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2010-08-14mm: fix page table unmap for stack guard page properlyLinus Torvalds
We do in fact need to unmap the page table _before_ doing the whole stack guard page logic, because if it is needed (mainly 32-bit x86 with PAE and CONFIG_HIGHPTE, but other architectures may use it too) then it will do a kmap_atomic/kunmap_atomic. And those kmaps will create an atomic region that we cannot do allocations in. However, the whole stack expand code will need to do anon_vma_prepare() and vma_lock_anon_vma() and they cannot do that in an atomic region. Now, a better model might actually be to do the anon_vma_prepare() when _creating_ a VM_GROWSDOWN segment, and not have to worry about any of this at page fault time. But in the meantime, this is the straightforward fix for the issue. See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16588 for details. Reported-by: Wylda <wylda@volny.cz> Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Reported-by: Mike Pagano <mpagano@gentoo.org> Reported-by: François Valenduc <francois.valenduc@tvcablenet.be> Tested-by: Ed Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-13NOMMU: Remove an extraneous no_printk()David Howells
Remove an extraneous no_printk() in mm/nommu.c that got missed when the function got generalised from several things that used it in commit 12fdff3fc248 ("Add a dummy printk function for the maintenance of unused printks"). Without this, the following error is observed: mm/nommu.c:41: error: conflicting types for 'no_printk' include/linux/kernel.h:314: error: previous definition of 'no_printk' was here Reported-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-13mm: fix missing page table unmap for stack guard page failure caseLinus Torvalds
.. which didn't show up in my tests because it's a no-op on x86-64 and most other architectures. But we enter the function with the last-level page table mapped, and should unmap it at exit. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-12mm: keep a guard page below a grow-down stack segmentLinus Torvalds
This is a rather minimally invasive patch to solve the problem of the user stack growing into a memory mapped area below it. Whenever we fill the first page of the stack segment, expand the segment down by one page. Now, admittedly some odd application might _want_ the stack to grow down into the preceding memory mapping, and so we may at some point need to make this a process tunable (some people might also want to have more than a single page of guarding), but let's try the minimal approach first. Tested with trivial application that maps a single page just below the stack, and then starts recursing. Without this, we will get a SIGSEGV _after_ the stack has smashed the mapping. With this patch, we'll get a nice SIGBUS just as the stack touches the page just above the mapping. Requested-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-12Merge branch 'hwpoison' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6 * 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6: hugetlb: add missing unlock in avoidcopy path in hugetlb_cow() hwpoison: rename CONFIG HWPOISON, hugetlb: support hwpoison injection for hugepage HWPOISON, hugetlb: detect hwpoison in hugetlb code HWPOISON, hugetlb: isolate corrupted hugepage HWPOISON, hugetlb: maintain mce_bad_pages in handling hugepage error HWPOISON, hugetlb: set/clear PG_hwpoison bits on hugepage HWPOISON, hugetlb: enable error handling path for hugepage hugetlb, rmap: add reverse mapping for hugepage hugetlb: move definition of is_vm_hugetlb_page() to hugepage_inline.h Fix up trivial conflicts in mm/memory-failure.c
2010-08-12Merge branch 'stable/xen-swiotlb-0.8.6' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen * 'stable/xen-swiotlb-0.8.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen: x86: Detect whether we should use Xen SWIOTLB. pci-swiotlb-xen: Add glue code to setup dma_ops utilizing xen_swiotlb_* functions. swiotlb-xen: SWIOTLB library for Xen PV guest with PCI passthrough. xen/mmu: inhibit vmap aliases rather than trying to clear them out vmap: add flag to allow lazy unmap to be disabled at runtime xen: Add xen_create_contiguous_region xen: Rename the balloon lock xen: Allow unprivileged Xen domains to create iomap pages xen: use _PAGE_IOMAP in ioremap to do machine mappings Fix up trivial conflicts (adding both xen swiotlb and xen pci platform driver setup close to each other) in drivers/xen/{Kconfig,Makefile} and include/xen/xen-ops.h
2010-08-12writeback: add comment to the dirty limit functionsWu Fengguang
Document global_dirty_limits() and bdi_dirty_limit(). Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: 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>
