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* memory controller: make memory resource control aware of boot optionsBalbir Singh2008-04-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A boot option for the memory controller was discussed on lkml. It is a good idea to add it, since it saves memory for people who want to turn off the memory controller. By default the option is on for the following two reasons: 1. It provides compatibility with the current scheme where the memory controller turns on if the config option is enabled 2. It allows for wider testing of the memory controller, once the config option is enabled We still allow the create, destroy callbacks to succeed, since they are not aware of boot options. We do not populate the directory will memory resource controller specific files. Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Sudhir Kumar <skumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Fix undefined count_partial if !CONFIG_SLABINFOChristoph Lameter2008-04-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | Small typo in the patch recently merged to avoid the unused symbol message for count_partial(). Discussion thread with confirmation of fix at http://marc.info/?t=120696854400001&r=1&w=2 Typo in the check if we need the count_partial function that was introduced by 53625b4204753b904addd40ca96d9ba802e6977d Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* NULL noise: fs/*, mm/*, kernel/*Al Viro2008-03-30
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Revert "SLUB: remove useless masking of GFP_ZERO"Linus Torvalds2008-03-27
| | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit 3811dbf67162bd08412f1b0e02e554f353e93bdb. The masking was not at all useless, and it was sensible. We handle GFP_ZERO in the caller, and passing it down to any page allocator logic is buggy and wrong. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* hugetlb: fix potential livelock in return_unused_surplus_hugepages()Nishanth Aravamudan2008-03-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Running the counters testcase from libhugetlbfs results in on 2.6.25-rc5 and 2.6.25-rc5-mm1: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 61s! [counters:10531] NIP: c0000000000d1f3c LR: c0000000000d1f2c CTR: c0000000001b5088 REGS: c000005db12cb360 TRAP: 0901 Not tainted (2.6.25-rc5-autokern1) MSR: 8000000000009032 <EE,ME,IR,DR> CR: 48008448 XER: 20000000 TASK = c000005dbf3d6000[10531] 'counters' THREAD: c000005db12c8000 CPU: 3 GPR00: 0000000000000004 c000005db12cb5e0 c000000000879228 0000000000000004 GPR04: 0000000000000010 0000000000000000 0000000000200200 0000000000100100 GPR08: c0000000008aba10 000000000000ffff 0000000000000004 0000000000000000 GPR12: 0000000028000442 c000000000770080 NIP [c0000000000d1f3c] .return_unused_surplus_pages+0x84/0x18c LR [c0000000000d1f2c] .return_unused_surplus_pages+0x74/0x18c Call Trace: [c000005db12cb5e0] [c000005db12cb670] 0xc000005db12cb670 (unreliable) [c000005db12cb670] [c0000000000d24c4] .hugetlb_acct_memory+0x2e0/0x354 [c000005db12cb740] [c0000000001b5048] .truncate_hugepages+0x1d4/0x214 [c000005db12cb890] [c0000000001b50a4] .hugetlbfs_delete_inode+0x1c/0x3c [c000005db12cb920] [c000000000103fd8] .generic_delete_inode+0xf8/0x1c0 [c000005db12cb9b0] [c0000000001b5100] .hugetlbfs_drop_inode+0x3c/0x24c [c000005db12cba50] [c00000000010287c] .iput+0xdc/0xf8 [c000005db12cbad0] [c0000000000fee54] .dentry_iput+0x12c/0x194 [c000005db12cbb60] [c0000000000ff050] .d_kill+0x6c/0xa4 [c000005db12cbbf0] [c0000000000ffb74] .dput+0x18c/0x1b0 [c000005db12cbc70] [c0000000000e9e98] .__fput+0x1a4/0x1e8 [c000005db12cbd10] [c0000000000e61ec] .filp_close+0xb8/0xe0 [c000005db12cbda0] [c0000000000e62d0] .sys_close+0xbc/0x134 [c000005db12cbe30] [c00000000000872c] syscall_exit+0x0/0x40 Instruction dump: ebbe8038 38800010 e8bf0002 3bbd0008 7fa3eb78 38a50001 7ca507b4 4818df25 60000000 38800010 38a00000 7c601b78 <7fa3eb78> 2f800010 409d0008 38000010 This was tracked down to a potential livelock in return_unused_surplus_hugepages(). In the case where we have surplus pages on some node, but no free pages on the same node, we may never break out of the loop. To avoid this livelock, terminate the search if we iterate a number of times equal to the number of online nodes without freeing a page. Thanks to Andy Whitcroft and Adam Litke for helping with debugging and the patch. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* hugetlb: indicate surplus huge page counts in per-node meminfoNishanth Aravamudan2008-03-26
