- 02 Aug, 2012 40 commits
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Roland Dreier authored
commit 1a5fa457 upstream. The UNMAP DATA LENGTH and UNMAP BLOCK DESCRIPTOR DATA LENGTH fields are in the unmap descriptor (the payload transferred to our data out buffer), not in the CDB itself. Read them from the correct place in target_emulated_unmap. Signed-off-by:
Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com> Signed-off-by:
Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename, context] Signed-off-by:
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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Roland Dreier authored
commit 2594e298 upstream. When processing an UNMAP command, we need to make sure that the number of blocks we're asked to UNMAP does not exceed our reported maximum number of blocks per UNMAP, and that the range of blocks we're unmapping doesn't go past the end of the device. Signed-off-by:
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Roland Dreier authored
commit e2397c70 upstream. Many SCSI commands are defined to return a CHECK CONDITION / ILLEGAL REQUEST with ASC set to LOGICAL BLOCK ADDRESS OUT OF RANGE if the initiator sends a command that accesses a too-big LBA. Add an enum value and case entries so that target code can return this status. Signed-off-by:
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Bjørn Mork authored
commit 09110529 upstream. Sold by O2 (telefonica germany) under the name "LTE4G" Tested-by:
Thomas Schäfer <tschaefer@t-online.de> Signed-off-by:
Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by:
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Andrew Bird (Sphere Systems) authored
commit f264ddea upstream. These interfaces need to be handled by QMI/WWAN driver Signed-off-by:
Andrew Bird <ajb@spheresystems.co.uk> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by:
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Amitkumar Karwar authored
commit fe020120 upstream. mwifiex driver supports 2x2 chips as well. Hence valid mcs values are 0 to 15. The check for mcs index is corrected in this patch. For example: if 40MHz is enabled and mcs index is 11, "iw link" command would show "tx bitrate: 108.0 MBit/s" without this patch. Now it shows "tx bitrate: 108.0 MBit/s MCS 11 40Mhz" with the patch. Signed-off-by:
Amitkumar Karwar <akarwar@marvell.com> Signed-off-by:
Bing Zhao <bzhao@marvell.com> Signed-off-by:
John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by:
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Tiejun Chen authored
commit b416c9a1 upstream. Add "memory" attribute in inline assembly language as a compiler barrier to make sure 4.6.x GCC don't reorder mfmsr(). Signed-off-by:
Tiejun Chen <tiejun.chen@windriver.com> Signed-off-by:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by:
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Jan Kara authored
commit 57b9655d upstream. When a partition table length is corrupted to be close to 1 << 32, the check for its length may overflow on 32-bit systems and we will think the length is valid. Later on the kernel can crash trying to read beyond end of buffer. Fix the check to avoid possible overflow. Reported-by:
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Theodore Ts'o authored
commit 952fc18e upstream. Commit f975d6bc introduced bug which caused ext4_statfs() to miscalculate the number of file system overhead blocks. This causes the f_blocks field in the statfs structure to be larger than it should be. This would in turn cause the "df" output to show the number of data blocks in the file system and the number of data blocks used to be larger than they should be. Signed-off-by:
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by:
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Hans de Goede authored
commit 2102e06a upstream. iso data buffers may have holes in them if some packets were short, so for iso urbs we should always copy the entire buffer, just like the regular processcompl does. Signed-off-by:
Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by:
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Borislav Petkov authored
commit c9fc3f77 upstream. Microcode reloading in a per-core manner is a very bad idea for both major x86 vendors. And the thing is, we have such interface with which we can end up with different microcode versions applied on different cores of an otherwise homogeneous wrt (family,model,stepping) system. So turn off the possibility of doing that per core and allow it only system-wide. This is a minimal fix which we'd like to see in stable too thus the more-or-less arbitrary decision to allow system-wide reloading only on the BSP: $ echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/microcode/reload ... and disable the interface on the other cores: $ echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu23/microcode/reload -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument Also, allowing the reload only from one CPU (the BSP in that case) doesn't allow the reload procedure to degenerate into an O(n^2) deal when triggering reloads from all /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/microcode/reload sysfs nodes simultaneously. A more generic fix will follow. Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340280437-7718-2-git-send-email-bp@amd64.orgSigned-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by:
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Shuah Khan authored
commit e826abd5 upstream. Change reload_for_cpu() in kernel/microcode_core.c to call kstrtoul() instead of calling obsoleted simple_strtoul(). Signed-off-by:
Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1336324264.2897.9.camel@lorien2Signed-off-by:
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Srivatsa S. Bhat authored
commit 443772d4 upstream. If function tracing is enabled for some of the low-level suspend/resume functions, it leads to triple fault during resume from suspend, ultimately ending up in a reboot instead of a resume (or a total refusal to come out of suspended state, on some machines). This issue was explained in more detail in commit f42ac38c (ftrace: disable tracing for suspend to ram). However, the changes made by that commit got reverted by commit cbe2f5a6 (tracing: allow tracing of suspend/resume & hibernation code again). So, unfortunately since things are not yet robust enough to allow tracing of low-level suspend/resume functions, suspend/resume is still broken when ftrace is enabled. So fix this by disabling function tracing during suspend/resume & hibernation. Signed-off-by:
Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by:
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Theodore Ts'o authored
commit f6fb99ca upstream. Make it possible for ext4_count_free to operate on buffers and not just data in buffer_heads. Signed-off-by:
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Kevin Cernekee authored
commit 31bde1ce upstream. A "usb0" interface that has never been connected to a host has an unknown operstate, and therefore the IFF_RUNNING flag is (incorrectly) asserted when queried by ifconfig, ifplugd, etc. This is a result of calling netif_carrier_off() too early in the probe function; it should be called after register_netdev(). Similar problems have been fixed in many other drivers, e.g.: e826eafa (bonding: Call netif_carrier_off after register_netdevice) 0d672e9f (drivers/net: Call netif_carrier_off at the end of the probe) 6a3c869a (cxgb4: fix reported state of interfaces without link) Fix is to move netif_carrier_off() to the end of the function. Signed-off-by:
Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Signed-off-by:
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Albert Pool authored
commit 8fd9d059 upstream. D-Link DWA-123 rev A1 Signed-off-by: Albert Pool<albertpool@solcon.nl> Acked-by:
Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Xose Vazquez Perez authored
commit e828b9fb upstream. found in 2012_03_22_RT5572_Linux_STA_v2.6.0.0_DPO RT3070: (0x2019,0x5201) Planex Communications, Inc. RT8070 (0x7392,0x4085) 2L Central Europe BV 8070 7392 is Edimax RT35xx: (0x1690,0x0761) Askey was Fujitsu Stylistic 550, but 1690 is Askey Signed-off-by:
Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com> Acked-by:
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Xose Vazquez Perez authored
commit 63b37641 upstream. They were taken from ralink drivers: 2011_0719_RT3070_RT3370_RT5370_RT5372_Linux_STA_V2.5.0.3_DPO 2012_03_22_RT5572_Linux_STA_v2.6.0.0_DPO 0x1eda,0x2210 RT3070 Airties 0x083a,0xb511 RT3370 Panasonic 0x0471,0x20dd RT3370 Philips 0x1690,0x0764 RT35xx Askey 0x0df6,0x0065 RT35xx Sitecom 0x0df6,0x0066 RT35xx Sitecom 0x0df6,0x0068 RT35xx Sitecom 0x2001,0x3c1c RT5370 DLink 0x2001,0x3c1d RT5370 DLink 2001 is D-Link not Alpha Signed-off-by:
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Jeff Layton authored
commit 3cf003c0 upstream. Jian found that when he ran fsx on a 32 bit arch with a large wsize the process and one of the bdi writeback kthreads would sometimes deadlock with a stack trace like this: crash> bt PID: 2789 TASK: f02edaa0 CPU: 3 COMMAND: "fsx" #0 [eed63cbc] schedule at c083c5b3 #1 [eed63d80] kmap_high at c0500ec8 #2 [eed63db0] cifs_async_writev at f7fabcd7 [cifs] #3 [eed63df0] cifs_writepages at f7fb7f5c [cifs] #4 [eed63e50] do_writepages at c04f3e32 #5 [eed63e54] __filemap_fdatawrite_range at c04e152a #6 [eed63ea4] filemap_fdatawrite at c04e1b3e #7 [eed63eb4] cifs_file_aio_write at f7fa111a [cifs] #8 [eed63ecc] do_sync_write at c052d202 #9 [eed63f74] vfs_write at c052d4ee #10 [eed63f94] sys_write at c052df4c #11 [eed63fb0] ia32_sysenter_target at c0409a98 EAX: 00000004 EBX: 00000003 ECX: abd73b73 EDX: 012a65c6 DS: 007b ESI: 012a65c6 ES: 007b EDI: 00000000 SS: 007b ESP: bf8db178 EBP: bf8db1f8 GS: 0033 CS: 0073 EIP: 40000424 ERR: 00000004 EFLAGS: 00000246 Each task would kmap part of its address array before getting stuck, but not enough to actually issue the write. This patch fixes this by serializing the marshal_iov operations for async reads and writes. The idea here is to ensure that cifs aggressively tries to populate a request before attempting to fulfill another one. As soon as all of the pages are kmapped for a request, then we can unlock and allow another one to proceed. There's no need to do this serialization on non-CONFIG_HIGHMEM arches however, so optimize all of this out when CONFIG_HIGHMEM isn't set. Reported-by:
Jian Li <jiali@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by:
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françois romieu authored
commit eb2dc35d upstream. The 8168evl (RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_34) based Gigabyte GA-990FXA motherboards are very prone to NETDEV watchdog problems without this change. See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42899 for instance. I don't know why it *works*. It's depressingly effective though. For the record: - the problem may go along IOMMU (AMD-Vi) errors but it really looks like a red herring. - the patch sets the RX_MULTI_EN bit. If the 8168c doc is any guide, the chipset now fetches several Rx descriptors at a time. - long ago the driver ignored the RX_MULTI_EN bit. e542a226 changed the RxConfig settings. Whatever the problem it's now labeled a regression. - Realtek's own driver can identify two different 8168evl devices (CFG_METHOD_16 and CFG_METHOD_17) where the r8169 driver only sees one. It sucks. Signed-off-by:
Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> Signed-off-by:
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Alan Cox authored
commit 80b3e557 upstream. Despite lots of investigation into why this is needed we don't know or have an elegant cure. The only answer found on this laptop is to mark a problem region as used so that Linux doesn't put anything there. Currently all the users add reserve= command lines and anyone not knowing this needs to find the magic page that documents it. Automate it instead. Signed-off-by:
Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Tested-and-bugfixed-by:
Arne Fitzenreiter <arne@fitzenreiter.de> Resolves-bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10231 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120515174347.5109.94551.stgit@bluebookSigned-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Ezequiel Garcia authored
commit 380e99fc upstream. The strcpy was being used to set the name of the board. Since the destination char* was read-only and the name is set statically at compile time; this was both wrong and redundant. The type of char* is changed to const char* to prevent future errors. Reported-by:
Radek Masin <radek@masin.eu> Signed-off-by:
Ezequiel Garcia <elezegarcia@gmail.com> [ Taking directly due to vacations - Linus ] Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
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roger blofeld authored
commit fd5a4298 upstream. Just like the module loader, ftrace needs to be updated to use r12 instead of r11 with newer gcc's. Signed-off-by:
Roger Blofeld <blofeldus@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
commit 5aaa0b7a upstream. Follow up on commit 556061b0 ("sched/nohz: Fix rq->cpu_load[] calculations") since while that fixed the busy case it regressed the mostly idle case. Add a callback from the nohz exit to also age the rq->cpu_load[] array. This closes the hole where either there was no nohz load balance pass during the nohz, or there was a 'significant' amount of idle time between the last nohz balance and the nohz exit. So we'll update unconditionally from the tick to not insert any accidental 0 load periods while busy, and we try and catch up from nohz idle balance and nohz exit. Both these are still prone to missing a jiffy, but that has always been the case. Signed-off-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: pjt@google.com Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-kt0trz0apodbf84ucjfdbr1a@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by:
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Peter Zijlstra authored
commit 556061b0 upstream. While investigating why the load-balancer did funny I found that the rq->cpu_load[] tables were completely screwy.. a bit more digging revealed that the updates that got through were missing ticks followed by a catchup of 2 ticks. The catchup assumes the cpu was idle during that time (since only nohz can cause missed ticks and the machine is idle etc..) this means that esp. the higher indices were significantly lower than they ought to be. The reason for this is that its not correct to compare against jiffies on every jiffy on any other cpu than the cpu that updates jiffies. This patch cludges around it by only doing the catch-up stuff from nohz_idle_balance() and doing the regular stuff unconditionally from the tick. Signed-off-by:
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Mark Rustad authored
commit 222a806a upstream. Avoid crashing if the private_data pointer happens to be NULL. This has been seen sometimes when a host reset happens, notably when there are many LUNs: host3: Assigned Port ID 0c1601 scsi host3: libfc: Host reset succeeded on port (0c1601) BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000350 IP: [<ffffffff81352bb8>] scsi_send_eh_cmnd+0x58/0x3a0 <snip> Process scsi_eh_3 (pid: 4144, threadinfo ffff88030920c000, task ffff880326b160c0) Stack: 000000010372e6ba 0000000000000282 000027100920dca0 ffffffffa0038ee0 0000000000000000 0000000000030003 ffff88030920dc80 ffff88030920dc80 00000002000e0000 0000000a00004000 ffff8803242f7760 ffff88031326ed80 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8105b590>] ? lock_timer_base+0x70/0x70 [<ffffffff81352fbe>] scsi_eh_tur+0x3e/0xc0 [<ffffffff81353a36>] scsi_eh_test_devices+0x76/0x170 [<ffffffff81354125>] scsi_eh_host_reset+0x85/0x160 [<ffffffff81354291>] scsi_eh_ready_devs+0x91/0x110 [<ffffffff813543fd>] scsi_unjam_host+0xed/0x1f0 [<ffffffff813546a8>] scsi_error_handler+0x1a8/0x200 [<ffffffff81354500>] ? scsi_unjam_host+0x1f0/0x1f0 [<ffffffff8106ec3e>] kthread+0x9e/0xb0 [<ffffffff81509264>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 [<ffffffff8106eba0>] ? kthread_freezable_should_stop+0x70/0x70 [<ffffffff81509260>] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13 Code: 25 28 00 00 00 48 89 45 c8 31 c0 48 8b 87 80 00 00 00 48 8d b5 60 ff ff ff 89 d1 48 89 fb 41 89 d6 4c 89 fa 48 8b 80 b8 00 00 00 <48> 8b 80 50 03 00 00 48 8b 00 48 89 85 38 ff ff ff 48 8b 07 4c RIP [<ffffffff81352bb8>] scsi_send_eh_cmnd+0x58/0x3a0 RSP <ffff88030920dc50> CR2: 0000000000000350 Signed-off-by:
Mark Rustad <mark.d.rustad@intel.com> Tested-by:
Marcus Dennis <marcusx.e.dennis@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename, context] Signed-off-by:
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Konstantin Khlebnikov authored
commit b1c12cbc upstream. Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. [get|put]_mems_allowed() is extremely expensive and severely impacted page allocator performance. This is part of a series of patches that reduce page allocator overhead. Fix a gcc warning (and bug?) introduced in cc9a6c87 ("cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3") Local variable "page" can be uninitialized if the nodemask from vma policy does not intersects with nodemask from cpuset. Even if it doesn't happens it is better to initialize this variable explicitly than to introduce a kernel oops in a weird corner case. mm/hugetlb.c: In function `alloc_huge_page': mm/hugetlb.c:1135:5: warning: `page' may be used uninitialized in this function Signed-off-by:
Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Acked-by:
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by:
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
commit cc9a6c87 upstream. Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. [get|put]_mems_allowed() is extremely expensive and severely impacted page allocator performance. This is part of a series of patches that reduce page allocator overhead. Commit c0ff7453 ("cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when changing cpuset's mems") wins a super prize for the largest number of memory barriers entered into fast paths for one commit. [get|put]_mems_allowed is incredibly heavy with pairs of full memory barriers inserted into a number of hot paths. This was detected while investigating at large page allocator slowdown introduced some time after 2.6.32. The largest portion of this overhead was shown by oprofile to be at an mfence introduced by this commit into the page allocator hot path. For extra style points, the commit introduced the use of yield() in an implementation of what looks like a spinning mutex. This patch replaces the full memory barriers on both read and write sides with a sequence counter with just read barriers on the fast path side. This is much cheaper on some architectures, including x86. The main bulk of the patch is the retry logic if the nodemask changes in a manner that can cause a false failure. While updating the nodemask, a check is made to see if a false failure is a risk. If it is, the sequence number gets bumped and parallel allocators will briefly stall while the nodemask update takes place. In a page fault test microbenchmark, oprofile samples from __alloc_pages_nodemask went from 4.53% of all samples to 1.15%. The actual results were 3.3.0-rc3 3.3.0-rc3 rc3-vanilla nobarrier-v2r1 Clients 1 UserTime 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.08 (-14.19%) Clients 2 UserTime 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 2.72%) Clients 4 UserTime 0.08 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 3.29%) Clients 1 SysTime 0.70 ( 0.00%) 0.65 ( 6.65%) Clients 2 SysTime 0.85 ( 0.00%) 0.82 ( 3.65%) Clients 4 SysTime 1.41 ( 0.00%) 1.41 ( 0.32%) Clients 1 WallTime 0.77 ( 0.00%) 0.74 ( 4.19%) Clients 2 WallTime 0.47 ( 0.00%) 0.45 ( 3.73%) Clients 4 WallTime 0.38 ( 0.00%) 0.37 ( 1.58%) Clients 1 Flt/sec/cpu 497620.28 ( 0.00%) 520294.53 ( 4.56%) Clients 2 Flt/sec/cpu 414639.05 ( 0.00%) 429882.01 ( 3.68%) Clients 4 Flt/sec/cpu 257959.16 ( 0.00%) 258761.48 ( 0.31%) Clients 1 Flt/sec 495161.39 ( 0.00%) 517292.87 ( 4.47%) Clients 2 Flt/sec 820325.95 ( 0.00%) 850289.77 ( 3.65%) Clients 4 Flt/sec 1020068.93 ( 0.00%) 1022674.06 ( 0.26%) MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 135.68 132.17 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 164.2 160.13 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 123.46 120.87 The overall improvement is small but the System CPU time is much improved and roughly in correlation to what oprofile reported (these performance figures are without profiling so skew is expected). The actual number of page faults is noticeably improved. For benchmarks like kernel builds, the overall benefit is marginal but the system CPU time is slightly reduced. To test the actual bug the commit fixed I opened two terminals. The first ran within a cpuset and continually ran a small program that faulted 100M of anonymous data. In a second window, the nodemask of the cpuset was continually randomised in a loop. Without the commit, the program would fail every so often (usually within 10 seconds) and obviously with the commit everything worked fine. With this patch applied, it also worked fine so the fix should be functionally equivalent. Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
commit b95a2f2d upstream - WARNING: this is a substitute patch. Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. This is a partial backport of an upstream commit addressing a completely different issue that accidentally contained an important fix. The workload this patch helps was memcached when IO is started in the background. memcached should stay resident but without this patch it gets swapped. Sometimes this manifests as a drop in throughput but mostly it was observed through /proc/vmstat. Commit [246e87a9: memcg: fix get_scan_count() for small targets] was meant to fix a problem whereby small scan targets on memcg were ignored causing priority to raise too sharply. It forced scanning to take place if the target was small, memcg or kswapd. From the time it was introduced it caused excessive reclaim by kswapd with workloads being pushed to swap that previously would have stayed resident. This was accidentally fixed in commit [b95a2f2d: mm: vmscan: convert global reclaim to per-memcg LRU lists] by making it harder for kswapd to force scan small targets but that patchset is not suitable for backporting. This was later changed again by commit [90126375: mm/vmscan: push lruvec pointer into get_scan_count()] into a format that looks like it would be a straight-forward backport but there is a subtle difference due to the use of lruvecs. The impact of the accidental fix is to make it harder for kswapd to force scan small targets by taking zone->all_unreclaimable into account. This patch is the closest equivalent available based on what is backported. Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
commit 043bcbe5 upstream. Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. There were reports of shared mapped pages being unfairly reclaimed in comparison to older kernels. This is being addressed over time. Even though the subject refers to lumpy reclaim, it impacts compaction as well. Lumpy reclaim does well to stop at a PageAnon when there's no swap, but better is to stop at any PageSwapBacked, which includes shmem/tmpfs too. Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by:
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by:
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Minchan Kim authored
commit 86cfd3a4 upstream. Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. This patch reduces kswapd CPU usage on swapless systems with high anonymous memory usage. It's pointless to continue reclaiming when we have no swap space and lots of anon pages in the inactive list. Without this patch, it is possible when swap is disabled to continue trying to reclaim when there are only anonymous pages in the system even though that will not make any progress. Signed-off-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Konstantin Khlebnikov authored
commit c909e993 upstream. Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. There were reports of shared mapped pages being unfairly reclaimed in comparison to older kernels. This is being addressed over time. Logic added in commit 8cab4754 ("vmscan: make mapped executable pages the first class citizen") was noticeably weakened in commit 64574746 ("vmscan: detect mapped file pages used only once"). Currently these pages can become "first class citizens" only after second usage. After this patch page_check_references() will activate they after first usage, and executable code gets yet better chance to stay in memory. Signed-off-by:
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Konstantin Khlebnikov authored
commit 34dbc67a upstream. Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. There were reports of shared mapped pages being unfairly reclaimed in comparison to older kernels. This is being addressed over time. The specific workload being addressed here in described in paragraph four and while paragraph five says it did not help performance as such, it made a difference to major page faults. I'm aware of at least one bug for a large vendor that was due to increased major faults. Commit 64574746 ("vmscan: detect mapped file pages used only once") greatly decreases lifetime of single-used mapped file pages. Unfortunately it also decreases life time of all shared mapped file pages. Because after commit bf3f3bc5 ("mm: don't mark_page_accessed in fault path") page-fault handler does not mark page active or even referenced. Thus page_check_references() activates file page only if it was used twice while it stays in inactive list, meanwhile it activates anon pages after first access. Inactive list can be small enough, this way reclaimer can accidentally throw away any widely used page if it wasn't used twice in short period. After this patch page_check_references() also activate file mapped page at first inactive list scan if this page is already used multiple times via several ptes. I found this while trying to fix degragation in rhel6 (~2.6.32) from rhel5 (~2.6.18). There a complete mess with >100 web/mail/spam/ftp containers, they share all their files but there a lot of anonymous pages: ~500mb shared file mapped memory and 15-20Gb non-shared anonymous memory. In this situation major-pagefaults are very costly, because all containers share the same page. In my load kernel created a disproportionate pressure on the file memory, compared with the anonymous, they equaled only if I raise swappiness up to 150 =) These patches actually wasn't helped a lot in my problem, but I saw noticable (10-20 times) reduce in count and average time of major-pagefault in file-mapped areas. Actually both patches are fixes for commit v2.6.33-5448-g64574746, because it was aimed at one scenario (singly used pages), but it breaks the logic in other scenarios (shared and/or executable pages) Signed-off-by:
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Acked-by:
Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
commit 0cee34fd upstream. Stable note: Not tracked on Bugzilla. THP and compaction was found to aggressively reclaim pages and stall systems under different situations that was addressed piecemeal over time. If compaction can proceed for a given zone, shrink_zones() does not reclaim any more pages from it. After commit [e0c23279: vmscan: abort reclaim/compaction if compaction can proceed], do_try_to_free_pages() tries to finish as soon as possible once one zone can compact. This was intended to prevent slabs being shrunk unnecessarily but there are side-effects. One is that a small zone that is ready for compaction will abort reclaim even if the chances of successfully allocating a THP from that zone is small. It also means that reclaim can return too early even though sc->nr_to_reclaim pages were not reclaimed. This partially reverts the commit until it is proven that slabs are really being shrunk unnecessarily but preserves the check to return 1 to avoid OOM if reclaim was aborted prematurely. [aarcange@redhat.com: This patch replaces a revert from Andrea] Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
commit 7335084d upstream. Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. This patch makes later patches easier to apply but otherwise has little to justify it. The problem it fixes was never observed but the source of the theoretical problem did not exist for very long. During direct reclaim it is possible that reclaim will be aborted so that compaction can be attempted to satisfy a high-order allocation. If this decision is made before any pages are reclaimed, it is possible that 0 is returned to the page allocator potentially triggering an OOM. This has not been observed but it is a possibility so this patch addresses it. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
commit fe4b1b24 upstream. Stable note: Not tracked on Bugzilla. THP and compaction was found to aggressively reclaim pages and stall systems under different situations that was addressed piecemeal over time. This patch addresses a problem where the fix regressed THP allocation success rates. In commit e0887c19 ("vmscan: limit direct reclaim for higher order allocations"), Rik noted that reclaim was too aggressive when THP was enabled. In his initial patch he used the number of free pages to decide if reclaim should abort for compaction. My feedback was that reclaim and compaction should be using the same logic when deciding if reclaim should be aborted. Unfortunately, this had the effect of reducing THP success rates when the workload included something like streaming reads that continually allocated pages. The window during which compaction could run and return a THP was too small. This patch combines Rik's two patches together. compaction_suitable() is still used to decide if reclaim should be aborted to allow compaction is used. However, it will also ensure that there is a reasonable buffer of free pages available. This improves upon the THP allocation success rates but bounds the number of pages that are freed for compaction. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
commit a6bc32b8 upstream. Stable note: Not tracked in Buzilla. This was part of a series that reduced interactivity stalls experienced when THP was enabled. These stalls were particularly noticable when copying data to a USB stick but the experiences for users varied a lot. This patch adds a lightweight sync migrate operation MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT mode that avoids writing back pages to backing storage. Async compaction maps to MIGRATE_ASYNC while sync compaction maps to MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT. For other migrate_pages users such as memory hotplug, MIGRATE_SYNC is used. This avoids sync compaction stalling for an excessive length of time, particularly when copying files to a USB stick where there might be a large number of dirty pages backed by a filesystem that does not support ->writepages. [aarcange@redhat.com: This patch is heavily based on Andrea's work] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/nfs/write.c build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/btrfs/disk-io.c build] Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
commit c8244935 upstream. Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. A fix aimed at preserving page aging information by reducing LRU list churning had the side-effect of reducing THP allocation success rates. This was part of a series to restore the success rates while preserving the reclaim fix. Commit 39deaf85 ("mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page() filter-aware") noted that compaction does not migrate dirty or writeback pages and that is was meaningless to pick the page and re-add it to the LRU list. This had to be partially reverted because some dirty pages can be migrated by compaction without blocking. This patch updates "mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page" by skipping over pages that migration has no possibility of migrating to minimise LRU disruption. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
commit 66199712 upstream. Stable note: Not tracked in Buzilla. This was part of a series that reduced interactivity stalls experienced when THP was enabled. If compaction is deferred, direct reclaim is used to try to free enough pages for the allocation to succeed. For small high-orders, this has a reasonable chance of success. However, if the caller has specified __GFP_NO_KSWAPD to limit the disruption to the system, it makes more sense to fail the allocation rather than stall the caller in direct reclaim. This patch skips direct reclaim if compaction is deferred and the caller specifies __GFP_NO_KSWAPD. Async compaction only considers a subset of pages so it is possible for compaction to be deferred prematurely and not enter direct reclaim even in cases where it should. To compensate for this, this patch also defers compaction only if sync compaction failed. Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
commit b969c4ab upstream. Stable note: Not tracked in Bugzilla. A fix aimed at preserving page aging information by reducing LRU list churning had the side-effect of reducing THP allocation success rates. This was part of a series to restore the success rates while preserving the reclaim fix. Asynchronous compaction is used when allocating transparent hugepages to avoid blocking for long periods of time. Due to reports of stalling, there was a debate on disabling synchronous compaction but this severely impacted allocation success rates. Part of the reason was that many dirty pages are skipped in asynchronous compaction by the following check; if (PageDirty(page) && !sync && mapping->a_ops->migratepage != migrate_page) rc = -EBUSY; This skips over all mapping aops using buffer_migrate_page() even though it is possible to migrate some of these pages without blocking. This patch updates the ->migratepage callback with a "sync" parameter. It is the responsibility of the callback to fail gracefully if migration would block. Signed-off-by:
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