Provide an API to inherit a counter value from a parent. This can be
useful to implement cgroup.clone_children on a resource counter.
Still the resources of the children are limited by those of the parent, so
this is only to provide a default setting behaviour when clone_children is
set.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Aditya Kali <adityakali@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Extend the resource counter API with a mirror of res_counter_read_u64() to
make it handy to update a resource counter value from a cgroup subsystem
u64 value file.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Aditya Kali <adityakali@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Jason Baron [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:36 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
epoll: limit paths
The current epoll code can be tickled to run basically indefinitely in
both loop detection path check (on ep_insert()), and in the wakeup paths.
The programs that tickle this behavior set up deeply linked networks of
epoll file descriptors that cause the epoll algorithms to traverse them
indefinitely. A couple of these sample programs have been previously
posted in this thread: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/25/297.
To fix the loop detection path check algorithms, I simply keep track of
the epoll nodes that have been already visited. Thus, the loop detection
becomes proportional to the number of epoll file descriptor and links.
This dramatically decreases the run-time of the loop check algorithm. In
one diabolical case I tried it reduced the run-time from 15 mintues (all
in kernel time) to .3 seconds.
Fixing the wakeup paths could be done at wakeup time in a similar manner
by keeping track of nodes that have already been visited, but the
complexity is harder, since there can be multiple wakeups on different
cpus...Thus, I've opted to limit the number of possible wakeup paths when
the paths are created.
This is accomplished, by noting that the end file descriptor points that
are found during the loop detection pass (from the newly added link), are
actually the sources for wakeup events. I keep a list of these file
descriptors and limit the number and length of these paths that emanate
from these 'source file descriptors'. In the current implemetation I
allow 1000 paths of length 1, 500 of length 2, 100 of length 3, 50 of
length 4 and 10 of length 5. Note that it is sufficient to check the
'source file descriptors' reachable from the newly added link, since no
other 'source file descriptors' will have newly added links. This allows
us to check only the wakeup paths that may have gotten too long, and not
re-check all possible wakeup paths on the system.
In terms of the path limit selection, I think its first worth noting that
the most common case for epoll, is probably the model where you have 1
epoll file descriptor that is monitoring n number of 'source file
descriptors'. In this case, each 'source file descriptor' has a 1 path of
length 1. Thus, I believe that the limits I'm proposing are quite
reasonable and in fact may be too generous. Thus, I'm hoping that the
proposed limits will not prevent any workloads that currently work to
fail.
In terms of locking, I have extended the use of the 'epmutex' to all
epoll_ctl add and remove operations. Currently its only used in a subset
of the add paths. I need to hold the epmutex, so that we can correctly
traverse a coherent graph, to check the number of paths. I believe that
this additional locking is probably ok, since its in the setup/teardown
paths, and doesn't affect the running paths, but it certainly is going to
add some extra overhead. Also, worth noting is that the epmuex was
recently added to the ep_ctl add operations in the initial path loop
detection code using the argument that it was not on a critical path.
Another thing to note here, is the length of epoll chains that is allowed.
Currently, eventpoll.c defines:
/* Maximum number of nesting allowed inside epoll sets */
#define EP_MAX_NESTS 4
This basically means that I am limited to a graph depth of 5 (EP_MAX_NESTS
+ 1). However, this limit is currently only enforced during the loop
check detection code, and only when the epoll file descriptors are added
in a certain order. Thus, this limit is currently easily bypassed. The
newly added check for wakeup paths, stricly limits the wakeup paths to a
length of 5, regardless of the order in which ep's are linked together.
Thus, a side-effect of the new code is a more consistent enforcement of
the graph depth.
Thus far, I've tested this, using the sample programs previously
mentioned, which now either return quickly or return -EINVAL. I've also
testing using the piptest.c epoll tester, which showed no difference in
performance. I've also created a number of different epoll networks and
tested that they behave as expectded.
I believe this solves the original diabolical test cases, while still
preserving the sane epoll nesting.
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@ksplice.com> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Joakim Tjernlund [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:36 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
crc32: optimize inner loop
Taking a pointer reference to each row in the crc table matrix, one can
reduce the inner loop with a few insn's
Signed-off-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se> Cc: Bob Pearson <rpearson@systemfabricworks.com> Cc: Frank Zago <fzago@systemfabricworks.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Joe Perches [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:35 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
checkpatch: update signature "might be better as" warning
email header lines can look like signature tags. It's valid to have
multiple email recipients on a single line but not valid to have multiple
signatures on a single line.
Validate signatures only when not in the email headers.
Clear the $in_commit_log flag when the patch filename appears.
Add '-' to the valid chars in a message header for headers
like "Message-Id:" and "In-Reply-To:".
