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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'metag-fixes-v4.0-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag · 4c4fe4c2
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Pull arch/metag fix from James Hogan:
 "Another metag architecture fix for v4.0

  This is another single fix, for an include dependency problem when
  using ioremap_wc() from asm/io.h without also including asm/pgtable.h"

* tag 'metag-fixes-v4.0-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag:
  metag: Fix ioremap_wc/ioremap_cached build errors
      4c4fe4c2
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) · 9c8e30d1
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
 "15 fixes"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>:
  mm: numa: mark huge PTEs young when clearing NUMA hinting faults
  mm: numa: slow PTE scan rate if migration failures occur
  mm: numa: preserve PTE write permissions across a NUMA hinting fault
  mm: numa: group related processes based on VMA flags instead of page table flags
  hfsplus: fix B-tree corruption after insertion at position 0
  MAINTAINERS: add Jan as DMI/SMBIOS support maintainer
  fs/affs/file.c: unlock/release page on error
  mm/page_alloc.c: call kernel_map_pages in unset_migrateype_isolate
  mm/slub: fix lockups on PREEMPT && !SMP kernels
  mm/memory hotplug: postpone the reset of obsolete pgdat
  MAINTAINERS: correct rtc armada38x pattern entry
  mm/pagewalk.c: prevent positive return value of walk_page_test() from being passed to callers
  mm: fix anon_vma->degree underflow in anon_vma endless growing prevention
  drivers/rtc/rtc-mrst: fix suspend/resume
  aoe: update aoe maintainer information
      9c8e30d1
    • Marcelo Tosatti's avatar
      Merge tag 'signed-for-4.0' of git://github.com/agraf/linux-2.6 · 27bfc6cf
      Marcelo Tosatti authored 
      Patch queue for 4.0 - 2015-03-25

A few bug fixes for Book3S HV KVM:

  - Fix spinlock ordering
  - Fix idle guests on LE hosts
  - Fix instruction emulation
      27bfc6cf
    • Mel Gorman's avatar
      mm: numa: mark huge PTEs young when clearing NUMA hinting faults · b7b04004
      Mel Gorman authored 
      Base PTEs are marked young when the NUMA hinting information is cleared
but the same does not happen for huge pages which this patch addresses.

Note that migrated pages are not marked young as the base page migration
code does not assume that migrated pages have been referenced.  This
could be addressed but beyond the scope of this series which is aimed at
Dave Chinners shrink workload that is unlikely to be affected by this
issue.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b7b04004
    • Mel Gorman's avatar
      mm: numa: slow PTE scan rate if migration failures occur · 074c2381
      Mel Gorman authored 
      Dave Chinner reported the following on https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/1/226

  Across the board the 4.0-rc1 numbers are much slower, and the degradation
  is far worse when using the large memory footprint configs. Perf points
  straight at the cause - this is from 4.0-rc1 on the "-o bhash=101073" config:

   -   56.07%    56.07%  [kernel]            [k] default_send_IPI_mask_sequence_phys
      - default_send_IPI_mask_sequence_phys
         - 99.99% physflat_send_IPI_mask
            - 99.37% native_send_call_func_ipi
                 smp_call_function_many
               - native_flush_tlb_others
                  - 99.85% flush_tlb_page
                       ptep_clear_flush
                       try_to_unmap_one
                       rmap_walk
                       try_to_unmap
                       migrate_pages
                       migrate_misplaced_page
                     - handle_mm_fault
                        - 99.73% __do_page_fault
                             trace_do_page_fault
                             do_async_page_fault
                           + async_page_fault
              0.63% native_send_call_func_single_ipi
                 generic_exec_single
                 smp_call_function_single

This is showing excessive migration activity even though excessive
migrations are meant to get throttled.  Normally, the scan rate is tuned
on a per-task basis depending on the locality of faults.  However, if
migrations fail for any reason then the PTE scanner may scan faster if
the faults continue to be remote.  This means there is higher system CPU
overhead and fault trapping at exactly the time we know that migrations
cannot happen.  This patch tracks when migration failures occur and
slows the PTE scanner.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reported-by: default avatarDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Tested-by: default avatarDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      074c2381
    • Mel Gorman's avatar
      mm: numa: preserve PTE write permissions across a NUMA hinting fault · b191f9b1
      Mel Gorman authored 
      Protecting a PTE to trap a NUMA hinting fault clears the writable bit
and further faults are needed after trapping a NUMA hinting fault to set
the writable bit again.  This patch preserves the writable bit when
trapping NUMA hinting faults.  The impact is obvious from the number of
minor faults trapped during the basis balancing benchmark and the system
CPU usage;

  autonumabench
                                             4.0.0-rc4             4.0.0-rc4
                                              baseline              preserve
  Time System-NUMA01                  107.13 (  0.00%)      103.13 (  3.73%)
  Time System-NUMA01_THEADLOCAL       131.87 (  0.00%)       83.30 ( 36.83%)
  Time System-NUMA02                    8.95 (  0.00%)       10.72 (-19.78%)
  Time System-NUMA02_SMT                4.57 (  0.00%)        3.99 ( 12.69%)
  Time Elapsed-NUMA01                 515.78 (  0.00%)      517.26 ( -0.29%)
  Time Elapsed-NUMA01_THEADLOCAL      384.10 (  0.00%)      384.31 ( -0.05%)
  Time Elapsed-NUMA02                  48.86 (  0.00%)       48.78 (  0.16%)
  Time Elapsed-NUMA02_SMT              47.98 (  0.00%)       48.12 ( -0.29%)

               4.0.0-rc4   4.0.0-rc4
                baseline    preserve
  User          44383.95    43971.89
  System          252.61      201.24
  Elapsed         998.68     1000.94

  Minor Faults   2597249     1981230
  Major Faults       365         364

There is a similar drop in system CPU usage using Dave Chinner's xfsrepair
workload

                                      4.0.0-rc4             4.0.0-rc4
                                       baseline              preserve
  Amean    real-xfsrepair      454.14 (  0.00%)      442.36 (  2.60%)
  Amean    syst-xfsrepair      277.20 (  0.00%)      204.68 ( 26.16%)

The patch looks hacky but the alternatives looked worse.  The tidest was
to rewalk the page tables after a hinting fault but it was more complex
than this approach and the performance was worse.  It's not generally
safe to just mark the page writable during the fault if it's a write
fault as it may have been read-only for COW so that approach was
discarded.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reported-by: default avatarDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Tested-by: default avatarDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      b191f9b1
    • Mel Gorman's avatar
      mm: numa: group related processes based on VMA flags instead of page table flags · bea66fbd
      Mel Gorman authored 
      These are three follow-on patches based on the xfsrepair workload Dave
Chinner reported was problematic in 4.0-rc1 due to changes in page table
management -- https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/1/226.

Much of the problem was reduced by commit 53da3bc2 ("mm: fix up numa
read-only thread grouping logic") and commit ba68bc01 ("mm: thp:
Return the correct value for change_huge_pmd").  It was known that the
performance in 3.19 was still better even if is far less safe.  This
series aims to restore the performance without compromising on safety.

For the test of this mail, I'm comparing 3.19 against 4.0-rc4 and the
three patches applied on top

  autonumabench
                                                3.19.0             4.0.0-rc4             4.0.0-rc4             4.0.0-rc4             4.0.0-rc4
                                               vanilla               vanilla          vmwrite-v5r8         preserve-v5r8         slowscan-v5r8
  Time System-NUMA01                  124.00 (  0.00%)      161.86 (-30.53%)      107.13 ( 13.60%)      103.13 ( 16.83%)      145.01 (-16.94%)
  Time System-NUMA01_THEADLOCAL       115.54 (  0.00%)      107.64 (  6.84%)      131.87 (-14.13%)       83.30 ( 27.90%)       92.35 ( 20.07%)
  Time System-NUMA02                    9.35 (  0.00%)       10.44 (-11.66%)        8.95 (  4.28%)       10.72 (-14.65%)        8.16 ( 12.73%)
  Time System-NUMA02_SMT                3.87 (  0.00%)        4.63 (-19.64%)        4.57 (-18.09%)        3.99 ( -3.10%)        3.36 ( 13.18%)
  Time Elapsed-NUMA01                 570.06 (  0.00%)      567.82 (  0.39%)      515.78 (  9.52%)      517.26 (  9.26%)      543.80 (  4.61%)
  Time Elapsed-NUMA01_THEADLOCAL      393.69 (  0.00%)      384.83 (  2.25%)      384.10 (  2.44%)      384.31 (  2.38%)      380.73 (  3.29%)
  Time Elapsed-NUMA02                  49.09 (  0.00%)       49.33 ( -0.49%)       48.86 (  0.47%)       48.78 (  0.63%)       50.94 ( -3.77%)
  Time Elapsed-NUMA02_SMT              47.51 (  0.00%)       47.15 (  0.76%)       47.98 ( -0.99%)       48.12 ( -1.28%)       49.56 ( -4.31%)

                3.19.0   4.0.0-rc4   4.0.0-rc4   4.0.0-rc4   4.0.0-rc4
               vanilla     vanillavmwrite-v5r8preserve-v5r8slowscan-v5r8
  User        46334.60    46391.94    44383.95    43971.89    44372.12
  System        252.84      284.66      252.61      201.24      249.00
  Elapsed      1062.14     1050.96      998.68     1000.94     1026.78

Overall the system CPU usage is comparable and the test is naturally a
bit variable.  The slowing of the scanner hurts numa01 but on this
machine it is an adverse workload and patches that dramatically help it
often hurt absolutely everything else.

