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  1. 27 Nov, 2012 5 commits
    • Mel Gorman's avatar
      mm: vmscan: check for fatal signals iff the process was throttled · 50694c28
      Mel Gorman authored 
      Commit 5515061d ("mm: throttle direct reclaimers if PF_MEMALLOC
reserves are low and swap is backed by network storage") introduced a
check for fatal signals after a process gets throttled for network
storage.  The intention was that if a process was throttled and got
killed that it should not trigger the OOM killer.  As pointed out by
Minchan Kim and David Rientjes, this check is in the wrong place and too
broad.  If a system is in am OOM situation and a process is exiting, it
can loop in __alloc_pages_slowpath() and calling direct reclaim in a
loop.  As the fatal signal is pending it returns 1 as if it is making
forward progress and can effectively deadlock.

This patch moves the fatal_signal_pending() check after throttling to
throttle_direct_reclaim() where it belongs.  If the process is killed
while throttled, it will return immediately without direct reclaim
except now it will have TIF_MEMDIE set and will use the PFMEMALLOC
reserves.

Minchan pointed out that it may be better to direct reclaim before
returning to avoid using the reserves because there may be pages that
can easily reclaim that would avoid using the reserves.  However, we do
no such targetted reclaim and there is no guarantee that suitable pages
are available.  As it is expected that this throttling happens when
swap-over-NFS is used there is a possibility that the process will
instead swap which may allocate network buffers from the PFMEMALLOC
reserves.  Hence, in the swap-over-nfs case where a process can be
throtted and be killed it can use the reserves to exit or it can
potentially use reserves to swap a few pages and then exit.  This patch
takes the option of using the reserves if necessary to allow the process
exit quickly.

If this patch passes review it should be considered a -stable candidate
for 3.6.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com>
Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      50694c28
    • Mel Gorman's avatar
      Revert "mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD" · 82b212f4
      Mel Gorman authored 
      With "mm: vmscan: scale number of pages reclaimed by reclaim/compaction
based on failures" reverted, Zdenek Kabelac reported the following

  Hmm,  so it's just took longer to hit the problem and observe
  kswapd0 spinning on my CPU again - it's not as endless like before -
  but still it easily eats minutes - it helps to	turn off  Firefox
  or TB  (memory hungry apps) so kswapd0 stops soon - and restart
  those apps again.  (And I still have like >1GB of cached memory)

  kswapd0         R  running task        0    30      2 0x00000000
  Call Trace:
    preempt_schedule+0x42/0x60
    _raw_spin_unlock+0x55/0x60
    put_super+0x31/0x40
    drop_super+0x22/0x30
    prune_super+0x149/0x1b0
    shrink_slab+0xba/0x510

The sysrq+m indicates the system has no swap so it'll never reclaim
anonymous pages as part of reclaim/compaction.  That is one part of the
problem but not the root cause as file-backed pages could also be
reclaimed.

The likely underlying problem is that kswapd is woken up or kept awake
for each THP allocation request in the page allocator slow path.

If compaction fails for the requesting process then compaction will be
deferred for a time and direct reclaim is avoided.  However, if there
are a storm of THP requests that are simply rejected, it will still be
the the case that kswapd is awake for a prolonged period of time as
pgdat->kswapd_max_order is updated each time.  This is noticed by the
main kswapd() loop and it will not call kswapd_try_to_sleep().  Instead
it will loopp, shrinking a small number of pages and calling
shrink_slab() on each iteration.

The temptation is to supply a patch that checks if kswapd was woken for
THP and if so ignore pgdat->kswapd_max_order but it'll be a hack and not
backed up by proper testing.  As 3.7 is very close to release and this
is not a bug we should release with, a safer path is to revert "mm:
remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD" for now and revisit it with the view to ironing
out the balance_pgdat() logic in general.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      82b212f4
    • Stanislav Kinsbursky's avatar
      proc: check vma->vm_file before dereferencing · 05f56484
      Stanislav Kinsbursky authored 
      Commit 7b540d06 ("proc_map_files_readdir(): don't bother with
grabbing files") switched proc_map_files_readdir() to use @f_mode
directly instead of grabbing @file reference, but same time the test for
@vm_file presence was lost leading to nil dereference.  The patch brings
the test back.

The all proc_map_files feature is CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE wrapped
(which is set to 'n' by default) so the bug doesn't affect regular
kernels.

The regression is 3.7-rc1 only as far as I can tell.

[gorcunov@openvz.org: provided changelog]
Signed-off-by: default avatarStanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Acked-by: default avatarCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      05f56484
    • David Howells's avatar
      UAPI: strip the _UAPI prefix from header guards during header installation · 56c176c9
      David Howells authored 
      Strip the _UAPI prefix from header guards during header installation so
that any userspace dependencies aren't affected.  glibc, for example,
checks for linux/types.h, linux/kernel.h, linux/compiler.h and
linux/list.h by their guards - though the last two aren't actually
exported.

  libtool: compile:  gcc -std=gnu99 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -Wall -Werror -Wformat -Wformat-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -fstack-protector -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i686 -mtune=atom -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -c child.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/child.o
  In file included from cli.c:20:0:
  common.h:152:8: error: redefinition of 'struct sysinfo'
  In file included from /usr/include/linux/kernel.h:4:0,
  		 from /usr/include/linux/sysctl.h:25,
  		 from /usr/include/sys/sysctl.h:43,
  		 from common.h:50,
  		 from cli.c:20:
  /usr/include/linux/sysinfo.h:7:8: note: originally defined here
Reported-by: default avatarTomasz Torcz <tomek@pipebreaker.pl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJosh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      56c176c9
    • Tushar Behera's avatar
      include/linux/bug.h: fix sparse warning related to BUILD_BUG_ON_INVALID · c5782e9f
      Tushar Behera authored 
      Commit baf05aa9 ("bug: introduce BUILD_BUG_ON_INVALID() macro")
introduces this macro only when _CHECKER_ is not defined.  Define a
silent macro in the else condition to fix following sparse warning:

  mm/filemap.c:395:9: error: undefined identifier 'BUILD_BUG_ON_INVALID'
  mm/filemap.c:396:9: error: undefined identifier 'BUILD_BUG_ON_INVALID'
  mm/filemap.c:397:9: error: undefined identifier 'BUILD_BUG_ON_INVALID'
  include/linux/mm.h:419:9: error: undefined identifier 'BUILD_BUG_ON_INVALID'
  include/linux/mm.h:419:9: error: not a function <noident>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTushar Behera <tushar.behera@linaro.org>
Acked-by: default avatarKonstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      c5782e9f
  3. 26 Nov, 2012 3 commits
  5. 25 Nov, 2012 1 commit
  7. 24 Nov, 2012 4 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'sound-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound · 194d9831
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull sound build error fix from Takashi Iwai:
 "Only a single commit for fixing the build error without CONFIG_PM in
  hda driver."

* tag 'sound-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound:
  ALSA: hda - Fix build without CONFIG_PM
      194d9831
    • Takashi Iwai's avatar
      ALSA: hda - Fix build without CONFIG_PM · d846b174
      Takashi Iwai authored 
      I forgot this again...  codec->in_pm is in #ifdef CONFIG_PM
Reported-by: default avatarMarkus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
      d846b174
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · 2654ad44
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull x86 arch fixes from Peter Anvin:
 "Here is a collection of fixes for 3.7-rc7.  This is a superset of
  tglx' earlier pull request."

* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86-64: Fix ordering of CFI directives and recent ASM_CLAC additions
  x86, microcode, AMD: Add support for family 16h processors
  x86-32: Export kernel_stack_pointer() for modules
  x86-32: Fix invalid stack address while in softirq
  x86, efi: Fix processor-specific memcpy() build error
  x86: remove dummy long from EFI stub
  x86, mm: Correct vmflag test for checking VM_HUGETLB
  x86, amd: Disable way access filter on Piledriver CPUs
  x86/mce: Do not change worker's running cpu in cmci_rediscover().
  x86/ce4100: Fix PCI configuration register access for devices without interrupts
  x86/ce4100: Fix reboot by forcing the reboot method to be KBD
  x86/ce4100: Fix pm_poweroff
  MAINTAINERS: Update email address for Robert Richter
  x86, microcode_amd: Change email addresses, MAINTAINERS entry
  MAINTAINERS: Change Boris' email address
  EDAC: Change Boris' email address
  x86, AMD: Change Boris' email address
      2654ad44
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'for-linus-20121123' of git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6 · 35f95d22
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull MTD fixes from David Woodhouse:
 "The most important part of this is that it fixes a regression in
  Samsung NAND chip detection, introduced by some rework which went into
  3.7.  The initial fix wasn't quite complete, so it's in two parts.  In
  fact the first part is committed twice (Artem committed his own copy
  of the same patch) and I've merged Artem's tree into mine which
  already had that fix.

  I'd have recommitted that to make it somewhat cleaner, but figured by
  this point in the release cycle it was better to merge *exactly* the
  commits which have been in linux-next.

  If I'd recommitted, I'd also omit the sparse warning fix.  But it's
  there, and it's harmless — just marking one function as 'static' in
  onenand code.

  This also includes a couple more fixes for stable: an AB-BA deadlock
  in JFFS2, and an invalid range check in slram."

* tag 'for-linus-20121123' of git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6:
  mtd: nand: fix Samsung SLC detection regression
  mtd: nand: fix Samsung SLC NAND identification regression
  jffs2: Fix lock acquisition order bug in jffs2_write_begin
  mtd: onenand: Make flexonenand_set_boundary static
  mtd: slram: invalid checking of absolute end address
  mtd: ofpart: Fix incorrect NULL check in parse_ofoldpart_partitions()
  mtd: nand: fix Samsung SLC NAND identification regression
      35f95d22
  9. 23 Nov, 2012 27 commits
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