linux-toradex.git/mm, branch v3.5-rc2

mm, oom: fix badness score underflow

2012-06-08T22:07:35+00:00

If the privileges given to root threads (3% of allowable memory) or a
negative value of /proc/pid/oom_score_adj happen to exceed the amount of
rss of a thread, its badness score overflows as a result of commit
a7f638f999ff ("mm, oom: normalize oom scores to oom_score_adj scale only
for userspace").

Fix this by making the type signed and return 1, meaning the thread is
still eligible for kill, if the value is negative.

Reported-by: Dave Jones 
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

shmem: replace_page must flush_dcache and others

2012-06-07T21:43:54+00:00

Commit bde05d1ccd51 ("shmem: replace page if mapping excludes its zone")
is not at all likely to break for anyone, but it was an earlier version
from before review feedback was incorporated.  Fix that up now.

* shmem_replace_page must flush_dcache_page after copy_highpage [akpm]
* Expand comment on why shmem_unuse_inode needs page_swapcount [akpm]
* Remove excess of VM_BUG_ONs from shmem_replace_page [wangcong]
* Check page_private matches swap before calling shmem_replace_page [hughd]
* shmem_replace_page allow for unexpected race in radix_tree lookup [hughd]

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Cong Wang 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Cc: Stephane Marchesin 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Dave Airlie 
Cc: Daniel Vetter 
Cc: Rob Clark 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Pull 'for-linus' branches of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/{signal,vfs}

2012-06-04T22:09:08+00:00

Pull signal and vfs compile breakage fixes from Al Viro.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
  fixups for signal breakage

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  nommu: fix compilation of nommu.c

nommu: fix compilation of nommu.c

2012-06-04T21:17:31+00:00

Compiling 3.5-rc1 for nommu targets gives:

  CC      mm/nommu.o
mm/nommu.c: In function ‘sys_mmap_pgoff’:
mm/nommu.c:1489:2: error: ‘ret’ undeclared (first use in this function)
mm/nommu.c:1489:2: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in

It is trivially fixed by replacing 'ret' with the local variable that is
already defined for the return value 'retval'.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge tag 'stable/frontswap.v16-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/mm

2012-06-04T19:28:45+00:00

Pull frontswap feature from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 "Frontswap provides a "transcendent memory" interface for swap pages.
  In some environments, dramatic performance savings may be obtained
  because swapped pages are saved in RAM (or a RAM-like device) instead
  of a swap disk.  This tag provides the basic infrastructure along with
  some changes to the existing backends."

Fix up trivial conflict in mm/Makefile due to removal of swap token code
changing a line next to the new frontswap entry.

This pull request came in before the merge window even opened, it got
delayed to after the merge window by me just wanting to make sure it had
actual users.  Apparently IBM is using this on their embedded side, and
Jan Beulich says that it's already made available for SLES and OpenSUSE
users.

Also acked by Rik van Riel, and Konrad points to other people liking it
too.  So in it goes.

By Dan Magenheimer (4) and Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk (2)
via Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
* tag 'stable/frontswap.v16-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/mm:
  frontswap: s/put_page/store/g s/get_page/load
  MAINTAINER: Add myself for the frontswap API
  mm: frontswap: config and doc files
  mm: frontswap: core frontswap functionality
  mm: frontswap: core swap subsystem hooks and headers
  mm: frontswap: add frontswap header file

Revert "mm: compaction: handle incorrect MIGRATE_UNMOVABLE type pageblocks"

2012-06-04T03:05:57+00:00

This reverts commit 5ceb9ce6fe9462a298bb2cd5c9f1ca6cb80a0199.

That commit seems to be the cause of the mm compation list corruption
issues that Dave Jones reported.  The locking (or rather, absense
there-of) is dubious, as is the use of the 'page' variable once it has
been found to be outside the pageblock range.

So revert it for now, we can re-visit this for 3.6.  If we even need to:
as Minchan Kim says, "The patch wasn't a bug fix and even test workload
was very theoretical".

Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Jones 
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins 
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro 
Acked-by: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz 
Cc: Kyungmin Park 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: fix warning in __set_page_dirty_nobuffers

2012-06-04T03:05:47+00:00

New tmpfs use of !PageUptodate pages for fallocate() is triggering the
WARNING: at mm/page-writeback.c:1990 when __set_page_dirty_nobuffers()
is called from migrate_page_copy() for compaction.

It is anomalous that migration should use __set_page_dirty_nobuffers()
on an address_space that does not participate in dirty and writeback
accounting; and this has also been observed to insert surprising dirty
tags into a tmpfs radix_tree, despite tmpfs not using tags at all.

We should probably give migrate_page_copy() a better way to preserve the
tag and migrate accounting info, when mapping_cap_account_dirty().  But
that needs some more work: so in the interim, avoid the warning by using
a simple SetPageDirty on PageSwapBacked pages.

Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Jones 
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux

2012-06-01T23:50:23+00:00

Pull slab updates from Pekka Enberg:
 "Mainly a bunch of SLUB fixes from Joonsoo Kim"

* 'slab/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/linux:
  slub: use __SetPageSlab function to set PG_slab flag
  slub: fix a memory leak in get_partial_node()
  slub: remove unused argument of init_kmem_cache_node()
  slub: fix a possible memory leak
  Documentations: Fix slabinfo.c directory in vm/slub.txt
  slub: fix incorrect return type of get_any_partial()

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2012-06-01T17:34:35+00:00

Pull vfs changes from Al Viro.
 "A lot of misc stuff.  The obvious groups:
   * Miklos' atomic_open series; kills the damn abuse of
     ->d_revalidate() by NFS, which was the major stumbling block for
     all work in that area.
   * ripping security_file_mmap() and dealing with deadlocks in the
     area; sanitizing the neighborhood of vm_mmap()/vm_munmap() in
     general.
   * ->encode_fh() switched to saner API; insane fake dentry in
     mm/cleancache.c gone.
   * assorted annotations in fs (endianness, __user)
   * parts of Artem's ->s_dirty work (jff2 and reiserfs parts)
   * ->update_time() work from Josef.
   * other bits and pieces all over the place.

  Normally it would've been in two or three pull requests, but
  signal.git stuff had eaten a lot of time during this cycle ;-/"

Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt (the
'truncate_range' inode method was removed by the VM changes, the VFS
update adds an 'update_time()' method), and in fs/btrfs/ulist.[ch] (due
to sparse fix added twice, with other changes nearby).

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (95 commits)
  nfs: don't open in ->d_revalidate
  vfs: retry last component if opening stale dentry
  vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): don't throw away file on error
  vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): inline __dentry_open()
  vfs: do_dentry_open(): don't put filp
  vfs: split __dentry_open()
  vfs: do_last() common post lookup
  vfs: do_last(): add audit_inode before open
  vfs: do_last(): only return EISDIR for O_CREAT
  vfs: do_last(): check LOOKUP_DIRECTORY
  vfs: do_last(): make ENOENT exit RCU safe
  vfs: make follow_link check RCU safe
  vfs: do_last(): use inode variable
  vfs: do_last(): inline walk_component()
  vfs: do_last(): make exit RCU safe
  vfs: split do_lookup()
  Btrfs: move over to use ->update_time
  fs: introduce inode operation ->update_time
  reiserfs: get rid of resierfs_sync_super
  reiserfs: mark the superblock as dirty a bit later
  ...

fs: introduce inode operation ->update_time

2012-06-01T16:07:25+00:00

Btrfs has to make sure we have space to allocate new blocks in order to modify
the inode, so updating time can fail.  We've gotten around this by having our
own file_update_time but this is kind of a pain, and Christoph has indicated he
would like to make xfs do something different with atime updates.  So introduce
->update_time, where we will deal with i_version an a/m/c time updates and
indicate which changes need to be made.  The normal version just does what it
has always done, updates the time and marks the inode dirty, and then
filesystems can choose to do something different.

I've gone through all of the users of file_update_time and made them check for
errors with the exception of the fault code since it's complicated and I wasn't
quite sure what to do there, also Jan is going to be pushing the file time
updates into page_mkwrite for those who have it so that should satisfy btrfs and
make it not a big deal to check the file_update_time() return code in the
generic fault path. Thanks,

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik