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2010-02-02mm: purge fragmented percpu vmap blocksNick Piggin
Improve handling of fragmented per-CPU vmaps. We previously don't free up per-CPU maps until all its addresses have been used and freed. So fragmented blocks could fill up vmalloc space even if they actually had no active vmap regions within them. Add some logic to allow all CPUs to have these blocks purged in the case of failure to allocate a new vm area, and also put some logic to trim such blocks of a current CPU if we hit them in the allocation path (so as to avoid a large build up of them). Christoph reported some vmap allocation failures when using the per CPU vmap APIs in XFS, which cannot be reproduced after this patch and the previous bug fix. Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: stable@kernel.org Tested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> -- Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-02-02mm: percpu-vmap fix RCU list walkingNick Piggin
RCU list walking of the per-cpu vmap cache was broken. It did not use RCU primitives, and also the union of free_list and rcu_head is obviously wrong (because free_list is indeed the list we are RCU walking). While we are there, remove a couple of unused fields from an earlier iteration. These APIs aren't actually used anywhere, because of problems with the XFS conversion. Christoph has now verified that the problems are solved with these patches. Also it is an exported interface, so I think it will be good to be merged now (and Christoph wants to get the XFS changes into their local tree). Cc: stable@kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Tested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> -- Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-21vmalloc: remove BUG_ON due to racy counting of VM_LAZY_FREEYongseok Koh
In free_unmap_area_noflush(), va->flags is marked as VM_LAZY_FREE first, and then vmap_lazy_nr is increased atomically. But, in __purge_vmap_area_lazy(), while traversing of vmap_are_list, nr is counted by checking VM_LAZY_FREE is set to va->flags. After counting the variable nr, kernel reads vmap_lazy_nr atomically and checks a BUG_ON condition whether nr is greater than vmap_lazy_nr to prevent vmap_lazy_nr from being negative. The problem is that, if interrupted right after marking VM_LAZY_FREE, increment of vmap_lazy_nr can be delayed. Consequently, BUG_ON condition can be met because nr is counted more than vmap_lazy_nr. It is highly probable when vmalloc/vfree are called frequently. This scenario have been verified by adding delay between marking VM_LAZY_FREE and increasing vmap_lazy_nr in free_unmap_area_noflush(). Even the vmap_lazy_nr is for checking high watermark, it never be the strict watermark. Although the BUG_ON condition is to prevent vmap_lazy_nr from being negative, vmap_lazy_nr is signed variable. So, it could go down to negative value temporarily. Consequently, removing the BUG_ON condition is proper. A possible BUG_ON message is like the below. kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c:517! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP EIP: 0060:[<c04824a4>] EFLAGS: 00010297 CPU: 3 EIP is at __purge_vmap_area_lazy+0x144/0x150 EAX: ee8a8818 EBX: c08e77d4 ECX: e7c7ae40 EDX: c08e77ec ESI: 000081fe EDI: e7c7ae60 EBP: e7c7ae64 ESP: e7c7ae3c DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 Call Trace: [<c0482ad9>] free_unmap_vmap_area_noflush+0x69/0x70 [<c0482b02>] remove_vm_area+0x22/0x70 [<c0482c15>] __vunmap+0x45/0xe0 [<c04831ec>] vmalloc+0x2c/0x30 Code: 8d 59 e0 eb 04 66 90 89 cb 89 d0 e8 87 fe ff ff 8b 43 20 89 da 8d 48 e0 8d 43 20 3b 04 24 75 e7 fe 05 a8 a5 a3 c0 e9 78 ff ff ff <0f> 0b eb fe 90 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 56 89 c6 b8 ac a5 a3 c0 31 EIP: [<c04824a4>] __purge_vmap_area_lazy+0x144/0x150 SS:ESP 0068:e7c7ae3c [ See also http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126335856228090&w=2 ] Signed-off-by: Yongseok Koh <yongseok.koh@samsung.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15vmalloc(): adjust gfp mask passed on nested vmalloc() invocationJan Beulich
- avoid wasting more precious resources (DMA or DMA32 pools), when being called through vmalloc_32{,_user}() - explicitly allow using high memory here even if the outer allocation request doesn't allow it Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-14Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (34 commits) m68k: rename global variable vmalloc_end to m68k_vmalloc_end percpu: add missing per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() definition for UP percpu: Fix kdump failure if booted with percpu_alloc=page percpu: make misc percpu symbols unique percpu: make percpu symbols in ia64 unique percpu: make percpu symbols in powerpc unique percpu: make percpu symbols in x86 unique percpu: make percpu symbols in xen unique percpu: make percpu symbols in cpufreq unique percpu: make percpu symbols in oprofile unique percpu: make percpu symbols in tracer unique percpu: make percpu symbols under kernel/ and mm/ unique percpu: remove some sparse warnings percpu: make alloc_percpu() handle array types vmalloc: fix use of non-existent percpu variable in put_cpu_var() this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in trace_functions_graph.c this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx for ftrace this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in nmi handling this_cpu: Use this_cpu operations in RCU this_cpu: Use this_cpu ops for VM statistics ... Fix up trivial (famous last words) global per-cpu naming conflicts in arch/x86/kvm/svm.c mm/slab.c
2009-10-29vmalloc: fix use of non-existent percpu variable in put_cpu_var()Tejun Heo
vmalloc used non-existent percpu variable vmap_cpu_blocks instead of the intended vmap_block_queue. This went unnoticed because put_cpu_var() didn't evaluate the parameter. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
2009-10-11headers: remove sched.h from interrupt.hAlexey Dobriyan
After m68k's task_thread_info() doesn't refer to current, it's possible to remove sched.h from interrupt.h and not break m68k! Many thanks to Heiko Carstens for allowing this. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
2009-10-08Merge branch 'sparc-perf-events-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'sparc-perf-events-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: mm, perf_event: Make vmalloc_user() align base kernel virtual address to SHMLBA perf_event: Provide vmalloc() based mmap() backing
2009-10-08mm, perf_event: Make vmalloc_user() align base kernel virtual address to SHMLBADavid Miller
When a vmalloc'd area is mmap'd into userspace, some kind of co-ordination is necessary for this to work on platforms with cpu D-caches which can have aliases. Otherwise kernel side writes won't be seen properly in userspace and vice versa. If the kernel side mapping and the user side one have the same alignment, modulo SHMLBA, this can work as long as VM_SHARED is shared of VMA and for all current users this is true. VM_SHARED will force SHMLBA alignment of the user side mmap on platforms with D-cache aliasing matters. The bulk of this patch is just making it so that a specific alignment can be passed down into __get_vm_area_node(). All existing callers pass in '1' which preserves existing behavior. vmalloc_user() gives SHMLBA for the alignment. As a side effect this should get the video media drivers and other vmalloc_user() users into more working shape on such systems. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <200909211922.n8LJMYjw029425@imap1.linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-10-08mm: includecheck fix: vmalloc.cJaswinder Singh Rajput
fix the following 'make includecheck' warning: mm/vmalloc.c: linux/highmem.h is included more than once. Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-23kcore: register module area in generic wayKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Some archs define MODULED_VADDR/MODULES_END which is not in VMALLOC area. This is handled only in x86-64. This patch make it more generic. And we can use vread/vwrite to access the area. Fix it. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22mm: replace various uses of num_physpages by totalram_pagesJan Beulich
Sizing of memory allocations shouldn't depend on the number of physical pages found in a system, as that generally includes (perhaps a huge amount of) non-RAM pages. The amount of what actually is usable as storage should instead be used as a basis here. Some of the calculations (i.e. those not intending to use high memory) should likely even use (totalram_pages - totalhigh_pages). Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22kcore: fix vread/vwrite to be aware of holesKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
vread/vwrite access vmalloc area without checking there is a page or not. In most case, this works well. In old ages, the caller of get_vm_ara() is only IOREMAP and there is no memory hole within vm_struct's [addr...addr + size - PAGE_SIZE] ( -PAGE_SIZE is for a guard page.) After per-cpu-alloc patch, it uses get_vm_area() for reserve continuous virtual address but remap _later_. There tend to be a hole in valid vmalloc area in vm_struct lists. Then, skip the hole (not mapped page) is necessary. This patch updates vread/vwrite() for avoiding memory hole. Routines which access vmalloc area without knowing for which addr is used are - /proc/kcore - /dev/kmem kcore checks IOREMAP, /dev/kmem doesn't. After this patch, IOREMAP is checked and /dev/kmem will avoid to read/write it. Fixes to /proc/kcore will be in the next patch in series. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Smith <scgtrp@gmail.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22vmalloc: unmap vmalloc area after hiding itKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
vmap area should be purged after vm_struct is removed from the list because vread/vwrite etc...believes the range is valid while it's on vm_struct list. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Smith <scgtrp@gmail.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22vmalloc.c: fix double error checkingFigo.zhang
There is no need for double error checking. Signed-off-by: Figo.zhang <figo1802@gmail.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-14vmalloc: implement pcpu_get_vm_areas()Tejun Heo
To directly use spread NUMA memories for percpu units, percpu allocator will be updated to allow sparsely mapping units in a chunk. As the distances between units can be very large, this makes allocating single vmap area for each chunk undesirable. This patch implements pcpu_get_vm_areas() and pcpu_free_vm_areas() which allocates and frees sparse congruent vmap areas. pcpu_get_vm_areas() take @offsets and @sizes array which define distances and sizes of vmap areas. It scans down from the top of vmalloc area looking for the top-most address which can accomodate all the areas. The top-down scan is to avoid interacting with regular vmallocs which can push up these congruent areas up little by little ending up wasting address space and page table. To speed up top-down scan, the highest possible address hint is maintained. Although the scan is linear from the hint, given the usual large holes between memory addresses between NUMA nodes, the scanning is highly likely to finish after finding the first hole for the last unit which is scanned first. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
2009-08-14vmalloc: separate out insert_vmalloc_vm()Tejun Heo
Separate out insert_vmalloc_vm() from __get_vm_area_node(). insert_vmalloc_vm() initializes vm_struct from vmap_area and inserts it into vmlist. insert_vmalloc_vm() only initializes fields which can be determined from @vm, @flags and @caller The rest should be initialized by the caller. For __get_vm_area_node(), all other fields just need to be cleared and this is done by using kzalloc instead of kmalloc. This will be used to implement pcpu_get_vm_areas(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
2009-06-11Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6: kmemleak: Add the corresponding MAINTAINERS entry kmemleak: Simple testing module for kmemleak kmemleak: Enable the building of the memory leak detector kmemleak: Remove some of the kmemleak false positives kmemleak: Add modules support kmemleak: Add kmemleak_alloc callback from alloc_large_system_hash kmemleak: Add the vmalloc memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add the slub memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add the slob memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add the slab memory allocation/freeing hooks kmemleak: Add documentation on the memory leak detector kmemleak: Add the base support Manual conflict resolution (with the slab/earlyboot changes) in: drivers/char/vt.c init/main.c mm/slab.c
2009-06-11vmalloc: use kzalloc() instead of alloc_bootmem()Pekka Enberg
We can call vmalloc_init() after kmem_cache_init() and use kzalloc() instead of the bootmem allocator when initializing vmalloc data structures. Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-11kmemleak: Add the vmalloc memory allocation/freeing hooksCatalin Marinas
This patch adds the callbacks to kmemleak_(alloc|free) functions from vmalloc/vfree. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-05-06alloc_vmap_area: fix memory leakRalph Wuerthner
If alloc_vmap_area() fails the allocated struct vmap_area has to be freed. Signed-off-by: Ralph Wuerthner <ralphw@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01vmap: remove needless lock and list in vmapMinChan Kim
vmap's dirty_list is unused. It's for optimizing flushing. but Nick didn't write the code yet. so, we don't need it until time as it is needed. This patch removes vmap_block's dirty_list and codes related to it. Signed-off-by: MinChan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-04Merge branch 'x86/core' into core/percpuIngo Molnar
2009-03-01Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/patIngo Molnar
2009-02-27mm: fix lazy vmap purging (use-after-free error)Vegard Nossum
I just got this new warning from kmemcheck: WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read from freed memory (c7806a60) a06a80c7ecde70c1a04080c700000000a06709c1000000000000000000000000 f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f f ^ Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.29-rc4 #230) EIP: 0060:[<c1096df7>] EFLAGS: 00000286 CPU: 0 EIP is at __purge_vmap_area_lazy+0x117/0x140 EAX: 00070f43 EBX: c7806a40 ECX: c1677080 EDX: 00027b66 ESI: 00002001 EDI: c170df0c EBP: c170df00 ESP: c178830c DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 CR0: 80050033 CR2: c7806b14 CR3: 01775000 CR4: 00000690 DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000 DR6: 00004000 DR7: 00000000 [<c1096f3e>] free_unmap_vmap_area_noflush+0x6e/0x70 [<c1096f6a>] remove_vm_area+0x2a/0x70 [<c1097025>] __vunmap+0x45/0xe0 [<c10970de>] vunmap+0x1e/0x30 [<c1008ba5>] text_poke+0x95/0x150 [<c1008ca9>] alternatives_smp_unlock+0x49/0x60 [<c171ef47>] alternative_instructions+0x11b/0x124 [<c171f991>] check_bugs+0xbd/0xdc [<c17148c5>] start_kernel+0x2ed/0x360 [<c171409e>] __init_begin+0x9e/0xa9 [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff It happened here: $ addr2line -e vmlinux -i c1096df7 mm/vmalloc.c:540 Code: list_for_each_entry(va, &valist, purge_list) __free_vmap_area(va); It's this instruction: mov 0x20(%ebx),%edx Which corresponds to a dereference of va->purge_list.next: (gdb) p ((struct vmap_area *) 0)->purge_list.next Cannot access memory at address 0x20 It seems that we should use "safe" list traversal here, as the element is freed inside the loop. Please verify that this is the right fix. Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-27mm: vmap fix overflowNick Piggin
The new vmap allocator can wrap the address and get confused in the case of large allocations or VMALLOC_END near the end of address space. Problem reported by Christoph Hellwig on a 32-bit XFS workload. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-26Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/memtest', 'x86/mm' and ↵Ingo Molnar
'linus' into x86/core
2009-02-25x86: make vmap yell louder when it is used under irqs_disabled()Peter Zijlstra
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-24Merge branch 'tj-percpu' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc into core/percpu Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
2009-02-24vmalloc: add @align to vm_area_register_early()Tejun Heo
Impact: allow larger alignment for early vmalloc area allocation Some early vmalloc users might want larger alignment, for example, for custom large page mapping. Add @align to vm_area_register_early(). While at it, drop docbook comment on non-existent @size. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
2009-02-20vmalloc: call flush_cache_vunmap() from unmap_kernel_range()Tejun Heo
Impact: proper vcache flush on unmap_kernel_range() flush_cache_vunmap() should be called before pages are unmapped. Add a call to it in unmap_kernel_range(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-20vmalloc: add un/map_kernel_range_noflush()Tejun Heo
Impact: two more public map/unmap functions Implement map_kernel_range_noflush() and unmap_kernel_range_noflush(). These functions respectively map and unmap address range in kernel VM area but doesn't do any vcache or tlb flushing. These will be used by new percpu allocator. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
2009-02-20vmalloc: implement vm_area_register_early()Tejun Heo
Impact: allow multiple early vm areas There are places where kernel VM area needs to be allocated before vmalloc is initialized. This is done by allocating static vm_struct, initializing several fields and linking it to vmlist and later vmalloc initialization picking up these from vmlist. This is currently done manually and if there's more than one such areas, there's no defined way to arbitrate who gets which address. This patch implements vm_area_register_early(), which takes vm_area struct with flags and size initialized, assigns address to it and puts it on the vmlist. This way, multiple early vm areas can determine which addresses they should use. The only current user - alpha mm init - is converted to use it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-02-20vmalloc: call flush_cache_vunmap() from unmap_kernel_range()Tejun Heo
Impact: proper vcache flush on unmap_kernel_range() flush_cache_vunmap() should be called before pages are unmapped. Add a call to it in unmap_kernel_range(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-02-18vmalloc: add __get_vm_area_caller()Benjamin Herrenschmidt
We have get_vm_area_caller() and __get_vm_area() but not __get_vm_area_caller() On powerpc, I use __get_vm_area() to separate the ranges of addresses given to vmalloc vs. ioremap (various good reasons for that) so in order to be able to implement the new caller tracking in /proc/vmallocinfo, I need a "_caller" variant of it. (akpm: needed for ongoing powerpc development, so merge it early) [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-15revert "mm: vmalloc use mutex for purge"Andrew Morton
Revert commit e97a630eb0f5b8b380fd67504de6cedebb489003 ("mm: vmalloc use mutex for purge") Bryan Donlan reports: : After testing 2.6.29-rc1 on xen-x86 with a btrfs root filesystem, I : got the OOPS quoted below and a hard freeze shortly after boot. : Boot messages and config are attached. : : ------------[ cut here ]------------ : Kernel BUG at c05ef80d [verbose debug info unavailable] : invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP : last sysfs file: /sys/block/xvdc/size : Modules linked in: : : Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.29-rc1 #6) : EIP: 0061:[<c05ef80d>] EFLAGS: 00010087 CPU: 2 : EIP is at schedule+0x7cd/0x950 : EAX: d5aeca80 EBX: 00000002 ECX: 00000000 EDX: d4cb9a40 : ESI: c12f5600 EDI: d4cb9a40 EBP: d6033fa4 ESP: d6033ef4 : DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0069 : Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=d6032000 task=d6020b70 task.ti=d6032000) : Stack: : 000d85bc 00000000 000186a0 00000000 0dd11410 c0105417 c12efe00 0dc367c3 : 00000011 c0105d46 d5a5d310 deadbeef d4cb9a40 c07cc600 c05f1340 c12e0060 : deadbeef d6020b70 d6020d08 00000002 c014377d 00000000 c12f5600 00002c22 : Call Trace: : [<c0105417>] xen_force_evtchn_callback+0x17/0x30 : [<c0105d46>] check_events+0x8/0x12 : [<c05f1340>] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x20/0x40 : [<c014377d>] hrtimer_start_range_ns+0x12d/0x2e0 : [<c014c4f6>] tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick+0x146/0x160 : [<c0107485>] cpu_idle+0xa5/0xc0 and bisected it to this commit. Let's remove it now while we have a think about the problem. Reported-by: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com> Tested-by: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-15alpha: fix vmalloc breakageIvan Kokshaysky
On alpha, we have to map some stuff in the VMALLOC space very early in the boot process (to make SRM console callbacks work and so on, see arch/alpha/mm/init.c). For old VM allocator, we just manually placed a vm_struct onto the global vmlist and this worked for ages. Unfortunately, the new allocator isn't aware of this, so it constantly tries to allocate the VM space which is already in use, making vmalloc on alpha defunct. This patch forces KVA to import vmlist entries on init. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded check (per Johannes)] Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: vmalloc make lazy unmapping configurableNick Piggin
Lazy unmapping in the vmalloc code has now opened the possibility for use after free bugs to go undetected. We can catch those by forcing an unmap and flush (which is going to be slow, but that's what happens). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: vmalloc use mutex for purgeNick Piggin
The vmalloc purge lock can be a mutex so we can sleep while a purge is going on (purge involves a global kernel TLB invalidate, so it can take quite a while). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: vmalloc improve vmallocinfoGlauber Costa
If we do that, output of files like /proc/vmallocinfo will show things like "vmalloc_32", "vmalloc_user", or whomever the caller was as the caller. This info is not as useful as the real caller of the allocation. So, proposal is to call __vmalloc_node node directly, with matching parameters to save the caller information Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: vmalloc tweak failure printkGlauber Costa
If we can't service a vmalloc allocation, show size of the allocation that actually failed. Useful for debugging. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-04vmalloc.c: fix flushing in vmap_page_range()Adam Lackorzynski
The flush_cache_vmap in vmap_page_range() is called with the end of the range twice. The following patch fixes this for me. Signed-off-by: Adam Lackorzynski <adam@os.inf.tu-dresden.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-10KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN fixesHugh Dickins
Miles Lane tailing /sys files hit a BUG which Pekka Enberg has tracked to my 966c8c12dc9e77f931e2281ba25d2f0244b06949 sprint_symbol(): use less stack exposing a bug in slub's list_locations() - kallsyms_lookup() writes a 0 to namebuf[KSYM_NAME_LEN-1], but that was beyond the end of page provided. The 100 slop which list_locations() allows at end of page looks roughly enough for all the other stuff it might print after the symbol before it checks again: break out KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN earlier than before. Latencytop and ftrace and are using KSYM_NAME_LEN buffers where they need KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN buffers, and vmallocinfo a 2*KSYM_NAME_LEN buffer where it wants a KSYM_SYMBOL_LEN buffer: fix those before anyone copies them. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: ftrace.h needs module.h] Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-01mm: vmalloc fix lazy unmapping cache aliasingNick Piggin
Jim Radford has reported that the vmap subsystem rewrite was sometimes causing his VIVT ARM system to behave strangely (seemed like going into infinite loops trying to fault in pages to userspace). We determined that the problem was most likely due to a cache aliasing issue. flush_cache_vunmap was only being called at the moment the page tables were to be taken down, however with lazy unmapping, this can happen after the page has subsequently been freed and allocated for something else. The dangling alias may still have dirty data attached to it. The fix for this problem is to do the cache flushing when the caller has called vunmap -- it would be a bug for them to write anything else to the mapping at that point. That appeared to solve Jim's problems. Reported-by: Jim Radford <radford@blackbean.org> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-19mm: vmalloc search restart fixGlauber Costa
Current vmalloc restart search for a free area in case we can't find one. The reason is there are areas which are lazily freed, and could be possibly freed now. However, current implementation start searching the tree from the last failing address, which is pretty much by definition at the end of address space. So, we fail. The proposal of this patch is to restart the search from the beginning of the requested vstart address. This fixes the regression in running KVM virtual machines for me, described in http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/28/349, caused by commit db64fe02258f1507e13fe5212a989922323685ce. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-19mm: vmalloc failure flush fixNick Piggin
An initial vmalloc failure should start off a synchronous flush of lazy areas, in case someone is in progress flushing them already, which could cause us to return an allocation failure even if there is plenty of KVA free. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-19mm: vmalloc allocator off by oneNick Piggin
Fix off by one bug in the KVA allocator that can leave gaps in the address space. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-07vmap: cope with vm_unmap_aliases before vmalloc_init()Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Xen can end up calling vm_unmap_aliases() before vmalloc_init() has been called. In this case its safe to make it a simple no-op. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-06[ARM] fix naming of MODULE_START / MODULE_ENDRussell King
As of 73bdf0a60e607f4b8ecc5aec597105976565a84f, the kernel needs to know where modules are located in the virtual address space. On ARM, we located this region between MODULE_START and MODULE_END. Unfortunately, everyone else calls it MODULES_VADDR and MODULES_END. Update ARM to use the same naming, so is_vmalloc_or_module_addr() can work properly. Also update the comment on mm/vmalloc.c to reflect that ARM also places modules in a separate region from the vmalloc space. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-10-30mm: fix kernel-doc function notationRandy Dunlap
Delete excess kernel-doc notation in mm/ subdirectory. Actually this is a kernel-doc notation fix. Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2.6.27-git10//mm/vmalloc.c:902): Excess function parameter or struct member 'returns' description in 'vm_map_ram' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>