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2011-01-13mm: convert sprintf_symbol to %pSJoe Perches2-14/+6
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13mm: find_get_pages_contig fixletNick Piggin1-3/+10
Testing ->mapping and ->index without a ref is not stable as the page may have been reused at this point. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13vmscan: factor out kswapd sleeping logic from kswapd()KOSAKI Motohiro1-46/+46
Currently, kswapd() has deep nesting and is slightly hard to read. Clean this up. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13mm/page-writeback.c: fix __set_page_dirty_no_writeback() return valueBob Liu1-1/+1
__set_page_dirty_no_writeback() should return true if it actually transitioned the page from a clean to dirty state although it seems nobody uses its return value at present. Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com> Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13mm: vmstat: use a single setter function and callback for adjusting percpu ↵Mel Gorman2-31/+24
thresholds reduce_pgdat_percpu_threshold() and restore_pgdat_percpu_threshold() exist to adjust the per-cpu vmstat thresholds while kswapd is awake to avoid errors due to counter drift. The functions duplicate some code so this patch replaces them with a single set_pgdat_percpu_threshold() that takes a callback function to calculate the desired threshold as a parameter. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: readability tweak] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: set_pgdat_percpu_threshold(): don't use for_each_online_cpu] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: 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>
2011-01-13mm: page allocator: adjust the per-cpu counter threshold when memory is lowMel Gorman4-40/+107
Commit aa45484 ("calculate a better estimate of NR_FREE_PAGES when memory is low") noted that watermarks were based on the vmstat NR_FREE_PAGES. To avoid synchronization overhead, these counters are maintained on a per-cpu basis and drained both periodically and when a threshold is above a threshold. On large CPU systems, the difference between the estimate and real value of NR_FREE_PAGES can be very high. The system can get into a case where pages are allocated far below the min watermark potentially causing livelock issues. The commit solved the problem by taking a better reading of NR_FREE_PAGES when memory was low. Unfortately, as reported by Shaohua Li this accurate reading can consume a large amount of CPU time on systems with many sockets due to cache line bouncing. This patch takes a different approach. For large machines where counter drift might be unsafe and while kswapd is awake, the per-cpu thresholds for the target pgdat are reduced to limit the level of drift to what should be a safe level. This incurs a performance penalty in heavy memory pressure by a factor that depends on the workload and the machine but the machine should function correctly without accidentally exhausting all memory on a node. There is an additional cost when kswapd wakes and sleeps but the event is not expected to be frequent - in Shaohua's test case, there was one recorded sleep and wake event at least. To ensure that kswapd wakes up, a safe version of zone_watermark_ok() is introduced that takes a more accurate reading of NR_FREE_PAGES when called from wakeup_kswapd, when deciding whether it is really safe to go back to sleep in sleeping_prematurely() and when deciding if a zone is really balanced or not in balance_pgdat(). We are still using an expensive function but limiting how often it is called. When the test case is reproduced, the time spent in the watermark functions is reduced. The following report is on the percentage of time spent cumulatively spent in the functions zone_nr_free_pages(), zone_watermark_ok(), __zone_watermark_ok(), zone_watermark_ok_safe(), zone_page_state_snapshot(), zone_page_state(). vanilla 11.6615% disable-threshold 0.2584% David said: : We had to pull aa454840 "mm: page allocator: calculate a better estimate : of NR_FREE_PAGES when memory is low and kswapd is awake" from 2.6.36 : internally because tests showed that it would cause the machine to stall : as the result of heavy kswapd activity. I merged it back with this fix as : it is pending in the -mm tree and it solves the issue we were seeing, so I : definitely think this should be pushed to -stable (and I would seriously : consider it for 2.6.37 inclusion even at this late date). Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reported-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Tested-by: Nicolas Bareil <nico@chdir.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.37.1, 2.6.36.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13Merge branch 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds1-3/+4
* 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (43 commits) block: ensure that completion error gets properly traced blktrace: add missing probe argument to block_bio_complete block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_group block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_queue block: trace event block fix unassigned field block: add internal hd part table references block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges kref: add kref_test_and_get bio-integrity: mark kintegrityd_wq highpri and CPU intensive block: make kblockd_workqueue smarter Revert "sd: implement sd_check_events()" block: Clean up exit_io_context() source code. Fix compile warnings due to missing removal of a 'ret' variable fs/block: type signature of major_to_index(int) to major_to_index(unsigned) block: convert !IS_ERR(p) && p to !IS_ERR_NOR_NULL(p) cfq-iosched: don't check cfqg in choose_service_tree() fs/splice: Pull buf->ops->confirm() from splice_from_pipe actors cdrom: export cdrom_check_events() sd: implement sd_check_events() sr: implement sr_check_events() ...
2011-01-13Merge branch 'for-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds5-5/+5
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits) Documentation/trace/events.txt: Remove obsolete sched_signal_send. writeback: fix global_dirty_limits comment runtime -> real-time ppc: fix comment typo singal -> signal drivers: fix comment typo diable -> disable. m68k: fix comment typo diable -> disable. wireless: comment typo fix diable -> disable. media: comment typo fix diable -> disable. remove doc for obsolete dynamic-printk kernel-parameter remove extraneous 'is' from Documentation/iostats.txt Fix spelling milisec -> ms in snd_ps3 module parameter description Fix spelling mistakes in comments Revert conflicting V4L changes i7core_edac: fix typos in comments mm/rmap.c: fix comment sound, ca0106: Fix assignment to 'channel'. hrtimer: fix a typo in comment init/Kconfig: fix typo anon_inodes: fix wrong function name in comment fix comment typos concerning "consistent" poll: fix a typo in comment ... Fix up trivial conflicts in: - drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c (moved to iwl-legacy.c) - fs/ext4/ext4.h Also fix missed 'diabled' typo in drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h while at it.
2011-01-10Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-22/+46
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: slub: Fix a crash during slabinfo -v tracing/slab: Move kmalloc tracepoint out of inline code slub: Fix slub_lock down/up imbalance slub: Fix build breakage in Documentation/vm slub tracing: move trace calls out of always inlined functions to reduce kernel code size slub: move slabinfo.c to tools/slub/slabinfo.c
2011-01-09Merge branch 'slab/next' into for-linusPekka Enberg2-22/+46
2011-01-07Merge branch 'for-2.6.38' of ↵Linus Torvalds3-45/+118
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu * 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (30 commits) gameport: use this_cpu_read instead of lookup x86: udelay: Use this_cpu_read to avoid address calculation x86: Use this_cpu_inc_return for nmi counter x86: Replace uses of current_cpu_data with this_cpu ops x86: Use this_cpu_ops to optimize code vmstat: User per cpu atomics to avoid interrupt disable / enable irq_work: Use per cpu atomics instead of regular atomics cpuops: Use cmpxchg for xchg to avoid lock semantics x86: this_cpu_cmpxchg and this_cpu_xchg operations percpu: Generic this_cpu_cmpxchg() and this_cpu_xchg support percpu,x86: relocate this_cpu_add_return() and friends connector: Use this_cpu operations xen: Use this_cpu_inc_return taskstats: Use this_cpu_ops random: Use this_cpu_inc_return fs: Use this_cpu_inc_return in buffer.c highmem: Use this_cpu_xx_return() operations vmstat: Use this_cpu_inc_return for vm statistics x86: Support for this_cpu_add, sub, dec, inc_return percpu: Generic support for this_cpu_add, sub, dec, inc_return ... Fixed up conflicts: in arch/x86/kernel/{apic/nmi.c, apic/x2apic_uv_x.c, process.c} as per Tejun.
2011-01-07Merge branch 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds2-2/+2
* 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (33 commits) usb: don't use flush_scheduled_work() speedtch: don't abuse struct delayed_work media/video: don't use flush_scheduled_work() media/video: explicitly flush request_module work ioc4: use static work_struct for ioc4_load_modules() init: don't call flush_scheduled_work() from do_initcalls() s390: don't use flush_scheduled_work() rtc: don't use flush_scheduled_work() mmc: update workqueue usages mfd: update workqueue usages dvb: don't use flush_scheduled_work() leds-wm8350: don't use flush_scheduled_work() mISDN: don't use flush_scheduled_work() macintosh/ams: don't use flush_scheduled_work() vmwgfx: don't use flush_scheduled_work() tpm: don't use flush_scheduled_work() sonypi: don't use flush_scheduled_work() hvsi: don't use flush_scheduled_work() xen: don't use flush_scheduled_work() gdrom: don't use flush_scheduled_work() ... Fixed up trivial conflict in drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-input.c as per Tejun.
2011-01-07fs: icache RCU free inodesNick Piggin1-1/+8
RCU free the struct inode. This will allow: - Subsequent store-free path walking patch. The inode must be consulted for permissions when walking, so an RCU inode reference is a must. - sb_inode_list_lock to be moved inside i_lock because sb list walkers who want to take i_lock no longer need to take sb_inode_list_lock to walk the list in the first place. This will simplify and optimize locking. - Could remove some nested trylock loops in dcache code - Could potentially simplify things a bit in VM land. Do not need to take the page lock to follow page->mapping. The downsides of this is the performance cost of using RCU. In a simple creat/unlink microbenchmark, performance drops by about 10% due to inability to reuse cache-hot slab objects. As iterations increase and RCU freeing starts kicking over, this increases to about 20%. In cases where inode lifetimes are longer (ie. many inodes may be allocated during the average life span of a single inode), a lot of this cache reuse is not applicable, so the regression caused by this patch is smaller. The cache-hot regression could largely be avoided by using SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU, however this adds some complexity to list walking and store-free path walking, so I prefer to implement this at a later date, if it is shown to be a win in real situations. I haven't found a regression in any non-micro benchmark so I doubt it will be a problem. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07fs: dcache remove dcache_lockNick Piggin1-3/+0
dcache_lock no longer protects anything. remove it. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-07kernel: kmem_ptr_validate considered harmfulNick Piggin4-97/+1
This is a nasty and error prone API. It is no longer used, remove it. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
2011-01-04writeback: fix global_dirty_limits comment runtime -> real-timeMinchan Kim1-1/+1
Change runtime with real-time Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-12-30memcg: fix wrong VM_BUG_ON() in try_charge()'s mm->owner checkKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki1-10/+9
At __mem_cgroup_try_charge(), VM_BUG_ON(!mm->owner) is checked. But as commented in mem_cgroup_from_task(), mm->owner can be NULL in some racy case. This check of VM_BUG_ON() is bad. A possible story to hit this is at swapoff()->try_to_unuse(). It passes mm_struct to mem_cgroup_try_charge_swapin() while mm->owner is NULL. If we can't get proper mem_cgroup from swap_cgroup information, mm->owner is used as charge target and we see NULL. Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reported-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-12-27Merge branch 'nommu-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+27
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/nommu-2.6 * 'nommu-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/nommu-2.6: nommu: Provide stubbed alloc/free_vm_area() implementation. nommu: Fix up vmalloc_node() symbol export regression.
2010-12-27mm/rmap.c: fix commentFigo.zhang1-1/+1
clean up comment. Signed-off-by: Figo.zhang <figo1802@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-12-24Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: percpu: print out alloc information with KERN_DEBUG instead of KERN_INFO kthread_work: make lockdep happy
2010-12-24nommu: Provide stubbed alloc/free_vm_area() implementation.Paul Mundt1-1/+26
Now that these have been introduced in to the vmalloc API, sync up the nommu side of things. At present we don't deal with VMAs as such, so for the time being these will simply BUG() out. In the future it should be possible to support this interface by layering on top of the vm_regions. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2010-12-24nommu: Fix up vmalloc_node() symbol export regression.Paul Mundt1-0/+1
Commit e1ca778 ("mm: add vzalloc() and vzalloc_node() helpers") ended up accidentally deleting the vmalloc_node() symbol export, resulting in: "vmalloc_node" [net/core/pktgen.ko] undefined! "vmalloc_node" [net/netfilter/x_tables.ko] undefined! regressions. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2010-12-22mm/migrate.c: fix compilation errorMichal Nazarewicz1-0/+2
GCC complained about update_mmu_cache() not being defined in migrate.c. Including <asm/tlbflush.h> seems to solve the problem. Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <m.nazarewicz@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-12-22writeback: do uninterruptible sleep in balance_dirty_pages()Wu Fengguang1-1/+1
Using TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE in balance_dirty_pages() seems wrong. If it's going to do that then it must break out if signal_pending(), otherwise it's pretty much guaranteed to degenerate into a busywait loop. Plus we *do* want these processes to appear in D state and to contribute to load average. So it should be TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE. -- Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-12-22mm/compaction.c: avoid double mem_cgroup_del_lru()Minchan Kim1-1/+0
del_page_from_lru_list() already called mem_cgroup_del_lru(). So we must not call it again. It adds unnecessary overhead. It was not a runtime bug because the TestClearPageCgroupAcctLRU() early in mem_cgroup_del_lru_list() will prevent any double-deletion, etc. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-12-22Merge branch 'master' into for-nextJiri Kosina17-98/+185
Conflicts: MAINTAINERS arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm24xx.c drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_fcpim.c Needed to update to apply fixes for which the old branch was too outdated.
2010-12-22percpu: print out alloc information with KERN_DEBUG instead of KERN_INFOTejun Heo1-1/+1
Now that percpu allocator is mostly stable, there is no reason to print alloc information with KERN_INFO and clutter the boot messages. Switch it to KERN_DEBUG. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
2010-12-18vmstat: User per cpu atomics to avoid interrupt disable / enableChristoph Lameter1-14/+87
Currently the operations to increment vm counters must disable interrupts in order to not mess up their housekeeping of counters. So use this_cpu_cmpxchg() to avoid the overhead. Since we can no longer count on preremption being disabled we still have some minor issues. The fetching of the counter thresholds is racy. A threshold from another cpu may be applied if we happen to be rescheduled on another cpu. However, the following vmstat operation will then bring the counter again under the threshold limit. The operations for __xxx_zone_state are not changed since the caller has taken care of the synchronization needs (and therefore the cycle count is even less than the optimized version for the irq disable case provided here). The optimization using this_cpu_cmpxchg will only be used if the arch supports efficient this_cpu_ops (must have CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL set!) The use of this_cpu_cmpxchg reduces the cycle count for the counter operations by %80 (inc_zone_page_state goes from 170 cycles to 32). Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
2010-12-17vmstat: Use this_cpu_inc_return for vm statisticsChristoph Lameter1-6/+2
this_cpu_inc_return() saves us a memory access there. Code size does not change. V1->V2: - Fixed the location of the __per_cpu pointer attributes - Sparse checked V2->V3: - Move fixes to __percpu attribute usage to earlier patch Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-12-17Merge branch 'this_cpu_ops' into for-2.6.38Tejun Heo4-4/+28
2010-12-17core: Replace __get_cpu_var with __this_cpu_read if not used for an address.Christoph Lameter1-3/+3
__get_cpu_var() can be replaced with this_cpu_read and will then use a single read instruction with implied address calculation to access the correct per cpu instance. However, the address of a per cpu variable passed to __this_cpu_read() cannot be determined (since it's an implied address conversion through segment prefixes). Therefore apply this only to uses of __get_cpu_var where the address of the variable is not used. Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-12-17vmstat: Optimize zone counter modifications through the use of this cpu ↵Christoph Lameter1-20/+28
operations this cpu operations can be used to slightly optimize the function. The changes will avoid some address calculations and replace them with the use of the percpu segment register. If one would have this_cpu_inc_return and this_cpu_dec_return then it would be possible to optimize inc_zone_page_state and dec_zone_page_state even more. V1->V2: - Fix __dec_zone_state overflow handling - Use s8 variables for temporary storage. V2->V3: - Put __percpu annotations in correct places. Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-12-15install_special_mapping skips security_file_mmap check.Tavis Ormandy1-4/+12
The install_special_mapping routine (used, for example, to setup the vdso) skips the security check before insert_vm_struct, allowing a local attacker to bypass the mmap_min_addr security restriction by limiting the available pages for special mappings. bprm_mm_init() also skips the check, and although I don't think this can be used to bypass any restrictions, I don't see any reason not to have the security check. $ uname -m x86_64 $ cat /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr 65536 $ cat install_special_mapping.s section .bss resb BSS_SIZE section .text global _start _start: mov eax, __NR_pause int 0x80 $ nasm -D__NR_pause=29 -DBSS_SIZE=0xfffed000 -f elf -o install_special_mapping.o install_special_mapping.s $ ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext=0x10000 -Tbss=0x11000 -o install_special_mapping install_special_mapping.o $ ./install_special_mapping & [1] 14303 $ cat /proc/14303/maps 0000f000-00010000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] 00010000-00011000 r-xp 00001000 00:19 2453665 /home/taviso/install_special_mapping 00011000-ffffe000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] It's worth noting that Red Hat are shipping with mmap_min_addr set to 4096. Signed-off-by: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@google.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com> Acked-by: Robert Swiecki <swiecki@google.com> [ Changed to not drop the error code - akpm ] Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-12-15workqueue: convert cancel_rearming_delayed_work[queue]() users to ↵Tejun Heo2-2/+2
