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* block: fix bad definition of BIO_RW_SYNCJens Axboe2009-02-18
| | | | | | | | We can't OR shift values, so get rid of BIO_RW_SYNC and use BIO_RW_SYNCIO and BIO_RW_UNPLUG explicitly. This brings back the behaviour from before 213d9417fec62ef4c3675621b9364a667954d4dd. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-02-17
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, vm86: fix preemption bug x86, olpc: fix model detection without OFW x86, hpet: fix for LS21 + HPET = boot hang x86: CPA avoid repeated lazy mmu flush x86: warn if arch_flush_lazy_mmu_cpu is called in preemptible context x86/paravirt: make arch_flush_lazy_mmu/cpu disable preemption x86, pat: fix warn_on_once() while mapping 0-1MB range with /dev/mem x86/cpa: make sure cpa is safe to call in lazy mmu mode x86, ptrace, mm: fix double-free on race
| * x86, ptrace, mm: fix double-free on raceMarkus Metzger2009-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Ptrace_detach() races with __ptrace_unlink() if the traced task is reaped while detaching. This might cause a double-free of the BTS buffer. Change the ptrace_detach() path to only do the memory accounting in ptrace_bts_detach() and leave the buffer free to ptrace_bts_untrace() which will be called from __ptrace_unlink(). The fix follows a proposal from Oleg Nesterov. Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-02-12
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6: mm: Export symbol ksize()
| * | mm: Export symbol ksize()Kirill A. Shutemov2009-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 7b2cd92adc5430b0c1adeb120971852b4ea1ab08 ("crypto: api - Fix zeroing on free") added modular user of ksize(). Export that to fix crypto.ko compilation. Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
* | | Fix page writeback thinko, causing Berkeley DB slowdownNick Piggin2009-02-12
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A bug was introduced into write_cache_pages cyclic writeout by commit 31a12666d8f0c22235297e1c1575f82061480029 ("mm: write_cache_pages cyclic fix"). The intention (and comments) is that we should cycle back and look for more dirty pages at the beginning of the file if there is no more work to be done. But the !done condition was dropped from the test. This means that any time the page writeout loop breaks (eg. due to nr_to_write == 0), we will set index to 0, then goto again. This will set done_index to index, then find done is set, so will proceed to the end of the function. When updating mapping->writeback_index for cyclic writeout, we now use done_index == 0, so we're always cycling back to 0. This seemed to be causing random mmap writes (slapadd and iozone) to start writing more pages from the LRU and writeout would slowdown, and caused bugzilla entry http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12604 about Berkeley DB slowing down dramatically. With this patch, iozone random write performance is increased nearly 5x on my system (iozone -B -r 4k -s 64k -s 512m -s 1200m on ext2). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Reported-and-tested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | mm: rearrange exit_mmap() to unlock before arch_exit_mmapJeremy Fitzhardinge2009-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Christophe Saout reported [in precursor to: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123209902707347&w=4]: > Note that I also some a different issue with CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU. > Seems like Xen tears down current->mm early on process termination, so > that __get_user_pages in exit_mmap causes nasty messages when the > process had any mlocked pages. (in fact, it somehow manages to get into > the swapping code and produces a null pointer dereference trying to get > a swap token) Jeremy explained: Yes. In the normal case under Xen, an in-use pagetable is "pinned", meaning that it is RO to the kernel, and all updates must go via hypercall (or writes are trapped and emulated, which is much the same thing). An unpinned pagetable is not currently in use by any process, and can be directly accessed as normal RW pages. As an optimisation at process exit time, we unpin the pagetable as early as possible (switching the process to init_mm), so that all the normal pagetable teardown can happen with direct memory accesses. This happens in exit_mmap() -> arch_exit_mmap(). The munlocking happens a few lines below. The obvious thing to do would be to move arch_exit_mmap() to below the munlock code, but I think we'd want to call it even if mm->mmap is NULL, just to be on the safe side. Thus, this patch: exit_mmap() needs to unlock any locked vmas before calling arch_exit_mmap, as the latter may switch the current mm to init_mm, which would cause the former to fail. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de> Cc: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com> Cc: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de> Cc: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | writeback: fix break conditionFederico Cuello2009-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit dcf6a79dda5cc2a2bec183e50d829030c0972aaa ("write-back: fix nr_to_write counter") fixed nr_to_write counter, but didn't set the break condition properly. If nr_to_write == 0 after being decremented it will loop one more time before setting done = 1 and breaking the loop. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | memcg: use __GFP_NOWARN in page cgroup allocationKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2009-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | page_cgroup's page allocation at init/memory hotplug uses kmalloc() and vmalloc(). If kmalloc() failes, vmalloc() is used. This is because vmalloc() is very limited resource on 32bit systems. We want to use kmalloc() first. But in this kind of call, __GFP_NOWARN should be specified. Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | mm: fix mlocked page counter mismatchMinChan Kim2009-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When I tested following program, I found that the mlocked counter is strange. It cannot free some mlocked pages. It is because try_to_unmap_file() doesn't check real page mappings in vmas. That is because the goal of an address_space for a file is to find all processes into which the file's specific interval is mapped. It is related to the file's interval, not to pages. Even if the page isn't really mapped by the vma, it returns SWAP_MLOCK since the vma has VM_LOCKED, then calls try_to_mlock_page. After this the mlocked counter is increased again. COWed anon page in a file-backed vma could be a such case. This patch resolves it. -- my test program -- int main() { mlockall(MCL_CURRENT); return 0; } -- before -- root@barrios-target-linux:~# cat /proc/meminfo | egrep 'Mlo|Unev' Unevictable: 0 kB Mlocked: 0 kB -- after -- root@barrios-target-linux:~# cat /proc/meminfo | egrep 'Mlo|Unev' Unevictable: 8 kB Mlocked: 8 kB Signed-off-by: MinChan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.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 dirty_bytes/dirty_background_bytes sysctls on 64bit archesSven Wegener2009-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We need to pass an unsigned long as the minimum, because it gets casted to an unsigned long in the sysctl handler. If we pass an int, we'll access four more bytes on 64bit arches, resulting in a random minimum value. [rientjes@google.com: fix type of `old_bytes'] Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | migration: migrate_vmas should check "vma"Daisuke Nishimura2009-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | migrate_vmas() should check "vma" not "vma->vm_next" for for-loop condition. Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Do not account for hugetlbfs quota at mmap() time if mapping [SHM|MAP]_NORESERVEMel Gorman2009-02-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 5a6fe125950676015f5108fb71b2a67441755003 brought hugetlbfs more in line with the core VM by obeying VM_NORESERVE and not reserving hugepages for both shared and private mappings when [SHM|MAP]_NORESERVE are specified. However, it is still taking filesystem quota unconditionally. At fault time, if there are no reserves and attempt is made to allocate the page and account for filesystem quota. If either fail, the fault fails. The impact is that quota is getting accounted for twice. This patch partially reverts 5a6fe125950676015f5108fb71b2a67441755003. To help prevent this mistake happening again, it improves the documentation of hugetlb_reserve_pages() Reported-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Do not account for the address space used by hugetlbfs using VM_ACCOUNTMel Gorman2009-02-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When overcommit is disabled, the core VM accounts for pages used by anonymous shared, private mappings and special mappings. It keeps track of VMAs that should be accounted for with VM_ACCOUNT and VMAs that never had a reserve with VM_NORESERVE. Overcommit for hugetlbfs is much riskier than overcommit for base pages due to contiguity requirements. It avoids overcommiting on both shared and private mappings using reservation counters that are checked and updated during mmap(). This ensures (within limits) that hugepages exist in