Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
 "12 fixes"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>:
  mm, vmscan: prevent kswapd livelock due to pfmemalloc-throttled process being killed
  memcg: fix destination cgroup leak on task charges migration
  mm: memcontrol: switch soft limit default back to infinity
  mm/debug_pagealloc: remove obsolete Kconfig options
  vfs: renumber FMODE_NONOTIFY and add to uniqueness check
  arch/blackfin/mach-bf533/boards/stamp.c: add linux/delay.h
  ocfs2: fix the wrong directory passed to ocfs2_lookup_ino_from_name() when link file
  MAINTAINERS: update rydberg's addresses
  mm: protect set_page_dirty() from ongoing truncation
  mm: prevent endless growth of anon_vma hierarchy
  exit: fix race between wait_consider_task() and wait_task_zombie()
  ocfs2: remove bogus check in dlm_process_recovery_data

.mailmap

@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
 Henk Vergonet <Henk.Vergonet@gmail.com>
 Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de>
+Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@bitmath.org>
 Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
 Jacob Shin <Jacob.Shin@amd.com>
 James Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.(none)>

MAINTAINERS

@@ -724,15 +724,15 @@ F:	include/uapi/linux/apm_bios.h
 F:	drivers/char/apm-emulation.c
 
 APPLE BCM5974 MULTITOUCH DRIVER
-M:	Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
+M:	Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@bitmath.org>
 L:	linux-input@vger.kernel.org
-S:	Maintained
+S:	Odd fixes
 F:	drivers/input/mouse/bcm5974.c
 
 APPLE SMC DRIVER
-M:	Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
+M:	Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@bitmath.org>
 L:	lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org
-S:	Maintained
+S:	Odd fixes
 F:	drivers/hwmon/applesmc.c
 
 APPLETALK NETWORK LAYER
@@ -4940,10 +4940,10 @@ F:	include/uapi/linux/input.h
 F:	include/linux/input/
 
 INPUT MULTITOUCH (MT) PROTOCOL
-M:	Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
+M:	Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@bitmath.org>
 L:	linux-input@vger.kernel.org
 T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rydberg/input-mt.git
-S:	Maintained
+S:	Odd fixes
 F:	Documentation/input/multi-touch-protocol.txt
 F:	drivers/input/input-mt.c
 K:	\b(ABS|SYN)_MT_

arch/blackfin/mach-bf533/boards/stamp.c

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
  */
 
 #include <linux/device.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
 #include <linux/platform_device.h>
 #include <linux/mtd/mtd.h>
 #include <linux/mtd/partitions.h>

fs/fcntl.c

@@ -740,14 +740,15 @@ static int __init fcntl_init(void)
 	 * Exceptions: O_NONBLOCK is a two bit define on parisc; O_NDELAY
 	 * is defined as O_NONBLOCK on some platforms and not on others.
 	 */
-	BUILD_BUG_ON(20 - 1 /* for O_RDONLY being 0 */ != HWEIGHT32(
+	BUILD_BUG_ON(21 - 1 /* for O_RDONLY being 0 */ != HWEIGHT32(
 		O_RDONLY	| O_WRONLY	| O_RDWR	|
 		O_CREAT		| O_EXCL	| O_NOCTTY	|
 		O_TRUNC		| O_APPEND	| /* O_NONBLOCK	| */
 		__O_SYNC	| O_DSYNC	| FASYNC	|
 		O_DIRECT	| O_LARGEFILE	| O_DIRECTORY	|
 		O_NOFOLLOW	| O_NOATIME	| O_CLOEXEC	|
-		__FMODE_EXEC	| O_PATH	| __O_TMPFILE
+		__FMODE_EXEC	| O_PATH	| __O_TMPFILE	|
+		__FMODE_NONOTIFY
 		));
 
 	fasync_cache = kmem_cache_create("fasync_cache",

fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmrecovery.c

@@ -2023,11 +2023,8 @@ static int dlm_process_recovery_data(struct dlm_ctxt *dlm,
 	dlm_lockres_drop_inflight_ref(dlm, res);
 	spin_unlock(&res->spinlock);
 
-	if (ret < 0) {
+	if (ret < 0)
 		mlog_errno(ret);
-		if (newlock)
-			dlm_lock_put(newlock);
-	}
 
 	return ret;
 }

fs/ocfs2/namei.c

@@ -94,6 +94,14 @@ static int ocfs2_create_symlink_data(struct ocfs2_super *osb,
 				     struct inode *inode,
 				     const char *symname);
 
+static int ocfs2_double_lock(struct ocfs2_super *osb,
+			     struct buffer_head **bh1,
+			     struct inode *inode1,
+			     struct buffer_head **bh2,
+			     struct inode *inode2,
+			     int rename);
+
+static void ocfs2_double_unlock(struct inode *inode1, struct inode *inode2);
 /* An orphan dir name is an 8 byte value, printed as a hex string */
 #define OCFS2_ORPHAN_NAMELEN ((int)(2 * sizeof(u64)))
 
@@ -678,8 +686,10 @@ static int ocfs2_link(struct dentry *old_dentry,
 {
 	handle_t *handle;
 	struct inode *inode = old_dentry->d_inode;
+	struct inode *old_dir = old_dentry->d_parent->d_inode;
 	int err;
 	struct buffer_head *fe_bh = NULL;
+	struct buffer_head *old_dir_bh = NULL;
 	struct buffer_head *parent_fe_bh = NULL;
 	struct ocfs2_dinode *fe = NULL;
 	struct ocfs2_super *osb = OCFS2_SB(dir->i_sb);
@@ -696,19 +706,33 @@ static int ocfs2_link(struct dentry *old_dentry,
 
 	dquot_initialize(dir);
 
-	err = ocfs2_inode_lock_nested(dir, &parent_fe_bh, 1, OI_LS_PARENT);
+	err = ocfs2_double_lock(osb, &old_dir_bh, old_dir,
+			&parent_fe_bh, dir, 0);
 	if (err < 0) {
 		if (err != -ENOENT)
 			mlog_errno(err);
 		return err;
 	}
 
+	/* make sure both dirs have bhs
+	 * get an extra ref on old_dir_bh if old==new */
+	if (!parent_fe_bh) {
+		if (old_dir_bh) {
+			parent_fe_bh = old_dir_bh;
+			get_bh(parent_fe_bh);
+		} else {
+			mlog(ML_ERROR, "%s: no old_dir_bh!\n", osb->uuid_str);
+			err = -EIO;
+			goto out;
+		}
+	}
+
 	if (!dir->i_nlink) {
 		err = -ENOENT;
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	err = ocfs2_lookup_ino_from_name(dir, old_dentry->d_name.name,
+	err = ocfs2_lookup_ino_from_name(old_dir, old_dentry->d_name.name,
 			old_dentry->d_name.len, &old_de_ino);
 	if (err) {
 		err = -ENOENT;
@@ -801,10 +825,11 @@ static int ocfs2_link(struct dentry *old_dentry,
 	ocfs2_inode_unlock(inode, 1);
 
 out:
-	ocfs2_inode_unlock(dir, 1);
+	ocfs2_double_unlock(old_dir, dir);
 
 	brelse(fe_bh);
 	brelse(parent_fe_bh);
+	brelse(old_dir_bh);
 
 	ocfs2_free_dir_lookup_result(&lookup);
 
@@ -1072,14 +1097,15 @@ static int ocfs2_check_if_ancestor(struct ocfs2_super *osb,
 }
 
 /*
- * The only place this should be used is rename!
+ * The only place this should be used is rename and link!
  * if they have the same id, then the 1st one is the only one locked.
  */
 static int ocfs2_double_lock(struct ocfs2_super *osb,
 			     struct buffer_head **bh1,
 			     struct inode *inode1,
 			     struct buffer_head **bh2,
-			     struct inode *inode2)
+			     struct inode *inode2,
+			     int rename)
 {
 	int status;
 	int inode1_is_ancestor, inode2_is_ancestor;
@@ -1127,7 +1153,7 @@ static int ocfs2_double_lock(struct ocfs2_super *osb,
 		}
 		/* lock id2 */
 		status = ocfs2_inode_lock_nested(inode2, bh2, 1,
-						 OI_LS_RENAME1);
+				rename == 1 ? OI_LS_RENAME1 : OI_LS_PARENT);
 		if (status < 0) {
 			if (status != -ENOENT)
 				mlog_errno(status);
@@ -1136,7 +1162,8 @@ static int ocfs2_double_lock(struct ocfs2_super *osb,
 	}
 
 	/* lock id1 */
-	status = ocfs2_inode_lock_nested(inode1, bh1, 1, OI_LS_RENAME2);
+	status = ocfs2_inode_lock_nested(inode1, bh1, 1,
+			rename == 1 ?  OI_LS_RENAME2 : OI_LS_PARENT);
 	if (status < 0) {
 		/*
 		 * An error return must mean that no cluster locks
@@ -1252,7 +1279,7 @@ static int ocfs2_rename(struct inode *old_dir,
 
 	/* if old and new are the same, this'll just do one lock. */
 	status = ocfs2_double_lock(osb, &old_dir_bh, old_dir,
-				   &new_dir_bh, new_dir);
+				   &new_dir_bh, new_dir, 1);
 	if (status < 0) {
 		mlog_errno(status);
 		goto bail;

include/linux/fs.h

@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ typedef void (dio_iodone_t)(struct kiocb *iocb, loff_t offset,
 #define FMODE_CAN_WRITE         ((__force fmode_t)0x40000)
 
 /* File was opened by fanotify and shouldn't generate fanotify events */
-#define FMODE_NONOTIFY		((__force fmode_t)0x1000000)
+#define FMODE_NONOTIFY		((__force fmode_t)0x4000000)
 
 /*
  * Flag for rw_copy_check_uvector and compat_rw_copy_check_uvector

include/linux/rmap.h

@@ -36,6 +36,16 @@ struct anon_vma {
 	 */
 	atomic_t refcount;
 
+	/*
+	 * Count of child anon_vmas and VMAs which points to this anon_vma.
+	 *
+	 * This counter is used for making decision about reusing anon_vma
+	 * instead of forking new one. See comments in function anon_vma_clone.
+	 */
+	unsigned degree;
+
+	struct anon_vma *parent;	/* Parent of this anon_vma */
+
 	/*
 	 * NOTE: the LSB of the rb_root.rb_node is set by
 	 * mm_take_all_locks() _after_ taking the above lock. So the

include/linux/writeback.h

@@ -177,7 +177,6 @@ int write_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
 		      struct writeback_control *wbc, writepage_t writepage,
 		      void *data);
 int do_writepages(struct address_space *mapping, struct writeback_control *wbc);
-void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page);
 void writeback_set_ratelimit(void);
 void tag_pages_for_writeback(struct address_space *mapping,
 			     pgoff_t start, pgoff_t end);

include/uapi/asm-generic/fcntl.h

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 /*
  * FMODE_EXEC is 0x20
- * FMODE_NONOTIFY is 0x1000000
+ * FMODE_NONOTIFY is 0x4000000
  * These cannot be used by userspace O_* until internal and external open
  * flags are split.
  * -Eric Paris

kernel/exit.c

@@ -1287,9 +1287,15 @@ static int wait_task_continued(struct wait_opts *wo, struct task_struct *p)
 static int wait_consider_task(struct wait_opts *wo, int ptrace,
 				struct task_struct *p)
 {
+	/*
+	 * We can race with wait_task_zombie() from another thread.
+	 * Ensure that EXIT_ZOMBIE -> EXIT_DEAD/EXIT_TRACE transition
+	 * can't confuse the checks below.
+	 */
+	int exit_state = ACCESS_ONCE(p->exit_state);
 	int ret;
 
-	if (unlikely(p->exit_state == EXIT_DEAD))
+	if (unlikely(exit_state == EXIT_DEAD))
 		return 0;
 
 	ret = eligible_child(wo, p);
@@ -1310,7 +1316,7 @@ static int wait_consider_task(struct wait_opts *wo, int ptrace,
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	if (unlikely(p->exit_state == EXIT_TRACE)) {
+	if (unlikely(exit_state == EXIT_TRACE)) {
 		/*
 		 * ptrace == 0 means we are the natural parent. In this case
 		 * we should clear notask_error, debugger will notify us.
@@ -1337,7 +1343,7 @@ static int wait_consider_task(struct wait_opts *wo, int ptrace,
 	}
 
 	/* slay zombie? */
-	if (p->exit_state == EXIT_ZOMBIE) {
+	if (exit_state == EXIT_ZOMBIE) {
 		/* we don't reap group leaders with subthreads */
 		if (!delay_group_leader(p)) {
 			/*

mm/Kconfig.debug

@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
 	depends on !KMEMCHECK
 	select PAGE_EXTENSION
 	select PAGE_POISONING if !ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
-	select PAGE_GUARD if ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
 	---help---
 	  Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
 	  This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types
@@ -27,13 +26,5 @@ config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
 	  that would result in incorrect warnings of memory corruption after
 	  a resume because free pages are not saved to the suspend image.
 
-config WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS
-	bool
-
 config PAGE_POISONING
 	bool
-	select WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS
-
-config PAGE_GUARD
-	bool
-	select WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS

mm/memcontrol.c

@@ -3043,18 +3043,6 @@ static int mem_cgroup_move_swap_account(swp_entry_t entry,
 	if (swap_cgroup_cmpxchg(entry, old_id, new_id) == old_id) {
 		mem_cgroup_swap_statistics(from, false);
 		mem_cgroup_swap_statistics(to, true);
-		/*
-		 * This function is only called from task migration context now.
-		 * It postpones page_counter and refcount handling till the end
-		 * of task migration(mem_cgroup_clear_mc()) for performance
-		 * improvement. But we cannot postpone css_get(to)  because if
-		 * the process that has been moved to @to does swap-in, the
-		 * refcount of @to might be decreased to 0.
-		 *
-		 * We are in attach() phase, so the cgroup is guaranteed to be
-		 * alive, so we can just call css_get().
-		 */
-		css_get(&to->css);
 		return 0;
 	}
 	return -EINVAL;
@@ -4679,6 +4667,7 @@ mem_cgroup_css_alloc(struct cgroup_subsys_state *parent_css)
 	if (parent_css == NULL) {
 		root_mem_cgroup = memcg;
 		page_counter_init(&memcg->memory, NULL);
+		memcg->soft_limit = PAGE_COUNTER_MAX;
 		page_counter_init(&memcg->memsw, NULL);
 		page_counter_init(&memcg->kmem, NULL);
 	}
@@ -4724,6 +4713,7 @@ mem_cgroup_css_online(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
 
 	if (parent->use_hierarchy) {
 		page_counter_init(&memcg->memory, &parent->memory);
+		memcg->soft_limit = PAGE_COUNTER_MAX;
 		page_counter_init(&memcg->memsw, &parent->memsw);
 		page_counter_init(&memcg->kmem, &parent->kmem);
 
@@ -4733,6 +4723,7 @@ mem_cgroup_css_online(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
 		 */
 	} else {
 		page_counter_init(&memcg->memory, NULL);
+		memcg->soft_limit = PAGE_COUNTER_MAX;
 		page_counter_init(&memcg->memsw, NULL);
 		page_counter_init(&memcg->kmem, NULL);
 		/*
@@ -4807,7 +4798,7 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_reset(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
 	mem_cgroup_resize_limit(memcg, PAGE_COUNTER_MAX);
 	mem_cgroup_resize_memsw_limit(memcg, PAGE_COUNTER_MAX);
 	memcg_update_kmem_limit(memcg, PAGE_COUNTER_MAX);
-	memcg->soft_limit = 0;
+	memcg->soft_limit = PAGE_COUNTER_MAX;
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU

mm/memory.c

@@ -2137,17 +2137,24 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		if (!dirty_page)
 			return ret;
 
-		/*
-		 * Yes, Virginia, this is actually required to prevent a race
-		 * with clear_page_dirty_for_io() from clearing the page dirty
-		 * bit after it clear all dirty ptes, but before a racing
-		 * do_wp_page installs a dirty pte.
-		 *
-		 * do_shared_fault is protected similarly.
-		 */
 		if (!page_mkwrite) {
-			wait_on_page_locked(dirty_page);
-			set_page_dirty_balance(dirty_page);
+			struct address_space *mapping;
+			int dirtied;
+
+			lock_page(dirty_page);
+			dirtied = set_page_dirty(dirty_page);
+			VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageAnon(dirty_page), dirty_page);
+			mapping = dirty_page->mapping;
+			unlock_page(dirty_page);
+
+			if (dirtied && mapping) {
+				/*
+				 * Some device drivers do not set page.mapping
+				 * but still dirty their pages
+				 */
+				balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
+			}
+
 			/* file_update_time outside page_lock */
 			if (vma->vm_file)
 				file_update_time(vma->vm_file);

mm/page-writeback.c

@@ -1541,16 +1541,6 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
 		bdi_start_background_writeback(bdi);
 }
 
-void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page)
-{
-	if (set_page_dirty(page)) {
-		struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
-
-		if (mapping)
-			balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited(mapping);
-	}
-}
-
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, bdp_ratelimits);
 
 /*
@@ -2123,32 +2113,25 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_dirtied);
  * page dirty in that case, but not all the buffers.  This is a "bottom-up"
  * dirtying, whereas __set_page_dirty_buffers() is a "top-down" dirtying.
  *
- * Most callers have locked the page, which pins the address_space in memory.
- * But zap_pte_range() does not lock the page, however in that case the
- * mapping is pinned by the vma's ->vm_file reference.
- *
- * We take care to handle the case where the page was truncated from the
- * mapping by re-checking page_mapping() inside tree_lock.
+ * The caller must ensure this doesn't race with truncation.  Most will simply
+ * hold the page lock, but e.g. zap_pte_range() calls with the page mapped and
+ * the pte lock held, which also locks out truncation.
  */
 int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct page *page)
 {
 	if (!TestSetPageDirty(page)) {
 		struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
-		struct address_space *mapping2;
 		unsigned long flags;
 
 		if (!mapping)
 			return 1;
 
 		spin_lock_irqsave(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
-		mapping2 = page_mapping(page);
-		if (mapping2) { /* Race with truncate? */
-			BUG_ON(mapping2 != mapping);
-			WARN_ON_ONCE(!PagePrivate(page) && !PageUptodate(page));
-			account_page_dirtied(page, mapping);
-			radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree,
-				page_index(page), PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
-		}
+		BUG_ON(page_mapping(page) != mapping);
+		WARN_ON_ONCE(!PagePrivate(page) && !PageUptodate(page));
+		account_page_dirtied(page, mapping);
+		radix_tree_tag_set(&mapping->page_tree, page_index(page),
+				   PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY);
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&mapping->tree_lock, flags);
 		if (mapping->host) {
 			/* !PageAnon && !swapper_space */
@@ -2305,12 +2288,10 @@ int clear_page_dirty_for_io(struct page *page)
 		/*
 		 * We carefully synchronise fault handlers against
 		 * installing a dirty pte and marking the page dirty
-		 * at this point. We do this by having them hold the
-		 * page lock at some point after installing their
-		 * pte, but before marking the page dirty.
-		 * Pages are always locked coming in here, so we get
-		 * the desired exclusion. See mm/memory.c:do_wp_page()
-		 * for more comments.
+		 * at this point.  We do this by having them hold the
+		 * page lock while dirtying the page, and pages are
+		 * always locked coming in here, so we get the desired
+		 * exclusion.
 		 */
 		if (TestClearPageDirty(page)) {
 			dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_FILE_DIRTY);

mm/rmap.c

@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ static inline struct anon_vma *anon_vma_alloc(void)
 	anon_vma = kmem_cache_alloc(anon_vma_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (anon_vma) {
 		atomic_set(&anon_vma->refcount, 1);
+		anon_vma->degree = 1;	/* Reference for first vma */
+		anon_vma->parent = anon_vma;
 		/*
 		 * Initialise the anon_vma root to point to itself. If called
 		 * from fork, the root will be reset to the parents anon_vma.
@@ -188,6 +190,8 @@ int anon_vma_prepare(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 		if (likely(!vma->anon_vma)) {
 			vma->anon_vma = anon_vma;
 			anon_vma_chain_link(vma, avc, anon_vma);
+			/* vma reference or self-parent link for new root */
+			anon_vma->degree++;
 			allocated = NULL;
 			avc = NULL;
 		}
@@ -236,6 +240,14 @@ static inline void unlock_anon_vma_root(struct anon_vma *root)
 /*
  * Attach the anon_vmas from src to dst.
  * Returns 0 on success, -ENOMEM on failure.
+ *
+ * If dst->anon_vma is NULL this function tries to find and reuse existing
+ * anon_vma which has no vmas and only one child anon_vma. This prevents
+ * degradation of anon_vma hierarchy to endless linear chain in case of
+ * constantly forking task. On the other hand, an anon_vma with more than one
+ * child isn't reused even if there was no alive vma, thus rmap walker has a
+ * good chance of avoiding scanning the whole hierarchy when it searches where
+ * page is mapped.
  */
 int anon_vma_clone(struct vm_area_struct *dst, struct vm_area_struct *src)
 {
@@ -256,7 +268,21 @@ int anon_vma_clone(struct vm_area_struct *dst, struct vm_area_struct *src)
 		anon_vma = pavc->anon_vma;
 		root = lock_anon_vma_root(root, anon_vma);
 		anon_vma_chain_link(dst, avc, anon_vma);
+
+		/*
+		 * Reuse existing anon_vma if its degree lower than two,
+		 * that means it has no vma and only one anon_vma child.
+		 *
+		 * Do not chose parent anon_vma, otherwise first child
+		 * will always reuse it. Root anon_vma is never reused:
+		 * it has self-parent reference and at least one child.
+		 */
+		if (!dst->anon_vma && anon_vma != src->anon_vma &&
+				anon_vma->degree < 2)
+			dst->anon_vma = anon_vma;
 	}
+	if (dst->anon_vma)
+		dst->anon_vma->degree++;
 	unlock_anon_vma_root(root);
 	return 0;
 
@@ -280,6 +306,9 @@ int anon_vma_fork(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct *pvma)
 	if (!pvma->anon_vma)
 		return 0;
 
+	/* Drop inherited anon_vma, we'll reuse existing or allocate new. */
+	vma->anon_vma = NULL;
+
 	/*
 	 * First, attach the new VMA to the parent VMA's anon_vmas,
 	 * so rmap can find non-COWed pages in child processes.
@@ -288,6 +317,10 @@ int anon_vma_fork(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct *pvma)
 	if (error)
 		return error;
 
+	/* An existing anon_vma has been reused, all done then. */
+	if (vma->anon_vma)
+		return 0;
+
 	/* Then add our own anon_vma. */
 	anon_vma = anon_vma_alloc();
 	if (!anon_vma)
@@ -301,6 +334,7 @@ int anon_vma_fork(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct *pvma)
 	 * lock any of the anon_vmas in this anon_vma tree.
 	 */
 	anon_vma->root = pvma->anon_vma->root;
+	anon_vma->parent = pvma->anon_vma;
 	/*
 	 * With refcounts, an anon_vma can stay around longer than the
 	 * process it belongs to. The root anon_vma needs to be pinned until
@@ -311,6 +345,7 @@ int anon_vma_fork(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_area_struct *pvma)
 	vma->anon_vma = anon_vma;
 	anon_vma_lock_write(anon_vma);
 	anon_vma_chain_link(vma, avc, anon_vma);
+	anon_vma->parent->degree++;
 	anon_vma_unlock_write(anon_vma);
 
 	return 0;
@@ -341,12 +376,16 @@ void unlink_anon_vmas(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 		 * Leave empty anon_vmas on the list - we'll need
 		 * to free them outside the lock.
 		 */
-		if (RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&anon_vma->rb_root))
+		if (RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&anon_vma->rb_root)) {
+			anon_vma->parent->degree--;
 			continue;
+		}
 
 		list_del(&avc->same_vma);
 		anon_vma_chain_free(avc);
 	}
+	if (vma->anon_vma)
+		vma->anon_vma->degree--;
 	unlock_anon_vma_root(root);
 
 	/*
@@ -357,6 +396,7 @@ void unlink_anon_vmas(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(avc, next, &vma->anon_vma_chain, same_vma) {
 		struct anon_vma *anon_vma = avc->anon_vma;
 
+		BUG_ON(anon_vma->degree);
 		put_anon_vma(anon_vma);
 
 		list_del(&avc->same_vma);

mm/vmscan.c

@@ -2921,18 +2921,20 @@ static bool prepare_kswapd_sleep(pg_data_t *pgdat, int order, long remaining,
 		return false;
 
 	/*
-	 * There is a potential race between when kswapd checks its watermarks
-	 * and a process gets throttled. There is also a potential race if
-	 * processes get throttled, kswapd wakes, a large process exits therby
-	 * balancing the zones that causes kswapd to miss a wakeup. If kswapd
-	 * is going to sleep, no process should be sleeping on pfmemalloc_wait
-	 * so wake them now if necessary. If necessary, processes will wake
-	 * kswapd and get throttled again
+	 * The throttled processes are normally woken up in balance_pgdat() as
+	 * soon as pfmemalloc_watermark_ok() is true. But there is a potential
+	 * race between when kswapd checks the watermarks and a process gets
+	 * throttled. There is also a potential race if processes get
+	 * throttled, kswapd wakes, a large process exits thereby balancing the
+	 * zones, which causes kswapd to exit balance_pgdat() before reaching
+	 * the wake up checks. If kswapd is going to sleep, no process should
+	 * be sleeping on pfmemalloc_wait, so wake them now if necessary. If
+	 * the wake up is premature, processes will wake kswapd and get
+	 * throttled again. The difference from wake ups in balance_pgdat() is
+	 * that here we are under prepare_to_wait().
 	 */
-	if (waitqueue_active(&pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait)) {
-		wake_up(&pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait);
-		return false;
-	}
+	if (waitqueue_active(&pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait))
+		wake_up_all(&pgdat->pfmemalloc_wait);
 
 	return pgdat_balanced(pgdat, order, classzone_idx);
 }