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10 years agomm, compaction: return failed migration target pages back to freelist
David Rientjes [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:08:26 +0000 (16:08 -0700)]
mm, compaction: return failed migration target pages back to freelist

Greg reported that he found isolated free pages were returned back to the
VM rather than the compaction freelist.  This will cause holes behind the
free scanner and cause it to reallocate additional memory if necessary
later.

He detected the problem at runtime seeing that ext4 metadata pages (esp
the ones read by "sbi->s_group_desc[i] = sb_bread(sb, block)") were
constantly visited by compaction calls of migrate_pages().  These pages
had a non-zero b_count which caused fallback_migrate_page() ->
try_to_release_page() -> try_to_free_buffers() to fail.

Memory compaction works by having a "freeing scanner" scan from one end of
a zone which isolates pages as migration targets while another "migrating
scanner" scans from the other end of the same zone which isolates pages
for migration.

When page migration fails for an isolated page, the target page is
returned to the system rather than the freelist built by the freeing
scanner.  This may require the freeing scanner to continue scanning memory
after suitable migration targets have already been returned to the system
needlessly.

This patch returns destination pages to the freeing scanner freelist when
page migration fails.  This prevents unnecessary work done by the freeing
scanner but also encourages memory to be as compacted as possible at the
end of the zone.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reported-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm, migration: add destination page freeing callback
David Rientjes [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:08:25 +0000 (16:08 -0700)]
mm, migration: add destination page freeing callback

Memory migration uses a callback defined by the caller to determine how to
allocate destination pages.  When migration fails for a source page,
however, it frees the destination page back to the system.

This patch adds a memory migration callback defined by the caller to
determine how to free destination pages.  If a caller, such as memory
compaction, builds its own freelist for migration targets, this can reuse
already freed memory instead of scanning additional memory.

If the caller provides a function to handle freeing of destination pages,
it is called when page migration fails.  If the caller passes NULL then
freeing back to the system will be handled as usual.  This patch
introduces no functional change.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomemcg: memcg_kmem_create_cache: make memcg_name_buf statically allocated
Vladimir Davydov [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:08:24 +0000 (16:08 -0700)]
memcg: memcg_kmem_create_cache: make memcg_name_buf statically allocated

It isn't worth complicating the code by allocating it on the first access,
because it only takes 256 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomemcg: get rid of memcg_create_cache_name
Vladimir Davydov [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:08:23 +0000 (16:08 -0700)]
memcg: get rid of memcg_create_cache_name

Instead of calling back to memcontrol.c from kmem_cache_create_memcg in
order to just create the name of a per memcg cache, let's allocate it in
place.  We only need to pass the memcg name to kmem_cache_create_memcg for
that - everything else can be done in slab_common.c.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomemcg: correct comments for __mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat
Qiang Huang [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:08:22 +0000 (16:08 -0700)]
memcg: correct comments for __mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat

Signed-off-by: Qiang Huang <h.huangqiang@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomemcg: fold mem_cgroup_stolen
Qiang Huang [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:08:21 +0000 (16:08 -0700)]
memcg: fold mem_cgroup_stolen

It is only used in __mem_cgroup_begin_update_page_stat(), the name is
confusing and 2 routines for one thing also confuse people, so fold this
function seems more clear.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo, per Michal]
Signed-off-by: Qiang Huang <h.huangqiang@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm: update comment for DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT
Kirill A. Shutemov [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:08:20 +0000 (16:08 -0700)]
mm: update comment for DEFAULT_MAX_MAP_COUNT

With ELF extended numbering 16-bit bound is not hard limit any more.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo]
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agoarch/x86/mm/numa.c: use for_each_memblock()
Emil Medve [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:08:19 +0000 (16:08 -0700)]
arch/x86/mm/numa.c: use for_each_memblock()

Signed-off-by: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm/mempolicy.c: parameter doc uniformization
Fabian Frederick [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:08:18 +0000 (16:08 -0700)]
mm/mempolicy.c: parameter doc uniformization

Also fixes kernel-doc warning

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm/rmap.c: make page_referenced_one() and try_to_unmap_one() static
Kirill A. Shutemov [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:08:17 +0000 (16:08 -0700)]
mm/rmap.c: make page_referenced_one() and try_to_unmap_one() static

KSM was converted to use rmap_walk() and now nobody uses these functions
outside mm/rmap.c.

Let's covert them back to static.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm: x86 pgtable: require X86_64 for soft-dirty tracker
Cyrill Gorcunov [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:08:16 +0000 (16:08 -0700)]
mm: x86 pgtable: require X86_64 for soft-dirty tracker

Tracking dirty status on 2 level pages requires very ugly macros and
taking into account how old the machines who can operate without PAE
mode only are, lets drop soft dirty tracker from them for code
simplicity (note I can't drop all the macros from 2 level pages by now
since _PAGE_BIT_PROTNONE and _PAGE_BIT_FILE are still used even without
tracker).

Linus proposed to completely rip off softdirty support on x86-32 (even
with PAE) and since for CRIU we're not planning to support native x86-32
mode, lets do that.

(Softdirty tracker is relatively new feature which is mostly used by
CRIU so I don't expect if such API change would cause problems for
userspace).

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm: x86 pgtable: drop unneeded preprocessor ifdef
Cyrill Gorcunov [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:08:14 +0000 (16:08 -0700)]
mm: x86 pgtable: drop unneeded preprocessor ifdef

_PAGE_BIT_FILE (bit 6) is always less than _PAGE_BIT_PROTNONE (bit 8), so
drop redundant #ifdef.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm: cleanup __get_user_pages()
Kirill A. Shutemov [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:08:13 +0000 (16:08 -0700)]
mm: cleanup __get_user_pages()

Get rid of two nested loops over nr_pages, extract vma flags checking to
separate function and other random cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm: extract code to fault in a page from __get_user_pages()
Kirill A. Shutemov [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:08:12 +0000 (16:08 -0700)]
mm: extract code to fault in a page from __get_user_pages()

Nesting level in __get_user_pages() is just insane. Let's try to fix it
a bit.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm: cleanup follow_page_mask()
Kirill A. Shutemov [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:08:11 +0000 (16:08 -0700)]
mm: cleanup follow_page_mask()

Cleanups:
 - move pte-related code to separate function. It's about half of the
   function;
 - get rid of some goto-logic;
 - use 'return NULL' instead of 'return page' where page can only be
   NULL;

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm: extract in_gate_area() case from __get_user_pages()
Kirill A. Shutemov [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:08:11 +0000 (16:08 -0700)]
mm: extract in_gate_area() case from __get_user_pages()

The case is special and disturb from reading main __get_user_pages()
code path. Let's move it to separate function.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm: move get_user_pages()-related code to separate file
Kirill A. Shutemov [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:08:10 +0000 (16:08 -0700)]
mm: move get_user_pages()-related code to separate file

mm/memory.c is overloaded: over 4k lines. get_user_pages() code is
pretty much self-contained let's move it to separate file.

No other changes made.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm/vmalloc.c: replace seq_printf by seq_puts
Fabian Frederick [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:08:09 +0000 (16:08 -0700)]
mm/vmalloc.c: replace seq_printf by seq_puts

Replace seq_printf where possible

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm/memcontrol.c: remove NULL assignment on static
Fabian Frederick [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:08:08 +0000 (16:08 -0700)]
mm/memcontrol.c: remove NULL assignment on static

static values are automatically initialized to NULL

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm: shrinker: add nid to tracepoint output
Dave Hansen [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:08:07 +0000 (16:08 -0700)]
mm: shrinker: add nid to tracepoint output

Now that we are doing NUMA-aware shrinking, and can have shrinkers
running in parallel, or working on individual nodes, it seems like we
should also be sticking the node in the output.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm: shrinker trace points: fix negatives
Dave Hansen [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:08:06 +0000 (16:08 -0700)]
mm: shrinker trace points: fix negatives

I was looking at a trace of the slab shrinkers (attachment in this comment):

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72742#c67

and noticed that "total_scan" can go negative in some cases.  We
used to dump out the "total_scan" variable directly, but some of
the shrinker modifications along the way changed that.

This patch just dumps it out directly, again.  It doesn't make
any sense to derive it from new_nr and nr any more since there
are now other shrinkers that can be running in parallel and
mucking with those values.

Here's an example of the negative numbers in the output:

>          kswapd0-840   [000]   160.869398: mm_shrink_slab_end:   i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 10 new scan count 39 total_scan 29 last shrinker return val 256
>          kswapd0-840   [000]   160.869618: mm_shrink_slab_end:   i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 39 new scan count 102 total_scan 63 last shrinker return val 256
>          kswapd0-840   [000]   160.870031: mm_shrink_slab_end:   i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 102 new scan count 47 total_scan -55 last shrinker return val 768
>          kswapd0-840   [000]   160.870464: mm_shrink_slab_end:   i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 47 new scan count 45 total_scan -2 last shrinker return val 768
>          kswapd0-840   [000]   163.384144: mm_shrink_slab_end:   i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 45 new scan count 56 total_scan 11 last shrinker return val 0
>          kswapd0-840   [000]   163.384297: mm_shrink_slab_end:   i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 56 new scan count 15 total_scan -41 last shrinker return val 256
>          kswapd0-840   [000]   163.384414: mm_shrink_slab_end:   i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 15 new scan count 117 total_scan 102 last shrinker return val 0
>          kswapd0-840   [000]   163.384657: mm_shrink_slab_end:   i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 117 new scan count 36 total_scan -81 last shrinker return val 512
>          kswapd0-840   [000]   163.384880: mm_shrink_slab_end:   i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 36 new scan count 111 total_scan 75 last shrinker return val 256
>          kswapd0-840   [000]   163.385256: mm_shrink_slab_end:   i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 111 new scan count 34 total_scan -77 last shrinker return val 768
>          kswapd0-840   [000]   163.385598: mm_shrink_slab_end:   i915_gem_inactive_scan+0x0 0xffff8800037cbc68: unused scan count 34 new scan count 122 total_scan 88 last shrinker return val 512

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm/dmapool.c: remove redundant NULL check for dev in dma_pool_create()
Daeseok Youn [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:08:05 +0000 (16:08 -0700)]
mm/dmapool.c: remove redundant NULL check for dev in dma_pool_create()

"dev" cannot be NULL because it is already checked before calling
dma_pool_create().

If dev ever was NULL, the code would oops in dev_to_node() after enabling
CONFIG_NUMA.

It is possible that some driver is using dev==NULL and has never been run
on a NUMA machine.  Such a driver is probably outdated, possibly buggy and
will need some attention if it starts triggering NULL derefs.

Signed-off-by: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agoinclude/linux/bootmem.h: cleanup the comment for BOOTMEM_ flags
Wang Sheng-Hui [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:08:04 +0000 (16:08 -0700)]
include/linux/bootmem.h: cleanup the comment for BOOTMEM_ flags

Use BOOTMEM_DEFAULT instead of 0 in the comment.

Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm: introdule compound_head_by_tail()
Jianyu Zhan [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:08:02 +0000 (16:08 -0700)]
mm: introdule compound_head_by_tail()

Currently, in put_compound_page(), we have

======
if (likely(!PageTail(page))) {                  <------  (1)
        if (put_page_testzero(page)) {
                 /*
                 ¦* By the time all refcounts have been released
                 ¦* split_huge_page cannot run anymore from under us.
                 ¦*/
                 if (PageHead(page))
                         __put_compound_page(page);
                 else
                         __put_single_page(page);
         }
         return;
}

/* __split_huge_page_refcount can run under us */
page_head = compound_head(page);        <------------ (2)
======

if at (1) ,  we fail the check, this means page is *likely* a tail page.

Then at (2), as compoud_head(page) is inlined, it is :

======
static inline struct page *compound_head(struct page *page)
{
          if (unlikely(PageTail(page))) {           <----------- (3)
              struct page *head = page->first_page;

                smp_rmb();
                if (likely(PageTail(page)))
                        return head;
        }
        return page;
}
======

here, the (3) unlikely in the case is a negative hint, because it is
*likely* a tail page.  So the check (3) in this case is not good, so I
introduce a helper for this case.

So this patch introduces compound_head_by_tail() which deals with a
possible tail page(though it could be spilt by a racy thread), and make
compound_head() a wrapper on it.

This patch has no functional change, and it reduces the object
size slightly:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex  filename
  11003    1328      16   12347    303b  mm/swap.o.orig
  10971    1328      16   12315    301b  mm/swap.o.patched

I've ran "perf top -e branch-miss" to observe branch-miss in this case.
As Michael points out, it's a slow path, so only very few times this case
happens.  But I grep'ed the code base, and found there still are some
other call sites could be benifited from this helper.  And given that it
only bloating up the source by only 5 lines, but with a reduced object
size.  I still believe this helper deserves to exsit.

Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm/swap.c: split put_compound_page()
Jianyu Zhan [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:08:01 +0000 (16:08 -0700)]
mm/swap.c: split put_compound_page()

Currently, put_compound_page() carefully handles tricky cases to avoid
racing with compound page releasing or splitting, which makes it quite
lenthy (about 200+ lines) and needs deep tab indention, which makes it
quite hard to follow and maintain.

Now based on two helpers introduced in the previous patch ("mm/swap.c:
introduce put_[un]refcounted_compound_page helpers for spliting
put_compound_page"), this patch replaces those two lengthy code paths with
these two helpers, respectively.  Also, it has some comment rephrasing.

After this patch, the put_compound_page() is very compact, thus easy to
read and maintain.

After splitting, the object file is of same size as the original one.
Actually, I've diff'ed put_compound_page()'s orginal disassemble code and
the patched disassemble code, the are 100% the same!

This fact shows that this splitting has no functional change, but it
brings readability.

This patch and the previous one blow the code by 32 lines, mostly due to
comments.

Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm/swap.c: introduce put_[un]refcounted_compound_page helpers for splitting put_compo...
Jianyu Zhan [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:59 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
mm/swap.c: introduce put_[un]refcounted_compound_page helpers for splitting put_compound_page()

Currently, put_compound_page() carefully handles tricky cases to avoid
racing with compound page releasing or splitting, which makes it quite
lenthy (about 200+ lines) and needs deep tab indention, which makes it
quite hard to follow and maintain.

This patch and the next patch refactor this function.

Based on the code skeleton of put_compound_page:

put_compound_pge:
        if !PageTail(page)
         put head page fastpath;
return;

        /* else PageTail */
        page_head = compound_head(page)
        if !__compound_tail_refcounted(page_head)
put head page optimal path; <---(1)
return;
        else
put head page slowpath; <--- (2)
                return;

This patch introduces two helpers, put_[un]refcounted_compound_page,
handling the code path (1) and code path (2), respectively.  They both are
tagged __always_inline, thus elmiating function call overhead, making them
operating the same way as before.

They are almost copied verbatim(except one place, a "goto out_put_single"
is expanded), with some comments rephrasing.

Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm: constify nmask argument to set_mempolicy()
Rasmus Villemoes [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:58 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
mm: constify nmask argument to set_mempolicy()

The nmask argument to set_mempolicy() is const according to the user-space
header numaif.h, and since the kernel does indeed not modify it, it might
as well be declared const in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm: constify nmask argument to mbind()
Rasmus Villemoes [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:57 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
mm: constify nmask argument to mbind()

The nmask argument to mbind() is const according to the userspace header
numaif.h, and since the kernel does indeed not modify it, it might as well
be declared const in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
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>
10 years agomm: replace __get_cpu_var uses with this_cpu_ptr
Christoph Lameter [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:56 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
mm: replace __get_cpu_var uses with this_cpu_ptr

Replace places where __get_cpu_var() is used for an address calculation
with this_cpu_ptr().

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.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>
10 years agomemcg: kill start_kernel()->mm_init_owner(&init_mm)
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:55 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
memcg: kill start_kernel()->mm_init_owner(&init_mm)

Remove start_kernel()->mm_init_owner(&init_mm, &init_task).

This doesn't really hurt but unnecessary and misleading.  init_task is the
"swapper" thread == current, its ->mm is always NULL.  And init_mm can
only be used as ->active_mm, not as ->mm.

mm_init_owner() has a single caller with this patch, perhaps it should
die.  mm_init() can initialize ->owner under #ifdef.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Peter Chiang <pchiang@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomemcg: optimize the "Search everything else" loop in mm_update_next_owner()
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:54 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
memcg: optimize the "Search everything else" loop in mm_update_next_owner()

for_each_process_thread() is sub-optimal. All threads share the same
->mm, we can swicth to the next process once we found a thread with
->mm != NULL and ->mm != mm.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Peter Chiang <pchiang@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomemcg: mm_update_next_owner() should skip kthreads
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:52 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
memcg: mm_update_next_owner() should skip kthreads

"Search through everything else" in mm_update_next_owner() can hit a
kthread which adopted this "mm" via use_mm(), it should not be used as
mm->owner.  Add the PF_KTHREAD check.

