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* mm: page_alloc: use get_freepage_migratetype() instead of page_private()Minchan Kim2012-10-092-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The page allocator uses set_page_private and page_private for handling migratetype when it frees page. Let's replace them with [set|get] _freepage_migratetype to make it more clear. Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* cma: fix watermark checkingBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz2012-10-093-17/+36
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Add ALLOC_CMA alloc flag and pass it to [__]zone_watermark_ok() (from Minchan Kim). * During watermark check decrease available free pages number by free CMA pages number if necessary (unmovable allocations cannot use pages from CMA areas). Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* cma: count free CMA pagesBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz2012-10-093-9/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add NR_FREE_CMA_PAGES counter to be later used for checking watermark in __zone_watermark_ok(). For simplicity and to avoid #ifdef hell make this counter always available (not only when CONFIG_CMA=y). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use conventional migratetype naming] Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* cma: fix counting of isolated pagesBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz2012-10-092-5/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Isolated free pages shouldn't be accounted to NR_FREE_PAGES counter. Fix it by properly decreasing/increasing NR_FREE_PAGES counter in set_migratetype_isolate()/unset_migratetype_isolate() and removing counter adjustment for isolated pages from free_one_page() and split_free_page(). Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: fix tracing in free_pcppages_bulk()Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz2012-10-091-2/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | page->private gets re-used in __free_one_page() to store page order (so trace_mm_page_pcpu_drain() may print order instead of migratetype) thus migratetype value must be cached locally. Fixes regression introduced in commit a7016235a61d ("mm: fix migratetype bug which slowed swapping"). This caused incorrect data to be attached to the mm_page_pcpu_drain trace event. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment] Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.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>
* mm: cma: discard clean pages during contiguous allocation instead of migrationMinchan Kim2012-10-093-7/+41
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Drop clean cache pages instead of migration during alloc_contig_range() to minimise allocation latency by reducing the amount of migration that is necessary. It's useful for CMA because latency of migration is more important than evicting the background process's working set. In addition, as pages are reclaimed then fewer free pages for migration targets are required so it avoids memory reclaiming to get free pages, which is a contributory factor to increased latency. I measured elapsed time of __alloc_contig_migrate_range() which migrates 10M in 40M movable zone in QEMU machine. Before - 146ms, After - 7ms [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix nommu build] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Tested-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: mmu_notifier: make the mmu_notifier srcu staticAndrea Arcangeli2012-10-091-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | The variable must be static especially given the variable name. s/RCU/SRCU/ over a few comments. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Haggai Eran <haggaie@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* memory-hotplug: build zonelists when offlining pagesXishi Qiu2012-10-091-1/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | online_pages() does build_all_zonelists() and zone_pcp_update(), I think offline_pages() should do it too. When the zone has no memory to allocate, remove it from other nodes' zonelists. zone_batchsize() depends on zone's present pages, if zone's present pages are changed, zone's pcp should be updated. Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu <qiuxishi@huawei.com> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: avoid taking rmap locks in move_ptes()Michel Lespinasse2012-10-092-20/+44
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | During mremap(), the destination VMA is generally placed after the original vma in rmap traversal order: in move_vma(), we always have new_pgoff >= vma->vm_pgoff, and as a result new_vma->vm_pgoff >= vma->vm_pgoff unless vma_merge() merged the new vma with an adjacent one. When the destination VMA is placed after the original in rmap traversal order, we can avoid taking the rmap locks in move_ptes(). Essentially, this reintroduces the optimization that had been disabled in "mm anon rmap: remove anon_vma_moveto_tail". The difference is that we don't try to impose the rmap traversal order; instead we just rely on things being in the desired order in the common case and fall back to taking locks in the uncommon case. Also we skip the i_mmap_mutex in addition to the anon_vma lock: in both cases, the vmas are traversed in increasing vm_pgoff order with ties resolved in tree insertion order. Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.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>
* mm anon rmap: in mremap, set the new vma's position before anon_vma_clone()Michel Lespinasse2012-10-091-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | anon_vma_clone() expects new_vma->vm_{start,end,pgoff} to be correctly set so that the new vma can be indexed on the anon interval tree. copy_vma() was failing to do that, which broke mremap(). Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Tested-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: add CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_RB build optionMichel Lespinasse2012-10-092-11/+49
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_RB build option for the previously existing DEBUG_MM_RB code. Now that Andi Kleen modified it to avoid using recursive algorithms, we can expose it a bit more. Also extend this code to validate_mm() after stack expansion, and to check that the vma's start and last pgoffs have not changed since the nodes were inserted on the anon vma interval tree (as it is important that the nodes be reindexed after each such update). Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.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>
* mm rmap: remove vma_address check for address inside vmaMichel Lespinasse2012-10-092-31/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In file and anon rmap, we use interval trees to find potentially relevant vmas and then call vma_address() to find the virtual address the given page might be found at in these vmas. vma_address() used to include a check that the returned address falls within the limits of the vma, but this check isn't necessary now that we always use interval trees in rmap: the interval tree just doesn't return any vmas which this check would find to be irrelevant. As a result, we can replace the use of -EFAULT error code (which then needed to be checked in every call site) with a VM_BUG_ON(). Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.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>
* mm anon rmap: replace same_anon_vma linked list with an interval tree.Michel Lespinasse2012-10-096-36/+94
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When a large VMA (anon or private file mapping) is first touched, which will populate its anon_vma field, and then split into many regions through the use of mprotect(), the original anon_vma ends up linking all of the vmas on a linked list. This can cause rmap to become inefficient, as we have to walk potentially thousands of irrelevent vmas before finding the one a given anon page might fall into. By replacing the same_anon_vma linked list with an interval tree (where each avc's interval is determined by its vma's start and last pgoffs), we can make rmap efficient for this use case again. While the change is large, all of its pieces are fairly simple. Most places that were walking the same_anon_vma list were looking for a known pgoff, so they can just use the anon_vma_interval_tree_foreach() interval tree iterator instead. The exception here is ksm, where the page's index is not known. It would probably be possible to rework ksm so that the index would be known, but for now I have decided to keep things simple and just walk the entirety of the interval tree there. When updating vma's that already have an anon_vma assigned, we must take care to re-index the corresponding avc's on their interval tree. This is done through the use of anon_vma_interval_tree_pre_update_vma() and anon_vma_interval_tree_post_update_vma(), which remove the avc's from their interval tree before the update and re-insert them after the update. The anon_vma stays locked during the update, so there is no chance that rmap would miss the vmas that are being updated. Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.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>
* mm anon rmap: remove anon_vma_moveto_tailMichel Lespinasse2012-10-093-56/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | mremap() had a clever optimization where move_ptes() did not take the anon_vma lock to avoid a race with anon rmap users such as page migration. Instead, the avc's were ordered in such a way that the origin vma was always visited by rmap before the destination. This ordering and the use of page table locks rmap usage safe. However, we want to replace the use of linked lists in anon rmap with an interval tree, and this will make it harder to impose such ordering as the interval tree will always be sorted by the avc->vma->vm_pgoff value. For now, let's replace the anon_vma_moveto_tail() ordering function with proper anon_vma locking in move_ptes(). Once we have the anon interval tree in place, we will re-introduce an optimization to avoid taking these locks in the most common cases. Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.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>
* mm: interval tree updatesMichel Lespinasse2012-10-091-31/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update the generic interval tree code that was introduced in "mm: replace vma prio_tree with an interval tree". Changes: - fixed 'endpoing' typo noticed by Andrew Morton - replaced include/linux/interval_tree_tmpl.h, which was used as a template (including it automatically defined the interval tree functions) with include/linux/interval_tree_generic.h, which only defines a preprocessor macro INTERVAL_TREE_DEFINE(), which itself defines the interval tree functions when invoked. Now that is a very long macro which is unfortunate, but it does make the usage sites (lib/interval_tree.c and mm/interval_tree.c) a bit nicer than previously. - make use of RB_DECLARE_CALLBACKS() in the INTERVAL_TREE_DEFINE() macro, instead of duplicating that code in the interval tree template. - replaced vma_interval_tree_add(), which was actually handling the nonlinear and interval tree cases, with vma_interval_tree_insert_after() which handles only the interval tree case and has an API that is more consistent with the other interval tree handling functions. The nonlinear case is now handled explicitly in kernel/fork.c dup_mmap(). Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@pobox.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>
* kmemleak: use rbtree instead of prio treeMichel Lespinasse2012-10-091-49/+51
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | kmemleak uses a tree where each node represents an allocated memory object in order to quickly find out what object a given address is part of. However, the objects don't overlap, so rbtrees are a better choice than prio tree for this use. They are both faster and have lower memory overhead. Tested by booting a kernel with kmemleak enabled, loading the kmemleak_test module, and looking for the expected messages. Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Tested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: replace vma prio_tree with an interval treeMichel Lespinasse2012-10-0911-251/+94
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement an interval tree as a replacement for the VMA prio_tree. The algorithms are similar to lib/interval_tree.c; however that code can't be directly reused as the interval endpoints are not explicitly stored in the VMA. So instead, the common algorithm is moved into a template and the details (node type, how to get interval endpoints from the node, etc) are filled in using the C preprocessor. Once the interval tree functions are available, using them as a replacement to the VMA prio tree is a relatively simple, mechanical job. Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* thp: make MADV_HUGEPAGE check for mm->def_flagsGerald Schaefer2012-10-091-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds a check to hugepage_madvise(), to refuse MADV_HUGEPAGE if VM_NOHUGEPAGE is set in mm->def_flags. On s390, the VM_NOHUGEPAGE flag will be set in mm->def_flags for kvm processes, to prevent any future thp mappings. In order to also prevent MADV_HUGEPAGE on such an mm, hugepage_madvise() should check mm->def_flags. Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* thp: introduce pmdp_invalidate()Gerald Schaefer2012-10-092-2/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On s390, a valid page table entry must not be changed while it is attached to any CPU. So instead of pmd_mknotpresent() and set_pmd_at(), an IDTE operation would be necessary there. This patch introduces the pmdp_invalidate() function, to allow architecture-specific implementations. Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* thp: remove assumptions on pgtable_t typeGerald Schaefer2012-10-092-42/+47
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The thp page table pre-allocation code currently assumes that pgtable_t is of type "struct page *". This may not be true for all architectures, so this patch removes that assumption by replacing the functions prepare_pmd_huge_pte() and get_pmd_huge_pte() with two new functions that can be defined architecture-specific. It also removes two VM_BUG_ON checks for page_count() and page_mapcount() operating on a pgtable_t. Apart from the VM_BUG_ON removal, there will be no functional change introduced by this patch. Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* thp, x86: introduce HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGEGerald Schaefer2012-10-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Cleanup patch in preparation for transparent hugepage support on s390. Adding new architectures to the TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE config option can make the "depends" line rather ugly, like "depends on (X86 || (S390 && 64BIT)) && MMU". This patch adds a HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE instead. x86 already has MMU "def_bool y", so the MMU check is superfluous there and HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE can be selected in arch/x86/Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: fix potential anon_vma locking issue in mprotect()Michel Lespinasse2012-10-091-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix an anon_vma locking issue in the following situation: - vma has no anon_vma - next has an anon_vma - vma is being shrunk / next is being expanded, due to an mprotect call We need to take next's anon_vma lock to avoid races with rmap users (such as page migration) while next is being expanded. Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* thp: remove unnecessary set_recommended_min_free_kbytesXiao Guangrong2012-10-091-5/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | Since it is called in start_khugepaged Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* thp: use khugepaged_enabled to remove duplicate codeXiao Guangrong2012-10-091-9/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | Use khugepaged_enabled to see whether thp is enabled Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* thp: remove khugepaged_loopXiao Guangrong2012-10-091-10/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | Merge khugepaged_loop into khugepaged Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* thp: introduce khugepaged_prealloc_page and khugepaged_alloc_pageXiao Guangrong2012-10-091-68/+98
