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* Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds2009-07-124-87/+179
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6: kmemleak: Remove alloc_bootmem annotations introduced in the past kmemleak: Add callbacks to the bootmem allocator kmemleak: Allow partial freeing of memory blocks kmemleak: Trace the kmalloc_large* functions in slub kmemleak: Scan objects allocated during a scanning episode kmemleak: Do not acquire scan_mutex in kmemleak_open() kmemleak: Remove the reported leaks number limitation kmemleak: Add more cond_resched() calls in the scanning thread kmemleak: Renice the scanning thread to +10
| * kmemleak: Remove alloc_bootmem annotations introduced in the pastCatalin Marinas2009-07-091-11/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | kmemleak_alloc() calls were added in some places where alloc_bootmem was called. Since now kmemleak tracks bootmem allocations, these explicit calls should be run. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
| * kmemleak: Add callbacks to the bootmem allocatorCatalin Marinas2009-07-081-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds kmemleak_alloc/free callbacks to the bootmem allocator. This would allow scanning of such blocks and help avoiding a whole class of false positives and more kmemleak annotations. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
| * kmemleak: Allow partial freeing of memory blocksCatalin Marinas2009-07-081-14/+81
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Functions like free_bootmem() are allowed to free only part of a memory block. This patch adds support for this via the kmemleak_free_part() callback which removes the original object and creates one or two additional objects as a result of the memory block split. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
| * kmemleak: Trace the kmalloc_large* functions in slubCatalin Marinas2009-07-081-4/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The kmalloc_large() and kmalloc_large_node() functions were missed when adding the kmemleak hooks to the slub allocator. However, they should be traced to avoid false positives. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
| * kmemleak: Scan objects allocated during a scanning episodeCatalin Marinas2009-07-081-3/+40
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Many of the false positives in kmemleak happen on busy systems where objects are allocated during a kmemleak scanning episode. These objects aren't scanned by default until the next memory scan. When such object is added, for example, at the head of a list, it is possible that all the other objects in the list become unreferenced until the next scan. This patch adds checking for newly allocated objects at the end of the scan and repeats the scanning on these objects. If Linux allocates new objects at a higher rate than their scanning, it stops after a predefined number of passes. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
| * kmemleak: Do not acquire scan_mutex in kmemleak_open()Catalin Marinas2009-07-081-33/+30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Initially, the scan_mutex was acquired in kmemleak_open() and released in kmemleak_release() (corresponding to /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak operations). This was causing some lockdep reports when the file was closed from a different task than the one opening it. This patch moves the scan_mutex acquiring in kmemleak_write() or kmemleak_seq_start() with releasing in kmemleak_seq_stop(). Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
| * kmemleak: Remove the reported leaks number limitationCatalin Marinas2009-07-081-15/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since the leaks are no longer printed to the syslog, there is no point in keeping this limitation. All the suspected leaks are shown on /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak file. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
| * kmemleak: Add more cond_resched() calls in the scanning threadCatalin Marinas2009-07-071-8/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Following recent fix to no longer reschedule in the scan_block() function, the system may become unresponsive with !PREEMPT. This patch re-adds the cond_resched() call to scan_block() but conditioned by the allow_resched parameter. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * kmemleak: Renice the scanning thread to +10Catalin Marinas2009-07-071-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a long-running thread but not high-priority. So it makes sense to renice it to +10. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* | Fix congestion_wait() sync/async vs read/write confusionJens Axboe2009-07-105-15/+14
|/ | | | | | | | Commit 1faa16d22877f4839bd433547d770c676d1d964c accidentally broke the bdi congestion wait queue logic, causing us to wait on congestion for WRITE (== 1) when we really wanted BLK_RW_ASYNC (== 0) instead. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-07-063-4/+8
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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: SLAB: Fix lockdep annotations fix RCU-callback-after-kmem_cache_destroy problem in sl[aou]b
| * Merge branch 'slab/urgent' into for-linusPekka Enberg2009-07-063-4/+8
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| | * SLAB: Fix lockdep annotationsPekka Enberg2009-06-291-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 8429db5... ("slab: setup cpu caches later on when interrupts are enabled") broke mm/slab.c lockdep annotations: [ 11.554715] ============================================= [ 11.555249] [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] [ 11.555560] 2.6.31-rc1 #896 [ 11.555861] --------------------------------------------- [ 11.556127] udevd/1899 is trying to acquire lock: [ 11.556436] (&nc->lock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff810c337f>] kmem_cache_free+0xcd/0x25b [ 11.557101] [ 11.557102] but task is already holding lock: [ 11.557706] (&nc->lock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff810c3cd0>] kfree+0x137/0x292 [ 11.558109] [ 11.558109] other info that might help us debug this: [ 11.558720] 2 locks held by udevd/1899: [ 11.558983] #0: (&nc->lock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff810c3cd0>] kfree+0x137/0x292 [ 11.559734] #1: (&parent->list_lock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff810c36c7>] __drain_alien_cache+0x3b/0xbd [ 11.560442] [ 11.560443] stack backtrace: [ 11.561009] Pid: 1899, comm: udevd Not tainted 2.6.31-rc1 #896 [ 11.561276] Call Trace: [ 11.561632] [<ffffffff81065ed6>] __lock_acquire+0x15ec/0x168f [ 11.561901] [<ffffffff81065f60>] ? __lock_acquire+0x1676/0x168f [ 11.562171] [<ffffffff81063c52>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x113/0x13e [ 11.562490] [<ffffffff8150c337>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f [ 11.562807] [<ffffffff8106603a>] lock_acquire+0xc1/0xe5 [ 11.563073] [<ffffffff810c337f>] ? kmem_cache_free+0xcd/0x25b [ 11.563385] [<ffffffff8150c8fc>] _spin_lock+0x31/0x66 [ 11.563696] [<ffffffff810c337f>] ? kmem_cache_free+0xcd/0x25b [ 11.563964] [<ffffffff810c337f>] kmem_cache_free+0xcd/0x25b [ 11.564235] [<ffffffff8109bf8c>] ? __free_pages+0x1b/0x24 [ 11.564551] [<ffffffff810c3564>] slab_destroy+0x57/0x5c [ 11.564860] [<ffffffff810c3641>] free_block+0xd8/0x123 [ 11.565126] [<ffffffff810c372e>] __drain_alien_cache+0xa2/0xbd [ 11.565441] [<ffffffff810c3ce5>] kfree+0x14c/0x292 [ 11.565752] [<ffffffff8144a007>] skb_release_data+0xc6/0xcb [ 11.566020] [<ffffffff81449cf0>] __kfree_skb+0x19/0x86 [ 11.566286] [<ffffffff81449d88>] consume_skb+0x2b/0x2d [ 11.566631] [<ffffffff8144cbe0>] skb_free_datagram+0x14/0x3a [ 11.566901] [<ffffffff81462eef>] netlink_recvmsg+0x164/0x258 [ 11.567170] [<ffffffff81443461>] sock_recvmsg+0xe5/0xfe [ 11.567486] [<ffffffff810ab063>] ? might_fault+0xaf/0xb1 [ 11.567802] [<ffffffff81053a78>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x38 [ 11.568073] [<ffffffff810d84ca>] ? core_sys_select+0x3d/0x2b4 [ 11.568378] [<ffffffff81065f60>] ? __lock_acquire+0x1676/0x168f [ 11.568693] [<ffffffff81442dc1>] ? sockfd_lookup_light+0x1b/0x54 [ 11.568961] [<ffffffff81444416>] sys_recvfrom+0xa3/0xf8 [ 11.569228] [<ffffffff81063c8a>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf [ 11.569546] [<ffffffff8100af2b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b# Fix that up. Closes-bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13654 Tested-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
| | * fix RCU-callback-after-kmem_cache_destroy problem in sl[aou]bPaul E. McKenney2009-06-263-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Jesper noted that kmem_cache_destroy() invokes synchronize_rcu() rather than rcu_barrier() in the SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU case, which could result in RCU callbacks accessing a kmem_cache after it had been destroyed. Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Reported-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@comx.dk> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
* | | Fix virt_to_phys() warningsKevin Cernekee2009-07-061-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These warnings were observed on MIPS32 using 2.6.31-rc1 and gcc-4.2.0: mm/page_alloc.c: In function 'alloc_pages_exact': mm/page_alloc.c:1986: warning: passing argument 1 of 'virt_to_phys' makes pointer from integer without a cast drivers/usb/mon/mon_bin.c: In function 'mon_alloc_buff': drivers/usb/mon/mon_bin.c:1264: warning: passing argument 1 of 'virt_to_phys' makes pointer from integer without a cast [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kernel/perf_counter.c too] Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | mm: mark page accessed before we write_end()Josef Bacik2009-07-061-0/+1
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In testing a backport of the write_begin/write_end AOPs, a 10% re-read regression was noticed when running iozone. This regression was introduced because the old AOPs would always do a mark_page_accessed(page) after the commit_write, but when the new AOPs where introduced, the only place this was kept was in pagecache_write_end(). This patch does the same thing in the generic case as what is done in pagecache_write_end(), which is just to mark the page accessed before we do write_end(). Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@redhat.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>
* | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6Linus Torvalds2009-07-011-0/+21
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: sh: LCDC dcache flush for deferred io sh: Fix compiler error and include the definition of IS_ERR_VALUE sh: re-add LCDC fbdev support to the Migo-R defconfig sh: fix se7724 ceu names sh: ms7724se: Enable sh_eth in defconfig. arch/sh/boards/mach-se/7206/io.c: Remove unnecessary semicolons sh: ms7724se: Add sh_eth support nommu: provide follow_pfn(). sh: Kill off unused DEBUG_BOOTMEM symbol. perf_counter tools: add cpu_relax()/rmb() definitions for sh. sh64: Hook up page fault events for software perf counters. sh: Hook up page fault events for software perf counters. sh: make set_perf_counter_pending() static inline. clocksource: sh_tmu: Make undefined TCOR behaviour less undefined.
| * | nommu: provide follow_pfn().Paul Mundt2009-06-261-0/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With the introduction of follow_pfn() as an exported symbol, modules have begun making use of it. Unfortunately this was not reflected on nommu at the time, so the in-tree users have subsequently all blown up with link errors there. This provides a simple follow_pfn() that just returns addr >> PAGE_SHIFT, which will do the right thing on nommu. There is no need to do range checking within the vma, as the find_vma() case will already take care of this. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
* | | kmemleak: Fix scheduling-while-atomic bugIngo Molnar2009-07-011-30/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | One of the kmemleak changes caused the following scheduling-while-holding-the-tasklist-lock regression on x86: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/kmemleak.c:795 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 1737, name: kmemleak 2 locks held by kmemleak/1737: #0: (scan_mutex){......}, at: [<c10c4376>] kmemleak_scan_thread+0x45/0x86 #1: (tasklist_lock){......}, at: [<c10c3bb4>] kmemleak_scan+0x1a9/0x39c Pid: 1737, comm: kmemleak Not tainted 2.6.31-rc1-tip #59266 Call Trace: [<c105ac0f>] ? __debug_show_held_locks+0x1e/0x20 [<c102e490>] __might_sleep+0x10a/0x111 [<c10c38d5>] scan_yield+0x17/0x3b [<c10c3970>] scan_block+0x39/0xd4 [<c10c3bc6>] kmemleak_scan+0x1bb/0x39c [<c10c4331>] ? kmemleak_scan_thread+0x0/0x86 [<c10c437b>] kmemleak_scan_thread+0x4a/0x86 [<c104d73e>] kthread+0x6e/0x73 [<c104d6d0>] ? kthread+0x0/0x73 [<c100959f>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 kmemleak: 834 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) The bit causing it is highly dubious: static void scan_yield(void) { might_sleep(); if (time_is_before_eq_jiffies(next_scan_yield)) { schedule(); next_scan_yield = jiffies + jiffies_scan_yield; } } It called deep inside the codepath and in a conditional way, and that is what crapped up when one of the new scan_block() uses grew a tasklist_lock dependency. This minimal patch removes that yielding stuff and adds the proper cond_resched(). The background scanning thread could probably also be reniced to +10. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds2009-06-301-96/+70
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6: kmemleak: Inform kmemleak about pid_hash kmemleak: Do not warn if an unknown object is freed kmemleak: Do not report new leaked objects if the scanning was stopped kmemleak: Slightly change the policy on newly allocated objects kmemleak: Do not trigger a scan when reading the debug/kmemleak file kmemleak: Simplify the reports logged by the scanning thread kmemleak: Enable task stacks scanning by default kmemleak: Allow the early log buffer to be configurable.
| * | | kmemleak: Do not warn if an unknown object is freedCatalin Marinas2009-06-291-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | vmap'ed memory blocks are not tracked by kmemleak (yet) but they may be released with vfree() which is tracked. The corresponding kmemleak warning is only enabled in debug mode. Future patch will add support for ioremap and vmap. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
| * | | kmemleak: Do not report new leaked objects if the scanning was stoppedCatalin Marinas2009-06-291-5/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the scanning was stopped with a signal, it is possible that some objects are left with a white colour (potential leaks) and reported. Add a check to avoid reporting such objects. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
| * | | kmemleak: Slightly change the policy on newly allocated objectsCatalin Marinas2009-06-261-1/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Newly allocated objects are more likely to be reported as false positives. Kmemleak ignores the reporting of objects younger than 5 seconds. However, this age was calculated after the memory scanning completed which usually takes longer than 5 seconds. This patch make the minimum object age calculation in relation to the start of the memory scanning. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
| * | | kmemleak: Do not trigger a scan when reading the debug/kmemleak fileCatalin Marinas2009-06-261-50/+40
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since there is a kernel thread for automatically scanning the memory, it makes sense for the debug/kmemleak file to only show its findings. This patch also adds support for "echo scan > debug/kmemleak" to trigger an intermediate memory scan and eliminates the kmemleak_mutex (scan_mutex covers all the cases now). Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
| * | | kmemleak: Simplify the reports logged by the scanning threadCatalin Marinas2009-06-261-45/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Because of false positives, the memory scanning thread may print too much information. This patch changes the scanning thread to only print the number of newly suspected leaks. Further information can be read from the /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak file. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
| * | | kmemleak: Enable task stacks scanning by defaultCatalin Marinas2009-06-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is to reduce the number of false positives reported. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
| * | | kmemleak: Allow the early log buffer to be configurable.Catalin Marinas2009-06-251-2/+3
| | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | (feature suggested by Sergey Senozhatsky) Kmemleak needs to track all the memory allocations but some of these happen before kmemleak is initialised. These are stored in an internal buffer which may be exceeded in some kernel configurations. This patch adds a configuration option with a default value of 400 and also removes the stack dump when the early log buffer is exceeded. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@mail.by>
* | | x86: only clear node_states for 64bitYinghai Lu2009-06-301-6/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Nathan reported that | commit 73d60b7f747176dbdff826c4127d22e1fd3f9f74 | Author: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> | Date: Tue Jun 16 15:33:00 2009 -0700 | | page-allocator: clear N_HIGH_MEMORY map before we set it again | | SRAT tables may contains nodes of very small size. The arch code may | decide to not activate such a node. However, currently the early boot | code sets N_HIGH_MEMORY for such nodes. These nodes therefore seem to be | active although these nodes have no present pages. | | For 64bit N_HIGH_MEMORY == N_NORMAL_MEMORY, so that works for 64 bit too unintentionally and incorrectly clears the cpuset.mems cgroup attribute on an i386 kvm guest, meaning that cpuset.mems can not be used. Fix this by only clearing node_states[N_NORMAL_MEMORY] for 64bit only. and need to do save/restore for that in find_zone_movable_pfn Reported-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Tested-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | mm: prevent balance_dirty_pages() from doing too much workRichard Kennedy2009-06-301-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | balance_dirty_pages can overreact and move all of the dirty pages to writeback unnecessarily. balance_dirty_pages makes its decision to throttle based on the number of dirty plus writeback pages that are over the calculated limit,so it will continue to move pages even when there are plenty of pages in writeback and less than the threshold still dirty. This allows it to overshoot its limits and move all the dirty pages to writeback while waiting for the drives to catch up and empty the writeback list. A simple fio test easily demonstrates this problem. fio --name=f1 --directory=/disk1 --size=2G -rw=write --name=f2 --directory=/disk2 --size=1G --rw=write --startdelay=10 This is the simplest fix I could find, but I'm not entirely sure that it alone will be enough for all cases. But it certainly is an improvement on my desktop machine writing to 2 disks. Do we need something more for machines with large arrays where bdi_threshold * number_of_drives is greater than the dirty_ratio ? Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | dmapools: protect page_list walk in show_pools()Thomas Gleixner2009-06-301-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | show_pools() walks the page_list of a pool w/o protection against the list modifications in alloc/free. Take pool->lock to avoid stomping into nirvana. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-06-281-10/+14
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, delay: tsc based udelay should have rdtsc_barrier x86, setup: correct include file in <asm/boot.h> x86, setup: Fix typo "CONFIG_x86_64" in <asm/boot.h> x86, mce: percpu mcheck_timer should be pinned x86: Add sysctl to allow panic on IOCK NMI error x86: Fix uv bau sending buffer initialization x86, mce: Fix mce resume on 32bit x86: Move init_gbpages() to setup_arch() x86: ensure percpu lpage doesn't consume too much vmalloc space x86: implement percpu_alloc kernel parameter x86: fix pageattr handling for lpage percpu allocator and re-enable it x86: reorganize cpa_process_alias() x86: prepare setup_pcpu_lpage() for pageattr fix x86: rename remap percpu first chunk allocator to lpage x86: fix duplicate free in setup_pcpu_remap() failure path percpu: fix too lazy vunmap cache flushing x86: Set cpu_llc_id on AMD CPUs
| * | | x86: implement percpu_alloc kernel parameterTejun Heo2009-06-221-4/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | According to Andi, it isn't clear whether lpage allocator is worth the trouble as there are many processors where PMD TLB is far scarcer than PTE TLB. The advantage or disadvantage probably depends on the actual size of percpu area and specific processor. As performance degradation due to TLB pressure tends to be highly workload specific and subtle, it is difficult to decide which way to go without more data. This patch implements percpu_alloc kernel parameter to allow selecting which first chunk allocator to use to ease debugging and testing. While at it, make sure all the failure paths report why something failed to help determining why certain allocator isn't working. Also, kill the "Great future plan" comment which had already been realized quite some time ago. [ Impact: allow explicit percpu first chunk allocator selection ] Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | percpu: fix too lazy vunmap cache flushingTejun Heo2009-06-221-6/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In pcpu_unmap(), flushing virtual cache on vunmap can't be delayed as the page is going to be returned to the page allocator. Only TLB flushing can be put off such that vmalloc code can handle it lazily. Fix it. [ Impact: fix subtle virtual cache flush bug ] Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | | | clarify get_user_pages() prototypePeter Zijlstra2009-06-252-21/+17
| |/ / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently the 4th parameter of get_user_pages() is called len, but its in pages, not bytes. Rename the thing to nr_pages to avoid future confusion. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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*-. \ \ Merge branches 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-06-241-4/+1
|\ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/{vfs-2.6,audit-current} * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: another race fix in jfs_check_acl() Get "no acls for this inode" right, fix shmem breakage inline functions left without protection of ifdef (acl) * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current: audit: inode watches depend on CONFIG_AUDIT not CONFIG_AUDIT_SYSCALL
| * | | | Get "no acls for this inode" right, fix shmem breakageAl Viro2009-06-241-4/+1
| |/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* | | | SLUB: Don't pass __GFP_FAIL for the initial allocationPekka Enberg2009-06-241-2/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | SLUB uses higher order allocations by default but falls back to small orders under memory pressure. Make sure the GFP mask used in the initial allocation doesn't include __GFP_NOFAIL. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | | Don't warn about order-1 allocations with __GFP_NOFAILLinus Torvalds2009-06-241-2/+2
|/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Traditionally, we never failed small orders (even regardless of any __GFP_NOFAIL flags), and slab will allocate order-1 allocations even for small allocations that could fit in a single page (in order to avoid excessive fragmentation). Maybe we should remove this warning entirely, but before making that judgement, at least limit it to bigger allocations. Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | / switch shmem to inode->i_aclAl Viro2009-06-242-28/+10
