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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'akpm' (more patches from Andrew) · 673ab878
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Merge patches from Andrew Morton:
 "Most of the rest of MM, plus a few dribs and drabs.

  I still have quite a few irritating patches left around: ones with
  dubious testing results, lack of review, ones which should have gone
  via maintainer trees but the maintainers are slack, etc.

  I need to be more activist in getting these things wrapped up outside
  the merge window, but they're such a PITA."

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (48 commits)
  mm/vmscan.c: avoid possible deadlock caused by too_many_isolated()
  vmscan: comment too_many_isolated()
  mm/kmemleak.c: remove obsolete simple_strtoul
  mm/memory_hotplug.c: improve comments
  mm/hugetlb: create hugetlb cgroup file in hugetlb_init
  mm/mprotect.c: coding-style cleanups
  Documentation: ABI: /sys/devices/system/node/
  slub: drop mutex before deleting sysfs entry
  memcg: add comments clarifying aspects of cache attribute propagation
  kmem: add slab-specific documentation about the kmem controller
  slub: slub-specific propagation changes
  slab: propagate tunable values
  memcg: aggregate memcg cache values in slabinfo
  memcg/sl[au]b: shrink dead caches
  memcg/sl[au]b: track all the memcg children of a kmem_cache
  memcg: destroy memcg caches
  sl[au]b: allocate objects from memcg cache
  sl[au]b: always get the cache from its page in kmem_cache_free()
  memcg: skip memcg kmem allocations in specified code regions
  memcg: infrastructure to match an allocation to the right cache
  ...
      673ab878
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging · d7b96ca5
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull hwmon fixlet from Guenter Roeck:
 "Fix fallout from __devexit removal"

* tag 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/groeck/linux-staging:
  hwmon: (twl4030-madc-hwmon) Fix warning message caused by removal of __devexit
      d7b96ca5
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile · 5b3040a4
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull tile updates from Chris Metcalf:
 "These are a smattering of minor changes from Tilera and other folks,
  mostly in the ptrace area."

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
  arch/tile: set CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET on tile
  arch/tile: implement arch_ptrace using user_regset on tile
  arch/tile: implement user_regset interface on tile
  arch/tile: clean up tile-specific PTRACE_SETOPTIONS
  arch/tile: provide PT_FLAGS_COMPAT value in pt_regs
  tile/PCI: use for_each_pci_dev to simplify the code
  tilegx: remove __init from pci fixup hook
      5b3040a4
    • Fengguang Wu's avatar
      mm/vmscan.c: avoid possible deadlock caused by too_many_isolated() · 3cf23841
      Fengguang Wu authored 
      Neil found that if too_many_isolated() returns true while performing
direct reclaim we can end up waiting for other threads to complete their
direct reclaim.  If those threads are allowed to enter the FS or IO to
free memory, but this thread is not, then it is possible that those
threads will be waiting on this thread and so we get a circular deadlock.

some task enters direct reclaim with GFP_KERNEL
  => too_many_isolated() false
    => vmscan and run into dirty pages
      => pageout()
        => take some FS lock
          => fs/block code does GFP_NOIO allocation
            => enter direct reclaim again
              => too_many_isolated() true
                => waiting for others to progress, however the other
                   tasks may be circular waiting for the FS lock..

The fix is to let !__GFP_IO and !__GFP_FS direct reclaims enjoy higher
priority than normal ones, by lowering the throttle threshold for the
latter.

Allowing ~1/8 isolated pages in normal is large enough.  For example, for
a 1GB LRU list, that's ~128MB isolated pages, or 1k blocked tasks (each
isolates 32 4KB pages), or 64 blocked tasks per logical CPU (assuming 16
logical CPUs per NUMA node).  So it's not likely some CPU goes idle
waiting (when it could make progress) because of this limit: there are
much more sleeping reclaim tasks than the number of CPU, so the task may
well be blocked by some low level queue/lock anyway.

Now !GFP_IOFS reclaims won't be waiting for GFP_IOFS reclaims to progress.
 They will be blocked only when there are too many concurrent !GFP_IOFS
reclaims, however that's very unlikely because the IO-less direct reclaims
is able to progress much more faster, and they won't deadlock each other.
The threshold is raised high enough for them, so that there can be
sufficient parallel progress of !GFP_IOFS reclaims.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment]
Signed-off-by: default avatarWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@googlemail.com>
Tested-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMinchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3cf23841
    • Fengguang Wu's avatar
      vmscan: comment too_many_isolated() · d37dd5dc
      Fengguang Wu authored 
      Comment "Why it's doing so" rather than "What it does" as proposed by
Andrew Morton.
Signed-off-by: default avatarWu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMinchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      d37dd5dc
    • Abhijit Pawar's avatar
      mm/kmemleak.c: remove obsolete simple_strtoul · dc053733
      Abhijit Pawar authored 
      Replace the obsolete simple_strtoul() with kstrtoul().
Signed-off-by: default avatarAbhijit Pawar <abhi.c.pawar@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      dc053733
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