- 14 Apr, 2015 1 commit
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Konstantin Khlebnikov authored
commit 7a3ef208 upstream. Constantly forking task causes unlimited grow of anon_vma chain. Each next child allocates new level of anon_vmas and links vma to all previous levels because pages might be inherited from any level. This patch adds heuristic which decides to reuse existing anon_vma instead of forking new one. It adds counter anon_vma->degree which counts linked vmas and directly descending anon_vmas and reuses anon_vma if counter is lower than two. As a result each anon_vma has either vma or at least two descending anon_vmas. In such trees half of nodes are leafs with alive vmas, thus count of anon_vmas is no more than two times bigger than count of vmas. This heuristic reuses anon_vmas as few as possible because each reuse adds false aliasing among vmas and rmap walker ought to scan more ptes when it searches where page is might be mapped. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120816024610.GA5350@evergreen.ssec.wisc.edu Fixes: 5beb4930 ("mm: change anon_vma linking to fix multi-process server scalability issue") [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo, per Rik] Signed-off-by:
Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> Reported-by:
Daniel Forrest <dan.forrest@ssec.wisc.edu> Tested-by:
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Tested-by:
Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [lizf: Backported to 3.4: adjust context] Signed-off-by:
Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
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- 07 Aug, 2014 1 commit
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Vlastimil Babka authored
commit 57e68e9c upstream. A BUG_ON(!PageLocked) was triggered in mlock_vma_page() by Sasha Levin fuzzing with trinity. The call site try_to_unmap_cluster() does not lock the pages other than its check_page parameter (which is already locked). The BUG_ON in mlock_vma_page() is not documented and its purpose is somewhat unclear, but apparently it serializes against page migration, which could otherwise fail to transfer the PG_mlocked flag. This would not be fatal, as the page would be eventually encountered again, but NR_MLOCK accounting would become distorted nevertheless. This patch adds a comment to the BUG_ON in mlock_vma_page() and munlock_vma_page() to that effect. The call site try_to_unmap_cluster() is fixed so that for page != check_page, trylock_page() is attempted (to avoid possible deadlocks as we already have check_page locked) and mlock_vma_page() is performed only upon success. If the page lock cannot be obtained, the page is left without PG_mlocked, which is again not a problem in the whole unevictable memory design. Signed-off-by:
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Reported-by:
Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by:
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Cc: Yijing Wang <wangyijing@huawei.com> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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- 01 Jul, 2014 1 commit
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Hugh Dickins authored
commit 7f39dda9 upstream. Trinity reports BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:47 in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 5787, name: trinity-c27 __might_sleep < down_write < __put_anon_vma < page_get_anon_vma < migrate_pages < compact_zone < compact_zone_order < try_to_compact_pages .. Right, since conversion to mutex then rwsem, we should not put_anon_vma() from inside an rcu_read_lock()ed section: fix the two places that did so. And add might_sleep() to anon_vma_free(), as suggested by Peter Zijlstra. Fixes: 88c22088 ("mm: optimize page_lock_anon_vma() fast-path") Reported-by:
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
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- 11 Jun, 2014 1 commit
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Andrey Ryabinin authored
commit 624483f3 upstream. While working address sanitizer for kernel I've discovered use-after-free bug in __put_anon_vma. For the last anon_vma, anon_vma->root freed before child anon_vma. Later in anon_vma_free(anon_vma) we are referencing to already freed anon_vma->root to check rwsem. This fixes it by freeing the child anon_vma before freeing anon_vma->root. Signed-off-by:
Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com> Acked-by:
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
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- 08 Jan, 2014 1 commit
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Jianguo Wu authored
commit 98398c32 upstream. In __page_check_address(), if address's pud is not present, huge_pte_offset() will return NULL, we should check the return value. Signed-off-by:
Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: qiuxishi <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Cc: Hanjun Guo <guohanjun@huawei.com> Acked-by:
Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 31 Oct, 2012 1 commit
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Jan Kara authored
commit ef5d437f upstream. On s390 any write to a page (even from kernel itself) sets architecture specific page dirty bit. Thus when a page is written to via buffered write, HW dirty bit gets set and when we later map and unmap the page, page_remove_rmap() finds the dirty bit and calls set_page_dirty(). Dirtying of a page which shouldn't be dirty can cause all sorts of problems to filesystems. The bug we observed in practice is that buffers from the page get freed, so when the page gets later marked as dirty and writeback writes it, XFS crashes due to an assertion BUG_ON(!PagePrivate(page)) in page_buffers() called from xfs_count_page_state(). Similar problem can also happen when zero_user_segment() call from xfs_vm_writepage() (or block_write_full_page() for that matter) set the hardware dirty bit during writeback, later buffers get freed, and then page unmapped. Fix the issue by ignoring s390 HW dirty bit for page cache pages of mappings with mapping_cap_account_dirty(). This is safe because for such mappings when a page gets marked as writeable in PTE it is also marked dirty in do_wp_page() or do_page_fault(). When the dirty bit is cleared by clear_page_dirty_for_io(), the page gets writeprotected in page_mkclean(). So pagecache page is writeable if and only if it is dirty. Thanks to Hugh Dickins for pointing out mapping has to have mapping_cap_account_dirty() for things to work and proposing a cleaned up variant of the patch. The patch has survived about two hours of running fsx-linux on tmpfs while heavily swapping and several days of running on out build machines where the original problem was triggered. Signed-off-by:
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 22 Mar, 2012 3 commits
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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki authored
Now, page-stat-per-memcg is recorded into per page_cgroup flag by duplicating page's status into the flag. The reason is that memcg has a feature to move a page from a group to another group and we have race between "move" and "page stat accounting", Under current logic, assume CPU-A and CPU-B. CPU-A does "move" and CPU-B does "page stat accounting". When CPU-A goes 1st, CPU-A CPU-B update "struct page" info. move_lock_mem_cgroup(memcg) see pc->flags copy page stat to new group overwrite pc->mem_cgroup. move_unlock_mem_cgroup(memcg) move_lock_mem_cgroup(mem) set pc->flags update page stat accounting move_unlock_mem_cgroup(mem) stat accounting is guarded by move_lock_mem_cgroup() and "move" logic (CPU-A) doesn't see chang... -
Kautuk Consul authored
Reduce code duplication by calling anon_vma_chain_link() from anon_vma_prepare(). Also move anon_vmal_chain_link() to a more suitable location in the file. Signed-off-by:
Kautuk Consul <consul.kautuk@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by:
KAMEZWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by:
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Konstantin Khlebnikov authored
Since commit 2a11c8ea ("kconfig: Introduce IS_ENABLED(), IS_BUILTIN() and IS_MODULE()") there is a generic grep-friendly method for checking config options in C expressions. Signed-off-by:
Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by:
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- 13 Jan, 2012 1 commit
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Johannes Weiner authored
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Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Acked-by:
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- 11 Jan, 2012 1 commit
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
