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  1. 09 May, 2018 1 commit
  3. 11 Aug, 2017 1 commit
  5. 31 Jul, 2017 1 commit
    • Al Viro's avatar
      dentry name snapshots · 626f7c23
      Al Viro authored 
      take_dentry_name_snapshot() takes a safe snapshot of dentry name;
if the name is a short one, it gets copied into caller-supplied
structure, otherwise an extra reference to external name is grabbed
(those are never modified).  In either case the pointer to stable
string is stored into the same structure.

dentry must be held by the caller of take_dentry_name_snapshot(),
but may be freely dropped afterwards - the snapshot will stay
until destroyed by release_dentry_name_snapshot().

Intended use:
	struct name_snapshot s;

	take_dentry_name_snapshot(&s, dentry);
	...
	access s.name
	...
	release_dentry_name_snapshot(&s);

Replaces fsnotify_oldname_...(), gets used in fsnotify to obtain the name
to pass down with event.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
(cherry picked from commit 49d31c2f)
CVE-2017-7533
Signed-off-by: default avatarThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
      626f7c23
  7. 20 Jan, 2017 1 commit
    • Eric W. Biederman's avatar
      mnt: Protect the mountpoint hashtable with mount_lock · e178bd11
      Eric W. Biederman authored 
      BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1658091

commit 3895dbf8 upstream.

Protecting the mountpoint hashtable with namespace_sem was sufficient
until a call to umount_mnt was added to mntput_no_expire.  At which
point it became possible for multiple calls of put_mountpoint on
the same hash chain to happen on the same time.

Kristen Johansen <kjlx@templeofstupid.com> reported:
> This can cause a panic when simultaneous callers of put_mountpoint
> attempt to free the same mountpoint.  This occurs because some callers
> hold the mount_hash_lock, while others hold the namespace lock.  Some
> even hold both.
>
> In this submitter's case, the panic manifested itself as a GP fault in
> put_mountpoint() when it called hlist_del() and attempted to dereference
> a m_hash.pprev that had been poisioned by another thread.

Al Viro observed that the simple fix is to switch from using the namespace_sem
to the mount_lock to protect the mountpoint hash table.

I have taken Al's suggested patch moved put_mountpoint in pivot_root
(instead of taking mount_lock an additional time), and have replaced
new_mountpoint with get_mountpoint a function that does the hash table
lookup and addition under the mount_lock.   The introduction of get_mounptoint
ensures that only the mount_lock is needed to manipulate the mountpoint
hashtable.

d_set_mounted is modified to only set DCACHE_MOUNTED if it is not
already set.  This allows get_mountpoint to use the setting of
DCACHE_MOUNTED to ensure adding a struct mountpoint for a dentry
happens exactly once.

Fixes: ce07d891 ("mnt: Honor MNT_LOCKED when detaching mounts")
Reported-by: default avatarKrister Johansen <kjlx@templeofstupid.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLuis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
      e178bd11
  9. 18 Aug, 2016 1 commit
  11. 13 Jul, 2016 1 commit
  13. 21 Apr, 2016 1 commit
    • Miklos Szeredi's avatar
      fs: add file_dentry() · e20a60a2
      Miklos Szeredi authored 
      BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1573034

commit d101a125 upstream.

This series fixes bugs in nfs and ext4 due to 4bacc9c9 ("overlayfs:
Make f_path always point to the overlay and f_inode to the underlay").

Regular files opened on overlayfs will result in the file being opened on
the underlying filesystem, while f_path points to the overlayfs
mount/dentry.

This confuses filesystems which get the dentry from struct file and assume
it's theirs.

Add a new helper, file_dentry() [*], to get the filesystem's own dentry
from the file.  This checks file->f_path.dentry->d_flags against
DCACHE_OP_REAL, and returns file->f_path.dentry if DCACHE_OP_REAL is not
set (this is the common, non-overlayfs case).

In the uncommon case it will call into overlayfs's ->d_real() to get the
underlying dentry, matching file_inode(file).

The reason we need to check against the inode is that if the file is copied
up while being open, d_real() would return the upper dentry, while the open
file comes from the lower dentry.

[*] If possible, it's better simply to use file_inode() instead.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Tested-by: default avatarGoldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
      e20a60a2
  15. 06 Apr, 2016 1 commit
  17. 29 Feb, 2016 3 commits
  19. 21 Aug, 2015 2 commits
    • Eric W. Biederman's avatar
      dcache: Reduce the scope of i_lock in d_splice_alias · a03e283b
      Eric W. Biederman authored 
      i_lock is only needed until __d_find_any_alias calls dget on the alias
dentry.  After that the reference to new ensures that dentry_kill and
d_delete will not remove the inode from the dentry, and remove the
dentry from the inode->d_entry list.

The inode i_lock came to be held over the the __d_move calls in
d_splice_alias through a series of introduction of locks with
increasing smaller scope.  First it was the dcache_lock, then
it was the dcache_inode_lock, and finally inode->i_lock.

Furthermore inode->i_lock is not held over any other calls
to d_move or __d_move so it can not provide any meaningful
rename protection.
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      a03e283b
    • Eric W. Biederman's avatar
      dcache: Handle escaped paths in prepend_path · cde93be4
      Eric W. Biederman authored 
      A rename can result in a dentry that by walking up d_parent
will never reach it's mnt_root.  For lack of a better term
I call this an escaped path.

prepend_path is called by four different functions __d_path,
d_absolute_path, d_path, and getcwd.

__d_path only wants to see paths are connected to the root it passes
in.  So __d_path needs prepend_path to return an error.

d_absolute_path similarly wants to see paths that are connected to
some root.  Escaped paths are not connected to any mnt_root so
d_absolute_path needs prepend_path to return an error greater
than 1.  So escaped paths will be treated like paths on lazily
unmounted mounts.

getcwd needs to prepend "(unreachable)" so getcwd also needs
prepend_path to return an error.

d_path is the interesting hold out.  d_path just wants to print
something, and does not care about the weird cases.  Which raises
the question what should be printed?

Given that <escaped_path>/<anything> should result in -ENOENT I
believe it is desirable for escaped paths to be printed as empty
paths.  As there are not really any meaninful path components when
considered from the perspective of a mount tree.

So tweak prepend_path to return an empty path with an new error
code of 3 when it encounters an escaped path.
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      cde93be4
  21. 07 Aug, 2015 1 commit
    • Mel Gorman's avatar
      fs, file table: reinit files_stat.max_files after deferred memory initialisation · 4248b0da
      Mel Gorman authored 
      Dave Hansen reported the following;

	My laptop has been behaving strangely with 4.2-rc2.  Once I log
	in to my X session, I start getting all kinds of strange errors
	from applications and see this in my dmesg:

        	VFS: file-max limit 8192 reached

The problem is that the file-max is calculated before memory is fully
initialised and miscalculates how much memory the kernel is using.  This
patch recalculates file-max after deferred memory initialisation.  Note
that using memory hotplug infrastructure would not have avoided this
problem as the value is not recalculated after memory hot-add.

4.1:             files_stat.max_files = 6582781
4.2-rc2:         files_stat.max_files = 8192
4.2-rc2 patched: files_stat.max_files = 6562467

Small differences with the patch applied and 4.1 but not enough to matter.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reported-by: default avatarDave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Alex Ng <alexng@microsoft.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      4248b0da
  23. 12 Jul, 2015 1 commit
    • Al Viro's avatar
      freeing unlinked file indefinitely delayed · 75a6f82a
      Al Viro authored 
      	Normally opening a file, unlinking it and then closing will have
the inode freed upon close() (provided that it's not otherwise busy and
has no remaining links, of course).  However, there's one case where that
does *not* happen.  Namely, if you open it by fhandle with cold dcache,
then unlink() and close().

	In normal case you get d_delete() in unlink(2) notice that dentry
is busy and unhash it; on the final dput() it will be forcibly evicted from
dcache, triggering iput() and inode removal.  In this case, though, we end
up with *two* dentries - disconnected (created by open-by-fhandle) and
regular one (used by unlink()).  The latter will have its reference to inode
dropped just fine, but the former will not - it's considered hashed (it
is on the ->s_anon list), so it will stay around until the memory pressure
will finally do it in.  As the result, we have the final iput() delayed
indefinitely.  It's trivial to reproduce -

void flush_dcache(void)
{
        system("mount -o remount,rw /");
}

static char buf[20 * 1024 * 1024];

main()
{
        int fd;
        union {
                struct file_handle f;
                char buf[MAX_HANDLE_SZ];
        } x;
        int m;

