- 07 Nov, 2015 27 commits
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Hui Zhu authored
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix grammar] Signed-off-by: Hui Zhu <zhuhui@xiaomi.com> Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Sergey SENOZHATSKY authored
Constify `struct zs_pool' ->name. [akpm@inux-foundation.org: constify zpool_create_pool()'s `type' arg also] Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Acked-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dan Streetman authored
Make the return type of zpool_get_type const; the string belongs to the zpool driver and should not be modified. Remove the redundant type field in the struct zpool; it is private to zpool.c and isn't needed since ->driver->type can be used directly. Add comments indicating strings must be null-terminated. Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dan Streetman authored
Instead of using a fixed-length string for the zswap params, use charp. This simplifies the code and uses less memory, as most zswap param strings will be less than the current maximum length. Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dan Streetman authored
Change the param_free_charp() function from static to exported. It is used by zswap in the next patch ("zswap: use charp for zswap param strings"). Signed-off-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alexey Klimov authored
On the next line entry variable will be re-initialized so no need to init it with NULL. Signed-off-by: Alexey Klimov <alexey.klimov@linaro.org> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net> Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Geliang Tang authored
Make is_partial_io()/valid_io_request()/page_zero_filled() return boolean, since each function only uses either one or zero as its return value. Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com> Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Sergey SENOZHATSKY authored
`mem_used_max' is designed to store the max amount of memory zram consumed to store the data. However, it does not represent the actual 'overcommited' (max) value. The existing code goes to -ENOMEM overcommited case before it updates `->stats.max_used_pages', which hides the reason we went to -ENOMEM in the first place -- we actually used more memory than `->limit_pages': alloced_pages = zs_get_total_pages(meta->mem_pool); if (zram->limit_pages && alloced_pages > zram->limit_pages) { zs_free(meta->mem_pool, handle); ret = -ENOMEM; goto out; } update_used_max(zram, alloced_pages); Which is misleading. User will see -ENOMEM, check `->limit_pages', check `->stats.max_used_pages', which will keep the value BEFORE zram passed `->limit_pages', and see: `->stats.max_used_pages' < `->limit_pages' Move update_used_max() before we do `->limit_pages' check, so that user will see: `->stats.max_used_pages' > `->limit_pages' should the overcommit and -ENOMEM happen. Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Luis Henriques authored
When the user supplies an unsupported compression algorithm, keep the previously selected one (knowingly supported) or the default one (if the compression algorithm hasn't been changed yet). Note that previously this operation (i.e. setting an invalid algorithm) would result in no algorithm being selected, which means that this represents a small change in the default behaviour. Minchan said: For initializing zram, we need to set up 3 optional parameters in advance. 1. the number of compression streams 2. memory limitation 3. compression algorithm Although user pass completely wrong value to set up for 1 and 2 parameters, it's okay because they have default value so zram will be initialized with the default value (of course, when user passes a wrong value via *echo*, sysfs returns -EINVAL so the user can notice it). But 3 is not consistent with other optional parameters. IOW, if the user passes a wrong value to set up 3 parameter, zram's initialization would fail unlike other optional parameters. So this patch makes them consistent. Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
gcc version 5.2.1 20151010 (Debian 5.2.1-22) $ size mm/memcontrol.o mm/memcontrol.o.before text data bss dec hex filename 35535 7908 64 43507 a9f3 mm/memcontrol.o 35762 7908 64 43734 aad6 mm/memcontrol.o.before Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jan Kara authored
sync_file_range(2) is documented to issue writeback only for pages that are not currently being written. After all the system call has been created for userspace to be able to issue background writeout and so waiting for in-flight IO is undesirable there. However commit ee53a891 ("mm: do_sync_mapping_range integrity fix") switched do_sync_mapping_range() and thus sync_file_range() to issue writeback in WB_SYNC_ALL mode since do_sync_mapping_range() was used by other code relying on WB_SYNC_ALL semantics. These days do_sync_mapping_range() went away and we can switch sync_file_range(2) back to issuing WB_SYNC_NONE writeback. That should help PostgreSQL avoid large latency spikes when flushing data in the background. Andres measured a 20% increase in transactions per second on an SSD disk. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com> Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Tested-By: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Aaron Tomlin authored
The "vma" parameter to khugepaged_alloc_page() is unused. It has to remain unused or the drop read lock 'map_sem' optimisation introduce by commit 8b164568 ("mm, THP: don't hold mmap_sem in khugepaged when allocating THP") wouldn't be safe. So let's remove it. Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Michal Hocko authored
There are many places which use mapping_gfp_mask to restrict a more generic gfp mask which would be used for allocations which are not directly related to the page cache but they are performed in the same context. Let's introduce a helper function which makes the restriction explicit and easier to track. This patch doesn't introduce any functional changes. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
Someone has an 86 column display. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman authored