Due to patch 2, the fault activity is interesting

                                  3.19.0   4.0.0-rc4   4.0.0-rc4   4.0.0-rc4   4.0.0-rc4
                                 vanilla     vanillavmwrite-v5r8preserve-v5r8slowscan-v5r8
  Minor Faults                   2097811     2656646     2597249     1981230     1636841
  Major Faults                       362         450         365         364         365

Note the impact preserving the write bit across protection updates and
fault reduces faults.

  NUMA alloc hit                 1229008     1217015     1191660     1178322     1199681
  NUMA alloc miss                      0           0           0           0           0
  NUMA interleave hit                  0           0           0           0           0
  NUMA alloc local               1228514     1216317     1190871     1177448     1199021
  NUMA base PTE updates        245706197   240041607   238195516   244704842   115012800
  NUMA huge PMD updates           479530      468448      464868      477573      224487
  NUMA page range updates      491225557   479886983   476207932   489222218   229950144
  NUMA hint faults                659753      656503      641678      656926      294842
  NUMA hint local faults          381604      373963      360478      337585      186249
  NUMA hint local percent             57          56          56          51          63
  NUMA pages migrated            5412140     6374899     6266530     5277468     5755096
  AutoNUMA cost                    5121%       5083%       4994%       5097%       2388%

Here the impact of slowing the PTE scanner on migratrion failures is
obvious as "NUMA base PTE updates" and "NUMA huge PMD updates" are
massively reduced even though the headline performance is very similar.

As xfsrepair was the reported workload here is the impact of the series
on it.

  xfsrepair
                                         3.19.0             4.0.0-rc4             4.0.0-rc4             4.0.0-rc4             4.0.0-rc4
                                        vanilla               vanilla          vmwrite-v5r8         preserve-v5r8         slowscan-v5r8
  Min      real-fsmark        1183.29 (  0.00%)     1165.73 (  1.48%)     1152.78 (  2.58%)     1153.64 (  2.51%)     1177.62 (  0.48%)
  Min      syst-fsmark        4107.85 (  0.00%)     4027.75 (  1.95%)     3986.74 (  2.95%)     3979.16 (  3.13%)     4048.76 (  1.44%)
  Min      real-xfsrepair      441.51 (  0.00%)      463.96 ( -5.08%)      449.50 ( -1.81%)      440.08 (  0.32%)      439.87 (  0.37%)
  Min      syst-xfsrepair      195.76 (  0.00%)      278.47 (-42.25%)      262.34 (-34.01%)      203.70 ( -4.06%)      143.64 ( 26.62%)
  Amean    real-fsmark        1188.30 (  0.00%)     1177.34 (  0.92%)     1157.97 (  2.55%)     1158.21 (  2.53%)     1182.22 (  0.51%)
  Amean    syst-fsmark        4111.37 (  0.00%)     4055.70 (  1.35%)     3987.19 (  3.02%)     3998.72 (  2.74%)     4061.69 (  1.21%)
  Amean    real-xfsrepair      450.88 (  0.00%)      468.32 ( -3.87%)      454.14 ( -0.72%)      442.36 (  1.89%)      440.59 (  2.28%)
  Amean    syst-xfsrepair      199.66 (  0.00%)      290.60 (-45.55%)      277.20 (-38.84%)      204.68 ( -2.51%)      150.55 ( 24.60%)
  Stddev   real-fsmark           4.12 (  0.00%)       10.82 (-162.29%)       4.14 ( -0.28%)        5.98 (-45.05%)        4.60 (-11.53%)
  Stddev   syst-fsmark           2.63 (  0.00%)       20.32 (-671.82%)       0.37 ( 85.89%)       16.47 (-525.59%)      15.05 (-471.79%)
  Stddev   real-xfsrepair        6.87 (  0.00%)        4.55 ( 33.75%)        3.46 ( 49.58%)        1.78 ( 74.12%)        0.52 ( 92.50%)
  Stddev   syst-xfsrepair        3.02 (  0.00%)       10.30 (-241.37%)      13.17 (-336.37%)       0.71 ( 76.63%)        5.00 (-65.61%)
  CoeffVar real-fsmark           0.35 (  0.00%)        0.92 (-164.73%)       0.36 ( -2.91%)        0.52 (-48.82%)        0.39 (-12.10%)
  CoeffVar syst-fsmark           0.06 (  0.00%)        0.50 (-682.41%)       0.01 ( 85.45%)        0.41 (-543.22%)       0.37 (-478.78%)
  CoeffVar real-xfsrepair        1.52 (  0.00%)        0.97 ( 36.21%)        0.76 ( 49.94%)        0.40 ( 73.62%)        0.12 ( 92.33%)
  CoeffVar syst-xfsrepair        1.51 (  0.00%)        3.54 (-134.54%)       4.75 (-214.31%)       0.34 ( 77.20%)        3.32 (-119.63%)
  Max      real-fsmark        1193.39 (  0.00%)     1191.77 (  0.14%)     1162.90 (  2.55%)     1166.66 (  2.24%)     1188.50 (  0.41%)
  Max      syst-fsmark        4114.18 (  0.00%)     4075.45 (  0.94%)     3987.65 (  3.08%)     4019.45 (  2.30%)     4082.80 (  0.76%)
  Max      real-xfsrepair      457.80 (  0.00%)      474.60 ( -3.67%)      457.82 ( -0.00%)      444.42 (  2.92%)      441.03 (  3.66%)
  Max      syst-xfsrepair      203.11 (  0.00%)      303.65 (-49.50%)      294.35 (-44.92%)      205.33 ( -1.09%)      155.28 ( 23.55%)

The really relevant lines as syst-xfsrepair which is the system CPU
usage when running xfsrepair.  Note that on my machine the overhead was
45% higher on 4.0-rc4 which may be part of what Dave is seeing.  Once we
preserve the write bit across faults, it's only 2.51% higher on average.
With the full series applied, system CPU usage is 24.6% lower on
average.

Again, the impact of preserving the write bit on minor faults is obvious
and the impact of slowing scanning after migration failures is obvious
on the PTE updates.  Note also that the number of pages migrated is much
reduced even though the headline performance is comparable.

                                  3.19.0   4.0.0-rc4   4.0.0-rc4   4.0.0-rc4   4.0.0-rc4
                                 vanilla     vanillavmwrite-v5r8preserve-v5r8slowscan-v5r8
  Minor Faults                 153466827   254507978   249163829   153501373   105737890
  Major Faults                       610         702         690         649         724
  NUMA base PTE updates        217735049   210756527   217729596   216937111   144344993
  NUMA huge PMD updates           129294       85044      106921      127246       79887
  NUMA pages migrated           21938995    29705270    28594162    22687324    16258075

                        3.19.0   4.0.0-rc4   4.0.0-rc4   4.0.0-rc4   4.0.0-rc4
                       vanilla     vanillavmwrite-v5r8preserve-v5r8slowscan-v5r8
  Mean sdb-avgqusz       13.47        2.54        2.55        2.47        2.49
  Mean sdb-avgrqsz      202.32      140.22      139.50      139.02      138.12
  Mean sdb-await         25.92        5.09        5.33        5.02        5.22
  Mean sdb-r_await        4.71        0.19        0.83        0.51        0.11
  Mean sdb-w_await      104.13        5.21        5.38        5.05        5.32
  Mean sdb-svctm          0.59        0.13        0.14        0.13        0.14
  Mean sdb-rrqm           0.16        0.00        0.00        0.00        0.00
  Mean sdb-wrqm           3.59     1799.43     1826.84     1812.21     1785.67
  Max  sdb-avgqusz      111.06       12.13       14.05       11.66       15.60
  Max  sdb-avgrqsz      255.60      190.34      190.01      187.33      191.78
  Max  sdb-await        168.24       39.28       49.22       44.64       65.62
  Max  sdb-r_await      660.00       52.00      280.00       76.00       12.00
  Max  sdb-w_await     7804.00       39.28       49.22       44.64       65.62
  Max  sdb-svctm          4.00        2.82        2.86        1.98        2.84
  Max  sdb-rrqm           8.30        0.00        0.00        0.00        0.00
  Max  sdb-wrqm          34.20     5372.80     5278.60     5386.60     5546.15

FWIW, I also checked SPECjbb in different configurations but it's
similar observations -- minor faults lower, PTE update activity lower
and performance is roughly comparable against 3.19.