        x.f.handle_bytes = sizeof(x);
        chdir("/root");
        mkdir("foo", 0700);
        fd = open("foo/bar", O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0600);
        close(fd);
        name_to_handle_at(AT_FDCWD, "foo/bar", &x.f, &m, 0);
        flush_dcache();
        fd = open_by_handle_at(AT_FDCWD, &x.f, O_RDWR);
        unlink("foo/bar");
        write(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
        system("df .");			/* 20Mb eaten */
        close(fd);
        system("df .");			/* should've freed those 20Mb */
        flush_dcache();
        system("df .");			/* should be the same as #2 */
}

will spit out something like
Filesystem     1K-blocks   Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root         322023 303843      1131 100% /
Filesystem     1K-blocks   Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root         322023 303843      1131 100% /
Filesystem     1K-blocks   Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root         322023 283282     21692  93% /
- inode gets freed only when dentry is finally evicted (here we trigger
than by remount; normally it would've happened in response to memory
pressure hell knows when).

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.38+; earlier ones need s/kill_it/unhash_it/
Acked-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      75a6f82a
  25. 01 Jul, 2015 1 commit
    • Eric W. Biederman's avatar
      vfs: Remove incorrect debugging WARN in prepend_path · 93e3bce6
      Eric W. Biederman authored 
      The warning message in prepend_path is unclear and outdated.  It was
added as a warning that the mechanism for generating names of pseudo
files had been removed from prepend_path and d_dname should be used
instead.  Unfortunately the warning reads like a general warning,
making it unclear what to do with it.

Remove the warning.  The transition it was added to warn about is long
over, and I added code several years ago which in rare cases causes
the warning to fire on legitimate code, and the warning is now firing
and scaring people for no good reason.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: default avatarIvan Delalande <colona@arista.com>
Reported-by: default avatarOmar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
Fixes: f48cfddc ("vfs: In d_path don't call d_dname on a mount point")
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      93e3bce6
  27. 19 Jun, 2015 1 commit
    • David Howells's avatar
      overlayfs: Make f_path always point to the overlay and f_inode to the underlay · 4bacc9c9
      David Howells authored 
      Make file->f_path always point to the overlay dentry so that the path in
/proc/pid/fd is correct and to ensure that label-based LSMs have access to the
overlay as well as the underlay (path-based LSMs probably don't need it).

Using my union testsuite to set things up, before the patch I see:

	[root@andromeda union-testsuite]# bash 5</mnt/a/foo107
	[root@andromeda union-testsuite]# ls -l /proc/$$/fd/
	...
	lr-x------. 1 root root 64 Jun  5 14:38 5 -> /a/foo107
	[root@andromeda union-testsuite]# stat /mnt/a/foo107
	...
	Device: 23h/35d Inode: 13381       Links: 1
	...
	[root@andromeda union-testsuite]# stat -L /proc/$$/fd/5
	...
	Device: 23h/35d Inode: 13381       Links: 1
	...

After the patch:

	[root@andromeda union-testsuite]# bash 5</mnt/a/foo107
	[root@andromeda union-testsuite]# ls -l /proc/$$/fd/
	...
	lr-x------. 1 root root 64 Jun  5 14:22 5 -> /mnt/a/foo107
	[root@andromeda union-testsuite]# stat /mnt/a/foo107
	...
	Device: 23h/35d Inode: 40346       Links: 1
	...
	[root@andromeda union-testsuite]# stat -L /proc/$$/fd/5
	...
	Device: 23h/35d Inode: 40346       Links: 1
	...

Note the change in where /proc/$$/fd/5 points to in the ls command.  It was
pointing to /a/foo107 (which doesn't exist) and now points to /mnt/a/foo107
(which is correct).

The inode accessed, however, is the lower layer.  The union layer is on device
25h/37d and the upper layer on 24h/36d.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      4bacc9c9
  29. 18 Jun, 2015 1 commit
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      seqcount: Rename write_seqcount_barrier() · a7c6f571
      Peter Zijlstra authored 
      I'll shortly be introducing another seqcount primitive that's useful
to provide ordering semantics and would like to use the
write_seqcount_barrier() name for that.

Seeing how there's only one user of the current primitive, lets rename
it to invalidate, as that appears what its doing.

While there, employ lockdep_assert_held() instead of
assert_spin_locked() to not generate debug code for regular kernels.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: ktkhai@parallels.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: juri.lelli@gmail.com
Cc: pang.xunlei@linaro.org
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150611124743.279926217@infradead.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      a7c6f571
  31. 29 May, 2015 1 commit
    • Al Viro's avatar
      d_walk() might skip too much · 2159184e
      Al Viro authored 
      when we find that a child has died while we'd been trying to ascend,
we should go into the first live sibling itself, rather than its sibling.

Off-by-one in question had been introduced in "deal with deadlock in
d_walk()" and the fix needs to be backported to all branches this one
has been backported to.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.2 and later
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      2159184e
  33. 15 Apr, 2015 1 commit
    • David Howells's avatar
      VFS: Impose ordering on accesses of d_inode and d_flags · 4bf46a27
      David Howells authored 
      Impose ordering on accesses of d_inode and d_flags to avoid the need to do
this:

	if (!dentry->d_inode || d_is_negative(dentry)) {

when this:

	if (d_is_negative(dentry)) {

should suffice.

This check is especially problematic if a dentry can have its type field set
to something other than DENTRY_MISS_TYPE when d_inode is NULL (as in
unionmount).

What we really need to do is stick a write barrier between setting d_inode and
setting d_flags and a read barrier between reading d_flags and reading
d_inode.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      4bf46a27
  35. 12 Apr, 2015 1 commit
    • J. Bruce Fields's avatar
      dcache: return -ESTALE not -EBUSY on distributed fs race · 3d330dc1
      J. Bruce Fields authored 
      On a distributed filesystem it's possible for lookup to discover that a
directory it just found is already cached elsewhere in the directory
heirarchy.  The dcache won't let us keep the directory in both places,
so we have to move the dentry to the new location from the place we
previously had it cached.

If the parent has changed, then this requires all the same locks as we'd
need to do a cross-directory rename.  But we're already in lookup
holding one parent's i_mutex, so it's too late to acquire those locks in
the right order.

The (unreliable) solution in __d_unalias is to trylock() the required
locks and return -EBUSY if it fails.

I see no particular reason for returning -EBUSY, and -ESTALE is already
the result of some other lookup races on NFS.  I think -ESTALE is the
more helpful error return.  It also allows us to take advantage of the
logic Jeff Layton added in c6a94284 "vfs: fix renameat to retry on
ESTALE errors" and ancestors, which hopefully resolves some of these
errors before they're returned to userspace.

I can reproduce these cases using NFS with:

	ssh root@$client '
		mount -olookupcache=pos '$server':'$export' /mnt/
		mkdir /mnt/TO
		mkdir /mnt/DIR
		touch /mnt/DIR/test.txt
		while true; do
			strace -e open cat /mnt/DIR/test.txt 2>&1 | grep EBUSY
		done
	'
	ssh root@$server '
		while true; do
			mv $export/DIR $export/TO/DIR
			mv $export/TO/DIR $export/DIR
		done
	'

It also helps to add some other concurrent use of the directory on the
client (e.g., "ls /mnt/TO").  And you can replace the server-side mv's
by client-side mv's that are repeatedly killed.  (If the client is
interrupted while waiting for the RENAME response then it's left with a
dentry that has to go under one parent or the other, but it doesn't yet
know which.)
Acked-by: default avatarJeff Layton <jlayton@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      3d330dc1
  37. 22 Feb, 2015 2 commits
  39. 14 Feb, 2015 1 commit
    • Andrey Ryabinin's avatar
      fs: dcache: manually unpoison dname after allocation to shut up kasan's reports · df4c0e36
      Andrey Ryabinin authored 
      We need to manually unpoison rounded up allocation size for dname to avoid
kasan's reports in dentry_string_cmp().  When CONFIG_DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS=y
dentry_string_cmp may access few bytes beyound requested in kmalloc()
size.

dentry_string_cmp() relates on that fact that dentry allocated using
kmalloc and kmalloc internally round up allocation size.  So this is not a
bug, but this makes kasan to complain about such accesses.  To avoid such
reports we mark rounded up allocation size in shadow as accessible.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Reported-by: default avatarDmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com>
Cc: Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@gmail.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      df4c0e36
  41. 13 Feb, 2015 2 commits
    • Vladimir Davydov's avatar
      list_lru: add helpers to isolate items · 3f97b163
      Vladimir Davydov authored 
      Currently, the isolate callback passed to the list_lru_walk family of
functions is supposed to just delete an item from the list upon returning
LRU_REMOVED or LRU_REMOVED_RETRY, while nr_items counter is fixed by
__list_lru_walk_one after the callback returns.  Since the callback is
allowed to drop the lock after removing an item (it has to return
LRU_REMOVED_RETRY then), the nr_items can be less than the actual number
of elements on the list even if we check them under the lock.  This makes
it difficult to move items from one list_lru_one to another, which is
required for per-memcg list_lru reparenting - we can't just splice the
lists, we have to move entries one by one.

