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2009-08-10mempool.c: clean up type-castingFigo.zhang1-2/+2
clean up type-casting twice. "size_t" is typedef as "unsigned long" in 64-bit system, and "unsigned int" in 32-bit system, and the intermediate cast to 'long' is pointless. Signed-off-by: Figo.zhang <figo1802@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-07mm: make set_mempolicy(MPOL_INTERLEAV) N_HIGH_MEMORY awareKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki1-26/+58
At first, init_task's mems_allowed is initialized as this. init_task->mems_allowed == node_state[N_POSSIBLE] And cpuset's top_cpuset mask is initialized as this top_cpuset->mems_allowed = node_state[N_HIGH_MEMORY] Before 2.6.29: policy's mems_allowed is initialized as this. 1. update tasks->mems_allowed by its cpuset->mems_allowed. 2. policy->mems_allowed = nodes_and(tasks->mems_allowed, user's mask) Updating task's mems_allowed in reference to top_cpuset's one. cpuset's mems_allowed is aware of N_HIGH_MEMORY, always. In 2.6.30: After commit 58568d2a8215cb6f55caf2332017d7bdff954e1c ("cpuset,mm: update tasks' mems_allowed in time"), policy's mems_allowed is initialized as this. 1. policy->mems_allowd = nodes_and(task->mems_allowed, user's mask) Here, if task is in top_cpuset, task->mems_allowed is not updated from init's one. Assume user excutes command as #numactrl --interleave=all ,.... policy->mems_allowd = nodes_and(N_POSSIBLE, ALL_SET_MASK) Then, policy's mems_allowd can includes a possible node, which has no pgdat. MPOL's INTERLEAVE just scans nodemask of task->mems_allowd and access this directly. NODE_DATA(nid)->zonelist even if NODE_DATA(nid)==NULL Then, what's we need is making policy->mems_allowed be aware of N_HIGH_MEMORY. This patch does that. But to do so, extra nodemask will be on statck. Because I know cpumask has a new interface of CPUMASK_ALLOC(), I added it to node. This patch stands on old behavior. But I feel this fix itself is just a Band-Aid. But to do fundametal fix, we have to take care of memory hotplug and it takes time. (task->mems_allowd should be N_HIGH_MEMORY, I think.) mpol_set_nodemask() should be aware of N_HIGH_MEMORY and policy's nodemask should be includes only online nodes. In old behavior, this is guaranteed by frequent reference to cpuset's code. Now, most of them are removed and mempolicy has to check it by itself. To do check, a few nodemask_t will be used for calculating nodemask. But, size of nodemask_t can be big and it's not good to allocate them on stack. Now, cpumask_t has CPUMASK_ALLOC/FREE an easy code for get scratch area. NODEMASK_ALLOC/FREE shoudl be there. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups & tweaks] Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-29Merge branch 'pm-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-2/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6 * 'pm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6: PM / Hibernate: Replace bdget call with simple atomic_inc of i_count PM / ACPI: HP G7000 Notebook needs a SCI_EN resume quirk
2009-07-29page-allocator: allow too high-order warning messages to be suppressed with ↵Mel Gorman1-1/+3
__GFP_NOWARN The page allocator warns once when an order >= MAX_ORDER is specified. This is to catch callers of the allocator that are always falling back to their worst-case when it was not expected. However, there are cases where the caller is behaving correctly but cannot suppress the warning. This patch allows the warning to be suppressed by the callers by specifying __GFP_NOWARN. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-29cgroup avoid permanent sleep at rmdirKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki1-3/+20
After commit ec64f51545fffbc4cb968f0cea56341a4b07e85a ("cgroup: fix frequent -EBUSY at rmdir"), cgroup's rmdir (especially against memcg) doesn't return -EBUSY by temporary ref counts. That commit expects all refs after pre_destroy() is temporary but...it wasn't. Then, rmdir can wait permanently. This patch tries to fix that and change followings. - set CGRP_WAIT_ON_RMDIR flag before pre_destroy(). - clear CGRP_WAIT_ON_RMDIR flag when the subsys finds racy case. if there are sleeping ones, wakes them up. - rmdir() sleeps only when CGRP_WAIT_ON_RMDIR flag is set. Tested-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Reported-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: Balbir Sigh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-29hugetlbfs: fix i_blocks accountingEric Sandeen1-1/+1
