- 29 Jul, 2016 32 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfsLinus Torvalds authored
Pull overlayfs update from Miklos Szeredi: "First of all, this fixes a regression in overlayfs introduced by the dentry hash salting. I've moved the patch fixing this to the front of the queue, so if (god forbid) something needs to be bisected in overlayfs this regression won't interfere with that. The biggest part is preparation for selinux support, done by Vivek Goyal. Essentially this makes all operations on underlying filesystems be done with credentials of mounter. This makes everything nicely consistent. There are also fixes for a number of known and recently discovered non-standard behavior (thanks to Eryu Guan for testing and improving the test suites)" * 'overlayfs-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs: (23 commits) ovl: simplify empty checking qstr: constify instances in overlayfs ovl: clear nlink on rmdir ovl: disallow overlayfs as upperdir ovl: fix warning ovl: remove duplicated include from super.c ovl: append MAY_READ when diluting write checks ovl: dilute permission checks on lower only if not special file ovl: fix POSIX ACL setting ovl: share inode for hard link ovl: store real inode pointer in ->i_private ovl: permission: return ECHILD instead of ENOENT ovl: update atime on upper ovl: fix sgid on directory ovl: simplify permission checking ovl: do not require mounter to have MAY_WRITE on lower ovl: do operations on underlying file system in mounter's context ovl: modify ovl_permission() to do checks on two inodes ovl: define ->get_acl() for overlay inodes ovl: move some common code in a function ...
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git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/freevxfsLinus Torvalds authored
Pull freevxfs updates from Christoph Hellwig: "Support for foreign endianess and HP-UP superblocks from Krzysztof Błaszkowski" * tag 'freevxfs-for-4.8' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/freevxfs: freevxfs: update Kconfig information freevxfs: refactor readdir and lookup code freevxfs: fix lack of inode initialization freevxfs: fix memory leak in vxfs_read_fshead() freevxfs: update documentation and cresdits for HP-UX support freevxfs: implement ->alloc_inode and ->destroy_inode freevxfs: avoid the need for forward declaring the super operations freevxfs: move VFS inode allocation into vxfs_blkiget and vxfs_stiget freevxfs: remove vxfs_put_fake_inode freevxfs: handle big endian HP-UX file systems
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git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/configfsLinus Torvalds authored
Pull configfs update from Christoph Hellwig: "A simple error handling fix from Tal Shorer" * tag 'configfs-for-4.8' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/configfs: configfs: don't set buffer_needs_fill to zero if show() returns error
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git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
Pull CIFS/SMB3 fixes from Steve French: "Various CIFS/SMB3 fixes, most for stable" * 'for-next' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6: CIFS: Fix a possible invalid memory access in smb2_query_symlink() fs/cifs: make share unaccessible at root level mountable cifs: fix crash due to race in hmac(md5) handling cifs: unbreak TCP session reuse cifs: Check for existing directory when opening file with O_CREAT Add MF-Symlinks support for SMB 2.0
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Miklos Szeredi authored
The empty checking logic is duplicated in ovl_check_empty_and_clear() and ovl_remove_and_whiteout(), except the condition for clearing whiteouts is different: ovl_check_empty_and_clear() checked for being upper ovl_remove_and_whiteout() checked for merge OR lower Move the intersection of those checks (upper AND merge) into ovl_check_empty_and_clear() and simplify ovl_remove_and_whiteout(). Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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Al Viro authored
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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Miklos Szeredi authored
To make delete notification work on fa/inotify. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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Miklos Szeredi authored
This does not work and does not make sense. So instead of fixing it (probably not hard) just disallow. Reported-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
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Miklos Szeredi authored
There's a superfluous newline in the warning message in ovl_d_real(). Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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Wei Yongjun authored
Remove duplicated include. Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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Vivek Goyal authored
Right now we remove MAY_WRITE/MAY_APPEND bits from mask if realfile is on lower/. This is done as files on lower will never be written and will be copied up. But to copy up a file, mounter should have MAY_READ permission otherwise copy up will fail. So set MAY_READ in mask when MAY_WRITE is reset. Dan Walsh noticed this when he did access(lowerfile, W_OK) and it returned True (context mounts) but when he tried to actually write to file, it failed as mounter did not have permission on lower file. [SzM] don't set MAY_READ if only MAY_APPEND is set without MAY_WRITE; this won't trigger a copy-up. Reported-by: Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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Vivek Goyal authored
