platform/kernel/linux-3.10.git
14 years agooom: deprecate oom_adj tunable
David Rientjes [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:47 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
oom: deprecate oom_adj tunable

/proc/pid/oom_adj is now deprecated so that that it may eventually be
removed.  The target date for removal is August 2012.

A warning will be printed to the kernel log if a task attempts to use this
interface.  Future warning will be suppressed until the kernel is rebooted
to prevent spamming the kernel log.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.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>
14 years agooom: badness heuristic rewrite
David Rientjes [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:46 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
oom: badness heuristic rewrite

This a complete rewrite of the oom killer's badness() heuristic which is
used to determine which task to kill in oom conditions.  The goal is to
make it as simple and predictable as possible so the results are better
understood and we end up killing the task which will lead to the most
memory freeing while still respecting the fine-tuning from userspace.

Instead of basing the heuristic on mm->total_vm for each task, the task's
rss and swap space is used instead.  This is a better indication of the
amount of memory that will be freeable if the oom killed task is chosen
and subsequently exits.  This helps specifically in cases where KDE or
GNOME is chosen for oom kill on desktop systems instead of a memory
hogging task.

The baseline for the heuristic is a proportion of memory that each task is
currently using in memory plus swap compared to the amount of "allowable"
memory.  "Allowable," in this sense, means the system-wide resources for
unconstrained oom conditions, the set of mempolicy nodes, the mems
attached to current's cpuset, or a memory controller's limit.  The
proportion is given on a scale of 0 (never kill) to 1000 (always kill),
roughly meaning that if a task has a badness() score of 500 that the task
consumes approximately 50% of allowable memory resident in RAM or in swap
space.

The proportion is always relative to the amount of "allowable" memory and
not the total amount of RAM systemwide so that mempolicies and cpusets may
operate in isolation; they shall not need to know the true size of the
machine on which they are running if they are bound to a specific set of
nodes or mems, respectively.

Root tasks are given 3% extra memory just like __vm_enough_memory()
provides in LSMs.  In the event of two tasks consuming similar amounts of
memory, it is generally better to save root's task.

Because of the change in the badness() heuristic's baseline, it is also
necessary to introduce a new user interface to tune it.  It's not possible
to redefine the meaning of /proc/pid/oom_adj with a new scale since the
ABI cannot be changed for backward compatability.  Instead, a new tunable,
/proc/pid/oom_score_adj, is added that ranges from -1000 to +1000.  It may
be used to polarize the heuristic such that certain tasks are never
considered for oom kill while others may always be considered.  The value
is added directly into the badness() score so a value of -500, for
example, means to discount 50% of its memory consumption in comparison to
other tasks either on the system, bound to the mempolicy, in the cpuset,
or sharing the same memory controller.

/proc/pid/oom_adj is changed so that its meaning is rescaled into the
units used by /proc/pid/oom_score_adj, and vice versa.  Changing one of
these per-task tunables will rescale the value of the other to an
equivalent meaning.  Although /proc/pid/oom_adj was originally defined as
a bitshift on the badness score, it now shares the same linear growth as
/proc/pid/oom_score_adj but with different granularity.  This is required
so the ABI is not broken with userspace applications and allows oom_adj to
be deprecated for future removal.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.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>
14 years agooom: move badness() declaration into oom.h
Andrew Morton [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:43 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
oom: move badness() declaration into oom.h

Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agooom: multi threaded process coredump don't make deadlock
KOSAKI Motohiro [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:42 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
oom: multi threaded process coredump don't make deadlock

Oleg pointed out current PF_EXITING check is wrong. Because PF_EXITING
is per-thread flag, not per-process flag. He said,

   Two threads, group-leader L and its sub-thread T. T dumps the code.
   In this case both threads have ->mm != NULL, L has PF_EXITING.

   The first problem is, select_bad_process() always return -1 in this
   case (even if the caller is T, this doesn't matter).

   The second problem is that we should add TIF_MEMDIE to T, not L.

I think we can remove this dubious PF_EXITING check. but as first step,
This patch add the protection of multi threaded issue.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.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>
14 years agooom: give the dying task a higher priority
Luis Claudio R. Goncalves [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:41 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
oom: give the dying task a higher priority

In a system under heavy load it was observed that even after the
oom-killer selects a task to die, the task may take a long time to die.

Right after sending a SIGKILL to the task selected by the oom-killer this
task has its priority increased so that it can exit() soon, freeing
memory.  That is accomplished by:

        /*
         * We give our sacrificial lamb high priority and access to
         * all the memory it needs. That way it should be able to
         * exit() and clear out its resources quickly...
         */
  p->rt.time_slice = HZ;
  set_tsk_thread_flag(p, TIF_MEMDIE);

It sounds plausible giving the dying task an even higher priority to be
sure it will be scheduled sooner and free the desired memory.  It was
suggested on LKML using SCHED_FIFO:1, the lowest RT priority so that this
task won't interfere with any running RT task.

If the dying task is already an RT task, leave it untouched.  Another good
suggestion, implemented here, was to avoid boosting the dying task
priority in case of mem_cgroup OOM.

Signed-off-by: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <lclaudio@uudg.org>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agooom: remove child->mm check from oom_kill_process()
KOSAKI Motohiro [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:39 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
oom: remove child->mm check from oom_kill_process()

The current "child->mm == p->mm" check prevents selection of vfork()ed
task.  But we don't have any reason to don't consider vfork().

Removed.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agooom: cleanup has_intersects_mems_allowed()
KOSAKI Motohiro [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:39 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
oom: cleanup has_intersects_mems_allowed()

presently has_intersects_mems_allowed() has own thread iterate logic, but
it should use while_each_thread().

It slightly improve the code readability.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agooom: move OOM_DISABLE check from oom_kill_task to out_of_memory()
KOSAKI Motohiro [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:38 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
oom: move OOM_DISABLE check from oom_kill_task to out_of_memory()

Presently if oom_kill_allocating_task is enabled and current have
OOM_DISABLED, following printk in oom_kill_process is called twice.

    pr_err("%s: Kill process %d (%s) score %lu or sacrifice child\n",
            message, task_pid_nr(p), p->comm, points);

So, OOM_DISABLE check should be more early.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agooom: kill duplicate OOM_DISABLE check
KOSAKI Motohiro [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:37 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
oom: kill duplicate OOM_DISABLE check

select_bad_process() and badness() have the same OOM_DISABLE check.  This
patch kills one.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agooom: /proc/<pid>/oom_score treat kernel thread honestly
KOSAKI Motohiro [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:37 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
oom: /proc/<pid>/oom_score treat kernel thread honestly

If a kernel thread is using use_mm(), badness() returns a positive value.
This is not a big issue because caller take care of it correctly.  But
there is one exception, /proc/<pid>/oom_score calls badness() directly and
doesn't care that the task is a regular process.

Another example, /proc/1/oom_score return !0 value.  But it's unkillable.
This incorrectness makes administration a little confusing.

This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agooom: oom_kill_process() needs to check that p is unkillable
KOSAKI Motohiro [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:36 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
oom: oom_kill_process() needs to check that p is unkillable

When oom_kill_allocating_task is enabled, an argument task of
oom_kill_process is not selected by select_bad_process(), It's just
out_of_memory() caller task.  It mean the task can be unkillable.  check
it first.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agooom: make oom_unkillable_task() helper function
KOSAKI Motohiro [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:35 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
oom: make oom_unkillable_task() helper function

Presently we have the same task check in two places. Unify it.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agooom: oom_kill_process() doesn't select kthread child
KOSAKI Motohiro [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:34 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
oom: oom_kill_process() doesn't select kthread child

Presently select_bad_process() has a PF_KTHREAD check, but
oom_kill_process doesn't.  It mean oom_kill_process() may choose wrong
task, especially, when the child are using use_mm().

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agooom: don't try to kill oom_unkillable child
KOSAKI Motohiro [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:33 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
oom: don't try to kill oom_unkillable child

Presently, badness() doesn't care about either CPUSET nor mempolicy.  Then
if the victim child process have disjoint nodemask, OOM Killer might kill
innocent process.

This patch fixes it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agovmscan: update isolated page counters outside of main path in shrink_inactive_list()
Mel Gorman [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:33 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
vmscan: update isolated page counters outside of main path in shrink_inactive_list()

When shrink_inactive_list() isolates pages, it updates a number of
counters using temporary variables to gather them.  These consume stack
and it's in the main path that calls ->writepage().  This patch moves the
accounting updates outside of the main path to reduce stack usage.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agovmscan: set up pagevec as late as possible in shrink_page_list()
Mel Gorman [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:31 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
vmscan: set up pagevec as late as possible in shrink_page_list()

shrink_page_list() sets up a pagevec to release pages as according as they
are free.  It uses significant amounts of stack on the pagevec.  This
patch adds pages to be freed via pagevec to a linked list which is then
freed en-masse at the end.  This avoids using stack in the main path that
potentially calls writepage().

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agovmscan: set up pagevec as late as possible in shrink_inactive_list()
Mel Gorman [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:30 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
vmscan: set up pagevec as late as possible in shrink_inactive_list()

shrink_inactive_list() sets up a pagevec to release unfreeable pages.  It
uses significant amounts of stack doing this.  This patch splits
shrink_inactive_list() to take the stack usage out of the main path so
that callers to writepage() do not contain an unused pagevec on the stack.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agovmscan: remove unnecessary temporary vars in do_try_to_free_pages
Mel Gorman [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:29 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
vmscan: remove unnecessary temporary vars in do_try_to_free_pages

Remove temporary variable that is only used once and does not help clarify
code.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agovmscan: simplify shrink_inactive_list()
KOSAKI Motohiro [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:28 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
vmscan: simplify shrink_inactive_list()

Now, max_scan of shrink_inactive_list() is always passed less than
SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX.  then, we can remove scanning pages loop in it.  This
patch also help stack diet.

detail
 - remove "while (nr_scanned < max_scan)" loop
 - remove nr_freed (now, we use nr_reclaimed directly)
 - remove nr_scan (now, we use nr_scanned directly)
 - rename max_scan to nr_to_scan
 - pass nr_to_scan into isolate_pages() directly instead
   using SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agovmscan: kill prev_priority completely
KOSAKI Motohiro [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:27 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
vmscan: kill prev_priority completely

Since 2.6.28 zone->prev_priority is unused. Then it can be removed
safely. It reduce stack usage slightly.

Now I have to say that I'm sorry. 2 years ago, I thought prev_priority
can be integrate again, it's useful. but four (or more) times trying
haven't got good performance number. Thus I give up such approach.

The rest of this changelog is notes on prev_priority and why it existed in
the first place and why it might be not necessary any more. This information
is based heavily on discussions between Andrew Morton, Rik van Riel and
Kosaki Motohiro who is heavily quotes from.

Historically prev_priority was important because it determined when the VM
would start unmapping PTE pages. i.e. there are no balances of note within
the VM, Anon vs File and Mapped vs Unmapped. Without prev_priority, there
is a potential risk of unnecessarily increasing minor faults as a large
amount of read activity of use-once pages could push mapped pages to the
end of the LRU and get unmapped.

There is no proof this is still a problem but currently it is not considered
to be. Active files are not deactivated if the active file list is smaller
than the inactive list reducing the liklihood that file-mapped pages are
being pushed off the LRU and referenced executable pages are kept on the
active list to avoid them getting pushed out by read activity.

Even if it is a problem, prev_priority prev_priority wouldn't works
nowadays. First of all, current vmscan still a lot of UP centric code. it
expose some weakness on some dozens CPUs machine. I think we need more and
more improvement.

The problem is, current vmscan mix up per-system-pressure, per-zone-pressure
and per-task-pressure a bit. example, prev_priority try to boost priority to
other concurrent priority. but if the another task have mempolicy restriction,
it is unnecessary, but also makes wrong big latency and exceeding reclaim.
per-task based priority + prev_priority adjustment make the emulation of
per-system pressure. but it have two issue 1) too rough and brutal emulation
2) we need per-zone pressure, not per-system.

Another example, currently DEF_PRIORITY is 12. it mean the lru rotate about
2 cycle (1/4096 + 1/2048 + 1/1024 + .. + 1) before invoking OOM-Killer.
but if 10,0000 thrreads enter DEF_PRIORITY reclaim at the same time, the
system have higher memory pressure than priority==0 (1/4096*10,000 > 2).
prev_priority can't solve such multithreads workload issue. In other word,
prev_priority concept assume the sysmtem don't have lots threads."

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agovmscan: tracing: add a postprocessing script for reclaim-related ftrace events
Mel Gorman [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:24 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
vmscan: tracing: add a postprocessing script for reclaim-related ftrace events

Add a simple post-processing script for the reclaim-related trace events.
It can be used to give an indication of how much traffic there is on the
LRU lists and how severe latencies due to reclaim are.  Example output
looks like the following

Reclaim latencies expressed as order-latency_in_ms
uname-3942             9-200.179000000004 9-98.7900000000373 9-99.8330000001006
kswapd0-311            0-662.097999999998 0-2.79700000002049 \
0-149.100000000035 0-3295.73600000003 0-9806.31799999997 0-35528.833 \
0-10043.197 0-129740.979 0-3.50500000000466 0-3.54899999999907 \
0-9297.78999999992 0-3.48499999998603 0-3596.97999999998 0-3.92799999995623 \
0-3.35000000009313 0-16729.017 0-3.57799999997951 0-47435.0630000001 \
0-3.7819999998901 0-5864.06999999995 0-18635.334 0-10541.289 9-186011.565 \
9-3680.86300000001 9-1379.06499999994 9-958571.115 9-66215.474 \
9-6721.14699999988 9-1962.15299999993 9-1094806.125 9-2267.83199999994 \
9-47120.9029999999 9-427653.886 9-2.6359999999404 9-632.148999999976 \
9-476.753000000026 9-495.577000000048 9-8.45900000003166 9-6.6820000000298 \
9-1.30500000016764 9-251.746000000043 9-383.905000000028 9-80.1419999999925 \
9-281.160000000149 9-14.8780000000261 9-381.45299999998 9-512.07799999998 \
9-49.5519999999087 9-167.439000000013 9-183.820999999996 9-239.527999999933 \
9-19.9479999998584 9-148.747999999905 9-164.583000000101 9-16.9480000000913 \
9-192.376000000164 9-64.1010000000242 9-1.40800000005402 9-3.60800000000745 \
9-17.1359999999404 9-4.69500000006519 9-2.06400000001304 9-1582488.554 \
9-6244.19499999983 9-348153.812 9-2.0999999998603 9-0.987999999895692 \
0-32218.473 0-1.6140000000596 0-1.28100000019185 0-1.41300000017509 \
0-1.32299999985844 0-602.584000000032 0-1.34400000004098 0-1.6929999999702 \
1-22101.8190000001 9-174876.724 9-16.2420000000857 9-175.165999999736 \
9-15.8589999997057 9-0.604999999981374 9-3061.09000000032 9-479.277000000235 \
9-1.54499999992549 9-771.985000000335 9-4.88700000010431 9-15.0649999999441 \
9-0.879999999888241 9-252.01500000013 9-1381.03600000031 9-545.689999999944 \
9-3438.0129999998 9-3343.70099999988
bench-stresshig-3942   9-7063.33900000004 9-129960.482 9-2062.27500000002 \
9-3845.59399999992 9-171.82799999998 9-16493.821 9-7615.23900000006 \
9-10217.848 9-983.138000000035 9-2698.39999999991 9-4016.1540000001 \
9-5522.37700000009 9-21630.429 \
9-15061.048 9-10327.953 9-542.69700000016 9-317.652000000002 \
9-8554.71699999995 9-1786.61599999992 9-1899.31499999994 9-2093.41899999999 \
9-4992.62400000007 9-942.648999999976 9-1923.98300000001 9-3.7980000001844 \
9-5.99899999983609 9-0.912000000011176 9-1603.67700000014 9-1.98300000000745 \
9-3.96500000008382 9-0.902999999932945 9-2802.72199999983 9-1078.24799999991 \
9-2155.82900000014 9-10.058999999892 9-1984.723 9-1687.97999999998 \
9-1136.05300000007 9-3183.61699999985 9-458.731000000145 9-6.48600000003353 \
9-1013.25200000009 9-8415.22799999989 9-10065.584 9-2076.79600000009 \
9-3792.65699999989 9-71.2010000001173 9-2560.96999999997 9-2260.68400000012 \
9-2862.65799999982 9-1255.81500000018 9-15.7440000001807 9-4.33499999996275 \
9-1446.63800000004 9-238.635000000009 9-60.1790000000037 9-4.38800000003539 \
9-639.567000000039 9-306.698000000091 9-31.4070000001229 9-74.997999999905 \
9-632.725999999791 9-1625.93200000003 9-931.266000000061 9-98.7749999999069 \
9-984.606999999844 9-225.638999999966 9-421.316000000108 9-653.744999999879 \
9-572.804000000004 9-769.158999999985 9-603.918000000063 9-4.28499999991618 \
9-626.21399999992 9-1721.25 9-0.854999999981374 9-572.39599999995 \
9-681.881999999983 9-1345.12599999993 9-363.666999999899 9-3823.31099999999 \
9-2991.28200000012 9-4.27099999994971 9-309.76500000013 9-3068.35700000008 \
9-788.25 9-3515.73999999999 9-2065.96100000013 9-286.719999999972 \
9-316.076000000117 9-344.151000000071 9-2.51000000000931 9-306.688000000082 \
9-1515.00099999993 9-336.528999999864 9-793.491999999853 9-457.348999999929 \
9-13620.155 9-119.933999999892 9-35.0670000000391 9-918.266999999993 \
9-828.569000000134 9-4863.81099999999 9-105.222000000067 9-894.23900000006 \
9-110.964999999851 9-0.662999999942258 9-12753.3150000002 9-12.6129999998957 \
9-13368.0899999999 9-12.4199999999255 9-1.00300000002608 9-1.41100000008009 \
9-10300.5290000001 9-16.502000000095 9-30.7949999999255 9-6283.0140000002 \
9-4320.53799999994 9-6826.27300000004 9-3.07299999985844 9-1497.26799999992 \
9-13.4040000000969 9-3.12999999988824 9-3.86100000003353 9-11.3539999998175 \
9-0.10799999977462 9-21.780999999959 9-209.695999999996 9-299.647000000114 \
9-6.01699999999255 9-20.8349999999627 9-22.5470000000205 9-5470.16800000006 \
9-7.60499999998137 9-0.821000000229105 9-1.56600000010803 9-14.1669999998994 \
9-0.209000000031665 9-1.82300000009127 9-1.70000000018626 9-19.9429999999702 \
9-124.266999999993 9-0.0389999998733401 9-6.71400000015274 9-16.7710000001825 \
9-31.0409999999683 9-0.516999999992549 9-115.888000000035 9-5.19900000002235 \
9-222.389999999898 9-11.2739999999758 9-80.9050000000279 9-8.14500000001863 \
9-4.44599999999627 9-0.218999999808148 9-0.715000000083819 9-0.233000000007451
\
9-48.2630000000354 9-248.560999999987 9-374.96800000011 9-644.179000000004 \
9-0.835999999893829 9-79.0060000000522 9-128.447999999858 9-0.692000000039116 \
9-5.26500000013039 9-128.449000000022 9-2.04799999995157 9-12.0990000001621 \
9-8.39899999997579 9-10.3860000001732 9-11.9310000000987 9-53.4450000000652 \
9-0.46999999997206 9-2.96299999998882 9-17.9699999999721 9-0.776000000070781 \
9-25.2919999998994 9-33.1110000000335 9-0.434000000124797 9-0.641000000061467 \
9-0.505000000121072 9-1.12800000002608 9-149.222000000067 9-1.17599999997765 \
9-3247.33100000001 9-10.7439999999478 9-153.523000000045 9-1.38300000014715 \
9-794.762000000104 9-3.36199999996461 9-128.765999999829 9-181.543999999994 \
9-78149.8229999999 9-176.496999999974 9-89.9940000001807 9-9.12700000009499 \
9-250.827000000048 9-0.224999999860302 9-0.388999999966472 9-1.16700000036508 \
9-32.1740000001155 9-12.6800000001676 9-0.0720000001601875 9-0.274999999906868
\
9-0.724000000394881 9-266.866000000387 9-45.5709999999963 9-4.54399999976158 \
9-8.27199999988079 9-4.38099999958649 9-0.512000000104308 9-0.0640000002458692
\
9-5.20000000018626 9-0.0839999997988343 9-12.816000000108 9-0.503000000026077 \
9-0.507999999914318 9-6.23999999975786 9-3.35100000025705 9-18.8530000001192 \
9-25.2220000000671 9-68.2309999996796 9-98.9939999999478 9-0.441000000108033 \
9-4.24599999981001 9-261.702000000048 9-3.01599999982864 9-0.0749999997206032 \
9-0.0370000000111759 9-4.375 9-3.21800000034273 9-11.3960000001825 \
9-0.0540000000037253 9-0.286000000312924 9-0.865999999921769 \
9-0.294999999925494 9-6.45999999996275 9-4.31099999975413 9-128.248999999836 \
9-0.282999999821186 9-102.155000000261 9-0.0860000001266599 \
9-0.0540000000037253 9-0.935000000055879 9-0.0670000002719462 \
9-5.8640000000596 9-19.9860000000335 9-4.18699999991804 9-0.566000000108033 \
9-2.55099999997765 9-0.702000000048429 9-131.653999999631 9-0.638999999966472 \
9-14.3229999998584 9-183.398000000045 9-178.095999999903 9-3.22899999981746 \
9-7.31399999978021 9-22.2400000002235 9-11.7979999999516 9-108.10599999968 \
9-99.0159999998286 9-102.640999999829 9-38.414000000339
Process                  Direct     Wokeup      Pages      Pages    Pages
details                   Rclms     Kswapd    Scanned    Sync-IO ASync-IO
cc1-30800                     0          1          0          0        0      wakeup-0=1
cc1-24260                     0          1          0          0        0      wakeup-0=1
cc1-24152                     0         12          0          0        0      wakeup-0=12
cc1-8139                      0          1          0          0        0      wakeup-0=1
cc1-4390                      0          1          0          0        0      wakeup-0=1
cc1-4648                      0          7          0          0        0      wakeup-0=7
cc1-4552                      0          3          0          0        0      wakeup-0=3
dd-4550                       0         31          0          0        0      wakeup-0=31
date-4898                     0          1          0          0        0      wakeup-0=1
cc1-6549                      0          7          0          0        0      wakeup-0=7
as-22202                      0         17          0          0        0      wakeup-0=17
cc1-6495                      0          9          0          0        0      wakeup-0=9
cc1-8299                      0          1          0          0        0      wakeup-0=1
cc1-6009                      0          1          0          0        0      wakeup-0=1
cc1-2574                      0          2          0          0        0      wakeup-0=2
cc1-30568                     0          1          0          0        0      wakeup-0=1
cc1-2679                      0          6          0          0        0      wakeup-0=6
sh-13747                      0         12          0          0        0      wakeup-0=12
cc1-22193                     0         18          0          0        0      wakeup-0=18
cc1-30725                     0          2          0          0        0      wakeup-0=2
as-4392                       0          2          0          0        0      wakeup-0=2
cc1-28180                     0         14          0          0        0      wakeup-0=14
cc1-13697                     0          2          0          0        0      wakeup-0=2
cc1-22207                     0          8          0          0        0      wakeup-0=8
cc1-15270                     0        179          0          0        0      wakeup-0=179
cc1-22011                     0         82          0          0        0      wakeup-0=82
cp-14682                      0          1          0          0        0      wakeup-0=1
as-11926                      0          2          0          0        0      wakeup-0=2
cc1-6016                      0          5          0          0        0      wakeup-0=5
make-18554                    0         13          0          0        0      wakeup-0=13
cc1-8292                      0         12          0          0        0      wakeup-0=12
make-24381                    0          1          0          0        0      wakeup-1=1
date-18681                    0         33          0          0        0      wakeup-0=33
cc1-32276                     0          1          0          0        0      wakeup-0=1
timestamp-outpu-2809          0        253          0          0        0      wakeup-0=240 wakeup-1=13
date-18624                    0          7          0          0        0      wakeup-0=7
cc1-30960                     0          9          0          0        0      wakeup-0=9
cc1-4014                      0          1          0          0        0      wakeup-0=1
cc1-30706                     0         22          0          0        0      wakeup-0=22
uname-3942                    4          1        306          0       17      direct-9=4       wakeup-9=1
cc1-28207                     0          1          0          0        0      wakeup-0=1
cc1-30563                     0          9          0          0        0      wakeup-0=9
cc1-22214                     0         10          0          0        0      wakeup-0=10
cc1-28221                     0         11          0          0        0      wakeup-0=11
cc1-28123                     0          6          0          0        0      wakeup-0=6
kswapd0-311                   0          7     357302          0    34233      wakeup-0=7
cc1-5988                      0          7          0          0        0      wakeup-0=7
as-30734                      0        161          0          0        0      wakeup-0=161
cc1-22004                     0         45          0          0        0      wakeup-0=45
date-4590                     0          4          0          0        0      wakeup-0=4
cc1-15279                     0        213          0          0        0      wakeup-0=213
date-30735                    0          1          0          0        0      wakeup-0=1
cc1-30583                     0          4          0          0        0      wakeup-0=4
cc1-32324                     0          2          0          0        0      wakeup-0=2
cc1-23933                     0          3          0          0        0      wakeup-0=3
cc1-22001                     0         36          0          0        0      wakeup-0=36
bench-stresshig-3942        287        287      80186       6295    12196      direct-9=287       wakeup-9=287
cc1-28170                     0          7          0          0        0      wakeup-0=7
date-7932                     0         92          0          0        0      wakeup-0=92
cc1-22222                     0          6          0          0        0      wakeup-0=6
cc1-32334                     0         16          0          0        0      wakeup-0=16
cc1-2690                      0          6          0          0        0      wakeup-0=6
cc1-30733                     0          9          0          0        0      wakeup-0=9
cc1-32298                     0          2          0          0        0      wakeup-0=2
cc1-13743                     0         18          0          0        0      wakeup-0=18
cc1-22186                     0          4          0          0        0      wakeup-0=4
cc1-28214                     0         11          0          0        0      wakeup-0=11
cc1-13735                     0          1          0          0        0      wakeup-0=1
updatedb-8173                 0         18          0          0        0      wakeup-0=18
cc1-13750                     0          3          0          0        0      wakeup-0=3
cat-2808                      0          2          0          0        0      wakeup-0=2
cc1-15277                     0        169          0          0        0      wakeup-0=169
date-18317                    0          1          0          0        0      wakeup-0=1
cc1-15274                     0        197          0          0        0      wakeup-0=197
cc1-30732                     0          1          0          0        0      wakeup-0=1

Kswapd                   Kswapd      Order      Pages      Pages    Pages
Instance                Wakeups  Re-wakeup    Scanned    Sync-IO ASync-IO
kswapd0-311                  91         24     357302          0    34233      wake-0=31 wake-1=1 wake-9=59       rewake-0=10 rewake-1=1 rewake-9=13

Summary
Direct reclaims:      291
Direct reclaim pages scanned: 437794
Direct reclaim write sync I/O: 6295
Direct reclaim write async I/O: 46446
Wake kswapd requests: 2152
Time stalled direct reclaim:  519.163009000002 ms

Kswapd wakeups: 91
Kswapd pages scanned: 357302
Kswapd reclaim write sync I/O: 0
Kswapd reclaim write async I/O: 34233
Time kswapd awake: 5282.749757 ms

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agovmscan: tracing: add trace event when a page is written
Mel Gorman [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:18 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
vmscan: tracing: add trace event when a page is written

Add a trace event for when page reclaim queues a page for IO and records
whether it is synchronous or asynchronous.  Excessive synchronous IO for a
process can result in noticeable stalls during direct reclaim.  Excessive
IO from page reclaim may indicate that the system is seriously under
provisioned for the amount of dirty pages that exist.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agovmscan: tracing: add trace events for LRU page isolation
Mel Gorman [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:17 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
vmscan: tracing: add trace events for LRU page isolation

Add an event for when pages are isolated en-masse from the LRU lists.
This event augments the information available on LRU traffic and can be
used to evaluate lumpy reclaim.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agovmscan: tracing: add trace events for kswapd wakeup, sleeping and direct reclaim
Mel Gorman [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:16 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
vmscan: tracing: add trace events for kswapd wakeup, sleeping and direct reclaim

Add two trace events for kswapd waking up and going asleep for the
purposes of tracking kswapd activity and two trace events for direct
reclaim beginning and ending.  The information can be used to work out how
much time a process or the system is spending on the reclamation of pages
and in the case of direct reclaim, how many pages were reclaimed for that
process.  High frequency triggering of these events could point to memory
pressure problems.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agovmscan: recalculate lru_pages on each priority
KOSAKI Motohiro [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:14 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
vmscan: recalculate lru_pages on each priority

shrink_zones() need relatively long time and lru_pages can change
dramatically during shrink_zones().  So lru_pages should be recalculated
for each priority.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agovmscan: zone_reclaim don't call disable_swap_token()
KOSAKI Motohiro [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:13 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
vmscan: zone_reclaim don't call disable_swap_token()

Swap token don't works when zone reclaim is enabled since it was born.
Because __zone_reclaim() always call disable_swap_token() unconditionally.

This kill swap token feature completely.  As far as I know, nobody want to
that.  Remove it.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agomm: implement writeback livelock avoidance using page tagging
Jan Kara [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:12 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
mm: implement writeback livelock avoidance using page tagging

We try to avoid livelocks of writeback when some steadily creates dirty
pages in a mapping we are writing out.  For memory-cleaning writeback,
using nr_to_write works reasonably well but we cannot really use it for
data integrity writeback.  This patch tries to solve the problem.

The idea is simple: Tag all pages that should be written back with a
special tag (TOWRITE) in the radix tree.  This can be done rather quickly
and thus livelocks should not happen in practice.  Then we start doing the
hard work of locking pages and sending them to disk only for those pages
that have TOWRITE tag set.

Note: Adding new radix tree tag grows radix tree node from 288 to 296
bytes for 32-bit archs and from 552 to 560 bytes for 64-bit archs.
However, the number of slab/slub items per page remains the same (13 and 7
respectively).

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agoradix-tree: omplement function radix_tree_range_tag_if_tagged
Jan Kara [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:11 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
radix-tree: omplement function radix_tree_range_tag_if_tagged

Implement function for setting one tag if another tag is set for each item
in given range.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agormap: add anon_vma bug checks
Andrea Arcangeli [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:10 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
rmap: add anon_vma bug checks

Verify the refcounting doesn't go wrong, and resurrect the check in
__page_check_anon_rmap as in old anon-vma code.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-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>
14 years agormap: resurrect page_address_in_vma anon_vma check
Andrea Arcangeli [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:10 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
rmap: resurrect page_address_in_vma anon_vma check

With root anon-vma it's trivial to keep doing the usual check as in
old-anon-vma code.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-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>
14 years agormap: always use anon_vma root pointer
Andrea Arcangeli [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:09 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
rmap: always use anon_vma root pointer

Always use anon_vma->root pointer instead of anon_vma_chain.prev.

