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<title>linux-toradex.git/mm/nommu.c, branch v4.1.30</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>nommu: use __vfs_read()</title>
<updated>2015-04-12T02:27:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-31T16:35:13+00:00</published>
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... instead of open-coding the call of -&gt;read()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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... instead of open-coding the call of -&gt;read()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/nommu.c: export symbol max_mapnr</title>
<updated>2015-03-13T01:46:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>gchen gchen</name>
<email>xili_gchen_5257@hotmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-12T23:26:05+00:00</published>
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Several modules may need max_mapnr, so export, the related error with
allmodconfig under c6x:

  MODPOST 3327 modules
  ERROR: "max_mapnr" [fs/pstore/ramoops.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "max_mapnr" [drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-dma-contig.ko] undefined!

Signed-off-by: Chen Gang &lt;gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;a-jacquiot@ti.com&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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Several modules may need max_mapnr, so export, the related error with
allmodconfig under c6x:

  MODPOST 3327 modules
  ERROR: "max_mapnr" [fs/pstore/ramoops.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "max_mapnr" [drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf2-dma-contig.ko] undefined!

Signed-off-by: Chen Gang &lt;gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot &lt;a-jacquiot@ti.com&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>
<entry>
<title>mm/nommu: fix memory leak</title>
<updated>2015-02-28T17:57:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joonsoo Kim</name>
<email>js1304@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-27T23:51:43+00:00</published>
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Maxime reported the following memory leak regression due to commit
dbc8358c7237 ("mm/nommu: use alloc_pages_exact() rather than its own
implementation").

On v3.19, I am facing a memory leak.  Each time I run a command one page
is lost.  Here an example with busybox's free command:

  / # free
               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
  Mem:          7928       1972       5956          0          0        492
  -/+ buffers/cache:       1480       6448
  / # free
               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
  Mem:          7928       1976       5952          0          0        492
  -/+ buffers/cache:       1484       6444
  / # free
               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
  Mem:          7928       1980       5948          0          0        492
  -/+ buffers/cache:       1488       6440
  / # free
               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
  Mem:          7928       1984       5944          0          0        492
  -/+ buffers/cache:       1492       6436
  / # free
               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
  Mem:          7928       1988       5940          0          0        492
  -/+ buffers/cache:       1496       6432

At some point, the system fails to sastisfy 256KB allocations:

  free: page allocation failure: order:6, mode:0xd0
  CPU: 0 PID: 67 Comm: free Not tainted 3.19.0-05389-gacf2cf1-dirty #64
  Hardware name: STM32 (Device Tree Support)
    show_stack+0xb/0xc
    warn_alloc_failed+0x97/0xbc
    __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x295/0x35c
    __get_free_pages+0xb/0x24
    alloc_pages_exact+0x19/0x24
    do_mmap_pgoff+0x423/0x658
    vm_mmap_pgoff+0x3f/0x4e
    load_flat_file+0x20d/0x4f8
    load_flat_binary+0x3f/0x26c
    search_binary_handler+0x51/0xe4
    do_execveat_common+0x271/0x35c
    do_execve+0x19/0x1c
    ret_fast_syscall+0x1/0x4a
  Mem-info:
  Normal per-cpu:
  CPU    0: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
  active_anon:0 inactive_anon:0 isolated_anon:0
   active_file:0 inactive_file:0 isolated_file:0
   unevictable:123 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0
   free:1515 slab_reclaimable:17 slab_unreclaimable:139
   mapped:0 shmem:0 pagetables:0 bounce:0
   free_cma:0
  Normal free:6060kB min:352kB low:440kB high:528kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:492kB isolated(anon):0ks
  lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0
  Normal: 23*4kB (U) 22*8kB (U) 24*16kB (U) 23*32kB (U) 23*64kB (U) 23*128kB (U) 1*256kB (U) 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 6060kB
  123 total pagecache pages
  2048 pages of RAM
  1538 free pages
  66 reserved pages
  109 slab pages
  -46 pages shared
  0 pages swap cached
  nommu: Allocation of length 221184 from process 67 (free) failed
  Normal per-cpu:
  CPU    0: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
  active_anon:0 inactive_anon:0 isolated_anon:0
   active_file:0 inactive_file:0 isolated_file:0
   unevictable:123 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0
   free:1515 slab_reclaimable:17 slab_unreclaimable:139
   mapped:0 shmem:0 pagetables:0 bounce:0
   free_cma:0
  Normal free:6060kB min:352kB low:440kB high:528kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:492kB isolated(anon):0ks
  lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0
  Normal: 23*4kB (U) 22*8kB (U) 24*16kB (U) 23*32kB (U) 23*64kB (U) 23*128kB (U) 1*256kB (U) 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 6060kB
  123 total pagecache pages
  Unable to allocate RAM for process text/data, errno 12 SEGV

This problem happens because we allocate ordered page through
__get_free_pages() in do_mmap_private() in some cases and we try to free
individual pages rather than ordered page in free_page_series().  In
this case, freeing pages whose refcount is not 0 won't be freed to the
page allocator so memory leak happens.

To fix the problem, this patch changes __get_free_pages() to
alloc_pages_exact() since alloc_pages_exact() returns
physically-contiguous pages but each pages are refcounted.

Fixes: dbc8358c7237 ("mm/nommu: use alloc_pages_exact() rather than its own implementation").
Reported-by: Maxime Coquelin &lt;mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Maxime Coquelin &lt;mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[3.19]
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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Maxime reported the following memory leak regression due to commit
dbc8358c7237 ("mm/nommu: use alloc_pages_exact() rather than its own
implementation").

On v3.19, I am facing a memory leak.  Each time I run a command one page
is lost.  Here an example with busybox's free command:

  / # free
               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
  Mem:          7928       1972       5956          0          0        492
  -/+ buffers/cache:       1480       6448
  / # free
               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
  Mem:          7928       1976       5952          0          0        492
  -/+ buffers/cache:       1484       6444
  / # free
               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
  Mem:          7928       1980       5948          0          0        492
  -/+ buffers/cache:       1488       6440
  / # free
               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
  Mem:          7928       1984       5944          0          0        492
  -/+ buffers/cache:       1492       6436
  / # free
               total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
  Mem:          7928       1988       5940          0          0        492
  -/+ buffers/cache:       1496       6432

At some point, the system fails to sastisfy 256KB allocations:

  free: page allocation failure: order:6, mode:0xd0
  CPU: 0 PID: 67 Comm: free Not tainted 3.19.0-05389-gacf2cf1-dirty #64
  Hardware name: STM32 (Device Tree Support)
    show_stack+0xb/0xc
    warn_alloc_failed+0x97/0xbc
    __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x295/0x35c
    __get_free_pages+0xb/0x24
    alloc_pages_exact+0x19/0x24
    do_mmap_pgoff+0x423/0x658
    vm_mmap_pgoff+0x3f/0x4e
    load_flat_file+0x20d/0x4f8
    load_flat_binary+0x3f/0x26c
    search_binary_handler+0x51/0xe4
    do_execveat_common+0x271/0x35c
    do_execve+0x19/0x1c
    ret_fast_syscall+0x1/0x4a
  Mem-info:
  Normal per-cpu:
  CPU    0: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
  active_anon:0 inactive_anon:0 isolated_anon:0
   active_file:0 inactive_file:0 isolated_file:0
   unevictable:123 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0
   free:1515 slab_reclaimable:17 slab_unreclaimable:139
   mapped:0 shmem:0 pagetables:0 bounce:0
   free_cma:0
  Normal free:6060kB min:352kB low:440kB high:528kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:492kB isolated(anon):0ks
  lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0
  Normal: 23*4kB (U) 22*8kB (U) 24*16kB (U) 23*32kB (U) 23*64kB (U) 23*128kB (U) 1*256kB (U) 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 6060kB
  123 total pagecache pages
  2048 pages of RAM
  1538 free pages
  66 reserved pages
  109 slab pages
  -46 pages shared
  0 pages swap cached
  nommu: Allocation of length 221184 from process 67 (free) failed
  Normal per-cpu:
  CPU    0: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
  active_anon:0 inactive_anon:0 isolated_anon:0
   active_file:0 inactive_file:0 isolated_file:0
   unevictable:123 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0
   free:1515 slab_reclaimable:17 slab_unreclaimable:139
   mapped:0 shmem:0 pagetables:0 bounce:0
   free_cma:0
  Normal free:6060kB min:352kB low:440kB high:528kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:492kB isolated(anon):0ks
  lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0
  Normal: 23*4kB (U) 22*8kB (U) 24*16kB (U) 23*32kB (U) 23*64kB (U) 23*128kB (U) 1*256kB (U) 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 6060kB
  123 total pagecache pages
  Unable to allocate RAM for process text/data, errno 12 SEGV

This problem happens because we allocate ordered page through
__get_free_pages() in do_mmap_private() in some cases and we try to free
individual pages rather than ordered page in free_page_series().  In
this case, freeing pages whose refcount is not 0 won't be freed to the
page allocator so memory leak happens.

To fix the problem, this patch changes __get_free_pages() to
alloc_pages_exact() since alloc_pages_exact() returns
physically-contiguous pages but each pages are refcounted.

Fixes: dbc8358c7237 ("mm/nommu: use alloc_pages_exact() rather than its own implementation").
Reported-by: Maxime Coquelin &lt;mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Maxime Coquelin &lt;mcoquelin.stm32@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;	[3.19]
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>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.20/bdi' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2015-02-12T21:50:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-12T21:50:21+00:00</published>
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Pull backing device changes from Jens Axboe:
 "This contains a cleanup of how the backing device is handled, in
  preparation for a rework of the life time rules.  In this part, the
  most important change is to split the unrelated nommu mmap flags from
  it, but also removing a backing_dev_info pointer from the
  address_space (and inode), and a cleanup of other various minor bits.

  Christoph did all the work here, I just fixed an oops with pages that
  have a swap backing.  Arnd fixed a missing export, and Oleg killed the
  lustre backing_dev_info from staging.  Last patch was from Al,
  unexporting parts that are now no longer needed outside"

* 'for-3.20/bdi' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  Make super_blocks and sb_lock static
  mtd: export new mtd_mmap_capabilities
  fs: make inode_to_bdi() handle NULL inode
  staging/lustre/llite: get rid of backing_dev_info
  fs: remove default_backing_dev_info
  fs: don't reassign dirty inodes to default_backing_dev_info
  nfs: don't call bdi_unregister
  ceph: remove call to bdi_unregister
  fs: remove mapping-&gt;backing_dev_info
  fs: export inode_to_bdi and use it in favor of mapping-&gt;backing_dev_info
  nilfs2: set up s_bdi like the generic mount_bdev code
  block_dev: get bdev inode bdi directly from the block device
  block_dev: only write bdev inode on close
  fs: introduce f_op-&gt;mmap_capabilities for nommu mmap support
  fs: kill BDI_CAP_SWAP_BACKED
  fs: deduplicate noop_backing_dev_info
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Pull backing device changes from Jens Axboe:
 "This contains a cleanup of how the backing device is handled, in
  preparation for a rework of the life time rules.  In this part, the
  most important change is to split the unrelated nommu mmap flags from
  it, but also removing a backing_dev_info pointer from the
  address_space (and inode), and a cleanup of other various minor bits.

  Christoph did all the work here, I just fixed an oops with pages that
  have a swap backing.  Arnd fixed a missing export, and Oleg killed the
  lustre backing_dev_info from staging.  Last patch was from Al,
  unexporting parts that are now no longer needed outside"

* 'for-3.20/bdi' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  Make super_blocks and sb_lock static
  mtd: export new mtd_mmap_capabilities
  fs: make inode_to_bdi() handle NULL inode
  staging/lustre/llite: get rid of backing_dev_info
  fs: remove default_backing_dev_info
  fs: don't reassign dirty inodes to default_backing_dev_info
  nfs: don't call bdi_unregister
  ceph: remove call to bdi_unregister
  fs: remove mapping-&gt;backing_dev_info
  fs: export inode_to_bdi and use it in favor of mapping-&gt;backing_dev_info
  nilfs2: set up s_bdi like the generic mount_bdev code
  block_dev: get bdev inode bdi directly from the block device
  block_dev: only write bdev inode on close
  fs: introduce f_op-&gt;mmap_capabilities for nommu mmap support
  fs: kill BDI_CAP_SWAP_BACKED
  fs: deduplicate noop_backing_dev_info
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/nommu.c: fix arithmetic overflow in __vm_enough_memory()</title>
<updated>2015-02-12T01:06:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roman Gushchin</name>
<email>klamm@yandex-team.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-11T23:28:42+00:00</published>
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I noticed that "allowed" can easily overflow by falling below 0, because
(total_vm / 32) can be larger than "allowed".  The problem occurs in
OVERCOMMIT_NONE mode.

In this case, a huge allocation can success and overcommit the system
(despite OVERCOMMIT_NONE mode).  All subsequent allocations will fall
(system-wide), so system become unusable.

The problem was masked out by commit c9b1d0981fcc
("mm: limit growth of 3% hardcoded other user reserve"),
but it's easy to reproduce it on older kernels:
1) set overcommit_memory sysctl to 2
2) mmap() large file multiple times (with VM_SHARED flag)
3) try to malloc() large amount of memory

It also can be reproduced on newer kernels, but miss-configured
sysctl_user_reserve_kbytes is required.

Fix this issue by switching to signed arithmetic here.

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;klamm@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Cc: Andrew Shewmaker &lt;agshew@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&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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I noticed that "allowed" can easily overflow by falling below 0, because
(total_vm / 32) can be larger than "allowed".  The problem occurs in
OVERCOMMIT_NONE mode.

In this case, a huge allocation can success and overcommit the system
(despite OVERCOMMIT_NONE mode).  All subsequent allocations will fall
(system-wide), so system become unusable.

The problem was masked out by commit c9b1d0981fcc
("mm: limit growth of 3% hardcoded other user reserve"),
but it's easy to reproduce it on older kernels:
1) set overcommit_memory sysctl to 2
2) mmap() large file multiple times (with VM_SHARED flag)
3) try to malloc() large amount of memory

It also can be reproduced on newer kernels, but miss-configured
sysctl_user_reserve_kbytes is required.

Fix this issue by switching to signed arithmetic here.

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;klamm@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Cc: Andrew Shewmaker &lt;agshew@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: gup: add __get_user_pages_unlocked to customize gup_flags</title>
<updated>2015-02-12T01:06:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Arcangeli</name>
<email>aarcange@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-11T23:27:20+00:00</published>
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Some callers (like KVM) may want to set the gup_flags like FOLL_HWPOSION
to get a proper -EHWPOSION retval instead of -EFAULT to take a more
appropriate action if get_user_pages runs into a memory failure.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla &lt;andreslc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Feiner &lt;pfeiner@google.com&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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Some callers (like KVM) may want to set the gup_flags like FOLL_HWPOSION
to get a proper -EHWPOSION retval instead of -EFAULT to take a more
appropriate action if get_user_pages runs into a memory failure.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla &lt;andreslc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Feiner &lt;pfeiner@google.com&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>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: gup: add get_user_pages_locked and get_user_pages_unlocked</title>
<updated>2015-02-12T01:06:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrea Arcangeli</name>
<email>aarcange@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-11T23:27:17+00:00</published>
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FAULT_FOLL_ALLOW_RETRY allows the page fault to drop the mmap_sem for
reading to reduce the mmap_sem contention (for writing), like while
waiting for I/O completion.  The problem is that right now practically no
get_user_pages call uses FAULT_FOLL_ALLOW_RETRY, so we're not leveraging
that nifty feature.

Andres fixed it for the KVM page fault.  However get_user_pages_fast
remains uncovered, and 99% of other get_user_pages aren't using it either
(the only exception being FOLL_NOWAIT in KVM which is really nonblocking
and in fact it doesn't even release the mmap_sem).

So this patchsets extends the optimization Andres did in the KVM page
fault to the whole kernel.  It makes most important places (including
gup_fast) to use FAULT_FOLL_ALLOW_RETRY to reduce the mmap_sem hold times
during I/O.

The only few places that remains uncovered are drivers like v4l and other
exceptions that tends to work on their own memory and they're not working
on random user memory (for example like O_DIRECT that uses gup_fast and is
fully covered by this patch).

A follow up patch should probably also add a printk_once warning to
get_user_pages that should go obsolete and be phased out eventually.  The
"vmas" parameter of get_user_pages makes it fundamentally incompatible
with FAULT_FOLL_ALLOW_RETRY (vmas array becomes meaningless the moment the
mmap_sem is released).

While this is just an optimization, this becomes an absolute requirement
for the userfaultfd feature http://lwn.net/Articles/615086/ .

The userfaultfd allows to block the page fault, and in order to do so I
need to drop the mmap_sem first.  So this patch also ensures that all
memory where userfaultfd could be registered by KVM, the very first fault
(no matter if it is a regular page fault, or a get_user_pages) always has
FAULT_FOLL_ALLOW_RETRY set.  Then the userfaultfd blocks and it is waken
only when the pagetable is already mapped.  The second fault attempt after
the wakeup doesn't need FAULT_FOLL_ALLOW_RETRY, so it's ok to retry
without it.

This patch (of 5):

We can leverage the VM_FAULT_RETRY functionality in the page fault paths
better by using either get_user_pages_locked or get_user_pages_unlocked.

The former allows conversion of get_user_pages invocations that will have
to pass a "&amp;locked" parameter to know if the mmap_sem was dropped during
the call.  Example from:

    down_read(&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem);
    do_something()
    get_user_pages(tsk, mm, ..., pages, NULL);
    up_read(&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem);

to:

    int locked = 1;
    down_read(&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem);
    do_something()
    get_user_pages_locked(tsk, mm, ..., pages, &amp;locked);
    if (locked)
        up_read(&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem);

The latter is suitable only as a drop in replacement of the form:

    down_read(&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem);
    get_user_pages(tsk, mm, ..., pages, NULL);
    up_read(&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem);

into:

    get_user_pages_unlocked(tsk, mm, ..., pages);

Where tsk, mm, the intermediate "..." paramters and "pages" can be any
value as before.  Just the last parameter of get_user_pages (vmas) must be
NULL for get_user_pages_locked|unlocked to be usable (the latter original
form wouldn't have been safe anyway if vmas wasn't null, for the former we
just make it explicit by dropping the parameter).

If vmas is not NULL these two methods cannot be used.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla &lt;andreslc@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peter Feiner &lt;pfeiner@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&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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FAULT_FOLL_ALLOW_RETRY allows the page fault to drop the mmap_sem for
reading to reduce the mmap_sem contention (for writing), like while
waiting for I/O completion.  The problem is that right now practically no
get_user_pages call uses FAULT_FOLL_ALLOW_RETRY, so we're not leveraging
that nifty feature.

Andres fixed it for the KVM page fault.  However get_user_pages_fast
remains uncovered, and 99% of other get_user_pages aren't using it either
(the only exception being FOLL_NOWAIT in KVM which is really nonblocking
and in fact it doesn't even release the mmap_sem).

So this patchsets extends the optimization Andres did in the KVM page
fault to the whole kernel.  It makes most important places (including
gup_fast) to use FAULT_FOLL_ALLOW_RETRY to reduce the mmap_sem hold times
during I/O.

The only few places that remains uncovered are drivers like v4l and other
exceptions that tends to work on their own memory and they're not working
on random user memory (for example like O_DIRECT that uses gup_fast and is
fully covered by this patch).

A follow up patch should probably also add a printk_once warning to
get_user_pages that should go obsolete and be phased out eventually.  The
"vmas" parameter of get_user_pages makes it fundamentally incompatible
with FAULT_FOLL_ALLOW_RETRY (vmas array becomes meaningless the moment the
mmap_sem is released).

While this is just an optimization, this becomes an absolute requirement
for the userfaultfd feature http://lwn.net/Articles/615086/ .

The userfaultfd allows to block the page fault, and in order to do so I
need to drop the mmap_sem first.  So this patch also ensures that all
memory where userfaultfd could be registered by KVM, the very first fault
(no matter if it is a regular page fault, or a get_user_pages) always has
FAULT_FOLL_ALLOW_RETRY set.  Then the userfaultfd blocks and it is waken
only when the pagetable is already mapped.  The second fault attempt after
the wakeup doesn't need FAULT_FOLL_ALLOW_RETRY, so it's ok to retry
without it.

This patch (of 5):

We can leverage the VM_FAULT_RETRY functionality in the page fault paths
better by using either get_user_pages_locked or get_user_pages_unlocked.

The former allows conversion of get_user_pages invocations that will have
to pass a "&amp;locked" parameter to know if the mmap_sem was dropped during
the call.  Example from:

    down_read(&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem);
    do_something()
    get_user_pages(tsk, mm, ..., pages, NULL);
    up_read(&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem);

to:

    int locked = 1;
    down_read(&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem);
    do_something()
    get_user_pages_locked(tsk, mm, ..., pages, &amp;locked);
    if (locked)
        up_read(&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem);

The latter is suitable only as a drop in replacement of the form:

    down_read(&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem);
    get_user_pages(tsk, mm, ..., pages, NULL);
    up_read(&amp;mm-&gt;mmap_sem);

into:

    get_user_pages_unlocked(tsk, mm, ..., pages);

Where tsk, mm, the intermediate "..." paramters and "pages" can be any
value as before.  Just the last parameter of get_user_pages (vmas) must be
NULL for get_user_pages_locked|unlocked to be usable (the latter original
form wouldn't have been safe anyway if vmas wasn't null, for the former we
just make it explicit by dropping the parameter).

If vmas is not NULL these two methods cannot be used.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli &lt;aarcange@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andres Lagar-Cavilla &lt;andreslc@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peter Feiner &lt;pfeiner@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&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>mm: replace remap_file_pages() syscall with emulation</title>
<updated>2015-02-10T22:30:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-10T22:09:46+00:00</published>
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remap_file_pages(2) was invented to be able efficiently map parts of
huge file into limited 32-bit virtual address space such as in database
workloads.

Nonlinear mappings are pain to support and it seems there's no
legitimate use-cases nowadays since 64-bit systems are widely available.

Let's drop it and get rid of all these special-cased code.

The patch replaces the syscall with emulation which creates new VMA on
each remap_file_pages(), unless they it can be merged with an adjacent
one.

I didn't find *any* real code that uses remap_file_pages(2) to test
emulation impact on.  I've checked Debian code search and source of all
packages in ALT Linux.  No real users: libc wrappers, mentions in
strace, gdb, valgrind and this kind of stuff.

There are few basic tests in LTP for the syscall.  They work just fine
with emulation.

To test performance impact, I've written small test case which
demonstrate pretty much worst case scenario: map 4G shmfs file, write to
begin of every page pgoff of the page, remap pages in reverse order,
read every page.

The test creates 1 million of VMAs if emulation is in use, so I had to
set vm.max_map_count to 1100000 to avoid -ENOMEM.

Before:		23.3 ( +-  4.31% ) seconds
After:		43.9 ( +-  0.85% ) seconds
Slowdown:	1.88x

I believe we can live with that.

Test case:

        #define _GNU_SOURCE
        #include &lt;assert.h&gt;
        #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
        #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
        #include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;

        #define MB	(1024UL * 1024)
        #define SIZE	(4096 * MB)

        int main(int argc, char **argv)
        {
                unsigned long *p;
                long i, pass;

                for (pass = 0; pass &lt; 10; pass++) {
                        p = mmap(NULL, SIZE, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
                                        MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
                        if (p == MAP_FAILED) {
                                perror("mmap");
                                return -1;
                        }

                        for (i = 0; i &lt; SIZE / 4096; i++)
                                p[i * 4096 / sizeof(*p)] = i;

                        for (i = 0; i &lt; SIZE / 4096; i++) {
                                if (remap_file_pages(p + i * 4096 / sizeof(*p), 4096,
                                                0, (SIZE - 4096 * (i + 1)) &gt;&gt; 12, 0)) {
                                        perror("remap_file_pages");
                                        return -1;
                                }
                        }

                        for (i = SIZE / 4096 - 1; i &gt;= 0; i--)
                                assert(p[i * 4096 / sizeof(*p)] == SIZE / 4096 - i - 1);

                        munmap(p, SIZE);
                }

                return 0;
        }

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello]
[sasha.levin@oracle.com: initialize populate before usage]
[sasha.levin@oracle.com: grab file ref to prevent race while mmaping]
Signed-off-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Armin Rigo &lt;arigo@tunes.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&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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remap_file_pages(2) was invented to be able efficiently map parts of
huge file into limited 32-bit virtual address space such as in database
workloads.

Nonlinear mappings are pain to support and it seems there's no
legitimate use-cases nowadays since 64-bit systems are widely available.

Let's drop it and get rid of all these special-cased code.

The patch replaces the syscall with emulation which creates new VMA on
each remap_file_pages(), unless they it can be merged with an adjacent
one.

I didn't find *any* real code that uses remap_file_pages(2) to test
emulation impact on.  I've checked Debian code search and source of all
packages in ALT Linux.  No real users: libc wrappers, mentions in
strace, gdb, valgrind and this kind of stuff.

There are few basic tests in LTP for the syscall.  They work just fine
with emulation.

To test performance impact, I've written small test case which
demonstrate pretty much worst case scenario: map 4G shmfs file, write to
begin of every page pgoff of the page, remap pages in reverse order,
read every page.

The test creates 1 million of VMAs if emulation is in use, so I had to
set vm.max_map_count to 1100000 to avoid -ENOMEM.

Before:		23.3 ( +-  4.31% ) seconds
After:		43.9 ( +-  0.85% ) seconds
Slowdown:	1.88x

I believe we can live with that.

Test case:

        #define _GNU_SOURCE
        #include &lt;assert.h&gt;
        #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
        #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
        #include &lt;sys/mman.h&gt;

        #define MB	(1024UL * 1024)
        #define SIZE	(4096 * MB)

        int main(int argc, char **argv)
        {
                unsigned long *p;
                long i, pass;

                for (pass = 0; pass &lt; 10; pass++) {
                        p = mmap(NULL, SIZE, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
                                        MAP_SHARED | MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0);
                        if (p == MAP_FAILED) {
                                perror("mmap");
                                return -1;
                        }

                        for (i = 0; i &lt; SIZE / 4096; i++)
                                p[i * 4096 / sizeof(*p)] = i;

                        for (i = 0; i &lt; SIZE / 4096; i++) {
                                if (remap_file_pages(p + i * 4096 / sizeof(*p), 4096,
                                                0, (SIZE - 4096 * (i + 1)) &gt;&gt; 12, 0)) {
                                        perror("remap_file_pages");
                                        return -1;
                                }
                        }

                        for (i = SIZE / 4096 - 1; i &gt;= 0; i--)
                                assert(p[i * 4096 / sizeof(*p)] == SIZE / 4096 - i - 1);

                        munmap(p, SIZE);
                }

                return 0;
        }

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello]
[sasha.levin@oracle.com: initialize populate before usage]
[sasha.levin@oracle.com: grab file ref to prevent race while mmaping]
Signed-off-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Armin Rigo &lt;arigo@tunes.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hughd@google.com&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>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: export "high_memory" symbol on !MMU</title>
<updated>2015-02-05T21:35:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-05T20:25:12+00:00</published>
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The symbol 'high_memory' is provided on both MMU- and NOMMU-kernels, but
only one of them is exported, which leads to module build errors in
drivers that work fine built-in:

  ERROR: "high_memory" [drivers/net/virtio_net.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "high_memory" [drivers/net/ppp/ppp_mppe.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "high_memory" [drivers/mtd/nand/nand.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "high_memory" [crypto/tcrypt.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "high_memory" [crypto/cts.ko] undefined!

This exports the symbol to get these to work on NOMMU as well.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@uclinux.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&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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The symbol 'high_memory' is provided on both MMU- and NOMMU-kernels, but
only one of them is exported, which leads to module build errors in
drivers that work fine built-in:

  ERROR: "high_memory" [drivers/net/virtio_net.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "high_memory" [drivers/net/ppp/ppp_mppe.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "high_memory" [drivers/mtd/nand/nand.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "high_memory" [crypto/tcrypt.ko] undefined!
  ERROR: "high_memory" [crypto/cts.ko] undefined!

This exports the symbol to get these to work on NOMMU as well.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov &lt;kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer &lt;gerg@uclinux.org&gt;
Acked-by: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: introduce f_op-&gt;mmap_capabilities for nommu mmap support</title>
<updated>2015-01-20T21:02:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-14T09:42:32+00:00</published>
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Since "BDI: Provide backing device capability information [try #3]" the
backing_dev_info structure also provides flags for the kind of mmap
operation available in a nommu environment, which is entirely unrelated
to it's original purpose.

Introduce a new nommu-only file operation to provide this information to
the nommu mmap code instead.  Splitting this from the backing_dev_info
structure allows to remove lots of backing_dev_info instance that aren't
otherwise needed, and entirely gets rid of the concept of providing a
backing_dev_info for a character device.  It also removes the need for
the mtd_inodefs filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Brian Norris &lt;computersforpeace@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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Since "BDI: Provide backing device capability information [try #3]" the
backing_dev_info structure also provides flags for the kind of mmap
operation available in a nommu environment, which is entirely unrelated
to it's original purpose.

Introduce a new nommu-only file operation to provide this information to
the nommu mmap code instead.  Splitting this from the backing_dev_info
structure allows to remove lots of backing_dev_info instance that aren't
otherwise needed, and entirely gets rid of the concept of providing a
backing_dev_info for a character device.  It also removes the need for
the mtd_inodefs filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Brian Norris &lt;computersforpeace@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
</pre>
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