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2016-08-07Merge tag 'doc-4.8-fixes' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet: "Three fixes for the docs build, including removing an annoying warning on 'make help' if sphinx isn't present" * tag 'doc-4.8-fixes' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: DocBook: use DOCBOOKS="" to ignore DocBooks instead of IGNORE_DOCBOOKS=1 Documenation: update cgroup's document path Documentation/sphinx: do not warn about missing tools in 'make help'
2016-08-03Documenation: update cgroup's document pathseokhoon.yoon1-1/+1
cgroup's document path is changed to "cgroup-v1". update it. Signed-off-by: seokhoon.yoon <iamyooon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-07-26thp, mlock: update unevictable-lru.txtKirill A. Shutemov1-0/+21
Add description of THP handling into unevictable-lru.txt. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466021202-61880-7-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-05mm: rmap use pte lock not mmap_sem to set PageMlockedHugh Dickins1-45/+16
KernelThreadSanitizer (ktsan) has shown that the down_read_trylock() of mmap_sem in try_to_unmap_one() (when going to set PageMlocked on a page found mapped in a VM_LOCKED vma) is ineffective against races with exit_mmap()'s munlock_vma_pages_all(), because mmap_sem is not held when tearing down an mm. But that's okay, those races are benign; and although we've believed for years in that ugly down_read_trylock(), it's unsuitable for the job, and frustrates the good intention of setting PageMlocked when it fails. It just doesn't matter if here we read vm_flags an instant before or after a racing mlock() or munlock() or exit_mmap() sets or clears VM_LOCKED: the syscalls (or exit) work their way up the address space (taking pt locks after updating vm_flags) to establish the final state. We do still need to be careful never to mark a page Mlocked (hence unevictable) by any race that will not be corrected shortly after. The page lock protects from many of the races, but not all (a page is not necessarily locked when it's unmapped). But the pte lock we just dropped is good to cover the rest (and serializes even with munlock_vma_pages_all(), so no special barriers required): now hold on to the pte lock while calling mlock_vma_page(). Is that lock ordering safe? Yes, that's how follow_page_pte() calls it, and how page_remove_rmap() calls the complementary clear_page_mlock(). This fixes the following case (though not a case which anyone has complained of), which mmap_sem did not: truncation's preliminary unmap_mapping_range() is supposed to remove even the anonymous COWs of filecache pages, and that might race with try_to_unmap_one() on a VM_LOCKED vma, so that mlock_vma_page() sets PageMlocked just after zap_pte_range() unmaps the page, causing "Bad page state (mlocked)" when freed. The pte lock protects against this. You could say that it also protects against the more ordinary case, racing with the preliminary unmapping of a filecache page itself: but in our current tree, that's independently protected by i_mmap_rwsem; and that race would be why "Bad page state (mlocked)" was seen before commit 48ec833b7851 ("Revert mm/memory.c: share the i_mmap_rwsem"). Vlastimil Babka points out another race which this patch protects against. try_to_unmap_one() might reach its mlock_vma_page() TestSetPageMlocked a moment after munlock_vma_pages_all() did its Phase 1 TestClearPageMlocked: leaving PageMlocked and unevictable when it should be evictable. mmap_sem is ineffective because exit_mmap() does not hold it; page lock ineffective because __munlock_pagevec() only takes it afterwards, in Phase 2; pte lock is effective because __munlock_pagevec_fill() takes it to get the page, after VM_LOCKED was cleared from vm_flags, so visible to try_to_unmap_one. Kirill Shutemov points out that if the compiler chooses to implement a "vma->vm_flags &= VM_WHATEVER" or "vma->vm_flags |= VM_WHATEVER" operation with an intermediate store of unrelated bits set, since I'm here foregoing its usual protection by mmap_sem, try_to_unmap_one() might catch sight of a spurious VM_LOCKED in vm_flags, and make the wrong decision. This does not appear to be an immediate problem, but we may want to define vm_flags accessors in future, to guard against such a possibility. While we're here, make a related optimization in try_to_munmap_one(): if it's doing TTU_MUNLOCK, then there's no point at all in descending the page tables and getting the pt lock, unless the vma is VM_LOCKED. Yes, that can change racily, but it can change racily even without the optimization: it's not critical. Far better not to waste time here. Stopped short of separating try_to_munlock_one() from try_to_munmap_one() on this occasion, but that's probably the sensible next step - with a rename, given that try_to_munlock()'s business is to try to set Mlocked. Updated the unevictable-lru Documentation, to remove its reference to mmap semaphore, but found a few more updates needed in just that area. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-05mm Documentation: undoc non-linear vmasHugh Dickins1-58/+5
While updating some mm Documentation, I came across a few straggling references to the non-linear vmas which were happily removed in v4.0. Delete them. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-24Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt: clarify MAP_LOCKED behaviorMichal Hocko1-1/+7
There is a very subtle difference between mmap()+mlock() vs mmap(MAP_LOCKED) semantic. The former one fails if the population of the area fails while the later one doesn't. This basically means that mmap(MAPLOCKED) areas might see major fault after mmap syscall returns which is not the case for mlock. mmap man page has already been altered but Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt deserves a clarification as well. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reported-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-04-15Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt: document interaction between ↵Eric B Munson1-0/+12
compaction and the unevictable LRU The memory compaction code uses the migration code to do most of the work in compaction. However, the compaction code interacts with the unevictable LRU differently than migration code and this difference should be noted in the documentation. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: identify /proc/sys/vm/compact_unevictable directly] Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-04-14mm: rename __mlock_vma_pages_range() to populate_vma_page_range()Kirill A. Shutemov1-18/+8
__mlock_vma_pages_range() doesn't necessarily mlock pages. It depends on vma flags. The same codepath is used for MAP_POPULATE. Let's rename __mlock_vma_pages_range() to populate_vma_page_range(). This patch also drops mlock_vma_pages_range() references from documentation. It has gone in cea10a19b797 ("mm: directly use __mlock_vma_pages_range() in find_extend_vma()"). Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-03-21doc: fix double wordsMasanari Iida1-1/+1
Fix double words "the the" in various files within Documentations. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-10-09mm: remove vma arg from page_evictableHugh Dickins1-7/+3
page_evictable(page, vma) is an irritant: almost all its callers pass NULL for vma. Remove the vma arg and use mlocked_vma_newpage(vma, page) explicitly in the couple of places it's needed. But in those places we don't even need page_evictable() itself! They're dealing with a freshly allocated anonymous page, which has no "mapping" and cannot be mlocked yet. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-09mm: kill vma flag VM_RESERVED and mm->reserved_vm counterKonstantin Khlebnikov1-2/+2
A long time ago, in v2.4, VM_RESERVED kept swapout process off VMA, currently it lost original meaning but still has some effects: | effect | alternative flags -+------------------------+--------------------------------------------- 1| account as reserved_vm | VM_IO 2| skip in core dump | VM_IO, VM_DONTDUMP 3| do not merge or expand | VM_IO, VM_DONTEXPAND, VM_HUGETLB, VM_PFNMAP 4| do not mlock | VM_IO, VM_DONTEXPAND, VM_HUGETLB, VM_PFNMAP This patch removes reserved_vm counter from mm_struct. Seems like nobody cares about it, it does not exported into userspace directly, it only reduces total_vm showed in proc. Thus VM_RESERVED can be replaced with VM_IO or pair VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP. remap_pfn_range() and io_remap_pfn_range() set VM_IO|VM_DONTEXPAND|VM_DONTDUMP. remap_vmalloc_range() set VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c fixup] Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Kentaro Takeda <takedakn@nttdata.co.jp> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-07Documentation: Fix multiple typo in DocumentationMasanari Iida1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-02-09mm: Fix typo in unevictable-lru.txtMasanari Iida1-3/+3
Correct spelling "semphore" to "semaphore" in Documentation/vm/unevictable-lru.txt Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-03-17doc: CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU doesn't exist anymoreMichal Hocko1-2/+1
commit 6837765963 ("mm: remove CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU config option") has removed the configoption so we should sync up the doc as well. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-04-13mm: reformat the Unevictable-LRU documentationDavid Howells1-469/+572
Do a bit of reformatting on the Unevictable-LRU documentation. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: remove try_to_munlock from vmscanHugh Dickins1-45/+18
An unfortunate feature of the Unevictable LRU work was that reclaiming an anonymous page involved an extra scan through the anon_vma: to check that the page is evictable before allocating swap, because the swap could not be freed reliably soon afterwards. Now try_to_free_swap() has replaced remove_exclusive_swap_page(), that's not an issue any more: remove try_to_munlock() call from shrink_page_list(), leaving it to try_to_munmap() to discover if the page is one to be culled to the unevictable list - in which case then try_to_free_swap(). Update unevictable-lru.txt to remove comments on the try_to_munlock() in shrink_page_list(), and shorten some lines over 80 columns. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20doc: unevictable LRU and mlocked pages documentationLee Schermerhorn1-0/+615
Documentation for unevictable lru list and its usage. Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>