Also optimize the map-paths, if a mapping is already established no need
to overwrite it with root anon-vma list, we can keep the more finegrined
anon-vma and skip the overwrite: see the PageAnon check in !exclusive
case.  This is also the optimization that hidden the ksm bug as this tends
to make ksm_might_need_to_copy skip the copy, but only the proper fix to
ksm_might_need_to_copy guarantees not triggering the ksm bug unless ksm is
in use.  this is an optimization only...

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: fix false positive BUG_ON in __page_set_anon_rmap]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agoksm: fix ksm swapin time optimization
Andrea Arcangeli [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:08 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
ksm: fix ksm swapin time optimization

The new anon-vma code, was suboptimal and it lead to erratic invocation of
ksm_does_need_to_copy.  That leads to host hangs or guest vnc lockup, or
weird behavior.  It's unclear why ksm_does_need_to_copy is unstable but
the point is that when KSM is not in use, ksm_does_need_to_copy must never
run or we bounce pages for no good reason.  I suspect the same hangs will
happen with KVM swaps.  But this at least fixes the regression in the
new-anon-vma code and it only let KSM bugs triggers when KSM is in use.

The code in do_swap_page likely doesn't cope well with a not-swapcache,
especially the memcg code.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@yahoo.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agormap: always add new vmas at the end
Andrea Arcangeli [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:08 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
rmap: always add new vmas at the end

Make sure to always add new VMAs at the end of the list.  This is
important so rmap_walk does not miss a VMA that was created during the
rmap_walk.

The old code got this right most of the time due to luck, but was buggy
when anon_vma_prepare reused a mergeable anon_vma.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-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>
14 years agommap: remove unnecessary lock from __vma_link
Andrea Arcangeli [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:07 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
mmap: remove unnecessary lock from __vma_link

There's no anon-vma related mangling happening inside __vma_link anymore
so no need of anon_vma locking there.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-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>
14 years agoshmem: reduce pagefault lock contention
Shaohua Li [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:06 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
shmem: reduce pagefault lock contention

I'm running a shmem pagefault test case (see attached file) under a 64 CPU
system.  Profile shows shmem_inode_info->lock is heavily contented and
100% CPUs time are trying to get the lock.  In the pagefault (no swap)
case, shmem_getpage gets the lock twice, the last one is avoidable if we
prealloc a page so we could reduce one time of locking.  This is what
below patch does.

The result of the test case:
2.6.35-rc3: ~20s
2.6.35-rc3 + patch: ~12s
so this is 40% improvement.

One might argue if we could have better locking for shmem.  But even shmem
is lockless, the pagefault will soon have pagecache lock heavily contented
because shmem must add new page to pagecache.  So before we have better
locking for pagecache, improving shmem locking doesn't have too much
improvement.  I did a similar pagefault test against a ramfs file, the
test result is ~10.5s.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment, clean up code layout, elimintate code duplication]
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agotmpfs: make tmpfs scalable with percpu_counter for used blocks
Tim Chen [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:05 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
tmpfs: make tmpfs scalable with percpu_counter for used blocks

The current implementation of tmpfs is not scalable.  We found that
stat_lock is contended by multiple threads when we need to get a new page,
leading to useless spinning inside this spin lock.

This patch makes use of the percpu_counter library to maintain local count
of used blocks to speed up getting and returning of pages.  So the
acquisition of stat_lock is unnecessary for getting and returning blocks,
improving the performance of tmpfs on system with large number of cpus.
On a 4 socket 32 core NHM-EX system, we saw improvement of 270%.

The implementation below has a slight chance of race between threads
causing a slight overshoot of the maximum configured blocks.  However, any
overshoot is small, and is bounded by the number of cpus.  This happens
when the number of used blocks is slightly below the maximum configured
blocks when a thread checks the used block count, and another thread
allocates the last block before the current thread does.  This should not
be a problem for tmpfs, as the overshoot is most likely to be a few blocks
and bounded.  If a strict limit is really desired, then configured the max
blocks to be the limit less the number of cpus in system.

Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agotmpfs: add accurate compare function to percpu_counter library
Tim Chen [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:04 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
tmpfs: add accurate compare function to percpu_counter library

Add percpu_counter_compare that allows for a quick but accurate comparison
of percpu_counter with a given value.

A rough count is provided by the count field in percpu_counter structure,
without accounting for the other values stored in individual cpu counters.

The actual count is a sum of count and the cpu counters.  However, count
field is never different from the actual value by a factor of
batch*num_online_cpu.  We do not need to get actual count for comparison
if count is different from the given value by this factor and allows for
quick comparison without summing up all the per cpu counters.

Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agogcc-4.6: mm: fix unused but set warnings
Andi Kleen [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:03 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
gcc-4.6: mm: fix unused but set warnings

No real bugs, just some dead code and some fixups.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agogcc-4.6: pagemap: avoid unused-but-set variable
Andi Kleen [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:02 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
gcc-4.6: pagemap: avoid unused-but-set variable

Avoid quite a lot of warnings in header files in a gcc 4.6 -Wall builds

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agoavr32: invoke oom-killer from page fault
Nick Piggin [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:02 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
avr32: invoke oom-killer from page fault

As explained in commit 1c0fe6e3bd ("mm: invoke oom-killer from page
fault") , we want to call the architecture independent oom killer when
getting an unexplained OOM from handle_mm_fault, rather than simply
killing current.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
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>
14 years agomempolicy: reduce stack size of migrate_pages()
KOSAKI Motohiro [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:01 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
mempolicy: reduce stack size of migrate_pages()

migrate_pages() is using >500 bytes stack. Reduce it.

   mm/mempolicy.c: In function 'sys_migrate_pages':
   mm/mempolicy.c:1344: warning: the frame size of 528 bytes is larger than 512 bytes

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: don't play with a might-be-NULL pointer]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
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>
14 years agotopology: alternate fix for ia64 tiger_defconfig build breakage
Lee Schermerhorn [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:00 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
topology: alternate fix for ia64 tiger_defconfig build breakage

Define stubs for the numa_*_id() generic percpu related functions for
non-NUMA configurations in <asm-generic/topology.h> where the other
non-numa stubs live.

Fixes ia64 !NUMA build breakage -- e.g., tiger_defconfig

Back out now unneeded '#ifndef CONFIG_NUMA' guards from ia64 smpboot.c

Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agommzone.h: remove dead prototype
Alexander Nevenchannyy [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:19:00 +0000 (17:19 -0700)]
mmzone.h: remove dead prototype

get_zone_counts() was dropped from kernel tree, see:
http://www.mail-archive.com/mm-commits@vger.kernel.org/msg07313.html but
its prototype remains.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agomm: use for_each_online_cpu() in vmstat
Minchan Kim [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:59 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
mm: use for_each_online_cpu() in vmstat

The sum_vm_events passes cpumask for for_each_cpu().  But it's useless
since we have for_each_online_cpu.  Althougth it's tirival overhead, it's
not good about coding consistency.

Let's use for_each_online_cpu instead of for_each_cpu with cpumask
argument.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agooom: fold __out_of_memory into out_of_memory
David Rientjes [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:59 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
oom: fold __out_of_memory into out_of_memory

__out_of_memory() only has a single caller, so fold it into
out_of_memory() and add a comment about locking for its call to
oom_kill_process().

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agooom: remove constraint argument from select_bad_process and __out_of_memory
David Rientjes [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:58 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
oom: remove constraint argument from select_bad_process and __out_of_memory

select_bad_process() and __out_of_memory() doe not need their enum
oom_constraint arguments: it's possible to pass a NULL nodemask if
constraint == CONSTRAINT_MEMORY_POLICY in the caller, out_of_memory().

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agomm: rename try_set_zone_oom() to try_set_zonelist_oom()
Minchan Kim [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:57 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
mm: rename try_set_zone_oom() to try_set_zonelist_oom()

We have been used naming try_set_zone_oom and clear_zonelist_oom.
The role of functions is to lock of zonelist for preventing parallel
OOM. So clear_zonelist_oom makes sense but try_set_zone_oome is rather
awkward and unmatched with clear_zonelist_oom.

Let's change it with try_set_zonelist_oom.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: 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>
14 years agooom: remove unnecessary code and cleanup
David Rientjes [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:57 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
oom: remove unnecessary code and cleanup

Remove the redundancy in __oom_kill_task() since:

 - init can never be passed to this function: it will never be PF_EXITING
   or selectable from select_bad_process(), and

 - it will never be passed a task from oom_kill_task() without an ->mm
   and we're unconcerned about detachment from exiting tasks, there's no
   reason to protect them against SIGKILL or access to memory reserves.

Also moves the kernel log message to a higher level since the verbosity is
not always emitted here; we need not print an error message if an exiting
task is given a longer timeslice.

__oom_kill_task() only has a single caller, so it can be merged into that
function at the same time.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@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>
14 years agooom: move sysctl declarations to oom.h
David Rientjes [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:56 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
oom: move sysctl declarations to oom.h

The three oom killer sysctl variables (sysctl_oom_dump_tasks,
sysctl_oom_kill_allocating_task, and sysctl_panic_on_oom) are better
declared in include/linux/oom.h rather than kernel/sysctl.c.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: 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>
14 years agooom: remove special handling for pagefault ooms
David Rientjes [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:55 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
oom: remove special handling for pagefault ooms

It is possible to remove the special pagefault oom handler by simply oom
locking all system zones and then calling directly into out_of_memory().

All populated zones must have ZONE_OOM_LOCKED set, otherwise there is a
parallel oom killing in progress that will lead to eventual memory freeing
so it's not necessary to needlessly kill another task.  The context in
which the pagefault is allocating memory is unknown to the oom killer, so
this is done on a system-wide level.

If a task has already been oom killed and hasn't fully exited yet, this
will be a no-op since select_bad_process() recognizes tasks across the
system with TIF_MEMDIE set.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: 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>
14 years agooom: extract panic helper function
David Rientjes [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:54 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
oom: extract panic helper function

There are various points in the oom killer where the kernel must determine
whether to panic or not.  It's better to extract this to a helper function
to remove all the confusion as to its semantics.

Also fix a call to dump_header() where tasklist_lock is not read- locked,
as required.

There's no functional change with this patch.

Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.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>
14 years agooom: avoid oom killer for lowmem allocations
David Rientjes [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:54 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
oom: avoid oom killer for lowmem allocations

If memory has been depleted in lowmem zones even with the protection
afforded to it by /proc/sys/vm/lowmem_reserve_ratio, it is unlikely that
killing current users will help.  The memory is either reclaimable (or
migratable) already, in which case we should not invoke the oom killer at
all, or it is pinned by an application for I/O.  Killing such an
application may leave the hardware in an unspecified state and there is no
guarantee that it will be able to make a timely exit.

Lowmem allocations are now failed in oom conditions when __GFP_NOFAIL is
not used so that the task can perhaps recover or try again later.

Previously, the heuristic provided some protection for those tasks with
CAP_SYS_RAWIO, but this is no longer necessary since we will not be
killing tasks for the purposes of ISA allocations.

high_zoneidx is gfp_zone(gfp_flags), meaning that ZONE_NORMAL will be the
default for all allocations that are not __GFP_DMA, __GFP_DMA32,
__GFP_HIGHMEM, and __GFP_MOVABLE on kernels configured to support those
flags.  Testing for high_zoneidx being less than ZONE_NORMAL will only
return true for allocations that have either __GFP_DMA or __GFP_DMA32.

Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.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>
14 years agooom: enable oom tasklist dump by default
David Rientjes [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:53 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
oom: enable oom tasklist dump by default

The oom killer tasklist dump, enabled with the oom_dump_tasks sysctl, is
very helpful information in diagnosing why a user's task has been killed.
It emits useful information such as each eligible thread's memory usage
that can determine why the system is oom, so it should be enabled by
default.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: 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>
14 years agooom: select task from tasklist for mempolicy ooms
David Rientjes [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:52 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
oom: select task from tasklist for mempolicy ooms

The oom killer presently kills current whenever there is no more memory
free or reclaimable on its mempolicy's nodes.  There is no guarantee that
current is a memory-hogging task or that killing it will free any
substantial amount of memory, however.

In such situations, it is better to scan the tasklist for nodes that are
allowed to allocate on current's set of nodes and kill the task with the
highest badness() score.  This ensures that the most memory-hogging task,
or the one configured by the user with /proc/pid/oom_adj, is always
selected in such scenarios.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: 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>
14 years agooom: sacrifice child with highest badness score for parent
David Rientjes [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:51 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
oom: sacrifice child with highest badness score for parent

When a task is chosen for oom kill, the oom killer first attempts to
sacrifice a child not sharing its parent's memory instead.  Unfortunately,
this often kills in a seemingly random fashion based on the ordering of
the selected task's child list.  Additionally, it is not guaranteed at all
to free a large amount of memory that we need to prevent additional oom
killing in the very near future.

Instead, we now only attempt to sacrifice the worst child not sharing its
parent's memory, if one exists.  The worst child is indicated with the
highest badness() score.  This serves two advantages: we kill a
memory-hogging task more often, and we allow the configurable
/proc/pid/oom_adj value to be considered as a factor in which child to
kill.

Reviewers may observe that the previous implementation would iterate
through the children and attempt to kill each until one was successful and
then the parent if none were found while the new code simply kills the
most memory-hogging task or the parent.  Note that the only time
oom_kill_task() fails, however, is when a child does not have an mm or has
a /proc/pid/oom_adj of OOM_DISABLE.  badness() returns 0 for both cases,
so the final oom_kill_task() will always succeed.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-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>
14 years agooom: filter tasks not sharing the same cpuset
David Rientjes [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:50 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
oom: filter tasks not sharing the same cpuset

Tasks that do not share the same set of allowed nodes with the task that
triggered the oom should not be considered as candidates for oom kill.

Tasks in other cpusets with a disjoint set of mems would be unfairly
penalized otherwise because of oom conditions elsewhere; an extreme
example could unfairly kill all other applications on the system if a
single task in a user's cpuset sets itself to OOM_DISABLE and then uses
more memory than allowed.

Killing tasks outside of current's cpuset rarely would free memory for
current anyway.  To use a sane heuristic, we must ensure that killing a
task would likely free memory for current and avoid needlessly killing
others at all costs just because their potential memory freeing is
unknown.  It is better to kill current than another task needlessly.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-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>
14 years agooom: avoid sending exiting tasks a SIGKILL
David Rientjes [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:49 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
oom: avoid sending exiting tasks a SIGKILL

It's unnecessary to SIGKILL a task that is already PF_EXITING and can
actually cause a NULL pointer dereference of the sighand if it has already
been detached.  Instead, simply set TIF_MEMDIE so it has access to memory
reserves and can quickly exit as the comment implies.

Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.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>
14 years agooom: give current access to memory reserves if it has been killed
David Rientjes [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:48 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
oom: give current access to memory reserves if it has been killed

It's possible to livelock the page allocator if a thread has mm->mmap_sem
and fails to make forward progress because the oom killer selects another
thread sharing the same ->mm to kill that cannot exit until the semaphore
is dropped.

The oom killer will not kill multiple tasks at the same time; each oom
killed task must exit before another task may be killed.  Thus, if one
thread is holding mm->mmap_sem and cannot allocate memory, all threads
sharing the same ->mm are blocked from exiting as well.  In the oom kill
case, that means the thread holding mm->mmap_sem will never free
additional memory since it cannot get access to memory reserves and the
thread that depends on it with access to memory reserves cannot exit
because it cannot acquire the semaphore.  Thus, the page allocators
livelocks.

When the oom killer is called and current happens to have a pending
SIGKILL, this patch automatically gives it access to memory reserves and
returns.  Upon returning to the page allocator, its allocation will
hopefully succeed so it can quickly exit and free its memory.  If not, the
page allocator will fail the allocation if it is not __GFP_NOFAIL.

Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.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>
14 years agooom: dump_tasks use find_lock_task_mm too fix
David Rientjes [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:47 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
oom: dump_tasks use find_lock_task_mm too fix

When find_lock_task_mm() returns a thread other than p in dump_tasks(),
its name should be displayed instead.  This is the thread that will be
targeted by the oom killer, not its mm-less parent.

This also allows us to safely dereference task->comm without needing
get_task_comm().

While we're here, remove the cast on task_cpu(task) as Andrew suggested.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agooom: improve commentary in dump_tasks()
David Rientjes [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:46 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
oom: improve commentary in dump_tasks()

The comments in dump_tasks() should be updated to be more clear about why
tasks are filtered and how they are filtered by its argument.

An unnecessary comment concerning a check for is_global_init() is removed
since it isn't of importance.

Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agooom: dump_tasks use find_lock_task_mm too
KOSAKI Motohiro [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:46 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
oom: dump_tasks use find_lock_task_mm too

dump_task() should use find_lock_task_mm() too. It is necessary for
protecting task-exiting race.

dump_tasks() currently filters any task that does not have an attached
->mm since it incorrectly assumes that it must either be in the process of
exiting and has detached its memory or that it's a kernel thread;
multithreaded tasks may actually have subthreads that have a valid ->mm
pointer and thus those threads should actually be displayed.  This change
finds those threads, if they exist, and emit their information along with
the rest of the candidate tasks for kill.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agooom: introduce find_lock_task_mm() to fix !mm false positives
Oleg Nesterov [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:45 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
oom: introduce find_lock_task_mm() to fix !mm false positives

Almost all ->mm == NULL checks in oom_kill.c are wrong.

The current code assumes that the task without ->mm has already released
its memory and ignores the process.  However this is not necessarily true
when this process is multithreaded, other live sub-threads can use this
->mm.

- Remove the "if (!p->mm)" check in select_bad_process(), it is
  just wrong.

- Add the new helper, find_lock_task_mm(), which finds the live
  thread which uses the memory and takes task_lock() to pin ->mm

- change oom_badness() to use this helper instead of just checking
  ->mm != NULL.

- As David pointed out, select_bad_process() must never choose the
  task without ->mm, but no matter what oom_badness() returns the
  task can be chosen if nothing else has been found yet.

  Change oom_badness() to return int, change it to return -1 if
  find_lock_task_mm() fails, and change select_bad_process() to
  check points >= 0.

Note! This patch is not enough, we need more changes.

- oom_badness() was fixed, but oom_kill_task() still ignores
  the task without ->mm

- oom_forkbomb_penalty() should use find_lock_task_mm() too,
  and it also needs other changes to actually find the first
  first-descendant children

This will be addressed later.

[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: use in badness(), __oom_kill_task()]
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agooom: PF_EXITING check should take mm into account
Oleg Nesterov [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:44 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
oom: PF_EXITING check should take mm into account

select_bad_process() checks PF_EXITING to detect the task which is going
to release its memory, but the logic is very wrong.

- a single process P with the dead group leader disables
  select_bad_process() completely, it will always return
  ERR_PTR() while P can live forever

- if the PF_EXITING task has already released its ->mm
  it doesn't make sense to expect it is goiing to free
  more memory (except task_struct/etc)

Change the code to ignore the PF_EXITING tasks without ->mm.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agooom: check PF_KTHREAD instead of !mm to skip kthreads
Oleg Nesterov [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:43 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
oom: check PF_KTHREAD instead of !mm to skip kthreads

select_bad_process() thinks a kernel thread can't have ->mm != NULL, this
is not true due to use_mm().

Change the code to check PF_KTHREAD.

Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agobuffer_head: remove redundant test from wait_on_buffer
Richard Kennedy [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:42 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
buffer_head: remove redundant test from wait_on_buffer

The comment suggests that when b_count equals zero it is calling
__wait_no_buffer to trigger some debug, but as there is no debug in
__wait_on_buffer the whole thing is redundant.

AFAICT from the git log this has been the case for at least 5 years, so
it seems safe just to remove this.

Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agomm: extend KSM refcounts to the anon_vma root
Rik van Riel [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:41 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
mm: extend KSM refcounts to the anon_vma root

KSM reference counts can cause an anon_vma to exist after the processe it
belongs to have already exited.  Because the anon_vma lock now lives in
the root anon_vma, we need to ensure that the root anon_vma stays around
until after all the "child" anon_vmas have been freed.

The obvious way to do this is to have a "child" anon_vma take a reference
to the root in anon_vma_fork.  When the anon_vma is freed at munmap or
process exit, we drop the refcount in anon_vma_unlink and possibly free
the root anon_vma.

The KSM anon_vma reference count function also needs to be modified to
deal with the possibility of freeing 2 levels of anon_vma.  The easiest
way to do this is to break out the KSM magic and make it generic.

When compiling without CONFIG_KSM, this code is compiled out.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agomm: always lock the root (oldest) anon_vma
Rik van Riel [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:40 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
mm: always lock the root (oldest) anon_vma

Always (and only) lock the root (oldest) anon_vma whenever we do something
in an anon_vma.  The recently introduced anon_vma scalability is due to
the rmap code scanning only the VMAs that need to be scanned.  Many common
operations still took the anon_vma lock on the root anon_vma, so always
taking that lock is not expected to introduce any scalability issues.