| | | | | | | | | | Currently we show the surplus hugetlb pool state in /proc/meminfo, but not in the per-node meminfo files, even though we track the information on a per-node basis. Printing it there can help track down dynamic pool bugs including the one in the follow-on patch. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* slab: fix cache_cache bootstrap in kmem_cache_init()Daniel Yeisley2008-03-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 556a169dab38b5100df6f4a45b655dddd3db94c1 ("slab: fix bootstrap on memoryless node") introduced bootstrap-time cache_cache list3s for all nodes but forgot that initkmem_list3 needs to be accessed by [somevalue + node]. This patch fixes list_add() corruption in mm/slab.c seen on the ES7000. Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Yeisley <dan.yeisley@unisys.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* count_partial() is not used if !SLUB_DEBUG and !CONFIG_SLABINFOChristoph Lameter2008-03-26
| | | | | | | | | Avoid warnings about unused functions if neither SLUB_DEBUG nor CONFIG_SLABINFO is defined. This patch will be reversed when slab defrag is merged since slab defrag requires count_partial() to determine the fragmentation status of slab caches. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-03-25
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: [PATCH] get stack footprint of pathname resolution back to relative sanity [PATCH] double iput() on failure exit in hugetlb [PATCH] double dput() on failure exit in tiny-shmem [PATCH] fix up new filp allocators [PATCH] check for null vfsmount in dentry_open() [PATCH] reiserfs: eliminate private use of struct file in xattr [PATCH] sanitize hppfs hppfs pass vfsmount to dentry_open() [PATCH] restore export of do_kern_mount()
| * [PATCH] double dput() on failure exit in tiny-shmemAl Viro2008-03-19
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* | revert "kswapd should only wait on IO if there is IO"Andrew Morton2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Revert commit f1a9ee758de7de1e040de849fdef46e6802ea117: Author: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Date: Thu Feb 7 00:14:08 2008 -0800 kswapd should only wait on IO if there is IO The current kswapd (and try_to_free_pages) code has an oddity where the code will wait on IO, even if there is no IO in flight. This problem is notable especially when the system scans through many unfreeable pages, causing unnecessary stalls in the VM. Additionally, tasks without __GFP_FS or __GFP_IO in the direct reclaim path will sleep if a significant number of pages are encountered that should be written out. This gives kswapd a chance to write out those pages, while the direct reclaim task sleeps. Signed-off-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> Because of large latencies and interactivity problems reported by Carlos, here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/22/211 Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: "Carlos R. Mafra" <crmafra2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | mm: fix boundary checking in free_bootmem_coreYinghai Lu2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With numa enabled, some callers could have a range of memory on one node but try to free that on other node. This can cause some pages to be freed wrongly. For example: when we try to allocate 128g boot ram early for gart/swiotlb, and free that range later so gart/swiotlb can get some range afterwards. With this patch, we don't need to care which node holds the range, just loop to call free_bootmem_node for all online nodes. This patch makes free_bootmem_core() more robust by trimming the sidx and eidx according the ram range that the node has. And make the free_bootmem_core handle this out of range case. We could use bdata_list to make sure the range can be freed for sure. So next time, we don't need to loop online nodes and could use free_bootmem directly. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | mm/readahead: fix kernel-doc notationRandy Dunlap2008-03-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix kernel-doc notation in mm/readahead.c. Change ":" to ";" so that it doesn't get treated as a doc section heading. Move the comment block ending "*/" to a line by itself so that the text on that last line is not lost (dropped). Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | memcgroup: fix check for thread being a group leader in memcgroupPavel Emelyanov2008-03-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The check t->pid == t->pid is not the blessed way to check whether a task is a group leader. This is not about the code beautifulness only, but about pid namespaces fixes - both the tgid and the pid fields on the task_struct are (slowly :( ) becoming deprecated. Besides, the thread_group_leader() macro makes only one dereference :) Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | mm: rmap kernel-doc fixesRandy Dunlap2008-03-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Correct kernel-doc function names and parameters in rmap.c. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | mm: highmem kernel-doc additionsRandy Dunlap2008-03-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add kernel-doc comments to highmem.c. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | mm/oom_kill: fix kernel-docRandy Dunlap2008-03-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix kernel-doc notation in oom_kill.c. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | mm/shmem and tiny-shmem: fix some kernel-docRandy Dunlap2008-03-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Convert tiny-shmem.c function comments to kernel-doc. Add parameters and convert/fix other kernel-doc in shmem.c. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | mm: fix various kernel-doc commentsRandy Dunlap2008-03-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix various kernel-doc notation in mm/: filemap.c: add function short description; convert 2 to kernel-doc fremap.c: change parameter 'prot' to @prot pagewalk.c: change "-" in function parameters to ":" slab.c: fix short description of kmem_ptr_validate() swap.c: fix description & parameters of put_pages_list() swap_state.c: fix function parameters vmalloc.c: change "@returns" to "Returns:" since that is not a parameter Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | slub page alloc fallback: Enable interrupts for GFP_WAIT.Christoph Lameter2008-03-17
|/ | | | | | | | | | | The fallback path needs to enable interrupts like done for the other page allocator calls. This was not necessary with the alternate fast path since we handled irq enable/disable in the slow path. The regular fastpath handles irq enable/disable around calls to the slow path so we need to restore the proper status before calling the page allocator from the slowpath. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* iov_iter_advance() fixNick Piggin2008-03-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | iov_iter_advance() skips over zero-length iovecs, however it does not properly terminate at the end of the iovec array. Fix this by checking against i->count before we skip a zero-length iov. The bug was reproduced with a test program that continually randomly creates iovs to writev. The fix was also verified with the same program and also it could verify that the correct data was contained in the file after each writev. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Tested-by: "Kevin Coffman" <kwc@citi.umich.edu> Cc: "Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* hugetlb: correct page count for surplus huge pagesAdam Litke2008-03-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Free pages in the hugetlb pool are free and as such have a reference count of zero. Regular allocations into the pool from the buddy are "freed" into the pool which results in their page_count dropping to zero. However, surplus pages can be directly utilized by the caller without first being freed to the pool. Therefore, a call to put_page_testzero() is in order so that such a page will be handed to the caller with a correct count. This has not affected end users because the bad page count is reset before the page is handed off. However, under CONFIG_DEBUG_VM this triggers a BUG when the page count is validated. Thanks go to Mel for first spotting this issue and providing an initial fix. Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mempolicy: fix reference counting bugsLee Schermerhorn2008-03-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Address 3 known bugs in the current memory policy reference counting method. I have a series of patches to rework the reference counting to reduce overhead in the allocation path. However, that series will require testing in -mm once I repost it. 1) alloc_page_vma() does not release the extra reference taken for vma/shared mempolicy when the mode == MPOL_INTERLEAVE. This can result in leaking mempolicy structures. This is probably occurring, but not being noticed. Fix: add the conditional release of the reference. 2) hugezonelist unconditionally releases a reference on the mempolicy when mode == MPOL_INTERLEAVE. This can result in decrementing the reference count for system default policy [should have no ill effect] or premature freeing of task policy. If this occurred, the next allocation using task mempolicy would use the freed structure and probably BUG out. Fix: add the necessary check to the release. 3) The current reference counting method assumes that vma 'get_policy()' methods automatically add an extra reference a non-NULL returned mempolicy. This is true for shmem_get_policy() used by tmpfs mappings, including regular page shm segments. However, SHM_HUGETLB shm's, backed by hugetlbfs, just use the vma policy without the extra reference. This results in freeing of the vma policy on the first allocation, with reuse of the freed mempolicy structure on subsequent allocations. Fix: Rather than add another condition to the conditional reference release, which occur in the allocation path, just add a reference when returning the vma policy in shm_get_policy() to match the assumptions. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: <eric.whitney@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Do not include linux/backing-dev.h twiceJesper Juhl2008-03-10