This patch (of 3):

Threads that share writable data within pages are grouped together as
related tasks.  This decision is based on whether the PTE is marked
dirty which is subject to timing races between the PTE scanner update
and when the application writes the page.  If the page is file-backed,
then background flushes and sync also affect placement.  This is
unpredictable behaviour which is impossible to reason about so this
patch makes grouping decisions based on the VMA flags.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reported-by: default avatarDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Tested-by: default avatarDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      bea66fbd
    • Sergei Antonov's avatar
      hfsplus: fix B-tree corruption after insertion at position 0 · 98cf21c6
      Sergei Antonov authored 
      Fix B-tree corruption when a new record is inserted at position 0 in the
node in hfs_brec_insert().  In this case a hfs_brec_update_parent() is
called to update the parent index node (if exists) and it is passed
hfs_find_data with a search_key containing a newly inserted key instead
of the key to be updated.  This results in an inconsistent index node.
The bug reproduces on my machine after an extents overflow record for
the catalog file (CNID=4) is inserted into the extents overflow B-tree.
Because of a low (reserved) value of CNID=4, it has to become the first
record in the first leaf node.

The resulting first leaf node is correct:

  ----------------------------------------------------
  | key0.CNID=4 | key1.CNID=123 | key2.CNID=456, ... |
  ----------------------------------------------------

But the parent index key0 still contains the previous key CNID=123:

  -----------------------
  | key0.CNID=123 | ... |
  -----------------------

A change in hfs_brec_insert() makes hfs_brec_update_parent() work
correctly by preventing it from getting fd->record=-1 value from
__hfs_brec_find().

Along the way, I removed duplicate code with unification of the if
condition.  The resulting code is equivalent to the original code
because node is never 0.

Also hfs_brec_update_parent() will now return an error after getting a
negative fd->record value.  However, the return value of
hfs_brec_update_parent() is not checked anywhere in the file and I'm
leaving it unchanged by this patch.  brec.c lacks error checking after
some other calls too, but this issue is of less importance than the one
being fixed by this patch.
Signed-off-by: default avatarSergei Antonov <saproj@gmail.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarVyacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com>
Acked-by: default avatarHin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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>
      98cf21c6
    • Jean Delvare's avatar
      MAINTAINERS: add Jan as DMI/SMBIOS support maintainer · 1f31e1b1
      Jean Delvare authored 
      I am familiar with these drivers and I care about them so let me add
myself as their maintainer.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      1f31e1b1
    • Taesoo Kim's avatar
      fs/affs/file.c: unlock/release page on error · 3d5d472c
      Taesoo Kim authored 
      When affs_bread_ino() fails, correctly unlock the page and release the
page cache with proper error value.  All write_end() should
unlock/release the page that was locked by write_beg().
Signed-off-by: default avatarTaesoo Kim <tsgatesv@gmail.com>
Cc: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      3d5d472c
    • Laura Abbott's avatar
      mm/page_alloc.c: call kernel_map_pages in unset_migrateype_isolate · cfa86943
      Laura Abbott authored 
      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>
      cfa86943
    • Mark Rutland's avatar
      mm/slub: fix lockups on PREEMPT && !SMP kernels · 859b7a0e
      Mark Rutland authored 
      Commit 9aabf810 ("mm/slub: optimize alloc/free fastpath by removing
preemption on/off") introduced an occasional hang for kernels built with
CONFIG_PREEMPT && !CONFIG_SMP.

The problem is the following loop the patch introduced to
slab_alloc_node and slab_free:

    do {
        tid = this_cpu_read(s->cpu_slab->tid);
        c = raw_cpu_ptr(s->cpu_slab);
    } while (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT) && unlikely(tid != c->tid));

GCC 4.9 has been observed to hoist the load of c and c->tid above the
loop for !SMP kernels (as in this case raw_cpu_ptr(x) is compile-time
constant and does not force a reload).  On arm64 the generated assembly
looks like:

         ldr     x4, [x0,#8]
  loop:
         ldr     x1, [x0,#8]
         cmp     x1, x4
         b.ne    loop

If the thread is preempted between the load of c->tid (into x1) and tid
(into x4), and an allocation or free occurs in another thread (bumping
the cpu_slab's tid), the thread will be stuck in the loop until
s->cpu_slab->tid wraps, which may be forever in the absence of
allocations/frees on the same CPU.

This patch changes the loop condition to access c->tid with READ_ONCE.
This ensures that the value is reloaded even when the compiler would
otherwise assume it could cache the value, and also ensures that the
load will not be torn.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      859b7a0e
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