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2011-02-15thp: prevent hugepages during args/env copying into the user stackAndrea Arcangeli
Transparent hugepages can only be created if rmap is fully functional. So we must prevent hugepages to be created while is_vma_temporary_stack() is true. This also optmizes away some harmless but unnecessary setting of khugepaged_scan.address and it switches some BUG_ON to VM_BUG_ON. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-11memcg: fix leak of accounting at failure path of hugepage collapsingKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
mem_cgroup_uncharge_page() should be called in all failure cases after mem_cgroup_charge_newpage() is called in huge_memory.c::collapse_huge_page() [ 4209.076861] BUG: Bad page state in process khugepaged pfn:1e9800 [ 4209.077601] page:ffffea0006b14000 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping: (null) index:0x2800 [ 4209.078674] page flags: 0x40000000004000(head) [ 4209.079294] pc:ffff880214a30000 pc->flags:2146246697418756 pc->mem_cgroup:ffffc9000177a000 [ 4209.082177] (/A) [ 4209.082500] Pid: 31, comm: khugepaged Not tainted 2.6.38-rc3-mm1 #1 [ 4209.083412] Call Trace: [ 4209.083678] [<ffffffff810f4454>] ? bad_page+0xe4/0x140 [ 4209.084240] [<ffffffff810f53e6>] ? free_pages_prepare+0xd6/0x120 [ 4209.084837] [<ffffffff8155621d>] ? rwsem_down_failed_common+0xbd/0x150 [ 4209.085509] [<ffffffff810f5462>] ? __free_pages_ok+0x32/0xe0 [ 4209.086110] [<ffffffff810f552b>] ? free_compound_page+0x1b/0x20 [ 4209.086699] [<ffffffff810fad6c>] ? __put_compound_page+0x1c/0x30 [ 4209.087333] [<ffffffff810fae1d>] ? put_compound_page+0x4d/0x200 [ 4209.087935] [<ffffffff810fb015>] ? put_page+0x45/0x50 [ 4209.097361] [<ffffffff8113f779>] ? khugepaged+0x9e9/0x1430 [ 4209.098364] [<ffffffff8107c870>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40 [ 4209.099121] [<ffffffff8113ed90>] ? khugepaged+0x0/0x1430 [ 4209.099780] [<ffffffff8107c236>] ? kthread+0x96/0xa0 [ 4209.100452] [<ffffffff8100dda4>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 [ 4209.101214] [<ffffffff8107c1a0>] ? kthread+0x0/0xa0 [ 4209.101842] [<ffffffff8100dda0>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10 Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-11vmscan: fix zone shrinking exit when scan work is doneJohannes Weiner
Commit 3e7d34497067 ("mm: vmscan: reclaim order-0 and use compaction instead of lumpy reclaim") introduced an indefinite loop in shrink_zone(). It meant to break out of this loop when no pages had been reclaimed and not a single page was even scanned. The way it would detect the latter is by taking a snapshot of sc->nr_scanned at the beginning of the function and comparing it against the new sc->nr_scanned after the scan loop. But it would re-iterate without updating that snapshot, looping forever if sc->nr_scanned changed at least once since shrink_zone() was invoked. This is not the sole condition that would exit that loop, but it requires other processes to change the zone state, as the reclaimer that is stuck obviously can not anymore. This is only happening for higher-order allocations, where reclaim is run back to back with compaction. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reported-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Tested-by: Kent Overstreet<kent.overstreet@gmail.com> Reported-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-11mlock: do not munlock pages in __do_fault()Michel Lespinasse
If the page is going to be written to, __do_page needs to break COW. However, the old page (before breaking COW) was never mapped mapped into the current pte (__do_fault is only called when the pte is not present), so vmscan can't have marked the old page as PageMlocked due to being mapped in __do_fault's VMA. Therefore, __do_fault() does not need to worry about clearing PageMlocked() on the old page. Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-11mlock: fix race when munlocking pages in do_wp_page()Michel Lespinasse
vmscan can lazily find pages that are mapped within VM_LOCKED vmas, and set the PageMlocked bit on these pages, transfering them onto the unevictable list. When do_wp_page() breaks COW within a VM_LOCKED vma, it may need to clear PageMlocked on the old page and set it on the new page instead. This change fixes an issue where do_wp_page() was clearing PageMlocked on the old page while the pte was still pointing to it (as well as rmap). Therefore, we were not protected against vmscan immediately transfering the old page back onto the unevictable list. This could cause pages to get stranded there forever. I propose to move the corresponding code to the end of do_wp_page(), after the pte (and rmap) have been pointed to the new page. Additionally, we can use munlock_vma_page() instead of clear_page_mlock(), so that the old page stays mlocked if there are still other VM_LOCKED vmas mapping it. Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-11memblock: don't adjust size in memblock_find_base()Yinghai Lu
While applying patch to use memblock to find aperture for 64bit x86. Ingo found system with 1g + force_iommu > No AGP bridge found > Node 0: aperture @ 38000000 size 32 MB > Aperture pointing to e820 RAM. Ignoring. > Your BIOS doesn't leave a aperture memory hole > Please enable the IOMMU option in the BIOS setup > This costs you 64 MB of RAM > Cannot allocate aperture memory hole (0,65536K) the corresponding code: addr = memblock_find_in_range(0, 1ULL<<32, aper_size, 512ULL<<20); if (addr == MEMBLOCK_ERROR || addr + aper_size > 0xffffffff) { printk(KERN_ERR "Cannot allocate aperture memory hole (%lx,%uK)\n", addr, aper_size>>10); return 0; } memblock_x86_reserve_range(addr, addr + aper_size, "aperture64") fails because memblock core code align the size with 512M. That could make size way too big. So don't align the size in that case. actually __memblock_alloc_base, the another caller already align that before calling that function. BTW. x86 does not use __memblock_alloc_base... Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-02memcg: fix event counting breakage from recent THP updateKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Changes in e401f1761 ("memcg: modify accounting function for supporting THP better") adds nr_pages to support multiple page size in memory_cgroup_charge_statistics. But counting the number of event nees abs(nr_pages) for increasing counters. This patch fixes event counting. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-02memcg: never OOM when charging huge pagesJohannes Weiner
Huge page coverage should obviously have less priority than the continued execution of a process. Never kill a process when charging it a huge page fails. Instead, give up after the first failed reclaim attempt and fall back to regular pages. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-02memcg: prevent endless loop when charging huge pages to near-limit groupJohannes Weiner
If reclaim after a failed charging was unsuccessful, the limits are checked again, just in case they settled by means of other tasks. This is all fine as long as every charge is of size PAGE_SIZE, because in that case, being below the limit means having at least PAGE_SIZE bytes available. But with transparent huge pages, we may end up in an endless loop where charging and reclaim fail, but we keep going because the limits are not yet exceeded, although not allowing for a huge page. Fix this up by explicitely checking for enough room, not just whether we are within limits. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-02memcg: prevent endless loop when charging huge pagesJohannes Weiner
The charging code can encounter a charge size that is bigger than a regular page in two situations: one is a batched charge to fill the per-cpu stocks, the other is a huge page charge. This code is distributed over two functions, however, and only the outer one is aware of huge pages. In case the charging fails, the inner function will tell the outer function to retry if the charge size is bigger than regular pages--assuming batched charging is the only case. And the outer function will retry forever charging a huge page. This patch makes sure the inner function can distinguish between batch charging and a single huge page charge. It will only signal another attempt if batch charging failed, and go into regular reclaim when it is called on behalf of a huge page. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-02thp: fix unsuitable behavior for hwpoisoned tail pageJin Dongming
When a tail page of THP is poisoned, memory-failure will do nothing except setting PG_hwpoison, while the expected behavior is that the process, who is using the poisoned tail page, should be killed. The above problem is caused by lru check of the poisoned tail page of THP. Because PG_lru flag is only set on the head page of THP, the check always consider the poisoned tail page as NON lru page. So the lru check for the tail page of THP should be avoided, as like as hugetlb. This patch adds !PageTransCompound() before lru check for THP, because of the check (!PageHuge() && !PageTransCompound()) the whole branch could be optimized away at build time when both hugetlbfs and THP are set with "N" (or in archs not supporting either of those). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix unrelated typo in shake_page() comment] Signed-off-by: Jin Dongming <jin.dongming@np.css.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-02thp: fix the wrong reported address of hwpoisoned hugepagesJin Dongming
When the tail page of THP is poisoned, the head page will be poisoned too. And the wrong address, address of head page, will be sent with sigbus always. So when the poisoned page is used by Guest OS which is running on KVM, after the address changing(hva->gpa) by qemu, the unexpected process on Guest OS will be killed by sigbus. What we expected is that the process using the poisoned tail page could be killed on Guest OS, but not that the process using the healthy head page is killed. Since it is not good to poison the healthy page, avoid poisoning other than the page which is really poisoned. (While we poison all pages in a huge page in case of hugetlb, we can do this for THP thanks to split_huge_page().) Here we fix two parts: 1. Isolate the poisoned page only to make sure the reported address is the address of poisoned page. 2. make the poisoned page work as the poisoned regular page. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello in comment] Signed-off-by: Jin Dongming <jin.dongming@np.css.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-02thp: fix splitting of hwpoisoned hugepagesJin Dongming
The poisoned THP is now split with split_huge_page() in collect_procs_anon(). If kmalloc() is failed in collect_procs(), split_huge_page() could not be called. And the work after split_huge_page() for collecting the processes using poisoned page will not be done, too. So the processes using the poisoned page could not be killed. The condition becomes worse when CONFIG_DEBUG_VM == "Y". Because the poisoned THP could not be split, system panic will be caused by VM_BUG_ON(PageTransHuge(page)) in try_to_unmap(). This patch does: 1. move split_huge_page() to the place before collect_procs(). This can be sure the failure of splitting THP is caused by itself. 2. when splitting THP is failed, stop the operations after it. This can avoid unexpected system panic or non sense works. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Jin Dongming <jin.dongming@np.css.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-02mm/migration: fix page corruption during hugepage migrationMinchan Kim
If migrate_huge_page by memory-failure fails , it calls put_page in itself to decrease page reference and caller of migrate_huge_page also calls putback_lru_pages. It can do double free of page so it can make page corruption on page holder. In addtion, clean of pages on caller is consistent behavior with migrate_pages by cf608ac19c ("mm: compaction: fix COMPACTPAGEFAILED counting"). Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-02mm: when migrate_pages returns 0, all pages must have been releasedAndrea Arcangeli
In some cases migrate_pages could return zero while still leaving a few pages in the pagelist (and some caller wouldn't notice it has to call putback_lru_pages after commit cf608ac19c9 ("mm: compaction: fix COMPACTPAGEFAILED counting")). Add one missing putback_lru_pages not added by commit cf608ac19c95 ("mm: compaction: fix COMPACTPAGEFAILED counting"). Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-02memsw: deprecate noswapaccount kernel parameter and schedule it for removalMichal Hocko
noswapaccount couldn't be used to control memsw for both on/off cases so we have added swapaccount[=0|1] parameter. This way we can turn the feature in two ways noswapaccount resp. swapaccount=0. We have kept the original noswapaccount but I think we should remove it after some time as it just makes more command line parameters without any advantages and also the code to handle parameters is uglier if we want both parameters. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Requested-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-02memsw: handle swapaccount kernel parameter correctlyMichal Hocko
__setup based kernel command line parameters handlers which are handled in obsolete_checksetup are provided with the parameter value including = (more precisely everything right after the parameter name). This means that the current implementation of swapaccount[=1|0] doesn't work at all because if there is a value for the parameter then we are testing for "0" resp. "1" but we are getting "=0" resp. "=1" and if there is no parameter value we are getting an empty string rather than NULL. The original noswapccount parameter, which doesn't care about the value, works correctly. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-02mlock: operate on any regions with protection != PROT_NONEMichel Lespinasse
As Tao Ma noticed, change 5ecfda0 breaks blktrace. This is because blktrace mmaps a file with PROT_WRITE permissions but without PROT_READ, so my attempt to not unnecessarity break COW during mlock ended up causing mlock to fail with a permission problem. I am proposing to let mlock ignore vma protection in all cases except PROT_NONE. In particular, mlock should not fail for PROT_WRITE regions (as in the blktrace case, which broke at 5ecfda0) or for PROT_EXEC regions (which seem to me like they were always broken). Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-31Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-2.6-cm * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmarinas/linux-2.6-cm: kmemleak: Allow kmemleak metadata allocations to fail kmemleak: remove memset by using kzalloc
2011-01-27kmemleak: Allow kmemleak metadata allocations to failCatalin Marinas
This patch adds __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_NOMEMALLOC flags to the kmemleak metadata allocations so that it has a smaller effect on the users of the kernel slab allocator. Since kmemleak allocations can now fail more often, this patch also reduces the verbosity by passing __GFP_NOWARN and not dumping the stack trace when a kmemleak allocation fails. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reported-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
2011-01-27kmemleak: remove memset by using kzallocJesper Juhl
We don't need to memset if we just use kzalloc() rather than kmalloc() in kmemleak_test_init(). Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2011-01-26memcg: fix race at move_parent around compound_order()KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
A fix up mem_cgroup_move_parent() which use compound_order() in asynchronous manner. This compound_order() may return unknown value because we don't take lock. Use PageTransHuge() and HPAGE_SIZE instead of it. Also clean up for mem_cgroup_move_parent(). - remove unnecessary initialization of local variable. - rename charge_size -> page_size - remove unnecessary (wrong) comment. - added a comment about THP. Note: Current design take compound_page_lock() in caller of move_account(). This should be revisited when we implement direct move_task of hugepage without splitting. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-26memcg: bugfix check mem_cgroup_disabled() at split fixupKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
mem_cgroup_disabled() should be checked at splitting. If disabled, no heavy work is necesary. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-26memcg: fix account leak at failure of memsw accontingKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Commit 4b53433468 ("memcg: clean up try_charge main loop") removes a cancel of charge at case: memory charge-> success. mem+swap charge-> failure. This leaks usage of memory. Fix it. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.36+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-26mm: migration: clarify migrate_pages() commentMinchan Kim
Callers of migrate_pages should putback_lru_pages to return pages isolated to LRU or free list. Now comment is rather confusing. It says caller always have to call it. It is more clear to point out that the caller has to call it if migrate_pages's return value isn't zero. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-26mm: compaction: don't depend on HUGETLB_PAGEAndrea Arcangeli
Commit 5d6892407 ("thp: select CONFIG_COMPACTION if TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE enabled") causes this warning during the configuration process: warning: (TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) selects COMPACTION which has unmet direct dependencies (EXPERIMENTAL && HUGETLB_PAGE && MMU) COMPACTION doesn't depend on HUGETLB_PAGE, it doesn't depend on THP either, it is also useful for regular alloc_pages(order > 0) including the very kernel stack during fork (THREAD_ORDER = 1). It's always better to enable COMPACTION. The warning should be an error because we would end up with MIGRATION not selected, and COMPACTION wouldn't work without migration (despite it seems to build with an inline migrate_pages returning -ENOSYS). I'd also like to remove EXPERIMENTAL: compaction has been in the kernel for some releases (for full safety the default remains disabled which I think is enough). Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Reported-by: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com> Tested-by: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-26mm/memcontrol.c: fix uninitialized variable use in mem_cgroup_move_parent()Jesper Juhl
In mm/memcontrol.c::mem_cgroup_move_parent() there's a path that jumps to the 'put_back' label ret = __mem_cgroup_try_charge(NULL, gfp_mask, &parent, false, charge); if (ret || !parent) goto put_back; where we'll if (charge > PAGE_SIZE) compound_unlock_irqrestore(page, flags); but, we have not assigned anything to 'flags' at this point, nor have we called 'compound_lock_irqsave()' (which is what sets 'flags'). The 'put_back' label should be moved below the call to compound_unlock_irqrestore() as per this patch. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-26mm: clear pages_scanned only if draining a pcp adds pages to the buddy allocatorDavid Rientjes
Commit 0e093d99763e ("writeback: do not sleep on the congestion queue if there are no congested BDIs or if significant congestion is not being encountered in the current zone") uncovered a livelock in the page allocator that resulted in tasks infinitely looping trying to find memory and kswapd running at 100% cpu. The issue occurs because drain_all_pages() is called immediately following direct reclaim when no memory is freed and try_to_free_pages() returns non-zero because all zones in the zonelist do not have their all_unreclaimable flag set. When draining the per-cpu pagesets back to the buddy allocator for each zone, the zone->pages_scanned counter is cleared to avoid erroneously setting zone->all_unreclaimable later. The problem is that no pages may actually be drained and, thus, the unreclaimable logic never fails direct reclaim so the oom killer may be invoked. This apparently only manifested after wait_iff_congested() was introduced and the zone was full of anonymous memory that would not congest the backing store. The page allocator would infinitely loop if there were no other tasks waiting to be scheduled and clear zone->pages_scanned because of drain_all_pages() as the result of this change before kswapd could scan enough pages to trigger the reclaim logic. Additionally, with every loop of the page allocator and in the reclaim path, kswapd would be kicked and would end up running at 100% cpu. In this scenario, current and kswapd are all running continuously with kswapd incrementing zone->pages_scanned and current clearing it. The problem is even more pronounced when current swaps some of its memory to swap cache and the reclaimable logic then considers all active anonymous memory in the all_unreclaimable logic, which requires a much higher zone->pages_scanned value for try_to_free_pages() to return zero that is never attainable in this scenario. Before wait_iff_congested(), the page allocator would incur an unconditional timeout and allow kswapd to elevate zone->pages_scanned to a level that the oom killer would be called the next time it loops. The fix is to only attempt to drain pcp pages if there is actually a quantity to be drained. The unconditional clearing of zone->pages_scanned in free_pcppages_bulk() need not be changed since other callers already ensure that draining will occur. This patch ensures that free_pcppages_bulk() will actually free memory before calling into it from drain_all_pages() so zone->pages_scanned is only cleared if appropriate. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-26mm: fix deferred congestion timeout if preferred zone is not allowedDavid Rientjes
Before 0e093d99763e ("writeback: do not sleep on the congestion queue if there are no congested BDIs or if significant congestion is not being encountered in the current zone"), preferred_zone was only used for NUMA statistics, to determine the zoneidx from which to allocate from given the type requested, and whether to utilize memory compaction. wait_iff_congested(), though, uses preferred_zone to determine if the congestion wait should be deferred because its dirty pages are backed by a congested bdi. This incorrectly defers the timeout and busy loops in the page allocator with various cond_resched() calls if preferred_zone is not allowed in the current context, usually consuming 100% of a cpu. This patch ensures preferred_zone is an allowed zone in the fastpath depending on whether current is constrained by its cpuset or nodes in its mempolicy (when the nodemask passed is non-NULL). This is correct since the fastpath allocation always passes ALLOC_CPUSET when trying to allocate memory. In the slowpath, this patch resets preferred_zone to the first zone of the allowed type when the allocation is not constrained by current's cpuset, i.e. it does not pass ALLOC_CPUSET. This patch also ensures preferred_zone is from the set of allowed nodes when called from within direct reclaim since allocations are always constrained by cpusets in this context (it is blockable). Both of these uses of cpuset_current_mems_allowed are protected by get_mems_allowed(). Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-26mm/pgtable-generic.c: fix CONFIG_SWAP=n buildAndrew Morton
mips (and sparc32): In file included from arch/mips/include/asm/tlb.h:21, from mm/pgtable-generic.c:9: include/asm-generic/tlb.h: In function `tlb_flush_mmu': include/asm-generic/tlb.h:76: error: implicit declaration of function `release_pages' include/asm-generic/tlb.h: In function `tlb_remove_page': include/asm-generic/tlb.h:105: error: implicit declaration of function `page_cache_release' free_pages_and_swap_cache() and free_page_and_swap_cache() are macros which call release_pages() and page_cache_release(). The obvious fix is to include pagemap.h in swap.h, where those macros are defined. But that breaks sparc for weird reasons. So fix it within mm/pgtable-generic.c instead. Reported-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@linux-mips.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-20memcg: correctly order reading PCG_USED and pc->mem_cgroupJohannes Weiner
The placement of the read-side barrier is confused: the writer first sets pc->mem_cgroup, then PCG_USED. The read-side barrier has to be between testing PCG_USED and reading pc->mem_cgroup. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-20mm: fix truncate_setsize() commentJan Kara
Contrary to what the comment says, truncate_setsize() should be called *before* filesystem truncated blocks. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-20memcg: fix rmdir, force_empty with THPKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Now, when THP is enabled, memcg's rmdir() function is broken because move_account() for THP page is not supported. This will cause account leak or -EBUSY issue at rmdir(). This patch fixes the issue by supporting move_account() THP pages. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-20memcg: fix LRU accounting with THPKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
memory cgroup's LRU stat should take care of size of pages because Transparent Hugepage inserts hugepage into LRU. If this value is the number wrong, memory reclaim will not work well. Note: only head page of THP's huge page is linked into LRU. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-20memcg: fix USED bit handling at uncharge in THPKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Now, under THP: at charge: - PageCgroupUsed bit is set to all page_cgroup on a hugepage. ....set to 512 pages. at uncharge - PageCgroupUsed bit is unset on the head page. So, some pages will remain with "Used" bit. This patch fixes that Used bit is set only to the head page. Used bits for tail pages will be set at splitting if necessary. This patch adds this lock order: compound_lock() -> page_cgroup_move_lock(). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-20memcg: modify accounting function for supporting THP betterKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
mem_cgroup_charge_statisics() was designed for charging a page but now, we have transparent hugepage. To fix problems (in following patch) it's required to change the function to get the number of pages as its arguments. The new function gets following as argument. - type of page rather than 'pc' - size of page which is accounted. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-20mm: compaction: prevent division-by-zero during user-requested compactionJohannes Weiner
Up until 3e7d344 ("mm: vmscan: reclaim order-0 and use compaction instead of lumpy reclaim"), compaction skipped calculating the fragmentation index of a zone when compaction was explicitely requested through the procfs knob. However, when compaction_suitable was introduced, it did not come with an extra check for order == -1, set on explicit compaction requests, and passed this order on to the fragmentation index calculation, where it overshifts the number of requested pages, leading to a division by zero. This patch makes sure that order == -1 is recognized as the flag it is rather than passing it along as valid order parameter. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment, per Mel] Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-20mm/vmscan.c: remove duplicate include of compaction.hJesper Juhl
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-20memblock: fix memblock_is_region_memory()Tomi Valkeinen
memblock_is_region_memory() uses reserved memblocks to search for the given region, while it should use the memory memblocks. I encountered the problem with OMAP's framebuffer ram allocation. Normally the ram is allocated dynamically, and this function is not called. However, if we want to pass the framebuffer from the bootloader to the kernel (to retain the boot image), this function is used to check the validity of the kernel parameters for the framebuffer ram area. Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@nokia.com> Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-20thp: keep highpte mapped until it is no longer neededJohannes Weiner
Two users reported THP-related crashes on 32-bit x86 machines. Their oops reports indicated an invalid pte, and subsequent code inspection showed that the highpte is actually used after unmap. The fix is to unmap the pte only after all operations against it are finished. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reported-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> Reported-by: werner <w.landgraf@ru.ru> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Tested-by: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> Tested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-17Revert "mm: simplify code of swap.c"Linus Torvalds
This reverts commit d8505dee1a87b8d41b9c4ee1325cd72258226fbc. Chris Mason ended up chasing down some page allocation errors and pages stuck waiting on the IO scheduler, and was able to narrow it down to two commits: commit 744ed1442757 ("mm: batch activate_page() to reduce lock contention") and d8505dee1a87 ("mm: simplify code of swap.c"). This reverts the second one. Reported-and-debugged-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-17Revert "mm: batch activate_page() to reduce lock contention"Linus Torvalds
This reverts commit 744ed1442757767ffede5008bb13e0805085902e. Chris Mason ended up chasing down some page allocation errors and pages stuck waiting on the IO scheduler, and was able to narrow it down to two commits: commit 744ed1442757 ("mm: batch activate_page() to reduce lock contention") and d8505dee1a87 ("mm: simplify code of swap.c"). This reverts the first of them. Reported-and-debugged-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-16fix non-x86 build failure in pmdp_get_and_clearAndrea Arcangeli
pmdp_get_and_clear/pmdp_clear_flush/pmdp_splitting_flush were trapped as BUG() and they were defined only to diminish the risk of build issues on not-x86 archs and to be consistent with the generic pte methods previously defined in include/asm-generic/pgtable.h. But they are causing more trouble than they were supposed to solve, so it's simpler not to define them when THP is off. This is also correcting the export of pmdp_splitting_flush which is currently unused (x86 isn't using the generic implementation in mm/pgtable-generic.c and no other arch needs that [yet]). Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-15mm/slab.c: make local symbols staticH Hartley Sweeten
Local symbols should be static. Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2011-01-15Merge branch 'slub/hotplug' into slab/urgentPekka Enberg
2011-01-13Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (59 commits) ACPI / PM: Fix build problems for !CONFIG_ACPI related to NVS rework ACPI: fix resource check message ACPI / Battery: Update information on info notification and resume ACPI: Drop device flag wake_capable ACPI: Always check if _PRW is present before trying to evaluate it ACPI / PM: Check status of power resources under mutexes ACPI / PM: Rename acpi_power_off_device() ACPI / PM: Drop acpi_power_nocheck ACPI / PM: Drop acpi_bus_get_power() Platform / x86: Make fujitsu_laptop use acpi_bus_update_power() ACPI / Fan: Rework the handling of power resources ACPI / PM: Register power resource devices as soon as they are needed ACPI / PM: Register acpi_power_driver early ACPI / PM: Add function for updating device power state consistently ACPI / PM: Add function for device power state initialization ACPI / PM: Introduce __acpi_bus_get_power() ACPI / PM: Introduce function for refcounting device power resources ACPI / PM: Add functions for manipulating lists of power resources ACPI / PM: Prevent acpi_power_get_inferred_state() from making changes ACPICA: Update version to 20101209 ...
2011-01-13memcg: fix memory migration of shmem swapcacheDaisuke Nishimura
In the current implementation mem_cgroup_end_migration() decides whether the page migration has succeeded or not by checking "oldpage->mapping". But if we are tring to migrate a shmem swapcache, the page->mapping of it is NULL from the begining, so the check would be invalid. As a result, mem_cgroup_end_migration() assumes the migration has succeeded even if it's not, so "newpage" would be freed while it's not uncharged. This patch fixes it by passing mem_cgroup_end_migration() the result of the page migration. Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13memcg: use [kv]zalloc[_node] rather than [kv]malloc+memsetJesper Juhl
In mem_cgroup_alloc() we currently do either kmalloc() or vmalloc() then followed by memset() to zero the memory. This can be more efficiently achieved by using kzalloc() and vzalloc(). There's also one situation where we can use kzalloc_node() - this is what's new in this version of the patch. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13memcg: fix deadlock between cpuset and memcgDaisuke Nishimura
Commit b1dd693e ("memcg: avoid deadlock between move charge and try_charge()") can cause another deadlock about mmap_sem on task migration if cpuset and memcg are mounted onto the same mount point. After the commit, cgroup_attach_task() has sequence like: cgroup_attach_task() ss->can_attach() cpuset_can_attach() mem_cgroup_can_attach() down_read(&mmap_sem) (1) ss->attach() cpuset_attach() mpol_rebind_mm() down_write(&mmap_sem) (2) up_write(&mmap_sem) cpuset_migrate_mm() do_migrate_pages() down_read(&mmap_sem) up_read(&mmap_sem) mem_cgroup_move_task() mem_cgroup_clear_mc() up_read(&mmap_sem) We can cause deadlock at (2) because we've already aquire the mmap_sem at (1). But the commit itself is necessary to fix deadlocks which have existed before the commit like: Ex.1) move charge | try charge --------------------------------------+------------------------------ mem_cgroup_can_attach() | down_write(&mmap_sem) mc.moving_task = current | .. mem_cgroup_precharge_mc() | __mem_cgroup_try_charge() mem_cgroup_count_precharge() | prepare_to_wait() down_read(&mmap_sem) | if (mc.moving_task) -> cannot aquire the lock | -> true | schedule() | -> move charge should wake it up Ex.2) move charge | try charge --------------------------------------+------------------------------ mem_cgroup_can_attach() | mc.moving_task = current | mem_cgroup_precharge_mc() | mem_cgroup_count_precharge() | down_read(&mmap_sem) | .. | up_read(&mmap_sem) | | down_write(&mmap_sem) mem_cgroup_move_task() | .. mem_cgroup_move_charge() | __mem_cgroup_try_charge() down_read(&mmap_sem) | prepare_to_wait() -> cannot aquire the lock | if (mc.moving_task) | -> true | schedule() | -> move charge should wake it up This patch fixes all of these problems by: 1. revert the commit. 2. To fix the Ex.1, we set mc.moving_task after mem_cgroup_count_precharge() has released the mmap_sem. 3. To fix the Ex.2, we use down_read_trylock() instead of down_read() in mem_cgroup_move_charge() and, if it has failed to aquire the lock, cancel all extra charges, wake up all waiters, and retry trylock. Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Reported-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Hiroyuki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyuki@gmail.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13memcg: remove unnecessary return from void-returning mem_cgroup_del_lru_list()Minchan Kim
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>