2010-08-12writeback: avoid unnecessary calculation of bdi dirty thresholdsWu Fengguang
Split get_dirty_limits() into global_dirty_limits()+bdi_dirty_limit(), so that the latter can be avoided when under global dirty background threshold (which is the normal state for most systems). Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-12writeback: balance_dirty_pages(): reduce calls to global_page_stateWu Fengguang
Reducing the number of times balance_dirty_pages calls global_page_state reduces the cache references and so improves write performance on a variety of workloads. 'perf stats' of simple fio write tests shows the reduction in cache access. Where the test is fio 'write,mmap,600Mb,pre_read' on AMD AthlonX2 with 3Gb memory (dirty_threshold approx 600 Mb) running each test 10 times, dropping the fasted & slowest values then taking the average & standard deviation average (s.d.) in millions (10^6) 2.6.31-rc8 648.6 (14.6) +patch 620.1 (16.5) Achieving this reduction is by dropping clip_bdi_dirty_limit as it rereads the counters to apply the dirty_threshold and moving this check up into balance_dirty_pages where it has already read the counters. Also by rearrange the for loop to only contain one copy of the limit tests allows the pdflush test after the loop to use the local copies of the counters rather than rereading them. In the common case with no throttling it now calls global_page_state 5 fewer times and bdi_stat 2 fewer. Fengguang: This patch slightly changes behavior by replacing clip_bdi_dirty_limit() with the explicit check (nr_reclaimable + nr_writeback >= dirty_thresh) to avoid exceeding the dirty limit. Since the bdi dirty limit is mostly accurate we don't need to do routinely clip. A simple dirty limit check would be enough. The check is necessary because, in principle we should throttle everything calling balance_dirty_pages() when we're over the total limit, as said by Peter. We now set and clear dirty_exceeded not only based on bdi dirty limits, but also on the global dirty limit. The global limit check is added in place of clip_bdi_dirty_limit() for safety and not intended as a behavior change. The bdi limits should be tight enough to keep all dirty pages under the global limit at most time; occasional small exceeding should be OK though. The change makes the logic more obvious: the global limit is the ultimate goal and shall be always imposed. We may now start background writeback work based on outdated conditions. That's safe because the bdi flush thread will (and have to) double check the states. It reduces overall overheads because the test based on old states still have good chance to be right. [akpm@linux-foundation.org] fix uninitialized dirty_exceeded Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-12mm: fix fatal kernel-doc errorRandy Dunlap
Fix a fatal kernel-doc error due to a #define coming between a function's kernel-doc notation and the function signature. (kernel-doc cannot handle this) 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>
2010-08-11memcg: convert to use zone_to_nid() from bare zone->zone_pgdat->node_idKOSAKI Motohiro
We have zone_to_nid(). this patch convert all existing users of zone->zone_pgdat->node_id. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Nishimura Daisuke <d-nishimura@mtf.biglobe.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-11memcg: remove nid and zid argument from mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim()KOSAKI Motohiro
mem_cgroup_soft_limit_reclaim() has zone, nid and zid argument. but nid and zid can be calculated from zone. So remove it. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Nishimura Daisuke <d-nishimura@mtf.biglobe.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-11memcg: mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone() doesn't need sc.nodemaskKOSAKI Motohiro
Currently mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone() call shrink_zone() directly. thus it doesn't need to initialize sc.nodemask because shrink_zone() doesn't use it at all. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Nishimura Daisuke <d-nishimura@mtf.biglobe.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-11memcg: kill unnecessary initialization in mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone()KOSAKI Motohiro
sc.nr_reclaimed and sc.nr_scanned have already been initialized few lines above "struct scan_control sc = {}" statement. So, This patch remove this unnecessary code. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Nishimura Daisuke <d-nishimura@mtf.biglobe.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-11memcg: sc.nr_to_reclaim should be initializedKOSAKI Motohiro
