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2009-04-02memcg: use CSS IDKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Assigning CSS ID for each memcg and use css_get_next() for scanning hierarchy. Assume folloing tree. group_A (ID=3) /01 (ID=4) /0A (ID=7) /02 (ID=10) group_B (ID=5) and task in group_A/01/0A hits limit at group_A. reclaim will be done in following order (round-robin). group_A(3) -> group_A/01 (4) -> group_A/01/0A (7) -> group_A/02(10) -> group_A -> ..... Round robin by ID. The last visited cgroup is recorded and restart from it when it start reclaim again. (More smart algorithm can be implemented..) No cgroup_mutex or hierarchy_mutex is required. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-02cgroup: fix frequent -EBUSY at rmdirKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
In following situation, with memory subsystem, /groupA use_hierarchy==1 /01 some tasks /02 some tasks /03 some tasks /04 empty When tasks under 01/02/03 hit limit on /groupA, hierarchical reclaim is triggered and the kernel walks tree under groupA. In this case, rmdir /groupA/04 fails with -EBUSY frequently because of temporal refcnt from the kernel. In general. cgroup can be rmdir'd if there are no children groups and no tasks. Frequent fails of rmdir() is not useful to users. (And the reason for -EBUSY is unknown to users.....in most cases) This patch tries to modify above behavior, by - retries if css_refcnt is got by someone. - add "return value" to pre_destroy() and allows subsystem to say "we're really busy!" Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-02workqueue: add to_delayed_work() helper functionJean Delvare
It is a fairly common operation to have a pointer to a work and to need a pointer to the delayed work it is contained in. In particular, all delayed works which want to rearm themselves will have to do that. So it would seem fair to offer a helper function for this operation. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-02mm: do_xip_mapping_read: fix length calculationMartin Schwidefsky
The calculation of the value nr in do_xip_mapping_read is incorrect. If the copy required more than one iteration in the do while loop the copies variable will be non-zero. The maximum length that may be passed to the call to copy_to_user(buf+copied, xip_mem+offset, nr) is len-copied but the check only compares against (nr > len). This bug is the cause for the heap corruption Carsten has been chasing for so long: *** glibc detected *** /bin/bash: free(): invalid next size (normal): 0x00000000800e39f0 *** ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib64/libc.so.6[0x200000b9b44] /lib64/libc.so.6(cfree+0x8e)[0x200000bdade] /bin/bash(free_buffered_stream+0x32)[0x80050e4e] /bin/bash(close_buffered_stream+0x1c)[0x80050ea4] /bin/bash(unset_bash_input+0x2a)[0x8001c366] /bin/bash(make_child+0x1d4)[0x8004115c] /bin/bash[0x8002fc3c] /bin/bash(execute_command_internal+0x656)[0x8003048e] /bin/bash(execute_command+0x5e)[0x80031e1e] /bin/bash(execute_command_internal+0x79a)[0x800305d2] /bin/bash(execute_command+0x5e)[0x80031e1e] /bin/bash(reader_loop+0x270)[0x8001efe0] /bin/bash(main+0x1328)[0x8001e960] /lib64/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0x100)[0x200000592a8] /bin/bash(clearerr+0x5e)[0x8001c092] With this bug fix the commit 0e4a9b59282914fe057ab17027f55123964bc2e2 "ext2/xip: refuse to change xip flag during remount with busy inodes" can be removed again. Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-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>
2009-04-02mm: align vmstat_work's timerAnton Blanchard
Even though vmstat_work is marked deferrable, there are still benefits to aligning it. For certain applications we want to keep OS jitter as low as possible and aligning timers and work so they occur together can reduce their overall impact. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-02nommu: fix a number of issues with the per-MM VMA patchDavid Howells
Fix a number of issues with the per-MM VMA patch: (1) Make mmap_pages_allocated an atomic_long_t, just in case this is used on a NOMMU system with more than 2G pages. Makes no difference on a 32-bit system. (2) Report vma->vm_pgoff * PAGE_SIZE as a 64-bit value, not a 32-bit value, lest it overflow. (3) Move the allocation of the vm_area_struct slab back for fork.c. (4) Use KMEM_CACHE() for both vm_area_struct and vm_region slabs. (5) Use BUG_ON() rather than if () BUG(). (6) Make the default validate_nommu_regions() a static inline rather than a #define. (7) Make free_page_series()'s objection to pages with a refcount != 1 more informative. (8) Adjust the __put_nommu_region() banner comment to indicate that the semaphore must be held for writing. (9) Limit the number of warnings about munmaps of non-mmapped regions. Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.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>
2009-04-02generic debug pagealloc: build fixAkinobu Mita
