linux-toradex.git/mm, branch v3.11.7

writeback: fix negative bdi max pause

2013-11-04T12:35:20+00:00

commit e3b6c655b91e01a1dade056cfa358581b47a5351 upstream.

Toralf runs trinity on UML/i386.  After some time it hangs and the last
message line is

	BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [trinity-child0:1521]

It's found that pages_dirtied becomes very large.  More than 1000000000
pages in this case:

	period = HZ * pages_dirtied / task_ratelimit;
	BUG_ON(pages_dirtied > 2000000000);
	BUG_ON(pages_dirtied > 1000000000);      <---------

UML debug printf shows that we got negative pause here:

	ick: pause : -984
	ick: pages_dirtied : 0
	ick: task_ratelimit: 0

	 pause:
	+       if (pause < 0)  {
	+               extern int printf(char *, ...);
	+               printf("ick : pause : %li\n", pause);
	+               printf("ick: pages_dirtied : %lu\n", pages_dirtied);
	+               printf("ick: task_ratelimit: %lu\n", task_ratelimit);
	+               BUG_ON(1);
	+       }
	        trace_balance_dirty_pages(bdi,

Since pause is bounded by [min_pause, max_pause] where min_pause is also
bounded by max_pause.  It's suspected and demonstrated that the
max_pause calculation goes wrong:

	ick: pause : -717
	ick: min_pause : -177
	ick: max_pause : -717
	ick: pages_dirtied : 14
	ick: task_ratelimit: 0

The problem lies in the two "long = unsigned long" assignments in
bdi_max_pause() which might go negative if the highest bit is 1, and the
min_t(long, ...) check failed to protect it falling under 0.  Fix all of
them by using "unsigned long" throughout the function.

Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu 
Reported-by: Toralf Förster 
Tested-by: Toralf Förster 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: fix BUG in __split_huge_page_pmd

2013-11-04T12:35:20+00:00

commit 750e8165f5e87b6a142be953640eabb13a9d350a upstream.

Occasionally we hit the BUG_ON(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd)) at the end of
__split_huge_page_pmd(): seen when doing madvise(,,MADV_DONTNEED).

It's invalid: we don't always have down_write of mmap_sem there: a racing
do_huge_pmd_wp_page() might have copied-on-write to another huge page
before our split_huge_page() got the anon_vma lock.

Forget the BUG_ON, just go back and try again if this happens.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm/zswap: bugfix: memory leak when re-swapon

2013-11-04T12:35:20+00:00

commit aa9bca05a467c61dcea4142b2877d5392de5bdce upstream.

zswap_tree is not freed when swapoff, and it got re-kmalloced in swapon,
so a memory leak occurs.

Free the memory of zswap_tree in zswap_frontswap_invalidate_area().

Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang 
Reviewed-by: Bob Liu 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim 
From: Weijie Yang 
Subject: mm/zswap: bugfix: memory leak when invalidate and reclaim occur concurrently
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 

Consider the following scenario:
thread 0: reclaim entry x (get refcount, but not call zswap_get_swap_cache_page)
thread 1: call zswap_frontswap_invalidate_page to invalidate entry x.
	finished, entry x and its zbud is not freed as its refcount != 0
	now, the swap_map[x] = 0
thread 0: now call zswap_get_swap_cache_page
	swapcache_prepare return -ENOENT because entry x is not used any more
	zswap_get_swap_cache_page return ZSWAP_SWAPCACHE_NOMEM
	zswap_writeback_entry do nothing except put refcount
Now, the memory of zswap_entry x and its zpage leak.

Modify:
 - check the refcount in fail path, free memory if it is not referenced.

 - use ZSWAP_SWAPCACHE_FAIL instead of ZSWAP_SWAPCACHE_NOMEM as the fail path
   can be not only caused by nomem but also by invalidate.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang 
Reviewed-by: Bob Liu 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: 
Acked-by: Seth Jennings 

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: migration: do not lose soft dirty bit if page is in migration state

2013-11-04T12:35:20+00:00

commit c3d16e16522fe3fe8759735850a0676da18f4b1d upstream.

If page migration is turned on in config and the page is migrating, we
may lose the soft dirty bit.  If fork and mprotect are called on
migrating pages (once migration is complete) pages do not obtain the
soft dirty bit in the correspond pte entries.  Fix it adding an
appropriate test on swap entries.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Matt Mackall 
Cc: Xiao Guangrong 
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti 
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Cc: Stephen Rothwell 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" 
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: avoid reinserting isolated balloon pages into LRU lists

2013-10-14T01:14:31+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

2013-10-14T01:14:30+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

powerpc: Fix memory hotplug with sparse vmemmap

2013-10-14T01:14:28+00:00

commit f7e3334a6bcb42e7295a9bd9cb36ca4e6e4e66b4 upstream.

Previous commit 46723bfa540... introduced a new config option
HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE that ended up breaking memory hot-remove for ppc
when sparse vmemmap is not defined.

This patch defines HAVE_BOOTMEM_INFO_NODE for ppc and adds the call to
register_page_bootmem_info_node. Without this we get a BUG_ON for memory
hot remove in put_page_bootmem().

This also adds a stub for register_page_bootmem_memmap to allow ppc to build
with sparse vmemmap defined. Leaving this as a stub is fine since the same
vmemmap addresses are also handled in vmemmap_populate and as such are
properly mapped.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: fix aio performance regression for database caused by THP

2013-10-01T16:41:02+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

2013-09-27T00:21:57+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

2013-09-27T00:21:57+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