Currently, mem_cgroup_shrink_node_zone() initialize sc.nr_to_reclaim as 0. It mean shrink_zone() only scan 32 pages and immediately return even if it doesn't reclaim any pages. This patch fixes it. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Nishimura Daisuke <d-nishimura@mtf.biglobe.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-11memcg: avoid css_get()KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Now, memory cgroup increments css(cgroup subsys state)'s reference count per a charged page. And the reference count is kept until the page is uncharged. But this has 2 bad effect. 1. Because css_get/put calls atomic_inc()/dec, heavy call of them on large smp will not scale well. 2. Because css's refcnt cannot be in a state as "ready-to-release", cgroup's notify_on_release handler can't work with memcg. 3. css's refcnt is atomic_t, it means smaller than 32bit. Maybe too small. This has been a problem since the 1st merge of memcg. This is a trial to remove css's refcnt per a page. Even if we remove refcnt, pre_destroy() does enough synchronization as - check res->usage == 0. - check no pages on LRU. This patch removes css's refcnt per page. Even after this patch, at the 1st look, it seems css_get() is still called in try_charge(). But the logic is. - If a memcg of mm->owner is cached one, consume_stock() will work. At success, return immediately. - If consume_stock returns false, css_get() is called and go to slow path which may be blocked. At the end of slow path, css_put() is called and restart from the start if necessary. So, in the fast path, we don't call css_get() and can avoid access to shared counter. This patch can make the most possible case fast. Here is a result of multi-threaded page fault benchmark. [Before] 25.32% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] clear_page_c 9.30% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave 8.02% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] try_get_mem_cgroup_from_mm <=====(*) 7.83% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] down_read_trylock 5.38% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __css_put 5.29% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __alloc_pages_nodemask 4.92% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock_irq 4.24% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] up_read 3.53% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] css_put 2.11% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] handle_mm_fault 1.76% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __rmqueue 1.64% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __mem_cgroup_commit_charge [After] 28.41% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] clear_page_c 10.08% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock_irq 9.58% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] down_read_trylock 9.38% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave 5.86% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __alloc_pages_nodemask 5.65% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] up_read 2.82% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] handle_mm_fault 2.64% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mem_cgroup_add_lru_list 2.48% multi-fault-all [kernel.kallsyms] [k] __mem_cgroup_commit_charge Then, 8.02% of try_get_mem_cgroup_from_mm() disappears because this patch removes css_tryget() in it. (But yes, this is an extreme case.) Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-11memcg: use find_lock_task_mm() in memory cgroups oomKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
When the OOM killer scans task, it check a task is under memcg or not when it's called via memcg's context. But, as Oleg pointed out, a thread group leader may have NULL ->mm and task_in_mem_cgroup() may do wrong decision. We have to use find_lock_task_mm() in memcg as generic OOM-Killer does. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-11memcg: remove mem from arg of charge_commonDaisuke Nishimura
mem_cgroup_charge_common() is always called with @mem = NULL, so it's meaningless. This patch removes it. Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2010-08-11memcg: remove redundant codeDaisuke Nishimura
- try_get_mem_cgroup_from_mm() calls rcu_read_lock/unlock by itself, so we don't have to call them in task_in_mem_cgroup(). - *mz is not used in __mem_cgroup_uncharge_common(). - we don't have to call lookup_page_cgroup() in mem_cgroup_end_migration() after we've cleared PCG_MIGRATION of @oldpage. - remove empty comment. - remove redundant empty line in mem_cgroup_cache_charge(). Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2010-08-11memcg: clean up waiting move acctKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Now, for checking a memcg is under task-account-moving, we do css_tryget() against mc.to and mc.from. But this is just complicating things. This patch makes the check easier. This patch adds a spinlock to move_charge_struct and guard modification of mc.to and mc.from. By this, we don't have to think about complicated races arount this not-critical path. [balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com: don't crash on a null memcg being passed] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-11memcg: clean up try_charge main loopKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
mem_cgroup_try_charge() has a big loop in it and seems to be hard to read. Most of routines are for slow path. This patch moves codes out from the loop and make it clear what's done. Summary: - refactoring a function to detect a memcg is under acccount move or not. - refactoring a function to wait for the end of moving task acct. - refactoring a main loop('s slow path) as a function and make it clear why we retry or quit by return code. - add fatal_signal_pending() check for bypassing charge loops. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-11hugetlb: add missing unlock in avoidcopy path in hugetlb_cow()Naoya Horiguchi
This patch fixes possible deadlock in hugepage lock_page() by adding missing unlock_page(). libhugetlbfs test will hit this bug when the next patch in this patchset ("hugetlb, HWPOISON: move PG_HWPoison bit check") is applied. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2010-08-11hwpoison: rename CONFIGNaoya Horiguchi
CONFIG_HUGETLBFS controls hugetlbfs interface code. OTOH, CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE controls hugepage management code. So we should use CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE here. Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2010-08-11HWPOISON, hugetlb: support hwpoison injection for hugepageNaoya Horiguchi
This patch enables hwpoison injection through debug/hwpoison interfaces, with which we can test memory error handling for free or reserved hugepages (which cannot be tested by madvise() injector). [AK: Export PageHuge too for the injection module] Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2010-08-11HWPOISON, hugetlb: detect hwpoison in hugetlb codeNaoya Horiguchi
This patch enables to block access to hwpoisoned hugepage and also enables to block unmapping for it. Dependency: "HWPOISON, hugetlb: enable error handling path for hugepage" Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2010-08-11HWPOISON, hugetlb: isolate corrupted hugepageNaoya Horiguchi
If error hugepage is not in-use, we can fully recovery from error by dequeuing it from freelist, so return RECOVERY. Otherwise whether or not we can recovery depends on user processes, so return DELAYED. Dependency: "HWPOISON, hugetlb: enable error handling path for hugepage" Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2010-08-11HWPOISON, hugetlb: maintain mce_bad_pages in handling hugepage errorNaoya Horiguchi
For now all pages in the error hugepage are considered as hwpoisoned, so count all of them in mce_bad_pages. Dependency: "HWPOISON, hugetlb: enable error handling path for hugepage" Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2010-08-11HWPOISON, hugetlb: set/clear PG_hwpoison bits on hugepageNaoya Horiguchi
To avoid race condition between concurrent memory errors on identified hugepage, we atomically test and set PG_hwpoison bit on the head page. All pages in the error hugepage are considered as hwpoisoned for now, so set and clear all PG_hwpoison bits in the hugepage with page lock of the head page held. Dependency: "HWPOISON, hugetlb: enable error handling path for hugepage" Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2010-08-11HWPOISON, hugetlb: enable error handling path for hugepageNaoya Horiguchi
This patch just enables handling path. Real containing and recovering operation will be implemented in following patches. Dependency: "hugetlb, rmap: add reverse mapping for hugepage." Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2010-08-11hugetlb, rmap: add reverse mapping for hugepageNaoya Horiguchi
This patch adds reverse mapping feature for hugepage by introducing mapcount for shared/private-mapped hugepage and anon_vma for private-mapped hugepage. While hugepage is not currently swappable, reverse mapping can be useful for memory error handler. Without this patch, memory error handler cannot identify processes using the bad hugepage nor unmap it from them. That is: - for shared hugepage: we can collect processes using a hugepage through pagecache, but can not unmap the hugepage because of the lack of mapcount. - for privately mapped hugepage: we can neither collect processes nor unmap the hugepage. This patch solves these problems. This patch include the bug fix given by commit 23be7468e8, so reverts it. Dependency: "hugetlb: move definition of is_vm_hugetlb_page() to hugepage_inline.h" ChangeLog since May 24. - create hugetlb_inline.h and move is_vm_hugetlb_index() in it. - move functions setting up anon_vma for hugepage into mm/rmap.c. ChangeLog since May 13. - rebased to 2.6.34 - fix logic error (in case that private mapping and shared mapping coexist) - move is_vm_hugetlb_page() into include/linux/mm.h to use this function from linear_page_index() - define and use linear_hugepage_index() instead of compound_order() - use page_move_anon_rmap() in hugetlb_cow() - copy exclusive switch of __set_page_anon_rmap() into hugepage counterpart. - revert commit 24be7468 completely Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2010-08-10Merge branch 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (149 commits) block: make sure that REQ_* types are seen even with CONFIG_BLOCK=n xen-blkfront: fix missing out label blkdev: fix blkdev_issue_zeroout return value block: update request stacking methods to support discards block: fix missing export of blk_types.h writeback: fix bad _bh spinlock nesting drbd: revert "delay probes", feature is being re-implemented differently drbd: Initialize all members of sync_conf to their defaults [Bugz 315] drbd: Disable delay probes for the upcomming release writeback: cleanup bdi_register writeback: add new tracepoints writeback: remove unnecessary init_timer call writeback: optimize periodic bdi thread wakeups writeback: prevent unnecessary bdi threads wakeups writeback: move bdi threads exiting logic to the forker thread writeback: restructure bdi forker loop a little writeback: move last_active to bdi writeback: do not remove bdi from bdi_list writeback: simplify bdi code a little writeback: do not lose wake-ups in bdi threads ... Fixed up pretty trivial conflicts in drivers/block/virtio_blk.c and drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c as per Jens.
2010-08-10Merge branch 'kmemleak' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-2.6-cm * 'kmemleak' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-2.6-cm: kmemleak: Fix typo in the comment lib/scatterlist: Hook sg_kmalloc into kmemleak (v2) kmemleak: Add DocBook style comments to kmemleak.c kmemleak: Introduce a default off mode for kmemleak kmemleak: Show more information for objects found by alias
2010-08-10Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (96 commits) no need for list_for_each_entry_safe()/resetting with superblock list Fix sget() race with failing mount vfs: don't hold s_umount over close_bdev_exclusive() call sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on remount sysv: do not mark superblock dirty on mount btrfs: remove junk sb_dirt change BFS: clean up the superblock usage AFFS: wait for sb synchronization when needed AFFS: clean up dirty flag usage cifs: truncate fallout mbcache: fix shrinker function return value mbcache: Remove unused features add f_flags to struct statfs(64) pass a struct path to vfs_statfs update VFS documentation for method changes. All filesystems that need invalidate_inode_buffers() are doing that explicitly convert remaining ->clear_inode() to ->evict_inode() Make ->drop_inode() just return whether inode needs to be dropped fs/inode.c:clear_inode() is gone fs/inode.c:evict() doesn't care about delete vs. non-delete paths now ... Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/nilfs2/super.c
2010-08-09Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: powerpc: fix build with make 3.82 Revert "Input: appletouch - fix integer overflow issue" memblock: Fix memblock_is_region_reserved() to return a boolean powerpc: Trim defconfigs powerpc: fix i8042 module build error sound/soc: mpc5200_psc_ac97: Use gpio pins for cold reset powerpc/5200: add mpc5200_psc_ac97_gpio_reset
2010-08-09hibernation: freeze swap at hibernationKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
When taking a memory snapshot in hibernate_snapshot(), all (directly called) memory allocations use GFP_ATOMIC. Hence swap misusage during hibernation never occurs. But from a pessimistic point of view, there is no guarantee that no page allcation has __GFP_WAIT. It is better to have a global indication "we enter hibernation, don't use swap!". This patch tries to freeze new-swap-allocation during hibernation. (All user processes are frozenm so swapin is not a concern). This way, no updates will happen to swap_map[] between hibernate_snapshot() and save_image(). Swap is thawed when swsusp_free() is called. We can be assured that swap corruption will not occur. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.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>