| | | | | | | Don't include linux/backing-dev.h twice in mm/filemap.c, it's pointless. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* slab: NUMA slab allocator migration bugfixJoe Korty2008-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | NUMA slab allocator cpu migration bugfix The NUMA slab allocator (specifically, cache_alloc_refill) is not refreshing its local copies of what cpu and what numa node it is on, when it drops and reacquires the irq block that it inherited from its caller. As a result those values become invalid if an attempt to migrate the process to another numa node occured while the irq block had been dropped. The solution is to make cache_alloc_refill reload these variables whenever it drops and reacquires the irq block. The error is very difficult to hit. When it does occur, one gets the following oops + stack traceback bits in check_spinlock_acquired: kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:2417 cache_alloc_refill+0xe6 kmem_cache_alloc+0xd0 ... This patch was developed against 2.6.23, ported to and compiled-tested only against 2.6.25-rc4. Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* slub: Do not cross cacheline boundaries for very small objectsNick Piggin2008-03-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | SLUB should pack even small objects nicely into cachelines if that is what has been asked for. Use the same algorithm as SLAB for this. The effect of this patch for a system with a cacheline size of 64 bytes is that the 24 byte sized slab caches will now put exactly 2 objects into a cacheline instead of 3 with some overlap into the next cacheline. This reduces the object density in a 4k slab from 170 to 128 objects (same as SLAB). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* slab - use angle brackets for include of kmalloc_sizes.hJoe Perches2008-03-06
| | | | | | | | Make them all use angle brackets and the directory name. Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* slab numa fallback logic: Do not pass unfiltered flags to page allocatorChristoph Lameter2008-03-06
| | | | | | | | The NUMA fallback logic should be passing local_flags to kmem_get_pages() and not simply the flags passed in. Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* slub statistics: Fix check for DEACTIVATE_REMOTE_FREESChristoph Lameter2008-03-06
| | | | | | | | The remote frees are in the freelist of the page and not in the percpu freelist. Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
* hugetlb: fix pool shrinking while in restricted cpusetNishanth Aravamudan2008-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adam Litke noticed that currently we grow the hugepage pool independent of any cpuset the running process may be in, but when shrinking the pool, the cpuset is checked. This leads to inconsistency when shrinking the pool in a restricted cpuset -- an administrator may have been able to grow the pool on a node restricted by a containing cpuset, but they cannot shrink it there. There are two options: either prevent growing of the pool outside of the cpuset or allow shrinking outside of the cpuset. >From previous discussions on linux-mm, /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages is an administrative interface that should not be restricted by cpusets. So allow shrinking the pool by removing pages from nodes outside of current's cpuset. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhonr@hp.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* hugetlb: close a difficult to trigger reservation raceAdam Litke2008-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A hugetlb reservation may be inadequately backed in the event of racing allocations and frees when utilizing surplus huge pages. Consider the following series of events in processes A and B: A) Allocates some surplus pages to satisfy a reservation B) Frees some huge pages A) A notices the extra free pages and drops hugetlb_lock to free some of its surplus pages back to the buddy allocator. B) Allocates some huge pages A) Reacquires hugetlb_lock and returns from gather_surplus_huge_pages() Avoid this by commiting the reservation after pages have been allocated but before dropping the lock to free excess pages. For parity, release the reservation in return_unused_surplus_pages(). This patch also corrects the cpuset_mems_nr() error path in hugetlb_acct_memory(). If the cpuset check fails, uncommit the reservation, but also be sure to return any surplus huge pages that may have been allocated to back the failed reservation. Thanks to Andy Whitcroft for discovering this. Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memcg: fix oops on NULL lru listHugh Dickins2008-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While testing force_empty, during an exit_mmap, __mem_cgroup_remove_list called from mem_cgroup_uncharge_page oopsed on a NULL pointer in the lru list. I couldn't see what racing tasks on other cpus were doing, but surmise that another must have been in mem_cgroup_charge_common on the same page, between its unlock_page_cgroup and spin_lock_irqsave near done (thanks to that kzalloc which I'd almost changed to a kmalloc). Normally such a race cannot happen, the ref_cnt prevents it, the final uncharge cannot race with the initial charge. But force_empty buggers the ref_cnt, that's what it's all about; and thereafter forced pages are vulnerable to races such as this (just think of a shared page also mapped into an mm of another mem_cgroup than that just emptied). And remain vulnerable until they're freed indefinitely later. This patch just fixes the oops by moving the unlock_page_cgroups down below adding to and removing from the list (only possible given the previous patch); and while we're at it, we might as well make it an invariant that page->page_cgroup is always set while pc is on lru. But this behaviour of force_empty seems highly unsatisfactory to me: why have a ref_cnt if we always have to cope with it being violated (as in the earlier page migration patch). We may prefer force_empty to move pages to an orphan mem_cgroup (could be the root, but better not), from which other cgroups could recover them; we might need to reverse the locking again; but no time now for such concerns. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memcg: simplify force_empty and move_listsHirokazu Takahashi2008-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As for force_empty, though this may not be the main topic here, mem_cgroup_force_empty_list() can be implemented simpler. It is possible to make the function just call mem_cgroup_uncharge_page() instead of releasing page_cgroups by itself. The tip is to call get_page() before invoking mem_cgroup_uncharge_page(), so the page won't be released during this function. Kamezawa-san points out that by the time mem_cgroup_uncharge_page() uncharges, the page might have been reassigned to an lru of a different mem_cgroup, and now be emptied from that; but Hugh claims that's okay, the end state is the same as when it hasn't gone to another list. And once force_empty stops taking lock_page_cgroup within mz->lru_lock, mem_cgroup_move_lists() can be simplified to take mz->lru_lock directly while holding page_cgroup lock (but still has to use try_lock_page_cgroup). Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@valinux.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memcg: fix mem_cgroup_move_lists lockingHugh Dickins2008-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ever since the VM_BUG_ON(page_get_page_cgroup(page)) (now Bad page state) went into page freeing, I've hit it from time to time in testing on some machines, sometimes only after many days. Recently found a machine which could usually produce it within a few hours, which got me there at last. The culprit is mem_cgroup_move_lists, whose locking is inadequate; and the arrangement of structures was such that you got page_cgroups from the lru list neatly put on to SLUB's freelist. Kamezawa-san identified the same hole independently. The main problem was that it was missing the lock_page_cgroup it needs to safely page_get_page_cgroup; but it's tricky to go beyond that too, and I couldn't do it with SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU as I'd expected. See the code for comments on the constraints. This patch immediately gets replaced by a simpler one from Hirokazu-san; but is it just foolish pride that tells me to put this one on record, in case we need to come back to it later? Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@valinux.co.jp> Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memcg: css_put after remove_listHugh Dickins2008-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | mem_cgroup_uncharge_page does css_put on the mem_cgroup before uncharging from it, and before removing page_cgroup from one of its lru lists: isn't there a danger that struct mem_cgroup memory could be freed and reused before completing that, so corrupting something? Never seen it, and for all I know there may be other constraints which make it impossible; but let's be defensive and reverse the ordering there. mem_cgroup_force_empty_list is safe because there's an extra css_get around all its works; but even so, change its ordering the same way round, to help get in the habit of doing it like this. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@valinux.co.jp> Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memcg: remove clear_page_cgroup and atomicsHugh Dickins2008-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove clear_page_cgroup: it's an unhelpful helper, see for example how mem_cgroup_uncharge_page had to unlock_page_cgroup just in order to call it (serious races from that? I'm not sure). Once that's gone, you can see it's pointless for page_cgroup's ref_cnt to be atomic: it's always manipulated under lock_page_cgroup, except where force_empty unilaterally reset it to 0 (and how does uncharge's atomic_dec_and_test protect against that?). Simplify this page_cgroup locking: if you've got the lock and the pc is attached, then the ref_cnt must be positive: VM_BUG_ONs to check that, and to check that pc->page matches page (we're on the way to finding why sometimes it doesn't, but this patch doesn't fix that). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@valinux.co.jp> Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memcg: memcontrol uninlined and staticHugh Dickins2008-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | More cleanup to memcontrol.c, this time changing some of the code generated. Let the compiler decide what to inline (except for page_cgroup_locked which is only used when CONFIG_DEBUG_VM): the __always_inline on lock_page_cgroup etc. was quite a waste since bit_spin_lock etc. are inlines in a header file; made mem_cgroup_force_empty and mem_cgroup_write_strategy static. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@valinux.co.jp> Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memcg: memcontrol whitespace cleanupsHugh Dickins2008-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sorry, before getting down to more important changes, I'd like to do some cleanup in memcontrol.c. This patch doesn't change the code generated, but cleans up whitespace, moves up a double declaration, removes an unused enum, removes void returns, removes misleading comments, that kind of thing. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@valinux.co.jp> Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memcg: remove mem_cgroup_unchargeHugh Dickins2008-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Nothing uses mem_cgroup_uncharge apart from mem_cgroup_uncharge_page, (a trivial wrapper around it) and mem_cgroup_end_migration (which does the same as mem_cgroup_uncharge_page). And it often ends up having to lock just to let its caller unlock. Remove it (but leave the silly locking until a later patch). Moved mem_cgroup_cache_charge next to mem_cgroup_charge in memcontrol.h. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@valinux.co.jp> Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memcg: mem_cgroup_charge never NULLHugh Dickins2008-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | My memcgroup patch to fix hang with shmem/tmpfs added NULL page handling to mem_cgroup_charge_common. It seemed convenient at the time, but hard to justify now: there's a perfectly appropriate swappage to charge and uncharge instead, this is not on any hot path through shmem_getpage, and no performance hit was observed from the slight extra overhead. So revert that NULL page handling from mem_cgroup_charge_common; and make it clearer by bringing page_cgroup_assign_new_page_cgroup into its body - that was a helper I found more of a hindrance to understanding. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@valinux.co.jp> Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memcg: bad page if page_cgroup when freeHugh Dickins2008-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace free_hot_cold_page's VM_BUG_ON(page_get_page_cgroup(page)) by a "Bad page state" and clear: most users don't have CONFIG_DEBUG_VM on, and if it were set here, it'd likely cause corruption when the page is reused. Don't use page_assign_page_cgroup to clear it: that should be private to memcontrol.c, and always called with the lock taken; and memmap_init_zone doesn't need it either - like page->mapping and other pointers throughout the kernel, Linux assumes pointers in zeroed structures are NULL pointers. Instead use page_reset_bad_cgroup, added to memcontrol.h for this only. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@valinux.co.jp> Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memcg: fix VM_BUG_ON from page migrationHugh Dickins2008-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Page migration gave me free_hot_cold_page's VM_BUG_ON page->page_cgroup. remove_migration_pte was calling mem_cgroup_charge on the new page whenever it found a swap pte, before it had determined it to be a migration entry. That left a surplus reference count on the page_cgroup, so it was still attached when the page was later freed. Move that mem_cgroup_charge down to where we're sure it's a migration entry. We were already under i_mmap_lock or anon_vma->lock, so its GFP_KERNEL was already inappropriate: change that to GFP_ATOMIC. It's essential that remove_migration_pte removes all the migration entries, other crashes follow if not. So proceed even when the charge fails: normally it cannot, but after a mem_cgroup_force_empty it might - comment in the code. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@valinux.co.jp> Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memcg: when do_swap's do_wp_page failsHugh Dickins2008-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Don't uncharge when do_swap_page's call to do_wp_page fails: the page which was charged for is there in the pagetable, and will be correctly uncharged when that area is unmapped - it was only its COWing which failed. And while we're here, remove earlier XXX comment: yes, OR in do_wp_page's return value (maybe VM_FAULT_WRITE) with do_swap_page's there; but if it fails, mask out success bits, which might confuse some arches e.g. sparc. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@valinux.co.jp> Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memcg: page_cache_release not __free_pageHugh Dickins2008-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's nothing wrong with mem_cgroup_charge failure in do_wp_page and do_anonymous page using __free_page, but it does look odd when nearby code uses page_cache_release: use that instead (while turning a blind eye to ancient inconsistencies of page_cache_release versus put_page). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@valinux.co.jp> Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memcg: move_lists on page not page_cgroupHugh Dickins2008-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Each caller of mem_cgroup_move_lists is having to use page_get_page_cgroup: it's more convenient if it acts upon the page itself not the page_cgroup; and in a later patch this becomes important to handle within memcontrol.c. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@valinux.co.jp> Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memcg: mm_match_cgroup not vm_match_cgroupHugh Dickins2008-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | vm_match_cgroup is a perverse name for a macro to match mm with cgroup: rename it mm_match_cgroup, matching mm_init_cgroup and mm_free_cgroup. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@valinux.co.jp> Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Memory controller: rename to Memory Resource ControllerBalbir Singh2008-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | Rename Memory Controller to Memory Resource Controller. Reflect the same changes in the CONFIG definition for the Memory Resource Controller. Group together the config options for Resource Counters and Memory Resource Controller. Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* alloc_percpu() fails to allocate percpu dataEric Dumazet2008-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some oprofile results obtained while using tbench on a 2x2 cpu machine were very surprising. For example, loopback_xmit() function was using high number of cpu cycles to perform the statistic updates, supposed to be real cheap since they use percpu data pcpu_lstats = netdev_priv(dev); lb_stats = per_cpu_ptr(pcpu_lstats, smp_processor_id()); lb_stats->packets++; /* HERE : serious contention */ lb_stats->bytes += skb->len; struct pcpu_lstats is a small structure containing two longs. It appears that on my 32bits platform, alloc_percpu(8) allocates a single cache line, instead of giving to each cpu a separate cache line. Using the following patch gave me impressive boost in various benchmarks ( 6 % in tbench) (all percpu_counters hit this bug too) Long term fix (ie >= 2.6.26) would be to let each CPU allocate their own block of memory, so that we dont need to roudup sizes to L1_CACHE_BYTES, or merging the SGI stuff of course... Note : SLUB vs SLAB is important here to *show* the improvement, since they dont have the same minimum allocation sizes (8 bytes vs 32 bytes). This could very well explain regressions some guys reported when they switched to SLUB. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* zlc_setup(): handle jiffies wraparoundKOSAKI Motohiro2008-03-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | jiffies subtraction may cause an overflow problem. It should be using time_after(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: include jiffies.h] Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* slub: fix possible NULL pointer dereferenceCyrill Gorcunov2008-03-03
| | | | | | | | | | This patch fix possible NULL pointer dereference if kzalloc failed. To be able to return proper error code the function return type is changed to ssize_t (according to callees and sysfs definitions). Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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