linux-toradex.git/mm, branch v3.0.25

mm: thp: fix BUG on mm->nr_ptes

2012-03-12T17:32:56+00:00

commit 1c641e84719429bbfe62a95ed3545ee7fe24408f upstream.

Dave Jones reports a few Fedora users hitting the BUG_ON(mm->nr_ptes...)
in exit_mmap() recently.

Quoting Hugh's discovery and explanation of the SMP race condition:

  "mm->nr_ptes had unusual locking: down_read mmap_sem plus
   page_table_lock when incrementing, down_write mmap_sem (or mm_users
   0) when decrementing; whereas THP is careful to increment and
   decrement it under page_table_lock.

   Now most of those paths in THP also hold mmap_sem for read or write
   (with appropriate checks on mm_users), but two do not: when
   split_huge_page() is called by hwpoison_user_mappings(), and when
   called by add_to_swap().

   It's conceivable that the latter case is responsible for the
   exit_mmap() BUG_ON mm->nr_ptes that has been reported on Fedora."

The simplest way to fix it without having to alter the locking is to make
split_huge_page() a noop in nr_ptes terms, so by counting the preallocated
pagetables that exists for every mapped hugepage.  It was an arbitrary
choice not to count them and either way is not wrong or right, because
they are not used but they're still allocated.

Reported-by: Dave Jones 
Reported-by: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli 
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Josh Boyer 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

NOMMU: Don't need to clear vm_mm when deleting a VMA

2012-03-12T17:32:56+00:00

commit b94cfaf6685d691dc3fab023cf32f65e9b7be09c upstream.

Don't clear vm_mm in a deleted VMA as it's unnecessary and might
conceivably break the filesystem or driver VMA close routine.

Reported-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: memcg: Correct unregistring of events attached to the same eventfd

2012-03-12T17:32:55+00:00

commit 371528caec553785c37f73fa3926ea0de84f986f upstream.

There is an issue when memcg unregisters events that were attached to
the same eventfd:

- On the first call mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event() removes all
  events attached to a given eventfd, and if there were no events left,
  thresholds->primary would become NULL;

- Since there were several events registered, cgroups core will call
  mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event() again, but now kernel will oops,
  as the function doesn't expect that threshold->primary may be NULL.

That's a good question whether mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event()
should actually remove all events in one go, but nowadays it can't
do any better as cftype->unregister_event callback doesn't pass
any private event-associated cookie. So, let's fix the issue by
simply checking for threshold->primary.

FWIW, w/o the patch the following oops may be observed:

 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000004
 IP: [] mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event+0x9c/0x1f0
 Pid: 574, comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 3.3.0-rc4+ #9 Bochs Bochs
 RIP: 0010:[]  [] mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event+0x9c/0x1f0
 RSP: 0018:ffff88001d0b9d60  EFLAGS: 00010246
 Process kworker/0:2 (pid: 574, threadinfo ffff88001d0b8000, task ffff88001de91cc0)
 Call Trace:
  [] cgroup_event_remove+0x2b/0x60
  [] process_one_work+0x174/0x450
  [] worker_thread+0x123/0x2d0

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov 
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

NOMMU: Lock i_mmap_mutex for access to the VMA prio list

2012-03-01T00:33:36+00:00

commit 918e556ec214ed2f584e4cac56d7b29e4bb6bf27 upstream.

Lock i_mmap_mutex for access to the VMA prio list to prevent concurrent
access.  Currently, certain parts of the mmap handling are protected by
the region mutex, but not all.

Reported-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

slub: fix a possible memleak in __slab_alloc()

2012-02-20T20:48:14+00:00

commit 73736e0387ba0e6d2b703407b4d26168d31516a7 upstream.

Zhihua Che reported a possible memleak in slub allocator on
CONFIG_PREEMPT=y builds.

It is possible current thread migrates right before disabling irqs in
__slab_alloc(). We must check again c->freelist, and perform a normal
allocation instead of scratching c->freelist.

Many thanks to Zhihua Che for spotting this bug, introduced in 2.6.39

V2: Its also possible an IRQ freed one (or several) object(s) and
populated c->freelist, so its not a CONFIG_PREEMPT only problem.

Reported-by: Zhihua Che 
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: fix UP THP spin_is_locked BUGs

2012-02-13T19:06:11+00:00

commit b9980cdcf2524c5fe15d8cbae9c97b3ed6385563 upstream.

Fix CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE=y CONFIG_SMP=n CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=n kernel: spin_is_locked() is then always false,
and so triggers some BUGs in Transparent HugePage codepaths.

asm-generic/bug.h mentions this problem, and provides a WARN_ON_SMP(x);
but being too lazy to add VM_BUG_ON_SMP, BUG_ON_SMP, WARN_ON_SMP_ONCE,
VM_WARN_ON_SMP_ONCE, just test NR_CPUS != 1 in the existing VM_BUG_ONs.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: compaction: check for overlapping nodes during isolation for migration

2012-02-13T19:06:11+00:00

commit dc9086004b3d5db75997a645b3fe08d9138b7ad0 upstream.

When isolating pages for migration, migration starts at the start of a
zone while the free scanner starts at the end of the zone.  Migration
avoids entering a new zone by never going beyond the free scanned.

Unfortunately, in very rare cases nodes can overlap.  When this happens,
migration isolates pages without the LRU lock held, corrupting lists
which will trigger errors in reclaim or during page free such as in the
following oops

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
  IP: [] free_pcppages_bulk+0xcc/0x450
  PGD 1dda554067 PUD 1e1cb58067 PMD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
  CPU 37
  Pid: 17088, comm: memcg_process_s Tainted: G            X
  RIP: free_pcppages_bulk+0xcc/0x450
  Process memcg_process_s (pid: 17088, threadinfo ffff881c2926e000, task ffff881c2926c0c0)
  Call Trace:
    free_hot_cold_page+0x17e/0x1f0
    __pagevec_free+0x90/0xb0
    release_pages+0x22a/0x260
    pagevec_lru_move_fn+0xf3/0x110
    putback_lru_page+0x66/0xe0
    unmap_and_move+0x156/0x180
    migrate_pages+0x9e/0x1b0
    compact_zone+0x1f3/0x2f0
    compact_zone_order+0xa2/0xe0
    try_to_compact_pages+0xdf/0x110
    __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0xee/0x1c0
    __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x370/0x830
    __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x1b1/0x1c0
    alloc_pages_vma+0x9b/0x160
    do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page+0x160/0x270
    do_page_fault+0x207/0x4c0
    page_fault+0x25/0x30

The "X" in the taint flag means that external modules were loaded but but
is unrelated to the bug triggering.  The real problem was because the PFN
layout looks like this

  Zone PFN ranges:
    DMA      0x00000010 -> 0x00001000
    DMA32    0x00001000 -> 0x00100000
    Normal   0x00100000 -> 0x01e80000
  Movable zone start PFN for each node
  early_node_map[14] active PFN ranges
      0: 0x00000010 -> 0x0000009b
      0: 0x00000100 -> 0x0007a1ec
      0: 0x0007a354 -> 0x0007a379
      0: 0x0007f7ff -> 0x0007f800
      0: 0x00100000 -> 0x00680000
      1: 0x00680000 -> 0x00e80000
      0: 0x00e80000 -> 0x01080000
      1: 0x01080000 -> 0x01280000
      0: 0x01280000 -> 0x01480000
      1: 0x01480000 -> 0x01680000
      0: 0x01680000 -> 0x01880000
      1: 0x01880000 -> 0x01a80000
      0: 0x01a80000 -> 0x01c80000
      1: 0x01c80000 -> 0x01e80000

The fix is straight-forward.  isolate_migratepages() has to make a
similar check to isolate_freepage to ensure that it never isolates pages
from a zone it does not hold the LRU lock for.

This was discovered in a 3.0-based kernel but it affects 3.1.x, 3.2.x
and current mainline.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: compaction: check pfn_valid when entering a new MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES block during isolation for migration

2012-02-13T19:06:07+00:00

commit 0bf380bc70ecba68cb4d74dc656cc2fa8c4d801a upstream.

When isolating for migration, migration starts at the start of a zone
which is not necessarily pageblock aligned.  Further, it stops isolating
when COMPACT_CLUSTER_MAX pages are isolated so migrate_pfn is generally
not aligned.  This allows isolate_migratepages() to call pfn_to_page() on
an invalid PFN which can result in a crash.  This was originally reported
against a 3.0-based kernel with the following trace in a crash dump.

PID: 9902   TASK: d47aecd0  CPU: 0   COMMAND: "memcg_process_s"
 #0 [d72d3ad0] crash_kexec at c028cfdb
 #1 [d72d3b24] oops_end at c05c5322
 #2 [d72d3b38] __bad_area_nosemaphore at c0227e60
 #3 [d72d3bec] bad_area at c0227fb6
 #4 [d72d3c00] do_page_fault at c05c72ec
 #5 [d72d3c80] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4
    EAX: 00000000  EBX: 000c0000  ECX: 00000001  EDX: 00000807  EBP: 000c0000
    DS:  007b      ESI: 00000001  ES:  007b      EDI: f3000a80  GS:  6f50
    CS:  0060      EIP: c030b15a  ERR: ffffffff  EFLAGS: 00010002
 #6 [d72d3cb4] isolate_migratepages at c030b15a
 #7 [d72d3d14] zone_watermark_ok at c02d26cb
 #8 [d72d3d2c] compact_zone at c030b8de
 #9 [d72d3d68] compact_zone_order at c030bba1
#10 [d72d3db4] try_to_compact_pages at c030bc84
#11 [d72d3ddc] __alloc_pages_direct_compact at c02d61e7
#12 [d72d3e08] __alloc_pages_slowpath at c02d66c7
#13 [d72d3e78] __alloc_pages_nodemask at c02d6a97
#14 [d72d3eb8] alloc_pages_vma at c030a845
#15 [d72d3ed4] do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page at c03178eb
#16 [d72d3f00] handle_mm_fault at c02f36c6
#17 [d72d3f30] do_page_fault at c05c70ed
#18 [d72d3fb0] error_code (via page_fault) at c05c47a4
    EAX: b71ff000  EBX: 00000001  ECX: 00001600  EDX: 00000431
    DS:  007b      ESI: 08048950  ES:  007b      EDI: bfaa3788
    SS:  007b      ESP: bfaa36e0  EBP: bfaa3828  GS:  6f50
    CS:  0073      EIP: 080487c8  ERR: ffffffff  EFLAGS: 00010202

It was also reported by Herbert van den Bergh against 3.1-based kernel
with the following snippet from the console log.

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 01c00008
IP: [] isolate_migratepages+0x119/0x390
*pdpt = 000000002f7ce001 *pde = 0000000000000000

It is expected that it also affects 3.2.x and current mainline.

The problem is that pfn_valid is only called on the first PFN being
checked and that PFN is not necessarily aligned.  Lets say we have a case
like this

H = MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary
| = pageblock boundary
m = cc->migrate_pfn
f = cc->free_pfn
o = memory hole

H------|------H------|----m-Hoooooo|ooooooH-f----|------H

The migrate_pfn is just below a memory hole and the free scanner is beyond
the hole.  When isolate_migratepages started, it scans from migrate_pfn to
migrate_pfn+pageblock_nr_pages which is now in a memory hole.  It checks
pfn_valid() on the first PFN but then scans into the hole where there are
not necessarily valid struct pages.

This patch ensures that isolate_migratepages calls pfn_valid when
necessary.

Reported-by: Herbert van den Bergh 
Tested-by: Herbert van den Bergh 
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/filemap_xip.c: fix race condition in xip_file_fault()

2012-02-13T19:06:07+00:00

commit 99f02ef1f18631eb0a4e0ea0a3d56878dbcb4b90 upstream.

Fix a race condition that shows in conjunction with xip_file_fault() when
two threads of the same user process fault on the same memory page.

In this case, the race winner will install the page table entry and the
unlucky loser will cause an oops: xip_file_fault calls vm_insert_pfn (via
vm_insert_mixed) which drops out at this check:

	retval = -EBUSY;
	if (!pte_none(*pte))
		goto out_unlock;

The resulting -EBUSY return value will trigger a BUG_ON() in
xip_file_fault.

This fix simply considers the fault as fixed in this case, because the
race winner has successfully installed the pte.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use conventional (and consistent) comment layout]
Reported-by: David Sadler 
Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte 
Reported-by: Louis Alex Eisner 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

readahead: fix pipeline break caused by block plug

2012-02-13T19:06:04+00:00

commit 3deaa7190a8da38453c4fabd9dec7f66d17fff67 upstream.

Herbert Poetzl reported a performance regression since 2.6.39.  The test
is a simple dd read, but with big block size.  The reason is:

T1: ra (A, A+128k), (A+128k, A+256k)
T2: lock_page for page A, submit the 256k
T3: hit page A+128K, ra (A+256k, A+384). the range isn't submitted
because of plug and there isn't any lock_page till we hit page A+256k
because all pages from A to A+256k is in memory
T4: hit page A+256k, ra (A+384, A+ 512). Because of plug, the range isn't
submitted again.
T5: lock_page A+256k, so (A+256k, A+512k) will be submitted. The task is
waitting for (A+256k, A+512k) finish.

There is no request to disk in T3 and T4, so readahead pipeline breaks.

We really don't need block plug for generic_file_aio_read() for buffered
I/O.  The readahead already has plug and has fine grained control when I/O
should be submitted.  Deleting plug for buffered I/O fixes the regression.

One side effect is plug makes the request size 256k, the size is 128k
without it.  This is because default ra size is 128k and not a reason we
need plug here.

Vivek said:

: We submit some readahead IO to device request queue but because of nested
: plug, queue never gets unplugged.  When read logic reaches a page which is
: not in page cache, it waits for page to be read from the disk
: (lock_page_killable()) and that time we flush the plug list.
:
: So effectively read ahead logic is kind of broken in parts because of
: nested plugging.  Removing top level plug (generic_file_aio_read()) for
: buffered reads, will allow unplugging queue earlier for readahead.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li 
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang 
Reported-by: Herbert Poetzl 
Tested-by: Eric Dumazet 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Vivek Goyal 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman