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Minchan Kim
ff321feac2 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>
2010-08-09 20:44:57 -07:00
David Rientjes
03668b3ceb 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>
2010-08-09 20:44:56 -07:00
Yinghai Lu
b8ab9f8202 x86,nobootmem: make alloc_bootmem_node fall back to other node when 32bit numa is used
Borislav Petkov reported his 32bit numa system has problem:

[    0.000000] Reserving total of 4c00 pages for numa KVA remap
[    0.000000] kva_start_pfn ~ 32800 max_low_pfn ~ 375fe
[    0.000000] max_pfn = 238000
[    0.000000] 8202MB HIGHMEM available.
[    0.000000] 885MB LOWMEM available.
[    0.000000]   mapped low ram: 0 - 375fe000
[    0.000000]   low ram: 0 - 375fe000
[    0.000000] alloc (nid=8 100000 - 7ee00000) (1000000 - ffffffff) 1000 1000 => 34e7000
[    0.000000] alloc (nid=8 100000 - 7ee00000) (1000000 - ffffffff) 200 40 => 34c9d80
[    0.000000] alloc (nid=0 100000 - 7ee00000) (1000000 - ffffffffffffffff) 180 40 => 34e6140
[    0.000000] alloc (nid=1 80000000 - c7e60000) (1000000 - ffffffffffffffff) 240 40 => 80000000
[    0.000000] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 40000000
[    0.000000] IP: [<c2c8cff1>] __alloc_memory_core_early+0x147/0x1d6
[    0.000000] *pdpt = 0000000000000000 *pde = f000ff53f000ff00
...
[    0.000000] Call Trace:
[    0.000000]  [<c2c8b4f8>] ? __alloc_bootmem_node+0x216/0x22f
[    0.000000]  [<c2c90c9b>] ? sparse_early_usemaps_alloc_node+0x5a/0x10b
[    0.000000]  [<c2c9149e>] ? sparse_init+0x1dc/0x499
[    0.000000]  [<c2c79118>] ? paging_init+0x168/0x1df
[    0.000000]  [<c2c780ff>] ? native_pagetable_setup_start+0xef/0x1bb

looks like it allocates too much high address for bootmem.

Try to cut limit with get_max_mapped()

Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Tested-by: Conny Seidel <conny.seidel@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.34.x]
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-07-20 16:25:40 -07:00
Catalin Marinas
9078370c0d kmemleak: Add support for NO_BOOTMEM configurations
With commits 08677214 and 59be5a8e, alloc_bootmem()/free_bootmem() and
friends use the early_res functions for memory management when
NO_BOOTMEM is enabled. This patch adds the kmemleak calls in the
corresponding code paths for bootmem allocations.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2010-07-19 11:54:15 +01:00
Lee Schermerhorn
7aac789885 numa: introduce numa_mem_id()- effective local memory node id
Introduce numa_mem_id(), based on generic percpu variable infrastructure
to track "nearest node with memory" for archs that support memoryless
nodes.

Define API in <linux/topology.h> when CONFIG_HAVE_MEMORYLESS_NODES
defined, else stubs.  Architectures will define HAVE_MEMORYLESS_NODES
if/when they support them.

Archs can override definitions of:

numa_mem_id() - returns node number of "local memory" node
set_numa_mem() - initialize [this cpus'] per cpu variable 'numa_mem'
cpu_to_mem()  - return numa_mem for specified cpu; may be used as lvalue

Generic initialization of 'numa_mem' occurs in __build_all_zonelists().
This will initialize the boot cpu at boot time, and all cpus on change of
numa_zonelist_order, or when node or memory hot-plug requires zonelist
rebuild.  Archs that support memoryless nodes will need to initialize
'numa_mem' for secondary cpus as they're brought on-line.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:57 -07:00
Lee Schermerhorn
7281201922 numa: add generic percpu var numa_node_id() implementation
Rework the generic version of the numa_node_id() function to use the new
generic percpu variable infrastructure.

Guard the new implementation with a new config option:

        CONFIG_USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID.

Archs which support this new implemention will default this option to 'y'
when NUMA is configured.  This config option could be removed if/when all
archs switch over to the generic percpu implementation of numa_node_id().
Arch support involves:

  1) converting any existing per cpu variable implementations to use
     this implementation.  x86_64 is an instance of such an arch.
  2) archs that don't use a per cpu variable for numa_node_id() will
     need to initialize the new per cpu variable "numa_node" as cpus
     are brought on-line.  ia64 is an example.
  3) Defining USE_PERCPU_NUMA_NODE_ID in arch dependent Kconfig--e.g.,
     when NUMA is configured.  This is required because I have
     retained the old implementation by default to allow archs to
     be modified incrementally, as desired.

Subsequent patches will convert x86_64 and ia64 to use this implemenation.

Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27 09:12:57 -07:00
Haicheng Li
4eaf3f6439 mem-hotplug: fix potential race while building zonelist for new populated zone
Add global mutex zonelists_mutex to fix the possible race:

     CPU0                                  CPU1                    CPU2
(1) zone->present_pages += online_pages;
(2)                                       build_all_zonelists();
(3)                                                               alloc_page();
(4)                                                               free_page();
(5) build_all_zonelists();
(6)   __build_all_zonelists();
(7)     zone->pageset = alloc_percpu();

In step (3,4), zone->pageset still points to boot_pageset, so bad
things may happen if 2+ nodes are in this state. Even if only 1 node
is accessing the boot_pageset, (3) may still consume too much memory
to fail the memory allocations in step (7).

Besides, atomic operation ensures alloc_percpu() in step (7) will never fail
since there is a new fresh memory block added in step(6).

[haicheng.li@linux.intel.com: hold zonelists_mutex when build_all_zonelists]
Signed-off-by: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25 08:07:02 -07:00
Haicheng Li
1f522509c7 mem-hotplug: avoid multiple zones sharing same boot strapping boot_pageset
For each new populated zone of hotadded node, need to update its pagesets
with dynamically allocated per_cpu_pageset struct for all possible CPUs:

    1) Detach zone->pageset from the shared boot_pageset
       at end of __build_all_zonelists().

    2) Use mutex to protect zone->pageset when it's still
       shared in onlined_pages()

Otherwises, multiple zones of different nodes would share same boot strapping
boot_pageset for same CPU, which will finally cause below kernel panic:

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  kernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:1239!
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
  ...
  Call Trace:
   [<ffffffff811300c1>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x131/0x7b0
   [<ffffffff81162e67>] alloc_pages_current+0x87/0xd0
   [<ffffffff81128407>] __page_cache_alloc+0x67/0x70
   [<ffffffff811325f0>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x120/0x260
   [<ffffffff81132751>] ra_submit+0x21/0x30
   [<ffffffff811329c6>] ondemand_readahead+0x166/0x2c0
   [<ffffffff81132ba0>] page_cache_async_readahead+0x80/0xa0
   [<ffffffff8112a0e4>] generic_file_aio_read+0x364/0x670
   [<ffffffff81266cfa>] nfs_file_read+0xca/0x130
   [<ffffffff8117b20a>] do_sync_read+0xfa/0x140
   [<ffffffff8117bf75>] vfs_read+0xb5/0x1a0
   [<ffffffff8117c151>] sys_read+0x51/0x80
   [<ffffffff8103c032>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
  RIP  [<ffffffff8112ff13>] get_page_from_freelist+0x883/0x900
   RSP <ffff88000d1e78a8>
  ---[ end trace 4bda28328b9990db ]

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: merge fix]
Signed-off-by: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25 08:07:01 -07:00
Wu Fengguang
319774e25f mem-hotplug: separate setup_per_cpu_pageset() into separate functions
No behavior change here.

Move some of setup_per_cpu_pageset() code into a new function
setup_zone_pageset() that will be useful for memory hotplug.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Haicheng Li <haicheng.li@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <andi.kleen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25 08:07:01 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
ec95f53aa6 mm: introduce free_pages_prepare()
free_hot_cold_page() and __free_pages_ok() have very similar freeing
preparation.  Consolidate them.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix busted coding style]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25 08:07:00 -07:00
Mel Gorman
4f92e2586b mm: compaction: defer compaction using an exponential backoff when compaction fails
The fragmentation index may indicate that a failure is due to external
fragmentation but after a compaction run completes, it is still possible
for an allocation to fail.  There are two obvious reasons as to why

  o Page migration cannot move all pages so fragmentation remains
  o A suitable page may exist but watermarks are not met

In the event of compaction followed by an allocation failure, this patch
defers further compaction in the zone (1 << compact_defer_shift) times.
If the next compaction attempt also fails, compact_defer_shift is
increased up to a maximum of 6.  If compaction succeeds, the defer
counters are reset again.

The zone that is deferred is the first zone in the zonelist - i.e.  the
preferred zone.  To defer compaction in the other zones, the information
would need to be stored in the zonelist or implemented similar to the
zonelist_cache.  This would impact the fast-paths and is not justified at
this time.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
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>
2010-05-25 08:07:00 -07:00
Mel Gorman
56de7263fc mm: compaction: direct compact when a high-order allocation fails
Ordinarily when a high-order allocation fails, direct reclaim is entered
to free pages to satisfy the allocation.  With this patch, it is
determined if an allocation failed due to external fragmentation instead
of low memory and if so, the calling process will compact until a suitable
page is freed.  Compaction by moving pages in memory is considerably
cheaper than paging out to disk and works where there are locked pages or
no swap.  If compaction fails to free a page of a suitable size, then
reclaim will still occur.

Direct compaction returns as soon as possible.  As each block is
compacted, it is checked if a suitable page has been freed and if so, it
returns.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Fix build errors]
[aarcange@redhat.com: fix count_vm_event preempt in memory compaction direct reclaim]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25 08:06:59 -07:00
Mel Gorman
748446bb6b mm: compaction: memory compaction core
This patch is the core of a mechanism which compacts memory in a zone by
relocating movable pages towards the end of the zone.

A single compaction run involves a migration scanner and a free scanner.
Both scanners operate on pageblock-sized areas in the zone.  The migration
scanner starts at the bottom of the zone and searches for all movable
pages within each area, isolating them onto a private list called
migratelist.  The free scanner starts at the top of the zone and searches
for suitable areas and consumes the free pages within making them
available for the migration scanner.  The pages isolated for migration are
then migrated to the newly isolated free pages.

[aarcange@redhat.com: Fix unsafe optimisation]
[mel@csn.ul.ie: do not schedule work on other CPUs for compaction]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
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>
2010-05-25 08:06:59 -07:00
David Rientjes
e325c90ffc mm: default to node zonelist ordering when nodes have only lowmem
There are two types of zonelist ordering methodologies:

 - node order, preferring allocations on a node to stay local to and

 - zone order, preferring allocations come from a higher zone to avoid
   allocating in lowmem zones even though they may not be local.

The ordering technique used by the kernel is configurable on the command
line, but also has some logic to determine what the default should be.

This logic currently lacks knowledge of systems where a node may only have
lowmem.  For such systems, it is necessary to use node order so that
GFP_KERNEL allocations may be satisfied by nodes consisting of only
lowmem.

If zone order is used, GFP_KERNEL allocations to such nodes are actually
allocated on a node with local affinity that includes ZONE_NORMAL.

This change defaults to node zonelist ordering if any node lacks
ZONE_NORMAL.

To force zone order, append 'numa_zonelist_order=zone' to the kernel
command line.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
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>
2010-05-25 08:06:58 -07:00
Miao Xie
c0ff7453bb cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when changing cpuset's mems
Before applying this patch, cpuset updates task->mems_allowed and
mempolicy by setting all new bits in the nodemask first, and clearing all
old unallowed bits later.  But in the way, the allocator may find that
there is no node to alloc memory.

The reason is that cpuset rebinds the task's mempolicy, it cleans the
nodes which the allocater can alloc pages on, for example:

(mpol: mempolicy)
	task1			task1's mpol	task2
	alloc page		1
	  alloc on node0? NO	1
				1		change mems from 1 to 0
				1		rebind task1's mpol
				0-1		  set new bits
				0	  	  clear disallowed bits
	  alloc on node1? NO	0
	  ...
	can't alloc page
	  goto oom

This patch fixes this problem by expanding the nodes range first(set newly
allowed bits) and shrink it lazily(clear newly disallowed bits).  So we
use a variable to tell the write-side task that read-side task is reading
nodemask, and the write-side task clears newly disallowed nodes after
read-side task ends the current memory allocation.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix spello]
Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25 08:06:57 -07:00
Corrado Zoccolo
6dda9d55bf page allocator: reduce fragmentation in buddy allocator by adding buddies that are merging to the tail of the free lists
In order to reduce fragmentation, this patch classifies freed pages in two
groups according to their probability of being part of a high order merge.
 Pages belonging to a compound whose next-highest buddy is free are more
likely to be part of a high order merge in the near future, so they will
be added at the tail of the freelist.  The remaining pages are put at the
front of the freelist.

In this way, the pages that are more likely to cause a big merge are kept
free longer.  Consequently there is a tendency to aggregate the
long-living allocations on a subset of the compounds, reducing the
fragmentation.

This heuristic was tested on three machines, x86, x86-64 and ppc64 with
3GB of RAM in each machine.  The tests were kernbench, netperf, sysbench
and STREAM for performance and a high-order stress test for huge page
allocations.

KernBench X86
Elapsed mean     374.77 ( 0.00%)   375.10 (-0.09%)
User    mean     649.53 ( 0.00%)   650.44 (-0.14%)
System  mean      54.75 ( 0.00%)    54.18 ( 1.05%)
CPU     mean     187.75 ( 0.00%)   187.25 ( 0.27%)

KernBench X86-64
Elapsed mean      94.45 ( 0.00%)    94.01 ( 0.47%)
User    mean     323.27 ( 0.00%)   322.66 ( 0.19%)
System  mean      36.71 ( 0.00%)    36.50 ( 0.57%)
CPU     mean     380.75 ( 0.00%)   381.75 (-0.26%)

KernBench PPC64
Elapsed mean     173.45 ( 0.00%)   173.74 (-0.17%)
User    mean     587.99 ( 0.00%)   587.95 ( 0.01%)
System  mean      60.60 ( 0.00%)    60.57 ( 0.05%)
CPU     mean     373.50 ( 0.00%)   372.75 ( 0.20%)

Nothing notable for kernbench.

NetPerf UDP X86
      64    42.68 ( 0.00%)     42.77 ( 0.21%)
     128    85.62 ( 0.00%)     85.32 (-0.35%)
     256   170.01 ( 0.00%)    168.76 (-0.74%)
    1024   655.68 ( 0.00%)    652.33 (-0.51%)
    2048  1262.39 ( 0.00%)   1248.61 (-1.10%)
    3312  1958.41 ( 0.00%)   1944.61 (-0.71%)
    4096  2345.63 ( 0.00%)   2318.83 (-1.16%)
    8192  4132.90 ( 0.00%)   4089.50 (-1.06%)
   16384  6770.88 ( 0.00%)   6642.05 (-1.94%)*

NetPerf UDP X86-64
      64   148.82 ( 0.00%)    154.92 ( 3.94%)
     128   298.96 ( 0.00%)    312.95 ( 4.47%)
     256   583.67 ( 0.00%)    626.39 ( 6.82%)
    1024  2293.18 ( 0.00%)   2371.10 ( 3.29%)
    2048  4274.16 ( 0.00%)   4396.83 ( 2.79%)
    3312  6356.94 ( 0.00%)   6571.35 ( 3.26%)
    4096  7422.68 ( 0.00%)   7635.42 ( 2.79%)*
    8192 12114.81 ( 0.00%)* 12346.88 ( 1.88%)
   16384 17022.28 ( 0.00%)* 17033.19 ( 0.06%)*
             1.64%             2.73%

NetPerf UDP PPC64
      64    49.98 ( 0.00%)     50.25 ( 0.54%)
     128    98.66 ( 0.00%)    100.95 ( 2.27%)
     256   197.33 ( 0.00%)    191.03 (-3.30%)
    1024   761.98 ( 0.00%)    785.07 ( 2.94%)
    2048  1493.50 ( 0.00%)   1510.85 ( 1.15%)
    3312  2303.95 ( 0.00%)   2271.72 (-1.42%)
    4096  2774.56 ( 0.00%)   2773.06 (-0.05%)
    8192  4918.31 ( 0.00%)   4793.59 (-2.60%)
   16384  7497.98 ( 0.00%)   7749.52 ( 3.25%)

The tests are run to have confidence limits within 1%.  Results marked
with a * were not confident although in this case, it's only outside by
small amounts.  Even with some results that were not confident, the
netperf UDP results were generally positive.

NetPerf TCP X86
      64   652.25 ( 0.00%)*   648.12 (-0.64%)*
            23.80%            22.82%
     128  1229.98 ( 0.00%)*  1220.56 (-0.77%)*
            21.03%            18.90%
     256  2105.88 ( 0.00%)   1872.03 (-12.49%)*
             1.00%            16.46%
    1024  3476.46 ( 0.00%)*  3548.28 ( 2.02%)*
            13.37%            11.39%
    2048  4023.44 ( 0.00%)*  4231.45 ( 4.92%)*
             9.76%            12.48%
    3312  4348.88 ( 0.00%)*  4396.96 ( 1.09%)*
             6.49%             8.75%
    4096  4726.56 ( 0.00%)*  4877.71 ( 3.10%)*
             9.85%             8.50%
    8192  4732.28 ( 0.00%)*  5777.77 (18.10%)*
             9.13%            13.04%
   16384  5543.05 ( 0.00%)*  5906.24 ( 6.15%)*
             7.73%             8.68%

NETPERF TCP X86-64
            netperf-tcp-vanilla-netperf       netperf-tcp
                   tcp-vanilla     pgalloc-delay
      64  1895.87 ( 0.00%)*  1775.07 (-6.81%)*
             5.79%             4.78%
     128  3571.03 ( 0.00%)*  3342.20 (-6.85%)*
             3.68%             6.06%
     256  5097.21 ( 0.00%)*  4859.43 (-4.89%)*
             3.02%             2.10%
    1024  8919.10 ( 0.00%)*  8892.49 (-0.30%)*
             5.89%             6.55%
    2048 10255.46 ( 0.00%)* 10449.39 ( 1.86%)*
             7.08%             7.44%
    3312 10839.90 ( 0.00%)* 10740.15 (-0.93%)*
             6.87%             7.33%
    4096 10814.84 ( 0.00%)* 10766.97 (-0.44%)*
             6.86%             8.18%
    8192 11606.89 ( 0.00%)* 11189.28 (-3.73%)*
             7.49%             5.55%
   16384 12554.88 ( 0.00%)* 12361.22 (-1.57%)*
             7.36%             6.49%

NETPERF TCP PPC64
            netperf-tcp-vanilla-netperf       netperf-tcp
                   tcp-vanilla     pgalloc-delay
      64   594.17 ( 0.00%)    596.04 ( 0.31%)*
             1.00%             2.29%
     128  1064.87 ( 0.00%)*  1074.77 ( 0.92%)*
             1.30%             1.40%
     256  1852.46 ( 0.00%)*  1856.95 ( 0.24%)
             1.25%             1.00%
    1024  3839.46 ( 0.00%)*  3813.05 (-0.69%)
             1.02%             1.00%
    2048  4885.04 ( 0.00%)*  4881.97 (-0.06%)*
             1.15%             1.04%
    3312  5506.90 ( 0.00%)   5459.72 (-0.86%)
    4096  6449.19 ( 0.00%)   6345.46 (-1.63%)
    8192  7501.17 ( 0.00%)   7508.79 ( 0.10%)
   16384  9618.65 ( 0.00%)   9490.10 (-1.35%)

There was a distinct lack of confidence in the X86* figures so I included
what the devation was where the results were not confident.  Many of the
results, whether gains or losses were within the standard deviation so no
solid conclusion can be reached on performance impact.  Looking at the
figures, only the X86-64 ones look suspicious with a few losses that were
outside the noise.  However, the results were so unstable that without
knowing why they vary so much, a solid conclusion cannot be reached.

SYSBENCH X86
              sysbench-vanilla     pgalloc-delay
           1  7722.85 ( 0.00%)  7756.79 ( 0.44%)
           2 14901.11 ( 0.00%) 13683.44 (-8.90%)
           3 15171.71 ( 0.00%) 14888.25 (-1.90%)
           4 14966.98 ( 0.00%) 15029.67 ( 0.42%)
           5 14370.47 ( 0.00%) 14865.00 ( 3.33%)
           6 14870.33 ( 0.00%) 14845.57 (-0.17%)
           7 14429.45 ( 0.00%) 14520.85 ( 0.63%)
           8 14354.35 ( 0.00%) 14362.31 ( 0.06%)

SYSBENCH X86-64
           1 17448.70 ( 0.00%) 17484.41 ( 0.20%)
           2 34276.39 ( 0.00%) 34251.00 (-0.07%)
           3 50805.25 ( 0.00%) 50854.80 ( 0.10%)
           4 66667.10 ( 0.00%) 66174.69 (-0.74%)
           5 66003.91 ( 0.00%) 65685.25 (-0.49%)
           6 64981.90 ( 0.00%) 65125.60 ( 0.22%)
           7 64933.16 ( 0.00%) 64379.23 (-0.86%)
           8 63353.30 ( 0.00%) 63281.22 (-0.11%)
           9 63511.84 ( 0.00%) 63570.37 ( 0.09%)
          10 62708.27 ( 0.00%) 63166.25 ( 0.73%)
          11 62092.81 ( 0.00%) 61787.75 (-0.49%)
          12 61330.11 ( 0.00%) 61036.34 (-0.48%)
          13 61438.37 ( 0.00%) 61994.47 ( 0.90%)
          14 62304.48 ( 0.00%) 62064.90 (-0.39%)
          15 63296.48 ( 0.00%) 62875.16 (-0.67%)
          16 63951.76 ( 0.00%) 63769.09 (-0.29%)

SYSBENCH PPC64
                             -sysbench-pgalloc-delay-sysbench
              sysbench-vanilla     pgalloc-delay
           1  7645.08 ( 0.00%)  7467.43 (-2.38%)
           2 14856.67 ( 0.00%) 14558.73 (-2.05%)
           3 21952.31 ( 0.00%) 21683.64 (-1.24%)
           4 27946.09 ( 0.00%) 28623.29 ( 2.37%)
           5 28045.11 ( 0.00%) 28143.69 ( 0.35%)
           6 27477.10 ( 0.00%) 27337.45 (-0.51%)
           7 26489.17 ( 0.00%) 26590.06 ( 0.38%)
           8 26642.91 ( 0.00%) 25274.33 (-5.41%)
           9 25137.27 ( 0.00%) 24810.06 (-1.32%)
          10 24451.99 ( 0.00%) 24275.85 (-0.73%)
          11 23262.20 ( 0.00%) 23674.88 ( 1.74%)
          12 24234.81 ( 0.00%) 23640.89 (-2.51%)
          13 24577.75 ( 0.00%) 24433.50 (-0.59%)
          14 25640.19 ( 0.00%) 25116.52 (-2.08%)
          15 26188.84 ( 0.00%) 26181.36 (-0.03%)
          16 26782.37 ( 0.00%) 26255.99 (-2.00%)

Again, there is little to conclude here.  While there are a few losses,
the results vary by +/- 8% in some cases.  They are the results of most
concern as there are some large losses but it's also within the variance
typically seen between kernel releases.

The STREAM results varied so little and are so verbose that I didn't
include them here.

The final test stressed how many huge pages can be allocated.  The
absolute number of huge pages allocated are the same with or without the
page.  However, the "unusability free space index" which is a measure of
external fragmentation was slightly lower (lower is better) throughout the
lifetime of the system.  I also measured the latency of how long it took
to successfully allocate a huge page.  The latency was slightly lower and
on X86 and PPC64, more huge pages were allocated almost immediately from
the free lists.  The improvement is slight but there.

[mel@csn.ul.ie: Tested, reworked for less branches]
[czoccolo@gmail.com: fix oops by checking pfn_valid_within()]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25 08:06:56 -07:00
Thomas Weber
8839316121 Fix typos in comments
[Ss]ytem => [Ss]ystem
udpate => update
paramters => parameters
orginal => original

Signed-off-by: Thomas Weber <swirl@gmx.li>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-03-16 11:47:56 +01:00
Wu Fengguang
718a38211b mm: introduce dump_page() and print symbolic flag names
- introduce dump_page() to print the page info for debugging some error
  condition.

- convert three mm users: bad_page(), print_bad_pte() and memory offline
  failure.

- print an extra field: the symbolic names of page->flags

Example dump_page() output:

[  157.521694] page:ffffea0000a7cba8 count:2 mapcount:1 mapping:ffff88001c901791 index:0x147
[  157.525570] page flags: 0x100000000100068(uptodate|lru|active|swapbacked)

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
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>
2010-03-12 15:52:28 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner
2d30a1f631 mm: do not iterate over NR_CPUS in __zone_pcp_update()
__zone_pcp_update() iterates over NR_CPUS instead of limiting the access
to the possible cpus.  This might result in access to uninitialized areas
as the per cpu allocator only populates the per cpu memory for possible
cpus.

This problem was created as a result of the dynamic allocation of pagesets
from percpu memory that went in during the merge window - commit
99dcc3e5a9 ("this_cpu: Page allocator
conversion").

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
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>
2010-03-12 15:52:28 -08:00
David Rientjes
72f0ba0252 mm: suppress pfn range output for zones without pages
free_area_init_nodes() emits pfn ranges for all zones on the system.
There may be no pages on a higher zone, however, due to memory limitations
or the use of the mem= kernel parameter.  For example:

Zone PFN ranges:
  DMA      0x00000001 -> 0x00001000
  DMA32    0x00001000 -> 0x00100000
  Normal   0x00100000 -> 0x00100000

The implementation copies the previous zone's highest pfn, if any, as the
next zone's lowest pfn.  If its highest pfn is then greater than the
amount of addressable memory, the upper memory limit is used instead.
Thus, both the lowest and highest possible pfn for higher zones without
memory may be the same.

The pfn range for zones without memory is now shown as "empty" instead.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
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>
2010-03-06 11:26:26 -08:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
452aa6999e mm/pm: force GFP_NOIO during suspend/hibernation and resume
There are quite a few GFP_KERNEL memory allocations made during
suspend/hibernation and resume that may cause the system to hang, because
the I/O operations they depend on cannot be completed due to the
underlying devices being suspended.

Avoid this problem by clearing the __GFP_IO and __GFP_FS bits in
gfp_allowed_mask before suspend/hibernation and restoring the original
values of these bits in gfp_allowed_mask durig the subsequent resume.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_PM=n linkage]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Reported-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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>
2010-03-06 11:26:26 -08:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
93e4a89a8c mm: restore zone->all_unreclaimable to independence word
commit e815af95 ("change all_unreclaimable zone member to flags") changed
all_unreclaimable member to bit flag.  But it had an undesireble side
effect.  free_one_page() is one of most hot path in linux kernel and
increasing atomic ops in it can reduce kernel performance a bit.

Thus, this patch revert such commit partially. at least
all_unreclaimable shouldn't share memory word with other zone flags.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix patch interaction]
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-06 11:26:25 -08:00
Li Hong
fc91668eaf mm: remove free_hot_page()
free_hot_page() is just a wrapper around free_hot_cold_page() with
parameter 'cold = 0'.  After adding a clear comment for
free_hot_cold_page(), it is reasonable to remove a level of call.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Li Hong <lihong.hi@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Americo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-06 11:26:25 -08:00
Li Hong
c475dab63a mm/page_alloc.c: adjust a call site to trace_mm_page_free_direct
Move a call of trace_mm_page_free_direct() from free_hot_page() to
free_hot_cold_page().  It is clearer and close to kmemcheck_free_shadow(),
as it is done in function __free_pages_ok().

Signed-off-by: Li Hong <lihong.hi@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca>
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>
2010-03-06 11:26:24 -08:00
Li Hong
f650316c8b mm/page_alloc.c: remove duplicate call to trace_mm_page_free_direct
trace_mm_page_free_direct() is called in function __free_pages().  But it
is called again in free_hot_page() if order == 0 and produce duplicate
records in trace file for mm_page_free_direct event.  As below:

K-PID    CPU#    TIMESTAMP  FUNCTION
  gnome-terminal-1567  [000]  4415.246466: mm_page_free_direct: page=ffffea0003db9f40 pfn=1155800 order=0
  gnome-terminal-1567  [000]  4415.246468: mm_page_free_direct: page=ffffea0003db9f40 pfn=1155800 order=0
  gnome-terminal-1567  [000]  4415.246506: mm_page_alloc: page=ffffea0003db9f40 pfn=1155800 order=0 migratetype=0 gfp_flags=GFP_KERNEL
  gnome-terminal-1567  [000]  4415.255557: mm_page_free_direct: page=ffffea0003db9f40 pfn=1155800 order=0
  gnome-terminal-1567  [000]  4415.255557: mm_page_free_direct: page=ffffea0003db9f40 pfn=1155800 order=0

This patch removes the first call and adds a call to
trace_mm_page_free_direct() in __free_pages_ok().

Signed-off-by: Li Hong <lihong.hi@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca>
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>
2010-03-06 11:26:24 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
a626b46e17 Merge branch 'x86-bootmem-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-bootmem-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (30 commits)
  early_res: Need to save the allocation name in drop_range_partial()
  sparsemem: Fix compilation on PowerPC
  early_res: Add free_early_partial()
  x86: Fix non-bootmem compilation on PowerPC
  core: Move early_res from arch/x86 to kernel/
  x86: Add find_fw_memmap_area
  Move round_up/down to kernel.h
  x86: Make 32bit support NO_BOOTMEM
  early_res: Enhance check_and_double_early_res
  x86: Move back find_e820_area to e820.c
  x86: Add find_early_area_size
  x86: Separate early_res related code from e820.c
  x86: Move bios page reserve early to head32/64.c
  sparsemem: Put mem map for one node together.
  sparsemem: Put usemap for one node together
  x86: Make 64 bit use early_res instead of bootmem before slab
  x86: Only call dma32_reserve_bootmem 64bit !CONFIG_NUMA
  x86: Make early_node_mem get mem > 4 GB if possible
  x86: Dynamically increase early_res array size
  x86: Introduce max_early_res and early_res_count
  ...
2010-03-03 08:15:05 -08:00
Yinghai Lu
2ee78f7b1d x86: Fix non-bootmem compilation on PowerPC
These build errors on some non-x86 platforms (PowerPC for example):

 mm/page_alloc.c: In function '__alloc_memory_core_early':
   mm/page_alloc.c:3468: error: implicit declaration of function 'find_early_area'
   mm/page_alloc.c:3483: error: implicit declaration of function 'reserve_early_without_check'

The function is only needed on CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
LKML-Reference: <4B747239.4070907@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-22 09:16:40 +01:00
Yinghai Lu
08677214e3 x86: Make 64 bit use early_res instead of bootmem before slab
Finally we can use early_res to replace bootmem for x86_64 now.

Still can use CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM to enable it or not.

-v2: fix 32bit compiling about MAX_DMA32_PFN
-v3: folded bug fix from LKML message below

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B747239.4070907@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-02-12 09:41:59 -08:00
Tejun Heo
ab386128f2 Merge branch 'master' into percpu 2010-02-02 14:38:15 +09:00
Hugh Dickins
a7016235a6 mm: fix migratetype bug which slowed swapping
After memory pressure has forced it to dip into the reserves, 2.6.32's
5f8dcc2121 "page-allocator: split per-cpu
list into one-list-per-migrate-type" has been returning MIGRATE_RESERVE
pages to the MIGRATE_MOVABLE free_list: in some sense depleting reserves.

Fix that in the most straightforward way (which, considering the overheads
of alternative approaches, is Mel's preference): the right migratetype is
already in page_private(page), but free_pcppages_bulk() wasn't using it.

How did this bug show up?  As a 20% slowdown in my tmpfs loop kbuild
swapping tests, on PowerMac G5 with SLUB allocator.  Bisecting to that
commit was easy, but explaining the magnitude of the slowdown not easy.

The same effect appears, but much less markedly, with SLAB, and even
less markedly on other machines (the PowerMac divides into fewer zones
than x86, I think that may be a factor).  We guess that lumpy reclaim
of short-lived high-order pages is implicated in some way, and probably
this bug has been tickling a poor decision somewhere in page reclaim.

But instrumentation hasn't told me much, I've run out of time and
imagination to determine exactly what's going on, and shouldn't hold up
the fix any longer: it's valid, and might even fix other misbehaviours.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-29 10:28:09 -08:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
6ccf80eb15 page allocator: update NR_FREE_PAGES only when necessary
commit f2260e6b (page allocator: update NR_FREE_PAGES only as necessary)
made one minor regression.  if __rmqueue() was failed, NR_FREE_PAGES stat
go wrong.  this patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-16 16:53:55 -08:00
Kazuhisa Ichikawa
d2dbe08ddc mm/page_alloc: fix the range check for backward merging
The current check for 'backward merging' within add_active_range() does
not seem correct.  start_pfn must be compared against
early_node_map[i].start_pfn (and NOT against .end_pfn) to find out whether
the new region is backward-mergeable with the existing range.

Signed-off-by: Kazuhisa Ichikawa <ki@epsilou.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-01-16 12:15:38 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
99dcc3e5a9 this_cpu: Page allocator conversion
Use the per cpu allocator functionality to avoid per cpu arrays in struct zone.

This drastically reduces the size of struct zone for systems with large
amounts of processors and allows placement of critical variables of struct
zone in one cacheline even on very large systems.

Another effect is that the pagesets of one processor are placed near one
another. If multiple pagesets from different zones fit into one cacheline
then additional cacheline fetches can be avoided on the hot paths when
allocating memory from multiple zones.

Bootstrap becomes simpler if we use the same scheme for UP, SMP, NUMA. #ifdefs
are reduced and we can drop the zone_pcp macro.

Hotplug handling is also simplified since cpu alloc can bring up and
shut down cpu areas for a specific cpu as a whole. So there is no need to
allocate or free individual pagesets.

V7-V8:
- Explain chicken egg dilemmna with percpu allocator.

V4-V5:
- Fix up cases where per_cpu_ptr is called before irq disable
- Integrate the bootstrap logic that was separate before.

tj: Build failure in pageset_cpuup_callback() due to missing ret
    variable fixed.

Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2010-01-05 15:34:51 +09:00
Andi Kleen
443c6f145d SYSCTL: Add a mutex to the page_alloc zone order sysctl
The zone list code clearly cannot tolerate concurrent writers (I couldn't
find any locks for that), so simply add a global mutex. No need for RCU
in this case.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-12-23 21:01:16 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
dd508ae2db Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (36 commits)
  powerpc/gc/wii: Remove get_irq_desc()
  powerpc/gc/wii: hlwd-pic: convert irq_desc.lock to raw_spinlock
  powerpc/gamecube/wii: Fix off-by-one error in ugecon/usbgecko_udbg
  powerpc/mpic: Fix problem that affinity is not updated
  powerpc/mm: Fix stupid bug in subpge protection handling
  powerpc/iseries: use DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK for non-constant completion
  powerpc: Fix MSI support on U4 bridge PCIe slot
  powerpc: Handle VSX alignment faults correctly in little-endian mode
  powerpc/mm: Fix typo of cpumask_clear_cpu()
  powerpc/mm: Fix hash_utils_64.c compile errors with DEBUG enabled.
  powerpc: Convert BUG() to use unreachable()
  powerpc/pseries: Make declarations of cpu_hotplug_driver_lock() ANSI compatible.
  powerpc/pseries: Don't panic when H_PROD fails during cpu-online.
  powerpc/mm: Fix a WARN_ON() with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC and CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
  powerpc/defconfigs: Set HZ=100 on pseries and ppc64 defconfigs
  powerpc/defconfigs: Disable token ring in powerpc defconfigs
  powerpc/defconfigs: Reduce 64bit vmlinux by making acenic and cramfs modules
  powerpc/pseries: Select XICS and PCI_MSI PSERIES
  powerpc/85xx: Wrong variable returned on error
  powerpc/iseries: Convert to proc_fops
  ...
2009-12-22 14:18:13 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
3981e15286 Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86, irq: Allow 0xff for /proc/irq/[n]/smp_affinity on an 8-cpu system
  Makefile: Unexport LC_ALL instead of clearing it
  x86: Fix objdump version check in arch/x86/tools/chkobjdump.awk
  x86: Reenable TSC sync check at boot, even with NONSTOP_TSC
  x86: Don't use POSIX character classes in gen-insn-attr-x86.awk
  Makefile: set LC_CTYPE, LC_COLLATE, LC_NUMERIC to C
  x86: Increase MAX_EARLY_RES; insufficient on 32-bit NUMA
  x86: Fix checking of SRAT when node 0 ram is not from 0
  x86, cpuid: Add "volatile" to asm in native_cpuid()
  x86, msr: msrs_alloc/free for CONFIG_SMP=n
  x86, amd: Get multi-node CPU info from NodeId MSR instead of PCI config space
  x86: Add IA32_TSC_AUX MSR and use it
  x86, msr/cpuid: Register enough minors for the MSR and CPUID drivers
  initramfs: add missing decompressor error check
  bzip2: Add missing checks for malloc returning NULL
  bzip2/lzma/gzip: pre-boot malloc doesn't return NULL on failure
2009-12-19 09:48:14 -08:00
Robert Jennings
925cc71e51 mm: Add notifier in pageblock isolation for balloon drivers
Memory balloon drivers can allocate a large amount of memory which is not
movable but could be freed to accomodate memory hotplug remove.

Prior to calling the memory hotplug notifier chain the memory in the
pageblock is isolated.  Currently, if the migrate type is not
MIGRATE_MOVABLE the isolation will not proceed, causing the memory removal
for that page range to fail.

Rather than failing pageblock isolation if the migrateteype is not
MIGRATE_MOVABLE, this patch checks if all of the pages in the pageblock,
and not on the LRU, are owned by a registered balloon driver (or other
entity) using a notifier chain.  If all of the non-movable pages are owned
by a balloon, they can be freed later through the memory notifier chain
and the range can still be isolated in set_migratetype_isolate().

Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <geralds@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-12-18 14:53:36 +11:00
Yinghai Lu
3299625036 x86: Fix checking of SRAT when node 0 ram is not from 0
Found one system that boot from socket1 instead of socket0, SRAT get rejected...

[    0.000000] SRAT: Node 1 PXM 0 0-a0000
[    0.000000] SRAT: Node 1 PXM 0 100000-80000000
[    0.000000] SRAT: Node 1 PXM 0 100000000-2080000000
[    0.000000] SRAT: Node 0 PXM 1 2080000000-4080000000
[    0.000000] SRAT: Node 2 PXM 2 4080000000-6080000000
[    0.000000] SRAT: Node 3 PXM 3 6080000000-8080000000
[    0.000000] SRAT: Node 4 PXM 4 8080000000-a080000000
[    0.000000] SRAT: Node 5 PXM 5 a080000000-c080000000
[    0.000000] SRAT: Node 6 PXM 6 c080000000-e080000000
[    0.000000] SRAT: Node 7 PXM 7 e080000000-10080000000
...
[    0.000000] NUMA: Allocated memnodemap from 500000 - 701040
[    0.000000] NUMA: Using 20 for the hash shift.
[    0.000000] Adding active range (0, 0x2080000, 0x4080000) 0 entries of 3200 used
[    0.000000] Adding active range (1, 0x0, 0x96) 1 entries of 3200 used
[    0.000000] Adding active range (1, 0x100, 0x7f750) 2 entries of 3200 used
[    0.000000] Adding active range (1, 0x100000, 0x2080000) 3 entries of 3200 used
[    0.000000] Adding active range (2, 0x4080000, 0x6080000) 4 entries of 3200 used
[    0.000000] Adding active range (3, 0x6080000, 0x8080000) 5 entries of 3200 used
[    0.000000] Adding active range (4, 0x8080000, 0xa080000) 6 entries of 3200 used
[    0.000000] Adding active range (5, 0xa080000, 0xc080000) 7 entries of 3200 used
[    0.000000] Adding active range (6, 0xc080000, 0xe080000) 8 entries of 3200 used
[    0.000000] Adding active range (7, 0xe080000, 0x10080000) 9 entries of 3200 used
[    0.000000] SRAT: PXMs only cover 917504MB of your 1048566MB e820 RAM. Not used.
[    0.000000] SRAT: SRAT not used.

the early_node_map is not sorted because node0 with non zero start come first.

so try to sort it right away after all regions are registered.

also fixs refression by 8716273c (x86: Export srat physical topology)

-v2: make it more solid to handle cross node case like node0 [0,4g), [8,12g) and node1 [4g, 8g), [12g, 16g)
-v3: update comments.

Reported-and-tested-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4B2579D2.3010201@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-12-16 16:43:37 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
d4220f987c Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6
* 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6: (34 commits)
  HWPOISON: Remove stray phrase in a comment
  HWPOISON: Try to allocate migration page on the same node
  HWPOISON: Don't do early filtering if filter is disabled
  HWPOISON: Add a madvise() injector for soft page offlining
  HWPOISON: Add soft page offline support
  HWPOISON: Undefine short-hand macros after use to avoid namespace conflict
  HWPOISON: Use new shake_page in memory_failure
  HWPOISON: Use correct name for MADV_HWPOISON in documentation
  HWPOISON: mention HWPoison in Kconfig entry
  HWPOISON: Use get_user_page_fast in hwpoison madvise
  HWPOISON: add an interface to switch off/on all the page filters
  HWPOISON: add memory cgroup filter
  memcg: add accessor to mem_cgroup.css
  memcg: rename and export try_get_mem_cgroup_from_page()
  HWPOISON: add page flags filter
  mm: export stable page flags
  HWPOISON: limit hwpoison injector to known page types
  HWPOISON: add fs/device filters
  HWPOISON: return 0 to indicate success reliably
  HWPOISON: make semantics of IGNORED/DELAYED clear
  ...
2009-12-16 12:36:49 -08:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
4365a5676f oom-kill: fix NUMA constraint check with nodemask
Fix node-oriented allocation handling in oom-kill.c I myself think of this
as a bugfix not as an ehnancement.

In these days, things are changed as
  - alloc_pages() eats nodemask as its arguments, __alloc_pages_nodemask().
  - mempolicy don't maintain its own private zonelists.
  (And cpuset doesn't use nodemask for __alloc_pages_nodemask())

So, current oom-killer's check function is wrong.

This patch does
  - check nodemask, if nodemask && nodemask doesn't cover all
    node_states[N_HIGH_MEMORY], this is CONSTRAINT_MEMORY_POLICY.
  - Scan all zonelist under nodemask, if it hits cpuset's wall
    this faiulre is from cpuset.
And
  - modifies the caller of out_of_memory not to call oom if __GFP_THISNODE.
    This doesn't change "current" behavior. If callers use __GFP_THISNODE
    it should handle "page allocation failure" by itself.

  - handle __GFP_NOFAIL+__GFP_THISNODE path.
    This is something like a FIXME but this gfpmask is not used now.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hioryu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.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>
2009-12-16 07:19:57 -08:00
Wu Fengguang
8d22ba1b74 HWPOISON: detect free buddy pages explicitly
Most free pages in the buddy system have no PG_buddy set.
Introduce is_free_buddy_page() for detecting them reliably.

CC: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
CC: Mel Gorman <mel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-12-16 12:19:58 +01:00
Hugh Dickins
af8e3354b4 mm: CONFIG_MMU for PG_mlocked
Remove three degrees of obfuscation, left over from when we had
CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU.  MLOCK_PAGES is CONFIG_HAVE_MLOCKED_PAGE_BIT is
CONFIG_HAVE_MLOCK is CONFIG_MMU.  rmap.o (and memory-failure.o) are only
built when CONFIG_MMU, so don't need such conditions at all.

Somehow, I feel no compulsion to remove the CONFIG_HAVE_MLOCK* lines from
169 defconfigs: leave those to evolve in due course.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 08:53:17 -08:00
Mel Gorman
9d0ed60fe9 page allocator: Do not allow interrupts to use ALLOC_HARDER
Commit 341ce06f69 ("page allocator:
calculate the alloc_flags for allocation only once") altered watermark
logic slightly by allowing rt_tasks that are handling an interrupt to set
ALLOC_HARDER.  This patch brings the watermark logic more in line with
2.6.30.

This change results in a reduction of the number high-order GFP_ATOMIC
allocation failures reported.  See
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/1144153

[rientjes@google.com: Spotted the problem]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-11-12 07:25:56 -08:00
Mel Gorman
cc4a685146 page allocator: always wake kswapd when restarting an allocation attempt after direct reclaim failed
If a direct reclaim makes no forward progress, it considers whether it
should go OOM or not.  Whether OOM is triggered or not, it may retry the
allocation afterwards.  In times past, this would always wake kswapd as
well but currently, kswapd is not woken up after direct reclaim fails.
For order-0 allocations, this makes little difference but if there is a
heavy mix of higher-order allocations that direct reclaim is failing for,
it might mean that kswapd is not rewoken for higher orders as much as it
did previously.

This patch wakes up kswapd when an allocation is being retried after a
direct reclaim failure.  It would be expected that kswapd is already
awake, but this has the effect of telling kswapd to reclaim at the higher
order as well.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-11-12 07:25:56 -08:00
Andrew Morton
b76146ed1a revert "mm: oom analysis: add buffer cache information to show_free_areas()"
Revert

    commit 71de1ccbe1
    Author:     KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
    AuthorDate: Mon Sep 21 17:01:31 2009 -0700
    Commit:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    CommitDate: Tue Sep 22 07:17:27 2009 -0700

        mm: oom analysis: add buffer cache information to show_free_areas()

show_free_areas() is called during page allocation failures, and page
allocation failures can occur in any calling context.

But nr_blockdev_pages() takes VFS locks which should not be taken from
hard IRQ context (at least).  The result is lockdep warnings (and
deadlockability) during page allocation failures.

Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-29 07:39:27 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
db16826367 Merge branch 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6
* 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6: (21 commits)
  HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page on btrfs
  HWPOISON: Add simple debugfs interface to inject hwpoison on arbitary PFNs
  HWPOISON: Add madvise() based injector for hardware poisoned pages v4
  HWPOISON: Enable error_remove_page for NFS
  HWPOISON: Enable .remove_error_page for migration aware file systems
  HWPOISON: The high level memory error handler in the VM v7
  HWPOISON: Add PR_MCE_KILL prctl to control early kill behaviour per process
  HWPOISON: shmem: call set_page_dirty() with locked page
  HWPOISON: Define a new error_remove_page address space op for async truncation
  HWPOISON: Add invalidate_inode_page
  HWPOISON: Refactor truncate to allow direct truncating of page v2
  HWPOISON: check and isolate corrupted free pages v2
  HWPOISON: Handle hardware poisoned pages in try_to_unmap
  HWPOISON: Use bitmask/action code for try_to_unmap behaviour
  HWPOISON: x86: Add VM_FAULT_HWPOISON handling to x86 page fault handler v2
  HWPOISON: Add poison check to page fault handling
  HWPOISON: Add basic support for poisoned pages in fault handler v3
  HWPOISON: Add new SIGBUS error codes for hardware poison signals
  HWPOISON: Add support for poison swap entries v2
  HWPOISON: Export some rmap vma locking to outside world
  ...
2009-09-24 07:53:22 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
8d65af789f sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler
It's unused.

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

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

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 07:21:04 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
03f6462a3a mm: move highest_memmap_pfn
Move highest_memmap_pfn __read_mostly from page_alloc.c next to zero_pfn
__read_mostly in memory.c: to help them share a cacheline, since they're
very often tested together in vm_normal_page().

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:41 -07:00
Mel Gorman
a6f9edd65b page-allocator: maintain rolling count of pages to free from the PCP
When round-robin freeing pages from the PCP lists, empty lists may be
encountered.  In the event one of the lists has more pages than another,
there may be numerous checks for list_empty() which is undesirable.  This
patch maintains a count of pages to free which is incremented when empty
lists are encountered.  The intention is that more pages will then be
freed from fuller lists than the empty ones reducing the number of empty
list checks in the free path.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:39 -07:00
Mel Gorman
5f8dcc2121 page-allocator: split per-cpu list into one-list-per-migrate-type
The following two patches remove searching in the page allocator fast-path
by maintaining multiple free-lists in the per-cpu structure.  At the time
the search was introduced, increasing the per-cpu structures would waste a
lot of memory as per-cpu structures were statically allocated at
compile-time.  This is no longer the case.

The patches are as follows. They are based on mmotm-2009-08-27.

Patch 1 adds multiple lists to struct per_cpu_pages, one per
	migratetype that can be stored on the PCP lists.

Patch 2 notes that the pcpu drain path check empty lists multiple times. The
	patch reduces the number of checks by maintaining a count of free
	lists encountered. Lists containing pages will then free multiple
	pages in batch

The patches were tested with kernbench, netperf udp/tcp, hackbench and
sysbench.  The netperf tests were not bound to any CPU in particular and
were run such that the results should be 99% confidence that the reported
results are within 1% of the estimated mean.  sysbench was run with a
postgres background and read-only tests.  Similar to netperf, it was run
multiple times so that it's 99% confidence results are within 1%.  The
patches were tested on x86, x86-64 and ppc64 as

x86:	Intel Pentium D 3GHz with 8G RAM (no-brand machine)
	kernbench	- No significant difference, variance well within noise
	netperf-udp	- 1.34% to 2.28% gain
	netperf-tcp	- 0.45% to 1.22% gain
	hackbench	- Small variances, very close to noise
	sysbench	- Very small gains

x86-64:	AMD Phenom 9950 1.3GHz with 8G RAM (no-brand machine)
	kernbench	- No significant difference, variance well within noise
	netperf-udp	- 1.83% to 10.42% gains
	netperf-tcp	- No conclusive until buffer >= PAGE_SIZE
				4096	+15.83%
				8192	+ 0.34% (not significant)
				16384	+ 1%
	hackbench	- Small gains, very close to noise
	sysbench	- 0.79% to 1.6% gain

ppc64:	PPC970MP 2.5GHz with 10GB RAM (it's a terrasoft powerstation)
	kernbench	- No significant difference, variance well within noise
	netperf-udp	- 2-3% gain for almost all buffer sizes tested
	netperf-tcp	- losses on small buffers, gains on larger buffers
			  possibly indicates some bad caching effect.
	hackbench	- No significant difference
	sysbench	- 2-4% gain

This patch:

Currently the per-cpu page allocator searches the PCP list for pages of
the correct migrate-type to reduce the possibility of pages being
inappropriate placed from a fragmentation perspective.  This search is
potentially expensive in a fast-path and undesirable.  Splitting the
per-cpu list into multiple lists increases the size of a per-cpu structure
and this was potentially a major problem at the time the search was
introduced.  These problem has been mitigated as now only the necessary
number of structures is allocated for the running system.

This patch replaces a list search in the per-cpu allocator with one list
per migrate type.  The potential snag with this approach is when bulk
freeing pages.  We round-robin free pages based on migrate type which has
little bearing on the cache hotness of the page and potentially checks
empty lists repeatedly in the event the majority of PCP pages are of one
type.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:39 -07:00
Wu Fengguang
f862963174 mm: do batched scans for mem_cgroup
For mem_cgroup, shrink_zone() may call shrink_list() with nr_to_scan=1, in
which case shrink_list() _still_ calls isolate_pages() with the much
larger SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX.  It effectively scales up the inactive list scan
rate by up to 32 times.

For example, with 16k inactive pages and DEF_PRIORITY=12, (16k >> 12)=4.
So when shrink_zone() expects to scan 4 pages in the active/inactive list,
the active list will be scanned 4 pages, while the inactive list will be
(over) scanned SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX=32 pages in effect.  And that could break
the balance between the two lists.

It can further impact the scan of anon active list, due to the anon
active/inactive ratio rebalance logic in balance_pgdat()/shrink_zone():

inactive anon list over scanned => inactive_anon_is_low() == TRUE
                                => shrink_active_list()
                                => active anon list over scanned

So the end result may be

- anon inactive  => over scanned
- anon active    => over scanned (maybe not as much)
- file inactive  => over scanned
- file active    => under scanned (relatively)

The accesses to nr_saved_scan are not lock protected and so not 100%
accurate, however we can tolerate small errors and the resulted small
imbalanced scan rates between zones.

Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:39 -07:00
Jan Beulich
2c85f51d22 mm: also use alloc_large_system_hash() for the PID hash table
This is being done by allowing boot time allocations to specify that they
may want a sub-page sized amount of memory.

Overall this seems more consistent with the other hash table allocations,
and allows making two supposedly mm-only variables really mm-only
(nr_{kernel,all}_pages).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:38 -07:00
Mel Gorman
78986a678f page-allocator: limit the number of MIGRATE_RESERVE pageblocks per zone
After anti-fragmentation was merged, a bug was reported whereby devices
that depended on high-order atomic allocations were failing.  The solution
was to preserve a property in the buddy allocator which tended to keep the
minimum number of free pages in the zone at the lower physical addresses
and contiguous.  To preserve this property, MIGRATE_RESERVE was introduced
and a number of pageblocks at the start of a zone would be marked
"reserve", the number of which depended on min_free_kbytes.

Anti-fragmentation works by avoiding the mixing of page migratetypes
within the same pageblock.  One way of helping this is to increase
min_free_kbytes because it becomes less like that it will be necessary to
place pages of of MIGRATE_RESERVE is unbounded, the free memory is kept
there in large contiguous blocks instead of helping anti-fragmentation as
much as it should.  With the page-allocator tracepoint patches applied, it
was found during anti-fragmentation tests that the number of
fragmentation-related events were far higher than expected even with
min_free_kbytes at higher values.

This patch limits the number of MIGRATE_RESERVE blocks that exist per zone
to two.  For example, with a sufficient min_free_kbytes, 4MB of memory
will be kept aside on an x86-64 and remain more or less free and
contiguous for the systems uptime.  This should be sufficient for devices
depending on high-order atomic allocations while helping fragmentation
control when min_free_kbytes is tuned appropriately.  As side-effect of
this patch is that the reserve variable is converted to int as unsigned
long was the wrong type to use when ensuring that only the required number
of reserve blocks are created.

With the patches applied, fragmentation-related events as measured by the
page allocator tracepoints were significantly reduced when running some
fragmentation stress-tests on systems with min_free_kbytes tuned to a
value appropriate for hugepage allocations at runtime.  On x86, the events
recorded were reduced by 99.8%, on x86-64 by 99.72% and on ppc64 by
99.83%.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:38 -07:00
Mel Gorman
0d3d062a6e tracing, page-allocator: add trace event for page traffic related to the buddy lists
The page allocation trace event reports that a page was successfully
allocated but it does not specify where it came from.  When analysing
performance, it can be important to distinguish between pages coming from
the per-cpu allocator and pages coming from the buddy lists as the latter
requires the zone lock to the taken and more data structures to be
examined.

This patch adds a trace event for __rmqueue reporting when a page is being
allocated from the buddy lists.  It distinguishes between being called to
refill the per-cpu lists or whether it is a high-order allocation.
Similarly, this patch adds an event to catch when the PCP lists are being
drained a little and pages are going back to the buddy lists.

This is trickier to draw conclusions from but high activity on those
events could explain why there were a large number of cache misses on a
page-allocator-intensive workload.  The coalescing and splitting of
buddies involves a lot of writing of page metadata and cache line bounces
not to mention the acquisition of an interrupt-safe lock necessary to
enter this path.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca>
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>
2009-09-22 07:17:34 -07:00
Mel Gorman
e0fff1bd12 tracing, page-allocator: add trace events for anti-fragmentation falling back to other migratetypes
Fragmentation avoidance depends on being able to use free pages from lists
of the appropriate migrate type.  In the event this is not possible,
__rmqueue_fallback() selects a different list and in some circumstances
change the migratetype of the pageblock.  Simplistically, the more times
this event occurs, the more likely that fragmentation will be a problem
later for hugepage allocation at least but there are other considerations
such as the order of page being split to satisfy the allocation.

This patch adds a trace event for __rmqueue_fallback() that reports what
page is being used for the fallback, the orders of relevant pages, the
desired migratetype and the migratetype of the lists being used, whether
the pageblock changed type and whether this event is important with
respect to fragmentation avoidance or not.  This information can be used
to help analyse fragmentation avoidance and help decide whether
min_free_kbytes should be increased or not.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:34 -07:00
Mel Gorman
4b4f278c03 tracing, page-allocator: add trace events for page allocation and page freeing
This patch adds trace events for the allocation and freeing of pages,
including the freeing of pagevecs.  Using the events, it will be known
what struct page and pfns are being allocated and freed and what the call
site was in many cases.

The page alloc tracepoints be used as an indicator as to whether the
workload was heavily dependant on the page allocator or not.  You can make
a guess based on vmstat but you can't get a per-process breakdown.
Depending on the call path, the call_site for page allocation may be
__get_free_pages() instead of a useful callsite.  Instead of passing down
a return address similar to slab debugging, the user should enable the
stacktrace and seg-addr options to get a proper stack trace.

The pagevec free tracepoint has a different usecase.  It can be used to
get a idea of how many pages are being dumped off the LRU and whether it
is kswapd doing the work or a process doing direct reclaim.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Larry Woodman <lwoodman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Li Ming Chun <macli@brc.ubc.ca>
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>
2009-09-22 07:17:34 -07:00
Mel Gorman
38a398572f page-allocator: remove dead function free_cold_page()
The function free_cold_page() has no callers so delete it.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:34 -07:00
Mel Gorman
2f66a68f3f page-allocator: change migratetype for all pageblocks within a high-order page during __rmqueue_fallback
When there are no pages of a target migratetype free, the page allocator
selects a high-order block of another migratetype to allocate from.  When
the order of the page taken is greater than pageblock_order, all
pageblocks within that high-order page should change migratetype so that
pages are later freed to the correct free-lists.

The current behaviour is that pageblocks change migratetype if the order
being split matches the pageblock_order.  When pageblock_order <
MAX_ORDER-1, ownership is not changing correct and pages are being later
freed to the incorrect list and this impacts fragmentation avoidance.

This patch changes all pageblocks within the high-order page being split
to the correct migratetype.  Without the patch, allocation success rates
for hugepages under stress were about 59% of physical memory on x86-64.
With the patch applied, this goes up to 65%.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:33 -07:00
Johannes Weiner
451ea25da7 mm: perform non-atomic test-clear of PG_mlocked on free
By the time PG_mlocked is cleared in the page freeing path, nobody else is
looking at our page->flags anymore.

It is thus safe to make the test-and-clear non-atomic and thereby removing
an unnecessary and expensive operation from a hotpath.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:30 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
945a11136e mm: add gfp mask checking for __get_free_pages()
__get_free_pages() with __GFP_HIGHMEM is not safe because the return
address cannot represent a highmem page.  get_zeroed_page() already has
such a debug checking.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:30 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
a731286de6 mm: vmstat: add isolate pages
If the system is running a heavy load of processes then concurrent reclaim
can isolate a large number of pages from the LRU. /proc/vmstat and the
output generated for an OOM do not show how many pages were isolated.

This has been observed during process fork bomb testing (mstctl11 in LTP).

This patch shows the information about isolated pages.

Reproduced via:

-----------------------
% ./hackbench 140 process 1000
   => OOM occur

active_anon:146 inactive_anon:0 isolated_anon:49245
 active_file:79 inactive_file:18 isolated_file:113
 unevictable:0 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 buffer:39
 free:370 slab_reclaimable:309 slab_unreclaimable:5492
 mapped:53 shmem:15 pagetables:28140 bounce:0

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:29 -07:00
David Rientjes
b259fbde0a mm: update alloc_flags after oom killer has been called
It is possible for the oom killer to select current as the task to kill.
When this happens, alloc_flags needs to be updated accordingly to set
ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS so the subsequent allocation attempt may use memory
reserves as the result of its thread having TIF_MEMDIE set if the
allocation is not __GFP_NOMEMALLOC.

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:27 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
4b02108ac1 mm: oom analysis: add shmem vmstat
Recently we encountered OOM problems due to memory use of the GEM cache.
Generally a large amuont of Shmem/Tmpfs pages tend to create a memory
shortage problem.

