linux-toradex.git/mm, branch v3.4-rc7

mm: raise MemFree by reverting percpu_pagelist_fraction to 0

2012-05-11T16:23:39+00:00

Why is there less MemFree than there used to be?  It perturbed a test,
so I've just been bisecting linux-next, and now find the offender went
upstream yesterday.

Commit 93278814d359 "mm: fix division by 0 in percpu_pagelist_fraction()"
mistakenly initialized percpu_pagelist_fraction to the sysctl's minimum 8,
which leaves 1/8th of memory on percpu lists (on each cpu??); but most of
us expect it to be left unset at 0 (and it's not then used as a divisor).

  MemTotal: 8061476kB  8061476kB  8061476kB  8061476kB  8061476kB  8061476kB
  Repetitive test with percpu_pagelist_fraction 8:
  MemFree:  6948420kB  6237172kB  6949696kB  6840692kB  6949048kB  6862984kB
  Same test with percpu_pagelist_fraction back to 0:
  MemFree:  7945000kB  7944908kB  7948568kB  7949060kB  7948796kB  7948812kB

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
[ We really should fix the crazy sysctl interface too, but that's a
  separate thing - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)

2012-05-10T22:17:24+00:00

Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton.

* emailed from Andrew Morton : (8 patches)
  MAINTAINERS: add maintainer for LED subsystem
  mm: nobootmem: fix sign extend problem in __free_pages_memory()
  drivers/leds: correct __devexit annotations
  memcg: free spare array to avoid memory leak
  namespaces, pid_ns: fix leakage on fork() failure
  hugetlb: prevent BUG_ON in hugetlb_fault() -> hugetlb_cow()
  mm: fix division by 0 in percpu_pagelist_fraction()
  proc/pid/pagemap: correctly report non-present ptes and holes between vmas

mm: nobootmem: fix sign extend problem in __free_pages_memory()

2012-05-10T22:06:44+00:00

Systems with 8 TBytes of memory or greater can hit a problem where only
the the first 8 TB of memory shows up.  This is due to "int i" being
smaller than "unsigned long start_aligned", causing the high bits to be
dropped.

The fix is to change `i' to unsigned long to match start_aligned
and end_aligned.

Thanks to Jack Steiner for assistance tracking this down.

Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson 
Cc: Jack Steiner 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: David S. Miller 
Cc: Yinghai Lu 
Cc: Gavin Shan 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

memcg: free spare array to avoid memory leak

2012-05-10T22:06:44+00:00

When the last event is unregistered, there is no need to keep the spare
array anymore.  So free it to avoid memory leak.

Signed-off-by: Sha Zhengju 
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

hugetlb: prevent BUG_ON in hugetlb_fault() -> hugetlb_cow()

2012-05-10T22:06:44+00:00

Commit 66aebce747eaf ("hugetlb: fix race condition in hugetlb_fault()")
added code to avoid a race condition by elevating the page refcount in
hugetlb_fault() while calling hugetlb_cow().

However, one code path in hugetlb_cow() includes an assertion that the
page count is 1, whereas it may now also have the value 2 in this path.

The consensus is that this BUG_ON has served its purpose, so rather than
extending it to cover both cases, we just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf 
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Hillf Danton 
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: 	[3.0.29+, 3.2.16+, 3.3.3+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: fix division by 0 in percpu_pagelist_fraction()

2012-05-10T22:06:44+00:00

percpu_pagelist_fraction_sysctl_handler() has only considered -EINVAL as
a possible error from proc_dointvec_minmax().

If any other error is returned, it would proceed to divide by zero since
percpu_pagelist_fraction wasn't getting initialized at any point.  For
example, writing 0 bytes into the proc file would trigger the issue.

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kmemleak: Fix the kmemleak tracking of the percpu areas with !SMP

2012-05-09T17:13:29+00:00

Kmemleak tracks the percpu allocations via a specific API and the
originally allocated areas must be removed from kmemleak (via
kmemleak_free). The code was already doing this for SMP systems.

Reported-by: Sami Liedes 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas 
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

percpu: pcpu_embed_first_chunk() should free unused parts after all allocs are complete

2012-05-09T17:08:16+00:00

pcpu_embed_first_chunk() allocates memory for each node, copies percpu
data and frees unused portions of it before proceeding to the next
group.  This assumes that allocations for different nodes doesn't
overlap; however, depending on memory topology, the bootmem allocator
may end up allocating memory from a different node than the requested
one which may overlap with the portion freed from one of the previous
percpu areas.  This leads to percpu groups for different nodes
overlapping which is a serious bug.

This patch separates out copy & partial free from the allocation loop
such that all allocations are complete before partial frees happen.

This also fixes overlapping frees which could happen on allocation
failure path - out_free_areas path frees whole groups but the groups
could have portions freed at that point.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: "Pavel V. Panteleev" 
Tested-by: "Pavel V. Panteleev" 
LKML-Reference:

Merge branch 'for-3.4-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu

2012-05-08T18:06:07+00:00

Pull two percpu fixes from Tejun Heo:
 "One adds missing KERN_CONT on split printk()s and the other makes
  the percpu allocator avoid using PMD_SIZE as atom_size on x86_32.

  Using PMD_SIZE led to vmalloc area exhaustion on certain
  configurations (x86_32 android) and the only cost of using PAGE_SIZE
  instead is static percpu area not being aligned to large page
  mapping."

* 'for-3.4-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  percpu, x86: don't use PMD_SIZE as embedded atom_size on 32bit
  percpu: use KERN_CONT in pcpu_dump_alloc_info()

Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)

2012-04-26T22:24:45+00:00

Merge fixes from Andrew Morton:
 "13 fixes.  The acerhdf patches aren't (really) fixes.  But they've
  been stuck in my tree for up to two years, sent to Matthew multiple
  times and the developers are unhappy."

* emailed from Andrew Morton : (13 patches)
  mm: fix NULL ptr dereference in move_pages
  mm: fix NULL ptr dereference in migrate_pages
  revert "proc: clear_refs: do not clear reserved pages"
  drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1307.c: fix BUG shown with lock debugging enabled
  arch/arm/mach-ux500/mbox-db5500.c: world-writable sysfs fifo file
  hugetlbfs: lockdep annotate root inode properly
  acerhdf: lowered default temp fanon/fanoff values
  acerhdf: add support for new hardware
  acerhdf: add support for Aspire 1410 BIOS v1.3314
  fs/buffer.c: remove BUG() in possible but rare condition
  mm: fix up the vmscan stat in vmstat
  epoll: clear the tfile_check_list on -ELOOP
  mm/hugetlb: fix warning in alloc_huge_page/dequeue_huge_page_vma