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  1. 24 Apr, 2015 16 commits
    • Martin Fuzzey's avatar
      iio: core: Fix double free. · 42ec319b
      Martin Fuzzey authored 
      [ Upstream commit c1b03ab5 ]

When an error occurred during event registration memory was freed twice
resulting in kernel memory corruption and a crash in unrelated code.

The problem was caused by
	iio_device_unregister_eventset()
	iio_device_unregister_sysfs()

being called twice, once on the error path and then
again via iio_dev_release().

Fix this by making these two functions idempotent so they
may be called multiple times.

The problem was observed before applying
	78b33216 iio:core: Handle error when mask type is not separate
Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Fuzzey <mfuzzey@parkeon.com>
Cc: <Stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
      42ec319b
    • Viorel Suman's avatar
      iio: inv_mpu6050: Clear timestamps fifo while resetting hardware fifo · 382fd035
      Viorel Suman authored 
      [ Upstream commit 4dac0a8e ]

A hardware fifo reset always imply an invalidation of the
existing timestamps, so we'll clear timestamps fifo on
successfull hardware fifo reset.
Signed-off-by: default avatarViorel Suman <viorel.suman@gmail.com>
Cc: <Stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
      382fd035
    • Bart Van Assche's avatar
      Defer processing of REQ_PREEMPT requests for blocked devices · f37f8f40
      Bart Van Assche authored 
      [ Upstream commit bba0bdd7 ]

SCSI transport drivers and SCSI LLDs block a SCSI device if the
transport layer is not operational. This means that in this state
no requests should be processed, even if the REQ_PREEMPT flag has
been set. This patch avoids that a rescan shortly after a cable
pull sporadically triggers the following kernel oops:

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc9001a6bc084
IP: [<ffffffffa04e08f2>] mlx4_ib_post_send+0xd2/0xb30 [mlx4_ib]
Process rescan-scsi-bus (pid: 9241, threadinfo ffff88053484a000, task ffff880534aae100)
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffffa0718135>] srp_post_send+0x65/0x70 [ib_srp]
 [<ffffffffa071b9df>] srp_queuecommand+0x1cf/0x3e0 [ib_srp]
 [<ffffffffa0001ff1>] scsi_dispatch_cmd+0x101/0x280 [scsi_mod]
 [<ffffffffa0009ad1>] scsi_request_fn+0x411/0x4d0 [scsi_mod]
 [<ffffffff81223b37>] __blk_run_queue+0x27/0x30
 [<ffffffff8122a8d2>] blk_execute_rq_nowait+0x82/0x110
 [<ffffffff8122a9c2>] blk_execute_rq+0x62/0xf0
 [<ffffffffa000b0e8>] scsi_execute+0xe8/0x190 [scsi_mod]
 [<ffffffffa000b2f3>] scsi_execute_req+0xa3/0x130 [scsi_mod]
 [<ffffffffa000c1aa>] scsi_probe_lun+0x17a/0x450 [scsi_mod]
 [<ffffffffa000ce86>] scsi_probe_and_add_lun+0x156/0x480 [scsi_mod]
 [<ffffffffa000dc2f>] __scsi_scan_target+0xdf/0x1f0 [scsi_mod]
 [<ffffffffa000dfa3>] scsi_scan_host_selected+0x183/0x1c0 [scsi_mod]
 [<ffffffffa000edfb>] scsi_scan+0xdb/0xe0 [scsi_mod]
 [<ffffffffa000ee13>] store_scan+0x13/0x20 [scsi_mod]
 [<ffffffff811c8d9b>] sysfs_write_file+0xcb/0x160
 [<ffffffff811589de>] vfs_write+0xce/0x140
 [<ffffffff81158b53>] sys_write+0x53/0xa0
 [<ffffffff81464592>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
 [<00007f611c9d9300>] 0x7f611c9d92ff
Reported-by: default avatarMax Gurtuvoy <maxg@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
      f37f8f40
    • Doug Goldstein's avatar
      USB: ftdi_sio: Use jtag quirk for SNAP Connect E10 · 4893f8b2
      Doug Goldstein authored 
      [ Upstream commit b229a0f8 ]

This patch uses the existing CALAO Systems ftdi_8u2232c_probe in order
to avoid attaching a TTY to the JTAG port as this board is based on the
CALAO Systems reference design and needs the same fix up.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDoug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com>
CC: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
[johan: clean up probe logic ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
      4893f8b2
    • Doug Goldstein's avatar
      USB: ftdi_sio: Added custom PID for Synapse Wireless product · 51348505
      Doug Goldstein authored 
      [ Upstream commit 4899c054 ]

Synapse Wireless uses the FTDI VID with a custom PID of 0x9090 for their
SNAP Stick 200 product.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDoug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
      51348505
    • Nathaniel W Filardo's avatar
      USB: keyspan_pda: add new device id · b8cfabf9
      Nathaniel W Filardo authored 
      [ Upstream commit 5e71fc86 ]

Add USB VID/PID for Xircom PGMFHUB USB/serial component.  (The hub and SCSI
bridge on that hardware are recognized out of the box by existing drivers.)
Tested VID/PID using new_id and loopback connection and was met with
success, but that's all the testing done.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNathaniel Wesley Filardo <nwf@cs.jhu.edu>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
      b8cfabf9
    • David Miller's avatar
      radeon: Do not directly dereference pointers to BIOS area. · fde250a5
      David Miller authored 
      [ Upstream commit f2c9e560 ]

Use readb() and memcpy_fromio() accessors instead.
Reviewed-by: default avatarChristian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
      fde250a5
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      writeback: fix possible underflow in write bandwidth calculation · 51e17d28
      Tejun Heo authored 
      [ Upstream commit c72efb65 ]

From 1ebf33901ecc75d9496862dceb1ef0377980587c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 00:08:19 -0400

2f800fbd ("writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on redirty")
introduced account_page_redirty() which reverts stat updates for a
redirtied page, making BDI_DIRTIED no longer monotonically increasing.

bdi_update_write_bandwidth() uses the delta in BDI_DIRTIED as the
basis for bandwidth calculation.  While unlikely, since the above
patch, the newer value may be lower than the recorded past value and
underflow the bandwidth calculation leading to a wild result.

Fix it by subtracing min of the old and new values when calculating
delta.  AFAIK, there hasn't been any report of it happening but the
resulting erratic behavior would be non-critical and temporary, so
it's possible that the issue is happening without being reported.  The
risk of the fix is very low, so tagged for -stable.
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Fixes: 2f800fbd ("writeback: fix dirtied pages accounting on redirty")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
      51e17d28
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      writeback: add missing INITIAL_JIFFIES init in global_update_bandwidth() · 59881078
      Tejun Heo authored 
      [ Upstream commit 7d70e154 ]

global_update_bandwidth() uses static variable update_time as the
timestamp for the last update but forgets to initialize it to
INITIALIZE_JIFFIES.

This means that global_dirty_limit will be 5 mins into the future on
32bit and some large amount jiffies into the past on 64bit.  This
isn't critical as the only effect is that global_dirty_limit won't be
updated for the first 5 mins after booting on 32bit machines,
especially given the auxiliary nature of global_dirty_limit's role -
protecting against global dirty threshold's sudden dips; however, it
does lead to unintended suboptimal behavior.  Fix it.

Fixes: c42843f2 ("writeback: introduce smoothed global dirty limit")
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
      59881078
    • Viresh Kumar's avatar
      cpufreq: Schedule work for the first-online CPU on resume · 5f44e397
      Viresh Kumar authored 
      [ Upstream commit c75de0ac ]

All CPUs leaving the first-online CPU are hotplugged out on suspend and
and cpufreq core stops managing them.

On resume, we need to call cpufreq_update_policy() for this CPU's policy
to make sure its frequency is in sync with cpufreq's cached value, as it
might have got updated by hardware during suspend/resume.

The policies are always added to the top of the policy-list. So, in
normal circumstances, CPU 0's policy will be the last one in the list.
And so the code checks for the last policy.

But there are cases where it will fail. Consider quad-core system, with
policy-per core. If CPU0 is hotplugged out and added back again, the
last policy will be on CPU1 :(

To fix this in a proper way, always look for the policy of the first
online CPU. That way we will be sure that we are calling
cpufreq_update_policy() for the only CPU that wasn't hotplugged out.

Cc: 3.15+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.15+
Fixes: 2f0aea93 ("cpufreq: suspend governors on system suspend/hibernate")
Reported-by: default avatarSaravana Kannan <skannan@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarViresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: default avatarSaravana Kannan <skannan@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
      5f44e397
    • Brian Silverman's avatar
      sched: Fix RLIMIT_RTTIME when PI-boosting to RT · 42d921d3
      Brian Silverman authored 
      [ Upstream commit 746db944 ]

When non-realtime tasks get priority-inheritance boosted to a realtime
scheduling class, RLIMIT_RTTIME starts to apply to them. However, the
counter used for checking this (the same one used for SCHED_RR
timeslices) was not getting reset. This meant that tasks running with a
non-realtime scheduling class which are repeatedly boosted to a realtime
one, but never block while they are running realtime, eventually hit the
timeout without ever running for a time over the limit. This patch
resets the realtime timeslice counter when un-PI-boosting from an RT to
a non-RT scheduling class.