2010-08-09mm: fix corruption of hibernation caused by reusing swap during image savingKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Since 2.6.31, swap_map[]'s refcounting was changed to show that a used swap entry is just for swap-cache, can be reused. Then, while scanning free entry in swap_map[], a swap entry may be able to be reclaimed and reused. It was caused by commit c9e444103b5e7a5 ("mm: reuse unused swap entry if necessary"). But this caused deta corruption at resume. The scenario is - Assume a clean-swap cache, but mapped. - at hibernation_snapshot[], clean-swap-cache is saved as clean-swap-cache and swap_map[] is marked as SWAP_HAS_CACHE. - then, save_image() is called. And reuse SWAP_HAS_CACHE entry to save image, and break the contents. After resume: - the memory reclaim runs and finds clean-not-referenced-swap-cache and discards it because it's marked as clean. But here, the contents on disk and swap-cache is inconsistent. Hance memory is corrupted. This patch avoids the bug by not reclaiming swap-entry during hibernation. This is a quick fix for backporting. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Reported-by: Ondreg Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org> Tested-by: Ondreg Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org> Tested-by: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gmail.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09ksm: cleanup for mm_slots_hashLai Jiangshan
Use compile-allocated memory instead of dynamic allocated memory for mm_slots_hash. Use hash_ptr() instead divisions for bucket calculation. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@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>
2010-08-09vmscan: raise the bar to PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC stallsWu Fengguang
Fix "system goes unresponsive under memory pressure and lots of dirty/writeback pages" bug. http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/4/4/86 In the above thread, Andreas Mohr described that Invoking any command locked up for minutes (note that I'm talking about attempted additional I/O to the _other_, _unaffected_ main system HDD - such as loading some shell binaries -, NOT the external SSD18M!!). This happens when the two conditions are both meet: - under memory pressure - writing heavily to a slow device OOM also happens in Andreas' system. The OOM trace shows that 3 processes are stuck in wait_on_page_writeback() in the direct reclaim path. One in do_fork() and the other two in unix_stream_sendmsg(). They are blocked on this condition: (sc->order && priority < DEF_PRIORITY - 2) which was introduced in commit 78dc583d (vmscan: low order lumpy reclaim also should use PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC) one year ago. That condition may be too permissive. In Andreas' case, 512MB/1024 = 512KB. If the direct reclaim for the order-1 fork() allocation runs into a range of 512KB hard-to-reclaim LRU pages, it will be stalled. It's a severe problem in three ways. Firstly, it can easily happen in daily desktop usage. vmscan priority can easily go below (DEF_PRIORITY - 2) on _local_ memory pressure. Even if the system has 50% globally reclaimable pages, it still has good opportunity to have 0.1% sized hard-to-reclaim ranges. For example, a simple dd can easily create a big range (up to 20%) of dirty pages in the LRU lists. And order-1 to order-3 allocations are more than common with SLUB. Try "grep -v '1 :' /proc/slabinfo" to get the list of high order slab caches. For example, the order-1 radix_tree_node slab cache may stall applications at swap-in time; the order-3 inode cache on most filesystems may stall applications when trying to read some file; the order-2 proc_inode_cache may stall applications when trying to open a /proc file. Secondly, once triggered, it will stall unrelated processes (not doing IO at all) in the system. This "one slow USB device stalls the whole system" avalanching effect is very bad. Thirdly, once stalled, the stall time could be intolerable long for the users. When there are 20MB queued writeback pages and USB 1.1 is writing them in 1MB/s, wait_on_page_writeback() will stuck for up to 20 seconds. Not to mention it may be called multiple times. So raise the bar to only enable PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC when priority goes below DEF_PRIORITY/3, or 6.25% LRU size. As the default dirty throttle ratio is 20%, it will hardly be triggered by pure dirty pages. We'd better treat PAGEOUT_IO_SYNC as some last resort workaround -- its stall time is so uncomfortably long (easily goes beyond 1s). The bar is only raised for (order < PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER) allocations, which are easy to satisfy in 1TB memory boxes. So, although 6.25% of memory could be an awful lot of pages to scan on a system with 1TB of memory, it won't really have to busy scan that much. Andreas tested an older version of this patch and reported that it mostly fixed his problem. Mel Gorman helped improve it and KOSAKI Motohiro will fix it further in the next patch. Reported-by: Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@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>
2010-08-09mm/vmalloc.c: check kmalloc() return valueKulikov Vasiliy
kmalloc() may fail, if so return -ENOMEM. Signed-off-by: Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon@gmail.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>
2010-08-09memcg: add mm_vmscan_memcg_isolate tracepointKOSAKI Motohiro
Memcg also need to trace page isolation information as global reclaim. This patch does it. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09memcg, vmscan: add memcg reclaim tracepointKOSAKI Motohiro
Memcg also need to trace reclaim progress as direct reclaim. This patch add it. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09vmscan: shrink_slab() requires the number of lru_pages, not the page orderKOSAKI Motohiro
Presently shrink_slab() has the following scanning equation. lru_scanned max_pass basic_scan_objects = 4 x ------------- x ----------------------------- lru_pages shrinker->seeks (default:2) scan_objects = min(basic_scan_objects, max_pass * 2) If we pass very small value as lru_pages instead real number of lru pages, shrink_slab() drop much objects rather than necessary. And now, __zone_reclaim() pass 'order' as lru_pages by mistake. That produces a bad result. For example, if we receive very low memory pressure (scan = 32, order = 0), shrink_slab() via zone_reclaim() always drop _all_ icache/dcache objects. (see above equation, very small lru_pages make very big scan_objects result). This patch fixes it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix layout, typos] Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09mmu-notifiers: remove mmu notifier calls in apply_to_page_range()Jeremy Fitzhardinge
It is not appropriate for apply_to_page_range() to directly call any mmu notifiers, because it is a general purpose function whose effect depends on what context it is called in and what the callback function does. In particular, if it is being used as part of an mmu notifier implementation, the recursive calls can be particularly problematic. It is up to apply_to_page_range's caller to do any notifier calls if necessary. It does not affect any in-tree users because they all operate on init_mm, and mmu notifiers only pertain to usermode mappings. [stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com: remove unused local `start'] Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09vmscan: protect reading of reclaim_stat with lru_lockKOSAKI Motohiro
Rik van Riel pointed out reading reclaim_stat should be protected lru_lock, otherwise vmscan might sweep 2x much pages. This fault was introduced by commit 4f98a2fee8acdb4ac84545df98cccecfd130f8db Author: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Date: Sat Oct 18 20:26:32 2008 -0700 vmscan: split LRU lists into anon & file sets Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09vmscan: avoid subtraction of unsigned typesKOSAKI Motohiro
'slab_reclaimable' and 'nr_pages' are unsigned. Subtraction is unsafe because negative results would be misinterpreted. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09mm: set VM_FAULT_WRITE in do_swap_page()Andrea Arcangeli
Set the flag if do_swap_page is decowing the page the same way do_wp_page would too. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09rmap: add exclusive page to private anon_vma on swapinRik van Riel
On swapin it is fairly common for a page to be owned exclusively by one process. In that case we want to add the page to the anon_vma of that process's VMA, instead of to the root anon_vma. This will reduce the amount of rmap searching that the swapout code needs to do. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09oom: badness heuristic rewriteDavid Rientjes
This a complete rewrite of the oom killer's badness() heuristic which is used to determine which task to kill in oom conditions. The goal is to make it as simple and predictable as possible so the results are better understood and we end up killing the task which will lead to the most memory freeing while still respecting the fine-tuning from userspace. Instead of basing the heuristic on mm->total_vm for each task, the task's rss and swap space is used instead. This is a better indication of the amount of memory that will be freeable if the oom killed task is chosen and subsequently exits. This helps specifically in cases where KDE or GNOME is chosen for oom kill on desktop systems instead of a memory hogging task. The baseline for the heuristic is a proportion of memory that each task is currently using in memory plus swap compared to the amount of "allowable" memory. "Allowable," in this sense, means the system-wide resources for unconstrained oom conditions, the set of mempolicy nodes, the mems attached to current's cpuset, or a memory controller's limit. The proportion is given on a scale of 0 (never kill) to 1000 (always kill), roughly meaning that if a task has a badness() score of 500 that the task consumes approximately 50% of allowable memory resident in RAM or in swap space. The proportion is always relative to the amount of "allowable" memory and not the total amount of RAM systemwide so that mempolicies and cpusets may operate in isolation; they shall not need to know the true size of the machine on which they are running if they are bound to a specific set of nodes or mems, respectively. Root tasks are given 3% extra memory just like __vm_enough_memory() provides in LSMs. In the event of two tasks consuming similar amounts of memory, it is generally better to save root's task. Because of the change in the badness() heuristic's baseline, it is also necessary to introduce a new user interface to tune it. It's not possible to redefine the meaning of /proc/pid/oom_adj with a new scale since the ABI cannot be changed for backward compatability. Instead, a new tunable, /proc/pid/oom_score_adj, is added that ranges from -1000 to +1000. It may be used to polarize the heuristic such that certain tasks are never considered for oom kill while others may always be considered. The value is added directly into the badness() score so a value of -500, for example, means to discount 50% of its memory consumption in comparison to other tasks either on the system, bound to the mempolicy, in the cpuset, or sharing the same memory controller. /proc/pid/oom_adj is changed so that its meaning is rescaled into the units used by /proc/pid/oom_score_adj, and vice versa. Changing one of these per-task tunables will rescale the value of the other to an equivalent meaning. Although /proc/pid/oom_adj was originally defined as a bitshift on the badness score, it now shares the same linear growth as /proc/pid/oom_score_adj but with different granularity. This is required so the ABI is not broken with userspace applications and allows oom_adj to be deprecated for future removal. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09oom: multi threaded process coredump don't make deadlockKOSAKI Motohiro
Oleg pointed out current PF_EXITING check is wrong. Because PF_EXITING is per-thread flag, not per-process flag. He said, Two threads, group-leader L and its sub-thread T. T dumps the code. In this case both threads have ->mm != NULL, L has PF_EXITING. The first problem is, select_bad_process() always return -1 in this case (even if the caller is T, this doesn't matter). The second problem is that we should add TIF_MEMDIE to T, not L. I think we can remove this dubious PF_EXITING check. but as first step, This patch add the protection of multi threaded issue. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-08-09oom: give the dying task a higher priorityLuis Claudio R. Goncalves
In a system under heavy load it was observed that even after the oom-killer selects a task to die, the task may take a long time to die. Right after sending a SIGKILL to the task selected by the oom-killer this task has its priority increased so that it can exit() soon, freeing memory. That is accomplished by: /* * We give our sacrificial lamb high priority and access to * all the memory it needs. That way it should be able to * exit() and clear out its resources quickly... */ p->rt.time_slice = HZ; set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MEMDIE); It sounds plausible giving the dying task an even higher priority to be sure it will be scheduled sooner and free the desired memory. It was suggested on LKML using SCHED_FIFO:1, the lowest RT priority so that this task won't interfere with any running RT task. If the dying task is already an RT task, leave it untouched. Another good suggestion, implemented here, was to avoid boosting the dying task priority in case of mem_cgroup OOM. Signed-off-by: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <lclaudio@uudg.org> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>