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2009-05-22Merge branch 'master' into nextJames Morris
Conflicts: fs/exec.c Removed IMA changes (the IMA checks are now performed via may_open()). Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-05-22integrity: move ima_counts_getMimi Zohar
Based on discussion on lkml (Andrew Morton and Eric Paris), move ima_counts_get down a layer into shmem/hugetlb__file_setup(). Resolves drm shmem_file_setup() usage case as well. HD comment: I still think you're doing this at the wrong level, but recognize that you probably won't be persuaded until a few more users of alloc_file() emerge, all wanting your ima_counts_get(). Resolving GEM's shmem_file_setup() is an improvement, so I'll say Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-05-22integrity: path_check updateMimi Zohar
- Add support in ima_path_check() for integrity checking without incrementing the counts. (Required for nfsd.) - rename and export opencount_get to ima_counts_get - replace ima_shm_check calls with ima_counts_get - export ima_path_check Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-05-20Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (25 commits) [ARM] 5519/1: amba probe: pass "struct amba_id *" instead of void * [ARM] 5517/1: integrator: don't put clock lookups in __initdata [ARM] 5518/1: versatile: don't put clock lookups in __initdata [ARM] mach-l7200: fix spelling of SYS_CLOCK_OFF [ARM] Double check memmap is actually valid with a memmap has unexpected holes V2 [ARM] realview: fix broadcast tick support [ARM] realview: remove useless smp_cross_call_done() [ARM] smp: fix cpumask usage in ARM SMP code [ARM] 5513/1: Eurotech VIPER SBC: fix compilation error [ARM] 5509/1: ep93xx: clkdev enable UARTS ARM: OMAP2/3: Change omapfb to use clkdev for dispc and rfbi, v2 ARM: OMAP3: Fix HW SAVEANDRESTORE shift define ARM: OMAP3: Fix number of GPIO lines for 34xx [ARM] S3C: Do not set clk->owner field if unset [ARM] S3C2410: mach-bast.c registering i2c data too early [ARM] S3C24XX: Fix unused code warning in arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx/dma.c [ARM] S3C64XX: fix GPIO debug [ARM] S3C64XX: GPIO include cleanup [ARM] nwfpe: fix 'floatx80_is_nan' sparse warning [ARM] nwfpe: Add decleration for ExtendedCPDO ...
2009-05-18[ARM] Double check memmap is actually valid with a memmap has unexpected ↵Mel Gorman
holes V2 pfn_valid() is meant to be able to tell if a given PFN has valid memmap associated with it or not. In FLATMEM, it is expected that holes always have valid memmap as long as there is valid PFNs either side of the hole. In SPARSEMEM, it is assumed that a valid section has a memmap for the entire section. However, ARM and maybe other embedded architectures in the future free memmap backing holes to save memory on the assumption the memmap is never used. The page_zone linkages are then broken even though pfn_valid() returns true. A walker of the full memmap must then do this additional check to ensure the memmap they are looking at is sane by making sure the zone and PFN linkages are still valid. This is expensive, but walkers of the full memmap are extremely rare. This was caught before for FLATMEM and hacked around but it hits again for SPARSEMEM because the page_zone linkages can look ok where the PFN linkages are totally screwed. This looks like a hatchet job but the reality is that any clean solution would end up consumning all the memory saved by punching these unexpected holes in the memmap. For example, we tried marking the memmap within the section invalid but the section size exceeds the size of the hole in most cases so pfn_valid() starts returning false where valid memmap exists. Shrinking the size of the section would increase memory consumption offsetting the gains. This patch identifies when an architecture is punching unexpected holes in the memmap that the memory model cannot automatically detect and sets ARCH_HAS_HOLES_MEMORYMODEL. At the moment, this is restricted to EP93xx which is the model sub-architecture this has been reported on but may expand later. When set, walkers of the full memmap must call memmap_valid_within() for each PFN and passing in what it expects the page and zone to be for that PFN. If it finds the linkages to be broken, it assumes the memmap is invalid for that PFN. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2009-05-17page-writeback: fix the calculation of the oldest_jif in wb_kupdate()Toshiyuki Okajima
wb_kupdate() function has a bug on linux-2.6.30-rc5. This bug causes generic_sync_sb_inodes() to start to write inodes back much earlier than our expectations because it miscalculates oldest_jif in wb_kupdate(). This bug was introduced in 704503d836042d4a4c7685b7036e7de0418fbc0f ('mm: fix proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies "breakage"'). Signed-off-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-17Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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: mm: SLOB fix reclaim_state mm: SLUB fix reclaim_state slub: add Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-kernel-slab slub: enforce MAX_ORDER
2009-05-15Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: Revert "mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threads" viocd: needs to depend on BLOCK block: fix the bio_vec array index out-of-bounds test
2009-05-15Revert "mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threads"Jens Axboe
This reverts commit fafd688e4c0c34da0f3de909881117d374e4c7af. Work is progressing to switch away from pdflush as the process backing for flushing out dirty data. So it seems pointless to add more knobs to control pdflush threads. The original author of the patch did not have any specific use cases for adding the knobs, so we can easily revert this before 2.6.30 to avoid having to maintain this API forever. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-13Revert "Ignore madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) for hugetlbfs-backed regions"Linus Torvalds
This reverts commit a425a638c858fd10370b573bde81df3ba500e271. Now that the previous commit removed the "readpage" actor for hugetlb files, read-ahead will no longer mess up the mapping, and there's no longer any reason to treat hugetlbfs mappings specially. Tested-and-acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-07NOMMU: Don't check vm_region::vm_start is page aligned in add_nommu_region()David Howells
Don't check vm_region::vm_start is page aligned in add_nommu_region() because the region may reflect some non-page-aligned mapped file, such as could be obtained from RomFS XIP. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-06nommu: make the initial mmap allocation excess behaviour Kconfig configurableDavid Howells
NOMMU mmap() has an option controlled by a sysctl variable that determines whether the allocations made by do_mmap_private() should have the excess space trimmed off and returned to the allocator. Make the initial setting of this variable a Kconfig configuration option. The reason there can be excess space is that the allocator only allocates in power-of-2 size chunks, but mmap()'s can be made in sizes that aren't a power of 2. There are two alternatives: (1) Keep the excess as dead space. The dead space then remains unused for the lifetime of the mapping. Mappings of shared objects such as libc, ld.so or busybox's text segment may retain their dead space forever. (2) Return the excess to the allocator. This means that the dead space is limited to less than a page per mapping, but it means that for a transient process, there's more chance of fragmentation as the excess space may be reused fairly quickly. During the boot process, a lot of transient processes are created, and this can cause a lot of fragmentation as the pagecache and various slabs grow greatly during this time. By turning off the trimming of excess space during boot and disabling batching of frees, Coldfire can manage to boot. A better way of doing things might be to have /sbin/init turn this option off. By that point libc, ld.so and init - which are all long-duration processes - have all been loaded and trimmed. Reported-by: Lanttor Guo <lanttor.guo@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Lanttor Guo <lanttor.guo@freescale.com> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-06nommu: clamp zone_batchsize() to 0 under NOMMU conditionsDavid Howells
Clamp zone_batchsize() to 0 under NOMMU conditions to stop free_hot_cold_page() from queueing and batching frees. The problem is that under NOMMU conditions it is really important to be able to allocate large contiguous chunks of memory, but when munmap() or exit_mmap() releases big stretches of memory, return of these to the buddy allocator can be deferred, and when it does finally happen, it can be in small chunks. Whilst the fragmentation this incurs isn't so much of a problem under MMU conditions as userspace VM is glued together from individual pages with the aid of the MMU, it is a real problem if there isn't an MMU. By clamping the page freeing queue size to 0, pages are returned to the allocator immediately, and the buddy detector is more likely to be able to glue them together into large chunks immediately, and fragmentation is less likely to occur. By disabling batching of frees, and by turning off the trimming of excess space during boot, Coldfire can manage to boot. Reported-by: Lanttor Guo <lanttor.guo@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Lanttor Guo <lanttor.guo@freescale.com> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-06mm: use roundown_pow_of_two() in zone_batchsize()David Howells
