- 13 Dec, 2014 40 commits
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David Drysdale authored
This patchset adds execveat(2) for x86, and is derived from Meredydd Luff's patch from Sept 2012 (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/11/528). The primary aim of adding an execveat syscall is to allow an implementation of fexecve(3) that does not rely on the /proc filesystem, at least for executables (rather than scripts). The current glibc version of fexecve(3) is implemented via /proc, which causes problems in sandboxed or otherwise restricted environments. Given the desire for a /proc-free fexecve() implementation, HPA suggested (https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/11/556) that an execveat(2) syscall would be an appropriate generalization. Also, having a new syscall means that it can take a flags argument without back-compatibility concerns. The current implementation just defines the AT_EMPTY_PATH and AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW flags, but other flags could be added in future -- for example, flags for new namespaces (as suggested at https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/11/474). Related history: - https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/27/123 is an example of someone realizing that fexecve() is likely to fail in a chroot environment. - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514043 covered documenting the /proc requirement of fexecve(3) in its manpage, to "prevent other people from wasting their time". - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=241609 described a problem where a process that did setuid() could not fexecve() because it no longer had access to /proc/self/fd; this has since been fixed. This patch (of 4): Add a new execveat(2) system call. execveat() is to execve() as openat() is to open(): it takes a file descriptor that refers to a directory, and resolves the filename relative to that. In addition, if the filename is empty and AT_EMPTY_PATH is specified, execveat() executes the file to which the file descriptor refers. This replicates the functionality of fexecve(), which is a system call in other UNIXen, but in Linux glibc it depends on opening "/proc/self/fd/<fd>" (and so relies on /proc being mounted). The filename fed to the executed program as argv[0] (or the name of the script fed to a script interpreter) will be of the form "/dev/fd/<fd>" (for an empty filename) or "/dev/fd/<fd>/<filename>", effectively reflecting how the executable was found. This does however mean that execution of a script in a /proc-less environment won't work; also, script execution via an O_CLOEXEC file descriptor fails (as the file will not be accessible after exec). Based on patches by Meredydd Luff. Signed-off-by:
David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com> Cc: Meredydd Luff <meredydd@senatehouse.org> Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@samsung.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Namjae Jeon authored
When running FSX with direct I/O mode, fsx resulted in DATA past EOF issues. fsx ./file2 -Z -r 4096 -w 4096 ... .. truncating to largest ever: 0x907c fallocating to largest ever: 0x11137 truncating to largest ever: 0x2c6fe truncating to largest ever: 0x2cfdf fallocating to largest ever: 0x40000 Mapped Read: non-zero data past EOF (0x18628) page offset 0x629 is 0x2a4e ... .. The reason being, it is doing a truncate down, but the zeroing does not happen on the last block boundary when offset is not aligned. Even though it calls truncate_setsize()->truncate_inode_pages()-> truncate_inode_pages_range() and considers the partial zeroout but it retrieves the page using find_lock_page() - which only looks the page in the cache. So, zeroing out does not happen in case of direct IO. Make a truncate page based around block_truncate_page for FAT filesystem and invoke that helper to zerout in case the offset is not aligned with the blocksize. Signed-off-by:
Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com> Signed-off-by:
Amit Sahrawat <a.sahrawat@samsung.com> Acked-by:
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by:
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Jan Kara authored
Coverity id: 1042674 Signed-off-by:
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Heesub Shin authored
When zbud is initialized through the zpool wrapper, pool->ops which points to user-defined operations is always set regardless of whether it is specified from the upper layer. This causes zbud_reclaim_page() to iterate its loop for evicting pool pages out without any gain. This patch sets the user-defined ops only when it is needed, so that zbud_reclaim_page() can bail out the reclamation loop earlier if there is no user-defined operations specified. Signed-off-by:
Heesub Shin <heesub.shin@samsung.com> Acked-by:
Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net> Cc: Sunae Seo <sunae.seo@samsung.com> Signed-off-by:
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Markus Elfring authored
free_percpu() tests whether its argument is NULL and then returns immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed. This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. Signed-off-by:
Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net> Signed-off-by:
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Mahendran Ganesh authored
zswap_cpu_init/zswap_comp_exit/zswap_entry_cache_create is only called by __init init_zswap() Signed-off-by:
Mahendran Ganesh <opensource.ganesh@gmail.com> Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net> Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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Ganesh Mahendran authored
In current zram, we use DEVICE_ATTR() to define sys device attributes. SO, we need to set (S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR) permission and other arguments manually. Linux already provids the macro DEVICE_ATTR_[RW|RO|WO] to define sys device attribute. It is simple and readable. This patch uses kernel defined macro DEVICE_ATTR_[RW|RO|WO] to define zram device attribute. Signed-off-by:
Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Signed-off-by:
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Ganesh Mahendran authored
In zs_create_pool(), we allocate memory more then sizeof(struct zs_pool) ovhd_size = roundup(sizeof(*pool), PAGE_SIZE); This patch allocate memory of exactly needed size. Signed-off-by:
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org> Signed-off-by:
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Ganesh Mahendran authored
In zs_create_pool(), prev_class is assigned (ZS_SIZE_CLASSES - 1) times. And the prev_class only references to the previous size_class. So we do not need unnecessary assignement. This patch assigns *prev_class* when a new size_class structure is allocated and uses prev_class to check whether the first class has been allocated. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove now-unused ZS_SIZE_CLASSES] Signed-off-by:
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Mahendran Ganesh authored
In struct zram_table_entry, the element *value* contains obj size and obj zram flags. Bit 0 to bit (ZRAM_FLAG_SHIFT - 1) represent obj size, and bit ZRAM_FLAG_SHIFT to the highest bit of unsigned long represent obj zram_flags. So the first zram flag(ZRAM_ZERO) should be from ZRAM_FLAG_SHIFT instead of (ZRAM_FLAG_SHIFT + 1). This patch fixes this cosmetic issue. Also fix a typo, "page in now accessed" -> "page is now accessed" Signed-off-by:
Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@samsung.com> Acked-by:
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Signed-off-by:
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Mahendran Ganesh authored
I sent a patch [1] for unnecessary check in zsmalloc. And Minchan Kim found zsmalloc even does not support allocating an obj with the size of ZS_MAX_ALLOC_SIZE in some situations. For example: In system with 64KB PAGE_SIZE and 32 bit of physical addr. Then: ZS_MIN_ALLOC_SIZE is 32 bytes which is calculated by: MAX(32, (ZS_MAX_PAGES_PER_ZSPAGE << PAGE_SHIFT >> OBJ_INDEX_BITS)) ZS_MAX_ALLOC_SIZE is 64KB(in current code, is PAGE_SIZE) ZS_SIZE_CLASS_DELTA is 256 bytes So, ZS_SIZE_CLASSES = (ZS_MAX_ALLOC_SIZE - ZS_MIN_ALLOC_SIZE) / ZS_SIZE_CLASS_DELTA + 1 = 256 In zs_create_pool(), the max size obj which can be allocated will be: ZS_MIN_ALLOC_SIZE + i * ZS_SIZE_CLASS_DELTA = 32 + 255*256 = 65312 We can see that 65312 < 65536 (ZS_MAX_ALLOC_SIZE). So we can NOT allocate objs with size ZS_MAX_ALLOC_SIZE(65536) which we promise upper users we can do. [1] http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1411.2/03835.html [2] http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1411.2/04534.html This patch fixes this issue by dynamiclly calculating zs_size_classes when module is loaded, allocates buffer with size ZS_MAX_ALLOC_SIZE. Then the max obj(size is ZS_MAX_ALLOC_SIZE) can be stored in it. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: restore ZS_SIZE_CLASSES to fix bisectability] Signed-off-by: -
Minchan Kim authored
The kunmap_atomic should use virtual address getting by kmap_atomic. However, some pieces of code in zsmalloc uses modified address, not the one got by kmap_atomic for kunmap_atomic. It's okay for working because zsmalloc modifies the address inner PAGE_SIZE bounday so it works with current kmap_atomic's implementation. But it's still fragile with potential changing of kmap_atomic so let's correct it. I got a subtle bug when I implemented a new feature of zsmalloc (compaction) due to a link's mishandling (the link was over page boundary). Although it was totally my mistake, it took a while to find the cause because an unpredictable kmapped address was unmapped causing an almost random crash. Signed-off-by:
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Sergey Senozhatsky authored
Mahendran Ganesh reported that zpool-enabled zsmalloc should not call zpool_unregister_driver() from zs_init() if cpu notifier registration has failed, because error handling is performed before we register the driver via zpool_register_driver() call. Factor out cpu notifier registration and unregistration code and fix zs_init() error handling. link: http://lkml.iu.edu//hypermail/linux/kernel/1411.1/04156.html [akpm@linux-foundation.org: squash bogus gcc warning] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use __init and __exit] Signed-off-by:
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karam.lee authored
This patch implements rw_page operation for zram block device. I implemented the feature in zram and tested it. Test bed was the G2, LG electronic mobile device, whtich has msm8974 processor and 2GB memory. With a memory allocation test program consuming memory, the system generates swap. Operating time of swap_write_page() was measured. -------------------------------------------------- | | operating time | improvement | | | (20 runs average) | | -------------------------------------------------- |with patch | 1061.15 us | +2.4% | -------------------------------------------------- |without patch| 1087.35 us | | -------------------------------------------------- Each test(with paged_io,with BIO) result set shows normal distribution and has equal variance. I mean the two values are valid result to compare. I can say operation with paged I/O(without BIO) is faster 2.4% with confidence level 95%. [minchan@kernel.org: make rw_page opeartion return 0] [minchan@kernel.org: rely on the bi_end_io for zram_rw_page fails] [sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com: code cleanup] [minchan@kernel.org: add comment] Signed-off-by:
karam.lee <karam.lee@lge.com> Acked-by:
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karam.lee authored
This patch changes parameter of valid_io_request for common usage. The purpose of valid_io_request() is to determine if bio request is valid or not. This patch use I/O start address and size instead of a BIO parameter for common usage. Signed-off-by:
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karam.lee authored
Recently rw_page block device operation has been added. This patchset implements rw_page operation for zram block device and does some clean-up. This patch (of 3): Remove an unnecessary parameter(bio) from zram_bvec_rw() and zram_bvec_read(). zram_bvec_read() doesn't use a bio parameter, so remove it. zram_bvec_rw() calls a read/write operation not using bio, so a rw parameter replaces a bio parameter. Signed-off-by:
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Joonsoo Kim authored
zsmalloc has many size_classes to reduce fragmentation and they are in 16 bytes unit, for example, 16, 32, 48, etc., if PAGE_SIZE is 4096. And, zsmalloc has constraint that each zspage has 4 pages at maximum. In this situation, we can see interesting aspect. Let's think about size_class for 1488, 1472, ..., 1376. To prevent external fragmentation, they uses 4 pages per zspage and so all they can contain 11 objects at maximum. 16384 (4096 * 4) = 1488 * 11 + remains 16384 (4096 * 4) = 1472 * 11 + remains 16384 (4096 * 4) = ... 16384 (4096 * 4) = 1376 * 11 + remains It means that they have same characteristics and classification between them isn't needed. If we use one size_class for them, we can reduce fragementation and save some memory since both the 1488 and 1472 sized classes can only fit 11 objects into 4 pages, and an object that's 1472 bytes can fit into an object that's 1488 bytes, merging these classes to always use objects that are 1488 bytes will reduce the total number of size classes. And reducing the total number of size classes reduces overall fragmentation, because a wider range of compressed pages can fit into a single size class, leaving less unused objects in each size class. For this purpose, this patch implement size_class merging. If there is size_class that have same pages_per_zspage and same number of objects per zspage with previous size_class, we don't create new size_class. Instead, we use previous, same characteristic size_class. With this way, above example sizes (1488, 1472, ..., 1376) use just one size_class so we can get much more memory utilization. Below is result of my simple test. TEST ENV: EXT4 on zram, mount with discard option WORKLOAD: untar kernel source code, remove directory in descending order in size. (drivers arch fs sound include net Documentation firmware kernel tools) Each line represents orig_data_size, compr_data_size, mem_used_total, fragmentation overhead (mem_used - compr_data_size) and overhead ratio (overhead to compr_data_size), respectively, after untar and remove operation is executed. * untar-nomerge.out orig_size compr_size used_size overhead overhead_ratio 525.88MB 199.16MB 210.23MB 11.08MB 5.56% 288.32MB 97.43MB 105.63MB 8.20MB 8.41% 177.32MB 61.12MB 69.40MB 8.28MB 13.55% 146.47MB 47.32MB 56.10MB 8.78MB 18.55% 124.16MB 38.85MB 48.41MB 9.55MB 24.58% 103.93MB 31.68MB 40.93MB 9.25MB 29.21% 84.34MB 22.86MB 32.72MB 9.86MB 43.13% 66.87MB 14.83MB 23.83MB 9.00MB 60.70% 60.67MB 11.11MB 18.60MB 7.49MB 67.48% 55.86MB 8.83MB 16.61MB 7.77MB 88.03% 53.32MB 8.01MB 15.32MB 7.31MB 91.24% * untar-merge.out orig_size compr_size used_size overhead overhead_ratio 526.23MB 199.18MB 209.81MB 10.64MB 5.34% 288.68MB 97.45MB 104.08MB 6.63MB 6.80% 177.68MB 61.14MB 66.93MB 5.79MB 9.47% 146.83MB 47.34MB 52.79MB 5.45MB 11.51% 124.52MB 38.87MB 44.30MB 5.43MB 13.96% 104.29MB 31.70MB 36.83MB 5.13MB 16.19% 84.70MB 22.88MB 27.92MB 5.04MB 22.04% 67.11MB 14.83MB 19.26MB 4.43MB 29.86% 60.82MB 11.10MB 14.90MB 3.79MB 34.17% 55.90MB 8.82MB 12.61MB 3.79MB 42.97% 53.32MB 8.01MB 11.73MB 3.73MB 46.53% As you can see above result, merged one has better utilization (overhead ratio, 5th column) and uses less memory (mem_used_total, 3rd column). Signed-off-by:
Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
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Rickard Strandqvist authored
Remove unused mem_cgroup_lru_names_not_uptodate() and move BUILD_BUG_ON() to the beginning of memcg_stat_show(). This was partially found by using a static code analysis program called cppcheck. Signed-off-by:
Rickard Strandqvist <rickard_strandqvist@spectrumdigital.se> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by:
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Vladimir Davydov authored
Suppose task @t that belongs to a memory cgroup @memcg is going to allocate an object from a kmem cache @c. The copy of @c corresponding to @memcg, @mc, is empty. Then if kmem_cache_alloc races with the memory cgroup destruction we can access the memory cgroup's copy of the cache after it was destroyed: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- [ current=@t @mc->memcg_params->nr_pages=0 ] kmem_cache_alloc(@c): call memcg_kmem_get_cache(@c); proceed to allocation from @mc: alloc a page for @mc: ... move @t from @memcg destroy @memcg: mem_cgroup_css_offline(@memcg): memcg_unregister_all_caches(@memcg): kmem_cache_destroy(@mc) add page to @mc We could fix this issue by taking a reference to a per-memcg cache, but that would require adding a per-cpu reference counter to per-memcg caches, which would look cumbersome. Instead, let's take a reference to a memory cgroup, which already has a per-cpu reference counter, in the beginning of kmem_cache_alloc to be dropped in the end, and move per memcg caches destruction from css offline to css free. As a side effect, per-memcg caches will be destroyed not one by one, but all at once when the last page accounted to the memory cgroup is freed. This doesn't sound as a high price for code readability though. Note, this patch does add some overhead to the kmem_cache_alloc hot path, but it is pretty negligible - it's just a function call plus a per cpu counter decrement, which is comparable to what we already have in memcg_kmem_get_cache. Besides, it's only relevant if there are memory cgroups with kmem accounting enabled. I don't think we can find a way to handle this race w/o it, because alloc_page called from kmem_cache_alloc may sleep so we can't flush all pending kmallocs w/o reference counting. Signed-off-by:Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Acked-by:
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by:
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Michele Curti authored
test_mem_cgroup_node_reclaimable() is used only when MAX_NUMNODES > 1, so move it into the compiler if statement [akpm@linux-foundation.org: clean up layout] Signed-off-by:
Michele Curti <michele.curti@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by:
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Mel Gorman authored
A random seek IO benchmark appeared to regress because of a change to readahead but the real problem was the benchmark. To ensure the IO request accesssed disk, it used fadvise(FADV_DONTNEED) on a block boundary (512K) but the hint is ignored by the kernel. This is correct but not necessarily obvious behaviour. As much as I dislike comment patches, the explanation for this behaviour predates current git history. Clarify why it behaves like this in case someone "fixes" fadvise or readahead for the wrong reasons. Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Dmitry Vyukov authored
Read memory barriers must follow the read operations. Signed-off-by:
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Acked-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
After the previous patch we can remove the PT_TRACE_EXIT check in oom_scan_process_thread(), it was added to handle the case when the coredumping was "frozen" by ptrace, but it doesn't really work. If nothing else, we would need to check all threads which could share the same ->mm to make it more or less correct. Signed-off-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
oom_kill.c assumes that PF_EXITING task should exit and free the memory soon. This is wrong in many ways and one important case is the coredump. A task can sleep in exit_mm() "forever" while the coredumping sub-thread can need more memory. Change the PF_EXITING checks to take SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP into account, we add the new trivial helper for that. Note: this is only the first step, this patch doesn't try to solve other problems. The SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP check is obviously racy, a task can participate in coredump after it was already observed in PF_EXITING state, so TIF_MEMDIE (which also blocks oom-killer) still can be wrongly set. fatal_signal_pending() can be true because of SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP so out_of_memory() and mem_cgroup_out_of_memory() shouldn't blindly trust it. And even the name/usage of the new helper is confusing, an exiting thread can only free its ->mm if it is the only/last task in thread group. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment] Signed-off-by:
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by:
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Zhong Hongbo authored
Since 01cefaef ("mm: provide more accurate estimation of pages occupied by memmap") allocate the pages from lowmem for the highmem zones' memmap. So It is not need to reserver the memmap's for the highmem. A 2G DDR3 for the arm platform: On node 0 totalpages: 524288 free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat 80ccd380, node_mem_map 80d38000 DMA zone: 3568 pages used for memmap DMA zone: 0 pages reserved DMA zone: 456704 pages, LIFO batch:31 HighMem zone: 528 pages used for memmap HighMem zone: 67584 pages, LIFO batch:15 On node 0 totalpages: 524288 free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat 80cd6f40, node_mem_map 80d42000 DMA zone: 3568 pages used for memmap DMA zone: 0 pages reserved DMA zone: 456704 pages, LIFO batch:31 HighMem zone: 67584 pages, LIFO batch:15 Signed-off-by:
Hongbo Zhong <hongbo.zhong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Hugh Dickins authored
Page migration's __unmap_and_move(), and rmap's try_to_unmap(), were created for use on pages almost certainly mapped into userspace. But nowadays compaction often applies them to unmapped page cache pages: which may exacerbate contention on i_mmap_rwsem quite unnecessarily, since try_to_unmap_file() makes no preliminary page_mapped() check. Now check page_mapped() in __unmap_and_move(); and avoid repeating the same overhead in rmap_walk_file() - don't remove_migration_ptes() when we never inserted any. (The PageAnon(page) comment blocks now look even sillier than before, but clean that up on some other occasion. And note in passing that try_to_unmap_one() does not use a migration entry when PageSwapCache, so remove_migration_ptes() will then not update that swap entry to newpage pte: not a big deal, but something else to clean up later.) Davidlohr remarked in "mm,fs: introduce helpers around the i_mmap_mutex" conversion to i_mmap_rwsem, that "The biggest winner of these changes is migration": a part of the reason might be all of that unnecessary taking of i_mmap_mutex in page migration; and it's rather a shame that I didn't get around to sending this patch in before his - this one is much less useful after Davidlohr's conversion to rwsem, but still good. Signed-off-by:
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by:
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David Rientjes authored
Since commit 058504ed ("fs/seq_file: fallback to vmalloc allocation"), seq_buf_alloc() falls back to vmalloc() when the kmalloc() for contiguous memory fails. This was done to address order-4 slab allocations for reading /proc/stat on large machines and noticed because PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER < 4, so there is no infinite loop in the page allocator when allocating new slab for such high-order allocations. Contiguous memory isn't necessary for caller of seq_buf_alloc(), however. Other GFP_KERNEL high-order allocations that are <= PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER will simply loop forever in the page allocator and oom kill processes as a result. We don't want to kill processes so that we can allocate contiguous memory in situations when contiguous memory isn't necessary. This patch does the kmalloc() allocation with __GFP_NORETRY for high-order allocations. This still utilizes memory compaction and direct reclaim in the allocation path, the only difference is that it will fail immediately instead of oom kill processes when out of memory. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment] Signed-off-by:
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Johannes Weiner authored
The slab shrinkers are currently invoked from the zonelist walkers in kswapd, direct reclaim, and zone reclaim, all of which roughly gauge the eligible LRU pages and assemble a nodemask to pass to NUMA-aware shrinkers, which then again have to walk over the nodemask. This is redundant code, extra runtime work, and fairly inaccurate when it comes to the estimation of actually scannable LRU pages. The code duplication will only get worse when making the shrinkers cgroup-aware and requiring them to have out-of-band cgroup hierarchy walks as well. Instead, invoke the shrinkers from shrink_zone(), which is where all reclaimers end up, to avoid this duplication. Take the count for eligible LRU pages out of get_scan_count(), which considers many more factors than just the availability of swap space, like zone_reclaimable_pages() currently does. Accumulate the number over all visited lruvecs to get the per-zone value. Some nodes have multiple zones due to memory addressing restrictions. To avoid putting too much pressure on the shrinkers, only invoke them once for each such node, using the class zone of the allocation as the pivot zone. For now, this integrates the slab shrinking better into the reclaim logic and gets rid of duplicative invocations from kswapd, direct reclaim, and zone reclaim. It also prepares for cgroup-awareness, allowing memcg-capable shrinkers to be added at the lruvec level without much duplication of both code and runtime work. This changes kswapd behavior, which used to invoke the shrinkers for each zone, but with scan ratios gathered from the entire node, resulting in meaningless pressure quantities on multi-zone nodes. Zone reclaim behavior also changes. It used to shrink slabs until the same amount of pages were shrunk as were reclaimed from the LRUs. Now it merely invokes the shrinkers once with the zone's scan ratio, which makes the shrinkers go easier on caches that implement aging and would prefer feeding back pressure from recently used slab objects to unused LRU pages. [vdavydov@parallels.com: assure class zone is populated] Signed-off-by:
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by:
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Davidlohr Bueso authored
These flushes deal with sequence number overflows, such as for long lived threads. These are rare, but interesting from a debugging PoV. As such, display the number of flushes when vmacache debugging is enabled. Signed-off-by:
Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Joonsoo Kim authored
page owner is for the tracking about who allocated each page. This document explains what is the page owner feature and what is the merit of it. And, simple HOW-TO is also explained. See the document for detailed information. Signed-off-by:
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Joonsoo Kim authored
Extended memory to store page owner information is initialized some time later than that page allocator starts. Until initialization, many pages can be allocated and they have no owner information. This make debugging using page owner harder, so some fixup will be helpful. This patch fixes up this situation by setting fake owner information immediately after page extension is initialized. Information doesn't tell the right owner, but, at least, it can tell whether page is allocated or not, more correctly. On my testing, this patch catches 13343 early allocated pages, although they are mostly allocated from page extension feature. Anyway, after then, there is no page left that it is allocated and has no page owner flag. Signed-off-by:
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Joonsoo Kim authored
This is the page owner tracking code which is introduced so far ago. It is resident on Andrew's tree, though, nobody tried to upstream so it remain as is. Our company uses this feature actively to debug memory leak or to find a memory hogger so I decide to upstream this feature. This functionality help us to know who allocates the page. When allocating a page, we store some information about allocation in extra memory. Later, if we need to know status of all pages, we can get and analyze it from this stored information. In previous version of this feature, extra memory is statically defined in struct page, but, in this version, extra memory is allocated outside of struct page. It enables us to turn on/off this feature at boottime without considerable memory waste. Although we already have tracepoint for tracing page allocation/free, using it to analyze page owner is rather complex. We need to enlarge the trace buffer for preventing overlapping until userspace program launched. And, launched program continually dump out the trace buffer for later analysis and it would change system behaviour with more possibility rather than just keeping it in memory, so bad for debug. Moreover, we can use page_owner feature further for various purposes. For example, we can use it for fragmentation statistics implemented in this patch. And, I also plan to implement some CMA failure debugging feature using this interface. I'd like to give the credit for all developers contributed this feature, but, it's not easy because I don't know exact history. Sorry about that. Below is people who has "Signed-off-by" in the patches in Andrew's tree. Contributor: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@dsv.su.se> Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Jungsoo Son <jungsoo.son@lge.com> Signed-off-by:
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Joonsoo Kim authored
Current stacktrace only have the function for console output. page_owner that will be introduced in following patch needs to print the output of stacktrace into the buffer for our own output format so so new function, snprint_stack_trace(), is needed. Signed-off-by:
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Joonsoo Kim authored
do_mmap_private() in nommu.c try to allocate physically contiguous pages with arbitrary size in some cases and we now have good abstract function to do exactly same thing, alloc_pages_exact(). So, change to use it. There is no functional change. This is the preparation step for support page owner feature accurately. Signed-off-by:
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Joonsoo Kim authored
Now, we have prepared to avoid using debug-pagealloc in boottime. So introduce new kernel-parameter to disable debug-pagealloc in boottime, and makes related functions to be disabled in this case. Only non-intuitive part is change of guard page functions. Because guard page is effective only if debug-pagealloc is enabled, turning off according to debug-pagealloc is reasonable thing to do. Signed-off-by:
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Joonsoo Kim authored
Until now, debug-pagealloc needs extra flags in struct page, so we need to recompile whole source code when we decide to use it. This is really painful, because it takes some time to recompile and sometimes rebuild is not possible due to third party module depending on struct page. So, we can't use this good feature in many cases. Now, we have the page extension feature that allows us to insert extra flags to outside of struct page. This gets rid of third party module issue mentioned above. And, this allows us to determine if we need extra memory for this page extension in boottime. With these property, we can avoid using debug-pagealloc in boottime with low computational overhead in the kernel built with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. This will help our development process greatly. This patch is the preparation step to achive above goal. debug-pagealloc originally uses extra field of struct page, but, after this patch, it will use field of struct page_ext. Because memory for page_ext is allocated later than initialization of page allocator in CONFIG_SPARSEMEM, we should disable debug-pagealloc feature temporarily until initialization of page_ext. This patch implements this. Signed-off-by:
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Joonsoo Kim authored
When we debug something, we'd like to insert some information to every page. For this purpose, we sometimes modify struct page itself. But, this has drawbacks. First, it requires re-compile. This makes us hesitate to use the powerful debug feature so development process is slowed down. And, second, sometimes it is impossible to rebuild the kernel due to third party module dependency. At third, system behaviour would be largely different after re-compile, because it changes size of struct page greatly and this structure is accessed by every part of kernel. Keeping this as it is would be better to reproduce errornous situation. This feature is intended to overcome above mentioned problems. This feature allocates memory for extended data per page in certain place rather than the struct page itself. This memory can be accessed by the accessor functions provided by this code. During the boot process, it checks whether allocation of huge chunk of memory is needed or not. If not, it avoids allocating memory at all. With this advantage, we can include this feature into the kernel in default and can avoid rebuild and solve related problems. Until now, memcg uses this technique. But, now, memcg decides to embed their variable to struct page itself and it's code to extend struct page has been removed. I'd like to use this code to develop debug feature, so this patch resurrect it. To help these things to work well, this patch introduces two callbacks for clients. One is the need callback which is mandatory if user wants to avoid useless memory allocation at boot-time. The other is optional, init callback, which is used to do proper initialization after memory is allocated. Detailed explanation about purpose of these functions is in code comment. Please refer it. Others are completely same with previous extension code in memcg. Signed-off-by:
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Jianyu Zhan authored
GFP_USER, GFP_HIGHUSER and GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE are escalatedly confined defined, also implied by their names: GFP_USER = GFP_USER GFP_USER + __GFP_HIGHMEM = GFP_HIGHUSER GFP_USER + __GFP_HIGHMEM + __GFP_MOVABLE = GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE So just make GFP_HIGHUSER and GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE escalatedly defined to reflect this fact. It also makes the definition clear and texturally warn on any furture break-up of this escalated relastionship. Signed-off-by:
Jianyu Zhan <jianyu.zhan@emc.com> Acked-by:
Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by:
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Andrew Morton authored
include/linux/kmemleak.h: In function 'kmemleak_alloc_recursive': include/linux/kmemleak.h:43: error: 'SLAB_NOLEAKTRACE' undeclared (first use in this function) Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by:
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Zhang Zhen authored
The gfp was passed in but never used in this function. Signed-off-by:
Zhang Zhen <zhenzhang.zhang@huawei.com> Signed-off-by:
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