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2008-09-13mm: mark the correct zone as full when scanning zonelistsMel Gorman
The iterator for_each_zone_zonelist() uses a struct zoneref *z cursor when scanning zonelists to keep track of where in the zonelist it is. The zoneref that is returned corresponds to the the next zone that is to be scanned, not the current one. It was intended to be treated as an opaque list. When the page allocator is scanning a zonelist, it marks elements in the zonelist corresponding to zones that are temporarily full. As the zonelist is being updated, it uses the cursor here; if (NUMA_BUILD) zlc_mark_zone_full(zonelist, z); This is intended to prevent rescanning in the near future but the zoneref cursor does not correspond to the zone that has been found to be full. This is an easy misunderstanding to make so this patch corrects the problem by changing zoneref cursor to be the current zone being scanned instead of the next one. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.26.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-03mmap: fix petty bug in anonymous shared mmap offset handlingTejun Heo
Anonymous mappings should ignore offset but shared anonymous mapping forgot to clear it and makes the following legit test program trigger SIGBUS. #include <sys/mman.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <errno.h> #define PAGE_SIZE 4096 int main(void) { char *p; int i; p = mmap(NULL, 2 * PAGE_SIZE, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, PAGE_SIZE); if (p == MAP_FAILED) { perror("mmap"); return 1; } for (i = 0; i < 2; i++) { printf("page %d\n", i); p[i * 4096] = i; } return 0; } Fix it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-02mm: size of quicklists shouldn't be proportional to the number of CPUsKOSAKI Motohiro
Quicklists store pages for each CPU as caches. (Each CPU can cache node_free_pages/16 pages) It is used for page table cache. exit() will increase the cache size, while fork() consumes it. So for example if an apache-style application runs (one parent and many child model), one CPU process will fork() while another CPU will process the middleware work and exit(). At that time, the CPU on which the parent runs doesn't have page table cache at all. Others (on which children runs) have maximum caches. QList_max = (#ofCPUs - 1) x Free / 16 => QList_max / (Free + QList_max) = (#ofCPUs - 1) / (16 + #ofCPUs - 1) So, How much quicklist memory is used in the maximum case? This is proposional to # of CPUs because the limit of per cpu quicklist cache doesn't see the number of cpus. Above calculation mean Number of CPUs per node 2 4 8 16 ============================== ==================== QList_max / (Free + QList_max) 5.8% 16% 30% 48% Wow! Quicklist can spend about 50% memory at worst case. My demonstration program is here -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #define _GNU_SOURCE #include <stdio.h> #include <errno.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <sched.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #define BUFFSIZE 512 int max_cpu(void) /* get max number of logical cpus from /proc/cpuinfo */ { FILE *fd; char *ret, buffer[BUFFSIZE]; int cpu = 1; fd = fopen("/proc/cpuinfo", "r"); if (fd == NULL) { perror("fopen(/proc/cpuinfo)"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } while (1) { ret = fgets(buffer, BUFFSIZE, fd); if (ret == NULL) break; if (!strncmp(buffer, "processor", 9)) cpu = atoi(strchr(buffer, ':') + 2); } fclose(fd); return cpu; } void cpu_bind(int cpu) /* bind current process to one cpu */ { cpu_set_t mask; int ret; CPU_ZERO(&mask); CPU_SET(cpu, &mask); ret = sched_setaffinity(0, sizeof(mask), &mask); if (ret == -1) { perror("sched_setaffinity()"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } sched_yield(); /* not necessary */ } #define MMAP_SIZE (10 * 1024 * 1024) /* 10 MB */ #define FORK_INTERVAL 1 /* 1 second */ main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int cpu_max, nextcpu; long pagesize; pid_t pid; /* set max number of logical cpu */ if (argc > 1) cpu_max = atoi(argv[1]) - 1; else cpu_max = max_cpu(); /* get the page size */ pagesize = sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE); if (pagesize == -1) { perror("sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE)"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } /* prepare parent process */ cpu_bind(0); nextcpu = cpu_max; loop: /* select destination cpu for child process by round-robin rule */ if (++nextcpu > cpu_max) nextcpu = 1; pid = fork(); if (pid == 0) { /* child action */ char *p; int i; /* consume page tables */ p = mmap(0, MMAP_SIZE, PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, 0, 0); i = MMAP_SIZE / pagesize; while (i-- > 0) { *p = 1; p += pagesize; } /* move to other cpu */ cpu_bind(nextcpu); /* printf("a child moved to cpu%d after mmap().\n", nextcpu); fflush(stdout); */ /* back page tables to pgtable_quicklist */ exit(0); } else if (pid > 0) { /* parent action */ sleep(FORK_INTERVAL); waitpid(pid, NULL, WNOHANG); } goto loop; } ---------------------------------------- When above program which does task migration runs, my 8GB box spends 800MB of memory for quicklist. This is not memory leak but doesn't seem good. % cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 7701568 kB MemFree: 4724672 kB (snip) Quicklists: 844800 kB because - My machine spec is number of numa node: 2 number of cpus: 8 (4CPU x2 node) total mem: 8GB (4GB x2 node) free mem: about 5GB - Then, 4.7GB x 16% ~= 880MB. So, Quicklist can use 800MB. So, if following spec machine run that program CPUs: 64 (8cpu x 8node) Mem: 1TB (128GB x8node) Then, quicklist can waste 300GB (= 1TB x 30%). It is too large. So, I don't like cache policies which is proportional to # of cpus. My patch changes the number of caches from: per-cpu-cache-amount = memory_on_node / 16 to per-cpu-cache-amount = memory_on_node / 16 / number_of_cpus_on_node. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Keiichiro Tokunaga <tokunaga.keiich@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Tested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-02mm/bootmem: silence section mismatch warning - ↵Marcin Slusarz
contig_page_data/bootmem_node_data WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x1f5c0): Section mismatch in reference from the variable contig_page_data to the variable .init.data:bootmem_node_data The variable contig_page_data references the variable __initdata bootmem_node_data If the reference is valid then annotate the variable with __init* (see linux/init.h) or name the variable: *driver, *_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console, Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Cc: Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@pikatech.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-02VFS: fix dio write returning EIO when try_to_release_page failsHisashi Hifumi
Dio write returns EIO when try_to_release_page fails because bh is still referenced. The patch commit 3f31fddfa26b7594b44ff2b34f9a04ba409e0f91 Author: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Date: Fri Jul 25 01:46:22 2008 -0700 jbd: fix race between free buffer and commit transaction was merged into 2.6.27-rc1, but I noticed that this patch is not enough to fix the race. I did fsstress test heavily to 2.6.27-rc1, and found that dio write still sometimes got EIO through this test. The patch above fixed race between freeing buffer(dio) and committing transaction(jbd) but I discovered that there is another race, freeing buffer(dio) and ext3/4_ordered_writepage. : background_writeout() ->write_cache_pages() ->ext3_ordered_writepage() walk_page_buffers() -> take a bh ref block_write_full_page() -> unlock_page : <- end_page_writeback : <- race! (dio write->try_to_release_page fails) walk_page_buffers() ->release a bh ref ext3_ordered_writepage holds bh ref and does unlock_page remaining taking a bh ref, so this causes the race and failure of try_to_release_page. To fix this race, I used the approach of falling back to buffered writes if try_to_release_page() fails on a page. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-02mm: make setup_zone_migrate_reserve() aware of overlapping nodesAdam Litke
I have gotten to the root cause of the hugetlb badness I reported back on August 15th. My system has the following memory topology (note the overlapping node): Node 0 Memory: 0x8000000-0x44000000 Node 1 Memory: 0x0-0x8000000 0x44000000-0x80000000 setup_zone_migrate_reserve() scans the address range 0x0-0x8000000 looking for a pageblock to move onto the MIGRATE_RESERVE list. Finding no candidates, it happily continues the scan into 0x8000000-0x44000000. When a pageblock is found, the pages are moved to the MIGRATE_RESERVE list on the wrong zone. Oops. setup_zone_migrate_reserve() should skip pageblocks in overlapping nodes. Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-02Remove '#include <stddef.h>' from mm/page_isolation.cDavid Woodhouse
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2008-08-28Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: [ARM] 5226/1: remove unmatched comment end. [ARM] Skip memory holes in FLATMEM when reading /proc/pagetypeinfo [ARM] use bcd2bin/bin2bcd [ARM] use the new byteorder headers [ARM] OMAP: Fix 2430 SMC91x ethernet IRQ [ARM] OMAP: Add and update OMAP default configuration files [ARM] OMAP: Change mailing list for OMAP in MAINTAINERS [ARM] S3C2443: Fix the S3C2443 clock register definitions [ARM] JIVE: Fix the spi bus numbering [ARM] S3C24XX: pwm.c: stop debugging output [ARM] S3C24XX: Fix sparse warnings in pwm.c [ARM] S3C24XX: Fix spare errors in pwm-clock driver [ARM] S3C24XX: Fix sparse warnings in arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx/gpiolib.c [ARM] S3C24XX: Fix nor-simtec driver sparse errors [ARM] 5225/1: zaurus: Register I2C controller for audio codecs [ARM] orion5x: update defconfig to v2.6.27-rc4 [ARM] Orion: register UART1 on QNAP TS-209 and TS-409 [ARM] Orion: activate lm75 driver on DNS-323 [ARM] Orion: fix MAC detection on QNAP TS-209 and TS-409 [ARM] Orion: Fix boot crash on Kurobox Pro
2008-08-27Merge 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: slub: Disable NUMA remote node defragmentation by default
2008-08-27[ARM] Skip memory holes in FLATMEM when reading /proc/pagetypeinfoMel Gorman