However, always taking the same lock does mean we only need to take one
lock, which means rmap_walk on pages from any anon_vma in the vma is
excluded from occurring during an munmap, expand_stack or other operation
that needs to exclude rmap_walk and similar functions.

Also add the proper locking to vma_adjust.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agomm: track the root (oldest) anon_vma
Rik van Riel [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:39 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
mm: track the root (oldest) anon_vma

Track the root (oldest) anon_vma in each anon_vma tree.  Because we only
take the lock on the root anon_vma, we cannot use the lock on higher-up
anon_vmas to lock anything.  This makes it impossible to do an indirect
lookup of the root anon_vma, since the data structures could go away from
under us.

However, a direct pointer is safe because the root anon_vma is always the
last one that gets freed on munmap or exit, by virtue of the same_vma list
order and unlink_anon_vmas walking the list forward.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agomm: change direct call of spin_lock(anon_vma->lock) to inline function
Rik van Riel [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:38 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
mm: change direct call of spin_lock(anon_vma->lock) to inline function

Subsitute a direct call of spin_lock(anon_vma->lock) with an inline
function doing exactly the same.

This makes it easier to do the substitution to the root anon_vma lock in a
following patch.

We will deal with the handful of special locks (nested, dec_and_lock, etc)
separately.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agomm: rename anon_vma_lock to vma_lock_anon_vma
Rik van Riel [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:37 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
mm: rename anon_vma_lock to vma_lock_anon_vma

Rename anon_vma_lock to vma_lock_anon_vma.  This matches the naming style
used in page_lock_anon_vma and will come in really handy further down in
this patch series.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agokmap_atomic: make kunmap_atomic() harder to misuse
Cesar Eduardo Barros [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:32 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
kmap_atomic: make kunmap_atomic() harder to misuse

kunmap_atomic() is currently at level -4 on Rusty's "Hard To Misuse"
list[1] ("Follow common convention and you'll get it wrong"), except in
some architectures when CONFIG_DEBUG_HIGHMEM is set[2][3].

kunmap() takes a pointer to a struct page; kunmap_atomic(), however, takes
takes a pointer to within the page itself.  This seems to once in a while
trip people up (the convention they are following is the one from
kunmap()).

Make it much harder to misuse, by moving it to level 9 on Rusty's list[4]
("The compiler/linker won't let you get it wrong").  This is done by
refusing to build if the type of its first argument is a pointer to a
struct page.

The real kunmap_atomic() is renamed to kunmap_atomic_notypecheck()
(which is what you would call in case for some strange reason calling it
with a pointer to a struct page is not incorrect in your code).

The previous version of this patch was compile tested on x86-64.

[1] http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/tech/2008-04-01.html
[2] In these cases, it is at level 5, "Do it right or it will always
    break at runtime."
[3] At least mips and powerpc look very similar, and sparc also seems to
    share a common ancestor with both; there seems to be quite some
    degree of copy-and-paste coding here. The include/asm/highmem.h file
    for these three archs mention x86 CPUs at its top.
[4] http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/tech/2008-03-30.html
[5] As an aside, could someone tell me why mn10300 uses unsigned long as
    the first parameter of kunmap_atomic() instead of void *?

Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.net>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> (arch/arm)
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> (arch/mips)
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> (arch/frv, arch/mn10300)
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com> (arch/mn10300)
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> (arch/parisc)
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> (arch/parisc)
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org> (arch/parisc)
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> (arch/powerpc)
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> (arch/powerpc)
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> (arch/sparc)
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> (arch/x86)
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> (arch/x86)
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> (arch/x86)
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> (include/asm-generic)
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> ("Hard To Misuse" list)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agohugetlb: call mmu notifiers on hugepage cow
Doug Doan [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:30 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
hugetlb: call mmu notifiers on hugepage cow

When a copy-on-write occurs, we take one of two paths in handle_mm_fault:
through handle_pte_fault for normal pages, or through hugetlb_fault for
huge pages.

In the normal page case, we eventually get to do_wp_page and call mmu
notifiers via ptep_clear_flush_notify.  There is no callout to the mmmu
notifiers in the huge page case.  This patch fixes that.

Signed-off-by: Doug Doan <dougd@cray.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agomm: provide init_mm mm_context initializer
Heiko Carstens [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:28 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
mm: provide init_mm mm_context initializer

Provide an INIT_MM_CONTEXT intializer macro which can be used to
statically initialize mm_struct:mm_context of init_mm.  This way we can
get rid of code which will do the initialization at run time (on s390).

In addition the current code can be found at a place where it is not
expected.  So let's have a common initializer which architectures
can use if needed.

This is based on a patch from Suzuki Poulose.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Suzuki Poulose <suzuki@in.ibm.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>
14 years agomm: use ERR_CAST
Julia Lawall [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:28 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
mm: use ERR_CAST

Use ERR_CAST(x) rather than ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(x)).  The former makes more
clear what is the purpose of the operation, which otherwise looks like a
no-op.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
type T;
T x;
identifier f;
@@

T f (...) { <+...
- ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(x))
+ x
 ...+> }

@@
expression x;
@@

- ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(x))
+ ERR_CAST(x)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
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>
14 years agomm: use memdup_user
Julia Lawall [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:26 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
mm: use memdup_user

Use memdup_user when user data is immediately copied into the
allocated region.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression from,to,size,flag;
position p;
identifier l1,l2;
@@

-  to = \(kmalloc@p\|kzalloc@p\)(size,flag);
+  to = memdup_user(from,size);
   if (
-      to==NULL
+      IS_ERR(to)
                 || ...) {
   <+... when != goto l1;
-  -ENOMEM
+  PTR_ERR(to)
   ...+>
   }
-  if (copy_from_user(to, from, size) != 0) {
-    <+... when != goto l2;
-    -EFAULT
-    ...+>
-  }
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
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>
14 years agoasm-generic: use raw_local_irq_save/restore instead local_irq_save/restore
Michal Simek [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:24 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
asm-generic: use raw_local_irq_save/restore instead local_irq_save/restore

The start/stop_critical_timing functions for preemptirqsoff, preemptoff
and irqsoff tracers contain atomic_inc() and atomic_dec() operations.

Atomic operations use local_irq_save/restore macros to ensure atomic
access but they are traced by the same function which is causing recursion
problem.

The reason is when these tracers are turn ON then the
local_irq_save/restore macros are changed in include/linux/irqflags.h to
call trace_hardirqs_on/off which call start/stop_critical_timing.

Microblaze was affected because it uses generic atomic implementation.

Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agodrivers/video/w100fb.c: ignore void return value / fix build failure
Peter Huewe [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:23 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
drivers/video/w100fb.c: ignore void return value / fix build failure

Fix a build failure "error: void value not ignored as it ought to be"
by removing an assignment of a void return value.  The functionality of
the code is not changed.

Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agoipmi: fix ACPI detection with regspacing
Yinghai Lu [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:18:22 +0000 (17:18 -0700)]
ipmi: fix ACPI detection with regspacing

After the commit that changed ipmi_si detecting sequence from SMBIOS/ACPI
to ACPI/SMBIOS,

| commit 754d453185275951d39792865927ec494fa1ebd8
| Author: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
| Date:   Wed May 26 14:43:47 2010 -0700
|
|    ipmi: change device discovery order
|
|    The ipmi spec provides an ordering for si discovery.  Change the driver to
|    match, with the exception of preferring smbios to SPMI as HPs (at least)
|    contain accurate information in the former but not the latter.

ipmi_si can not be initialized.

[  138.799739] calling  init_ipmi_devintf+0x0/0x109 @ 1
[  138.805050] ipmi device interface
[  138.818131] initcall init_ipmi_devintf+0x0/0x109 returned 0 after 12797 usecs
[  138.822998] calling  init_ipmi_si+0x0/0xa90 @ 1
[  138.840276] IPMI System Interface driver.
[  138.846137] ipmi_si: probing via ACPI
[  138.849225] ipmi_si 00:09: [io  0x0ca2] regsize 1 spacing 1 irq 0
[  138.864438] ipmi_si: Adding ACPI-specified kcs state machine
[  138.870893] ipmi_si: probing via SMBIOS
[  138.880945] ipmi_si: Adding SMBIOS-specified kcs state machineipmi_si: duplicate interface
[  138.896511] ipmi_si: probing via SPMI
[  138.899861] ipmi_si: Adding SPMI-specified kcs state machineipmi_si: duplicate interface
[  138.917095] ipmi_si: Trying ACPI-specified kcs state machine at i/o address 0xca2, slave address 0x0, irq 0
[  138.928658] ipmi_si: Interface detection failed
[  138.953411] initcall init_ipmi_si+0x0/0xa90 returned 0 after 110847 usecs

in smbios has
DMI/SMBIOS
Handle 0x00C5, DMI type 38, 18 bytes
IPMI Device Information
        Interface Type: KCS (Keyboard Control Style)
        Specification Version: 2.0
        I2C Slave Address: 0x00
        NV Storage Device: Not Present
        Base Address: 0x0000000000000CA2 (I/O)
        Register Spacing: 32-bit Boundaries
in DSDT has
                    Device (BMC)
                    {

                        Name (_HID, EisaId ("IPI0001"))
                        Method (_STA, 0, NotSerialized)
                        {
                            If (LEqual (OSN, Zero))
                            {
                                Return (Zero)
                            }

                            Return (0x0F)
                        }

                        Name (_STR, Unicode ("IPMI_KCS"))
                        Name (_UID, Zero)
                        Name (_CRS, ResourceTemplate ()
                        {
                            IO (Decode16,
                                0x0CA2,             // Range Minimum
                                0x0CA2,             // Range Maximum
                                0x00,               // Alignment
                                0x01,               // Length
                                )
                            IO (Decode16,
                                0x0CA6,             // Range Minimum
                                0x0CA6,             // Range Maximum
                                0x00,               // Alignment
                                0x01,               // Length
                                )
                        })
                        Method (_IFT, 0, NotSerialized)
                        {
                            Return (One)
                        }

                        Method (_SRV, 0, NotSerialized)
                        {
                            Return (0x0200)
                        }
                    }

so the reg spacing should be 4 instead of 1.

Try to calculate regspacing for this kind of system.

