linux-toradex.git/include/asm-generic, branch v3.7.2

mm: limit mmu_gather batching to fix soft lockups on !CONFIG_PREEMPT

2013-01-11T17:19:05+00:00

commit 53a59fc67f97374758e63a9c785891ec62324c81 upstream.

Since commit e303297e6c3a ("mm: extended batches for generic
mmu_gather") we are batching pages to be freed until either
tlb_next_batch cannot allocate a new batch or we are done.

This works just fine most of the time but we can get in troubles with
non-preemptible kernel (CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE or CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY)
on large machines where too aggressive batching might lead to soft
lockups during process exit path (exit_mmap) because there are no
scheduling points down the free_pages_and_swap_cache path and so the
freeing can take long enough to trigger the soft lockup.

The lockup is harmless except when the system is setup to panic on
softlockup which is not that unusual.

The simplest way to work around this issue is to limit the maximum
number of batches in a single mmu_gather.  10k of collected pages should
be safe to prevent from soft lockups (we would have 2ms for one) even if
they are all freed without an explicit scheduling point.

This patch doesn't add any new explicit scheduling points because it
relies on zap_pmd_range during page tables zapping which calls
cond_resched per PMD.

The following lockup has been reported for 3.0 kernel with a huge
process (in order of hundreds gigs but I do know any more details).

  BUG: soft lockup - CPU#56 stuck for 22s! [kernel:31053]
  Modules linked in: af_packet nfs lockd fscache auth_rpcgss nfs_acl sunrpc mptctl mptbase autofs4 binfmt_misc dm_round_robin dm_multipath bonding cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave pcc_cpufreq mperf microcode fuse loop osst sg sd_mod crc_t10dif st qla2xxx scsi_transport_fc scsi_tgt netxen_nic i7core_edac iTCO_wdt joydev e1000e serio_raw pcspkr edac_core iTCO_vendor_support acpi_power_meter rtc_cmos hpwdt hpilo button container usbhid hid dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log linear uhci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore usb_common scsi_dh_emc scsi_dh_alua scsi_dh_hp_sw scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh dm_snapshot pcnet32 mii edd dm_mod raid1 ext3 mbcache jbd fan thermal processor thermal_sys hwmon cciss scsi_mod
  Supported: Yes
  CPU 56
  Pid: 31053, comm: kernel Not tainted 3.0.31-0.9-default #1 HP ProLiant DL580 G7
  RIP: 0010:  _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x8/0x10
  RSP: 0018:ffff883ec1037af0  EFLAGS: 00000206
  RAX: 0000000000000e00 RBX: ffffea01a0817e28 RCX: ffff88803ffd9e80
  RDX: 0000000000000200 RSI: 0000000000000206 RDI: 0000000000000206
  RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffff887ec724a400
  R10: 0000000000000000 R11: dead000000200200 R12: ffffffff8144c26e
  R13: 0000000000000030 R14: 0000000000000297 R15: 000000000000000e
  FS:  00007ed834282700(0000) GS:ffff88c03f200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
  CR2: 000000000068b240 CR3: 0000003ec13c5000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
  Process kernel (pid: 31053, threadinfo ffff883ec1036000, task ffff883ebd5d4100)
  Call Trace:
    release_pages+0xc5/0x260
    free_pages_and_swap_cache+0x9d/0xc0
    tlb_flush_mmu+0x5c/0x80
    tlb_finish_mmu+0xe/0x50
    exit_mmap+0xbd/0x120
    mmput+0x49/0x120
    exit_mm+0x122/0x160
    do_exit+0x17a/0x430
    do_group_exit+0x3d/0xb0
    get_signal_to_deliver+0x247/0x480
    do_signal+0x71/0x1b0
    do_notify_resume+0x98/0xb0
    int_signal+0x12/0x17
  DWARF2 unwinder stuck at int_signal+0x12/0x17

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

UAPI: Remove empty non-UAPI Kbuild files

2012-10-17T11:31:15+00:00

Remove non-UAPI Kbuild files that have become empty as a result of UAPI
disintegration.  They used to have only header-y lines in them and those have
now moved to the Kbuild files in the corresponding uapi/ directories.

Possibly these should not be removed but rather have a comment inserted to say
they are intentionally left blank.  This would make it easier to add generated
header lines in future without having to restore the infrastructure.

Note that at this point not all the UAPI disintegration parts have been merged,
so it is likely that more empty Kbuild files will turn up.

It is probably necessary to make the files non-empty to prevent the patch
program from automatically deleting them when it reduces them to nothing.

Signed-off-by: David Howells

Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus

2012-10-14T21:39:05+00:00

Pull MIPS update from Ralf Baechle:
 "Cleanups and fixes for breakage that occured earlier during this merge
  phase.  Also a few patches that didn't make the first pull request.
  Of those is the Alchemy work that merges code for many of the SOCs and
  evaluation boards thus among other code shrinkage, reduces the number
  of MIPS defconfigs by 5."

* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (22 commits)
  MIPS: SNI: Switch RM400 serial to SCCNXP driver
  MIPS: Remove unused empty_bad_pmd_table[] declaration.
  MIPS: MT: Remove kspd.
  MIPS: Malta: Fix section mismatch.
  MIPS: asm-offset.c: Delete unused irq_cpustat_t struct offsets.
  MIPS: Alchemy: Merge PB1100/1500 support into DB1000 code.
  MIPS: Alchemy: merge PB1550 support into DB1550 code
  MIPS: Alchemy: Single kernel for DB1200/1300/1550
  MIPS: Optimize TLB refill for RI/XI configurations.
  MIPS: proc: Cleanup printing of ASEs.
  MIPS: Hardwire detection of DSP ASE Rev 2 for systems, as required.
  MIPS: Add detection of DSP ASE Revision 2.
  MIPS: Optimize pgd_init and pmd_init
  MIPS: perf: Add perf functionality for BMIPS5000
  MIPS: perf: Split the Kconfig option CONFIG_MIPS_MT_SMP
  MIPS: perf: Remove unnecessary #ifdef
  MIPS: perf: Add cpu feature bit for PCI (performance counter interrupt)
  MIPS: perf: Change the "mips_perf_event" table unsupported indicator.
  MIPS: Align swapper_pg_dir to 64K for better TLB Refill code.
  vmlinux.lds.h: Allow architectures to add sections to the front of .bss
  ...

Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux

2012-10-14T20:39:34+00:00

Pull module signing support from Rusty Russell:
 "module signing is the highlight, but it's an all-over David Howells frenzy..."

Hmm "Magrathea: Glacier signing key". Somebody has been reading too much HHGTTG.

* 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (37 commits)
  X.509: Fix indefinite length element skip error handling
  X.509: Convert some printk calls to pr_devel
  asymmetric keys: fix printk format warning
  MODSIGN: Fix 32-bit overflow in X.509 certificate validity date checking
  MODSIGN: Make mrproper should remove generated files.
  MODSIGN: Use utf8 strings in signer's name in autogenerated X.509 certs
  MODSIGN: Use the same digest for the autogen key sig as for the module sig
  MODSIGN: Sign modules during the build process
  MODSIGN: Provide a script for generating a key ID from an X.509 cert
  MODSIGN: Implement module signature checking
  MODSIGN: Provide module signing public keys to the kernel
  MODSIGN: Automatically generate module signing keys if missing
  MODSIGN: Provide Kconfig options
  MODSIGN: Provide gitignore and make clean rules for extra files
  MODSIGN: Add FIPS policy
  module: signature checking hook
  X.509: Add a crypto key parser for binary (DER) X.509 certificates
  MPILIB: Provide a function to read raw data into an MPI
  X.509: Add an ASN.1 decoder
  X.509: Add simple ASN.1 grammar compiler
  ...

vmlinux.lds.h: Allow architectures to add sections to the front of .bss

2012-10-11T09:02:37+00:00

Follow-on MIPS patch will put an object here that needs 64K alignment
to minimize padding.

For those architectures that don't define BSS_FIRST_SECTIONS, there is
no change.

Signed-off-by: David Daney 
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/4221/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)

2012-10-09T07:23:15+00:00

Merge patches from Andrew Morton:
 "A few misc things and very nearly all of the MM tree.  A tremendous
  amount of stuff (again), including a significant rbtree library
  rework."

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (160 commits)
  sparc64: Support transparent huge pages.
  mm: thp: Use more portable PMD clearing sequenece in zap_huge_pmd().
  mm: Add and use update_mmu_cache_pmd() in transparent huge page code.
  sparc64: Document PGD and PMD layout.
  sparc64: Eliminate PTE table memory wastage.
  sparc64: Halve the size of PTE tables
  sparc64: Only support 4MB huge pages and 8KB base pages.
  memory-hotplug: suppress "Trying to free nonexistent resource " warning
  mm: memcg: clean up mm_match_cgroup() signature
  mm: document PageHuge somewhat
  mm: use %pK for /proc/vmallocinfo
  mm, thp: fix mlock statistics
  mm, thp: fix mapped pages avoiding unevictable list on mlock
  memory-hotplug: update memory block's state and notify userspace
  memory-hotplug: preparation to notify memory block's state at memory hot remove
  mm: avoid section mismatch warning for memblock_type_name
  make GFP_NOTRACK definition unconditional
  cma: decrease cc.nr_migratepages after reclaiming pagelist
  CMA: migrate mlocked pages
  kpageflags: fix wrong KPF_THP on non-huge compound pages
  ...

mm: thp: fix the pmd_clear() arguments in pmdp_get_and_clear()

2012-10-09T07:22:53+00:00

The CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE implementation of pmdp_get_and_clear()
calls pmd_clear() with 3 arguments instead of 1.

This happens only for !__HAVE_ARCH_PMDP_GET_AND_CLEAR which doesn't seem
to happen because x86 defines this and it uses pmd_update.

[mhocko@suse.cz: changelog addition]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas 
Signed-off-by: Steve Capper 
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko 
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Gerald Schaefer 
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

thp: introduce pmdp_invalidate()

2012-10-09T07:22:29+00:00

On s390, a valid page table entry must not be changed while it is attached
to any CPU.  So instead of pmd_mknotpresent() and set_pmd_at(), an IDTE
operation would be necessary there.  This patch introduces the
pmdp_invalidate() function, to allow architecture-specific
implementations.

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Hillf Danton 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

thp: remove assumptions on pgtable_t type

2012-10-09T07:22:29+00:00

The thp page table pre-allocation code currently assumes that pgtable_t is
of type "struct page *".  This may not be true for all architectures, so
this patch removes that assumption by replacing the functions
prepare_pmd_huge_pte() and get_pmd_huge_pte() with two new functions that
can be defined architecture-specific.

It also removes two VM_BUG_ON checks for page_count() and page_mapcount()
operating on a pgtable_t.  Apart from the VM_BUG_ON removal, there will be
no functional change introduced by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Hillf Danton 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm, x86, pat: rework linear pfn-mmap tracking

2012-10-09T07:22:16+00:00

Replace the generic vma-flag VM_PFN_AT_MMAP with x86-only VM_PAT.

We can toss mapping address from remap_pfn_range() into
track_pfn_vma_new(), and collect all PAT-related logic together in
arch/x86/.

This patch also restores orignal frustration-free is_cow_mapping() check
in remap_pfn_range(), as it was before commit v2.6.28-rc8-88-g3c8bb73
("x86: PAT: store vm_pgoff for all linear_over_vma_region mappings - v3")

is_linear_pfn_mapping() checks can be removed from mm/huge_memory.c,
because it already handled by VM_PFNMAP in VM_NO_THP bit-mask.

[suresh.b.siddha@intel.com: Reset the VM_PAT flag as part of untrack_pfn_vma()]
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha 
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: Carsten Otte 
Cc: Chris Metcalf 
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Cc: Eric Paris 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: James Morris 
Cc: Jason Baron 
Cc: Kentaro Takeda 
Cc: Matt Helsley 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Robert Richter 
Cc: Tetsuo Handa 
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi 
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds