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2009-03-04Merge branch 'core/locking' into tracing/ftraceIngo Molnar
2009-03-02Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/mmiotrace' and 'linus' into ↵Ingo Molnar
tracing/core
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>
2009-02-27Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace' and 'linus' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar
2009-02-25shmem: fix shared anonymous accountingHugh Dickins
Each time I exit Firefox, /proc/meminfo's Committed_AS goes down almost 400 kB: OVERCOMMIT_NEVER would be allowing overcommits it should prohibit. Commit fc8744adc870a8d4366908221508bb113d8b72ee "Stop playing silly games with the VM_ACCOUNT flag" changed shmem_file_setup() to set the shmem file's VM_ACCOUNT flag according to VM_NORESERVE not being set in the vma flags; but did so only _after_ the shmem_acct_size(flags, size) call which is expected to pre-account a shared anonymous object. It's all clearer if we switch shmem.c over to use VM_NORESERVE throughout in place of !VM_ACCOUNT. But I very nearly sent in a patch which mistakenly removed the accounting from tmpfs files: shmem_get_inode()'s memset was good for not setting VM_ACCOUNT, but now it needs to set VM_NORESERVE. Rather than setting that by default, then perhaps clearing it again in shmem_file_setup(), let's pass it as a flag to shmem_get_inode(): that allows us to remove the #ifdef CONFIG_SHMEM from shmem_file_setup(). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-24Merge branch 'tracing/ftrace'; commit 'v2.6.29-rc6' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar
2009-02-21Merge branch 'hibernate'Linus Torvalds
* hibernate: PM: Fix suspend_console and resume_console to use only one semaphore PM: Wait for console in resume PM: Fix pm_notifiers during user mode hibernation swsusp: clean up shrink_all_zones() swsusp: dont fiddle with swappiness PM: fix build for CONFIG_PM unset PM/hibernate: fix "swap breaks after hibernation failures" PM/resume: wait for device probing to finish Consolidate driver_probe_done() loops into one place
2009-02-21swsusp: clean up shrink_all_zones()Johannes Weiner
Move local variables to innermost possible scopes and use local variables to cache calculations/reads done more than once. No change in functionality (intended). Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-21swsusp: dont fiddle with swappinessJohannes Weiner
sc.swappiness is not used in the swsusp memory shrinking path, do not set it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-21PM/hibernate: fix "swap breaks after hibernation failures"Alan Jenkins
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12239 The image writing code dropped a reference to the current swap device. This doesn't show up if the hibernation succeeds - because it doesn't affect the image which gets resumed. But it means multiple _failed_ hibernations end up freeing the swap device while it is still use! swsusp_write() finds the block device for the swap file using swap_type_of(). It then uses blkdev_get() / blkdev_put() to open and close the block device. Unfortunately, blkdev_get() assumes ownership of the inode of the block_device passed to it. So blkdev_put() calls iput() on the inode. This is by design and other callers expect this behaviour. The fix is for swap_type_of() to take a reference on the inode using bdget(). Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.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> 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>
2009-02-20slab: introduce kzfree()Johannes Weiner
kzfree() is a wrapper for kfree() that additionally zeroes the underlying memory before releasing it to the slab allocator. Currently there is code which memset()s the memory region of an object before releasing it back to the slab allocator to make sure security-sensitive data are really zeroed out after use. These callsites can then just use kzfree() which saves some code, makes users greppable and allows for a stupid destructor that isn't necessarily aware of the actual object size. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-20Merge branch 'for-ingo' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 into tracing/kmemtrace Conflicts: mm/slub.c
2009-02-20SLUB: Introduce and use SLUB_MAX_SIZE and SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT constantsChristoph Lameter
As a preparational patch to bump up page allocator pass-through threshold, introduce two new constants SLUB_MAX_SIZE and SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT and convert mm/slub.c to use them. Reported-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-02-19Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/blktraceIngo Molnar
Conflicts: block/blktrace.c Semantic merge: kernel/trace/blktrace.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-18Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: block: fix deadlock in blk_abort_queue() for drivers that readd to timeout list block: fix booting from partitioned md array block: revert part of 18ce3751ccd488c78d3827e9f6bf54e6322676fb cciss: PCI power management reset for kexec paride/pg.c: xs(): &&/|| confusion fs/bio: bio_alloc_bioset: pass right object ptr to mempool_free block: fix bad definition of BIO_RW_SYNC bsg: Fix sense buffer bug in SG_IO
2009-02-18mm: fix memmap init for handling memory holeKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Now, early_pfn_in_nid(PFN, NID) may returns false if PFN is a hole. and memmap initialization was not done. This was a trouble for sparc boot. To fix this, the PFN should be initialized and marked as PG_reserved. This patch changes early_pfn_in_nid() return true if PFN is a hole. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemlloft.net> Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x, 2.6.27.x, 2.6.28.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-18mm: clean up for early_pfn_to_nid()KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
What's happening is that the assertion in mm/page_alloc.c:move_freepages() is triggering: BUG_ON(page_zone(start_page) != page_zone(end_page)); Once I knew this is what was happening, I added some annotations: if (unlikely(page_zone(start_page) != page_zone(end_page))) { printk(KERN_ERR "move_freepages: Bogus zones: " "start_page[%p] end_page[%p] zone[%p]\n", start_page, end_page, zone); printk(KERN_ERR "move_freepages: " "start_zone[%p] end_zone[%p]\n", page_zone(start_page), page_zone(end_page)); printk(KERN_ERR "move_freepages: " "start_pfn[0x%lx] end_pfn[0x%lx]\n", page_to_pfn(start_page), page_to_pfn(end_page)); printk(KERN_ERR "move_freepages: " "start_nid[%d] end_nid[%d]\n", page_to_nid(start_page), page_to_nid(end_page)); ... And here's what I got: move_freepages: Bogus zones: start_page[2207d0000] end_page[2207dffc0] zone[fffff8103effcb00] move_freepages: start_zone[fffff8103effcb00] end_zone[fffff8003fffeb00] move_freepages: start_pfn[0x81f600] end_pfn[0x81f7ff] move_freepages: start_nid[1] end_nid[0] My memory layout on this box is: [ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges: [ 0.000000] Normal 0x00000000 -> 0x0081ff5d [ 0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node [ 0.000000] early_node_map[8] active PFN ranges [ 0.000000] 0: 0x00000000 -> 0x00020000 [ 0.000000] 1: 0x00800000 -> 0x0081f7ff [ 0.000000] 1: 0x0081f800 -> 0x0081fe50 [ 0.000000] 1: 0x0081fed1 -> 0x0081fed8 [ 0.000000] 1: 0x0081feda -> 0x0081fedb [ 0.000000] 1: 0x0081fedd -> 0x0081fee5 [ 0.000000] 1: 0x0081fee7 -> 0x0081ff51 [ 0.000000] 1: 0x0081ff59 -> 0x0081ff5d So it's a block move in that 0x81f600-->0x81f7ff region which triggers the problem. This patch: Declaration of early_pfn_to_nid() is scattered over per-arch include files, and it seems it's complicated to know when the declaration is used. I think it makes fix-for-memmap-init not easy. This patch moves all declaration to include/linux/mm.h After this, if !CONFIG_NODES_POPULATES_NODE_MAP && !CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID -> Use static definition in include/linux/mm.h else if !CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_EARLY_PFN_TO_NID -> Use generic definition in mm/page_alloc.c else -> per-arch back end function will be called. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reported-by: David Miller <davem@davemlloft.net> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x, 2.6.27.x, 2.6.28.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-18mm: task dirty accounting fixNick Piggin
YAMAMOTO-san noticed that task_dirty_inc doesn't seem to be called properly for cases where set_page_dirty is not used to dirty a page (eg. mark_buffer_dirty). Additionally, there is some inconsistency about when task_dirty_inc is called. It is used for dirty balancing, however it even gets called for __set_page_dirty_no_writeback. So rather than increment it in a set_page_dirty wrapper, move it down to exactly where the dirty page accounting stats are incremented. Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.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>
2009-02-18block: fix bad definition of BIO_RW_SYNCJens Axboe
We can't OR shift values, so get rid of BIO_RW_SYNC and use BIO_RW_SYNCIO and BIO_RW_UNPLUG explicitly. This brings back the behaviour from before 213d9417fec62ef4c3675621b9364a667954d4dd. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-02-17Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, vm86: fix preemption bug x86, olpc: fix model detection without OFW x86, hpet: fix for LS21 + HPET = boot hang x86: CPA avoid repeated lazy mmu flush x86: warn if arch_flush_lazy_mmu_cpu is called in preemptible context x86/paravirt: make arch_flush_lazy_mmu/cpu disable preemption x86, pat: fix warn_on_once() while mapping 0-1MB range with /dev/mem x86/cpa: make sure cpa is safe to call in lazy mmu mode x86, ptrace, mm: fix double-free on race
2009-02-15lockdep: annotate reclaim context (__GFP_NOFS), fixIngo Molnar
Impact: fix build warning Fix: mm/vmscan.c: In function ‘kswapd’: mm/vmscan.c:1969: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code node_to_cpumask_ptr(cpumask, pgdat->node_id), has a side-effect: it defines the 'cpumask' local variable as well, so it has to go into the variable definition section. Sidenote: it might make sense to make this purpose of these macros more apparent, by naming them the standard way, such as: DEFINE_node_to_cpumask_ptr(cpumask, pgdat->node_id); (But that is outside the scope of this patch.) Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-14lockdep: annotate reclaim context (__GFP_NOFS)Nick Piggin
Here is another version, with the incremental patch rolled up, and added reclaim context annotation to kswapd, and allocation tracing to slab allocators (which may only ever reach the page allocator in rare cases, so it is good to put annotations here too). Haven't tested this version as such, but it should be getting closer to merge worthy ;) -- After noticing some code in mm/filemap.c accidentally perform a __GFP_FS allocation when it should not have been, I thought it might be a good idea to try to catch this kind of thing with lockdep. I coded up a little idea that seems to work. Unfortunately the system has to actually be in __GFP_FS page reclaim, then take the lock, before it will mark it. But at least that might still be some orders of magnitude more common (and more debuggable) than an actual deadlock condition, so we have some improvement I hope (the concept is no less complete than discovery of a lock's interrupt contexts). I guess we could even do the same thing with __GFP_IO (normal reclaim), and even GFP_NOIO locks too... but filesystems will have the most locks and fiddly code paths, so let's start there and see how it goes. It *seems* to work. I did a quick test. ================================= [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ] 2.6.28-rc6-00007-ged31348-dirty #26 --------------------------------- inconsistent {in-reclaim-W} -> {ov-reclaim-W} usage. modprobe/8526 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes: (testlock){--..}, at: [<ffffffffa0020055>] brd_init+0x55/0x216 [brd] {in-reclaim-W} state was registered at: [<ffffffff80267bdb>] __lock_acquire+0x75b/0x1a60 [<ffffffff80268f71>] lock_acquire+0x91/0xc0 [<ffffffff8070f0e1>] mutex_lock_nested+0xb1/0x310 [<ffffffffa002002b>] brd_init+0x2b/0x216 [brd] [<ffffffff8020903b>] _stext+0x3b/0x170 [<ffffffff80272ebf>] sys_init_module+0xaf/0x1e0 [<ffffffff8020c3fb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff irq event stamp: 3929 hardirqs last enabled at (3929): [<ffffffff8070f2b5>] mutex_lock_nested+0x285/0x310 hardirqs last disabled at (3928): [<ffffffff8070f089>] mutex_lock_nested+0x59/0x310 softirqs last enabled at (3732): [<ffffffff8061f623>] sk_filter+0x83/0xe0 softirqs last disabled at (3730): [<ffffffff8061f5b6>] sk_filter+0x16/0xe0 other info that might help us debug this: 1 lock held by modprobe/8526: #0: (testlock){--..}, at: [<ffffffffa0020055>] brd_init+0x55/0x216 [brd] stack backtrace: Pid: 8526, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.28-rc6-00007-ged31348-dirty #26 Call Trace: [<ffffffff80265483>] print_usage_bug+0x193/0x1d0 [<ffffffff80266530>] mark_lock+0xaf0/0xca0 [<ffffffff80266735>] mark_held_locks+0x55/0xc0 [<ffffffffa0020000>] ? brd_init+0x0/0x216 [brd] [<ffffffff802667ca>] trace_reclaim_fs+0x2a/0x60 [<ffffffff80285005>] __alloc_pages_internal+0x475/0x580 [<ffffffff8070f29e>] ? mutex_lock_nested+0x26e/0x310 [<ffffffffa0020000>] ? brd_init+0x0/0x216 [brd] [<ffffffffa002006a>] brd_init+0x6a/0x216 [brd] [<ffffffffa0020000>] ? brd_init+0x0/0x216 [brd] [<ffffffff8020903b>] _stext+0x3b/0x170 [<ffffffff8070f8b9>] ? mutex_unlock+0x9/0x10 [<ffffffff8070f83d>] ? __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x10d/0x180 [<ffffffff802669ec>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x12c/0x190 [<ffffffff80272ebf>] sys_init_module+0xaf/0x1e0 [<ffffffff8020c3fb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-13Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/ring-buffer', 'tracing/sysprof', ↵Ingo Molnar
'tracing/urgent' and 'linus' into tracing/core
2009-02-12Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6: mm: Export symbol ksize()
2009-02-12Fix page writeback thinko, causing Berkeley DB slowdownNick Piggin
A bug was introduced into write_cache_pages cyclic writeout by commit 31a12666d8f0c22235297e1c1575f82061480029 ("mm: write_cache_pages cyclic fix"). The intention (and comments) is that we should cycle back and look for more dirty pages at the beginning of the file if there is no more work to be done. But the !done condition was dropped from the test. This means that any time the page writeout loop breaks (eg. due to nr_to_write == 0), we will set index to 0, then goto again. This will set done_index to index, then find done is set, so will proceed to the end of the function. When updating mapping->writeback_index for cyclic writeout, we now use done_index == 0, so we're always cycling back to 0. This seemed to be causing random mmap writes (slapadd and iozone) to start writing more pages from the LRU and writeout would slowdown, and caused bugzilla entry http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12604 about Berkeley DB slowing down dramatically. With this patch, iozone random write performance is increased nearly 5x on my system (iozone -B -r 4k -s 64k -s 512m -s 1200m on ext2). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Reported-and-tested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-12mm: Export symbol ksize()Kirill A. Shutemov
Commit 7b2cd92adc5430b0c1adeb120971852b4ea1ab08 ("crypto: api - Fix zeroing on free") added modular user of ksize(). Export that to fix crypto.ko compilation. Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-02-11mm: rearrange exit_mmap() to unlock before arch_exit_mmapJeremy Fitzhardinge
Christophe Saout reported [in precursor to: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123209902707347&w=4]: > Note that I also some a different issue with CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU. > Seems like Xen tears down current->mm early on process termination, so > that __get_user_pages in exit_mmap causes nasty messages when the > process had any mlocked pages. (in fact, it somehow manages to get into > the swapping code and produces a null pointer dereference trying to get > a swap token) Jeremy explained: Yes. In the normal case under Xen, an in-use pagetable is "pinned", meaning that it is RO to the kernel, and all updates must go via hypercall (or writes are trapped and emulated, which is much the same thing). An unpinned pagetable is not currently in use by any process, and can be directly accessed as normal RW pages. As an optimisation at process exit time, we unpin the pagetable as early as possible (switching the process to init_mm), so that all the normal pagetable teardown can happen with direct memory accesses. This happens in exit_mmap() -> arch_exit_mmap(). The munlocking happens a few lines below. The obvious thing to do would be to move arch_exit_mmap() to below the munlock code, but I think we'd want to call it even if mm->mmap is NULL, just to be on the safe side. Thus, this patch: exit_mmap() needs to unlock any locked vmas before calling arch_exit_mmap, as the latter may switch the current mm to init_mm, which would cause the former to fail. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de> Cc: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com> Cc: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de> Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.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>
2009-02-11writeback: fix break conditionFederico Cuello
Commit dcf6a79dda5cc2a2bec183e50d829030c0972aaa ("write-back: fix nr_to_write counter") fixed nr_to_write counter, but didn't set the break condition properly. If nr_to_write == 0 after being decremented it will loop one more time before setting done = 1 and breaking the loop. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-11memcg: use __GFP_NOWARN in page cgroup allocationKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
page_cgroup's page allocation at init/memory hotplug uses kmalloc() and vmalloc(). If kmalloc() failes, vmalloc() is used. This is because vmalloc() is very limited resource on 32bit systems. We want to use kmalloc() first. But in this kind of call, __GFP_NOWARN should be specified. Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-11mm: fix mlocked page counter mismatchMinChan Kim
When I tested following program, I found that the mlocked counter is strange. It cannot free some mlocked pages. It is because try_to_unmap_file() doesn't check real page mappings in vmas. That is because the goal of an address_space for a file is to find all processes into which the file's specific interval is mapped. It is related to the file's interval, not to pages. Even if the page isn't really mapped by the vma, it returns SWAP_MLOCK since the vma has VM_LOCKED, then calls try_to_mlock_page. After this the mlocked counter is increased again. COWed anon page in a file-backed vma could be a such case. This patch resolves it. -- my test program -- int main() { mlockall(MCL_CURRENT); return 0; } -- before -- root@barrios-target-linux:~# cat /proc/meminfo | egrep 'Mlo|Unev' Unevictable: 0 kB Mlocked: 0 kB -- after -- root@barrios-target-linux:~# cat /proc/meminfo | egrep 'Mlo|Unev' Unevictable: 8 kB Mlocked: 8 kB Signed-off-by: MinChan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-11mm: fix dirty_bytes/dirty_background_bytes sysctls on 64bit archesSven Wegener
We need to pass an unsigned long as the minimum, because it gets casted to an unsigned long in the sysctl handler. If we pass an int, we'll access four more bytes on 64bit arches, resulting in a random minimum value. [rientjes@google.com: fix type of `old_bytes'] Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-11migration: migrate_vmas should check "vma"Daisuke Nishimura
