- 06 Dec, 2014 14 commits
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Martin Hauke authored
[ Upstream commit bb2bdeb8 ] Added the USB VID/PID for the HP lt4112 LTE/HSPA+ Gobi 4G Modem (Huawei me906e) Signed-off-by:
Martin Hauke <mardnh@gmx.de> Acked-by:
Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Alexey Khoroshilov authored
[ Upstream commit 8c2dd544 ] In case of any failure ieee802154fake_probe() just calls unregister_netdev(). But it does not look safe to unregister netdevice before it was registered. The patch implements straightforward resource deallocation in case of failure in ieee802154fake_probe(). Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org). Signed-off-by:
Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru> Signed-off-by:
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Panu Matilainen authored
[ Upstream commit 49dd18ba ] Trying to add an unreachable route incorrectly returns -ESRCH if if custom FIB rules are present: [root@localhost ~]# ip route add 74.125.31.199 dev eth0 via 1.2.3.4 RTNETLINK answers: Network is unreachable [root@localhost ~]# ip rule add to 55.66.77.88 table 200 [root@localhost ~]# ip route add 74.125.31.199 dev eth0 via 1.2.3.4 RTNETLINK answers: No such process [root@localhost ~]# Commit 83886b6b ("[NET]: Change "not found" return value for rule lookup") changed fib_rules_lookup() to use -ESRCH as a "not found" code internally, but for user space it should be translated into -ENETUNREACH. Handle the translation centrally in ipv4-specific fib_lookup(), leaving the DECnet case alone. On a related note, commit b7a71b51 ("ipv4: removed redundant conditional") removed a similar translation from ip_route_input_slow() prematurely AIUI. Fixes: b7a71b51 ("ipv4: removed redundant conditional") Signed-off-by:
Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Vincent BENAYOUN authored
[ Upstream commit 84bc8868 ] There could be a signed overflow in the following code. The expression, (32-logmask) is comprised between 0 and 31 included. It may be equal to 31. In such a case the left shift will produce a signed integer overflow. According to the C99 Standard, this is an undefined behavior. A simple fix is to replace the signed int 1 with the unsigned int 1U. Signed-off-by:
Vincent BENAYOUN <vincent.benayoun@trust-in-soft.com> Signed-off-by:
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David S. Miller authored
[ Upstream commit 5a2b59d3 ] We are reading the memory location, so we have to have a memory constraint in there purely for the sake of showing the data flow to the compiler. Reported-by:
Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Andy Lutomirski authored
commit 82975bc6 upstream. x86 call do_notify_resume on paranoid returns if TIF_UPROBE is set but not on non-paranoid returns. I suspect that this is a mistake and that the code only works because int3 is paranoid. Setting _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME in the uprobe code was probably a workaround for the x86 bug. With that bug fixed, we can remove _TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME from the uprobes code. Reported-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by:
Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
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Kees Cook authored
commit 70b61e36 upstream. When building with the Gold linker, the .bss and .brk areas of vmlinux are shown as consecutive instead of having the same file offset. Allow for either state, as long as things add up correctly. Fixes: e6023367 ("x86, kaslr: Prevent .bss from overlaping initrd") Reported-by:
Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de> Signed-off-by:
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Junjie Mao <eternal.n08@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141118001604.GA25045@www.outflux.netSigned-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
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Kees Cook authored
commit 45e2a9d4 upstream. When setting up permissions on kernel memory at boot, the end of the PMD that was split from bss remained executable. It should be NX like the rest. This performs a PMD alignment instead of a PAGE alignment to get the correct span of memory. Before: ---[ High Kernel Mapping ]--- ... 0xffffffff8202d000-0xffffffff82200000 1868K RW GLB NX pte 0xffffffff82200000-0xffffffff82c00000 10M RW PSE GLB NX pmd 0xffffffff82c00000-0xffffffff82df5000 2004K RW GLB NX pte 0xffffffff82df5000-0xffffffff82e00000 44K RW GLB x pte 0xffffffff82e00000-0xffffffffc0000000 978M pmd After: ---[ High Kernel Mapping ]--- ... 0xffffffff8202d000-0xffffffff82200000 1868K RW GLB NX pte 0xffffffff82200000-0xffffffff82e00000 12M RW PSE GLB NX pmd 0xffffffff82e00000-0xffffffffc0000000 978M pmd [ tglx: Changed it to roundup(_brk_end, PMD_SIZE) and added a comment. We really should unmap the reminder along with the holes caused by init,initdata etc. but thats a different issue ] Signed-off-by:
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Dave Hansen authored
commit 2cd3949f upstream. We have some very similarly named command-line options: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:__setup("noxsave", x86_xsave_setup); arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:__setup("noxsaveopt", x86_xsaveopt_setup); arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c:__setup("noxsaves", x86_xsaves_setup); __setup() is designed to match options that take arguments, like "foo=bar" where you would have: __setup("foo", x86_foo_func...); The problem is that "noxsave" actually _matches_ "noxsaves" in the same way that "foo" matches "foo=bar". If you boot an old kernel that does not know about "noxsaves" with "noxsaves" on the command line, it will interpret the argument as "noxsave", which is not what you want at all. This makes the "noxsave" handler only return success when it finds an *exact* match. [ tglx: We really need to make __setup() more robust. ] Signed-off-by:
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: x86@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141111220133.FE053984@viggo.jf.intel.comSigned-off-by:
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Andy Lutomirski authored
commit b645af2d upstream. It's possible for iretq to userspace to fail. This can happen because of a bad CS, SS, or RIP. Historically, we've handled it by fixing up an exception from iretq to land at bad_iret, which pretends that the failed iret frame was really the hardware part of #GP(0) from userspace. To make this work, there's an extra fixup to fudge the gs base into a usable state. This is suboptimal because it loses the original exception. It's also buggy because there's no guarantee that we were on the kernel stack to begin with. For example, if the failing iret happened on return from an NMI, then we'll end up executing general_protection on the NMI stack. This is bad for several reasons, the most immediate of which is that general_protection, as a non-paranoid idtentry, will try to deliver signals and/or schedule from the wrong stack. This patch throws out bad_iret entirely. As a replacement, it augments the existing swapgs fudge into a full-blown iret fixup, mostly written in C. It's should be clearer and more correct. Signed-off-by:
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Andy Lutomirski authored
commit 6f442be2 upstream. On a 32-bit kernel, this has no effect, since there are no IST stacks. On a 64-bit kernel, #SS can only happen in user code, on a failed iret to user space, a canonical violation on access via RSP or RBP, or a genuine stack segment violation in 32-bit kernel code. The first two cases don't need IST, and the latter two cases are unlikely fatal bugs, and promoting them to double faults would be fine. This fixes a bug in which the espfix64 code mishandles a stack segment violation. This saves 4k of memory per CPU and a tiny bit of code. Signed-off-by:
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Andy Lutomirski authored
commit af726f21 upstream. There's nothing special enough about the espfix64 double fault fixup to justify writing it in assembly. Move it to C. This also fixes a bug: if the double fault came from an IST stack, the old asm code would return to a partially uninitialized stack frame. Fixes: 3891a04aSigned-off-by:
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Aaro Koskinen authored
commit 26927f76 upstream. If SERIAL_8250 is compiled as a module, the platform specific setup for Loongson will be a module too, and it will not work very well. At least on Loongson 3 it will trigger a build failure, since loongson_sysconf is not exported to modules. Fix by making the platform specific serial code always built-in. Signed-off-by:
Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi> Reported-by:
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com> Cc: Markos Chandras <Markos.Chandras@imgtec.com> Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/8533/Signed-off-by:
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Aaro Koskinen authored
commit bbaf113a upstream. Fix incorrect cast that always results in wrong address for the new frame on 64-bit kernels. Signed-off-by:
Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nsn.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/8110/Signed-off-by:
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- 21 Nov, 2014 26 commits
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
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Vlastimil Babka authored
commit 5bcc9f86 upstream. For the MIGRATE_RESERVE pages, it is useful when they do not get misplaced on free_list of other migratetype, otherwise they might get allocated prematurely and e.g. fragment the MIGRATE_RESEVE pageblocks. While this cannot be avoided completely when allocating new MIGRATE_RESERVE pageblocks in min_free_kbytes sysctl handler, we should prevent the misplacement where possible. Currently, it is possible for the misplacement to happen when a MIGRATE_RESERVE page is allocated on pcplist through rmqueue_bulk() as a fallback for other desired migratetype, and then later freed back through free_pcppages_bulk() without being actually used. This happens because free_pcppages_bulk() uses get_freepage_migratetype() to choose the free_list, and rmqueue_bulk() calls set_freepage_migratetype() with the *desired* migratetype and not the page's original MIGRATE_RESERVE migratetype. This patch fixes the problem by moving the call to set_freepage_migratetype() from rmqueue_bulk() down to __rmqueue_smallest() and __rmqueue_fallback() where the actual page's migratetype (e.g. from which free_list the page is taken from) is used. Note that this migratetype might be different from the pageblock's migratetype due to freepage stealing decisions. This is OK, as page stealing never uses MIGRATE_RESERVE as a fallback, and also takes care to leave all MIGRATE_CMA pages on the correct freelist. Therefore, as an additional benefit, the call to get_pageblock_migratetype() from rmqueue_bulk() when CMA is enabled, can be removed completely. This relies on the fact that MIGRATE_CMA pageblocks are created only during system init, and the above. The related is_migrate_isolate() check is also unnecessary, as memory isolation has other ways to move pages between freelists, and drain pcp lists containing pages that should be isolated. The buffered_rmqueue() can also benefit from calling get_freepage_migratetype() instead of get_pageblock_migratetype(). Signed-off-by:
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Reported-by:
Yong-Taek Lee <ytk.lee@samsung.com> Reported-by:
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Suggested-by:
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Acked-by:
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by:
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Cc: "Wang, Yalin" <Yalin.Wang@sonymobile.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
commit 1a501907 upstream. Commit "mm: vmscan: obey proportional scanning requirements for kswapd" ensured that file/anon lists were scanned proportionally for reclaim from kswapd but ignored it for direct reclaim. The intent was to minimse direct reclaim latency but Yuanhan Liu pointer out that it substitutes one long stall for many small stalls and distorts aging for normal workloads like streaming readers/writers. Hugh Dickins pointed out that a side-effect of the same commit was that when one LRU list dropped to zero that the entirety of the other list was shrunk leading to excessive reclaim in memcgs. This patch scans the file/anon lists proportionally for direct reclaim to similarly age page whether reclaimed by kswapd or direct reclaim but takes care to abort reclaim if one LRU drops to zero after reclaiming the requested number of pages. Based on ext4 and using the Intel VM scalability test 3.15.0-rc5 3.15.0-rc5 shrinker proportion Unit lru-file-readonce elapsed 5.3500 ( 0.00%) 5.4200 ( -1.31%) Unit lru-file-readonce time_range 0.2700 ( 0.00%) 0.1400 ( 48.15%) Unit lru-file-readonce time_stddv 0.1148 ( 0.00%) 0.0536 ( 53.33%) Unit lru-file-readtwice elapsed 8.1700 ( 0.00%) 8.1700 ( 0.00%) Unit lru-file-readtwice time_range 0.4300 ( 0.00%) 0.2300 ( 46.51%) Unit lru-file-readtwice time_stddv 0.1650 ( 0.00%) 0.0971 ( 41.16%) The test cases are running multiple dd instances reading sparse files. The results are within the noise for the small test machine. The impact of the patch is more noticable from the vmstats 3.15.0-rc5 3.15.0-rc5 shrinker proportion Minor Faults 35154 36784 Major Faults 611 1305 Swap Ins 394 1651 Swap Outs 4394 5891 Allocation stalls 118616 44781 Direct pages scanned 4935171 4602313 Kswapd pages scanned 15921292 16258483 Kswapd pages reclaimed 15913301 16248305 Direct pages reclaimed 4933368 4601133 Kswapd efficiency 99% 99% Kswapd velocity 670088.047 682555.961 Direct efficiency 99% 99% Direct velocity 207709.217 193212.133 Percentage direct scans 23% 22% Page writes by reclaim 4858.000 6232.000 Page writes file 464 341 Page writes anon 4394 5891 Note that there are fewer allocation stalls even though the amount of direct reclaim scanning is very approximately the same. Signed-off-by:
Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com> Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Tim Chen authored
commit d23da150 upstream. We remove the call to grab_super_passive in call to super_cache_count. This becomes a scalability bottleneck as multiple threads are trying to do memory reclamation, e.g. when we are doing large amount of file read and page cache is under pressure. The cached objects quickly got reclaimed down to 0 and we are aborting the cache_scan() reclaim. But counting creates a log jam acquiring the sb_lock. We are holding the shrinker_rwsem which ensures the safety of call to list_lru_count_node() and s_op->nr_cached_objects. The shrinker is unregistered now before ->kill_sb() so the operation is safe when we are doing unmount. The impact will depend heavily on the machine and the workload but for a small machine using postmark tuned to use 4xRAM size the results were 3.15.0-rc5 3.15.0-rc5 vanilla shrinker-v1r1 Ops/sec Transactions 21.00 ( 0.00%) 24.00 ( 14.29%) Ops/sec FilesCreate 39.00 ( 0.00%) 44.00 ( 12.82%) Ops/sec CreateTransact 10.00 ( 0.00%) 12.00 ( 20.00%) Ops/sec FilesDeleted 6202.00 ( 0.00%) 6202.00 ( 0.00%) Ops/sec DeleteTransact 11.00 ( 0.00%) 12.00 ( 9.09%) Ops/sec DataRead/MB 25.97 ( 0.00%) 29.10 ( 12.05%) Ops/sec DataWrite/MB 49.99 ( 0.00%) 56.02 ( 12.06%) ffsb running in a configuration that is meant to simulate a mail server showed 3.15.0-rc5 3.15.0-rc5 vanilla shrinker-v1r1 Ops/sec readall 9402.63 ( 0.00%) 9567.97 ( 1.76%) Ops/sec create 4695.45 ( 0.00%) 4735.00 ( 0.84%) Ops/sec delete 173.72 ( 0.00%) 179.83 ( 3.52%) Ops/sec Transactions 14271.80 ( 0.00%) 14482.81 ( 1.48%) Ops/sec Read 37.00 ( 0.00%) 37.60 ( 1.62%) Ops/sec Write 18.20 ( 0.00%) 18.30 ( 0.55%) Signed-off-by:
Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Dave Chinner authored
commit 28f2cd4f upstream. This series is aimed at regressions noticed during reclaim activity. The first two patches are shrinker patches that were posted ages ago but never merged for reasons that are unclear to me. I'm posting them again to see if there was a reason they were dropped or if they just got lost. Dave? Time? The last patch adjusts proportional reclaim. Yuanhan Liu, can you retest the vm scalability test cases on a larger machine? Hugh, does this work for you on the memcg test cases? Based on ext4, I get the following results but unfortunately my larger test machines are all unavailable so this is based on a relatively small machine. postmark 3.15.0-rc5 3.15.0-rc5 vanilla proportion-v1r4 Ops/sec Transactions 21.00 ( 0.00%) 25.00 ( 19.05%) Ops/sec FilesCreate 39.00 ( 0.00%) 45.00 ( 15.38%) Ops/sec CreateTransact 10.00 ( 0.00%) 12.00 ( 20.00%) Ops/sec FilesDeleted 6202.00 ( 0.00%) 6202.00 ( 0.00%) Ops/sec DeleteTransact 11.00 ( 0.00%) 12.00 ( 9.09%) Ops/sec DataRead/MB 25.97 ( 0.00%) 30.02 ( 15.59%) Ops/sec DataWrite/MB 49.99 ( 0.00%) 57.78 ( 15.58%) ffsb (mail server simulator) 3.15.0-rc5 3.15.0-rc5 vanilla proportion-v1r4 Ops/sec readall 9402.63 ( 0.00%) 9805.74 ( 4.29%) Ops/sec create 4695.45 ( 0.00%) 4781.39 ( 1.83%) Ops/sec delete 173.72 ( 0.00%) 177.23 ( 2.02%) Ops/sec Transactions 14271.80 ( 0.00%) 14764.37 ( 3.45%) Ops/sec Read 37.00 ( 0.00%) 38.50 ( 4.05%) Ops/sec Write 18.20 ( 0.00%) 18.50 ( 1.65%) dd of a large file 3.15.0-rc5 3.15.0-rc5 vanilla proportion-v1r4 WallTime DownloadTar 75.00 ( 0.00%) 61.00 ( 18.67%) WallTime DD 423.00 ( 0.00%) 401.00 ( 5.20%) WallTime Delete 2.00 ( 0.00%) 5.00 (-150.00%) stutter (times mmap latency during large amounts of IO) 3.15.0-rc5 3.15.0-rc5 vanilla proportion-v1r4 Unit >5ms Delays 80252.0000 ( 0.00%) 81523.0000 ( -1.58%) Unit Mmap min 8.2118 ( 0.00%) 8.3206 ( -1.33%) Unit Mmap mean 17.4614 ( 0.00%) 17.2868 ( 1.00%) Unit Mmap stddev 24.9059 ( 0.00%) 34.6771 (-39.23%) Unit Mmap max 2811.6433 ( 0.00%) 2645.1398 ( 5.92%) Unit Mmap 90% 20.5098 ( 0.00%) 18.3105 ( 10.72%) Unit Mmap 93% 22.9180 ( 0.00%) 20.1751 ( 11.97%) Unit Mmap 95% 25.2114 ( 0.00%) 22.4988 ( 10.76%) Unit Mmap 99% 46.1430 ( 0.00%) 43.5952 ( 5.52%) Unit Ideal Tput 85.2623 ( 0.00%) 78.8906 ( 7.47%) Unit Tput min 44.0666 ( 0.00%) 43.9609 ( 0.24%) Unit Tput mean 45.5646 ( 0.00%) 45.2009 ( 0.80%) Unit Tput stddev 0.9318 ( 0.00%) 1.1084 (-18.95%) Unit Tput max 46.7375 ( 0.00%) 46.7539 ( -0.04%) This patch (of 3): We will like to unregister the sb shrinker before ->kill_sb(). This will allow cached objects to be counted without call to grab_super_passive() to update ref count on sb. We want to avoid locking during memory reclamation especially when we are skipping the memory reclaim when we are out of cached objects. This is safe because grab_super_passive does a try-lock on the sb->s_umount now, and so if we are in the unmount process, it won't ever block. That means what used to be a deadlock and races we were avoiding by using grab_super_passive() is now: shrinker umount down_read(shrinker_rwsem) down_write(sb->s_umount) shrinker_unregister down_write(shrinker_rwsem) <blocks> grab_super_passive(sb) down_read_trylock(sb->s_umount) <fails> <shrinker aborts> .... <shrinkers finish running> up_read(shrinker_rwsem) <unblocks> <removes shrinker> up_write(shrinker_rwsem) ->kill_sb() .... So it is safe to deregister the shrinker before ->kill_sb(). Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
commit 8bdd6380 upstream. Shortly before 3.16-rc1, Dave Jones reported: WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 19721 at fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c:971 xfs_vm_writepage+0x5ce/0x630 [xfs]() CPU: 3 PID: 19721 Comm: trinity-c61 Not tainted 3.15.0+ #3 Call Trace: xfs_vm_writepage+0x5ce/0x630 [xfs] shrink_page_list+0x8f9/0xb90 shrink_inactive_list+0x253/0x510 shrink_lruvec+0x563/0x6c0 shrink_zone+0x3b/0x100 shrink_zones+0x1f1/0x3c0 try_to_free_pages+0x164/0x380 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x822/0xc90 alloc_pages_vma+0xaf/0x1c0 handle_mm_fault+0xa31/0xc50 etc. 970 if (WARN_ON_ONCE((current->flags & (PF_MEMALLOC|PF_KSWAPD)) == 971 PF_MEMALLOC)) I did not respond at the time, because a glance at the PageDirty block in shrink_page_list() quickly shows that this is impossible: we don't do writeback on file pages (other than tmpfs) from direct reclaim nowadays. Dave was hallucinating, but it would have been disrespectful to say so. However, my own /var/log/messages now shows similar complaints WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 28814 at fs/ext4/inode.c:1881 ext4_writepage+0xa7/0x38b() WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 27347 at fs/ext4/inode.c:1764 ext4_writepage+0xa7/0x38b() from stressing some mmotm trees during July. Could a dirty xfs or ext4 file page somehow get marked PageSwapBacked, so fail shrink_page_list()'s page_is_file_cache() test, and so proceed to mapping->a_ops->writepage()? Yes, 3.16-rc1's commit 68711a74 ("mm, migration: add destination page freeing callback") has provided such a way to compaction: if migrating a SwapBacked page fails, its newpage may be put back on the list for later use with PageSwapBacked still set, and nothing will clear it. Whether that can do anything worse than issue WARN_ON_ONCEs, and get some statistics wrong, is unclear: easier to fix than to think through the consequences. Fixing it here, before the put_new_page(), addresses the bug directly, but is probably the worst place to fix it. Page migration is doing too many parts of the job on too many levels: fixing it in move_to_new_page() to complement its SetPageSwapBacked would be preferable, except why is it (and newpage->mapping and newpage->index) done there, rather than down in migrate_page_move_mapping(), once we are sure of success? Not a cleanup to get into right now, especially not with memcg cleanups coming in 3.17. Reported-by:
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Shaohua Li authored
commit b13b1d2d upstream. We use the accessed bit to age a page at page reclaim time, and currently we also flush the TLB when doing so. But in some workloads TLB flush overhead is very heavy. In my simple multithreaded app with a lot of swap to several pcie SSDs, removing the tlb flush gives about 20% ~ 30% swapout speedup. Fortunately just removing the TLB flush is a valid optimization: on x86 CPUs, clearing the accessed bit without a TLB flush doesn't cause data corruption. It could cause incorrect page aging and the (mistaken) reclaim of hot pages, but the chance of that should be relatively low. So as a performance optimization don't flush the TLB when clearing the accessed bit, it will eventually be flushed by a context switch or a VM operation anyway. [ In the rare event of it not getting flushed for a long time the delay shouldn't really matter because there's no real memory pressure for swapout to react to. ] Suggested-by:
Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Acked-by:
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140408075809.GA1764@kernel.org [ Rewrote the changelog and the code comments. ] Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Vlastimil Babka authored
commit be976572 upstream. Compaction uses compact_checklock_irqsave() function to periodically check for lock contention and need_resched() to either abort async compaction, or to free the lock, schedule and retake the lock. When aborting, cc->contended is set to signal the contended state to the caller. Two problems have been identified in this mechanism. First, compaction also calls directly cond_resched() in both scanners when no lock is yet taken. This call either does not abort async compaction, or set cc->contended appropriately. This patch introduces a new compact_should_abort() function to achieve both. In isolate_freepages(), the check frequency is reduced to once by SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pageblocks to match what the migration scanner does in the preliminary page checks. In case a pageblock is found suitable for calling isolate_freepages_block(), the checks within there are done on higher frequency. Second, isolate_freepages() does not check if isolate_freepages_block() aborted due to contention, and advances to the next pageblock. This violates the principle of aborting on contention, and might result in pageblocks not being scanned completely, since the scanning cursor is advanced. This problem has been noticed in the code by Joonsoo Kim when reviewing related patches. This patch makes isolate_freepages_block() check the cc->contended flag and abort. In case isolate_freepages() has already isolated some pages before aborting due to contention, page migration will proceed, which is OK since we do not want to waste the work that has been done, and page migration has own checks for contention. However, we do not want another isolation attempt by either of the scanners, so cc->contended flag check is added also to compaction_alloc() and compact_finished() to make sure compaction is aborted right after the migration. The outcome of the patch should be reduced lock contention by async compaction and lower latencies for higher-order allocations where direct compaction is involved. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo in comment] Reported-by:
Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Tested-by:
Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org> Tested-by:
Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Tested-by:
Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> Tested-by:
Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by:
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Vlastimil Babka authored
commit e9ade569 upstream. The compaction free scanner in isolate_freepages() currently remembers PFN of the highest pageblock where it successfully isolates, to be used as the starting pageblock for the next invocation. The rationale behind this is that page migration might return free pages to the allocator when migration fails and we don't want to skip them if the compaction continues. Since migration now returns free pages back to compaction code where they can be reused, this is no longer a concern. This patch changes isolate_freepages() so that the PFN for restarting is updated with each pageblock where isolation is attempted. Using stress-highalloc from mmtests, this resulted in 10% reduction of the pages scanned by the free scanner. Note that the somewhat similar functionality that records highest successful pageblock in zone->compact_cached_free_pfn, remains unchanged. This cache is used when the whole compaction is restarted, not for multiple invocations of the free scanner during single compaction. Signed-off-by:
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Vlastimil Babka authored
commit f8c9301f upstream. During compaction, update_nr_listpages() has been used to count remaining non-migrated and free pages after a call to migrage_pages(). The freepages counting has become unneccessary, and it turns out that migratepages counting is also unnecessary in most cases. The only situation when it's needed to count cc->migratepages is when migrate_pages() returns with a negative error code. Otherwise, the non-negative return value is the number of pages that were not migrated, which is exactly the count of remaining pages in the cc->migratepages list. Furthermore, any non-zero count is only interesting for the tracepoint of mm_compaction_migratepages events, because after that all remaining unmigrated pages are put back and their count is set to 0. This patch therefore removes update_nr_listpages() completely, and changes the tracepoint definition so that the manual counting is done only when the tracepoint is enabled, and only when migrate_pages() returns a negative error code. Furthermore, migrate_pages() and the tracepoints won't be called when there's nothing to migrate. This potentially avoids some wasted cycles and reduces the volume of uninteresting mm_compaction_migratepages events where "nr_migrated=0 nr_failed=0". In the stress-highalloc mmtest, this was about 75% of the events. The mm_compaction_isolate_migratepages event is better for determining that nothing was isolated for migration, and this one was just duplicating the info. Signed-off-by:
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David Rientjes authored
commit aeef4b83 upstream. Async compaction terminates prematurely when need_resched(), see compact_checklock_irqsave(). This can never trigger, however, if the cond_resched() in isolate_migratepages_range() always takes care of the scheduling. If the cond_resched() actually triggers, then terminate this pageblock scan for async compaction as well. Signed-off-by:
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David Rientjes authored
commit e0b9daeb upstream. We're going to want to manipulate the migration mode for compaction in the page allocator, and currently compact_control's sync field is only a bool. Currently, we only do MIGRATE_ASYNC or MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT compaction depending on the value of this bool. Convert the bool to enum migrate_mode and pass the migration mode in directly. Later, we'll want to avoid MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT for thp allocations in the pagefault patch to avoid unnecessary latency. This also alters compaction triggered from sysfs, either for the entire system or for a node, to force MIGRATE_SYNC. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] [iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com: use MIGRATE_SYNC in alloc_contig_range()] Signed-off-by:
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David Rientjes authored
commit 35979ef3 upstream. Each zone has a cached migration scanner pfn for memory compaction so that subsequent calls to memory compaction can start where the previous call left off. Currently, the compaction migration scanner only updates the per-zone cached pfn when pageblocks were not skipped for async compaction. This creates a dependency on calling sync compaction to avoid having subsequent calls to async compaction from scanning an enormous amount of non-MOVABLE pageblocks each time it is called. On large machines, this could be potentially very expensive. This patch adds a per-zone cached migration scanner pfn only for async compaction. It is updated everytime a pageblock has been scanned in its entirety and when no pages from it were successfully isolated. The cached migration scanner pfn for sync compaction is updated only when called for sync compaction. Signed-off-by:
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David Rientjes authored
commit d53aea3d upstream. Greg reported that he found isolated free pages were returned back to the VM rather than the compaction freelist. This will cause holes behind the free scanner and cause it to reallocate additional memory if necessary later. He detected the problem at runtime seeing that ext4 metadata pages (esp the ones read by "sbi->s_group_desc[i] = sb_bread(sb, block)") were constantly visited by compaction calls of migrate_pages(). These pages had a non-zero b_count which caused fallback_migrate_page() -> try_to_release_page() -> try_to_free_buffers() to fail. Memory compaction works by having a "freeing scanner" scan from one end of a zone which isolates pages as migration targets while another "migrating scanner" scans from the other end of the same zone which isolates pages for migration. When page migration fails for an isolated page, the target page is returned to the system rather than the freelist built by the freeing scanner. This may require the freeing scanner to continue scanning memory after suitable migration targets have already been returned to the system needlessly. This patch returns destination pages to the freeing scanner freelist when page migration fails. This prevents unnecessary work done by the freeing scanner but also encourages memory to be as compacted as possible at the end of the zone. Signed-off-by:
Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Acked-by:
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David Rientjes authored
commit 68711a74 upstream. Memory migration uses a callback defined by the caller to determine how to allocate destination pages. When migration fails for a source page, however, it frees the destination page back to the system. This patch adds a memory migration callback defined by the caller to determine how to free destination pages. If a caller, such as memory compaction, builds its own freelist for migration targets, this can reuse already freed memory instead of scanning additional memory. If the caller provides a function to handle freeing of destination pages, it is called when page migration fails. If the caller passes NULL then freeing back to the system will be handled as usual. This patch introduces no functional change. Signed-off-by:
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Vlastimil Babka authored
commit c96b9e50 upstream. isolate_freepages() is currently somewhat hard to follow thanks to many looks like it is related to the 'low_pfn' variable, but in fact it is not. This patch renames the 'high_pfn' variable to a hopefully less confusing name, and slightly changes its handling without a functional change. A comment made obsolete by recent changes is also updated. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: comment fixes, per Minchan] [iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com: cleanups] Signed-off-by:
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Heesub Shin authored
commit 13fb44e4 upstream. Remove code lines currently not in use or never called. Signed-off-by:
Heesub Shin <heesub.shin@samsung.com> Acked-by:
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Fabian Frederick authored
commit 29f175d1 upstream. Commit f9acc8c7 ("readahead: sanify file_ra_state names") left ra_submit with a single function call. Move ra_submit to internal.h and inline it to save some stack. Thanks to Andrew Morton for commenting different versions. Signed-off-by:
Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Suggested-by:
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Al Viro authored
commit 9e8c2af9 upstream. ... it does that itself (via kmap_atomic()) Signed-off-by:
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Sasha Levin authored
commit 67f9fd91 upstream. This patch removes read_cache_page_async() which wasn't really needed anywhere and simplifies the code around it a bit. read_cache_page_async() is useful when we want to read a page into the cache without waiting for it to complete. This happens when the appropriate callback 'filler' doesn't complete its read operation and releases the page lock immediately, and instead queues a different completion routine to do that. This never actually happened anywhere in the code. read_cache_page_async() had 3 different callers: - read_cache_page() which is the sync version, it would just wait for the requested read to complete using wait_on_page_read(). - JFFS2 would call it from jffs2_gc_fetch_page(), but the filler function it supplied doesn't do any async reads, and would complete before the filler function returns - making it actually a sync read. - CRAMFS would call it using the read_mapping_page_async() wrapper, with a similar story to JFFS2 - the filler function doesn't do anything that reminds async reads and would always complete before the filler function returns. To sum it up, the code in mm/filemap.c never took advantage of having read_cache_page_async(). While there are filler callbacks that do async reads (such as the block one), we always called it with the read_cache_page(). This patch adds a mandatory wait for read to complete when adding a new page to the cache, and removes read_cache_page_async() and its wrappers. Signed-off-by:
Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
commit 55231e5c upstream. MADV_WILLNEED currently does not read swapped out shmem pages back in. Commit 0cd6144a ("mm + fs: prepare for non-page entries in page cache radix trees") made find_get_page() filter exceptional radix tree entries but failed to convert all find_get_page() callers that WANT exceptional entries over to find_get_entry(). One of them is shmem swap readahead in madvise, which now skips over any swap-out records. Convert it to find_get_entry(). Fixes: 0cd6144a ("mm + fs: prepare for non-page entries in page cache radix trees") Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
commit 0cd6144a upstream. shmem mappings already contain exceptional entries where swap slot information is remembered. To be able to store eviction information for regular page cache, prepare every site dealing with the radix trees directly to handle entries other than pages. The common lookup functions will filter out non-page entries and return NULL for page cache holes, just as before. But provide a raw version of the API which returns non-page entries as well, and switch shmem over to use it. Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
commit e7b563bb upstream. The radix tree hole searching code is only used for page cache, for example the readahead code trying to get a a picture of the area surrounding a fault. It sufficed to rely on the radix tree definition of holes, which is "empty tree slot". But this is about to change, though, as shadow page descriptors will be stored in the page cache after the actual pages get evicted from memory. Move the functions over to mm/filemap.c and make them native page cache operations, where they can later be adapted to handle the new definition of "page cache hole". Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
commit 6dbaf22c upstream. Page cache radix tree slots are usually stabilized by the page lock, but shmem's swap cookies have no such thing. Because the overall truncation loop is lockless, the swap entry is currently confirmed by a tree lookup and then deleted by another tree lookup under the same tree lock region. Use radix_tree_delete_item() instead, which does the verification and deletion with only one lookup. This also allows removing the delete-only special case from shmem_radix_tree_replace(). Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
commit 53c59f26 upstream. Provide a function that does not just delete an entry at a given index, but also allows passing in an expected item. Delete only if that item is still located at the specified index. This is handy when lockless tree traversals want to delete entries as well because they don't have to do an second, locked lookup to verify the slot has not changed under them before deleting the entry. Signed-off-by:
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Quentin Casasnovas authored
Fixes commit 2f06fa04 which was an incorrect backported version of commit d6b41cb0 upstream. If val_count is zero we return -EINVAL with map->lock_arg locked, which will deadlock the kernel next time we try to acquire this lock. This was introduced by f5942dd ("regmap: fix possible ZERO_SIZE_PTR pointer dereferencing error.") which improperly back-ported d6b41cb0. This issue was found during review of Ubuntu Trusty 3.13.0-40.68 kernel to prepare Ksplice rebootless updates. Fixes: f5942dd ("regmap: fix possible ZERO_SIZE_PTR pointer dereferencing error.") Signed-off-by:
Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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