linux-toradex.git/mm, branch v2.6.27.8

memory hotplug: fix page_zone() calculation in test_pages_isolated()

2008-11-20T22:54:47+00:00

commit a70dcb969f64e2fa98c24f47854f20bf02ff0092 upstream.

My last bugfix here (adding zone->lock) introduced a new problem: Using
page_zone(pfn_to_page(pfn)) to get the zone after the for() loop is wrong.
 pfn will then be >= end_pfn, which may be in a different zone or not
present at all.  This may lead to an addressing exception in page_zone()
or spin_lock_irqsave().

Now I use __first_valid_page() again after the loop to find a valid page
for page_zone().

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer 
Acked-by: Nathan Fontenot 
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

hugetlb: make unmap_ref_private multi-size-aware

2008-11-20T22:54:46+00:00

commit 7526674de0c921e7f1e9b6f71a1f9d832557b554 upstream.

Oops.  Part of the hugetlb private reservation code was not fully
converted to use hstates.

When a huge page must be unmapped from VMAs due to a failed COW,
HPAGE_SIZE is used in the call to unmap_hugepage_range() regardless of
the page size being used.  This works if the VMA is using the default
huge page size.  Otherwise we might unmap too much, too little, or
trigger a BUG_ON.  Rare but serious -- fix it.

Signed-off-by: Adam Litke 
Cc: Jon Tollefson 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

hugetlbfs: handle pages higher order than MAX_ORDER

2008-11-13T17:55:56+00:00

commit 69d177c2fc702d402b17fdca2190d5a7e3ca55c5 upstream

When working with hugepages, hugetlbfs assumes that those hugepages are
smaller than MAX_ORDER.  Specifically it assumes that the mem_map is
contigious and uses that to optimise access to the elements of the mem_map
that represent the hugepage.  Gigantic pages (such as 16GB pages on
powerpc) by definition are of greater order than MAX_ORDER (larger than
MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES in size).  This means that we can no longer make use of
the buddy alloctor guarentees for the contiguity of the mem_map, which
ensures that the mem_map is at least contigious for maximmally aligned
areas of MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES pages.

This patch adds new mem_map accessors and iterator helpers which handle
any discontiguity at MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundaries.  It then uses these to
implement gigantic page versions of copy_huge_page and clear_huge_page,
and to allow follow_hugetlb_page handle gigantic pages.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft 
Cc: Jon Tollefson 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

hugetlb: pull gigantic page initialisation out of the default path

2008-11-13T17:55:56+00:00

commit 18229df5b613ed0732a766fc37850de2e7988e43 upstream

As we can determine exactly when a gigantic page is in use we can optimise
the common regular page cases by pulling out gigantic page initialisation
into its own function.  As gigantic pages are never released to buddy we
do not need a destructor.  This effectivly reverts the previous change to
the main buddy allocator.  It also adds a paranoid check to ensure we
never release gigantic pages from hugetlbfs to the main buddy.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft 
Cc: Jon Tollefson 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Nick Piggin 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

anon_vma_prepare: properly lock even newly allocated entries

2008-10-25T21:32:41+00:00

commit d9d332e0874f46b91d8ac4604b68ee42b8a7a2c6 upstream

The anon_vma code is very subtle, and we end up doing optimistic lookups
of anon_vmas under RCU in page_lock_anon_vma() with no locking.  Other
CPU's can also see the newly allocated entry immediately after we've
exposed it by setting "vma->anon_vma" to the new value.

We protect against the anon_vma being destroyed by having the SLAB
marked as SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU, so the RCU lookup can depend on the
allocation not being destroyed - but it might still be free'd and
re-allocated here to a new vma.

As a result, we should not do the anon_vma list ops on a newly allocated
vma without proper locking.

Acked-by: Nick Piggin 
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

SLOB: fix bogus ksize calculation fix

2008-10-09T19:18:27+00:00

This fixes the previous fix, which was completely wrong on closer
inspection. This version has been manually tested with a user-space
test harness and generates sane values. A nearly identical patch has
been boot-tested.

The problem arose from changing how kmalloc/kfree handled alignment
padding without updating ksize to match. This brings it in sync.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

SLOB: fix bogus ksize calculation

2008-10-07T18:19:23+00:00

SLOB's ksize calculation was braindamaged and generally harmlessly
underreported the allocation size. But for very small buffers, it could
in fact overreport them, leading code depending on krealloc to overrun
the allocation and trample other data.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall 
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: handle initialising compound pages at orders greater than MAX_ORDER

2008-10-02T22:53:13+00:00

When we initialise a compound page we initialise the page flags and head
page pointer for all base pages spanned by that page.  When we initialise
a gigantic page (a page of order greater than or equal to MAX_ORDER) we
have to initialise more than MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES pages.  Currently we
assume that all elements of the mem_map in this page are contigious in
memory.  However this is only guarenteed out to MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES pages,
and with SPARSEMEM enabled they will not be contigious.  This leads us to
walk off the end of the first section and scribble on everything which
follows, BAD.

When we reach a MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary we much locate the next
section of the mem_map.  As gigantic pages can only be maximally aligned
we know this will occur at exact multiple of MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES pages from
the start of the page.

This is a bug fix for the gigantic page support in hugetlbfs.

Credit to Mel Gorman for spotting the issue.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Jon Tollefson 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: tiny-shmem nommu fix

2008-10-02T22:53:13+00:00

The previous patch db203d53d474aa068984e409d807628f5841da1b ("mm:
tiny-shmem fix lock ordering: mmap_sem vs i_mutex") to fix the lock
ordering in tiny-shmem breaks shared anonymous and IPC memory on NOMMU
architectures because it was using the expanding truncate to signal ramfs
to allocate a physically contiguous RAM backing the inode (otherwise it is
unusable for "memory mapping" it to userspace).

However do_truncate is what caused the lock ordering error, due to it
taking i_mutex.  In this case, we can actually just call ramfs directly to
allocate memory for the mapping, rather than go via truncate.

Acked-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin 
Cc: Matt Mackall 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

memory hotplug: missing zone->lock in test_pages_isolated()

2008-10-02T22:53:13+00:00

__test_page_isolated_in_pageblock() in mm/page_isolation.c has a comment
saying that the caller must hold zone->lock. But the only caller of that
function, test_pages_isolated(), does not hold zone->lock and the lock is
also not acquired anywhere before. This patch adds the missing zone->lock
to test_pages_isolated().

We reproducibly run into BUG_ON(!PageBuddy(page)) in __offline_isolated_pages()
during memory hotplug stress test, see trace below. This patch fixes that
problem, it would be good if we could have it in 2.6.27.

kernel BUG at /home/autobuild/BUILD/linux-2.6.26-20080909/mm/page_alloc.c:4561!
illegal operation: 0001 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in: dm_multipath sunrpc bonding qeth_l3 dm_mod qeth ccwgroup vmur
CPU: 1 Not tainted 2.6.26-29.x.20080909-s390default #1
Process memory_loop_all (pid: 10025, task: 2f444028, ksp: 2b10dd28)
Krnl PSW : 040c0000 801727ea (__offline_isolated_pages+0x18e/0x1c4)
 R:0 T:1 IO:0 EX:0 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:0 CC:0 PM:0
Krnl GPRS: 00000000 7e27fc00 00000000 7e27fc00
 00000000 00000400 00014000 7e27fc01
 00606f00 7e27fc00 00013fe0 2b10dd28
 00000005 80172662 801727b2 2b10dd28
Krnl Code: 801727de: 5810900c l %r1,12(%r9)
 801727e2: a7f4ffb3 brc 15,80172748
 801727e6: a7f40001 brc 15,801727e8
 >801727ea: a7f4ffbc brc 15,80172762
 801727ee: a7f40001 brc 15,801727f0
 801727f2: a7f4ffaf brc 15,80172750
 801727f6: 0707 bcr 0,%r7
 801727f8: 0017 unknown
Call Trace:
([<0000000000172772>] __offline_isolated_pages+0x116/0x1c4)
 [<00000000001953a2>] offline_isolated_pages_cb+0x22/0x34
 [<000000000013164c>] walk_memory_resource+0xcc/0x11c
 [<000000000019520e>] offline_pages+0x36a/0x498
 [<00000000001004d6>] remove_memory+0x36/0x44
 [<000000000028fb06>] memory_block_change_state+0x112/0x150
 [<000000000028ffb8>] store_mem_state+0x90/0xe4
 [<0000000000289c00>] sysdev_store+0x34/0x40
 [<00000000001ee048>] sysfs_write_file+0xd0/0x178
 [<000000000019b1a8>] vfs_write+0x74/0x118
 [<000000000019b9ae>] sys_write+0x46/0x7c
 [<000000000011160e>] sysc_do_restart+0x12/0x16
 [<0000000077f3e8ca>] 0x77f3e8ca

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer 
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds