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leaking_addresses.pl can be run with kptr_restrict==0 now, we don't need
the comment about setting kptr_restrict any more.
Remove comment suggesting setting kptr_restrict.
Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <[email protected]>
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Currently code uses a check against an undefined variable because the
variable is a sub routine name and is not evaluated.
Evaluate subroutine; add parenthesis to sub routine name.
Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <[email protected]>
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Commit 58eb5b670747 ("pstore: fix crypto dependencies") fixed up the crypto
dependencies but missed the case when no compression is selected.
With CONFIG_PSTORE=y, CONFIG_PSTORE_COMPRESS=n and CONFIG_CRYPTO=m we see
the following link error:
fs/pstore/platform.o: In function `pstore_register':
(.text+0x1b1): undefined reference to `crypto_has_alg'
(.text+0x205): undefined reference to `crypto_alloc_base'
fs/pstore/platform.o: In function `pstore_unregister':
(.text+0x3b0): undefined reference to `crypto_destroy_tfm'
Fix this by checking at compile-time if CONFIG_PSTORE_COMPRESS is enabled.
Fixes: 58eb5b670747 ("pstore: fix crypto dependencies")
Signed-off-by: Tobias Regnery <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux
Pull SELinux updates from Paul Moore:
"A bigger than usual pull request for SELinux, 13 patches (lucky!)
along with a scary looking diffstat.
Although if you look a bit closer, excluding the usual minor
tweaks/fixes, there are really only two significant changes in this
pull request: the addition of proper SELinux access controls for SCTP
and the encapsulation of a lot of internal SELinux state.
The SCTP changes are the result of a multi-month effort (maybe even a
year or longer?) between the SELinux folks and the SCTP folks to add
proper SELinux controls. A special thanks go to Richard for seeing
this through and keeping the effort moving forward.
The state encapsulation work is a bit of janitorial work that came out
of some early work on SELinux namespacing. The question of namespacing
is still an open one, but I believe there is some real value in the
encapsulation work so we've split that out and are now sending that up
to you"
* tag 'selinux-pr-20180403' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux:
selinux: wrap AVC state
selinux: wrap selinuxfs state
selinux: fix handling of uninitialized selinux state in get_bools/classes
selinux: Update SELinux SCTP documentation
selinux: Fix ltp test connect-syscall failure
selinux: rename the {is,set}_enforcing() functions
selinux: wrap global selinux state
selinux: fix typo in selinux_netlbl_sctp_sk_clone declaration
selinux: Add SCTP support
sctp: Add LSM hooks
sctp: Add ip option support
security: Add support for SCTP security hooks
netlabel: If PF_INET6, check sk_buff ip header version
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit
Pull audit updates from Paul Moore:
"We didn't have anything to send for v4.16, but we're back with a
little more than usual for v4.17.
Eleven patches in total, most fall into the small fix category, but
there are three non-trivial changes worth calling out:
- the audit entry filter is being removed after deprecating it for
quite a while (years of no one really using it because it turns out
to be not very practical)
- created our own version of "__mutex_owner()" because the locking
folks were upset we were using theirs
- improved our handling of kernel command line parameters to make
them more forgiving
- we fixed auditing of symlink operations
Everything passes the audit-testsuite and as of a few minutes ago it
merges well with your tree"
* tag 'audit-pr-20180403' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit:
audit: add refused symlink to audit_names
audit: remove path param from link denied function
audit: link denied should not directly generate PATH record
audit: make ANOM_LINK obey audit_enabled and audit_dummy_context
audit: do not panic on invalid boot parameter
audit: track the owner of the command mutex ourselves
audit: return on memory error to avoid null pointer dereference
audit: bail before bug check if audit disabled
audit: deprecate the AUDIT_FILTER_ENTRY filter
audit: session ID should not set arch quick field pointer
audit: update bugtracker and source URIs
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux
Pull pstore updates from Kees Cook:
"This cycle was almost entirely improvements to the pstore compression
options, noted below:
- Add lz4hc and 842 to pstore compression options (Geliang Tang)
- Refactor to use crypto compression API (Geliang Tang)
- Fix up Kconfig dependencies for compression (Arnd Bergmann)
- Allow for run-time compression selection
- Remove stack VLA usage"
* tag 'pstore-v4.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
pstore: fix crypto dependencies
pstore: Use crypto compress API
pstore/ram: Do not use stack VLA for parity workspace
pstore: Select compression at runtime
pstore: Avoid size casts for 842 compression
pstore: Add lz4hc and 842 compression support
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Merge updates from Andrew Morton:
- a few misc things
- ocfs2 updates
- the v9fs maintainers have been missing for a long time. I've taken
over v9fs patch slinging.
- most of MM
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <[email protected]>: (116 commits)
mm,oom_reaper: check for MMF_OOM_SKIP before complaining
mm/ksm: fix interaction with THP
mm/memblock.c: cast constant ULLONG_MAX to phys_addr_t
headers: untangle kmemleak.h from mm.h
include/linux/mmdebug.h: make VM_WARN* non-rvals
mm/page_isolation.c: make start_isolate_page_range() fail if already isolated
mm: change return type to vm_fault_t
mm, oom: remove 3% bonus for CAP_SYS_ADMIN processes
mm, page_alloc: wakeup kcompactd even if kswapd cannot free more memory
kernel/fork.c: detect early free of a live mm
mm: make counting of list_lru_one::nr_items lockless
mm/swap_state.c: make bool enable_vma_readahead and swap_vma_readahead() static
block_invalidatepage(): only release page if the full page was invalidated
mm: kernel-doc: add missing parameter descriptions
mm/swap.c: remove @cold parameter description for release_pages()
mm/nommu: remove description of alloc_vm_area
zram: drop max_zpage_size and use zs_huge_class_size()
zsmalloc: introduce zs_huge_class_size()
mm: fix races between swapoff and flush dcache
fs/direct-io.c: minor cleanups in do_blockdev_direct_IO
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
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lookup_slow() sans locking/unlocking the directory
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
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Pull MTD updates from Boris Brezillon:
"MTD Core:
- Remove support for asynchronous erase (not implemented by any of
the existing drivers anyway)
- Remove Cyrille from the list of SPI NOR and MTD maintainers
- Fix kernel doc headers
- Allow users to define the partitions parsers they want to test
through a DT property (compatible of the partitions subnode)
- Remove the bfin-async-flash driver (the only architecture using it
has been removed)
- Fix pagetest test
- Add extra checks in mtd_erase()
- Simplify the MTD partition creation logic and get rid of
mtd_add_device_partitions()
MTD Drivers:
- Add endianness information to the physmap DT binding
- Add Eon EN29LV400A IDs to JEDEC probe logic
- Use %*ph where appropriate
SPI NOR Drivers:
- Make fsl-quaspi assign different names to MTD devices connected to
the same QSPI controller
- Remove an unneeded driver.bus assigned in the fsl-qspi driver
NAND Core:
- Prepare arrival of the SPI NAND subsystem by implementing a generic
(interface-agnostic) layer to ease manipulation of NAND devices
- Move onenand code base to the drivers/mtd/nand/ dir
- Rework timing mode selection
- Provide a generic way for NAND chip drivers to flag a specific
GET/SET FEATURE operation as supported/unsupported
- Stop embedding ONFI/JEDEC param page in nand_chip
NAND Drivers:
- Rework/cleanup of the mxc driver
- Various cleanups in the vf610 driver
- Migrate the fsmc and vf610 to ->exec_op()
- Get rid of the pxa driver (replaced by marvell_nand)
- Support ->setup_data_interface() in the GPMI driver
- Fix probe error path in several drivers
- Remove support for unused hw_syndrome mode in sunxi_nand
- Various minor improvements"
* tag 'mtd/for-4.17' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd: (89 commits)
dt-bindings: fsl-quadspi: Add the example of two SPI NOR
mtd: fsl-quadspi: Distinguish the mtd device names
mtd: nand: Fix some function description mismatches in core.c
mtd: fsl-quadspi: Remove unneeded driver.bus assignment
mtd: rawnand: marvell: Rename ->ecc_clk into ->core_clk
mtd: rawnand: s3c2410: enhance the probe function error path
mtd: rawnand: tango: fix probe function error path
mtd: rawnand: sh_flctl: fix the probe function error path
mtd: rawnand: omap2: fix the probe function error path
mtd: rawnand: mxc: fix probe function error path
mtd: rawnand: denali: fix probe function error path
mtd: rawnand: davinci: fix probe function error path
mtd: rawnand: cafe: fix probe function error path
mtd: rawnand: brcmnand: fix probe function error path
mtd: rawnand: sunxi: Stop supporting ECC_HW_SYNDROME mode
mtd: rawnand: marvell: Fix clock resource by adding a register clock
mtd: ftl: Use DIV_ROUND_UP()
mtd: Fix some function description mismatches in mtdcore.c
mtd: physmap_of: update struct map_info's swap as per map requirement
dt-bindings: mtd-physmap: Add endianness supports
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm
Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:
- DM core passthrough ioctl fix to retain reference to DM table, and
that table's block devices, while issuing the ioctl to one of those
block devices.
- DM core passthrough ioctl fix to _not_ override the fmode_t used to
issue the ioctl. Overriding by using the fmode_t that the block
device was originally open with during DM table load is a liability.
- Add DM core support for secure erase forwarding and update the DM
linear and DM striped targets to support them.
- A DM core 4.16 stable fix to allow abnormal IO (e.g. discard, write
same, write zeroes) for targets that make use of the non-splitting IO
variant (as is done for multipath or thinp when layered directly on
NVMe).
- Allow DM targets to return a payload in response to a DM message that
they are sent. This is useful for DM targets that would like to
provide statistics data in response to DM messages.
- Update DM bufio to support non-power-of-2 block sizes. Numerous other
related changes prepare the DM bufio code for this support.
- Fix DM crypt to use a bounded amount of memory across the entire
system. This is to avoid OOM that can otherwise occur in response to
certain pathological IO workloads (e.g. discarding a large DM crypt
device).
- Add a 'check_at_most_once' feature to the DM verity target to allow
verity to be used on mobile devices that have very limited resources.
- Fix the DM integrity target to fail early if a keyed algorithm (e.g.
HMAC) is to be used but the key isn't set.
- Add non-power-of-2 support to the DM unstripe target.
- Eliminate the use of a Variable Length Array in the DM stripe target.
- Update the DM log-writes target to record metadata (REQ_META flag).
- DM raid fixes for its nosync status and some variable range issues.
* tag 'for-4.17/dm-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (28 commits)
dm: remove fmode_t argument from .prepare_ioctl hook
dm: hold DM table for duration of ioctl rather than use blkdev_get
dm raid: fix parse_raid_params() variable range issue
dm verity: make verity_for_io_block static
dm verity: add 'check_at_most_once' option to only validate hashes once
dm bufio: don't embed a bio in the dm_buffer structure
dm bufio: support non-power-of-two block sizes
dm bufio: use slab cache for dm_buffer structure allocations
dm bufio: reorder fields in dm_buffer structure
dm bufio: relax alignment constraint on slab cache
dm bufio: remove code that merges slab caches
dm bufio: get rid of slab cache name allocations
dm bufio: move dm-bufio.h to include/linux/
dm bufio: delete outdated comment
dm: add support for secure erase forwarding
dm: backfill abnormal IO support to non-splitting IO submission
dm raid: fix nosync status
dm mpath: use DM_MAPIO_SUBMITTED instead of magic number 0 in process_queued_bios()
dm stripe: get rid of a Variable Length Array (VLA)
dm log writes: record metadata flag for better flags record
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
"Assorted stuff, including Christoph's I_DIRTY patches"
* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
fs: move I_DIRTY_INODE to fs.h
ubifs: fix bogus __mark_inode_dirty(I_DIRTY_SYNC | I_DIRTY_DATASYNC) call
ntfs: fix bogus __mark_inode_dirty(I_DIRTY_SYNC | I_DIRTY_DATASYNC) call
gfs2: fix bogus __mark_inode_dirty(I_DIRTY_SYNC | I_DIRTY_DATASYNC) calls
fs: fold open_check_o_direct into do_dentry_open
vfs: Replace stray non-ASCII homoglyph characters with their ASCII equivalents
vfs: make sure struct filename->iname is word-aligned
get rid of pointless includes of fs_struct.h
[poll] annotate SAA6588_CMD_POLL users
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The LED2[2]/INTn pin on Marvell 88E1318S as well as 88E1510/12/14/18 needs
to be configured to be usable as interrupt not only when WOL is enabled,
but whenever we rely on interrupts from the PHY.
Signed-off-by: Esben Haabendal <[email protected]>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
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Make the function static to avoid a
warning: no previous prototype for ‘vmx_enable_tdp’
Signed-off-by: Peng Hao <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/net-queue
Jeff Kirsher says:
====================
Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2018-04-06
This series contains a couple of fixes for the new ice driver.
Wei Yongjun fixes the return error code for error case during init.
Anirudh fixes the incorrect use of ARRAY_SIZE() in the ice ethtool code
and fixed "for" loop calculations.
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
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Switch simpad's CF implementation to use the gpiod APIs. The inverted
detection is handled using gpiolib's native inversion abilities.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
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Convert shannon to use the generic CF socket support.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
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Convert nanoengine to use the generic CF socket support.
Makefile fix from Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <[email protected]>
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1) Return correct size from ice_get_regs_len.
2) Fix incorrect use of ARRAY_SIZE in ice_get_regs.
Fixes: fcea6f3da546 (ice: Add stats and ethtool support)
Signed-off-by: Anirudh Venkataramanan <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Tony Brelinski <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <[email protected]>
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Fix to return error code ICE_ERR_NO_MEMORY from the alloc error
handling case instead of 0, as done elsewhere in this function.
Fixes: dc49c7723676 ("ice: Get MAC/PHY/link info and scheduler topology")
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Anirudh Venkataramanan <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Tony Brelinski <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <[email protected]>
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* lorenzo/pci/cadence:
MAINTAINERS: Add missing /drivers/pci/cadence directory entry
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Maintain a catalogue of allocated cookies so that cookie collisions can be
handled properly. For the moment, this just involves printing a warning
and returning a NULL cookie to the caller of fscache_acquire_cookie(), but
in future it might make sense to wait for the old cookie to finish being
cleaned up.
This requires the cookie key to be stored attached to the cookie so that we
still have the key available if the netfs relinquishes the cookie. This is
done by an earlier patch.
The catalogue also renders redundant fscache_netfs_list (used for checking
for duplicates), so that can be removed.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Anna Schumaker <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Steve Dickson <[email protected]>
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Pass the object size in to fscache_acquire_cookie() and
fscache_write_page() rather than the netfs providing a callback by which it
can be received. This makes it easier to update the size of the object
when a new page is written that extends the object.
The current object size is also passed by fscache to the check_aux
function, obviating the need to store it in the aux data.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Anna Schumaker <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Steve Dickson <[email protected]>
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I got "oom_reaper: unable to reap pid:" messages when the victim thread
was blocked inside free_pgtables() (which occurred after returning from
unmap_vmas() and setting MMF_OOM_SKIP). We don't need to complain when
exit_mmap() already set MMF_OOM_SKIP.
Killed process 7558 (a.out) total-vm:4176kB, anon-rss:84kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB
oom_reaper: unable to reap pid:7558 (a.out)
a.out D13272 7558 6931 0x00100084
Call Trace:
schedule+0x2d/0x80
rwsem_down_write_failed+0x2bb/0x440
call_rwsem_down_write_failed+0x13/0x20
down_write+0x49/0x60
unlink_file_vma+0x28/0x50
free_pgtables+0x36/0x100
exit_mmap+0xbb/0x180
mmput+0x50/0x110
copy_process.part.41+0xb61/0x1fe0
_do_fork+0xe6/0x560
do_syscall_64+0x74/0x230
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x42/0xb7
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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This patch fixes a corner case for KSM. When two pages belong or
belonged to the same transparent hugepage, and they should be merged,
KSM fails to split the page, and therefore no merging happens.
This bug can be reproduced by:
* making sure ksm is running (in case disabling ksmtuned)
* enabling transparent hugepages
* allocating a THP-aligned 1-THP-sized buffer
e.g. on amd64: posix_memalign(&p, 1<<21, 1<<21)
* filling it with the same values
e.g. memset(p, 42, 1<<21)
* performing madvise to make it mergeable
e.g. madvise(p, 1<<21, MADV_MERGEABLE)
* waiting for KSM to perform a few scans
The expected outcome is that the all the pages get merged (1 shared and
the rest sharing); the actual outcome is that no pages get merged (1
unshared and the rest volatile)
The reason of this behaviour is that we increase the reference count
once for both pages we want to merge, but if they belong to the same
hugepage (or compound page), the reference counter used in both cases is
the one of the head of the compound page. This means that
split_huge_page will find a value of the reference counter too high and
will fail.
This patch solves this problem by testing if the two pages to merge
belong to the same hugepage when attempting to merge them. If so, the
hugepage is split safely. This means that the hugepage is not split if
not necessary.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Claudio Imbrenda <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Gerald Schaefer <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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This fixes a warning shown when phys_addr_t is 32-bit int when compiling
with clang:
mm/memblock.c:927:15: warning: implicit conversion from 'unsigned long long'
to 'phys_addr_t' (aka 'unsigned int') changes value from
18446744073709551615 to 4294967295 [-Wconstant-conversion]
r->base : ULLONG_MAX;
^~~~~~~~~~
./include/linux/kernel.h:30:21: note: expanded from macro 'ULLONG_MAX'
#define ULLONG_MAX (~0ULL)
^~~~~
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <[email protected]>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Currently <linux/slab.h> #includes <linux/kmemleak.h> for no obvious
reason. It looks like it's only a convenience, so remove kmemleak.h
from slab.h and add <linux/kmemleak.h> to any users of kmemleak_* that
don't already #include it. Also remove <linux/kmemleak.h> from source
files that do not use it.
This is tested on i386 allmodconfig and x86_64 allmodconfig. It would
be good to run it through the 0day bot for other $ARCHes. I have
neither the horsepower nor the storage space for the other $ARCHes.
Update: This patch has been extensively build-tested by both the 0day
bot & kisskb/ozlabs build farms. Both of them reported 2 build failures
for which patches are included here (in v2).
[ slab.h is the second most used header file after module.h; kernel.h is
right there with slab.h. There could be some minor error in the
counting due to some #includes having comments after them and I didn't
combine all of those. ]
[[email protected]: security/keys/big_key.c needs vmalloc.h, per sfr]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/head/13396/
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]> [2 build failures]
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <[email protected]> [2 build failures]
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Wei Yongjun <[email protected]>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Mimi Zohar <[email protected]>
Cc: John Johansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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At present the construct
if (VM_WARN(...))
will compile OK with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y and will fail with
CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=n. The reason is that VM_{WARN,BUG}* have always been
special wrt. {WARN/BUG}* and never generate any code when DEBUG_VM is
disabled. So we cannot really use it in conditionals.
We considered changing things so that this construct works in both cases
but that might cause unwanted code generation with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=n.
It is safer and simpler to make the build fail in both cases.
[[email protected]: changelog]
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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start_isolate_page_range() is used to set the migrate type of a set of
pageblocks to MIGRATE_ISOLATE while attempting to start a migration
operation. It assumes that only one thread is calling it for the
specified range. This routine is used by CMA, memory hotplug and
gigantic huge pages. Each of these users synchronize access to the
range within their subsystem. However, two subsystems (CMA and gigantic
huge pages for example) could attempt operations on the same range. If
this happens, one thread may 'undo' the work another thread is doing.
This can result in pageblocks being incorrectly left marked as
MIGRATE_ISOLATE and therefore not available for page allocation.
What is ideally needed is a way to synchronize access to a set of
pageblocks that are undergoing isolation and migration. The only thing
we know about these pageblocks is that they are all in the same zone. A
per-node mutex is too coarse as we want to allow multiple operations on
different ranges within the same zone concurrently. Instead, we will
use the migration type of the pageblocks themselves as a form of
synchronization.
start_isolate_page_range sets the migration type on a set of page-
blocks going in order from the one associated with the smallest pfn to
the largest pfn. The zone lock is acquired to check and set the
migration type. When going through the list of pageblocks check if
MIGRATE_ISOLATE is already set. If so, this indicates another thread is
working on this pageblock. We know exactly which pageblocks we set, so
clean up by undo those and return -EBUSY.
This allows start_isolate_page_range to serve as a synchronization
mechanism and will allow for more general use of callers making use of
these interfaces. Update comments in alloc_contig_range to reflect this
new functionality.
Each CPU holds the associated zone lock to modify or examine the
migration type of a pageblock. And, it will only examine/update a
single pageblock per lock acquire/release cycle.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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The plan for these patches is to introduce the typedef, initially just
as documentation ("These functions should return a VM_FAULT_ status").
We'll trickle the patches to individual drivers/filesystems in through
the maintainers, as far as possible. Then we'll change the typedef to
an unsigned int and break the compilation of any unconverted
drivers/filesystems.
vmf_insert_page(), vmf_insert_mixed() and vmf_insert_pfn() are three
newly added functions. The various drivers/filesystems where return
value of fault(), huge_fault(), page_mkwrite() and pfn_mkwrite() get
converted, will need them. These functions will return correct
VM_FAULT_ code based on err value.
We've had bugs before where drivers returned -EFOO. And we have this
silly inefficiency where vm_insert_xxx() return an errno which (afaict)
every driver then converts into a VM_FAULT code. In many cases drivers
failed to return correct VM_FAULT code value despite of vm_insert_xxx()
fails. We have indentified and clean up all those existing bugs and
silly inefficiencies in driver/filesystems by adding these three new
inline wrappers. As mentioned above, we will trickle those patches to
individual drivers/filesystems in through maintainers after these three
wrapper functions are merged.
Eventually we can convert vm_insert_xxx() into vmf_insert_xxx() and
remove these inline wrappers, but these are a good intermediate step.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180310162351.GA7422@jordon-HP-15-Notebook-PC
Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Since the 2.6 kernel, the oom killer has slightly biased away from
CAP_SYS_ADMIN processes by discounting some of its memory usage in
comparison to other processes.
This has always been implicit and nothing exactly relies on the
behavior.
Gaurav notices that __task_cred() can dereference a potentially freed
pointer if the task under consideration is exiting because a reference
to the task_struct is not held.
Remove the CAP_SYS_ADMIN bias so that all processes are treated equally.
If any CAP_SYS_ADMIN process would like to be biased against, it is
always allowed to adjust /proc/pid/oom_score_adj.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Gaurav Kohli <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Kswapd will not wakeup if per-zone watermarks are not failing or if too
many previous attempts at background reclaim have failed.
This can be true if there is a lot of free memory available. For high-
order allocations, kswapd is responsible for waking up kcompactd for
background compaction. If the zone is not below its watermarks or
reclaim has recently failed (lots of free memory, nothing left to
reclaim), kcompactd does not get woken up.
When __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is not allowed, allow kcompactd to still be
woken up even if kswapd will not reclaim. This allows high-order
allocations, such as thp, to still trigger background compaction even
when the zone has an abundance of free memory.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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KASAN splats indicate that in some cases we free a live mm, then
continue to access it, with potentially disastrous results. This is
likely due to a mismatched mmdrop() somewhere in the kernel, but so far
the culprit remains elusive.
Let's have __mmdrop() verify that the mm isn't live for the current
task, similar to the existing check for init_mm. This way, we can catch
this class of issue earlier, and without requiring KASAN.
Currently, idle_task_exit() leaves active_mm stale after it switches to
init_mm. This isn't harmful, but will trigger the new assertions, so we
must adjust idle_task_exit() to update active_mm.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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During the reclaiming slab of a memcg, shrink_slab iterates over all
registered shrinkers in the system, and tries to count and consume
objects related to the cgroup. In case of memory pressure, this behaves
bad: I observe high system time and time spent in list_lru_count_one()
for many processes on RHEL7 kernel.
This patch makes list_lru_node::memcg_lrus rcu protected, that allows to
skip taking spinlock in list_lru_count_one().
Shakeel Butt with the patch observes significant perf graph change. He
says:
========================================================================
Setup: running a fork-bomb in a memcg of 200MiB on a 8GiB and 4 vcpu
VM and recording the trace with 'perf record -g -a'.
The trace without the patch:
+ 34.19% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] queued_spin_lock_slowpath
+ 30.77% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_lock
+ 3.53% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] list_lru_count_one
+ 2.26% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] super_cache_count
+ 1.68% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] shrink_slab
+ 0.59% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] down_read_trylock
+ 0.48% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
+ 0.38% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] shrink_node_memcg
+ 0.32% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] queue_work_on
+ 0.26% fb.sh [kernel.kallsyms] [k] count_shadow_nodes
With the patch:
+ 0.16% swapper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] default_idle
+ 0.13% oom_reaper [kernel.kallsyms] [k] mutex_spin_on_owner
+ 0.05% perf [kernel.kallsyms] [k] copy_user_generic_string
+ 0.05% init.real [kernel.kallsyms] [k] wait_consider_task
+ 0.05% kworker/0:0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] finish_task_switch
+ 0.04% kworker/2:1 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] finish_task_switch
+ 0.04% kworker/3:1 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] finish_task_switch
+ 0.04% kworker/1:0 [kernel.kallsyms] [k] finish_task_switch
+ 0.03% binary [kernel.kallsyms] [k] copy_page
========================================================================
Thanks Shakeel for the testing.
[[email protected]: v2]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151203869520.3915.2587549826865799173.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/150583358557.26700.8490036563698102569.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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The bool enable_vma_readahead and swap_vma_readahead() are local to the
source and do not need to be in global scope, so make them static.
Cleans up sparse warnings:
mm/swap_state.c:41:6: warning: symbol 'enable_vma_readahead' was not declared. Should it be static?
mm/swap_state.c:742:13: warning: symbol 'swap_vma_readahead' was not declared. Should it be static?
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Acked-by: "Huang, Ying" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Prior to commit d47992f86b30 ("mm: change invalidatepage prototype to
accept length"), an offset of 0 meant that the full page was being
invalidated. After that commit, we need to instead check the length.
Jan said:
:
: The only possible issue is that try_to_release_page() was called more
: often than necessary. Otherwise the issue is harmless but still it's good
: to have this fixed.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Fixes: d47992f86b307 ("mm: change invalidatepage prototype to accept length")
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <[email protected]>
Cc: Lukas Czerner <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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The 'cold' parameter was removed from release_pages function by commit
c6f92f9fbe7d ("mm: remove cold parameter for release_pages").
Update the description to match the code.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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The alloc_mm_area in nommu is a stub, but its description states it
allocates kernel address space. Remove the description to make the code
and the documentation agree.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Remove ZRAM's enforced "huge object" value and use zsmalloc huge-class
watermark instead, which makes more sense.
TEST
- I used a 1G zram device, LZO compression back-end, original
data set size was 444MB. Looking at zsmalloc classes stats the
test ended up to be pretty fair.
BASE ZRAM/ZSMALLOC
=====================
zram mm_stat
498978816 191482495 199831552 0 199831552 15634 0
zsmalloc classes
class size almost_full almost_empty obj_allocated obj_used pages_used pages_per_zspage freeable
...
151 2448 0 0 1240 1240 744 3 0
168 2720 0 0 4200 4200 2800 2 0
190 3072 0 0 10100 10100 7575 3 0
202 3264 0 0 380 380 304 4 0
254 4096 0 0 10620 10620 10620 1 0
Total 7 46 106982 106187 48787 0
PATCHED ZRAM/ZSMALLOC
=====================
zram mm_stat
498978816 182579184 194248704 0 194248704 15628 0
zsmalloc classes
class size almost_full almost_empty obj_allocated obj_used pages_used pages_per_zspage freeable
...
