linux-toradex.git/mm, branch v3.10.17

cope with potentially long ->d_dname() output for shmem/hugetlb

2013-10-18T14:45:45+00:00

commit 118b23022512eb2f41ce42db70dc0568d00be4ba upstream.

dynamic_dname() is both too much and too little for those - the
output may be well in excess of 64 bytes dynamic_dname() assumes
to be enough (thanks to ashmem feeding really long names to
shmem_file_setup()) and vsnprintf() is an overkill for those
guys.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Cc: Colin Cross 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: avoid reinserting isolated balloon pages into LRU lists

2013-10-13T23:08:33+00:00

commit 117aad1e9e4d97448d1df3f84b08bd65811e6d6a upstream.

Isolated balloon pages can wrongly end up in LRU lists when
migrate_pages() finishes its round without draining all the isolated
page list.

The same issue can happen when reclaim_clean_pages_from_list() tries to
reclaim pages from an isolated page list, before migration, in the CMA
path.  Such balloon page leak opens a race window against LRU lists
shrinkers that leads us to the following kernel panic:

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028
  IP: [] shrink_page_list+0x24e/0x897
  PGD 3cda2067 PUD 3d713067 PMD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
  CPU: 0 PID: 340 Comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 3.12.0-rc1-22626-g4367597 #87
  Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
  RIP: shrink_page_list+0x24e/0x897
  RSP: 0000:ffff88003da499b8  EFLAGS: 00010286
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88003e82bd60 RCX: 00000000000657d5
  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000031f RDI: ffff88003e82bd40
  RBP: ffff88003da49ab0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000081121a45
  R10: ffffffff81121a45 R11: ffff88003c4a9a28 R12: ffff88003e82bd40
  R13: ffff88003da0e800 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffff88003da49d58
  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88003fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 00000000067d9000 CR3: 000000003ace5000 CR4: 00000000000407b0
  Call Trace:
    shrink_inactive_list+0x240/0x3de
    shrink_lruvec+0x3e0/0x566
    __shrink_zone+0x94/0x178
    shrink_zone+0x3a/0x82
    balance_pgdat+0x32a/0x4c2
    kswapd+0x2f0/0x372
    kthread+0xa2/0xaa
    ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
  Code: 80 7d 8f 01 48 83 95 68 ff ff ff 00 4c 89 e7 e8 5a 7b 00 00 48 85 c0 49 89 c5 75 08 80 7d 8f 00 74 3e eb 31 48 8b 80 18 01 00 00 <48> 8b 74 0d 48 8b 78 30 be 02 00 00 00 ff d2 eb
  RIP  [] shrink_page_list+0x24e/0x897
   RSP 
  CR2: 0000000000000028
  ---[ end trace 703d2451af6ffbfd ]---
  Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

This patch fixes the issue, by assuring the proper tests are made at
putback_movable_pages() & reclaim_clean_pages_from_list() to avoid
isolated balloon pages being wrongly reinserted in LRU lists.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: clarify awkward comment text]
Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini 
Reported-by: Luiz Capitulino 
Tested-by: Luiz Capitulino 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/bounce.c: fix a regression where MS_SNAP_STABLE (stable pages snapshotting) was ignored

2013-10-13T23:08:33+00:00

commit 83b2944fd2532b92db099cb3ada12df32a05b368 upstream.

The "force" parameter in __blk_queue_bounce was being ignored, which
means that stable page snapshots are not always happening (on ext3).
This of course leads to DIF disks reporting checksum errors, so fix this
regression.

The regression was introduced in commit 6bc454d15004 ("bounce: Refactor
__blk_queue_bounce to not use bi_io_vec")

Reported-by: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong 
Cc: Kent Overstreet 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: fix aio performance regression for database caused by THP

2013-10-01T16:17:48+00:00

commit 7cb2ef56e6a8b7b368b2e883a0a47d02fed66911 upstream.

I am working with a tool that simulates oracle database I/O workload.
This tool (orion to be specific -
)
allocates hugetlbfs pages using shmget() with SHM_HUGETLB flag.  It then
does aio into these pages from flash disks using various common block
sizes used by database.  I am looking at performance with two of the most
common block sizes - 1M and 64K.  aio performance with these two block
sizes plunged after Transparent HugePages was introduced in the kernel.
Here are performance numbers:

		pre-THP		2.6.39		3.11-rc5
1M read		8384 MB/s	5629 MB/s	6501 MB/s
64K read	7867 MB/s	4576 MB/s	4251 MB/s

I have narrowed the performance impact down to the overheads introduced by
THP in __get_page_tail() and put_compound_page() routines.  perf top shows
>40% of cycles being spent in these two routines.  Every time direct I/O
to hugetlbfs pages starts, kernel calls get_page() to grab a reference to
the pages and calls put_page() when I/O completes to put the reference
away.  THP introduced significant amount of locking overhead to get_page()
and put_page() when dealing with compound pages because hugepages can be
split underneath get_page() and put_page().  It added this overhead
irrespective of whether it is dealing with hugetlbfs pages or transparent
hugepages.  This resulted in 20%-45% drop in aio performance when using
hugetlbfs pages.

Since hugetlbfs pages can not be split, there is no reason to go through
all the locking overhead for these pages from what I can see.  I added
code to __get_page_tail() and put_compound_page() to bypass all the
locking code when working with hugetlbfs pages.  This improved performance
significantly.  Performance numbers with this patch:

		pre-THP		3.11-rc5	3.11-rc5 + Patch
1M read		8384 MB/s	6501 MB/s	8371 MB/s
64K read	7867 MB/s	4251 MB/s	6510 MB/s

Performance with 64K read is still lower than what it was before THP, but
still a 53% improvement.  It does mean there is more work to be done but I
will take a 53% improvement for now.

Please take a look at the following patch and let me know if it looks
reasonable.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comments]
Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz 
Cc: Pravin B Shelar 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/huge_memory.c: fix potential NULL pointer dereference

2013-09-27T00:18:28+00:00

commit a8f531ebc33052642b4bd7b812eedf397108ce64 upstream.

In collapse_huge_page() there is a race window between releasing the
mmap_sem read lock and taking the mmap_sem write lock, so find_vma() may
return NULL.  So check the return value to avoid NULL pointer dereference.

collapse_huge_page
	khugepaged_alloc_page
		up_read(&mm->mmap_sem)
	down_write(&mm->mmap_sem)
	vma = find_vma(mm, address)

Signed-off-by: Libin 
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Reviewed-by: Wanpeng Li 
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

memcg: fix multiple large threshold notifications

2013-09-27T00:18:28+00:00

commit 2bff24a3707093c435ab3241c47dcdb5f16e432b upstream.

A memory cgroup with (1) multiple threshold notifications and (2) at least
one threshold >=2G was not reliable.  Specifically the notifications would
either not fire or would not fire in the proper order.

The __mem_cgroup_threshold() signaling logic depends on keeping 64 bit
thresholds in sorted order.  mem_cgroup_usage_register_event() sorts them
with compare_thresholds(), which returns the difference of two 64 bit
thresholds as an int.  If the difference is positive but has bit[31] set,
then sort() treats the difference as negative and breaks sort order.

This fix compares the two arbitrary 64 bit thresholds returning the
classic -1, 0, 1 result.

The test below sets two notifications (at 0x1000 and 0x81001000):
  cd /sys/fs/cgroup/memory
  mkdir x
  for x in 4096 2164264960; do
    cgroup_event_listener x/memory.usage_in_bytes $x | sed "s/^/$x listener:/" &
  done
  echo $$ > x/cgroup.procs
  anon_leaker 500M

v3.11-rc7 fails to signal the 4096 event listener:
  Leaking...
  Done leaking pages.

Patched v3.11-rc7 properly notifies:
  Leaking...
  4096 listener:2013:8:31:14:13:36
  Done leaking pages.

The fixed bug is old.  It appears to date back to the introduction of
memcg threshold notifications in v2.6.34-rc1-116-g2e72b6347c94 "memcg:
implement memory thresholds"

Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

memcg: check that kmem_cache has memcg_params before accessing it

2013-09-08T05:09:58+00:00

commit 6f6b8951897e487ea6f77b90ea01f70a9c363770 upstream.

If the system had a few memory groups and all of them were destroyed,
memcg_limited_groups_array_size has non-zero value, but all new caches
are created without memcg_params, because memcg_kmem_enabled() returns
false.

We try to enumirate child caches in a few places and all of them are
potentially dangerous.

For example my kernel is compiled with CONFIG_SLAB and it crashed when I
tryed to mount a NFS share after a few experiments with kmemcg.

  BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008
  IP: [] do_tune_cpucache+0x8a/0xd0
  PGD b942a067 PUD b999f067 PMD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
  Modules linked in: fscache(+) ip6table_filter ip6_tables iptable_filter ip_tables i2c_piix4 pcspkr virtio_net virtio_balloon i2c_core floppy
  CPU: 0 PID: 357 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 3.11.0-rc7+ #59
  Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
  task: ffff8800b9f98240 ti: ffff8800ba32e000 task.ti: ffff8800ba32e000
  RIP: 0010:[]  [] do_tune_cpucache+0x8a/0xd0
  RSP: 0018:ffff8800ba32fb70  EFLAGS: 00010246
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000006
  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff8800b9f98910 RDI: 0000000000000246
  RBP: ffff8800ba32fba0 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000004
  R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000010
  R13: 0000000000000008 R14: 00000000000000d0 R15: ffff8800375d0200
  FS:  00007f55f1378740(0000) GS:ffff8800bfa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
  CR2: 00007f24feba57a0 CR3: 0000000037b51000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
  Call Trace:
    enable_cpucache+0x49/0x100
    setup_cpu_cache+0x215/0x280
    __kmem_cache_create+0x2fa/0x450
    kmem_cache_create_memcg+0x214/0x350
    kmem_cache_create+0x2b/0x30
    fscache_init+0x19b/0x230 [fscache]
    do_one_initcall+0xfa/0x1b0
    load_module+0x1c41/0x26d0
    SyS_finit_module+0x86/0xb0
    system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Glauber Costa 
Cc: Joonsoo Kim 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Fix TLB gather virtual address range invalidation corner cases

2013-08-20T15:43:05+00:00

commit 2b047252d087be7f2ba088b4933cd904f92e6fce upstream.

Ben Tebulin reported:

 "Since v3.7.2 on two independent machines a very specific Git
  repository fails in 9/10 cases on git-fsck due to an SHA1/memory
  failures.  This only occurs on a very specific repository and can be
  reproduced stably on two independent laptops.  Git mailing list ran
  out of ideas and for me this looks like some very exotic kernel issue"

and bisected the failure to the backport of commit 53a59fc67f97 ("mm:
limit mmu_gather batching to fix soft lockups on !CONFIG_PREEMPT").

That commit itself is not actually buggy, but what it does is to make it
much more likely to hit the partial TLB invalidation case, since it
introduces a new case in tlb_next_batch() that previously only ever
happened when running out of memory.

The real bug is that the TLB gather virtual memory range setup is subtly
buggered.  It was introduced in commit 597e1c3580b7 ("mm/mmu_gather:
enable tlb flush range in generic mmu_gather"), and the range handling
was already fixed at least once in commit e6c495a96ce0 ("mm: fix the TLB
range flushed when __tlb_remove_page() runs out of slots"), but that fix
was not complete.

The problem with the TLB gather virtual address range is that it isn't
set up by the initial tlb_gather_mmu() initialization (which didn't get
the TLB range information), but it is set up ad-hoc later by the
functions that actually flush the TLB.  And so any such case that forgot
to update the TLB range entries would potentially miss TLB invalidates.

Rather than try to figure out exactly which particular ad-hoc range
setup was missing (I personally suspect it's the hugetlb case in
zap_huge_pmd(), which didn't have the same logic as zap_pte_range()
did), this patch just gets rid of the problem at the source: make the
TLB range information available to tlb_gather_mmu(), and initialize it
when initializing all the other tlb gather fields.

This makes the patch larger, but conceptually much simpler.  And the end
result is much more understandable; even if you want to play games with
partial ranges when invalidating the TLB contents in chunks, now the
range information is always there, and anybody who doesn't want to
bother with it won't introduce subtle bugs.

Ben verified that this fixes his problem.

Reported-bisected-and-tested-by: Ben Tebulin 
Build-testing-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Build-testing-by: Richard Weinberger 
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

memcg: don't initialize kmem-cache destroying work for root caches

2013-08-20T15:43:02+00:00

commit 3e6b11df245180949938734bc192eaf32f3a06b3 upstream.

struct memcg_cache_params has a union.  Different parts of this union
are used for root and non-root caches.  A part with destroying work is
used only for non-root caches.

I fixed the same problem in another place v3.9-rc1-16204-gf101a94, but
didn't notice this one.

This patch fixes the kernel panic:

[   46.848187] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000fffffffeb8
[   46.849026] IP: [] kmem_cache_destroy_memcg_children+0x6c/0xc0
[   46.849092] PGD 0
[   46.849092] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
...

Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin 
Cc: Glauber Costa 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Balbir Singh 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: mempolicy: fix mbind_range() && vma_adjust() interaction

2013-08-04T08:51:14+00:00

commit 3964acd0dbec123aa0a621973a2a0580034b4788 upstream.

vma_adjust() does vma_set_policy(vma, vma_policy(next)) and this
is doubly wrong:

1. This leaks vma->vm_policy if it is not NULL and not equal to
   next->vm_policy.

   This can happen if vma_merge() expands "area", not prev (case 8).

2. This sets the wrong policy if vma_merge() joins prev and area,
   area is the vma the caller needs to update and it still has the
   old policy.

Revert commit 1444f92c8498 ("mm: merging memory blocks resets
mempolicy") which introduced these problems.

Change mbind_range() to recheck mpol_equal() after vma_merge() to fix
the problem that commit tried to address.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Steven T Hampson 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman