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11 years agomm: remove lru parameter from __pagevec_lru_add and remove parts of pagevec API
Mel Gorman [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:02:32 +0000 (15:02 -0700)]
mm: remove lru parameter from __pagevec_lru_add and remove parts of pagevec API

Now that the LRU to add a page to is decided at LRU-add time, remove the
misleading lru parameter from __pagevec_lru_add.  A consequence of this
is that the pagevec_lru_add_file, pagevec_lru_add_anon and similar
helpers are misleading as the caller no longer has direct control over
what LRU the page is added to.  Unused helpers are removed by this patch
and existing users of pagevec_lru_add_file() are converted to use
lru_cache_add_file() directly and use the per-cpu pagevecs instead of
creating their own pagevec.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Alexey Lyahkov <alexey.lyashkov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Perepechko <anserper@ya.ru>
Cc: Robin Dong <sanbai@taobao.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@fastmail.fm>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm: activate !PageLRU pages on mark_page_accessed if page is on local pagevec
Mel Gorman [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:02:30 +0000 (15:02 -0700)]
mm: activate !PageLRU pages on mark_page_accessed if page is on local pagevec

If a page is on a pagevec then it is !PageLRU and mark_page_accessed()
may fail to move a page to the active list as expected.  Now that the
LRU is selected at LRU drain time, mark pages PageActive if they are on
the local pagevec so it gets moved to the correct list at LRU drain
time.  Using a debugging patch it was found that for a simple git
checkout based workload that pages were never added to the active file
list in practice but with this patch applied they are.

before   after
LRU Add Active File                  0      750583
LRU Add Active Anon            2640587     2702818
LRU Add Inactive File          8833662     8068353
LRU Add Inactive Anon              207         200

Note that only pages on the local pagevec are considered on purpose.  A
!PageLRU page could be in the process of being released, reclaimed,
migrated or on a remote pagevec that is currently being drained.
Marking it PageActive is vunerable to races where PageLRU and Active
bits are checked at the wrong time.  Page reclaim will trigger
VM_BUG_ONs but depending on when the race hits, it could also free a
PageActive page to the page allocator and trigger a bad_page warning.
Similarly a potential race exists between a per-cpu drain on a pagevec
list and an activation on a remote CPU.

lru_add_drain_cpu
__pagevec_lru_add
  lru = page_lru(page);
mark_page_accessed
  if (PageLRU(page))
    activate_page
  else
    SetPageActive
  SetPageLRU(page);
  add_page_to_lru_list(page, lruvec, lru);

In this case a PageActive page is added to the inactivate list and later
the inactive/active stats will get skewed.  While the PageActive checks
in vmscan could be removed and potentially dealt with, a skew in the
statistics would be very difficult to detect.  Hence this patch deals
just with the common case where a page being marked accessed has just
been added to the local pagevec.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Alexey Lyahkov <alexey.lyashkov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Perepechko <anserper@ya.ru>
Cc: Robin Dong <sanbai@taobao.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@fastmail.fm>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm: pagevec: defer deciding which LRU to add a page to until pagevec drain time
Mel Gorman [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:02:28 +0000 (15:02 -0700)]
mm: pagevec: defer deciding which LRU to add a page to until pagevec drain time

mark_page_accessed() cannot activate an inactive page that is located on
an inactive LRU pagevec.  Hints from filesystems may be ignored as a
result.  In preparation for fixing that problem, this patch removes the
per-LRU pagevecs and leaves just one pagevec.  The final LRU the page is
added to is deferred until the pagevec is drained.

This means that fewer pagevecs are available and potentially there is
greater contention on the LRU lock.  However, this only applies in the
case where there is an almost perfect mix of file, anon, active and
inactive pages being added to the LRU.  In practice I expect that we are
adding stream of pages of a particular time and that the changes in
contention will barely be measurable.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Alexey Lyahkov <alexey.lyashkov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Perepechko <anserper@ya.ru>
Cc: Robin Dong <sanbai@taobao.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@fastmail.fm>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm: add tracepoints for LRU activation and insertions
Mel Gorman [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:02:26 +0000 (15:02 -0700)]
mm: add tracepoints for LRU activation and insertions

Andrew Perepechko reported a problem whereby pages are being prematurely
evicted as the mark_page_accessed() hint is ignored for pages that are
currently on a pagevec --
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg37340.html .

Alexey Lyahkov and Robin Dong have also reported problems recently that
could be due to hot pages reaching the end of the inactive list too
quickly and be reclaimed.

Rather than addressing this on a per-filesystem basis, this series aims
to fix the mark_page_accessed() interface by deferring what LRU a page
is added to pagevec drain time and allowing mark_page_accessed() to call
SetPageActive on a pagevec page.

Patch 1 adds two tracepoints for LRU page activation and insertion. Using
these processes it's possible to build a model of pages in the
LRU that can be processed offline.

Patch 2 defers making the decision on what LRU to add a page to until when
the pagevec is drained.

Patch 3 searches the local pagevec for pages to mark PageActive on
mark_page_accessed. The changelog explains why only the local
pagevec is examined.

Patches 4 and 5 tidy up the API.

postmark, a dd-based test and fs-mark both single and threaded mode were
run but none of them showed any performance degradation or gain as a
result of the patch.

Using patch 1, I built a *very* basic model of the LRU to examine
offline what the average age of different page types on the LRU were in
milliseconds.  Of course, capturing the trace distorts the test as it's
written to local disk but it does not matter for the purposes of this
test.  The average age of pages in milliseconds were

    vanilla deferdrain
Average age mapped anon:               1454       1250
Average age mapped file:             127841     155552
Average age unmapped anon:               85        235
Average age unmapped file:            73633      38884
Average age unmapped buffers:         74054     116155

The LRU activity was mostly files which you'd expect for a dd-based
workload.  Note that the average age of buffer pages is increased by the
series and it is expected this is due to the fact that the buffer pages
are now getting added to the active list when drained from the pagevecs.
Note that the average age of the unmapped file data is decreased as they
are still added to the inactive list and are reclaimed before the
buffers.

There is no guarantee this is a universal win for all workloads and it
would be nice if the filesystem people gave some thought as to whether
this decision is generally a win or a loss.

This patch:

Using these tracepoints it is possible to model LRU activity and the
average residency of pages of different types.  This can be used to
debug problems related to premature reclaim of pages of particular
types.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Alexey Lyahkov <alexey.lyashkov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Perepechko <anserper@ya.ru>
Cc: Robin Dong <sanbai@taobao.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@fastmail.fm>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomemcg: update TODO list in Documentation
Li Zefan [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:02:25 +0000 (15:02 -0700)]
memcg: update TODO list in Documentation

hugetlb cgroup has already been implemented.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agovmcore: support mmap() on /proc/vmcore
HATAYAMA Daisuke [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:02:23 +0000 (15:02 -0700)]
vmcore: support mmap() on /proc/vmcore

This patch introduces mmap_vmcore().

Don't permit writable nor executable mapping even with mprotect()
because this mmap() is aimed at reading crash dump memory.  Non-writable
mapping is also requirement of remap_pfn_range() when mapping linear
pages on non-consecutive physical pages; see is_cow_mapping().

Set VM_MIXEDMAP flag to remap memory by remap_pfn_range and by
remap_vmalloc_range_pertial at the same time for a single vma.
do_munmap() can correctly clean partially remapped vma with two
functions in abnormal case.  See zap_pte_range(), vm_normal_page() and
their comments for details.

On x86-32 PAE kernels, mmap() supports at most 16TB memory only.  This
limitation comes from the fact that the third argument of
remap_pfn_range(), pfn, is of 32-bit length on x86-32: unsigned long.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use min(), switch to conventional error-unwinding approach]
Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Lisa Mitchell <lisa.mitchell@hp.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Maxim Uvarov <muvarov@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agovmcore: calculate vmcore file size from buffer size and total size of vmcore objects
HATAYAMA Daisuke [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:02:22 +0000 (15:02 -0700)]
vmcore: calculate vmcore file size from buffer size and total size of vmcore objects

The previous patches newly added holes before each chunk of memory and
the holes need to be count in vmcore file size.  There are two ways to
count file size in such a way:

1) suppose m is a poitner to the last vmcore object in vmcore_list.
   Then file size is (m->offset + m->size), or

2) calculate sum of size of buffers for ELF header, program headers,
   ELF note segments and objects in vmcore_list.

Although 1) is more direct and simpler than 2), 2) seems better in that
it reflects internal object structure of /proc/vmcore.  Thus, this patch
changes get_vmcore_size_elf{64, 32} so that it calculates size in the
way of 2).

As a result, both get_vmcore_size_elf{64, 32} have the same definition.
Merge them as get_vmcore_size.

Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Lisa Mitchell <lisa.mitchell@hp.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agovmcore: allow user process to remap ELF note segment buffer
HATAYAMA Daisuke [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:02:21 +0000 (15:02 -0700)]
vmcore: allow user process to remap ELF note segment buffer

Now ELF note segment has been copied in the buffer on vmalloc memory.
To allow user process to remap the ELF note segment buffer with
remap_vmalloc_page, the corresponding VM area object has to have
VM_USERMAP flag set.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use the conventional comment layout]
Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Lisa Mitchell <lisa.mitchell@hp.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agovmcore: allocate ELF note segment in the 2nd kernel vmalloc memory
HATAYAMA Daisuke [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:02:19 +0000 (15:02 -0700)]
vmcore: allocate ELF note segment in the 2nd kernel vmalloc memory

The reasons why we don't allocate ELF note segment in the 1st kernel
(old memory) on page boundary is to keep backward compatibility for old
kernels, and that if doing so, we waste not a little memory due to
round-up operation to fit the memory to page boundary since most of the
buffers are in per-cpu area.

ELF notes are per-cpu, so total size of ELF note segments depends on
number of CPUs.  The current maximum number of CPUs on x86_64 is 5192,
and there's already system with 4192 CPUs in SGI, where total size
amounts to 1MB.  This can be larger in the near future or possibly even
now on another architecture that has larger size of note per a single
cpu.  Thus, to avoid the case where memory allocation for large block
fails, we allocate vmcore objects on vmalloc memory.

This patch adds elfnotes_buf and elfnotes_sz variables to keep pointer
to the ELF note segment buffer and its size.  There's no longer the
vmcore object that corresponds to the ELF note segment in vmcore_list.
Accordingly, read_vmcore() has new case for ELF note segment and
set_vmcore_list_offsets_elf{64,32}() and other helper functions starts
calculating offset from sum of size of ELF headers and size of ELF note
segment.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use min(), fix error-path vzalloc() leaks]
Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Lisa Mitchell <lisa.mitchell@hp.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agovmalloc: introduce remap_vmalloc_range_partial
HATAYAMA Daisuke [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:02:18 +0000 (15:02 -0700)]
vmalloc: introduce remap_vmalloc_range_partial

We want to allocate ELF note segment buffer on the 2nd kernel in vmalloc
space and remap it to user-space in order to reduce the risk that memory
allocation fails on system with huge number of CPUs and so with huge ELF
note segment that exceeds 11-order block size.

Although there's already remap_vmalloc_range for the purpose of
remapping vmalloc memory to user-space, we need to specify user-space
range via vma.
 Mmap on /proc/vmcore needs to remap range across multiple objects, so
the interface that requires vma to cover full range is problematic.

This patch introduces remap_vmalloc_range_partial that receives user-space
range as a pair of base address and size and can be used for mmap on
/proc/vmcore case.

remap_vmalloc_range is rewritten using remap_vmalloc_range_partial.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use PAGE_ALIGNED()]
Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Lisa Mitchell <lisa.mitchell@hp.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agovmalloc: make find_vm_area check in range
HATAYAMA Daisuke [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:02:17 +0000 (15:02 -0700)]
vmalloc: make find_vm_area check in range

Currently, __find_vmap_area searches for the kernel VM area starting at
a given address.  This patch changes this behavior so that it searches
for the kernel VM area to which the address belongs.  This change is
needed by remap_vmalloc_range_partial to be introduced in later patch
that receives any position of kernel VM area as target address.

This patch changes the condition (addr > va->va_start) to the equivalent
(addr >= va->va_end) by taking advantage of the fact that each kernel VM
area is non-overlapping.

Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Lisa Mitchell <lisa.mitchell@hp.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agovmcore: treat memory chunks referenced by PT_LOAD program header entries in page...
HATAYAMA Daisuke [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:02:15 +0000 (15:02 -0700)]
vmcore: treat memory chunks referenced by PT_LOAD program header entries in page-size boundary in vmcore_list

Treat memory chunks referenced by PT_LOAD program header entries in
page-size boundary in vmcore_list.  Formally, for each range [start,
end], we set up the corresponding vmcore object in vmcore_list to
[rounddown(start, PAGE_SIZE), roundup(end, PAGE_SIZE)].

This change affects layout of /proc/vmcore.  The gaps generated by the
rearrangement are newly made visible to applications as holes.
Concretely, they are two ranges [rounddown(start, PAGE_SIZE), start] and
[end, roundup(end, PAGE_SIZE)].

Suppose variable m points at a vmcore object in vmcore_list, and
variable phdr points at the program header of PT_LOAD type the variable
m corresponds to.  Then, pictorially:

  m->offset                    +---------------+
                               | hole          |
phdr->p_offset =               +---------------+
  m->offset + (paddr - start)  |               |\
                               | kernel memory | phdr->p_memsz
                               |               |/
                               +---------------+
                               | hole          |
  m->offset + m->size          +---------------+

where m->offset and m->offset + m->size are always page-size aligned.

Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Lisa Mitchell <lisa.mitchell@hp.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agovmcore: allocate buffer for ELF headers on page-size alignment
HATAYAMA Daisuke [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:02:14 +0000 (15:02 -0700)]
vmcore: allocate buffer for ELF headers on page-size alignment

Allocate ELF headers on page-size boundary using __get_free_pages()
instead of kmalloc().

Later patch will merge PT_NOTE entries into a single unique one and
decrease the buffer size actually used.  Keep original buffer size in
variable elfcorebuf_sz_orig to kfree the buffer later and actually used
buffer size with rounded up to page-size boundary in variable
elfcorebuf_sz separately.

The size of part of the ELF buffer exported from /proc/vmcore is
elfcorebuf_sz.

The merged, removed PT_NOTE entries, i.e.  the range [elfcorebuf_sz,
elfcorebuf_sz_orig], is filled with 0.

Use size of the ELF headers as an initial offset value in
set_vmcore_list_offsets_elf{64,32} and
process_ptload_program_headers_elf{64,32} in order to indicate that the
offset includes the holes towards the page boundary.

As a result, both set_vmcore_list_offsets_elf{64,32} have the same
definition.  Merge them as set_vmcore_list_offsets.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add free_elfcorebuf(), cleanups]
Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Lisa Mitchell <lisa.mitchell@hp.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agovmcore: clean up read_vmcore()
HATAYAMA Daisuke [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:02:13 +0000 (15:02 -0700)]
vmcore: clean up read_vmcore()

Rewrite part of read_vmcore() that reads objects in vmcore_list in the
same way as part reading ELF headers, by which some duplicated and
redundant codes are removed.

Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Atsushi Kumagai <kumagai-atsushi@mxc.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Lisa Mitchell <lisa.mitchell@hp.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoinclude/linux/mm.h: add PAGE_ALIGNED() helper
Andrew Morton [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:02:11 +0000 (15:02 -0700)]
include/linux/mm.h: add PAGE_ALIGNED() helper

To test whether an address is aligned to PAGE_SIZE.

Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomemory_hotplug: use pgdat_resize_lock() in __offline_pages()
Cody P Schafer [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:02:11 +0000 (15:02 -0700)]
memory_hotplug: use pgdat_resize_lock() in __offline_pages()

mmzone.h documents node_size_lock (which pgdat_resize_lock() locks) as
follows:

        * Must be held any time you expect node_start_pfn, node_present_pages
        * or node_spanned_pages stay constant.  [...]

So actually hold it when we update node_present_pages in __offline_pages().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomemory_hotplug: use pgdat_resize_lock() in online_pages()
Cody P Schafer [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:02:10 +0000 (15:02 -0700)]
memory_hotplug: use pgdat_resize_lock() in online_pages()

mmzone.h documents node_size_lock (which pgdat_resize_lock() locks) as
follows:

        * Must be held any time you expect node_start_pfn, node_present_pages
        * or node_spanned_pages stay constant.  [...]

So actually hold it when we update node_present_pages in online_pages().

Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agommzone: note that node_size_lock should be manipulated via pgdat_resize_lock()
Cody P Schafer [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:02:09 +0000 (15:02 -0700)]
mmzone: note that node_size_lock should be manipulated via pgdat_resize_lock()

Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm: fix comment referring to non-existent size_seqlock, change to span_seqlock
Cody P Schafer [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:02:08 +0000 (15:02 -0700)]
mm: fix comment referring to non-existent size_seqlock, change to span_seqlock

Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agofs: nfs: inform the VM about pages being committed or unstable
Mel Gorman [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:02:06 +0000 (15:02 -0700)]
fs: nfs: inform the VM about pages being committed or unstable

VM page reclaim uses dirty and writeback page states to determine if
flushers are cleaning pages too slowly and that page reclaim should
stall waiting on flushers to catch up.  Page state in NFS is a bit more
complex and a clean page can be unreclaimable due to being unstable
which is effectively "dirty" from the perspective of the VM from reclaim
context.  Similarly, if the inode is currently being committed then it's
similar to being under writeback.

This patch adds a is_dirty_writeback() handled for NFS that checks if a
pages backing inode is being committed and should be accounted as
writeback and if a page has private state indicating that it is
effectively dirty.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm: vmscan: take page buffers dirty and locked state into account
Mel Gorman [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:02:05 +0000 (15:02 -0700)]
mm: vmscan: take page buffers dirty and locked state into account

Page reclaim keeps track of dirty and under writeback pages and uses it
to determine if wait_iff_congested() should stall or if kswapd should
begin writing back pages.  This fails to account for buffer pages that
can be under writeback but not PageWriteback which is the case for
filesystems like ext3 ordered mode.  Furthermore, PageDirty buffer pages
can have all the buffers clean and writepage does no IO so it should not
be accounted as congested.

This patch adds an address_space operation that filesystems may
optionally use to check if a page is really dirty or really under
writeback.  An implementation is provided for for buffer_heads is added
and used for block operations and ext3 in ordered mode.  By default the
page flags are obeyed.

Credit goes to Jan Kara for identifying that the page flags alone are
not sufficient for ext3 and sanity checking a number of ideas on how the
problem could be addressed.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm: vmscan: treat pages marked for immediate reclaim as zone congestion
Mel Gorman [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:02:03 +0000 (15:02 -0700)]
mm: vmscan: treat pages marked for immediate reclaim as zone congestion

Currently a zone will only be marked congested if the underlying BDI is
congested but if dirty pages are spread across zones it is possible that
an individual zone is full of dirty pages without being congested.  The
impact is that zone gets scanned very quickly potentially reclaiming
really clean pages.  This patch treats pages marked for immediate
reclaim as congested for the purposes of marking a zone ZONE_CONGESTED
and stalling in wait_iff_congested.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm: vmscan: move direct reclaim wait_iff_congested into shrink_list
Mel Gorman [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:02:02 +0000 (15:02 -0700)]
mm: vmscan: move direct reclaim wait_iff_congested into shrink_list

shrink_inactive_list makes decisions on whether to stall based on the
number of dirty pages encountered.  The wait_iff_congested() call in
shrink_page_list does no such thing and it's arbitrary.

This patch moves the decision on whether to set ZONE_CONGESTED and the
wait_iff_congested call into shrink_page_list.  This keeps all the
decisions on whether to stall or not in the one place.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm: vmscan: set zone flags before blocking
Mel Gorman [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:02:00 +0000 (15:02 -0700)]
mm: vmscan: set zone flags before blocking

In shrink_page_list a decision may be made to stall and flag a zone as
ZONE_WRITEBACK so that if a large number of unqueued dirty pages are
encountered later then the reclaimer will stall.  Set ZONE_WRITEBACK
before potentially going to sleep so it is noticed sooner.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm: vmscan: stall page reclaim after a list of pages have been processed
Mel Gorman [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:58 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
mm: vmscan: stall page reclaim after a list of pages have been processed

Commit "mm: vmscan: Block kswapd if it is encountering pages under
writeback" blocks page reclaim if it encounters pages under writeback
marked for immediate reclaim.  It blocks while pages are still isolated
from the LRU which is unnecessary.  This patch defers the blocking until
after the isolated pages have been processed and tidies up some of the
comments.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm: vmscan: stall page reclaim and writeback pages based on dirty/writepage pages...
Mel Gorman [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:57 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
mm: vmscan: stall page reclaim and writeback pages based on dirty/writepage pages encountered

Further testing of the "Reduce system disruption due to kswapd"
discovered a few problems.  First and foremost, it's possible for pages
under writeback to be freed which will lead to badness.  Second, as
pages were not being swapped the file LRU was being scanned faster and
clean file pages were being reclaimed.  In some cases this results in
increased read IO to re-read data from disk.  Third, more pages were
being written from kswapd context which can adversly affect IO
performance.  Lastly, it was observed that PageDirty pages are not
necessarily dirty on all filesystems (buffers can be clean while
PageDirty is set and ->writepage generates no IO) and not all
filesystems set PageWriteback when the page is being written (e.g.
ext3).  This disconnect confuses the reclaim stalling logic.  This
follow-up series is aimed at these problems.

The tests were based on three kernels

vanilla: kernel 3.9 as that is what the current mmotm uses as a baseline
mmotm-20130522 is mmotm as of 22nd May with "Reduce system disruption due to
kswapd" applied on top as per what should be in Andrew's tree
right now
lessdisrupt-v7r10 is this follow-up series on top of the mmotm kernel

The first test used memcached+memcachetest while some background IO was
in progress as implemented by the parallel IO tests implement in MM
Tests.  memcachetest benchmarks how many operations/second memcached can
service.  It starts with no background IO on a freshly created ext4
filesystem and then re-runs the test with larger amounts of IO in the
background to roughly simulate a large copy in progress.  The
expectation is that the IO should have little or no impact on
memcachetest which is running entirely in memory.

parallelio
                                             3.9.0                       3.9.0                       3.9.0
                                           vanilla          mm1-mmotm-20130522       mm1-lessdisrupt-v7r10
Ops memcachetest-0M             23117.00 (  0.00%)          22780.00 ( -1.46%)          22763.00 ( -1.53%)
Ops memcachetest-715M           23774.00 (  0.00%)          23299.00 ( -2.00%)          22934.00 ( -3.53%)
Ops memcachetest-2385M           4208.00 (  0.00%)          24154.00 (474.00%)          23765.00 (464.76%)
Ops memcachetest-4055M           4104.00 (  0.00%)          25130.00 (512.33%)          24614.00 (499.76%)
Ops io-duration-0M                  0.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)
Ops io-duration-715M               12.00 (  0.00%)              7.00 ( 41.67%)              6.00 ( 50.00%)
Ops io-duration-2385M             116.00 (  0.00%)             21.00 ( 81.90%)             21.00 ( 81.90%)
Ops io-duration-4055M             160.00 (  0.00%)             36.00 ( 77.50%)             35.00 ( 78.12%)
Ops swaptotal-0M                    0.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)
Ops swaptotal-715M             140138.00 (  0.00%)             18.00 ( 99.99%)             18.00 ( 99.99%)
Ops swaptotal-2385M            385682.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)
Ops swaptotal-4055M            418029.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)
Ops swapin-0M                       0.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)
Ops swapin-715M                   144.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)
Ops swapin-2385M               134227.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)
Ops swapin-4055M               125618.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)
Ops minorfaults-0M            1536429.00 (  0.00%)        1531632.00 (  0.31%)        1533541.00 (  0.19%)
Ops minorfaults-715M          1786996.00 (  0.00%)        1612148.00 (  9.78%)        1608832.00 (  9.97%)
Ops minorfaults-2385M         1757952.00 (  0.00%)        1614874.00 (  8.14%)        1613541.00 (  8.21%)
Ops minorfaults-4055M         1774460.00 (  0.00%)        1633400.00 (  7.95%)        1630881.00 (  8.09%)
Ops majorfaults-0M                  1.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)
Ops majorfaults-715M              184.00 (  0.00%)            167.00 (  9.24%)            166.00 (  9.78%)
Ops majorfaults-2385M           24444.00 (  0.00%)            155.00 ( 99.37%)             93.00 ( 99.62%)
Ops majorfaults-4055M           21357.00 (  0.00%)            147.00 ( 99.31%)            134.00 ( 99.37%)

memcachetest is the transactions/second reported by memcachetest. In
        the vanilla kernel note that performance drops from around
        23K/sec to just over 4K/second when there is 2385M of IO going
        on in the background. With current mmotm, there is no collapse
in performance and with this follow-up series there is little
change.

swaptotal is the total amount of swap traffic. With mmotm and the follow-up
series, the total amount of swapping is much reduced.

                                 3.9.0       3.9.0       3.9.0
                               vanillamm1-mmotm-20130522mm1-lessdisrupt-v7r10
Minor Faults                  11160152    10706748    10622316
Major Faults                     46305         755         678
Swap Ins                        260249           0           0
Swap Outs                       683860          18          18
Direct pages scanned                 0         678        2520
Kswapd pages scanned           6046108     8814900     1639279
Kswapd pages reclaimed         1081954     1172267     1094635
Direct pages reclaimed               0         566        2304
Kswapd efficiency                  17%         13%         66%
Kswapd velocity               5217.560    7618.953    1414.879
Direct efficiency                 100%         83%         91%
Direct velocity                  0.000       0.586       2.175
Percentage direct scans             0%          0%          0%
Zone normal velocity          5105.086    6824.681     671.158
Zone dma32 velocity            112.473     794.858     745.896
Zone dma velocity                0.000       0.000       0.000
Page writes by reclaim     1929612.000 6861768.000   32821.000
Page writes file               1245752     6861750       32803
Page writes anon                683860          18          18
Page reclaim immediate            7484          40         239
Sector Reads                   1130320       93996       86900
Sector Writes                 13508052    10823500    11804436
Page rescued immediate               0           0           0
Slabs scanned                    33536       27136       18560
Direct inode steals                  0           0           0
Kswapd inode steals               8641        1035           0
Kswapd skipped wait                  0           0           0
THP fault alloc                      8          37          33
THP collapse alloc                 508         552         515
THP splits                          24           1           1
THP fault fallback                   0           0           0
THP collapse fail                    0           0           0

There are a number of observations to make here

1. Swap outs are almost eliminated. Swap ins are 0 indicating that the
   pages swapped were really unused anonymous pages. Related to that,
   major faults are much reduced.

2. kswapd efficiency was impacted by the initial series but with these
   follow-up patches, the efficiency is now at 66% indicating that far
   fewer pages were skipped during scanning due to dirty or writeback
   pages.

3. kswapd velocity is reduced indicating that fewer pages are being scanned
   with the follow-up series as kswapd now stalls when the tail of the
   LRU queue is full of unqueued dirty pages. The stall gives flushers a
   chance to catch-up so kswapd can reclaim clean pages when it wakes

4. In light of Zlatko's recent reports about zone scanning imbalances,
   mmtests now reports scanning velocity on a per-zone basis. With mainline,
   you can see that the scanning activity is dominated by the Normal
   zone with over 45 times more scanning in Normal than the DMA32 zone.
   With the series currently in mmotm, the ratio is slightly better but it
   is still the case that the bulk of scanning is in the highest zone. With
   this follow-up series, the ratio of scanning between the Normal and
   DMA32 zone is roughly equal.

5. As Dave Chinner observed, the current patches in mmotm increased the
   number of pages written from kswapd context which is expected to adversly
   impact IO performance. With the follow-up patches, far fewer pages are
   written from kswapd context than the mainline kernel

6. With the series in mmotm, fewer inodes were reclaimed by kswapd. With
   the follow-up series, there is less slab shrinking activity and no inodes
   were reclaimed.

7. Note that "Sectors Read" is drastically reduced implying that the source
   data being used for the IO is not being aggressively discarded due to
   page reclaim skipping over dirty pages and reclaiming clean pages. Note
   that the reducion in reads could also be due to inode data not being
   re-read from disk after a slab shrink.

                       3.9.0       3.9.0       3.9.0
                     vanillamm1-mmotm-20130522mm1-lessdisrupt-v7r10
Mean sda-avgqz        166.99       32.09       33.44
Mean sda-await        853.64      192.76      185.43
Mean sda-r_await        6.31        9.24        5.97
Mean sda-w_await     2992.81      202.65      192.43
Max  sda-avgqz       1409.91      718.75      698.98
Max  sda-await       6665.74     3538.00     3124.23
Max  sda-r_await       58.96      111.95       58.00
Max  sda-w_await    28458.94     3977.29     3148.61

In light of the changes in writes from reclaim context, the number of
reads and Dave Chinner's concerns about IO performance I took a closer
look at the IO stats for the test disk. Few observations

1. The average queue size is reduced by the initial series and roughly
   the same with this follow up.

2. Average wait times for writes are reduced and as the IO
   is completing faster it at least implies that the gain is because
   flushers are writing the files efficiently instead of page reclaim
   getting in the way.

3. The reduction in maximum write latency is staggering. 28 seconds down
   to 3 seconds.

Jan Kara asked how NFS is affected by all of this. Unstable pages can
be taken into account as one of the patches in the series shows but it
is still the case that filesystems with unusual handling of dirty or
writeback could still be treated better.

Tests like postmark, fsmark and largedd showed up nothing useful. On my test
setup, pages are simply not being written back from reclaim context with or
without the patches and there are no changes in performance. My test setup
probably is just not strong enough network-wise to be really interesting.

I ran a longer-lived memcached test with IO going to NFS instead of a local disk

parallelio
                                             3.9.0                       3.9.0                       3.9.0
                                           vanilla          mm1-mmotm-20130522       mm1-lessdisrupt-v7r10
Ops memcachetest-0M             23323.00 (  0.00%)          23241.00 ( -0.35%)          23321.00 ( -0.01%)
Ops memcachetest-715M           25526.00 (  0.00%)          24763.00 ( -2.99%)          23242.00 ( -8.95%)
Ops memcachetest-2385M           8814.00 (  0.00%)          26924.00 (205.47%)          23521.00 (166.86%)
Ops memcachetest-4055M           5835.00 (  0.00%)          26827.00 (359.76%)          25560.00 (338.05%)
Ops io-duration-0M                  0.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)
Ops io-duration-715M               65.00 (  0.00%)             71.00 ( -9.23%)             11.00 ( 83.08%)
Ops io-duration-2385M             129.00 (  0.00%)             94.00 ( 27.13%)             53.00 ( 58.91%)
Ops io-duration-4055M             301.00 (  0.00%)            100.00 ( 66.78%)            108.00 ( 64.12%)
Ops swaptotal-0M                    0.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)
Ops swaptotal-715M              14394.00 (  0.00%)            949.00 ( 93.41%)             63.00 ( 99.56%)
Ops swaptotal-2385M            401483.00 (  0.00%)          24437.00 ( 93.91%)          30118.00 ( 92.50%)
Ops swaptotal-4055M            554123.00 (  0.00%)          35688.00 ( 93.56%)          63082.00 ( 88.62%)
Ops swapin-0M                       0.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)
Ops swapin-715M                  4522.00 (  0.00%)            560.00 ( 87.62%)             63.00 ( 98.61%)
Ops swapin-2385M               169861.00 (  0.00%)           5026.00 ( 97.04%)          13917.00 ( 91.81%)
Ops swapin-4055M               192374.00 (  0.00%)          10056.00 ( 94.77%)          25729.00 ( 86.63%)
Ops minorfaults-0M            1445969.00 (  0.00%)        1520878.00 ( -5.18%)        1454024.00 ( -0.56%)
Ops minorfaults-715M          1557288.00 (  0.00%)        1528482.00 (  1.85%)        1535776.00 (  1.38%)
Ops minorfaults-2385M         1692896.00 (  0.00%)        1570523.00 (  7.23%)        1559622.00 (  7.87%)
Ops minorfaults-4055M         1654985.00 (  0.00%)        1581456.00 (  4.44%)        1596713.00 (  3.52%)
Ops majorfaults-0M                  0.00 (  0.00%)              1.00 (-99.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)
Ops majorfaults-715M              763.00 (  0.00%)            265.00 ( 65.27%)             75.00 ( 90.17%)
Ops majorfaults-2385M           23861.00 (  0.00%)            894.00 ( 96.25%)           2189.00 ( 90.83%)
Ops majorfaults-4055M           27210.00 (  0.00%)           1569.00 ( 94.23%)           4088.00 ( 84.98%)

1. Performance does not collapse due to IO which is good. IO is also completing
   faster. Note with mmotm, IO completes in a third of the time and faster again
   with this series applied

2. Swapping is reduced, although not eliminated. The figures for the follow-up
   look bad but it does vary a bit as the stalling is not perfect for nfs
   or filesystems like ext3 with unusual handling of dirty and writeback
   pages

3. There are swapins, particularly with larger amounts of IO indicating
   that active pages are being reclaimed. However, the number of much
   reduced.

                                 3.9.0       3.9.0       3.9.0
                               vanillamm1-mmotm-20130522mm1-lessdisrupt-v7r10
Minor Faults                  36339175    35025445    35219699
Major Faults                    310964       27108       51887
Swap Ins                       2176399      173069      333316
Swap Outs                      3344050      357228      504824
Direct pages scanned              8972       77283       43242
Kswapd pages scanned          20899983     8939566    14772851
Kswapd pages reclaimed         6193156     5172605     5231026
Direct pages reclaimed            8450       73802       39514
Kswapd efficiency                  29%         57%         35%
Kswapd velocity               3929.743    1847.499    3058.840
Direct efficiency                  94%         95%         91%
Direct velocity                  1.687      15.972       8.954
Percentage direct scans             0%          0%          0%
Zone normal velocity          3721.907     939.103    2185.142
Zone dma32 velocity            209.522     924.368     882.651
Zone dma velocity                0.000       0.000       0.000
Page writes by reclaim     4082185.000  526319.000  537114.000
Page writes file                738135      169091       32290
Page writes anon               3344050      357228      504824
Page reclaim immediate            9524         170     5595843
Sector Reads                   8909900      861192     1483680
Sector Writes                 13428980     1488744     2076800
Page rescued immediate               0           0           0
Slabs scanned                    38016       31744       28672
Direct inode steals                  0           0           0
Kswapd inode steals                424           0           0
Kswapd skipped wait                  0           0           0
THP fault alloc                     14          15         119
THP collapse alloc                1767        1569        1618
THP splits                          30          29          25
THP fault fallback                   0           0           0
THP collapse fail                    8           5           0
Compaction stalls                   17          41         100
Compaction success                   7          31          95
Compaction failures                 10          10           5
Page migrate success              7083       22157       62217
Page migrate failure                 0           0           0
Compaction pages isolated        14847       48758      135830
Compaction migrate scanned       18328       48398      138929
Compaction free scanned        2000255      355827     1720269
Compaction cost                      7          24          68

I guess the main takeaway again is the much reduced page writes
from reclaim context and reduced reads.

                       3.9.0       3.9.0       3.9.0
                     vanillamm1-mmotm-20130522mm1-lessdisrupt-v7r10
Mean sda-avgqz         23.58        0.35        0.44
Mean sda-await        133.47       15.72       15.46
Mean sda-r_await        4.72        4.69        3.95
Mean sda-w_await      507.69       28.40       33.68
Max  sda-avgqz        680.60       12.25       23.14
Max  sda-await       3958.89      221.83      286.22
Max  sda-r_await       63.86       61.23       67.29
Max  sda-w_await    11710.38      883.57     1767.28

And as before, write wait times are much reduced.

This patch:

The patch "mm: vmscan: Have kswapd writeback pages based on dirty pages
encountered, not priority" decides whether to writeback pages from reclaim
context based on the number of dirty pages encountered.  This situation is
flagged too easily and flushers are not given the chance to catch up
resulting in more pages being written from reclaim context and potentially
impacting IO performance.  The check for PageWriteback is also misplaced
as it happens within a PageDirty check which is nonsense as the dirty may
have been cleared for IO.  The accounting is updated very late and pages
that are already under writeback, were reactivated, could not unmapped or
could not be released are all missed.  Similarly, a page is considered
congested for reasons other than being congested and pages that cannot be
written out in the correct context are skipped.  Finally, it considers
stalling and writing back filesystem pages due to encountering dirty
anonymous pages at the tail of the LRU which is dumb.

This patch causes kswapd to begin writing filesystem pages from reclaim
context only if page reclaim found that all filesystem pages at the tail
of the LRU were unqueued dirty pages.  Before it starts writing filesystem
pages, it will stall to give flushers a chance to catch up.  The decision
on whether wait_iff_congested is also now determined by dirty filesystem
pages only.  Congested pages are based on whether the underlying BDI is
congested regardless of the context of the reclaiming process.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm: vmscan: move logic from balance_pgdat() to kswapd_shrink_zone()
Mel Gorman [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:54 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
mm: vmscan: move logic from balance_pgdat() to kswapd_shrink_zone()

balance_pgdat() is very long and some of the logic can and should be
internal to kswapd_shrink_zone().  Move it so the flow of
balance_pgdat() is marginally easier to follow.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm: vmscan: check if kswapd should writepage once per pgdat scan
Mel Gorman [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:53 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
mm: vmscan: check if kswapd should writepage once per pgdat scan

Currently kswapd checks if it should start writepage as it shrinks each
zone without taking into consideration if the zone is balanced or not.
This is not wrong as such but it does not make much sense either.  This
patch checks once per pgdat scan if kswapd should be writing pages.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm: vmscan: block kswapd if it is encountering pages under writeback
Mel Gorman [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:51 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
mm: vmscan: block kswapd if it is encountering pages under writeback

Historically, kswapd used to congestion_wait() at higher priorities if
it was not making forward progress.  This made no sense as the failure
to make progress could be completely independent of IO.  It was later
replaced by wait_iff_congested() and removed entirely by commit 258401a6
(mm: don't wait on congested zones in balance_pgdat()) as it was
duplicating logic in shrink_inactive_list().

This is problematic.  If kswapd encounters many pages under writeback
and it continues to scan until it reaches the high watermark then it
will quickly skip over the pages under writeback and reclaim clean young
pages or push applications out to swap.

The use of wait_iff_congested() is not suited to kswapd as it will only
stall if the underlying BDI is really congested or a direct reclaimer
was unable to write to the underlying BDI.  kswapd bypasses the BDI
congestion as it sets PF_SWAPWRITE but even if this was taken into
account then it would cause direct reclaimers to stall on writeback
which is not desirable.

This patch sets a ZONE_WRITEBACK flag if direct reclaim or kswapd is
encountering too many pages under writeback.  If this flag is set and
kswapd encounters a PageReclaim page under writeback then it'll assume
that the LRU lists are being recycled too quickly before IO can complete
and block waiting for some IO to complete.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm: vmscan: have kswapd writeback pages based on dirty pages encountered, not priority
Mel Gorman [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:50 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
mm: vmscan: have kswapd writeback pages based on dirty pages encountered, not priority

Currently kswapd queues dirty pages for writeback if scanning at an
elevated priority but the priority kswapd scans at is not related to the
number of unqueued dirty encountered.  Since commit "mm: vmscan: Flatten
kswapd priority loop", the priority is related to the size of the LRU
and the zone watermark which is no indication as to whether kswapd
should write pages or not.

This patch tracks if an excessive number of unqueued dirty pages are
being encountered at the end of the LRU.  If so, it indicates that dirty
pages are being recycled before flusher threads can clean them and flags
the zone so that kswapd will start writing pages until the zone is
balanced.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm: vmscan: do not allow kswapd to scan at maximum priority
Mel Gorman [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:48 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
mm: vmscan: do not allow kswapd to scan at maximum priority

Page reclaim at priority 0 will scan the entire LRU as priority 0 is
considered to be a near OOM condition.  Kswapd can reach priority 0
quite easily if it is encountering a large number of pages it cannot
reclaim such as pages under writeback.  When this happens, kswapd
reclaims very aggressively even though there may be no real risk of
allocation failure or OOM.

This patch prevents kswapd reaching priority 0 and trying to reclaim the
world.  Direct reclaimers will still reach priority 0 in the event of an
OOM situation.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm: vmscan: decide whether to compact the pgdat based on reclaim progress
Mel Gorman [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:47 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
mm: vmscan: decide whether to compact the pgdat based on reclaim progress

In the past, kswapd makes a decision on whether to compact memory after
the pgdat was considered balanced.  This more or less worked but it is
late to make such a decision and does not fit well now that kswapd makes
a decision whether to exit the zone scanning loop depending on reclaim
progress.

This patch will compact a pgdat if at least the requested number of
pages were reclaimed from unbalanced zones for a given priority.  If any
zone is currently balanced, kswapd will not call compaction as it is
expected the necessary pages are already available.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm: vmscan: flatten kswapd priority loop
Mel Gorman [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:45 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
mm: vmscan: flatten kswapd priority loop

kswapd stops raising the scanning priority when at least
SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages have been reclaimed or the pgdat is considered
balanced.  It then rechecks if it needs to restart at DEF_PRIORITY and
whether high-order reclaim needs to be reset.  This is not wrong per-se
but it is confusing to follow and forcing kswapd to stay at DEF_PRIORITY
may require several restarts before it has scanned enough pages to meet
the high watermark even at 100% efficiency.  This patch irons out the
logic a bit by controlling when priority is raised and removing the
"goto loop_again".

This patch has kswapd raise the scanning priority until it is scanning
enough pages that it could meet the high watermark in one shrink of the
LRU lists if it is able to reclaim at 100% efficiency.  It will not
raise the scanning prioirty higher unless it is failing to reclaim any
pages.

To avoid infinite looping for high-order allocation requests kswapd will
not reclaim for high-order allocations when it has reclaimed at least
twice the number of pages as the allocation request.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm: vmscan: obey proportional scanning requirements for kswapd
Mel Gorman [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:44 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
mm: vmscan: obey proportional scanning requirements for kswapd

Simplistically, the anon and file LRU lists are scanned proportionally
depending on the value of vm.swappiness although there are other factors
taken into account by get_scan_count().  The patch "mm: vmscan: Limit
the number of pages kswapd reclaims" limits the number of pages kswapd
reclaims but it breaks this proportional scanning and may evenly shrink
anon/file LRUs regardless of vm.swappiness.

This patch preserves the proportional scanning and reclaim.  It does
mean that kswapd will reclaim more than requested but the number of
pages will be related to the high watermark.

[mhocko@suse.cz: Correct proportional reclaim for memcg and simplify]
[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: Recalculate scan based on target]
[hannes@cmpxchg.org: Account for already scanned pages properly]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm: vmscan: limit the number of pages kswapd reclaims at each priority
Mel Gorman [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:42 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
mm: vmscan: limit the number of pages kswapd reclaims at each priority

This series does not fix all the current known problems with reclaim but
it addresses one important swapping bug when there is background IO.

Changelog since V3
 - Drop the slab shrink changes in light of Glaubers series and
   discussions highlighted that there were a number of potential
   problems with the patch. (mel)
 - Rebased to 3.10-rc1

Changelog since V2
 - Preserve ratio properly for proportional scanning (kamezawa)

Changelog since V1
 - Rename ZONE_DIRTY to ZONE_TAIL_LRU_DIRTY (andi)
 - Reformat comment in shrink_page_list (andi)
 - Clarify some comments (dhillf)
 - Rework how the proportional scanning is preserved
 - Add PageReclaim check before kswapd starts writeback
 - Reset sc.nr_reclaimed on every full zone scan

Kswapd and page reclaim behaviour has been screwy in one way or the
other for a long time.  Very broadly speaking it worked in the far past
because machines were limited in memory so it did not have that many
pages to scan and it stalled congestion_wait() frequently to prevent it
going completely nuts.  In recent times it has behaved very
unsatisfactorily with some of the problems compounded by the removal of
stall logic and the introduction of transparent hugepage support with
high-order reclaims.

There are many variations of bugs that are rooted in this area.  One
example is reports of a large copy operations or backup causing the
machine to grind to a halt or applications pushed to swap.  Sometimes in
low memory situations a large percentage of memory suddenly gets
reclaimed.  In other cases an application starts and kswapd hits 100%
CPU usage for prolonged periods of time and so on.  There is now talk of
introducing features like an extra free kbytes tunable to work around
aspects of the problem instead of trying to deal with it.  It's
compounded by the problem that it can be very workload and machine
specific.

This series aims at addressing some of the worst of these problems
without attempting to fundmentally alter how page reclaim works.

Patches 1-2 limits the number of pages kswapd reclaims while still obeying
the anon/file proportion of the LRUs it should be scanning.

Patches 3-4 control how and when kswapd raises its scanning priority and
deletes the scanning restart logic which is tricky to follow.

Patch 5 notes that it is too easy for kswapd to reach priority 0 when
scanning and then reclaim the world. Down with that sort of thing.

Patch 6 notes that kswapd starts writeback based on scanning priority which
is not necessarily related to dirty pages. It will have kswapd
writeback pages if a number of unqueued dirty pages have been
recently encountered at the tail of the LRU.

Patch 7 notes that sometimes kswapd should stall waiting on IO to complete
to reduce LRU churn and the likelihood that it'll reclaim young
clean pages or push applications to swap. It will cause kswapd
to block on IO if it detects that pages being reclaimed under
writeback are recycling through the LRU before the IO completes.

Patchies 8-9 are cosmetic but balance_pgdat() is easier to follow after they
are applied.

This was tested using memcached+memcachetest while some background IO
was in progress as implemented by the parallel IO tests implement in MM
Tests.

memcachetest benchmarks how many operations/second memcached can service
and it is run multiple times.  It starts with no background IO and then
re-runs the test with larger amounts of IO in the background to roughly
simulate a large copy in progress.  The expectation is that the IO
should have little or no impact on memcachetest which is running
entirely in memory.

                                        3.10.0-rc1                  3.10.0-rc1
                                           vanilla            lessdisrupt-v4
Ops memcachetest-0M             22155.00 (  0.00%)          22180.00 (  0.11%)
Ops memcachetest-715M           22720.00 (  0.00%)          22355.00 ( -1.61%)
Ops memcachetest-2385M           3939.00 (  0.00%)          23450.00 (495.33%)
Ops memcachetest-4055M           3628.00 (  0.00%)          24341.00 (570.92%)
Ops io-duration-0M                  0.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)
Ops io-duration-715M               12.00 (  0.00%)              7.00 ( 41.67%)
Ops io-duration-2385M             118.00 (  0.00%)             21.00 ( 82.20%)
Ops io-duration-4055M             162.00 (  0.00%)             36.00 ( 77.78%)
Ops swaptotal-0M                    0.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)
Ops swaptotal-715M             140134.00 (  0.00%)             18.00 ( 99.99%)
Ops swaptotal-2385M            392438.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)
Ops swaptotal-4055M            449037.00 (  0.00%)          27864.00 ( 93.79%)
Ops swapin-0M                       0.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)
Ops swapin-715M                     0.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)
Ops swapin-2385M               148031.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)
Ops swapin-4055M               135109.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)
Ops minorfaults-0M            1529984.00 (  0.00%)        1530235.00 ( -0.02%)
Ops minorfaults-715M          1794168.00 (  0.00%)        1613750.00 ( 10.06%)
Ops minorfaults-2385M         1739813.00 (  0.00%)        1609396.00 (  7.50%)
Ops minorfaults-4055M         1754460.00 (  0.00%)        1614810.00 (  7.96%)
Ops majorfaults-0M                  0.00 (  0.00%)              0.00 (  0.00%)
Ops majorfaults-715M              185.00 (  0.00%)            180.00 (  2.70%)
Ops majorfaults-2385M           24472.00 (  0.00%)            101.00 ( 99.59%)
Ops majorfaults-4055M           22302.00 (  0.00%)            229.00 ( 98.97%)

Note how the vanilla kernels performance collapses when there is enough
IO taking place in the background.  This drop in performance is part of
what users complain of when they start backups.  Note how the swapin and
major fault figures indicate that processes were being pushed to swap
prematurely.  With the series applied, there is no noticable performance
drop and while there is still some swap activity, it's tiny.

20 iterations of this test were run in total and averaged.  Every 5
iterations, additional IO was generated in the background using dd to
measure how the workload was impacted.  The 0M, 715M, 2385M and 4055M
subblock refer to the amount of IO going on in the background at each
iteration.  So memcachetest-2385M is reporting how many
transactions/second memcachetest recorded on average over 5 iterations
while there was 2385M of IO going on in the ground.  There are six
blocks of information reported here

memcachetest is the transactions/second reported by memcachetest. In
the vanilla kernel note that performance drops from around
22K/sec to just under 4K/second when there is 2385M of IO going
on in the background. This is one type of performance collapse
users complain about if a large cp or backup starts in the
background

io-duration refers to how long it takes for the background IO to
complete. It's showing that with the patched kernel that the IO
completes faster while not interfering with the memcache
workload

swaptotal is the total amount of swap traffic. With the patched kernel,
the total amount of swapping is much reduced although it is
still not zero.

swapin in this case is an indication as to whether we are swap trashing.
The closer the swapin/swapout ratio is to 1, the worse the
trashing is.  Note with the patched kernel that there is no swapin
activity indicating that all the pages swapped were really inactive
unused pages.

minorfaults are just minor faults. An increased number of minor faults
can indicate that page reclaim is unmapping the pages but not
swapping them out before they are faulted back in. With the
patched kernel, there is only a small change in minor faults

majorfaults are just major faults in the target workload and a high
number can indicate that a workload is being prematurely
swapped. With the patched kernel, major faults are much reduced. As
there are no swapin's recorded so it's not being swapped. The likely
explanation is that that libraries or configuration files used by
the workload during startup get paged out by the background IO.

Overall with the series applied, there is no noticable performance drop
due to background IO and while there is still some swap activity, it's
tiny and the lack of swapins imply that the swapped pages were inactive
and unused.

                            3.10.0-rc1  3.10.0-rc1
                               vanilla lessdisrupt-v4
Page Ins                       1234608      101892
Page Outs                     12446272    11810468
Swap Ins                        283406           0
Swap Outs                       698469       27882
Direct pages scanned                 0      136480
Kswapd pages scanned           6266537     5369364
Kswapd pages reclaimed         1088989      930832
Direct pages reclaimed               0      120901
Kswapd efficiency                  17%         17%
Kswapd velocity               5398.371    4635.115
Direct efficiency                 100%         88%
Direct velocity                  0.000     117.817
Percentage direct scans             0%          2%
Page writes by reclaim         1655843     4009929
Page writes file                957374     3982047
Page writes anon                698469       27882
Page reclaim immediate            5245        1745
Page rescued immediate               0           0
Slabs scanned                    33664       25216
Direct inode steals                  0           0
Kswapd inode steals              19409         778
Kswapd skipped wait                  0           0
THP fault alloc                     35          30
THP collapse alloc                 472         401
THP splits                          27          22
THP fault fallback                   0           0
THP collapse fail                    0           1
Compaction stalls                    0           4
Compaction success                   0           0
Compaction failures                  0           4
Page migrate success                 0           0
Page migrate failure                 0           0
Compaction pages isolated            0           0
Compaction migrate scanned           0           0
Compaction free scanned              0           0
Compaction cost                      0           0
NUMA PTE updates                     0           0
NUMA hint faults                     0           0
NUMA hint local faults               0           0
NUMA pages migrated                  0           0
AutoNUMA cost                        0           0

Unfortunately, note that there is a small amount of direct reclaim due to
kswapd no longer reclaiming the world.  ftrace indicates that the direct
reclaim stalls are mostly harmless with the vast bulk of the stalls
incurred by dd

     23 tclsh-3367
     38 memcachetest-13733
     49 memcachetest-12443
     57 tee-3368
   1541 dd-13826
   1981 dd-12539

A consequence of the direct reclaim for dd is that the processes for the
IO workload may show a higher system CPU usage.  There is also a risk that
kswapd not reclaiming the world may mean that it stays awake balancing
zones, does not stall on the appropriate events and continually scans
pages it cannot reclaim consuming CPU.  This will be visible as continued
high CPU usage but in my own tests I only saw a single spike lasting less
than a second and I did not observe any problems related to reclaim while
running the series on my desktop.

This patch:

The number of pages kswapd can reclaim is bound by the number of pages it
scans which is related to the size of the zone and the scanning priority.
In many cases the priority remains low because it's reset every
SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX reclaimed pages but in the event kswapd scans a large
number of pages it cannot reclaim, it will raise the priority and
potentially discard a large percentage of the zone as sc->nr_to_reclaim is
ULONG_MAX.  The user-visible effect is a reclaim "spike" where a large
percentage of memory is suddenly freed.  It would be bad enough if this
was just unused memory but because of how anon/file pages are balanced it
is possible that applications get pushed to swap unnecessarily.

This patch limits the number of pages kswapd will reclaim to the high
watermark.  Reclaim will still overshoot due to it not being a hard limit
as shrink_lruvec() will ignore the sc.nr_to_reclaim at DEF_PRIORITY but it
prevents kswapd reclaiming the world at higher priorities.  The number of
pages it reclaims is not adjusted for high-order allocations as kswapd
will reclaim excessively if it is to balance zones for high-order
allocations.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Tested-by: Zlatko Calusic <zcalusic@bitsync.net>
Cc: dormando <dormando@rydia.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm/page_alloc: don't re-init pageset in zone_pcp_update()
Cody P Schafer [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:41 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
mm/page_alloc: don't re-init pageset in zone_pcp_update()

When memory hotplug is triggered, we call pageset_init() on
per-cpu-pagesets which both contain pages and are in use, causing both the
leakage of those pages and (potentially) bad behaviour if a page is
allocated from a pageset while it is being cleared.

Avoid this by factoring out pageset_set_high_and_batch() (which contains
all needed logic too set a pageset's ->high and ->batch inrespective of
system state) from zone_pageset_init() and using the new
pageset_set_high_and_batch() instead of zone_pageset_init() in
zone_pcp_update().

Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm/page_alloc: rename setup_pagelist_highmark() to match naming of pageset_set_batch()
Cody P Schafer [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:40 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
mm/page_alloc: rename setup_pagelist_highmark() to match naming of pageset_set_batch()

Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm/page_alloc: in zone_pcp_update(), uze zone_pageset_init()
Cody P Schafer [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:39 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
mm/page_alloc: in zone_pcp_update(), uze zone_pageset_init()

Previously, zone_pcp_update() called pageset_set_batch() directly,
essentially assuming that percpu_pagelist_fraction == 0.

Correct this by calling zone_pageset_init(), which chooses the
appropriate ->batch and ->high calculations.

Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm/page_alloc: factor zone_pageset_init() out of setup_zone_pageset()
Cody P Schafer [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:38 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
mm/page_alloc: factor zone_pageset_init() out of setup_zone_pageset()

Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm/page_alloc: relocate comment to be directly above code it refers to.
Cody P Schafer [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:36 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
mm/page_alloc: relocate comment to be directly above code it refers to.

Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm/page_alloc: factor setup_pageset() into pageset_init() and pageset_set_batch()
Cody P Schafer [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:35 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
mm/page_alloc: factor setup_pageset() into pageset_init() and pageset_set_batch()

Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm/page_alloc: when handling percpu_pagelist_fraction, don't unneedly recalulate...
Cody P Schafer [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:34 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
mm/page_alloc: when handling percpu_pagelist_fraction, don't unneedly recalulate high

Simply moves calculation of the new 'high' value outside the
for_each_possible_cpu() loop, as it does not depend on the cpu.

Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm/page_alloc: convert zone_pcp_update() to rely on memory barriers instead of stop_m...
Cody P Schafer [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:33 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
mm/page_alloc: convert zone_pcp_update() to rely on memory barriers instead of stop_machine()

zone_pcp_update()'s goal is to adjust the ->high and ->mark members of a
percpu pageset based on a zone's ->managed_pages.  We don't need to drain
the entire percpu pageset just to modify these fields.

This lets us avoid calling setup_pageset() (and the draining required to
call it) and instead allows simply setting the fields' values (with some
attention paid to memory barriers to prevent the relationship between
->batch and ->high from being thrown off).

This does change the behavior of zone_pcp_update() as the percpu pagesets
will not be drained when zone_pcp_update() is called (they will end up
being shrunk, not completely drained, later when a 0-order page is freed
in free_hot_cold_page()).

Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm/page_alloc: protect pcp->batch accesses with ACCESS_ONCE
Cody P Schafer [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:32 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
mm/page_alloc: protect pcp->batch accesses with ACCESS_ONCE

pcp->batch could change at any point, avoid relying on it being a stable
value.

Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm/page_alloc: insert memory barriers to allow async update of pcp batch and high
Cody P Schafer [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:31 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
mm/page_alloc: insert memory barriers to allow async update of pcp batch and high

Introduce pageset_update() to perform a safe transision from one set of
pcp->{batch,high} to a new set using memory barriers.

This ensures that batch is always set to a safe value (1) prior to
updating high, and ensure that high is fully updated before setting the
real value of batch.  It avoids ->batch ever rising above ->high.

Suggested by Gilad Ben-Yossef in these threads:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/9/23
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/10/49

Also reproduces his proposed comment.

Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm/page_alloc: prevent concurrent updaters of pcp ->batch and ->high
Cody P Schafer [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:29 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
mm/page_alloc: prevent concurrent updaters of pcp ->batch and ->high

Because we are going to rely upon a careful transision between old and new
->high and ->batch values using memory barriers and will remove
stop_machine(), we need to prevent multiple updaters from interweaving
their memory writes.

Add a simple mutex to protect both update loops.

Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm/page_alloc: factor out setting of pcp->high and pcp->batch
Cody P Schafer [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:28 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
mm/page_alloc: factor out setting of pcp->high and pcp->batch

"Problems" with the current code:

1: there is a lack of synchronization in setting ->high and ->batch in
   percpu_pagelist_fraction_sysctl_handler()

2: stop_machine() in zone_pcp_update() is unnecissary.

3: zone_pcp_update() does not consider the case where
   percpu_pagelist_fraction is non-zero

To fix:

1: add memory barriers, a safe ->batch value, an update side mutex when
   updating ->high and ->batch, and use ACCESS_ONCE() for ->batch users
   that expect a stable value.

2: avoid draining pages in zone_pcp_update(), rely upon the memory
   barriers added to fix #1

3: factor out quite a few functions, and then call the appropriate one.

Note that it results in a change to the behavior of zone_pcp_update(),
which is used by memory_hotplug.  I'm rather certain that I've diserned
(and preserved) the essential behavior (changing ->high and ->batch), and
only eliminated unneeded actions (draining the per cpu pages), but this
may not be the case.

Further note that the draining of pages that previously took place in
zone_pcp_update() occured after repeated draining when attempting to
offline a page, and after the offline has "succeeded".  It appears that
the draining was added to zone_pcp_update() to avoid refactoring
setup_pageset() into 2 funtions.

This patch:

Creates pageset_set_batch() for use in setup_pageset().
pageset_set_batch() imitates the functionality of
setup_pagelist_highmark(), but uses the boot time
(percpu_pagelist_fraction == 0) calculations for determining ->high based
on ->batch.

Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <cody@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agouio: use vma_pages() to replace (vm_end - vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT
Libin [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:27 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
uio: use vma_pages() to replace (vm_end - vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT

(*->vm_end - *->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT operation is implemented
as a inline funcion vma_pages() in linux/mm.h, so using it.

Signed-off-by: Libin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoncpfs: use vma_pages() to replace (vm_end - vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT
Libin [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:26 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
ncpfs: use vma_pages() to replace (vm_end - vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT

(*->vm_end - *->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT operation is implemented
as a inline funcion vma_pages() in linux/mm.h, so using it.

Signed-off-by: Libin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm: use vma_pages() to replace (vm_end - vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT
Libin [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:26 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
mm: use vma_pages() to replace (vm_end - vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT

(*->vm_end - *->vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT operation is implemented
as a inline funcion vma_pages() in linux/mm.h, so using it.

Signed-off-by: Libin <huawei.libin@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm: remove compressed copy from zram in-memory
Minchan Kim [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:24 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
mm: remove compressed copy from zram in-memory

Swap subsystem does lazy swap slot free with expecting the page would be
swapped out again so we can avoid unnecessary write.

But the problem in in-memory swap(ex, zram) is that it consumes memory
space until vm_swap_full(ie, used half of all of swap device) condition
meet.  It could be bad if we use multiple swap device, small in-memory
swap and big storage swap or in-memory swap alone.

This patch makes swap subsystem free swap slot as soon as swap-read is
completed and make the swapcache page dirty so the page should be
written out the swap device to reclaim it.  It means we never lose it.

I tested this patch with kernel compile workload.

1. before

   compile time : 9882.42
   zram max wasted space by fragmentation: 13471881 byte
   memory space consumed by zram: 174227456 byte
   the number of slot free notify: 206684

2. after

   compile time : 9653.90
   zram max wasted space by fragmentation: 11805932 byte
   memory space consumed by zram: 154001408 byte
   the number of slot free notify: 426972

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment text]
[artem.savkov@gmail.com: fix BUG due to non-swapcache pages in end_swap_bio_read()]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: invert unlikely() test, augment comment, 80-col cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Artem Savkov <artem.savkov@gmail.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@darnok.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm, memcg: don't take task_lock in task_in_mem_cgroup
David Rientjes [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:23 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
mm, memcg: don't take task_lock in task_in_mem_cgroup

For processes that have detached their mm's, task_in_mem_cgroup()
unnecessarily takes task_lock() when rcu_read_lock() is all that is
necessary to call mem_cgroup_from_task().

While we're here, switch task_in_mem_cgroup() to return bool.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agopagemap: prepare to reuse constant bits with page-shift
Pavel Emelyanov [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:22 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
pagemap: prepare to reuse constant bits with page-shift

In order to reuse bits from pagemap entries gracefully, we leave the
entries as is but on pagemap open emit a warning in dmesg, that bits
55-60 are about to change in a couple of releases.  Next, if a user
issues soft-dirty clear command via the clear_refs file (it was disabled
before v3.9) we assume that he's aware of the new pagemap format, note
that fact and report the bits in pagemap in the new manner.

The "migration strategy" looks like this then:

1. existing users are not affected -- they don't touch soft-dirty feature, thus
   see old bits in pagemap, but are warned and have time to fix themselves
2. those who use soft-dirty know about new pagemap format
3. some time soon we get rid of any signs of page-shift in pagemap as well as
   this trick with clear-soft-dirty affecting pagemap format.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agomm: soft-dirty bits for user memory changes tracking
Pavel Emelyanov [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:20 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
mm: soft-dirty bits for user memory changes tracking

The soft-dirty is a bit on a PTE which helps to track which pages a task
writes to.  In order to do this tracking one should

  1. Clear soft-dirty bits from PTEs ("echo 4 > /proc/PID/clear_refs)
  2. Wait some time.
  3. Read soft-dirty bits (55'th in /proc/PID/pagemap2 entries)

To do this tracking, the writable bit is cleared from PTEs when the
soft-dirty bit is.  Thus, after this, when the task tries to modify a
page at some virtual address the #PF occurs and the kernel sets the
soft-dirty bit on the respective PTE.

Note, that although all the task's address space is marked as r/o after
the soft-dirty bits clear, the #PF-s that occur after that are processed
fast.  This is so, since the pages are still mapped to physical memory,
and thus all the kernel does is finds this fact out and puts back
writable, dirty and soft-dirty bits on the PTE.

Another thing to note, is that when mremap moves PTEs they are marked
with soft-dirty as well, since from the user perspective mremap modifies
the virtual memory at mremap's new address.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agopagemap: introduce pagemap_entry_t without pmshift bits
Pavel Emelyanov [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:19 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
pagemap: introduce pagemap_entry_t without pmshift bits

These bits are always constant (== PAGE_SHIFT) and just occupy space in
the entry.  Moreover, in next patch we will need to report one more bit
in the pagemap, but all bits are already busy on it.

