linux-toradex.git/mm/memory-failure.c, branch v3.4.5

Merge branch 'x86-mce-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2012-03-22T16:42:04+00:00

Pull MCE changes from Ingo Molnar.

* 'x86-mce-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/mce: Fix return value of mce_chrdev_read() when erst is disabled
  x86/mce: Convert static array of pointers to per-cpu variables
  x86/mce: Replace hard coded hex constants with symbolic defines
  x86/mce: Recognise machine check bank signature for data path error
  x86/mce: Handle "action required" errors
  x86/mce: Add mechanism to safely save information in MCE handler
  x86/mce: Create helper function to save addr/misc when needed
  HWPOISON: Add code to handle "action required" errors.
  HWPOISON: Clean up memory_failure() vs. __memory_failure()

thp: allow a hwpoisoned head page to be put back to LRU

2012-03-22T00:54:58+00:00

Andrea Arcangeli pointed out to me that a check in __memory_failure()
which was intended to prevent THP tail pages from being checked for the
absence of the PG_lru flag (something that is always the case), was also
preventing THP head pages from being checked.

A THP head page could actually benefit from the call to shake_page() by
ending up being put back to a LRU, provided it had been waiting in a
pagevec array.

Andrea suggested that the "!PageTransCompound(p)" in the if-statement
should be replaced by a "!PageTransTail(p)", thus allowing THP head pages
to be checked and possibly shaken.

Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson 
Cc: Jin Dongming 
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Hidetoshi Seto 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'mce-recovery-for-tip' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ras/ras into x86/mce

2012-01-26T10:40:13+00:00

Implement MCE recovery for the data load error path and assorted cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction

2012-01-13T04:13:09+00:00

This patch adds a lightweight sync migrate operation MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT
mode that avoids writing back pages to backing storage.  Async compaction
maps to MIGRATE_ASYNC while sync compaction maps to MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT.
For other migrate_pages users such as memory hotplug, MIGRATE_SYNC is
used.

This avoids sync compaction stalling for an excessive length of time,
particularly when copying files to a USB stick where there might be a
large number of dirty pages backed by a filesystem that does not support
->writepages.

[aarcange@redhat.com: This patch is heavily based on Andrea's work]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/nfs/write.c build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/btrfs/disk-io.c build]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Dave Jones 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Andy Isaacson 
Cc: Nai Xia 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

HWPOISON: Add code to handle "action required" errors.

2012-01-03T20:06:38+00:00

Add new flag bit "MF_ACTION_REQUIRED" to be used by machine check
code to force a signal with si_code = BUS_MCEERR_AR in the case
where the error occurs in processor execution context. Pass the
flags argument along call chain:
	memory_failure()
	  hwpoison_user_mappings()
	    kill_procs()
	      kill_proc()

Drop the "_ao" suffix from kill_procs_ao() and kill_proc_ao() since
they can now handle "action required" as well as "action optional" errors.

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov 
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

HWPOISON: Clean up memory_failure() vs. __memory_failure()

2012-01-03T20:06:32+00:00

There is only one caller of memory_failure(), all other users call
__memory_failure() and pass in the flags argument explicitly. The
lone user of memory_failure() will soon need to pass flags too.

Add flags argument to the callsite in mce.c. Delete the old memory_failure()
function, and then rename __memory_failure() without the leading "__".

Provide clearer message when action optional memory errors are ignored.

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov 
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux

2011-11-07T03:44:47+00:00

* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
  Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
  irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
  bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
  ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
  nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
  include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
  include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
  crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
  uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
  pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
  linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
  miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
  stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
  of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
  of_platform.h: delete needless include 
  acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
  miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
  device_cgroup.h: delete needless include 
  net: sch_generic remove redundant use of 
  net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need 
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and  removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
 - drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
 - drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
 - drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
 - include/linux/dmaengine.h

HWPOISON: convert pr_debug()s to pr_info()s

2011-11-01T00:30:49+00:00

Commit fb46e73520940b ("HWPOISON: Convert pr_debugs to pr_info) authored
by Andi Kleen converted a number of pr_debug()s to pr_info()s.

About the same time additional code with pr_debug()s was added by two
other commits 8c6c2ecb4466 ("HWPOSION, hugetlb: recover from free hugepage
error when !MF_COUNT_INCREASED") and d950b95882f3d ("HWPOISON, hugetlb:
soft offlining for hugepage").  And these pr_debug()s failed to get
converted to pr_info()s.

This patch converts them as well.  And does some minor related whitespace
cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson 
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL to active symbol exporters

2011-10-31T13:20:12+00:00

These files were getting  via an implicit include
path, but we want to crush those out of existence since they cost
time during compiles of processing thousands of lines of headers
for no reason.  Give them the lightweight header that just contains
the EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

HWPoison: add memory_failure_queue()

2011-08-03T15:15:58+00:00

memory_failure() is the entry point for HWPoison memory error
recovery.  It must be called in process context.  But commonly
hardware memory errors are notified via MCE or NMI, so some delayed
execution mechanism must be used.  In MCE handler, a work queue + ring
buffer mechanism is used.

In addition to MCE, now APEI (ACPI Platform Error Interface) GHES
(Generic Hardware Error Source) can be used to report memory errors
too.  To add support to APEI GHES memory recovery, a mechanism similar
to that of MCE is implemented.  memory_failure_queue() is the new
entry point that can be called in IRQ context.  The next step is to
make MCE handler uses this interface too.

Signed-off-by: Huang Ying 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Wu Fengguang 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Len Brown