| | | | | | | | | | | | They are used to abstract the difference between NUMA enabled and NUMA disabled to make the code more readable Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* thp: release page in page pre-alloc pathXiao Guangrong2012-10-091-12/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | If NUMA is enabled, we can release the page in the page pre-alloc operation, then the CONFIG_NUMA dependent code can be reduced Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* thp: merge page pre-alloc in khugepaged_loop into khugepaged_do_scanXiao Guangrong2012-10-091-52/+45
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There are two pre-alloc operations in these two function, the different is: - it allows to sleep if page alloc fail in khugepaged_loop - it exits immediately if page alloc fail in khugepaged_do_scan Actually, in khugepaged_do_scan, we can allow the pre-alloc to sleep on the first failure, then the operation in khugepaged_loop can be removed Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* thp: remove some code depend on CONFIG_NUMAXiao Guangrong2012-10-091-7/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If NUMA is disabled, hpage is used as page pre-alloc, so there are two cases for hpage: - it is !NULL, means the page is not consumed otherwise, - the page has been consumed If NUMA is enabled, hpage is just used as alloc-fail indicator which is not a real page, NULL means not fail triggered. So, we can release the page only if !IS_ERR_OR_NULL Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* thp: remove wake_up_interruptible in the exit pathXiao Guangrong2012-10-091-14/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the check of kthread_should_stop() to the conditions which are used to wakeup on khugepaged_wait, then kthread_stop is enough to let the thread exit Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* thp: remove unnecessary khugepaged_thread checkXiao Guangrong2012-10-091-4/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Now, khugepaged creation and cancel are completely serial under the protection of khugepaged_mutex, it is impossible that many khugepaged entities are running Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* thp: move khugepaged_mutex out of khugepagedXiao Guangrong2012-10-091-23/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, hugepaged_mutex is used really complexly and hard to understand, actually, it is just used to serialize start_khugepaged and khugepaged for these reasons: - khugepaged_thread is shared between them - the thp disable path (echo never > transparent_hugepage/enabled) is nonblocking, so we need to protect khugepaged_thread to get a stable running state These can be avoided by: - use the lock to serialize the thread creation and cancel - thp disable path can not finised until the thread exits Then khugepaged_thread is fully controlled by start_khugepaged, khugepaged will be happy without the lock Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* thp: remove unnecessary check in start_khugepagedXiao Guangrong2012-10-091-5/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | The check is unnecessary since if mm_slot_cache or mm_slots_hash initialize failed, no sysfs interface will be created Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* thp: fix the count of THP_COLLAPSE_ALLOCXiao Guangrong2012-10-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | THP_COLLAPSE_ALLOC is double counted if NUMA is disabled since it has already been calculated in khugepaged_alloc_hugepage Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: adjust final #endif position in mm/internal.hMichel Lespinasse2012-10-091-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | Make sure the #endif that terminates the standard #ifndef / #define / #endif construct gets labeled, and gets positioned at the end of the file as is normally the case. Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: hugetlb: add arch hook for clearing page flags before entering poolWill Deacon2012-10-091-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The core page allocator ensures that page flags are zeroed when freeing pages via free_pages_check. A number of architectures (ARM, PPC, MIPS) rely on this property to treat new pages as dirty with respect to the data cache and perform the appropriate flushing before mapping the pages into userspace. This can lead to cache synchronisation problems when using hugepages, since the allocator keeps its own pool of pages above the usual page allocator and does not reset the page flags when freeing a page into the pool. This patch adds a new architecture hook, arch_clear_hugepage_flags, so that architectures which rely on the page flags being in a particular state for fresh allocations can adjust the flags accordingly when a page is freed into the pool. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* oom: remove deprecated oom_adjDavidlohr Bueso2012-10-091-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | The deprecated /proc/<pid>/oom_adj is scheduled for removal this month. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org> Acked-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>
* mm/vmscan: fix error number for failed kthreadGavin Shan2012-10-091-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | Fix the return value while failing to create the kswapd kernel thread. Also, the error message is prioritized as KERN_ERR. Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm/mmu_notifier: init notifier if necessaryGavin Shan2012-10-091-11/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While registering MMU notifier, new instance of MMU notifier_mm will be allocated and later free'd if currrent mm_struct's MMU notifier_mm has been initialized. That causes some overhead. The patch tries to elominate that. Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.co.il> Cc: Haggai Eran <haggaie@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: mmu_notifier: have mmu_notifiers use a global SRCU so they may safely ↵Sagi Grimberg2012-10-091-25/+48
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | schedule With an RCU based mmu_notifier implementation, any callout to mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_{start,end}() or mmu_notifier_invalidate_page() would not be allowed to call schedule() as that could potentially allow a modification to the mmu_notifier structure while it is currently being used. Since srcu allocs 4 machine words per instance per cpu, we may end up with memory exhaustion if we use srcu per mm. So all mms share a global srcu. Note that during large mmu_notifier activity exit & unregister paths might hang for longer periods, but it is tolerable for current mmu_notifier clients. Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.co.il> Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Haggai Eran <haggaie@mellanox.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mempolicy: fix a memory corruption by refcount imbalance in alloc_pages_vma()Mel Gorman2012-10-091-1/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit cc9a6c877661 ("cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3") introduced a potential memory corruption. shmem_alloc_page() uses a pseudo vma and it has one significant unique combination, vma->vm_ops=NULL and vma->policy->flags & MPOL_F_SHARED. get_vma_policy() does NOT increase a policy ref when vma->vm_ops=NULL and mpol_cond_put() DOES decrease a policy ref when a policy has MPOL_F_SHARED. Therefore, when a cpuset update race occurs, alloc_pages_vma() falls in 'goto retry_cpuset' path, decrements the reference count and frees the policy prematurely. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mempolicy: fix refcount leak in mpol_set_shared_policy()KOSAKI Motohiro2012-10-091-6/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When shared_policy_replace() fails to allocate new->policy is not freed correctly by mpol_set_shared_policy(). The problem is that shared mempolicy code directly call kmem_cache_free() in multiple places where it is easy to make a mistake. This patch creates an sp_free wrapper function and uses it. The bug was introduced pre-git age (IOW, before 2.6.12-rc2). [mgorman@suse.de: Editted changelog] Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mempolicy: fix a race in shared_policy_replace()Mel Gorman2012-10-091-21/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | shared_policy_replace() use of sp_alloc() is unsafe. 1) sp_node cannot be dereferenced if sp->lock is not held and 2) another thread can modify sp_node between spin_unlock for allocating a new sp node and next spin_lock. The bug was introduced before 2.6.12-rc2. Kosaki's original patch for this problem was to allocate an sp node and policy within shared_policy_replace and initialise it when the lock is reacquired. I was not keen on this approach because it partially duplicates sp_alloc(). As the paths were sp->lock is taken are not that performance critical this patch converts sp->lock to sp->mutex so it can sleep when calling sp_alloc(). [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: Original patch] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mempolicy: remove mempolicy sharingKOSAKI Motohiro2012-10-091-14/+38
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Dave Jones' system call fuzz testing tool "trinity" triggered the following bug error with slab debugging enabled ============================================================================= BUG numa_policy (Not tainted): Poison overwritten ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- INFO: 0xffff880146498250-0xffff880146498250. First byte 0x6a instead of 0x6b INFO: Allocated in mpol_new+0xa3/0x140 age=46310 cpu=6 pid=32154 __slab_alloc+0x3d3/0x445 kmem_cache_alloc+0x29d/0x2b0 mpol_new+0xa3/0x140 sys_mbind+0x142/0x620 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b INFO: Freed in __mpol_put+0x27/0x30 age=46268 cpu=6 pid=32154 __slab_free+0x2e/0x1de kmem_cache_free+0x25a/0x260 __mpol_put+0x27/0x30 remove_vma+0x68/0x90 exit_mmap+0x118/0x140 mmput+0x73/0x110 exit_mm+0x108/0x130 do_exit+0x162/0xb90 do_group_exit+0x4f/0xc0 sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20 system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b INFO: Slab 0xffffea0005192600 objects=27 used=27 fp=0x (null) flags=0x20000000004080 INFO: Object 0xffff880146498250 @offset=592 fp=0xffff88014649b9d0 The problem is that the structure is being prematurely freed due to a reference count imbalance. In the following case mbind(addr, len) should replace the memory policies of both vma1 and vma2 and thus they will become to share the same mempolicy and the new mempolicy will have the MPOL_F_SHARED flag. +-------------------+-------------------+ | vma1 | vma2(shmem) | +-------------------+-------------------+ | | addr addr+len alloc_pages_vma() uses get_vma_policy() and mpol_cond_put() pair for maintaining the mempolicy reference count. The current rule is that get_vma_policy() only increments refcount for shmem VMA and mpol_conf_put() only decrements refcount if the policy has MPOL_F_SHARED. In above case, vma1 is not shmem vma and vma->policy has MPOL_F_SHARED! The reference count will be decreased even though was not increased whenever alloc_page_vma() is called. This has been broken since commit [52cd3b07: mempolicy: rework mempolicy Reference Counting] in 2008. There is another serious bug with the sharing of memory policies. Currently, mempolicy rebind logic (it is called from cpuset rebinding) ignores a refcount of mempolicy and override it forcibly. Thus, any mempolicy sharing may cause mempolicy corruption. The bug was introduced by commit [68860ec1: cpusets: automatic numa mempolicy rebinding]. Ideally, the shared policy handling would be rewritten to either properly handle COW of the policy structures or at least reference count MPOL_F_SHARED based exclusively on information within the policy. However, this patch takes the easier approach of disabling any policy sharing between VMAs. Each new range allocated with sp_alloc will allocate a new policy, set the reference count to 1 and drop the reference count of the old policy. This increases the memory footprint but is not expected to be a major problem as mbind() is unlikely to be used for fine-grained ranges. It is also inefficient because it means we allocate a new policy even in cases where mbind_range() could use the new_policy passed to it. However, it is more straight-forward and the change should be invisible to the user. [mgorman@suse.de: Edited changelog] Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>, Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* revert "mm: mempolicy: Let vma_merge and vma_split handle vma->vm_policy ↵KOSAKI Motohiro2012-10-091-17/+24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | linkages" Commit 05f144a0d5c2 ("mm: mempolicy: Let vma_merge and vma_split handle vma->vm_policy linkages") removed vma->vm_policy updates code but it is the purpose of mbind_range(). Now, mbind_range() is virtually a no-op and while it does not allow memory corruption it is not the right fix. This patch is a revert. [mgorman@suse.de: Edited changelog] Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: compaction: capture a suitable high-order page immediately when it is ↵Mel Gorman2012-10-093-27/+127
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | made available While compaction is migrating pages to free up large contiguous blocks for allocation it races with other allocation requests that may steal these blocks or break them up. This patch alters direct compaction to capture a suitable free page as soon as it becomes available to reduce this race. It uses similar logic to split_free_page() to ensure that watermarks are still obeyed. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: vmscan: scale number of pages reclaimed by reclaim/compaction based on ↵Mel Gorman2012-10-091-0/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | failures If allocation fails after compaction then compaction may be deferred for a number of allocation attempts. If there are subsequent failures, compact_defer_shift is increased to defer for longer periods. This patch uses that information to scale the number of pages reclaimed with compact_defer_shift until allocations succeed again. The rationale is that reclaiming the normal number of pages still allowed compaction to fail and its success depends on the number of pages. If it's failing, reclaim more pages until it succeeds again. Note that this is not implying that VM reclaim is not reclaiming enough pages or that its logic is broken. try_to_free_pages() always asks for SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX pages to be reclaimed regardless of order and that is what it does. Direct reclaim stops normally with this check. if (sc->nr_reclaimed >= sc->nr_to_reclaim) goto out; should_continue_reclaim delays when that check is made until a minimum number of pages for reclaim/compaction are reclaimed. It is possible that this patch could instead set nr_to_reclaim in try_to_free_pages() and drive it from there but that's behaves differently and not necessarily for the better. If driven from do_try_to_free_pages(), it is also possible that priorities will rise. When they reach DEF_PRIORITY-2, it will also start stalling and setting pages for immediate reclaim which is more disruptive than not desirable in this case. That is a more wide-reaching change that could cause another regression related to THP requests causing interactive jitter. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: compaction: update comment in try_to_compact_pagesMel Gorman2012-10-091-5/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allocation success rates have been far lower since 3.4 due to commit fe2c2a106663 ("vmscan: reclaim at order 0 when compaction is enabled"). This commit was introduced for good reasons and it was known in advance that the success rates would suffer but it was justified on the grounds that the high allocation success rates were achieved by aggressive reclaim. Success rates are expected to suffer even more in 3.6 due to commit 7db8889ab05b ("mm: have order > 0 compaction start off where it left") which testing has shown to severely reduce allocation success rates under load - to 0% in one case. This series aims to improve the allocation success rates without regressing the benefits of commit fe2c2a106663. The series is based on latest mmotm and takes into account the __GFP_NO_KSWAPD flag is going away. Patch 1 updates a stale comment seeing as I was in the general area. Patch 2 updates reclaim/compaction to reclaim pages scaled on the number of recent failures. Patch 3 captures suitable high-order pages freed by compaction to reduce races with parallel allocation requests. Patch 4 fixes the upstream commit [7db8889a: mm: have order > 0 compaction start off where it left] to enable compaction again Patch 5 identifies when compacion is taking