linux-toradex.git/mm/page_alloc.c, branch v4.9.6

mm, page_alloc: keep pcp count and list contents in sync if struct page is corrupted

2017-01-06T09:40:15+00:00

commit a6de734bc002fe2027ccc074fbbd87d72957b7a4 upstream.

Vlastimil Babka pointed out that commit 479f854a207c ("mm, page_alloc:
defer debugging checks of pages allocated from the PCP") will allow the
per-cpu list counter to be out of sync with the per-cpu list contents if
a struct page is corrupted.

The consequence is an infinite loop if the per-cpu lists get fully
drained by free_pcppages_bulk because all the lists are empty but the
count is positive.  The infinite loop occurs here

                do {
                        batch_free++;
                        if (++migratetype == MIGRATE_PCPTYPES)
                                migratetype = 0;
                        list = &pcp->lists[migratetype];
                } while (list_empty(list));

What the user sees is a bad page warning followed by a soft lockup with
interrupts disabled in free_pcppages_bulk().

This patch keeps the accounting in sync.

Fixes: 479f854a207c ("mm, page_alloc: defer debugging checks of pages allocated from the PCP")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161202112951.23346-2-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Hillf Danton 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: remove extra newline from allocation stall warning

2016-11-11T16:12:37+00:00

Commit 63f53dea0c98 ("mm: warn about allocations which stall for too
long") by error embedded "\n" in the format string, resulting in strange
output.

  [  722.876655] kworker/0:1: page alloction stalls for 160001ms, order:0
  [  722.876656] , mode:0x2400000(GFP_NOIO)
  [  722.876657] CPU: 0 PID: 6966 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 4.8.0+ #69

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476026219-7974-1-git-send-email-penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux

2016-11-01T23:48:46+00:00

Pull gcc plugin fixes from Kees Cook:
 - make sure required exports from gcc plugins are visible to gcc
 - switch latent_entropy to unsigned long to avoid stack frame bloat

* tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  latent_entropy: Fix wrong gcc code generation with 64 bit variables
  gcc-plugins: Export symbols needed by gcc

latent_entropy: Fix wrong gcc code generation with 64 bit variables

2016-10-31T18:30:41+00:00

The stack frame size could grow too large when the plugin used long long
on 32-bit architectures when the given function had too many basic blocks.

The gcc warning was:

drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_ebda.c: In function 'ibmphp_access_ebda':
drivers/pci/hotplug/ibmphp_ebda.c:409:1: warning: the frame size of 1108 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]

This switches latent_entropy from u64 to unsigned long.

Thanks to PaX Team and Emese Revfy for the patch.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

mm: page_alloc: use KERN_CONT where appropriate

2016-10-28T01:43:43+00:00

Recent changes to printk require KERN_CONT uses to continue logging
messages.  So add KERN_CONT where necessary.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Fixes: 4bcc595ccd80 ("printk: reinstate KERN_CONT for printing continuation lines")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c7df37c8665134654a17aaeb8b9f6ace1d6db58b.1476239034.git.joe@perches.com
Reported-by: Mark Rutland 
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove per-zone hashtable of bitlock waitqueues

2016-10-27T16:27:57+00:00

The per-zone waitqueues exist because of a scalability issue with the
page waitqueues on some NUMA machines, but it turns out that they hurt
normal loads, and now with the vmalloced stacks they also end up
breaking gfs2 that uses a bit_wait on a stack object:

     wait_on_bit(&gh->gh_iflags, HIF_WAIT, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE)

where 'gh' can be a reference to the local variable 'mount_gh' on the
stack of fill_super().

The reason the per-zone hash table breaks for this case is that there is
no "zone" for virtual allocations, and trying to look up the physical
page to get at it will fail (with a BUG_ON()).

It turns out that I actually complained to the mm people about the
per-zone hash table for another reason just a month ago: the zone lookup
also hurts the regular use of "unlock_page()" a lot, because the zone
lookup ends up forcing several unnecessary cache misses and generates
horrible code.

As part of that earlier discussion, we had a much better solution for
the NUMA scalability issue - by just making the page lock have a
separate contention bit, the waitqueue doesn't even have to be looked at
for the normal case.

Peter Zijlstra already has a patch for that, but let's see if anybody
even notices.  In the meantime, let's fix the actual gfs2 breakage by
simplifying the bitlock waitqueues and removing the per-zone issue.

Reported-by: Andreas Gruenbacher 
Tested-by: Bob Peterson 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Steven Whitehouse 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux

2016-10-15T17:03:15+00:00

Pull gcc plugins update from Kees Cook:
 "This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
  extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot
  time as possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in
  CPU operation (due to runtime data differences, hardware differences,
  SMP ordering, thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).

  At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example
  for how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals"

* tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy
  gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin

latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy

2016-10-10T21:51:45+00:00

The __latent_entropy gcc attribute can be used only on functions and
variables.  If it is on a function then the plugin will instrument it for
gathering control-flow entropy. If the attribute is on a variable then
the plugin will initialize it with random contents.  The variable must
be an integer, an integer array type or a structure with integer fields.

These specific functions have been selected because they are init
functions (to help gather boot-time entropy), are called at unpredictable
times, or they have variable loops, each of which provide some level of
latent entropy.

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy 
[kees: expanded commit message]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin

2016-10-10T21:51:44+00:00

This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot time as
possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in CPU operation
(due to runtime data differences, hardware differences, SMP ordering,
thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).

At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example for
how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals.

The need for very-early boot entropy tends to be very architecture or
system design specific, so this plugin is more suited for those sorts
of special cases. The existing kernel RNG already attempts to extract
entropy from reliable runtime variation, but this plugin takes the idea to
a logical extreme by permuting a global variable based on any variation
in code execution (e.g. a different value (and permutation function)
is used to permute the global based on loop count, case statement,
if/then/else branching, etc).

To do this, the plugin starts by inserting a local variable in every
marked function. The plugin then adds logic so that the value of this
variable is modified by randomly chosen operations (add, xor and rol) and
random values (gcc generates separate static values for each location at
compile time and also injects the stack pointer at runtime). The resulting
value depends on the control flow path (e.g., loops and branches taken).

Before the function returns, the plugin mixes this local variable into
the latent_entropy global variable. The value of this global variable
is added to the kernel entropy pool in do_one_initcall() and _do_fork(),
though it does not credit any bytes of entropy to the pool; the contents
of the global are just used to mix the pool.

Additionally, the plugin can pre-initialize arrays with build-time
random contents, so that two different kernel builds running on identical
hardware will not have the same starting values.

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy 
[kees: expanded commit message and code comments]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

mm: warn about allocations which stall for too long

2016-10-08T01:46:29+00:00

Currently we do warn only about allocation failures but small
allocations are basically nofail and they might loop in the page
allocator for a long time.  Especially when the reclaim cannot make any
progress - e.g.  GFP_NOFS cannot invoke the oom killer and rely on a
different context to make a forward progress in case there is a lot
memory used by filesystems.

Give us at least a clue when something like this happens and warn about
allocations which take more than 10s.  Print the basic allocation
context information along with the cumulative time spent in the
allocation as well as the allocation stack.  Repeat the warning after
every 10 seconds so that we know that the problem is permanent rather
than ephemeral.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160929084407.7004-3-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Tetsuo Handa 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds