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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2014-10-13T09:28:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-10-13T09:28:42+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "The big thing in this pile is Eric's unmount-on-rmdir series; we
  finally have everything we need for that.  The final piece of prereqs
  is delayed mntput() - now filesystem shutdown always happens on
  shallow stack.

  Other than that, we have several new primitives for iov_iter (Matt
  Wilcox, culled from his XIP-related series) pushing the conversion to
  -&gt;read_iter()/ -&gt;write_iter() a bit more, a bunch of fs/dcache.c
  cleanups and fixes (including the external name refcounting, which
  gives consistent behaviour of d_move() wrt procfs symlinks for long
  and short names alike) and assorted cleanups and fixes all over the
  place.

  This is just the first pile; there's a lot of stuff from various
  people that ought to go in this window.  Starting with
  unionmount/overlayfs mess...  ;-/"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (60 commits)
  fs/file_table.c: Update alloc_file() comment
  vfs: Deduplicate code shared by xattr system calls operating on paths
  reiserfs: remove pointless forward declaration of struct nameidata
  don't need that forward declaration of struct nameidata in dcache.h anymore
  take dname_external() into fs/dcache.c
  let path_init() failures treated the same way as subsequent link_path_walk()
  fix misuses of f_count() in ppp and netlink
  ncpfs: use list_for_each_entry() for d_subdirs walk
  vfs: move getname() from callers to do_mount()
  gfs2_atomic_open(): skip lookups on hashed dentry
  [infiniband] remove pointless assignments
  gadgetfs: saner API for gadgetfs_create_file()
  f_fs: saner API for ffs_sb_create_file()
  jfs: don't hash direct inode
  [s390] remove pointless assignment of -&gt;f_op in vmlogrdr -&gt;open()
  ecryptfs: -&gt;f_op is never NULL
  android: -&gt;f_op is never NULL
  nouveau: __iomem misannotations
  missing annotation in fs/file.c
  fs: namespace: suppress 'may be used uninitialized' warnings
  ...
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Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "The big thing in this pile is Eric's unmount-on-rmdir series; we
  finally have everything we need for that.  The final piece of prereqs
  is delayed mntput() - now filesystem shutdown always happens on
  shallow stack.

  Other than that, we have several new primitives for iov_iter (Matt
  Wilcox, culled from his XIP-related series) pushing the conversion to
  -&gt;read_iter()/ -&gt;write_iter() a bit more, a bunch of fs/dcache.c
  cleanups and fixes (including the external name refcounting, which
  gives consistent behaviour of d_move() wrt procfs symlinks for long
  and short names alike) and assorted cleanups and fixes all over the
  place.

  This is just the first pile; there's a lot of stuff from various
  people that ought to go in this window.  Starting with
  unionmount/overlayfs mess...  ;-/"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (60 commits)
  fs/file_table.c: Update alloc_file() comment
  vfs: Deduplicate code shared by xattr system calls operating on paths
  reiserfs: remove pointless forward declaration of struct nameidata
  don't need that forward declaration of struct nameidata in dcache.h anymore
  take dname_external() into fs/dcache.c
  let path_init() failures treated the same way as subsequent link_path_walk()
  fix misuses of f_count() in ppp and netlink
  ncpfs: use list_for_each_entry() for d_subdirs walk
  vfs: move getname() from callers to do_mount()
  gfs2_atomic_open(): skip lookups on hashed dentry
  [infiniband] remove pointless assignments
  gadgetfs: saner API for gadgetfs_create_file()
  f_fs: saner API for ffs_sb_create_file()
  jfs: don't hash direct inode
  [s390] remove pointless assignment of -&gt;f_op in vmlogrdr -&gt;open()
  ecryptfs: -&gt;f_op is never NULL
  android: -&gt;f_op is never NULL
  nouveau: __iomem misannotations
  missing annotation in fs/file.c
  fs: namespace: suppress 'may be used uninitialized' warnings
  ...
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<entry>
<title>fs: Fix theoretical division by 0 in super_cache_scan().</title>
<updated>2014-10-09T06:39:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tetsuo Handa</name>
<email>penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-17T11:56:38+00:00</published>
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total_objects could be 0 and is used as a denom.

While total_objects is a "long", total_objects == 0 unlikely happens for
3.12 and later kernels because 32-bit architectures would not be able to
hold (1 &lt;&lt; 32) objects. However, total_objects == 0 may happen for kernels
between 3.1 and 3.11 because total_objects in prune_super() was an "int"
and (e.g.) x86_64 architecture might be able to hold (1 &lt;&lt; 32) objects.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; # 3.1+
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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total_objects could be 0 and is used as a denom.

While total_objects is a "long", total_objects == 0 unlikely happens for
3.12 and later kernels because 32-bit architectures would not be able to
hold (1 &lt;&lt; 32) objects. However, total_objects == 0 may happen for kernels
between 3.1 and 3.11 because total_objects in prune_super() was an "int"
and (e.g.) x86_64 architecture might be able to hold (1 &lt;&lt; 32) objects.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; # 3.1+
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>percpu_counter: add @gfp to percpu_counter_init()</title>
<updated>2014-09-08T00:51:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-09-08T00:51:29+00:00</published>
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Percpu allocator now supports allocation mask.  Add @gfp to
percpu_counter_init() so that !GFP_KERNEL allocation masks can be used
with percpu_counters too.

We could have left percpu_counter_init() alone and added
percpu_counter_init_gfp(); however, the number of users isn't that
high and introducing _gfp variants to all percpu data structures would
be quite ugly, so let's just do the conversion.  This is the one with
the most users.  Other percpu data structures are a lot easier to
convert.

This patch doesn't make any functional difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Percpu allocator now supports allocation mask.  Add @gfp to
percpu_counter_init() so that !GFP_KERNEL allocation masks can be used
with percpu_counters too.

We could have left percpu_counter_init() alone and added
percpu_counter_init_gfp(); however, the number of users isn't that
high and introducing _gfp variants to all percpu data structures would
be quite ugly, so let's just do the conversion.  This is the one with
the most users.  Other percpu data structures are a lot easier to
convert.

This patch doesn't make any functional difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs</title>
<updated>2014-08-13T23:45:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-13T23:45:40+00:00</published>
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Pull quota, reiserfs, UDF updates from Jan Kara:
 "Scalability improvements for quota, a few reiserfs fixes, and couple
  of misc cleanups (udf, ext2)"

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
  reiserfs: Fix use after free in journal teardown
  reiserfs: fix corruption introduced by balance_leaf refactor
  udf: avoid redundant memcpy when writing data in ICB
  fs/udf: re-use hex_asc_upper_{hi,lo} macros
  fs/quota: kernel-doc warning fixes
  udf: use linux/uaccess.h
  fs/ext2/super.c: Drop memory allocation cast
  quota: remove dqptr_sem
  quota: simplify remove_inode_dquot_ref()
  quota: avoid unnecessary dqget()/dqput() calls
  quota: protect Q_GETFMT by dqonoff_mutex
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Pull quota, reiserfs, UDF updates from Jan Kara:
 "Scalability improvements for quota, a few reiserfs fixes, and couple
  of misc cleanups (udf, ext2)"

* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
  reiserfs: Fix use after free in journal teardown
  reiserfs: fix corruption introduced by balance_leaf refactor
  udf: avoid redundant memcpy when writing data in ICB
  fs/udf: re-use hex_asc_upper_{hi,lo} macros
  fs/quota: kernel-doc warning fixes
  udf: use linux/uaccess.h
  fs/ext2/super.c: Drop memory allocation cast
  quota: remove dqptr_sem
  quota: simplify remove_inode_dquot_ref()
  quota: avoid unnecessary dqget()/dqput() calls
  quota: protect Q_GETFMT by dqonoff_mutex
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>make fs/{namespace,super}.c forget about acct.h</title>
<updated>2014-08-07T18:40:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-21T22:22:52+00:00</published>
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These externs belong in fs/internal.h.  Rename (they are not acct-specific
anymore) and move them over there.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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These externs belong in fs/internal.h.  Rename (they are not acct-specific
anymore) and move them over there.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>drop -&gt;s_umount around acct_auto_close()</title>
<updated>2014-08-07T18:40:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-07T11:32:06+00:00</published>
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just repeat the frozen check after regaining it, and check that sb
is still alive.  If several threads hit acct_auto_close() at the
same time, acct_auto_close() will survive that just fine.  And we
really don't want to play with writes and closing the file with
-&gt;s_umount held exclusive - it's a deadlock country.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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just repeat the frozen check after regaining it, and check that sb
is still alive.  If several threads hit acct_auto_close() at the
same time, acct_auto_close() will survive that just fine.  And we
really don't want to play with writes and closing the file with
-&gt;s_umount held exclusive - it's a deadlock country.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>acct: get rid of acct_list</title>
<updated>2014-08-07T18:40:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-07T10:23:41+00:00</published>
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Put these suckers on per-vfsmount and per-superblock lists instead.
Note: right now it's still acct_lock for everything, but that's
going to change.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Put these suckers on per-vfsmount and per-superblock lists instead.
Note: right now it's still acct_lock for everything, but that's
going to change.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>quota: remove dqptr_sem</title>
<updated>2014-07-15T20:40:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Niu Yawei</name>
<email>yawei.niu@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-04T04:23:19+00:00</published>
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Remove dqptr_sem to make quota code scalable: Remove the dqptr_sem,
accessing inode-&gt;i_dquot now protected by dquot_srcu, and changing
inode-&gt;i_dquot is now serialized by dq_data_lock.

Signed-off-by: Lai Siyao &lt;lai.siyao@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Niu Yawei &lt;yawei.niu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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Remove dqptr_sem to make quota code scalable: Remove the dqptr_sem,
accessing inode-&gt;i_dquot now protected by dquot_srcu, and changing
inode-&gt;i_dquot is now serialized by dq_data_lock.

Signed-off-by: Lai Siyao &lt;lai.siyao@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Niu Yawei &lt;yawei.niu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/superblock: avoid locking counting inodes and dentries before reclaiming them</title>
<updated>2014-06-04T23:54:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tim Chen</name>
<email>tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-04T23:10:47+00:00</published>
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We remove the call to grab_super_passive in call to super_cache_count.
This becomes a scalability bottleneck as multiple threads are trying to do
memory reclamation, e.g.  when we are doing large amount of file read and
page cache is under pressure.  The cached objects quickly got reclaimed
down to 0 and we are aborting the cache_scan() reclaim.  But counting
creates a log jam acquiring the sb_lock.

We are holding the shrinker_rwsem which ensures the safety of call to
list_lru_count_node() and s_op-&gt;nr_cached_objects.  The shrinker is
unregistered now before -&gt;kill_sb() so the operation is safe when we are
doing unmount.

The impact will depend heavily on the machine and the workload but for a
small machine using postmark tuned to use 4xRAM size the results were

                                  3.15.0-rc5            3.15.0-rc5
                                     vanilla         shrinker-v1r1
Ops/sec Transactions         21.00 (  0.00%)       24.00 ( 14.29%)
Ops/sec FilesCreate          39.00 (  0.00%)       44.00 ( 12.82%)
Ops/sec CreateTransact       10.00 (  0.00%)       12.00 ( 20.00%)
Ops/sec FilesDeleted       6202.00 (  0.00%)     6202.00 (  0.00%)
Ops/sec DeleteTransact       11.00 (  0.00%)       12.00 (  9.09%)
Ops/sec DataRead/MB          25.97 (  0.00%)       29.10 ( 12.05%)
Ops/sec DataWrite/MB         49.99 (  0.00%)       56.02 ( 12.06%)

ffsb running in a configuration that is meant to simulate a mail server showed

                                 3.15.0-rc5             3.15.0-rc5
                                    vanilla          shrinker-v1r1
Ops/sec readall           9402.63 (  0.00%)      9567.97 (  1.76%)
Ops/sec create            4695.45 (  0.00%)      4735.00 (  0.84%)
Ops/sec delete             173.72 (  0.00%)       179.83 (  3.52%)
Ops/sec Transactions     14271.80 (  0.00%)     14482.81 (  1.48%)
Ops/sec Read                37.00 (  0.00%)        37.60 (  1.62%)
Ops/sec Write               18.20 (  0.00%)        18.30 (  0.55%)

Signed-off-by: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Tested-by: Yuanhan Liu &lt;yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Bob Liu &lt;bob.liu@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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We remove the call to grab_super_passive in call to super_cache_count.
This becomes a scalability bottleneck as multiple threads are trying to do
memory reclamation, e.g.  when we are doing large amount of file read and
page cache is under pressure.  The cached objects quickly got reclaimed
down to 0 and we are aborting the cache_scan() reclaim.  But counting
creates a log jam acquiring the sb_lock.

We are holding the shrinker_rwsem which ensures the safety of call to
list_lru_count_node() and s_op-&gt;nr_cached_objects.  The shrinker is
unregistered now before -&gt;kill_sb() so the operation is safe when we are
doing unmount.

The impact will depend heavily on the machine and the workload but for a
small machine using postmark tuned to use 4xRAM size the results were

                                  3.15.0-rc5            3.15.0-rc5
                                     vanilla         shrinker-v1r1
Ops/sec Transactions         21.00 (  0.00%)       24.00 ( 14.29%)
Ops/sec FilesCreate          39.00 (  0.00%)       44.00 ( 12.82%)
Ops/sec CreateTransact       10.00 (  0.00%)       12.00 ( 20.00%)
Ops/sec FilesDeleted       6202.00 (  0.00%)     6202.00 (  0.00%)
Ops/sec DeleteTransact       11.00 (  0.00%)       12.00 (  9.09%)
Ops/sec DataRead/MB          25.97 (  0.00%)       29.10 ( 12.05%)
Ops/sec DataWrite/MB         49.99 (  0.00%)       56.02 ( 12.06%)

ffsb running in a configuration that is meant to simulate a mail server showed

                                 3.15.0-rc5             3.15.0-rc5
                                    vanilla          shrinker-v1r1
Ops/sec readall           9402.63 (  0.00%)      9567.97 (  1.76%)
Ops/sec create            4695.45 (  0.00%)      4735.00 (  0.84%)
Ops/sec delete             173.72 (  0.00%)       179.83 (  3.52%)
Ops/sec Transactions     14271.80 (  0.00%)     14482.81 (  1.48%)
Ops/sec Read                37.00 (  0.00%)        37.60 (  1.62%)
Ops/sec Write               18.20 (  0.00%)        18.30 (  0.55%)

Signed-off-by: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Tested-by: Yuanhan Liu &lt;yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Bob Liu &lt;bob.liu@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs/superblock: unregister sb shrinker before -&gt;kill_sb()</title>
<updated>2014-06-04T23:54:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Chinner</name>
<email>david@fromorbit.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-04T23:10:46+00:00</published>
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This series is aimed at regressions noticed during reclaim activity.  The
first two patches are shrinker patches that were posted ages ago but never
merged for reasons that are unclear to me.  I'm posting them again to see
if there was a reason they were dropped or if they just got lost.  Dave?
Time?  The last patch adjusts proportional reclaim.  Yuanhan Liu, can you
retest the vm scalability test cases on a larger machine?  Hugh, does this
work for you on the memcg test cases?

Based on ext4, I get the following results but unfortunately my larger
test machines are all unavailable so this is based on a relatively small
machine.

postmark
                                  3.15.0-rc5            3.15.0-rc5
                                     vanilla       proportion-v1r4
Ops/sec Transactions         21.00 (  0.00%)       25.00 ( 19.05%)
Ops/sec FilesCreate          39.00 (  0.00%)       45.00 ( 15.38%)
Ops/sec CreateTransact       10.00 (  0.00%)       12.00 ( 20.00%)
Ops/sec FilesDeleted       6202.00 (  0.00%)     6202.00 (  0.00%)
Ops/sec DeleteTransact       11.00 (  0.00%)       12.00 (  9.09%)
Ops/sec DataRead/MB          25.97 (  0.00%)       30.02 ( 15.59%)
Ops/sec DataWrite/MB         49.99 (  0.00%)       57.78 ( 15.58%)

ffsb (mail server simulator)
                                 3.15.0-rc5             3.15.0-rc5
                                    vanilla        proportion-v1r4
Ops/sec readall           9402.63 (  0.00%)      9805.74 (  4.29%)
Ops/sec create            4695.45 (  0.00%)      4781.39 (  1.83%)
Ops/sec delete             173.72 (  0.00%)       177.23 (  2.02%)
Ops/sec Transactions     14271.80 (  0.00%)     14764.37 (  3.45%)
Ops/sec Read                37.00 (  0.00%)        38.50 (  4.05%)
Ops/sec Write               18.20 (  0.00%)        18.50 (  1.65%)

dd of a large file
                                3.15.0-rc5            3.15.0-rc5
                                   vanilla       proportion-v1r4
WallTime DownloadTar       75.00 (  0.00%)       61.00 ( 18.67%)
WallTime DD               423.00 (  0.00%)      401.00 (  5.20%)
WallTime Delete             2.00 (  0.00%)        5.00 (-150.00%)

stutter (times mmap latency during large amounts of IO)