This patch therefore introduces helpers that must be used by callback
functions to isolate items instead of raw list_del/list_move.  These are
list_lru_isolate and list_lru_isolate_move.  They not only remove the
entry from the list, but also fix the nr_items counter, making sure
nr_items always reflects the actual number of elements on the list if
checked under the appropriate lock.
Signed-off-by: default avatarVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3f97b163
    • Vladimir Davydov's avatar
      list_lru: introduce list_lru_shrink_{count,walk} · 503c358c
      Vladimir Davydov authored 
      Kmem accounting of memcg is unusable now, because it lacks slab shrinker
support.  That means when we hit the limit we will get ENOMEM w/o any
chance to recover.  What we should do then is to call shrink_slab, which
would reclaim old inode/dentry caches from this cgroup.  This is what
this patch set is intended to do.

Basically, it does two things.  First, it introduces the notion of
per-memcg slab shrinker.  A shrinker that wants to reclaim objects per
cgroup should mark itself as SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE.  Then it will be
passed the memory cgroup to scan from in shrink_control->memcg.  For
such shrinkers shrink_slab iterates over the whole cgroup subtree under
the target cgroup and calls the shrinker for each kmem-active memory
cgroup.

Secondly, this patch set makes the list_lru structure per-memcg.  It's
done transparently to list_lru users - everything they have to do is to
tell list_lru_init that they want memcg-aware list_lru.  Then the
list_lru will automatically distribute objects among per-memcg lists
basing on which cgroup the object is accounted to.  This way to make FS
shrinkers (icache, dcache) memcg-aware we only need to make them use
memcg-aware list_lru, and this is what this patch set does.

As before, this patch set only enables per-memcg kmem reclaim when the
pressure goes from memory.limit, not from memory.kmem.limit.  Handling
memory.kmem.limit is going to be tricky due to GFP_NOFS allocations, and
it is still unclear whether we will have this knob in the unified
hierarchy.

This patch (of 9):

NUMA aware slab shrinkers use the list_lru structure to distribute
objects coming from different NUMA nodes to different lists.  Whenever
such a shrinker needs to count or scan objects from a particular node,
it issues commands like this:

        count = list_lru_count_node(lru, sc->nid);
        freed = list_lru_walk_node(lru, sc->nid, isolate_func,
                                   isolate_arg, &sc->nr_to_scan);

where sc is an instance of the shrink_control structure passed to it
from vmscan.

To simplify this, let's add special list_lru functions to be used by
shrinkers, list_lru_shrink_count() and list_lru_shrink_walk(), which
consolidate the nid and nr_to_scan arguments in the shrink_control
structure.

This will also allow us to avoid patching shrinkers that use list_lru
when we make shrink_slab() per-memcg - all we will have to do is extend
the shrink_control structure to include the target memcg and make
list_lru_shrink_{count,walk} handle this appropriately.
Signed-off-by: default avatarVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      503c358c
  43. 26 Jan, 2015 2 commits
  45. 19 Nov, 2014 4 commits
  47. 03 Nov, 2014 2 commits
  49. 24 Oct, 2014 1 commit
    • Al Viro's avatar
      fix inode leaks on d_splice_alias() failure exits · 51486b90
      Al Viro authored 
      d_splice_alias() callers expect it to either stash the inode reference
into a new alias, or drop the inode reference.  That makes it possible
to just return d_splice_alias() result from ->lookup() instance, without
any extra housekeeping required.

Unfortunately, that should include the failure exits.  If d_splice_alias()
returns an error, it leaves the dentry it has been given negative and
thus it *must* drop the inode reference.  Easily fixed, but it goes way
back and will need backporting.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      51486b90
  51. 12 Oct, 2014 1 commit
  53. 09 Oct, 2014 4 commits
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