Andrew stated the following We have quite a history of remote parts of the kernel using weird/wrong/inexplicable combinations of __GFP_ flags. I tend to think that this is because we didn't adequately explain the interface. And I don't think that gfp.h really improved much in this area as a result of this patchset. Could you go through it some time and decide if we've adequately documented all this stuff? This patches first moves some GFP flag combinations that are part of the MM internals to mm/internal.h. The rest of the patch documents the __GFP_FOO bits under various headings and then documents the flag combinations. It will not help callers that are brain damaged but the clarity might motivate some fixes and avoid future mistakes. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman authored
The primary purpose of watermarks is to ensure that reclaim can always make forward progress in PF_MEMALLOC context (kswapd and direct reclaim). These assume that order-0 allocations are all that is necessary for forward progress. High-order watermarks serve a different purpose. Kswapd had no high-order awareness before they were introduced (https://lkml.kernel.org/r/413AA7B2.4000907@yahoo.com.au). This was particularly important when there were high-order atomic requests. The watermarks both gave kswapd awareness and made a reserve for those atomic requests. There are two important side-effects of this. The most important is that a non-atomic high-order request can fail even though free pages are available and the order-0 watermarks are ok. The second is that high-order watermark checks are expensive as the free list counts up to the requested order must be examined. With the introduction of MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC it is no longer necessary to have high-order watermarks. Kswapd and compaction still need high-order awareness which is handled by checking that at least one suitable high-order page is free. With the patch applied, there was little difference in the allocation failure rates as the atomic reserves are small relative to the number of allocation attempts. The expected impact is that there will never be an allocation failure report that shows suitable pages on the free lists. The one potential side-effect of this is that in a vanilla kernel, the watermark checks may have kept a free page for an atomic allocation. Now, we are 100% relying on the HighAtomic reserves and an early allocation to have allocated them. If the first high-order atomic allocation is after the system is already heavily fragmented then it'll fail. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: simplify __zone_watermark_ok(), per Vlastimil] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman authored
High-order watermark checking exists for two reasons -- kswapd high-order awareness and protection for high-order atomic requests. Historically the kernel depended on MIGRATE_RESERVE to preserve min_free_kbytes as high-order free pages for as long as possible. This patch introduces MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC that reserves pageblocks for high-order atomic allocations on demand and avoids using those blocks for order-0 allocations. This is more flexible and reliable than MIGRATE_RESERVE was. A MIGRATE_HIGHORDER pageblock is created when an atomic high-order allocation request steals a pageblock but limits the total number to 1% of the zone. Callers that speculatively abuse atomic allocations for long-lived high-order allocations to access the reserve will quickly fail. Note that SLUB is currently not such an abuser as it reclaims at least once. It is possible that the pageblock stolen has few suitable high-order pages and will need to steal again in the near future but there would need to be strong justification to search all pageblocks for an ideal candidate. The pageblocks are unreserved if an allocation fails after a direct reclaim attempt. The watermark checks account for the reserved pageblocks when the allocation request is not a high-order atomic allocation. The reserved pageblocks can not be used for order-0 allocations. This may allow temporary wastage until a failed reclaim reassigns the pageblock. This is deliberate as the intent of the reservation is to satisfy a limited number of atomic high-order short-lived requests if the system requires them. The stutter benchmark was used to evaluate this but while it was running there was a systemtap script that randomly allocated between 1 high-order page and 12.5% of memory's worth of order-3 pages using GFP_ATOMIC. This is much larger than the potential reserve and it does not attempt to be realistic. It is intended to stress random high-order allocations from an unknown source, show that there is a reduction in failures without introducing an anomaly where atomic allocations are more reliable than regular allocations. The amount of memory reserved varied throughout the workload as reserves were created and reclaimed under memory pressure. The allocation failures once the workload warmed up were as follows; 4.2-rc5-vanilla 70% 4.2-rc5-atomic-reserve 56% The failure rate was also measured while building multiple kernels. The failure rate was 14% but is 6% with this patch applied. Overall, this is a small reduction but the reserves are small relative to the number of allocation requests. In early versions of the patch, the failure rate reduced by a much larger amount but that required much larger reserves and perversely made atomic allocations seem more reliable than regular allocations. [yalin.wang2010@gmail.com: fix redundant check and a memory leak] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: yalin wang <yalin.wang2010@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman authored
MIGRATE_RESERVE preserves an old property of the buddy allocator that existed prior to fragmentation avoidance -- min_free_kbytes worth of pages tended to remain contiguous until the only alternative was to fail the allocation. At the time it was discovered that high-order atomic allocations relied on this property so MIGRATE_RESERVE was introduced. A later patch will introduce an alternative MIGRATE_HIGHATOMIC so this patch deletes MIGRATE_RESERVE and supporting code so it'll be easier to review. Note that this patch in isolation may look like a false regression if someone was bisecting high-order atomic allocation failures. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman authored
The zonelist cache (zlc) was introduced to skip over zones that were recently known to be full. This avoided expensive operations such as the cpuset checks, watermark calculations and zone_reclaim. The situation today is different and the complexity of zlc is harder to justify. 1) The cpuset checks are no-ops unless a cpuset is active and in general are a lot cheaper. 2) zone_reclaim is now disabled by default and I suspect that was a large source of the cost that zlc wanted to avoid. When it is enabled, it's known to be a major source of stalling when nodes fill up and it's unwise to hit every other user with the overhead. 3) Watermark checks are expensive to calculate for high-order allocation requests. Later patches in this series will reduce the cost of the watermark checking. 4) The most important issue is that in the current implementation it is possible for a failed THP allocation to mark a zone full for order-0 allocations and cause a fallback to remote nodes. The last issue could be addressed with additional complexity but as the benefit of zlc is questionable, it is better to remove it. If stalls due to zone_reclaim are ever reported then an alternative would be to introduce deferring logic based on a timeout inside zone_reclaim itself and leave the page allocator fast paths alone. The impact on page-allocator microbenchmarks is negligible as they don't hit the paths where the zlc comes into play. Most page-reclaim related workloads showed no noticeable difference as a result of the removal. The impact was noticeable in a workload called "stutter". One part uses a lot of anonymous memory, a second measures mmap latency and a third copies a large file. In an ideal world the latency application would not notice the mmap latency. On a 2-node machine the results of this patch are stutter 4.3.0-rc1 4.3.0-rc1 baseline nozlc-v4 Min mmap 20.9243 ( 0.00%) 20.7716 ( 0.73%) 1st-qrtle mmap 22.0612 ( 0.00%) 22.0680 ( -0.03%) 2nd-qrtle mmap 22.3291 ( 0.00%) 22.3809 ( -0.23%) 3rd-qrtle mmap 25.2244 ( 0.00%) 25.2396 ( -0.06%) Max-90% mmap 48.0995 ( 0.00%) 28.3713 ( 41.02%) Max-93% mmap 52.5557 ( 0.00%) 36.0170 ( 31.47%) Max-95% mmap 55.8173 ( 0.00%) 47.3163 ( 15.23%) Max-99% mmap 67.3781 ( 0.00%) 70.1140 ( -4.06%) Max mmap 24447.6375 ( 0.00%) 12915.1356 ( 47.17%) Mean mmap 33.7883 ( 0.00%) 27.7944 ( 17.74%) Best99%Mean mmap 27.7825 ( 0.00%) 25.2767 ( 9.02%) Best95%Mean mmap 26.3912 ( 0.00%) 23.7994 ( 9.82%) Best90%Mean mmap 24.9886 ( 0.00%) 23.2251 ( 7.06%) Best50%Mean mmap 22.0157 ( 0.00%) 22.0261 ( -0.05%) Best10%Mean mmap 21.6705 ( 0.00%) 21.6083 ( 0.29%) Best5%Mean mmap 21.5581 ( 0.00%) 21.4611 ( 0.45%) Best1%Mean mmap 21.3079 ( 0.00%) 21.1631 ( 0.68%) Note that the maximum stall latency went from 24 seconds to 12 which is still bad but an improvement. The milage varies considerably 2-node machine on an earlier test went from 494 seconds to 47 seconds and a 4-node machine that tested an earlier version of this patch went from a worst case stall time of 6 seconds to 67ms. The nature of the benchmark is inherently unpredictable as it is hammering the system and the milage will vary between machines. There is a secondary impact with potentially more direct reclaim because zones are now being considered instead of being skipped by zlc. In this particular test run it did not occur so will not be described. However, in at least one test the following was observed 1. Direct reclaim rates were higher. This was likely due to direct reclaim being entered instead of the zlc disabling a zone and busy looping. Busy looping may have the effect of allowing kswapd to make more progress and in some cases may be better overall. If this is found then the correct action is to put direct reclaimers to sleep on a waitqueue and allow kswapd make forward progress. Busy looping on the zlc is even worse than when the allocator used to blindly call congestion_wait(). 2. There was higher swap activity as direct reclaim was active. 3. Direct reclaim efficiency was lower. This is related to 1 as more scanning activity also encountered more pages that could not be immediately reclaimed In that case, the direct page scan and reclaim rates are noticeable but it is not considered a problem for a few reasons 1. The test is primarily concerned with latency. The mmap attempts are also faulted which means there are THP allocation requests. The ZLC could cause zones to be disabled causing the process to busy loop instead of reclaiming. This looks like elevated direct reclaim activity but it's the correct action to take based on what processes requested. 2. The test hammers reclaim and compaction heavily. The number of successful THP faults is highly variable but affects the reclaim stats. It's not a realistic or reasonable measure of page reclaim activity. 3. No other page-reclaim intensive workload that was tested showed a problem. 4. If a workload is identified that benefitted from the busy looping then it should be fixed by having direct reclaimers sleep on a wait queue until woken by kswapd instead of busy looping. We had this class of problem before when congestion_waits() with a fixed timeout was a brain damaged decision but happened to benefit some workloads. If a workload is identified that relied on the zlc to busy loop then it should be fixed correctly and have a direct reclaimer sleep on a waitqueue until woken by kswapd. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman authored
__GFP_WAIT was used to signal that the caller was in atomic context and could not sleep. Now it is possible to distinguish between true atomic context and callers that are not willing to sleep. The latter should clear __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM so kswapd will still wake. As clearing __GFP_WAIT behaves differently, there is a risk that people will clear the wrong flags. This patch renames __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM to clearly indicate what it does -- setting it allows all reclaim activity, clearing them prevents it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman authored
GFP_IOFS was intended to be shorthand for clearing two flags, not a set of allocation flags. There is only one user of this flag combination now and there appears to be no reason why Lustre had to be protected from reclaim stalls. As none of the sites appear to be atomic, this patch simply deletes GFP_IOFS and converts Lustre to using GFP_KERNEL, GFP_NOFS or GFP_NOIO as appropriate. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com> Cc: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman authored
mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd __GFP_WAIT has been used to identify atomic context in callers that hold spinlocks or are in interrupts. They are expected to be high priority and have access one of two watermarks lower than "min" which can be referred to as the "atomic reserve". __GFP_HIGH users get access to the first lower watermark and can be called the "high priority reserve". Over time, callers had a requirement to not block when fallback options were available. Some have abused __GFP_WAIT leading to a situation where an optimisitic allocation with a fallback option can access atomic reserves. This patch uses __GFP_ATOMIC to identify callers that are truely atomic, cannot sleep and have no alternative. High priority users continue to use __GFP_HIGH. __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM identifies callers that can sleep and are willing to enter direct reclaim. __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM to identify callers that want to wake kswapd for background reclaim. __GFP_WAIT is redefined as a caller that is willing to enter direct reclaim and wake kswapd for background reclaim. This patch then converts a number of sites o __GFP_ATOMIC is used by callers that are high priority and have memory pools for those requests. GFP_ATOMIC uses this flag. o Callers that have a limited mempool to guarantee forward progress clear __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM but keep __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. bio allocations fall into this category where kswapd will still be woken but atomic reserves are not used as there is a one-entry mempool to guarantee progress. o Callers that are checking if they are non-blocking should use the helper gfpflags_allow_blocking() where possible. This is because checking for __GFP_WAIT as was done historically now can trigger false positives. Some exceptions like dm-crypt.c exist where the code intent is clearer if __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is used instead of the helper due to flag manipulations. o Callers that built their own GFP flags instead of starting with GFP_KERNEL and friends now also need to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. The first key hazard to watch out for is callers that removed __GFP_WAIT and was depending on access to atomic reserves for inconspicuous reasons. In some cases it may be appropriate for them to use __GFP_HIGH. The second key hazard is callers that assembled their own combination of GFP flags instead of starting with something like GFP_KERNEL. They may now wish to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. It's almost certainly harmless if it's missed in most cases as other activity will wake kswapd. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman authored
This patch redefines which GFP bits are used for specifying mobility and the order of the migrate types. Once redefined it's possible to convert GFP flags to a migrate type with a simple mask and shift. The only downside is that readers of OOM kill messages and allocation failures may have been used to the existing values but scripts/gfp-translate will help. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman authored
There is a seqcounter that protects against spurious allocation failures when a task is changing the allowed nodes in a cpuset. There is no need to check the seqcounter until a cpuset exists. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman authored
File-backed pages that will be immediately written are balanced between zones. This heuristic tries to avoid having a single zone filled with recently dirtied pages but the checks are unnecessarily expensive. Move consider_zone_balanced into the alloc_context instead of checking bitmaps multiple times. The patch also gives the parameter a more meaningful name. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mel Gorman authored
Overall, the intent of this series is to remove the zonelist cache which was introduced to avoid high overhead in the page allocator. Once this is done, it is necessary to reduce the cost of watermark checks. The series starts with minor micro-optimisations. Next it notes that GFP flags that affect watermark checks are abused. __GFP_WAIT historically identified callers that could not sleep and could access reserves. This was later abused to identify callers that simply prefer to avoid sleeping and have other options. A patch distinguishes between atomic callers, high-priority callers and those that simply wish to avoid sleep. The zonelist cache has been around for a long time but it is of dubious merit with a lot of complexity and some issues that are explained. The most important issue is that a failed THP allocation can cause a zone to be treated as "full". This potentially causes unnecessary stalls, reclaim activity or remote fallbacks. The issues could be fixed but it's not worth it. The series places a small number of other micro-optimisations on top before examining GFP flags watermarks. High-order watermarks enforcement can cause high-order allocations to fail even though pages are free. The watermark checks both protect high-order atomic allocations and make kswapd aware of high-order pages but there is a much better way that can be handled using migrate types. This series uses page grouping by mobility to reserve pageblocks for high-order allocations with the size of the reservation depending on demand. kswapd awareness is maintained by examining the free lists. By patch 12 in this series, there are no high-order watermark checks while preserving the properties that motivated the introduction of the watermark checks. This patch (of 10): No user of zone_watermark_ok_safe() specifies alloc_flags. This patch removes the unnecessary parameter. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Yaowei Bai authored
Introduce is_sysrq_oom helper function indicating oom kill triggered by sysrq to improve readability. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/backlightLinus Torvalds authored
Pull backlight updates from Lee Jones: "New Device Support - None New Functionality: - None Core Frameworks: - Reject legacy PWM request for device defined in DT Fix-ups: - Remove unnecessary MODULE_ALIAS(); adp8860_bl, adp8870_bl - Simplify code: pm8941-wled - Supply default-brightness logic; pm8941-wled Bug Fixes: - Clean up OF node; 88pm860x_bl - Ensure struct is zeroed; lp855x_bl" * tag 'backlight-for-linus-4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/backlight: backlight: pm8941-wled: Add default-brightness property backlight: pm8941-wled: Fix ptr_ret.cocci warnings backlight: pwm: Reject legacy PWM request for device defined in DT backlight: 88pm860x_bl: Add missing of_node_put backlight: adp8870: Remove unnecessary MODULE_ALIAS() backlight: adp8860: Remove unnecessary MODULE_ALIAS() backlight: lp855x: Make sure props struct is zeroed
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Linus Torvalds authored
Commit b158b69a ("mfd: rtsx: Simplify function return logic") removed the use of the 'err' variable, but left the variable itself around, resulting in gcc quite reasonably warning: drivers/mfd/rtsx_pcr.c: In function ‘rtsx_pci_set_pull_ctl’: drivers/mfd/rtsx_pcr.c:565:6: warning: unused variable ‘err’ [-Wunused-variable] int err; ^ Get rid of the unused variable, and avoid the new warning. Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com> Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/mfdLinus Torvalds authored
Pull MFD updates from Lee Jones: "New Device Support: - Add support for 88pm860; 88pm80x - Add support for 24c08 EEPROM; at24 - Add support for Broxton Whiskey Cove; intel* - Add support for RTS522A; rts5227 - Add support for I2C devices; intel_quark_i2c_gpio New Functionality: - Add microphone support; arizona - Add general purpose switch support; arizona - Add fuel-gauge support; da9150-core - Add shutdown support; sec-core - Add charger support; tps65217 - Add flexible serial communication unit support; atmel-flexcom - Add power button support; axp20x - Add led-flash support; rt5033 Core Frameworks: - Supply a generic macro for defining Regmap IRQs - Rework ACPI child device matching Fix-ups: - Use Regmap to access registers; tps6105x - Use DEFINE_RES_IRQ_NAMED() macro; da9150 - Re-arrange device registration order; intel_quark_i2c_gpio - Allow OF matching; cros_ec_i2c, atmel-hlcdc, hi6421-pmic, max8997, sm501 - Handle deferred probe; twl6040 - Improve accuracy of headphone detect; arizona - Unnecessary MODULE_ALIAS() removal; bcm590xx, rt5033 - Remove unused code; htc-i2cpld, arizona, pcf50633-irq, sec-core - Simplify code; kempld, rts5209, da903x, lm3533, da9052, arizona - Remove #iffery; arizona - DT binding adaptions; many Bug Fixes: - Fix possible NULL pointer dereference; wm831x, tps6105x - Fix 64bit bug; intel_soc_pmic_bxtwc - Fix signedness issue; arizona" * tag 'mfd-for-linus-4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/mfd: (73 commits) bindings: mfd: s2mps11: Add documentation for s2mps15 PMIC mfd: sec-core: Remove unused s2mpu02-rtc and s2mpu02-clk children extcon: arizona: Add extcon specific device tree binding document MAINTAINERS: Add binding docs for Cirrus Logic/Wolfson Arizona devices mfd: arizona: Remove bindings covered in new subsystem specific docs mfd: rt5033: Add RT5033 Flash led sub device mfd: lpss: Add Intel Broxton PCI IDs mfd: lpss: Add Broxton ACPI IDs mfd: arizona: Signedness bug in arizona_runtime_suspend() mfd: axp20x: Add a cell for the power button part of the, axp288 PMICs mfd: dt-bindings: Document pulled down WRSTBI pin on S2MPS1X mfd: sec-core: Disable buck voltage reset on watchdog falling edge mfd: sec-core: Dump PMIC revision to find out the HW mfd: arizona: Use correct type ID for device tree config mfd: arizona: Remove use of codec build config #ifdefs mfd: arizona: Simplify adding subdevices mfd: arizona: Downgrade type mismatch messages to dev_warn mfd: arizona: Factor out checking of jack detection state mfd: arizona: Factor out DCVDD isolation control mfd: Make TPS6105X select REGMAP_I2C ...
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Linus Torvalds authored
It turns out that we still have issues with the EFI memory map that ends up polluting our kernel page tables with writable executable pages. That will get sorted out, but in the meantime let's not make the scary complaint about them be on by default. The code is useful for developers, but not ready for end user testing yet. Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v4.4-1' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dvhart/linux-platform-drivers-x86 Pull x86 platform driver update from Darren Hart: "Various toshiba hotkey and keyboard related fixes and a new WMI driver. Several intel_scu_ipc cleanups and a locking fix. A spattering of small single fixes across various platforms. I was asked to pick up an OLPC cleanup as the driver appeared unmaintained and it seemed similar to what is maintained in platform/drivers/x86. I have included the patch and an update to the MAINTAINERS file. toshiba_acpi: - Initialize hotkey_event_type variable - Remove unneeded u32 variables from *setup_keyboard - Add 0x prefix to available_kbd_modes_show function - Change default Hotkey enabling value - Unify hotkey enabling functions toshiba-wmi: - Toshiba WMI Hotkey Driver intel_scu_ipc: - Protect dev member assignment on ->remove() - Switch to use module_pci_driver() macro - Convert to use struct device * - Propagate pointer to struct intel_scu_ipc_dev - Fix error path by turning to devm_* / pcim_* acer-wmi: - remove threeg and interface sysfs interfaces OLPC: - Use %*ph specifier instead of passing direct values MAINTAINERS: - Add drivers/platform/olpc to drivers/platform/x86 sony-laptop: - Fix handling sony_nc_hotkeys_decode result intel_mid_powerbtn: - Remove misuse of IRQF_NO_SUSPEND flag compal-laptop: - Add charge control limit asus-wmi: - restore kbd led level after resume" * tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v4.4-1' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dvhart/linux-platform-drivers-x86: toshiba_acpi: Initialize hotkey_event_type variable intel_scu_ipc: Protect dev member assignment on ->remove() intel_scu_ipc: Switch to use module_pci_driver() macro intel_scu_ipc: Convert to use struct device * intel_scu_ipc: Propagate pointer to struct intel_scu_ipc_dev intel_scu_ipc: Fix error path by turning to devm_* / pcim_* acer-wmi: remove threeg and interface sysfs interfaces OLPC: Use %*ph specifier instead of passing direct values MAINTAINERS: Add drivers/platform/olpc to drivers/platform/x86 platform/x86: Toshiba WMI Hotkey Driver sony-laptop: Fix handling sony_nc_hotkeys_decode result intel_mid_powerbtn: Remove misuse of IRQF_NO_SUSPEND flag compal-laptop: Add charge control limit asus-wmi: restore kbd led level after resume toshiba_acpi: Remove unneeded u32 variables from *setup_keyboard toshiba_acpi: Add 0x prefix to available_kbd_modes_show function toshiba_acpi: Change default Hotkey enabling value toshiba_acpi: Unify hotkey enabling functions
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: - Kconfig: remove BE-only platforms from LE kernel build from Boqun Feng - Refresh ps3_defconfig from Geoff Levand - Emit GNU & SysV hashes for the vdso from Michael Ellerman - Define an enum for the bolted SLB indexes from Anshuman Khandual - Use a local to avoid multiple calls to get_slb_shadow() from Michael Ellerman - Add gettimeofday() benchmark from Michael Neuling - Avoid link stack corruption in __get_datapage() from Michael Neuling - Add virt_to_pfn and use this instead of opencoding from Aneesh Kumar K.V - Add ppc64le_defconfig from Michael Ellerman - pseries: extract of_helpers module from Andy Shevchenko - Correct string length in pseries_of_derive_parent() from Nathan Fontenot - Free the MSI bitmap if it was slab allocated from Denis Kirjanov - Shorten irq_chip name for the SIU from Christophe Leroy - Wait 1s for secondaries to enter OPAL during kexec from Samuel Mendoza-Jonas - Fix _ALIGN_* errors due to type difference, from Aneesh Kumar K.V - powerpc/pseries/hvcserver: don't memset pi_buff if it is null from Colin Ian King - Disable hugepd for 64K page size, from Aneesh Kumar K.V - Differentiate between hugetlb and THP during page walk from Aneesh Kumar K.V - Make PCI non-optional for pseries from Michael Ellerman - Individual System V IPC system calls from Sam bobroff - Add selftest of unmuxed IPC calls from Michael Ellerman - discard .exit.data at runtime from Stephen Rothwell - Delete old orphaned PrPMC 280/2800 DTS and boot file, from Paul Gortmaker - Use of_get_next_parent to simplify code from Christophe Jaillet - Paginate some xmon output from Sam bobroff - Add some more elements to the xmon PACA dump from Michael Ellerman - Allow the tm-syscall selftest to build with old headers from Michael Ellerman - Run EBB selftests only on POWER8 from Denis Kirjanov - Drop CONFIG_TUNE_CELL in favour of CONFIG_CELL_CPU from Michael Ellerman - Avoid reference to potentially freed memory in prom.c from Christophe Jaillet - Quieten boot wrapper output with run_cmd from Geoff Levand - EEH fixes and cleanups from Gavin Shan - Fix recursive fenced PHB on Broadcom shiner adapter from Gavin Shan - Use of_get_next_parent() in of_get_ibm_chip_id() from Michael Ellerman - Fix section mismatch warning in msi_bitmap_alloc() from Denis Kirjanov - Fix ps3-lpm white space from Rudhresh Kumar J - Fix ps3-vuart null dereference from Colin King - nvram: Add missing kfree in error path from Christophe Jaillet - nvram: Fix function name in some errors messages, from Christophe Jaillet - drivers/macintosh: adb: fix misleading Kconfig help text from Aaro Koskinen - agp/uninorth: fix a memleak in create_gatt_table from Denis Kirjanov - cxl: Free virtual PHB when removing from Andrew Donnellan - scripts/kconfig/Makefile: Allow KBUILD_DEFCONFIG to be a target from Michael Ellerman - scripts/kconfig/Makefile: Fix KBUILD_DEFCONFIG check when building with O= from Michael Ellerman - Freescale updates from Scott: Highlights include 64-bit book3e kexec/kdump support, a rework of the qoriq clock driver, device tree changes including qoriq fman nodes, support for a new 85xx board, and some fixes. - MPC5xxx updates from Anatolij: Highlights include a driver for MPC512x LocalPlus Bus FIFO with its device tree binding documentation, mpc512x device tree updates and some minor fixes. * tag 'powerpc-4.4-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (106 commits) powerpc/msi: Fix section mismatch warning in msi_bitmap_alloc() powerpc/prom: Use of_get_next_parent() in of_get_ibm_chip_id() powerpc/pseries: Correct string length in pseries_of_derive_parent() powerpc/e6500: hw tablewalk: make sure we invalidate and write to the same tlb entry powerpc/mpc85xx: Add FSL QorIQ DPAA FMan support to the SoC device tree(s) powerpc/mpc85xx: Create dts components for the FSL QorIQ DPAA FMan powerpc/fsl: Add #clock-cells and clockgen label to clockgen nodes powerpc: handle error case in cpm_muram_alloc() powerpc: mpic: use IRQCHIP_SKIP_SET_WAKE instead of redundant mpic_irq_set_wake powerpc/book3e-64: Enable kexec powerpc/book3e-64/kexec: Set "r4 = 0" when entering spinloop powerpc/booke: Only use VIRT_PHYS_OFFSET on booke32 powerpc/book3e-64/kexec: Enable SMP release powerpc/book3e-64/kexec: create an identity TLB mapping powerpc/book3e-64: Don't limit paca to 256 MiB powerpc/book3e/kdump: Enable crash_kexec_wait_realmode powerpc/book3e: support CONFIG_RELOCATABLE powerpc/booke64: Fix args to copy_and_flush powerpc/book3e-64: rename interrupt_end_book3e with __end_interrupts powerpc/e6500: kexec: Handle hardware threads ...
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: - inotify tweaks - some ocfs2 updates (many more are awaiting review) - various misc bits - kernel/watchdog.c updates - Some of mm. I have a huge number of MM patches this time and quite a lot of it is quite difficult and much will be held over to next time. * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (162 commits) selftests: vm: add tests for lock on fault mm: mlock: add mlock flags to enable VM_LOCKONFAULT usage mm: introduce VM_LOCKONFAULT mm: mlock: add new mlock system call mm: mlock: refactor mlock, munlock, and munlockall code kasan: always taint kernel on report mm, slub, kasan: enable user tracking by default with KASAN=y kasan: use IS_ALIGNED in memory_is_poisoned_8() kasan: Fix a type conversion error lib: test_kasan: add some testcases kasan: update reference to kasan prototype repo kasan: move KASAN_SANITIZE in arch/x86/boot/Makefile kasan: various fixes in documentation kasan: update log messages kasan: accurately determine the type of the bad access kasan: update reported bug types for kernel memory accesses kasan: update reported bug types for not user nor kernel memory accesses mm/kasan: prevent deadlock in kasan reporting mm/kasan: don't use kasan shadow pointer in generic functions mm/kasan: MODULE_VADDR is not available on all archs ...
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Eric Biggers authored
This fixes a bug from commit f3f86e33 ("vfs: Fix pathological performance case for __alloc_fd()"). v2: refactor to share fd bitmap copying code Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Eric B Munson authored
Test the mmap() flag, and the mlockall() flag. These tests ensure that pages are not faulted in until they are accessed, that the pages are unevictable once faulted in, and that VMA splitting and merging works with the new VM flag. The second test ensures that mlock limits are respected. Note that the limit test needs to be run a normal user. Also add tests to use the new mlock2 family of system calls. [treding@nvidia.com: : Fix mlock2-tests for 32-bit architectures] [treding@nvidia.com: ensure the mlock2 syscall number can be found] [treding@nvidia.com: use the right arguments for main()] Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Eric B Munson authored
The previous patch introduced a flag that specified pages in a VMA should be placed on the unevictable LRU, but they should not be made present when the area is created. This patch adds the ability to set this state via the new mlock system calls. We add MLOCK_ONFAULT for mlock2 and MCL_ONFAULT for mlockall. MLOCK_ONFAULT will set the VM_LOCKONFAULT modifier for VM_LOCKED. MCL_ONFAULT should be used as a modifier to the two other mlockall flags. When used with MCL_CURRENT, all current mappings will be marked with VM_LOCKED | VM_LOCKONFAULT. When used with MCL_FUTURE, the mm->def_flags will be marked with VM_LOCKED | VM_LOCKONFAULT. When used with both MCL_CURRENT and MCL_FUTURE, all current mappings and mm->def_flags will be marked with VM_LOCKED | VM_LOCKONFAULT. Prior to this patch, mlockall() will unconditionally clear the mm->def_flags any time it is called without MCL_FUTURE. This behavior is maintained after adding MCL_ONFAULT. If a call to mlockall(MCL_FUTURE) is followed by mlockall(MCL_CURRENT), the mm->def_flags will be cleared and new VMAs will be unlocked. This remains true with or without MCL_ONFAULT in either mlockall() invocation. munlock() will unconditionally clear both vma flags. munlockall() unconditionally clears for VMA flags on all VMAs and in the mm->def_flags field. Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Eric B Munson authored
The cost of faulting in all memory to be locked can be very high when working with large mappings. If only portions of the mapping will be used this can incur a high penalty for locking. For the example of a large file, this is the usage pattern for a large statical language model (probably applies to other statical or graphical models as well). For the security example, any application transacting in data that cannot be swapped out (credit card data, medical records, etc). This patch introduces the ability to request that pages are not pre-faulted, but are placed on the unevictable LRU when they are finally faulted in. The VM_LOCKONFAULT flag will be used together with VM_LOCKED and has no effect when set without VM_LOCKED. Setting the VM_LOCKONFAULT flag for a VMA will cause pages faulted into that VMA to be added to the unevictable LRU when they are faulted or if they are already present, but will not cause any missing pages to be faulted in. Exposing this new lock state means that we cannot overload the meaning of the FOLL_POPULATE flag any longer. Prior to this patch it was used to mean that the VMA for a fault was locked. This means we need the new FOLL_MLOCK flag to communicate the locked state of a VMA. FOLL_POPULATE will now only control if the VMA should be populated and in the case of VM_LOCKONFAULT, it will not be set. Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Eric B Munson authored
With the refactored mlock code, introduce a new system call for mlock. The new call will allow the user to specify what lock states are being added. mlock2 is trivial at the moment, but a follow on patch will add a new mlock state making it useful. Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Eric B Munson authored
mlock() allows a user to control page out of program memory, but this comes at the cost of faulting in the entire mapping when it is allocated. For large mappings where the entire area is not necessary this is not ideal. Instead of forcing all locked pages to be present when they are allocated, this set creates a middle ground. Pages are marked to be placed on the unevictable LRU (locked) when they are first used, but they are not faulted in by the mlock call. This series introduces a new mlock() system call that takes a flags argument along with the start address and size. This flags argument gives the caller the ability to request memory be locked in the traditional way, or to be locked after the page is faulted in. A new MCL flag is added to mirror the lock on fault behavior from mlock() in mlockall(). There are two main use cases that this set covers. The first is the security focussed mlock case. A buffer is needed that cannot be written to swap. The maximum size is known, but on average the memory used is significantly less than this maximum. With lock on fault, the buffer is guaranteed to never be paged out without consuming the maximum size every time such a buffer is created. The second use case is focussed on performance. Portions of a large file are needed and we want to keep the used portions in memory once accessed. This is the case for large graphical models where the path through the graph is not known until run time. The entire graph is unlikely to be used in a given invocation, but once a node has been used it needs to stay resident for further processing. Given these constraints we have a number of options. We can potentially waste a large amount of memory by mlocking the entire region (this can also cause a significant stall at startup as the entire file is read in). We can mlock every page as we access them without tracking if the page is already resident but this introduces large overhead for each access. The third option is mapping the entire region with PROT_NONE and using a signal handler for SIGSEGV to mprotect(PROT_READ) and mlock() the needed page. Doing this page at a time adds a significant performance penalty. Batching can be used to mitigate this overhead, but in order to safely avoid trying to mprotect pages outside of the mapping, the boundaries of each mapping to be used in this way must be tracked and available to the signal handler. This is precisely what the mm system in the kernel should already be doing. For mlock(MLOCK_ONFAULT) the user is charged against RLIMIT_MEMLOCK as if mlock(MLOCK_LOCKED) or mmap(MAP_LOCKED) was used, so when the VMA is created not when the pages are faulted in. For mlockall(MCL_ONFAULT) the user is charged as if MCL_FUTURE was used. This decision was made to keep the accounting checks out of the page fault path. To illustrate the benefit of this set I wrote a test program that mmaps a 5 GB file filled with random data and then makes 15,000,000 accesses to random addresses in that mapping. The test program was run 20 times for each setup. Results are reported for two program portions, setup and execution. The setup phase is calling mmap and optionally mlock on the entire region. For most experiments this is trivial, but it highlights the cost of faulting in the entire region. Results are averages across the 20 runs in milliseconds. mmap with mlock(MLOCK_LOCKED) on entire range: Setup avg: 8228.666 Processing avg: 8274.257 mmap with mlock(MLOCK_LOCKED) before each access: Setup avg: 0.113 Processing avg: 90993.552 mmap with PROT_NONE and signal handler and batch size of 1 page: With the default value in max_map_count, this gets ENOMEM as I attempt to change the permissions, after upping the sysctl significantly I get: Setup avg: 0.058 Processing avg: 69488.073 mmap with PROT_NONE and signal handler and batch size of 8 pages: Setup avg: 0.068 Processing avg: 38204.116 mmap with PROT_NONE and signal handler and batch size of 16 pages: Setup avg: 0.044 Processing avg: 29671.180 mmap with mlock(MLOCK_ONFAULT) on entire range: Setup avg: 0.189 Processing avg: 17904.899 The signal handler in the batch cases faulted in memory in two steps to avoid having to know the start and end of the faulting mapping. The first step covers the page that caused the fault as we know that it will be possible to lock. The second step speculatively tries to mlock and mprotect the batch size - 1 pages that follow. There may be a clever way to avoid this without having the program track each mapping to be covered by this handeler in a globally accessible structure, but I could not find it. It should be noted that with a large enough batch size this two step fault handler can still cause the program to crash if it reaches far beyond the end of the mapping. These results show that if the developer knows that a majority of the mapping will be used, it is better to try and fault it in at once, otherwise mlock(MLOCK_ONFAULT) is significantly faster. The performance cost of these patches are minimal on the two benchmarks I have tested (stream and kernbench). The following are the average values across 20 runs of stream and 10 runs of kernbench after a warmup run whose results were discarded. Avg throughput in MB/s from stream using 1000000 element arrays Test 4.2-rc1 4.2-rc1+lock-on-fault Copy: 10,566.5 10,421 Scale: 10,685 10,503.5 Add: 12,044.1 11,814.2 Triad: 12,064.8 11,846.3 Kernbench optimal load 4.2-rc1 4.2-rc1+lock-on-fault Elapsed Time 78.453 78.991 User Time 64.2395 65.2355 System Time 9.7335 9.7085 Context Switches 22211.5 22412.1 Sleeps 14965.3 14956.1 This patch (of 6): Extending the mlock system call is very difficult because it currently does not take a flags argument. A later patch in this set will extend mlock to support a middle ground between pages that are locked and faulted in immediately and unlocked pages. To pave the way for the new system call, the code needs some reorganization so that all the actual entry point handles is checking input and translating to VMA flags. Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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