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Rik van Riel
33c120ed28 more aggressively use lumpy reclaim
During an AIM7 run on a 16GB system, fork started failing around 32000
threads, despite the system having plenty of free swap and 15GB of
pageable memory.  This was on x86-64, so 8k stacks.

If a higher order allocation fails, we can either:
- keep evicting pages off the end of the LRUs and hope that
  we eventually create a contiguous region; this is somewhat
  unlikely if the system is under enough stress by new
  allocations
- after trying normal eviction for a bit, use lumpy reclaim

This patch switches the system to lumpy reclaim if the VM is having
trouble freeing enough pages, using the same threshold for detection as
used by pageout congestion wait.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:50:26 -07:00
Rik van Riel
c5fdae469a vmscan: add newly swapped in pages to the inactive list
Swapin_readahead can read in a lot of data that the processes in memory
never need.  Adding swap cache pages to the inactive list prevents them
from putting too much pressure on the working set.

This has the potential to help the programs that are already in memory,
but it could also be a disadvantage to processes that are trying to get
swapped in.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:50:25 -07:00
Rik van Riel
7e9cd48420 vmscan: fix pagecache reclaim referenced bit check
Moving referenced pages back to the head of the active list creates a huge
scalability problem, because by the time a large memory system finally
runs out of free memory, every single page in the system will have been
referenced.

Not only do we not have the time to scan every single page on the active
list, but since they have will all have the referenced bit set, that bit
conveys no useful information.

A more scalable solution is to just move every page that hits the end of
the active list to the inactive list.

We clear the referenced bit off of mapped pages, which need just one
reference to be moved back onto the active list.

Unmapped pages will be moved back to the active list after two references
(see mark_page_accessed).  We preserve the PG_referenced flag on unmapped
pages to preserve accesses that were made while the page was on the active
list.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:50:25 -07:00
Rik van Riel
556adecba1 vmscan: second chance replacement for anonymous pages
We avoid evicting and scanning anonymous pages for the most part, but
under some workloads we can end up with most of memory filled with
anonymous pages.  At that point, we suddenly need to clear the referenced
bits on all of memory, which can take ages on very large memory systems.

We can reduce the maximum number of pages that need to be scanned by not
taking the referenced state into account when deactivating an anonymous
page.  After all, every anonymous page starts out referenced, so why
check?

If an anonymous page gets referenced again before it reaches the end of
the inactive list, we move it back to the active list.

To keep the maximum amount of necessary work reasonable, we scale the
active to inactive ratio with the size of memory, using the formula
active:inactive ratio = sqrt(memory in GB * 10).

Kswapd CPU use now seems to scale by the amount of pageout bandwidth,
instead of by the amount of memory present in the system.

[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: fix OOM with memcg]
[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: memcg: lru scan fix]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:50:25 -07:00
Rik van Riel
4f98a2fee8 vmscan: split LRU lists into anon & file sets
Split the LRU lists in two, one set for pages that are backed by real file
systems ("file") and one for pages that are backed by memory and swap
("anon").  The latter includes tmpfs.

The advantage of doing this is that the VM will not have to scan over lots
of anonymous pages (which we generally do not want to swap out), just to
find the page cache pages that it should evict.

This patch has the infrastructure and a basic policy to balance how much
we scan the anon lists and how much we scan the file lists.  The big
policy changes are in separate patches.

[lee.schermerhorn@hp.com: collect lru meminfo statistics from correct offset]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: prevent incorrect oom under split_lru]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix pagevec_move_tail() doesn't treat unevictable page]
[hugh@veritas.com: memcg swapbacked pages active]
[hugh@veritas.com: splitlru: BDI_CAP_SWAP_BACKED]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix /proc/vmstat units]
[nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp: memcg: fix handling of shmem migration]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: adjust Quicklists field of /proc/meminfo]
[kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix style issue of get_scan_ratio()]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:50:25 -07:00
Rik van Riel
b2e185384f define page_file_cache() function
Define page_file_cache() function to answer the question:
	is page backed by a file?

Originally part of Rik van Riel's split-lru patch.  Extracted to make
available for other, independent reclaim patches.

Moved inline function to linux/mm_inline.h where it will be needed by
subsequent "split LRU" and "noreclaim" patches.

Unfortunately this needs to use a page flag, since the PG_swapbacked state
needs to be preserved all the way to the point where the page is last
removed from the LRU.  Trying to derive the status from other info in the
page resulted in wrong VM statistics in earlier split VM patchsets.

The total number of page flags in use on a 32 bit machine after this patch
is 19.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up out-of-order merge fallout]
[hugh@veritas.com: splitlru: shmem_getpage SetPageSwapBacked sooner[
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: MinChan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:50:25 -07:00
Rik van Riel
68a22394c2 vmscan: free swap space on swap-in/activation
If vm_swap_full() (swap space more than 50% full), the system will free
swap space at swapin time.  With this patch, the system will also free the
swap space in the pageout code, when we decide that the page is not a
candidate for swapout (and just wasting swap space).

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-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>
2008-10-20 08:50:25 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
f04e9ebbe4 swap: use an array for the LRU pagevecs
Turn the pagevecs into an array just like the LRUs.  This significantly
cleans up the source code and reduces the size of the kernel by about 13kB
after all the LRU lists have been created further down in the split VM
patch series.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:50:25 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
b69408e88b vmscan: Use an indexed array for LRU variables
Currently we are defining explicit variables for the inactive and active
list.  An indexed array can be more generic and avoid repeating similar
code in several places in the reclaim code.

We are saving a few bytes in terms of code size:

Before:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
4097753  573120 4092484 8763357  85b7dd vmlinux

After:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
4097729  573120 4092484 8763333  85b7c5 vmlinux

Having an easy way to add new lru lists may ease future work on the
reclaim code.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:50:25 -07:00
Nick Piggin
62695a84eb vmscan: move isolate_lru_page() to vmscan.c
On large memory systems, the VM can spend way too much time scanning
through pages that it cannot (or should not) evict from memory.  Not only
does it use up CPU time, but it also provokes lock contention and can
leave large systems under memory presure in a catatonic state.

This patch series improves VM scalability by:

1) putting filesystem backed, swap backed and unevictable pages
   onto their own LRUs, so the system only scans the pages that it
   can/should evict from memory

2) switching to two handed clock replacement for the anonymous LRUs,
   so the number of pages that need to be scanned when the system
   starts swapping is bound to a reasonable number

3) keeping unevictable pages off the LRU completely, so the
   VM does not waste CPU time scanning them. ramfs, ramdisk,
   SHM_LOCKED shared memory segments and mlock()ed VMA pages
   are keept on the unevictable list.

This patch:

isolate_lru_page logically belongs to be in vmscan.c than migrate.c.

It is tough, because we don't need that function without memory migration
so there is a valid argument to have it in migrate.c.  However a
subsequent patch needs to make use of it in the core mm, so we can happily
move it to vmscan.c.

Also, make the function a little more generic by not requiring that it
adds an isolated page to a given list.  Callers can do that.

	Note that we now have '__isolate_lru_page()', that does
	something quite different, visible outside of vmscan.c
	for use with memory controller.  Methinks we need to
	rationalize these names/purposes.	--lts

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mm/memory_hotplug.c build]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:50:25 -07:00
Badari Pulavarty
71088785c6 mm: cleanup to make remove_memory() arch-neutral
There is nothing architecture specific about remove_memory().
remove_memory() function is common for all architectures which support
hotplug memory remove.  Instead of duplicating it in every architecture,
collapse them into arch neutral function.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix the export]
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-20 08:50:25 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d9d332e087 anon_vma_prepare: properly lock even newly allocated entries
The anon_vma code is very subtle, and we end up doing optimistic lookups
of anon_vmas under RCU in page_lock_anon_vma() with no locking.  Other
CPU's can also see the newly allocated entry immediately after we've
exposed it by setting "vma->anon_vma" to the new value.

We protect against the anon_vma being destroyed by having the SLAB
marked as SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU, so the RCU lookup can depend on the
allocation not being destroyed - but it might still be free'd and
re-allocated here to a new vma.

As a result, we should not do the anon_vma list ops on a newly allocated
vma without proper locking.

Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-19 11:50:35 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f7ea4a4ba8 Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6
* 'drm-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6: (44 commits)
  drm/i915: fix ioremap of a user address for non-root (CVE-2008-3831)
  drm: make CONFIG_DRM depend on CONFIG_SHMEM.
  radeon: fix PCI bus mastering support enables.
  radeon: add RS400 family support.
  drm/radeon: add support for RS740 IGP chipsets.
  i915: GM45 has GM965-style MCH setup.
  i915: Don't run retire work handler while suspended
  i915: Map status page cached for chips with GTT-based HWS location.
  i915: Fix up ring initialization to cover G45 oddities
  i915: Use non-reserved status page index for breadcrumb
  drm: Increment dev_priv->irq_received so i915_gem_interrupts count works.
  drm: kill drm_device->irq
  drm: wbinvd is cache coherent.
  i915: add missing return in error path.
  i915: fixup permissions on gem ioctls.
  drm: Clean up many sparse warnings in i915.
  drm: Use ioremap_wc in i915_driver instead of ioremap, since we always want WC.
  drm: G33-class hardware has a newer 965-style MCH (no DCC register).
  drm: Avoid oops in GEM execbuffers with bad arguments.
  DRM: Return -EBADF on bad object in flink, and return curent name if it exists.
  ...
2008-10-17 15:09:20 -07:00
Keith Packard
395e0ddc44 Export shmem_file_setup for DRM-GEM
GEM needs to create shmem files to back buffer objects.  Though currently
creation of files for objects could have been driven from userland, the
modesetting work will require allocation of buffer objects before userland
is running, for boot-time message display.

Signed-off-by: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2008-10-18 07:10:11 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
e533b22705 Merge branch 'core-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-v28-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  do_generic_file_read: s/EINTR/EIO/ if lock_page_killable() fails
  softirq, warning fix: correct a format to avoid a warning
  softirqs, debug: preemption check
  x86, pci-hotplug, calgary / rio: fix EBDA ioremap()
  IO resources, x86: ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests exceeding, fix
  IO resources, x86: ioremap sanity check to catch mapping requests exceeding the BAR sizes
  softlockup: Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt: fix softlockup_thresh description
  dmi scan: warn about too early calls to dmi_check_system()
  generic: redefine resource_size_t as phys_addr_t
  generic: make PFN_PHYS explicitly return phys_addr_t
  generic: add phys_addr_t for holding physical addresses
  softirq: allocate less vectors
  IO resources: fix/remove printk
  printk: robustify printk, update comment
  printk: robustify printk, fix #2
  printk: robustify printk, fix
  printk: robustify printk

Fixed up conflicts in:
	arch/powerpc/include/asm/types.h
	arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype
manually.
2008-10-16 15:17:40 -07:00
Francois Cami
e1f8e87449 Remove Andrew Morton's old email accounts
People can use the real name an an index into MAINTAINERS to find the
current email address.

Signed-off-by: Francois Cami <francois.cami@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:32 -07:00
Jan Beulich
9ba16087d9 Kconfig: eliminate "def_bool n" constructs
Using "def_bool n" is pointless, simply using bool here appears more
appropriate.

Further, retaining such options that don't have a prompt and aren't
selected by anything seems also at least questionable.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:31 -07:00
Harvey Harrison
80a914dc05 misc: replace __FUNCTION__ with __func__
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:30 -07:00
Krishna Kumar
0c6aa2639e mm: do_generic_file_read() never gets a NULL 'filp' argument
The 'filp' argument to do_generic_file_read() is never NULL.

Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:29 -07:00
David Gibson
b4d1d99fdd hugetlb: handle updating of ACCESSED and DIRTY in hugetlb_fault()
The page fault path for normal pages, if the fault is neither a no-page
fault nor a write-protect fault, will update the DIRTY and ACCESSED bits
in the page table appropriately.

The hugepage fault path, however, does not do this, handling only no-page
or write-protect type faults.  It assumes that either the ACCESSED and
DIRTY bits are irrelevant for hugepages (usually true, since they are
never swapped) or that they are handled by the arch code.

This is inconvenient for some software-loaded TLB architectures, where the
_PAGE_ACCESSED (_PAGE_DIRTY) bits need to be set to enable read (write)
access to the page at the TLB miss.  This could be worked around in the
arch TLB miss code, but the TLB miss fast path can be made simple more
easily if the hugetlb_fault() path handles this, as the normal page fault
path does.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:29 -07:00
Andrew Morton
db99100d2e mm/page_alloc.c:free_area_init_nodes() fix inappropriate use of enum
Local variable `i' is a) misleadingly-named for an `enum zone_type' and b)
used for indexing zones as well as nodes as well as node_maps.

Make it an `int'.

Reported-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
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>
2008-10-16 11:21:29 -07:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
17bc6c30cf vfs: Add no_nrwrite_index_update writeback control flag
If no_nrwrite_index_update is set we don't update nr_to_write and
address space writeback_index in write_cache_pages.  This change
enables a file system to skip these updates in write_cache_pages and do
them in the writepages() callback.  This patch will be followed by an
ext4 patch that make use of these new flags.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
CC: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
2008-10-16 10:09:17 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
6b2ada8210 Merge branches 'core/softlockup', 'core/softirq', 'core/resources', 'core/printk' and 'core/misc' into core-v28-for-linus 2008-10-15 12:48:44 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov
8546232355 do_generic_file_read: s/EINTR/EIO/ if lock_page_killable() fails
If lock_page_killable() fails because the task was killed by SIGKILL or
any other fatal signal, do_generic_file_read() returns -EIO.

This seems to be OK, because in fact the userspace won't see this error,
the task will dequeue SIGKILL and exit.

However, /sbin/init is different, it will dequeue SIGKILL, ignore it, and
return to the user-space with the bogus -EIO.