Observed on a Sun Fire X4800.  Other OSes work and pass certification.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Myron Stowe <myron.stowe@hp.com>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 10 Aug 2010 02:30:17 +0000 (19:30 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/tj/wq

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  drm: fix fallouts from slow-work -> wq conversion
  workqueue: workqueue_cpu_callback() should be cpu_notifier instead of hotcpu_notifier
  workqueue: add missing __percpu markup in kernel/workqueue.c

14 years agodrm: fix fallouts from slow-work -> wq conversion
Tejun Heo [Mon, 9 Aug 2010 10:01:27 +0000 (12:01 +0200)]
drm: fix fallouts from slow-work -> wq conversion

Commit 991ea75c (drm: use workqueue instead of slow-work), which made
drm to use wq instead of slow-work, didn't account for the return
value difference between delayed_slow_work_enqueue() and
queue_delayed_work().  The former returns 0 on success and -errno on
failures while the latter never fails and only uses the return value
to indicate whether the work was already pending or not.

This misconversion triggered spurious error messages.  Remove the now
unnecessary return value check and error message.

Markus: caught another incorrect conversion in drm_kms_helper_poll_enable()

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Tested-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
14 years agoworkqueue: workqueue_cpu_callback() should be cpu_notifier instead of hotcpu_notifier
Tejun Heo [Mon, 9 Aug 2010 09:50:34 +0000 (11:50 +0200)]
workqueue: workqueue_cpu_callback() should be cpu_notifier instead of hotcpu_notifier

Commit 6ee0578b (workqueue: mark init_workqueues as early_initcall)
made workqueue SMP initialization depend on workqueue_cpu_callback(),
which however was registered as hotcpu_notifier() and didn't get
called if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is not set.  This made gcwqs on non-boot
CPUs not create their initial workers leading to boot failures.  Fix
it by making it a cpu_notifier.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-and-bisected-by: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
14 years agoMerge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 8 Aug 2010 17:10:11 +0000 (10:10 -0700)]
Merge git://git./linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
  arch/tile: check kmalloc() result
  arch/tile: catch up on various minor cleanups.
  arch/tile: avoid erroneous error return for PTRACE_POKEUSR.
  tile: set ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN
  tile: remove homegrown L1_CACHE_ALIGN macro
  arch/tile: Miscellaneous cleanup changes.
  arch/tile: Split the icache flush code off to a generic <arch> header.
  arch/tile: Fix bug in support for atomic64_xx() ops.
  arch/tile: Shrink the tile-opcode files considerably.
  arch/tile: Add driver to enable access to the user dynamic network.
  arch/tile: Enable more sophisticated IRQ model for 32-bit chips.
  Move list types from <linux/list.h> to <linux/types.h>.
  Add wait4() back to the set of <asm-generic/unistd.h> syscalls.
  Revert adding some arch-specific signal syscalls to <linux/syscalls.h>.
  arch/tile: Do not use GFP_KERNEL for dma_alloc_coherent(). Feedback from fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp.
  arch/tile: core support for Tilera 32-bit chips.
  Fix up the "generic" unistd.h ABI to be more useful.

14 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://www.jni.nu/cris
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 8 Aug 2010 17:08:26 +0000 (10:08 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://www.jni.nu/cris

* 'for-linus' of git://www.jni.nu/cris: (51 commits)
  CRIS: Fix alignment problem for older ld
  CRIS: Always dump registers for segfaulting process.
  CRIS: Add config for pausing a seg-faulting process
  CRIS: Don't take faults while in_atomic
  CRIS: Fixup lookup for delay slot faults
  CRIS: Discard exit.text and .data at runtime
  CRIS: Add cache aligned and read mostly data sections
  CRIS: Return something from profile write
  CRIS: Add ARTPEC-3 and timestamps for sync-serial
  CRIS: Better ARTPEC-3 support for gpio
  CRIS: Add include guard
  CRIS: Better handling of pinmux settings
  CRIS: New DMA defines for ARTPEC-3
  CRIS: __do_strncpy_from_user: Don't read the byte beyond the nil
  CRIS: Pagetable for ARTPEC-3
  CRIS: Machine dependent memmap.h
  CRIS: Check if pointer is set before using it
  CRIS: Machine dependent dma.h
  CRIS: Define __read_mostly for CRISv32
  CRIS: Discard .note.gnu.build-id section
  ...

14 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://android.kernel.org/kernel/tegra
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 8 Aug 2010 17:05:57 +0000 (10:05 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://android./kernel/tegra

* 'for-linus' of git://android.kernel.org/kernel/tegra:
  [ARM] tegra: add MAINTAINERS entry
  [ARM] tegra: harmony: Add harmony board file
  [ARM] tegra: add pinmux support
  [ARM] tegra: add GPIO support
  [ARM] tegra: Add timer support
  [ARM] tegra: SMP support
  [ARM] tegra: Add clock support
  [ARM] tegra: Add IRQ support
  [ARM] tegra: initial tegra support

14 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://github.com/schandinat/linux-2.6
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 8 Aug 2010 17:04:17 +0000 (10:04 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://github.com/schandinat/linux-2.6

* 'for-linus' of git://github.com/schandinat/linux-2.6:
  drivers/video/via/via-gpio.c: fix warning
  viafb: Depends on X86
  fbdev: section cleanup in viafb driver
  viafb: fix accel_flags check_var bug
  viafb: probe cleanups
  viafb: remove ioctls which break the framebuffer interface
  viafb: update fix before calculating depth
  viafb: PLL value cleanup
  viafb: simplify lcd size "detection"
  viafb: fix PCI table
  viafb: add lcd scaling support for some IGPs
  viafb: improve lcd code readability
  viafb: remove duplicated scaling code
  MAINTAINERS: update viafb entry

14 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://gitorious.org/linux-omap-dss2/linux
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 8 Aug 2010 17:02:59 +0000 (10:02 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://gitorious.org/linux-omap-dss2/linux

* 'for-linus' of git://gitorious.org/linux-omap-dss2/linux: (64 commits)
  OMAP: DSS2: OMAPFB: add support for FBIO_WAITFORVSYNC
  OMAP: DSS2: Replace strncmp() with sysfs_streq() in overlay_manager_store()
  OMAP: DSS2: Fix error path in omap_dsi_update()
  OMAP: DSS2: TDO35S: fix video signaling
  OMAP: DSS2: OMAPFB: Fix invalid bpp for PAL and NTSC modes
  OMAP: DSS2: OMAPFB: Fix probe error path
  OMAP3EVM: Replace vdvi regulator supply with vdds_dsi
  OMAP: DSS2: Remove extra return statement
  OMAP: DSS2: adjust YUV overlay width to be even
  OMAP: DSS2: OMAPFB: Fix sysfs mirror input check
  OMAP: DSS2: OMAPFB: Remove redundant color register range check
  OMAP: DSS2: OMAPFB: Remove redundant rotate range check
  OMAP: DSS2: OMAPFB: Check fb2display() return value
  OMAP: DSS2: Taal: Optimize enable_te, rotate, mirror when value unchanged
  OMAP: DSS2: DSI: detect unsupported update requests
  OMAP: DSS2: DSI: increase FIFO low threshold
  OMAP: DSS2: DSI: Add error IRQ mask for DSI complexIO
  OMAP: DSS2: DSI: Remove BTA after set_max_rx_packet_size
  OMAP: DSS2: change manual update scaling setup
  OMAP: DSS2: DSI: use BTA to end the frame transfer
  ...

14 years agoMerge branch 'omap-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind...
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 8 Aug 2010 17:01:46 +0000 (10:01 -0700)]
Merge branch 'omap-for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6

* 'omap-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6: (143 commits)
  omap: mailbox: reorganize headers
  omap: mailbox: standarize on 'omap-mailbox'
  omap: mailbox: only compile for configured archs
  omap: mailbox: simplify omap_mbox_register()
  omap: mailbox: reorganize registering
  omap: mailbox: add IRQ names
  omap: mailbox: remove unecessary fields
  omap: mailbox: don't export unecessary symbols
  omap: mailbox: update omap1 probing
  omap: mailbox: use correct config for omap1
  omap: mailbox: 2420 should be detected at run-time
  omap: mailbox: reorganize structures
  omap: mailbox: trivial cleanups
  omap mailbox: Set a device in logical mbox instance for traceability
  omap: mailbox: convert block api to kfifo
  omap: mailbox: remove (un)likely macros from cold paths
  omap: mailbox cleanup: split MODULE_AUTHOR line
  omap: mailbox: convert rwlocks to spinlock
  Mailbox: disable mailbox interrupt when request queue
  Mailbox: new mutext lock for h/w mailbox configuration
  ...

14 years agoMerge branch 'davinci-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git...
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 8 Aug 2010 17:00:55 +0000 (10:00 -0700)]
Merge branch 'davinci-for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/khilman/linux-davinci

* 'davinci-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/khilman/linux-davinci:
  davinci: dm646x EVM: Specify reserved EDMA channel/slots
  davinci: da8xx/omapl EVM: Specify reserved channels/slots
  davinci: support for EDMA resource sharing
  davinci: edma: provide ability to detect insufficient CC info data
  davinci: da8xx: sparse cleanup: remove duplicate entries in irq priorities
  davinci: DM365: fixed second serial port
  Davinci: tnetv107x evm board initial support
  Davinci: tnetv107x initial gpio support
  Davinci: tnetv107x soc support
  Davinci: tnetv107x decompresser uart definitions
  Davinci: generalized debug macros

14 years agoworkqueue: add missing __percpu markup in kernel/workqueue.c
Namhyung Kim [Sun, 8 Aug 2010 12:24:09 +0000 (14:24 +0200)]
workqueue: add missing __percpu markup in kernel/workqueue.c

works in schecule_on_each_cpu() is a percpu pointer but was missing
__percpu markup.  Add it.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
14 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394...
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 8 Aug 2010 00:09:24 +0000 (17:09 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6: (82 commits)
  firewire: core: add forgotten dummy driver methods, remove unused ones
  firewire: add isochronous multichannel reception
  firewire: core: small clarifications in core-cdev
  firewire: core: remove unused code
  firewire: ohci: release channel in error path
  firewire: ohci: use memory barriers to order descriptor updates
  tools/firewire: nosy-dump: increment program version
  tools/firewire: nosy-dump: remove unused code
  tools/firewire: nosy-dump: use linux/firewire-constants.h
  tools/firewire: nosy-dump: break up a deeply nested function
  tools/firewire: nosy-dump: make some symbols static or const
  tools/firewire: nosy-dump: change to kernel coding style
  tools/firewire: nosy-dump: work around segfault in decode_fcp
  tools/firewire: nosy-dump: fix it on x86-64
  tools/firewire: add userspace front-end of nosy
  firewire: nosy: note ioctls in ioctl-number.txt
  firewire: nosy: use generic printk macros
  firewire: nosy: endianess fixes and annotations
  firewire: nosy: annotate __user pointers and __iomem pointers
  firewire: nosy: fix device shutdown with active client
  ...

