The maximum number of dirty pages that exist in the system at any time is
determined by a number of pages considered dirtyable and a user-configured
percentage of those, or an absolute number in bytes.
This number of dirtyable pages is the sum of memory provided by all the
zones in the system minus their lowmem reserves and high watermarks, so
that the system can retain a healthy number of free pages without having
to reclaim dirty pages.
But there is a flaw in that we have a zoned page allocator which does not
care about the global state but rather the state of individual memory
zones. And right now there is nothing that prevents one zone from filling
up with dirty pages while other zones are spared, which frequently leads
to situations where kswapd, in order to restore the watermark of free
pages, does indeed have to write pages from that zone's LRU list. This
can interfere so badly with IO from the flusher threads that major
filesystems (btrfs, xfs, ext4) mostly ignore write requests from reclaim
already, taking away the VM's only possibility to keep such a zone
balanced, aside from hoping the flushers will soon clean pages from that
zone.
Enter per-zone dirty limits. They are to a zone's dirtyable memory what
the global limit is to the global amount of dirtyable memory, and try to
make sure that no single zone receives more than its fair share of the
globally allowed dirty pages in the first place. As the number of pages
considered dirtyable excludes the zones' lowmem reserves and high
watermarks, the maximum number of dirty pages in a zone is such that the
zone can always be balanced without requiring page cleaning.
As this is a placement decision in the page allocator and pages are
dirtied only after the allocation, this patch allows allocators to pass
__GFP_WRITE when they know in advance that the page will be written to and
become dirty soon. The page allocator will then attempt to allocate from
the first zone of the zonelist - which on NUMA is determined by the task's
NUMA memory policy - that has not exceeded its dirty limit.
At first glance, it would appear that the diversion to lower zones can
increase pressure on them, but this is not the case. With a full high
zone, allocations will be diverted to lower zones eventually, so it is
more of a shift in timing of the lower zone allocations. Workloads that
previously could fit their dirty pages completely in the higher zone may
be forced to allocate from lower zones, but the amount of pages that
"spill over" are limited themselves by the lower zones' dirty constraints,
and thus unlikely to become a problem.
For now, the problem of unfair dirty page distribution remains for NUMA
configurations where the zones allowed for allocation are in sum not big
enough to trigger the global dirty limits, wake up the flusher threads and
remedy the situation. Because of this, an allocation that could not
succeed on any of the considered zones is allowed to ignore the dirty
limits before going into direct reclaim or even failing the allocation,
until a future patch changes the global dirty throttling and flusher
thread activation so that they take individual zone states into account.
Test results
15M DMA + 3246M DMA32 + 504 Normal = 3765M memory
40% dirty ratio
16G USB thumb drive
10 runs of dd if=/dev/zero of=disk/zeroes bs=32k count=$((10 << 15))
seconds nr_vmscan_write
(stddev) min| median| max
xfs
vanilla: 549.747( 3.492) 0.000| 0.000| 0.000
patched: 550.996( 3.802) 0.000| 0.000| 0.000
fuse-ntfs
vanilla: 1183.094(53.178) 54349.000| 59341.000| 65163.000
patched: 558.049(17.914) 0.000| 0.000| 43.000
btrfs
vanilla: 573.679(14.015) 156657.000| 460178.000| 606926.000
patched: 563.365(11.368) 0.000| 0.000| 1362.000
ext4
vanilla: 561.197(15.782) 0.000|2725438.000|4143837.000
patched: 568.806(17.496) 0.000| 0.000| 0.000
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The next patch will introduce per-zone dirty limiting functions in
addition to the traditional global dirty limiting.
Rename determine_dirtyable_memory() to global_dirtyable_memory() before
adding the zone-specific version, and fix up its documentation.
Also, move the functions to determine the dirtyable memory and the
function to calculate the dirty limit based on that together so that their
relationship is more apparent and that they can be commented on as a
group.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Per-zone dirty limits try to distribute page cache pages allocated for
writing across zones in proportion to the individual zone sizes, to reduce
the likelihood of reclaim having to write back individual pages from the
LRU lists in order to make progress.
This patch:
The amount of dirtyable pages should not include the full number of free
pages: there is a number of reserved pages that the page allocator and
kswapd always try to keep free.
The closer (reclaimable pages - dirty pages) is to the number of reserved
pages, the more likely it becomes for reclaim to run into dirty pages:
+----------+ ---
| anon | |
+----------+ |
| | |
| | -- dirty limit new -- flusher new
| file | | |
| | | |
| | -- dirty limit old -- flusher old
| | |
+----------+ --- reclaim
| reserved |
+----------+
| kernel |
+----------+
This patch introduces a per-zone dirty reserve that takes both the lowmem
reserve as well as the high watermark of the zone into account, and a
global sum of those per-zone values that is subtracted from the global
amount of dirtyable pages. The lowmem reserve is unavailable to page
cache allocations and kswapd tries to keep the high watermark free. We
don't want to end up in a situation where reclaim has to clean pages in
order to balance zones.
Not treating reserved pages as dirtyable on a global level is only a
conceptual fix. In reality, dirty pages are not distributed equally
across zones and reclaim runs into dirty pages on a regular basis.
But it is important to get this right before tackling the problem on a
per-zone level, where the distance between reclaim and the dirty pages is
mostly much smaller in absolute numbers.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix highmem build]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If we need to know a usecase, caller program name is critical important.
Show it.
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Calling alloc_pages_exact_node() means the allocation only passes the
zonelist of a single node into the page allocator. If that node isn't
online, it's zonelist may never have been initialized causing a strange
oops that may not immediately be clear.
I recently debugged an issue where node 0 wasn't online and an allocator
was passing 0 to alloc_pages_exact_node() and it resulted in a NULL
pointer on zonelist->_zoneref. If CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is enabled, though, it
would be nice to catch this a bit earlier.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Previously POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED would start writeback for the entire file
when the bdi was not write congested. This negatively impacts performance
if the file contains dirty pages outside of the requested range. This
change uses __filemap_fdatawrite_range() to only initiate writeback for
the requested range.
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <sbohrer@rgmadvisors.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Disable slub debug facilities and allocate slabs at minimal order when
debug_guardpage_minorder > 0 to increase probability to catch random
memory corruption by cpu exception.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When debugging with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC and debug_guardpage_minorder >
0, we have lot of free pages that are not marked so. Snapshot code
account them as savable, what cause hibernate memory preallocation
failure.
It is pretty hard to make hibernate allocation succeed with
debug_guardpage_minorder=1. This change at least make it possible when
system has relatively big amount of RAM.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC configured, the CPU will generate an exception
on access (read,write) to an unallocated page, which permits us to catch
code which corrupts memory. However the kernel is trying to maximise
memory usage, hence there are usually few free pages in the system and
buggy code usually corrupts some crucial data.
This patch changes the buddy allocator to keep more free/protected pages
and to interlace free/protected and allocated pages to increase the
probability of catching corruption.
When the kernel is compiled with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC,
debug_guardpage_minorder defines the minimum order used by the page
allocator to grant a request. The requested size will be returned with
the remaining pages used as guard pages.
The default value of debug_guardpage_minorder is zero: no change from
current behaviour.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak documentation, s/flg/flag/]
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We can place this in definitions that we expect the compiler to remove by
dead code elimination. If this assertion fails, we get a nice error
message at build time.
The GCC function attribute error("message") was added in version 4.3, so
we define a new macro __linktime_error(message) to expand to this for
GCC-4.3 and later. This will give us an error diagnostic from the
compiler on the line that fails. For other compilers
__linktime_error(message) expands to nothing, and we have to be content
with a link time error, but at least we will still get a build error.
BUILD_BUG() expands to the undefined function __build_bug_failed() and
will fail at link time if the compiler ever emits code for it. On GCC-4.3
and later, attribute((error())) is used so that the failure will be noted
at compile time instead.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: DM <dm.n9107@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
handle_mm_fault() passes 'faulted' address to hugetlb_fault(). This
address is not aligned to a hugepage boundary.
Most of the functions for hugetlb pages are aware of that and calculate an
alignment themselves. However some functions such as
copy_user_huge_page() and clear_huge_page() don't handle alignment by
themselves.
This patch make hugeltb_fault() fix the alignment and pass an aligned
addresss (to address of a faulted hugepage) to functions.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use &=]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Let's make it clear that we cannot race with other fault handlers due to
hugetlb (global) mutex. Also make it clear that we want to keep pte_same
checks anayway to have a transition from the global mutex easier.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently we are not rechecking pte_same in hugetlb_cow after we take ptl
lock again in the page allocation failure code path and simply retry
again. This is not an issue at the moment because hugetlb fault path is
protected by hugetlb_instantiation_mutex so we cannot race.
The original page is locked and so we cannot race even with the page
migration.
Let's add the pte_same check anyway as we want to be consistent with the
other check later in this function and be safe if we ever remove the
mutex.
[mhocko@suse.cz: reworded the changelog]
Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Inode cache pruning indirectly reclaims page-cache by invalidating mapping
pages. Let's account them into reclaim-state to notice this progress in
memory reclaimer.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Colin Cross reported;
Under the following conditions, __alloc_pages_slowpath can loop forever:
gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT is true
gfp_mask & __GFP_FS is false
reclaim and compaction make no progress
order <= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER
These conditions happen very often during suspend and resume,
when pm_restrict_gfp_mask() effectively converts all GFP_KERNEL
allocations into __GFP_WAIT.
The oom killer is not run because gfp_mask & __GFP_FS is false,
but should_alloc_retry will always return true when order is less
than PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER.
In his fix, he avoided retrying the allocation if reclaim made no progress
and __GFP_FS was not set. The problem is that this would result in
GFP_NOIO allocations failing that previously succeeded which would be very
unfortunate.
The big difference between GFP_NOIO and suspend converting GFP_KERNEL to
behave like GFP_NOIO is that normally flushers will be cleaning pages and
kswapd reclaims pages allowing GFP_NOIO to succeed after a short delay.
The same does not necessarily apply during suspend as the storage device
may be suspended.
This patch special cases the suspend case to fail the page allocation if
reclaim cannot make progress and adds some documentation on how
gfp_allowed_mask is currently used. Failing allocations like this may
cause suspend to abort but that is better than a livelock.
[mgorman@suse.de: Rework fix to be suspend specific]
[rientjes@google.com: Move suspended device check to should_alloc_retry]
Reported-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When min_free_kbytes is updated, some pageblocks are marked
MIGRATE_RESERVE. Ordinarily, this work is unnoticable as it happens early
in boot but on large machines with 1TB of memory, this has been reported
to delay boot times, probably due to the NUMA distances involved.
The bulk of the work is due to calling calling pageblock_is_reserved() an
unnecessary amount of times and accessing far more struct page metadata
than is necessary. This patch significantly reduces the amount of work
done by setup_zone_migrate_reserve() improving boot times on 1TB machines.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
migrate_page_move_mapping() drops a reference from the old page after
unfreezing its counter. Both operations can be merged into a single
atomic operation by directly unfreezing to one less reference.
The same applies to migrate_huge_page_move_mapping().
Signed-off-by: Jacobo Giralt <jacobo.giralt@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Rename mm_page_free_direct into mm_page_free and mm_pagevec_free into
mm_page_free_batched
Since v2.6.33-5426-gc475dab the kernel triggers mm_page_free_direct for
all freed pages, not only for directly freed. So, let's name it properly.
For pages freed via page-list we also trigger mm_page_free_batched event.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It not exported and now nobody uses it.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Logic added in commit 8cab4754d2 ("vmscan: make mapped executable pages
the first class citizen") was noticeably weakened in commit
6457474624 ("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: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: 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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 6457474624 ("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 bf3f3bc5e7 ("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-g6457474, 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: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Acked-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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The tracing ring-buffer used this function briefly, but not anymore.
Make it local to the writeback code again.
Also, move the function so that no forward declaration needs to be
reintroduced.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Ext4 commits for 3.3 merge window
* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (32 commits)
ext4: fix undefined behavior in ext4_fill_flex_info()
ext4: make more symbols static
ext4: make local symbol ext4_initxattrs static
jbd2: fix hung processes in jbd2_journal_lock_updates()
ext4: reserve new feature flag codepoints
ext4: Report max_batch_time option correctly
ext4: add missing ext4_resize_end on error paths
ext4: let ext4_group_add() use common code
ext4: let ext4_group_extend() use common code
ext4: add new online resize interface
ext4: add a new function which adds a flex group to a fs
ext4: add a new function which allocates bitmaps and inode tables
ext4: pass verify_reserved_gdb() the number of group decriptors
ext4: add a function which updates the super block during online resizing
ext4: add a function which sets up a block group descriptors of a flex bg
ext4: add a function which sets up group blocks of a flex bg
ext4: add a structure which will be used by 64bit-resize interface
ext4: add a function which adds a new group descriptors to a fs
ext4: add a function which extends a group without checking parameters
ext4: use proper little-endian bitops
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs:
fs/9p: iattr_valid flags are kernel internal flags map them to 9p values.
fs/9p: We should not allocate a new inode when creating hardlines.
fs/9p: v9fs_stat2inode should update suid/sgid bits.
9p: Reduce object size with CONFIG_NET_9P_DEBUG
fs/9p: check schedule_timeout_interruptible return value
Fix up trivial conflicts in fs/9p/{vfs_inode.c,vfs_inode_dotl.c} due to
debug messages having changed to use p9_debug() on one hand, and the
changes for umode_t on the other.
* 'nfs-for-3.3' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs:
NFSv4: Change the default setting of the nfs4_disable_idmapping parameter
NFSv4: Save the owner/group name string when doing open
NFS: Remove pNFS bloat from the generic write path
pnfs-obj: Must return layout on IO error
pnfs-obj: pNFS errors are communicated on iodata->pnfs_error
NFS: Cache state owners after files are closed
NFS: Clean up nfs4_find_state_owners_locked()
NFSv4: include bitmap in nfsv4 get acl data
nfs: fix a minor do_div portability issue
NFSv4.1: cleanup comment and debug printk
NFSv4.1: change nfs4_free_slot parameters for dynamic slots
NFSv4.1: cleanup init and reset of session slot tables
NFSv4.1: fix backchannel slotid off-by-one bug
nfs: fix regression in handling of context= option in NFSv4
NFS - fix recent breakage to NFS error handling.
NFS: Retry mounting NFSROOT
SUNRPC: Clean up the RPCSEC_GSS service ticket requests
* 'linux-next' of git://git.infradead.org/ubifs-2.6:
UBI: fix use-after-free on error path
UBI: fix missing scrub when there is a bit-flip
UBIFS: Use kmemdup rather than duplicating its implementation
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Merge tag 'for-linus-3.3' of git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6
MTD pull for 3.3
* tag 'for-linus-3.3' of git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (113 commits)
mtd: Fix dependency for MTD_DOC200x
mtd: do not use mtd->block_markbad directly
logfs: do not use 'mtd->block_isbad' directly
mtd: introduce mtd_can_have_bb helper
mtd: do not use mtd->suspend and mtd->resume directly
mtd: do not use mtd->lock, unlock and is_locked directly
mtd: do not use mtd->sync directly
mtd: harmonize mtd_writev usage
mtd: do not use mtd->lock_user_prot_reg directly
mtd: mtd->write_user_prot_reg directly
mtd: do not use mtd->read_*_prot_reg directly
mtd: do not use mtd->get_*_prot_info directly
mtd: do not use mtd->read_oob directly
mtd: mtdoops: do not use mtd->panic_write directly
romfs: do not use mtd->get_unmapped_area directly
mtd: do not use mtd->get_unmapped_area directly
mtd: do use mtd->point directly
mtd: introduce mtd_has_oob helper
mtd: mtdcore: export symbols cleanup
mtd: clean-up the default_mtd_writev function
...
Fix up trivial edit/remove conflict in drivers/staging/spectra/lld_mtd.c
* 'drm-core-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (307 commits)
drm/nouveau/pm: fix build with HWMON off
gma500: silence gcc warnings in mid_get_vbt_data()
drm/ttm: fix condition (and vs or)
drm/radeon: double lock typo in radeon_vm_bo_rmv()
drm/radeon: use after free in radeon_vm_bo_add()
drm/sis|via: don't return stack garbage from free_mem ioctl
drm/radeon/kms: remove pointless CS flags priority struct
drm/radeon/kms: check if vm is supported in VA ioctl
drm: introduce drm_can_sleep and use in intel/radeon drivers. (v2)
radeon: Fix disabling PCI bus mastering on big endian hosts.
ttm: fix agp since ttm tt rework
agp: Fix multi-line warning message whitespace
drm/ttm/dma: Fix accounting error when calling ttm_mem_global_free_page and don't try to free freed pages.
drm/ttm/dma: Only call set_pages_array_wb when the page is not in WB pool.
drm/radeon/kms: sync across multiple rings when doing bo moves v3
drm/radeon/kms: Add support for multi-ring sync in CS ioctl (v2)
drm/radeon: GPU virtual memory support v22
drm: make DRM_UNLOCKED ioctls with their own mutex
drm: no need to hold global mutex for static data
drm/radeon/benchmark: common modes sweep ignores 640x480@32
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in radeon/evergreen.c and vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.c
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: (64 commits)
Input: tc3589x-keypad - add missing kerneldoc
Input: ucb1400-ts - switch to using dev_xxx() for diagnostic messages
Input: ucb1400_ts - convert to threaded IRQ
Input: ucb1400_ts - drop inline annotations
Input: usb1400_ts - add __devinit/__devexit section annotations
Input: ucb1400_ts - set driver owner
Input: ucb1400_ts - convert to use dev_pm_ops
Input: psmouse - make sure we do not use stale methods
Input: evdev - do not block waiting for an event if fd is nonblock
Input: evdev - if no events and non-block, return EAGAIN not 0
Input: evdev - only allow reading events if a full packet is present
Input: add driver for pixcir i2c touchscreens
Input: samsung-keypad - implement runtime power management support
Input: tegra-kbc - report wakeup key for some platforms
Input: tegra-kbc - add device tree bindings
Input: add driver for AUO In-Cell touchscreens using pixcir ICs
Input: mpu3050 - configure the sampling method
Input: mpu3050 - ensure we enable interrupts
Input: mpu3050 - add of_match table for device-tree probing
Input: sentelic - document the latest hardware
...
Fix up fairly trivial conflicts (device tree matching conflicting with
some independent cleanups) in drivers/input/keyboard/samsung-keypad.c
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid: (68 commits)
hid-input/battery: add FEATURE quirk
hid-input/battery: remove battery_val
hid-input/battery: power-supply type really *is* a battery
hid-input/battery: make the battery setup common for INPUTs and FEATUREs
hid-input/battery: deal with both FEATURE and INPUT report batteries
hid-input/battery: add quirks for battery
hid-input/battery: remove apparently redundant kmalloc
hid-input: add support for HID devices reporting Battery Strength
HID: hid-multitouch: add support 9 new Xiroku devices
HID: multitouch: add support for 3M 32"
HID: multitouch: add support of Atmel multitouch panels
HID: usbhid: defer LED setting to a workqueue
HID: usbhid: hid-core: submit queued urbs before suspend
HID: usbhid: remove LED_ON
HID: emsff: use symbolic name instead of hardcoded PID constant
HID: Enable HID_QUIRK_MULTI_INPUT for Trio Linker Plus II
HID: Kconfig: fix syntax
HID: introduce proper dependency of HID_BATTERY on POWER_SUPPLY
HID: multitouch: support PixArt optical touch screen
HID: make parser more verbose about parsing errors by default
...
Fix up rename/delete conflict in drivers/hid/hid-hyperv.c (removed in
staging, moved in this branch) and similarly for the rules for same file
in drivers/staging/hv/{Kconfig,Makefile}.
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Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6
SCSI updates for post 3.2 merge window
* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (67 commits)
[SCSI] lpfc 8.3.28: Update driver version to 8.3.28
[SCSI] lpfc 8.3.28: Add Loopback support for SLI4 adapters
[SCSI] lpfc 8.3.28: Critical Miscellaneous fixes
[SCSI] Lpfc 8.3.28: FC and SCSI Discovery Fixes
[SCSI] lpfc 8.3.28: Add support for ABTS failure handling
[SCSI] lpfc 8.3.28: SLI fixes and added SLI4 support
[SCSI] lpfc 8.3.28: Miscellaneous fixes in sysfs and mgmt interfaces
[SCSI] mpt2sas: Removed redundant calling of _scsih_probe_devices() from _scsih_probe
[SCSI] mac_scsi: Remove obsolete IRQ_FLG_* users
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Update driver version to 5.02.00-k10
[SCSI] qla4xxx: check for FW alive before calling chip_reset
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Fix qla4xxx_dump_buffer to dump buffer correctly
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Fix the IDC locking mechanism
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Wait for disable_acb before doing set_acb
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Don't recover adapter if device state is FAILED
[SCSI] qla4xxx: fix call trace on rmmod with ql4xdontresethba=1
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Fix CPU lockups when ql4xdontresethba set
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Perform context resets in case of context failures.
[SCSI] iscsi class: export pid of process that created
[SCSI] mpt2sas: Remove unused duplicate diag_buffer_enable param
...
* git://www.linux-watchdog.org/linux-watchdog:
watchdog: omap_wdt.c: fix the WDIOC_GETBOOTSTATUS ioctl if not implemented.
watchdog: new driver for VIA chipsets
watchdog: ath79_wdt: flush register writes
drivers/watchdog/lantiq_wdt.c: drop iounmap for devm_ allocated data
watchdog: documentation: describe nowayout in coversion-guide
watchdog: documentation: update index file
watchdog: Convert wm831x driver to devm_kzalloc()
watchdog: add nowayout helpers to Watchdog Timer Driver Kernel API
watchdog: convert drivers/watchdog/* to use module_platform_driver()
watchdog: Use DEFINE_SPINLOCK() for static spinlocks
watchdog: Convert Wolfson drivers to module_platform_driver
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regulator: (40 commits)
regulator: set constraints.apply_uV to 0 in of_get_fixed_voltage_config
regulator: max8925: fix enabled/disabled judgement mistake
regulator: add regulator_bulk_force_disable function
regulator: pass regulator_register of_node in fixed voltage driver
regulator: add regulator_force_disable() definition for !CONFIG_REGULATOR
regulator: Enable supply regulator if child rail is enabled.
regulator: mc13892: Convert to devm_kzalloc()
regulator: mc13783: Convert to devm_kzalloc()
regulator: Fix checking return value of create_regulator
regulator: Fix the error handling if create_regulator fails
regulator: Export regulator_is_supported_voltage()
regulator: mc13892: add device tree probe support
regulator: mc13892: remove the unnecessary prefix from regulator name
regulator: Convert wm831x regulator drivers to devm_kzalloc()
regulator: da9052: Staticize non-exported symbols
regulator: Replace kzalloc with devm_kzalloc and if-else with a switch-case for da9052-regulator
regulator: Update da9052-regulator for DT changes
regulator: DA9052/53 Regulator support
regulator: pass device_node to of_get_regulator_init_data()
regulator: If a single voltage is set with device tree then set apply_uV
...
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrl: (31 commits)
pinctrl: remove unnecessary max pin number
pinctrl: correct a offset while enumerating pins
pinctrl: some typo fixes
pinctrl: rename U300 and SIRF pin controllers
pinctrl: pass name instead of device to pin_config_*
pinctrl: add "struct seq_file;" to pinconf.h
pinctrl: conjure names for unnamed pins
pinctrl: add a group-specific hog macro
pinctrl: don't create a device for each pin controller
arm/u300: don't use PINMUX_MAP_PRIMARY*
pinctrl: implement PINMUX_MAP_SYS_HOG
pinctrl: add a pin config interface
pinctrl/coh901: driver to request its pins
pinctrl: u300-pinmux: register proper GPIO ranges
pinctrl: move the U300 GPIO driver to pinctrl
ARM: u300: localize GPIO assignments
pinctrl: make it possible to add multiple maps
pinctrl: make a copy of pinmux map
pinctrl: GPIO direction support for muxing
pinctrl: print pin range in GPIO range debugs
...
* 'upstream-linus' of git://github.com/jgarzik/libata-dev:
ahci: support the STA2X11 I/O Hub
pata_bf54x: fix BMIDE status register emulation
ata: add ata port hibernate callbacks
ata: update ata port's runtime status during system resume
[SCSI] runtime resume parent for child's system-resume
ahci: platform support for suspend/resume
libata-core: kill duplicate statement in ata_do_set_mode()
pata_of_platform: remove direct dependency on OF_IRQ
SATA/PATA: convert drivers/ata/* to use module_platform_driver()
pata_cs5536: forward port changes from cs5536
libata-sff: use ATAPI_{COD|IO}
ata: add ata port runtime PM callbacks
ata: add ata port system PM callbacks
[SCSI] sd: check runtime PM status in sd_shutdown
[SCSI] check runtime PM status in system PM
[SCSI] add flag to skip the runtime PM calls on the host
ata: make ata port as parent device of scsi host
ahci: start engine only during soft/hard resets
* 'stable/for-linus-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen: (37 commits)
xen/pciback: Expand the warning message to include domain id.
xen/pciback: Fix "device has been assigned to X domain!" warning
xen/pciback: Move the PCI_DEV_FLAGS_ASSIGNED ops to the "[un|]bind"
xen/xenbus: don't reimplement kvasprintf via a fixed size buffer
xenbus: maximum buffer size is XENSTORE_PAYLOAD_MAX
xen/xenbus: Reject replies with payload > XENSTORE_PAYLOAD_MAX.
Xen: consolidate and simplify struct xenbus_driver instantiation
xen-gntalloc: introduce missing kfree
xen/xenbus: Fix compile error - missing header for xen_initial_domain()
xen/netback: Enable netback on HVM guests
xen/grant-table: Support mappings required by blkback
xenbus: Use grant-table wrapper functions
xenbus: Support HVM backends
xen/xenbus-frontend: Fix compile error with randconfig
xen/xenbus-frontend: Make error message more clear
xen/privcmd: Remove unused support for arch specific privcmp mmap
xen: Add xenbus_backend device
xen: Add xenbus device driver
xen: Add privcmd device driver
xen/gntalloc: fix reference counts on multi-page mappings
...
Two (or more) concurrent calls of shrink_dcache_parent() on the same dentry may
cause shrink_dcache_parent() to loop forever.
Here's what appears to happen:
1 - CPU0: select_parent(P) finds C and puts it on dispose list, returns 1
2 - CPU1: select_parent(P) locks P->d_lock
3 - CPU0: shrink_dentry_list() locks C->d_lock
dentry_kill(C) tries to lock P->d_lock but fails, unlocks C->d_lock
4 - CPU1: select_parent(P) locks C->d_lock,
moves C from dispose list being processed on CPU0 to the new
dispose list, returns 1
5 - CPU0: shrink_dentry_list() finds dispose list empty, returns
6 - Goto 2 with CPU0 and CPU1 switched
Basically select_parent() steals the dentry from shrink_dentry_list() and thinks
it found a new one, causing shrink_dentry_list() to think it's making progress
and loop over and over.
One way to trigger this is to make udev calls stat() on the sysfs file while it
is going away.
Having a file in /lib/udev/rules.d/ with only this one rule seems to the trick:
ATTR{vendor}=="0x8086", ATTR{device}=="0x10ca", ENV{PCI_SLOT_NAME}="%k", ENV{MATCHADDR}="$attr{address}", RUN+="/bin/true"
Then execute the following loop:
while true; do
echo -bond0 > /sys/class/net/bonding_masters
echo +bond0 > /sys/class/net/bonding_masters
echo -bond1 > /sys/class/net/bonding_masters
echo +bond1 > /sys/class/net/bonding_masters
done
One fix would be to check all callers and prevent concurrent calls to
shrink_dcache_parent(). But I think a better solution is to stop the
stealing behavior.
This patch adds a new dentry flag that is set when the dentry is added to the
dispose list. The flag is cleared in dentry_lru_del() in case the dentry gets a
new reference just before being pruned.
If the dentry has this flag, select_parent() will skip it and let
shrink_dentry_list() retry pruning it. With select_parent() skipping those
dentries there will not be the appearance of progress (new dentries found) when
there is none, hence shrink_dcache_parent() will not loop forever.
Set the flag is also set in prune_dcache_sb() for consistency as suggested by
Linus.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* 'kvm-updates/3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (74 commits)
KVM: PPC: Whitespace fix for kvm.h
KVM: Fix whitespace in kvm_para.h
KVM: PPC: annotate kvm_rma_init as __init
KVM: x86 emulator: implement RDPMC (0F 33)
KVM: x86 emulator: fix RDPMC privilege check
KVM: Expose the architectural performance monitoring CPUID leaf
KVM: VMX: Intercept RDPMC
KVM: SVM: Intercept RDPMC
KVM: Add generic RDPMC support
KVM: Expose a version 2 architectural PMU to a guests
KVM: Expose kvm_lapic_local_deliver()
KVM: x86 emulator: Use opcode::execute for Group 9 instruction
KVM: x86 emulator: Use opcode::execute for Group 4/5 instructions
KVM: x86 emulator: Use opcode::execute for Group 1A instruction
KVM: ensure that debugfs entries have been created
KVM: drop bsp_vcpu pointer from kvm struct
KVM: x86: Consolidate PIT legacy test
KVM: x86: Do not rely on implicit inclusions
KVM: Make KVM_INTEL depend on CPU_SUP_INTEL
KVM: Use memdup_user instead of kmalloc/copy_from_user
...
Commit 503358ae01 ("ext4: avoid divide by
zero when trying to mount a corrupted file system") fixes CVE-2009-4307
by performing a sanity check on s_log_groups_per_flex, since it can be
set to a bogus value by an attacker.
sbi->s_log_groups_per_flex = sbi->s_es->s_log_groups_per_flex;
groups_per_flex = 1 << sbi->s_log_groups_per_flex;
if (groups_per_flex < 2) { ... }
This patch fixes two potential issues in the previous commit.
1) The sanity check might only work on architectures like PowerPC.
On x86, 5 bits are used for the shifting amount. That means, given a
large s_log_groups_per_flex value like 36, groups_per_flex = 1 << 36
is essentially 1 << 4 = 16, rather than 0. This will bypass the check,
leaving s_log_groups_per_flex and groups_per_flex inconsistent.
2) The sanity check relies on undefined behavior, i.e., oversized shift.
A standard-confirming C compiler could rewrite the check in unexpected
ways. Consider the following equivalent form, assuming groups_per_flex
is unsigned for simplicity.
groups_per_flex = 1 << sbi->s_log_groups_per_flex;
if (groups_per_flex == 0 || groups_per_flex == 1) {
We compile the code snippet using Clang 3.0 and GCC 4.6. Clang will
completely optimize away the check groups_per_flex == 0, leaving the
patched code as vulnerable as the original. GCC keeps the check, but
there is no guarantee that future versions will do the same.
Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
lookup should fail with ENOMEM, not silently make dentry negative.
Switched to saner calling conventions, while we are at it.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
inode needs to be fully set up before we feed it to d_instantiate().
securityfs_create_file() does *not* do so; it sets ->i_fop and
->i_private only after we'd exposed the inode. Unfortunately,
that's done fairly deep in call chain, so the amount of churn
is considerable. Helper functions killed by substituting into
their solitary call sites, dead code removed. We finally can
bury default_file_ops, now that the final value of ->i_fop is
available (and assigned) at the point where inode is allocated.
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