Right now if file is on lower/, we remove MAY_WRITE/MAY_APPEND bits from mask as lower/ will never be written and file will be copied up. But this is not true for special files. These files are not copied up and are opened in place. So don't dilute the checks for these types of files. Reported-by: Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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Miklos Szeredi authored
Setting POSIX ACL needs special handling: 1) Some permission checks are done by ->setxattr() which now uses mounter's creds ("ovl: do operations on underlying file system in mounter's context"). These permission checks need to be done with current cred as well. 2) Setting ACL can fail for various reasons. We do not need to copy up in these cases. In the mean time switch to using generic_setxattr. [Arnd Bergmann] Fix link error without POSIX ACL. posix_acl_from_xattr() doesn't have a 'static inline' implementation when CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL is disabled, and I could not come up with an obvious way to do it. This instead avoids the link error by defining two sets of ACL operations and letting the compiler drop one of the two at compile time depending on CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL. This avoids all references to the ACL code, also leading to smaller code. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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Miklos Szeredi authored
Inode attributes are copied up to overlay inode (uid, gid, mode, atime, mtime, ctime) so generic code using these fields works correcty. If a hard link is created in overlayfs separate inodes are allocated for each link. If chmod/chown/etc. is performed on one of the links then the inode belonging to the other ones won't be updated. This patch attempts to fix this by sharing inodes for hard links. Use inode hash (with real inode pointer as a key) to make sure overlay inodes are shared for hard links on upper. Hard links on lower are still split (which is not user observable until the copy-up happens, see Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt under "Non-standard behavior"). The inode is only inserted in the hash if it is non-directoy and upper. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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Miklos Szeredi authored
To get from overlay inode to real inode we currently use 'struct ovl_entry', which has lifetime connected to overlay dentry. This is okay, since each overlay dentry had a new overlay inode allocated. Following patch will break that assumption, so need to leave out ovl_entry. This patch stores the real inode directly in i_private, with the lowest bit used to indicate whether the inode is upper or lower. Lifetime rules remain, using ovl_inode_real() must only be done while caller holds ref on overlay dentry (and hence on real dentry), or within RCU protected regions. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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Miklos Szeredi authored
The error is due to RCU and is temporary. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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Miklos Szeredi authored
Fix atime update logic in overlayfs. This patch adds an i_op->update_time() handler to overlayfs inodes. This forwards atime updates to the upper layer only. No atime updates are done on lower layers. Remove implicit atime updates to underlying files and directories with O_NOATIME. Remove explicit atime update in ovl_readlink(). Clear atime related mnt flags from cloned upper mount. This means atime updates are controlled purely by overlayfs mount options. Reported-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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Miklos Szeredi authored
When creating directory in workdir, the group/sgid inheritance from the parent dir was omitted completely. Fix this by calling inode_init_owner() on overlay inode and using the resulting uid/gid/mode to create the file. Unfortunately the sgid bit can be stripped off due to umask, so need to reset the mode in this case in workdir before moving the directory in place. Reported-by: Eryu Guan <eguan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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Miklos Szeredi authored
The fact that we always do permission checking on the overlay inode and clear MAY_WRITE for checking access to the lower inode allows cruft to be removed from ovl_permission(). 1) "default_permissions" option effectively did generic_permission() on the overlay inode with i_mode, i_uid and i_gid updated from underlying filesystem. This is what we do by default now. It did the update using vfs_getattr() but that's only needed if the underlying filesystem can change (which is not allowed). We may later introduce a "paranoia_mode" that verifies that mode/uid/gid are not changed. 2) splitting out the IS_RDONLY() check from inode_permission() also becomes unnecessary once we remove the MAY_WRITE from the lower inode check. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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Vivek Goyal authored
Now we have two levels of checks in ovl_permission(). overlay inode is checked with the creds of task while underlying inode is checked with the creds of mounter. Looks like mounter does not have to have WRITE access to files on lower/. So remove the MAY_WRITE from access mask for checks on underlying lower inode. This means task should still have the MAY_WRITE permission on lower inode and mounter is not required to have MAY_WRITE. It also solves the problem of read only NFS mounts being used as lower. If __inode_permission(lower_inode, MAY_WRITE) is called on read only NFS, it fails. By resetting MAY_WRITE, check succeeds and case of read only NFS shold work with overlay without having to specify any special mount options (default permission). Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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Vivek Goyal authored
Given we are now doing checks both on overlay inode as well underlying inode, we should be able to do checks and operations on underlying file system using mounter's context. So modify all operations to do checks/operations on underlying dentry/inode in the context of mounter. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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Vivek Goyal authored
Right now ovl_permission() calls __inode_permission(realinode), to do permission checks on real inode and no checks are done on overlay inode. Modify it to do checks both on overlay inode as well as underlying inode. Checks on overlay inode will be done with the creds of calling task while checks on underlying inode will be done with the creds of mounter. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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Vivek Goyal authored
Now we are planning to do DAC permission checks on overlay inode itself. And to make it work, we will need to make sure we can get acls from underlying inode. So define ->get_acl() for overlay inodes and this in turn calls into underlying filesystem to get acls, if any. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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Vivek Goyal authored
ovl_create_upper() and ovl_create_over_whiteout() seem to be sharing some common code which can be moved into a separate function. No functionality change. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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Andreas Gruenbacher authored
Previously this was only done for directory inodes. Doing so for all inodes makes for a nice cleanup in ovl_permission at zero cost. Inodes are not shared for hard links on the overlay, so this works fine. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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Miklos Szeredi authored
No point in keeping overlay inodes around since they will never be reused. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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Miklos Szeredi authored
The hash salting changes meant that we can no longer reuse the hash in the overlay dentry to look up the underlying dentry. Instead of lookup_hash(), use lookup_one_len_unlocked() and swith to mounter's creds (like we do for all other operations later in the series). Now the lookup_hash() export introduced in 4.6 by 3c9fe8cd ("vfs: add lookup_hash() helper") is unused and can possibly be removed; its usefulness negated by the hash salting and the idea that mounter's creds should be used on operations on underlying filesystems. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Fixes: 8387ff25 ("vfs: make the string hashes salt the hash")
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-traceLinus Torvalds authored
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "This is mostly clean ups and small fixes. Some of the more visible changes are: - The function pid code uses the event pid filtering logic - [ku]probe events have access to current->comm - trace_printk now has sample code - PCI devices now trace physical addresses - stack tracing has less unnessary functions traced" * tag 'trace-v4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: printk, tracing: Avoiding unneeded blank lines tracing: Use __get_str() when manipulating strings tracing, RAS: Cleanup on __get_str() usage tracing: Use outer () on __get_str() definition ftrace: Reduce size of function graph entries tracing: Have HIST_TRIGGERS select TRACING tracing: Using for_each_set_bit() to simplify trace_pid_write() ftrace: Move toplevel init out of ftrace_init_tracefs() tracing/function_graph: Fix filters for function_graph threshold tracing: Skip more functions when doing stack tracing of events tracing: Expose CPU physical addresses (resource values) for PCI devices tracing: Show the preempt count of when the event was called tracing: Add trace_printk sample code tracing: Choose static tp_printk buffer by explicit nesting count tracing: expose current->comm to [ku]probe events ftrace: Have set_ftrace_pid use the bitmap like events do tracing: Move pid_list write processing into its own function tracing: Move the pid_list seq_file functions to be global tracing: Move filtered_pid helper functions into trace.c tracing: Make the pid filtering helper functions global
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git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfioLinus Torvalds authored
Pull VFIO updates from Alex Williamson: - Enable no-iommu mode for platform devices (Peng Fan) - Sub-page mmap for exclusive pages (Yongji Xie) - Use-after-free fix (Ilya Lesokhin) - Support for ACPI-based platform devices (Sinan Kaya) * tag 'vfio-v4.8-rc1' of git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio: vfio: platform: check reset call return code during release vfio: platform: check reset call return code during open vfio, platform: make reset driver a requirement by default vfio: platform: call _RST method when using ACPI vfio: platform: add extra debug info argument to call reset vfio: platform: add support for ACPI probe vfio: platform: determine reset capability vfio: platform: move reset call to a common function vfio: platform: rename reset function vfio: fix possible use after free of vfio group vfio-pci: Allow to mmap sub-page MMIO BARs if the mmio page is exclusive vfio: platform: support No-IOMMU mode
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shli/mdLinus Torvalds authored
Pull MD updates from Shaohua Li: - A bunch of patches from Neil Brown to fix RCU usage - Two performance improvement patches from Tomasz Majchrzak - Alexey Obitotskiy fixes module refcount issue - Arnd Bergmann fixes time granularity - Cong Wang fixes a list corruption issue - Guoqing Jiang fixes a deadlock in md-cluster - A null pointer deference fix from me - Song Liu fixes misuse of raid6 rmw - Other trival/cleanup fixes from Guoqing Jiang and Xiao Ni * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shli/md: (28 commits) MD: fix null pointer deference raid10: improve random reads performance md: add missing sysfs_notify on array_state update Fix kernel module refcount handling md: use seconds granularity for error logging md: reduce the number of synchronize_rcu() calls when multiple devices fail. md: be extra careful not to take a reference to a Faulty device. md/multipath: add rcu protection to rdev access in multipath_status. md/raid5: add rcu protection to rdev accesses in raid5_status. md/raid5: add rcu protection to rdev accesses in want_replace md/raid5: add rcu protection to rdev accesses in handle_failed_sync. md/raid1: add rcu protection to rdev in fix_read_error md/raid1: small code cleanup in end_sync_write md/raid1: small cleanup in raid1_end_read/write_request md/raid10: simplify print_conf a little. md/raid10: minor code improvement in fix_read_error() md/raid10: add rcu protection to rdev access during reshape. md/raid10: add rcu protection to rdev access in raid10_sync_request. md/raid10: add rcu protection in raid10_status. md/raid10: fix refounct imbalance when resyncing an array with a replacement device. ...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimmLinus Torvalds authored
Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams: - Replace pcommit with ADR / directed-flushing. The pcommit instruction, which has not shipped on any product, is deprecated. Instead, the requirement is that platforms implement either ADR, or provide one or more flush addresses per nvdimm. ADR (Asynchronous DRAM Refresh) flushes data in posted write buffers to the memory controller on a power-fail event. Flush addresses are defined in ACPI 6.x as an NVDIMM Firmware Interface Table (NFIT) sub-structure: "Flush Hint Address Structure". A flush hint is an mmio address that when written and fenced assures that all previous posted writes targeting a given dimm have been flushed to media. - On-demand ARS (address range scrub). Linux uses the results of the ACPI ARS commands to track bad blocks in pmem devices. When latent errors are detected we re-scrub the media to refresh the bad block list, userspace can also request a re-scrub at any time. - Support for the Microsoft DSM (device specific method) command format. - Support for EDK2/OVMF virtual disk device memory ranges. - Various fixes and cleanups across the subsystem. * tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (41 commits) libnvdimm-btt: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "__nd_device_register" nfit: do an ARS scrub on hitting a latent media error nfit: move to nfit/ sub-directory nfit, libnvdimm: allow an ARS scrub to be triggered on demand libnvdimm: register nvdimm_bus devices with an nd_bus driver pmem: clarify a debug print in pmem_clear_poison x86/insn: remove pcommit Revert "KVM: x86: add pcommit support" nfit, tools/testing/nvdimm/: unify shutdown paths libnvdimm: move ->module to struct nvdimm_bus_descriptor nfit: cleanup acpi_nfit_init calling convention nfit: fix _FIT evaluation memory leak + use after free tools/testing/nvdimm: add manufacturing_{date|location} dimm properties tools/testing/nvdimm: add virtual ramdisk range acpi, nfit: treat virtual ramdisk SPA as pmem region pmem: kill __pmem address space pmem: kill wmb_pmem() libnvdimm, pmem: use nvdimm_flush() for namespace I/O writes fs/dax: remove wmb_pmem() libnvdimm, pmem: flush posted-write queues on shutdown ...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrlLinus Torvalds authored
Pull pin control updates from Linus Walleij: "This is the bulk of pin control changes for the v4.8 kernel cycle. Nothing stands out as especially exiting: new drivers, new subdrivers, lots of cleanups and incremental features. Business as usual. New drivers: - New driver for Oxnas pin control and GPIO. This ARM-based chipset is used in a few storage (NAS) type devices. - New driver for the MAX77620/MAX20024 pin controller portions. - New driver for the Intel Merrifield pin controller. New subdrivers: - New subdriver for the Qualcomm MDM9615 - New subdriver for the STM32F746 MCU - New subdriver for the Broadcom NSP SoC. Cleanups: - Demodularization of bool compiled-in drivers. Apart from this there is just regular incremental improvements to a lot of drivers, especially Uniphier and PFC" * tag 'pinctrl-v4.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrl: (131 commits) pinctrl: fix pincontrol definition for marvell pinctrl: xway: fix typo Revert "pinctrl: amd: make it explicitly non-modular" pinctrl: iproc: Add NSP and Stingray GPIO support pinctrl: Update iProc GPIO DT bindings pinctrl: bcm: add OF dependencies pinctrl: ns2: remove redundant dev_err call in ns2_pinmux_probe() pinctrl: Add STM32F746 MCU support pinctrl: intel: Protect set wake flow by spin lock pinctrl: nsp: remove redundant dev_err call in nsp_pinmux_probe() pinctrl: uniphier: add Ethernet pin-mux settings sh-pfc: Use PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO() to simplify the code pinctrl: ns2: fix return value check in ns2_pinmux_probe() pinctrl: qcom: update DT bindings with ebi2 groups pinctrl: qcom: establish proper EBI2 pin groups pinctrl: imx21: Remove the MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() macro Documentation: dt: Add new compatible to STM32 pinctrl driver bindings includes: dt-bindings: Add STM32F746 pinctrl DT bindings pinctrl: sunxi: fix nand0 function name for sun8i pinctrl: uniphier: remove pointless pin-mux settings for PH1-LD11 ...
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- 28 Jul, 2016 8 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton: "The rest of MM" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (101 commits) mm, compaction: simplify contended compaction handling mm, compaction: introduce direct compaction priority mm, thp: remove __GFP_NORETRY from khugepaged and madvised allocations mm, page_alloc: make THP-specific decisions more generic mm, page_alloc: restructure direct compaction handling in slowpath mm, page_alloc: don't retry initial attempt in slowpath mm, page_alloc: set alloc_flags only once in slowpath lib/stackdepot.c: use __GFP_NOWARN for stack allocations mm, kasan: switch SLUB to stackdepot, enable memory quarantine for SLUB mm, kasan: account for object redzone in SLUB's nearest_obj() mm: fix use-after-free if memory allocation failed in vma_adjust() zsmalloc: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "iput" mm/memblock.c: fix index adjustment error in __next_mem_range_rev() mem-hotplug: alloc new page from a nearest neighbor node when mem-offline mm: optimize copy_page_to/from_iter_iovec mm: add cond_resched() to generic_swapfile_activate() Revert "mm, mempool: only set __GFP_NOMEMALLOC if there are free elements" mm, compaction: don't isolate PageWriteback pages in MIGRATE_SYNC_LIGHT mode mm: hwpoison: remove incorrect comments make __section_nr() more efficient ...
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Vlastimil Babka authored
Async compaction detects contention either due to failing trylock on zone->lock or lru_lock, or by need_resched(). Since 1f9efdef ("mm, compaction: khugepaged should not give up due to need_resched()") the code got quite complicated to distinguish these two up to the __alloc_pages_slowpath() level, so different decisions could be taken for khugepaged allocations. After the recent changes, khugepaged allocations don't check for contended compaction anymore, so we again don't need to distinguish lock and sched contention, and simplify the current convoluted code a lot. However, I believe it's also possible to simplify even more and completely remove the check for contended compaction after the initial async compaction for costly orders, which was originally aimed at THP page fault allocations. There are several reasons why this can be done now: - with the new defaults, THP page faults no longer do reclaim/compaction at all, unless the system admin has overridden the default, or application has indicated via madvise that it can benefit from THP's. In both cases, it means that the potential extra latency is expected and worth the benefits. - even if reclaim/compaction proceeds after this patch where it previously wouldn't, the second compaction attempt is still async and will detect the contention and back off, if the contention persists - there are still heuristics like deferred compaction and pageblock skip bits in place that prevent excessive THP page fault latencies Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160721073614.24395-9-vbabka@suse.czSigned-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Vlastimil Babka authored
In the context of direct compaction, for some types of allocations we would like the compaction to either succeed or definitely fail while trying as hard as possible. Current async/sync_light migration mode is insufficient, as there are heuristics such as caching scanner positions, marking pageblocks as unsuitable or deferring compaction for a zone. At least the final compaction attempt should be able to override these heuristics. To communicate how hard compaction should try, we replace migration mode with a new enum compact_priority and change the relevant function signatures. In compact_zone_order() where struct compact_control is constructed, the priority is mapped to suitable control flags. This patch itself has no functional change, as the current priority levels are mapped back to the same migration modes as before. Expanding them will be done next. Note that !CONFIG_COMPACTION variant of try_to_compact_pages() is removed, as the only caller exists under CONFIG_COMPACTION. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160721073614.24395-8-vbabka@suse.czSigned-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Vlastimil Babka authored
After the previous patch, we can distinguish costly allocations that should be really lightweight, such as THP page faults, with __GFP_NORETRY. This means we don't need to recognize khugepaged allocations via PF_KTHREAD anymore. We can also change THP page faults in areas where madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE) was used to try as hard as khugepaged, as the process has indicated that it benefits from THP's and is willing to pay some initial latency costs. We can also make the flags handling less cryptic by distinguishing GFP_TRANSHUGE_LIGHT (no reclaim at all, default mode in page fault) from GFP_TRANSHUGE (only direct reclaim, khugepaged default). Adding __GFP_NORETRY or __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM is done where needed. The patch effectively changes the current GFP_TRANSHUGE users as follows: * get_huge_zero_page() - the zero page lifetime should be relatively long and it's shared by multiple users, so it's worth spending some effort on it. We use GFP_TRANSHUGE, and __GFP_NORETRY is not added. This also restores direct reclaim to this allocation, which was unintentionally removed by commit e4a49efe4e7e ("mm: thp: set THP defrag by default to madvise and add a stall-free defrag option") * alloc_hugepage_khugepaged_gfpmask() - this is khugepaged, so latency is not an issue. So if khugepaged "defrag" is enabled (the default), do reclaim via GFP_TRANSHUGE without __GFP_NORETRY. We can remove the PF_KTHREAD check from page alloc. As a side-effect, khugepaged will now no longer check if the initial compaction was deferred or contended. This is OK, as khugepaged sleep times between collapsion attempts are long enough to prevent noticeable disruption, so we should allow it to spend some effort. * migrate_misplaced_transhuge_page() - already was masking out __GFP_RECLAIM, so just convert to GFP_TRANSHUGE_LIGHT which is equivalent. * alloc_hugepage_direct_gfpmask() - vma's with VM_HUGEPAGE (via madvise) are now allocating without __GFP_NORETRY. Other vma's keep using __GFP_NORETRY if direct reclaim/compaction is at all allowed (by default it's allowed only for madvised vma's). The rest is conversion to GFP_TRANSHUGE(_LIGHT). [mhocko@suse.com: suggested GFP_TRANSHUGE_LIGHT] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160721073614.24395-7-vbabka@suse.czSigned-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Vlastimil Babka authored
Since THP allocations during page faults can be costly, extra decisions are employed for them to avoid excessive reclaim and compaction, if the initial compaction doesn't look promising. The detection has never been perfect as there is no gfp flag specific to THP allocations. At this moment it checks the whole combination of flags that makes up GFP_TRANSHUGE, and hopes that no other users of such combination exist, or would mind being treated the same way. Extra care is also taken to separate allocations from khugepaged, where latency doesn't matter that much. It is however possible to distinguish these allocations in a simpler and more reliable way. The key observation is that after the initial compaction followed by the first iteration of "standard" reclaim/compaction, both __GFP_NORETRY allocations and costly allocations without __GFP_REPEAT are declared as failures: /* Do not loop if specifically requested */ if (gfp_mask & __GFP_NORETRY) goto nopage; /* * Do not retry costly high order allocations unless they are * __GFP_REPEAT */ if (order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER && !(gfp_mask & __GFP_REPEAT)) goto nopage; This means we can further distinguish allocations that are costly order *and* additionally include the __GFP_NORETRY flag. As it happens, GFP_TRANSHUGE allocations do already fall into this category. This will also allow other costly allocations with similar high-order benefit vs latency considerations to use this semantic. Furthermore, we can distinguish THP allocations that should try a bit harder (such as from khugepageed) by removing __GFP_NORETRY, as will be done in the next patch. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160721073614.24395-6-vbabka@suse.czSigned-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Vlastimil Babka authored