151 2448 0 0 1240 1240 744 3 0
168 2720 0 0 4200 4200 2800 2 0
190 3072 0 0 10100 10100 7575 3 0
202 3264 0 0 7180 7180 5744 4 0
254 4096 0 0 3820 3820 3820 1 0
Total 8 45 106959 106193 47424 0
As we can see, we reduced the number of objects stored in class-4096,
because a huge number of objects which we previously forcibly stored in
class-4096 now stored in non-huge class-3264. This results in lower
memory consumption:
- zsmalloc now uses 47424 physical pages, which is less than 48787 pages
zsmalloc used before.
- objects that we store in class-3264 share zspages. That's why overall
the number of pages that both class-4096 and class-3264 consumed went
down from 10924 to 9564.
[[email protected]: add pool param to zs_huge_class_size()]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Patch series "zsmalloc/zram: drop zram's max_zpage_size", v3.
ZRAM's max_zpage_size is a bad thing. It forces zsmalloc to store
normal objects as huge ones, which results in bigger zsmalloc memory
usage. Drop it and use actual zsmalloc huge-class value when decide if
the object is huge or not.
This patch (of 2):
Not every object can be share its zspage with other objects, e.g. when
the object is as big as zspage or nearly as big a zspage. For such
objects zsmalloc has a so called huge class - every object which belongs
to huge class consumes the entire zspage (which consists of a physical
page). On x86_64, PAGE_SHIFT 12 box, the first non-huge class size is
3264, so starting down from size 3264, objects can share page(-s) and
thus minimize memory wastage.
ZRAM, however, has its own statically defined watermark for huge
objects, namely "3 * PAGE_SIZE / 4 = 3072", and forcibly stores every
object larger than this watermark (3072) as a PAGE_SIZE object, in other
words, to a huge class, while zsmalloc can keep some of those objects in
non-huge classes. This results in increased memory consumption.
zsmalloc knows better if the object is huge or not. Introduce
zs_huge_class_size() function which tells if the given object can be
stored in one of non-huge classes or not. This will let us to drop
ZRAM's huge object watermark and fully rely on zsmalloc when we decide
if the object is huge.
[[email protected]: add pool param to zs_huge_class_size()]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Thanks to commit 4b3ef9daa4fc ("mm/swap: split swap cache into 64MB
trunks"), after swapoff the address_space associated with the swap
device will be freed. So page_mapping() users which may touch the
address_space need some kind of mechanism to prevent the address_space
from being freed during accessing.
The dcache flushing functions (flush_dcache_page(), etc) in architecture
specific code may access the address_space of swap device for anonymous
pages in swap cache via page_mapping() function. But in some cases
there are no mechanisms to prevent the swap device from being swapoff,
for example,
CPU1 CPU2
__get_user_pages() swapoff()
flush_dcache_page()
mapping = page_mapping()
... exit_swap_address_space()
... kvfree(spaces)
mapping_mapped(mapping)
The address space may be accessed after being freed.
But from cachetlb.txt and Russell King, flush_dcache_page() only care
about file cache pages, for anonymous pages, flush_anon_page() should be
used. The implementation of flush_dcache_page() in all architectures
follows this too. They will check whether page_mapping() is NULL and
whether mapping_mapped() is true to determine whether to flush the
dcache immediately. And they will use interval tree (mapping->i_mmap)
to find all user space mappings. While mapping_mapped() and
mapping->i_mmap isn't used by anonymous pages in swap cache at all.
So, to fix the race between swapoff and flush dcache, __page_mapping()
is add to return the address_space for file cache pages and NULL
otherwise. All page_mapping() invoking in flush dcache functions are
replaced with page_mapping_file().
[[email protected]: simplify page_mapping_file(), per Mike]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: Chen Liqin <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <[email protected]>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <[email protected]>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <[email protected]>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Zankel <[email protected]>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <[email protected]>
Cc: Ley Foon Tan <[email protected]>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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We already get the block counts and calculate the end block at the
beginning of the function. Let's use the local variables for
consistency and readability. No functional changes
[[email protected]: constify the locals to prevent future slipups]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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clang reports the following compile warning.
In file included from mm/vmscan.c:56:
./include/linux/swapops.h:327:22: warning:
section attribute is specified on redeclared variable [-Wsection]
extern atomic_long_t num_poisoned_pages __read_mostly;
^
./include/linux/mm.h:2585:22: note: previous declaration is here
extern atomic_long_t num_poisoned_pages;
^
Let's use __read_mostly everywhere.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Given that device-dax is making similar page mapping size guarantees as
hugetlbfs, emit the size in smaps and any other kernel path that
requests the mapping size of a vma.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151996255287.27922.18397777516059080245.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Jane Chu <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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When device-dax is operating in huge-page mode we want it to behave like
hugetlbfs and report the MMU page mapping size that is being enforced by
the vma.
Similar to commit 31383c6865a5 "mm, hugetlbfs: introduce ->split() to
vm_operations_struct" it would be messy to teach vma_mmu_pagesize()
about device-dax page mapping sizes in the same (hstate) way that
hugetlbfs communicates this attribute. Instead, these patches introduce
a new ->pagesize() vm operation.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151996254734.27922.15813097401404359642.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Jane Chu <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Patch series "mm, smaps: MMUPageSize for device-dax", v3.
Similar to commit 31383c6865a5 ("mm, hugetlbfs: introduce ->split() to
vm_operations_struct") here is another occasion where we want
special-case hugetlbfs/hstate enabling to also apply to device-dax.
This prompts the question what other hstate conversions we might do
beyond ->split() and ->pagesize(), but this appears to be the last of
the usages of hstate_vma() in generic/non-hugetlbfs specific code paths.
This patch (of 3):
The current powerpc definition of vma_mmu_pagesize() open codes looking
up the page size via hstate. It is identical to the generic
vma_kernel_pagesize() implementation.
Now, vma_kernel_pagesize() is growing support for determining the page
size of Device-DAX vmas in addition to the existing Hugetlbfs page size
determination.
Ideally, if the powerpc vma_mmu_pagesize() used vma_kernel_pagesize() it
would automatically benefit from any new vma-type support that is added
to vma_kernel_pagesize(). However, the powerpc vma_mmu_pagesize() is
prevented from calling vma_kernel_pagesize() due to a circular header
dependency that requires vma_mmu_pagesize() to be defined before
including <linux/hugetlb.h>.
Break this circular dependency by defining the default vma_mmu_pagesize()
as a __weak symbol to be overridden by the powerpc version.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151996254179.27922.2213728278535578744.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <[email protected]>
Cc: Jane Chu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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- Fixed style error: 8 spaces -> 1 tab.
- Fixed style warning: Corrected misleading indentation.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Mario Leinweber <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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When a page is freed back to the global pool, its buddy will be checked
to see if it's possible to do a merge. This requires accessing buddy's
page structure and that access could take a long time if it's cache
cold.
This patch adds a prefetch to the to-be-freed page's buddy outside of
zone->lock in hope of accessing buddy's page structure later under
zone->lock will be faster. Since we *always* do buddy merging and check
an order-0 page's buddy to try to merge it when it goes into the main
allocator, the cacheline will always come in, i.e. the prefetched data
will never be unused.
Normally, the number of prefetch will be pcp->batch(default=31 and has
an upper limit of (PAGE_SHIFT * 8)=96 on x86_64) but in the case of
pcp's pages get all drained, it will be pcp->count which has an upper
limit of pcp->high. pcp->high, although has a default value of 186
(pcp->batch=31 * 6), can be changed by user through
/proc/sys/vm/percpu_pagelist_fraction and there is no software upper
limit so could be large, like several thousand. For this reason, only
the first pcp->batch number of page's buddy structure is prefetched to
avoid excessive prefetching.
In the meantime, there are two concerns:
1. the prefetch could potentially evict existing cachelines, especially
for L1D cache since it is not huge
2. there is some additional instruction overhead, namely calculating
buddy pfn twice
For 1, it's hard to say, this microbenchmark though shows good result
but the actual benefit of this patch will be workload/CPU dependant;
For 2, since the calculation is a XOR on two local variables, it's
expected in many cases that cycles spent will be offset by reduced
memory latency later. This is especially true for NUMA machines where
multiple CPUs are contending on zone->lock and the most time consuming
part under zone->lock is the wait of 'struct page' cacheline of the
to-be-freed pages and their buddies.
Test with will-it-scale/page_fault1 full load:
kernel Broadwell(2S) Skylake(2S) Broadwell(4S) Skylake(4S)
v4.16-rc2+ 9034215 7971818 13667135 15677465
patch2/3 9536374 +5.6% 8314710 +4.3% 14070408 +3.0% 16675866 +6.4%
this patch 10180856 +6.8% 8506369 +2.3% 14756865 +4.9% 17325324 +3.9%
Note: this patch's performance improvement percent is against patch2/3.
(Changelog stolen from Dave Hansen and Mel Gorman's comments at
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected])
[[email protected]: use helper function, avoid disordering pages]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
[[email protected]: v4]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Ying Huang <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Cc: Kemi Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Tim Chen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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