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Reported-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Ian Campbell [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:35 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
get_maintainers.pl: follow renames when looking up commit signers
I happen to have had a commit to various network drivers since the big
renaming/reorg which happened to drivers/net recently. This means that I
now appear to be in the top few commit signers (by %age) for many of them
so am getting sent all sorts of stuff and people who are involved with the
driver are not. e.g. (to pick one at random):
$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> (commit_signer:5/7=71%)
Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> (commit_signer:2/7=29%)
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> (commit_signer:1/7=14%)
Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> (commit_signer:1/7=14%)
Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> (commit_signer:1/7=14%)
netdev@vger.kernel.org (open list:NETWORKING DRIVERS)
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
With the following patch the renames are followed and the result appears
much more sensible:
Andi Kleen [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:34 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
brlocks/lglocks: clean up code
lglocks and brlocks are currently generated with some complicated macros
in lglock.h. But there's no reason I can see to not just use common
utility functions that get pointers to the lglock.
Since there are at least two users it makes sense to share this code in a
library.
This will also make it later possible to dynamically allocate lglocks.
In general the users now look more like normal function calls with
pointers, not magic macros.
The patch is rather large because I move over all users in one go to keep
it bisectable. This impacts the VFS somewhat in terms of lines changed.
But no actual behaviour change.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Jesper Juhl [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:34 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
audit: always follow va_copy() with va_end()
A call to va_copy() should always be followed by a call to va_end() in the
same function. In kernel/autit.c::audit_log_vformat() this is not always
done. This patch makes sure va_end() is always called.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Heiko Carstens [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:32 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
mm,slub,x86: decouple size of struct page from CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL
While implementing cmpxchg_double() on s390 I realized that we don't set
CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL besides the fact that we have support for it.
However setting that option will increase the size of struct page by eight
bytes on 64 bit, which we certainly do not want. Also, it doesn't make
sense that a present cpu feature should increase the size of struct page.
Besides that it looks like the dependency to CMPXCHG_LOCAL is wrong and
that it should depend on CMPXCHG_DOUBLE instead.
This patch:
If an architecture supports CMPXCHG_LOCAL this shouldn't result
automatically in larger struct pages if the SLUB allocator is used.
Instead introduce a new config option "HAVE_ALIGNED_STRUCT_PAGE" which can
be selected if a double word aligned struct page is required. Also update
x86 Kconfig so that it should work as before.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
WARNING: please, no spaces at the start of a line
#57: FILE: arch/m68k/amiga/config.c:515:
+ __noreturn;$
total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 106 lines checked
./patches/treewide-convert-uses-of-attrib_noreturn-to-__noreturn.patch has style problems, please review.
If any of these errors are false positives, please report
them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
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Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Shaohua Li [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:29 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
intel_idle: fix API misuse
smp_call_function() only lets all other CPUs execute a specific function,
while we expect all CPUs do in intel_idle. Without the fix, we could have
one cpu which has auto_demotion enabled or has no boradcast timer setup.
Usually we don't see impact because auto demotion just harms power and the
intel_idle init is called in CPU 0, where boradcast timer delivers
interrupt, but this still could be a problem.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Magnus Lynch [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:29 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
hpet: factor timer allocate from open
The current implementation of the /dev/hpet driver couples opening the
device with allocating one of the (scarce) timers (aka comparators). This
is a limitation in that the main counter may be valuable to applications
seeking a high-resolution timer who have no use for the interrupt
generating functionality of the comparators.
This patch alters the open semantics so that when the device is opened, no
timer is allocated. Operations that depend on a timer being in context
implicitly attempt allocating a timer, to maintain backward compatibility.
There is also an IOCTL (HPET_ALLOC_TIMER _IO) added so that the
allocation may be done explicitly. (I prefer the explicit open then
allocate pattern but don't know how practical it would be to require all
existing code to be changed.)
/dev/hpet is accessed via mmap(). This is the only interface of /dev/hpet
that is actually used in practice.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style tweaks]
[arnd@arndb.de: fix build] Signed-off-by: Magnus Lynch <maglyx@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Andrea Arcangeli [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:28 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
thp: reduce khugepaged freezing latency
Use wait_event_freezable_timeout() instead of
schedule_timeout_interruptible() to avoid missing freezer wakeups. A
try_to_freeze() would have been needed in the khugepaged_alloc_hugepage
tight loop too in case of the allocation failing repeatedly, and
wait_event_freezable_timeout will provide it too.
khugepaged would still freeze just fine by trying again the next minute
but it's better if it freezes immediately.
Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@suse.com Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
WARNING: line over 80 characters
#42: FILE: mm/page_alloc.c:3464:
+ /* Blocks with reserved pages will never free, skip them. */
WARNING: line over 80 characters
#61: FILE: mm/page_alloc.c:3477:
+ set_pageblock_migratetype(page, MIGRATE_RESERVE);
WARNING: line over 80 characters
#62: FILE: mm/page_alloc.c:3478:
+ move_freepages_block(zone, page, MIGRATE_RESERVE);
total: 0 errors, 3 warnings, 44 lines checked
./patches/mm-reduce-the-amount-of-work-done-when-updating-min_free_kbytes.patch has style problems, please review.
If any of these errors are false positives, please report
them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
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Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mel Gorman [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:27 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
mm: reduce the amount of work done when updating min_free_kbytes
When min_free_kbytes is updated, some pageblocks are marked
MIGRATE_RESERVE. Ordinarily, this work is unnoticable as it happens early
in boot but on large machines with 1TB of memory, this has been reported
to delay boot times, probably due to the NUMA distances involved.
