- 04 Jun, 2014 40 commits
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Fabian Frederick authored
Also fixes kernel-doc warning Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kirill A. Shutemov authored
KSM was converted to use rmap_walk() and now nobody uses these functions outside mm/rmap.c. Let's covert them back to static. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Cyrill Gorcunov authored
Tracking dirty status on 2 level pages requires very ugly macros and taking into account how old the machines who can operate without PAE mode only are, lets drop soft dirty tracker from them for code simplicity (note I can't drop all the macros from 2 level pages by now since _PAGE_BIT_PROTNONE and _PAGE_BIT_FILE are still used even without tracker). Linus proposed to completely rip off softdirty support on x86-32 (even with PAE) and since for CRIU we're not planning to support native x86-32 mode, lets do that. (Softdirty tracker is relatively new feature which is mostly used by CRIU so I don't expect if such API change would cause problems for userspace). Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Cyrill Gorcunov authored
_PAGE_BIT_FILE (bit 6) is always less than _PAGE_BIT_PROTNONE (bit 8), so drop redundant #ifdef. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kirill A. Shutemov authored
Get rid of two nested loops over nr_pages, extract vma flags checking to separate function and other random cleanups. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kirill A. Shutemov authored
Nesting level in __get_user_pages() is just insane. Let's try to fix it a bit. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kirill A. Shutemov authored
Cleanups: - move pte-related code to separate function. It's about half of the function; - get rid of some goto-logic; - use 'return NULL' instead of 'return page' where page can only be NULL; Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kirill A. Shutemov authored
The case is special and disturb from reading main __get_user_pages() code path. Let's move it to separate function. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kirill A. Shutemov authored
mm/memory.c is overloaded: over 4k lines. get_user_pages() code is pretty much self-contained let's move it to separate file. No other changes made. Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fabian Frederick authored
Replace seq_printf where possible Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fabian Frederick authored
static values are automatically initialized to NULL Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Cc: 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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Dave Hansen authored
Now that we are doing NUMA-aware shrinking, and can have shrinkers running in parallel, or working on individual nodes, it seems like we should also be sticking the node in the output. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dave Hansen authored
I was looking at a trace of the slab shrinkers (attachment in this comment): https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72742#c67 and noticed that "total_scan" can go negative in some cases. We used to dump out the "total_scan" variable directly, but some of the shrinker modifications along the way changed that. This patch just dumps it out directly, again. It doesn't make any sense to derive it from new_nr and nr any more since there are now other shrinkers that can be running in parallel and mucking with those values. Here's an example of the negative numbers in the output: > kswapd0-840 [000] 160.869398: mm_shrink_slab_end: i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 10 new scan count 39 total_scan 29 last shrinker return val 256 > kswapd0-840 [000] 160.869618: mm_shrink_slab_end: i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 39 new scan count 102 total_scan 63 last shrinker return val 256 > kswapd0-840 [000] 160.870031: mm_shrink_slab_end: i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 102 new scan count 47 total_scan -55 last shrinker return val 768 > kswapd0-840 [000] 160.870464: mm_shrink_slab_end: i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 47 new scan count 45 total_scan -2 last shrinker return val 768 > kswapd0-840 [000] 163.384144: mm_shrink_slab_end: i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 45 new scan count 56 total_scan 11 last shrinker return val 0 > kswapd0-840 [000] 163.384297: mm_shrink_slab_end: i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 56 new scan count 15 total_scan -41 last shrinker return val 256 > kswapd0-840 [000] 163.384414: mm_shrink_slab_end: i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 15 new scan count 117 total_scan 102 last shrinker return val 0 > kswapd0-840 [000] 163.384657: mm_shrink_slab_end: i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 117 new scan count 36 total_scan -81 last shrinker return val 512 > kswapd0-840 [000] 163.384880: mm_shrink_slab_end: i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 36 new scan count 111 total_scan 75 last shrinker return val 256 > kswapd0-840 [000] 163.385256: mm_shrink_slab_end: i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 111 new scan count 34 total_scan -77 last shrinker return val 768 > kswapd0-840 [000] 163.385598: mm_shrink_slab_end: i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 34 new scan count 122 total_scan 88 last shrinker return val 512 Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Daeseok Youn authored
"dev" cannot be NULL because it is already checked before calling dma_pool_create(). If dev ever was NULL, the code would oops in dev_to_node() after enabling CONFIG_NUMA. It is possible that some driver is using dev==NULL and has never been run on a NUMA machine. Such a driver is probably outdated, possibly buggy and will need some attention if it starts triggering NULL derefs. Signed-off-by: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Wang Sheng-Hui authored
Use BOOTMEM_DEFAULT instead of 0 in the comment. Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jianyu Zhan authored
Currently, in put_compound_page(), we have ====== if (likely(!PageTail(page))) { <------ (1) if (put_page_testzero(page)) { /* ¦* By the time all refcounts have been released ¦* split_huge_page cannot run anymore from under us. ¦*/ if (PageHead(page)) __put_compound_page(page); else __put_single_page(page); } return; } /* __split_huge_page_refcount can run under us */ page_head = compound_head(page); <------------ (2) ====== if at (1) , we fail the check, this means page is *likely* a tail page. Then at (2), as compoud_head(page) is inlined, it is : ====== static inline struct page *compound_head(struct page *page) { if (unlikely(PageTail(page))) { <----------- (3) struct page *head = page->first_page; smp_rmb(); if (likely(PageTail(page))) return head; } return page; } ====== here, the (3) unlikely in the case is a negative hint, because it is *likely* a tail page. So the check (3) in this case is not good, so I introduce a helper for this case. So this patch introduces compound_head_by_tail() which deals with a possible tail page(though it could be spilt by a racy thread), and make compound_head() a wrapper on it. This patch has no functional change, and it reduces the object size slightly: text data bss dec hex filename 11003 1328 16 12347 303b mm/swap.o.orig 10971 1328 16 12315 301b mm/swap.o.patched I've ran "perf top -e branch-miss" to observe branch-miss in this case. As Michael points out, it's a slow path, so only very few times this case happens. But I grep'ed the code base, and found there still are some other call sites could be benifited from this helper. And given that it only bloating up the source by only 5 lines, but with a reduced object size. I still believe this helper deserves to exsit. Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jianyu Zhan authored
Currently, put_compound_page() carefully handles tricky cases to avoid racing with compound page releasing or splitting, which makes it quite lenthy (about 200+ lines) and needs deep tab indention, which makes it quite hard to follow and maintain. Now based on two helpers introduced in the previous patch ("mm/swap.c: introduce put_[un]refcounted_compound_page helpers for spliting put_compound_page"), this patch replaces those two lengthy code paths with these two helpers, respectively. Also, it has some comment rephrasing. After this patch, the put_compound_page() is very compact, thus easy to read and maintain. After splitting, the object file is of same size as the original one. Actually, I've diff'ed put_compound_page()'s orginal disassemble code and the patched disassemble code, the are 100% the same! This fact shows that this splitting has no functional change, but it brings readability. This patch and the previous one blow the code by 32 lines, mostly due to comments. Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jianyu Zhan authored
Currently, put_compound_page() carefully handles tricky cases to avoid racing with compound page releasing or splitting, which makes it quite lenthy (about 200+ lines) and needs deep tab indention, which makes it quite hard to follow and maintain. This patch and the next patch refactor this function. Based on the code skeleton of put_compound_page: put_compound_pge: if !PageTail(page) put head page fastpath; return; /* else PageTail */ page_head = compound_head(page) if !__compound_tail_refcounted(page_head) put head page optimal path; <---(1) return; else put head page slowpath; <--- (2) return; This patch introduces two helpers, put_[un]refcounted_compound_page, handling the code path (1) and code path (2), respectively. They both are tagged __always_inline, thus elmiating function call overhead, making them operating the same way as before. They are almost copied verbatim(except one place, a "goto out_put_single" is expanded), with some comments rephrasing. Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rasmus Villemoes authored
The nmask argument to set_mempolicy() is const according to the user-space header numaif.h, and since the kernel does indeed not modify it, it might as well be declared const in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rasmus Villemoes authored
The nmask argument to mbind() is const according to the userspace header numaif.h, and since the kernel does indeed not modify it, it might as well be declared const in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Acked-by: 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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Christoph Lameter authored
Replace places where __get_cpu_var() is used for an address calculation with this_cpu_ptr(). Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Remove start_kernel()->mm_init_owner(&init_mm, &init_task). This doesn't really hurt but unnecessary and misleading. init_task is the "swapper" thread == current, its ->mm is always NULL. And init_mm can only be used as ->active_mm, not as ->mm. mm_init_owner() has a single caller with this patch, perhaps it should die. mm_init() can initialize ->owner under #ifdef. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Peter Chiang <pchiang@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Oleg Nesterov authored
for_each_process_thread() is sub-optimal. All threads share the same ->mm, we can swicth to the next process once we found a thread with ->mm != NULL and ->mm != mm. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Peter Chiang <pchiang@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Oleg Nesterov authored
"Search through everything else" in mm_update_next_owner() can hit a kthread which adopted this "mm" via use_mm(), it should not be used as mm->owner. Add the PF_KTHREAD check. While at it, change this code to use for_each_process_thread() instead of deprecated do_each_thread/while_each_thread. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Peter Chiang <pchiang@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fabian Frederick authored
Replace ((x) >> PAGE_SHIFT) with the pfn macro. Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fabian Frederick authored
Replace ((x) >> PAGE_SHIFT) with the pfn macro. Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Matthew Wilcox authored
brd is effectively a thinly provisioned device. Thinly provisioned devices return -ENOSPC when they can't write a new block. -ENOMEM is an implementation detail that callers shouldn't know. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> Acked-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Dheeraj Reddy <dheeraj.reddy@intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Matthew Wilcox authored
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Dheeraj Reddy <dheeraj.reddy@intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Matthew Wilcox authored
By calling the device driver to write the page directly, we avoid allocating a BIO, which allows us to free memory without allocating memory. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix used-uninitialized bug] Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Dheeraj Reddy <dheeraj.reddy@intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Matthew Wilcox authored
A block device driver may choose to provide a rw_page operation. These will be called when the filesystem is attempting to do page sized I/O to page cache pages (ie not for direct I/O). This does preclude I/Os that are larger than page size, so this may only be a performance gain for some devices. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> Tested-by: Dheeraj Reddy <dheeraj.reddy@intel.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Matthew Wilcox authored
page_endio() takes care of updating all the appropriate page flags once I/O has finished to a page. Switch to using mapping_set_error() instead of setting AS_EIO directly; this will handle thin-provisioned devices correctly. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Dheeraj Reddy <dheeraj.reddy@intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Matthew Wilcox authored
__mpage_writepage() is over 200 lines long, has 20 local variables, four goto labels and could desperately use simplification. Splitting clean_buffers() into a helper function improves matters a little, removing 20+ lines from it. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Dheeraj Reddy <dheeraj.reddy@intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Matthew Wilcox authored
The last in-tree caller of block_write_full_page_endio() was removed in January 2013. It's time to remove the EXPORT_SYMBOL, which leaves block_write_full_page() as the only caller of block_write_full_page_endio(), so inline block_write_full_page_endio() into block_write_full_page(). Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Dheeraj Reddy <dheeraj.reddy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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NeilBrown authored
When a loopback NFS mount is active and the backing device for the NFS mount becomes congested, that can impose throttling delays on the nfsd threads. These delays significantly reduce throughput and so the NFS mount remains congested. This results in a livelock and the reduced throughput persists. This livelock has been found in testing with the 'wait_iff_congested' call, and could possibly be caused by the 'congestion_wait' call. This livelock is similar to the deadlock which justified the introduction of PF_LESS_THROTTLE, and the same flag can be used to remove this livelock. To minimise the impact of the change, we still throttle nfsd when the filesystem it is writing to is congested, but not when some separate filesystem (e.g. the NFS filesystem) is congested. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: 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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Mel Gorman authored
Migration of misplaced transhuge pages uses page_add_new_anon_rmap() when putting the page back as it avoided an atomic operations and added the new page to the correct LRU. A side-effect is that the page gets marked activated as part of the migration meaning that transhuge and base pages are treated differently from an aging perspective than base page migration. This patch uses page_add_anon_rmap() and putback_lru_page() on completion of a transhuge migration similar to base page migration. It would require fewer atomic operations to use lru_cache_add without taking an additional reference to the page. The downside would be that it's still different to base page migration and unevictable pages may be added to the wrong LRU for cleaning up later. Testing of the usual workloads did not show any adverse impact to the change. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Vladimir Davydov authored
At present, we have the following mutexes protecting data related to per memcg kmem caches: - slab_mutex. This one is held during the whole kmem cache creation and destruction paths. We also take it when updating per root cache memcg_caches arrays (see memcg_update_all_caches). As a result, taking it guarantees there will be no changes to any kmem cache (including per memcg). Why do we need something else then? The point is it is private to slab implementation and has some internal dependencies with other mutexes (get_online_cpus). So we just don't want to rely upon it and prefer to introduce additional mutexes instead. - activate_kmem_mutex. Initially it was added to synchronize initializing kmem limit (memcg_activate_kmem). However, since we can grow per root cache memcg_caches arrays only on kmem limit initialization (see memcg_update_all_caches), we also employ it to protect against memcg_caches arrays relocation (e.g. see __kmem_cache_destroy_memcg_children). - We have a convention not to take slab_mutex in memcontrol.c, but we want to walk over per memcg memcg_slab_caches lists there (e.g. for destroying all memcg caches on offline). So we have per memcg slab_caches_mutex's protecting those lists. The mutexes are taken in the following order: activate_kmem_mutex -> slab_mutex -> memcg::slab_caches_mutex Such a syncrhonization scheme has a number of flaws, for instance: - We can't call kmem_cache_{destroy,shrink} while walking over a memcg::memcg_slab_caches list due to locking order. As a result, in mem_cgroup_destroy_all_caches we schedule the memcg_cache_params::destroy work shrinking and destroying the cache. - We don't have a mutex to synchronize per memcg caches destruction between memcg offline (mem_cgroup_destroy_all_caches) and root cache destruction (__kmem_cache_destroy_memcg_children). Currently we just don't bother about it. This patch simplifies it by substituting per memcg slab_caches_mutex's with the global memcg_slab_mutex. It will be held whenever a new per memcg cache is created or destroyed, so it protects per root cache memcg_caches arrays and per memcg memcg_slab_caches lists. The locking order is following: activate_kmem_mutex -> memcg_slab_mutex -> slab_mutex This allows us to call kmem_cache_{create,shrink,destroy} under the memcg_slab_mutex. As a result, we don't need memcg_cache_params::destroy work any more - we can simply destroy caches while iterating over a per memcg slab caches list. Also using the global mutex simplifies synchronization between concurrent per memcg caches creation/destruction, e.g. mem_cgroup_destroy_all_caches vs __kmem_cache_destroy_memcg_children. The downside of this is that we substitute per-memcg slab_caches_mutex's with a hummer-like global mutex, but since we already take either the slab_mutex or the cgroup_mutex along with a memcg::slab_caches_mutex, it shouldn't hurt concurrency a lot. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Vladimir Davydov authored
Currently we have two pairs of kmemcg-related functions that are called on slab alloc/free. The first is memcg_{bind,release}_pages that count the total number of pages allocated on a kmem cache. The second is memcg_{un}charge_slab that {un}charge slab pages to kmemcg resource counter. Let's just merge them to keep the code clean. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Vladimir Davydov authored
This patchset is a part of preparations for kmemcg re-parenting. It targets at simplifying kmemcg work-flows and synchronization. First, it removes async per memcg cache destruction (see patches 1, 2). Now caches are only destroyed on memcg offline. That means the caches that are not empty on memcg offline will be leaked. However, they are already leaked, because memcg_cache_params::nr_pages normally never drops to 0 so the destruction work is never scheduled except kmem_cache_shrink is called explicitly. In the future I'm planning reaping such dead caches on vmpressure or periodically. Second, it substitutes per memcg slab_caches_mutex's with the global memcg_slab_mutex, which should be taken during the whole per memcg cache creation/destruction path before the slab_mutex (see patch 3). This greatly simplifies synchronization among various per memcg cache creation/destruction paths. I'm still not quite sure about the end picture, in particular I don't know whether we should reap dead memcgs' kmem caches periodically or try to merge them with their parents (see https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/20/38 for more details), but whichever way we choose, this set looks like a reasonable change to me, because it greatly simplifies kmemcg work-flows and eases further development. This patch (of 3): After a memcg is offlined, we mark its kmem caches that cannot be deleted right now due to pending objects as dead by setting the memcg_cache_params::dead flag, so that memcg_release_pages will schedule cache destruction (memcg_cache_params::destroy) as soon as the last slab of the cache is freed (memcg_cache_params::nr_pages drops to zero). I guess the idea was to destroy the caches as soon as possible, i.e. immediately after freeing the last object. However, it just doesn't work that way, because kmem caches always preserve some pages for the sake of performance, so that nr_pages never gets to zero unless the cache is shrunk explicitly using kmem_cache_shrink. Of course, we could account the total number of objects on the cache or check if all the slabs allocated for the cache are empty on kmem_cache_free and schedule destruction if so, but that would be too costly. Thus we have a piece of code that works only when we explicitly call kmem_cache_shrink, but complicates the whole picture a lot. Moreover, it's racy in fact. For instance, kmem_cache_shrink may free the last slab and thus schedule cache destruction before it finishes checking that the cache is empty, which can lead to use-after-free. So I propose to remove this async cache destruction from memcg_release_pages, and check if the cache is empty explicitly after calling kmem_cache_shrink instead. This will simplify things a lot w/o introducing any functional changes. And regarding dead memcg caches (i.e. those that are left hanging around after memcg offline for they have objects), I suppose we should reap them either periodically or on vmpressure as Glauber suggested initially. I'm going to implement this later. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> 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
Eric has reported that he can see task(s) stuck in memcg OOM handler regularly. The only way out is to echo 0 > $GROUP/memory.oom_control His usecase is: - Setup a hierarchy with memory and the freezer (disable kernel oom and have a process watch for oom). - In that memory cgroup add a process with one thread per cpu. - In one thread slowly allocate once per second I think it is 16M of ram and mlock and dirty it (just to force the pages into ram and stay there). - When oom is achieved loop: * attempt to freeze all of the tasks. * if frozen send every task SIGKILL, unfreeze, remove the directory in cgroupfs. Eric has then pinpointed the issue to be memcg specific. All tasks are sitting on the memcg_oom_waitq when memcg oom is disabled. Those that have received fatal signal will bypass the charge and should continue on their way out. The tricky part is that the exit path might trigger a page fault (e.g. exit_robust_list), thus the memcg charge, while its memcg is still under OOM because nobody has released any charges yet. Unlike with the in-kernel OOM handler the exiting task doesn't get TIF_MEMDIE set so it doesn't shortcut further charges of the killed task and falls to the memcg OOM again without any way out of it as there are no fatal signals pending anymore. This patch fixes the issue by checking PF_EXITING early in mem_cgroup_try_charge and bypass the charge same as if it had fatal signal pending or TIF_MEMDIE set. Normally exiting tasks (aka not killed) will bypass the charge now but this should be OK as the task is leaving and will release memory and increasing the memory pressure just to release it in a moment seems dubious wasting of cycles. Besides that charges after exit_signals should be rare. I am bringing this patch again (rebased on the current mmotm tree). I hope we can move forward finally. If there is still an opposition then I would really appreciate a concurrent approach so that we can discuss alternatives. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.stable/77650 is a reference to the followup discussion when the patch has been dropped from the mmotm last time. Reported-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> 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
throttle_direct_reclaim() is meant to trigger during swap-over-network during which the min watermark is treated as a pfmemalloc reserve. It throttes on the first node in the zonelist but this is flawed. The user-visible impact is that a process running on CPU whose local memory node has no ZONE_NORMAL will stall for prolonged periods of time, possibly indefintely. This is due to throttle_direct_reclaim thinking the pfmemalloc reserves are depleted when in fact they don't exist on that node. On a NUMA machine running a 32-bit kernel (I know) allocation requests from CPUs on node 1 would detect no pfmemalloc reserves and the process gets throttled. This patch adjusts throttling of direct reclaim to throttle based on the first node in the zonelist that has a usable ZONE_NORMAL or lower zone. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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