Ordinarily, memory holes in flatmem still have a valid memmap and is safe to use. However, an architecture (ARM) frees up the memmap backing memory holes on the assumption it is never used. /proc/pagetypeinfo reads the whole range of pages in a zone believing that the memmap is valid and that pfn_valid will return false if it is not. On ARM, freeing the memmap breaks the page->zone linkages even though pfn_valid() returns true and the kernel can oops shortly afterwards due to accessing a bogus struct zone *. This patch lets architectures say when FLATMEM can have holes in the memmap. Rather than an expensive check for valid memory, /proc/pagetypeinfo will confirm that the page linkages are still valid by checking page->zone is still the expected zone. The lookup of page_zone is safe as there is a limited range of memory that is accessed when calling page_zone. Even if page_zone happens to return the correct zone, the impact is that the counters in /proc/pagetypeinfo are slightly off but fragmentation monitoring is unlikely to be relevant on an embedded system. Reported-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Tested-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-08-20mm: xip/ext2 fix block allocation raceNick Piggin
XIP can call into get_xip_mem concurrently with the same file,offset with create=1. This usually maps down to get_block, which expects the page lock to prevent such a situation. This causes ext2 to explode for one reason or another. Serialise those calls for the moment. For common usages today, I suspect get_xip_mem rarely is called to create new blocks. In future as XIP technologies evolve we might need to look at which operations require scalability, and rework the locking to suit. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com> Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@freenet.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-20mm: xip fix fault vs sparse page invalidate raceNick Piggin
XIP has a race between sparse pages being inserted into page tables, and sparse pages being zapped when its time to put a non-sparse page in. What can happen is that a process can be left with a dangling sparse page in a MAP_SHARED mapping, while the rest of the world sees the non-sparse version. Ie. data corruption. Guard these operations with a seqlock, making fault-in-sparse-pages the slowpath, and try-to-unmap-sparse-pages the fastpath. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com> Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@freenet.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-20mm: dirty page tracking race fixNick Piggin
There is a race with dirty page accounting where a page may not properly be accounted for. clear_page_dirty_for_io() calls page_mkclean; then TestClearPageDirty. page_mkclean walks the rmaps for that page, and for each one it cleans and write protects the pte if it was dirty. It uses page_check_address to find the pte. That function has a shortcut to avoid the ptl if the pte is not present. Unfortunately, the pte can be switched to not-present then back to present by other code while holding the page table lock -- this should not be a signal for page_mkclean to ignore that pte, because it may be dirty. For example, powerpc64's set_pte_at will clear a previously present pte before setting it to the desired value. There may also be other code in core mm or in arch which do similar things. The consequence of the bug is loss of data integrity due to msync, and loss of dirty page accounting accuracy. XIP's __xip_unmap could easily also be unreliable (depending on the exact XIP locking scheme), which can lead to data corruption. Fix this by having an option to always take ptl to check the pte in page_check_address. It's possible to retain this optimization for page_referenced and try_to_unmap. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com> Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@freenet.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-20bootmem: fix aligning of node-relative indexes and offsetsJohannes Weiner
Absolute alignment requirements may never be applied to node-relative offsets. Andreas Herrmann spotted this flaw when a bootmem allocation on an unaligned node was itself not aligned because the combination of an unaligned node with an aligned offset into that node is not garuanteed to be aligned itself. This patch introduces two helper functions that align a node-relative index or offset with respect to the node's starting address so that the absolute PFN or virtual address that results from combining the two satisfies the requested alignment. Then all the broken ALIGN()s in alloc_bootmem_core() are replaced by these helpers. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Reported-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Debugged-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-20mm: mminit_loglevel cannot be __meminitdata anymoreMarcin Slusarz