This fixes a build failure with generic debug pagealloc: mm/debug-pagealloc.c: In function 'set_page_poison': mm/debug-pagealloc.c:8: error: 'struct page' has no member named 'debug_flags' mm/debug-pagealloc.c: In function 'clear_page_poison': mm/debug-pagealloc.c:13: error: 'struct page' has no member named 'debug_flags' mm/debug-pagealloc.c: In function 'page_poison': mm/debug-pagealloc.c:18: error: 'struct page' has no member named 'debug_flags' mm/debug-pagealloc.c: At top level: mm/debug-pagealloc.c:120: error: redefinition of 'kernel_map_pages' include/linux/mm.h:1278: error: previous definition of 'kernel_map_pages' was here mm/debug-pagealloc.c: In function 'kernel_map_pages': mm/debug-pagealloc.c:122: error: 'debug_pagealloc_enabled' undeclared (first use in this function) by fixing - debug_flags should be in struct page - define DEBUG_PAGEALLOC config option for all architectures Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Reported-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01shmem: writepage directly to swapHugh Dickins
Synopsis: if shmem_writepage calls swap_writepage directly, most shmem swap loads benefit, and a catastrophic interaction between SLUB and some flash storage is avoided. shmem_writepage() has always been peculiar in making no attempt to write: it has just transferred a shmem page from file cache to swap cache, then let that page make its way around the LRU again before being written and freed. The idea was that people use tmpfs because they want those pages to stay in RAM; so although we give it an overflow to swap, we should resist writing too soon, giving those pages a second chance before they can be reclaimed. That was always questionable, and I've toyed with this patch for years; but never had a clear justification to depart from the original design. It became more questionable in 2.6.28, when the split LRU patches classed shmem and tmpfs pages as SwapBacked rather than as file_cache: that in itself gives them more resistance to reclaim than normal file pages. I prepared this patch for 2.6.29, but the merge window arrived before I'd completed gathering statistics to justify sending it in. Then while comparing SLQB against SLUB, running SLUB on a laptop I'd habitually used with SLAB, I found SLUB to run my tmpfs kbuild swapping tests five times slower than SLAB or SLQB - other machines slower too, but nowhere near so bad. Simpler "cp -a" swapping tests showed the same. slub_max_order=0 brings sanity to all, but heavy swapping is too far from normal to justify such a tuning. The crucial factor on that laptop turns out to be that I'm using an SD card for swap. What happens is this: By default, SLUB uses order-2 pages for shmem_inode_cache (and many other fs inodes), so creating tmpfs files under memory pressure brings lumpy reclaim into play. One subpage of the order is chosen from the bottom of the LRU as usual, then the other three picked out from their random positions on the LRUs. In a tmpfs load, many of these pages will be ones which already passed through shmem_writepage, so already have swap allocated. And though their offsets on swap were probably allocated sequentially, now that the pages are picked off at random, their swap offsets are scattered. But the flash storage on the SD card is very sensitive to having its writes merged: once swap is written at scattered offsets, performance falls apart. Rotating disk seeks increase too, but less disastrously. So: stop giving shmem/tmpfs pages a second pass around the LRU, write them out to swap as soon as their swap has been allocated. It's surely possible to devise an artificial load which runs faster the old way, one whose sizing is such that the tmpfs pages on their second pass are the ones that are wanted again, and other pages not. But I've not yet found such a load: on all machines, under the loads I've tried, immediate swap_writepage speeds up shmem swapping: especially when using the SLUB allocator (and more effectively than slub_max_order=0), but also with the others; and it also reduces the variance between runs. How much faster varies widely: a factor of five is rare, 5% is common. One load which might have suffered: imagine a swapping shmem load in a limited mem_cgroup on a machine with plenty of memory. Before 2.6.29 the swapcache was not charged, and such a load would have run quickest with the shmem swapcache never written to swap. But now swapcache is charged, so even this load benefits from shmem_writepage directly to swap. Apologies for the #ifndef CONFIG_SWAP swap_writepage() stub in swap.h: it's silly because that will never get called; but refactoring shmem.c sensibly according to CONFIG_SWAP will be a separate task. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Acked-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>
2009-04-01vmscan: fix it to take care of nodemaskKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
try_to_free_pages() is used for the direct reclaim of up to SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages when watermarks are low. The caller to alloc_pages_nodemask() can specify a nodemask of nodes that are allowed to be used but this is not passed to try_to_free_pages(). This can lead to unnecessary reclaim of pages that are unusable by the caller and int the worst case lead to allocation failure as progress was not been make where it is needed. This patch passes the nodemask used for alloc_pages_nodemask() to try_to_free_pages(). Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.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>
2009-04-01vmscan: print shrink_slab symbol name on negative shrinker objectsDavid Rientjes
When a shrinker has a negative number of objects to delete, the symbol name of the shrinker should be printed, not shrink_slab. This also makes the error message slightly more informative. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 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>
2009-04-01nommu: make CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU available when CONFIG_MMU=nDavid Howells
Make CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU available when CONFIG_MMU=n. There's no logical reason it shouldn't be available, and it can be used for ramfs. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Enrik Berkhan <Enrik.Berkhan@ge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01nommu: there is no mlock() for NOMMU, so don't provide the bitsDavid Howells
The mlock() facility does not exist for NOMMU since all mappings are effectively locked anyway, so we don't make the bits available when they're not useful. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Cc: Enrik Berkhan <Enrik.Berkhan@ge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01mm: introduce debug_kmap_atomicAkinobu Mita
x86 has debug_kmap_atomic_prot() which is error checking function for kmap_atomic. It is usefull for the other architectures, although it needs CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT. This patch exposes it to the other architectures. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01mm: page_mkwrite change prototype to match faultNick Piggin
Change the page_mkwrite prototype to take a struct vm_fault, and return VM_FAULT_xxx flags. There should be no functional change. This makes it possible to return much more detailed error information to the VM (and also can provide more information eg. virtual_address to the driver, which might be important in some special cases). This is required for a subsequent fix. And will also make it easier to merge page_mkwrite() with fault() in future. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org> Cc: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01mm: fix proc_dointvec_userhz_jiffies "breakage"Alexey Dobriyan
Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9838 On i386, HZ=1000, jiffies_to_clock_t() converts time in a somewhat strange way from the user's point of view: # echo 500 >/proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs # cat /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs 499 So, we have 5000 jiffies converted to only 499 clock ticks and reported back. TICK_NSEC = 999848 ACTHZ = 256039 Keeping in-kernel variable in units passed from userspace will fix issue of course, but this probably won't be right for every sysctl. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> 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>
2009-04-01generic debug pageallocAkinobu Mita
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is now supported by x86, powerpc, sparc64, and s390. This patch implements it for the rest of the architectures by filling the pages with poison byte patterns after free_pages() and verifying the poison patterns before alloc_pages(). This generic one cannot detect invalid page accesses immediately but invalid read access may cause invalid dereference by poisoned memory and invalid write access can be detected after a long delay. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01memdup_user(): introduceLi Zefan
I notice there are many places doing copy_from_user() which follows kmalloc(): dst = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL); if (!dst) return -ENOMEM; if (copy_from_user(dst, src, len)) { kfree(dst); return -EFAULT } memdup_user() is a wrapper of the above code. With this new function, we don't have to write 'len' twice, which can lead to typos/mistakes. It also produces smaller code and kernel text. A quick grep shows 250+ places where memdup_user() *may* be used. I'll prepare a patchset to do this conversion. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01hugetlb: chg cannot become less than 0Roel Kluin
chg is unsigned, so it cannot be less than 0. Also, since region_chg returns long, let vma_needs_reservation() forward this to alloc_huge_page(). Store it as long as well. all callers cast it to long anyway. Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01mm: remove pagevec_swap_free()KOSAKI Motohiro
pagevec_swap_free() is now unused. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.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>
2009-04-01mm: don't free swap slots on page deactivationJohannes Weiner
The pagevec_swap_free() at the end of shrink_active_list() was introduced in 68a22394 "vmscan: free swap space on swap-in/activation" when shrink_active_list() was still rotating referenced active pages. In 7e9cd48 "vmscan: fix pagecache reclaim referenced bit check" this was changed, the rotating removed but the pagevec_swap_free() after the rotation loop was forgotten, applying now to the pagevec of the deactivation loop instead. Now swap space is freed for deactivated pages. And only for those that happen to be on the pagevec after the deactivation loop. Complete 7e9cd48 and remove the rest of the swap freeing. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01mm: move pagevec stripping to save unlock-relockJohannes Weiner
In shrink_active_list() after the deactivation loop, we strip buffer heads from the potentially remaining pages in the pagevec. Currently, this drops the zone's lru lock for stripping, only to reacquire it again afterwards to update statistics. It is not necessary to strip the pages before updating the stats, so move the whole thing out of the protected region and save the extra locking. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: MinChan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01vfs: add/use account_page_dirtied()Edward Shishkin
Add a helper function account_page_dirtied(). Use that from two callsites. reiser4 adds a function which adds a third callsite. Signed-off-by: Edward Shishkin<edward.shishkin@gmail.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>
2009-04-01vmscan: respect higher order in zone_reclaim()Johannes Weiner
During page allocation, there are two stages of direct reclaim that are applied to each zone in the preferred list. The first stage using zone_reclaim() reclaims unmapped file backed pages and slab pages if over defined limits as these are cheaper to reclaim. The caller specifies the order of the target allocation but the scan control is not being correctly initialised. The impact is that the correct number of pages are being reclaimed but that lumpy reclaim is not being applied. This increases the chances of a full direct reclaim via try_to_free_pages() is required. This patch initialises the order field of the scan control as requested by the caller. [mel@csn.ul.ie: rewrote changelog] Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: 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>
2009-04-01mm: add comment why mark_page_accessed() would be better than pte_mkyoung() ↵KOSAKI Motohiro
in follow_page() At first look, mark_page_accessed() in follow_page() seems a bit strange. It seems pte_mkyoung() would be better consistent with other kernel code. However, it is intentional. The commit log said: ------------------------------------------------ commit 9e45f61d69be9024a2e6bef3831fb04d90fac7a8 Author: akpm <akpm> Date: Fri Aug 15 07:24:59 2003 +0000 [PATCH] Use mark_page_accessed() in follow_page() Touching a page via follow_page() counts as a reference so we should be either setting the referenced bit in the pte or running mark_page_accessed(). Altering the pte is tricky because we haven't implemented an atomic pte_mkyoung(). And mark_page_accessed() is better anyway because it has more aging state: it can move the page onto the active list. BKrev: 3f3c8acbplT8FbwBVGtth7QmnqWkIw ------------------------------------------------ The atomic issue is still true nowadays. adding comment help to understand code intention and it would be better. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: clarify text] Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.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>
2009-04-01vmscan: clip swap_cluster_max in shrink_all_memory()Johannes Weiner
shrink_inactive_list() scans in sc->swap_cluster_max chunks until it hits the scan limit it was passed. shrink_inactive_list() { do { isolate_pages(swap_cluster_max) shrink_page_list() } while (nr_scanned < max_scan); } This assumes that swap_cluster_max is not bigger than the scan limit because the latter is checked only after at least one iteration. In shrink_all_memory() sc->swap_cluster_max is initialized to the overall reclaim goal in the beginning but not decreased while reclaim is making progress which leads to subsequent calls to shrink_inactive_list() reclaiming way too much in the one iteration that is done unconditionally. Set sc->swap_cluster_max always to the proper goal before doing shrink_all_zones() shrink_list() shrink_inactive_list(). While the current shrink_all_memory() happily reclaims more than actually requested, this patch fixes it to never exceed the goal: unpatched wanted=10000 reclaimed=13356 wanted=10000 reclaimed=19711 wanted=10000 reclaimed=10289 wanted=10000 reclaimed=17306 wanted=10000 reclaimed=10700 wanted=10000 reclaimed=10004 wanted=10000 reclaimed=13301 wanted=10000 reclaimed=10976 wanted=10000 reclaimed=10605 wanted=10000 reclaimed=10088 wanted=10000 reclaimed=15000 patched wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000 wanted=10000 reclaimed=9599 wanted=10000 reclaimed=8476 wanted=10000 reclaimed=8326 wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000 wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000 wanted=10000 reclaimed=9919 wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000 wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000 wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000 wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000 wanted=10000 reclaimed=9624 wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000 wanted=10000 reclaimed=10000 wanted=8500 reclaimed=8092 wanted=316 reclaimed=316 Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: MinChan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@crca.org.au> Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.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>
