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2009-01-06init: properly placing noinline keywordRakib Mullick
checkpatch warns about 'static void noinline'. It wants `static noinline void'. Both are permissible, but the kernel consistently uses `static inline' and `static noinline', and consistency is good. Hence let's keep the checkpatch warning and fix up this code site. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: rewrote changelog] Signed-off-by: Md.Rakib H. Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: hugetlb: remove redundant `if' operationCyrill Gorcunov
At this point we already know that 'addr' is not NULL so get rid of redundant 'if'. Probably gcc eliminate it by optimization pass. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use __weak, too] Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: stop kswapd's infinite loop at high order allocationKOSAKI Motohiro
Wassim Dagash reported following kswapd infinite loop problem. kswapd runs in some infinite loop trying to swap until order 10 of zone highmem is OK.... kswapd will continue to try to balance order 10 of zone highmem forever (or until someone release a very large chunk of highmem). For non order-0 allocations, the system may never be balanced due to fragmentation but kswapd should not infinitely loop as a result. Instead, recheck all watermarks at order-0 as they are the most important. If watermarks are ok, kswapd will go back to sleep. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment] Reported-by: wassim dagash <wassim.dagash@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06bootmem: print request details before BUG_ON(them)Johannes Weiner
Moving the request details print-out before the sanity checks that might panic() enables us to analyse invalid requests without having access to the line information of the stack dump. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: check for no mmaps in exit_mmap()Johannes Weiner
When dup_mmap() ooms we can end up with mm->mmap == NULL. The error path does mmput() and unmap_vmas() gets a NULL vma which it dereferences. In exit_mmap() there is nothing to do at all for this case, we can cancel the callpath right there. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add sorely-needed comment] Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reported-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: kill page_queue_congested()KOSAKI Motohiro
page_queue_congested() was introduced in 2002, but it was never used Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: remove CONFIG_OUT_OF_LINE_PFN_TO_PAGEKOSAKI Motohiro
No architectures use CONFIG_OUT_OF_LINE_PFN_TO_PAGE - it can be removed. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> 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>
2009-01-06mm: introduce get_mm_hiwater_xxx(), fix taskstats->hiwater_xxx accountingOleg Nesterov
xacct_add_tsk() relies on do_exit()->update_hiwater_xxx() and uses mm->hiwater_xxx directly, this leads to 2 problems: - taskstats_user_cmd() can call fill_pid()->xacct_add_tsk() at any moment before the task exits, so we should check the current values of rss/vm anyway. - do_exit()->update_hiwater_xxx() calls are racy. An exiting thread can be preempted right before mm->hiwater_xxx = new_val, and another thread can use A_LOT of memory and exit in between. When the first thread resumes it can be the last thread in the thread group, in that case we report the wrong hiwater_xxx values which do not take A_LOT into account. Introduce get_mm_hiwater_rss() and get_mm_hiwater_vm() helpers and change xacct_add_tsk() to use them. The first helper will also be used by rusage->ru_maxrss accounting. Kill do_exit()->update_hiwater_xxx() calls. Unless we are going to decrease rss/vm there is no point to update mm->hiwater_xxx, and nobody can look at this mm_struct when exit_mmap() actually unmaps the memory. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-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>
2009-01-06mm: pagecache gfp flags fixNick Piggin
Frustratingly, gfp_t is really divided into two classes of flags. One are the context dependent ones (can we sleep? can we enter filesystem? block subsystem? should we use some extra reserves, etc.). The other ones are the type of memory required and depend on how the algorithm is implemented rather than the point at which the memory is allocated (highmem? dma memory? etc). Some of the functions which allocate a page and add it to page cache take a gfp_t, but sometimes those functions or their callers aren't really doing the right thing: when allocating pagecache page, the memory type should be mapping_gfp_mask(mapping). When allocating radix tree nodes, the memory type should be kernel mapped (not highmem) memory. The gfp_t argument should only really be needed for context dependent options. This patch doesn't really solve that tangle in a nice way, but it does attempt to fix a couple of bugs. - find_or_create_page changes its radix-tree allocation to only include the main context dependent flags in order so the pagecache page may be allocated from arbitrary types of memory without affecting the radix-tree. In practice, slab allocations don't come from highmem anyway, and radix-tree only uses slab allocations. So there isn't a practical change (unless some fs uses GFP_DMA for pages). - grab_cache_page_nowait() is changed to allocate radix-tree nodes with GFP_NOFS, because it is not supposed to reenter the filesystem. This bug could cause lock recursion if a filesystem is not expecting the function to reenter the fs (as-per documentation). Filesystems should be careful about exactly what semantics they want and what they get when fiddling with gfp_t masks to allocate pagecache. One should be as liberal as possible with the type of memory that can be used, and same for the the context specific flags. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06fs: sys_sync fixNick Piggin
s_syncing livelock avoidance was breaking data integrity guarantee of sys_sync, by allowing sys_sync to skip writing or waiting for superblocks if there is a concurrent sys_sync happening. This livelock avoidance is much less important now that we don't have the get_super_to_sync() call after every sb that we sync. This was replaced by __put_super_and_need_restart. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06fs: sync_sb_inodes fixNick Piggin
Fix data integrity semantics required by sys_sync, by iterating over all inodes and waiting for any writeback pages after the initial writeout. Comments explain the exact problem. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06fs: remove WB_SYNC_HOLDNick Piggin
Remove WB_SYNC_HOLD. The primary motiviation is the design of my anti-starvation code for fsync. It requires taking an inode lock over the sync operation, so we could run into lock ordering problems with multiple inodes. It is possible to take a single global lock to solve the ordering problem, but then that would prevent a future nice implementation of "sync multiple inodes" based on lock order via inode address. Seems like a backward step to remove this, but actually it is busted anyway: we can't use the inode lists for data integrity wait: an inode can be taken off the dirty lists but still be under writeback. In order to satisfy data integrity semantics, we should wait for it to finish writeback, but if we only search the dirty lists, we'll miss it. It would be possible to have a "writeback" list, for sys_sync, I suppose. But why complicate things by prematurely optimise? For unmounting, we could avoid the "livelock avoidance" code, which would be easier, but again premature IMO. Fixing the existing data integrity problem will come next. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06UBIFS: do not use WB_SYNC_HOLDArtem Bityutskiy
WB_SYNC_HOLD is going to be zapped so we should not use it. Use %WB_SYNC_NONE instead. Here is what akpm said: "I think I'll just switch that to WB_SYNC_NONE. The `wait==0' mode is just an advisory thing to help the fs shove lots of data into the queues. If some gets missed then it'll be picked up on the second ->sync_fs call, with wait==1." Thanks to Randy Dunlap for catching this. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: direct IO starvation improvementNick Piggin
Direct IO can invalidate and sync a lot of pagecache pages in the mapping. A 4K direct IO will actually try to sync and/or invalidate the pagecache of the entire file, for example (which might be many GB or TB large). Improve this by doing range syncs. Also, memory no longer has to be unmapped to catch the dirty bits for syncing, as dirty bits would remain coherent due to dirty mmap accounting. This fixes the immediate DM deadlocks when doing direct IO reads to block device with a mounted filesystem, if only by papering over the problem somewhat rather than addressing the fsync starvation cases. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm/mmap.c: fix coding styleZhenwenXu
Fix a little of the coding style in mm/mmap.c [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: ZhenwenXu <helight.xu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06shmem: unify regular and tiny shmemMatt Mackall
tiny-shmem shares most of its 130 lines of code with shmem and tends to break when particular bits of shmem get modified. Unifying saves code and makes keeping these two in sync much easier. before: 14367 392 24 14783 39bf mm/shmem.o 396 72 8 476 1dc mm/tiny-shmem.o after: 14367 392 24 14783 39bf mm/shmem.o 412 72 8 492 1ec mm/shmem.o tiny Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06block_write_begin(): remove useless gotoFranck Bui-Huu
Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: make get_user_pages() interruptibleYing Han
The initial implementation of checking TIF_MEMDIE covers the cases of OOM killing. If the process has been OOM killed, the TIF_MEMDIE is set and it return immediately. This patch includes: 1. add the case that the SIGKILL is sent by user processes. The process can try to get_user_pages() unlimited memory even if a user process has sent a SIGKILL to it(maybe a monitor find the process exceed its memory limit and try to kill it). In the old implementation, the SIGKILL won't be handled until the get_user_pages() returns. 2. change the return value to be ERESTARTSYS. It makes no sense to return ENOMEM if the get_user_pages returned by getting a SIGKILL signal. Considering the general convention for a system call interrupted by a signal is ERESTARTNOSYS, so the current return value is consistant to that. Lee: An unfortunate side effect of "make-get_user_pages-interruptible" is that it prevents a SIGKILL'd task from munlock-ing pages that it had mlocked, resulting in freeing of mlocked pages. Freeing of mlocked pages, in itself, is not so bad. We just count them now--altho' I had hoped to remove this stat and add PG_MLOCKED to the free pages flags check. However, consider pages in shared libraries mapped by more than one task that a task mlocked--e.g., via mlockall(). If the task that mlocked the pages exits via SIGKILL, these pages would be left mlocked and unevictable. Proposed fix: Add another GUP flag to ignore sigkill when calling get_user_pages from munlock()--similar to Kosaki Motohiro's 'IGNORE_VMA_PERMISSIONS flag for the same purpose. We are not actually allocating memory in this case, which "make-get_user_pages-interruptible" intends to avoid. We're just munlocking pages that are already resident and mapped, and we're reusing get_user_pages() to access those pages. ?? Maybe we should combine 'IGNORE_VMA_PERMISSIONS and '_IGNORE_SIGKILL into a single flag: GUP_FLAGS_MUNLOCK ??? [Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: ignore sigkill in get_user_pages during munlock] Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Rohit Seth <rohitseth@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06hugetlb: unsigned ret cannot be negativeRoel Kluin
unsigned long ret cannot be negative, but ret can get -EFAULT. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06vmscan: shrink_active_list(): reduce lru_lock hold timeAndrew Morton
These three statements manipulate local variables and do not need the lock coverage. Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.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>
2009-01-06badpage: KERN_ALERT BUG instead of KERN_EMERGHugh Dickins
bad_page() and rmap Eeek messages have said KERN_EMERG for a few years, which I've followed in print_bad_pte(). These are serious system errors, on a par with BUGs, but they're not quite emergencies, and we do our best to carry on: say KERN_ALERT "BUG: " like the x86 oops does. And remove the "Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed" line: it's not untrue, but I hope the KERN_ALERT "BUG: " conveys as much. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> 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>
2009-01-06badpage: ratelimit print_bad_pte and bad_pageHugh Dickins
print_bad_pte() and bad_page() might each need ratelimiting - especially for their dump_stacks, almost never of interest, yet not quite dispensible. Correlating corruption across neighbouring entries can be very helpful, so allow a burst of 60 reports before keeping quiet for the remainder of that minute (or allow a steady drip of one report per second). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> 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>
2009-01-06badpage: remove vma from page_remove_rmapHugh Dickins
Remove page_remove_rmap()'s vma arg, which was only for the Eeek message. And remove the BUG_ON(page_mapcount(page) == 0) from CONFIG_DEBUG_VM's page_dup_rmap(): we're trying to be more resilient about that than BUGs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> 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>
2009-01-06badpage: zap print_bad_pte on swap and fileHugh Dickins
Complete zap_pte_range()'s coverage of bad pagetable entries by calling print_bad_pte() on a pte_file in a linear vma and on a bad swap entry. That needs free_swap_and_cache() to tell it, which will also have shown one of those "swap_free" errors (but with much less information). Similar checks in fork's copy_one_pte()? No, that would be more noisy than helpful: we'll see them when parent and child exec or exit. Where do_nonlinear_fault() calls print_bad_pte(): omit !VM_CAN_NONLINEAR case, that could only be a bug in sys_remap_file_pages(), not a bad pte. VM_FAULT_OOM rather than VM_FAULT_SIGBUS? Well, okay, that is consistent with what happens if do_swap_page() operates a bad swap entry; but don't we have patches to be more careful about killing when VM_FAULT_OOM? Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> 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>
2009-01-06badpage: vm_normal_page use print_bad_pteHugh Dickins
print_bad_pte() is so far being called only when zap_pte_range() finds negative page_mapcount, or there's a fault on a pte_file where it does not belong. That's weak coverage when we suspect pagetable corruption. Originally, it was called when vm_normal_page() found an invalid pfn: but pfn_valid is expensive on some architectures and configurations, so 2.6.24 put that under CONFIG_DEBUG_VM (which doesn't help in the field), then 2.6.26 replaced it by a VM_BUG_ON (likewise). Reinstate the print_bad_pte() in vm_normal_page(), but use a cheaper test than pfn_valid(): memmap_init_zone() (used in bootup and hotplug) keep a __read_mostly note of the highest_memmap_pfn, vm_normal_page() then check pfn against that. We could call this pfn_plausible() or pfn_sane(), but I doubt we'll need it elsewhere: of course it's not reliable, but gives much stronger pagetable validation on many boxes. Also use print_bad_pte() when the pte_special bit is found outside a VM_PFNMAP or VM_MIXEDMAP area, instead of VM_BUG_ON. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> 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>
2009-01-06badpage: replace page_remove_rmap Eeek and BUGHugh Dickins
Now that bad pages are kept out of circulation, there is no need for the infamous page_remove_rmap() BUG() - once that page is freed, its negative mapcount will issue a "Bad page state" message and the page won't be freed. Removing the BUG() allows more info, on subsequent pages, to be gathered. We do have more info about the page at this point than bad_page() can know - notably, what the pmd is, which might pinpoint something like low 64kB corruption - but page_remove_rmap() isn't given the address to find that. In practice, there is only one call to page_remove_rmap() which has ever reported anything, that from zap_pte_range() (usually on exit, sometimes on munmap). It has all the info, so remove page_remove_rmap()'s "Eeek" message and leave it all to zap_pte_range(). mm/memory.c already has a hardly used print_bad_pte() function, showing some of the appropriate info: extend it to show what we want for the rmap case: pte info, page info (when there is a page) and vma info to compare. zap_pte_range() already knows the pmd, but print_bad_pte() is easier to use if it works that out for itself. Some of this info is also shown in bad_page()'s "Bad page state" message. Keep them separate, but adjust them to match each other as far as possible. Say "Bad page map" in print_bad_pte(), and add a TAINT_BAD_PAGE there too. print_bad_pte() show current->comm unconditionally (though it should get repeated in the usually irrelevant stack trace): sorry, I misled Nick Piggin to make it conditional on vm_mm == current->mm, but current->mm is already NULL in the exit case. Usually current->comm is good, though exceptionally it may not be that of the mm (when "swapoff" for example). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> 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>
2009-01-06badpage: keep any bad page out of circulationHugh Dickins
Until now the bad_page() checkers have special-cased PageReserved, keeping those pages out of circulation thereafter. Now extend the special case to all: we want to keep ANY page with bad state out of circulation - the "free" page may well be in use by something. Leave the bad state of those pages untouched, for examination by debuggers; except for PageBuddy - leaving that set would risk bringing the page back. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> 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>
2009-01-06badpage: simplify page_alloc flag check+clearHugh Dickins
Simplify the PAGE_FLAGS checking and clearing when freeing and allocating a page: check the same flags as before when freeing, clear ALL the flags (unless PageReserved) when freeing, check ALL flags off when allocating. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> 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>
2009-01-06fs: truncate blocks outside i_size after O_DIRECT write errorDmitri Monakhov
