x56 > [ 0.000000] [<c04fb406>] __cache_free+0x43/0xc3 > [ 0.000000] [<c04fb23f>] kmem_cache_free+0x6c/0xdc > [ 0.000000] [<c04fb2fe>] slab_destroy+0x4f/0x53 > [ 0.000000] [<c04fb396>] free_block+0x94/0xc1 > [ 0.000000] [<c04fc551>] do_tune_cpucache+0x10b/0x2bb > [ 0.000000] [<c04fc8dc>] enable_cpucache+0x7b/0xa7 > [ 0.000000] [<c0bd9d3c>] kmem_cache_init_late+0x1f/0x61 > [ 0.000000] [<c0bba687>] start_kernel+0x24c/0x363 > [ 0.000000] [<c0bba0ba>] i386_start_kernel+0xa9/0xaf Reported-by: Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1311888176.2617.379.camel@laptop Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> The commit moved init_lock_keys() before we build up the alien, so we failed to reclass it. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <wangyun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-10-10memory hotplug: fix section info double registration bugqiuxishi
commit f14851af0ebb32745c6c5a2e400aa0549f9d20df upstream. There may be a bug when registering section info. For example, on my Itanium platform, the pfn range of node0 includes the other nodes, so other nodes' section info will be double registered, and memmap's page count will equal to 3. node0: start_pfn=0x100, spanned_pfn=0x20fb00, present_pfn=0x7f8a3, => 0x000100-0x20fc00 node1: start_pfn=0x80000, spanned_pfn=0x80000, present_pfn=0x80000, => 0x080000-0x100000 node2: start_pfn=0x100000, spanned_pfn=0x80000, present_pfn=0x80000, => 0x100000-0x180000 node3: start_pfn=0x180000, spanned_pfn=0x80000, present_pfn=0x80000, => 0x180000-0x200000 free_all_bootmem_node() register_page_bootmem_info_node() register_page_bootmem_info_section() When hot remove memory, we can't free the memmap's page because page_count() is 2 after put_page_bootmem(). sparse_remove_one_section() free_section_usemap() free_map_bootmem() put_page_bootmem() [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add code comment] Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-10-10mm/page_alloc: fix the page address of higher page's buddy calculationLi Haifeng
commit 0ba8f2d59304dfe69b59c034de723ad80f7ab9ac upstream. The heuristic method for buddy has been introduced since commit 43506fad21ca ("mm/page_alloc.c: simplify calculation of combined index of adjacent buddy lists"). But the page address of higher page's buddy was wrongly calculated, which will lead page_is_buddy to fail for ever. IOW, the heuristic method would be disabled with the wrong page address of higher page's buddy. Calculating the page address of higher page's buddy should be based higher_page with the offset between index of higher page and index of higher page's buddy. Signed-off-by: Haifeng Li <omycle@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: KyongHo Cho <pullip.cho@samsung.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@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> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-09-19Remove user-triggerable BUG from mpol_to_strDave Jones
commit 80de7c3138ee9fd86a98696fd2cf7ad89b995d0a upstream. Trivially triggerable, found by trinity: kernel BUG at mm/mempolicy.c:2546! Process trinity-child2 (pid: 23988, threadinfo ffff88010197e000, task ffff88007821a670) Call Trace: show_numa_map+0xd5/0x450 show_pid_numa_map+0x13/0x20 traverse+0xf2/0x230 seq_read+0x34b/0x3e0 vfs_read+0xac/0x180 sys_pread64+0xa2/0xc0 system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f RIP: mpol_to_str+0x156/0x360 Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-09-12mm: avoid swapping out with swappiness==0Satoru Moriya
commit fe35004fbf9eaf67482b074a2e032abb9c89b1dd upstream. Sometimes we'd like to avoid swapping out anonymous memory. In particular, avoid swapping out pages of important process or process groups while there is a reasonable amount of pagecache on RAM so that we can satisfy our customers' requirements. OTOH, we can control how aggressive the kernel will swap memory pages with /proc/sys/vm/swappiness for global and /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/memory.swappiness for each memcg. But with current reclaim implementation, the kernel may swap out even if we set swappiness=0 and there is pagecache in RAM. This patch changes the behavior with swappiness==0. If we set swappiness==0, the kernel does not swap out completely (for global reclaim until the amount of free pages and filebacked pages in a zone has been reduced to something very very small (nr_free + nr_filebacked < high watermark)). Signed-off-by: Satoru Moriya <satoru.moriya@hds.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: - Adjust context - vmscan_swappiness() does not have a zone parameter] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-08-10mm: hugetlbfs: close race during teardown of hugetlbfs shared page tablesMel Gorman
commit d833352a4338dc31295ed832a30c9ccff5c7a183 upstream. If a process creates a large hugetlbfs mapping that is eligible for page table sharing and forks heavily with children some of whom fault and others which destroy the mapping then it is possible for page tables to get corrupted. Some teardowns of the mapping encounter a "bad pmd" and output a message to the kernel log. The final teardown will trigger a BUG_ON in mm/filemap.c. This was reproduced in 3.4 but is known to have existed for a long time and goes back at least as far as 2.6.37. It was probably was introduced in 2.6.20 by [39dde65c: shared page table for hugetlb page]. The messages look like this; [ ..........] Lots of bad pmd messages followed by this [ 127.164256] mm/memory.c:391: bad pmd ffff880412e04fe8(80000003de4000e7). [ 127.164257] mm/memory.c:391: bad pmd ffff880412e04ff0(80000003de6000e7). [ 127.164258] mm/memory.c:391: bad pmd ffff880412e04ff8(80000003de0000e7). [ 127.186778] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 127.186781] kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:134! [ 127.186782] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP [ 127.186783] CPU 7 [ 127.186784] Modules linked in: af_packet cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave acpi_cpufreq mperf ext3 jbd dm_mod coretemp crc32c_intel usb_storage ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel i2c_i801 r8169 mii uas sr_mod cdrom sg iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support shpchp serio_raw cryptd aes_x86_64 e1000e pci_hotplug dcdbas aes_generic container microcode ext4 mbcache jbd2 crc16 sd_mod crc_t10dif i915 drm_kms_helper drm i2c_algo_bit ehci_hcd ahci libahci usbcore rtc_cmos usb_common button i2c_core intel_agp video intel_gtt fan processor thermal thermal_sys hwmon ata_generic pata_atiixp libata scsi_mod [ 127.186801] [ 127.186802] Pid: 9017, comm: hugetlbfs-test Not tainted 3.4.0-autobuild #53 Dell Inc. OptiPlex 990/06D7TR [ 127.186804] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810ed6ce>] [<ffffffff810ed6ce>] __delete_from_page_cache+0x15e/0x160 [ 127.186809] RSP: 0000:ffff8804144b5c08 EFLAGS: 00010002 [ 127.186810] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffffea000a5c9000 RCX: 00000000ffffffc0 [ 127.186811] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000009 RDI: ffff88042dfdad00 [ 127.186812] RBP: ffff8804144b5c18 R08: 0000000000000009 R09: 0000000000000003 [ 127.186813] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 000000000000002d R12: ffff880412ff83d8 [ 127.186814] R13: ffff880412ff83d8 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff880412ff83d8 [ 127.186815] FS: 00007fe18ed2c700(0000) GS:ffff88042dce0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 127.186816] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b [ 127.186817] CR2: 00007fe340000503 CR3: 0000000417a14000 CR4: 00000000000407e0 [ 127.186818] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 127.186819] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 127.186820] Process hugetlbfs-test (pid: 9017, threadinfo ffff8804144b4000, task ffff880417f803c0) [ 127.186821] Stack: [ 127.186822] ffffea000a5c9000 0000000000000000 ffff8804144b5c48 ffffffff810ed83b [ 127.186824] ffff8804144b5c48 000000000000138a 0000000000001387 ffff8804144b5c98 [ 127.186825] ffff8804144b5d48 ffffffff811bc925 ffff8804144b5cb8 0000000000000000 [ 127.186827] Call Trace: [ 127.186829] [<ffffffff810ed83b>] delete_from_page_cache+0x3b/0x80 [ 127.186832] [<ffffffff811bc925>] truncate_hugepages+0x115/0x220 [ 127.186834] [<ffffffff811bca43>] hugetlbfs_evict_inode+0x13/0x30 [ 127.186837] [<ffffffff811655c7>] evict+0xa7/0x1b0 [ 127.186839] [<ffffffff811657a3>] iput_final+0xd3/0x1f0 [ 127.186840] [<ffffffff811658f9>] iput+0x39/0x50 [ 127.186842] [<ffffffff81162708>] d_kill+0xf8/0x130 [ 127.186843] [<ffffffff81162812>] dput+0xd2/0x1a0 [ 127.186845] [<ffffffff8114e2d0>] __fput+0x170/0x230 [ 127.186848] [<ffffffff81236e0e>] ? rb_erase+0xce/0x150 [ 127.186849] [<ffffffff8114e3ad>] fput+0x1d/0x30 [ 127.186851] [<ffffffff81117db7>] remove_vma+0x37/0x80 [ 127.186853] [<ffffffff81119182>] do_munmap+0x2d2/0x360 [ 127.186855] [<ffffffff811cc639>] sys_shmdt+0xc9/0x170 [ 127.186857] [<ffffffff81410a39>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [ 127.186858] Code: 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 8b 43 08 48 8b 00 48 8b 40 28 8b b0 40 03 00 00 85 f6 0f 88 df fe ff ff 48 89 df e8 e7 cb 05 00 e9 d2 fe ff ff <0f> 0b 55 83 e2 fd 48 89 e5 48 83 ec 30 48 89 5d d8 4c 89 65 e0 [ 127.186868] RIP [<ffffffff810ed6ce>] __delete_from_page_cache+0x15e/0x160 [ 127.186870] RSP <ffff8804144b5c08> [ 127.186871] ---[ end trace 7cbac5d1db69f426 ]--- The bug is a race and not always easy to reproduce. To reproduce it I was doing the following on a single socket I7-based machine with 16G of RAM. $ hugeadm --pool-pages-max DEFAULT:13G $ echo $((18*1048576*1024)) > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax $ echo $((18*1048576*1024)) > /proc/sys/kernel/shmall $ for i in `seq 1 9000`; do ./hugetlbfs-test; done On my particular machine, it usually triggers within 10 minutes but enabling debug options can change the timing such that it never hits. Once the bug is triggered, the machine is in trouble and needs to be rebooted. The machine will respond but processes accessing proc like "ps aux" will hang due to the BUG_ON. shutdown will also hang and needs a hard reset or a sysrq-b. The basic problem is a race between page table sharing and teardown. For the most part page table sharing depends on i_mmap_mutex. In some cases, it is also taking the mm->page_table_lock for the PTE updates but with shared page tables, it is the i_mmap_mutex that is more important. Unfortunately it appears to be also insufficient. Consider the following situation Process A Process B --------- --------- hugetlb_fault shmdt LockWrite(mmap_sem) do_munmap unmap_region unmap_vmas unmap_single_vma unmap_hugepage_range Lock(i_mmap_mutex) Lock(mm->page_table_lock) huge_pmd_unshare/unmap tables <--- (1) Unlock(mm->page_table_lock) Unlock(i_mmap_mutex) huge_pte_alloc ... Lock(i_mmap_mutex) ... vma_prio_walk, find svma, spte ... Lock(mm->page_table_lock) ... share spte ... Unlock(mm->page_table_lock) ... Unlock(i_mmap_mutex) ... hugetlb_no_page <--- (2) free_pgtables unlink_file_vma hugetlb_free_pgd_range remove_vma_list In this scenario, it is possible for Process A to share page tables with Process B that is trying to tear them down. The i_mmap_mutex on its own does not prevent Process A walking Process B's page tables. At (1) above, the page tables are not shared yet so it unmaps the PMDs. Process A sets up page table sharing and at (2) faults a new entry. Process B then trips up on it in free_pgtables. This patch fixes the problem by adding a new function __unmap_hugepage_range_final that is only called when the VMA is about to be destroyed. This function clears VM_MAYSHARE during unmap_hugepage_range() under the i_mmap_mutex. This makes the VMA ineligible for sharing and avoids the race. Superficially this looks like it would then be vunerable to truncate and madvise issues but hugetlbfs has its own truncate handlers so does not use unmap_mapping_range() and does not support madvise(DONTNEED). This should be treated as a -stable candidate if it is merged. Test program is as follows. The test case was mostly written by Michal Hocko with a few minor changes to reproduce this bug. ==== CUT HERE ==== static size_t huge_page_size = (2UL << 20); static size_t nr_huge_page_A = 512; static size_t nr_huge_page_B = 5632; unsigned int get_random(unsigned int max) { struct timeval tv; gettimeofday(&tv, NULL); srandom(tv.tv_usec); return random() % max; } static void play(void *addr, size_t size) { unsigned char *start = addr, *end = start + size, *a; start += get_random(size/2); /* we could itterate on huge pages but let's give it more time. */ for (a = start; a < end; a += 4096) *a = 0; } int main(int argc, char **argv) { key_t key = IPC_PRIVATE; size_t sizeA = nr_huge_page_A * huge_page_size; size_t sizeB = nr_huge_page_B * huge_page_size; int shmidA, shmidB; void *addrA = NULL, *addrB = NULL; int nr_children = 300, n = 0; if ((shmidA = shmget(key, sizeA, IPC_CREAT|SHM_HUGETLB|0660)) == -1) { perror("shmget:"); return 1; } if ((addrA = shmat(shmidA, addrA, SHM_R|SHM_W)) == (void *)-1UL) { perror("shmat"); return 1; } if ((shmidB = shmget(key, sizeB, IPC_CREAT|SHM_HUGETLB|0660)) == -1) { perror("shmget:"); return 1; } if ((addrB = shmat(shmidB, addrB, SHM_R|SHM_W)) == (void *)-1UL) { perror("shmat"); return 1; } fork_child: switch(fork()) { case 0: switch (n%3) { case 0: play(addrA, sizeA); break; case 1: play(addrB, sizeB); break; case 2: break; } break; case -1: perror("fork:"); break; default: if (++n < nr_children) goto fork_child; play(addrA, sizeA); break; } shmdt(addrA); shmdt(addrB); do { wait(NULL); } while (--n > 0); shmctl(shmidA, IPC_RMID, NULL); shmctl(shmidB, IPC_RMID, NULL); return 0; } [akpm@linux-foundation.org: name the declaration's args, fix CONFIG_HUGETLBFS=n build] Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: - Adjust context - Drop the mmu_gather * parameters] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-08-10mm: mmu_notifier: fix freed page still mapped in secondary MMUXiao Guangrong
commit 3ad3d901bbcfb15a5e4690e55350db0899095a68 upstream. mmu_notifier_release() is called when the process is exiting. It will delete all the mmu notifiers. But at this time the page belonging to the process is still present in page tables and is present on the LRU list, so this race will happen: CPU 0 CPU 1 mmu_notifier_release: try_to_unmap: hlist_del_init_rcu(&mn->hlist); ptep_clear_flush_notify: mmu nofifler not found free page !!!!!! /* * At the point, the page has been * freed, but it is still mapped in * the secondary MMU. */ mn->ops->release(mn, mm); Then the box is not stable and sometimes we can get this bug: [ 738.075923] BUG: Bad page state in process migrate-perf pfn:03bec [ 738.075931] page:ffffea00000efb00 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping: (null) index:0x8076 [ 738.075936] page flags: 0x20000000000014(referenced|dirty) The same issue is present in mmu_notifier_unregister(). We can call ->release before deleting the notifier to ensure the page has been unmapped from the secondary MMU before it is freed. Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-08-10mm: setup pageblock_order before it's used by sparsememXishi Qiu
commit ca57df79d4f64e1a4886606af4289d40636189c5 upstream. On architectures with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE set, such as Itanium, pageblock_order is a variable with default value of 0. It's set to the right value by set_pageblock_order() in function free_area_init_core(). But pageblock_order may be used by sparse_init() before free_area_init_core() is called along path: sparse_init() ->sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_node() ->usemap_size() ->SECTION_BLOCKFLAGS_BITS ->((1UL << (PFN_SECTION_SHIFT - pageblock_order)) * NR_PAGEBLOCK_BITS) The uninitialized pageblock_size will cause memory wasting because usemap_size() returns a much bigger value then it's really needed. For example, on an Itanium platform, sparse_init() pageblock_order=0 usemap_size=24576 free_area_init_core() before pageblock_order=0, usemap_size=24576 free_area_init_core() after pageblock_order=12, usemap_size=8 That means 24K memory has been wasted for each section, so fix it by calling set_pageblock_order() from sparse_init(). Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Keping Chen <chenkeping@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-08-10mm/page_alloc.c: remove pageblock_default_order()Andrew Morton
commit 955c1cd7401565671b064e499115344ec8067dfd upstream. This has always been broken: one version takes an unsigned int and the other version takes no arguments. This bug was hidden because one version of set_pageblock_order() was a macro which doesn't evaluate its argument. Simplify it all and remove pageblock_default_order() altogether. Reported-by: rajman mekaco <rajman.mekaco@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> 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: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-08-02mm: fix wrong argument of migrate_huge_pages() in soft_offline_huge_page()Joonsoo Kim
commit dc32f63453f56d07a1073a697dcd843dd3098c09 upstream. Commit a6bc32b89922 ("mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction") changed the declaration of migrate_pages() and migrate_huge_pages(). But it missed changing the argument of migrate_huge_pages() in soft_offline_huge_page(). In this case, we should call migrate_huge_pages() with MIGRATE_SYNC. Additionally, there is a mismatch between type the of argument and the function declaration for migrate_pages(). Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-08-02mm/hugetlb: fix warning in alloc_huge_page/dequeue_huge_page_vmaKonstantin Khlebnikov
commit b1c12cbcd0a02527c180a862e8971e249d3b347d upstream. Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. [get|put]_mems_allowed() is extremely expensive and severely impacted page allocator performance. This is part of a series of patches that reduce page allocator overhead. Fix a gcc warning (and bug?) introduced in cc9a6c877 ("cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3") Local variable "page" can be uninitialized if the nodemask from vma policy does not intersects with nodemask from cpuset. Even if it doesn't happens it is better to initialize this variable explicitly than to introduce a kernel oops in a weird corner case. mm/hugetlb.c: In function `alloc_huge_page': mm/hugetlb.c:1135:5: warning: `page' may be used uninitialized in this function Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-08-02cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3Mel Gorman
commit cc9a6c8776615f9c194ccf0b63a0aa5628235545 upstream. Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. [get|put]_mems_allowed() is extremely expensive and severely impacted page allocator performance. This is part of a series of patches that reduce page allocator overhead. Commit c0ff7453bb5c ("cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when changing cpuset's mems") wins a super prize for the largest number of memory barriers entered into fast paths for one commit. [get|put]_mems_allowed is incredibly heavy with pairs of full memory barriers inserted into a number of hot paths. This was detected while investigating at large page allocator slowdown introduced some time after 2.6.32. The largest portion of this overhead was shown by oprofile to be at an mfence introduced by this commit into the page allocator hot path. For extra style points, the commit introduced the use of yield() in an implementation of what looks like a spinning mutex. This patch replaces the full memory barriers on both read and write sides with a sequence counter with just read barriers on the fast path side. This is much cheaper on some architectures, including x86. The main bulk of the patch is the retry logic if the nodemask changes in a manner that can cause a false failure. While updating the nodemask, a check is made to see if a false failure is a risk. If it is, the sequence number gets bumped and parallel allocators will briefly stall while the nodemask update takes place. In a page fault test microbenchmark, oprofile samples from __alloc_pages_nodemask went from 4.53% of all samples to 1.15%. The actual results were 3.3.0-rc3 3.3.0-rc3 rc3-vanilla nobarrier-v2r1 Clients 1 UserTime 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.08 (-14.19%) Clients 2 UserTime 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 2.72%) Clients 4 UserTime 0.08 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 3.29%) Clients 1 SysTime 0.70 ( 0.00%) 0.65 ( 6.65%) Clients 2 SysTime 0.85 ( 0.00%) 0.82 ( 3.65%) Clients 4 SysTime 1.41 ( 0.00%) 1.41 ( 0.32%) Clients 1 WallTime 0.77 ( 0.00%) 0.74 ( 4.19%) Clients 2 WallTime 0.47 ( 0.00%) 0.45 ( 3.73%) Clients 4 WallTime 0.38 ( 0.00%) 0.37 ( 1.58%) Clients 1 Flt/sec/cpu 497620.28 ( 0.00%) 520294.53 ( 4.56%) Clients 2 Flt/sec/cpu 414639.05 ( 0.00%) 429882.01 ( 3.68%) Clients 4 Flt/sec/cpu 257959.16 ( 0.00%) 258761.48 ( 0.31%) Clients 1 Flt/sec 495161.39 ( 0.00%) 517292.87 ( 4.47%) Clients 2 Flt/sec 820325.95 ( 0.00%) 850289.77 ( 3.65%) Clients 4 Flt/sec 1020068.93 ( 0.00%) 1022674.06 ( 0.26%) MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 135.68 132.17 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 164.2 160.13 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 123.46 120.87 The overall improvement is small but the System CPU time is much improved and roughly in correlation to what oprofile reported (these performance figures are without profiling so skew is expected). The actual number of page faults is noticeably improved. For benchmarks like kernel builds, the overall benefit is marginal but the system CPU time is slightly reduced. To test the actual bug the commit fixed I opened two terminals. The first ran within a cpuset and continually ran a small program that faulted 100M of anonymous data. In a second window, the nodemask of the cpuset was continually randomised in a loop. Without the commit, the program would fail every so often (usually within 10 seconds) and obviously with the commit everything worked fine. With this patch applied, it also worked fine so the fix should be functionally equivalent. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> [bwh: Forward-ported from 3.0 to 3.2: apply the upstream changes to get_any_partial()] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-08-02mm: vmscan: convert global reclaim to per-memcg LRU listsJohannes Weiner
commit b95a2f2d486d0d768a92879c023a03757b9c7e58 upstream - WARNING: this is a substitute patch. Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. This is a partial backport of an upstream commit addressing a completely different issue that accidentally contained an important fix. The workload this patch helps was memcached when IO is started in the background. memcached should stay resident but without this patch it gets swapped. Sometimes this manifests as a drop in throughput but mostly it was observed through /proc/vmstat. Commit [246e87a9: memcg: fix get_scan_count() for small targets] was meant to fix a problem whereby small scan targets on memcg were ignored causing priority to raise too sharply. It forced scanning to take place if the target was small, memcg or kswapd. From the time it was introduced it caused excessive reclaim by kswapd with workloads being pushed to swap that previously would have stayed resident. This was accidentally fixed in commit [b95a2f2d: mm: vmscan: convert global reclaim to per-memcg LRU lists] by making it harder for kswapd to force scan small targets but that patchset is not suitable for backporting. This was later changed again by commit [90126375: mm/vmscan: push lruvec pointer into get_scan_count()] into a format that looks like it would be a straight-forward backport but there is a subtle difference due to the use of lruvecs. The impact of the accidental fix is to make it harder for kswapd to force scan small targets by taking zone->all_unreclaimable into account. This patch is the closest equivalent available based on what is backported. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-08-02mm: test PageSwapBacked in lumpy reclaimHugh Dickins
commit 043bcbe5ec51e0478ef2b44acef17193e01d7f70 upstream. Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. There were reports of shared mapped pages being unfairly reclaimed in comparison to older kernels. This is being addressed over time. Even though the subject refers to lumpy reclaim, it impacts compaction as well. Lumpy reclaim does well to stop at a PageAnon when there's no swap, but better is to stop at any PageSwapBacked, which includes shmem/tmpfs too. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-08-02mm/vmscan.c: consider swap space when deciding whether to continue reclaimMinchan Kim
commit 86cfd3a45042ab242d47f3935a02811a402beab6 upstream. Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. This patch reduces kswapd CPU usage on swapless systems with high anonymous memory usage. It's pointless to continue reclaiming when we have no swap space and lots of anon pages in the inactive list. Without this patch, it is possible when swap is disabled to continue trying to reclaim when there are only anonymous pages in the system even though that will not make any progress. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-08-02vmscan: activate executable pages after first usageKonstantin Khlebnikov
commit c909e99364c8b6ca07864d752950b6b4ecf6bef4 upstream. Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. There were reports of shared mapped pages being unfairly reclaimed in comparison to older kernels. This is being addressed over time. Logic added in commit 8cab4754d24a0 ("vmscan: make mapped executable pages the first class citizen") was noticeably weakened in commit 645747462435d84 ("vmscan: detect mapped file pages used only once"). Currently these pages can become "first class citizens" only after second usage. After this patch page_check_references() will activate they after first usage, and executable code gets yet better chance to stay in memory. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-08-02vmscan: promote shared file mapped pagesKonstantin Khlebnikov
commit 34dbc67a644f11ab3475d822d72e25409911e760 upstream. Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. There were reports of shared mapped pages being unfairly reclaimed in comparison to older kernels. This is being addressed over time. The specific workload being addressed here in described in paragraph four and while paragraph five says it did not help performance as such, it made a difference to major page faults. I'm aware of at least one bug for a large vendor that was due to increased major faults. Commit 645747462435 ("vmscan: detect mapped file pages used only once") greatly decreases lifetime of single-used mapped file pages. Unfortunately it also decreases life time of all shared mapped file pages. Because after commit bf3f3bc5e7347 ("mm: don't mark_page_accessed in fault path") page-fault handler does not mark page active or even referenced. Thus page_check_references() activates file page only if it was used twice while it stays in inactive list, meanwhile it activates anon pages after first access. Inactive list can be small enough, this way reclaimer can accidentally throw away any widely used page if it wasn't used twice in short period. After this patch page_check_references() also activate file mapped page at first inactive list scan if this page is already used multiple times via several ptes. I found this while trying to fix degragation in rhel6 (~2.6.32) from rhel5 (~2.6.18). There a complete mess with >100 web/mail/spam/ftp containers, they share all their files but there a lot of anonymous pages: ~500mb shared file mapped memory and 15-20Gb non-shared anonymous memory. In this situation major-pagefaults are very costly, because all containers share the same page. In my load kernel created a disproportionate pressure on the file memory, compared with the anonymous, they equaled only if I raise swappiness up to 150 =) These patches actually wasn't helped a lot in my problem, but I saw noticable (10-20 times) reduce in count and average time of major-pagefault in file-mapped areas. Actually both patches are fixes for commit v2.6.33-5448-g6457474, because it was aimed at one scenario (singly used pages), but it breaks the logic in other scenarios (shared and/or executable pages) Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-08-02mm: vmscan: check if reclaim should really abort even if compaction_ready() ↵Mel Gorman
is true for one zone commit 0cee34fd72c582b4f8ad8ce00645b75fb4168199 upstream. Stable note: Not tracked on Bugzilla. THP and compaction was found to aggressively reclaim pages and stall systems under different situations that was addressed piecemeal over time. 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> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-08-02mm: vmscan: do not OOM if aborting reclaim to start compactionMel Gorman
commit 7335084d446b83cbcb15da80497d03f0c1dc9e21 upstream. Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. This patch makes later patches easier to apply but otherwise has little to justify it. The problem it fixes was never observed but the source of the theoretical problem did not exist for very long. 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> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-08-02mm: vmscan: when reclaiming for compaction, ensure there are sufficient free ↵Mel Gorman