Use roundown_pow_of_two(N) in zone_batchsize() rather than (1 << (fls(N)-1)) as they are equivalent, and with the former it is easier to see what is going on. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Lanttor Guo <lanttor.guo@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-06alloc_vmap_area: fix memory leakRalph Wuerthner
If alloc_vmap_area() fails the allocated struct vmap_area has to be freed. Signed-off-by: Ralph Wuerthner <ralphw@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.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>
2009-05-06oom: prevent livelock when oom_kill_allocating_task is setDavid Rientjes
When /proc/sys/vm/oom_kill_allocating_task is set for large systems that want to avoid the lengthy tasklist scan, it's possible to livelock if current is ineligible for oom kill. This normally happens when it is set to OOM_DISABLE, but is also possible if any threads are sharing the same ->mm with a different tgid. So change __out_of_memory() to fall back to the full task-list scan if it was unable to kill `current'. Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-06Merge branches 'topic/documentation', 'topic/slub/fixes' and 'topic/urgent' ↵Pekka Enberg
into for-linus
2009-05-06mm: SLOB fix reclaim_stateNick Piggin
SLOB does not correctly account reclaim_state.reclaimed_slab, so it will break memory reclaim. Account it like SLAB does. Cc: stable@kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-05-06mm: SLUB fix reclaim_stateNick Piggin
SLUB does not correctly account reclaim_state.reclaimed_slab, so it will break memory reclaim. Account it like SLAB does. Cc: stable@kernel.org Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-05-05Ignore madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) for hugetlbfs-backed regionsMel Gorman
madvise(MADV_WILLNEED) forces page cache readahead on a range of memory backed by a file. The assumption is made that the page required is order-0 and "normal" page cache. On hugetlbfs, this assumption is not true and order-0 pages are allocated and inserted into the hugetlbfs page cache. This leaks hugetlbfs page reservations and can cause BUGs to trigger related to corrupted page tables. This patch causes MADV_WILLNEED to be ignored for hugetlbfs-backed regions. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-02vmscan: avoid multiplication overflow in shrink_zone()Andrew Morton
Local variable `scan' can overflow on zones which are larger than (2G * 4k) / 100 = 80GB. Making it 64-bit on 64-bit will fix that up. Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-02mm: fix Committed_AS underflow on large NR_CPUS environmentKOSAKI Motohiro
The Committed_AS field can underflow in certain situations: > # while true; do cat /proc/meminfo | grep _AS; sleep 1; done | uniq -c > 1 Committed_AS: 18446744073709323392 kB > 11 Committed_AS: 18446744073709455488 kB > 6 Committed_AS: 35136 kB > 5 Committed_AS: 18446744073709454400 kB > 7 Committed_AS: 35904 kB > 3 Committed_AS: 18446744073709453248 kB > 2 Committed_AS: 34752 kB > 9 Committed_AS: 18446744073709453248 kB > 8 Committed_AS: 34752 kB > 3 Committed_AS: 18446744073709320960 kB > 7 Committed_AS: 18446744073709454080 kB > 3 Committed_AS: 18446744073709320960 kB > 5 Committed_AS: 18446744073709454080 kB > 6 Committed_AS: 18446744073709320960 kB Because NR_CPUS can be greater than 1000 and meminfo_proc_show() does not check for underflow. But NR_CPUS proportional isn't good calculation. In general, possibility of lock contention is proportional to the number of online cpus, not theorical maximum cpus (NR_CPUS). The current kernel has generic percpu-counter stuff. using it is right way. it makes code simplify and percpu_counter_read_positive() don't make underflow issue. Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [All kernel versions] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-02memcg: fix mem_cgroup_shrink_usage()Daisuke Nishimura
Current mem_cgroup_shrink_usage() has two problems. 1. It doesn't call mem_cgroup_out_of_memory and doesn't update last_oom_jiffies, so pagefault_out_of_memory invokes global OOM. 2. Considering hierarchy, shrinking has to be done from the mem_over_limit, not from the memcg which the page would be charged to. mem_cgroup_try_charge_swapin() does all of these things properly, so we use it and call cancel_charge_swapin when it succeeded. The name of "shrink_usage" is not appropriate for this behavior, so we change it too. Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.cn> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-02mm: close page_mkwrite racesNick Piggin