                            3.15.0-rc5            3.15.0-rc5
                               vanilla       proportion-v1r4
Unit &gt;5ms Delays  80252.0000 (  0.00%)  81523.0000 ( -1.58%)
Unit Mmap min         8.2118 (  0.00%)      8.3206 ( -1.33%)
Unit Mmap mean       17.4614 (  0.00%)     17.2868 (  1.00%)
Unit Mmap stddev     24.9059 (  0.00%)     34.6771 (-39.23%)
Unit Mmap max      2811.6433 (  0.00%)   2645.1398 (  5.92%)
Unit Mmap 90%        20.5098 (  0.00%)     18.3105 ( 10.72%)
Unit Mmap 93%        22.9180 (  0.00%)     20.1751 ( 11.97%)
Unit Mmap 95%        25.2114 (  0.00%)     22.4988 ( 10.76%)
Unit Mmap 99%        46.1430 (  0.00%)     43.5952 (  5.52%)
Unit Ideal  Tput     85.2623 (  0.00%)     78.8906 (  7.47%)
Unit Tput min        44.0666 (  0.00%)     43.9609 (  0.24%)
Unit Tput mean       45.5646 (  0.00%)     45.2009 (  0.80%)
Unit Tput stddev      0.9318 (  0.00%)      1.1084 (-18.95%)
Unit Tput max        46.7375 (  0.00%)     46.7539 ( -0.04%)

This patch (of 3):

We will like to unregister the sb shrinker before -&gt;kill_sb().  This will
allow cached objects to be counted without call to grab_super_passive() to
update ref count on sb.  We want to avoid locking during memory
reclamation especially when we are skipping the memory reclaim when we are
out of cached objects.

This is safe because grab_super_passive does a try-lock on the
sb-&gt;s_umount now, and so if we are in the unmount process, it won't ever
block.  That means what used to be a deadlock and races we were avoiding
by using grab_super_passive() is now:

        shrinker                        umount

        down_read(shrinker_rwsem)
                                        down_write(sb-&gt;s_umount)
                                        shrinker_unregister
                                          down_write(shrinker_rwsem)
                                            &lt;blocks&gt;
        grab_super_passive(sb)
          down_read_trylock(sb-&gt;s_umount)
            &lt;fails&gt;
        &lt;shrinker aborts&gt;
        ....
        &lt;shrinkers finish running&gt;
        up_read(shrinker_rwsem)
                                          &lt;unblocks&gt;
                                          &lt;removes shrinker&gt;
                                          up_write(shrinker_rwsem)
                                        -&gt;kill_sb()
                                        ....

So it is safe to deregister the shrinker before -&gt;kill_sb().

Signed-off-by: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Tested-by: Yuanhan Liu &lt;yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Bob Liu &lt;bob.liu@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This series is aimed at regressions noticed during reclaim activity.  The
first two patches are shrinker patches that were posted ages ago but never
merged for reasons that are unclear to me.  I'm posting them again to see
if there was a reason they were dropped or if they just got lost.  Dave?
Time?  The last patch adjusts proportional reclaim.  Yuanhan Liu, can you
retest the vm scalability test cases on a larger machine?  Hugh, does this
work for you on the memcg test cases?

Based on ext4, I get the following results but unfortunately my larger
test machines are all unavailable so this is based on a relatively small
machine.

postmark
                                  3.15.0-rc5            3.15.0-rc5
                                     vanilla       proportion-v1r4
Ops/sec Transactions         21.00 (  0.00%)       25.00 ( 19.05%)
Ops/sec FilesCreate          39.00 (  0.00%)       45.00 ( 15.38%)
Ops/sec CreateTransact       10.00 (  0.00%)       12.00 ( 20.00%)
Ops/sec FilesDeleted       6202.00 (  0.00%)     6202.00 (  0.00%)
Ops/sec DeleteTransact       11.00 (  0.00%)       12.00 (  9.09%)
Ops/sec DataRead/MB          25.97 (  0.00%)       30.02 ( 15.59%)
Ops/sec DataWrite/MB         49.99 (  0.00%)       57.78 ( 15.58%)

ffsb (mail server simulator)
                                 3.15.0-rc5             3.15.0-rc5
                                    vanilla        proportion-v1r4
Ops/sec readall           9402.63 (  0.00%)      9805.74 (  4.29%)
Ops/sec create            4695.45 (  0.00%)      4781.39 (  1.83%)
Ops/sec delete             173.72 (  0.00%)       177.23 (  2.02%)
Ops/sec Transactions     14271.80 (  0.00%)     14764.37 (  3.45%)
Ops/sec Read                37.00 (  0.00%)        38.50 (  4.05%)
Ops/sec Write               18.20 (  0.00%)        18.50 (  1.65%)

dd of a large file
                                3.15.0-rc5            3.15.0-rc5
                                   vanilla       proportion-v1r4
WallTime DownloadTar       75.00 (  0.00%)       61.00 ( 18.67%)
WallTime DD               423.00 (  0.00%)      401.00 (  5.20%)
WallTime Delete             2.00 (  0.00%)        5.00 (-150.00%)

stutter (times mmap latency during large amounts of IO)

                            3.15.0-rc5            3.15.0-rc5
                               vanilla       proportion-v1r4
Unit &gt;5ms Delays  80252.0000 (  0.00%)  81523.0000 ( -1.58%)
Unit Mmap min         8.2118 (  0.00%)      8.3206 ( -1.33%)
Unit Mmap mean       17.4614 (  0.00%)     17.2868 (  1.00%)
Unit Mmap stddev     24.9059 (  0.00%)     34.6771 (-39.23%)
Unit Mmap max      2811.6433 (  0.00%)   2645.1398 (  5.92%)
Unit Mmap 90%        20.5098 (  0.00%)     18.3105 ( 10.72%)
Unit Mmap 93%        22.9180 (  0.00%)     20.1751 ( 11.97%)
Unit Mmap 95%        25.2114 (  0.00%)     22.4988 ( 10.76%)
Unit Mmap 99%        46.1430 (  0.00%)     43.5952 (  5.52%)
Unit Ideal  Tput     85.2623 (  0.00%)     78.8906 (  7.47%)
Unit Tput min        44.0666 (  0.00%)     43.9609 (  0.24%)
Unit Tput mean       45.5646 (  0.00%)     45.2009 (  0.80%)
Unit Tput stddev      0.9318 (  0.00%)      1.1084 (-18.95%)
Unit Tput max        46.7375 (  0.00%)     46.7539 ( -0.04%)

This patch (of 3):

We will like to unregister the sb shrinker before -&gt;kill_sb().  This will
allow cached objects to be counted without call to grab_super_passive() to
update ref count on sb.  We want to avoid locking during memory
reclamation especially when we are skipping the memory reclaim when we are
out of cached objects.

This is safe because grab_super_passive does a try-lock on the
sb-&gt;s_umount now, and so if we are in the unmount process, it won't ever
block.  That means what used to be a deadlock and races we were avoiding
by using grab_super_passive() is now:

        shrinker                        umount

        down_read(shrinker_rwsem)
                                        down_write(sb-&gt;s_umount)
                                        shrinker_unregister
                                          down_write(shrinker_rwsem)
                                            &lt;blocks&gt;
        grab_super_passive(sb)
          down_read_trylock(sb-&gt;s_umount)
            &lt;fails&gt;
        &lt;shrinker aborts&gt;
        ....
        &lt;shrinkers finish running&gt;
        up_read(shrinker_rwsem)
                                          &lt;unblocks&gt;
                                          &lt;removes shrinker&gt;
                                          up_write(shrinker_rwsem)
                                        -&gt;kill_sb()
                                        ....

So it is safe to deregister the shrinker before -&gt;kill_sb().

Signed-off-by: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;
Tested-by: Yuanhan Liu &lt;yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Bob Liu &lt;bob.liu@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Acked-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
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