As reported in Red Hat bz #509671, i_blocks for files on hugetlbfs get accounting wrong when doing something like: $ > foo $ date > foo date: write error: Invalid argument $ /usr/bin/stat foo File: `foo' Size: 0 Blocks: 18446744073709547520 IO Block: 2097152 regular ... This is because hugetlb_unreserve_pages() is unconditionally removing blocks_per_huge_page(h) on each call rather than using the freed amount. If there were 0 blocks, it goes negative, resulting in the above. This is a regression from commit a5516438959d90b071ff0a484ce4f3f523dc3152 ("hugetlb: modular state for hugetlb page size") which did: - inode->i_blocks -= BLOCKS_PER_HUGEPAGE * freed; + inode->i_blocks -= blocks_per_huge_page(h); so just put back the freed multiplier, and it's all happy again. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-29mm: avoid endless looping for oom killed tasksDavid Rientjes1-0/+4
If a task is oom killed and still cannot find memory when trying with no watermarks, it's better to fail the allocation attempt than to loop endlessly. Direct reclaim has already failed and the oom killer will be a no-op since current has yet to die, so there is no other alternative for allocations that are not __GFP_NOFAIL. Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-29page-allocator: preserve PFN ordering when __GFP_COLD is setMel Gorman1-4/+9
Fix a post-2.6.24 performace regression caused by 3dfa5721f12c3d5a441448086bee156887daa961 ("page-allocator: preserve PFN ordering when __GFP_COLD is set"). Narayanan reports "The regression is around 15%. There is no disk controller as our setup is based on Samsung OneNAND used as a memory mapped device on a OMAP2430 based board." The page allocator tries to preserve contiguous PFN ordering when returning pages such that repeated callers to the allocator have a strong chance of getting physically contiguous pages, particularly when external fragmentation is low. However, of the bulk of the allocations have __GFP_COLD set as they are due to aio_read() for example, then the PFNs are in reverse PFN order. This can cause performance degration when used with IO controllers that could have merged the requests. This patch attempts to preserve the contiguous ordering of PFNs for users of __GFP_COLD. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reported-by: Narayananu Gopalakrishnan <narayanan.g@samsung.com> Tested-by: Narayanan Gopalakrishnan <narayanan.g@samsung.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-29kmemleak: Protect the seq start/next/stop sequence by rcu_read_lock()Catalin Marinas1-3/+1
Objects passed to kmemleak_seq_next() have an incremented reference count (hence not freed) but they may point via object_list.next to other freed objects. To avoid this, the whole start/next/stop sequence must be protected by rcu_read_lock(). Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-29PM / Hibernate: Replace bdget call with simple atomic_inc of i_countAlan Jenkins1-2/+2
Create bdgrab(). This function copies an existing reference to a block_device. It is safe to call from any context. Hibernation code wishes to copy a reference to the active swap device. Right now it calls bdget() under a spinlock, but this is wrong because bdget() can sleep. It doesn't need a full bdget() because we already hold a reference to active swap devices (and the spinlock protects against swapoff). Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13827 Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2009-07-27mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb()Benjamin Herrenschmidt1-5/+6
mm: Pass virtual address to [__]p{te,ud,md}_free_tlb() Upcoming paches to support the new 64-bit "BookE" powerpc architecture will need to have the virtual address corresponding to PTE page when freeing it, due to the way the HW table walker works. Basically, the TLB can be loaded with "large" pages that cover the whole virtual space (well, sort-of, half of it actually) represented by a PTE page, and which contain an "indirect" bit indicating that this TLB entry RPN points to an array of PTEs from which the TLB can then create direct entries. Thus, in order to invalidate those when PTE pages are deleted, we need the virtual address to pass to tlbilx or tlbivax instructions. The old trick of sticking it somewhere in the PTE page struct page sucks too much, the address is almost readily available in all call sites and almost everybody implemets these as macros, so we may as well add the argument everywhere. I added it to the pmd and pud variants for consistency. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> [MN10300 & FRV] Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> [s390] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-12Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds4-87/+179