cancel_delayed_work_sync() cancel_rearming_delayed_work[queue]() has been superceded by cancel_delayed_work_sync() quite some time ago. Convert all the in-kernel users. The conversions are completely equivalent and trivial. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: Anton Vorontsov <cbou@mail.ru> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Cc: xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
2010-12-14Merge branch 'bugfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6Linus Torvalds3-0/+16
* 'bugfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: NFS: Fix panic after nfs_umount() nfs: remove extraneous and problematic calls to nfs_clear_request nfs: kernel should return EPROTONOSUPPORT when not support NFSv4 NFS: Fix fcntl F_GETLK not reporting some conflicts nfs: Discard ACL cache on mode update NFS: Readdir cleanups NFS: nfs_readdir_search_for_cookie() don't mark as eof if cookie not found NFS: Fix a memory leak in nfs_readdir Call the filesystem back whenever a page is removed from the page cache NFS: Ensure we use the correct cookie in nfs_readdir_xdr_filler
2010-12-07percpu: zero memory more efficiently in mm/percpu.c::pcpu_mem_alloc()Jesper Juhl1-6/+2
Don't do vmalloc() + memset() when vzalloc() will do. tj: dropped unnecessary temp variable ptr. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-12-06Merge branch 'pm-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-7/+12
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: Fix memory corruption related to swap PM / Hibernate: Use async I/O when reading compressed hibernation image
2010-12-06PM / Hibernate: Fix memory corruption related to swapRafael J. Wysocki1-7/+12
There is a problem that swap pages allocated before the creation of a hibernation image can be released and used for storing the contents of different memory pages while the image is being saved. Since the kernel stored in the image doesn't know of that, it causes memory corruption to occur after resume from hibernation, especially on systems with relatively small RAM that need to swap often. This issue can be addressed by keeping the GFP_IOFS bits clear in gfp_allowed_mask during the entire hibernation, including the saving of the image, until the system is finally turned off or the hibernation is aborted. Unfortunately, for this purpose it's necessary to rework the way in which the hibernate and suspend code manipulates gfp_allowed_mask. This change is based on an earlier patch from Hugh Dickins. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Reported-by: Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-12-05Merge branch 'slab/urgent' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-2/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6 * 'slab/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/penberg/slab-2.6: slub: Fix a crash during slabinfo -v
2010-12-04slub: Fix a crash during slabinfo -vTero Roponen1-2/+2
Commit f7cb1933621bce66a77f690776a16fe3ebbc4d58 ("SLUB: Pass active and inactive redzone flags instead of boolean to debug functions") missed two instances of check_object(). This caused a lot of warnings during 'slabinfo -v' finally leading to a crash: BUG ext4_xattr: Freepointer corrupt ... BUG buffer_head: Freepointer corrupt ... BUG ext4_alloc_context: Freepointer corrupt ... ... BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008 IP: [<ffffffff810a291f>] file_sb_list_del+0x1c/0x35 PGD 79d78067 PUD 79e67067 PMD 0 Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP last sysfs file: /sys/kernel/slab/:t-0000192/validate This patch fixes the problem by converting the two missed instances. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Tero Roponen <tero.roponen@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-12-04slub: Fix a crash during slabinfo -vTero Roponen1-2/+2
Commit f7cb1933621bce66a77f690776a16fe3ebbc4d58 ("SLUB: Pass active and inactive redzone flags instead of boolean to debug functions") missed two instances of check_object(). This caused a lot of warnings during 'slabinfo -v' finally leading to a crash: BUG ext4_xattr: Freepointer corrupt ... BUG buffer_head: Freepointer corrupt ... BUG ext4_alloc_context: Freepointer corrupt ... ... BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000008 IP: [<ffffffff810a291f>] file_sb_list_del+0x1c/0x35 PGD 79d78067 PUD 79e67067 PMD 0 Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP last sysfs file: /sys/kernel/slab/:t-0000192/validate This patch fixes the problem by converting the two missed instances. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Tero Roponen <tero.roponen@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
2010-12-02ksm: annotate ksm_thread_mutex is no deadlock sourceKOSAKI Motohiro1-1/+6
commit 62b61f611e ("ksm: memory hotremove migration only") caused the following new lockdep warning. ======================================================= [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] ------------------------------------------------------- bash/1621 is trying to acquire lock: ((memory_chain).rwsem){.+.+.+}, at: [<ffffffff81079339>] __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x69/0xc0 but task is already holding lock: (ksm_thread_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8113a3aa>] ksm_memory_callback+0x3a/0xc0 which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #1 (ksm_thread_mutex){+.+.+.}: [<ffffffff8108b70a>] lock_acquire+0xaa/0x140 [<ffffffff81505d74>] __mutex_lock_common+0x44/0x3f0 [<ffffffff81506228>] mutex_lock_nested+0x48/0x60 [<ffffffff8113a3aa>] ksm_memory_callback+0x3a/0xc0 [<ffffffff8150c21c>] notifier_call_chain+0x8c/0xe0 [<ffffffff8107934e>] __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x7e/0xc0 [<ffffffff810793a6>] blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x16/0x20 [<ffffffff813afbfb>] memory_notify+0x1b/0x20 [<ffffffff81141b7c>] remove_memory+0x1cc/0x5f0 [<ffffffff813af53d>] memory_block_change_state+0xfd/0x1a0 [<ffffffff813afd62>] store_mem_state+0xe2/0xf0 [<ffffffff813a0bb0>] sysdev_store+0x20/0x30 [<ffffffff811bc116>] sysfs_write_file+0xe6/0x170 [<ffffffff8114f398>] vfs_write+0xc8/0x190 [<ffffffff8114fc14>] sys_write+0x54/0x90 [<ffffffff810028b2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b -> #0 ((memory_chain).rwsem){.+.+.+}: [<ffffffff8108b5ba>] __lock_acquire+0x155a/0x1600 [<ffffffff8108b70a>] lock_acquire+0xaa/0x140 [<ffffffff81506601>] down_read+0x51/0xa0 [<ffffffff81079339>] __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x69/0xc0 [<ffffffff810793a6>] blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x16/0x20 [<ffffffff813afbfb>] memory_notify+0x1b/0x20 [<ffffffff81141f1e>] remove_memory+0x56e/0x5f0 [<ffffffff813af53d>] memory_block_change_state+0xfd/0x1a0 [<ffffffff813afd62>] store_mem_state+0xe2/0xf0 [<ffffffff813a0bb0>] sysdev_store+0x20/0x30 [<ffffffff811bc116>] sysfs_write_file+0xe6/0x170 [<ffffffff8114f398>] vfs_write+0xc8/0x190 [<ffffffff8114fc14>] sys_write+0x54/0x90 [<ffffffff810028b2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b But it's a false positive. Both memory_chain.rwsem and ksm_thread_mutex have an outer lock (mem_hotplug_mutex). So they cannot deadlock. Thus, This patch annotate ksm_thread_mutex is not deadlock source. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: update comment, from Hugh] Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: 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>
2010-12-02mem-hotplug: introduce {un}lock_memory_hotplug()KOSAKI Motohiro2-11/+28
Presently hwpoison is using lock_system_sleep() to prevent a race with memory hotplug. However lock_system_sleep() is a no-op if CONFIG_HIBERNATION=n. Therefore we need a new lock. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Suggested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-12-02vmalloc: eagerly clear ptes on vunmapJeremy Fitzhardinge1-11/+17
On stock 2.6.37-rc4, running: # mount lilith:/export /mnt/lilith # find /mnt/lilith/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 file crashes the machine fairly quickly under Xen. Often it results in oops messages, but the couple of times I tried just now, it just hung quietly and made Xen print some rude messages: (XEN) mm.c:2389:d80 Bad type (saw 7400000000000001 != exp 3000000000000000) for mfn 1d7058 (pfn 18fa7) (XEN) mm.c:964:d80 Attempt to create linear p.t. with write perms (XEN) mm.c:2389:d80 Bad type (saw 7400000000000010 != exp 1000000000000000) for mfn 1d2e04 (pfn 1d1fb) (XEN) mm.c:2965:d80 Error while pinning mfn 1d2e04 Which means the domain tried to map a pagetable page RW, which would allow it to map arbitrary memory, so Xen stopped it. This is because vm_unmap_ram() left some pages mapped in the vmalloc area after NFS had finished with them, and those pages got recycled as pagetable pages while still having these RW aliases. Removing those mappings immediately removes the Xen-visible aliases, and so it has no problem with those pages being reused as pagetable pages. Deferring the TLB flush doesn't upset Xen because it can flush the TLB itself as needed to maintain its invariants. When unmapping a region in the vmalloc space, clear the ptes immediately. There's no point in deferring this because there's no amortization benefit. The TLBs are left dirty, and they are flushed lazily to amortize the cost of the IPIs. This specific motivation for this patch is an oops-causing regression since 2.6.36 when using NFS under Xen, triggered by the NFS client's use of vm_map_ram() introduced in 56e4ebf877b60 ("NFS: readdir with vmapped pages") . XFS also uses vm_map_ram() and could cause similar problems. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk> Cc: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-12-02vmstat: fix dirty threshold orderingWu Fengguang1-2/+2
The nr_dirty_[background_]threshold fields are misplaced before the numa_* fields, and users will read strange values. This is the right order. Before patch, nr_dirty_background_threshold will read as 0 (the value from numa_miss). numa_hit 128501 numa_miss 0 numa_foreign 0 numa_interleave 7388 numa_local 128501 numa_other 0 nr_dirty_threshold 144291 nr_dirty_background_threshold 72145 Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-12-02mm/mempolicy.c: add rcu read lock to protect pid structureZeng Zhaoming1-0/+3
find_task_by_vpid() should be protected by rcu_read_lock(), to prevent free_pid() reclaiming pid. Signed-off-by: Zeng Zhaoming <zengzm.kernel@gmail.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-12-02mm/hugetlb.c: avoid double unlock_page() in hugetlb_fault()Dean Nelson1-1/+2
Have hugetlb_fault() call unlock_page(page) only if it had previously called lock_page(page). Setting CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y and then running the libhugetlbfs test suite, resulted in the tripping of VM_BUG_ON(!PageLocked(page)) in unlock_page() having been called by hugetlb_fault() when page == pagecache_page. This patch remedied the problem. Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dnelson@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-12-02Call the filesystem back whenever a page is removed from the page cacheLinus Torvalds3-0/+16
NFS needs to be able to release objects that are stored in the page cache once the page itself is no longer visible from the page cache. This patch adds a callback to the address space operations that allows filesystems to perform page cleanups once the page has been removed from the page cache. Original patch by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [trondmy: cover the cases of invalidate_inode_pages2() and truncate_inode_pages()] Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2010-11-28Kill off a bunch of warning: ‘inline’ is not at beginning of declarationJesper Juhl1-1/+1
These warnings are spewed during a build of a 'allnoconfig' kernel (especially the ones from u64_stats_sync.h show up a lot) when building with -Wextra (which I often do).. They are a) annoying b) easy to get rid of. This patch kills them off. include/linux/u64_stats_sync.h:70:1: warning: ‘inline’ is not at beginning of declaration include/linux/u64_stats_sync.h:77:1: warning: ‘inline’ is not at beginning of declaration include/linux/u64_stats_sync.h:84:1: warning: ‘inline’ is not at beginning of declaration include/linux/u64_stats_sync.h:96:1: warning: ‘inline’ is not at beginning of declaration include/linux/u64_stats_sync.h:115:1: warning: ‘inline’ is not at beginning of declaration include/linux/u64_stats_sync.h:127:1: warning: ‘inline’ is not at beginning of declaration kernel/time.c:241:1: warning: ‘inline’ is not at beginning of declaration kernel/time.c:257:1: warning: ‘inline’ is not at beginning of declaration kernel/perf_event.c:4513:1: warning: ‘inline’ is not at beginning of declaration mm/page_alloc.c:4012:1: warning: ‘inline’ is not at beginning of declaration Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-11-28tracing/slab: Move kmalloc tracepoint out of inline codeSteven Rostedt1-15/+23
The tracepoint for kmalloc is in the slab inlined code which causes every instance of kmalloc to have the tracepoint. This patch moves the tracepoint out of the inline code to the slab C file, which removes a large number of inlined trace points. objdump -dr vmlinux.slab| grep 'jmpq.*<trace_kmalloc' |wc -l 213 objdump -dr vmlinux.slab.patched| grep 'jmpq.*<trace_kmalloc' |wc -l 1 This also has a nice impact on size. text data bss dec hex filename 7023060 2121564 2482432 11627056 b16a30 vmlinux.slab 6970579 2109772 2482432 11562783 b06f1f vmlinux.slab.patched Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
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