mminit_loglevel is now used from mminit_verify_zonelist <- build_all_zonelists <- 1. online_pages <- memory_block_action <- memory_block_change_state <- store_mem_state (sys handler) 2. numa_zonelist_order_handler (proc handler) so it cannot be annotated __meminit - drop it fixes following section mismatch warning: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x71628): Section mismatch in reference from the function mminit_verify_zonelist() to the variable .meminit.data:mminit_loglevel The function mminit_verify_zonelist() references the variable __meminitdata mminit_loglevel. This is often because mminit_verify_zonelist lacks a __meminitdata annotation or the annotation of mminit_loglevel is wrong. Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Acked-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>
2008-08-20mm: show free swap as signedHugh Dickins
Adjust <Alt><SysRq>m show_swap_cache_info() to show "Free swap" as a signed long: the signed format is preferable, because during swapoff nr_swap_pages can legitimately go negative, so makes more sense thus (it used to be shown redundantly, once as signed and once as unsigned). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Reviewed-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>
2008-08-20mm: page_remove_rmap comments on PageAnonHugh Dickins
Add a comment to s390's page_test_dirty/page_clear_dirty/page_set_dirty dance in page_remove_rmap(): I was wrong to think the PageSwapCache test could be avoided, and would like a comment in there to remind me. And mention s390, to help us remember that this block is not really common. Also move down the "It would be tidy to reset PageAnon" comment: it does not belong to s390's block, and it would be unwise to reset PageAnon before we're done with testing it. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-20slub: Disable NUMA remote node defragmentation by defaultChristoph Lameter
Switch remote node defragmentation off by default. The current settings can cause excessive node local allocations with hackbench: SLAB: % cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 7701760 kB MemFree: 5940096 kB Slab: 123840 kB SLUB: % cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 7701376 kB MemFree: 4740928 kB Slab: 1591680 kB [Note: this feature is not related to slab defragmentation.] You can find the original discussion here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/4/308 Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-08-15Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: security: Fix setting of PF_SUPERPRIV by __capable()
2008-08-15bootmem allocator: alloc_bootmem_core(): page-align the end offsetMikulas Patocka
This is the minimal sequence that jams the allocator: void *p, *q, *r; p = alloc_bootmem(PAGE_SIZE); q = alloc_bootmem(64); free_bootmem(p, PAGE_SIZE); p = alloc_bootmem(PAGE_SIZE); r = alloc_bootmem(64); after this sequence (assuming that the allocator was empty or page-aligned before), pointer "q" will be equal to pointer "r". What's hapenning inside the allocator: p = alloc_bootmem(PAGE_SIZE); in allocator: last_end_off == PAGE_SIZE, bitmap contains bits 10000... q = alloc_bootmem(64); in allocator: last_end_off == PAGE_SIZE + 64, bitmap contains 11000... free_bootmem(p, PAGE_SIZE); in allocator: last_end_off == PAGE_SIZE + 64, bitmap contains 01000... p = alloc_bootmem(PAGE_SIZE); in allocator: last_end_off == PAGE_SIZE, bitmap contains 11000... r = alloc_bootmem(64); and now: it finds bit "2", as a place where to allocate (sidx) it hits the condition if (bdata->last_end_off && PFN_DOWN(bdata->last_end_off) + 1 == sidx)) start_off = ALIGN(bdata->last_end_off, align); -you can see that the condition is true, so it assigns start_off = ALIGN(bdata->last_end_off, align); (that is PAGE_SIZE) and allocates over already allocated block. With the patch it tries to continue at the end of previous allocation only if the previous allocation ended in the middle of the page. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-14security: Fix setting of PF_SUPERPRIV by __capable()David Howells
Fix the setting of PF_SUPERPRIV by __capable() as it could corrupt the flags the target process if that is not the current process and it is trying to change its own flags in a different way at the same time. __capable() is using neither atomic ops nor locking to protect t->flags. This patch removes __capable() and introduces has_capability() that doesn't set PF_SUPERPRIV on the process being queried. This patch further splits security_ptrace() in two: (1) security_ptrace_may_access(). This passes judgement on whether one process may access another only (PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH for ptrace() and PTRACE_MODE_READ for /proc), and takes a pointer to the child process. current is the parent. (2) security_ptrace_traceme(). This passes judgement on PTRACE_TRACEME only, and takes only a pointer to the parent process. current is the child. In Smack and commoncap, this uses has_capability() to determine whether the parent will be permitted to use PTRACE_ATTACH if normal checks fail. This does not set PF_SUPERPRIV. Two of the instances of __capable() actually only act on current, and so have been changed to calls to capable(). Of the places that were using __capable(): (1) The OOM killer calls __capable() thrice when weighing the killability of a process. All of these now use has_capability(). (2) cap_ptrace() and smack_ptrace() were using __capable() to check to see whether the parent was allowed to trace any process. As mentioned above, these have been split. For PTRACE_ATTACH and /proc, capable() is now used, and for PTRACE_TRACEME, has_capability() is used. (3) cap_safe_nice() only ever saw current, so now uses capable(). (4) smack_setprocattr() rejected accesses to tasks other than current just after calling __capable(), so the order of these two tests have been switched and capable() is used instead. (5) In smack_file_send_sigiotask(), we need to allow privileged processes to receive SIGIO on files they're manipulating. (6) In smack_task_wait(), we let a process wait for a privileged process, whether or not the process doing the waiting is privileged. I've tested this with the LTP SELinux and syscalls testscripts. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-08-12mm/sparse.c: removed duplicated includeHuang Weiyi
Signed-off-by: Huang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-12do_migrate_pages(): remove unused variableMinChan Kim
Signed-off-by: MinChan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-12allocate structures for reservation tracking in hugetlbfs outside of ↵Andy Whitcroft
spinlocks v2 [Andrew this should replace the previous version which did not check the returns from the region prepare for errors. This has been tested by us and Gerald and it looks good. Bah, while reviewing the locking based on your previous email I spotted that we need to check the return from the vma_needs_reservation call for allocation errors. Here is an updated patch to correct this. This passes testing here.] Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.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>
2008-08-12hugetlbfs: allocate structures for reservation tracking outside of spinlocksAndy Whitcroft
In the normal case, hugetlbfs reserves hugepages at map time so that the pages exist for future faults. A struct file_region is used to track when reservations have been consumed and where. These file_regions are allocated as necessary with kmalloc() which can sleep with the mm->page_table_lock held. This is wrong and triggers may-sleep warning when PREEMPT is enabled. Updates to the underlying file_region are done in two phases. The first phase prepares the region for the change, allocating any necessary memory, without actually making the change. The second phase actually commits the change. This patch makes use of this by checking the reservations before the page_table_lock is taken; triggering any necessary allocations. This may then be safely repeated within the locks without any allocations being required. Credit to Mel Gorman for diagnosing this failure and initial versions of the patch. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.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>
2008-08-12memcg: fix oops in mem_cgroup_shrink_usageHugh Dickins
Got an oops in mem_cgroup_shrink_usage() when testing loop over tmpfs: yes, of course, loop0 has no mm: other entry points check but this didn't. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@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>
2008-08-12page allocator: use no-panic variant of alloc_bootmem() in ↵Jan Beulich
alloc_large_system_hash() .. since a failed allocation is being (initially) handled gracefully, and panic()-ed upon failure explicitly in the function if retries with smaller sizes failed. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-12hugetlb: call arch_prepare_hugepage() for surplus pagesGerald Schaefer
The s390 software large page emulation implements shared page tables by using page->index of the first tail page from a compound large page to store page table information. This is set up in arch_prepare_hugepage(), which is called from alloc_fresh_huge_page_node(). A similar call to arch_prepare_hugepage() is missing for surplus large pages that are allocated in alloc_buddy_huge_page(), which breaks the software emulation mode for (surplus) large pages on s390. This patch adds the missing call to arch_prepare_hugepage(). It will have no effect on other architectures where arch_prepare_hugepage() is a nop. Also, use the correct order in the error path in alloc_fresh_huge_page_node(). Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-12Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linusLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: fix spinlock recursion in hvc_console stop_machine: remove unused variable modules: extend initcall_debug functionality to the module loader export virtio_rng.h lguest: use get_user_pages_fast() instead of get_user_pages() mm: Make generic weak get_user_pages_fast and EXPORT_GPL it lguest: don't set MAC address for guest unless specified
2008-08-12mm: Make generic weak get_user_pages_fast and EXPORT_GPL itRusty Russell
Out of line get_user_pages_fast fallback implementation, make it a weak symbol, get rid of CONFIG_HAVE_GET_USER_PAGES_FAST. Export the symbol to modules so lguest can use it. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-08-11Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: lockdep: fix debug_lock_alloc lockdep: increase MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS generic-ipi: fix stack and rcu interaction bug in smp_call_function_mask() lockdep: fix overflow in the hlock shrinkage code lockdep: rename map_[acquire|release]() => lock_map_[acquire|release]() lockdep: handle chains involving classes defined in modules mm: fix mm_take_all_locks() locking order lockdep: annotate mm_take_all_locks() lockdep: spin_lock_nest_lock() lockdep: lock protection locks lockdep: map_acquire lockdep: shrink held_lock structure lockdep: re-annotate scheduler runqueues lockdep: lock_set_subclass - reset a held lock's subclass lockdep: change scheduler annotation debug_locks: set oops_in_progress if we will log messages. lockdep: fix combinatorial explosion in lock subgraph traversal
2008-08-12Merge branch 'core/locking' into core/urgentIngo Molnar
2008-08-11mm: fix mm_take_all_locks() locking orderPeter Zijlstra
Lockdep spotted: ======================================================= [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] 2.6.27-rc1 #270 ------------------------------------------------------- qemu-kvm/2033 is trying to acquire lock: (&inode->i_data.i_mmap_lock){----}, at: [<ffffffff802996cc>] mm_take_all_locks+0xc2/0xea but task is already holding lock: (&anon_vma->lock){----}, at: [<ffffffff8029967a>] mm_take_all_locks+0x70/0xea which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #1 (&anon_vma->lock){----}: [<ffffffff8025cd37>] __lock_acquire+0x11be/0x14d2 [<ffffffff8025d0a9>] lock_acquire+0x5e/0x7a [<ffffffff804c655b>] _spin_lock+0x3b/0x47 [<ffffffff8029a2ef>] vma_adjust+0x200/0x444 [<ffffffff8029a662>] split_vma+0x12f/0x146 [<ffffffff8029bc60>] mprotect_fixup+0x13c/0x536 [<ffffffff8029c203>] sys_mprotect+0x1a9/0x21e [<ffffffff8020c0db>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff -> #0 (&inode->i_data.i_mmap_lock){----}: [<ffffffff8025ca54>] __lock_acquire+0xedb/0x14d2 [<ffffffff8025d397>] lock_release_non_nested+0x1c2/0x219 [<ffffffff8025d515>] lock_release+0x127/0x14a [<ffffffff804c6403>] _spin_unlock+0x1e/0x50 [<ffffffff802995d9>] mm_drop_all_locks+0x7f/0xb0 [<ffffffff802a965d>] do_mmu_notifier_register+0xe2/0x112 [<ffffffff802a96a8>] mmu_notifier_register+0xe/0x10 [<ffffffffa0043b6b>] kvm_dev_ioctl+0x11e/0x287 [kvm] [<ffffffff802bd0ca>] vfs_ioctl+0x2a/0x78 [<ffffffff802bd36f>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x257/0x274 [<ffffffff802bd3e1>] sys_ioctl+0x55/0x78 [<ffffffff8020c0db>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff other info that might help us debug this: 5 locks held by qemu-kvm/2033: #0: (&mm->mmap_sem){----}, at: [<ffffffff802a95d0>] do_mmu_notifier_register+0x55/0x112 #1: (mm_all_locks_mutex){--..}, at: [<ffffffff8029963e>] mm_take_all_locks+0x34/0xea #2: (&anon_vma->lock){----}, at: [<ffffffff8029967a>] mm_take_all_locks+0x70/0xea #3: (&anon_vma->lock){----}, at: [<ffffffff8029967a>] mm_take_all_locks+0x70/0xea #4: (&anon_vma->lock){----}, at: [<ffffffff8029967a>] mm_take_all_locks+0x70/0xea stack backtrace: Pid: 2033, comm: qemu-kvm Not tainted 2.6.27-rc1 #270 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8025b7c7>] print_circular_bug_tail+0xb8/0xc3 [<ffffffff8025ca54>] __lock_acquire+0xedb/0x14d2 [<ffffffff80259bb1>] ? add_lock_to_list+0x7e/0xad [<ffffffff8029967a>] ? mm_take_all_locks+0x70/0xea [<ffffffff8029967a>] ? mm_take_all_locks+0x70/0xea [<ffffffff8025d397>] lock_release_non_nested+0x1c2/0x219 [<ffffffff802996cc>] ? mm_take_all_locks+0xc2/0xea [<ffffffff802996cc>] ? mm_take_all_locks+0xc2/0xea [<ffffffff8025b202>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x4d/0x115 [<ffffffff802995d9>] ? mm_drop_all_locks+0x7f/0xb0 [<ffffffff8025d515>] lock_release+0x127/0x14a [<ffffffff804c6403>] _spin_unlock+0x1e/0x50 [<ffffffff802995d9>] mm_drop_all_locks+0x7f/0xb0 [<ffffffff802a965d>] do_mmu_notifier_register+0xe2/0x112 [<ffffffff802a96a8>] mmu_notifier_register+0xe/0x10 [<ffffffffa0043b6b>] kvm_dev_ioctl+0x11e/0x287 [kvm] [<ffffffff8033f9f2>] ? file_has_perm+0x83/0x8e [<ffffffff802bd0ca>] vfs_ioctl+0x2a/0x78 [<ffffffff802bd36f>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x257/0x274 [<ffffffff802bd3e1>] sys_ioctl+0x55/0x78 [<ffffffff8020c0db>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Which the locking hierarchy in mm/rmap.c confirms as valid. Fix this by first taking all the mapping->i_mmap_lock instances and then take all anon_vma->lock instances. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11lockdep: annotate mm_take_all_locks()Peter Zijlstra
The nesting is correct due to holding mmap_sem, use the new annotation to annotate this. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-09Merge 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: SLUB: dynamic per-cache MIN_PARTIAL mm: unexport ksize
2008-08-06Revert duplicate "mm/hugetlb.c must #include <asm/io.h>"Linus Torvalds
This reverts commit 7cb93181629c613ee2b8f4ffe3446f8003074842, since we did that patch twice, and the problem was already fixed earlier by 78a34ae29bf1c9df62a5bd0f0798b6c62a54d520. Reported-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-05mm: fix uninitialized variables for find_vma_prepare callersBenny Halevy
gcc 4.3.0 correctly emits the following warnings. When a vma covering addr is found, find_vma_prepare indeed returns without setting pprev, rb_link, and rb_parent. mm/mmap.c: In function `insert_vm_struct': mm/mmap.c:2085: warning: `rb_parent' may be used uninitialized in this function mm/mmap.c:2085: warning: `rb_link' may be used uninitialized in this function mm/mmap.c:2084: warning: `prev' may be used uninitialized in this function mm/mmap.c: In function `copy_vma': mm/mmap.c:2124: warning: `rb_parent' may be used uninitialized in this function mm/mmap.c:2124: warning: `rb_link' may be used uninitialized in this function mm/mmap.c:2123: warning: `prev' may be used uninitialized in this function mm/mmap.c: In function `do_brk': mm/mmap.c:1951: warning: `rb_parent' may be used uninitialized in this function mm/mmap.c:1951: warning: `rb_link' may be used uninitialized in this function mm/mmap.c:1949: warning: `prev' may be used uninitialized in this function mm/mmap.c: In function `mmap_region': mm/mmap.c:1092: warning: `rb_parent' may be used uninitialized in this function mm/mmap.c:1092: warning: `rb_link' may be used uninitialized in this function mm/mmap.c:1089: warning: `prev' may be used uninitialized in this function Hugh adds: in fact, none of find_vma_prepare's callers use those values when a vma is found to be already covering addr, it's either an error or an occasion to munmap and repeat. Okay, let's quieten the compiler (but I would prefer it if pprev, rb_link and rb_parent were meaningful in that case, rather than whatever's in them from descending the tree). Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: "Ryan Hope" <rmh3093@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-05mm_init.c: avoid ifdef-inside-macro-expansionAndrew Morton
gcc-3.2: mm/mm_init.c:77:1: directives may not be used inside a macro argument mm/mm_init.c:76:47: unterminated argument list invoking macro "mminit_dprintk" mm/mm_init.c: In function `mminit_verify_pageflags_layout': mm/mm_init.c:80: `mminit_dprintk' undeclared (first use in this function) mm/mm_init.c:80: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once mm/mm_init.c:80: for each function it appears in.) mm/mm_init.c:80: syntax error before numeric constant Also fix a typo in a comment. Reported-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> 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>
2008-08-05SLUB: dynamic per-cache MIN_PARTIALPekka Enberg
This patch changes the static MIN_PARTIAL to a dynamic per-cache ->min_partial value that is calculated from object size. The bigger the object size, the more pages we keep on the partial list. I tested SLAB, SLUB, and SLUB with this patch on Jens Axboe's 'netio' example script of the fio benchmarking tool. The script stresses the networking subsystem which should also give a fairly good beating of kmalloc() et al. To run the test yourself, first clone the fio repository: git clone git://git.kernel.dk/fio.git and then run the following command n times on your machine: time ./fio examples/netio The results on my 2-way 64-bit x86 machine are as follows: [ the minimum, maximum, and average are captured from 50 individual runs ] real time (seconds) min max avg sd SLAB 22.76 23.38 22.98 0.17 SLUB 22.80 25.78 23.46 0.72 SLUB (dynamic) 22.74 23.54 23.00 0.20 sys time (seconds) min max avg sd SLAB 6.90 8.28 7.70 0.28 SLUB 7.42 16.95 8.89 2.28 SLUB (dynamic) 7.17 8.64 7.73 0.29 user time (seconds) min max avg sd SLAB 36.89 38.11 37.50 0.29 SLUB 30.85 37.99 37.06 1.67 SLUB (dynamic) 36.75 38.07 37.59 0.32 As you can see from the above numbers, this patch brings SLUB to the same level as SLAB for this particular workload fixing a ~2% regression. I'd expect this change to help similar workloads that allocate a lot of objects that are close to the size of a page. Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-08-04mm: rename page trylockNick Piggin
Converting page lock to new locking bitops requires a change of page flag operation naming, so we might as well convert it to something nicer (!TestSetPageLocked_Lock => trylock_page, SetPageLocked => set_page_locked). This also facilitates lockdeping of page lock. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-04Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (29 commits) sh: enable maple_keyb in dreamcast_defconfig. SH2(A) cache update nommu: Provide vmalloc_exec(). add addrespace definition for sh2a. sh: Kill off ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT and remnants of a.out support. sh: define GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO__DO_IRQ. sh: define GENERIC_LOCKBREAK. sh: Save NUMA node data in vmcore for crash dumps. sh: module_alloc() should be using vmalloc_exec(). sh: Fix up __bug_table handling in module loader. sh: Add documentation and integrate into docbook build. sh: Fix up broken kerneldoc comments. maple: Kill useless private_data pointer. maple: Clean up maple_driver_register/unregister routines. input: Clean up maple keyboard driver maple: allow removal and reinsertion of keyboard driver module sh: /proc/asids depends on MMU. arch/sh/boards/mach-se/7343/irq.c: removed duplicated #include arch/sh/boards/board-ap325rxa.c: removed duplicated #include sh/boards/Makefile typo fix ...
