1. 23 Jul, 2016 1 commit
    • Johannes Weiner's avatar
      mm: memcontrol: fix cgroup creation failure after many small jobs · 73f576c0
      Johannes Weiner authored
      The memory controller has quite a bit of state that usually outlives the
      cgroup and pins its CSS until said state disappears.  At the same time
      it imposes a 16-bit limit on the CSS ID space to economically store IDs
      in the wild.  Consequently, when we use cgroups to contain frequent but
      small and short-lived jobs that leave behind some page cache, we quickly
      run into the 64k limitations of outstanding CSSs.  Creating a new cgroup
      fails with -ENOSPC while there are only a few, or even no user-visible
      cgroups in existence.
      
      Although pinning CSSs past cgroup removal is common, there are only two
      instances that actually need an ID after a cgroup is deleted: cache
      shadow entries and swapout records.
      
      Cache shadow entries reference the ID weakly and can deal with the CSS
      having disappeared when it's looked up later.  They pose no hurdle.
      
      Swap-out records do need to pin the css to hierarchically attribute
      swapins after the cgroup has been deleted; though the only pages that
      remain swapped out after offlining are tmpfs/shmem pages.  And those
      references are under the user's control, so they are manageable.
      
      This patch introduces a private 16-bit memcg ID and switches swap and
      cache shadow entries over to using that.  This ID can then be recycled
      after offlining when the CSS remains pinned only by objects that don't
      specifically need it.
      
      This script demonstrates the problem by faulting one cache page in a new
      cgroup and deleting it again:
      
        set -e
        mkdir -p pages
        for x in `seq 128000`; do
          [ $((x % 1000)) -eq 0 ] && echo $x
          mkdir /cgroup/foo
          echo $$ >/cgroup/foo/cgroup.procs
          echo trex >pages/$x
          echo $$ >/cgroup/cgroup.procs
          rmdir /cgroup/foo
        done
      
      When run on an unpatched kernel, we eventually run out of possible IDs
      even though there are no visible cgroups:
      
        [root@ham ~]# ./cssidstress.sh
        [...]
        65000
        mkdir: cannot create directory '/cgroup/foo': No space left on device
      
      After this patch, the IDs get released upon cgroup destruction and the
      cache and css objects get released once memory reclaim kicks in.
      
      [hannes@cmpxchg.org: init the IDR]
        Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160621154601.GA22431@cmpxchg.org
      Fixes: b2052564 ("mm: memcontrol: continue cache reclaim from offlined groups")
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160617162516.GD19084@cmpxchg.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Reported-by: default avatarJohn Garcia <john.garcia@mesosphere.io>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Cc: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com>
      Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[3.19+]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      73f576c0
  2. 16 Jul, 2016 1 commit
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'for-linus-20160715' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd · 47ef4ad2
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull MTD fix from Brian Norris:
       "Late MTD fix for v4.7:
      
        One regression in the Device Tree handling for OMAP NAND handling of
        the ELM node.  TI migrated to using the property name "ti,elm-id", but
        forgot to keep compatibility with the old "elm_id" property.
      
        Also, might as well send out this MAINTAINERS fixup now"
      
      * tag 'for-linus-20160715' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd:
        mtd: nand: omap2: Add check for old elm binding
        MAINTAINERS: Add file patterns for mtd device tree bindings
      47ef4ad2
  3. 15 Jul, 2016 33 commits
  4. 14 Jul, 2016 5 commits