While at it, change this code to use for_each_process_thread() instead
of deprecated do_each_thread/while_each_thread.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Peter Chiang <pchiang@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm/memblock.c: use PFN_DOWN
Fabian Frederick [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:51 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
mm/memblock.c: use PFN_DOWN

Replace ((x) >> PAGE_SHIFT) with the pfn macro.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm/memory_hotplug.c: use PFN_DOWN()
Fabian Frederick [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:51 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
mm/memory_hotplug.c: use PFN_DOWN()

Replace ((x) >> PAGE_SHIFT) with the pfn macro.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agobrd: return -ENOSPC rather than -ENOMEM on page allocation failure
Matthew Wilcox [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:50 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
brd: return -ENOSPC rather than -ENOMEM on page allocation failure

brd is effectively a thinly provisioned device.  Thinly provisioned
devices return -ENOSPC when they can't write a new block.  -ENOMEM is an
implementation detail that callers shouldn't know.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Acked-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Dheeraj Reddy <dheeraj.reddy@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agobrd: add support for rw_page()
Matthew Wilcox [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:49 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
brd: add support for rw_page()

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Dheeraj Reddy <dheeraj.reddy@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agoswap: use bdev_read_page() / bdev_write_page()
Matthew Wilcox [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:48 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
swap: use bdev_read_page() / bdev_write_page()

By calling the device driver to write the page directly, we avoid
allocating a BIO, which allows us to free memory without allocating
memory.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix used-uninitialized bug]
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Dheeraj Reddy <dheeraj.reddy@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agofs/block_dev.c: add bdev_read_page() and bdev_write_page()
Matthew Wilcox [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:46 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
fs/block_dev.c: add bdev_read_page() and bdev_write_page()

A block device driver may choose to provide a rw_page operation.  These
will be called when the filesystem is attempting to do page sized I/O to
page cache pages (ie not for direct I/O).  This does preclude I/Os that
are larger than page size, so this may only be a performance gain for
some devices.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Tested-by: Dheeraj Reddy <dheeraj.reddy@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agofs/mpage.c: factor page_endio() out of mpage_end_io()
Matthew Wilcox [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:45 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
fs/mpage.c: factor page_endio() out of mpage_end_io()

page_endio() takes care of updating all the appropriate page flags once
I/O has finished to a page.  Switch to using mapping_set_error() instead
of setting AS_EIO directly; this will handle thin-provisioned devices
correctly.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Dheeraj Reddy <dheeraj.reddy@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agofs/mpage.c: factor clean_buffers() out of __mpage_writepage()
Matthew Wilcox [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:44 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
fs/mpage.c: factor clean_buffers() out of __mpage_writepage()

__mpage_writepage() is over 200 lines long, has 20 local variables, four
goto labels and could desperately use simplification.  Splitting
clean_buffers() into a helper function improves matters a little,
removing 20+ lines from it.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Dheeraj Reddy <dheeraj.reddy@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agofs/buffer.c: remove block_write_full_page_endio()
Matthew Wilcox [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:43 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
fs/buffer.c: remove block_write_full_page_endio()

The last in-tree caller of block_write_full_page_endio() was removed in
January 2013.  It's time to remove the EXPORT_SYMBOL, which leaves
block_write_full_page() as the only caller of
block_write_full_page_endio(), so inline block_write_full_page_endio()
into block_write_full_page().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Dheeraj Reddy <dheeraj.reddy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm/vmscan.c: avoid throttling reclaim for loop-back nfsd threads
NeilBrown [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:42 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
mm/vmscan.c: avoid throttling reclaim for loop-back nfsd threads

When a loopback NFS mount is active and the backing device for the NFS
mount becomes congested, that can impose throttling delays on the nfsd
threads.

These delays significantly reduce throughput and so the NFS mount remains
congested.

This results in a livelock and the reduced throughput persists.

This livelock has been found in testing with the 'wait_iff_congested'
call, and could possibly be caused by the 'congestion_wait' call.

This livelock is similar to the deadlock which justified the introduction
of PF_LESS_THROTTLE, and the same flag can be used to remove this
livelock.

To minimise the impact of the change, we still throttle nfsd when the
filesystem it is writing to is congested, but not when some separate
filesystem (e.g.  the NFS filesystem) is congested.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm: numa: add migrated transhuge pages to LRU the same way as base pages
Mel Gorman [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:41 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
mm: numa: add migrated transhuge pages to LRU the same way as base pages

Migration of misplaced transhuge pages uses page_add_new_anon_rmap() when
putting the page back as it avoided an atomic operations and added the new
page to the correct LRU.  A side-effect is that the page gets marked
activated as part of the migration meaning that transhuge and base pages
are treated differently from an aging perspective than base page
migration.

This patch uses page_add_anon_rmap() and putback_lru_page() on completion
of a transhuge migration similar to base page migration.  It would require
fewer atomic operations to use lru_cache_add without taking an additional
reference to the page.  The downside would be that it's still different to
base page migration and unevictable pages may be added to the wrong LRU
for cleaning up later.  Testing of the usual workloads did not show any
adverse impact to the change.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomemcg, slab: simplify synchronization scheme
Vladimir Davydov [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:40 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
memcg, slab: simplify synchronization scheme

At present, we have the following mutexes protecting data related to per
memcg kmem caches:

 - slab_mutex.  This one is held during the whole kmem cache creation
   and destruction paths.  We also take it when updating per root cache
   memcg_caches arrays (see memcg_update_all_caches).  As a result, taking
   it guarantees there will be no changes to any kmem cache (including per
   memcg).  Why do we need something else then?  The point is it is
   private to slab implementation and has some internal dependencies with
   other mutexes (get_online_cpus).  So we just don't want to rely upon it
   and prefer to introduce additional mutexes instead.

 - activate_kmem_mutex.  Initially it was added to synchronize
   initializing kmem limit (memcg_activate_kmem).  However, since we can
   grow per root cache memcg_caches arrays only on kmem limit
   initialization (see memcg_update_all_caches), we also employ it to
   protect against memcg_caches arrays relocation (e.g.  see
   __kmem_cache_destroy_memcg_children).

 - We have a convention not to take slab_mutex in memcontrol.c, but we
   want to walk over per memcg memcg_slab_caches lists there (e.g.  for
   destroying all memcg caches on offline).  So we have per memcg
   slab_caches_mutex's protecting those lists.

The mutexes are taken in the following order:

   activate_kmem_mutex -> slab_mutex -> memcg::slab_caches_mutex

Such a syncrhonization scheme has a number of flaws, for instance:

 - We can't call kmem_cache_{destroy,shrink} while walking over a
   memcg::memcg_slab_caches list due to locking order.  As a result, in
   mem_cgroup_destroy_all_caches we schedule the
   memcg_cache_params::destroy work shrinking and destroying the cache.

 - We don't have a mutex to synchronize per memcg caches destruction
   between memcg offline (mem_cgroup_destroy_all_caches) and root cache
   destruction (__kmem_cache_destroy_memcg_children).  Currently we just
   don't bother about it.

This patch simplifies it by substituting per memcg slab_caches_mutex's
with the global memcg_slab_mutex.  It will be held whenever a new per
memcg cache is created or destroyed, so it protects per root cache
memcg_caches arrays and per memcg memcg_slab_caches lists.  The locking
order is following:

   activate_kmem_mutex -> memcg_slab_mutex -> slab_mutex

This allows us to call kmem_cache_{create,shrink,destroy} under the
memcg_slab_mutex.  As a result, we don't need memcg_cache_params::destroy
work any more - we can simply destroy caches while iterating over a per
memcg slab caches list.

Also using the global mutex simplifies synchronization between concurrent
per memcg caches creation/destruction, e.g.  mem_cgroup_destroy_all_caches
vs __kmem_cache_destroy_memcg_children.

The downside of this is that we substitute per-memcg slab_caches_mutex's
with a hummer-like global mutex, but since we already take either the
slab_mutex or the cgroup_mutex along with a memcg::slab_caches_mutex, it
shouldn't hurt concurrency a lot.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomemcg, slab: merge memcg_{bind,release}_pages to memcg_{un}charge_slab
Vladimir Davydov [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:39 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
memcg, slab: merge memcg_{bind,release}_pages to memcg_{un}charge_slab

Currently we have two pairs of kmemcg-related functions that are called on
slab alloc/free.  The first is memcg_{bind,release}_pages that count the
total number of pages allocated on a kmem cache.  The second is
memcg_{un}charge_slab that {un}charge slab pages to kmemcg resource
counter.  Let's just merge them to keep the code clean.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomemcg, slab: do not schedule cache destruction when last page goes away
Vladimir Davydov [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:37 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
memcg, slab: do not schedule cache destruction when last page goes away

This patchset is a part of preparations for kmemcg re-parenting.  It
targets at simplifying kmemcg work-flows and synchronization.