Change the code to return the error code from lock_page_killable(), -EINTR.
This doesn't fix the bug, but perhaps makes sense anyway. Imho, with this
change the code looks a bit more logical, and the "good" init should handle
the spurious EINTR or short read.

Afaics we can also change lock_page_killable() to return -ERESTARTNOINTR,
but this can't prevent the short reads.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-14 17:15:33 +02:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
74baaaaec8 vfs: Remove the range_cont writeback mode.
Ext4 was the only user of range_cont writeback mode and ext4 switched
to a different method. So remove the range_cont mode which is not used
in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
CC: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
2008-10-14 09:21:02 -04:00
Mimi Zohar
9256292782 integrity: special fs magic
Discussion on the mailing list questioned the use of these
magic values in userspace, concluding these values are already
exported to userspace via statfs and their correct/incorrect
usage is left up to the userspace application.

  - Move special fs magic number definitions to magic.h
  - Add magic.h include

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-10-13 09:47:43 +11:00
Ingo Molnar
8daf14cf56 Merge branches 'x86/xen', 'x86/build', 'x86/microcode', 'x86/mm-debug-v2', 'x86/memory-corruption-check', 'x86/early-printk', 'x86/xsave', 'x86/ptrace-v2', 'x86/quirks', 'x86/setup', 'x86/spinlocks' and 'x86/signal' into x86/core-v2 2008-10-12 15:50:02 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
ec8deffa33 Merge phase #2 (PAT updates) of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-v28-for-linus-phase2-B' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (27 commits)
  x86, cpa: make the kernel physical mapping initialization a two pass sequence, fix
  x86, pat: cleanups
  x86: fix pagetable init 64-bit breakage
  x86: track memtype for RAM in page struct
  x86, cpa: srlz cpa(), global flush tlb after splitting big page and before doing cpa
  x86, cpa: remove cpa pool code
  x86, cpa: no need to check alias for __set_pages_p/__set_pages_np
  x86, cpa: dont use large pages for kernel identity mapping with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
  x86, cpa: make the kernel physical mapping initialization a two pass sequence
  x86, cpa: remove USER permission from the very early identity mapping attribute
  x86, cpa: rename PTE attribute macros for kernel direct mapping in early boot
  x86: make sure the CPA test code's use of _PAGE_UNUSED1 is obvious
  linux-next: fix x86 tree build failure
  x86: have set_memory_array_{uc,wb} coalesce memtypes, fix
  agp: enable optimized agp_alloc_pages methods
  x86: have set_memory_array_{uc,wb} coalesce memtypes.
  x86: {reverve,free}_memtype() take a physical address
  x86: fix pageattr-test
  agp: add agp_generic_destroy_pages()
  agp: generic_alloc_pages()
  ...
2008-10-11 11:02:56 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e26feff647 Merge branch 'for-2.6.28' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-2.6.28' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (132 commits)
  doc/cdrom: Trvial documentation error, file not present
  block_dev: fix kernel-doc in new functions
  block: add some comments around the bio read-write flags
  block: mark bio_split_pool static
  block: Find bio sector offset given idx and offset
  block: gendisk integrity wrapper
  block: Switch blk_integrity_compare from bdev to gendisk
  block: Fix double put in blk_integrity_unregister
  block: Introduce integrity data ownership flag
  block: revert part of d7533ad0e132f92e75c1b2eb7c26387b25a583c1
  bio.h: Remove unused conditional code
  block: remove end_{queued|dequeued}_request()
  block: change elevator to use __blk_end_request()
  gdrom: change to use __blk_end_request()
  memstick: change to use __blk_end_request()
  virtio_blk: change to use __blk_end_request()
  blktrace: use BLKTRACE_BDEV_SIZE as the name size for setup structure
  block: add lld busy state exporting interface
  block: Fix blk_start_queueing() to not kick a stopped queue
  include blktrace_api.h in headers_install
  ...
2008-10-10 10:52:45 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
3dd392a407 Merge branch 'linus' into x86/pat2
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
2008-10-10 19:30:08 +02:00
Matt Mackall
70096a561d SLOB: fix bogus ksize calculation fix
This fixes the previous fix, which was completely wrong on closer
inspection. This version has been manually tested with a user-space
test harness and generates sane values. A nearly identical patch has
been boot-tested.

The problem arose from changing how kmalloc/kfree handled alignment
padding without updating ksize to match. This brings it in sync.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-09 12:18:27 -07:00
Jens Axboe
36144077bc highmem: use bio_has_data() in the bounce path
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-10-09 08:56:01 +02:00
Matt Mackall
85ba94ba05 SLOB: fix bogus ksize calculation
SLOB's ksize calculation was braindamaged and generally harmlessly
underreported the allocation size. But for very small buffers, it could
in fact overreport them, leading code depending on krealloc to overrun
the allocation and trample other data.

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-07 11:19:23 -07:00
Andy Whitcroft
6babc32c41 mm: handle initialising compound pages at orders greater than MAX_ORDER
When we initialise a compound page we initialise the page flags and head
page pointer for all base pages spanned by that page.  When we initialise
a gigantic page (a page of order greater than or equal to MAX_ORDER) we
have to initialise more than MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES pages.  Currently we
assume that all elements of the mem_map in this page are contigious in
memory.  However this is only guarenteed out to MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES pages,
and with SPARSEMEM enabled they will not be contigious.  This leads us to
walk off the end of the first section and scribble on everything which
follows, BAD.

When we reach a MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES boundary we much locate the next
section of the mem_map.  As gigantic pages can only be maximally aligned
we know this will occur at exact multiple of MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES pages from
the start of the page.

This is a bug fix for the gigantic page support in hugetlbfs.

Credit to Mel Gorman for spotting the issue.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-02 15:53:13 -07:00
Nick Piggin
4b19de6d1c mm: tiny-shmem nommu fix
The previous patch db203d53d4 ("mm:
tiny-shmem fix lock ordering: mmap_sem vs i_mutex") to fix the lock
ordering in tiny-shmem breaks shared anonymous and IPC memory on NOMMU
architectures because it was using the expanding truncate to signal ramfs
to allocate a physically contiguous RAM backing the inode (otherwise it is
unusable for "memory mapping" it to userspace).

However do_truncate is what caused the lock ordering error, due to it
taking i_mutex.  In this case, we can actually just call ramfs directly to
allocate memory for the mapping, rather than go via truncate.

Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-02 15:53:13 -07:00
Gerald Schaefer
6c1b7f680d memory hotplug: missing zone->lock in test_pages_isolated()
__test_page_isolated_in_pageblock() in mm/page_isolation.c has a comment
saying that the caller must hold zone->lock. But the only caller of that
function, test_pages_isolated(), does not hold zone->lock and the lock is
also not acquired anywhere before. This patch adds the missing zone->lock
to test_pages_isolated().

We reproducibly run into BUG_ON(!PageBuddy(page)) in __offline_isolated_pages()
during memory hotplug stress test, see trace below. This patch fixes that
problem, it would be good if we could have it in 2.6.27.

kernel BUG at /home/autobuild/BUILD/linux-2.6.26-20080909/mm/page_alloc.c:4561!
illegal operation: 0001 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in: dm_multipath sunrpc bonding qeth_l3 dm_mod qeth ccwgroup vmur
CPU: 1 Not tainted 2.6.26-29.x.20080909-s390default #1
Process memory_loop_all (pid: 10025, task: 2f444028, ksp: 2b10dd28)
Krnl PSW : 040c0000 801727ea (__offline_isolated_pages+0x18e/0x1c4)
 R:0 T:1 IO:0 EX:0 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:0 CC:0 PM:0
Krnl GPRS: 00000000 7e27fc00 00000000 7e27fc00
 00000000 00000400 00014000 7e27fc01
 00606f00 7e27fc00 00013fe0 2b10dd28
 00000005 80172662 801727b2 2b10dd28
Krnl Code: 801727de: 5810900c l %r1,12(%r9)
 801727e2: a7f4ffb3 brc 15,80172748
 801727e6: a7f40001 brc 15,801727e8
 >801727ea: a7f4ffbc brc 15,80172762
 801727ee: a7f40001 brc 15,801727f0
 801727f2: a7f4ffaf brc 15,80172750
 801727f6: 0707 bcr 0,%r7
 801727f8: 0017 unknown
Call Trace:
([<0000000000172772>] __offline_isolated_pages+0x116/0x1c4)
 [<00000000001953a2>] offline_isolated_pages_cb+0x22/0x34
 [<000000000013164c>] walk_memory_resource+0xcc/0x11c
 [<000000000019520e>] offline_pages+0x36a/0x498
 [<00000000001004d6>] remove_memory+0x36/0x44
 [<000000000028fb06>] memory_block_change_state+0x112/0x150
 [<000000000028ffb8>] store_mem_state+0x90/0xe4
 [<0000000000289c00>] sysdev_store+0x34/0x40
 [<00000000001ee048>] sysfs_write_file+0xd0/0x178
 [<000000000019b1a8>] vfs_write+0x74/0x118
 [<000000000019b9ae>] sys_write+0x46/0x7c
 [<000000000011160e>] sysc_do_restart+0x12/0x16
 [<0000000077f3e8ca>] 0x77f3e8ca

Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-02 15:53:13 -07:00
Balbir Singh
31a78f23ba mm owner: fix race between swapoff and exit
There's a race between mm->owner assignment and swapoff, more easily
seen when task slab poisoning is turned on.  The condition occurs when
try_to_unuse() runs in parallel with an exiting task.  A similar race
can occur with callers of get_task_mm(), such as /proc/<pid>/<mmstats>
or ptrace or page migration.

CPU0                                    CPU1
                                        try_to_unuse
                                        looks at mm = task0->mm
                                        increments mm->mm_users
task 0 exits
mm->owner needs to be updated, but no
new owner is found (mm_users > 1, but
no other task has task->mm = task0->mm)
mm_update_next_owner() leaves
                                        mmput(mm) decrements mm->mm_users
task0 freed
                                        dereferencing mm->owner fails

The fix is to notify the subsystem via mm_owner_changed callback(),
if no new owner is found, by specifying the new task as NULL.

Jiri Slaby:
mm->owner was set to NULL prior to calling cgroup_mm_owner_callbacks(), but
must be set after that, so as not to pass NULL as old owner causing oops.

Daisuke Nishimura:
mm_update_next_owner() may set mm->owner to NULL, but mem_cgroup_from_task()
and its callers need to take account of this situation to avoid oops.

Hugh Dickins:
Lockdep warning and hang below exec_mmap() when testing these patches.
exit_mm() up_reads mmap_sem before calling mm_update_next_owner(),
so exec_mmap() now needs to do the same.  And with that repositioning,
there's now no point in mm_need_new_owner() allowing for NULL mm.

Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-29 08:41:47 -07:00
Daisuke Nishimura
a10cebf56c memcg: check under limit at shrink_usage
Current memory cgroup(both in mainline and -mm) doesn't account swap
caches as memory(swap cache support is dropped temporarily now).

So try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages doesn't reflect the count of pages that
have been moved to swap cache.

But this makes mem_cgroup_shrink_usage fail easily if most of the pages
are anon/shmem, and then shmem_getpage returns -ENOMEM and the process
will be killed.

This patch adds res_counter_check_under_limit to avoid these cases.

BTW, even if swap cache support is enabled again, if a process is moved to
another cgroup, which has been just made, between precharge and
shrink_usage in shmem_getpage, shrink_usage may fail just because there is
no pages to reclaim.

So this change would make sense anyway.

Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-23 08:09:14 -07:00
Nick Piggin
db203d53d4 mm: tiny-shmem fix lock ordering: mmap_sem vs i_mutex
tiny-shmem calls do_truncate in shmem_file_setup.  do_truncate takes
i_mutex, and shmem_file_setup is called with mmap_sem held.  However
i_mutex nests outside mmap_sem.

Copy the code in shmem.c to avoid this problem.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Reported-and-tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-23 08:09:14 -07:00
Salman Qazi
02b71b7012 slub: fixed uninitialized counter in struct kmem_cache_node
Initialized total objects atomic for the node in init_kmem_cache_node.  The
uninitialized value was ruining the stats in /proc/slabinfo.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
2008-09-15 09:49:05 +03:00
Ingo Molnar
f81b691a3d Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into x86/pat 2008-09-14 17:26:53 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
600715dcdf generic: add phys_addr_t for holding physical addresses
Add a kernel-wide "phys_addr_t" which is guaranteed to be able to hold
any physical address.  By default it equals the word size of the
architecture, but a 32-bit architecture can set ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
if it needs a 64-bit phys_addr_t.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-14 17:24:25 +02:00
Mel Gorman
5bead2a068 mm: mark the correct zone as full when scanning zonelists
The iterator for_each_zone_zonelist() uses a struct zoneref *z cursor when
scanning zonelists to keep track of where in the zonelist it is.  The
zoneref that is returned corresponds to the the next zone that is to be
scanned, not the current one.  It was intended to be treated as an opaque
list.

When the page allocator is scanning a zonelist, it marks elements in the
zonelist corresponding to zones that are temporarily full.  As the
zonelist is being updated, it uses the cursor here;

  if (NUMA_BUILD)
        zlc_mark_zone_full(zonelist, z);

This is intended to prevent rescanning in the near future but the zoneref
cursor does not correspond to the zone that has been found to be full.
This is an easy misunderstanding to make so this patch corrects the
problem by changing zoneref cursor to be the current zone being scanned
instead of the next one.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.26.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13 14:41:52 -07:00
Tejun Heo
ce36394269 mmap: fix petty bug in anonymous shared mmap offset handling
Anonymous mappings should ignore offset but shared anonymous mapping
forgot to clear it and makes the following legit test program trigger
SIGBUS.

 #include <sys/mman.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <errno.h>

 #define PAGE_SIZE	4096

 int main(void)
 {
	 char *p;
	 int i;

	 p = mmap(NULL, 2 * PAGE_SIZE, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
		  MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, PAGE_SIZE);
	 if (p == MAP_FAILED) {
		 perror("mmap");
		 return 1;
	 }

	 for (i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
		 printf("page %d\n", i);
		 p[i * 4096] = i;
	 }
	 return 0;
 }

Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-03 19:58:53 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro
b954185214 mm: size of quicklists shouldn't be proportional to the number of CPUs
Quicklists store pages for each CPU as caches.  (Each CPU can cache
node_free_pages/16 pages)

It is used for page table cache.  exit() will increase the cache size,
while fork() consumes it.

So for example if an apache-style application runs (one parent and many
child model), one CPU process will fork() while another CPU will process
the middleware work and exit().

At that time, the CPU on which the parent runs doesn't have page table
cache at all.  Others (on which children runs) have maximum caches.

	QList_max = (#ofCPUs - 1) x Free / 16
	=> QList_max / (Free + QList_max) = (#ofCPUs - 1) / (16 + #ofCPUs - 1)

So, How much quicklist memory is used in the maximum case?

This is proposional to # of CPUs because the limit of per cpu quicklist
cache doesn't see the number of cpus.

Above calculation mean

	 Number of CPUs per node            2    4    8   16
	 ==============================  ====================
	 QList_max / (Free + QList_max)   5.8%  16%  30%  48%

Wow! Quicklist can spend about 50% memory at worst case.

My demonstration program is here
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#define _GNU_SOURCE

#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sched.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>

#define BUFFSIZE 512

int max_cpu(void)	/* get max number of logical cpus from /proc/cpuinfo */
{
  FILE *fd;
  char *ret, buffer[BUFFSIZE];
  int cpu = 1;

  fd = fopen("/proc/cpuinfo", "r");
  if (fd == NULL) {
    perror("fopen(/proc/cpuinfo)");
    exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
  }
  while (1) {
    ret = fgets(buffer, BUFFSIZE, fd);
    if (ret == NULL)
      break;
    if (!strncmp(buffer, "processor", 9))
      cpu = atoi(strchr(buffer, ':') + 2);
  }
  fclose(fd);
  return cpu;
}

void cpu_bind(int cpu)	/* bind current process to one cpu */
{
  cpu_set_t mask;
  int ret;

  CPU_ZERO(&mask);
  CPU_SET(cpu, &mask);
  ret = sched_setaffinity(0, sizeof(mask), &mask);
  if (ret == -1) {
    perror("sched_setaffinity()");
    exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
  }
  sched_yield();	/* not necessary */
}

#define MMAP_SIZE (10 * 1024 * 1024)	/* 10 MB */
#define FORK_INTERVAL 1	/* 1 second */

main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  int cpu_max, nextcpu;
  long pagesize;
  pid_t pid;

  /* set max number of logical cpu */
  if (argc > 1)
    cpu_max = atoi(argv[1]) - 1;
  else
    cpu_max = max_cpu();

  /* get the page size */
  pagesize = sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE);
  if (pagesize == -1) {
    perror("sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE)");
    exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
  }

  /* prepare parent process */
  cpu_bind(0);
  nextcpu = cpu_max;

loop:

  /* select destination cpu for child process by round-robin rule */
  if (++nextcpu > cpu_max)
    nextcpu = 1;

  pid = fork();

  if (pid == 0) { /* child action */

    char *p;
    int i;

    /* consume page tables */
    p = mmap(0, MMAP_SIZE, PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE | MAP_ANONYMOUS, 0, 0);
    i = MMAP_SIZE / pagesize;
    while (i-- > 0) {
      *p = 1;
      p += pagesize;
    }

    /* move to other cpu */
    cpu_bind(nextcpu);
/*
    printf("a child moved to cpu%d after mmap().\n", nextcpu);
    fflush(stdout);
 */

    /* back page tables to pgtable_quicklist */
    exit(0);

  } else if (pid > 0) { /* parent action */

    sleep(FORK_INTERVAL);
    waitpid(pid, NULL, WNOHANG);

  }

  goto loop;
}
----------------------------------------

When above program which does task migration runs, my 8GB box spends
800MB of memory for quicklist.  This is not memory leak but doesn't seem
good.

% cat /proc/meminfo

MemTotal:        7701568 kB
MemFree:         4724672 kB
(snip)
Quicklists:       844800 kB

because

- My machine spec is
	number of numa node: 2
	number of cpus:      8 (4CPU x2 node)
        total mem:           8GB (4GB x2 node)
        free mem:            about 5GB

- Then, 4.7GB x 16% ~= 880MB.
  So, Quicklist can use 800MB.

So, if following spec machine run that program

   CPUs: 64 (8cpu x 8node)
   Mem:  1TB (128GB x8node)

Then, quicklist can waste 300GB (= 1TB x 30%).  It is too large.

So, I don't like cache policies which is proportional to # of cpus.

My patch changes the number of caches
from:
   per-cpu-cache-amount = memory_on_node / 16
to
   per-cpu-cache-amount = memory_on_node / 16 / number_of_cpus_on_node.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Keiichiro Tokunaga <tokunaga.keiich@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-02 19:21:38 -07:00
Marcin Slusarz
527655835e mm/bootmem: silence section mismatch warning - contig_page_data/bootmem_node_data
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x1f5c0): Section mismatch in reference from the variable contig_page_data to the variable .init.data:bootmem_node_data
The variable contig_page_data references
the variable __initdata bootmem_node_data
If the reference is valid then annotate the
variable with __init* (see linux/init.h) or name the variable:
*driver, *_template, *_timer, *_sht, *_ops, *_probe, *_probe_one, *_console,

Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@pikatech.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-02 19:21:37 -07:00
Hisashi Hifumi
6ccfa806a9 VFS: fix dio write returning EIO when try_to_release_page fails
Dio write returns EIO when try_to_release_page fails because bh is
still referenced.

The patch

    commit 3f31fddfa2
    Author: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
    Date:   Fri Jul 25 01:46:22 2008 -0700

        jbd: fix race between free buffer and commit transaction

was merged into 2.6.27-rc1, but I noticed that this patch is not enough
to fix the race.

I did fsstress test heavily to 2.6.27-rc1, and found that dio write still
sometimes got EIO through this test.

The patch above fixed race between freeing buffer(dio) and committing
transaction(jbd) but I discovered that there is another race, freeing
buffer(dio) and ext3/4_ordered_writepage.

: background_writeout()
     ->write_cache_pages()
       ->ext3_ordered_writepage()
     	   walk_page_buffers() -> take a bh ref
 	   block_write_full_page() -> unlock_page
		: <- end_page_writeback
                : <- race! (dio write->try_to_release_page fails)
      	   walk_page_buffers() ->release a bh ref

ext3_ordered_writepage holds bh ref and does unlock_page remaining
taking a bh ref, so this causes the race and failure of
try_to_release_page.

To fix this race, I used the approach of falling back to buffered
writes if try_to_release_page() fails on a page.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-02 19:21:37 -07:00
Adam Litke
344c790e38 mm: make setup_zone_migrate_reserve() aware of overlapping nodes
I have gotten to the root cause of the hugetlb badness I reported back on
August 15th.  My system has the following memory topology (note the
overlapping node):

            Node 0 Memory: 0x8000000-0x44000000
            Node 1 Memory: 0x0-0x8000000 0x44000000-0x80000000

setup_zone_migrate_reserve() scans the address range 0x0-0x8000000 looking
for a pageblock to move onto the MIGRATE_RESERVE list.  Finding no
candidates, it happily continues the scan into 0x8000000-0x44000000.  When
a pageblock is found, the pages are moved to the MIGRATE_RESERVE list on
the wrong zone.  Oops.

setup_zone_migrate_reserve() should skip pageblocks in overlapping nodes.

Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-02 19:21:37 -07:00
David Woodhouse
0ed97ee470 Remove '#include <stddef.h>' from mm/page_isolation.c
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2008-09-02 09:29:01 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
41c3e45f08 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
  [ARM] 5226/1: remove unmatched comment end.
  [ARM] Skip memory holes in FLATMEM when reading /proc/pagetypeinfo
  [ARM] use bcd2bin/bin2bcd
  [ARM] use the new byteorder headers
  [ARM] OMAP: Fix 2430 SMC91x ethernet IRQ
  [ARM] OMAP: Add and update OMAP default configuration files
  [ARM] OMAP: Change mailing list for OMAP in MAINTAINERS
  [ARM] S3C2443: Fix the S3C2443 clock register definitions
  [ARM] JIVE: Fix the spi bus numbering
  [ARM] S3C24XX: pwm.c: stop debugging output
  [ARM] S3C24XX: Fix sparse warnings in pwm.c
  [ARM] S3C24XX: Fix spare errors in pwm-clock driver
  [ARM] S3C24XX: Fix sparse warnings in arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx/gpiolib.c
  [ARM] S3C24XX: Fix nor-simtec driver sparse errors
  [ARM] 5225/1: zaurus: Register I2C controller for audio codecs
  [ARM] orion5x: update defconfig to v2.6.27-rc4
  [ARM] Orion: register UART1 on QNAP TS-209 and TS-409
  [ARM] Orion: activate lm75 driver on DNS-323
  [ARM] Orion: fix MAC detection on QNAP TS-209 and TS-409
  [ARM] Orion: Fix boot crash on Kurobox Pro
2008-08-28 12:34:27 -07:00