migrate was doing an rmap_walk with speculative lock-less access on pagetables. That could lead it to not serializing properly against mremap PT locks. But a second problem remains in the order of vmas in the same_anon_vma list used by the rmap_walk. If vma_merge succeeds in copy_vma, the src vma could be placed after the dst vma in the same_anon_vma list. That could still lead to migrate missing some pte. This patch adds an anon_vma_moveto_tail() function to force the dst vma at the end of the list before mremap starts to solve the problem. If the mremap is very large and there are a lots of parents or childs sharing the anon_vma root lock, this should still scale better than taking the anon_vma root lock around every pte copy practically for the whole duration of mremap. Update: Hugh noticed special care is needed in the error path where move_page_tables goes in the reverse direction, a second anon_vma_moveto_tail() call is needed in the error path. This program exercises the anon_vma_moveto_tail: === int main() { static struct timeval oldstamp, newstamp; long diffsec; char *p, *p2, *p3, *p4; if (posix_memalign((void **)&p, 2*1024*1024, SIZE)) perror("memalign"), exit(1); if (posix_memalign((void **)&p2, 2*1024*1024, SIZE)) perror("memalign"), exit(1); if (posix_memalign((void **)&p3, 2*1024*1024, SIZE)) perror("memalign"), exit(1); memset(p, 0xff, SIZE); printf("%p\n", p); memset(p2, 0xff, SIZE); memset(p3, 0x77, 4096); if (memcmp(p, p2, SIZE)) printf("error\n"); p4 = mremap(p+SIZE/2, SIZE/2, SIZE/2, MREMAP_FIXED|MREMAP_MAYMOVE, p3); if (p4 != p3) perror("mremap"), exit(1); p4 = mremap(p4, SIZE/2, SIZE/2, MREMAP_FIXED|MREMAP_MAYMOVE, p+SIZE/2); if (p4 != p+SIZE/2) perror("mremap"), exit(1); if (memcmp(p, p2, SIZE)) printf("error\n"); printf("ok\n"); return 0; } === $ perf probe -a anon_vma_moveto_tail Add new event: probe:anon_vma_moveto_tail (on anon_vma_moveto_tail) You can now use it on all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe:anon_vma_moveto_tail -aR sleep 1 $ perf record -e probe:anon_vma_moveto_tail -aR ./anon_vma_moveto_tail 0x7f2ca2800000 ok [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.043 MB perf.data (~1860 samples) ] $ perf report --stdio 100.00% anon_vma_moveto [kernel.kallsyms] [k] anon_vma_moveto_tail Signed-off-by:Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by:
Nai Xia <nai.xia@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Pawel Sikora <pluto@agmk.net> Signed-off-by:
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- 01 Nov, 2011 1 commit
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Wanlong Gao authored
try_to_unmap_one() is called by try_to_unmap_ksm(), too. Signed-off-by:
Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 31 Oct, 2011 1 commit
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Paul Gortmaker authored
The files changed within are only using the EXPORT_SYMBOL macro variants. They are not using core modular infrastructure and hence don't need module.h but only the export.h header. Signed-off-by:Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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- 24 Jul, 2011 1 commit
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Martin Schwidefsky authored
On x86 a page without a mapper is by definition not referenced / old. The s390 architecture keeps the reference bit in the storage key and the current code will check the storage key for page without a mapper. This leads to an interesting effect: the first time an s390 system needs to write pages to swap it only finds referenced pages. This causes a lot of pages to get added and written to the swap device. To avoid this behaviour change page_referenced to query the storage key only if there is a mapper of the page. Signed-off-by:Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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- 21 Jul, 2011 1 commit
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Christoph Hellwig authored
i_alloc_sem is a rather special rw_semaphore. It's the last one that may be released by a non-owner, and it's write side is always mirrored by real exclusion. It's intended use it to wait for all pending direct I/O requests to finish before starting a truncate. Replace it with a hand-grown construct: - exclusion for truncates is already guaranteed by i_mutex, so it can simply fall way - the reader side is replaced by an i_dio_count member in struct inode that counts the number of pending direct I/O requests. Truncate can't proceed as long as it's non-zero - when i_dio_count reaches non-zero we wake up a pending truncate using wake_up_bit on a new bit in i_flags - new references to i_dio_count can't appear while we are waiting for it to read zero because the direct I/O count always needs i_mutex (or an equivalent like XFS's i_iolock) for starting a new operation. This scheme is much simpler, and saves the space of a spinlock_t and a struct list_head in struct inode (typically 160 bits on a non-debug 64-bit system). Signed-off-by:
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by:
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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- 28 Jun, 2011 1 commit
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Peter Zijlstra authored
We cannot take a mutex while holding a spinlock, so flip the order and fix the locking documentation. Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 18 Jun, 2011 3 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
Hugh Dickins points out that lockdep (correctly) spots a potential deadlock on the anon_vma lock, because we now do a GFP_KERNEL allocation of anon_vma_chain while doing anon_vma_clone(). The problem is that page reclaim will want to take the anon_vma lock of any anonymous pages that it will try to reclaim. So re-organize the code in anon_vma_clone() slightly: first do just a GFP_NOWAIT allocation, which will usually work fine. But if that fails, let's just drop the lock and re-do the allocation, now with GFP_KERNEL. End result: not only do we avoid the locking problem, this also ends up getting better concurrency in case the allocation does need to block. Tim Chen reports that with all these anon_vma locking tweaks, we're now almost back up to the spinlock performance. Reported-and-tested-by:
Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
This matches the anon_vma_clone() case, and uses the same lock helper functions. Because of the need to potentially release the anon_vma's, it's a bit more complex, though. We traverse the 'vma->anon_vma_chain' in two phases: the first loop gets the anon_vma lock (with the helper function that only takes the lock once for the whole loop), and removes any entries that don't need any more processing. The second phase just traverses the remaining list entries (without holding the anon_vma lock), and does any actual freeing of the anon_vma's that is required. Signed-off-by:
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Linus Torvalds authored
In anon_vma_clone() we traverse the vma->anon_vma_chain of the source vma, locking the anon_vma for each entry. But they are all going to have the same root entry, which means that we're locking and unlocking the same lock over and over again. Which is expensive in locked operations, but can get _really_ expensive when that root entry sees any kind of lock contention. In fact, Tim Chen reports a big performance regression due to this: when we switched to use a mutex instead of a spinlock, the contention case gets much worse. So to alleviate this all, this commit creates a small helper function (lock_anon_vma_root()) that can be used to take the lock just once rather than taking and releasing it over and over again. We still have the same "take the lock and release" it behavior in the exit path (in unlink_anon_vmas()), but that one is a bit harder to fix since we're actually freeing the anon_vma entries as we go, and that will touch the lock too. Reported-and-tested-by:
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- 08 Jun, 2011 1 commit
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Split the global inode_wb_list_lock into a per-bdi_writeback list_lock, as it's currently the most contended lock in the system for metadata heavy workloads. It won't help for single-filesystem workloads for which we'll need the I/O-less balance_dirty_pages, but at least we can dedicate a cpu to spinning on each bdi now for larger systems. Based on earlier patches from Nick Piggin and Dave Chinner. It reduces lock contentions to 1/4 in this test case: 10 HDD JBOD, 100 dd on each disk, XFS, 6GB ram lock_stat version 0.3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- class name con-bounces contentions waittime-min waittime-max waittime-total acq-bounces acquisitions holdtime-min holdtime-max holdtime-total ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- vanilla 2.6.39-rc3: inode_wb_list_lock: 42590 44433 0.12 147.74 144127.35 252274 886792 0.08 121.34 917211.23 ------------------ inode_wb_list_lock 2 [<ffffffff81165da5>] bdev_inode_switch_bdi+0x29/0x85 inode_wb_list_lock 34 [<ffffffff8115bd0b>] inode_wb_list_del+0x22/0x49 inode_wb_list_lock 12893 [<ffffffff8115bb53>] __mark_inode_dirty+0x170/0x1d0 inode_wb_list_lock 10702 [<ffffffff8115afef>] writeback_single_inode+0x16d/0x20a ------------------ inode_wb_list_lock 2 [<ffffffff81165da5>] bdev_inode_switch_bdi+0x29/0x85 inode_wb_list_lock 19 [<ffffffff8115bd0b>] inode_wb_list_del+0x22/0x49 inode_wb_list_lock 5550 [<ffffffff8115bb53>] __mark_inode_dirty+0x170/0x1d0 inode_wb_list_lock 8511 [<ffffffff8115b4ad>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x10f/0x157 2.6.39-rc3 + patch: &(&wb->list_lock)->rlock: 11383 11657 0.14 151.69 40429.51 90825 527918 0.11 145.90 556843.37 ------------------------ &(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 10 [<ffffffff8115b189>] inode_wb_list_del+0x5f/0x86 &(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 1493 [<ffffffff8115b1ed>] writeback_inodes_wb+0x3d/0x150 &(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 3652 [<ffffffff8115a8e9>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x123/0x16f &(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 1412 [<ffffffff8115a38e>] writeback_single_inode+0x17f/0x223 ------------------------ &(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 3 [<ffffffff8110b5af>] bdi_lock_two+0x46/0x4b &(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 6 [<ffffffff8115b189>] inode_wb_list_del+0x5f/0x86 &(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 2061 [<ffffffff8115af97>] __mark_inode_dirty+0x173/0x1cf &(&wb->list_lock)->rlock 2629 [<ffffffff8115a8e9>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x123/0x16f hughd@google.com: fix recursive lock when bdi_lock_two() is called with new the same as old akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup bdev_inode_switch_bdi() comment Signed-off-by:Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
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- 29 May, 2011 1 commit
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Inspired by an analysis from Hugh on why again all this doesn't explode in our face. Signed-off-by:
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- 28 May, 2011 2 commits
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Hugh Dickins authored
On one machine I've been getting hangs, a page fault's anon_vma_prepare() waiting in anon_vma_lock(), other processes waiting for that page's lock. This is a replay of last year's f1819427 "mm: fix hang on anon_vma->root->lock". The new page_lock_anon_vma() places too much faith in its refcount: when it has acquired the mutex_trylock(), it's possible that a racing task in anon_vma_alloc() has just reallocated the struct anon_vma, set refcount to 1, and is about to reset its anon_vma->root. Fix this by saving anon_vma->root, and relying on the usual page_mapped() check instead of a refcount check: if page is still mapped, the anon_vma is still ours; if page is not still mapped, we're no longer interested. Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
I've hit the "address >= vma->vm_end" check in do_page_add_anon_rmap() just once. The stack showed khugepaged allocation trying to compact pages: the call to page_add_anon_rmap() coming from remove_migration_pte(). That path holds anon_vma lock, but does not hold mmap_sem: it can therefore race with a split_vma(), and in commit 5f70b962 "mmap: avoid unnecessary anon_vma lock" we just took away the anon_vma lock protection when adjusting vma->vm_end. I don't think that particular BUG_ON ever caught anything interesting, so better replace it by a comment, than reinstate the anon_vma locking. Signed-off-by:
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- 25 May, 2011 6 commits
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Optimize the page_lock_anon_vma() fast path to be one atomic op, instead of two. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Straightforward conversion of anon_vma->lock to a mutex. Signed-off-by:
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Convert page_lock_anon_vma() over to use refcounts. This is done to prepare for the conversion of anon_vma from spinlock to mutex. Sadly this inceases the cost of page_lock_anon_vma() from one to two atomics, a follow up patch addresses this, lets keep that simple for now. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
A slightly more verbose comment to go along with the trickery in page_lock_anon_vma(). Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Its beyond ugly and gets in the way. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Straightforward conversion of i_mmap_lock to a mutex. Signed-off-by:
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- 23 May, 2011 1 commit
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Martin Schwidefsky authored
The page_clear_dirty primitive always sets the default storage key which resets the access control bits and the fetch protection bit. That will surprise a KVM guest that sets non-zero access control bits or the fetch protection bit. Merge page_test_dirty and page_clear_dirty back to a single function and only clear the dirty bit from the storage key. In addition move the function page_test_and_clear_dirty and page_test_and_clear_young to page.h where they belong. This requires to change the parameter from a struct page * to a page frame number. Signed-off-by:
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- 25 Mar, 2011 2 commits
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Dave Chinner authored
Protect the inode writeback list with a new global lock inode_wb_list_lock and use it to protect the list manipulations and traversals. This lock replaces the inode_lock as the inodes on the list can be validity checked while holding the inode->i_lock and hence the inode_lock is no longer needed to protect the list. Signed-off-by:
Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Dave Chinner authored
Protect inode state transitions and validity checks with the inode->i_lock. This enables us to make inode state transitions independently of the inode_lock and is the first step to peeling away the inode_lock from the code. This requires that __iget() is done atomically with i_state checks during list traversals so that we don't race with another thread marking the inode I_FREEING between the state check and grabbing the reference. Also remove the unlock_new_inode() memory barrier optimisation required to avoid taking the inode_lock when clearing I_NEW. Simplify the code by simply taking the inode->i_lock around the state change and wakeup. Because the wakeup is no longer tricky, remove the wake_up_inode() function and open code the wakeup where necessary. Signed-off-by:
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- 23 Mar, 2011 3 commits
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Peter Zijlstra authored
This patch changes the anon_vma refcount to be 0 when the object is free. It does this by adding 1 ref to being in use in the anon_vma structure (iow. the anon_vma->head list is not empty). This allows a simpler release scheme without having to check both the refcount and the list as well as avoids taking a ref for each entry on the list. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
We need the anon_vma refcount unconditionally to simplify the anon_vma lifetime rules. Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
The normal code pattern used in the kernel is: get/put. Signed-off-by:
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- 13 Mar, 2011 1 commit
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
When vmscan.c calls page_referenced(), if an anon page was created before a process forked, rmap will search for it in both of the processes, even though one of them might have since broken COW. If the child process mlocks the vma where the COWed page belongs to, page_referenced() running on the page mapped by the parent would lead to *vm_flags getting VM_LOCKED set erroneously (leading to the references on the parent page being ignored and evicting the parent page too early). *mapcount would also be decremented by page_referenced_one even if the page wasn't found by page_check_address. This also lets pmdp_clear_flush_young_notify() go ahead on a pmd_trans_splitting() pmd. We hold the page_table_lock so __split_huge_page_map() must wait the pmdp_clear_flush_young_notify() to complete before it can modify the pmd. The pmd is also still mapped in userland so the young bit may materialize through a tlb miss before split_huge_page_map runs. This will provide a more accurate page_referenced() behavior during split_huge_page(). Signed-off-by:
Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Reviewed-by:
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by:
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- 14 Jan, 2011 4 commits
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Greg Thelen authored
Replace usage of the mem_cgroup_update_file_mapped() memcg statistic update routine with two new routines: * mem_cgroup_inc_page_stat() * mem_cgroup_dec_page_stat() As before, only the file_mapped statistic is managed. However, these more general interfaces allow for new statistics to be more easily added. New statistics are added with memcg dirty page accounting. Signed-off-by:
Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrea Righi <arighi@develer.com> Acked-by:
Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
hugetlbfs was changed to allow memory failure to migrate the hugetlbfs pages and that broke THP as split_huge_page was then called on hugetlbfs pages too. compound_head/order was also run unsafe on THP pages that can be splitted at any time. All compound_head() invocations in memory-failure.c that are run on pages that aren't pinned and that can be freed and reused from under us (while compound_head is running) are buggy because compound_head can return a dangling pointer, but I'm not fixing this as this is a generic memory-failure bug not specific to THP but it applies to hugetlbfs too, so I can fix it later after THP is merged upstream. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
Add hugepage stat information to /proc/vmstat and /proc/meminfo. Signed-off-by:
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Andrea Arcangeli authored
This documents how split_huge_page is safe vs new vma inserctions into the anon_vma that may have already released the anon_vma->lock but not established pmds yet when split_huge_page starts. Signed-off-by:
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