First, it removes async per memcg cache destruction (see patches 1, 2).
Now caches are only destroyed on memcg offline.  That means the caches
that are not empty on memcg offline will be leaked.  However, they are
already leaked, because memcg_cache_params::nr_pages normally never drops
to 0 so the destruction work is never scheduled except kmem_cache_shrink
is called explicitly.  In the future I'm planning reaping such dead caches
on vmpressure or periodically.

Second, it substitutes per memcg slab_caches_mutex's with the global
memcg_slab_mutex, which should be taken during the whole per memcg cache
creation/destruction path before the slab_mutex (see patch 3).  This
greatly simplifies synchronization among various per memcg cache
creation/destruction paths.

I'm still not quite sure about the end picture, in particular I don't know
whether we should reap dead memcgs' kmem caches periodically or try to
merge them with their parents (see https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/20/38 for
more details), but whichever way we choose, this set looks like a
reasonable change to me, because it greatly simplifies kmemcg work-flows
and eases further development.

This patch (of 3):

After a memcg is offlined, we mark its kmem caches that cannot be deleted
right now due to pending objects as dead by setting the
memcg_cache_params::dead flag, so that memcg_release_pages will schedule
cache destruction (memcg_cache_params::destroy) as soon as the last slab
of the cache is freed (memcg_cache_params::nr_pages drops to zero).

I guess the idea was to destroy the caches as soon as possible, i.e.
immediately after freeing the last object.  However, it just doesn't work
that way, because kmem caches always preserve some pages for the sake of
performance, so that nr_pages never gets to zero unless the cache is
shrunk explicitly using kmem_cache_shrink.  Of course, we could account
the total number of objects on the cache or check if all the slabs
allocated for the cache are empty on kmem_cache_free and schedule
destruction if so, but that would be too costly.

Thus we have a piece of code that works only when we explicitly call
kmem_cache_shrink, but complicates the whole picture a lot.  Moreover,
it's racy in fact.  For instance, kmem_cache_shrink may free the last slab
and thus schedule cache destruction before it finishes checking that the
cache is empty, which can lead to use-after-free.

So I propose to remove this async cache destruction from
memcg_release_pages, and check if the cache is empty explicitly after
calling kmem_cache_shrink instead.  This will simplify things a lot w/o
introducing any functional changes.

And regarding dead memcg caches (i.e.  those that are left hanging around
after memcg offline for they have objects), I suppose we should reap them
either periodically or on vmpressure as Glauber suggested initially.  I'm
going to implement this later.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomemcg: do not hang on OOM when killed by userspace OOM access to memory reserves
Michal Hocko [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:36 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
memcg: do not hang on OOM when killed by userspace OOM access to memory reserves

Eric has reported that he can see task(s) stuck in memcg OOM handler
regularly.  The only way out is to

echo 0 > $GROUP/memory.oom_control

His usecase is:

- Setup a hierarchy with memory and the freezer (disable kernel oom and
  have a process watch for oom).

- In that memory cgroup add a process with one thread per cpu.

- In one thread slowly allocate once per second I think it is 16M of ram
  and mlock and dirty it (just to force the pages into ram and stay
  there).

- When oom is achieved loop:
  * attempt to freeze all of the tasks.
  * if frozen send every task SIGKILL, unfreeze, remove the directory in
    cgroupfs.

Eric has then pinpointed the issue to be memcg specific.

All tasks are sitting on the memcg_oom_waitq when memcg oom is disabled.
Those that have received fatal signal will bypass the charge and should
continue on their way out.  The tricky part is that the exit path might
trigger a page fault (e.g.  exit_robust_list), thus the memcg charge,
while its memcg is still under OOM because nobody has released any charges
yet.

Unlike with the in-kernel OOM handler the exiting task doesn't get
TIF_MEMDIE set so it doesn't shortcut further charges of the killed task
and falls to the memcg OOM again without any way out of it as there are no
fatal signals pending anymore.

This patch fixes the issue by checking PF_EXITING early in
mem_cgroup_try_charge and bypass the charge same as if it had fatal
signal pending or TIF_MEMDIE set.

Normally exiting tasks (aka not killed) will bypass the charge now but
this should be OK as the task is leaving and will release memory and
increasing the memory pressure just to release it in a moment seems
dubious wasting of cycles.  Besides that charges after exit_signals should
be rare.

I am bringing this patch again (rebased on the current mmotm tree). I
hope we can move forward finally. If there is still an opposition then
I would really appreciate a concurrent approach so that we can discuss
alternatives.

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.stable/77650 is a reference
to the followup discussion when the patch has been dropped from the mmotm
last time.

Reported-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm: vmscan: do not throttle based on pfmemalloc reserves if node has no ZONE_NORMAL
Mel Gorman [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:35 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
mm: vmscan: do not throttle based on pfmemalloc reserves if node has no ZONE_NORMAL

throttle_direct_reclaim() is meant to trigger during swap-over-network
during which the min watermark is treated as a pfmemalloc reserve.  It
throttes on the first node in the zonelist but this is flawed.

The user-visible impact is that a process running on CPU whose local
memory node has no ZONE_NORMAL will stall for prolonged periods of time,
possibly indefintely.  This is due to throttle_direct_reclaim thinking the
pfmemalloc reserves are depleted when in fact they don't exist on that
node.

On a NUMA machine running a 32-bit kernel (I know) allocation requests
from CPUs on node 1 would detect no pfmemalloc reserves and the process
gets throttled.  This patch adjusts throttling of direct reclaim to
throttle based on the first node in the zonelist that has a usable
ZONE_NORMAL or lower zone.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomemcg: kill CONFIG_MM_OWNER
Oleg Nesterov [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:34 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
memcg: kill CONFIG_MM_OWNER

CONFIG_MM_OWNER makes no sense.  It is not user-selectable, it is only
selected by CONFIG_MEMCG automatically.  So we can kill this option in
init/Kconfig and do s/CONFIG_MM_OWNER/CONFIG_MEMCG/ globally.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm/mmap.c: remove the first mapping check
Huang Shijie [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:33 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
mm/mmap.c: remove the first mapping check

Remove the first mapping check for vma_link.  Move the mutex_lock into the
braces when vma->vm_file is true.

Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <b32955@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm/swap.c: clean up *lru_cache_add* functions
Jianyu Zhan [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:31 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
mm/swap.c: clean up *lru_cache_add* functions

In mm/swap.c, __lru_cache_add() is exported, but actually there are no
users outside this file.

This patch unexports __lru_cache_add(), and makes it static.  It also
exports lru_cache_add_file(), as it is use by cifs and fuse, which can
loaded as modules.

Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>
Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agodrm/exynos: call find_vma with the mmap_sem held
Jonathan Gonzalez V [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:30 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
drm/exynos: call find_vma with the mmap_sem held

Performing vma lookups without taking the mm->mmap_sem is asking for
trouble.  While doing the search, the vma in question can be modified or
even removed before returning to the caller.  Take the lock (exclusively)
in order to avoid races while iterating through the vmacache and/or
rbtree.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Gonzalez V <zeus@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Inki Dae <inki.dae@samsung.com>
Cc: Joonyoung Shim <jy0922.shim@samsung.com>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agoarc: call find_vma with the mmap_sem held
Davidlohr Bueso [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:29 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
arc: call find_vma with the mmap_sem held

Performing vma lookups without taking the mm->mmap_sem is asking for
trouble.  While doing the search, the vma in question can be modified or
even removed before returning to the caller.  Take the lock (shared) in
order to avoid races while iterating through the vmacache and/or rbtree.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: CSE current->active_mm, per Vineet]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agoDocumentation/memcg: warn about incomplete kmemcg state
Vladimir Davydov [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:28 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
Documentation/memcg: warn about incomplete kmemcg state

Kmemcg is currently under development and lacks some important features.
In particular, it does not have support of kmem reclaim on memory pressure
inside cgroup, which practically makes it unusable in real life.  Let's
warn about it in both Kconfig and Documentation to prevent complaints
arising.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm: debug: make bad_range() output more usable and readable
Dave Hansen [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:27 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
mm: debug: make bad_range() output more usable and readable

Nobody outputs memory addresses in decimal.  PFNs are essentially
addresses, and they're gibberish in decimal.  Output them in hex.

Also, add the nid and zone name to give a little more context to the
message.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm/compaction: cleanup isolate_freepages()
Vlastimil Babka [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:26 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
mm/compaction: cleanup isolate_freepages()

isolate_freepages() is currently somewhat hard to follow thanks to many
looks like it is related to the 'low_pfn' variable, but in fact it is not.

This patch renames the 'high_pfn' variable to a hopefully less confusing name,
and slightly changes its handling without a functional change. A comment made
obsolete by recent changes is also updated.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: comment fixes, per Minchan]
[iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Dongjun Shin <d.j.shin@samsung.com>
Cc: Sunghwan Yun <sunghwan.yun@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm/compaction: clean up unused code lines
Heesub Shin [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:24 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
mm/compaction: clean up unused code lines

Remove code lines currently not in use or never called.

Signed-off-by: Heesub Shin <heesub.shin@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Dongjun Shin <d.j.shin@samsung.com>
Cc: Sunghwan Yun <sunghwan.yun@samsung.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Dongjun Shin <d.j.shin@samsung.com>
Cc: Sunghwan Yun <sunghwan.yun@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm/page_alloc: prevent MIGRATE_RESERVE pages from being misplaced
Vlastimil Babka [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:22 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
mm/page_alloc: prevent MIGRATE_RESERVE pages from being misplaced

For the MIGRATE_RESERVE pages, it is useful when they do not get
misplaced on free_list of other migratetype, otherwise they might get
allocated prematurely and e.g.  fragment the MIGRATE_RESEVE pageblocks.
While this cannot be avoided completely when allocating new
MIGRATE_RESERVE pageblocks in min_free_kbytes sysctl handler, we should
prevent the misplacement where possible.

Currently, it is possible for the misplacement to happen when a
MIGRATE_RESERVE page is allocated on pcplist through rmqueue_bulk() as a
fallback for other desired migratetype, and then later freed back
through free_pcppages_bulk() without being actually used.  This happens
because free_pcppages_bulk() uses get_freepage_migratetype() to choose
the free_list, and rmqueue_bulk() calls set_freepage_migratetype() with
the *desired* migratetype and not the page's original MIGRATE_RESERVE
migratetype.

This patch fixes the problem by moving the call to
set_freepage_migratetype() from rmqueue_bulk() down to
__rmqueue_smallest() and __rmqueue_fallback() where the actual page's
migratetype (e.g.  from which free_list the page is taken from) is used.
Note that this migratetype might be different from the pageblock's
migratetype due to freepage stealing decisions.  This is OK, as page
stealing never uses MIGRATE_RESERVE as a fallback, and also takes care
to leave all MIGRATE_CMA pages on the correct freelist.

Therefore, as an additional benefit, the call to
get_pageblock_migratetype() from rmqueue_bulk() when CMA is enabled, can
be removed completely.  This relies on the fact that MIGRATE_CMA
pageblocks are created only during system init, and the above.  The
related is_migrate_isolate() check is also unnecessary, as memory
isolation has other ways to move pages between freelists, and drain pcp
lists containing pages that should be isolated.  The buffered_rmqueue()
can also benefit from calling get_freepage_migratetype() instead of
get_pageblock_migratetype().

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Yong-Taek Lee <ytk.lee@samsung.com>
Reported-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Suggested-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Suggested-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: "Wang, Yalin" <Yalin.Wang@sonymobile.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agofs/hugetlbfs/inode.c: complete conversion to pr_foo()
Andrew Morton [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:21 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c: complete conversion to pr_foo()

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agoslab: get_online_mems for kmem_cache_{create,destroy,shrink}
Vladimir Davydov [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:20 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
slab: get_online_mems for kmem_cache_{create,destroy,shrink}

When we create a sl[au]b cache, we allocate kmem_cache_node structures
for each online NUMA node.  To handle nodes taken online/offline, we
register memory hotplug notifier and allocate/free kmem_cache_node
corresponding to the node that changes its state for each kmem cache.

To synchronize between the two paths we hold the slab_mutex during both
the cache creationg/destruction path and while tuning per-node parts of
kmem caches in memory hotplug handler, but that's not quite right,
because it does not guarantee that a newly created cache will have all
kmem_cache_nodes initialized in case it races with memory hotplug.  For
instance, in case of slub:

    CPU0                            CPU1
    ----                            ----
    kmem_cache_create:              online_pages:
     __kmem_cache_create:            slab_memory_callback:
                                      slab_mem_going_online_callback:
                                       lock slab_mutex
                                       for each slab_caches list entry
                                           allocate kmem_cache node
                                       unlock slab_mutex
      lock slab_mutex
      init_kmem_cache_nodes:
       for_each_node_state(node, N_NORMAL_MEMORY)
           allocate kmem_cache node
      add kmem_cache to slab_caches list
      unlock slab_mutex
                                    online_pages (continued):
                                     node_states_set_node

As a result we'll get a kmem cache with not all kmem_cache_nodes
allocated.

To avoid issues like that we should hold get/put_online_mems() during
the whole kmem cache creation/destruction/shrink paths, just like we
deal with cpu hotplug.  This patch does the trick.

Note, that after it's applied, there is no need in taking the slab_mutex
for kmem_cache_shrink any more, so it is removed from there.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomem-hotplug: implement get/put_online_mems
Vladimir Davydov [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:18 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
mem-hotplug: implement get/put_online_mems

kmem_cache_{create,destroy,shrink} need to get a stable value of
cpu/node online mask, because they init/destroy/access per-cpu/node
kmem_cache parts, which can be allocated or destroyed on cpu/mem
hotplug.  To protect against cpu hotplug, these functions use
{get,put}_online_cpus.  However, they do nothing to synchronize with
memory hotplug - taking the slab_mutex does not eliminate the
possibility of race as described in patch 2.

What we need there is something like get_online_cpus, but for memory.
We already have lock_memory_hotplug, which serves for the purpose, but
it's a bit of a hammer right now, because it's backed by a mutex.  As a
result, it imposes some limitations to locking order, which are not
desirable, and can't be used just like get_online_cpus.  That's why in
patch 1 I substitute it with get/put_online_mems, which work exactly
like get/put_online_cpus except they block not cpu, but memory hotplug.

[ v1 can be found at https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/6/68.  I NAK'ed it by
  myself, because it used an rw semaphore for get/put_online_mems,
  making them dead lock prune.  ]

This patch (of 2):

{un}lock_memory_hotplug, which is used to synchronize against memory
hotplug, is currently backed by a mutex, which makes it a bit of a
hammer - threads that only want to get a stable value of online nodes
mask won't be able to proceed concurrently.  Also, it imposes some
strong locking ordering rules on it, which narrows down the set of its
usage scenarios.

This patch introduces get/put_online_mems, which are the same as
get/put_online_cpus, but for memory hotplug, i.e.  executing a code
inside a get/put_online_mems section will guarantee a stable value of
online nodes, present pages, etc.

lock_memory_hotplug()/unlock_memory_hotplug() are removed altogether.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com>
Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomemcg: un-export __memcg_kmem_get_cache
Vladimir Davydov [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:17 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
memcg: un-export __memcg_kmem_get_cache

It is only used in slab and should not be used anywhere else so there is
no need in exporting it.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm: page_alloc: do not cache reclaim distances
Mel Gorman [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:15 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
mm: page_alloc: do not cache reclaim distances

pgdat->reclaim_nodes tracks if a remote node is allowed to be reclaimed
by zone_reclaim due to its distance.  As it is expected that
zone_reclaim_mode will be rarely enabled it is unreasonable for all
machines to take a penalty.  Fortunately, the zone_reclaim_mode() path
is already slow and it is the path that takes the hit.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm: disable zone_reclaim_mode by default
Mel Gorman [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:14 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
mm: disable zone_reclaim_mode by default

When it was introduced, zone_reclaim_mode made sense as NUMA distances
punished and workloads were generally partitioned to fit into a NUMA
node.  NUMA machines are now common but few of the workloads are
NUMA-aware and it's routine to see major performance degradation due to
zone_reclaim_mode being enabled but relatively few can identify the
problem.

Those that require zone_reclaim_mode are likely to be able to detect
when it needs to be enabled and tune appropriately so lets have a
sensible default for the bulk of users.

This patch (of 2):

zone_reclaim_mode causes processes to prefer reclaiming memory from
local node instead of spilling over to other nodes.  This made sense
initially when NUMA machines were almost exclusively HPC and the
workload was partitioned into nodes.  The NUMA penalties were
sufficiently high to justify reclaiming the memory.  On current machines
and workloads it is often the case that zone_reclaim_mode destroys
performance but not all users know how to detect this.  Favour the
common case and disable it by default.  Users that are sophisticated
enough to know they need zone_reclaim_mode will detect it.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agohugetlb: add support for gigantic page allocation at runtime
Luiz Capitulino [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:13 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
hugetlb: add support for gigantic page allocation at runtime

HugeTLB is limited to allocating hugepages whose size are less than
MAX_ORDER order.  This is so because HugeTLB allocates hugepages via the
buddy allocator.  Gigantic pages (that is, pages whose size is greater
than MAX_ORDER order) have to be allocated at boottime.

However, boottime allocation has at least two serious problems.  First,
it doesn't support NUMA and second, gigantic pages allocated at boottime
can't be freed.