2009-04-01mm: shrink_all_memory(): use sc.nr_reclaimedMinChan Kim
Commit a79311c14eae4bb946a97af25f3e1b17d625985d "vmscan: bail out of direct reclaim after swap_cluster_max pages" moved the nr_reclaimed counter into the scan control to accumulate the number of all reclaimed pages in a reclaim invocation. shrink_all_memory() can use the same mechanism. it increase code consistency and redability. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: MinChan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> 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>
2009-04-01mm: don't call mark_page_accessed() in do_swap_page()KOSAKI Motohiro
commit bf3f3bc5e734706730c12a323f9b2068052aa1f0 (mm: don't mark_page_accessed in fault path) only remove the mark_page_accessed() in filemap_fault(). Therefore, swap-backed pages and file-backed pages have inconsistent behavior. mark_page_accessed() should be removed from do_swap_page(). Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.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>
2009-04-01mm: introduce for_each_populated_zone() macroKOSAKI Motohiro
Impact: cleanup In almost cases, for_each_zone() is used with populated_zone(). It's because almost function doesn't need memoryless node information. Therefore, for_each_populated_zone() can help to make code simplify. This patch has no functional change. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: small cleanup] Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01vmscan: rename sc.may_swap to may_unmapJohannes Weiner
sc.may_swap does not only influence reclaiming of anon pages but pages mapped into pagetables in general, which also includes mapped file pages. In shrink_page_list(): if (!sc->may_swap && page_mapped(page)) goto keep_locked; For anon pages, this makes sense as they are always mapped and reclaiming them always requires swapping. But mapped file pages are skipped here as well and it has nothing to do with swapping. The real effect of the knob is whether mapped pages are unmapped and reclaimed or not. Rename it to `may_unmap' to have its name match its actual meaning more precisely. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: MinChan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> 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>
2009-04-01oom_kill: don't call for int_sqrt(0)Cyrill Gorcunov
There is no need to call for int_sqrt if argument is 0. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01vmap: remove needless lock and list in vmapMinChan Kim
vmap's dirty_list is unused. It's for optimizing flushing. but Nick didn't write the code yet. so, we don't need it until time as it is needed. This patch removes vmap_block's dirty_list and codes related to it. Signed-off-by: MinChan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-01mm: mminit_validate_memmodel_limits(): remove redundant testCyrill Gorcunov
In case if start_pfn overlap the upper bound no need to test end_pfn again since we have it already trimmed. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Reviewed-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>
2009-03-30Merge 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: oprofile: Thou shalt not call __exit functions from __init functions cpumask: remove the now-obsoleted pcibus_to_cpumask(): generic cpumask: remove cpumask_t from core cpumask: convert rcutorture.c cpumask: use new cpumask_ functions in core code. cpumask: remove references to struct irqaction's mask field. cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper: kernel/fork.c cpumask: use set_cpu_active in init/main.c cpumask: remove node_to_first_cpu cpumask: fix seq_bitmap_*() functions. cpumask: remove dangerous CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR, &CPU_MASK_ALL
2009-03-30Merge branch 'locking-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (33 commits) lockdep: fix deadlock in lockdep_trace_alloc lockdep: annotate reclaim context (__GFP_NOFS), fix SLOB lockdep: annotate reclaim context (__GFP_NOFS), fix lockdep: build fix for !PROVE_LOCKING lockstat: warn about disabled lock debugging lockdep: use stringify.h lockdep: simplify check_prev_add_irq() lockdep: get_user_chars() redo lockdep: simplify get_user_chars() lockdep: add comments to mark_lock_irq() lockdep: remove macro usage from mark_held_locks() lockdep: fully reduce mark_lock_irq() lockdep: merge the !_READ mark_lock_irq() helpers lockdep: merge the _READ mark_lock_irq() helpers lockdep: simplify mark_lock_irq() helpers #3 lockdep: further simplify mark_lock_irq() helpers lockdep: simplify the mark_lock_irq() helpers lockdep: split up mark_lock_irq() lockdep: generate usage strings lockdep: generate the state bit definitions ...
2009-03-30lockdep: annotate reclaim context (__GFP_NOFS), fix SLOBIngo Molnar
Impact: build fix fix typo in mm/slob.c: mm/slob.c:469: error: ‘flags’ undeclared (first use in this function) mm/slob.c:469: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once mm/slob.c:469: error: for each function it appears in.) Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20090128135457.350751756@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-30Merge branch 'x86-stage-3-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-stage-3-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (190 commits) Revert "cpuacct: reduce one NULL check in fast-path" Revert "x86: don't compile vsmp_64 for 32bit" x86: Correct behaviour of irq affinity x86: early_ioremap_init(), use __fix_to_virt(), because we are sure it's safe x86: use default_cpu_mask_to_apicid for 64bit x86: fix set_extra_move_desc calling x86, PAT, PCI: Change vma prot in pci_mmap to reflect inherited prot x86/dmi: fix dmi_alloc() section mismatches x86: e820 fix various signedness issues in setup.c and e820.c x86: apic/io_apic.c define msi_ir_chip and ir_ioapic_chip all the time x86: irq.c keep CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC interrupts together x86: irq.c use same path for show_interrupts x86: cpu/cpu.h cleanup x86: Fix a couple of sparse warnings in arch/x86/kernel/apic/io_apic.c Revert "x86: create a non-zero sized bm_pte only when needed" x86: pci-nommu.c cleanup x86: io_delay.c cleanup x86: rtc.c cleanup x86: i8253 cleanup x86: kdebugfs.c cleanup ...
2009-03-30cpumask: use new cpumask_ functions in core code.Rusty Russell
Impact: cleanup Time to clean up remaining laggards using the old cpu_ functions. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com
2009-03-30cpumask: remove dangerous CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR, &CPU_MASK_ALLRusty Russell
Impact: cleanup (Thanks to Al Viro for reminding me of this, via Ingo) CPU_MASK_ALL is the (deprecated) "all bits set" cpumask, defined as so: #define CPU_MASK_ALL (cpumask_t) { { ... } } Taking the address of such a temporary is questionable at best, unfortunately 321a8e9d (cpumask: add CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR macro) added CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR: #define CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR (&CPU_MASK_ALL) Which formalizes this practice. One day gcc could bite us over this usage (though we seem to have gotten away with it so far). So replace everywhere which used &CPU_MASK_ALL or CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR with the modern "cpu_all_mask" (a real const struct cpumask *). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
2009-03-28Merge branch 'linus' into x86/coreIngo Molnar
2009-03-28Merge branch 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds
* 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (422 commits) [ARM] 5435/1: fix compile warning in sanity_check_meminfo() [ARM] 5434/1: ARM: OMAP: Fix mailbox compile for 24xx [ARM] pxa: fix the bad assumption that PCMCIA sockets always start with 0 [ARM] pxa: fix Colibri PXA300 and PXA320 LCD backlight pins imxfb: Fix TFT mode i.MX21/27: remove ifdef CONFIG_FB_IMX imxfb: add clock support mxc: add arch_reset() function clkdev: add possibility to get a clock based on the device name i.MX1: remove fb support from mach-imx [ARM] pxa: build arch/arm/plat-pxa/mfp.c only when PXA3xx or ARCH_MMP defined Gemini: Add support for Teltonika RUT100 Gemini: gpiolib based GPIO support v2 MAINTAINERS: add myself as Gemini architecture maintainer ARM: Add Gemini architecture v3 [ARM] OMAP: Fix compile for omap2_init_common_hw() MAINTAINERS: Add myself as Faraday ARM core variant maintainer ARM: Add support for FA526 v2 [ARM] acorn,ebsa110,footbridge,integrator,sa1100: Convert asm/io.h to linux/io.h [ARM] collie: fix two minor formatting nits ...
2009-03-28Merge branch 'origin' into develRussell King
Conflicts: sound/soc/pxa/pxa2xx-i2s.c
2009-03-27Merge branch 'core/percpu' into percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2Ingo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap_64.h arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h kernel/irq/handle.c Semantic merge: arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-26Merge 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: slob: fix lockup in slob_free() slub: use get_track() slub: rename calculate_min_partial() to set_min_partial() slub: add min_partial sysfs tunable slub: move min_partial to struct kmem_cache SLUB: Fix default slab order for big object sizes SLUB: Do not pass 8k objects through to the page allocator SLUB: Introduce and use SLUB_MAX_SIZE and SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT constants slob: clean up the code SLUB: Use ->objsize from struct kmem_cache_cpu in slab_free()
2009-03-26Merge branch 'for-2.6.30' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-2.6.30' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: Get rid of pdflush_operation() in emergency sync and remount btrfs: get rid of current_is_pdflush() in btrfs_btree_balance_dirty Move the default_backing_dev_info out of readahead.c and into backing-dev.c block: Repeated lines in switching-sched.txt bsg: Remove bogus check against request_queue->max_sectors block: WARN in __blk_put_request() for potential bio leak loop: fix circular locking in loop_clr_fd() loop: support barrier writes bsg: add support for tail queuing cpqarray: enable bus mastering block: genhd.h cleanup patch block: add private bio_set for bio integrity allocations block: genhd.h comment needs updating block: get rid of unused blkdev_free_rq() define block: remove various blk_queue_*() setting functions in blk_init_queue_node() cciss: add BUILD_BUG_ON() for catching bad CommandList_struct alignment block: don't create bio_vec slabs of less than the inline number block: cleanup bio_alloc_bioset()
2009-03-26Merge 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: (71 commits) SELinux: inode_doinit_with_dentry drop no dentry printk SELinux: new permission between tty audit and audit socket SELinux: open perm for sock files smack: fixes for unlabeled host support keys: make procfiles per-user-namespace keys: skip keys from another user namespace keys: consider user namespace in key_permission keys: distinguish per-uid keys in different namespaces integrity: ima iint radix_tree_lookup locking fix TOMOYO: Do not call tomoyo_realpath_init unless registered. integrity: ima scatterlist bug fix smack: fix lots of kernel-doc notation TOMOYO: Don't create securityfs entries unless registered. TOMOYO: Fix exception policy read failure. SELinux: convert the avc cache hash list to an hlist SELinux: code readability with avc_cache SELinux: remove unused av.decided field SELinux: more careful use of avd in avc_has_perm_noaudit SELinux: remove the unused ae.used SELinux: check seqno when updating an avc_node ...
2009-03-26writeback: double the dirty thresholdsWu Fengguang
Enlarge default dirty ratios from 5/10 to 10/20. This fixes [Bug #12809] iozone regression with 2.6.29-rc6. The iozone benchmarks are performed on a 1200M file, with 8GB ram. iozone -i 0 -i 1 -i 2 -i 3 -i 4 -r 4k -s 64k -s 512m -s 1200m -b tmp.xls iozone -B -r 4k -s 64k -s 512m -s 1200m -b tmp.xls The performance regression is triggered by commit 1cf6e7d83bf3(mm: task dirty accounting fix), which makes more correct/thorough dirty accounting. The default 5/10 dirty ratios were picked (a) with the old dirty logic and (b) largely at random and (c) designed to be aggressive. In particular, that (a) means that having fixed some of the dirty accounting, maybe the real bug is now that it was always too aggressive, just hidden by an accounting issue. The enlarged 10/20 dirty ratios are just about enough to fix the regression. [ We will have to look at how this affects the old fsync() latency issue, but that probably will need independent work. - Linus ] Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reported-by: "Lin, Ming M" <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Tested-by: "Lin, Ming M" <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-26Move the default_backing_dev_info out of readahead.c and into backing-dev.cJens Axboe
It really makes no sense to have it in readahead.c, so move it where it belongs. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-03-25Merge branch 'for-next' of ↵Russell King
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6 into devel
2009-03-24Merge branches 'topic/slob/cleanups', 'topic/slob/fixes', 'topic/slub/core', ↵Pekka Enberg
'topic/slub/cleanups' and 'topic/slub/perf' into for-linus
2009-03-24Merge branch 'master' into nextJames Morris