In case of error extending write may have instantiated a few blocks outside i_size. We need to trim these blocks. We have to do it *regardless* to blocksize. At least ext2, ext3 and reiserfs interpret (i_size < biggest block) condition as error. Fsck will complain about wrong i_size. Then fsck will fix the error by changing i_size according to the biggest block. This is bad because this blocks contain garbage from previous write attempt. And result in data corruption. ####TESTCASE_BEGIN $touch /mnt/test/BIG_FILE ## at this moment /mnt/test/BIG_FILE size and blocks equal to zero open("/mnt/test/BIG_FILE", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_DIRECT, 0666) = 3 write(3, "aaaaaaaaaaaa"..., 104857600) = -1 ENOSPC (No space left on device) ## size and block sould't be changed because write op failed. $stat /mnt/test/BIG_FILE File: `/mnt/test/BIG_FILE' Size: 0 Blocks: 110896 IO Block: 1024 regular empty file <<<<<<<<^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^file size is less than biggest block idx Device: fe07h/65031d Inode: 14 Links: 1 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2007-01-24 20:03:38.000000000 +0300 Modify: 2007-01-24 20:03:38.000000000 +0300 Change: 2007-01-24 20:03:39.000000000 +0300 #fsck.ext3 -f /dev/VG/test e2fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006) Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Inode 14, i_size is 0, should be 56556544. Fix<y>? yes Pass 2: Checking directory structure .... #####TESTCASE_ENDdiff --git a/fs/direct-io.c b/fs/direct-io.c index af0558d..4e88bea 100644 [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use i_size_read()] Signed-off-by: Dmitri Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: kill zone_is_near_oom()KOSAKI Motohiro
zone_is_near_oom() is unused. 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>
2009-01-06vmscan: improve reclaim throughput to bail out patchKOSAKI Motohiro
The vmscan bail out patch move nr_reclaimed variable to struct scan_control. Unfortunately, indirect access can easily happen cache miss. if heavy memory pressure happend, that's ok. cache miss already plenty. it is not observable. but, if memory pressure is lite, performance degression is obserbable. I compared following three pattern (it was mesured 10 times each) hackbench 125 process 3000 hackbench 130 process 3000 hackbench 135 process 3000 2.6.28-rc6 bail-out 125 130 135 125 130 135 ============================================================== 71.866 75.86 81.274 93.414 73.254 193.382 74.145 78.295 77.27 74.897 75.021 80.17 70.305 77.643 75.855 70.134 77.571 79.896 74.288 73.986 75.955 77.222 78.48 80.619 72.029 79.947 78.312 75.128 82.172 79.708 71.499 77.615 77.042 74.177 76.532 77.306 76.188 74.471 83.562 73.839 72.43 79.833 73.236 75.606 78.743 76.001 76.557 82.726 69.427 77.271 76.691 76.236 79.371 103.189 72.473 76.978 80.643 69.128 78.932 75.736 avg 72.545 76.767 78.534 76.017 77.03 93.256 std 1.89 1.71 2.41 6.29 2.79 34.16 min 69.427 73.986 75.855 69.128 72.43 75.736 max 76.188 79.947 83.562 93.414 82.172 193.382 about 4-5% degression. Then, this patch introduces a temporary local variable. result: 2.6.28-rc6 this patch num 125 130 135 125 130 135 ============================================================== 71.866 75.86 81.274 67.302 68.269 77.161 74.145 78.295 77.27 72.616 72.712 79.06 70.305 77.643 75.855 72.475 75.712 77.735 74.288 73.986 75.955 69.229 73.062 78.814 72.029 79.947 78.312 71.551 74.392 78.564 71.499 77.615 77.042 69.227 74.31 78.837 76.188 74.471 83.562 70.759 75.256 76.6 73.236 75.606 78.743 69.966 76.001 78.464 69.427 77.271 76.691 69.068 75.218 80.321 72.473 76.978 80.643 72.057 77.151 79.068 avg 72.545 76.767 78.534 70.425 74.2083 78.462 std 1.89 1.71 2.41 1.66 2.34 1.00 min 69.427 73.986 75.855 67.302 68.269 76.6 max 76.188 79.947 83.562 72.616 77.151 80.321 OK. the degression is disappeared. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.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>
2009-01-06vmscan: bail out of direct reclaim after swap_cluster_max pagesRik van Riel
When the VM is under pressure, it can happen that several direct reclaim processes are in the pageout code simultaneously. It also happens that the reclaiming processes run into mostly referenced, mapped and dirty pages in the first round. This results in multiple direct reclaim processes having a lower pageout priority, which corresponds to a higher target of pages to scan. This in turn can result in each direct reclaim process freeing many pages. Together, they can end up freeing way too many pages. This kicks useful data out of memory (in some cases more than half of all memory is swapped out). It also impacts performance by keeping tasks stuck in the pageout code for too long. A 30% improvement in hackbench has been observed with this patch. The fix is relatively simple: in shrink_zone() we can check how many pages we have already freed, direct reclaim tasks break out of the scanning loop if they have already freed enough pages and have reached a lower priority level. We do not break out of shrink_zone() when priority == DEF_PRIORITY, to ensure that equal pressure is applied to every zone in the common case. However, in order to do this we do need to know how many pages we already freed, so move nr_reclaimed into scan_control. akpm: a historical interlude... We tried this in 2004: :commit e468e46a9bea3297011d5918663ce6d19094cf87 :Author: akpm <akpm> :Date: Thu Jun 24 15:53:52 2004 +0000 : :[PATCH] vmscan.c: dont reclaim too many pages : : The shrink_zone() logic can, under some circumstances, cause far too many : pages to be reclaimed. Say, we're scanning at high priority and suddenly hit : a large number of reclaimable pages on the LRU. : Change things so we bale out when SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages have been reclaimed. And we reverted it in 2006: :commit 210fe530305ee50cd889fe9250168228b2994f32 :Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> :Date: Fri Jan 6 00:11:14 2006 -0800 : : [PATCH] vmscan: balancing fix : : Revert a patch which went into 2.6.8-rc1. The changelog for that patch was: : : The shrink_zone() logic can, under some circumstances, cause far too many : pages to be reclaimed. Say, we're scanning at high priority and suddenly : hit a large number of reclaimable pages on the LRU. : : Change things so we bale out when SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages have been : reclaimed. : : Problem is, this change caused significant imbalance in inter-zone scan : balancing by truncating scans of larger zones. : : Suppose, for example, ZONE_HIGHMEM is 10x the size of ZONE_NORMAL. The zone : balancing algorithm would require that if we're scanning 100 pages of : ZONE_HIGHMEM, we should scan 10 pages of ZONE_NORMAL. But this logic will : cause the scanning of ZONE_HIGHMEM to bale out after only 32 pages are : reclaimed. Thus effectively causing smaller zones to be scanned relatively : harder than large ones. : : Now I need to remember what the workload was which caused me to write this : patch originally, then fix it up in a different way... And we haven't demonstrated that whatever problem caused that reversion is not being reintroduced by this change in 2008. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06hugetlb: fix sparse warningsHannes Eder
Fix the following sparse warnings: mm/hugetlb.c:375:3: warning: returning void-valued expression mm/hugetlb.c:408:3: warning: returning void-valued expression Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder <hannes@hanneseder.net> Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06swapfile: let others seed randomHugh Dickins
Remove the srandom32((u32)get_seconds()) from non-rotational swapon: there's been a coincidental discussion of earlier randomization, assume that goes ahead, let swapon be a client rather than stirring for itself. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Donjun Shin <djshin90@gmail.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Tejun Heo <teheo@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06swapfile: change discard pgoff_t to sector_tHugh Dickins
Change pgoff_t nr_blocks in discard_swap() and discard_swap_cluster() to sector_t: given the constraints on swap offsets (in particular, the 5 bits of swap type accommodated in the same unsigned long), pgoff_t was actually safe as is, but it certainly looked worrying when shifted left. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix shift overflow] Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Donjun Shin <djshin90@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <teheo@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06swapfile: swap allocation cycle if nonrotHugh Dickins
Though attempting to find free clusters (Andrea), swap allocation has always restarted its searches from the beginning of the swap area (sct), to reduce seek times between swap pages, by not scattering them all over the partition. But on a solidstate swap device, seeks are cheap, and block remapping to level the wear may be limited by zones: in that case it's better to cycle around the whole partition. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Donjun Shin <djshin90@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <teheo@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06swapfile: swapon randomize if nonrotHugh Dickins
Swap allocation has always started from the beginning of the swap area; but if we're dealing with a solidstate swap device which can only remap blocks within limited zones, that would sooner wear out the first zone. Therefore sys_swapon() test whether blk_queue is non-rotational, and if so randomize the cluster_next starting position for allocation. If blk_queue is nonrot, note SWP_SOLIDSTATE for later use, and report it with an "SS" at the right end of the kernel's "Adding ... swap" message (so that if it's both nonrot and discardable, "SSD" will be shown there). Perhaps something should be shown in /proc/swaps (swapon -s), but we have to be more cautious before making any addition to that format. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Donjun Shin <djshin90@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <teheo@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06swapfile: swap allocation use discardHugh Dickins
When scan_swap_map() finds a free cluster of swap pages to allocate, discard the old contents of the cluster if the device supports discard. But don't bother when swap is so fragmented that we allocate single pages. Be careful about racing allocations made while we're scanning for a cluster; and hold up allocations made while we're discarding. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Donjun Shin <djshin90@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <teheo@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06swapfile: swapon use discard (trim)Hugh Dickins
When adding swap, all the old data on swap can be forgotten: sys_swapon() discard all but the header page of the swap partition (or every extent but the header of the swap file), to give a solidstate swap device the opportunity to optimize its wear-levelling. If that succeeds, note SWP_DISCARDABLE for later use, and report it with a "D" at the right end of the kernel's "Adding ... swap" message. Perhaps something should be shown in /proc/swaps (swapon -s), but we have to be more cautious before making any addition to that format. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Donjun Shin <djshin90@gmail.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <teheo@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06swapfile: rearrange scan and swap_infoHugh Dickins
Before making functional changes, rearrange scan_swap_map() to simplify subsequent diffs. Actually, there is one functional change in there: leave cluster_nr negative while scanning for a new cluster - resetting it early increased the likelihood that when we have difficulty finding a free cluster, another task may come in and try doing exactly the same - just a waste of cpu. Before making functional changes, rearrange struct swap_info_struct slightly: flags will be needed as an unsigned long (for wait_on_bit), next is a good int to pair with prio, old_block_size is uninteresting so shift it to the end. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06swapfile: remove v0 SWAP-SPACE messageHugh Dickins
The kernel has not supported v0 SWAP-SPACE since 2.5.22: I think we can now safely drop its "version 0 swap is no longer supported" message - just say "Unable to find swap-space signature" as usual. This removes one level of indentation from a stretch of sys_swapon(). I'd have liked to be specific, saying "Unable to find SWAPSPACE2 signature", but it's just too confusing that the version 1 signature shows the number 2. Irrelevant nearby cleanup: kmap(page) already gives page_address(page). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06swapfile: remove surplus whitespaceHugh Dickins
Remove trailing whitespace from swapfile.c, and odd swap_show() alignment. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06swapfile: remove SWP_ACTIVE maskHugh Dickins
Remove the SWP_ACTIVE mask: it just obscures the SWP_WRITEOK flag. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06swapfile: swapon needs larger size typeHugh Dickins
sys_swapon()'s swapfilesize (better renamed swapfilepages) is declared as an int, but should be an unsigned long like the maxpages it's compared against: on 64-bit (with 4kB pages) a swapfile of 2^44 bytes was rejected with "Swap area shorter than signature indicates". Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06mm: make vread() and vwrite() declarationKOSAKI Motohiro
Sparse output following warnings. mm/vmalloc.c:1436:6: warning: symbol 'vread' was not declared. Should it be static? mm/vmalloc.c:1474:6: warning: symbol 'vwrite' was not declared. Should it be static? However, it is used by /dev/kmem. fixed here. 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>
2009-01-06mm: make setup_per_zone_inactive_ratio() staticKOSAKI Motohiro
Sparse output following warning. mm/page_alloc.c:4301:6: warning: symbol 'setup_per_zone_inactive_ratio' was not declared. Should it be static? cleanup here. 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>
2009-01-06mm: make scan_zone_unevictable_pages() staticKOSAKI Motohiro
sparse output following warning mm/vmscan.c:2507:6: warning: symbol 'scan_zone_unevictable_pages' was not declared. Should it be static? cleanup here. 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>
2009-01-06mm: make scan_all_zones_unevictable_pages() staticKOSAKI Motohiro
sparse output following warning. mm/vmscan.c:2549:6: warning: symbol 'scan_all_zones_unevictable_pages' was not declared. Should it be static? cleanup here. 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>
2009-01-06mm: make mem_cgroup_resize_limit() staticKOSAKI Motohiro
Sparse output following warnings. mm/memcontrol.c:782:5: warning: symbol 'mem_cgroup_resize_limit' was not declared. Should it be static? cleanup here. 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>
2009-01-06mm: make maddr __iomemKOSAKI Motohiro
sparse output following warnings. mm/memory.c:2936:8: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different address spaces) mm/memory.c:2936:8: expected void *maddr mm/memory.c:2936:8: got void [noderef] <asn:2> cleanup here. 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>