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2008-01-17#ifdef very expensive debug check in page fault pathCarsten Otte1-0/+2
This patch puts #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM around a check in vm_normal_page that verifies that a pfn is valid. This patch increases performance of the page fault microbenchmark in lmbench by 13% and overall dbench performance by 7% on s390x. pfn_valid() is an expensive operation on s390 that needs a high double digit amount of CPU cycles. Nick Piggin suggested that pfn_valid() involves an array lookup on systems with sparsemem, and therefore is an expensive operation there too. The check looks like a clear debug thing to me, it should never trigger on regular kernels. And if a pte is created for an invalid pfn, we'll find out once the memory gets accessed later on anyway. Please consider inclusion of this patch into mm. Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-17mm: fix section mismatch warning in page_alloc.cSam Ravnborg1-1/+1
With CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n and CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y we saw following warning: WARNING: mm/built-in.o(.text+0x6864): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'process_zones' and 'pageset_cpuup_callback') The culprit was zone_batchsize() which were annotated __devinit but used from process_zones() which is annotated __cpuinit. zone_batchsize() are used from another function annotated __meminit so the only valid option is to drop the annotation of zone_batchsize() so we know it is always valid to use it. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-14Revert "writeback: introduce writeback_control.more_io to indicate more io"Linus Torvalds1-6/+3
This reverts commit 2e6883bdf49abd0e7f0d9b6297fc3be7ebb2250b, as requested by Fengguang Wu. It's not quite fully baked yet, and while there are patches around to fix the problems it caused, they should get more testing. Says Fengguang: "I'll resend them both for -mm later on, in a more complete patchset". See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9738 for some of this discussion. Requested-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-14hugetlbfs: fix quota leakKen Chen1-3/+10
In the error path of both shared and private hugetlb page allocation, the file system quota is never undone, leading to fs quota leak. Fix them up. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup, micro-optimise] Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-14quicklists: Only consider memory that can be used with GFP_KERNELChristoph Lameter1-2/+10
Quicklists calculates the size of the quicklists based on the number of free pages. This must be the number of free pages that can be allocated with GFP_KERNEL. node_page_state() includes the pages in ZONE_HIGHMEM and ZONE_MOVABLE which may lead the quicklists to become too large causing OOM. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Tested-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-08Fix crash with FLAT_MEMORY and ARCH_PFN_OFFSET != 0Thomas Bogendoerfer1-1/+1
When using FLAT_MEMORY and ARCH_PFN_OFFSET is not 0, the kernel crashes in memmap_init_zone(). This bug got introduced by commit c713216deebd95d2b0ab38fef8bb2361c0180c2d Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: "Keith Mannthey" <kmannth@gmail.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-08xip: fix get_zeroed_page with __GFP_HIGHMEMAkinobu Mita1-4/+5
The use of get_zeroed_page() with __GFP_HIGHMEM is invalid. Use alloc_page() with __GFP_ZERO instead of invalid get_zeroed_page(). (This patch is only compile tested) Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-02Unify /proc/slabinfo configurationLinus Torvalds2-3/+10
Both SLUB and SLAB really did almost exactly the same thing for /proc/slabinfo setup, using duplicate code and per-allocator #ifdef's. This just creates a common CONFIG_SLABINFO that is enabled by both SLUB and SLAB, and shares all the setup code. Maybe SLOB will want this some day too. Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-01slub: provide /proc/slabinfoPekka J Enberg1-13/+92
This adds a read-only /proc/slabinfo file on SLUB, that makes slabtop work. [ mingo@elte.hu: build fix. ] Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-21SLUB: Improve hackbench speedChristoph Lameter1-2/+2
Increase the mininum number of partial slabs to keep around and put partial slabs to the end of the partial queue so that they can add more objects. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-19Do dirty page accounting when removing a page from the page cacheLinus Torvalds1-0/+12
Krzysztof Oledzki noticed a dirty page accounting leak on some of his machines, causing the machine to eventually lock up when the kernel decided that there was too much dirty data, but nobody could actually write anything out to fix it. The culprit turns out to be filesystems (cough ext3 with data=journal cough) that re-dirty the page when the "->invalidatepage()" callback is called. Fix it up by doing a final dirty page accounting check when we actually remove the page from the page cache. This fixes bugzilla entry 9182: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9182 Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Krzysztof Oledzki <olel@ans.pl> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-17SLUB: remove useless masking of GFP_ZEROChristoph Lameter1-3/+0
Remove a recently added useless masking of GFP_ZERO. GFP_ZERO is already masked out in new_slab() (See how it calls allocate_slab). No need to do it twice. This reverts the SLUB parts of 7fd272550bd43cc1d7289ef0ab2fa50de137e767. Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-17Revert "hugetlb: Add hugetlb_dynamic_pool sysctl"Nishanth Aravamudan1-5/+0
This reverts commit 54f9f80d6543fb7b157d3b11e2e7911dc1379790 ("hugetlb: Add hugetlb_dynamic_pool sysctl") Given the new sysctl nr_overcommit_hugepages, the boolean dynamic pool sysctl is not needed, as its semantics can be expressed by 0 in the overcommit sysctl (no dynamic pool) and non-0 in the overcommit sysctl (pool enabled). (Needed in 2.6.24 since it reverts a post-2.6.23 userspace-visible change) Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-17hugetlb: introduce nr_overcommit_hugepages sysctlNishanth Aravamudan1-6/+61
hugetlb: introduce nr_overcommit_hugepages sysctl While examining the code to support /proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_dynamic_pool, I became convinced that having a boolean sysctl was insufficient: 1) To support per-node control of hugepages, I have previously submitted patches to add a sysfs attribute related to nr_hugepages. However, with a boolean global value and per-mount quota enforcement constraining the dynamic pool, adding corresponding control of the dynamic pool on a per-node basis seems inconsistent to me. 2) Administration of the hugetlb dynamic pool with multiple hugetlbfs mount points is, arguably, more arduous than it needs to be. Each quota would need to be set separately, and the sum would need to be monitored. To ease the administration, and to help make the way for per-node control of the static & dynamic hugepage pool, I added a separate sysctl, nr_overcommit_hugepages. This value serves as a high watermark for the overall hugepage pool, while nr_hugepages serves as a low watermark. The boolean sysctl can then be removed, as the condition nr_overcommit_hugepages > 0 indicates the same administrative setting as hugetlb_dynamic_pool == 1 Quotas still serve as local enforcement of the size of the pool on a per-mount basis. A few caveats: 1) There is a race whereby the global surplus huge page counter is incremented before a hugepage has allocated. Another process could then try grow the pool, and fail to convert a surplus huge page to a normal huge page and instead allocate a fresh huge page. I believe this is benign, as no memory is leaked (the actual pages are still tracked correctly) and the counters won't go out of sync. 2) Shrinking the static pool while a surplus is in effect will allow the number of surplus huge pages to exceed the overcommit value. As long as this condition holds, however, no more surplus huge pages will be allowed on the system until one of the two sysctls are increased sufficiently, or the surplus huge pages go out of use and are freed. Successfully tested on x86_64 with the current libhugetlbfs snapshot, modified to use the new sysctl. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-17mm: fix page allocation for larger I/O segmentsMel Gorman1-0/+11
In some cases the IO subsystem is able to merge requests if the pages are adjacent in physical memory. This was achieved in the allocator by having expand() return pages in physically contiguous order in situations were a large buddy was split. However, list-based anti-fragmentation changed the order pages were returned in to avoid searching in buffered_rmqueue() for a page of the appropriate migrate type. This patch restores behaviour of rmqueue_bulk() preserving the physical order of pages returned by the allocator without incurring increased search costs for anti-fragmentation. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-17mm/sparse.c: improve the error handling for sparse_add_one_section()WANG Cong1-6/+12
Improve the error handling for mm/sparse.c::sparse_add_one_section(). And I see no reason to check 'usemap' until holding the 'pgdat_resize_lock'. [geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com: sparse_index_init() returns -EEXIST] Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-17mm/sparse.c: check the return value of sparse_index_alloc()WANG Cong1-0/+2
Since sparse_index_alloc() can return NULL on memory allocation failure, we must deal with the failure condition when calling it. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.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>
2007-12-17sparsemem: make SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP selectableGeoff Levand1-8/+7
SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP needs to be a selectable config option to support building the kernel both with and without sparsemem vmemmap support. This selection is desirable for platforms which could be configured one way for platform specific builds and the other for multi-platform builds. Signed-off-by: Miguel Botón <mboton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Acked-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-10hugetlb: handle write-protection faults in follow_hugetlb_pageAdam Litke1-1/+1
The follow_hugetlb_page() fix I posted (merged as git commit 5b23dbe8173c212d6a326e35347b038705603d39) missed one case. If the pte is present, but not writable and write access is requested by the caller to get_user_pages(), the code will do the wrong thing. Rather than calling hugetlb_fault to make the pte writable, it notes the presence of the pte and continues. This simple one-liner makes sure we also fault on the pte for this case. Please apply. Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-09Avoid double memclear() in SLOB/SLUBLinus Torvalds2-1/+4
Both slob and slub react to __GFP_ZERO by clearing the allocation, which means that passing the GFP_ZERO bit down to the page allocator is just wasteful and pointless. Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-05Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-2/+12
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6: VM/Security: add security hook to do_brk Security: round mmap hint address above mmap_min_addr security: protect from stack expantion into low vm addresses Security: allow capable check to permit mmap or low vm space SELinux: detect dead booleans SELinux: do not clear f_op when removing entries
2007-12-05VM/Security: add security hook to do_brkEric Paris1-0/+4
Given a specifically crafted binary do_brk() can be used to get low pages available in userspace virtual memory and can thus be used to circumvent the mmap_min_addr low memory protection. Add security checks in do_brk(). Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-05SLUB's ksize() fails for size > 2048Vegard Nossum1-1/+5
I can't pass memory allocated by kmalloc() to ksize() if it is allocated by SLUB allocator and size is larger than (I guess) PAGE_SIZE / 2. The error of ksize() seems to be that it does not check if the allocation was made by SLUB or the page allocator. Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Tested-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>, Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-05mm: fix XIP file writesNick Piggin1-1/+1
Writing to XIP files at a non-page-aligned offset results in data corruption because the writes were always sent to the start of the page. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-05Add EXPORT_SYMBOL(ksize);Tetsuo Handa2-0/+2
mm/slub.c exports ksize(), but mm/slob.c and mm/slab.c don't. It's used by binfmt_flat, which can be built as a module. Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-05mm/backing-dev.c: fix percpu_counter_destroy call bug in bdi_initDenis Cheng1-2/+2
this call should use the array index j, not i. But with this approach, just one int i is enough, int j is not needed. Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-06VM/Security: add security hook to do_brkEric Paris1-0/+4
Given a specifically crafted binary do_brk() can be used to get low pages available in userspace virtually memory and can thus be used to circumvent the mmap_min_addr low memory protection. Add security checks in do_brk(). Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2007-12-06Security: round mmap hint address above mmap_min_addrEric Paris2-0/+6
If mmap_min_addr is set and a process attempts to mmap (not fixed) with a non-null hint address less than mmap_min_addr the mapping will fail the security checks. Since this is just a hint address this patch will round such a hint address above mmap_min_addr. gcj was found to try to be very frugal with vm usage and give hint addresses in the 8k-32k range. Without this patch all such programs failed and with the patch they happily get a higher address. This patch is wrappad in CONFIG_SECURITY since mmap_min_addr doesn't exist without it and there would be no security check possible no matter what. So we should not bother compiling in this rounding if it is just a waste of time. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2007-12-06security: protect from stack expantion into low vm addressesEric Paris1-2/+6
Add security checks to make sure we are not attempting to expand the stack into memory protected by mmap_min_addr Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2007-11-30Fix kmem_cache_free performance regression in slabMatthew Wilcox1-2/+2
The database performance group have found that half the cycles spent in kmem_cache_free are spent in this one call to BUG_ON. Moving it into the CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG-only function cache_free_debugcheck() is a performance win of almost 0.5% on their particular benchmark. The call was added as part of commit ddc2e812d592457747c4367fb73edcaa8e1e49ff with the comment that "overhead should be minimal". It may have been minimal at the time, but it isn't now. [ Quoth Pekka Enberg: "I don't think the BUG_ON per se caused the performance regression but rather the virt_to_head_page() changes to virt_to_cache() that were added later." ] Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-29memory hotplug fix: fix section mismatch in vmammap_allock_block()KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki1-1/+11
Fixes section mismatch below. WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x946b5): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:' __alloc_bootmem_node (between 'vmemmap_alloc_block' and 'vmemmap_pgd_populate') Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-29Fix boot problem with iSeries lacking hugepage supportMel Gorman1-2/+21
Ordinarily the size of a pageblock is determined at compile-time based on the hugepage size. On PPC64, the hugepage size is determined at runtime based on what is supported by the machine. With legacy machines such as iSeries that do not support hugepages, HPAGE_SHIFT is 0. This results in pageblock_order being set to -PAGE_SHIFT and a crash results shortly afterwards. This patch adds a function to select a sensible value for pageblock order by default when HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE is set. It checks that HPAGE_SHIFT is a sensible value before using the hugepage size; if it is not MAX_ORDER-1 is used. This is a fix for 2.6.24. Credit goes to Stephen Rothwell for identifying the bug and testing candidate patches. Additional credit goes to Andy Whitcroft for spotting a problem with respects to IA-64 before releasing. Additional credit to David Gibson for testing with the libhugetlbfs test suite. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Tested-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-28prep_zero_page: remove bogus BUG_ONHugh Dickins1-1/+0
2.6.11 gave __GFP_ZERO's prep_zero_page a bogus "highmem may have to wait" assertion. Presumably added under the misconception that clear_highpage uses nonatomic kmap; but then and now it uses kmap_atomic, so no problem. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-28tmpfs: restore missing clear_highpageHugh Dickins1-2/+3
tmpfs was misconverted to __GFP_ZERO in 2.6.11. There's an unusual case in which shmem_getpage receives the page from its caller instead of allocating. We must cover this case by clear_highpage before SetPageUptodate, as before. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-20[S390] Optimize storage key handling for anonymous pagesChristian Borntraeger1-4/+5
page_mkclean used to call page_clear_dirty for every given page. This is different to all other architectures, where the dirty bit in the PTEs is only resetted, if page_mapping() returns a non-NULL pointer. We can move the page_test_dirty/page_clear_dirty sequence into the 2nd if to avoid unnecessary iske/sske sequences, which are expensive. This change also helps kvm for s390 as the host must transfer the dirty bit into the guest status bits. By moving the page_clear_dirty operation into the 2nd if, the vm will only call page_clear_dirty for pages where it walks the mapping anyway. There it calls ptep_clear_flush for writable ptes, so we can transfer the dirty bit to the guest. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-11-15dirty page balancing: Get rid of broken unmapped_ratio logicLinus Torvalds1-8/+0
This code harks back to the days when we didn't count dirty mapped pages, which led us to try to balance the number of dirty unmapped pages by how much unmapped memory there was in the system. That makes no sense any more, since now the dirty counts include the mapped pages. Not to mention that the math doesn't work with HIGHMEM machines anyway, and causes the unmapped_ratio to potentially turn negative (which we do catch thanks to clamping it at a minimum value, but I mention that as an indication of how broken the code is). The code also was written at a time when the default dirty ratio was much larger, and the unmapped_ratio logic effectively capped that large dirty ratio a bit. Again, we've since lowered the dirty ratio rather aggressively, further lessening the point of that code. Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-15slob: fix memory corruptionNick Piggin1-1/+2
Previously, it would be possible for prev->next to point to &free_slob_pages, and thus we would try to move a list onto itself, and bad things would happen. It seems a bit hairy to be doing list operations with the list marker as an entry, rather than a head, but... this resolves the following crash: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9379 Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14Swap delay accounting, include lock_page() delaysBalbir Singh1-1/+1
The delay incurred in lock_page() should also be accounted in swap delay accounting Reported-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14vmstat: fix section mismatch warningRandy Dunlap1-1/+1
Mark start_cpu_timer() as __cpuinit instead of __devinit. Fixes this section warning: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x60e53): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:start_cpu_timer (between 'vmstat_cpuup_callback' and 'vmstat_show') Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14fix mm/util.c:krealloc()Adrian Bunk1-2/+2
Commit ef8b4520bd9f8294ffce9abd6158085bde5dc902 added one NULL check for "p" in krealloc(), but that doesn't seem to be enough since there doesn't seem to be any guarantee that memcpy(ret, NULL, 0) works (spotted by the Coverity checker). For making it clearer what happens this patch also removes the pointless min(). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14hugetlb: fix i_blocks accountingKen Chen1-0/+10
For administrative purpose, we want to query actual block usage for hugetlbfs file via fstat. Currently, hugetlbfs always return 0. Fix that up since kernel already has all the information to track it properly. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14mm/hugetlb.c: make a function staticAdrian Bunk1-1/+1
return_unused_surplus_pages() can become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14hugetlb: enforce quotas during reservation for shared mappingsAdam Litke1-10/+13
When a MAP_SHARED mmap of a hugetlbfs file succeeds, huge pages are reserved to guarantee no problems will occur later when instantiating pages. If quotas are in force, page instantiation could fail due to a race with another process or an oversized (but approved) shared mapping. To prevent these scenarios, debit the quota for the full reservation amount up front and credit the unused quota when the reservation is released. Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14hugetlb: allow bulk updating in hugetlb_*_quota()Adam Litke1-2/+2
Add a second parameter 'delta' to hugetlb_get_quota and hugetlb_put_quota to allow bulk updating of the sbinfo->free_blocks counter. This will be used by the next patch in the series. Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14hugetlb: debit quota in alloc_huge_pageAdam Litke1-12/+12
Now that quota is credited by free_huge_page(), calls to hugetlb_get_quota() seem out of place. The alloc/free API is unbalanced because we handle the hugetlb_put_quota() but expect the caller to open-code hugetlb_get_quota(). Move the get inside alloc_huge_page to clean up this disparity. This patch has been kept apart from the previous patch because of the somewhat dodgy ERR_PTR() use herein. Moving the quota logic means that alloc_huge_page() has two failure modes. Quota failure must result in a SIGBUS while a standard allocation failure is OOM. Unfortunately, ERR_PTR() doesn't like the small positive errnos we have in VM_FAULT_* so they must be negated before they are used. Does anyone take issue with the way I am using PTR_ERR. If so, what are your thoughts on how to clean this up (without needing an if,else if,else block at each alloc_huge_page() callsite)? Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14hugetlb: fix quota management for private mappingsAdam Litke1-3/+10
The hugetlbfs quota management system was never taught to handle MAP_PRIVATE mappings when that support was added. Currently, quota is debited at page instantiation and credited at file truncation. This approach works correctly for shared pages but is incomplete for private pages. In addition to hugetlb_no_page(), private pages can be instantiated by hugetlb_cow(); but this function does not respect quotas. Private huge pages are treated very much like normal, anonymous pages. They are not "backed" by the hugetlbfs file and are not stored in the mapping's radix tree. This means that private pages are invisible to truncate_hugepages() so that function will not credit the quota. This patch (based on a prototype provided by Ken Chen) moves quota crediting for all pages into free_huge_page(). page->private is used to store a pointer to the mapping to which this page belongs. This is used to credit quota on the appropriate hugetlbfs instance. Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14hugetlb: split alloc_huge_page into private and shared componentsAdam Litke1-19/+27
Hugetlbfs implements a quota system which can limit the amount of memory that can be used by the filesystem. Before allocating a new huge page for a file, the quota is checked and debited. The quota is then credited when truncating the file. I found a few bugs in the code for both MAP_PRIVATE and MAP_SHARED mappings. Before detailing the problems and my proposed solutions, we should agree on a definition of quotas that properly addresses both private and shared pages. Since the purpose of quotas is to limit total memory consumption on a per-filesystem basis, I argue that all pages allocated by the fs (private and shared) should be charged against quota. Private Mappings ================ The current code will debit quota for private pages sometimes, but will never credit it. At a minimum, this causes a leak in the quota accounting which renders the accounting essentially useless as it is. Shared pages have a one to one mapping with a hugetlbfs file and are easy to account by debiting on allocation and crediting on truncate. Private pages are anonymous in nature and have a many to one relationship with their hugetlbfs files (due to copy on write). Because private pages are not indexed by the mapping's radix tree, thier quota cannot be credited at file truncation time. Crediting must be done when the page is unmapped and freed. Shared Pages ============ I discovered an issue concerning the interaction between the MAP_SHARED reservation system and quotas. Since quota is not checked until page instantiation, an over-quota mmap/reservation will initially succeed. When instantiating the first over-quota page, the program will receive SIGBUS. This is inconsistent since the reservation is supposed to be a guarantee. The solution is to debit the full amount of quota at reservation time and credit the unused portion when the reservation is released. This patch series brings quotas back in line by making the following modifications: * Private pages - Debit quota in alloc_huge_page() - Credit quota in free_huge_page() * Shared pages - Debit quota for entire reservation at mmap time - Credit quota for instantiated pages in free_huge_page() - Credit quota for unused reservation at munmap time This patch: The shared page reservation and dynamic pool resizing features have made the allocation of private vs. shared huge pages quite different. By splitting out the private/shared-specific portions of the process into their own functions, readability is greatly improved. alloc_huge_page now calls the proper helper and performs common operations. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups] Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14hugetlb: follow_hugetlb_page() for write accessAdam Litke2-3/+4
When calling get_user_pages(), a write flag is passed in by the caller to indicate if write access is required on the faulted-in pages. Currently, follow_hugetlb_page() ignores this flag and always faults pages for read-only access. This can cause data corruption because a device driver that calls get_user_pages() with write set will not expect COW faults to occur on the returned pages. This patch passes the write flag down to follow_hugetlb_page() and makes sure hugetlb_fault() is called with the right write_access parameter. [ezk@cs.sunysb.edu: build fix] Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Cc: David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14Add IORESOUCE_BUSY flag for System RAMYasunori Goto1-1/+1
i386 and x86-64 registers System RAM as IORESOURCE_MEM | IORESOURCE_BUSY. But ia64 registers it as IORESOURCE_MEM only. In addition, memory hotplug code registers new memory as IORESOURCE_MEM too. This difference causes a failure of memory unplug of x86-64. This patch fixes it. This patch adds IORESOURCE_BUSY to avoid potential overlap mapping by PCI device. Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14mm: speed up writeback ramp-up on clean systemsPeter Zijlstra1-2/+17
We allow violation of bdi limits if there is a lot of room on the system. Once we hit half the total limit we start enforcing bdi limits and bdi ramp-up should happen. Doing it this way avoids many small writeouts on an otherwise idle system and should also speed up the ramp-up. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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