the future when faults occurs or it is too easy to applications to be SIGKILLed. As hugetlbfs makes its own reservations of a different unit to the base page size, VM_ACCOUNT should never be set. Even if the units were correct, we would double account for the usage in the core VM and hugetlbfs. VM_NORESERVE may be set because an application can request no reserves be made for hugetlbfs at the risk of getting killed later. With commit fc8744adc870a8d4366908221508bb113d8b72ee, VM_NORESERVE and VM_ACCOUNT are getting unconditionally set for hugetlbfs-backed mappings. This breaks the accounting for both the core VM and hugetlbfs, can trigger an OOM storm when hugepage pools are too small lockups and corrupted counters otherwise are used. This patch brings hugetlbfs more in line with how the core VM treats VM_NORESERVE but prevents VM_ACCOUNT being set. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | mm: fix error case in mlock downgrade reversionHugh Dickins2009-02-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 27421e211a39784694b597dbf35848b88363c248, Manually revert "mlock: downgrade mmap sem while populating mlocked regions", has introduced its own regression: __mlock_vma_pages_range() may report an error (for example, -EFAULT from trying to lock down pages from beyond EOF), but mlock_vma_pages_range() must hide that from its callers as before. Reported-by: Sami Farin <safari-kernel@safari.iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | do_wp_page: fix regression with execute in placeCarsten Otte2009-02-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix do_wp_page for VM_MIXEDMAP mappings. In the case where pfn_valid returns 0 for a pfn at the beginning of do_wp_page and the mapping is not shared writable, the code branches to label `gotten:' with old_page == NULL. In case the vma is locked (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED), lock_page, clear_page_mlock, and unlock_page try to access the old_page. This patch checks whether old_page is valid before it is dereferenced. The regression was introduced by "mlock: mlocked pages are unevictable" (commit b291f000393f5a0b679012b39d79fbc85c018233). Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | write-back: fix nr_to_write counterArtem Bityutskiy2009-02-03
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 05fe478dd04e02fa230c305ab9b5616669821dd3 introduced some @wbc->nr_to_write breakage. It made the following changes: 1. Decrement wbc->nr_to_write instead of nr_to_write 2. Decrement wbc->nr_to_write _only_ if wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE 3. If synced nr_to_write pages, stop only if if wbc->sync_mode == WB_SYNC_NONE, otherwise keep going. However, according to the commit message, the intention was to only make change 3. Change 1 is a bug. Change 2 does not seem to be necessary, and it breaks UBIFS expectations, so if needed, it should be done separately later. And change 2 does not seem to be documented in the commit message. This patch does the following: 1. Undo changes 1 and 2 2. Add a comment explaining change 3 (it very useful to have comments in _code_, not only in the commit). Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-02-02
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6: slub: fix per cpu kmem_cache_cpu array memory leak kmalloc: return NULL instead of link failure
| * slub: fix per cpu kmem_cache_cpu array memory leakDavid Rientjes2009-01-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The per cpu array of kmem_cache_cpu structures accomodates NR_KMEM_CACHE_CPU such structs. When this array overflows and a struct is allocated by kmalloc(), it may have an address at the upper bound of this array. If this happens, it does not get freed and the per cpu kmem_cache_cpu_free pointer will be out of bounds after kmem_cache_destroy() or cpu offlining. Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
* | Manually revert "mlock: downgrade mmap sem while populating mlocked regions"Linus Torvalds2009-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This essentially reverts commit 8edb08caf68184fb170f4f69c7445929e199eaea. It downgraded our mmap semaphore to a read-lock while mlocking pages, in order to allow other threads (and external accesses like "ps" et al) to walk the vma lists and take page faults etc. Which is a nice idea, but the implementation does not work. Because we cannot upgrade the lock back to a write lock without releasing the mmap semaphore, the code had to release the lock entirely and then re-take it as a writelock. However, that meant that the caller possibly lost the vma chain that it was following, since now another thread could come in and mmap/munmap the range. The code tried to work around that by just looking up the vma again and erroring out if that happened, but quite frankly, that was just a buggy hack that doesn't actually protect against anything (the other thread could just have replaced the vma with another one instead of totally unmapping it). The only way to downgrade to a read map _reliably_ is to do it at the end, which is likely the right thing to do: do all the 'vma' operations with the write-lock held, then downgrade to a read after completing them all, and then do the "populate the newly mlocked regions" while holding just the read lock. And then just drop the read-lock and return to user space. The (perhaps somewhat simpler) alternative is to just make all the callers of mlock_vma_pages_range() know that the mmap lock got dropped, and just re-grab the mmap semaphore if it needs to mlock more than one vma region. So we can do this "downgrade mmap sem while populating mlocked regions" thing right, but the way it was done here was absolutely not correct. Thus the revert, in the expectation that we will do it all correctly some day. Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Stop playing silly games with the VM_ACCOUNT flagLinus Torvalds2009-01-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The mmap_region() code would temporarily set the VM_ACCOUNT flag for anonymous shared mappings just to inform shmem_zero_setup() that it should enable accounting for the resulting shm object. It would then clear the flag after calling ->mmap (for the /dev/zero case) or doing shmem_zero_setup() (for the MAP_ANON case). This just resulted in vma merge issues, but also made for just unnecessary confusion. Use the already-existing VM_NORESERVE flag for this instead, and let shmem_{zero|file}_setup() just figure it out from that. This also happens to make it obvious that the new DRI2 GEM layer uses a non-reserving backing store for its object allocation - which is quite possibly not intentional. But since I didn't want to change semantics in this patch, I left it alone, and just updated the caller to use the new flag semantics. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Allow opportunistic merging of VM_CAN_NONLINEAR areasLinus Torvalds2009-01-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit de33c8db5910cda599899dd431cc30d7c1018cbf ("Fix OOPS in mmap_region() when merging adjacent VM_LOCKED file segments") unified the vma merging of anonymous and file maps to just one place, which simplified the code and fixed a use-after-free bug that could cause an oops. But by doing the merge opportunistically before even having called ->mmap() on the file method, it now compares two different 'vm_flags' values: the pre-mmap() value of the new not-yet-formed vma, and previous mappings of the same file around it. And in doing so, it refused to merge the common file case, which adds a marker to say "I can be made non-linear". This fixes it by just adding a set of flags that don't have to match, because we know they are ok to merge. Currently it's only that single VM_CAN_NONLINEAR flag, but at least conceptually there could be others in the future. Reported-and-acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | memcg: NULL pointer dereference at rmdir on some NUMA systemsKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2009-01-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | N_POSSIBLE doesn't means there is memory...and force_empty can visit invalid node which have no pgdat. To visit all valid nodes, N_HIGH_MEMORY should be used. Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | memcg: fix refcnt handling at swapoffKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2009-01-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now, at swapoff, even while try_charge() fails, commit is executed. This is a bug which turns the refcnt of cgroup_subsys_state negative. Reported-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | memcg: get/put parents at create/freeDaisuke Nishimura2009-01-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The lifetime of struct cgroup and struct mem_cgroup is different and mem_cgroup has its own reference count for handling references from swap_cgroup. This causes strange problem that the parent mem_cgroup dies while child mem_cgroup alive, and this problem causes a bug in case of use_hierarchy==1 because res_counter_uncharge climbs up the tree. This patch is for avoiding it by getting the parent at create, and putting it at freeing. Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Reviewed-by; KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.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>
* | Fix OOPS in mmap_region() when merging adjacent VM_LOCKED file segmentsLinus Torvalds2009-01-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As of commit ba470de43188cdbff795b5da43a1474523c6c2fb ("map: handle mlocked pages during map, remap, unmap") we now use the 'vma' variable at the end of mmap_region() to handle the page-in of newly mapped mlocked pages. However, if we merged adjacent vma's together, the vma we're using may be stale. We historically consciously avoided using it after the merge operation, but that got overlooked when redoing the locked page handling. This commit simplifies mmap_region() by doing any vma merges early, avoiding the issue entirely, and 'vma' will always be valid. As pointed out by Hugh Dickins, this depends on any drivers that change the page offset of flags to have set one of the VM_SPECIAL bits (so that they cannot trigger the early merge logic), but that's true in general. Reported-and-tested-by: Maksim Yevmenkin <maksim.yevmenkin@gmail.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | uclinux: add process name to allocation error messageGreg Ungerer2009-01-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the name of the process to the bad allocation error message on non-MMU systems. Changed suggested by jsujjavanich@syntech-fuelmaster.com Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
* | nommu: Stub in vm_map_ram()/vm_unmap_ram()/vm_unmap_aliases().Paul Mundt2009-01-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Presently we do not support these interfaces, so make them BUG() wrappers as per the rest of the vmap interface on nommu. Fixes up the modular xfs build. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
* | memcg: fix a race when setting memory.swappinessLi Zefan2009-01-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (suppose: memcg->use_hierarchy == 0 and memcg->swappiness == 60) echo 10 > /memcg/0/swappiness | mem_cgroup_swappiness_write() | ... | echo 1 > /memcg/0/use_hierarchy | mkdir /mnt/0/1 | sub_memcg->swappiness = 60; memcg->swappiness = 10; | In the above scenario, we end up having 2 different swappiness values in a single hierarchy. We should hold cgroup_lock() when cheking cgrp->children list. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | memcg: fix section mismatchLi Zefan2009-01-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | At system boot when creating the top cgroup, mem_cgroup_create() calls enable_swap_cgroup() which is marked as __init, so mark mem_cgroup_create() as __ref to avoid false section mismatch warning. Reported-by: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by; KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | revert "mm: vmalloc use mutex for purge"Andrew Morton2009-01-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Revert commit e97a630eb0f5b8b380fd67504de6cedebb489003 ("mm: vmalloc use mutex for purge") Bryan Donlan reports: : After testing 2.6.29-rc1 on xen-x86 with a btrfs root filesystem, I : got the OOPS quoted below and a hard freeze shortly after boot. : Boot messages and config are attached. : : ------------[ cut here ]------------ : Kernel BUG at c05ef80d [verbose debug info unavailable] : invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP : last sysfs file: /sys/block/xvdc/size : Modules linked in: : : Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.29-rc1 #6) : EIP: 0061:[<c05ef80d>] EFLAGS: 00010087 CPU: 2 : EIP is at schedule+0x7cd/0x950 : EAX: d5aeca80 EBX: 00000002 ECX: 00000000 EDX: d4cb9a40 : ESI: c12f5600 EDI: d4cb9a40 EBP: d6033fa4 ESP: d6033ef4 : DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0069 : Process swapper (pid: 0, ti=d6032000 task=d6020b70 task.ti=d6032000) : Stack: : 000d85bc 00000000 000186a0 00000000 0dd11410 c0105417 c12efe00 0dc367c3 : 00000011 c0105d46 d5a5d310 deadbeef d4cb9a40 c07cc600 c05f1340 c12e0060 : deadbeef d6020b70 d6020d08 00000002 c014377d 00000000 c12f5600 00002c22 : Call Trace: : [<c0105417>] xen_force_evtchn_callback+0x17/0x30 : [<c0105d46>] check_events+0x8/0x12 : [<c05f1340>] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x20/0x40 : [<c014377d>] hrtimer_start_range_ns+0x12d/0x2e0 : [<c014c4f6>] tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick+0x146/0x160 : [<c0107485>] cpu_idle+0xa5/0xc0 and bisected it to this commit. Let's remove it now while we have a think about the problem. Reported-by: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com> Tested-by: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | memcg: make oom less frequentlyDaisuke Nishimura2009-01-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In previous implementation, mem_cgroup_try_charge checked the return value of mem_cgroup_try_to_free_pages, and just retried if some pages had been reclaimed. But now, try_charge(and mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim called from it) only checks whether the usage is less than the limit. This patch tries to change the behavior as before to cause oom less frequently. Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.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>
* | memcg: fix hierarchical reclaimDaisuke Nishimura2009-01-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If root_mem has no children, last_scaned_child is set to root_mem itself. But after some children added to root_mem, mem_cgroup_get_next_node can mem_cgroup_put the root_mem although root_mem has not been mem_cgroup_get. This patch fixes this behavior by: - Set last_scanned_child to NULL if root_mem has no children or DFS search has returned to root_mem itself(root_mem is not a "child" of root_mem). Make mem_cgroup_get_first_node return root_mem in this case. There are no mem_cgroup_get/put for root_mem. - Rename mem_cgroup_get_next_node to __mem_cgroup_get_next_node, and mem_cgroup_get_first_node to mem_cgroup_get_next_node. Make mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim call only new mem_cgroup_get_next_node. Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.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>
* | memcg: fix error path of mem_cgroup_move_parentDaisuke Nishimura2009-01-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is a bug in error path of mem_cgroup_move_parent. Extra refcnt got from try_charge should be dropped, and usages incremented by try_charge should be decremented in both error paths: A: failure at get_page_unless_zero B: failure at isolate_lru_page This bug makes this parent directory unremovable. In case of A, rmdir doesn't return, because res.usage doesn't go down to 0 at mem_cgroup_force_empty even after all the pc in lru are removed. In case of B, rmdir fails and returns -EBUSY, because it has extra ref counts even after res.usage goes down to 0. Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.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>
* | memcg: fix mem_cgroup_get_reclaim_stat_from_pageDaisuke Nishimura2009-01-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In case of swapin, a new page is added to lru before it is charged, so page->pc->mem_cgroup points to NULL or last mem_cgroup the page was charged before. In the latter case, if the mem_cgroup has already freed by rmdir, the area pointed to by page->pc->mem_cgroup may have invalid data. Actually, I saw general protection fault. general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP last sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu15/cache/index1/shared_cpu_map CPU 4 Modules linked in: ipt_REJECT xt_tcpudp iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables bridge stp ipv6 autofs4 hidp rfcomm l2cap bluetooth sunrpc dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_multipath dm_mod rfkill input_polldev sbs sbshc battery ac lp sg ide_cd_mod cdrom button serio_raw acpi_memhotplug parport_pc e1000 rtc_cmos parport rtc_core rtc_lib i2c_i801 i2c_core shpchp pcspkr ata_piix libata megaraid_mbox megaraid_mm sd_mod scsi_mod ext3 jbd ehci_hcd ohci_hcd uhci_hcd [last unloaded: microcode] Pid: 26038, comm: page01 Tainted: G W 2.6.28-rc9-mm1-mmotm-2008-12-22-16-14-f2ab3dea #1 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8028e710>] [<ffffffff8028e710>] update_page_reclaim_stat+0x2f/0x42 RSP: 0000:ffff8801ee457da8 EFLAGS: 00010002 RAX: 32353438312021c8 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 32353438312021c8 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff8800cb0b1000 RDI: ffff8801164d1d28 RBP: ffff880110002cb8 R08: ffff88010f2eae23 R09: 0000000000000001 R10: ffff8800bc514b00 R11: ffff880110002c00 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: ffff88000f484100 R14: 0000000000000003 R15: 00000000001200d2 FS: 00007f8a261726f0(0000) GS:ffff88010f2eaa80(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 00007f8a25d22000 CR3: 00000001ef18c000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Process page01 (pid: 26038, threadinfo ffff8801ee456000, task ffff8800b585b960) Stack: ffffe200071ee568 ffff880110001f00 0000000000000000 ffffffff8028ea17 ffff88000f484100 0000000000000000 0000000000000020 00007f8a25d22000 ffff8800bc514b00 ffffffff8028ec34 0000000000000000 0000000000016fd8 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8028ea17>] ? ____pagevec_lru_add+0xc1/0x13c [<ffffffff8028ec34>] ? drain_cpu_pagevecs+0x36/0x89 [<ffffffff802a4f8c>] ? swapin_readahead+0x78/0x98 [<ffffffff8029a37a>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x3d9/0x741 [<ffffffff804da654>] ? do_page_fault+0x3ce/0x78c [<ffffffff804d7a42>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_thunk+0x3a/0x3c [<ffffffff804d860f>] ? page_fault+0x1f/0x30 Code: cc 55 48 8d af b8 0d 00 00 48 89 f7 53 89 d3 e8 39 85 02 00 48 63 d3 48 ff 44 d5 10 45 85 e4 74 05 48 ff 44 d5 00 48 85 c0 74 0e <48> ff 44 d0 10 45 85 e4 74 04 48 ff 04 d0 5b 5d 41 5c c3 41 54 RIP [<ffffffff8028e710>] update_page_reclaim_stat+0x2f/0x42 RSP <ffff8801ee457da8> Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.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>
* | alpha: fix vmalloc breakageIvan Kokshaysky2009-01-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On alpha, we have to map some stuff in the VMALLOC space very early in the boot process (to make SRM console callbacks work and so on, see arch/alpha/mm/init.c). For old VM allocator, we just manually placed a vm_struct onto the global vmlist and this worked for ages. Unfortunately, the new allocator isn't aware of this, so it constantly tries to allocate the VM space which is already in use, making vmalloc on alpha defunct. This patch forces KVA to import vmlist entries on init. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded check (per Johannes)] Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 28Heiko Carstens2009-01-14
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
* | [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 26Heiko Carstens2009-01-14
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
* | [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 14Heiko Carstens2009-01-14
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
* | [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 13Heiko Carstens2009-01-14
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
* | [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrapper special casesHeiko Carstens2009-01-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | System calls with an unsigned long long argument can't be converted with the standard wrappers since that would include a cast to long, which in turn means that we would lose the upper 32 bit on 32 bit architectures. Also semctl can't use the standard wrapper since it has a 'union' parameter. So we handle them as special case and add some extra wrappers instead. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
* | [CVE-2009-0029] Convert all system calls to return a longHeiko Carstens2009-01-14
|/ | | | | | | | | Convert all system calls to return a long. This should be a NOP since all converted types should have the same size anyway. With the exception of sys_exit_group which returned void. But that doesn't matter since the system call doesn't return. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
* x86 PAT: change track_pfn_vma_new to take pgprot_t pointer paramvenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com2009-01-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: cleanup Change the protection parameter for track_pfn_vma_new() into a pgprot_t pointer. Subsequent patch changes the x86 PAT handling to return a compatible memtype in pgprot_t, if what was requested cannot be allowed due to conflicts. No fuctionality change in this patch. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* x86 PAT: remove PFNMAP type on track_pfn_vma_new() errorvenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com2009-01-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: fix (harmless) double-free of memtype entries and avoid warning On track_pfn_vma_new() failure, reset the vm_flags so that there will be no second cleanup happening when upper level routines call unmap_vmas(). This patch fixes part of the bug reported here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123108883716357&w=2 Specifically the error message: X:5010 freeing invalid memtype d0000000-d0101000 Is due to multiple frees on error path, will not happen with the patch below. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* lockdep, mm: fix might_fault() annotationPeter Zijlstra2009-01-12
| | | | | | | | | | | Some code (nfs/sunrpc) uses socket ops on kernel memory while holding the mmap_sem, this is safe because kernel memory doesn't get paged out, therefore we'll never actually fault, and the might_fault() annotations will generate false positives. Reported-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-nommuLinus Torvalds2009-01-09