pages available commit fe4b1b244bdb96136855f2c694071cb09d140766 upstream. Stable note: Not tracked on Bugzilla. THP and compaction was found to aggressively reclaim pages and stall systems under different situations that was addressed piecemeal over time. This patch addresses a problem where the fix regressed THP allocation success rates. 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> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-08-02mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compactionMel Gorman
commit a6bc32b899223a877f595ef9ddc1e89ead5072b8 upstream. Stable note: Not tracked in Buzilla. This was part of a series that reduced interactivity stalls experienced when THP was enabled. These stalls were particularly noticable when copying data to a USB stick but the experiences for users varied a lot. 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> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-08-02mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page() filter-aware againMel Gorman
commit c82449352854ff09e43062246af86bdeb628f0c3 upstream. Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. A fix aimed at preserving page aging information by reducing LRU list churning had the side-effect of reducing THP allocation success rates. This was part of a series to restore the success rates while preserving the reclaim fix. 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> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-08-02mm: page allocator: do not call direct reclaim for THP allocations while ↵Mel Gorman
compaction is deferred commit 66199712e9eef5aede09dbcd9dfff87798a66917 upstream. Stable note: Not tracked in Buzilla. This was part of a series that reduced interactivity stalls experienced when THP was enabled. 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> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-08-02mm: compaction: determine if dirty pages can be migrated without blocking ↵Mel Gorman
within ->migratepage commit b969c4ab9f182a6e1b2a0848be349f99714947b0 upstream. Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. A fix aimed at preserving page aging information by reducing LRU list churning had the side-effect of reducing THP allocation success rates. This was part of a series to restore the success rates while preserving the reclaim fix. 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> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-08-02mm: compaction: allow compaction to isolate dirty pagesMel Gorman
commit a77ebd333cd810d7b680d544be88c875131c2bd3 upstream. Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. A fix aimed at preserving page aging information by reducing LRU list churning had the side-effect of reducing THP allocation success rates. This was part of a series to restore the success rates while preserving the reclaim fix. 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> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-08-02mm: reduce the amount of work done when updating min_free_kbytesMel Gorman
commit 938929f14cb595f43cd1a4e63e22d36cab1e4a1f upstream. Stable note: Fixes https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=726210 . Large machines with 1TB or more of RAM take a long time to boot without this patch and may spew out soft lockup warnings. When min_free_kbytes is updated, some pageblocks are marked MIGRATE_RESERVE. Ordinarily, this work is unnoticable as it happens early in boot but on large machines with 1TB of memory, this has been reported to delay boot times, probably due to the NUMA distances involved. The bulk of the work is due to calling calling pageblock_is_reserved() an unnecessary amount of times and accessing far more struct page metadata than is necessary. This patch significantly reduces the amount of work done by setup_zone_migrate_reserve() improving boot times on 1TB machines. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-07-25mm: fix lost kswapd wakeup in kswapd_stop()Aaditya Kumar
commit 1c7e7f6c0703d03af6bcd5ccc11fc15d23e5ecbe upstream. Offlining memory may block forever, waiting for kswapd() to wake up because kswapd() does not check the event kthread->should_stop before sleeping. The proper pattern, from Documentation/memory-barriers.txt, is: --- waker --- event_indicated = 1; wake_up_process(event_daemon); --- sleeper --- for (;;) { set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); if (event_indicated) break; schedule(); } set_current_state() may be wrapped by: prepare_to_wait(); In the kswapd() case, event_indicated is kthread->should_stop. === offlining memory (waker) === kswapd_stop() kthread_stop() kthread->should_stop = 1 wake_up_process() wait_for_completion() === kswapd_try_to_sleep (sleeper) === kswapd_try_to_sleep() prepare_to_wait() . . schedule() . . finish_wait() The schedule() needs to be protected by a test of kthread->should_stop, which is wrapped by kthread_should_stop(). Reproducer: Do heavy file I/O in background. Do a memory offline/online in a tight loop Signed-off-by: Aaditya Kumar <aaditya.kumar@ap.sony.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: 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: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-07-25mm, thp: abort compaction if migration page cannot be charged to memcgDavid Rientjes
commit 4bf2bba3750f10aa9e62e6949bc7e8329990f01b upstream. If page migration cannot charge the temporary page to the memcg, migrate_pages() will return -ENOMEM. This isn't considered in memory compaction however, and the loop continues to iterate over all pageblocks trying to isolate and migrate pages. If a small number of very large memcgs happen to be oom, however, these attempts will mostly be futile leading to an enormous amout of cpu consumption due to the page migration failures. This patch will short circuit and fail memory compaction if migrate_pages() returns -ENOMEM. COMPACT_PARTIAL is returned in case some migrations were successful so that the page allocator will retry. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-07-25memory hotplug: fix invalid memory access caused by stale kswapd pointerJiang Liu