14 years agoMerge branch 'acpica' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux...
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 8 Aug 2010 00:08:30 +0000 (17:08 -0700)]
Merge branch 'acpica' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6

* 'acpica' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (27 commits)
  ACPI / ACPICA: Simplify acpi_ev_initialize_gpe_block()
  ACPI / ACPICA: Fail acpi_gpe_wakeup() if ACPI_GPE_CAN_WAKE is unset
  ACPI / ACPICA: Do not execute _PRW methods during initialization
  ACPI: Fix bogus GPE test in acpi_bus_set_run_wake_flags()
  ACPICA: Update version to 20100702
  ACPICA: Fix for Alias references within Package objects
  ACPICA: Fix lint warning for 64-bit constant
  ACPICA: Remove obsolete GPE function
  ACPICA: Update debug output components
  ACPICA: Add support for WDDT - Watchdog Descriptor Table
  ACPICA: Drop acpi_set_gpe
  ACPICA: Use low-level GPE enable during GPE block initialization
  ACPI / EC: Do not use acpi_set_gpe
  ACPI / EC: Drop suspend and resume routines
  ACPICA: Remove wakeup GPE reference counting which is not used
  ACPICA: Introduce acpi_gpe_wakeup()
  ACPICA: Rename acpi_hw_gpe_register_bit
  ACPICA: Update version to 20100528
  ACPICA: Add signatures for undefined tables: ATKG, GSCI, IEIT
  ACPICA: Optimization: Reduce the number of namespace walks
  ...

14 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland...
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 8 Aug 2010 00:08:02 +0000 (17:08 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: (42 commits)
  IB/qib: Add missing <linux/slab.h> include
  IB/ehca: Drop unnecessary NULL test
  RDMA/nes: Fix confusing if statement indentation
  IB/ehca: Init irq tasklet before irq can happen
  RDMA/nes: Fix misindented code
  RDMA/nes: Fix showing wqm_quanta
  RDMA/nes: Get rid of "set but not used" variables
  RDMA/nes: Read firmware version from correct place
  IB/srp: Export req_lim via sysfs
  IB/srp: Make receive buffer handling more robust
  IB/srp: Use print_hex_dump()
  IB: Rename RAW_ETY to RAW_ETHERTYPE
  RDMA/nes: Fix two sparse warnings
  RDMA/cxgb3: Make needlessly global iwch_l2t_send() static
  IB/iser: Make needlessly global iser_alloc_rx_descriptors() static
  RDMA/cxgb4: Add timeouts when waiting for FW responses
  IB/qib: Fix race between qib_error_qp() and receive packet processing
  IB/qib: Limit the number of packets processed per interrupt
  IB/qib: Allow writes to the diag_counters to be able to clear them
  IB/qib: Set cfgctxts to number of CPUs by default
  ...

14 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 8 Aug 2010 00:07:31 +0000 (17:07 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: (214 commits)
  ALSA: hda - Add pin-fix for HP dc5750
  ALSA: als4000: Fix potentially invalid DMA mode setup
  ALSA: als4000: enable burst mode
  ALSA: hda - Fix initial capsrc selection in patch_alc269()
  ASoC: TWL4030: Capture route runtime DAPM ordering fix
  ALSA: hda - Add PC-beep whitelist for an Intel board
  ALSA: hda - More relax for pending period handling
  ALSA: hda - Define AC_FMT_* constants
  ALSA: hda - Fix beep frequency on IDT 92HD73xx and 92HD71Bxx codecs
  ALSA: hda - Add support for HDMI HBR passthrough
  ALSA: hda - Set Stream Type in Stream Format according to AES0
  ALSA: hda - Fix Thinkpad X300 so SPDIF is not exposed
  ALSA: hda - FIX to not expose SPDIF on Thinkpad X301, since it does not have the ability to use SPDIF
  ASoC: wm9081: fix resource reclaim in wm9081_register error path
  ASoC: wm8978: fix a memory leak if a wm8978_register fail
  ASoC: wm8974: fix a memory leak if another WM8974 is registered
  ASoC: wm8961: fix resource reclaim in wm8961_register error path
  ASoC: wm8955: fix resource reclaim in wm8955_register error path
  ASoC: wm8940: fix a memory leak if wm8940_register return error
  ASoC: wm8904: fix resource reclaim in wm8904_register error path
  ...

14 years agoMerge branch 'bkl/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic...
Linus Torvalds [Sun, 8 Aug 2010 00:06:54 +0000 (17:06 -0700)]
Merge branch 'bkl/core' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing

* 'bkl/core' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing:
  do_coredump: Do not take BKL
  init: Remove the BKL from startup code

14 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris...
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 7 Aug 2010 21:28:20 +0000 (14:28 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git./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:
  SELINUX: Fix build error.

14 years agoMerge branch 'for-2.6.36' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 7 Aug 2010 21:24:41 +0000 (14:24 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-2.6.36' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux

* 'for-2.6.36' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (34 commits)
  nfsd4: fix file open accounting for RDWR opens
  nfsd: don't allow setting maxblksize after svc created
  nfsd: initialize nfsd versions before creating svc
  net: sunrpc: removed duplicated #include
  nfsd41: Fix a crash when a callback is retried
  nfsd: fix startup/shutdown order bug
  nfsd: minor nfsd read api cleanup
  gcc-4.6: nfsd: fix initialized but not read warnings
  nfsd4: share file descriptors between stateid's
  nfsd4: fix openmode checking on IO using lock stateid
  nfsd4: miscellaneous process_open2 cleanup
  nfsd4: don't pretend to support write delegations
  nfsd: bypass readahead cache when have struct file
  nfsd: minor nfsd_svc() cleanup
  nfsd: move more into nfsd_startup()
  nfsd: just keep single lockd reference for nfsd
  nfsd: clean up nfsd_create_serv error handling
  nfsd: fix error handling in __write_ports_addxprt
  nfsd: fix error handling when starting nfsd with rpcbind down
  nfsd4: fix v4 state shutdown error paths
  ...

14 years agoAFS: Fix the module init error handling
David Howells [Fri, 6 Aug 2010 16:26:48 +0000 (17:26 +0100)]
AFS: Fix the module init error handling

Fix the module init error handling.  There are a bunch of goto labels for
aborting the init procedure at different points and just undoing what needs
undoing - they aren't all in the right places, however.

This can lead to an oops like the following:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000020
IP: [<ffffffff81042a31>] destroy_workqueue+0x17/0xc0
...
Modules linked in: kafs(+) dns_resolver rxkad af_rxrpc fscache

Pid: 2171, comm: insmod Not tainted 2.6.35-cachefs+ #319 DG965RY/
...
Process insmod (pid: 2171, threadinfo ffff88003ca6a000, task ffff88003dcc3050)
...
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffffa0055994>] afs_callback_update_kill+0x10/0x12 [kafs]
 [<ffffffffa007d1c5>] afs_init+0x190/0x1ce [kafs]
 [<ffffffffa007d035>] ? afs_init+0x0/0x1ce [kafs]
 [<ffffffff810001ef>] do_one_initcall+0x59/0x14e
 [<ffffffff8105f7ee>] sys_init_module+0x9c/0x1de
 [<ffffffff81001eab>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
14 years agoMerge branch 'nfs-for-2.6.36' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 7 Aug 2010 20:19:36 +0000 (13:19 -0700)]
Merge branch 'nfs-for-2.6.36' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6

* 'nfs-for-2.6.36' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: (42 commits)
  NFS: NFSv4.1 is no longer a "developer only" feature
  NFS: NFS_V4 is no longer an EXPERIMENTAL feature
  NFS: Fix /proc/mount for legacy binary interface
  NFS: Fix the locking in nfs4_callback_getattr
  SUNRPC: Defer deleting the security context until gss_do_free_ctx()
  SUNRPC: prevent task_cleanup running on freed xprt
  SUNRPC: Reduce asynchronous RPC task stack usage
  SUNRPC: Move the bound cred to struct rpc_rqst
  SUNRPC: Clean up of rpc_bindcred()
  SUNRPC: Move remaining RPC client related task initialisation into clnt.c
  SUNRPC: Ensure that rpc_exit() always wakes up a sleeping task
  SUNRPC: Make the credential cache hashtable size configurable
  SUNRPC: Store the hashtable size in struct rpc_cred_cache
  NFS: Ensure the AUTH_UNIX credcache is allocated dynamically
  NFS: Fix the NFS users of rpc_restart_call()
  SUNRPC: The function rpc_restart_call() should return success/failure
  NFSv4: Get rid of the bogus RPC_ASSASSINATED(task) checks
  NFSv4: Clean up the process of renewing the NFSv4 lease
  NFSv4.1: Handle NFS4ERR_DELAY on SEQUENCE correctly
  NFS: nfs_rename() should not have to flush out writebacks
  ...

14 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi...
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 7 Aug 2010 20:18:36 +0000 (13:18 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
  fuse: add retrieve request
  fuse: add store request
  fuse: don't use atomic kmap

14 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke...
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 7 Aug 2010 20:10:55 +0000 (13:10 -0700)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2: (45 commits)
  nilfs2: reject filesystem with unsupported block size
  nilfs2: avoid rec_len overflow with 64KB block size
  nilfs2: simplify nilfs_get_page function
  nilfs2: reject incompatible filesystem
  nilfs2: add feature set fields to super block
  nilfs2: clarify byte offset in super block format
  nilfs2: apply read-ahead for nilfs_btree_lookup_contig
  nilfs2: introduce check flag to btree node buffer
  nilfs2: add btree get block function with readahead option
  nilfs2: add read ahead mode to nilfs_btnode_submit_block
  nilfs2: fix buffer head leak in nilfs_btnode_submit_block
  nilfs2: eliminate inline keywords in btree implementation
  nilfs2: get maximum number of child nodes from bmap object
  nilfs2: reduce repetitive calculation of max number of child nodes
  nilfs2: optimize calculation of min/max number of btree node children
  nilfs2: remove redundant pointer checks in bmap lookup functions
  nilfs2: get rid of nilfs_bmap_union
  nilfs2: unify bmap set_target_v operations
  nilfs2: get rid of nilfs_btree uses
  nilfs2: get rid of nilfs_direct uses
  ...