too long due to contention and aborts. STRESS-HIGHALLOC 3.6-rc1-akpm full-series Pass 1 36.00 ( 0.00%) 51.00 (15.00%) Pass 2 42.00 ( 0.00%) 63.00 (21.00%) while Rested 86.00 ( 0.00%) 86.00 ( 0.00%) From http://www.csn.ul.ie/~mel/postings/mmtests-20120424/global-dhp__stress-highalloc-performance-ext3/hydra/comparison.html I know that the allocation success rates in 3.3.6 was 78% in comparison to 36% in in the current akpm tree. With the full series applied, the success rates are up to around 51% with some variability in the results. This is not as high a success rate but it does not reclaim excessively which is a key point. MMTests Statistics: vmstat Page Ins 3050912 3078892 Page Outs 8033528 8039096 Swap Ins 0 0 Swap Outs 0 0 Note that swap in/out rates remain at 0. In 3.3.6 with 78% success rates there were 71881 pages swapped out. Direct pages scanned 70942 122976 Kswapd pages scanned 1366300 1520122 Kswapd pages reclaimed 1366214 1484629 Direct pages reclaimed 70936 105716 Kswapd efficiency 99% 97% Kswapd velocity 1072.550 1182.615 Direct efficiency 99% 85% Direct velocity 55.690 95.672 The kswapd velocity changes very little as expected. kswapd velocity is around the 1000 pages/sec mark where as in kernel 3.3.6 with the high allocation success rates it was 8140 pages/second. Direct velocity is higher as a result of patch 2 of the series but this is expected and is acceptable. The direct reclaim and kswapd velocities change very little. If these get accepted for merging then there is a difficulty in how they should be handled. 7db8889a ("mm: have order > 0 compaction start off where it left") is broken but it is already in 3.6-rc1 and needs to be fixed. However, if just patch 4 from this series is applied then Jim Schutt's workload is known to break again as his workload also requires patch 5. While it would be preferred to have all these patches in 3.6 to improve compaction in general, it would at least be acceptable if just patches 4 and 5 were merged to 3.6 to fix a known problem without breaking compaction completely. On the face of it, that would force __GFP_NO_KSWAPD patches to be merged at the same time but I can do a version of this series with __GFP_NO_KSWAPD change reverted and then rebase it on top of this series. That might be best overall because I note that the __GFP_NO_KSWAPD patch should have removed deferred_compaction from page_alloc.c but it didn't but fixing that causes collisions with this series. This patch: The comment about order applied when the check was order > PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER which has not been the case since c5a73c3d ("thp: use compaction for all allocation orders"). Fixing the comment while I'm in the general area. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm/mmap.c: replace find_vma_prepare() with clearer find_vma_links()Hugh Dickins2012-10-091-24/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | People get confused by find_vma_prepare(), because it doesn't care about what it returns in its output args, when its callers won't be interested. Clarify by passing in end-of-range address too, and returning failure if any existing vma overlaps the new range: instead of returning an ambiguous vma which most callers then must check. find_vma_links() is a clearer name. This does revert 2.6.27's dfe195fb79e88 ("mm: fix uninitialized variables for find_vma_prepare callers"), but it looks like gcc 4.3.0 was one of those releases too eager to shout about uninitialized variables: only copy_vma() warns with 4.5.1 and 4.7.1, which a BUG on error silences. [hughd@google.com: fix warning, remove BUG()] Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@tonian.com> Acked-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* mm: fix nonuniform page status when writing new file with small bufferRobin Dong2012-10-091-1/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When writing a new file with 2048 bytes buffer, such as write(fd, buffer, 2048), it will call generic_perform_write() twice for every page: write_begin mark_page_accessed(page) write_end write_begin mark_page_accessed(page) write_end Pages 1-13 will be added to lru-pvecs in write_begin() and will *NOT* be added to active_list even they have be accessed twice because they are not PageLRU(page). But when page 14th comes, all pages in lru-pvecs will be moved to inactive_list (by __lru_cache_add() ) in first write_begin(), now page 14th *is* PageLRU(page). And after second write_end() only page 14th will be in active_list. In Hadoop environment, we do comes to this situation: after writing a file, we find out that only 14th, 28th, 42th... page are in active_list and others in inactive_list. Now kswapd works, shrinks the inactive_list, the file only have 14th, 28th...pages in memory, the readahead request size will be broken to only 52k (13*4k), system's performance falls dramatically. This problem can also replay by below steps (the machine has 8G memory): 1. dd if=/dev/zero of=/test/file.out bs=1024 count=1048576 2. cat another 7.5G file to /dev/null 3. vmtouch -m 1G -v /test/file.out, it will show: /test/file.out [oooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO] 187847/262144 the 'o' means same pages are in memory but same are not. The solution for this problem is simple: the 14th page should be added to lru_add_pvecs before mark_page_accessed() just as other pages. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: grab better comment from the v3 patch] Signed-off-by: Robin Dong <sanbai@taobao.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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