commit d8adde17e5f858427504725218c56aef90e90fc7 upstream. kswapd_stop() is called to destroy the kswapd work thread when all memory of a NUMA node has been offlined. But kswapd_stop() only terminates the work thread without resetting NODE_DATA(nid)->kswapd to NULL. The stale pointer will prevent kswapd_run() from creating a new work thread when adding memory to the memory-less NUMA node again. Eventually the stale pointer may cause invalid memory access. An example stack dump as below. It's reproduced with 2.6.32, but latest kernel has the same issue. BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: [<ffffffff81051a94>] exit_creds+0x12/0x78 PGD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP last sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/memory/memory391/state CPU 11 Modules linked in: cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave acpi_cpufreq microcode fuse loop dm_mod tpm_tis rtc_cmos i2c_i801 rtc_core tpm serio_raw pcspkr sg tpm_bios igb i2c_core iTCO_wdt rtc_lib mptctl iTCO_vendor_support button dca bnx2 usbhid hid uhci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore sd_mod crc_t10dif edd ext3 mbcache jbd fan ide_pci_generic ide_core ata_generic ata_piix libata thermal processor thermal_sys hwmon mptsas mptscsih mptbase scsi_transport_sas scsi_mod Pid: 7949, comm: sh Not tainted 2.6.32.12-qiuxishi-5-default #92 Tecal RH2285 RIP: 0010:exit_creds+0x12/0x78 RSP: 0018:ffff8806044f1d78 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff880604f22140 RCX: 0000000000019502 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000202 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffff880604f22150 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffff81a4dc10 R10: 00000000000032a0 R11: ffff880006202500 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000c40000 R14: 0000000000008000 R15: 0000000000000001 FS: 00007fbc03d066f0(0000) GS:ffff8800282e0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000060f029000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process sh (pid: 7949, threadinfo ffff8806044f0000, task ffff880603d7c600) Stack: ffff880604f22140 ffffffff8103aac5 ffff880604f22140 ffffffff8104d21e ffff880006202500 0000000000008000 0000000000c38000 ffffffff810bd5b1 0000000000000000 ffff880603d7c600 00000000ffffdd29 0000000000000003 Call Trace: __put_task_struct+0x5d/0x97 kthread_stop+0x50/0x58 offline_pages+0x324/0x3da memory_block_change_state+0x179/0x1db store_mem_state+0x9e/0xbb sysfs_write_file+0xd0/0x107 vfs_write+0xad/0x169 sys_write+0x45/0x6e system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Code: ff 4d 00 0f 94 c0 84 c0 74 08 48 89 ef e8 1f fd ff ff 5b 5d 31 c0 41 5c c3 53 48 8b 87 20 06 00 00 48 89 fb 48 8b bf 18 06 00 00 <8b> 00 48 c7 83 18 06 00 00 00 00 00 00 f0 ff 0f 0f 94 c0 84 c0 RIP exit_creds+0x12/0x78 RSP <ffff8806044f1d78> CR2: 0000000000000000 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add pglist_data.kswapd locking comments] Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-07-25hugepages: fix use after free bug in "quota" handlingDavid Gibson
commit 90481622d75715bfcb68501280a917dbfe516029 upstream. hugetlbfs_{get,put}_quota() are badly named. They don't interact with the general quota handling code, and they don't much resemble its behaviour. Rather than being about maintaining limits on on-disk block usage by particular users, they are instead about maintaining limits on in-memory page usage (including anonymous MAP_PRIVATE copied-on-write pages) associated with a particular hugetlbfs filesystem instance. Worse, they work by having callbacks to the hugetlbfs filesystem code from the low-level page handling code, in particular from free_huge_page(). This is a layering violation of itself, but more importantly, if the kernel does a get_user_pages() on hugepages (which can happen from KVM amongst others), then the free_huge_page() can be delayed until after the associated inode has already been freed. If an unmount occurs at the wrong time, even the hugetlbfs superblock where the "quota" limits are stored may have been freed. Andrew Barry proposed a patch to fix this by having hugepages, instead of storing a pointer to their address_space and reaching the superblock from there, had the hugepages store pointers directly to the superblock, bumping the reference count as appropriate to avoid it being freed. Andrew Morton rejected that version, however, on the grounds that it made the existing layering violation worse. This is a reworked version of Andrew's patch, which removes the extra, and some of the existing, layering violation. It works by introducing the concept of a hugepage "subpool" at the lower hugepage mm layer - that is a finite logical pool of hugepages to allocate from. hugetlbfs now creates a subpool for each filesystem instance with a page limit set, and a pointer to the subpool gets added to each allocated hugepage, instead of the address_space pointer used now. The subpool has its own lifetime and is only freed once all pages in it _and_ all other references to it (i.e. superblocks) are gone. subpools are optional - a NULL subpool pointer is taken by the code to mean that no subpool limits are in effect. Previous discussion of this bug found in: "Fix refcounting in hugetlbfs quota handling.". See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/11/28 or http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=126928970510627&w=1 v2: Fixed a bug spotted by Hillf Danton, and removed the extra parameter to alloc_huge_page() - since it already takes the vma, it is not necessary. Signed-off-by: Andrew Barry <abarry@cray.com> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context to apply after commit c50ac050811d6485616a193eb0f37bfbd191cc89 'hugetlb: fix resv_map leak in error path', backported in 3.2.20] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-07-12mm: Hold a file reference in madvise_removeAndy Lutomirski