The bulk of the work is due to calling calling pageblock_is_reserved() an
unnecessary amount of times and accessing far more struct page metadata
than is necessary. This patch significantly reduces the amount of work
done by setup_zone_migrate_reserve() improving boot times on 1TB machines.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mel Gorman [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:26 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
mm: avoid livelock on !__GFP_FS allocations
This patch seems to have gotten lost in the cracks and the discussion on
alternatives that started here https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/25/24 petered
out without any alternative patches being posted. Lacking a viable
alternative patch, I'm reposting this patch because AFAIK, this bug still
exists.
Colin Cross reported;
Under the following conditions, __alloc_pages_slowpath can loop forever:
gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT is true
gfp_mask & __GFP_FS is false
reclaim and compaction make no progress
order <= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER
These conditions happen very often during suspend and resume,
when pm_restrict_gfp_mask() effectively converts all GFP_KERNEL
allocations into __GFP_WAIT.
The oom killer is not run because gfp_mask & __GFP_FS is false,
but should_alloc_retry will always return true when order is less
than PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER.
In his fix, he avoided retrying the allocation if reclaim made no progress
and __GFP_FS was not set. The problem is that this would result in
GFP_NOIO allocations failing that previously succeeded which would be very
unfortunate.
The big difference between GFP_NOIO and suspend converting GFP_KERNEL to
behave like GFP_NOIO is that normally flushers will be cleaning pages and
kswapd reclaims pages allowing GFP_NOIO to succeed after a short delay.
The same does not necessarily apply during suspend as the storage device
may be suspended. Hence, this patch special cases the suspend case to
fail the page allocation if reclaim cannot make progress. This might
cause suspend to abort but that is better than a livelock.
[mgorman@suse.de: Rework fix to be suspend specific] Reported-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com> Tested-by: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mel Gorman [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:25 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
mm: do not stall in synchronous compaction for THP allocations
Occasionally during large file copies to slow storage, there are still
reports of user-visible stalls when THP is enabled. Reports on this have
been intermittent and not reliable to reproduce locally but;
Andy Isaacson reported a problem copying to VFAT on SD Card
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/7/2
In this case, it was stuck in munmap for betwen 20 and 60
seconds in compaction. It is also possible that khugepaged
was holding mmap_sem on this process if CONFIG_NUMA was set.
Johannes Weiner reported stalls on USB
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/25/378
In this case, there is no stack trace but it looks like the
same problem. The USB stick may have been using NTFS as a
filesystem based on other work done related to writing back
to USB around the same time.
Internally in SUSE, I received a bug report related to stalls in firefox
when using Java and Flash heavily while copying from NFS
to VFAT on USB. It has not been confirmed to be the same problem
but if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck.....
In the past, commit [11bc82d6: mm: compaction: Use async migration for
__GFP_NO_KSWAPD and enforce no writeback] forced that sync compaction
would never be used for THP allocations. This was reverted in commit
[c6a140bf: mm/compaction: reverse the change that forbade sync migraton
with __GFP_NO_KSWAPD] on the grounds that it was uncertain it was
beneficial.
While user-visible stalls do not happen for me when writing to USB, I
setup a test running postmark while short-lived processes created
anonymous mapping. The objective was to exercise the paths that allocate
transparent huge pages. I then logged when processes were stalled for
more than 1 second, recorded a stack strace and did some analysis to
aggregate unique "stall events" which revealed
Time stalled in this event: 47369 ms
Event count: 20
usemem sleep_on_page 3690 ms
usemem sleep_on_page 2148 ms
usemem sleep_on_page 1534 ms
usemem sleep_on_page 1518 ms
usemem sleep_on_page 1225 ms
usemem sleep_on_page 2205 ms
usemem sleep_on_page 2399 ms
usemem sleep_on_page 2398 ms
usemem sleep_on_page 3760 ms
usemem sleep_on_page 1861 ms
usemem sleep_on_page 2948 ms
usemem sleep_on_page 1515 ms
usemem sleep_on_page 1386 ms
usemem sleep_on_page 1882 ms
usemem sleep_on_page 1850 ms
usemem sleep_on_page 3715 ms
usemem sleep_on_page 3716 ms
usemem sleep_on_page 4846 ms
usemem sleep_on_page 1306 ms
usemem sleep_on_page 1467 ms
[<ffffffff810ef30c>] wait_on_page_bit+0x6c/0x80
[<ffffffff8113de9f>] unmap_and_move+0x1bf/0x360
[<ffffffff8113e0e2>] migrate_pages+0xa2/0x1b0
[<ffffffff81134273>] compact_zone+0x1f3/0x2f0
[<ffffffff811345d8>] compact_zone_order+0xa8/0xf0
[<ffffffff811346ff>] try_to_compact_pages+0xdf/0x110
[<ffffffff810f773a>] __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0xda/0x1a0
[<ffffffff810f7d5d>] __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x55d/0x7a0
[<ffffffff810f8151>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1b1/0x1c0
[<ffffffff811331db>] alloc_pages_vma+0x9b/0x160
[<ffffffff81142bb0>] do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page+0x160/0x270
[<ffffffff814410a7>] do_page_fault+0x207/0x4c0
[<ffffffff8143dde5>] page_fault+0x25/0x30
The stall times are approximate at best but the estimates represent 25% of
the worst stalls and even if the estimates are off by a factor of 10, it's
severe.
This patch once again prevents sync migration for transparent hugepage
allocations as it is preferable to fail a THP allocation than stall.
It was suggested that __GFP_NORETRY be used instead of __GFP_NO_KSWAPD to
look less like a special case. This would prevent THP allocation using
sync compaction but it would have other side-effects. There are existing
users of __GFP_NORETRY that are doing high-order allocations and while
they can handle allocation failure, it seems reasonable that they continue
to use sync compaction unless there is a deliberate reason to change that.
To help clarify this for the future, this patch updates the comment for
__GFP_NO_KSWAPD.
If accepted, this is a -stable candidate.
Reported-by: Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org> Reported-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Tested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Jacobo Giralt [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:25 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
mm: migrate: one less atomic operation
migrate_page_move_mapping() drops a reference from the old page after
unfreezing its counter. Both operations can be merged into a single
atomic operation by directly unfreezing to one less reference.
The same applies to migrate_huge_page_move_mapping().
Signed-off-by: Jacobo Giralt <jacobo.giralt@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Nicolas Pitre [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:24 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
mm: add vm_area_add_early()
The existing vm_area_register_early() allows for early vmalloc space
allocation. However upcoming cleanups in the ARM architecture require
that some fixed locations in the vmalloc area be reserved also very early.
The name "vm_area_register_early" would have been a good name for the
reservation part without the allocation. Since it is already in use with
Both vm_area_register_early() and vm_area_add_early() can be used together
meaning that the former is now implemented using the later where it is
ensured that no conflicting areas are added, but no attempt is made to
make the allocation scheme in vm_area_register_early() more sophisticated.
After all, you must know what you're doing when using those functions.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Rik van Riel [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:24 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
mm-add-extra-free-kbytes-tunable-update
All the fixes suggested by Andrew Morton. Not much of a changelog
since the patch should probably be folded into
mm-add-extra-free-kbytes-tunable.patch
Thank you for pointing these out, Andrew.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Rik van Riel [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:23 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
mm: add extra free kbytes tunable
Add a userspace visible knob to tell the VM to keep an extra amount of
memory free, by increasing the gap between each zone's min and low
watermarks.
This is useful for realtime applications that call system calls and have a
bound on the number of allocations that happen in any short time period.
In this application, extra_free_kbytes would be left at an amount equal to
or larger than than the maximum number of allocations that happen in any
burst.
It may also be useful to reduce the memory use of virtual machines
(temporarily?), in a way that does not cause memory fragmentation like
ballooning does.
Testing results from Satoru Moriya:
: I ran some sample workloads and measure memory allocation latency
: (latency of __alloc_page_nodemask()).
: The test is like following:
:
: - CPU: 1 socket, 4 core
: - Memory: 4GB
:
: - Background load:
: $ dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/tmp/tmp1
: $ dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/tmp/tmp2
: $ dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/tmp/tmp3
:
: - Main load:
: $ mapped-file-stream 1 $((1024 * 1024 * 640)) --(*)
:
: (*) This is made by Johannes Weiner
: https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/30/226
:
: It allocates/access 640MByte memory at a burst.
:
: The result is follwoing:
:
: | | extra |
: | default | kbytes |
: --------------------------------------------------------------
: min_free_kbytes | 8113 | 8113 |
: extra_free_kbytes | 0 | 640*1024 | (KB)
: --------------------------------------------------------------
: worst latency | 517.762 | 20.775 | (usec)
: --------------------------------------------------------------
: vmstat result | | |
: nr_vmscan_write | 0 | 0 |
: pgsteal_dma | 0 | 0 |
: pgsteal_dma32 | 143667 | 144882 |
: pgsteal_normal | 31486 | 27001 |
: pgsteal_movable | 0 | 0 |
: pgscan_kswapd_dma | 0 | 0 |
: pgscan_kswapd_dma32 | 138617 | 156351 |
: pgscan_kswapd_normal | 30593 | 27955 |
: pgscan_kswapd_movable | 0 | 0 |
: pgscan_direct_dma | 0 | 0 |
: pgscan_direct_dma32 | 5050 | 0 |
: pgscan_direct_normal | 896 | 0 |
: pgscan_direct_movable | 0 | 0 |
: kswapd_steal | 169207 | 171883 |
: kswapd_inodesteal | 0 | 0 |
: kswapd_low_wmark_hit_quickly | 43 | 45 |
: kswapd_high_wmark_hit_quickly | 1 | 0 |
: allocstall | 32 | 0 |
:
:
: As you can see, in the default case there were 32 direct reclaim
: (allocstal= l) and its worst latency was 517.762 usecs. This value may be
: larger if a process would sleep or issue I/O in the direct reclaim path.
: OTOH, ii the other case where I add extra free bytes, there were no direct
: reclaim and its worst latency was 20.775 usecs.
