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Linus Torvalds 58e57fbd1c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (41 commits)
  Revert "Seperate read and write statistics of in_flight requests"
  cfq-iosched: don't delay async queue if it hasn't dispatched at all
  block: Topology ioctls
  cfq-iosched: use assigned slice sync value, not default
  cfq-iosched: rename 'desktop' sysfs entry to 'low_latency'
  cfq-iosched: implement slower async initiate and queue ramp up
  cfq-iosched: delay async IO dispatch, if sync IO was just done
  cfq-iosched: add a knob for desktop interactiveness
  Add a tracepoint for block request remapping
  block: allow large discard requests
  block: use normal I/O path for discard requests
  swapfile: avoid NULL pointer dereference in swapon when s_bdev is NULL
  fs/bio.c: move EXPORT* macros to line after function
  Add missing blk_trace_remove_sysfs to be in pair with blk_trace_init_sysfs
  cciss: fix build when !PROC_FS
  block: Do not clamp max_hw_sectors for stacking devices
  block: Set max_sectors correctly for stacking devices
  cciss: cciss_host_attr_groups should be const
  cciss: Dynamically allocate the drive_info_struct for each logical drive.
  cciss: Add usage_count attribute to each logical drive in /sys
  ...
2009-10-04 12:39:14 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki ef8745c1e7 memcg: reduce check for softlimit excess
In charge/uncharge/reclaim path, usage_in_excess is calculated repeatedly
and it takes res_counter's spin_lock every time.

This patch removes unnecessary calls for res_count_soft_limit_excess.

Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
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>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-01 16:11:13 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4e649152cb memcg: some modification to softlimit under hierarchical memory reclaim.
This patch clean up/fixes for memcg's uncharge soft limit path.

Problems:
  Now, res_counter_charge()/uncharge() handles softlimit information at
  charge/uncharge and softlimit-check is done when event counter per memcg
  goes over limit. Now, event counter per memcg is updated only when
  memory usage is over soft limit. Here, considering hierarchical memcg
  management, ancesotors should be taken care of.

  Now, ancerstors(hierarchy) are handled in charge() but not in uncharge().
  This is not good.

  Prolems:
  1. memcg's event counter incremented only when softlimit hits. That's bad.
     It makes event counter hard to be reused for other purpose.

  2. At uncharge, only the lowest level rescounter is handled. This is bug.
     Because ancesotor's event counter is not incremented, children should
     take care of them.

  3. res_counter_uncharge()'s 3rd argument is NULL in most case.
     ops under res_counter->lock should be small. No "if" sentense is better.

Fixes:
  * Removed soft_limit_xx poitner and checks in charge and uncharge.
    Do-check-only-when-necessary scheme works enough well without them.

  * make event-counter of memcg incremented at every charge/uncharge.
    (per-cpu area will be accessed soon anyway)

  * All ancestors are checked at soft-limit-check. This is necessary because
    ancesotor's event counter may never be modified. Then, they should be
    checked at the same time.

Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
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>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-01 16:11:13 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 26251eaf98 memcg: fix refcnt going negative
__mem_cgroup_largest_soft_limit_node() returns a mem_cgroup_per_zone "mz"
with incremnted mz->mem->css's refcnt.  Then, the caller of this function
has to call css_put(mz->mem->css).

But, mz can be !NULL even if "not found" i.e.  without css_get().  By
this, css->refcnt will go down to minus.

This may cause various things...one of results will be
initite-loop in css_tryget()  as this.

INFO: RCU detected CPU 0 stall (t=10000 jiffies)
sending NMI to all CPUs:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU 0:
<snip>

 <<EOE>>  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff810884bd>] trace_hardirqs_off+0xd/0x10
  [<ffffffff8102a940>] flat_send_IPI_mask+0x90/0xb0
  [<ffffffff8102a9c9>] flat_send_IPI_all+0x69/0x70
  [<ffffffff81027372>] arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace+0x62/0xa0
  [<ffffffff810bff8e>] __rcu_pending+0x7e/0x370
  [<ffffffff810c02c7>] rcu_check_callbacks+0x47/0x130
  [<ffffffff81063a26>] update_process_times+0x46/0x70
  [<ffffffff81085930>] tick_sched_timer+0x60/0x160
  [<ffffffff810858d0>] ? tick_sched_timer+0x0/0x160
  [<ffffffff8107a03a>] __run_hrtimer+0xba/0x150
  [<ffffffff8107a325>] hrtimer_interrupt+0xd5/0x1b0
  [<ffffffff81426dfe>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_thunk+0x3a/0x3c
  [<ffffffff8142cacd>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6d/0x9b
  [<ffffffff8100cb33>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x13/0x20
  <EOI>  [<ffffffff811317b6>] ? mem_cgroup_walk_tree+0x156/0x180
  [<ffffffff811316d3>] ? mem_cgroup_walk_tree+0x73/0x180
  [<ffffffff81131692>] ? mem_cgroup_walk_tree+0x32/0x180
  [<ffffffff81131a00>] ? mem_cgroup_get_local_stat+0x0/0x110
  [<ffffffff81131d5b>] ? mem_control_stat_show+0x14b/0x330
  [<ffffffff810a57fd>] ? cgroup_seqfile_show+0x3d/0x60

Above shows CPU0 caught in css_tryget()'s inifinite loop because
of bad refcnt.