This commit solves both issues by adding support for allocating gigantic
pages during runtime.  It works just like regular sized hugepages,
meaning that the interface in sysfs is the same, it supports NUMA, and
gigantic pages can be freed.

For example, on x86_64 gigantic pages are 1GB big. To allocate two 1G
gigantic pages on node 1, one can do:

 # echo 2 > \
   /sys/devices/system/node/node1/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages

And to free them all:

 # echo 0 > \
   /sys/devices/system/node/node1/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages

The one problem with gigantic page allocation at runtime is that it
can't be serviced by the buddy allocator.  To overcome that problem,
this commit scans all zones from a node looking for a large enough
contiguous region.  When one is found, it's allocated by using CMA, that
is, we call alloc_contig_range() to do the actual allocation.  For
example, on x86_64 we scan all zones looking for a 1GB contiguous
region.  When one is found, it's allocated by alloc_contig_range().

One expected issue with that approach is that such gigantic contiguous
regions tend to vanish as runtime goes by.  The best way to avoid this
for now is to make gigantic page allocations very early during system
boot, say from a init script.  Other possible optimization include using
compaction, which is supported by CMA but is not explicitly used by this
commit.

It's also important to note the following:

 1. Gigantic pages allocated at boottime by the hugepages= command-line
    option can be freed at runtime just fine

 2. This commit adds support for gigantic pages only to x86_64. The
    reason is that I don't have access to nor experience with other archs.
    The code is arch indepedent though, so it should be simple to add
    support to different archs

 3. I didn't add support for hugepage overcommit, that is allocating
    a gigantic page on demand when
   /proc/sys/vm/nr_overcommit_hugepages > 0. The reason is that I don't
   think it's reasonable to do the hard and long work required for
   allocating a gigantic page at fault time. But it should be simple
   to add this if wanted

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agohugetlb: move helpers up in the file
Luiz Capitulino [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:11 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
hugetlb: move helpers up in the file

Next commit will add new code which will want to call
for_each_node_mask_to_alloc() macro.  Move it, its buddy
for_each_node_mask_to_free() and their dependencies up in the file so the
new code can use them.  This is just code movement, no logic change.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agohugetlb: update_and_free_page(): don't clear PG_reserved bit
Luiz Capitulino [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:09 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
hugetlb: update_and_free_page(): don't clear PG_reserved bit

Hugepages pages never get the PG_reserved bit set, so don't clear it.

However, note that if the bit gets mistakenly set free_pages_check() will
catch it.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agohugetlb: add hstate_is_gigantic()
Luiz Capitulino [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:08 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
hugetlb: add hstate_is_gigantic()

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agohugetlb: prep_compound_gigantic_page(): drop __init marker
Luiz Capitulino [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:06 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
hugetlb: prep_compound_gigantic_page(): drop __init marker

The HugeTLB subsystem uses the buddy allocator to allocate hugepages
during runtime.  This means that hugepages allocation during runtime is
limited to MAX_ORDER order.  For archs supporting gigantic pages (that
is, page sizes greater than MAX_ORDER), this in turn means that those
pages can't be allocated at runtime.

HugeTLB supports gigantic page allocation during boottime, via the boot
allocator.  To this end the kernel provides the command-line options
hugepagesz= and hugepages=, which can be used to instruct the kernel to
allocate N gigantic pages during boot.

For example, x86_64 supports 2M and 1G hugepages, but only 2M hugepages
can be allocated and freed at runtime.  If one wants to allocate 1G
gigantic pages, this has to be done at boot via the hugepagesz= and
hugepages= command-line options.

Now, gigantic page allocation at boottime has two serious problems:

 1. Boottime allocation is not NUMA aware. On a NUMA machine the kernel
    evenly distributes boottime allocated hugepages among nodes.

    For example, suppose you have a four-node NUMA machine and want
    to allocate four 1G gigantic pages at boottime. The kernel will
    allocate one gigantic page per node.

    On the other hand, we do have users who want to be able to specify
    which NUMA node gigantic pages should allocated from. So that they
    can place virtual machines on a specific NUMA node.

 2. Gigantic pages allocated at boottime can't be freed

At this point it's important to observe that regular hugepages allocated
at runtime don't have those problems.  This is so because HugeTLB
interface for runtime allocation in sysfs supports NUMA and runtime
allocated pages can be freed just fine via the buddy allocator.

This series adds support for allocating gigantic pages at runtime.  It
does so by allocating gigantic pages via CMA instead of the buddy
allocator.  Releasing gigantic pages is also supported via CMA.  As this
series builds on top of the existing HugeTLB interface, it makes gigantic
page allocation and releasing just like regular sized hugepages.  This
also means that NUMA support just works.

For example, to allocate two 1G gigantic pages on node 1, one can do:

 # echo 2 > \
   /sys/devices/system/node/node1/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages

And, to release all gigantic pages on the same node:

 # echo 0 > \
   /sys/devices/system/node/node1/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages

Please, refer to patch 5/5 for full technical details.

Finally, please note that this series is a follow up for a previous series
that tried to extend the command-line options set to be NUMA aware:

 http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=139593335312191&w=2

During the discussion of that series it was agreed that having runtime
allocation support for gigantic pages was a better solution.

This patch (of 5):

This function is going to be used by non-init code in a future
commit.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm/mmap.c: replace IS_ERR and PTR_ERR with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO
Duan Jiong [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:05 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
mm/mmap.c: replace IS_ERR and PTR_ERR with PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO

Fix a coccinelle error regarding usage of IS_ERR and PTR_ERR instead of
PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO.

Signed-off-by: Duan Jiong <duanj.fnst@cn.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>
10 years agoslab: document kmalloc_order
Vladimir Davydov [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:04 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
slab: document kmalloc_order

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomemory-hotplug: update documentation to hide information about SECTIONS and remove...
Li Zhong [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:03 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
memory-hotplug: update documentation to hide information about SECTIONS and remove end_phys_index

Seems we all agree that information about SECTION, e.g. section size,
sections per memory block should be kept as kernel internals, and not
exposed to userspace.

This patch updates Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt to refer to memory
blocks instead of memory sections where appropriate and added a
paragraph to explain that memory blocks are made of memory sections.
The documentation update is mostly provided by Nathan.

Also, as end_phys_index in code is actually not the end section id, but
the end memory block id, which should always be the same as phys_index.
So it is removed here.

Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm: pass VM_BUG_ON() reason to dump_page()
Dave Hansen [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:02 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
mm: pass VM_BUG_ON() reason to dump_page()

I recently added a patch to let folks pass a "reason" string dump_page()
which gets dumped out along with the page's data.  This essentially
saves the bug-reader a trip in to the source to figure out why we
BUG_ON()'d.

The new VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() passes in NULL for "reason".  It seems like we
might as well pass the BUG_ON() condition if we have it.  This will
bloat kernels a bit with ~160 new strings, but this is all under a
debugging option anyway.

page:ffffea0008560280 count:1 mapcount:0 mapping:(null) index:0x0
page flags: 0xbfffc0000000001(locked)
page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageLocked(page))
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at /home/davehans/linux.git/mm/filemap.c:464!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.14.0+ #251
Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
...

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: include stringify.h]
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm: memcontrol: remove hierarchy restrictions for swappiness and oom_control
Johannes Weiner [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:01 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
mm: memcontrol: remove hierarchy restrictions for swappiness and oom_control

Per-memcg swappiness and oom killing can currently not be tweaked on a
memcg that is part of a hierarchy, but not the root of that hierarchy.
Users have complained that they can't configure this when they turned on
hierarchy mode.  In fact, with hierarchy mode becoming the default, this
restriction disables the tunables entirely.

But there is no good reason for this restriction.  The settings for
swappiness and OOM killing are taken from whatever memcg whose limit
triggered reclaim and OOM invocation, regardless of its position in the
hierarchy tree.

Allow setting swappiness on any group.  The knob on the root memcg
already reads the global VM swappiness, make it writable as well.

Allow disabling the OOM killer on any non-root memcg.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm/mempool: warn about __GFP_ZERO usage
Sebastian Ott [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:07:00 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
mm/mempool: warn about __GFP_ZERO usage

Memory obtained via mempool_alloc is not always zeroed even when
called with __GFP_ZERO. Add a note and VM_BUG_ON statement to make
that clear.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use VM_WARN_ON_ONCE]
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agoinclude/linux/mmdebug.h: add VM_WARN_ON() and VM_WARN_ON_ONCE()
Andrew Morton [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:06:59 +0000 (16:06 -0700)]
include/linux/mmdebug.h: add VM_WARN_ON() and VM_WARN_ON_ONCE()

WARN_ON() and WARN_ON_ONCE(), dependent on CONFIG_DEBUG_VM

Cc: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm/huge_memory.c: complete conversion to pr_foo()
Andrew Morton [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:06:58 +0000 (16:06 -0700)]
mm/huge_memory.c: complete conversion to pr_foo()

It was using a mix of pr_foo() and printk(KERN_ERR ...).

Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agothp: consolidate assert checks in __split_huge_page()
Kirill A. Shutemov [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:06:57 +0000 (16:06 -0700)]
thp: consolidate assert checks in __split_huge_page()

It doesn't make sense to have two assert checks for each invariant: one
for printing and one for BUG().

Let's trigger BUG() if we print error message.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.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>
10 years agoarch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c: fix dma_generic_alloc_coherent() when CONFIG_DMA_CMA is...
Akinobu Mita [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:06:56 +0000 (16:06 -0700)]
arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c: fix dma_generic_alloc_coherent() when CONFIG_DMA_CMA is enabled

dma_generic_alloc_coherent() firstly attempts to allocate by
dma_alloc_from_contiguous() if CONFIG_DMA_CMA is enabled.  But the
memory region allocated by it may not fit within the device's DMA mask.
This change makes it fall back to usual alloc_pages_node() allocation
for such cases.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Don Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.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>
10 years agocma: add placement specifier for "cma=" kernel parameter
Akinobu Mita [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:06:54 +0000 (16:06 -0700)]
cma: add placement specifier for "cma=" kernel parameter

Currently, "cma=" kernel parameter is used to specify the size of CMA,
but we can't specify where it is located.  We want to locate CMA below
4GB for devices only supporting 32-bit addressing on 64-bit systems
without iommu.

This enables to specify the placement of CMA by extending "cma=" kernel
parameter.

Examples:
 1. locate 64MB CMA below 4GB by "cma=64M@0-4G"
 2. locate 64MB CMA exact at 512MB by "cma=64M@512M"

Note that the DMA contiguous memory allocator on x86 assumes that
page_address() works for the pages to allocate.  So this change requires
to limit end address of contiguous memory area upto max_pfn_mapped to
prevent from locating it on highmem area by the argument of
dma_contiguous_reserve().

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Don Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomemblock: introduce memblock_alloc_range()
Akinobu Mita [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:06:53 +0000 (16:06 -0700)]
memblock: introduce memblock_alloc_range()

This introduces memblock_alloc_range() which allocates memblock from the
specified range of physical address.  I would like to use this function
to specify the location of CMA.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Don Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agointel-iommu: integrate DMA CMA
Akinobu Mita [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:06:51 +0000 (16:06 -0700)]
intel-iommu: integrate DMA CMA

This adds support for the DMA Contiguous Memory Allocator for
intel-iommu.  This change enables dma_alloc_coherent() to allocate big
contiguous memory.

It is achieved in the same way as nommu_dma_ops currently does, i.e.
trying to allocate memory by dma_alloc_from_contiguous() and
alloc_pages() is used as a fallback.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Don Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agox86: enable DMA CMA with swiotlb
Akinobu Mita [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:06:50 +0000 (16:06 -0700)]
x86: enable DMA CMA with swiotlb

The DMA Contiguous Memory Allocator support on x86 is disabled when
swiotlb config option is enabled.  So DMA CMA is always disabled on
x86_64 because swiotlb is always enabled.  This attempts to support for
DMA CMA with enabling swiotlb config option.

The contiguous memory allocator on x86 is integrated in the function
dma_generic_alloc_coherent() which is .alloc callback in nommu_dma_ops
for dma_alloc_coherent().

x86_swiotlb_alloc_coherent() which is .alloc callback in swiotlb_dma_ops
tries to allocate with dma_generic_alloc_coherent() firstly and then
swiotlb_alloc_coherent() is called as a fallback.

The main part of supporting DMA CMA with swiotlb is that changing
x86_swiotlb_free_coherent() which is .free callback in swiotlb_dma_ops
for dma_free_coherent() so that it can distinguish memory allocated by
dma_generic_alloc_coherent() from one allocated by
swiotlb_alloc_coherent() and release it with dma_generic_free_coherent()
which can handle contiguous memory.  This change requires making
is_swiotlb_buffer() global function.

This also needs to change .free callback in the dma_map_ops for amd_gart
and sta2x11, because these dma_ops are also using
dma_generic_alloc_coherent().

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Don Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agox86: make dma_alloc_coherent() return zeroed memory if CMA is enabled
Akinobu Mita [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:06:48 +0000 (16:06 -0700)]
x86: make dma_alloc_coherent() return zeroed memory if CMA is enabled

This patchset enhances the DMA Contiguous Memory Allocator on x86.

Currently the DMA CMA is only supported with pci-nommu dma_map_ops and
furthermore it can't be enabled on x86_64.  But I would like to allocate
big contiguous memory with dma_alloc_coherent() and tell it to the device
that requires it, regardless of which dma mapping implementation is
actually used in the system.

So this makes it work with swiotlb and intel-iommu dma_map_ops, too.  And
this also extends "cma=" kernel parameter to specify placement constraint
by the physical address range of memory allocations.  For example, CMA
allocates memory below 4GB by "cma=64M@0-4G", it is required for the
devices only supporting 32-bit addressing on 64-bit systems without iommu.

This patch (of 5):

Calling dma_alloc_coherent() with __GFP_ZERO must return zeroed memory.

But when the contiguous memory allocator (CMA) is enabled on x86 and the
memory region is allocated by dma_alloc_from_contiguous(), it doesn't
return zeroed memory.  Because dma_generic_alloc_coherent() forgot to fill
the memory region with zero if it was allocated by
dma_alloc_from_contiguous()

Most implementations of dma_alloc_coherent() return zeroed memory
regardless of whether __GFP_ZERO is specified.  So this fixes it by
unconditionally zeroing the allocated memory region.

Alternatively, we could fix dma_alloc_from_contiguous() to return zeroed
out memory and remove memset() from all caller of it.  But we can't simply
remove the memset on arm because __dma_clear_buffer() is used there for
ensuring cache flushing and it is used in many places.  Of course we can
do redundant memset in dma_alloc_from_contiguous(), but I think this patch
is less impact for fixing this problem.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Don Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm,vmacache: optimize overflow system-wide flushing
Davidlohr Bueso [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:06:47 +0000 (16:06 -0700)]
mm,vmacache: optimize overflow system-wide flushing

For single threaded workloads, we can avoid flushing and iterating through
the entire list of tasks, making the whole function a lot faster,
requiring only a single atomic read for the mm_users.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm,vmacache: add debug data
Davidlohr Bueso [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:06:46 +0000 (16:06 -0700)]
mm,vmacache: add debug data

Introduce a CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_VMACACHE option to enable counting the cache
hit rate -- exported in /proc/vmstat.

Any updates to the caching scheme needs this kind of data, thus it can
save some work re-implementing the counting all the time.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <aswin@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm: only force scan in reclaim when none of the LRUs are big enough.
Suleiman Souhlal [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:06:44 +0000 (16:06 -0700)]
mm: only force scan in reclaim when none of the LRUs are big enough.

Prior to this change, we would decide whether to force scan a LRU during
reclaim if that LRU itself was too small for the current priority.
However, this can lead to the file LRU getting force scanned even if
there are a lot of anonymous pages we can reclaim, leading to hot file
pages getting needlessly reclaimed.

To address this, we instead only force scan when none of the reclaimable
LRUs are big enough.

Gives huge improvements with zswap.  For example, when doing -j20 kernel
build in a 500MB container with zswap enabled, runtime (in seconds) is
greatly reduced:

x without this change
+ with this change
    N           Min           Max        Median           Avg        Stddev
x   5       700.997       790.076       763.928        754.05      39.59493
+   5       141.634       197.899       155.706         161.9     21.270224
Difference at 95.0% confidence
        -592.15 +/- 46.3521
        -78.5293% +/- 6.14709%
        (Student's t, pooled s = 31.7819)

Should also give some improvements in regular (non-zswap) swap cases.

Yes, hughd found significant speedup using regular swap, with several
memcgs under pressure; and it should also be effective in the non-memcg
case, whenever one or another zone LRU is forced too small.

