- 24 Feb, 2013 40 commits
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Hugh Dickins authored
Memory hotremove's ksm_check_stable_tree() is pitifully inefficient (restarting whenever it finds a stale node to remove), but rearrange so that at least it does not needlessly restart from nid 0 each time. And add a couple of comments: here is why we keep pfn instead of page. Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Hugh Dickins authored
Add NUMA() and DO_NUMA() macros to minimize blight of #ifdef CONFIG_NUMAs (but indeed we don't want to expand struct rmap_item by nid when not NUMA). Add comment, remove "unsigned" from rmap_item->nid, as "int nid" elsewhere. Define ksm_merge_across_nodes 1U when #ifndef NUMA to help optimizing out. Use ?: in get_kpfn_nid(). Adjust a few comments noticed in ongoing work. Leave stable_tree_insert()'s rb_linkage until after the node has been set up, as unstable_tree_search_insert() does: ksm_thread_mutex and page lock make either way safe, but we're going to copy and I prefer this precedent. Signed-off-by:
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Petr Holasek authored
Add sysfs documentation for Kernel Samepage Merging (KSM) including new merge_across_nodes knob. Signed-off-by:
Petr Holasek <pholasek@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Petr Holasek authored
Here's a KSM series, based on mmotm 2013-01-23-17-04: starting with Petr's v7 "KSM: numa awareness sysfs knob"; then fixing the two issues we had with that, fully enabling KSM page migration on the way. (A different kind of KSM/NUMA issue which I've certainly not begun to address here: when KSM pages are unmerged, there's usually no sense in preferring to allocate the new pages local to the caller's node.) This patch: Introduces new sysfs boolean knob /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/merge_across_nodes which control merging pages across different numa nodes. When it is set to zero only pages from the same node are merged, otherwise pages from all nodes can be merged together (default behavior). Typical use-case could be a lot of KVM guests on NUMA machine and cpus from more distant nodes would have significant increase of access latency to the merged ksm page. Sysfs knob was choosen for higher variability when some users still prefers higher amount of saved physical memory regardless of access latency. Every numa node has its own stable & unstable trees because of faster searching and inserting. Changing of merge_across_nodes value is possible only when there are not any ksm shared pages in system. I've tested this patch on numa machines with 2, 4 and 8 nodes and measured speed of memory access inside of KVM guests with memory pinned to one of nodes with this benchmark: http://pholasek.fedorapeople.org/alloc_pg.c Population standard deviations of access times in percentage of average were following: merge_across_nodes=1 2 nodes 1.4% 4 nodes 1.6% 8 nodes 1.7% merge_across_nodes=0 2 nodes 1% 4 nodes 0.32% 8 nodes 0.018% RFC: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/30/91 v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/46 v2: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/6/29/105 v3: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/14/550 v4: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/23/137 v5: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/540 v6: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/154 v7: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/27/225 Hugh notes that this patch brings two problems, whose solution needs further support in mm/ksm.c, which follows in subsequent patches: 1) switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale nodes still left over from the previous stable tree; 2) memory hotremove may migrate KSM pages, but there is no provision here for !merge_across_nodes to migrate nodes to the proper tree. Signed-off-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Izik Eidus <izik.eidus@ravellosystems.com> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
The function names page_xchg_last_nid(), page_last_nid() and reset_page_last_nid() were judged to be inconsistent so rename them to a struct_field_op style pattern. As it looked jarring to have reset_page_mapcount() and page_nid_reset_last() beside each other in memmap_init_zone(), this patch also renames reset_page_mapcount() to page_mapcount_reset(). There are others like init_page_count() but as it is used throughout the arch code a rename would likely cause more conflicts than it is worth. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix zcache] Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Suggested-by:
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Glauber Costa authored
When use_hierarchy is enabled, we acquire an extra reference count in our parent during cgroup creation. We don't release it, though, if any failure exist in the creation process. Signed-off-by:
Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Reported-by:
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by:
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Glauber Costa authored
We were deferring the kmemcg static branch increment to a later time, due to a nasty dependency between the cpu_hotplug lock, taken by the jump label update, and the cgroup_lock. Now we no longer take the cgroup lock, and we can save ourselves the trouble. Signed-off-by:
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Glauber Costa authored
After the preparation work done in earlier patches, the cgroup_lock can be trivially replaced with a memcg-specific lock. This is an automatic translation at every site where the values involved were queried. The sites where values are written, however, used to be naturally called under cgroup_lock. This is the case for instance in the css_online callback. For those, we now need to explicitly add the memcg lock. With this, all the calls to cgroup_lock outside cgroup core are gone. Signed-off-by:
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Glauber Costa authored
Currently, we use cgroups' provided list of children to verify if it is safe to proceed with any value change that is dependent on the cgroup being empty. This is less than ideal, because it enforces a dependency over cgroup core that we would be better off without. The solution proposed here is to iterate over the child cgroups and if any is found that is already online, we bounce and return: we don't really care how many children we have, only if we have any. This is also made to be hierarchy aware. IOW, cgroups with hierarchy disabled, while they still exist, will be considered for the purpose of this interface as having no children. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comments] Signed-off-by:
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Glauber Costa authored
This patch is a preparatory work for later locking rework to get rid of big cgroup lock from memory controller code. The memory controller uses some tunables to adjust its operation. Those tunables are inherited from parent to children upon children intialization. For most of them, the value cannot be changed after the parent has a new children. cgroup core splits initialization in two phases: css_alloc and css_online. After css_alloc, the memory allocation and basic initialization are done. But the new group is not yet visible anywhere, not even for cgroup core code. It is only somewhere between css_alloc and css_online that it is inserted into the internal children lists. Copying tunable values in css_alloc will lead to inconsistent values: the children will copy the old parent values, that can change between the copy and the moment in which the groups is linked to any data structure that can indicate the presence of children. Signed-off-by:
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Glauber Costa authored
In memcg, we use the cgroup_lock basically to synchronize against attaching new children to a cgroup. We do this because we rely on cgroup core to provide us with this information. We need to guarantee that upon child creation, our tunables are consistent. For those, the calls to cgroup_lock() all live in handlers like mem_cgroup_hierarchy_write(), where we change a tunable in the group that is hierarchy-related. For instance, the use_hierarchy flag cannot be changed if the cgroup already have children. Furthermore, those values are propagated from the parent to the child when a new child is created. So if we don't lock like this, we can end up with the following situation: A B memcg_css_alloc() mem_cgroup_hierarchy_write() copy use hierarchy from parent change use hierarchy in parent finish creation. This is mainly because during create, we are still not fully connected to the css tree. So all iterators and the such that we could use, will fail to show that the group has children. My observation is that all of creation can proceed in parallel with those tasks, except value assignment. So what this patch series does is to first move all value assignment that is dependent on parent values from css_alloc to css_online, where the iterators all work, and then we lock only the value assignment. This will guarantee that parent and children always have consistent values. Together with an online test, that can be derived from the observation that the refcount of an online memcg can be made to be always positive, we should be able to synchronize our side without the cgroup lock. This patch: Currently, we rely on the cgroup_lock() to prevent changes to move_charge_at_immigrate during task migration. However, this is only needed because the current strategy keeps checking this value throughout the whole process. Since all we need is serialization, one needs only to guarantee that whatever decision we made in the beginning of a specific migration is respected throughout the process. We can achieve this by just saving it in mc. By doing this, no kind of locking is needed. Signed-off-by:
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Glauber Costa authored
In order to maintain all the memcg bookkeeping, we need per-node descriptors, which will in turn contain a per-zone descriptor. Because we want to statically allocate those, this array ends up being very big. Part of the reason is that we allocate something large enough to hold MAX_NUMNODES, the compile time constant that holds the maximum number of nodes we would ever consider. However, we can do better in some cases if the firmware help us. This is true for modern x86 machines; coincidentally one of the architectures in which MAX_NUMNODES tends to be very big. By using the firmware-provided maximum number of nodes instead of MAX_NUMNODES, we can reduce the memory footprint of struct memcg considerably. In the extreme case in which we have only one node, this reduces the size of the structure from ~ 64k to ~2k. This is particularly important because it means that we will no longer resort to the vmalloc area for the struct memcg on defconfigs. We also have enough room for an extra node and still be outside vmalloc. One also has to keep in mind that with the industry's ability to fit more processors in a die as fast as the FED prints money, a nodes = 2 configuration is already respectably big. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add check for invalid nid, remove inline] Signed-off-by:
Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Answering the question "how much space remains in the page->flags" is time-consuming. mminit_loglevel can help answer the question but it does not take last_nid information into account. This patch corrects it and while there it corrects the messages related to page flag usage, pgshifts and node/zone id. When applied the relevant output looks something like this but will depend on the kernel configuration. mminit::pageflags_layout_widths Section 0 Node 9 Zone 2 Lastnid 9 Flags 25 mminit::pageflags_layout_shifts Section 19 Node 9 Zone 2 Lastnid 9 mminit::pageflags_layout_pgshifts Section 0 Node 55 Zone 53 Lastnid 44 mminit::pageflags_layout_nodezoneid Node/Zone ID: 64 -> 53 mminit::pageflags_layout_usage location: 64 -> 44 layout 44 -> 25 unused 25 -> 0 page-flags Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Andrew Morton pointed out that page_xchg_last_nid() and reset_page_last_nid() were "getting nuttily large" and asked that it be investigated. reset_page_last_nid() is on the page free path and it would be unfortunate to make that path more expensive than it needs to be. Due to the internal use of page_xchg_last_nid() it is already too expensive but fortunately, it should also be impossible for the page->flags to be updated in parallel when we call reset_page_last_nid(). Instead of unlining the function, it uses a simplier implementation that assumes no parallel updates and should now be sufficiently short for inlining. page_xchg_last_nid() is called in paths that are already quite expensive (splitting huge page, fault handling, migration) and it is reasonable to uninline. There was not really a good place to place the function but mm/mmzone.c was the closest fit IMO. This patch saved 128 bytes of text in the vmlinux file for the kernel configuration I used for testing automatic NUMA balancing. Signed-off-by:
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Michal Hocko authored
Memcg swap accounting is currently enabled by enable_swap_cgroup when the root cgroup is created. mem_cgroup_init acts as a memcg subsystem initializer which sounds like a much better place for enable_swap_cgroup as well. We already register memsw files from there so it makes a lot of sense to merge those two into a single enable_swap_cgroup function. This patch doesn't introduce any semantic changes. Signed-off-by:
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Michal Hocko authored
Zhouping Liu has reported that memsw files are exported even though swap accounting is runtime disabled if MEMCG_SWAP is enabled. This behavior has been introduced by commit af36f906 ("memcg: always create memsw files if CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP") and it causes any attempt to open the file to return EOPNOTSUPP. Although EOPNOTSUPP should say be clear that memsw operations are not supported in the given configuration it is fair to say that this behavior could be quite confusing. Let's tear memsw files out of default cgroup files and add them only if the swap accounting is really enabled (either by MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED or swapaccount=1 boot parameter). We can hook into mem_cgroup_init which is called when the memcg subsystem is initialized and which happens after boot command line is processed. Signed-off-by:
Zhouping Liu <zliu@redhat.com> Tested-by:
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Paul Szabo authored
When calculating amount of dirtyable memory, min_free_kbytes should be subtracted because it is not intended for dirty pages. Addresses http://bugs.debian.org/695182 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up min_free_kbytes extern declarations] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix min() warning] Signed-off-by:
Paul Szabo <psz@maths.usyd.edu.au> Acked-by:
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Konstantin Khlebnikov authored
The comment in commit 4fc3f1d6 ("mm/rmap, migration: Make rmap_walk_anon() and try_to_unmap_anon() more scalable") says: | Rename anon_vma_[un]lock() => anon_vma_[un]lock_write(), | to make it clearer that it's an exclusive write-lock in | that case - suggested by Rik van Riel. But that commit renames only anon_vma_lock() Signed-off-by:
Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by:
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Shaohua Li authored
swap_lock is heavily contended when I test swap to 3 fast SSD (even slightly slower than swap to 2 such SSD). The main contention comes from swap_info_get(). This patch tries to fix the gap with adding a new per-partition lock. Global data like nr_swapfiles, total_swap_pages, least_priority and swap_list are still protected by swap_lock. nr_swap_pages is an atomic now, it can be changed without swap_lock. In theory, it's possible get_swap_page() finds no swap pages but actually there are free swap pages. But sounds not a big problem. Accessing partition specific data (like scan_swap_map and so on) is only protected by swap_info_struct.lock. Changing swap_info_struct.flags need hold swap_lock and swap_info_struct.lock, because scan_scan_map() will check it. read the flags is ok with either the locks hold. If both swap_lock and swap_info_struct.lock must be hold, we always hold the former first to avoid deadlock. swap_entry_free() can change swap_list. To delete that code, we add a new highest_priority_index. Whenever get_swap_page() is called, we check it. If it's valid, we use it. It's a pity get_swap_page() still holds swap_lock(). But in practice, swap_lock() isn't heavily contended in my test with this patch (or I can say there are other much more heavier bottlenecks like TLB flush). And BTW, looks get_swap_page() doesn't really need the lock. We never free swap_info[] and we check SWAP_WRITEOK flag. The only risk without the lock is we could swapout to some low priority swap, but we can quickly recover after several rounds of swap, so sounds not a big deal to me. But I'd prefer to fix this if it's a real problem. "swap: make each swap partition have one address_space" improved the swapout speed from 1.7G/s to 2G/s. This patch further improves the speed to 2.3G/s, so around 15% improvement. It's a multi-process test, so TLB flush isn't the biggest bottleneck before the patches. [arnd@arndb.de: fix it for nommu] [hughd@google.com: add missing unlock] [minchan@kernel.org: get rid of lockdep whinge on sys_swapon] Signed-off-by:
Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by:
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by:
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Shaohua Li authored
When I use several fast SSD to do swap, swapper_space.tree_lock is heavily contended. This makes each swap partition have one address_space to reduce the lock contention. There is an array of address_space for swap. The swap entry type is the index to the array. In my test with 3 SSD, this increases the swapout throughput 20%. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: revert unneeded change to __add_to_swap_cache] Signed-off-by:
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Shaohua Li authored
According to akpm, this saves 1/2k text and makes things simple for the next patch. Numbers from Minchan: add/remove: 1/0 grow/shrink: 6/22 up/down: 92/-516 (-424) function old new delta page_mapping - 48 +48 do_task_stat 2292 2308 +16 page_remove_rmap 240 248 +8 load_elf_binary 4500 4508 +8 update_queue 532 536 +4 scsi_probe_and_add_lun 2892 2896 +4 lookup_fast 644 648 +4 vcs_read 1040 1036 -4 __ip_route_output_key 1904 1900 -4 ip_route_input_noref 2508 2500 -8 shmem_file_aio_read 784 772 -12 __isolate_lru_page 272 256 -16 shmem_replace_page 708 688 -20 mark_buffer_dirty 228 208 -20 __set_page_dirty_buffers 240 220 -20 __remove_mapping 276 256 -20 update_mmu_cache 500 476 -24 set_page_dirty_balance 92 68 -24 set_page_dirty 172 148 -24 page_evictable 88 64 -24 page_cache_pipe_buf_steal 248 224 -24 clear_page_dirty_for_io 340 316 -24 test_set_page_writeback 400 372 -28 test_clear_page_writeback 516 488 -28 invalidate_inode_page 156 128 -28 page_mkclean 432 400 -32 flush_dcache_page 360 328 -32 __set_page_dirty_nobuffers 324 280 -44 shrink_page_list 2412 2356 -56 Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
When correcting commit 04fa5d6a ("mm: migrate: check page_count of THP before migrating") Hugh Dickins noted that the control flow for transhuge migration was difficult to follow. Unconditionally calling put_page() in numamigrate_isolate_page() made the failure paths of both migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page() and migrate_misplaced_page() more complex that they should be. Further, he was extremely wary that an unlock_page() should ever happen after a put_page() even if the put_page() should never be the final put_page. Hugh implemented the following cleanup to simplify the path by calling putback_lru_page() inside numamigrate_isolate_page() if it failed to isolate and always calling unlock_page() within migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page(). There is no functional change after this patch is applied but the code is easier to follow and unlock_page() always happens before put_page(). [mgorman@suse.de: changelog only] Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
page->_last_nid fits into page->flags on 64-bit. The unlikely 32-bit NUMA configuration with NUMA Balancing will still need an extra page field. As Peter notes "Completely dropping 32bit support for CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING would simplify things, but it would also remove the warning if we grow enough 64bit only page-flags to push the last-cpu out." [mgorman@suse.de: minor modifications] Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
This is a preparation patch for moving page->_last_nid into page->flags that moves page flag layout information to a separate header. This patch is necessary because otherwise there would be a circular dependency between mm_types.h and mm.h. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
The current definitions for count_vm_numa_events() is wrong for !CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING as the following would miss the side-effect. count_vm_numa_events(NUMA_FOO, bar++); There are no such users of count_vm_numa_events() but this patch fixes it as it is a potential pitfall. Ideally both would be converted to static inline but NUMA_PTE_UPDATES is not defined if !CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING and creating dummy constants just to have a static inline would be similarly clumsy. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
Wanpeng Li pointed out that numamigrate_isolate_page() assumes that only one base page is being migrated when in fact it can also be checking THP. The consequences are that a migration will be attempted when a target node is nearly full and fail later. It's unlikely to be user-visible but it should be fixed. While we are there, migrate_balanced_pgdat() should treat nr_migrate_pages as an unsigned long as it is treated as a watermark. Signed-off-by:
Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Simon Jeons <simon.jeons@gmail.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
s/me/be/ and clarify the comment a bit when we're changing it anyway. Signed-off-by:
Simon Jeons <simon.jeons@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by:
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Kirill A. Shutemov authored
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Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Ming Lei authored
If one storage interface or usb network interface(iSCSI case) exists in current configuration, memory allocation with GFP_KERNEL during usb_device_reset() might trigger I/O transfer on the storage interface itself and cause deadlock because the 'us->dev_mutex' is held in .pre_reset() and the storage interface can't do I/O transfer when the reset is triggered by other interface, or the error handling can't be completed if the reset is triggered by the storage itself (error handling path). Signed-off-by:
Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: David Decotigny <david.decotigny@google.com> Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de> Reviewed-by:
Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by:
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Ming Lei authored
Apply the introduced memalloc_noio_save() and memalloc_noio_restore() to force memory allocation with no I/O during runtime_resume/runtime_suspend callback on device with the flag of 'memalloc_noio' set. Signed-off-by:
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Ming Lei authored
Deadlock might be caused by allocating memory with GFP_KERNEL in runtime_resume and runtime_suspend callback of network devices in iSCSI situation, so mark network devices and its ancestor as 'memalloc_noio' with the introduced pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio(). Signed-off-by:
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Ming Lei authored
Apply the introduced pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio on block device so that PM core will teach mm to not allocate memory with GFP_IOFS when calling the runtime_resume and runtime_suspend callback for block devices and its ancestors. Signed-off-by:
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Ming Lei authored
Introduce the flag memalloc_noio in 'struct dev_pm_info' to help PM core to teach mm not allocating memory with GFP_KERNEL flag for avoiding probable deadlock. As explained in the comment, any GFP_KERNEL allocation inside runtime_resume() or runtime_suspend() on any one of device in the path from one block or network device to the root device in the device tree may cause deadlock, the introduced pm_runtime_set_memalloc_noio() sets or clears the flag on device in the path recursively. Signed-off-by:
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Ming Lei authored
This patch introduces PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO on process flag('flags' field of 'struct task_struct'), so that the flag can be set by one task to avoid doing I/O inside memory allocation in the task's context. The patch trys to solve one deadlock problem caused by block device, and the problem may happen at least in the below situations: - during block device runtime resume, if memory allocation with GFP_KERNEL is called inside runtime resume callback of any one of its ancestors(or the block device itself), the deadlock may be triggered inside the memory allocation since it might not complete until the block device becomes active and the involed page I/O finishes. The situation is pointed out first by Alan Stern. It is not a good approach to convert all GFP_KERNEL[1] in the path into GFP_NOIO because several subsystems may be involved(for example, PCI, USB and SCSI may be involved for usb mass stoarage device, network devices involved too in the iSCSI case) - during block device runtime suspend, because runtime resume need to wait for completion of concurrent runtime suspend. - during error handling of usb mass storage deivce, USB bus reset will be put on the device, so there shouldn't have any memory allocation with GFP_KERNEL during USB bus reset, otherwise the deadlock similar with above may be triggered. Unfortunately, any usb device may include one mass storage interface in theory, so it requires all usb interface drivers to handle the situation. In fact, most usb drivers don't know how to handle bus reset on the device and don't provide .pre_set() and .post_reset() callback at all, so USB core has to unbind and bind driver for these devices. So it is still not practical to resort to GFP_NOIO for solving the problem. Also the introduced solution can be used by block subsystem or block drivers too, for example, set the PF_MEMALLOC_NOIO flag before doing actual I/O transfer. It is not a good idea to convert all these GFP_KERNEL in the affected path into GFP_NOIO because these functions doing that may be implemented as library and will be called in many other contexts. In fact, memalloc_noio_flags() can convert some of current static GFP_NOIO allocation into GFP_KERNEL back in other non-affected contexts, at least almost all GFP_NOIO in USB subsystem can be converted into GFP_KERNEL after applying the approach and make allocation with GFP_NOIO only happen in runtime resume/bus reset/block I/O transfer contexts generally. [1], several GFP_KERNEL allocation examples in runtime resume path - pci subsystem acpi_os_allocate <-acpi_ut_allocate <-ACPI_ALLOCATE_ZEROED <-acpi_evaluate_object <-__acpi_bus_set_power <-acpi_bus_set_power <-acpi_pci_set_power_state <-platform_pci_set_power_state <-pci_platform_power_transition <-__pci_complete_power_transition <-pci_set_power_state <-pci_restore_standard_config <-pci_pm_runtime_resume - usb subsystem usb_get_status <-finish_port_resume <-usb_port_resume <-generic_resume <-usb_resume_device <-usb_resume_both <-usb_runtime_resume - some individual usb drivers usblp, uvc, gspca, most of dvb-usb-v2 media drivers, cpia2, az6007, .... That is just what I have found. Unfortunately, this allocation can only be found by human being now, and there should be many not found since any function in the resume path(call tree) may allocate memory with GFP_KERNEL. Signed-off-by: -
Zlatko Calusic authored
From: Zlatko Calusic <zlatko.calusic@iskon.hr> Commit 92df3a72 ("mm: vmscan: throttle reclaim if encountering too many dirty pages under writeback") introduced waiting on congested zones based on a sane algorithm in shrink_inactive_list(). What this means is that there's no more need for throttling and additional heuristics in balance_pgdat(). So, let's remove it and tidy up the code. Signed-off-by:
Zlatko Calusic <zlatko.calusic@iskon.hr> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Naoya Horiguchi authored
num_poisoned_pages counts up the number of pages isolated by memory errors. But for thp, only one subpage is isolated because memory error handler splits it, so it's wrong to add (1 << compound_trans_order). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment] Signed-off-by:
Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Naoya Horiguchi authored
Currently soft_offline_page() is hard to maintain because it has many return points and goto statements. All of this mess come from get_any_page(). This function should only get page refcount as the name implies, but it does some page isolating actions like SetPageHWPoison() and dequeuing hugepage. This patch corrects it and introduces some internal subroutines to make soft offlining code more readable and maintainable. Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com> Signed-off-by:
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Xishi Qiu authored
Since MCE is an x86 concept, and this code is in mm/, it would be better to use the name num_poisoned_pages instead of mce_bad_pages. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/sparse.c] Signed-off-by:
Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Signed-off-by:
Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com> Suggested-by:
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Reviewed-by:
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Xishi Qiu authored
There are too many return points randomly intermingled with some "goto done" return points. So adjust the function structure, one for the success path, the other for the failure path. Use atomic_long_inc instead of atomic_long_add. Signed-off-by:
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Xishi Qiu authored
When doing $ echo paddr > /sys/devices/system/memory/soft_offline_page to offline a *free* page, the value of mce_bad_pages will be added, and the page is set HWPoison flag, but it is still managed by page buddy alocator. $ cat /proc/meminfo | grep HardwareCorrupted shows the value. If we offline the same page, the value of mce_bad_pages will be added *again*, this means the value is incorrect now. Assume the page is still free during this short time. soft_offline_page() get_any_page() "else if (is_free_buddy_page(p))" branch return 0 "goto done"; "atomic_long_add(1, &mce_bad_pages);" This patch: Move poisoned page check at the beginning of the function in order to fix the error. Signed-off-by:
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