1. 24 Nov, 2012 10 commits
  2. 22 Nov, 2012 1 commit
  3. 21 Nov, 2012 16 commits
  4. 17 Nov, 2012 2 commits
  5. 16 Nov, 2012 11 commits
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'akpm' (Fixes from Andrew) · 0cad3ff4
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton.
      
      * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (12 patches)
        revert "mm: fix-up zone present pages"
        tmpfs: change final i_blocks BUG to WARNING
        tmpfs: fix shmem_getpage_gfp() VM_BUG_ON
        mm: highmem: don't treat PKMAP_ADDR(LAST_PKMAP) as a highmem address
        mm: revert "mm: vmscan: scale number of pages reclaimed by reclaim/compaction based on failures"
        rapidio: fix kernel-doc warnings
        swapfile: fix name leak in swapoff
        memcg: fix hotplugged memory zone oops
        mips, arc: fix build failure
        memcg: oom: fix totalpages calculation for memory.swappiness==0
        mm: fix build warning for uninitialized value
        mm: add anon_vma_lock to validate_mm()
      0cad3ff4
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      revert "mm: fix-up zone present pages" · 5576646f
      Andrew Morton authored
      Revert commit 7f1290f2 ("mm: fix-up zone present pages")
      
      That patch tried to fix a issue when calculating zone->present_pages,
      but it caused a regression on 32bit systems with HIGHMEM.  With that
      change, reset_zone_present_pages() resets all zone->present_pages to
      zero, and fixup_zone_present_pages() is called to recalculate
      zone->present_pages when the boot allocator frees core memory pages into
      buddy allocator.  Because highmem pages are not freed by bootmem
      allocator, all highmem zones' present_pages becomes zero.
      
      Various options for improving the situation are being discussed but for
      now, let's return to the 3.6 code.
      
      Cc: Jianguo Wu <wujianguo@huawei.com>
      Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
      Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
      Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
      Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Tested-by: default avatarChris Clayton <chris2553@googlemail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5576646f
    • Hugh Dickins's avatar
      tmpfs: change final i_blocks BUG to WARNING · 0f3c42f5
      Hugh Dickins authored
      Under a particular load on one machine, I have hit shmem_evict_inode()'s
      BUG_ON(inode->i_blocks), enough times to narrow it down to a particular
      race between swapout and eviction.
      
      It comes from the "if (freed > 0)" asymmetry in shmem_recalc_inode(),
      and the lack of coherent locking between mapping's nrpages and shmem's
      swapped count.  There's a window in shmem_writepage(), between lowering
      nrpages in shmem_delete_from_page_cache() and then raising swapped
      count, when the freed count appears to be +1 when it should be 0, and
      then the asymmetry stops it from being corrected with -1 before hitting
      the BUG.
      
      One answer is coherent locking: using tree_lock throughout, without
      info->lock; reasonable, but the raw_spin_lock in percpu_counter_add() on
      used_blocks makes that messier than expected.  Another answer may be a
      further effort to eliminate the weird shmem_recalc_inode() altogether,
      but previous attempts at that failed.
      
      So far undecided, but for now change the BUG_ON to WARN_ON: in usual
      circumstances it remains a useful consistency check.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@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>
      0f3c42f5
    • Hugh Dickins's avatar
      tmpfs: fix shmem_getpage_gfp() VM_BUG_ON · 215c02bc
      Hugh Dickins authored
      Fuzzing with trinity hit the "impossible" VM_BUG_ON(error) (which Fedora
      has converted to WARNING) in shmem_getpage_gfp():
      
        WARNING: at mm/shmem.c:1151 shmem_getpage_gfp+0xa5c/0xa70()
        Pid: 29795, comm: trinity-child4 Not tainted 3.7.0-rc2+ #49
        Call Trace:
          warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
          warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
          shmem_getpage_gfp+0xa5c/0xa70
          shmem_fault+0x4f/0xa0
          __do_fault+0x71/0x5c0
          handle_pte_fault+0x97/0xae0
          handle_mm_fault+0x289/0x350
          __do_page_fault+0x18e/0x530
          do_page_fault+0x2b/0x50
          page_fault+0x28/0x30
          tracesys+0xe1/0xe6
      
      Thanks to Johannes for pointing to truncation: free_swap_and_cache()
      only does a trylock on the page, so the page lock we've held since
      before confirming swap is not enough to protect against truncation.
      
      What cleanup is needed in this case? Just delete_from_swap_cache(),
      which takes care of the memcg uncharge.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Reported-by: default avatarDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.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>
      215c02bc
    • Will Deacon's avatar
      mm: highmem: don't treat PKMAP_ADDR(LAST_PKMAP) as a highmem address · 498c2280
      Will Deacon authored
      kmap_to_page returns the corresponding struct page for a virtual address
      of an arbitrary mapping.  This works by checking whether the address
      falls in the pkmap region and using the pkmap page tables instead of the
      linear mapping if appropriate.
      
      Unfortunately, the bounds checking means that PKMAP_ADDR(LAST_PKMAP) is
      incorrectly treated as a highmem address and we can end up walking off
      the end of pkmap_page_table and subsequently passing junk to pte_page.
      
      This patch fixes the bound check to stay within the pkmap tables.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
      Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      498c2280
    • Mel Gorman's avatar
      mm: revert "mm: vmscan: scale number of pages reclaimed by reclaim/compaction based on failures" · 96710098
      Mel Gorman authored
      Jiri Slaby reported the following:
      
      	(It's an effective revert of "mm: vmscan: scale number of pages
      	reclaimed by reclaim/compaction based on failures".) Given kswapd
      	had hours of runtime in ps/top output yesterday in the morning
      	and after the revert it's now 2 minutes in sum for the last 24h,
      	I would say, it's gone.
      
      The intention of the patch in question was to compensate for the loss of
      lumpy reclaim.  Part of the reason lumpy reclaim worked is because it
      aggressively reclaimed pages and this patch was meant to be a sane
      compromise.
      
      When compaction fails, it gets deferred and both compaction and
      reclaim/compaction is deferred avoid excessive reclaim.  However, since
      commit c6543459 ("mm: remove __GFP_NO_KSWAPD"), kswapd is woken up
      each time and continues reclaiming which was not taken into account when
      the patch was developed.
      
      Attempts to address the problem ended up just changing the shape of the
      problem instead of fixing it.  The release window gets closer and while
      a THP allocation failing is not a major problem, kswapd chewing up a lot
      of CPU is.
      
      This patch reverts commit 83fde0f2 ("mm: vmscan: scale number of
      pages reclaimed by reclaim/compaction based on failures") and will be
      revisited in the future.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
      Cc: Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
      Tested-by: default avatarValdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
      Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
      Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
      Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
      Cc: Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@fem.tu-ilmenau.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      96710098
    • Randy Dunlap's avatar
      rapidio: fix kernel-doc warnings · 2ca3cb50
      Randy Dunlap authored
      Fix rapidio kernel-doc warnings:
      
        Warning(drivers/rapidio/rio.c:415): No description found for parameter 'local'
        Warning(drivers/rapidio/rio.c:415): Excess function parameter 'lstart' description in 'rio_map_inb_region'
        Warning(include/linux/rio.h:290): No description found for parameter 'switches'
        Warning(include/linux/rio.h:290): No description found for parameter 'destid_table'
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
      Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarAlexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@idt.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      2ca3cb50
    • Xiaotian Feng's avatar
      swapfile: fix name leak in swapoff · f58b59c1
      Xiaotian Feng authored
      There's a name leak introduced by commit 91a27b2a ("vfs: define
      struct filename and have getname() return it").  Add the missing
      putname.
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarXiaotian Feng <dannyfeng@tencent.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
      Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      f58b59c1
    • Hugh Dickins's avatar
      memcg: fix hotplugged memory zone oops · bea8c150
      Hugh Dickins authored
      When MEMCG is configured on (even when it's disabled by boot option),
      when adding or removing a page to/from its lru list, the zone pointer
      used for stats updates is nowadays taken from the struct lruvec.  (On
      many configurations, calculating zone from page is slower.)
      
      But we have no code to update all the lruvecs (per zone, per memcg) when
      a memory node is hotadded.  Here's an extract from the oops which
      results when running numactl to bind a program to a newly onlined node:
      
        BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000f60
        IP:  __mod_zone_page_state+0x9/0x60
        Pid: 1219, comm: numactl Not tainted 3.6.0-rc5+ #180 Bochs Bochs
        Process numactl (pid: 1219, threadinfo ffff880039abc000, task ffff8800383c4ce0)
        Call Trace:
          __pagevec_lru_add_fn+0xdf/0x140
          pagevec_lru_move_fn+0xb1/0x100
          __pagevec_lru_add+0x1c/0x30
          lru_add_drain_cpu+0xa3/0x130
          lru_add_drain+0x2f/0x40
         ...
      
      The natural solution might be to use a memcg callback whenever memory is
      hotadded; but that solution has not been scoped out, and it happens that
      we do have an easy location at which to update lruvec->zone.  The lruvec
      pointer is discovered either by mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec() or by
      mem_cgroup_page_lruvec(), and both of those do know the right zone.
      
      So check and set lruvec->zone in those; and remove the inadequate
      attempt to set lruvec->zone from lruvec_init(), which is called before
      NODE_DATA(node) has been allocated in such cases.
      
      Ah, there was one exceptionr.  For no particularly good reason,
      mem_cgroup_force_empty_list() has its own code for deciding lruvec.
      Change it to use the standard mem_cgroup_zone_lruvec() and
      mem_cgroup_get_lru_size() too.  In fact it was already safe against such
      an oops (the lru lists in danger could only be empty), but we're better
      proofed against future changes this way.
      
      I've marked this for stable (3.6) since we introduced the problem in 3.5
      (now closed to stable); but I have no idea if this is the only fix
      needed to get memory hotadd working with memcg in 3.6, and received no
      answer when I enquired twice before.
      Reported-by: default avatarTang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
      Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.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>
      bea8c150
    • David Rientjes's avatar
      mips, arc: fix build failure · 18f69427
      David Rientjes authored
      Using a cross-compiler to fix another issue, the following build error
      occurred for mips defconfig:
      
        arch/mips/fw/arc/misc.c: In function 'ArcHalt':
        arch/mips/fw/arc/misc.c:25:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'local_irq_disable'
      
      Fix it up by including irqflags.h.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      18f69427
    • Michal Hocko's avatar
      memcg: oom: fix totalpages calculation for memory.swappiness==0 · 9a5a8f19
      Michal Hocko authored
      oom_badness() takes a totalpages argument which says how many pages are
      available and it uses it as a base for the score calculation.  The value
      is calculated by mem_cgroup_get_limit which considers both limit and
      total_swap_pages (resp.  memsw portion of it).
      
      This is usually correct but since fe35004f ("mm: avoid swapping out
      with swappiness==0") we do not swap when swappiness is 0 which means
      that we cannot really use up all the totalpages pages.  This in turn
      confuses oom score calculation if the memcg limit is much smaller than
      the available swap because the used memory (capped by the limit) is
      negligible comparing to totalpages so the resulting score is too small
      if adj!=0 (typically task with CAP_SYS_ADMIN or non zero oom_score_adj).
      A wrong process might be selected as result.
      
      The problem can be worked around by checking mem_cgroup_swappiness==0
      and not considering swap at all in such a case.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
      Acked-by: default avatarDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.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>
      9a5a8f19