* 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6: kmemleak: Remove alloc_bootmem annotations introduced in the past kmemleak: Add callbacks to the bootmem allocator kmemleak: Allow partial freeing of memory blocks kmemleak: Trace the kmalloc_large* functions in slub kmemleak: Scan objects allocated during a scanning episode kmemleak: Do not acquire scan_mutex in kmemleak_open() kmemleak: Remove the reported leaks number limitation kmemleak: Add more cond_resched() calls in the scanning thread kmemleak: Renice the scanning thread to +10
2009-07-10Fix congestion_wait() sync/async vs read/write confusionJens Axboe5-15/+14
Commit 1faa16d22877f4839bd433547d770c676d1d964c accidentally broke the bdi congestion wait queue logic, causing us to wait on congestion for WRITE (== 1) when we really wanted BLK_RW_ASYNC (== 0) instead. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-07-09kmemleak: Remove alloc_bootmem annotations introduced in the pastCatalin Marinas1-11/+3
kmemleak_alloc() calls were added in some places where alloc_bootmem was called. Since now kmemleak tracks bootmem allocations, these explicit calls should be run. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-07-08kmemleak: Add callbacks to the bootmem allocatorCatalin Marinas1-0/+6
This patch adds kmemleak_alloc/free callbacks to the bootmem allocator. This would allow scanning of such blocks and help avoiding a whole class of false positives and more kmemleak annotations. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
2009-07-08kmemleak: Allow partial freeing of memory blocksCatalin Marinas1-14/+81
Functions like free_bootmem() are allowed to free only part of a memory block. This patch adds support for this via the kmemleak_free_part() callback which removes the original object and creates one or two additional objects as a result of the memory block split. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-07-08kmemleak: Trace the kmalloc_large* functions in slubCatalin Marinas1-4/+6
The kmalloc_large() and kmalloc_large_node() functions were missed when adding the kmemleak hooks to the slub allocator. However, they should be traced to avoid false positives. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-07-08kmemleak: Scan objects allocated during a scanning episodeCatalin Marinas1-3/+40
Many of the false positives in kmemleak happen on busy systems where objects are allocated during a kmemleak scanning episode. These objects aren't scanned by default until the next memory scan. When such object is added, for example, at the head of a list, it is possible that all the other objects in the list become unreferenced until the next scan. This patch adds checking for newly allocated objects at the end of the scan and repeats the scanning on these objects. If Linux allocates new objects at a higher rate than their scanning, it stops after a predefined number of passes. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-07-08kmemleak: Do not acquire scan_mutex in kmemleak_open()Catalin Marinas1-33/+30
Initially, the scan_mutex was acquired in kmemleak_open() and released in kmemleak_release() (corresponding to /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak operations). This was causing some lockdep reports when the file was closed from a different task than the one opening it. This patch moves the scan_mutex acquiring in kmemleak_write() or kmemleak_seq_start() with releasing in kmemleak_seq_stop(). Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-07-08kmemleak: Remove the reported leaks number limitationCatalin Marinas1-15/+2
Since the leaks are no longer printed to the syslog, there is no point in keeping this limitation. All the suspected leaks are shown on /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak file. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-07-07kmemleak: Add more cond_resched() calls in the scanning threadCatalin Marinas1-8/+11
Following recent fix to no longer reschedule in the scan_block() function, the system may become unresponsive with !PREEMPT. This patch re-adds the cond_resched() call to scan_block() but conditioned by the allow_resched parameter. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-07kmemleak: Renice the scanning thread to +10Catalin Marinas1-0/+1
This is a long-running thread but not high-priority. So it makes sense to renice it to +10. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-07-06Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds3-4/+8
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6: SLAB: Fix lockdep annotations fix RCU-callback-after-kmem_cache_destroy problem in sl[aou]b
2009-07-06Fix virt_to_phys() warningsKevin Cernekee1-1/+1
These warnings were observed on MIPS32 using 2.6.31-rc1 and gcc-4.2.0: mm/page_alloc.c: In function 'alloc_pages_exact': mm/page_alloc.c:1986: warning: passing argument 1 of 'virt_to_phys' makes pointer from integer without a cast drivers/usb/mon/mon_bin.c: In function 'mon_alloc_buff': drivers/usb/mon/mon_bin.c:1264: warning: passing argument 1 of 'virt_to_phys' makes pointer from integer without a cast [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kernel/perf_counter.c too] Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-06mm: mark page accessed before we write_end()Josef Bacik1-0/+1
In testing a backport of the write_begin/write_end AOPs, a 10% re-read regression was noticed when running iozone. This regression was introduced because the old AOPs would always do a mark_page_accessed(page) after the commit_write, but when the new AOPs where introduced, the only place this was kept was in pagecache_write_end(). This patch does the same thing in the generic case as what is done in pagecache_write_end(), which is just to mark the page accessed before we do write_end(). Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-06Merge branch 'slab/urgent' into for-linusPekka Enberg3-4/+8
2009-07-01Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6Linus Torvalds1-0/+21
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: sh: LCDC dcache flush for deferred io sh: Fix compiler error and include the definition of IS_ERR_VALUE sh: re-add LCDC fbdev support to the Migo-R defconfig sh: fix se7724 ceu names sh: ms7724se: Enable sh_eth in defconfig. arch/sh/boards/mach-se/7206/io.c: Remove unnecessary semicolons sh: ms7724se: Add sh_eth support nommu: provide follow_pfn(). sh: Kill off unused DEBUG_BOOTMEM symbol. perf_counter tools: add cpu_relax()/rmb() definitions for sh. sh64: Hook up page fault events for software perf counters. sh: Hook up page fault events for software perf counters. sh: make set_perf_counter_pending() static inline. clocksource: sh_tmu: Make undefined TCOR behaviour less undefined.
2009-07-01kmemleak: Fix scheduling-while-atomic bugIngo Molnar1-30/+1
One of the kmemleak changes caused the following scheduling-while-holding-the-tasklist-lock regression on x86: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/kmemleak.c:795 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 1737, name: kmemleak 2 locks held by kmemleak/1737: #0: (scan_mutex){......}, at: [<c10c4376>] kmemleak_scan_thread+0x45/0x86 #1: (tasklist_lock){......}, at: [<c10c3bb4>] kmemleak_scan+0x1a9/0x39c Pid: 1737, comm: kmemleak Not tainted 2.6.31-rc1-tip #59266 Call Trace: [<c105ac0f>] ? __debug_show_held_locks+0x1e/0x20 [<c102e490>] __might_sleep+0x10a/0x111 [<c10c38d5>] scan_yield+0x17/0x3b [<c10c3970>] scan_block+0x39/0xd4 [<c10c3bc6>] kmemleak_scan+0x1bb/0x39c [<c10c4331>] ? kmemleak_scan_thread+0x0/0x86 [<c10c437b>] kmemleak_scan_thread+0x4a/0x86 [<c104d73e>] kthread+0x6e/0x73 [<c104d6d0>] ? kthread+0x0/0x73 [<c100959f>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 kmemleak: 834 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) The bit causing it is highly dubious: static void scan_yield(void) { might_sleep(); if (time_is_before_eq_jiffies(next_scan_yield)) { schedule(); next_scan_yield = jiffies + jiffies_scan_yield; } } It called deep inside the codepath and in a conditional way, and that is what crapped up when one of the new scan_block() uses grew a tasklist_lock dependency. This minimal patch removes that yielding stuff and adds the proper cond_resched(). The background scanning thread could probably also be reniced to +10. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-30Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds1-96/+70
* 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6: kmemleak: Inform kmemleak about pid_hash kmemleak: Do not warn if an unknown object is freed kmemleak: Do not report new leaked objects if the scanning was stopped kmemleak: Slightly change the policy on newly allocated objects kmemleak: Do not trigger a scan when reading the debug/kmemleak file kmemleak: Simplify the reports logged by the scanning thread kmemleak: Enable task stacks scanning by default kmemleak: Allow the early log buffer to be configurable.
2009-06-30x86: only clear node_states for 64bitYinghai Lu1-6/+7
Nathan reported that | commit 73d60b7f747176dbdff826c4127d22e1fd3f9f74 | Author: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> | Date: Tue Jun 16 15:33:00 2009 -0700 | | page-allocator: clear N_HIGH_MEMORY map before we set it again | | SRAT tables may contains nodes of very small size. The arch code may | decide to not activate such a node. However, currently the early boot | code sets N_HIGH_MEMORY for such nodes. These nodes therefore seem to be | active although these nodes have no present pages. | | For 64bit N_HIGH_MEMORY == N_NORMAL_MEMORY, so that works for 64 bit too unintentionally and incorrectly clears the cpuset.mems cgroup attribute on an i386 kvm guest, meaning that cpuset.mems can not be used. Fix this by only clearing node_states[N_NORMAL_MEMORY] for 64bit only. and need to do save/restore for that in find_zone_movable_pfn Reported-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Tested-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-30mm: prevent balance_dirty_pages() from doing too much workRichard Kennedy1-1/+4
balance_dirty_pages can overreact and move all of the dirty pages to writeback unnecessarily. balance_dirty_pages makes its decision to throttle based on the number of dirty plus writeback pages that are over the calculated limit,so it will continue to move pages even when there are plenty of pages in writeback and less than the threshold still dirty. This allows it to overshoot its limits and move all the dirty pages to writeback while waiting for the drives to catch up and empty the writeback list. A simple fio test easily demonstrates this problem. fio --name=f1 --directory=/disk1 --size=2G -rw=write --name=f2 --directory=/disk2 --size=1G --rw=write --startdelay=10 This is the simplest fix I could find, but I'm not entirely sure that it alone will be enough for all cases. But it certainly is an improvement on my desktop machine writing to 2 disks. Do we need something more for machines with large arrays where bdi_threshold * number_of_drives is greater than the dirty_ratio ? Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-30dmapools: protect page_list walk in show_pools()Thomas Gleixner1-0/+2
show_pools() walks the page_list of a pool w/o protection against the list modifications in alloc/free. Take pool->lock to avoid stomping into nirvana. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-29kmemleak: Do not warn if an unknown object is freedCatalin Marinas1-0/+2
vmap'ed memory blocks are not tracked by kmemleak (yet) but they may be released with vfree() which is tracked. The corresponding kmemleak warning is only enabled in debug mode. Future patch will add support for ioremap and vmap. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-29kmemleak: Do not report new leaked objects if the scanning was stoppedCatalin Marinas1-5/+10
If the scanning was stopped with a signal, it is possible that some objects are left with a white colour (potential leaks) and reported. Add a check to avoid reporting such objects. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-29SLAB: Fix lockdep annotationsPekka Enberg1-3/+3
Commit 8429db5... ("slab: setup cpu caches later on when interrupts are enabled") broke mm/slab.c lockdep annotations: [ 11.554715] ============================================= [ 11.555249] [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] [ 11.555560] 2.6.31-rc1 #896 [ 11.555861] --------------------------------------------- [ 11.556127] udevd/1899 is trying to acquire lock: [ 11.556436] (&nc->lock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff810c337f>] kmem_cache_free+0xcd/0x25b [ 11.557101] [ 11.557102] but task is already holding lock: [ 11.557706] (&nc->lock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff810c3cd0>] kfree+0x137/0x292 [ 11.558109] [ 11.558109] other info that might help us debug this: [ 11.558720] 2 locks held by udevd/1899: [ 11.558983] #0: (&nc->lock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff810c3cd0>] kfree+0x137/0x292 [ 11.559734] #1: (&parent->list_lock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff810c36c7>] __drain_alien_cache+0x3b/0xbd [ 11.560442] [ 11.560443] stack backtrace: [ 11.561009] Pid: 1899, comm: udevd Not tainted 2.6.31-rc1 #896 [ 11.561276] Call Trace: [ 11.561632] [<ffffffff81065ed6>] __lock_acquire+0x15ec/0x168f [ 11.561901] [<ffffffff81065f60>] ? __lock_acquire+0x1676/0x168f [ 11.562171] [<ffffffff81063c52>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x113/0x13e [ 11.562490] [<ffffffff8150c337>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f [ 11.562807] [<ffffffff8106603a>] lock_acquire+0xc1/0xe5 [ 11.563073] [<ffffffff810c337f>] ? kmem_cache_free+0xcd/0x25b [ 11.563385] [<ffffffff8150c8fc>] _spin_lock+0x31/0x66 [ 11.563696] [<ffffffff810c337f>] ? kmem_cache_free+0xcd/0x25b [ 11.563964] [<ffffffff810c337f>] kmem_cache_free+0xcd/0x25b [ 11.564235] [<ffffffff8109bf8c>] ? __free_pages+0x1b/0x24 [ 11.564551] [<ffffffff810c3564>] slab_destroy+0x57/0x5c [ 11.564860] [<ffffffff810c3641>] free_block+0xd8/0x123 [ 11.565126] [<ffffffff810c372e>] __drain_alien_cache+0xa2/0xbd [ 11.565441] [<ffffffff810c3ce5>] kfree+0x14c/0x292 [ 11.565752] [<ffffffff8144a007>] skb_release_data+0xc6/0xcb [ 11.566020] [<ffffffff81449cf0>] __kfree_skb+0x19/0x86 [ 11.566286] [<ffffffff81449d88>] consume_skb+0x2b/0x2d [ 11.566631] [<ffffffff8144cbe0>] skb_free_datagram+0x14/0x3a [ 11.566901] [<ffffffff81462eef>] netlink_recvmsg+0x164/0x258 [ 11.567170] [<ffffffff81443461>] sock_recvmsg+0xe5/0xfe [ 11.567486] [<ffffffff810ab063>] ? might_fault+0xaf/0xb1 [ 11.567802] [<ffffffff81053a78>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x38 [ 11.568073] [<ffffffff810d84ca>] ? core_sys_select+0x3d/0x2b4 [ 11.568378] [<ffffffff81065f60>] ? __lock_acquire+0x1676/0x168f [ 11.568693] [<ffffffff81442dc1>] ? sockfd_lookup_light+0x1b/0x54 [ 11.568961] [<ffffffff81444416>] sys_recvfrom+0xa3/0xf8 [ 11.569228] [<ffffffff81063c8a>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf [ 11.569546] [<ffffffff8100af2b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b# Fix that up. Closes-bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13654 Tested-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-28Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-10/+14
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, delay: tsc based udelay should have rdtsc_barrier x86, setup: correct include file in <asm/boot.h> x86, setup: Fix typo "CONFIG_x86_64" in <asm/boot.h> x86, mce: percpu mcheck_timer should be pinned x86: Add sysctl to allow panic on IOCK NMI error x86: Fix uv bau sending buffer initialization x86, mce: Fix mce resume on 32bit x86: Move init_gbpages() to setup_arch() x86: ensure percpu lpage doesn't consume too much vmalloc space x86: implement percpu_alloc kernel parameter x86: fix pageattr handling for lpage percpu allocator and re-enable it x86: reorganize cpa_process_alias() x86: prepare setup_pcpu_lpage() for pageattr fix x86: rename remap percpu first chunk allocator to lpage x86: fix duplicate free in setup_pcpu_remap() failure path percpu: fix too lazy vunmap cache flushing x86: Set cpu_llc_id on AMD CPUs
2009-06-26kmemleak: Slightly change the policy on newly allocated objectsCatalin Marinas1-1/+6
Newly allocated objects are more likely to be reported as false positives. Kmemleak ignores the reporting of objects younger than 5 seconds. However, this age was calculated after the memory scanning completed which usually takes longer than 5 seconds. This patch make the minimum object age calculation in relation to the start of the memory scanning. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-26kmemleak: Do not trigger a scan when reading the debug/kmemleak fileCatalin Marinas1-50/+40
Since there is a kernel thread for automatically scanning the memory, it makes sense for the debug/kmemleak file to only show its findings. This patch also adds support for "echo scan > debug/kmemleak" to trigger an intermediate memory scan and eliminates the kmemleak_mutex (scan_mutex covers all the cases now). Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-26kmemleak: Simplify the reports logged by the scanning threadCatalin Marinas1-45/+16
Because of false positives, the memory scanning thread may print too much information. This patch changes the scanning thread to only print the number of newly suspected leaks. Further information can be read from the /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak file. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-26kmemleak: Enable task stacks scanning by defaultCatalin Marinas1-1/+1
This is to reduce the number of false positives reported. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-26fix RCU-callback-after-kmem_cache_destroy problem in sl[aou]bPaul E. McKenney3-1/+5
Jesper noted that kmem_cache_destroy() invokes synchronize_rcu() rather than rcu_barrier() in the SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU case, which could result in RCU callbacks accessing a kmem_cache after it had been destroyed. Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-06-26nommu: provide follow_pfn().Paul Mundt1-0/+21
With the introduction of follow_pfn() as an exported symbol, modules have begun making use of it. Unfortunately this was not reflected on nommu at the time, so the in-tree users have subsequently all blown up with link errors there. This provides a simple follow_pfn() that just returns addr >> PAGE_SHIFT, which will do the right thing on nommu. There is no need to do range checking within the vma, as the find_vma() case will already take care of this. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2009-06-25clarify get_user_pages() prototypePeter Zijlstra2-21/+17
Currently the 4th parameter of get_user_pages() is called len, but its in pages, not bytes. Rename the thing to nr_pages to avoid future confusion. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-25kmemleak: Allow the early log buffer to be configurable.Catalin Marinas1-2/+3
(feature suggested by Sergey Senozhatsky) Kmemleak needs to track all the memory allocations but some of these happen before kmemleak is initialised. These are stored in an internal buffer which may be exceeded in some kernel configurations. This patch adds a configuration option with a default value of 400 and also removes the stack dump when the early log buffer is exceeded. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@mail.by>
2009-06-24Merge branches 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-4/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/{vfs-2.6,audit-current} * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: another race fix in jfs_check_acl() Get "no acls for this inode" right, fix shmem breakage inline functions left without protection of ifdef (acl) * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current: audit: inode watches depend on CONFIG_AUDIT not CONFIG_AUDIT_SYSCALL
2009-06-24Get "no acls for this inode" right, fix shmem breakageAl Viro1-4/+1
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-24SLUB: Don't pass __GFP_FAIL for the initial allocationPekka Enberg1-2/+8
SLUB uses higher order allocations by default but falls back to small orders under memory pressure. Make sure the GFP mask used in the initial allocation doesn't include __GFP_NOFAIL. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-24Don't warn about order-1 allocations with __GFP_NOFAILLinus Torvalds1-2/+2
Traditionally, we never failed small orders (even regardless of any __GFP_NOFAIL flags), and slab will allocate order-1 allocations even for small allocations that could fit in a single page (in order to avoid excessive fragmentation). Maybe we should remove this warning entirely, but before making that judgement, at least limit it to bigger allocations. Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-24switch shmem to inode->i_aclAl Viro2-28/+10
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-23mm: fix handling of pagesets for downed cpusDimitri Sivanich1-3/+3
After downing/upping a cpu, an attempt to set /proc/sys/vm/percpu_pagelist_fraction results in an oops in percpu_pagelist_fraction_sysctl_handler(). If a processor is downed then we need to set the pageset pointer back to the boot pageset. Updates of the high water marks should not access pagesets of unpopulated zones (those pointer go to the boot pagesets which would be no longer functional if their size would be increased beyond zero). Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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