commit 9ab4233dd08036fe34a89c7dc6f47a8bf2eb29eb upstream. Otherwise the code races with munmap (causing a use-after-free of the vma) or with close (causing a use-after-free of the struct file). The bug was introduced by commit 90ed52ebe481 ("[PATCH] holepunch: fix mmap_sem i_mutex deadlock") Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: - Adjust context - madvise_remove() calls vmtruncate_range(), not do_fallocate()] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-07-12splice: fix racy pipe->buffers usesEric Dumazet
commit 047fe3605235888f3ebcda0c728cb31937eadfe6 upstream. Dave Jones reported a kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3474! triggered by splice_shrink_spd() called from vmsplice_to_pipe() commit 35f3d14dbbc5 (pipe: add support for shrinking and growing pipes) added capability to adjust pipe->buffers. Problem is some paths don't hold pipe mutex and assume pipe->buffers doesn't change for their duration. Fix this by adding nr_pages_max field in struct splice_pipe_desc, and use it in place of pipe->buffers where appropriate. splice_shrink_spd() loses its struct pipe_inode_info argument. Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: - Adjust context in vmsplice_to_pipe() - Update one more call to splice_shrink_spd(), from skb_splice_bits()] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-06-19swap: fix shmem swapping when more than 8 areasHugh Dickins
commit 9b15b817f3d62409290fd56fe3cbb076a931bb0a upstream. Minchan Kim reports that when a system has many swap areas, and tmpfs swaps out to the ninth or more, shmem_getpage_gfp()'s attempts to read back the page cannot locate it, and the read fails with -ENOMEM. Whoops. Yes, I blindly followed read_swap_header()'s pte_to_swp_entry( swp_entry_to_pte()) technique for determining maximum usable swap offset, without stopping to realize that that actually depends upon the pte swap encoding shifting swap offset to the higher bits and truncating it there. Whereas our radix_tree swap encoding leaves offset in the lower bits: it's swap "type" (that is, index of swap area) that was truncated. Fix it by reducing the SWP_TYPE_SHIFT() in swapops.h, and removing the broken radix_to_swp_entry(swp_to_radix_entry()) from read_swap_header(). This does not reduce the usable size of a swap area any further, it leaves it as claimed when making the original commit: no change from 3.0 on x86_64, nor on i386 without PAE; but 3.0's 512GB is reduced to 128GB per swapfile on i386 with PAE. It's not a change I would have risked five years ago, but with x86_64 supported for ten years, I believe it's appropriate now. Hmm, and what if some architecture implements its swap pte with offset encoded below type? That would equally break the maximum usable swap offset check. Happily, they all follow the same tradition of encoding offset above type, but I'll prepare a check on that for next. Reported-and-Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-06-10slub: fix a memory leak in get_partial_node()Joonsoo Kim
commit 02d7633fa567be7bf55a993b79d2a31b95ce2227 upstream. In the case which is below, 1. acquire slab for cpu partial list 2. free object to it by remote cpu 3. page->freelist = t then memory leak is occurred. Change acquire_slab() not to zap freelist when it works for cpu partial list. I think it is a sufficient solution for fixing a memory leak. Below is output of 'slabinfo -r kmalloc-256' when './perf stat -r 30 hackbench 50 process 4000 > /dev/null' is done. ***Vanilla*** Sizes (bytes) Slabs Debug Memory ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Object : 256 Total : 468 Sanity Checks : Off Total: 3833856 SlabObj: 256 Full : 111 Redzoning : Off Used : 2004992 SlabSiz: 8192 Partial: 302 Poisoning : Off Loss : 1828864 Loss : 0 CpuSlab: 55 Tracking : Off Lalig: 0 Align : 8 Objects: 32 Tracing : Off Lpadd: 0 ***Patched*** Sizes (bytes) Slabs Debug Memory ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Object : 256 Total : 300 Sanity Checks : Off Total: 2457600 SlabObj: 256 Full : 204 Redzoning : Off Used : 2348800 SlabSiz: 8192 Partial: 33 Poisoning : Off Loss : 108800 Loss : 0 CpuSlab: 63 Tracking : Off Lalig: 0 Align : 8 Objects: 32 Tracing : Off Lpadd: 0 Total and loss number is the impact of this patch. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
2012-06-10mm: fix vma_resv_map() NULL pointerDave Hansen
commit 4523e1458566a0e8ecfaff90f380dd23acc44d27 upstream. hugetlb_reserve_pages() can be used for either normal file-backed hugetlbfs mappings, or MAP_HUGETLB. In the MAP_HUGETLB, semi-anonymous mode, there is not a VMA around. The new call to resv_map_put() assumed that there was, and resulted in a NULL pointer dereference: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000030 IP: vma_resv_map+0x9/0x30 PGD 141453067 PUD 1421e1067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP ... Pid: 14006, comm: trinity-child6 Not tainted 3.4.0+ #36 RIP: vma_resv_map+0x9/0x30 ... Process trinity-child6 (pid: 14006, threadinfo ffff8801414e0000, task ffff8801414f26b0) Call Trace: resv_map_put+0xe/0x40 hugetlb_reserve_pages+0xa6/0x1d0 hugetlb_file_setup+0x102/0x2c0 newseg+0x115/0x360 ipcget+0x1ce/0x310 sys_shmget+0x5a/0x60 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b This was reported by Dave Jones, but was reproducible with the libhugetlbfs test cases, so shame on me for not running them in the first place. With this, the oops is gone, and the output of libhugetlbfs's run_tests.py is identical to plain 3.4 again. [ Marked for stable, since this was introduced by commit c50ac050811d ("hugetlb: fix resv_map leak in error path") which was also marked for stable ] Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>