That said, describe the pagemap entry that has 6 more free zero bits.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoclear_refs: introduce private struct for mm_walk
Pavel Emelyanov [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:18 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
clear_refs: introduce private struct for mm_walk

In the next patch the clear-refs-type will be required in
clear_refs_pte_range funciton, so prepare the walk->private to carry
this info.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoclear_refs: sanitize accepted commands declaration
Pavel Emelyanov [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:16 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
clear_refs: sanitize accepted commands declaration

This is the implementation of the soft-dirty bit concept that should
help keep track of changes in user memory, which in turn is very-very
required by the checkpoint-restore project (http://criu.org).

To create a dump of an application(s) we save all the information about
it to files, and the biggest part of such dump is the contents of tasks'
memory.  However, there are usage scenarios where it's not required to
get _all_ the task memory while creating a dump.  For example, when
doing periodical dumps, it's only required to take full memory dump only
at the first step and then take incremental changes of memory.  Another
example is live migration.  We copy all the memory to the destination
node without stopping all tasks, then stop them, check for what pages
has changed, dump it and the rest of the state, then copy it to the
destination node.  This decreases freeze time significantly.

That said, some help from kernel to watch how processes modify the
contents of their memory is required.

The proposal is to track changes with the help of new soft-dirty bit
this way:

1. First do "echo 4 > /proc/$pid/clear_refs".
   At that point kernel clears the soft dirty _and_ the writable bits from all
   ptes of process $pid. From now on every write to any page will result in #pf
   and the subsequent call to pte_mkdirty/pmd_mkdirty, which in turn will set
   the soft dirty flag.

2. Then read the /proc/$pid/pagemap2 and check the soft-dirty bit reported there
   (the 55'th one). If set, the respective pte was written to since last call
   to clear refs.

The soft-dirty bit is the _PAGE_BIT_HIDDEN one.  Although it's used by
kmemcheck, the latter one marks kernel pages with it, while the former
bit is put on user pages so they do not conflict to each other.

This patch:

A new clear-refs type will be added in the next patch, so prepare
code for that.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: don't assume that sizeof(enum clear_refs_types) == sizeof(int)]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agocrypto: sanitize argument for format string
Kees Cook [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:15 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
crypto: sanitize argument for format string

The template lookup interface does not provide a way to use format
strings, so make sure that the interface cannot be abused accidentally.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoblock: do not pass disk names as format strings
Kees Cook [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:14 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
block: do not pass disk names as format strings

Disk names may contain arbitrary strings, so they must not be
interpreted as format strings.  It seems that only md allows arbitrary
strings to be used for disk names, but this could allow for a local
memory corruption from uid 0 into ring 0.

CVE-2013-2851

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agodrivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: use kzalloc() for failing hardware
Jonathan Salwan [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:13 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: use kzalloc() for failing hardware

In drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c mmc_ioctl_cdrom_read_data() allocates a memory
area with kmalloc in line 2885.

  2885         cgc->buffer = kmalloc(blocksize, GFP_KERNEL);
  2886         if (cgc->buffer == NULL)
  2887                 return -ENOMEM;

In line 2908 we can find the copy_to_user function:

  2908         if (!ret && copy_to_user(arg, cgc->buffer, blocksize))

The cgc->buffer is never cleaned and initialized before this function.
If ret = 0 with the previous basic block, it's possible to display some
memory bytes in kernel space from userspace.

When we read a block from the disk it normally fills the ->buffer but if
the drive is malfunctioning there is a chance that it would only be
partially filled.  The result is an leak information to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoblock/compat_ioctl.c: do not leak info to user-space
Cong Wang [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:12 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
block/compat_ioctl.c: do not leak info to user-space

There is a hole in struct hd_geometry, so we have to zero the struct on
stack before copying it to user-space.

Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agodrivers/cdrom/gdrom.c: fix device number leak
Libo Chen [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:11 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
drivers/cdrom/gdrom.c: fix device number leak

Without this patch, gdrom_major will leak when gd.cd_info alloc fails.

Signed-off-by: Libo Chen <libo.chen@huawei.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoocfs2: fix NULL pointer dereference when traversing o2hb_all_regions
Xue jiufei [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:10 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
ocfs2: fix NULL pointer dereference when traversing o2hb_all_regions

There may exist NULL pointer dereference in config_item_name() when one
volume (say Volume A) unmounts while another (say Volume B) mounting.

     Volume A                          Volume B

  already Mounted.
  Unmounting, call
  o2hb_heartbeat_group_drop_item()
    -> config_item_put(item)
    set reg(A)->item.ci_name to NULL
    in function config_item_cleanup().

                                    begin mounting, call
                                    o2hb_region_pin() and tranverse all
                                    regions. When reading
                                    reg(A)->item.ci_name, it causes
                                    NULL pointer dereference.

  call o2hb_region_release() and
  del reg(A) from list.

So we should skip accessing regions that is going to release when
tranverse o2hb_all_regions.

Signed-off-by: Yiwen Jiang <jiangyiwen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: joyce <xuejiufei@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@gmail.com>
Cc: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoocfs2: adjust switch_case syntax at o2net_state_change()
Jie Liu [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:08 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
ocfs2: adjust switch_case syntax at o2net_state_change()

Adjust switch..case syntax at o2net_state_change to meet the kernel coding
standard.

s/printk/pr_info/.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: revert pr_foo() change]
Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Gurudas Pai <gurudas.pai@oracle.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Noboru Iwamatsu <n_iwamatsu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Srinivas Eeeda <srinivas.eeda@oracle.com>
Cc: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@gmail.com>
Cc: Tao Ma <tm@tao.ma>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoocfs2: fix a comments typo at o2quo_hb_still_up()
Jie Liu [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:07 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
ocfs2: fix a comments typo at o2quo_hb_still_up()

Fix a comment typo in o2quo_hb_still_up()

Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Gurudas Pai <gurudas.pai@oracle.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Noboru Iwamatsu <n_iwamatsu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Srinivas Eeeda <srinivas.eeda@oracle.com>
Cc: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@gmail.com>
Cc: Tao Ma <tm@tao.ma>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoocfs2: consolidate o2hb_global_hearbeat_mode_set() naming convention
Jie Liu [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:06 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
ocfs2: consolidate o2hb_global_hearbeat_mode_set() naming convention

s/o2hb_global_hearbeat_mode_set/o2hb_global_heartbeat_mode_set/ to make
the signature of those routines in a consistent manner with others for
heartbeating.

Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@gmail.com>
Cc: Gurudas Pai <gurudas.pai@oracle.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Noboru Iwamatsu <n_iwamatsu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Srinivas Eeeda <srinivas.eeda@oracle.com>
Cc: Tao Ma <tm@tao.ma>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoocfs2: submit disk heartbeat bio using WRITE_SYNC
Noboru Iwamatsu [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:04 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
ocfs2: submit disk heartbeat bio using WRITE_SYNC

Under heavy I/O load, writing the disk heartbeat can be forced to wait for
minutes, and this causes the node to be fenced.

This patch tries to use WRITE_SYNC in submitting the heartbeat bio, so
that writing the heartbeat will have a priority over other requests.

Signed-off-by: Noboru Iwamatsu <n_iwamatsu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Tao Ma <tm@tao.ma>
Acked-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@gmail.com>
Cc: Srinivas Eeeda <srinivas.eeda@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Gurudas Pai <gurudas.pai@oracle.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoocfs2: xattr: fix inlined xattr reflink
Junxiao Bi [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:03 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
ocfs2: xattr: fix inlined xattr reflink

Inlined xattr shared free space of inode block with inlined data or data
extent record, so the size of the later two should be adjusted when
inlined xattr is enabled.  See ocfs2_xattr_ibody_init().  But this isn't
done well when reflink.  For inode with inlined data, its max inlined
data size is adjusted in ocfs2_duplicate_inline_data(), no problem.  But
for inode with data extent record, its record count isn't adjusted.  Fix
it, or data extent record and inlined xattr may overwrite each other,
then cause data corruption or xattr failure.

One panic caused by this bug in our test environment is the following:

  kernel BUG at fs/ocfs2/xattr.c:1435!
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
  Pid: 10871, comm: multi_reflink_t Not tainted 2.6.39-300.17.1.el5uek #1
  RIP: ocfs2_xa_offset_pointer+0x17/0x20 [ocfs2]
  RSP: e02b:ffff88007a587948  EFLAGS: 00010283
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000010 RCX: 00000000000051e4
  RDX: ffff880057092060 RSI: 0000000000000f80 RDI: ffff88007a587a68
  RBP: ffff88007a587948 R08: 00000000000062f4 R09: 0000000000000000
  R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000010
  R13: ffff88007a587a68 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffff88007a587c68
  FS:  00007fccff7f06e0(0000) GS:ffff88007fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  e033 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
  CR2: 00000000015cf000 CR3: 000000007aa76000 CR4: 0000000000000660
  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
  Process multi_reflink_t
  Call Trace:
    ocfs2_xa_reuse_entry+0x60/0x280 [ocfs2]
    ocfs2_xa_prepare_entry+0x17e/0x2a0 [ocfs2]
    ocfs2_xa_set+0xcc/0x250 [ocfs2]
    ocfs2_xattr_ibody_set+0x98/0x230 [ocfs2]
    __ocfs2_xattr_set_handle+0x4f/0x700 [ocfs2]
    ocfs2_xattr_set+0x6c6/0x890 [ocfs2]
    ocfs2_xattr_user_set+0x46/0x50 [ocfs2]
    generic_setxattr+0x70/0x90
    __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x80/0x1a0
    vfs_setxattr+0xa9/0xb0
    setxattr+0xc3/0x120
    sys_fsetxattr+0xa8/0xd0
    system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Signed-off-by: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoocfs2: fix readonly issue in ocfs2_unlink()
Younger Liu [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:01 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
ocfs2: fix readonly issue in ocfs2_unlink()

While deleting a file with ocfs2_unlink(), there is a bug in this
function.  This bug will result in filesystem read-only.

After calling ocfs2_orphan_add(), the file which will be deleted is
added into orphan dir.  If ocfs2_delete_entry() fails, the file still
exists in the parent dir.  And this scenario introduces a conflict of
metadata.

If a file is added into orphan dir, when we put inode of the file with
iput(), the inode i_flags is setted (~OCFS2_VALID_FL) in
ocfs2_remove_inode(), and then write back to disk.

But as previously mentioned, the file still exists in the parent dir.
On other nodes, the file can be still accessed.  When first read the
file with ocfs2_read_blocks() from disk, It will check and avalidate
inode using ocfs2_validate_inode_block().  So File system will be
readonly because the inode is invalid.  In other words, the inode
i_flags has been set (~OCFS2_VALID_FL).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
[jeff.liu@oracle.com: s/inode_is_unlinkable/ocfs2_inode_is_unlinkable/]
Signed-off-by: Younger Liu <younger.liu@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jensen <shencanquan@huawei.com>
Cc: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoocfs2: remove duplicated mlog_errno() in ocfs2_relink_block_group
Andrew Morton [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:01:00 +0000 (15:01 -0700)]
ocfs2: remove duplicated mlog_errno() in ocfs2_relink_block_group

Cc: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@gmail.com>
Cc: Younger Liu <younger.liu@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoocfs2: rework transaction rollback in ocfs2_relink_block_group()
Jie Liu [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:00:59 +0000 (15:00 -0700)]
ocfs2: rework transaction rollback in ocfs2_relink_block_group()

In ocfs2_relink_block_group(), we roll back all those changes if notify
intent to modify buffers for metadata update failed even if the relevant
buffer has not yet been modified/got dirty at that point, that are not
quite right because of:

 - None buffer has been modified/dirty if failed to call
   ocfs2_journal_access_gd() against the previous block group buffer

 - Only the previous block group buffer has got dirty if failed to call
   ocfs2_journal_access_gd() against the block group buffer

 - There is no need to roll back the change for file entry buffer at all

Those problems will not cause anything wrong but unnecessary.  This
patch fix them and kill the useless bg_ptr variable as well.

Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Younger Liu <younger.liu@huawei.com>
Cc: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoocfs2: need rollback when journal_access failed in ocfs2_orphan_add()
Younger Liu [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:00:58 +0000 (15:00 -0700)]
ocfs2: need rollback when journal_access failed in ocfs2_orphan_add()

While adding a file into orphan dir in ocfs2_orphan_add(), it calls
__ocfs2_add_entry() before ocfs2_journal_access_di().  If
ocfs2_journal_access_di() failed, the file is added into orphan dir, and
orphan dir dinode updated, but file dinode has not been updated.
Accordingly, the data is not consistent between file dinode and orphan
dir.

So, need to call ocfs2_journal_access_di() before __ocfs2_add_entry(),
and if ocfs2_journal_access_di() failed, orphan_fe and
orphan_dir_inode->i_nlink need rollback.

This bug was added by 3939fda4 ("Ocfs2: Journaling i_flags and
i_orphaned_slot when adding inode to orphan dir.").

Signed-off-by: Younger Liu <younger.liu@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoocfs2: dlmlock_master() should return DLM_NORMAL after adding lock to blocked list
Xue jiufei [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:00:56 +0000 (15:00 -0700)]
ocfs2: dlmlock_master() should return DLM_NORMAL after adding lock to blocked list

dlmlock_master() returns DLM_RECOVERING/DLM_MIGRATING/ DLM_FORWAR after
adding lock to blocked list if lockres has the state
DLM_LOCK_RES_RECOVERING/DLM_LOCK_RES_MIGRATING/ DLM_LOCK_RES_IN_PROGRESS.
so it will retry in dlmlock().  And this may cause dlm_thread fall into an
infinite loop

Thread1                                  dlm_thread

  calls dlm_lock->dlmlock_master,
  if lockresA is in state
  DLM_LOCK_RES_RECOVERING, calls
  __dlm_wait_on_lockres() and waits
  until others threads clear this
  state;

  If cannot grant this lock,
  adding lock to blocked list,
  and return DLM_RECOVERING;

                                        Grant this lock and move it to
                                        grant list;

  After a while, retry and
  calls list_add_tail(), adding lock
  to blocked list again.

Granted and blocked list of this lockres will become the following
conditions:

    lock_res->granted.next = dlm_lock->list_head;
    lock_res->blocked.next = dlm_lock->list_head;
    dlm_lock->list_head.next = dlm_lock_resource->blocked;

When dlm_thread traverses the granted list, it will fall into an endless
loop, checking dlm_lock.list_head, dlm_lock->list_head.next
(i.e.lock_res->blocked), lock_res->blocked.next(i.e.dlm_lock.list_head
again) .....

Signed-off-by: joyce <xuejiufei@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: jensen <shencanquan@huawei.com>
Cc: Jeff Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoocfs2: xattr: remove useless free space checking
Junxiao Bi [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:00:55 +0000 (15:00 -0700)]
ocfs2: xattr: remove useless free space checking

Free space checking will be done in ocfs2_xattr_ibody_init().  So remove
here.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unused local]
Signed-off-by: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agofs/ocfs2/cluster/tcp.c: free sc->sc_page in sc_kref_release()
Younger Liu [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:00:54 +0000 (15:00 -0700)]
fs/ocfs2/cluster/tcp.c: free sc->sc_page in sc_kref_release()

There is a memory leak in sc_kref_release().  When free struct
o2net_sock_container (sc), we should release sc->sc_page.

Signed-off-by: Younger Liu <younger.liu@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agofs/ocfs2/journal.h: add bits_wanted while calculating credits in ocfs2_calc_extend_cr...
Goldwyn Rodrigues [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:00:53 +0000 (15:00 -0700)]
fs/ocfs2/journal.h: add bits_wanted while calculating credits in ocfs2_calc_extend_credits

While adding extends to a file, the credits are calculated incorrectly
and if the requested clusters is more than one (or more because we used
a conservative limit) then we run out of journal credits and we hit an
assert in journalling code.

The function parameter bits_wanted variable was not used at all.

Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoocfs2: fix mutex_unlock and possible memory leak in ocfs2_remove_btree_range
Joseph Qi [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:00:52 +0000 (15:00 -0700)]
ocfs2: fix mutex_unlock and possible memory leak in ocfs2_remove_btree_range

In ocfs2_remove_btree_range, when calling ocfs2_lock_refcount_tree and
ocfs2_prepare_refcount_change_for_del failed, it goes to out and then
tries to call mutex_unlock without mutex_lock before.  And when calling
ocfs2_reserve_blocks_for_rec_trunc failed, it should free ref_tree
before return.

Signed-off-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoocfs2: remove unecessary variable needs_checkpoint
Goldwyn Rodrigues [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:00:51 +0000 (15:00 -0700)]
ocfs2: remove unecessary variable needs_checkpoint

Code cleanup: needs_checkpoint is assigned to but never used.  Delete
the variable.

Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com>
Cc: Jeff Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoocfs2: add missing dlm_put() in dlm_begin_reco_handler()
Xue jiufei [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:00:50 +0000 (15:00 -0700)]
ocfs2: add missing dlm_put() in dlm_begin_reco_handler()

dlm_begin_reco_handler() returns without putting dlm when dlm recovery
state is DLM_RECO_STATE_FINALIZE.

Signed-off-by: joyce <xuejiufei@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoocfs2: should not use le32_add_cpu to set ocfs2_dinode i_flags
Joseph Qi [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:00:48 +0000 (15:00 -0700)]
ocfs2: should not use le32_add_cpu to set ocfs2_dinode i_flags

If we use le32_add_cpu to set ocfs2_dinode i_flags, it may lead to the
corresponding flag corrupted.  So we should change it to bitwise and/or
operation.

Signed-off-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@huawei.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: shencanquan <shencanquan@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agofs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmrecovery.c:dlm_request_all_locks(): ret should be int instead of...
Joseph Qi [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:00:47 +0000 (15:00 -0700)]
fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmrecovery.c:dlm_request_all_locks(): ret should be int instead of enum

In dlm_request_all_locks, ret is type enum.  But o2net_send_message
returns a type int value.  Then it will never run into the following
error branch.  So we should change the ret type from enum to int.

Signed-off-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@huawei.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Acked-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agofs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmrecovery.c: remove duplicate declarations
Joseph Qi [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:00:46 +0000 (15:00 -0700)]
fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmrecovery.c: remove duplicate declarations

Below 3 functions have already been declared in dlmcommon.h, so we have
no need to declare them again in dlmrecovery.c:

  dlm_complete_recovery_thread
  dlm_launch_recovery_thread
  dlm_kick_recovery_thread

Signed-off-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@huawei.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Acked-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoconfigfs: use capped length for ->store_attribute()
Dan Carpenter [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:00:45 +0000 (15:00 -0700)]
configfs: use capped length for ->store_attribute()

The difference between "count" and "len" is that "len" is capped at
4095.  Changing it like this makes it match how sysfs_write_file() is
implemented.

This is a static analysis patch.  I haven't found any store_attribute()
functions where this change makes a difference.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agosound/soc/codecs/si476x.c: don't use 0bNNN
Andrew Morton [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:00:44 +0000 (15:00 -0700)]
sound/soc/codecs/si476x.c: don't use 0bNNN

spacr64 gcc-3.4.5 (at least) spits this back.

Cc: Andrey Smirnov <andrey.smirnov@convergeddevices.net>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agodrivers/dma/pl330.c: fix locking in pl330_free_chan_resources()
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:00:43 +0000 (15:00 -0700)]
drivers/dma/pl330.c: fix locking in pl330_free_chan_resources()

tasklet_kill() may sleep so call it before taking pch->lock.

Fixes following lockup:

  BUG: scheduling while atomic: cat/2383/0x00000002
  Modules linked in:
    unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xfc
    __schedule_bug+0x4c/0x58
    __schedule+0x690/0x6e0
    sys_sched_yield+0x70/0x78
    tasklet_kill+0x34/0x8c
    pl330_free_chan_resources+0x24/0x88
    dma_chan_put+0x4c/0x50
  [...]
  BUG: spinlock lockup suspected on CPU#0, swapper/0/0
   lock: 0xe52aa04c, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: cat/2383, .owner_cpu: 1
    unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xfc
    do_raw_spin_lock+0x194/0x204
    _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x20/0x28
    pl330_tasklet+0x2c/0x5a8
    tasklet_action+0xfc/0x114
    __do_softirq+0xe4/0x19c
    irq_exit+0x98/0x9c
    handle_IPI+0x124/0x16c
    gic_handle_irq+0x64/0x68
    __irq_svc+0x40/0x70
    cpuidle_wrap_enter+0x4c/0xa0
    cpuidle_enter_state+0x18/0x68
    cpuidle_idle_call+0xac/0xe0
    cpu_idle+0xac/0xf0

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@gmail.com>
Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Tomasz Figa <t.figa@samsung.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoarch: c6x: mm: include "asm/uaccess.h" to pass compiling
Chen Gang [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:00:42 +0000 (15:00 -0700)]
arch: c6x: mm: include "asm/uaccess.h" to pass compiling

Need include "asm/uaccess.h" to pass compiling.

The related error (with allmodconfig):

  arch/c6x/mm/init.c: In function `paging_init':
  arch/c6x/mm/init.c:46:2: error: implicit declaration of function `set_fs' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  arch/c6x/mm/init.c:46:9: error: `KERNEL_DS' undeclared (first use in this function)
  arch/c6x/mm/init.c:46:9: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in

Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.10.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoinclude/linux/smp.h:on_each_cpu(): switch back to a macro
Andrew Morton [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:00:41 +0000 (15:00 -0700)]
include/linux/smp.h:on_each_cpu(): switch back to a macro

Commit f21afc25f9ed ("smp.h: Use local_irq_{save,restore}() in !SMP
version of on_each_cpu()") converted on_each_cpu() to a C function.

This required inclusion of irqflags.h, which broke ia64 and mn10300 (at
least) due to header ordering hell.

Switch on_each_cpu() back to a macro to fix this.

Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.10.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
11 years agoMerge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas...
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 17:31:38 +0000 (10:31 -0700)]
Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-aarch64

Pull ARM64 updates from Catalin Marinas:
 "Main features:
   - KVM and Xen ports to AArch64
   - Hugetlbfs and transparent huge pages support for arm64
   - Applied Micro X-Gene Kconfig entry and dts file
   - Cache flushing improvements

  For arm64 huge pages support, there are x86 changes moving part of
  arch/x86/mm/hugetlbpage.c into mm/hugetlb.c to be re-used by arm64"

* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-aarch64: (66 commits)
  arm64: Add initial DTS for APM X-Gene Storm SOC and APM Mustang board
  arm64: Add defines for APM ARMv8 implementation
  arm64: Enable APM X-Gene SOC family in the defconfig
  arm64: Add Kconfig option for APM X-Gene SOC family
  arm64/Makefile: provide vdso_install target
  ARM64: mm: THP support.
  ARM64: mm: Raise MAX_ORDER for 64KB pages and THP.
  ARM64: mm: HugeTLB support.
  ARM64: mm: Move PTE_PROT_NONE bit.
  ARM64: mm: Make PAGE_NONE pages read only and no-execute.
  ARM64: mm: Restore memblock limit when map_mem finished.
  mm: thp: Correct the HPAGE_PMD_ORDER check.
  x86: mm: Remove general hugetlb code from x86.
  mm: hugetlb: Copy general hugetlb code from x86 to mm.
  x86: mm: Remove x86 version of huge_pmd_share.
  mm: hugetlb: Copy huge_pmd_share from x86 to mm.
  arm64: KVM: document kernel object mappings in HYP
  arm64: KVM: MAINTAINERS update
  arm64: KVM: userspace API documentation
  arm64: KVM: enable initialization of a 32bit vcpu
  ...

11 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 16:46:29 +0000 (09:46 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm

Pull ARM updates from Russell King:
 "This contains the usual updates from other people (listed below) and
  the usual random muddle of miscellaneous ARM updates which cover some
  low priority bug fixes and performance improvements.

  I've started to put the pull request wording into the merge commits,
  which are:

   - NoMMU stuff:

     This includes the following series sent earlier to the list:
      - nommu-fixes
      - R7 Support
      - MPU support

     I've left out the ARCH_MULTIPLATFORM/!MMU stuff that Arnd and I
     were discussing today until we've reached a conclusion/that's had
     some more review.

     This is rebased (and re-tested) on your devel-stable branch because
     otherwise there were going to be conflicts with Uwe's V7M work now
     that you've merged that.  I've included the fix for limiting MPU to
     CPU_V7.

   - Huge page support

     These changes bring both HugeTLB support and Transparent HugePage
     (THP) support to ARM.  Only long descriptors (LPAE) are supported
     in this series.

     The code has been tested on an Arndale board (Exynos 5250).

   - LPAE updates

     Please pull these miscellaneous LPAE fixes I've been collecting for
     a while now for 3.11.  They've been tested and reviewed by quite a
     few people, and most of the patches are pretty trivial.  -- Will Deacon.

   - arch_timer cleanups

     Please pull these arch_timer cleanups I've been holding onto for a
     while.  They're the same as my last posting, but have been rebased
     to v3.10-rc3.

   - mpidr linearisation (multiprocessor id register - identifies which
     CPU number we are in the system)

     This patch series that implements MPIDR linearization through a
     simple hashing algorithm and updates current cpu_{suspend}/{resume}
     code to use the newly created hash structures to retrieve context
     pointers.  It represents a stepping stone for the implementation of
     power management code on forthcoming multi-cluster ARM systems.

     It has been tested on TC2 (dual cluster A15xA7 system), iMX6q,
     OMAP4 and Tegra, with processors hitting low-power states requiring
     warm-boot resume through the cpu_resume code path"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm: (77 commits)
  ARM: 7775/1: mm: Remove do_sect_fault from LPAE code
  ARM: 7777/1: Avoid extra calls to the C compiler
  ARM: 7774/1: Fix dtb dependency to use order-only prerequisites
  ARM: 7770/1: remove residual ARMv2 support from decompressor
  ARM: 7769/1: Cortex-A15: fix erratum 798181 implementation
  ARM: 7768/1: prevent risks of out-of-bound access in ASID allocator
  ARM: 7767/1: let the ASID allocator handle suspended animation
  ARM: 7766/1: versatile: don't mark pen as __INIT
  ARM: 7765/1: perf: Record the user-mode PC in the call chain.
  ARM: 7735/2: Preserve the user r/w register TPIDRURW on context switch and fork
  ARM: kernel: implement stack pointer save array through MPIDR hashing
  ARM: kernel: build MPIDR hash function data structure
  ARM: mpu: Ensure that MPU depends on CPU_V7
  ARM: mpu: protect the vectors page with an MPU region
  ARM: mpu: Allow enabling of the MPU via kconfig
  ARM: 7758/1: introduce config HAS_BANDGAP
  ARM: 7757/1: mm: don't flush icache in switch_mm with hardware broadcasting
  ARM: 7751/1: zImage: don't overwrite ourself with a page table
  ARM: 7749/1: spinlock: retry trylock operation if strex fails on free lock
  ARM: 7748/1: oabi: handle faults when loading swi instruction from userspace
  ...

11 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 16:10:19 +0000 (09:10 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

Pull second set of VFS changes from Al Viro:
 "Assorted f_pos race fixes, making do_splice_direct() safe to call with
  i_mutex on parent, O_TMPFILE support, Jeff's locks.c series,
  ->d_hash/->d_compare calling conventions changes from Linus, misc
  stuff all over the place."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
  Document ->tmpfile()
  ext4: ->tmpfile() support
  vfs: export lseek_execute() to modules
  lseek_execute() doesn't need an inode passed to it
  block_dev: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  cpqphp_sysfs: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  tile-srom: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  proc_powerpc: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  ubi/cdev: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  pci/proc: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  isapnp: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  lpfc: switch to fixed_size_llseek()
  locks: give the blocked_hash its own spinlock
  locks: add a new "lm_owner_key" lock operation
  locks: turn the blocked_list into a hashtable
  locks: convert fl_link to a hlist_node
  locks: avoid taking global lock if possible when waking up blocked waiters
  locks: protect most of the file_lock handling with i_lock
  locks: encapsulate the fl_link list handling
  locks: make "added" in __posix_lock_file a bool
  ...

11 years agoDocument ->tmpfile()
Al Viro [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 12:19:23 +0000 (16:19 +0400)]
Document ->tmpfile()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
11 years agoext4: ->tmpfile() support
Al Viro [Sat, 29 Jun 2013 09:23:08 +0000 (13:23 +0400)]
ext4: ->tmpfile() support

very similar to ext3 counterpart...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
11 years agovfs: export lseek_execute() to modules
Jie Liu [Tue, 25 Jun 2013 04:02:13 +0000 (12:02 +0800)]
vfs: export lseek_execute() to modules

For those file systems(btrfs/ext4/ocfs2/tmpfs) that support
SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE functions, we end up handling the similar
matter in lseek_execute() to update the current file offset
to the desired offset if it is valid, ceph also does the
simliar things at ceph_llseek().

To reduce the duplications, this patch make lseek_execute()
public accessible so that we can call it directly from the
underlying file systems.

Thanks Dave Chinner for this suggestion.

[AV: call it vfs_setpos(), don't bring the removed 'inode' argument back]

v2->v1:
- Add kernel-doc comments for lseek_execute()
- Call lseek_execute() in ceph->llseek()

Signed-off-by: Jie Liu <jeff.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Cc: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Cc: Ted Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
11 years agoMerge branch 'for-3.11-cpuset' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj...
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 03:04:25 +0000 (20:04 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-3.11-cpuset' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup

Pull cpuset changes from Tejun Heo:
 "cpuset has always been rather odd about its configurations - a cgroup
  right after creation didn't allow any task executions before
  configuration, changing configuration in the parent modifies the
  descendants irreversibly and so on.  These behaviors are inherently
  nasty and almost hostile against sharing the hierarchy with other
  controllers making it very difficult to use in unified hierarchy.

  Li is currently in the process of updating the behaviors for
  __DEVEL__sane_behavior which is the bulk of changes in this pull
  request.  It isn't complete yet and the behaviors will change further
  but all changes are gated behind sane_behavior.  In the process, the
  rather hairy work-item punting which was used to work around the
  limitations of cgroup descendant iterator was simplified."

* 'for-3.11-cpuset' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cpuset: rename @cont to @cgrp
  cpuset: fix to migrate mm correctly in a corner case
  cpuset: allow to move tasks to empty cpusets
  cpuset: allow to keep tasks in empty cpusets
  cpuset: introduce effective_{cpumask|nodemask}_cpuset()
  cpuset: record old_mems_allowed in struct cpuset
  cpuset: remove async hotplug propagation work
  cpuset: let hotplug propagation work wait for task attaching
  cpuset: re-structure update_cpumask() a bit
  cpuset: remove cpuset_test_cpumask()
  cpuset: remove unnecessary variable in cpuset_attach()
  cpuset: cleanup guarantee_online_{cpus|mems}()
  cpuset: remove redundant check in cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback()

11 years agoMerge branch 'for-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 02:54:47 +0000 (19:54 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-3.11' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup

Pull cgroup changes from Tejun Heo:
 "This pull request contains the following changes.

   - cgroup_subsys_state (css) reference counting has been converted to
     percpu-ref.  css is what each resource controller embeds into its
     own control structure and perform reference count against.  It may
     be used in hot paths of various subsystems and is similar to module
     refcnt in that aspect.  For example, block-cgroup's css refcnting
     was showing up a lot in Mikulaus's device-mapper scalability work
     and this should alleviate it.

   - cgroup subtree iterator has been updated so that RCU read lock can
     be released after grabbing reference.  This allows simplifying its
     users which requires blocking which used to build iteration list
     under RCU read lock and then traverse it outside.  This pull
     request contains simplification of cgroup core and device-cgroup.
     A separate pull request will update cpuset.

   - Fixes for various bugs including corner race conditions and RCU
     usage bugs.

   - A lot of cleanups and some prepartory work for the planned unified
     hierarchy support."

* 'for-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (48 commits)
  cgroup: CGRP_ROOT_SUBSYS_BOUND should also be ignored when mounting an existing hierarchy
  cgroup: CGRP_ROOT_SUBSYS_BOUND should be ignored when comparing mount options
  cgroup: fix deadlock on cgroup_mutex via drop_parsed_module_refcounts()
  cgroup: always use RCU accessors for protected accesses
  cgroup: fix RCU accesses around task->cgroups
  cgroup: fix RCU accesses to task->cgroups
  cgroup: grab cgroup_mutex in drop_parsed_module_refcounts()
  cgroup: fix cgroupfs_root early destruction path
  cgroup: reserve ID 0 for dummy_root and 1 for unified hierarchy
  cgroup: implement for_each_[builtin_]subsys()
  cgroup: move init_css_set initialization inside cgroup_mutex
  cgroup: s/for_each_subsys()/for_each_root_subsys()/
  cgroup: clean up find_css_set() and friends
  cgroup: remove cgroup->actual_subsys_mask
  cgroup: prefix global variables with "cgroup_"
  cgroup: convert CFTYPE_* flags to enums
  cgroup: rename cont to cgrp
  cgroup: clean up cgroup_serial_nr_cursor
  cgroup: convert cgroup_cft_commit() to use cgroup_for_each_descendant_pre()
  cgroup: make serial_nr_cursor available throughout cgroup.c
  ...

11 years agoMerge branch 'for-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 02:53:30 +0000 (19:53 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-3.11' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/tj/wq

Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo:
 "Surprisingly, Lai and I didn't break too many things implementing
  custom pools and stuff last time around and there aren't any follow-up
  changes necessary at this point.

  The only change in this pull request is Viresh's patches to make some
  per-cpu workqueues to behave as unbound workqueues dependent on a boot
  param whose default can be configured via a config option.  This leads
  to higher processing overhead / lower bandwidth as more work items are
  bounced across CPUs; however, it can lead to noticeable powersave in
  certain configurations - ~10% w/ idlish constant workload on a
  big.LITTLE configuration according to Viresh.

  This is because per-cpu workqueues interfere with how the scheduler
  perceives whether or not each CPU is idle by forcing pinned tasks on
  them, which makes the scheduler's power-aware scheduling decisions
  less effective.

  Its effectiveness is likely less pronounced on homogenous
  configurations and this type of optimization can probably be made
  automatic; however, the changes are pretty minimal and the affected
  workqueues are clearly marked, so it's an easy gain for some
  configurations for the time being with pretty unintrusive changes."

* 'for-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  fbcon: queue work on power efficient wq
  block: queue work on power efficient wq
  PHYLIB: queue work on system_power_efficient_wq
  workqueue: Add system wide power_efficient workqueues
  workqueues: Introduce new flag WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT for power oriented workqueues

11 years agoMerge branch 'for-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 3 Jul 2013 02:52:14 +0000 (19:52 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-3.11' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu

Pull per-cpu changes from Tejun Heo:
 "This pull request contains Kent's per-cpu reference counter.  It has
  gone through several iterations since the last time and the dynamic
  allocation is gone.

  The usual usage is relatively straight-forward although async kill
  confirm interface, which is not used int most cases, is somewhat icky.
  There also are some interface concerns - e.g.  I'm not sure about
  passing in @relesae callback during init as that becomes funny when we
  later implement synchronous kill_and_drain - but nothing too serious
  and it's quite useable now.

  cgroup_subsys_state refcnting has already been converted and we should
  convert module refcnt (Kent?)"

* 'for-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  percpu-refcount: use RCU-sched insted of normal RCU
  percpu-refcount: implement percpu_tryget() along with percpu_ref_kill_and_confirm()
  percpu-refcount: implement percpu_ref_cancel_init()
  percpu-refcount: add __must_check to percpu_ref_init() and don't use ACCESS_ONCE() in percpu_ref_kill_rcu()
  percpu-refcount: cosmetic updates
  percpu-refcount: consistently use plain (non-sched) RCU
  percpu-refcount: Don't use silly cmpxchg()
  percpu: implement generic percpu refcounting

11 years agoMerge branch 'x86-uv-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git...
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 2 Jul 2013 23:33:05 +0000 (16:33 -0700)]
Merge branch 'x86-uv-for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull x86 UV update from Ingo Molnar:
 "There's a single commit in this tree, which adds support for a new SGI
  UV GRU (Global Reference Unit - fast NUMA messaging ASIC) hardware
  feature to scale up and beyond: an optional distributed mode that will
  allow per-node address mapping of local GRU space, as opposed to
  mapping all GRU hardware to the same contiguous high space"

* 'x86-uv-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/UV: Add GRU distributed mode mappings

11 years agoMerge branch 'x86-tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel...
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 2 Jul 2013 23:31:49 +0000 (16:31 -0700)]
Merge branch 'x86-tracing-for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull x86 tracing updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree adds IRQ vector tracepoints that are named after the handler
  and which output the vector #, based on a zero-overhead approach that
  relies on changing the IDT entries, by Seiji Aguchi.

  The new tracepoints look like this:

   # perf list | grep -i irq_vector
    irq_vectors:local_timer_entry                      [Tracepoint event]
    irq_vectors:local_timer_exit                       [Tracepoint event]
    irq_vectors:reschedule_entry                       [Tracepoint event]
    irq_vectors:reschedule_exit                        [Tracepoint event]
    irq_vectors:spurious_apic_entry                    [Tracepoint event]
    irq_vectors:spurious_apic_exit                     [Tracepoint event]
    irq_vectors:error_apic_entry                       [Tracepoint event]
    irq_vectors:error_apic_exit                        [Tracepoint event]
   [...]"

* 'x86-tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/tracing: Add config option checking to the definitions of mce handlers
  trace,x86: Do not call local_irq_save() in load_current_idt()
  trace,x86: Move creation of irq tracepoints from apic.c to irq.c
  x86, trace: Add irq vector tracepoints
  x86: Rename variables for debugging
  x86, trace: Introduce entering/exiting_irq()
  tracing: Add DEFINE_EVENT_FN() macro

11 years agoMerge branch 'x86-ras-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git...
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 2 Jul 2013 23:30:46 +0000 (16:30 -0700)]
Merge branch 'x86-ras-for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull x86 RAS update from Ingo Molnar:
 "The changes in this tree are:

   - ACPI APEI (ACPI Platform Error Interface) improvements, by Chen
     Gong
   - misc MCE fixes/cleanups"

* 'x86-ras-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/mce: Update MCE severity condition check
  mce: acpi/apei: Add comments to clarify usage of the various bitfields in the MCA subsystem
  ACPI/APEI: Update einj documentation for param1/param2
  ACPI/APEI: Add parameter check before error injection
  ACPI, APEI, EINJ: Fix error return code in einj_init()
  x86, mce: Fix "braodcast" typo