This is a fix to set mz=NULL at the top of retry path.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: 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>
2009-10-01 16:11:12 -07:00
Huang Shijie bf89c8c867 mm/rmap.c: fix comment
The page_address_in_vma() is not only used in unuse_vma().

Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-01 16:11:12 -07:00
Suresh Jayaraman 3bd0f0c763 swapfile: avoid NULL pointer dereference in swapon when s_bdev is NULL
While testing Swap over NFS patchset, I noticed an oops that was triggered
during swapon. Investigating further, the NULL pointer deference is due to the
SSD device check/optimization in the swapon code that assumes s_bdev could never
be NULL.

inode->i_sb->s_bdev could be NULL in a few cases. For e.g. one such case is
loopback NFS mount, there could be others as well. Fix this by ensuring s_bdev
is not NULL before we try to deference s_bdev.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-10-01 21:15:46 +02:00
Tejun Heo f2badb0c95 percpu: make allocation failures more verbose
Warn and dump stack when percpu allocation fails.  percpu allocator is
still young and unchecked NULL percpu pointer usage can result in
random memory corruption when combined with the pointer shifting in
access macros.  Allocation failures should be rare and the warning
message will be disabled after certain times.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-09-29 09:17:58 +09:00
Tejun Heo 635b75fc18 percpu: make pcpu_setup_first_chunk() failures more verbose
The parameters to pcpu_setup_first_chunk() come from different sources
depending on architecture and can be quite complex.  The function runs
various sanity checks on the parameters and triggers BUG() if
something isn't right.  However, this is very early during the boot
and not reporting exactly what the problem is makes debugging even
harder.

Add PCPU_SETUP_BUG() macro which prints out enough information about
the parameters.  As the macro still puts separate BUG() for each
check, it won't lose any information even on the situations where only
the program counter can be retrieved.

While at it, also bump pcpu_dump_alloc_info() message to KERN_INFO so
that it's visible on the console if boot fails to complete.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-09-29 09:17:57 +09:00
Tejun Heo 6ea529a203 percpu: make embedding first chunk allocator check vmalloc space size
Embedding first chunk allocator maintains the distances between units
in the vmalloc area and thus needs vmalloc space to be larger than the
maximum distances between units; otherwise, it wouldn't be able to
create any dynamic chunks.  This patch makes the embedding first chunk
allocator check vmalloc space size and if the maximum distance between
units is larger than 75% of it, print warning and, if page mapping
allocator is available, fail initialization so that the system falls
back onto it.

This should work around percpu allocation failure problems on certain
sparc64 configurations where distances between NUMA nodes are larger
than the vmalloc area and makes percpu allocator more robust for
future configurations.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-09-29 09:17:57 +09:00
Tejun Heo fb59e72e7e percpu: make pcpu_build_alloc_info() clear static buffers
pcpu_build_alloc_info() may be called multiple times when percpu is
falling back to different first chunk allocator.  Make it clear static
buffers so that they don't contain values from previous runs.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2009-09-29 09:17:57 +09:00
Tejun Heo ffe0d5a575 percpu: fix unit_map[] verification in pcpu_setup_first_chunk()
pcpu_setup_first_chunk() incorrectly used NR_CPUS as the impossible
unit number while unit number can equal and go over NR_CPUS with
sparse unit map.  This triggers BUG_ON() spuriously on machines which
have non-power-of-two number of cpus.  Use UINT_MAX instead.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-and-tested-by: Tony Vroon <tony@linx.net>
2009-09-29 09:17:56 +09:00
Alexey Dobriyan f0f37e2f77 const: mark struct vm_struct_operations
* mark struct vm_area_struct::vm_ops as const
* mark vm_ops in AGP code

But leave TTM code alone, something is fishy there with global vm_ops
being used.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-27 11:39:25 -07:00
Linus Torvalds d949f36f18 x86: Fix hwpoison code related build failure on 32-bit NUMAQ
This build failure triggers:

 In file included from include/linux/suspend.h:8,
                 from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets_32.c:11,
                 from arch/x86/kernel/asm-offsets.c:2:
 include/linux/mm.h:503:2: error: #error SECTIONS_WIDTH+NODES_WIDTH+ZONES_WIDTH > BITS_PER_LONG - NR_PAGEFLAGS

Because due to the hwpoison page flag we ran out of page
flags on 32-bit.

Dont turn on hwpoison on 32-bit NUMA (it's rare in any
case).

Also clean up the Kconfig dependencies in the generic MM
code by introducing ARCH_SUPPORTS_MEMORY_FAILURE.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-27 09:55:11 +02:00
Jens Axboe a72bfd4dea writeback: pass in super_block to bdi_start_writeback()
Sometimes we only want to write pages from a specific super_block,
so allow that to be passed in.

This fixes a problem with commit 56a131dcf7
causing writeback on all super_blocks on a bdi, where we only really
want to sync a specific sb from writeback_inodes_sb().

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-26 00:10:40 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 6d7f18f6ea Merge branch 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'writeback' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  writeback: writeback_inodes_sb() should use bdi_start_writeback()
  writeback: don't delay inodes redirtied by a fast dirtier
  writeback: make the super_block pinning more efficient
  writeback: don't resort for a single super_block in move_expired_inodes()
  writeback: move inodes from one super_block together
  writeback: get rid to incorrect references to pdflush in comments
  writeback: improve readability of the wb_writeback() continue/break logic
  writeback: cleanup writeback_single_inode()
  writeback: kupdate writeback shall not stop when more io is possible
  writeback: stop background writeback when below background threshold
  writeback: balance_dirty_pages() shall write more than dirtied pages
  fs: Fix busyloop in wb_writeback()
2009-09-25 09:27:30 -07:00
Jens Axboe 5b0830cb90 writeback: get rid to incorrect references to pdflush in comments
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-25 18:08:25 +02:00
Wu Fengguang d3ddec7635 writeback: stop background writeback when below background threshold
Treat bdi_start_writeback(0) as a special request to do background write,
and stop such work when we are below the background dirty threshold.

Also simplify the (nr_pages <= 0) checks. Since we already pass in
nr_pages=LONG_MAX for WB_SYNC_ALL and background writes, we don't
need to worry about it being decreased to zero.

Reported-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
CC: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-25 18:08:24 +02:00
Wu Fengguang 3a2e9a5a2a writeback: balance_dirty_pages() shall write more than dirtied pages
Some filesystem may choose to write much more than ratelimit_pages
before calling balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(). So it is safer to
determine number to write based on real number of dirtied pages.

Otherwise it is possible that
  loop {
    btrfs_file_write():     dirty 1024 pages
    balance_dirty_pages():  write up to 48 pages (= ratelimit_pages * 1.5)
  }
in which the writeback rate cannot keep up with dirty rate, and the
dirty pages go all the way beyond dirty_thresh.

The increased write_chunk may make the dirtier more bumpy.
So filesystems shall be take care not to dirty too much at
a time (eg. > 4MB) without checking the ratelimit.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-09-25 18:08:24 +02:00
David Howells 06aab5a308 NOMMU: Ignore mmap() address param as it is a hint
Ignore the address parameter given to NOMMU mmap() as it is a hint, rather
than giving an error if it's non-zero.  MAP_FIXED still gets an error.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 17:20:29 -07:00
David Howells 645d83c5db NOMMU: Fix MAP_PRIVATE mmap() of objects where the data can be mapped directly
Fix MAP_PRIVATE mmap() of files and devices where the data in the backing store
might be mapped directly.  Use the BDI_CAP_MAP_DIRECT capability flag to govern
whether or not we should be trying to map a file directly.  This can be used to
determine whether or not a region has been filled in at the point where we call
do_mmap_shared() or do_mmap_private().

The BDI_CAP_MAP_DIRECT capability flag is cleared by validate_mmap_request() if
there's any reason we can't use it.  It's also cleared in do_mmap_pgoff() if
f_op->get_unmapped_area() fails.

Without this fix, attempting to run a program from a RomFS image on a
non-mappable MTD partition results in a BUG as the kernel attempts XIP, and
this can be caught in gdb:

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0xc005dce8 in add_nommu_region (region=<value optimized out>) at mm/nommu.c:547
(gdb) bt
#0  0xc005dce8 in add_nommu_region (region=<value optimized out>) at mm/nommu.c:547
#1  0xc005f168 in do_mmap_pgoff (file=0xc31a6620, addr=<value optimized out>, len=3808, prot=3, flags=6146, pgoff=0) at mm/nommu.c:1373
#2  0xc00a96b8 in elf_fdpic_map_file (params=0xc33fbbec, file=0xc31a6620, mm=0xc31bef60, what=0xc0213144 "executable") at mm.h:1145
#3  0xc00aa8b4 in load_elf_fdpic_binary (bprm=0xc316cb00, regs=<value optimized out>) at fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c:343
#4  0xc006b588 in search_binary_handler (bprm=0x6, regs=0xc33fbce0) at fs/exec.c:1234
#5  0xc006c648 in do_execve (filename=<value optimized out>, argv=0xc3ad14cc, envp=0xc3ad1460, regs=0xc33fbce0) at fs/exec.c:1356
#6  0xc0008cf0 in sys_execve (name=<value optimized out>, argv=0xc3ad14cc, envp=0xc3ad1460) at arch/frv/kernel/process.c:263
#7  0xc00075dc in __syscall_call () at arch/frv/kernel/entry.S:897

Note that this fix does the following commit differently:

	commit a190887b58
	Author: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
	Date:   Sat Sep 5 11:17:07 2009 -0700
	nommu: fix error handling in do_mmap_pgoff()

Reported-by: Graff Yang <graff.yang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 17:18:38 -07:00
Andrew Morton c44972f178 procfs: disable per-task stack usage on NOMMU
It needs walk_page_range().

Reported-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Tested-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 17:11:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 6c5daf012c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  truncate: use new helpers
  truncate: new helpers
  fs: fix overflow in sys_mount() for in-kernel calls
  fs: Make unload_nls() NULL pointer safe
  freeze_bdev: grab active reference to frozen superblocks
  freeze_bdev: kill bd_mount_sem
  exofs: remove BKL from super operations
  fs/romfs: correct error-handling code
  vfs: seq_file: add helpers for data filling
  vfs: remove redundant position check in do_sendfile
  vfs: change sb->s_maxbytes to a loff_t
  vfs: explicitly cast s_maxbytes in fiemap_check_ranges
  libfs: return error code on failed attr set
  seq_file: return a negative error code when seq_path_root() fails.
  vfs: optimize touch_time() too
  vfs: optimization for touch_atime()
  vfs: split generic_forget_inode() so that hugetlbfs does not have to copy it
  fs/inode.c: add dev-id and inode number for debugging in init_special_inode()
  libfs: make simple_read_from_buffer conventional
2009-09-24 08:32:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds db16826367 Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6
* 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6: (21 commits)
  HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page on btrfs
  HWPOISON: Add simple debugfs interface to inject hwpoison on arbitary PFNs
  HWPOISON: Add madvise() based injector for hardware poisoned pages v4
  HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page for NFS
  HWPOISON: Enable .remove_error_page for migration aware file systems
  HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v7
  HWPOISON: Add PR_MCE_KILL prctl to control early kill behaviour per process
  HWPOISON: shmem: call set_page_dirty() with locked page
  HWPOISON: Define a new error_remove_page address space op for async truncation
  HWPOISON: Add invalidate_inode_page
  HWPOISON: Refactor truncate to allow direct truncating of page v2
  HWPOISON: check and isolate corrupted free pages v2
  HWPOISON: Handle hardware poisoned pages in try_to_unmap
  HWPOISON: Use bitmask/action code for try_to_unmap behaviour
  HWPOISON: x86: Add VM_FAULT_HWPOISON handling to x86 page fault handler v2
  HWPOISON: Add poison check to page fault handling
  HWPOISON: Add basic support for poisoned pages in fault handler v3
  HWPOISON: Add new SIGBUS error codes for hardware poison signals
  HWPOISON: Add support for poison swap entries v2
  HWPOISON: Export some rmap vma locking to outside world
  ...
2009-09-24 07:53:22 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan 8d65af789f sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler
It's unused.

It isn't needed -- read or write flag is already passed and sysctl
shouldn't care about the rest.

It _was_ used in two places at arch/frv for some reason.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 07:21:04 -07:00
Daisuke Nishimura 1dd3a27326 memcg: show swap usage in stat file
We now count MEM_CGROUP_STAT_SWAPOUT, so we can show swap usage.  It would
be useful for users to show swap usage in memory.stat file, because they
don't need calculate memsw.usage - res.usage to know swap usage.

Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 07:20:59 -07:00
Balbir Singh 0c3e73e84f memcg: improve resource counter scalability
Reduce the resource counter overhead (mostly spinlock) associated with the
root cgroup.  This is a part of the several patches to reduce mem cgroup
overhead.  I had posted other approaches earlier (including using percpu
counters).  Those patches will be a natural addition and will be added
iteratively on top of these.

The patch stops resource counter accounting for the root cgroup.  The data
for display is derived from the statisitcs we maintain via
mem_cgroup_charge_statistics (which is more scalable).  What happens today
is that, we do double accounting, once using res_counter_charge() and once
using memory_cgroup_charge_statistics().  For the root, since we don't
implement limits any more, we don't need to track every charge via
res_counter_charge() and check for limit being exceeded and reclaim.

The main mem->res usage_in_bytes can be derived by summing the cache and
rss usage data from memory statistics (MEM_CGROUP_STAT_RSS and
MEM_CGROUP_STAT_CACHE).  However, for memsw->res usage_in_bytes, we need
additional data about swapped out memory.  This patch adds a
MEM_CGROUP_STAT_SWAPOUT and uses that along with MEM_CGROUP_STAT_RSS and
MEM_CGROUP_STAT_CACHE to derive the memsw data.  This data is computed
recursively when hierarchy is enabled.

The tests results I see on a 24 way show that

1. The lock contention disappears from /proc/lock_stats
2. The results of the test are comparable to running with
   cgroup_disable=memory.

Here is a sample of my program runs

Without Patch

 Performance counter stats for '/home/balbir/parallel_pagefault':

 7192804.124144  task-clock-msecs         #     23.937 CPUs
         424691  context-switches         #      0.000 M/sec
            267  CPU-migrations           #      0.000 M/sec
       28498113  page-faults              #      0.004 M/sec
  5826093739340  cycles                   #    809.989 M/sec
   408883496292  instructions             #      0.070 IPC
     7057079452  cache-references         #      0.981 M/sec
     3036086243  cache-misses             #      0.422 M/sec

  300.485365680  seconds time elapsed

With cgroup_disable=memory

 Performance counter stats for '/home/balbir/parallel_pagefault':

 7182183.546587  task-clock-msecs         #     23.915 CPUs
         425458  context-switches         #      0.000 M/sec
            203  CPU-migrations           #      0.000 M/sec
       92545093  page-faults              #      0.013 M/sec
  6034363609986  cycles                   #    840.185 M/sec
   437204346785  instructions             #      0.072 IPC
     6636073192  cache-references         #      0.924 M/sec
     2358117732  cache-misses             #      0.328 M/sec

  300.320905827  seconds time elapsed

With this patch applied

 Performance counter stats for '/home/balbir/parallel_pagefault':

 7191619.223977  task-clock-msecs         #     23.955 CPUs
         422579  context-switches         #      0.000 M/sec
             88  CPU-migrations           #      0.000 M/sec
       91946060  page-faults              #      0.013 M/sec
  5957054385619  cycles                   #    828.333 M/sec
  1058117350365  instructions             #      0.178 IPC
     9161776218  cache-references         #      1.274 M/sec
     1920494280  cache-misses             #      0.267 M/sec

  300.218764862  seconds time elapsed

Data from Prarit (kernel compile with make -j64 on a 64
CPU/32G machine)

For a single run

Without patch

real 27m8.988s
user 87m24.916s
sys 382m6.037s

With patch

real    4m18.607s
user    84m58.943s
sys     50m52.682s

With config turned off

real    4m54.972s
user    90m13.456s
sys     50m19.711s

NOTE: The data looks counterintuitive due to the increased performance
with the patch, even over the config being turned off. We probably need
more runs, but so far all testing has shown that the patches definitely
help.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 07:20:59 -07:00
Balbir Singh 4e41695356 memory controller: soft limit reclaim on contention
Implement reclaim from groups over their soft limit

Permit reclaim from memory cgroups on contention (via the direct reclaim
path).

memory cgroup soft limit reclaim finds the group that exceeds its soft
limit by the largest number of pages and reclaims pages from it and then
reinserts the cgroup into its correct place in the rbtree.

Add additional checks to mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim() to detect long
loops in case all swap is turned off.  The code has been refactored and
the loop check (loop < 2) has been enhanced for soft limits.  For soft
limits, we try to do more targetted reclaim.  Instead of bailing out after
two loops, the routine now reclaims memory proportional to the size by
which the soft limit is exceeded.  The proportion has been empirically
determined.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: fix softlimit css refcnt handling]
[nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp: refcount of the "victim" should be decremented before exiting the loop]
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: 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>
2009-09-24 07:20:59 -07:00
Balbir Singh 75822b4495 memory controller: soft limit refactor reclaim flags
Refactor mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim()

Refactor the arguments passed to mem_cgroup_hierarchical_reclaim() into
flags, so that new parameters don't have to be passed as we make the
reclaim routine more flexible

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 07:20:59 -07:00
Balbir Singh f64c3f5494 memory controller: soft limit organize cgroups
Organize cgroups over soft limit in a RB-Tree

Introduce an RB-Tree for storing memory cgroups that are over their soft
limit.  The overall goal is to

1. Add a memory cgroup to the RB-Tree when the soft limit is exceeded.
   We are careful about updates, updates take place only after a particular
   time interval has passed
2. We remove the node from the RB-Tree when the usage goes below the soft
   limit

The next set of patches will exploit the RB-Tree to get the group that is
over its soft limit by the largest amount and reclaim from it, when we
face memory contention.

[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR=y CONFIG_PREEMPT=y fails to boot]
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 07:20:59 -07:00
Balbir Singh 296c81d89f memory controller: soft limit interface
Add an interface to allow get/set of soft limits.  Soft limits for memory
plus swap controller (memsw) is currently not supported.  Resource
counters have been enhanced to support soft limits and new type
RES_SOFT_LIMIT has been added.  Unlike hard limits, soft limits can be
directly set and do not need any reclaim or checks before setting them to
a newer value.

Kamezawa-San raised a question as to whether soft limit should belong to
res_counter.  Since all resources understand the basic concepts of hard
and soft limits, it is justified to add soft limits here.  Soft limits are
a generic resource usage feature, even file system quotas support soft
limits.

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 07:20:59 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 261fb61a8b memcg: add comments explaining memory barriers
Add comments for the reason of smp_wmb() in mem_cgroup_commit_charge().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 07:20:58 -07:00
Balbir Singh 4b3bde4c98 memcg: remove the overhead associated with the root cgroup
Change the memory cgroup to remove the overhead associated with accounting
all pages in the root cgroup.  As a side-effect, we can no longer set a
memory hard limit in the root cgroup.

A new flag to track whether the page has been accounted or not has been
added as well.  Flags are now set atomically for page_cgroup,
pcg_default_flags is now obsolete and removed.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix a few documentation glitches]
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 07:20:58 -07:00
Ben Blum be367d0992 cgroups: let ss->can_attach and ss->attach do whole threadgroups at a time
Alter the ss->can_attach and ss->attach functions to be able to deal with
a whole threadgroup at a time, for use in cgroup_attach_proc.  (This is a
pre-patch to cgroup-procs-writable.patch.)

Currently, new mode of the attach function can only tell the subsystem
about the old cgroup of the threadgroup leader.  No subsystem currently
needs that information for each thread that's being moved, but if one were
to be added (for example, one that counts tasks within a group) this bit
would need to be reworked a bit to tell the subsystem the right
information.

[hidave.darkstar@gmail.com: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 07:20:58 -07:00
Izik Eidus 2c6854fdad ksm: change default values to better fit into mainline kernel
Now that ksm is in mainline it is better to change the default values to
better fit to most of the users.

This patch change the ksm default values to be:

	ksm_thread_pages_to_scan = 100 (instead of 200)
	ksm_thread_sleep_millisecs = 20 (like before)
	ksm_run = KSM_RUN_STOP (instead of KSM_RUN_MERGE - meaning ksm is
	                        disabled by default)
	ksm_max_kernel_pages = nr_free_buffer_pages / 4 (instead of 2046)

The important aspect of this patch is: it disables ksm by default, and sets
the number of the kernel_pages that can be allocated to be a reasonable
number.

Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 07:20:56 -07:00
npiggin@suse.de 25d9e2d152 truncate: new helpers
Introduce new truncate helpers truncate_pagecache and inode_newsize_ok.
vmtruncate is also consolidated from mm/memory.c and mm/nommu.c and
into mm/truncate.c.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-09-24 08:41:47 -04:00
Rusty Russell db79078658 cpumask: use new-style cpumask ops in mm/quicklist.
This slipped past the previous sweeps.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 09:34:52 +09:30
Hugh Dickins 4266c97a3e nommu: fix two build breakages
My 58fa879e1e "mm: FOLL flags for GUP flags"
broke CONFIG_NOMMU build by forgetting to update nommu.c foll_flags type:

  mm/nommu.c:171: error: conflicting types for `__get_user_pages'
  mm/internal.h:254: error: previous declaration of `__get_user_pages' was here
  make[1]: *** [mm/nommu.o] Error 1

My 03f6462a3a "mm: move highest_memmap_pfn"
broke CONFIG_NOMMU build by forgetting to add a nommu.c highest_memmap_pfn:

  mm/built-in.o: In function `memmap_init_zone':
  (.meminit.text+0x326): undefined reference to `highest_memmap_pfn'
  mm/built-in.o: In function `memmap_init_zone':
  (.meminit.text+0x32d): undefined reference to `highest_memmap_pfn'

Fix both breakages, and give myself 30 lashes (ouch!)

Reported-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@petalogix.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-23 09:22:10 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 81ac3ad906 kcore: register module area in generic way
Some archs define MODULED_VADDR/MODULES_END which is not in VMALLOC area.
This is handled only in x86-64.  This patch make it more generic.  And we
can use vread/vwrite to access the area.  Fix it.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-23 07:39:42 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 908eedc616 walk system ram range
Originally, walk_memory_resource() was introduced to traverse all memory
of "System RAM" for detecting memory hotplug/unplug range.  For doing so,
flags of IORESOUCE_MEM|IORESOURCE_BUSY was used and this was enough for
memory hotplug.

But for using other purpose, /proc/kcore, this may includes some firmware
area marked as IORESOURCE_BUSY | IORESOUCE_MEM.  This patch makes the
check strict to find out busy "System RAM".

Note: PPC64 keeps their own walk_memory_resouce(), which walk through
ppc64's lmb informaton.  Because old kclist_add() is called per lmb, this
patch makes no difference in behavior, finally.

And this patch removes CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG check from this function.
Because pfn_valid() just show "there is memmap or not* and cannot be used
for "there is physical memory or not", this function is useful in generic
to scan physical memory range.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-23 07:39:41 -07:00
Stefani Seibold d899bf7b55 procfs: provide stack information for threads
A patch to give a better overview of the userland application stack usage,
especially for embedded linux.

Currently you are only able to dump the main process/thread stack usage
which is showed in /proc/pid/status by the "VmStk" Value.  But you get no
information about the consumed stack memory of the the threads.

There is an enhancement in the /proc/<pid>/{task/*,}/*maps and which marks
the vm mapping where the thread stack pointer reside with "[thread stack
xxxxxxxx]".  xxxxxxxx is the maximum size of stack.  This is a value
information, because libpthread doesn't set the start of the stack to the
top of the mapped area, depending of the pthread usage.

A sample output of /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/maps looks like:

08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8312       /opt/z
08049000-0804a000 rw-p 00001000 03:00 8312       /opt/z
0804a000-0806b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [heap]
a7d12000-a7d13000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
a7d13000-a7f13000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [thread stack: 001ff4b4]
a7f13000-a7f14000 ---p 00000000 00:00 0
a7f14000-a7f36000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
a7f36000-a8069000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 4222       /lib/libc.so.6
a8069000-a806b000 r--p 00133000 03:00 4222       /lib/libc.so.6
a806b000-a806c000 rw-p 00135000 03:00 4222       /lib/libc.so.6
a806c000-a806f000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
a806f000-a8083000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 14462      /lib/libpthread.so.0
a8083000-a8084000 r--p 00013000 03:00 14462      /lib/libpthread.so.0
a8084000-a8085000 rw-p 00014000 03:00 14462      /lib/libpthread.so.0
a8085000-a8088000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
a8088000-a80a4000 r-xp 00000000 03:00 8317       /lib/ld-linux.so.2
a80a4000-a80a5000 r--p 0001b000 03:00 8317       /lib/ld-linux.so.2
a80a5000-a80a6000 rw-p 0001c000 03:00 8317       /lib/ld-linux.so.2
afaf5000-afb0a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0          [stack]
ffffe000-fffff000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0          [vdso]

Also there is a new entry "stack usage" in /proc/<pid>/{task/*,}/status
which will you give the current stack usage in kb.

A sample output of /proc/self/status looks like:

Name:	cat
State:	R (running)
Tgid:	507
Pid:	507
.
.
.
CapBnd:	fffffffffffffeff
voluntary_ctxt_switches:	0
nonvoluntary_ctxt_switches:	0
Stack usage:	12 kB

I also fixed stack base address in /proc/<pid>/{task/*,}/stat to the base
address of the associated thread stack and not the one of the main
process.  This makes more sense.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fs/proc/array.c now needs walk_page_range()]
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-23 07:39:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 342ff1a1b5 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits)
  trivial: fix typo in aic7xxx comment
  trivial: fix comment typo in drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c
  trivial: typo in kernel-parameters.txt
  trivial: fix typo in tracing documentation
  trivial: add __init/__exit macros in drivers/gpio/bt8xxgpio.c
  trivial: add __init macro/ fix of __exit macro location in ipmi_poweroff.c
  trivial: remove unnecessary semicolons
  trivial: Fix duplicated word "options" in comment
  trivial: kbuild: remove extraneous blank line after declaration of usage()
  trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options
  trivial: doc: hpfall: accept disk device to unload as argument
  trivial: doc: hpfall: reduce risk that hpfall can do harm
  trivial: SubmittingPatches: Fix reference to renumbered step
  trivial: fix typos "man[ae]g?ment" -> "management"
  trivial: media/video/cx88: add __init/__exit macros to cx88 drivers
  trivial: fix typo in CONFIG_DEBUG_FS in gcov doc
  trivial: fix missing printk space in amd_k7_smp_check
  trivial: fix typo s/ketymap/keymap/ in comment
  trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files
  trivial: fix typos in comments s/DGBU/DBGU/
  ...
2009-09-22 07:51:45 -07:00
Bernd Schmidt eb8cdec4a9 nommu: add support for Memory Protection Units (MPU)
Some architectures (like the Blackfin arch) implement some of the
"simpler" features that one would expect out of a MMU such as memory
protection.

In our case, we actually get read/write/exec protection down to the page
boundary so processes can't stomp on each other let alone the kernel.

There is a performance decrease (which depends greatly on the workload)
however as the hardware/software interaction was not optimized at design
time.

Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:43 -07:00
Michael S. Tsirkin f68e148050 mm: reduce atomic use on use_mm fast path
When the mm being switched to matches the active mm, we don't need to
increment and then drop the mm count.  In a simple benchmark this happens
in about 50% of time.  Making that conditional reduces contention on that
cacheline on SMP systems.

Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:42 -07:00
Michael S. Tsirkin 3d2d827f5c mm: move use_mm/unuse_mm from aio.c to mm/
Anyone who wants to do copy to/from user from a kernel thread, needs
use_mm (like what fs/aio has).  Move that into mm/, to make reusing and
exporting easier down the line, and make aio use it.  Next intended user,
besides aio, will be vhost-net.

Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:42 -07:00
Pekka Enberg 425fbf047c shmem: initialize struct shmem_sb_info to zero
Fixes the following kmemcheck false positive (the compiler is using
a 32-bit mov to load the 16-bit sbinfo->mode in shmem_fill_super):

[    0.337000] Total of 1 processors activated (3088.38 BogoMIPS).
[    0.352000] CPU0 attaching NULL sched-domain.
[    0.360000] WARNING: kmemcheck: Caught 32-bit read from uninitialized
memory (9f8020fc)
[    0.361000]
a44240820000000041f6998100000000000000000000000000000000ff030000
[    0.368000]  i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i u u u u i i i i i i i i i i u
u
[    0.375000]                                                          ^
[    0.376000]
[    0.377000] Pid: 9, comm: khelper Not tainted (2.6.31-tip #206) P4DC6
[    0.378000] EIP: 0060:[<810a3a95>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0
[    0.379000] EIP is at shmem_fill_super+0xb5/0x120
[    0.380000] EAX: 00000000 EBX: 9f845400 ECX: 824042a4 EDX: 8199f641
[    0.381000] ESI: 9f8020c0 EDI: 9f845400 EBP: 9f81af68 ESP: 81cd6eec
[    0.382000]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
[    0.383000] CR0: 8005003b CR2: 9f806200 CR3: 01ccd000 CR4: 000006d0
[    0.384000] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
[    0.385000] DR6: ffff4ff0 DR7: 00000400
[    0.386000]  [<810c25fc>] get_sb_nodev+0x3c/0x80
[    0.388000]  [<810a3514>] shmem_get_sb+0x14/0x20
[    0.390000]  [<810c207f>] vfs_kern_mount+0x4f/0x120
[    0.392000]  [<81b2849e>] init_tmpfs+0x7e/0xb0
[    0.394000]  [<81b11597>] do_basic_setup+0x17/0x30
[    0.396000]  [<81b11907>] kernel_init+0x57/0xa0
[    0.398000]  [<810039b7>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
[    0.400000]  [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
[    0.402000] khelper used greatest stack depth: 2820 bytes left
[    0.407000] calling  init_mmap_min_addr+0x0/0x10 @ 1
[    0.408000] initcall init_mmap_min_addr+0x0/0x10 returned 0 after 0 usecs