I have some test code with two threads and a shared PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT
mutex which induces priority boosting and spins while boosted that gets
killed by a SIGXCPU on non-fixed kernels but doesn't with this patch
applied. It happens much faster with a CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT kernel, and
does happen eventually with PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY kernels.
Signed-off-by: default avatarBrian Silverman <brian@peloton-tech.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: austin@peloton-tech.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1424305436-6716-1-git-send-email-brian@peloton-tech.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
      42d921d3
    • Laura Abbott's avatar
      mm/page_alloc.c: call kernel_map_pages in unset_migrateype_isolate · a38edfb2
      Laura Abbott authored 
      [ Upstream commit cfa86943 ]

Commit 3c605096 ("mm/page_alloc: restrict max order of merging on
isolated pageblock") changed the logic of unset_migratetype_isolate to
check the buddy allocator and explicitly call __free_pages to merge.

The page that is being freed in this path never had prep_new_page called
so set_page_refcounted is called explicitly but there is no call to
kernel_map_pages.  With the default kernel_map_pages this is mostly
harmless but if kernel_map_pages does any manipulation of the page
tables (unmapping or setting pages to read only) this may trigger a
fault:

    alloc_contig_range test_pages_isolated(ceb00, ced00) failed
    Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffffc0cec00000
    pgd = ffffffc045fc4000
    [ffffffc0cec00000] *pgd=0000000000000000
    Internal error: Oops: 9600004f [#1] PREEMPT SMP
    Modules linked in: exfatfs
    CPU: 1 PID: 23237 Comm: TimedEventQueue Not tainted 3.10.49-gc72ad36-dirty #1
    task: ffffffc03de52100 ti: ffffffc015388000 task.ti: ffffffc015388000
    PC is at memset+0xc8/0x1c0
    LR is at kernel_map_pages+0x1ec/0x244

Fix this by calling kernel_map_pages to ensure the page is set in the
page table properly

Fixes: 3c605096 ("mm/page_alloc: restrict max order of merging on isolated pageblock")
Signed-off-by: default avatarLaura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Gioh Kim <gioh.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
      a38edfb2
    • Gu Zheng's avatar
      mm/memory hotplug: postpone the reset of obsolete pgdat · ec4db266
      Gu Zheng authored 
      [ Upstream commit b0dc3a34 ]

Qiu Xishi reported the following BUG when testing hot-add/hot-remove node under
stress condition:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000025f60
  IP: next_online_pgdat+0x1/0x50
  PGD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
  ACPI: Device does not support D3cold
  Modules linked in: fuse nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat loop dm_mod coretemp mperf crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel ablk_helper cryptd lrw gf128mul glue_helper aes_x86_64 pcspkr microcode igb dca i2c_algo_bit ipv6 megaraid_sas iTCO_wdt i2c_i801 i2c_core iTCO_vendor_support tg3 sg hwmon ptp lpc_ich pps_core mfd_core acpi_pad rtc_cmos button ext3 jbd mbcache sd_mod crc_t10dif scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh ahci libahci libata scsi_mod [last unloaded: rasf]
  CPU: 23 PID: 238 Comm: kworker/23:1 Tainted: G           O 3.10.15-5885-euler0302 #1
  Hardware name: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD. Huawei N1/Huawei N1, BIOS V100R001 03/02/2015
  Workqueue: events vmstat_update
  task: ffffa800d32c0000 ti: ffffa800d32ae000 task.ti: ffffa800d32ae000
  RIP: 0010: next_online_pgdat+0x1/0x50
  RSP: 0018:ffffa800d32afce8  EFLAGS: 00010286
  RAX: 0000000000001440 RBX: ffffffff81da53b8 RCX: 0000000000000082
  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000082 RDI: 0000000000000000
  RBP: ffffa800d32afd28 R08: ffffffff81c93bfc R09: ffffffff81cbdc96
  R10: 00000000000040ec R11: 00000000000000a0 R12: ffffa800fffb3440
  R13: ffffa800d32afd38 R14: 0000000000000017 R15: ffffa800e6616800
  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa800e6600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 0000000000025f60 CR3: 0000000001a0b000 CR4: 00000000001407e0
  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
  Call Trace:
    refresh_cpu_vm_stats+0xd0/0x140
    vmstat_update+0x11/0x50
    process_one_work+0x194/0x3d0
    worker_thread+0x12b/0x410
    kthread+0xc6/0xd0
    ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0

The cause is the "memset(pgdat, 0, sizeof(*pgdat))" at the end of
try_offline_node, which will reset all the content of pgdat to 0, as the
pgdat is accessed lock-free, so that the users still using the pgdat
will panic, such as the vmstat_update routine.

process A:				offline node XX:

vmstat_updat()
   refresh_cpu_vm_stats()
     for_each_populated_zone()
       find online node XX
     cond_resched()
					offline cpu and memory, then try_offline_node()
					node_set_offline(nid), and memset(pgdat, 0, sizeof(*pgdat))
       zone = next_zone(zone)
         pg_data_t *pgdat = zone->zone_pgdat;  // here pgdat is NULL now
           next_online_pgdat(pgdat)
             next_online_node(pgdat->node_id);  // NULL pointer access