Change page_mkwrite to allow implementations to return with the page locked, and also change it's callers (in page fault paths) to hold the lock until the page is marked dirty. This allows the filesystem to have full control of page dirtying events coming from the VM. Rather than simply hold the page locked over the page_mkwrite call, we call page_mkwrite with the page unlocked and allow callers to return with it locked, so filesystems can avoid LOR conditions with page lock. The problem with the current scheme is this: a filesystem that wants to associate some metadata with a page as long as the page is dirty, will perform this manipulation in its ->page_mkwrite. It currently then must return with the page unlocked and may not hold any other locks (according to existing page_mkwrite convention). In this window, the VM could write out the page, clearing page-dirty. The filesystem has no good way to detect that a dirty pte is about to be attached, so it will happily write out the page, at which point, the filesystem may manipulate the metadata to reflect that the page is no longer dirty. It is not always possible to perform the required metadata manipulation in ->set_page_dirty, because that function cannot block or fail. The filesystem may need to allocate some data structure, for example. And the VM cannot mark the pte dirty before page_mkwrite, because page_mkwrite is allowed to fail, so we must not allow any window where the page could be written to if page_mkwrite does fail. This solution of holding the page locked over the 3 critical operations (page_mkwrite, setting the pte dirty, and finally setting the page dirty) closes out races nicely, preventing page cleaning for writeout being initiated in that window. This provides the filesystem with a strong synchronisation against the VM here. - Sage needs this race closed for ceph filesystem. - Trond for NFS (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12913). - I need it for fsblock. - I suspect other filesystems may need it too (eg. btrfs). - I have converted buffer.c to the new locking. Even simple block allocation under dirty pages might be susceptible to i_size changing under partial page at the end of file (we also have a buffer.c-side problem here, but it cannot be fixed properly without this patch). - Other filesystems (eg. NFS, maybe btrfs) will need to change their page_mkwrite functions themselves. [ This also moves page_mkwrite another step closer to fault, which should eventually allow page_mkwrite to be moved into ->fault, and thus avoiding a filesystem calldown and page lock/unlock cycle in __do_fault. ] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix derefs of NULL ->mapping] Cc: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-02memcg: fix try_get_mem_cgroup_from_swapcache()Daisuke Nishimura
This is a bugfix for commit 3c776e64660028236313f0e54f3a9945764422df ("memcg: charge swapcache to proper memcg"). Used bit of swapcache is solid under page lock, but considering move_account, pc->mem_cgroup is not. We need lock_page_cgroup() anyway. Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-02mm: fix pageref leak in do_swap_page()Johannes Weiner
By the time the memory cgroup code is notified about a swapin we already hold a reference on the fault page. If the cgroup callback fails make sure to unlock AND release the page reference which was taken by lookup_swap_cach(), or we leak the reference. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-23slub: enforce MAX_ORDERDavid Rientjes
slub_max_order may not be equal to or greater than MAX_ORDER. Additionally, if a single object cannot be placed in a slab of slub_max_order, it still must allocate slabs below MAX_ORDER. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-04-21vmscan,memcg: reintroduce sc->may_swapKOSAKI Motohiro
Commit a6dc60f8975ad96d162915e07703a4439c80dcf0 ("vmscan: rename sc.may_swap to may_unmap") removed the may_swap flag, but memcg had used it as a flag for "we need to use swap?", as the name indicate. And in the current implementation, memcg cannot reclaim mapped file caches when mem+swap hits the limit. re-introduce may_swap flag and handle it at get_scan_ratio(). This patch doesn't influence any scan_control users other than memcg. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2009-04-18PM/Hibernate: Fix memory shrinkingRafael J. Wysocki
Commit d979677c4c0 ("mm: shrink_all_memory(): use sc.nr_reclaimed") broke the memory shrinking used by hibernation, becuse it did not update shrink_all_zones() in accordance with the other changes it made. Fix this by making shrink_all_zones() update sc->nr_reclaimed instead of overwriting its value. This fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13058 Reported-and-tested-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-16mm: pass correct mm when growing stackHugh Dickins
Tetsuo Handa reports seeing the WARN_ON(current->mm == NULL) in security_vm_enough_memory(), when do_execve() is touching the target mm's stack, to set up its args and environment. Yes, a UMH_NO_WAIT or UMH_WAIT_PROC call_usermodehelper() spawns an mm-less kernel thread to do the exec. And in any case, that vm_enough_memory check when growing stack ought to be done on the target mm, not on the execer's mm (though apart from the warning, it only makes a slight tweak to OVERCOMMIT_NEVER behaviour). Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-16Export filemap_write_and_wait_rangeChris Mason
This wasn't exported before and is useful (used by the experimental ext3 data=guarded code) Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Acked-by: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-13shmem: respect MAX_LFS_FILESIZEHugh Dickins
SHMEM_MAX_BYTES was derived from the maximum size of its triple-indirect swap vector, forgetting to take the MAX_LFS_FILESIZE limit into account. Never mind 256kB pages, even 8kB pages on 32-bit kernels allowed files to grow slightly bigger than that supposed maximum. Fix this by using the min of both (at build time not run time). And it happens that this calculation is good as far as 8MB pages on 32-bit or 16MB pages on 64-bit: though SHMSWP_MAX_INDEX gets truncated before that, it's truncated to such large numbers that we don't need to care. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: it needs pagemap.h] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix sparc64 min() warnings] Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> 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>
2009-04-13shmem: fix division by zeroYuri Tikhonov
Fix a division by zero which we have in shmem_truncate_range() and shmem_unuse_inode() when using big PAGE_SIZE values (e.g. 256kB on ppc44x). With 256kB PAGE_SIZE, the ENTRIES_PER_PAGEPAGE constant becomes too large (0x1.0000.0000) on a 32-bit kernel, so this patch just changes its type from 'unsigned long' to 'unsigned long long'. Hugh: reverted its unsigned long longs in shmem_truncate_range() and shmem_getpage(): the pagecache index cannot be more than an unsigned long, so the divisions by zero occurred in unreached code. It's a pity we need any ULL arithmetic here, but I found no pretty way to avoid it. Signed-off-by: Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-13memcg: remove warning when CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=nKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
mm/memcontrol.c:318: warning: `mem_cgroup_is_obsolete' defined but not used [akpm@linux-foundation.org: simplify as suggested by Balbir] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-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>
2009-04-13mm: document get_user_pages_fast()Andy Grover
While better than get_user_pages(), the usage of gupf(), especially the return values and the fact that it can potentially only partially pin the range, warranted some documentation. Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 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>
2009-04-13mm: point the UNEVICTABLE_LRU config option at the documentationDavid Howells
Point the UNEVICTABLE_LRU config option at the documentation describing the option. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-13filemap: fix kernel-doc warningsRandy Dunlap
Fix filemap.c kernel-doc warnings: Warning(mm/filemap.c:575): No description found for parameter 'page' Warning(mm/filemap.c:575): No description found for parameter 'waiter' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threadsPeter W Morreale
Add /proc entries to give the admin the ability to control the minimum and maximum number of pdflush threads. This allows finer control of pdflush on both large and small machines. The rationale is simply one size does not fit all. Admins on large and/or small systems may want to tune the min/max pdflush thread count to best suit their needs. Right now the min/max is hardcoded to 2/8. While probably a fair estimate for smaller machines, large machines with large numbers of CPUs and large numbers of filesystems/block devices may benefit from larger numbers of threads working on different block devices. Even if the background flushing algorithm is radically changed, it is still likely that multiple threads will be involved and admins would still desire finer control on the min/max other than to have to recompile the kernel. The patch adds '/proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads_min' and '/proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads_max' with r/w permissions. The minimum value for nr_pdflush_threads_min is 1 and the maximum value is the current value of nr_pdflush_threads_max. This minimum is required since additional thread creation is performed in a pdflush thread itself. The minimum value for nr_pdflush_threads_max is the current value of nr_pdflush_threads_min and the maximum value can be 1000. Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt is also updated. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment, fix whitespace, use __read_mostly] Signed-off-by: Peter W Morreale <pmorreale@novell.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-07mm: fix pdflush thread creation upper boundPeter W Morreale
Fix a race on creating pdflush threads. Without the patch, it is possible to create more than MAX_PDFLUSH_THREADS threads, and this has been observed in practice on IO loaded SMP machines. The fix involves moving the lock around to protect the check against the thread count and correctly dealing with thread creation failure. This fix also _mostly_ repairs a race condition on how quickly the threads are created. The original intent was to create a pdflush thread (up to the max allowed) every second. Without this patch is is possible to create NCPUS pdflush threads concurrently. The 'mostly' caveat is because an assumption is made that thread creation will be successful. If we fail to create the thread, the miss is not considered fatal. (we will try again in 1 second) Signed-off-by: Peter W Morreale <pmorreale@novell.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-06percpu: __percpu_depopulate_mask can take a const maskStephen Rothwell
This eliminates a compiler warning: mm/allocpercpu.c: In function 'free_percpu': mm/allocpercpu.c:146: warning: passing argument 2 of '__percpu_depopulate_mask' discards qualifiers from pointer target type Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-06Merge branch 'kmemtrace-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'kmemtrace-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: kmemtrace: trace kfree() calls with NULL or zero-length objects kmemtrace: small cleanups kmemtrace: restore original tracing data binary format, improve ABI kmemtrace: kmemtrace_alloc() must fill type_id kmemtrace: use tracepoints kmemtrace, rcu: don't include unnecessary headers, allow kmemtrace w/ tracepoints kmemtrace, rcu: fix rcupreempt.c data structure dependencies kmemtrace, rcu: fix rcu_tree_trace.c data structure dependencies kmemtrace, rcu: fix linux/rcutree.h and linux/rcuclassic.h dependencies kmemtrace, mm: fix slab.h dependency problem in mm/failslab.c kmemtrace, kbuild: fix slab.h dependency problem in lib/decompress_unlzma.c kmemtrace, kbuild: fix slab.h dependency problem in lib/decompress_bunzip2.c kmemtrace, kbuild: fix slab.h dependency problem in lib/decompress_inflate.c kmemtrace, squashfs: fix slab.h dependency problem in squasfs kmemtrace, befs: fix slab.h dependency problem kmemtrace, security: fix linux/key.h header file dependencies kmemtrace, fs: fix linux/fdtable.h header file dependencies kmemtrace, fs: uninline simple_transaction_set() kmemtrace, fs, security: move alloc_secdata() and free_secdata() to linux/security.h
2009-04-06block: change the request allocation/congestion logic to be sync/async basedJens Axboe
This makes sure that we never wait on async IO for sync requests, instead of doing the split on writes vs reads. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-05Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6: (714 commits) Staging: sxg: slicoss: Specify the license for Sahara SXG and Slicoss drivers Staging: serqt_usb: fix build due to proc tty changes Staging: serqt_usb: fix checkpatch errors Staging: serqt_usb: add TODO file Staging: serqt_usb: Lindent the code Staging: add USB serial Quatech driver staging: document that the wifi staging drivers a bit better Staging: echo cleanup Staging: BUG to BUG_ON changes Staging: remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb() Staging: line6: fix build error, select SND_RAWMIDI Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in variax.c Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in toneport.c Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in pcm.c Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in midibuf.c Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in midi.c Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in dumprequest.c Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in driver.c Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in audio.c Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in pod.c ...
2009-04-05Merge branch 'tracing-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (413 commits) tracing, net: fix net tree and tracing tree merge interaction tracing, powerpc: fix powerpc tree and tracing tree interaction ring-buffer: do not remove reader page from list on ring buffer free function-graph: allow unregistering twice trace: make argument 'mem' of trace_seq_putmem() const tracing: add missing 'extern' keywords to trace_output.h tracing: provide trace_seq_reserve() blktrace: print out BLK_TN_MESSAGE properly blktrace: extract duplidate code blktrace: fix memory leak when freeing struct blk_io_trace blktrace: fix blk_probes_ref chaos blktrace: make classic output more classic blktrace: fix off-by-one bug blktrace: fix the original blktrace blktrace: fix a race when creating blk_tree_root in debugfs blktrace: fix timestamp in binary output tracing, Text Edit Lock: cleanup tracing: filter fix for TRACE_EVENT_FORMAT events ftrace: Using FTRACE_WARN_ON() to check "freed record" in ftrace_release() x86: kretprobe-booster interrupt emulation code fix ... Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/parisc/include/asm/ftrace.h include/linux/memory.h kernel/extable.c kernel/module.c
2009-04-05Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-cpumaskLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-cpumask: (36 commits) cpumask: remove cpumask allocation from idle_balance, fix numa, cpumask: move numa_node_id default implementation to topology.h, fix cpumask: remove cpumask allocation from idle_balance x86: cpumask: x86 mmio-mod.c use cpumask_var_t for downed_cpus x86: cpumask: update 32-bit APM not to mug current->cpus_allowed x86: microcode: cleanup x86: cpumask: use work_on_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/microcode_core.c cpumask: fix CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y cpu hotunplug crash numa, cpumask: move numa_node_id default implementation to topology.h cpumask: convert node_to_cpumask_map[] to cpumask_var_t cpumask: remove x86 cpumask_t uses. cpumask: use cpumask_var_t in uv_flush_tlb_others. cpumask: remove cpumask_t assignment from vector_allocation_domain() cpumask: make Xen use the new operators. cpumask: clean up summit's send_IPI functions cpumask: use new cpumask functions throughout x86 x86: unify cpu_callin_mask/cpu_callout_mask/cpu_initialized_mask/cpu_sibling_setup_mask cpumask: convert struct cpuinfo_x86's llc_shared_map to cpumask_var_t cpumask: convert node_to_cpumask_map[] to cpumask_var_t x86: unify 32 and 64-bit node_to_cpumask_map ...
2009-04-03Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (28 commits) trivial: Update my email address trivial: NULL noise: drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_*test.c trivial: NULL noise: drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drx397xD_fw.h trivial: Fix misspelling of "Celsius". trivial: remove unused variable 'path' in alloc_file() trivial: fix a pdlfush -> pdflush typo in comment trivial: jbd header comment typo fix for JBD_PARANOID_IOFAIL trivial: wusb: Storage class should be before const qualifier trivial: drivers/char/bsr.c: Storage class should be before const qualifier trivial: h8300: Storage class should be before const qualifier trivial: fix where cgroup documentation is not correctly referred to trivial: Give the right path in Documentation example trivial: MTD: remove EOL from MODULE_DESCRIPTION trivial: Fix typo in bio_split()'s documentation trivial: PWM: fix of #endif comment trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in Kconfig texts trivial: Fix misspelling of firmware trivial: cgroups: documentation typo and spelling corrections trivial: Update contact info for Jochen Hein trivial: fix typo "resgister" -> "register" ...
2009-04-03Staging: pohmelfs: kconfig/makefile and vfs changes.Evgeniy Polyakov
This patch adds Kconfig and Makefile entries and exports to VFS functions to be used by POHMELFS. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03CacheFiles: Permit the page lock state to be monitoredDavid Howells
Add a function to install a monitor on the page lock waitqueue for a particular page, thus allowing the page being unlocked to be detected. This is used by CacheFiles to detect read completion on a page in the backing filesystem so that it can then copy the data to the waiting netfs page. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03FS-Cache: Recruit a page flags for cache managementDavid Howells
Recruit a page flag to aid in cache management. The following extra flag is defined: (1) PG_fscache (PG_private_2) The marked page is backed by a local cache and is pinning resources in the cache driver. If PG_fscache is set, then things that checked for PG_private will now also check for that. This includes things like truncation and page invalidation. The function page_has_private() had been added to make the checks for both PG_private and PG_private_2 at the same time. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
2009-04-03FS-Cache: Release page->private after failed readaheadDavid Howells
The attached patch causes read_cache_pages() to release page-private data on a page for which add_to_page_cache() fails. If the filler function fails, then the problematic page is left attached to the pagecache (with appropriate flags set, one presumes) and the remaining to-be-attached pages are invalidated and discarded. This permits pages with caching references associated with them to be cleaned up. The invalidatepage() address space op is called (indirectly) to do the honours. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>