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  1. 16 Nov, 2012 8 commits
    • Mel Gorman's avatar
      mm: revert "mm: vmscan: scale number of pages reclaimed by reclaim/compaction based on failures" · 96710098
      Mel Gorman authored 
      Jiri Slaby reported the following:

	(It's an effective revert of "mm: vmscan: scale number of pages
	reclaimed by reclaim/compaction based on failures".) Given kswapd
	had hours of runtime in ps/top output yesterday in the morning
	and after the revert it's now 2 minutes in sum for the last 24h,
	I would say, it's gone.

The intention of the patch in question was to compensate for the loss of
lumpy reclaim.  Part of the reason lumpy reclaim worked is because it
aggressively reclaimed pages and this patch was meant to be a sane
compromise.

When compaction fails, it gets deferred and both compaction and
reclaim/compaction is deferred avoid excessive reclaim.  However, since
commit c6543459 ("mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD"), kswapd is woken up
each time and continues reclaiming which was not taken into account when
the patch was developed.

Attempts to address the problem ended up just changing the shape of the
problem instead of fixing it.  The release window gets closer and while
a THP allocation failing is not a major problem, kswapd chewing up a lot
of CPU is.

This patch reverts commit 83fde0f2 ("mm: vmscan: scale number of
pages reclaimed by reclaim/compaction based on failures") and will be
revisited in the future.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Tested-by: default avatarValdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@fem.tu-ilmenau.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      96710098
    • Randy Dunlap's avatar
      rapidio: fix kernel-doc warnings · 2ca3cb50
      Randy Dunlap authored 
      Fix rapidio kernel-doc warnings:

  Warning(drivers/rapidio/rio.c:415): No description found for parameter 'local'
  Warning(drivers/rapidio/rio.c:415): Excess function parameter 'lstart' description in 'rio_map_inb_region'
  Warning(include/linux/rio.h:290): No description found for parameter 'switches'
  Warning(include/linux/rio.h:290): No description found for parameter 'destid_table'
Signed-off-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: default avatarAlexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      2ca3cb50
    • Xiaotian Feng's avatar
      swapfile: fix name leak in swapoff · f58b59c1
      Xiaotian Feng authored 
      There's a name leak introduced by commit 91a27b2a ("vfs: define
struct filename and have getname() return it").  Add the missing
putname.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: default avatarXiaotian Feng <dannyfeng@tencent.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f58b59c1
    • Hugh Dickins's avatar
      memcg: fix hotplugged memory zone oops · bea8c150
      Hugh Dickins authored 
      When MEMCG is configured on (even when it's disabled by boot option),
when adding or removing a page to/from its lru list, the zone pointer
used for stats updates is nowadays taken from the struct lruvec.  (On
many configurations, calculating zone from page is slower.)

But we have no code to update all the lruvecs (per zone, per memcg) when
a memory node is hotadded.  Here's an extract from the oops which
results when running numactl to bind a program to a newly onlined node:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000f60
  IP:  __mod_zone_page_state+0x9/0x60
  Pid: 1219, comm: numactl Not tainted 3.6.0-rc5+ #180 Bochs Bochs
  Process numactl (pid: 1219, threadinfo ffff880039abc000, task ffff8800383c4ce0)
  Call Trace:
    __pagevec_lru_add_fn+0xdf/0x140
    pagevec_lru_move_fn+0xb1/0x100
    __pagevec_lru_add+0x1c/0x30
    lru_add_drain_cpu+0xa3/0x130
    lru_add_drain+0x2f/0x40
   ...

The natural solution might be to use a memcg callback whenever memory is
hotadded; but that solution has not been scoped out, and it happens that
we do have an easy location at which to update lruvec->zone.  The lruvec
pointer is discovered either by mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec() or by
mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(), and both of those do know the right zone.

So check and set lruvec->zone in those; and remove the inadequate
attempt to set lruvec->zone from lruvec_init(), which is called before
NODE_DATA(node) has been allocated in such cases.

Ah, there was one exceptionr.  For no particularly good reason,
mem_cgroup_force_empty_list() has its own code for deciding lruvec.
Change it to use the standard mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec() and
mem_cgroup_get_lru_size() too.  In fact it was already safe against such
an oops (the lru lists in danger could only be empty), but we're better
proofed against future changes this way.

I've marked this for stable (3.6) since we introduced the problem in 3.5
(now closed to stable); but I have no idea if this is the only fix
needed to get memory hotadd working with memcg in 3.6, and received no
answer when I enquired twice before.
Reported-by: default avatarTang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: default avatarKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      bea8c150
    • David Rientjes's avatar
      mips, arc: fix build failure · 18f69427
      David Rientjes authored 
      Using a cross-compiler to fix another issue, the following build error
occurred for mips defconfig:

  arch/mips/fw/arc/misc.c: In function 'ArcHalt':
  arch/mips/fw/arc/misc.c:25:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'local_irq_disable'

Fix it up by including irqflags.h.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      18f69427
    • Michal Hocko's avatar
      memcg: oom: fix totalpages calculation for memory.swappiness==0 · 9a5a8f19
      Michal Hocko authored 
      oom_badness() takes a totalpages argument which says how many pages are
available and it uses it as a base for the score calculation.  The value
is calculated by mem_cgroup_get_limit which considers both limit and
total_swap_pages (resp.  memsw portion of it).

This is usually correct but since fe35004f ("mm: avoid swapping out
with swappiness==0") we do not swap when swappiness is 0 which means
that we cannot really use up all the totalpages pages.  This in turn
confuses oom score calculation if the memcg limit is much smaller than
the available swap because the used memory (capped by the limit) is
negligible comparing to totalpages so the resulting score is too small
if adj!=0 (typically task with CAP_SYS_ADMIN or non zero oom_score_adj).
A wrong process might be selected as result.

The problem can be worked around by checking mem_cgroup_swappiness==0
and not considering swap at all in such a case.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: default avatarKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: default avatarKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      9a5a8f19
    • David Rientjes's avatar
      mm: fix build warning for uninitialized value · 1756954c
      David Rientjes authored 
      do_wp_page() sets mmun_called if mmun_start and mmun_end were
initialized and, if so, may call mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end()
with these values.  This doesn't prevent gcc from emitting a build
warning though:

  mm/memory.c: In function `do_wp_page':
  mm/memory.c:2530: warning: `mmun_start' may be used uninitialized in this function
  mm/memory.c:2531: warning: `mmun_end' may be used uninitialized in this function

It's much easier to initialize the variables to impossible values and do
a simple comparison to determine if they were initialized to remove the
bool entirely.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      1756954c
    • Michel Lespinasse's avatar
      mm: add anon_vma_lock to validate_mm() · 63c3b902
      Michel Lespinasse authored 
      Iterating over the vma->anon_vma_chain without anon_vma_lock may cause
NULL ptr deref in anon_vma_interval_tree_verify(), because the node in the
chain might have been removed.

  BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fffffffffffffff0
  IP: [<ffffffff8122c29c>] anon_vma_interval_tree_verify+0xc/0xa0
  PGD 4e28067 PUD 4e29067 PMD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
  CPU 0
  Pid: 9050, comm: trinity-child64 Tainted: G        W    3.7.0-rc2-next-20121025-sasha-00001-g673f98e-dirty #77
  RIP: 0010: anon_vma_interval_tree_verify+0xc/0xa0
  Process trinity-child64 (pid: 9050, threadinfo ffff880045f80000, task ffff880048eb0000)
  Call Trace:
    validate_mm+0x58/0x1e0
    vma_adjust+0x635/0x6b0
    __split_vma.isra.22+0x161/0x220
    split_vma+0x24/0x30
    sys_madvise+0x5da/0x7b0
    tracesys+0xe1/0xe6
  RIP  anon_vma_interval_tree_verify+0xc/0xa0
  CR2: fffffffffffffff0

Figured out by Bob Liu.
Reported-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      63c3b902
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