balance_pgdat() is very long and some of the logic can and should be
internal to kswapd_shrink_zone(). Move it so the flow of
balance_pgdat() is marginally easier to follow.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently kswapd checks if it should start writepage as it shrinks each
zone without taking into consideration if the zone is balanced or not.
This is not wrong as such but it does not make much sense either. This
patch checks once per pgdat scan if kswapd should be writing pages.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Historically, kswapd used to congestion_wait() at higher priorities if
it was not making forward progress. This made no sense as the failure
to make progress could be completely independent of IO. It was later
replaced by wait_iff_congested() and removed entirely by commit 258401a6
(mm: don't wait on congested zones in balance_pgdat()) as it was
duplicating logic in shrink_inactive_list().
This is problematic. If kswapd encounters many pages under writeback
and it continues to scan until it reaches the high watermark then it
will quickly skip over the pages under writeback and reclaim clean young
pages or push applications out to swap.
The use of wait_iff_congested() is not suited to kswapd as it will only
stall if the underlying BDI is really congested or a direct reclaimer
was unable to write to the underlying BDI. kswapd bypasses the BDI
congestion as it sets PF_SWAPWRITE but even if this was taken into
account then it would cause direct reclaimers to stall on writeback
which is not desirable.
This patch sets a ZONE_WRITEBACK flag if direct reclaim or kswapd is
encountering too many pages under writeback. If this flag is set and
kswapd encounters a PageReclaim page under writeback then it'll assume
that the LRU lists are being recycled too quickly before IO can complete
and block waiting for some IO to complete.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently kswapd queues dirty pages for writeback if scanning at an
elevated priority but the priority kswapd scans at is not related to the
number of unqueued dirty encountered. Since commit "mm: vmscan: Flatten
kswapd priority loop", the priority is related to the size of the LRU
and the zone watermark which is no indication as to whether kswapd
should write pages or not.
This patch tracks if an excessive number of unqueued dirty pages are
being encountered at the end of the LRU. If so, it indicates that dirty
pages are being recycled before flusher threads can clean them and flags
the zone so that kswapd will start writing pages until the zone is
balanced.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Page reclaim at priority 0 will scan the entire LRU as priority 0 is
considered to be a near OOM condition. Kswapd can reach priority 0
quite easily if it is encountering a large number of pages it cannot
reclaim such as pages under writeback. When this happens, kswapd
reclaims very aggressively even though there may be no real risk of
allocation failure or OOM.
This patch prevents kswapd reaching priority 0 and trying to reclaim the
world. Direct reclaimers will still reach priority 0 in the event of an
OOM situation.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In the past, kswapd makes a decision on whether to compact memory after
the pgdat was considered balanced. This more or less worked but it is
late to make such a decision and does not fit well now that kswapd makes
a decision whether to exit the zone scanning loop depending on reclaim
progress.
This patch will compact a pgdat if at least the requested number of
pages were reclaimed from unbalanced zones for a given priority. If any
zone is currently balanced, kswapd will not call compaction as it is
expected the necessary pages are already available.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kswapd stops raising the scanning priority when at least
SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages have been reclaimed or the pgdat is considered
balanced. It then rechecks if it needs to restart at DEF_PRIORITY and
whether high-order reclaim needs to be reset. This is not wrong per-se
but it is confusing to follow and forcing kswapd to stay at DEF_PRIORITY
may require several restarts before it has scanned enough pages to meet
the high watermark even at 100% efficiency. This patch irons out the
logic a bit by controlling when priority is raised and removing the
"goto loop_again".
This patch has kswapd raise the scanning priority until it is scanning
enough pages that it could meet the high watermark in one shrink of the
LRU lists if it is able to reclaim at 100% efficiency. It will not
raise the scanning prioirty higher unless it is failing to reclaim any
pages.
To avoid infinite looping for high-order allocation requests kswapd will
not reclaim for high-order allocations when it has reclaimed at least
twice the number of pages as the allocation request.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Simplistically, the anon and file LRU lists are scanned proportionally
depending on the value of vm.swappiness although there are other factors
taken into account by get_scan_count(). The patch "mm: vmscan: Limit
the number of pages kswapd reclaims" limits the number of pages kswapd
reclaims but it breaks this proportional scanning and may evenly shrink
anon/file LRUs regardless of vm.swappiness.
This patch preserves the proportional scanning and reclaim. It does
mean that kswapd will reclaim more than requested but the number of
pages will be related to the high watermark.
[mhocko@suse.cz: Correct proportional reclaim for memcg and simplify]
[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: Recalculate scan based on target]
[hannes@cmpxchg.org: Account for already scanned pages properly]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This series does not fix all the current known problems with reclaim but
it addresses one important swapping bug when there is background IO.
Changelog since V3
- Drop the slab shrink changes in light of Glaubers series and
discussions highlighted that there were a number of potential
problems with the patch. (mel)
- Rebased to 3.10-rc1
Changelog since V2
- Preserve ratio properly for proportional scanning (kamezawa)
Changelog since V1
- Rename ZONE_DIRTY to ZONE_TAIL_LRU_DIRTY (andi)
- Reformat comment in shrink_page_list (andi)
- Clarify some comments (dhillf)
- Rework how the proportional scanning is preserved
- Add PageReclaim check before kswapd starts writeback
- Reset sc.nr_reclaimed on every full zone scan
Kswapd and page reclaim behaviour has been screwy in one way or the
other for a long time. Very broadly speaking it worked in the far past
because machines were limited in memory so it did not have that many
pages to scan and it stalled congestion_wait() frequently to prevent it
going completely nuts. In recent times it has behaved very
unsatisfactorily with some of the problems compounded by the removal of
stall logic and the introduction of transparent hugepage support with
high-order reclaims.
There are many variations of bugs that are rooted in this area. One
example is reports of a large copy operations or backup causing the
machine to grind to a halt or applications pushed to swap. Sometimes in
low memory situations a large percentage of memory suddenly gets
reclaimed. In other cases an application starts and kswapd hits 100%
CPU usage for prolonged periods of time and so on. There is now talk of
introducing features like an extra free kbytes tunable to work around
aspects of the problem instead of trying to deal with it. It's
compounded by the problem that it can be very workload and machine
specific.
This series aims at addressing some of the worst of these problems
without attempting to fundmentally alter how page reclaim works.
Patches 1-2 limits the number of pages kswapd reclaims while still obeying
the anon/file proportion of the LRUs it should be scanning.
Patches 3-4 control how and when kswapd raises its scanning priority and
deletes the scanning restart logic which is tricky to follow.
Patch 5 notes that it is too easy for kswapd to reach priority 0 when
scanning and then reclaim the world. Down with that sort of thing.
Patch 6 notes that kswapd starts writeback based on scanning priority which
is not necessarily related to dirty pages. It will have kswapd
writeback pages if a number of unqueued dirty pages have been
recently encountered at the tail of the LRU.
Patch 7 notes that sometimes kswapd should stall waiting on IO to complete
to reduce LRU churn and the likelihood that it'll reclaim young
clean pages or push applications to swap. It will cause kswapd
to block on IO if it detects that pages being reclaimed under
writeback are recycling through the LRU before the IO completes.
Patchies 8-9 are cosmetic but balance_pgdat() is easier to follow after they
are applied.
This was tested using memcached+memcachetest while some background IO
was in progress as implemented by the parallel IO tests implement in MM
Tests.
memcachetest benchmarks how many operations/second memcached can service
and it is run multiple times. It starts with no background IO and then
re-runs the test with larger amounts of IO in the background to roughly
simulate a large copy in progress. The expectation is that the IO
should have little or no impact on memcachetest which is running
entirely in memory.
3.10.0-rc1 3.10.0-rc1
vanilla lessdisrupt-v4
Ops memcachetest-0M 22155.00 ( 0.00%) 22180.00 ( 0.11%)
Ops memcachetest-715M 22720.00 ( 0.00%) 22355.00 ( -1.61%)
Ops memcachetest-2385M 3939.00 ( 0.00%) 23450.00 (495.33%)
Ops memcachetest-4055M 3628.00 ( 0.00%) 24341.00 (570.92%)
Ops io-duration-0M 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
Ops io-duration-715M 12.00 ( 0.00%) 7.00 ( 41.67%)
Ops io-duration-2385M 118.00 ( 0.00%) 21.00 ( 82.20%)
Ops io-duration-4055M 162.00 ( 0.00%) 36.00 ( 77.78%)
Ops swaptotal-0M 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
Ops swaptotal-715M 140134.00 ( 0.00%) 18.00 ( 99.99%)
Ops swaptotal-2385M 392438.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
Ops swaptotal-4055M 449037.00 ( 0.00%) 27864.00 ( 93.79%)
Ops swapin-0M 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
Ops swapin-715M 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
Ops swapin-2385M 148031.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
Ops swapin-4055M 135109.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
Ops minorfaults-0M 1529984.00 ( 0.00%) 1530235.00 ( -0.02%)
Ops minorfaults-715M 1794168.00 ( 0.00%) 1613750.00 ( 10.06%)
Ops minorfaults-2385M 1739813.00 ( 0.00%) 1609396.00 ( 7.50%)
Ops minorfaults-4055M 1754460.00 ( 0.00%) 1614810.00 ( 7.96%)
Ops majorfaults-0M 0.00 ( 0.00%) 0.00 ( 0.00%)
Ops majorfaults-715M 185.00 ( 0.00%) 180.00 ( 2.70%)
Ops majorfaults-2385M 24472.00 ( 0.00%) 101.00 ( 99.59%)
Ops majorfaults-4055M 22302.00 ( 0.00%) 229.00 ( 98.97%)
Note how the vanilla kernels performance collapses when there is enough
IO taking place in the background. This drop in performance is part of
what users complain of when they start backups. Note how the swapin and
major fault figures indicate that processes were being pushed to swap
prematurely. With the series applied, there is no noticable performance
drop and while there is still some swap activity, it's tiny.
20 iterations of this test were run in total and averaged. Every 5
iterations, additional IO was generated in the background using dd to
measure how the workload was impacted. The 0M, 715M, 2385M and 4055M
subblock refer to the amount of IO going on in the background at each
iteration. So memcachetest-2385M is reporting how many
transactions/second memcachetest recorded on average over 5 iterations
while there was 2385M of IO going on in the ground. There are six
blocks of information reported here
memcachetest is the transactions/second reported by memcachetest. In
the vanilla kernel note that performance drops from around
22K/sec to just under 4K/second when there is 2385M of IO going
on in the background. This is one type of performance collapse
users complain about if a large cp or backup starts in the
background
io-duration refers to how long it takes for the background IO to
complete. It's showing that with the patched kernel that the IO
completes faster while not interfering with the memcache
workload
swaptotal is the total amount of swap traffic. With the patched kernel,
the total amount of swapping is much reduced although it is
still not zero.
swapin in this case is an indication as to whether we are swap trashing.
The closer the swapin/swapout ratio is to 1, the worse the
trashing is. Note with the patched kernel that there is no swapin
activity indicating that all the pages swapped were really inactive
unused pages.
minorfaults are just minor faults. An increased number of minor faults
can indicate that page reclaim is unmapping the pages but not
swapping them out before they are faulted back in. With the
patched kernel, there is only a small change in minor faults
majorfaults are just major faults in the target workload and a high
number can indicate that a workload is being prematurely
swapped. With the patched kernel, major faults are much reduced. As
there are no swapin's recorded so it's not being swapped. The likely
explanation is that that libraries or configuration files used by
the workload during startup get paged out by the background IO.
Overall with the series applied, there is no noticable performance drop
due to background IO and while there is still some swap activity, it's
tiny and the lack of swapins imply that the swapped pages were inactive
and unused.
3.10.0-rc1 3.10.0-rc1
vanilla lessdisrupt-v4
Page Ins 1234608 101892
Page Outs 12446272 11810468
Swap Ins 283406 0
Swap Outs 698469 27882
Direct pages scanned 0 136480
Kswapd pages scanned 6266537 5369364
Kswapd pages reclaimed 1088989 930832
Direct pages reclaimed 0 120901
Kswapd efficiency 17% 17%
Kswapd velocity 5398.371 4635.115
Direct efficiency 100% 88%
Direct velocity 0.000 117.817
Percentage direct scans 0% 2%
Page writes by reclaim 1655843 4009929
Page writes file 957374 3982047
Page writes anon 698469 27882
Page reclaim immediate 5245 1745
Page rescued immediate 0 0
Slabs scanned 33664 25216
Direct inode steals 0 0
Kswapd inode steals 19409 778
Kswapd skipped wait 0 0
THP fault alloc 35 30
THP collapse alloc 472 401
THP splits 27 22
THP fault fallback 0 0
THP collapse fail 0 1
Compaction stalls 0 4
Compaction success 0 0
Compaction failures 0 4
Page migrate success 0 0
Page migrate failure 0 0
Compaction pages isolated 0 0
Compaction migrate scanned 0 0
Compaction free scanned 0 0
Compaction cost 0 0
NUMA PTE updates 0 0
NUMA hint faults 0 0
NUMA hint local faults 0 0
NUMA pages migrated 0 0
AutoNUMA cost 0 0
Unfortunately, note that there is a small amount of direct reclaim due to
kswapd no longer reclaiming the world. ftrace indicates that the direct
reclaim stalls are mostly harmless with the vast bulk of the stalls
incurred by dd
23 tclsh-3367
38 memcachetest-13733
49 memcachetest-12443
57 tee-3368
1541 dd-13826
1981 dd-12539
A consequence of the direct reclaim for dd is that the processes for the
IO workload may show a higher system CPU usage. There is also a risk that
kswapd not reclaiming the world may mean that it stays awake balancing
zones, does not stall on the appropriate events and continually scans
pages it cannot reclaim consuming CPU. This will be visible as continued
high CPU usage but in my own tests I only saw a single spike lasting less
than a second and I did not observe any problems related to reclaim while
running the series on my desktop.
This patch:
The number of pages kswapd can reclaim is bound by the number of pages it
scans which is related to the size of the zone and the scanning priority.
In many cases the priority remains low because it's reset every
SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX reclaimed pages but in the event kswapd scans a large
number of pages it cannot reclaim, it will raise the priority and
potentially discard a large percentage of the zone as sc->nr_to_reclaim is
ULONG_MAX. The user-visible effect is a reclaim "spike" where a large
percentage of memory is suddenly freed. It would be bad enough if this
was just unused memory but because of how anon/file pages are balanced it
is possible that applications get pushed to swap unnecessarily.
This patch limits the number of pages kswapd will reclaim to the high
watermark. Reclaim will still overshoot due to it not being a hard limit
as shrink_lruvec() will ignore the sc.nr_to_reclaim at DEF_PRIORITY but it
prevents kswapd reclaiming the world at higher priorities. The number of
pages it reclaims is not adjusted for high-order allocations as kswapd
will reclaim excessively if it is to balance zones for high-order
allocations.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When memory hotplug is triggered, we call pageset_init() on
per-cpu-pagesets which both contain pages and are in use, causing both the
leakage of those pages and (potentially) bad behaviour if a page is
allocated from a pageset while it is being cleared.
Avoid this by factoring out pageset_set_high_and_batch() (which contains
all needed logic too set a pageset's ->high and ->batch inrespective of
system state) from zone_pageset_init() and using the new
pageset_set_high_and_batch() instead of zone_pageset_init() in
zone_pcp_update().
Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Simply moves calculation of the new 'high' value outside the
for_each_possible_cpu() loop, as it does not depend on the cpu.
Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
zone_pcp_update()'s goal is to adjust the ->high and ->mark members of a
percpu pageset based on a zone's ->managed_pages. We don't need to drain
the entire percpu pageset just to modify these fields.
This lets us avoid calling setup_pageset() (and the draining required to
call it) and instead allows simply setting the fields' values (with some
attention paid to memory barriers to prevent the relationship between
->batch and ->high from being thrown off).
This does change the behavior of zone_pcp_update() as the percpu pagesets
will not be drained when zone_pcp_update() is called (they will end up
being shrunk, not completely drained, later when a 0-order page is freed
in free_hot_cold_page()).
Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
pcp->batch could change at any point, avoid relying on it being a stable
value.
Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Introduce pageset_update() to perform a safe transision from one set of
pcp->{batch,high} to a new set using memory barriers.
This ensures that batch is always set to a safe value (1) prior to
updating high, and ensure that high is fully updated before setting the
real value of batch. It avoids ->batch ever rising above ->high.
Suggested by Gilad Ben-Yossef in these threads:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/9/23https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/10/49
Also reproduces his proposed comment.
Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Because we are going to rely upon a careful transision between old and new
->high and ->batch values using memory barriers and will remove
stop_machine(), we need to prevent multiple updaters from interweaving
their memory writes.
Add a simple mutex to protect both update loops.
Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
"Problems" with the current code:
1: there is a lack of synchronization in setting ->high and ->batch in
percpu_pagelist_fraction_sysctl_handler()
2: stop_machine() in zone_pcp_update() is unnecissary.
3: zone_pcp_update() does not consider the case where
percpu_pagelist_fraction is non-zero
To fix:
1: add memory barriers, a safe ->batch value, an update side mutex when
updating ->high and ->batch, and use ACCESS_ONCE() for ->batch users
that expect a stable value.
2: avoid draining pages in zone_pcp_update(), rely upon the memory
barriers added to fix#1
3: factor out quite a few functions, and then call the appropriate one.
Note that it results in a change to the behavior of zone_pcp_update(),
which is used by memory_hotplug. I'm rather certain that I've diserned
(and preserved) the essential behavior (changing ->high and ->batch), and
only eliminated unneeded actions (draining the per cpu pages), but this
may not be the case.
Further note that the draining of pages that previously took place in
zone_pcp_update() occured after repeated draining when attempting to
offline a page, and after the offline has "succeeded". It appears that
the draining was added to zone_pcp_update() to avoid refactoring
setup_pageset() into 2 funtions.
This patch:
Creates pageset_set_batch() for use in setup_pageset().
pageset_set_batch() imitates the functionality of
setup_pagelist_highmark(), but uses the boot time
(percpu_pagelist_fraction == 0) calculations for determining ->high based
on ->batch.
Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
(*->vm_end - *->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT operation is implemented
as a inline funcion vma_pages() in linux/mm.h, so using it.
Signed-off-by: Libin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Swap subsystem does lazy swap slot free with expecting the page would be
swapped out again so we can avoid unnecessary write.
But the problem in in-memory swap(ex, zram) is that it consumes memory
space until vm_swap_full(ie, used half of all of swap device) condition
meet. It could be bad if we use multiple swap device, small in-memory
swap and big storage swap or in-memory swap alone.
This patch makes swap subsystem free swap slot as soon as swap-read is
completed and make the swapcache page dirty so the page should be
written out the swap device to reclaim it. It means we never lose it.
I tested this patch with kernel compile workload.
1. before
compile time : 9882.42
zram max wasted space by fragmentation: 13471881 byte
memory space consumed by zram: 174227456 byte
the number of slot free notify: 206684
2. after
compile time : 9653.90
zram max wasted space by fragmentation: 11805932 byte
memory space consumed by zram: 154001408 byte
the number of slot free notify: 426972
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment text]
[artem.savkov@gmail.com: fix BUG due to non-swapcache pages in end_swap_bio_read()]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: invert unlikely() test, augment comment, 80-col cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Artem Savkov <artem.savkov@gmail.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@darnok.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
For processes that have detached their mm's, task_in_mem_cgroup()
unnecessarily takes task_lock() when rcu_read_lock() is all that is
necessary to call mem_cgroup_from_task().
While we're here, switch task_in_mem_cgroup() to return bool.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The soft-dirty is a bit on a PTE which helps to track which pages a task
writes to. In order to do this tracking one should
1. Clear soft-dirty bits from PTEs ("echo 4 > /proc/PID/clear_refs)
2. Wait some time.
3. Read soft-dirty bits (55'th in /proc/PID/pagemap2 entries)
To do this tracking, the writable bit is cleared from PTEs when the
soft-dirty bit is. Thus, after this, when the task tries to modify a
page at some virtual address the #PF occurs and the kernel sets the
soft-dirty bit on the respective PTE.
Note, that although all the task's address space is marked as r/o after
the soft-dirty bits clear, the #PF-s that occur after that are processed
fast. This is so, since the pages are still mapped to physical memory,
and thus all the kernel does is finds this fact out and puts back
writable, dirty and soft-dirty bits on the PTE.
Another thing to note, is that when mremap moves PTEs they are marked
with soft-dirty as well, since from the user perspective mremap modifies
the virtual memory at mremap's new address.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.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>
- Hotplug changes allowing device hot-removal operations to fail
gracefully (instead of crashing the kernel) if they cannot be
carried out completely. From Rafael J Wysocki and Toshi Kani.
- Freezer update from Colin Cross and Mandeep Singh Baines targeted
at making the freezing of tasks a bit less heavy weight operation.
- cpufreq resume fix from Srivatsa S Bhat for a regression introduced
during the 3.10 cycle causing some cpufreq sysfs attributes to
return wrong values to user space after resume.
- New freqdomain_cpus sysfs attribute for the acpi-cpufreq driver to
provide information previously available via related_cpus from
Lan Tianyu.
- cpufreq fixes and cleanups from Viresh Kumar, Jacob Shin,
Heiko Stübner, Xiaoguang Chen, Ezequiel Garcia, Arnd Bergmann, and
Tang Yuantian.
- Fix for an ACPICA regression causing suspend/resume issues to
appear on some systems introduced during the 3.4 development cycle
from Lv Zheng.
- ACPICA fixes and cleanups from Bob Moore, Tomasz Nowicki, Lv Zheng,
Chao Guan, and Zhang Rui.
- New cupidle driver for Xilinx Zynq processors from Michal Simek.
- cpuidle fixes and cleanups from Daniel Lezcano.
- Changes to make suspend/resume work correctly in Xen guests from
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk.
- ACPI device power management fixes and cleanups from Fengguang Wu
and Rafael J Wysocki.
- ACPI documentation updates from Lv Zheng, Aaron Lu and Hanjun Guo.
- Fix for the IA-64 issue that was the reason for reverting commit
9f29ab1 and updates of the ACPI scan code from Rafael J Wysocki.
- Mechanism for adding CMOS RTC address space handlers from Lan Tianyu
(to allow some EC-related breakage to be fixed on some systems).
- Spec-compliant implementation of acpi_os_get_timer() from
Mika Westerberg.
- Modification of do_acpi_find_child() to execute _STA in order to
to avoid situations in which a pointer to a disabled device object
is returned instead of an enabled one with the same _ADR value.
From Jeff Wu.
- Intel BayTrail PCH (Platform Controller Hub) support for the ACPI
Intel Low-Power Subsystems (LPSS) driver and modificaions of that
driver to work around a couple of known BIOS issues from
Mika Westerberg and Heikki Krogerus.
- EC driver fix from Vasiliy Kulikov to make it use get_user() and
put_user() instead of dereferencing user space pointers blindly.
- Assorted ACPI code cleanups from Bjorn Helgaas, Nicholas Mazzuca and
Toshi Kani.
- Modification of the "runtime idle" helper routine to take the return
values of the callbacks executed by it into account and to call
rpm_suspend() if they return 0, which allows some code bloat
reduction to be done, from Rafael J Wysocki and Alan Stern.
- New trace points for PM QoS from Sahara <keun-o.park@windriver.com>.
- PM QoS documentation update from Lan Tianyu.
- Assorted core PM code cleanups and changes from Bernie Thompson,
Bjorn Helgaas, Julius Werner, and Shuah Khan.
- New devfreq driver for the Exynos5-bus device from Abhilash Kesavan.
- Minor devfreq cleanups, fixes and MAINTAINERS update from
MyungJoo Ham, Abhilash Kesavan, Paul Bolle, Rajagopal Venkat, and
Wei Yongjun.
- OMAP Adaptive Voltage Scaling (AVS) SmartReflex voltage control
driver updates from Andrii Tseglytskyi and Nishanth Menon.
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Merge tag 'pm+acpi-3.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull power management and ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"This time the total number of ACPI commits is slightly greater than
the number of cpufreq commits, but Viresh Kumar (who works on cpufreq)
remains the most active patch submitter.
To me, the most significant change is the addition of offline/online
device operations to the driver core (with the Greg's blessing) and
the related modifications of the ACPI core hotplug code. Next are the
freezer updates from Colin Cross that should make the freezing of
tasks a bit less heavy weight.
We also have a couple of regression fixes, a number of fixes for
issues that have not been identified as regressions, two new drivers
and a bunch of cleanups all over.
Highlights:
- Hotplug changes to support graceful hot-removal failures.
It sometimes is necessary to fail device hot-removal operations
gracefully if they cannot be carried out completely. For example,
if memory from a memory module being hot-removed has been allocated
for the kernel's own use and cannot be moved elsewhere, it's
desirable to fail the hot-removal operation in a graceful way
rather than to crash the kernel, but currenty a success or a kernel
crash are the only possible outcomes of an attempted memory
hot-removal. Needless to say, that is not a very attractive
alternative and it had to be addressed.
However, in order to make it work for memory, I first had to make
it work for CPUs and for this purpose I needed to modify the ACPI
processor driver. It's been split into two parts, a resident one
handling the low-level initialization/cleanup and a modular one
playing the actual driver's role (but it binds to the CPU system
device objects rather than to the ACPI device objects representing
processors). That's been sort of like a live brain surgery on a
patient who's riding a bike.
So this is a little scary, but since we found and fixed a couple of
regressions it caused to happen during the early linux-next testing
(a month ago), nobody has complained.
As a bonus we remove some duplicated ACPI hotplug code, because the
ACPI-based CPU hotplug is now going to use the common ACPI hotplug
code.
- Lighter weight freezing of tasks.
These changes from Colin Cross and Mandeep Singh Baines are
targeted at making the freezing of tasks a bit less heavy weight
operation. They reduce the number of tasks woken up every time
during the freezing, by using the observation that the freezer
simply doesn't need to wake up some of them and wait for them all
to call refrigerator(). The time needed for the freezer to decide
to report a failure is reduced too.
Also reintroduced is the check causing a lockdep warining to
trigger when try_to_freeze() is called with locks held (which is
generally unsafe and shouldn't happen).
- cpufreq updates
First off, a commit from Srivatsa S Bhat fixes a resume regression
introduced during the 3.10 cycle causing some cpufreq sysfs
attributes to return wrong values to user space after resume. The
fix is kind of fresh, but also it's pretty obvious once Srivatsa
has identified the root cause.
Second, we have a new freqdomain_cpus sysfs attribute for the
acpi-cpufreq driver to provide information previously available via
related_cpus. From Lan Tianyu.
Finally, we fix a number of issues, mostly related to the
CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notifier and cpufreq Kconfig options and clean
up some code. The majority of changes from Viresh Kumar with bits
from Jacob Shin, Heiko Stübner, Xiaoguang Chen, Ezequiel Garcia,
Arnd Bergmann, and Tang Yuantian.
- ACPICA update
A usual bunch of updates from the ACPICA upstream.
During the 3.4 cycle we introduced support for ACPI 5 extended
sleep registers, but they are only supposed to be used if the
HW-reduced mode bit is set in the FADT flags and the code attempted
to use them without checking that bit. That caused suspend/resume
regressions to happen on some systems. Fix from Lv Zheng causes
those registers to be used only if the HW-reduced mode bit is set.
Apart from this some other ACPICA bugs are fixed and code cleanups
are made by Bob Moore, Tomasz Nowicki, Lv Zheng, Chao Guan, and
Zhang Rui.
- cpuidle updates
New driver for Xilinx Zynq processors is added by Michal Simek.
Multidriver support simplification, addition of some missing
kerneldoc comments and Kconfig-related fixes come from Daniel
Lezcano.
- ACPI power management updates
Changes to make suspend/resume work correctly in Xen guests from
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, sparse warning fix from Fengguang Wu and
cleanups and fixes of the ACPI device power state selection
routine.
- ACPI documentation updates
Some previously missing pieces of ACPI documentation are added by
Lv Zheng and Aaron Lu (hopefully, that will help people to
uderstand how the ACPI subsystem works) and one outdated doc is
updated by Hanjun Guo.
- Assorted ACPI updates
We finally nailed down the IA-64 issue that was the reason for
reverting commit 9f29ab11ddbf ("ACPI / scan: do not match drivers
against objects having scan handlers"), so we can fix it and move
the ACPI scan handler check added to the ACPI video driver back to
the core.
A mechanism for adding CMOS RTC address space handlers is
introduced by Lan Tianyu to allow some EC-related breakage to be
fixed on some systems.
A spec-compliant implementation of acpi_os_get_timer() is added by
Mika Westerberg.
The evaluation of _STA is added to do_acpi_find_child() to avoid
situations in which a pointer to a disabled device object is
returned instead of an enabled one with the same _ADR value. From
Jeff Wu.
Intel BayTrail PCH (Platform Controller Hub) support is added to
the ACPI driver for Intel Low-Power Subsystems (LPSS) and that
driver is modified to work around a couple of known BIOS issues.
Changes from Mika Westerberg and Heikki Krogerus.
The EC driver is fixed by Vasiliy Kulikov to use get_user() and
put_user() instead of dereferencing user space pointers blindly.
Code cleanups are made by Bjorn Helgaas, Nicholas Mazzuca and Toshi
Kani.
- Assorted power management updates
The "runtime idle" helper routine is changed to take the return
values of the callbacks executed by it into account and to call
rpm_suspend() if they return 0, which allows us to reduce the
overall code bloat a bit (by dropping some code that's not
necessary any more after that modification).
The runtime PM documentation is updated by Alan Stern (to reflect
the "runtime idle" behavior change).
New trace points for PM QoS are added by Sahara
(<keun-o.park@windriver.com>).
PM QoS documentation is updated by Lan Tianyu.
Code cleanups are made and minor issues are addressed by Bernie
Thompson, Bjorn Helgaas, Julius Werner, and Shuah Khan.
- devfreq updates
New driver for the Exynos5-bus device from Abhilash Kesavan.
Minor cleanups, fixes and MAINTAINERS update from MyungJoo Ham,
Abhilash Kesavan, Paul Bolle, Rajagopal Venkat, and Wei Yongjun.
- OMAP power management updates
Adaptive Voltage Scaling (AVS) SmartReflex voltage control driver
updates from Andrii Tseglytskyi and Nishanth Menon."
* tag 'pm+acpi-3.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (162 commits)
cpufreq: Fix cpufreq regression after suspend/resume
ACPI / PM: Fix possible NULL pointer deref in acpi_pm_device_sleep_state()
PM / Sleep: Warn about system time after resume with pm_trace
cpufreq: don't leave stale policy pointer in cdbs->cur_policy
acpi-cpufreq: Add new sysfs attribute freqdomain_cpus
cpufreq: make sure frequency transitions are serialized
ACPI: implement acpi_os_get_timer() according the spec
ACPI / EC: Add HP Folio 13 to ec_dmi_table in order to skip DSDT scan
ACPI: Add CMOS RTC Operation Region handler support
ACPI / processor: Drop unused variable from processor_perflib.c
cpufreq: tegra: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: s3c64xx: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: omap: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: imx6q: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: exynos: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: dbx500: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: davinci: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: arm-big-little: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: powernow-k8: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: pcc: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
...
Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
"In this update, Smack learns to love IPv6 and to mount a filesystem
with a transmutable hierarchy (i.e. security labels are inherited
from parent directory upon creation rather than creating process).
The rest of the changes are maintenance"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (37 commits)
tpm/tpm_i2c_infineon: Remove unused header file
tpm: tpm_i2c_infinion: Don't modify i2c_client->driver
evm: audit integrity metadata failures
integrity: move integrity_audit_msg()
evm: calculate HMAC after initializing posix acl on tmpfs
maintainers: add Dmitry Kasatkin
Smack: Fix the bug smackcipso can't set CIPSO correctly
Smack: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference at smk_netlbl_mls()
Smack: Add smkfstransmute mount option
Smack: Improve access check performance
Smack: Local IPv6 port based controls
tpm: fix regression caused by section type conflict of tpm_dev_release() in ppc builds
maintainers: Remove Kent from maintainers
tpm: move TPM_DIGEST_SIZE defintion
tpm_tis: missing platform_driver_unregister() on error in init_tis()
security: clarify cap_inode_getsecctx description
apparmor: no need to delay vfree()
apparmor: fix fully qualified name parsing
apparmor: fix setprocattr arg processing for onexec
apparmor: localize getting the security context to a few macros
...
- KVM and Xen ports to AArch64
- Hugetlbfs and transparent huge pages support for arm64
- Applied Micro X-Gene Kconfig entry and dts file
- Cache flushing improvements
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Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-aarch64
Pull ARM64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
"Main features:
- KVM and Xen ports to AArch64
- Hugetlbfs and transparent huge pages support for arm64
- Applied Micro X-Gene Kconfig entry and dts file
- Cache flushing improvements
For arm64 huge pages support, there are x86 changes moving part of
arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c into mm/hugetlb.c to be re-used by arm64"
* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-aarch64: (66 commits)
arm64: Add initial DTS for APM X-Gene Storm SOC and APM Mustang board
arm64: Add defines for APM ARMv8 implementation
arm64: Enable APM X-Gene SOC family in the defconfig
arm64: Add Kconfig option for APM X-Gene SOC family
arm64/Makefile: provide vdso_install target
ARM64: mm: THP support.
ARM64: mm: Raise MAX_ORDER for 64KB pages and THP.
ARM64: mm: HugeTLB support.
ARM64: mm: Move PTE_PROT_NONE bit.
ARM64: mm: Make PAGE_NONE pages read only and no-execute.
ARM64: mm: Restore memblock limit when map_mem finished.
mm: thp: Correct the HPAGE_PMD_ORDER check.
x86: mm: Remove general hugetlb code from x86.
mm: hugetlb: Copy general hugetlb code from x86 to mm.
x86: mm: Remove x86 version of huge_pmd_share.
mm: hugetlb: Copy huge_pmd_share from x86 to mm.
arm64: KVM: document kernel object mappings in HYP
arm64: KVM: MAINTAINERS update
arm64: KVM: userspace API documentation
arm64: KVM: enable initialization of a 32bit vcpu
...
Pull second set of VFS changes from Al Viro:
"Assorted f_pos race fixes, making do_splice_direct() safe to call with
i_mutex on parent, O_TMPFILE support, Jeff's locks.c series,
->d_hash/->d_compare calling conventions changes from Linus, misc
stuff all over the place."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
Document ->tmpfile()
ext4: ->tmpfile() support
vfs: export lseek_execute() to modules
lseek_execute() doesn't need an inode passed to it
block_dev: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
cpqphp_sysfs: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
tile-srom: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
proc_powerpc: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
ubi/cdev: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
pci/proc: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
isapnp: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
lpfc: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
locks: give the blocked_hash its own spinlock
locks: add a new "lm_owner_key" lock operation
locks: turn the blocked_list into a hashtable
locks: convert fl_link to a hlist_node
locks: avoid taking global lock if possible when waking up blocked waiters
locks: protect most of the file_lock handling with i_lock
locks: encapsulate the fl_link list handling
locks: make "added" in __posix_lock_file a bool
...
For those file systems(btrfs/ext4/ocfs2/tmpfs) that support
SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE functions, we end up handling the similar
matter in lseek_execute() to update the current file offset
to the desired offset if it is valid, ceph also does the
simliar things at ceph_llseek().
To reduce the duplications, this patch make lseek_execute()
public accessible so that we can call it directly from the
underlying file systems.
Thanks Dave Chinner for this suggestion.
[AV: call it vfs_setpos(), don't bring the removed 'inode' argument back]
v2->v1:
- Add kernel-doc comments for lseek_execute()
- Call lseek_execute() in ceph->llseek()
Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Cc: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Cc: Ted Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Pull voluntary preemption fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree contains a speedup which is achieved through better
might_sleep()/might_fault() preemption point annotations for uaccess
functions, by Michael S Tsirkin:
1. The only reason uaccess routines might sleep is if they fault.
Make this explicit for all architectures.
2. A voluntary preemption point in uaccess functions means compiler
can't inline them efficiently, this breaks assumptions that they
are very fast and small that e.g. net code seems to make. Remove
this preemption point so behaviour matches with what callers
assume.
3. Accesses (e.g through socket ops) to kernel memory with KERNEL_DS
like net/sunrpc does will never sleep. Remove an unconditinal
might_sleep() in the might_fault() inline in kernel.h (used when
PROVE_LOCKING is not set).
4. Accesses with pagefault_disable() return EFAULT but won't cause
caller to sleep. Check for that and thus avoid might_sleep() when
PROVE_LOCKING is set.
These changes offer a nice speedup for CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y
kernels, here's a network bandwidth measurement between a virtual
machine and the host:
before:
incoming: 7122.77 Mb/s
outgoing: 8480.37 Mb/s
after:
incoming: 8619.24 Mb/s [ +21.0% ]
outgoing: 9455.42 Mb/s [ +11.5% ]
I kept these changes in a separate tree, separate from scheduler
changes, because it's a mixed MM and scheduler topic"
* 'sched-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
mm, sched: Allow uaccess in atomic with pagefault_disable()
mm, sched: Drop voluntary schedule from might_fault()
x86: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
tile: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
powerpc: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
mn10300: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
microblaze: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
m32r: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
frv: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
arm64: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
asm-generic: uaccess s/might_sleep/might_fault/
Pull locking changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Four miscellanous standalone fixes for futexes, rtmutexes and
Kconfig.locks."
* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
futex: Use freezable blocking call
futex: Take hugepages into account when generating futex_key
rtmutex: Document rt_mutex_adjust_prio_chain()
locking: Fix copy/paste errors of "ARCH_INLINE_*_UNLOCK_BH"
Here's the big driver core merge for 3.11-rc1
Lots of little things, and larger firmware subsystem updates, all
described in the shortlog. Nice thing here is that we finally get rid
of CONFIG_HOTPLUG, after 10+ years, thanks to Stephen Rohtwell (it had
been always on for a number of kernel releases, now it's just removed.)
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'driver-core-3.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
"Here's the big driver core merge for 3.11-rc1
Lots of little things, and larger firmware subsystem updates, all
described in the shortlog. Nice thing here is that we finally get rid
of CONFIG_HOTPLUG, after 10+ years, thanks to Stephen Rohtwell (it had
been always on for a number of kernel releases, now it's just
removed)"
* tag 'driver-core-3.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (27 commits)
driver core: device.h: fix doc compilation warnings
firmware loader: fix another compile warning with PM_SLEEP unset
build some drivers only when compile-testing
firmware loader: fix compile warning with PM_SLEEP set
kobject: sanitize argument for format string
sysfs_notify is only possible on file attributes
firmware loader: simplify holding module for request_firmware
firmware loader: don't export cache_firmware and uncache_firmware
drivers/base: Use attribute groups to create sysfs memory files
firmware loader: fix compile warning
firmware loader: fix build failure with !CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
Documentation: Updated broken link in HOWTO
Finally eradicate CONFIG_HOTPLUG
driver core: firmware loader: kill FW_ACTION_NOHOTPLUG requests before suspend
driver core: firmware loader: don't cache FW_ACTION_NOHOTPLUG firmware
Documentation: Tidy up some drivers/base/core.c kerneldoc content.
platform_device: use a macro instead of platform_driver_register
firmware: move EXPORT_SYMBOL annotations
firmware: Avoid deadlock of usermodehelper lock at shutdown
dell_rbu: Select CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER explicitly
...
category, of note is a fix for on-line resizing file systems where the
block size is smaller than the page size (i.e., file systems 1k blocks
on x86, or more interestingly file systems with 4k blocks on Power or
ia64 systems.)
In the cleanup category, the ext4's punch hole implementation was
significantly improved by Lukas Czerner, and now supports bigalloc
file systems. In addition, Jan Kara significantly cleaned up the
write submission code path. We also improved error checking and added
a few sanity checks.
In the optimizations category, two major optimizations deserve
mention. The first is that ext4_writepages() is now used for
nodelalloc and ext3 compatibility mode. This allows writes to be
submitted much more efficiently as a single bio request, instead of
being sent as individual 4k writes into the block layer (which then
relied on the elevator code to coalesce the requests in the block
queue). Secondly, the extent cache shrink mechanism, which was
introduce in 3.9, no longer has a scalability bottleneck caused by the
i_es_lru spinlock. Other optimizations include some changes to reduce
CPU usage and to avoid issuing empty commits unnecessarily.
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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 update from Ted Ts'o:
"Lots of bug fixes, cleanups and optimizations. In the bug fixes
category, of note is a fix for on-line resizing file systems where the
block size is smaller than the page size (i.e., file systems 1k blocks
on x86, or more interestingly file systems with 4k blocks on Power or
ia64 systems.)
In the cleanup category, the ext4's punch hole implementation was
significantly improved by Lukas Czerner, and now supports bigalloc
file systems. In addition, Jan Kara significantly cleaned up the
write submission code path. We also improved error checking and added
a few sanity checks.
In the optimizations category, two major optimizations deserve
mention. The first is that ext4_writepages() is now used for
nodelalloc and ext3 compatibility mode. This allows writes to be
submitted much more efficiently as a single bio request, instead of
being sent as individual 4k writes into the block layer (which then
relied on the elevator code to coalesce the requests in the block
queue). Secondly, the extent cache shrink mechanism, which was
introduce in 3.9, no longer has a scalability bottleneck caused by the
i_es_lru spinlock. Other optimizations include some changes to reduce
CPU usage and to avoid issuing empty commits unnecessarily."
* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (86 commits)
ext4: optimize starting extent in ext4_ext_rm_leaf()
jbd2: invalidate handle if jbd2_journal_restart() fails
ext4: translate flag bits to strings in tracepoints
ext4: fix up error handling for mpage_map_and_submit_extent()
jbd2: fix theoretical race in jbd2__journal_restart
ext4: only zero partial blocks in ext4_zero_partial_blocks()
ext4: check error return from ext4_write_inline_data_end()
ext4: delete unnecessary C statements
ext3,ext4: don't mess with dir_file->f_pos in htree_dirblock_to_tree()
jbd2: move superblock checksum calculation to jbd2_write_superblock()
ext4: pass inode pointer instead of file pointer to punch hole
ext4: improve free space calculation for inline_data
ext4: reduce object size when !CONFIG_PRINTK
ext4: improve extent cache shrink mechanism to avoid to burn CPU time
ext4: implement error handling of ext4_mb_new_preallocation()
ext4: fix corruption when online resizing a fs with 1K block size
ext4: delete unused variables
ext4: return FIEMAP_EXTENT_UNKNOWN for delalloc extents
jbd2: remove debug dependency on debug_fs and update Kconfig help text
jbd2: use a single printk for jbd_debug()
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Merge tag 'v3.10' into next
Merge 3.10 in order to get some of the last minute powerpc
changes, resolve conflicts and add additional fixes on top
of them.
The futex_keys of process shared futexes are generated from the page
offset, the mapping host and the mapping index of the futex user space
address. This should result in an unique identifier for each futex.
Though this is not true when futexes are located in different subpages
of an hugepage. The reason is, that the mapping index for all those
futexes evaluates to the index of the base page of the hugetlbfs
mapping. So a futex at offset 0 of the hugepage mapping and another
one at offset PAGE_SIZE of the same hugepage mapping have identical
futex_keys. This happens because the futex code blindly uses
page->index.
Steps to reproduce the bug:
1. Map a file from hugetlbfs. Initialize pthread_mutex1 at offset 0
and pthread_mutex2 at offset PAGE_SIZE of the hugetlbfs
mapping.
The mutexes must be initialized as PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED because
PTHREAD_PROCESS_PRIVATE mutexes are not affected by this issue as
their keys solely depend on the user space address.
2. Lock mutex1 and mutex2
3. Create thread1 and in the thread function lock mutex1, which
results in thread1 blocking on the locked mutex1.
4. Create thread2 and in the thread function lock mutex2, which
results in thread2 blocking on the locked mutex2.
5. Unlock mutex2. Despite the fact that mutex2 got unlocked, thread2
still blocks on mutex2 because the futex_key points to mutex1.
To solve this issue we need to take the normal page index of the page
which contains the futex into account, if the futex is in an hugetlbfs
mapping. In other words, we calculate the normal page mapping index of
the subpage in the hugetlbfs mapping.
Mappings which are not based on hugetlbfs are not affected and still
use page->index.
Thanks to Mel Gorman who provided a patch for adding proper evaluation
functions to the hugetlbfs code to avoid exposing hugetlbfs specific
details to the futex code.
[ tglx: Massaged changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <zhang.yi20@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao <jiang.biao2@zte.com.cn>
Tested-by: Ma Chenggong <ma.chenggong@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: 'Mel Gorman' <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: 'Darren Hart' <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Cc: 'Peter Zijlstra' <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/000101ce71a6%24a83c5880%24f8b50980%24@com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Included in the EVM hmac calculation is the i_mode. Any changes to
the i_mode need to be reflected in the hmac. shmem_mknod() currently
calls generic_acl_init(), which modifies the i_mode, after calling
security_inode_init_security(). This patch reverses the order in
which they are called.
Reported-by: Sven Vermeulen <sven.vermeulen@siphos.be>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Architectures like powerpc use the deposited pgtable to store hash index
values. We need to make the deposted pgtable is visible to other cpus
before we are ready to take a hash fault.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
For architectures like ppc64 we look at deposited pgtable when calling
pmdp_get_and_clear. So do the pgtable_trans_huge_withdraw after finishing
pmdp related operations.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
This will be later used by powerpc THP support. In powerpc we want to use
pgtable for storing the hash index values. So instead of adding them to
mm_context list, we would like to store them in the second half of pmd
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
We should use pmdp_set_access_flags to update access flags. Archs like
powerpc use extra checks(_PAGE_BUSY) when updating a hugepage PTE. A
set_pmd_at doesn't do those checks. We should use set_pmd_at only when
updating a none hugepage PTE.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>a
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Pull SLAB fix from Pekka Enberg:
"A slab regression fix by Sasha Levin"
* 'slab/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux:
slab: prevent warnings when allocating with __GFP_NOWARN
The huge_pte_alloc, huge_pte_offset and follow_huge_p[mu]d
functions in x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c do not rely on any architecture
specific knowledge other than the fact that pmds and puds can be
treated as huge ptes.
To allow other architectures to use this code (and reduce the need
for code duplication), this patch copies these functions into mm,
replaces the use of pud_large with pud_huge and provides a config
flag to activate them:
CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB
If CONFIG_ARCH_WANT_HUGE_PMD_SHARE is also active then the
huge_pmd_share code will be called by huge_pte_alloc (othewise we
call pmd_alloc and skip the sharing code).
Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Under x86, multiple puds can be made to reference the same bank of
huge pmds provided that they represent a full PUD_SIZE of shared
huge memory that is aligned to a PUD_SIZE boundary.
The code to share pmds does not require any architecture specific
knowledge other than the fact that pmds can be indexed, thus can
be beneficial to some other architectures.
This patch copies the huge pmd sharing (and unsharing) logic from
x86/ to mm/ and introduces a new config option to activate it:
CONFIG_ARCH_WANTS_HUGE_PMD_SHARE
Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Sasha Levin noticed that the warning introduced by commit 6286ae9
("slab: Return NULL for oversized allocations) is being triggered:
WARNING: CPU: 15 PID: 21519 at mm/slab_common.c:376 kmalloc_slab+0x2f/0xb0()
can: request_module (can-proto-4) failed.
mpoa: proc_mpc_write: could not parse ''
Modules linked in:
CPU: 15 PID: 21519 Comm: trinity-child15 Tainted: G W 3.10.0-rc4-next-20130607-sasha-00011-gcd78395-dirty #2
0000000000000009 ffff880020a95e30 ffffffff83ff4041 0000000000000000
ffff880020a95e68 ffffffff8111fe12 fffffffffffffff0 00000000000082d0
0000000000080000 0000000000080000 0000000001400000 ffff880020a95e78
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff83ff4041>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x82
[<ffffffff8111fe12>] warn_slowpath_common+0x82/0xb0
[<ffffffff8111fe55>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20
[<ffffffff81243dcf>] kmalloc_slab+0x2f/0xb0
[<ffffffff81278d54>] __kmalloc+0x24/0x4b0
[<ffffffff8196ffe3>] ? security_capable+0x13/0x20
[<ffffffff812a26b7>] ? pipe_fcntl+0x107/0x210
[<ffffffff812a26b7>] pipe_fcntl+0x107/0x210
[<ffffffff812b7ea0>] ? fget_raw_light+0x130/0x3f0
[<ffffffff812aa5fb>] SyS_fcntl+0x60b/0x6a0
[<ffffffff8403ca98>] tracesys+0xe1/0xe6
Andrew Morton writes:
__GFP_NOWARN is frequently used by kernel code to probe for "how big
an allocation can I get". That's a bit lame, but it's used on slow
paths and is pretty simple.
However, SLAB would still spew a warning when a big allocation happens
if the __GFP_NOWARN flag is _not_ set to expose kernel bugs.
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
[ penberg@kernel.org: improve changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