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-nommu: NOMMU: Support XIP on initramfs NOMMU: Teach kobjsize() about VMA regions. FLAT: Don't attempt to expand the userspace stack to fill the space allocated FDPIC: Don't attempt to expand the userspace stack to fill the space allocated NOMMU: Improve procfs output using per-MM VMAs NOMMU: Make mmap allocation page trimming behaviour configurable. NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linux NOMMU: Delete askedalloc and realalloc variables NOMMU: Rename ARM's struct vm_region NOMMU: Fix cleanup handling in ramfs_nommu_get_umapped_area()
| * NOMMU: Teach kobjsize() about VMA regions.Paul Mundt2009-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that we no longer use compound pages for all large allocations, kobjsize() actively breaks things like binfmt_flat by always handing back PAGE_SIZE for mmap'ed regions. Fix this up by looking up the VMA region for non-compounds. Ideally binfmt_flat wants to get rid of kobjsize() completely, but this is an incremental step. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
| * NOMMU: Make mmap allocation page trimming behaviour configurable.Paul Mundt2009-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | NOMMU mmap allocates a piece of memory for an mmap that's rounded up in size to the nearest power-of-2 number of pages. Currently it then discards the excess pages back to the page allocator, making that memory available for use by other things. This can, however, cause greater amount of fragmentation. To counter this, a sysctl is added in order to fine-tune the trimming behaviour. The default behaviour remains to trim pages aggressively, while this can either be disabled completely or set to a higher page-granular watermark in order to have finer-grained control. vm region vm_top bits taken from an earlier patch by David Howells. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
| * NOMMU: Make VMAs per MM as for MMU-mode linuxDavid Howells2009-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make VMAs per mm_struct as for MMU-mode linux. This solves two problems: (1) In SYSV SHM where nattch for a segment does not reflect the number of shmat's (and forks) done. (2) In mmap() where the VMA's vm_mm is set to point to the parent mm by an exec'ing process when VM_EXECUTABLE is specified, regardless of the fact that a VMA might be shared and already have its vm_mm assigned to another process or a dead process. A new struct (vm_region) is introduced to track a mapped region and to remember the circumstances under which it may be shared and the vm_list_struct structure is discarded as it's no longer required. This patch makes the following additional changes: (1) Regions are now allocated with alloc_pages() rather than kmalloc() and with no recourse to __GFP_COMP, so the pages are not composite. Instead, each page has a reference on it held by the region. Anything else that is interested in such a page will have to get a reference on it to retain it. When the pages are released due to unmapping, each page is passed to put_page() and will be freed when the page usage count reaches zero. (2) Excess pages are trimmed after an allocation as the allocation must be made as a power-of-2 quantity of pages. (3) VMAs are added to the parent MM's R/B tree and mmap lists. As an MM may end up with overlapping VMAs within the tree, the VMA struct address is appended to the sort key. (4) Non-anonymous VMAs are now added to the backing inode's prio list. (5) Holes may be punched in anonymous VMAs with munmap(), releasing parts of the backing region. The VMA and region structs will be split if necessary. (6) sys_shmdt() only releases one attachment to a SYSV IPC shared memory segment instead of all the attachments at that addresss. Multiple shmat()'s return the same address under NOMMU-mode instead of different virtual addresses as under MMU-mode. (7) Core dumping for ELF-FDPIC requires fewer exceptions for NOMMU-mode. (8) /proc/maps is now the global list of mapped regions, and may list bits that aren't actually mapped anywhere. (9) /proc/meminfo gains a line (tagged "MmapCopy") that indicates the amount of RAM currently allocated by mmap to hold mappable regions that can't be mapped directly. These are copies of the backing device or file if not anonymous. These changes make NOMMU mode more similar to MMU mode. The downside is that NOMMU mode requires some extra memory to track things over NOMMU without this patch (VMAs are no longer shared, and there are now region structs). Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
| * NOMMU: Delete askedalloc and realalloc variablesDavid Howells2009-01-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Delete the askedalloc and realalloc variables as nothing actually uses the value calculated. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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