migrate_vmas() should check "vma" not "vma->vm_next" for for-loop condition. Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-11Do not account for hugetlbfs quota at mmap() time if mapping [SHM|MAP]_NORESERVEMel Gorman
Commit 5a6fe125950676015f5108fb71b2a67441755003 brought hugetlbfs more in line with the core VM by obeying VM_NORESERVE and not reserving hugepages for both shared and private mappings when [SHM|MAP]_NORESERVE are specified. However, it is still taking filesystem quota unconditionally. At fault time, if there are no reserves and attempt is made to allocate the page and account for filesystem quota. If either fail, the fault fails. The impact is that quota is getting accounted for twice. This patch partially reverts 5a6fe125950676015f5108fb71b2a67441755003. To help prevent this mistake happening again, it improves the documentation of hugetlb_reserve_pages() Reported-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-11x86, ptrace, mm: fix double-free on raceMarkus Metzger
Ptrace_detach() races with __ptrace_unlink() if the traced task is reaped while detaching. This might cause a double-free of the BTS buffer. Change the ptrace_detach() path to only do the memory accounting in ptrace_bts_detach() and leave the buffer free to ptrace_bts_untrace() which will be called from __ptrace_unlink(). The fix follows a proposal from Oleg Nesterov. Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-10Do not account for the address space used by hugetlbfs using VM_ACCOUNTMel Gorman
When overcommit is disabled, the core VM accounts for pages used by anonymous shared, private mappings and special mappings. It keeps track of VMAs that should be accounted for with VM_ACCOUNT and VMAs that never had a reserve with VM_NORESERVE. Overcommit for hugetlbfs is much riskier than overcommit for base pages due to contiguity requirements. It avoids overcommiting on both shared and private mappings using reservation counters that are checked and updated during mmap(). This ensures (within limits) that hugepages exist in the future when faults occurs or it is too easy to applications to be SIGKILLed. As hugetlbfs makes its own reservations of a different unit to the base page size, VM_ACCOUNT should never be set. Even if the units were correct, we would double account for the usage in the core VM and hugetlbfs. VM_NORESERVE may be set because an application can request no reserves be made for hugetlbfs at the risk of getting killed later. With commit fc8744adc870a8d4366908221508bb113d8b72ee, VM_NORESERVE and VM_ACCOUNT are getting unconditionally set for hugetlbfs-backed mappings. This breaks the accounting for both the core VM and hugetlbfs, can trigger an OOM storm when hugepage pools are too small lockups and corrupted counters otherwise are used. This patch brings hugetlbfs more in line with how the core VM treats VM_NORESERVE but prevents VM_ACCOUNT being set. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-10Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar
2009-02-09Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc4' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar
2009-02-08mm: fix error case in mlock downgrade reversionHugh Dickins
Commit 27421e211a39784694b597dbf35848b88363c248, Manually revert "mlock: downgrade mmap sem while populating mlocked regions", has introduced its own regression: __mlock_vma_pages_range() may report an error (for example, -EFAULT from trying to lock down pages from beyond EOF), but mlock_vma_pages_range() must hide that from its callers as before. Reported-by: Sami Farin <safari-kernel@safari.iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-05do_wp_page: fix regression with execute in placeCarsten Otte
Fix do_wp_page for VM_MIXEDMAP mappings. In the case where pfn_valid returns 0 for a pfn at the beginning of do_wp_page and the mapping is not shared writable, the code branches to label `gotten:' with old_page == NULL. In case the vma is locked (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED), lock_page, clear_page_mlock, and unlock_page try to access the old_page. This patch checks whether old_page is valid before it is dereferenced. The regression was introduced by "mlock: mlocked pages are unevictable" (commit b291f000393f5a0b679012b39d79fbc85c018233). Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.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>
2009-02-05Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace' and 'linus' into tracing/coreIngo Molnar
2009-02-03write-back: fix nr_to_write counterArtem Bityutskiy
Commit 05fe478dd04e02fa230c305ab9b5616669821dd3 introduced some @wbc->nr_to_write breakage. It made the following changes: 1. Decrement wbc->nr_to_write instead of nr_to_write 2. Decrement wbc->nr_to_write _only_ if wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE 3. If synced nr_to_write pages, stop only if if wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE, otherwise keep going. However, according to the commit message, the intention was to only make change 3. Change 1 is a bug. Change 2 does not seem to be necessary, and it breaks UBIFS expectations, so if needed, it should be done separately later. And change 2 does not seem to be documented in the commit message. This patch does the following: 1. Undo changes 1 and 2 2. Add a comment explaining change 3 (it very useful to have comments in _code_, not only in the commit). Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-03Merge branches 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/kmemtrace' and 'linus' into ↵Ingo Molnar
tracing/core
2009-02-02Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6: slub: fix per cpu kmem_cache_cpu array memory leak kmalloc: return NULL instead of link failure
2009-02-01Manually revert "mlock: downgrade mmap sem while populating mlocked regions"Linus Torvalds
This essentially reverts commit 8edb08caf68184fb170f4f69c7445929e199eaea. It downgraded our mmap semaphore to a read-lock while mlocking pages, in order to allow other threads (and external accesses like "ps" et al) to walk the vma lists and take page faults etc. Which is a nice idea, but the implementation does not work. Because we cannot upgrade the lock back to a write lock without releasing the mmap semaphore, the code had to release the lock entirely and then re-take it as a writelock. However, that meant that the caller possibly lost the vma chain that it was following, since now another thread could come in and mmap/munmap the range. The code tried to work around that by just looking up the vma again and erroring out if that happened, but quite frankly, that was just a buggy hack that doesn't actually protect against anything (the other thread could just have replaced the vma with another one instead of totally unmapping it). The only way to downgrade to a read map _reliably_ is to do it at the end, which is likely the right thing to do: do all the 'vma' operations with the write-lock held, then downgrade to a read after completing them all, and then do the "populate the newly mlocked regions" while holding just the read lock. And then just drop the read-lock and return to user space. The (perhaps somewhat simpler) alternative is to just make all the callers of mlock_vma_pages_range() know that the mmap lock got dropped, and just re-grab the mmap semaphore if it needs to mlock more than one vma region. So we can do this "downgrade mmap sem while populating mlocked regions" thing right, but the way it was done here was absolutely not correct. Thus the revert, in the expectation that we will do it all correctly some day. Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-31Stop playing silly games with the VM_ACCOUNT flagLinus Torvalds
The mmap_region() code would temporarily set the VM_ACCOUNT flag for anonymous shared mappings just to inform shmem_zero_setup() that it should enable accounting for the resulting shm object. It would then clear the flag after calling ->mmap (for the /dev/zero case) or doing shmem_zero_setup() (for the MAP_ANON case). This just resulted in vma merge issues, but also made for just unnecessary confusion. Use the already-existing VM_NORESERVE flag for this instead, and let shmem_{zero|file}_setup() just figure it out from that. This also happens to make it obvious that the new DRI2 GEM layer uses a non-reserving backing store for its object allocation - which is quite possibly not intentional. But since I didn't want to change semantics in this patch, I left it alone, and just updated the caller to use the new flag semantics. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-30Allow opportunistic merging of VM_CAN_NONLINEAR areasLinus Torvalds
Commit de33c8db5910cda599899dd431cc30d7c1018cbf ("Fix OOPS in mmap_region() when merging adjacent VM_LOCKED file segments") unified the vma merging of anonymous and file maps to just one place, which simplified the code and fixed a use-after-free bug that could cause an oops. But by doing the merge opportunistically before even having called ->mmap() on the file method, it now compares two different 'vm_flags' values: the pre-mmap() value of the new not-yet-formed vma, and previous mappings of the same file around it. And in doing so, it refused to merge the common file case, which adds a marker to say "I can be made non-linear". This fixes it by just adding a set of flags that don't have to match, because we know they are ok to merge. Currently it's only that single VM_CAN_NONLINEAR flag, but at least conceptually there could be others in the future. Reported-and-acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-29memcg: NULL pointer dereference at rmdir on some NUMA systemsKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
N_POSSIBLE doesn't means there is memory...and force_empty can visit invalid node which have no pgdat. To visit all valid nodes, N_HIGH_MEMORY should be used. Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>