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Analysed-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:42 -07:00
Eric B Munson 4e52780d41 hugetlb: add MAP_HUGETLB for mmaping pseudo-anonymous huge page regions
Add a flag for mmap that will be used to request a huge page region that
will look like anonymous memory to userspace.  This is accomplished by
using a file on the internal vfsmount.  MAP_HUGETLB is a modifier of
MAP_ANONYMOUS and so must be specified with it.  The region will behave
the same as a MAP_ANONYMOUS region using small pages.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch definitions of MAP_HUGETLB]
Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:42 -07:00
Huang Shijie f8dbf0a7a4 mmap: save some cycles for the shared anonymous mapping
shmem_zero_setup() does not change vm_start, pgoff or vm_flags, only some
drivers change them (such as /driver/video/bfin-t350mcqb-fb.c).

Move these codes to a more proper place to save cycles for shared
anonymous mapping.

Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:41 -07:00
Lee Schermerhorn 252c5f94d9 mmap: avoid unnecessary anon_vma lock acquisition in vma_adjust()
We noticed very erratic behavior [throughput] with the AIM7 shared
workload running on recent distro [SLES11] and mainline kernels on an
8-socket, 32-core, 256GB x86_64 platform.  On the SLES11 kernel
[2.6.27.19+] with Barcelona processors, as we increased the load [10s of
thousands of tasks], the throughput would vary between two "plateaus"--one
at ~65K jobs per minute and one at ~130K jpm.  The simple patch below
causes the results to smooth out at the ~130k plateau.

But wait, there's more:

We do not see this behavior on smaller platforms--e.g., 4 socket/8 core.
This could be the result of the larger number of cpus on the larger
platform--a scalability issue--or it could be the result of the larger
number of interconnect "hops" between some nodes in this platform and how
the tasks for a given load end up distributed over the nodes' cpus and
memories--a stochastic NUMA effect.

The variability in the results are less pronounced [on the same platform]
with Shanghai processors and with mainline kernels.  With 31-rc6 on
Shanghai processors and 288 file systems on 288 fibre attached storage
volumes, the curves [jpm vs load] are both quite flat with the patched
kernel consistently producing ~3.9% better throughput [~80K jpm vs ~77K
jpm] than the unpatched kernel.

Profiling indicated that the "slow" runs were incurring high[er]
contention on an anon_vma lock in vma_adjust(), apparently called from the
sbrk() system call.

The patch:

A comment in mm/mmap.c:vma_adjust() suggests that we don't really need the
anon_vma lock when we're only adjusting the end of a vma, as is the case
for brk().  The comment questions whether it's worth while to optimize for
this case.  Apparently, on the newer, larger x86_64 platforms, with
interesting NUMA topologies, it is worth while--especially considering
that the patch [if correct!] is quite simple.

We can detect this condition--no overlap with next vma--by noting a NULL
"importer".  The anon_vma pointer will also be NULL in this case, so
simply avoid loading vma->anon_vma to avoid the lock.

However, we DO need to take the anon_vma lock when we're inserting a vma
['insert' non-NULL] even when we have no overlap [NULL "importer"], so we
need to check for 'insert', as well.  And Hugh points out that we should
also take it when adjusting vm_start (so that rmap.c can rely upon
vma_address() while it holds the anon_vma lock).

akpm: Zhang Yanmin reprts a 150% throughput improvement with aim7, so it
might be -stable material even though thiss isn't a regression: "this
issue is not clear on dual socket Nehalem machine (2*4*2 cpu), but is
severe on large machine (4*8*2 cpu)"

[hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk: test vma start too]
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Tested-by: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:41 -07:00
Hugh Dickins 3f96b79ad9 tmpfs: depend on shmem
CONFIG_SHMEM off gives you (ramfs masquerading as) tmpfs, even when
CONFIG_TMPFS is off: that's a little anomalous, and I'd intended to make
more sense of it by removing CONFIG_TMPFS altogether, always enabling its
code when CONFIG_SHMEM; but so many defconfigs have CONFIG_SHMEM on
CONFIG_TMPFS off that we'd better leave that as is.

But there is no point in asking for CONFIG_TMPFS if CONFIG_SHMEM is off:
make TMPFS depend on SHMEM, which also prevents TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
shmem_acl.o being pointlessly built into the kernel when SHMEM is off.

And a selfish change, to prevent the world from being rebuilt when I
switch between CONFIG_SHMEM on and off: the only CONFIG_SHMEM in the
header files is mm.h shmem_lock() - give that a shmem.c stub instead.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:41 -07:00
Huang Shijie cdf7b3418a mmap: remove unnecessary code
If (flags & MAP_LOCKED) is true, it means vm_flags has already contained
the bit VM_LOCKED which is set by calc_vm_flag_bits().

So there is no need to reset it again, just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:41 -07:00