The retry loop in __alloc_pages_slowpath is supposed to keep trying reclaim and compaction (and OOM), until either the allocation succeeds, or returns with failure. Success here is more probable when reclaim precedes compaction, as certain watermarks have to be met for compaction to even try, and more free pages increase the probability of compaction success. On the other hand, starting with light async compaction (if the watermarks allow it), can be more efficient, especially for smaller orders, if there's enough free memory which is just fragmented. Thus, the current code starts with compaction before reclaim, and to make sure that the last reclaim is always followed by a final compaction, there's another direct compaction call at the end of the loop. This makes the code hard to follow and adds some duplicated handling of migration_mode decisions. It's also somewhat inefficient that even if reclaim or compaction decides not to retry, the final compaction is still attempted. Some gfp flags combination also shortcut these retry decisions by "goto noretry;", making it even harder to follow. This patch attempts to restructure the code with only minimal functional changes. The call to the first compaction and THP-specific checks are now placed above the retry loop, and the "noretry" direct compaction is removed. The initial compaction is additionally restricted only to costly orders, as we can expect smaller orders to be held back by watermarks, and only larger orders to suffer primarily from fragmentation. This better matches the checks in reclaim's shrink_zones(). There are two other smaller functional changes. One is that the upgrade from async migration to light sync migration will always occur after the initial compaction. This is how it has been until recent patch "mm, oom: protect !costly allocations some more", which introduced upgrading the mode based on COMPACT_COMPLETE result, but kept the final compaction always upgraded, which made it even more special. It's better to return to the simpler handling for now, as migration modes will be further modified later in the series. The second change is that once both reclaim and compaction declare it's not worth to retry the reclaim/compact loop, there is no final compaction attempt. As argued above, this is intentional. If that final compaction were to succeed, it would be due to a wrong retry decision, or simply a race with somebody else freeing memory for us. The main outcome of this patch should be simpler code. Logically, the initial compaction without reclaim is the exceptional case to the reclaim/compaction scheme, but prior to the patch, it was the last loop iteration that was exceptional. Now the code matches the logic better. The change also enable the following patches. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160721073614.24395-5-vbabka@suse.czSigned-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Vlastimil Babka authored
After __alloc_pages_slowpath() sets up new alloc_flags and wakes up kswapd, it first tries get_page_from_freelist() with the new alloc_flags, as it may succeed e.g. due to using min watermark instead of low watermark. It makes sense to to do this attempt before adjusting zonelist based on alloc_flags/gfp_mask, as it's still relatively a fast path if we just wake up kswapd and successfully allocate. This patch therefore moves the initial attempt above the retry label and reorganizes a bit the part below the retry label. We still have to attempt get_page_from_freelist() on each retry, as some allocations cannot do that as part of direct reclaim or compaction, and yet are not allowed to fail (even though they do a WARN_ON_ONCE() and thus should not exist). We can reuse the call meant for ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS attempt and just set alloc_flags to ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS if the context allows it. As a side-effect, the attempts from direct reclaim/compaction will also no longer obey watermarks once this is set, but there's little harm in that. Kswapd wakeups are also done on each retry to be safe from potential races resulting in kswapd going to sleep while a process (that may not be able to reclaim by itself) is still looping. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160721073614.24395-4-vbabka@suse.czSigned-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> 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>
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Vlastimil Babka authored
In __alloc_pages_slowpath(), alloc_flags doesn't change after it's initialized, so move the initialization above the retry: label. Also make the comment above the initialization more descriptive. The only exception in the alloc_flags being constant is ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS, which may change due to TIF_MEMDIE being set on the allocating thread. We can fix this, and make the code simpler and a bit more effective at the same time, by moving the part that determines ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS from gfp_to_alloc_flags() to gfp_pfmemalloc_allowed(). This means we don't have to mask out ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS in numerous places in __alloc_pages_slowpath() anymore. The only two tests for the flag can instead call gfp_pfmemalloc_allowed(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160721073614.24395-3-vbabka@suse.czSigned-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> 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>
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