We often use the following calculation to determine the amount of shmem
pages:

shmem = NR_ACTIVE_ANON + NR_INACTIVE_ANON - NR_ANON_PAGES

however the expression does not consider isolated and mlocked pages.

This patch adds explicit accounting for pages used by shmem and tmpfs.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:27 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
c6a7f5728a mm: oom analysis: Show kernel stack usage in /proc/meminfo and OOM log output
The amount of memory allocated to kernel stacks can become significant and
cause OOM conditions.  However, we do not display the amount of memory
consumed by stacks.

Add code to display the amount of memory used for stacks in /proc/meminfo.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.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>
2009-09-22 07:17:27 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
71de1ccbe1 mm: oom analysis: add buffer cache information to show_free_areas()
It is often useful to know the statistics for all pages that are handled
like page cache pages when looking at OOM log output.

Therefore show_free_areas() should also display buffer cache statistics.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.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>
2009-09-22 07:17:27 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
4a0aa73f1d mm: oom analysis: add per-zone statistics to show_free_areas()
show_free_areas() displays only a limited amount of zone counters.  This
patch includes additional counters in the display to allow easier
debugging.  This may be especially useful if an OOM is due to running out
of DMA memory.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.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>
2009-09-22 07:17:27 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
3701b03323 mm: show_free_areas(): display slab pages in two separate fields
If an OOM happens, we really want to know the number of remaining
reclaimable pages.  So the reclaimable slab and unreclaimable slab fields
should not be combined for display.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
55a4462af5 page_alloc: fix kernel-doc warning
Ummark function as having kernel-doc notation, fixing the kernel-doc
warning.

Warning(mm/page_alloc.c:4519): No description found for parameter 'zone'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
Shaohua Li
8e7e40d965 memory hotplug: make pages from movable zone always isolatable
Pages on movable zone have two types, MIGRATE_MOVABLE and MIGRATE_RESERVE,
both them can be movable, because only movable memory allocation can get
pages from movable zone.  This makes pages in movable zone always be able
to migrate.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yakui Zhao <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:26 -07:00
Shaohua Li
6fb332fabd memory hotplug: exclude isolated page from pco page alloc
Pages marked as isolated should not be allocated again.  If such pages
reside in pcp list, they can be allocated too, so there is a ping-pong
memory offline frees some pages to pcp list and the pages get allocated
and then memory offline frees them again, this loop will happen again and
again.

This should have no impact in normal code path, because in normal code
path, pages in pcp list aren't isolated, and below loop will break in the
first entry.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yakui Zhao <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:25 -07:00
Shaohua Li
112067f090 memory hotplug: update zone pcp at memory online
In my test, 128M memory is hot added, but zone's pcp batch is 0, which is
an obvious error.  When pages are onlined, zone pcp should be updated
accordingly.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warnings]
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yakui Zhao <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:25 -07:00
David Rientjes
478b81fd84 mm: remove obsoleted alloc_pages cpuset comment
When a cpuset's nodemask is updated, all attached tasks have their cached
task->mems_allowed updated by a heap instead of requiring an explicit call
to cpuset_update_task_memory_state(), which has since been removed in
58568d2a82 ("cpuset,mm: update tasks'
mems_allowed in time").

Remove the obsoleted comment from the page allocator.

Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22 07:17:25 -07:00
Wu Fengguang
2a7684a23e HWPOISON: check and isolate corrupted free pages v2
If memory corruption hits the free buddy pages, we can safely ignore them.
No one will access them until page allocation time, then prep_new_page()
will automatically check and isolate PG_hwpoison page for us (for 0-order
allocation).

This patch expands prep_new_page() to check every component page in a high
order page allocation, in order to completely stop PG_hwpoison pages from
being recirculated.

Note that the common case -- only allocating a single page, doesn't
do any more work than before. Allocating > order 0 does a bit more work,
but that's relatively uncommon.

This simple implementation may drop some innocent neighbor pages, hopefully
it is not a big problem because the event should be rare enough.

This patch adds some runtime costs to high order page users.

[AK: Improved description]

v2: Andi Kleen:
Port to -mm code
Move check into separate function.
Don't dump stack in bad_pages for hwpoisoned pages.
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2009-09-16 11:50:12 +02:00
Mel Gorman
dd5d241ea9 page-allocator: always change pageblock ownership when anti-fragmentation is disabled
On low-memory systems, anti-fragmentation gets disabled as fragmentation
cannot be avoided on a sufficiently large boundary to be worthwhile.  Once
disabled, there is a period of time when all the pageblocks are marked
MOVABLE and the expectation is that they get marked UNMOVABLE at each call
to __rmqueue_fallback().

However, when MAX_ORDER is large the pageblocks do not change ownership
because the normal criteria are not met.  This has the effect of
prematurely breaking up too many large contiguous blocks.  This is most
serious on NOMMU systems which depend on high-order allocations to boot.
This patch causes pageblocks to change ownership on every fallback when
anti-fragmentation is disabled.  This prevents the large blocks being
prematurely broken up.

This is a fix to commit 49255c619f [page
allocator: move check for disabled anti-fragmentation out of fastpath] and
the problem affects 2.6.31-rc8.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Tested-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@snapgear.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-05 11:30:42 -07:00
Bo Liu
7f9cfb3103 mm: build_zonelists(): move clear node_load[] to __build_all_zonelists()
If node_load[] is cleared everytime build_zonelists() is
called,node_load[] will have no help to find the next node that should
appear in the given node's fallback list.

Because of the bug, zonelist's node_order is not calculated as expected.
This bug affects on big machine, which has asynmetric node distance.

[synmetric NUMA's node distance]
     0    1    2
0   10   12   12
1   12   10   12
2   12   12   10

[asynmetric NUMA's node distance]
     0    1    2
0   10   12   20
1   12   10   14
2   20   14   10

This (my bug) is very old but no one has reported this for a long time.
Maybe because the number of asynmetric NUMA is very small and they use
cpuset for customizing node memory allocation fallback.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_NUMA=n build]
Signed-off-by: Bo Liu <bo-liu@hotmail.com>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-18 16:31:13 -07:00
Mel Gorman
1fc28b70fe page-allocator: allow too high-order warning messages to be suppressed with __GFP_NOWARN
The page allocator warns once when an order >= MAX_ORDER is specified.
This is to catch callers of the allocator that are always falling back to
their worst-case when it was not expected.  However, there are cases where
the caller is behaving correctly but cannot suppress the warning.  This
patch allows the warning to be suppressed by the callers by specifying
__GFP_NOWARN.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-29 19:10:35 -07:00
David Rientjes
6583bb64fc mm: avoid endless looping for oom killed tasks
If a task is oom killed and still cannot find memory when trying with
no watermarks, it's better to fail the allocation attempt than to loop
endlessly.  Direct reclaim has already failed and the oom killer will
be a no-op since current has yet to die, so there is no other
alternative for allocations that are not __GFP_NOFAIL.

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-29 19:10:34 -07:00
Mel Gorman
e084b2d95e page-allocator: preserve PFN ordering when __GFP_COLD is set
Fix a post-2.6.24 performace regression caused by
3dfa5721f1 ("page-allocator: preserve PFN
ordering when __GFP_COLD is set").

Narayanan reports "The regression is around 15%.  There is no disk controller
as our setup is based on Samsung OneNAND used as a memory mapped device on a
OMAP2430 based board."

The page allocator tries to preserve contiguous PFN ordering when returning
pages such that repeated callers to the allocator have a strong chance of
getting physically contiguous pages, particularly when external fragmentation
is low.  However, of the bulk of the allocations have __GFP_COLD set as they
are due to aio_read() for example, then the PFNs are in reverse PFN order.
This can cause performance degration when used with IO controllers that could
have merged the requests.

This patch attempts to preserve the contiguous ordering of PFNs for users of
__GFP_COLD.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reported-by: Narayananu Gopalakrishnan <narayanan.g@samsung.com>
Tested-by: Narayanan Gopalakrishnan <narayanan.g@samsung.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-29 19:10:34 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
7638d5322b Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6
* 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6:
  kmemleak: Remove alloc_bootmem annotations introduced in the past
  kmemleak: Add callbacks to the bootmem allocator
  kmemleak: Allow partial freeing of memory blocks
  kmemleak: Trace the kmalloc_large* functions in slub
  kmemleak: Scan objects allocated during a scanning episode
  kmemleak: Do not acquire scan_mutex in kmemleak_open()
  kmemleak: Remove the reported leaks number limitation
  kmemleak: Add more cond_resched() calls in the scanning thread
  kmemleak: Renice the scanning thread to +10
2009-07-12 12:24:35 -07:00
Jens Axboe
8aa7e847d8 Fix congestion_wait() sync/async vs read/write confusion
Commit 1faa16d228 accidentally broke
the bdi congestion wait queue logic, causing us to wait on congestion
for WRITE (== 1) when we really wanted BLK_RW_ASYNC (== 0) instead.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-07-10 20:31:53 +02:00
Catalin Marinas
264ef8a904 kmemleak: Remove alloc_bootmem annotations introduced in the past
kmemleak_alloc() calls were added in some places where alloc_bootmem was
called. Since now kmemleak tracks bootmem allocations, these explicit
calls should be run.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2009-07-09 17:07:02 +01:00
Kevin Cernekee
5bfd756097 Fix virt_to_phys() warnings
These warnings were observed on MIPS32 using 2.6.31-rc1 and gcc-4.2.0:

mm/page_alloc.c: In function 'alloc_pages_exact':
mm/page_alloc.c:1986: warning: passing argument 1 of 'virt_to_phys' makes pointer from integer without a cast

drivers/usb/mon/mon_bin.c: In function 'mon_alloc_buff':
drivers/usb/mon/mon_bin.c:1264: warning: passing argument 1 of 'virt_to_phys' makes pointer from integer without a cast

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kernel/perf_counter.c too]
Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-06 13:57:03 -07:00
Yinghai Lu
66918dcdf9 x86: only clear node_states for 64bit
Nathan reported that

| commit 73d60b7f74
| Author: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
| Date:   Tue Jun 16 15:33:00 2009 -0700
|
|    page-allocator: clear N_HIGH_MEMORY map before we set it again
|
|    SRAT tables may contains nodes of very small size.  The arch code may
|    decide to not activate such a node.  However, currently the early boot
|    code sets N_HIGH_MEMORY for such nodes.  These nodes therefore seem to be
|    active although these nodes have no present pages.
|
|    For 64bit N_HIGH_MEMORY == N_NORMAL_MEMORY, so that works for 64 bit too

unintentionally and incorrectly clears the cpuset.mems cgroup attribute on
an i386 kvm guest, meaning that cpuset.mems can not be used.

Fix this by only clearing node_states[N_NORMAL_MEMORY] for 64bit only.
and need to do save/restore for that in find_zone_movable_pfn

Reported-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Tested-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-30 18:56:01 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
4923abf9f1 Don't warn about order-1 allocations with __GFP_NOFAIL
Traditionally, we never failed small orders (even regardless of any
__GFP_NOFAIL flags), and slab will allocate order-1 allocations even for
small allocations that could fit in a single page (in order to avoid
excessive fragmentation).

Maybe we should remove this warning entirely, but before making that
judgement, at least limit it to bigger allocations.

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-24 12:16:49 -07:00
Dimitri Sivanich
364df0ebfb mm: fix handling of pagesets for downed cpus
After downing/upping a cpu, an attempt to set
/proc/sys/vm/percpu_pagelist_fraction results in an oops in
percpu_pagelist_fraction_sysctl_handler().

If a processor is downed then we need to set the pageset pointer back to
the boot pageset.

Updates of the high water marks should not access pagesets of unpopulated
zones (those pointer go to the boot pagesets which would be no longer
functional if their size would be increased beyond zero).

Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-23 12:50:05 -07:00
Johannes Weiner
c277331d5f mm: page_alloc: clear PG_locked before checking flags on free
da456f1 "page allocator: do not disable interrupts in free_page_mlock()" moved
the PG_mlocked clearing after the flag sanity checking which makes mlocked
pages always trigger 'bad page'.  Fix this by clearing the bit up front.

Reported--and-debugged-by: Peter Chubb <peter.chubb@nicta.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Tested-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-20 16:08:22 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
dcce284a25 mm: Extend gfp masking to the page allocator
The page allocator also needs the masking of gfp flags during boot,
so this moves it out of slab/slub and uses it with the page allocator
as well.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18 13:12:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
517d08699b Merge branch 'akpm'
* akpm: (182 commits)
  fbdev: bf54x-lq043fb: use kzalloc over kmalloc/memset
  fbdev: *bfin*: fix __dev{init,exit} markings
  fbdev: *bfin*: drop unnecessary calls to memset
  fbdev: bfin-t350mcqb-fb: drop unused local variables
  fbdev: blackfin has __raw I/O accessors, so use them in fb.h
  fbdev: s1d13xxxfb: add accelerated bitblt functions
  tcx: use standard fields for framebuffer physical address and length
  fbdev: add support for handoff from firmware to hw framebuffers
  intelfb: fix a bug when changing video timing
  fbdev: use framebuffer_release() for freeing fb_info structures
  radeon: P2G2CLK_ALWAYS_ONb tested twice, should 2nd be P2G2CLK_DAC_ALWAYS_ONb?
  s3c-fb: CPUFREQ frequency scaling support
  s3c-fb: fix resource releasing on error during probing
  carminefb: fix possible access beyond end of carmine_modedb[]
  acornfb: remove fb_mmap function
  mb862xxfb: use CONFIG_OF instead of CONFIG_PPC_OF
  mb862xxfb: restrict compliation of platform driver to PPC
  Samsung SoC Framebuffer driver: add Alpha Channel support
  atmel-lcdc: fix pixclock upper bound detection
  offb: use framebuffer_alloc() to allocate fb_info struct
  ...

Manually fix up conflicts due to kmemcheck in mm/slab.c
2009-06-16 19:50:13 -07:00
Mel Gorman
fa5e084e43 vmscan: do not unconditionally treat zones that fail zone_reclaim() as full
On NUMA machines, the administrator can configure zone_reclaim_mode that
is a more targetted form of direct reclaim.  On machines with large NUMA
distances for example, a zone_reclaim_mode defaults to 1 meaning that
clean unmapped pages will be reclaimed if the zone watermarks are not
being met.  The problem is that zone_reclaim() failing at all means the
zone gets marked full.

This can cause situations where a zone is usable, but is being skipped
because it has been considered full.  Take a situation where a large tmpfs
mount is occuping a large percentage of memory overall.  The pages do not
get cleaned or reclaimed by zone_reclaim(), but the zone gets marked full
and the zonelist cache considers them not worth trying in the future.

This patch makes zone_reclaim() return more fine-grained information about
what occured when zone_reclaim() failued.  The zone only gets marked full
if it really is unreclaimable.  If it's a case that the scan did not occur
or if enough pages were not reclaimed with the limited reclaim_mode, then
the zone is simply skipped.

There is a side-effect to this patch.  Currently, if zone_reclaim()
successfully reclaimed SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, an allocation attempt would go
ahead.  With this patch applied, zone watermarks are rechecked after
zone_reclaim() does some work.

This bug was introduced by commit 9276b1bc96
("memory page_alloc zonelist caching speedup") way back in 2.6.19 when the
zonelist_cache was introduced.  It was not intended that zone_reclaim()
aggressively consider the zone to be full when it failed as full direct
reclaim can still be an option.  Due to the age of the bug, it should be
considered a -stable candidate.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:45 -07:00
Yinghai Lu
73d60b7f74 page-allocator: clear N_HIGH_MEMORY map before we set it again
SRAT tables may contains nodes of very small size.  The arch code may
decide to not activate such a node.  However, currently the early boot
code sets N_HIGH_MEMORY for such nodes.  These nodes therefore seem to be
active although these nodes have no present pages.

For 64bit N_HIGH_MEMORY == N_NORMAL_MEMORY, so that works for 64 bit too

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <Yinghai@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:43 -07:00
David Rientjes
82553a937f oom: invoke oom killer for __GFP_NOFAIL
The oom killer must be invoked regardless of the order if the allocation
is __GFP_NOFAIL, otherwise it will loop forever when reclaim fails to free
some memory.

Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:43 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
6837765963 mm: remove CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU config option
Currently, nobody wants to turn UNEVICTABLE_LRU off.  Thus this
configurability is unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:42 -07:00
Minchan Kim
bce7394a3e page-allocator: reset wmark_min and inactive ratio of zone when hotplug happens
Solve two problems.

Whenever memory hotplug sucessfully happens, zone->present_pages
have to be changed.

1) Now memory hotplug calls setup_per_zone_wmark_min only when
   online_pages called, not offline_pages.

   It breaks balance.

2) If zone->present_pages is changed, we also have to change
   zone->inactive_ratio.  That's because inactive_ratio depends on
   zone->present_pages.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:42 -07:00
Minchan Kim
96cb4df5dd page-allocator: add inactive ratio calculation function of each zone
Factor the per-zone arithemetic inside setup_per_zone_inactive_ratio()'s
loop into a a separate function, calculate_zone_inactive_ratio().  This
function will be used in a later patch

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:42 -07:00
Minchan Kim
bc75d33f0f page-allocator: clean up functions related to pages_min
Change the names of two functions. It doesn't affect behavior.

Presently, setup_per_zone_pages_min() changes low, high of zone as well as
min.  So a better name is setup_per_zone_wmarks().  That's because Mel
changed zone->pages_[hig/low/min] to zone->watermark array in "page
allocator: replace the watermark-related union in struct zone with a
watermark[] array".

 * setup_per_zone_pages_min => setup_per_zone_wmarks

Of course, we have to change init_per_zone_pages_min, too.  There are not
pages_min any more.

 * init_per_zone_pages_min => init_per_zone_wmark_min

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:41 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
7f33d49a2e mm, PM/Freezer: Disable OOM killer when tasks are frozen
Currently, the following scenario appears to be possible in theory:

* Tasks are frozen for hibernation or suspend.
* Free pages are almost exhausted.
* Certain piece of code in the suspend code path attempts to allocate
  some memory using GFP_KERNEL and allocation order less than or
  equal to PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER.
* __alloc_pages_internal() cannot find a free page so it invokes the
  OOM killer.
* The OOM killer attempts to kill a task, but the task is frozen, so
  it doesn't die immediately.
* __alloc_pages_internal() jumps to 'restart', unsuccessfully tries
  to find a free page and invokes the OOM killer.
* No progress can be made.

Although it is now hard to trigger during hibernation due to the memory
shrinking carried out by the hibernation code, it is theoretically
possible to trigger during suspend after the memory shrinking has been
removed from that code path.  Moreover, since memory allocations are
going to be used for the hibernation memory shrinking, it will be even
more likely to happen during hibernation.

To prevent it from happening, introduce the oom_killer_disabled switch
that will cause __alloc_pages_internal() to fail in the situations in
which the OOM killer would have been called and make the freezer set
this switch after tasks have been successfully frozen.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: be nicer to the namespace]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:40 -07:00
Andrew Morton
dab48dab37 page-allocator: warn if __GFP_NOFAIL is used for a large allocation
__GFP_NOFAIL is a bad fiction.  Allocations _can_ fail, and callers should
detect and suitably handle this (and not by lamely moving the infinite
loop up to the caller level either).

Attempting to use __GFP_NOFAIL for a higher-order allocation is even
worse, so add a once-off runtime check for this to slap people around for
even thinking about trying it.

Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:40 -07:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
e9bb35df6f mm: setup_per_zone_inactive_ratio - fix comment and make it __init
The caller of setup_per_zone_inactive_ratio is an __init function.  There
is no need to keep the callee after it completed as well.  Also fix a
comment.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:39 -07:00
Cyrill Gorcunov
5c87eada68 mm: setup_per_zone_inactive_ratio - do not call for int_sqrt if not needed
int_sqrt() returns 0 if its argument is zero so call it if only needed.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:39 -07:00
Wu Fengguang
6e08a369ee vmscan: cleanup the scan batching code
The vmscan batching logic is twisting.  Move it into a standalone function
nr_scan_try_batch() and document it.  No behavior change.

Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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>
2009-06-16 19:47:39 -07:00