Signed-off-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net>
Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm: softdirty: clear VM_SOFTDIRTY flag inside clear_refs_write() instead of clear_sof...
Cyrill Gorcunov [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:06:43 +0000 (16:06 -0700)]
mm: softdirty: clear VM_SOFTDIRTY flag inside clear_refs_write() instead of clear_soft_dirty()

clear_refs_write() is called earlier than clear_soft_dirty() and it is
more natural to clear VM_SOFTDIRTY (which belongs to VMA entry but not
PTEs) that early instead of clearing it a way deeper inside call chain.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm: softdirty: don't forget to save file map softdiry bit on unmap
Cyrill Gorcunov [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:06:42 +0000 (16:06 -0700)]
mm: softdirty: don't forget to save file map softdiry bit on unmap

pte_file_mksoft_dirty operates with argument passed by a value and
returns modified result thus we need to assign @ptfile here, otherwise
itis a no-op which may lead to loss of the softdirty bit.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm: softdirty: make freshly remapped file pages being softdirty unconditionally
Cyrill Gorcunov [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:06:41 +0000 (16:06 -0700)]
mm: softdirty: make freshly remapped file pages being softdirty unconditionally

Hugh reported:

 | I noticed your soft_dirty work in install_file_pte(): which looked
 | good at first, until I realized that it's propagating the soft_dirty
 | of a pte it's about to zap completely, to the unrelated entry it's
 | about to insert in its place.  Which seems very odd to me.

Indeed this code ends up being nop in result -- pte_file_mksoft_dirty()
operates with pte_t argument and returns new pte_t which were never used
after.  After looking more I think what we need is to soft-dirtify all
newely remapped file pages because it should look like a new mapping for
memory tracker.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm: get rid of __GFP_KMEMCG
Vladimir Davydov [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:06:39 +0000 (16:06 -0700)]
mm: get rid of __GFP_KMEMCG

Currently to allocate a page that should be charged to kmemcg (e.g.
threadinfo), we pass __GFP_KMEMCG flag to the page allocator.  The page
allocated is then to be freed by free_memcg_kmem_pages.  Apart from
looking asymmetrical, this also requires intrusion to the general
allocation path.  So let's introduce separate functions that will
alloc/free pages charged to kmemcg.

The new functions are called alloc_kmem_pages and free_kmem_pages.  They
should be used when the caller actually would like to use kmalloc, but
has to fall back to the page allocator for the allocation is large.
They only differ from alloc_pages and free_pages in that besides
allocating or freeing pages they also charge them to the kmem resource
counter of the current memory cgroup.

[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: export kmalloc_order() to modules]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agosl[au]b: charge slabs to kmemcg explicitly
Vladimir Davydov [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:06:38 +0000 (16:06 -0700)]
sl[au]b: charge slabs to kmemcg explicitly

We have only a few places where we actually want to charge kmem so
instead of intruding into the general page allocation path with
__GFP_KMEMCG it's better to explictly charge kmem there.  All kmem
charges will be easier to follow that way.

This is a step towards removing __GFP_KMEMCG.  It removes __GFP_KMEMCG
from memcg caches' allocflags.  Instead it makes slab allocation path
call memcg_charge_kmem directly getting memcg to charge from the cache's
memcg params.

This also eliminates any possibility of misaccounting an allocation
going from one memcg's cache to another memcg, because now we always
charge slabs against the memcg the cache belongs to.  That's why this
patch removes the big comment to memcg_kmem_get_cache.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm: slub: fix ALLOC_SLOWPATH stat
Dave Hansen [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:06:37 +0000 (16:06 -0700)]
mm: slub: fix ALLOC_SLOWPATH stat

There used to be only one path out of __slab_alloc(), and ALLOC_SLOWPATH
got bumped in that exit path.  Now there are two, and a bunch of gotos.
ALLOC_SLOWPATH can now get set more than once during a single call to
__slab_alloc() which is pretty bogus.  Here's the sequence:

1. Enter __slab_alloc(), fall through all the way to the
   stat(s, ALLOC_SLOWPATH);
2. hit 'if (!freelist)', and bump DEACTIVATE_BYPASS, jump to
   new_slab (goto #1)
3. Hit 'if (c->partial)', bump CPU_PARTIAL_ALLOC, goto redo
   (goto #2)
4. Fall through in the same path we did before all the way to
   stat(s, ALLOC_SLOWPATH)
5. bump ALLOC_REFILL stat, then return

Doing this is obviously bogus.  It keeps us from being able to
accurately compare ALLOC_SLOWPATH vs.  ALLOC_FASTPATH.  It also means
that the total number of allocs always exceeds the total number of
frees.

This patch moves stat(s, ALLOC_SLOWPATH) to be called from the same
place that __slab_alloc() is.  This makes it much less likely that
ALLOC_SLOWPATH will get botched again in the spaghetti-code inside
__slab_alloc().

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm, slab: suppress out of memory warning unless debug is enabled
David Rientjes [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:06:36 +0000 (16:06 -0700)]
mm, slab: suppress out of memory warning unless debug is enabled

When the slab or slub allocators cannot allocate additional slab pages,
they emit diagnostic information to the kernel log such as current
number of slabs, number of objects, active objects, etc.  This is always
coupled with a page allocation failure warning since it is controlled by
!__GFP_NOWARN.

Suppress this out of memory warning if the allocator is configured
without debug supported.  The page allocation failure warning will
indicate it is a failed slab allocation, the order, and the gfp mask, so
this is only useful to diagnose allocator issues.

Since CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is already enabled by default for the slub
allocator, there is no functional change with this patch.  If debug is
disabled, however, the warnings are now suppressed.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm/slub.c: convert vnsprintf-static to va_format
Fabian Frederick [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:06:35 +0000 (16:06 -0700)]
mm/slub.c: convert vnsprintf-static to va_format

Inspired by Joe Perches suggestion in ntfs logging clean-up.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agomm/slub.c: convert printk to pr_foo()
Fabian Frederick [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:06:34 +0000 (16:06 -0700)]
mm/slub.c: convert printk to pr_foo()

All printk(KERN_foo converted to pr_foo()

Default printk converted to pr_warn()

Coalesce format fragments

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agox86, mm: probe memory block size for generic x86 64bit
Yinghai Lu [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:06:32 +0000 (16:06 -0700)]
x86, mm: probe memory block size for generic x86 64bit

On system with 2TiB ram, current x86_64 have 128M as section size, and
one memory_block only include one section.  So will have 16400 entries
under /sys/devices/system/memory/.

Current code try to use block id to find block pointer in /sys for any
section, and reuse that block pointer.  that finding will take some time
even after commit 7c243c7168dc ("mm: speedup in __early_pfn_to_nid")
that will skip the search in that case during booting up.

So solution could be increase block size just like SGI UV system did.
(harded code to 2g).

This patch is trying to probe the block size to make it match mmio remap
size.  for example, Intel Nehalem later system will have memory range [0,
TOML), [4g, TOMH].  If the memory hole is 2g and total is 128g, TOM will
be 2g, and TOM2 will be 130g.

We could use 2g as block size instead of default 128M.  That will reduce
number of entries in /sys/devices/system/memory/

On system 6TiB system will reduce boot time by 35 seconds.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agox86: define _PAGE_NUMA by reusing software bits on the PMD and PTE levels
Mel Gorman [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:06:30 +0000 (16:06 -0700)]
x86: define _PAGE_NUMA by reusing software bits on the PMD and PTE levels

_PAGE_NUMA is currently an alias of _PROT_PROTNONE to trap NUMA hinting
faults on x86.  Care is taken such that _PAGE_NUMA is used only in
situations where the VMA flags distinguish between NUMA hinting faults
and prot_none faults.  This decision was x86-specific and conceptually
it is difficult requiring special casing to distinguish between PROTNONE
and NUMA ptes based on context.

Fundamentally, we only need the _PAGE_NUMA bit to tell the difference
between an entry that is really unmapped and a page that is protected
for NUMA hinting faults as if the PTE is not present then a fault will
be trapped.

Swap PTEs on x86-64 use the bits after _PAGE_GLOBAL for the offset.
This patch shrinks the maximum possible swap size and uses the bit to
uniquely distinguish between NUMA hinting ptes and swap ptes.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agox86: require x86-64 for automatic NUMA balancing
Mel Gorman [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:06:29 +0000 (16:06 -0700)]
x86: require x86-64 for automatic NUMA balancing

32-bit support for NUMA is an oddity on its own but with automatic NUMA
balancing on top there is a reasonable risk that the CPUPID information
cannot be stored in the page flags.  This patch removes support for
automatic NUMA support on 32-bit x86.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
10 years agofs/libfs.c: add generic data flush to fsync
Fabian Frederick [Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:06:27 +0000 (16:06 -0700)]
fs/libfs.c: add generic data flush to fsync

Description by Jan Kara:
 "A lot of older filesystems don't properly flush volatile disk caches
  on fsync(2) which can lead to loss of fsynced data after power failure.

This patch makes generic_file_fsync() issue proper cache flush to fix the
problem.  Sysadmin can use /sys/devices/.../cache_type to tell the system
it should not send the cache flush."

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: nuke ifdef]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>