So the solution here is postponing the reset of obsolete pgdat from
try_offline_node() to hotadd_new_pgdat(), and just resetting
pgdat->nr_zones and pgdat->classzone_idx to be 0 rather than the memset
0 to avoid breaking pointer information in pgdat.
Signed-off-by: default avatarGu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reported-by: default avatarXishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
      ec4db266
    • Leon Yu's avatar
      mm: fix anon_vma->degree underflow in anon_vma endless growing prevention · 5bc650f0
      Leon Yu authored 
      [ Upstream commit 3fe89b3e ]

I have constantly stumbled upon "kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:399!" after
upgrading to 3.19 and had no luck with 4.0-rc1 neither.

So, after looking into new logic introduced by commit 7a3ef208 ("mm:
prevent endless growth of anon_vma hierarchy"), I found chances are that
unlink_anon_vmas() is called without incrementing dst->anon_vma->degree
in anon_vma_clone() due to allocation failure.  If dst->anon_vma is not
NULL in error path, its degree will be incorrectly decremented in
unlink_anon_vmas() and eventually underflow when exiting as a result of
another call to unlink_anon_vmas().  That's how "kernel BUG at
mm/rmap.c:399!" is triggered for me.

This patch fixes the underflow by dropping dst->anon_vma when allocation
fails.  It's safe to do so regardless of original value of dst->anon_vma
because dst->anon_vma doesn't have valid meaning if anon_vma_clone()
fails.  Besides, callers don't care dst->anon_vma in such case neither.

Also suggested by Michal Hocko, we can clean up vma_adjust() a bit as
anon_vma_clone() now does the work.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment]
Fixes: 7a3ef208 ("mm: prevent endless growth of anon_vma hierarchy")
Signed-off-by: default avatarLeon Yu <chianglungyu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKonstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
      5bc650f0
    • Konstantin Khlebnikov's avatar
      mm: fix corner case in anon_vma endless growing prevention · f94faaaa
      Konstantin Khlebnikov authored 
      [ Upstream commit b800c91a ]

Fix for BUG_ON(anon_vma->degree) splashes in unlink_anon_vmas() ("kernel
BUG at mm/rmap.c:399!") caused by commit 7a3ef208 ("mm: prevent
endless growth of anon_vma hierarchy")

Anon_vma_clone() is usually called for a copy of source vma in
destination argument.  If source vma has anon_vma it should be already
in dst->anon_vma.  NULL in dst->anon_vma is used as a sign that it's
called from anon_vma_fork().  In this case anon_vma_clone() finds
anon_vma for reusing.

Vma_adjust() calls it differently and this breaks anon_vma reusing
logic: anon_vma_clone() links vma to old anon_vma and updates degree
counters but vma_adjust() overrides vma->anon_vma right after that.  As
a result final unlink_anon_vmas() decrements degree for wrong anon_vma.

This patch assigns ->anon_vma before calling anon_vma_clone().
Signed-off-by: default avatarKonstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarChris Clayton <chris2553@googlemail.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarOded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@amd.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarChih-Wei Huang <cwhuang@android-x86.org>
Acked-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Daniel Forrest <dan.forrest@ssec.wisc.edu>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org  # to match back-porting of 7a3ef208Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
      f94faaaa
    • Konstantin Khlebnikov's avatar
      mm: prevent endless growth of anon_vma hierarchy · 3f161800
      Konstantin Khlebnikov authored 
      [ Upstream commit 7a3ef208 ]

Constantly forking task causes unlimited grow of anon_vma chain.  Each
next child allocates new level of anon_vmas and links vma to all
previous levels because pages might be inherited from any level.

This patch adds heuristic which decides to reuse existing anon_vma
instead of forking new one.  It adds counter anon_vma->degree which
counts linked vmas and directly descending anon_vmas and reuses anon_vma
if counter is lower than two.  As a result each anon_vma has either vma
or at least two descending anon_vmas.  In such trees half of nodes are
leafs with alive vmas, thus count of anon_vmas is no more than two times
bigger than count of vmas.

This heuristic reuses anon_vmas as few as possible because each reuse
adds false aliasing among vmas and rmap walker ought to scan more ptes
when it searches where page is might be mapped.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120816024610.GA5350@evergreen.ssec.wisc.edu
Fixes: 5beb4930 ("mm: change anon_vma linking to fix multi-process server scalability issue")
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo, per Rik]
Signed-off-by: default avatarKonstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Reported-by: default avatarDaniel Forrest <dan.forrest@ssec.wisc.edu>
Tested-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Tested-by: default avatarJerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[2.6.34+]
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
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