- 08 Apr, 2014 10 commits
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Jens Axboe authored
I got a bug report yesterday from Laszlo Ersek in which he states that his kvm instance fails to suspend. Laszlo bisected it down to this commit 1cf7e9c6 ("virtio_blk: blk-mq support") where virtio-blk is converted to use the blk-mq infrastructure. After digging a bit, it became clear that the issue was with the queue drain. blk-mq tracks queue usage in a percpu counter, which is incremented on request alloc and decremented when the request is freed. The initial hunt was for an inconsistency in blk-mq, but everything seemed fine. In fact, the counter only returned crazy values when suspend was in progress. When a CPU is unplugged, the percpu counters merges that CPU state with the general state. blk-mq takes care to register a hotcpu notifier with the appropriate priority, so we know it runs after the percpu counter notifier. However, the percpu counter notifier only merges the state when the CPU is fully gone. This leaves a state transition where the CPU going away is no longer in the online mask, yet it still holds private values. This means that in this state, percpu_counter_sum() returns invalid results, and the suspend then hangs waiting for abs(dead-cpu-value) requests to complete which of course will never happen. Fix this by clearing the state earlier, so we never have a case where the CPU isn't in online mask but still holds private state. This bug has been there since forever, I guess we don't have a lot of users where percpu counters needs to be reliable during the suspend cycle. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Reported-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> Tested-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Sasha Levin authored
There wasn't any check of the size passed from userspace before trying to allocate the memory required. This meant that userspace might request more space than allowed, triggering an OOM. Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Johannes Weiner authored
Page reclaim force-scans / swaps anonymous pages when file cache drops below the high watermark of a zone in order to prevent what little cache remains from thrashing. However, on bigger machines the high watermark value can be quite large and when the workload is dominated by a static anonymous/shmem set, the file set might just be a small window of used-once cache. In such situations, the VM starts swapping heavily when instead it should be recycling the no longer used cache. This is a longer-standing problem, but it's more likely to trigger after commit 81c0a2bb ("mm: page_alloc: fair zone allocator policy") because file pages can no longer accumulate in a single zone and are dispersed into smaller fractions among the available zones. To resolve this, do not force scan anon when file pages are low but instead rely on the scan/rotation ratios to make the right prediction. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [3.12+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull drm updates from Dave Airlie: "Highlights: - drm: Generic display port aux features, primary plane support, drm master management fixes, logging cleanups, enforced locking checks (instead of docs), documentation improvements, minor number handling cleanup, pseudofs for shared inodes. - ttm: add ability to allocate from both ends - i915: broadwell features, power domain and runtime pm, per-process address space infrastructure (not enabled) - msm: power management, hdmi audio support - nouveau: ongoing GPU fault recovery, initial maxwell support, random fixes - exynos: refactored driver to clean up a lot of abstraction, DP support moved into drm, LVDS bridge support added, parallel panel support - gma500: SGX MMU support, SGX irq handling, asle irq work fixes - radeon: video engine bringup, ring handling fixes, use dp aux helpers - vmwgfx: add rendernode support" * 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (849 commits) DRM: armada: fix corruption while loading cursors drm/dp_helper: don't return EPROTO for defers (v2) drm/bridge: export ptn3460_init function drm/exynos: remove MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE definitions ARM: dts: exynos4412-trats2: enable exynos/fimd node ARM: dts: exynos4210-trats: enable exynos/fimd node ARM: dts: exynos4412-trats2: add panel node ARM: dts: exynos4210-trats: add panel node ARM: dts: exynos4: add MIPI DSI Master node drm/panel: add S6E8AA0 driver ARM: dts: exynos4210-universal_c210: add proper panel node drm/panel: add ld9040 driver panel/ld9040: add DT bindings panel/s6e8aa0: add DT bindings drm/exynos: add DSIM driver exynos/dsim: add DT bindings drm/exynos: disallow fbdev initialization if no device is connected drm/mipi_dsi: create dsi devices only for nodes with reg property drm/mipi_dsi: add flags to DSI messages Skip intel_crt_init for Dell XPS 8700 ...
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Heiko Carstens authored
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fsLinus Torvalds authored
Pull ext3 improvements, cleanups, reiserfs fix from Jan Kara: "various cleanups for ext2, ext3, udf, isofs, a documentation update for quota, and a fix of a race in reiserfs readdir implementation" * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs: reiserfs: fix race in readdir ext2: acl: remove unneeded include of linux/capability.h ext3: explicitly remove inode from orphan list after failed direct io fs/isofs/inode.c add __init to init_inodecache() ext3: Speedup WB_SYNC_ALL pass fs/quota/Kconfig: Update filesystems ext3: Update outdated comment before ext3_ordered_writepage() ext3: Update PF_MEMALLOC handling in ext3_write_inode() ext2/3: use prandom_u32() instead of get_random_bytes() ext3: remove an unneeded check in ext3_new_blocks() ext3: remove unneeded check in ext3_ordered_writepage() fs: Mark function as static in ext3/xattr_security.c fs: Mark function as static in ext3/dir.c fs: Mark function as static in ext2/xattr_security.c ext3: Add __init macro to init_inodecache ext2: Add __init macro to init_inodecache udf: Add __init macro to init_inodecache fs: udf: parse_options: blocksize check
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuildLinus Torvalds authored
Pull kbuild changes from Michal Marek: - cleanups in the main Makefiles and Documentation/DocBook/Makefile - make O=... directory is automatically created if needed - mrproper/distclean removes the old include/linux/version.h to make life easier when bisecting across the commit that moved the version.h file * 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild: kbuild: docbook: fix the include error when executing "make help" kbuild: create a build directory automatically for out-of-tree build kbuild: remove redundant '.*.cmd' pattern from make distclean kbuild: move "quote" to Kbuild.include to be consistent kbuild: docbook: use $(obj) and $(src) rather than specific path kbuild: unconditionally clobber include/linux/version.h on distclean kbuild: docbook: specify KERNELDOC dependency correctly kbuild: docbook: include cmd files more simply kbuild: specify build_docproc as a phony target
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arcLinus Torvalds authored
Pull ARC changes from Vineet Gupta: - Support for external initrd from Noam - Fix broken serial console in nsimosci Virtual Platform - Reuse of ENTRY/END assembler macros across hand asm code - Other minor fixes here and there * tag 'arc-v3.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc: ARC: [nsimosci] Unbork console ARC: [nsimosci] Change .dts to use generic 8250 UART ARC: [SMP] General Fixes ARC: Remove unused DT template file ARC: [clockevent] simplify timer ISR ARC: [clockevent] can't be SoC specific ARC: Remove ARC_HAS_COH_RTSC ARC: switch to generic ENTRY/END assembler annotations ARC: support external initrd ARC: add uImage to .gitignore ARC: [arcfpga] Fix __initconst data const-correctness
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Russell King authored
Loading cursors to the LCD controller's SRAM can be corrupted when the configured pixel clock is relatively slow. This seems to be caused when we write back-to-back to the SRAM registers. There doesn't appear to be any status register we can read to check when an access has completed. Inserting a dummy read between the writes appears to fix the problem. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.13 Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tipLinus Torvalds authored
Pull Xen build fix from David Vrabel: "Fix arm build of drivers/xen/events/ The merge of irq-core-for-linus branch broke it" * tag 'stable/for-linus-3.15-tag2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: Xen: do hv callback accounting only on x86
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- 07 Apr, 2014 30 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: - the rest of MM - zram updates - zswap updates - exit - procfs - exec - wait - crash dump - lib/idr - rapidio - adfs, affs, bfs, ufs - cris - Kconfig things - initramfs - small amount of IPC material - percpu enhancements - early ioremap support - various other misc things * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (156 commits) MAINTAINERS: update Intel C600 SAS driver maintainers fs/ufs: remove unused ufs_super_block_third pointer fs/ufs: remove unused ufs_super_block_second pointer fs/ufs: remove unused ufs_super_block_first pointer fs/ufs/super.c: add __init to init_inodecache() doc/kernel-parameters.txt: add early_ioremap_debug arm64: add early_ioremap support arm64: initialize pgprot info earlier in boot x86: use generic early_ioremap mm: create generic early_ioremap() support x86/mm: sparse warning fix for early_memremap lglock: map to spinlock when !CONFIG_SMP percpu: add preemption checks to __this_cpu ops vmstat: use raw_cpu_ops to avoid false positives on preemption checks slub: use raw_cpu_inc for incrementing statistics net: replace __this_cpu_inc in route.c with raw_cpu_inc modules: use raw_cpu_write for initialization of per cpu refcount. mm: use raw_cpu ops for determining current NUMA node percpu: add raw_cpu_ops slub: fix leak of 'name' in sysfs_slab_add ...
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Lukasz Dorau authored
Signed-off-by: Lukasz Dorau <lukasz.dorau@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Maciej Patelczyk <maciej.patelczyk@intel.com> Cc: Artur Paszkiewicz <artur.paszkiewicz@intel.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christian Engelmayer authored
Pointer 'usb3' to struct ufs_super_block_third acquired via ubh_get_usb_third() is never used in function ufs_read_cylinder_structures(). Thus remove it. Detected by Coverity: CID 139939. Signed-off-by: Christian Engelmayer <cengelma@gmx.at> Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christian Engelmayer authored
Pointer 'usb2' to struct ufs_super_block_second acquired via ubh_get_usb_second() is never used in function ufs_statfs(). Thus remove it. Detected by Coverity: CID 139940. Signed-off-by: Christian Engelmayer <cengelma@gmx.at> Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christian Engelmayer authored
Remove occurences of unused pointers to struct ufs_super_block_first that were acquired via ubh_get_usb_first(). Detected by Coverity: CID 139929 - CID 139936, CID 139940. Signed-off-by: Christian Engelmayer <cengelma@gmx.at> Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fabian Frederick authored
init_inodecache is only called by __init init_ufs_fs. Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mark Salter authored
Add description of early_ioremap_debug kernel parameter. Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mark Salter authored
Add support for early IO or memory mappings which are needed before the normal ioremap() is usable. This also adds fixmap support for permanent fixed mappings such as that used by the earlyprintk device register region. Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mark Salter authored
Presently, paging_init() calls init_mem_pgprot() to initialize pgprot values used by macros such as PAGE_KERNEL, PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC, etc. The new fixmap and early_ioremap support also needs to use these macros before paging_init() is called. This patch moves the init_mem_pgprot() call out of paging_init() and into setup_arch() so that pgprot_default gets initialized in time for fixmap and early_ioremap. Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mark Salter authored
Move x86 over to the generic early ioremap implementation. Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mark Salter authored
This patch creates a generic implementation of early_ioremap() support based on the existing x86 implementation. early_ioremp() is useful for early boot code which needs to temporarily map I/O or memory regions before normal mapping functions such as ioremap() are available. Some architectures have optional MMU. In the no-MMU case, the remap functions simply return the passed in physical address and the unmap functions do nothing. Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dave Young authored
This patch series takes the common bits from the x86 early ioremap implementation and creates a generic implementation which may be used by other architectures. The early ioremap interfaces are intended for situations where boot code needs to make temporary virtual mappings before the normal ioremap interfaces are available. Typically, this means before paging_init() has run. This patch (of 6): There's a lot of sparse warnings for code like below: void *a = early_memremap(phys_addr, size); early_memremap intend to map kernel memory with ioremap facility, the return pointer should be a kernel ram pointer instead of iomem one. For making the function clearer and supressing sparse warnings this patch do below two things: 1. cast to (__force void *) for the return value of early_memremap 2. add early_memunmap function and pass (__force void __iomem *) to iounmap From Boris: "Ingo told me yesterday, it makes sense too. I'd guess we can try it. FWIW, all callers of early_memremap use the memory they get remapped as normal memory so we should be safe" Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Josh Triplett authored
When the system has only one CPU, lglock is effectively a spinlock; map it directly to spinlock to eliminate the indirection and duplicate code. In addition to removing overhead, this drops 1.6k of code with a defconfig modified to have !CONFIG_SMP, and 1.1k with a minimal config. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@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>
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Christoph Lameter authored
We define a check function in order to avoid trouble with the include files. Then the higher level __this_cpu macros are modified to invoke the preemption check. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Tested-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Lameter authored
vm counters are allowed to be racy. Use raw_cpu_ops to avoid the local_irq_disable overhead and to avoid preemption checks which will be added to the __this_cpu operations. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Add comment. Again.] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Lameter authored
Statistics are not critical to the operation of the allocation but should also not cause too much overhead. When __this_cpu_inc is altered to check if preemption is disabled this triggers. Use raw_cpu_inc to avoid the checks. Using this_cpu_ops may cause interrupt disable/enable sequences on various arches which may significantly impact allocator performance. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Lameter authored
The RT_CACHE_STAT_INC macro triggers the new preemption checks for __this_cpu ops. I do not see any other synchronization that would allow the use of a __this_cpu operation here however in commit dbd2915c ("[IPV4]: RT_CACHE_STAT_INC() warning fix") Andrew justifies the use of raw_smp_processor_id() here because "we do not care" about races. In the past we agreed that the price of disabling interrupts here to get consistent counters would be too high. These counters may be inaccurate due to race conditions. The use of __this_cpu op improves the situation already from what commit dbd2915c did since the single instruction emitted on x86 does not allow the race to occur anymore. However, non x86 platforms could still experience a race here. Trace: __this_cpu_add operation in preemptible [00000000] code: avahi-daemon/1193 caller is __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x38/0x60 CPU: 1 PID: 1193 Comm: avahi-daemon Tainted: GF 3.12.0-rc4+ #187 Call Trace: check_preemption_disabled+0xec/0x110 __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x38/0x60 __ip_route_output_key+0x575/0x8c0 ip_route_output_flow+0x27/0x70 udp_sendmsg+0x825/0xa20 inet_sendmsg+0x85/0xc0 sock_sendmsg+0x9c/0xd0 ___sys_sendmsg+0x37c/0x390 __sys_sendmsg+0x49/0x90 SyS_sendmsg+0x12/0x20 tracesys+0xe1/0xe6 Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Lameter authored
The initialization of a structure is not subject to synchronization. The use of __this_cpu would trigger a false positive with the additional preemption checks for __this_cpu ops. So simply disable the check through the use of raw_cpu ops. Trace: __this_cpu_write operation in preemptible [00000000] code: modprobe/286 caller is __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x38/0x60 CPU: 3 PID: 286 Comm: modprobe Tainted: GF 3.12.0-rc4+ #187 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x4e/0x82 check_preemption_disabled+0xec/0x110 __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x38/0x60 load_module+0xcfd/0x2650 SyS_init_module+0xa6/0xd0 tracesys+0xe1/0xe6 Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Lameter authored
With the preempt checking logic for __this_cpu_ops we will get false positives from locations in the code that use numa_node_id. Before the __this_cpu ops where introduced there were no checks for preemption present either. smp_raw_processor_id() was used. See http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-numa/msg00641.html Therefore we need to use raw_cpu_read here to avoid false postives. Note that this issue has been discussed in prior years. If the process changes nodes after retrieving the current numa node then that is acceptable since most uses of numa_node etc are for optimization and not for correctness. There were suggestions to implement a raw_numa_node_id in order to do preempt checks for numa_node_id as well. But I think we better defer that to another patch since that would mean investigating how numa_node_id() is used throughout the kernel which would increase the scope of this patchset significantly. After all preemption was never checked before when numa_node_id() was used. Some sample traces: __this_cpu_read operation in preemptible [00000000] code: login/1456 caller is __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x2b/0x2d CPU: 0 PID: 1456 Comm: login Not tainted 3.12.0-rc4-cl-00062-g2fe80d3b-dirty #185 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x4e/0x82 check_preemption_disabled+0xc5/0xe0 __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x2b/0x2d get_task_policy+0x1d/0x49 get_vma_policy+0x14/0x76 alloc_pages_vma+0x35/0xff handle_mm_fault+0x290/0x73b __do_page_fault+0x3fe/0x44d do_page_fault+0x9/0xc page_fault+0x22/0x30 generic_file_aio_read+0x38e/0x624 do_sync_read+0x54/0x73 vfs_read+0x9d/0x12a SyS_read+0x47/0x7e cstar_dispatch+0x7/0x23 caller is __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x2b/0x2d CPU: 0 PID: 1456 Comm: login Not tainted 3.12.0-rc4-cl-00062-g2fe80d3b-dirty #185 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x4e/0x82 check_preemption_disabled+0xc5/0xe0 __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x2b/0x2d alloc_pages_current+0x8f/0xbc __page_cache_alloc+0xb/0xd __do_page_cache_readahead+0xf4/0x219 ra_submit+0x1c/0x20 ondemand_readahead+0x28c/0x2b4 page_cache_sync_readahead+0x38/0x3a generic_file_aio_read+0x261/0x624 do_sync_read+0x54/0x73 vfs_read+0x9d/0x12a SyS_read+0x47/0x7e cstar_dispatch+0x7/0x23 Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Lameter authored
The kernel has never been audited to ensure that this_cpu operations are consistently used throughout the kernel. The code generated in many places can be improved through the use of this_cpu operations (which uses a segment register for relocation of per cpu offsets instead of performing address calculations). The patch set also addresses various consistency issues in general with the per cpu macros. A. The semantics of __this_cpu_ptr() differs from this_cpu_ptr only because checks are skipped. This is typically shown through a raw_ prefix. So this patch set changes the places where __this_cpu_ptr() is used to raw_cpu_ptr(). B. There has been the long term wish by some that __this_cpu operations would check for preemption. However, there are cases where preemption checks need to be skipped. This patch set adds raw_cpu operations that do not check for preemption and then adds preemption checks to the __this_cpu operations. C. The use of __get_cpu_var is always a reference to a percpu variable that can also be handled via a this_cpu operation. This patch set replaces all uses of __get_cpu_var with this_cpu operations. D. We can then use this_cpu RMW operations in various places replacing sequences of instructions by a single one. E. The use of this_cpu operations throughout will allow other arches than x86 to implement optimized references and RMV operations to work with per cpu local data. F. The use of this_cpu operations opens up the possibility to further optimize code that relies on synchronization through per cpu data. The patch set works in a couple of stages: I. Patch 1 adds the additional raw_cpu operations and raw_cpu_ptr(). Also converts the existing __this_cpu_xx_# primitive in the x86 code to raw_cpu_xx_#. II. Patch 2-4 use the raw_cpu operations in places that would give us false positives once they are enabled. III. Patch 5 adds preemption checks to __this_cpu operations to allow checking if preemption is properly disabled when these functions are used. IV. Patches 6-20 are patches that simply replace uses of __get_cpu_var with this_cpu_ptr. They do not depend on any changes to the percpu code. No preemption tests are skipped if they are applied. V. Patches 21-46 are conversion patches that use this_cpu operations in various kernel subsystems/drivers or arch code. VI. Patches 47/48 (not included in this series) remove no longer used functions (__this_cpu_ptr and __get_cpu_var). These should only be applied after all the conversion patches have made it and after we have done additional passes through the kernel to ensure that none of the uses of these functions remain. This patch (of 46): The patches following this one will add preemption checks to __this_cpu ops so we need to have an alternative way to use this_cpu operations without preemption checks. raw_cpu_ops will be the basis for all other ops since these will be the operations that do not implement any checks. Primitive operations are renamed by this patch from __this_cpu_xxx to raw_cpu_xxxx. Also change the uses of the x86 percpu primitives in preempt.h. These depend directly on asm/percpu.h (header #include nesting issue). Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@gmail.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com> Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no> Cc: Hedi Berriche <hedi@sgi.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dave Jones authored
The failure paths of sysfs_slab_add don't release the allocation of 'name' made by create_unique_id() a few lines above the context of the diff below. Create a common exit path to make it more obvious what needs freeing. [vdavydov@parallels.com: free the name only if !unmergeable] Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@fedoraproject.org> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Vladimir Davydov authored
Currently, we try to arrange sysfs entries for memcg caches in the same manner as for global caches. Apart from turning /sys/kernel/slab into a mess when there are a lot of kmem-active memcgs created, it actually does not work properly - we won't create more than one link to a memcg cache in case its parent is merged with another cache. For instance, if A is a root cache merged with another root cache B, we will have the following sysfs setup: X A -> X B -> X where X is some unique id (see create_unique_id()). Now if memcgs M and N start to allocate from cache A (or B, which is the same), we will get: X X:M X:N A -> X B -> X A:M -> X:M A:N -> X:N Since B is an alias for A, we won't get entries B:M and B:N, which is confusing. It is more logical to have entries for memcg caches under the corresponding root cache's sysfs directory. This would allow us to keep sysfs layout clean, and avoid such inconsistencies like one described above. This patch does the trick. It creates a "cgroup" kset in each root cache kobject to keep its children caches there. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Vladimir Davydov authored
Otherwise, kzalloc() called from a memcg won't clear the whole object. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Vladimir Davydov authored
Currently we destroy children caches at the very beginning of kmem_cache_destroy(). This is wrong, because the root cache will not necessarily be destroyed in the end - if it has aliases (refcount > 0), kmem_cache_destroy() will simply decrement its refcount and return. In this case, at best we will get a bunch of warnings in dmesg, like this one: kmem_cache_destroy kmalloc-32:0: Slab cache still has objects CPU: 1 PID: 7139 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G B W 3.13.0+ #117 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x49/0x5b kmem_cache_destroy+0xdf/0xf0 kmem_cache_destroy_memcg_children+0x97/0xc0 kmem_cache_destroy+0xf/0xf0 xfs_mru_cache_uninit+0x21/0x30 [xfs] exit_xfs_fs+0x2e/0xc44 [xfs] SyS_delete_module+0x198/0x1f0 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b At worst - if kmem_cache_destroy() will race with an allocation from a memcg cache - the kernel will panic. This patch fixes this by moving children caches destruction after the check if the cache has aliases. Plus, it forbids destroying a root cache if it still has children caches, because each children cache keeps a reference to its parent. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Vladimir Davydov authored
Currently, memcg_unregister_cache(), which deletes the cache being destroyed from the memcg_slab_caches list, is called after __kmem_cache_shutdown() (see kmem_cache_destroy()), which starts to destroy the cache. As a result, one can access a partially destroyed cache while traversing a memcg_slab_caches list, which can have deadly consequences (for instance, cache_show() called for each cache on a memcg_slab_caches list from mem_cgroup_slabinfo_read() will dereference pointers to already freed data). To fix this, let's move memcg_unregister_cache() before the cache destruction process beginning, issuing memcg_register_cache() on failure. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Vladimir Davydov authored
Memcg-awareness turned kmem_cache_create() into a dirty interweaving of memcg-only and except-for-memcg calls. To clean this up, let's move the code responsible for memcg cache creation to a separate function. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Vladimir Davydov authored
This patch cleans up the memcg cache creation path as follows: - Move memcg cache name creation to a separate function to be called from kmem_cache_create_memcg(). This allows us to get rid of the mutex protecting the temporary buffer used for the name formatting, because the whole cache creation path is protected by the slab_mutex. - Get rid of memcg_create_kmem_cache(). This function serves as a proxy to kmem_cache_create_memcg(). After separating the cache name creation path, it would be reduced to a function call, so let's inline it. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Vladimir Davydov authored
When a kmem cache is created (kmem_cache_create_memcg()), we first try to find a compatible cache that already exists and can handle requests from the new cache, i.e. has the same object size, alignment, ctor, etc. If there is such a cache, we do not create any new caches, instead we simply increment the refcount of the cache found and return it. Currently we do this procedure not only when creating root caches, but also for memcg caches. However, there is no point in that, because, as every memcg cache has exactly the same parameters as its parent and cache merging cannot be turned off in runtime (only on boot by passing "slub_nomerge"), the root caches of any two potentially mergeable memcg caches should be merged already, i.e. it must be the same root cache, and therefore we couldn't even get to the memcg cache creation, because it already exists. The only exception is boot caches - they are explicitly forbidden to be merged by setting their refcount to -1. There are currently only two of them - kmem_cache and kmem_cache_node, which are used in slab internals (I do not count kmalloc caches as their refcount is set to 1 immediately after creation). Since they are prevented from merging preliminary I guess we should avoid to merge their children too. So let's remove the useless code responsible for merging memcg caches. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Howells authored
arch_align_stack() moved to asm/exec.h, so change the comment referring to asm/system.h which no longer exists. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Howells authored
Clean asm/system.h from docs as nothing should refer to that header anymore. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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