:
: In this test case, we can avoid direct reclaim and keep a latency low.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel<riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Tested-by: Satoru Moriya <satoru.moriya@hds.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
After commit v2.6.36-5896-gd065bd8 "mm: retry page fault when blocking on
disk transfer" we usually wait in page-faults without mmap_sem held, so
all swap-token logic was broken, because it based on using
rwsem_is_locked(&mm->mmap_sem) as sign of in progress page-faults.
Add an atomic counter of in progress page-faults for mm to the mm_struct
with swap-token.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Rename mm_page_free_direct into mm_page_free and mm_pagevec_free into
mm_page_free_batched
Since v2.6.33-5426-gc475dab the kernel triggers mm_page_free_direct for
all freed pages, not only for directly freed. So, let's name it properly.
For pages freed via page-list we also trigger mm_page_free_batched event.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds helper free_hot_cold_page_list() to free list of 0-order
pages. It frees pages directly from list without temporary page-vector.
It also calls trace_mm_pagevec_free() to simulate pagevec_free()
behaviour.
vmscan: activate executable pages after first usage
Logic added in commit 8cab4754d24a0 ("vmscan: make mapped executable pages
the first class citizen") was noticeably weakened in commit 645747462435d84 ("vmscan: detect mapped file pages used only once").
Currently these pages can become "first class citizens" only after second
usage. After this patch page_check_references() will activate they after
first usage, and executable code gets yet better chance to stay in memory.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 645747462435 ("vmscan: detect mapped file pages used only once")
greatly decreases lifetime of single-used mapped file pages.
Unfortunately it also decreases life time of all shared mapped file pages.
Because after commit bf3f3bc5e7347 ("mm: don't mark_page_accessed
in fault path") page-fault handler does not mark page active or even
referenced.
Thus page_check_references() activates file page only if it was used twice
while it stays in inactive list, meanwhile it activates anon pages after
first access. Inactive list can be small enough, this way reclaimer can
accidentally throw away any widely used page if it wasn't used twice in
short period.
After this patch page_check_references() also activate file mapped page at
first inactive list scan if this page is already used multiple times via
several ptes.
I found this while trying to fix degragation in rhel6 (~2.6.32) from rhel5
(~2.6.18). There a complete mess with >100 web/mail/spam/ftp containers,
they share all their files but there a lot of anonymous pages: ~500mb
shared file mapped memory and 15-20Gb non-shared anonymous memory. In
this situation major-pagefaults are very costly, because all containers
share the same page. In my load kernel created a disproportionate
pressure on the file memory, compared with the anonymous, they equaled
only if I raise swappiness up to 150 =)
These patches actually wasn't helped a lot in my problem, but I saw
noticable (10-20 times) reduce in count and average time of
major-pagefault in file-mapped areas.
Actually both patches are fixes for commit v2.6.33-5448-g6457474, because
it was aimed at one scenario (singly used pages), but it breaks the logic
in other scenarios (shared and/or executable pages)
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Stephen Boyd [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:14 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
drivers/scsi/sg.c: convert to kstrtoul_from_user()
Instead of open coding this function use kstrtoul_from_user() directly.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Doug Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> Cc: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Jesper Juhl [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:13 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c: fix mem leak in aac_send_raw_srb()
We leak in drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c::aac_send_raw_srb() :
We allocate memory:
...
struct user_sgmap* usg;
usg = kmalloc(actual_fibsize - sizeof(struct aac_srb)
+ sizeof(struct sgmap), GFP_KERNEL);
and then neglect to free it:
...
for (i = 0; i < usg->count; i++) {
u64 addr;
void* p;
if (usg->sg[i].count >
((dev->adapter_info.options &
AAC_OPT_NEW_COMM) ?
(dev->scsi_host_ptr->max_sectors << 9) :
65536)) {
rcode = -EINVAL;
goto cleanup;
... this 'goto' makes 'usg' go out of scope and leak the memory we
allocated.
Other exits properly kfree(usg), it's just here it is neglected.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Randy Dunlap [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:13 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
drivers/scsi/megaraid.c: fix sparse warnings
Fix sparse warnings of right shift bigger than source value size:
drivers/scsi/megaraid.c:311:65: warning: right shift by bigger than source value
drivers/scsi/megaraid.c:313:65: warning: right shift by bigger than source value
drivers/scsi/megaraid.c:317:67: warning: right shift by bigger than source value
drivers/scsi/megaraid.c:319:67: warning: right shift by bigger than source value
Patch suggestion from email by Al Viro:
"Since both are claimed to be strings, I really suspect that this >> 8 is
misspelled >> 4 and they have a character followed by pair of two-digit
packed decimals in there..."
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Neela Syam Kolli <megaraidlinux@lsi.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
For headers that get exported to userland and make use of u32 style
type names, it is advised to include linux/types.h.
This fixes a headers_check warning.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Akinobu Mita [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:12 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
ocfs2: avoid unaligned access to dqc_bitmap
The dqc_bitmap field of struct ocfs2_local_disk_chunk is 32-bit aligned,
but not 64-bit aligned. The dqc_bitmap is accessed by ocfs2_set_bit(),
ocfs2_clear_bit(), ocfs2_test_bit(), or ocfs2_find_next_zero_bit(). These
are wrapper macros for ext2_*_bit() which need to take an unsigned long
aligned address (though some architectures are able to handle unaligned
address correctly)
So some 64bit architectures may not be able to access the dqc_bitmap
correctly.
This avoids such unaligned access by using another wrapper functions for
ext2_*_bit(). The code is taken from fs/ext4/mballoc.c which also need to
handle unaligned bitmap access.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Acked-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Akinobu Mita [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:12 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
ext4: use proper little-endian bitops
ext4_{set,clear}_bit() is defined as __test_and_{set,clear}_bit_le() for
ext4. Only two ext4_{set,clear}_bit() calls check the return value. The
rest of calls ignore the return value and they can be replaced with
__{set,clear}_bit_le().
This changes ext4_{set,clear}_bit() from __test_and_{set,clear}_bit_le()
to __{set,clear}_bit_le() and introduces ext4_test_and_{set,clear}_bit()
for the two places where old bit needs to be returned.
This ext4_{set,clear}_bit() change is considered safe, because if someone
uses these macros without noticing the change, new ext4_{set,clear}_bit
don't have return value and causes compiler errors where the return value
is used.
This also removes unused ext4_find_first_zero_bit().
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Christine Chan [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:11 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
kernel/timer.c: use debugobjects to catch deletion of uninitialized timers
del_timer_sync() calls debug_object_assert_init() to assert that a timer
has been initialized before calling lock_timer_base(). lock_timer_base()
would spin forever on a NULL(uninit-ed) base. The check is added to
del_timer() to prevent silent failure, even though it would not get stuck
in an infinite loop.
[sboyd@codeaurora.org: remove WARN, intialize timer function] Signed-off-by: Christine Chan <cschan@codeaurora.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Christine Chan [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:11 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
debugobjects: extend to assert that an object is initialized
Calling del_timer_sync() on an uninitialized timer leads to a never ending
loop in lock_timer_base() that spins checking for a non-NULL timer base.
Add an assertion to debugobjects to catch usage of uninitialized objects
so that we can initialize timers in the del_timer_sync() path before it
calls lock_timer_base().
[sboyd@codeaurora.org: clarify commit message] Signed-off-by: Christine Chan <cschan@codeaurora.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Stephen Boyd [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:11 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
debugobjects: be smarter about static objects
Remove the WARN_ON() in timer_fixup_activate() and actually use the return
code from fixup to tell the debugobjects code to print a warning. This
provides better diagnostic information via a nice debugobjects warning
instead of a simple WARN_ON(1) in the timer code with no information as to
what is wrong. We also assign a dummy timer callback so that if the timer
is actually set to fire we don't oops.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Christine Chan <cschan@codeaurora.org> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
ERROR: Macros with complex values should be enclosed in parenthesis
#87: FILE: include/linux/ipc_namespace.h:126:
+#define DFLT_MSGSIZEMAX 1024*1024
ERROR: Macros with complex values should be enclosed in parenthesis
#88: FILE: include/linux/ipc_namespace.h:127:
+#define HARD_MSGSIZEMAX 16*1024*1024
total: 2 errors, 0 warnings, 75 lines checked
./patches/ipc-mqueue-update-maximums-for-the-mqueue-subsystem.patch has style problems, please review.
If any of these errors are false positives, please report
them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
Please run checkpatch prior to sending patches
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
ipc/mqueue.c: In function 'mqueue_get_inode':
ipc/mqueue.c:154:4: error: implicit declaration of function 'vmalloc'
ipc/mqueue.c:154:19: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without=
a cast
ipc/mqueue.c: In function 'mqueue_evict_inode':
ipc/mqueue.c:278:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'vfree'
Caused by commit 8a53f9442429 ("ipc/mqueue: update maximums for the
mqueue subsystem"). See Rule 1 in Documentation/SubmitChecklist.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Doug Ledford [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:09 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
ipc/mqueue: update maximums for the mqueue subsystem
Commit b231cca4381ee ("message queues: increase range limits") changed the
maximum size of a message in a message queue from INT_MAX to 8192*128.
Unfortunately, we had customers that relied on a size much larger than
8192*128 on their production systems. After reviewing POSIX, we found
that it is silent on the maximum message size. We did find a couple other
areas in which it was not silent. Fix up the mqueue maximums so that the
customer's system can continue to work, and document both the POSIX and
real world requirements in ipc_namespace.h so that we don't have this
issue crop back up.
Also, commit 9cf18e1dd74c ("ipc: HARD_MSGMAX should be higher not lower on
64bit") fiddled with HARD_MSGMAX without realizing that the number was
intentionally in place to limit the msg queue depth to one that was small
enough to kmalloc an array of pointers (hence why we divided 128k by
sizeof(long)). If we wish to meet POSIX requirements, we have no choice
but to change our allocation to a vmalloc instead (at least for the large
queue size case). With that, it's possible to increase our allowed
maximum to the POSIX requirements (or more if we choose).
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Doug Ledford [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:08 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
ipc/mqueue: enforce hard limits
In two places we don't enforce the hard limits for CAP_SYS_RESOURCE apps.
In preparation for making more reasonable hard limits, start enforcing
them even on CAP_SYS_RESOURCE.
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Doug Ledford [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:08 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
ipc/mqueue: switch back to using non-max values on create
Commit b231cca4381ee15e ("message queues: increase range limits") changed
how we create a queue that does not include an attr struct passed to open
so that it creates the queue with whatever the maximum values are.
However, if the admin has set the maximums to allow flexibility in
creating a queue (aka, both a large size and large queue are allowed, but
combined they create a queue too large for the RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE of the
user), then attempts to create a queue without an attr struct will fail.
Switch back to using acceptable defaults regardless of what the maximums
are.
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Doug Ledford [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:07 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
ipc/mqueue: cleanup definition names and locations
We had a customer come up with a problem while trying to upgrade from our
2.6.18 kernel to our 2.6.32 kernel. In diagnosing their problem, it was
determined that when commit b231cca4 ("message queues: increase range
limits") changed the msg size max from INT_MAX to 8192*128, that's what
broke their setup.
While fixing this problem, testing showed that if you increase the max
values of a msg queue, then attempt to create one without an attr struct
passed in to the open call, it could fail because it sets the queue size
to the max of both the msg size and queue size. If these are large
enough, they over run the default RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE. This change was also
introduced in the b231cca4 ("message queues: increase range limits")
commit.
We then found that the msg queue limits were not all being enforced on
CAP_SYS_RESOURCE apps.
Finally, we found that commit 9cf18e1d ("ipc: HARD_MSGMAX should be higher
not lower on 64bit") fiddled with HARD_MSGMAX without realizing that the
reason it was set to what it was, was to avoid trying to kmalloc a chunk
larger than 128K.
So this series of patches cleans up the various defines, takes us back to
having a larger HARD_MSGSIZEMAX, goes back to using a separate define for
the case where a user doesn't pass in an attr struct in case the maxes
have been raised too large for RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE, enforces the maximums on
CAP_SYS_RESOURCE apps, uses vmalloc instead of kmalloc when the msg
pointer array is too large, and documents all of this so it shouldn't
happen again.
This patch:
The various defines for minimums and maximums of the sysctl controllable
mqueue values are scattered amongst different files and named
inconsistently. Move them all into ipc_namespace.h and make them have
consistent names. Additionally, make the number of queues per namespace
also have a minimum and maximum and use the same sysctl function as the
other two settable variables.
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Matthew Garrett [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:07 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
hrtimers: Special-case zero length sleeps
sleep(0) is a common construct used by applications that want to trigger
the scheduler. sched_yield() might make more sense, but only appeared in
POSIX.1-2001 and so plenty of example code still uses the sleep(0) form.
This wouldn't normally be a problem, but it means that event-driven
applications that are merely trying to avoid starving other processes may
actually end up sleeping due to having large timer_slack values. Special-
casing this seems reasonable.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Hugh Dickins [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:06 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
drm: avoid switching to text console if there is no panic timeout
Add a check for panic_timeout in the drm_fb_helper_panic() notifier: if
we're going to reboot immediately, the user will not be able to see the
messages anyway, and messing with the video mode may display artifacts,
and certainly get into several layers of complexity (including mutexes and
memory allocations) which we shall be much safer to avoid.
[msb@chromium.org: edited commit message and modified to short-circuit panic_timeout < 0 instead of testing panic_timeout >= 0] Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Stéphane Marchesin <marcheu@chromium.org> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Shaohui Xie [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:05 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
drivers/edac/mpc85xx_edac.c: fix memory controller compatible for edac
compatible in dts has been changed, so the driver needs to be updated
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Shaohui Xie <Shaohui.Xie@freescale.com> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Mathias Krause [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:05 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
arm, exec: remove redundant set_fs(USER_DS)
The address limit is already set in flush_old_exec() so this
set_fs(USER_DS) is redundant.
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The problem is that in copy_page_range() we turn lazy mode on, and then in
swap_entry_free() we call swap_count_continued() which ends up in:
map = kmap_atomic(page, KM_USER0) + offset;
and then later we touch *map.
Since we are running in batched mode (lazy) we don't actually set up the
PTE mappings and the kmap_atomic is not done synchronously and ends up
trying to dereference a page that has not been set.
Looking at kmap_atomic_prot_pfn(), it uses 'arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode' and
doing the same in kmap_atomic_prot() and __kunmap_atomic() makes the problem
go away.
Interestingly, commit b8bcfe997e4615 ("x86/paravirt: remove lazy mode in
interrupts") removed part of this to fix an interrupt issue - but it went
to far and did not consider this scenario.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Jack Steiner [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:04 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
x86: reduce clock calibration time during slave cpu startup
Reduce the startup time for slave cpus.
Adds hooks for an arch-specific function for clock calibration. These
hooks are used on x86. If a newly started cpu has the same phys_proc_id
as a core already active, uses the TSC for the delay loop and has a
CONSTANT_TSC, use the already-calculated value of loops_per_jiffy.
This patch reduces the time required to start slave cpus on a 4096 cpu
system from: 465 sec OLD 62 sec NEW
This reduces boot time on a 4096p system by almost 7 minutes. Nice...
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_SMP=n build] Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Shaohua Li [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:03 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
x86: tlb flush avoid superflous leave_mm()
If just one page VA tlb is required to be flushed and current task is in
lazy TLB state, doing leave_mm() is superfluous because it flushes the
whole TLB. This can reduce some TLB miss.
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
arch/x86/kernel/e820.c: quiet sparse noise about plain integer as NULL pointer
The last parameter to sort() is a pointer to the function used to swap
items. This parameter should be NULL, not 0, when not used. This quiets
the following sparse warning:
warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Ludwig Nussel [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:01 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
x86: fix mmap random address range
On x86_32 casting the unsigned int result of get_random_int() to long may
result in a negative value. On x86_32 the range of mmap_rnd() therefore
was -255 to 255. The 32bit mode on x86_64 used 0 to 255 as intended.
The bug was introduced by 675a081 ("x86: unify mmap_{32|64}.c") in January
2008.
Signed-off-by: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@suse.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Shérab [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:00 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
arch/x86/platform/iris/iris.c: register a platform device and a platform driver
This makes the iris driver use the platform API, so it is properly exposed
in /sys.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove commented-out code, add missing space to printk, clean up code layout] Signed-off-by: Shérab <Sebastien.Hinderer@ens-lyon.org> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Peter Feuerer [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:41:00 +0000 (10:41 +1100)]
acerhdf: lowered default temp fanon/fanoff values
Due to new supported hardware, of which the actual temperature limits of
processor, harddisk and other components are unknown, it feels safer with
lower fanon / fanoff settings.
It won't change much for most people, already using acerhdf, as they use
their own fanon/fanoff variable settings when loading the module.
Furthermore seems like kernel and userspace tools have been improved to
work more efficient and netbooks don't get so hot anymore.
Signed-off-by: Peter Feuerer <peter@piie.net> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Alex Bligh [Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:40:59 +0000 (10:40 +1100)]
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c: fix Oops on container destroy
Problem:
A repeatable Oops can be caused if a container with networking
unshared is destroyed when it has nf_conntrack entries yet to expire.
A copy of the oops follows below. A perl program generating the oops
repeatably is attached inline below.
Analysis:
The oops is called from cleanup_net when the namespace is
destroyed. conntrack iterates through outstanding events and calls
death_by_timeout on each of them, which in turn produces a call to
ctnetlink_conntrack_event. This calls nf_netlink_has_listeners, which
oopses because net->nfnl is NULL.
The perl program generates the container through fork() then
clone(NS_NEWNET). I does not explicitly set up netlink
explicitly set up netlink, but I presume it was set up else net->nfnl
would have been NULL earlier (i.e. when an earlier connection
timed out). This would thus suggest that net->nfnl is made NULL
during the destruction of the container, which I think is done by
nfnetlink_net_exit_batch.
I can see that the various subsystems are deinitialised in the opposite
order to which the relevant register_pernet_subsys calls are called,
and both nf_conntrack and nfnetlink_net_ops register their relevant
subsystems. If nfnetlink_net_ops registered later than nfconntrack,
then its exit routine would have been called first, which would cause
the oops described. I am not sure there is anything to prevent this
happening in a container environment.
Whilst there's perhaps a more complex problem revolving around ordering
of subsystem deinit, it seems to me that missing a netlink event on a
container that is dying is not a disaster. An early check for net->nfnl
being non-NULL in ctnetlink_conntrack_event appears to fix this. There
may remain a potential race condition if it becomes NULL immediately
after being checked (I am not sure any lock is held at this point or
how synchronisation for subsystem deinitialization works).
Patch:
The patch attached should apply on everything from 2.6.26 (if not before)
onwards; it appears to be a problem on all kernels. This was taken against
Ubuntu-3.0.0-11.17 which is very close to 3.0.4. I have torture-tested it
with the above perl script for 15 minutes or so; the perl script hung the
machine within 20 seconds without this patch.
Applicability:
If this is the right solution, it should be applied to all stable kernels
as well as head. Apart from the minor overhead of checking one variable
against NULL, it can never 'do the wrong thing', because if net->nfnl
is NULL, an oops will inevitably result. Therefore, checking is a reasonable
thing to do unless it can be proven than net->nfnl will never be NULL.
Check net->nfnl for NULL in ctnetlink_conntrack_event to avoid Oops on
container destroy
Signed-off-by: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
A shrinker function can return -1, means that it cannot do anything
without a risk of deadlock. For example prune_super() does this if it
cannot grab a superblock refrence, even if nr_to_scan=0. Currently we
interpret this -1 as a ULONG_MAX size shrinker and evaluate `total_scan'
according to this. So the next time around this shrinker can cause really
big pressure. Let's skip such shrinkers instead.
Also make total_scan signed, otherwise the check (total_scan < 0) below
never works.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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