2008-08-04mlock() fix return valuesKOSAKI Motohiro
Halesh says: Please find the below testcase provide to test mlock. Test Case : =========================== #include <sys/resource.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/mman.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <errno.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main(void) { int fd,ret, i = 0; char *addr, *addr1 = NULL; unsigned int page_size; struct rlimit rlim; if (0 != geteuid()) { printf("Execute this pgm as root\n"); exit(1); } /* create a file */ if ((fd = open("mmap_test.c",O_RDWR|O_CREAT,0755)) == -1) { printf("cant create test file\n"); exit(1); } page_size = sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE); /* set the MEMLOCK limit */ rlim.rlim_cur = 2000; rlim.rlim_max = 2000; if ((ret = setrlimit(RLIMIT_MEMLOCK,&rlim)) != 0) { printf("Cant change limit values\n"); exit(1); } addr = 0; while (1) { /* map a page into memory each time*/ if ((addr = (char *) mmap(addr,page_size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE,MAP_SHARED,fd,0)) == MAP_FAILED) { printf("cant do mmap on file\n"); exit(1); } if (0 == i) addr1 = addr; i++; errno = 0; /* lock the mapped memory pagewise*/ if ((ret = mlock((char *)addr, 1500)) == -1) { printf("errno value is %d\n", errno); printf("cant lock maped region\n"); exit(1); } addr = addr + page_size; } } ====================================================== This testcase results in an mlock() failure with errno 14 that is EFAULT, but it has nowhere been specified that mlock() will return EFAULT. When I tested the same on older kernels like 2.6.18, I got the correct result i.e errno 12 (ENOMEM). I think in source code mlock(2), setting errno ENOMEM has been missed in do_mlock() , on mlock_fixup() failure. SUSv3 requires the following behavior frmo mlock(2). [ENOMEM] Some or all of the address range specified by the addr and len arguments does not correspond to valid mapped pages in the address space of the process. [EAGAIN] Some or all of the memory identified by the operation could not be locked when the call was made. This rule isn't so nice and slighly strange. but many people think POSIX/SUS compliance is important. Reported-by: Halesh Sadashiv <halesh.sadashiv@ap.sony.com> Tested-by: Halesh Sadashiv <halesh.sadashiv@ap.sony.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-04nommu: Provide vmalloc_exec().Paul Mundt
Now that SH has switched to vmalloc_exec() for PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC usage, it's apparent that nommu has no vmalloc_exec() definition of its own. Stub in the one from mm/vmalloc.c. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2008-08-02mm: dont clear PG_uptodate on truncate/invalidateMiklos Szeredi
Brian Wang reported that a FUSE filesystem exported through NFS could return I/O errors on read. This was traced to splice_direct_to_actor() returning a short or zero count when racing with page invalidation. However this is not FUSE or NFSD specific, other filesystems (notably NFS) also call invalidate_inode_pages2() to purge stale data from the cache. If this happens while such pages are sitting in a pipe buffer, then splice(2) from the pipe can return zero, and read(2) from the pipe can return ENODATA. The zero return is especially bad, since it implies end-of-file or disconnected pipe/socket, and is documented as such for splice. But returning an error for read() is also nasty, when in fact there was no error (data becoming stale is not an error). The same problems can be triggered by "hole punching" with madvise(MADV_REMOVE). Fix this by not clearing the PG_uptodate flag on truncation and invalidation. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-01Remove EXPORTS of follow_page & zap_page_rangeJack Steiner
Delete 2 EXPORTs that were accidentally sent upstream. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-01mm/hugetlb: don't crash when HPAGE_SHIFT is 0Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Some platform decide whether they support huge pages at boot time. On these, such as powerpc, HPAGE_SHIFT is a variable, not a constant, and is set to 0 when there is no such support. The patches to introduce multiple huge pages support broke that causing the kernel to crash at boot time on machines such as POWER3 which lack support for multiple page sizes. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-01Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (28 commits) mm/hugetlb.c must #include <asm/io.h> video: Fix up hp6xx driver build regressions. sh: defconfig updates. sh: Kill off stray mach-rsk7203 reference. serial: sh-sci: Fix up SH7760/SH7780/SH7785 early printk regression. sh: Move out individual boards without mach groups. sh: Make sure AT_SYSINFO_EHDR is exposed to userspace in asm/auxvec.h. sh: Allow SH-3 and SH-5 to use common headers. sh: Provide common CPU headers, prune the SH-2 and SH-2A directories. sh/maple: clean maple bus code sh: More header path fixups for mach dir refactoring. sh: Move out the solution engine headers to arch/sh/include/mach-se/ sh: I2C fix for AP325RXA and Migo-R sh: Shuffle the board directories in to mach groups. sh: dma-sh: Fix up dreamcast dma.h mach path. sh: Switch KBUILD_DEFCONFIG to shx3_defconfig. sh: Add ARCH_DEFCONFIG entries for sh and sh64. sh: Fix compile error of Solution Engine sh: Proper __put_user_asm() size mismatch fix. sh: Stub in a dummy ENTRY_OFFSET for uImage offset calculation. ...
2008-08-01[S390] Optimize storage key operations for anon pagesMartin Schwidefsky
For anonymous pages without a swap cache backing the check in page_remove_rmap for the physical dirty bit in page_remove_rmap is unnecessary. The instructions that are used to check and reset the dirty bit are expensive. Removing the check noticably speeds up process exit. In addition the clearing of the dirty bit in __SetPageUptodate is pointless as well. With these two changes there is no storage key operation for an anonymous page anymore if it does not hit the swap space. The micro benchmark which repeatedly executes an empty shell script gets about 5% faster. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-07-30Fix off-by-one error in iov_iter_advance()Linus Torvalds
The iov_iter_advance() function would look at the iov->iov_len entry even though it might have iterated over the whole array, and iov was pointing past the end. This would cause DEBUG_PAGEALLOC to trigger a kernel page fault if the allocation was at the end of a page, and the next page was unallocated. The quick fix is to just change the order of the tests: check that there is any iovec data left before we check the iov entry itself. Thanks to Alexey Dobriyan for finding this case, and testing the fix. Reported-and-tested-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-30GRU Driver: export is_uv_system(), zap_page_range() & follow_page()Jack Steiner
Exports needed by the GRU driver. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>