| |/ |/| | | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* | mm: fix handling of pagesets for downed cpusDimitri Sivanich2009-06-231-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After downing/upping a cpu, an attempt to set /proc/sys/vm/percpu_pagelist_fraction results in an oops in percpu_pagelist_fraction_sysctl_handler(). If a processor is downed then we need to set the pageset pointer back to the boot pageset. Updates of the high water marks should not access pagesets of unpopulated zones (those pointer go to the boot pagesets which would be no longer functional if their size would be increased beyond zero). Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | mm: pass mm to grab_swap_tokenHugh Dickins2009-06-232-18/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If a kthread happens to use get_user_pages() on an mm (as KSM does), there's a chance that it will end up trying to read in a swap page, then oops in grab_swap_token() because the kthread has no mm: GUP passes down the right mm, so grab_swap_token() ought to be using it. We have not identified a stronger case than KSM's daemon (not yet in mainline), but the issue must have come up before, since RHEL has included a fix for this for years (though a different fix, they just back out of grab_swap_token if current->mm is unset: which is what we first proposed, but using the right mm here seems more correct). Reported-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> 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>
* | Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds2009-06-231-28/+24
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6: kmemleak: Do not force the slab debugging Kconfig options kmemleak: use pr_fmt
| * | kmemleak: use pr_fmtJoe Perches2009-06-231-28/+24
| |/ | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
* | mm: don't rely on flags coincidenceHugh Dickins2009-06-231-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Indeed FOLL_WRITE matches FAULT_FLAG_WRITE, matches GUP_FLAGS_WRITE, and it's tempting to devise a set of Grand Unified Paging flags; but not today. So until then, let's rely upon the compiler to spot the coincidence, "rather than have that subtle dependency and a comment for it" - as you remarked in another context yesterday. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | hugetlb: fault flags instead of write_accessHugh Dickins2009-06-231-8/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | handle_mm_fault() is now passing fault flags rather than write_access down to hugetlb_fault(), so better recognize that in hugetlb_fault(), and in hugetlb_no_page(). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | mm: fix incorrect page removal from LRUKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki2009-06-231-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | The isolated page is "cursor_page" not "page". This could cause LRU list corruption under memory pressure, caught by CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Move FAULT_FLAG_xyz into handle_mm_fault() callersLinus Torvalds2009-06-211-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | This allows the callers to now pass down the full set of FAULT_FLAG_xyz flags to handle_mm_fault(). All callers have been (mechanically) converted to the new calling convention, there's almost certainly room for architectures to clean up their code and then add FAULT_FLAG_RETRY when that support is added. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Remove internal use of 'write_access' in mm/memory.cLinus Torvalds2009-06-211-21/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The fault handling routines really want more fine-grained flags than a single "was it a write fault" boolean - the callers will want to set flags like "you can return a retry error" etc. And that's actually how the VM works internally, but right now the top-level fault handling functions in mm/memory.c all pass just the 'write_access' boolean around. This switches them over to pass around the FAULT_FLAG_xyzzy 'flags' variable instead. The 'write_access' calling convention still exists for the exported 'handle_mm_fault()' function, but that is next. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: page_alloc: clear PG_locked before checking flags on freeJohannes Weiner2009-06-201-5/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | da456f1 "page allocator: do not disable interrupts in free_page_mlock()" moved the PG_mlocked clearing after the flag sanity checking which makes mlocked pages always trigger 'bad page'. Fix this by clearing the bit up front. Reported--and-debugged-by: Peter Chubb <peter.chubb@nicta.com.au> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Tested-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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