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Jiri Slaby 04715206c0 ipc/mqueue.c: refactor failure handling
If new_inode fails to allocate an inode we need only to return with
NULL.  But now we test the opposite and have all the work in a nested
block.  So do the opposite to save one indentation level (and remove
unnecessary line breaks).

This is only a preparation/cleanup for the next patch where we fix up
return values from mqueue_get_inode.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:44 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro a64a26e822 cpumask: add cpumask_var_t documentation
cpumask_var_t has one notable difference from cpumask_t.  Add the
explanation.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:44 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 37e7b5f153 cpumask: alloc_cpumask_var() use NUMA_NO_NODE
NUMA_NO_NODE and numa_node_id() have different meanings.  NUMA_NO_NODE is
obviously the recommended fallback.

Signed-off-by: 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>
2011-07-26 16:49:44 -07:00
KOSAKI Motohiro 95918f4a72 cpumask: convert for_each_cpumask() with for_each_cpu()
Adapt new API fashion.

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>
2011-07-26 16:49:44 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 32e107f71e fs/exec.c:acct_arg_size(): ptl is no longer needed for add_mm_counter()
acct_arg_size() takes ->page_table_lock around add_mm_counter() if
!SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING.  This is not needed after commit 172703b08c ("mm:
delete non-atomic mm counter implementation").

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.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>
2011-07-26 16:49:44 -07:00
Tetsuo Handa b4edf8bd06 exec: do not retry load_binary method if CONFIG_MODULES=n
If CONFIG_MODULES=n, it makes no sense to retry the list of binary formats
handler because the list will not be modified by request_module().

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:44 -07:00
Tetsuo Handa 912193521b exec: do not call request_module() twice from search_binary_handler()
Currently, search_binary_handler() tries to load binary loader module
using request_module() if a loader for the requested program is not yet
loaded.  But second attempt of request_module() does not affect the result
of search_binary_handler().

If request_module() triggered recursion, calling request_module() twice
causes 2 to the power of MAX_KMOD_CONCURRENT (= 50) repetitions.  It is
not an infinite loop but is sufficient for users to consider as a hang up.

Therefore, this patch changes not to call request_module() twice, making 1
to the power of MAX_KMOD_CONCURRENT repetitions in case of recursion.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reported-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Tested-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:44 -07:00
Michal Hocko aacb3d17a7 fs/exec.c: use BUILD_BUG_ON for VM_STACK_FLAGS & VM_STACK_INCOMPLETE_SETUP
Commit a8bef8ff6e ("mm: migration: avoid race between
shift_arg_pages() and rmap_walk() during migration by not migrating
temporary stacks") introduced a BUG_ON() to ensure that VM_STACK_FLAGS
and VM_STACK_INCOMPLETE_SETUP do not overlap.  The check is a compile
time one, so BUILD_BUG_ON is more appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:44 -07:00
Daniel Rebelo de Oliveira fb0a685cb9 kernel/fork.c: fix a few coding style issues
Signed-off-by: Daniel Rebelo de Oliveira <psykon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:44 -07:00
Vasiliy Kulikov 293eb1e777 proc: fix a race in do_io_accounting()
If an inode's mode permits opening /proc/PID/io and the resulting file
descriptor is kept across execve() of a setuid or similar binary, the
ptrace_may_access() check tries to prevent using this fd against the
task with escalated privileges.

Unfortunately, there is a race in the check against execve().  If
execve() is processed after the ptrace check, but before the actual io
information gathering, io statistics will be gathered from the
privileged process.  At least in theory this might lead to gathering
sensible information (like ssh/ftp password length) that wouldn't be
available otherwise.

Holding task->signal->cred_guard_mutex while gathering the io
information should protect against the race.

The order of locking is similar to the one inside of ptrace_attach():
first goes cred_guard_mutex, then lock_task_sighand().

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:43 -07:00
Daisuke Ogino d2857e79a2 procfs: return ENOENT on opening a being-removed proc entry
Change the return value to ENOENT.  This return value is then returned
when opening the proc entry that have been removed.  For example,
open("/proc/bus/pci/XX/YY") when the corresponding device is being
hot-removed.

Signed-off-by: Daisuke Ogino <ogino.daisuke@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Acked-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.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>
2011-07-26 16:49:43 -07:00
Andrew Morton 5296f6d315 h8300/m68k/xtensa: __FD_ISSET should return 0/1
Harmonise these return values with other architectures.  In some cases
this affects all compilers and in other cases non-gcc compilers only.

Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:43 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 99b6456748 do_coredump: fix the "ispipe" error check
do_coredump() assumes that if format_corename() fails it should return
-ENOMEM.  This is not true, for example cn_print_exe_file() can propagate
the error from d_path.  Even if it was true, this is too fragile.  Change
the code to check "ispipe < 0".

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:43 -07:00
Jiri Slaby 2c563731fe coredump: escape / in hostname and comm
Change every occurence of / in comm and hostname to !.  If the process
changes its name to contain /, the core is not dumped (if the directory
tree doesn't exist like that).  The same with hostname being something
like myhost/3.  Fix this behaviour by using the escape loop used in %E.
(We extract it to a separate function.)

Now both with comm == myprocess/1 and hostname == myhost/1, the core is
dumped like (kernel.core_pattern='core.%p.%e.%h):
core.2349.myprocess!1.myhost!1

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:43 -07:00
Jiri Slaby 3141c8b165 coredump: use task comm instead of (unknown)
If we don't know the file corresponding to the binary (i.e.  exe_file is
unknown), use "task->comm (path unknown)" instead of simple "(unknown)"
as suggested by ak.

The fallback is the same as %e except it will append "(path unknown)".

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:43 -07:00
Mike Frysinger 0e9a6cb5e6 ptrace: unify show_regs() prototype
[ poleg@redhat.com: no need to declare show_regs() in ptrace.h, sched.h does this ]
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:43 -07:00
Michal Hocko 778d3b0ff0 cpusets: randomize node rotor used in cpuset_mem_spread_node()
[ This patch has already been accepted as commit 0ac0c0d0f8 but later
  reverted (commit 35926ff5fb) because it itroduced arch specific
  __node_random which was defined only for x86 code so it broke other
  archs.  This is a followup without any arch specific code.  Other than
  that there are no functional changes.]

Some workloads that create a large number of small files tend to assign
too many pages to node 0 (multi-node systems).  Part of the reason is
that the rotor (in cpuset_mem_spread_node()) used to assign nodes starts
at node 0 for newly created tasks.

This patch changes the rotor to be initialized to a random node number
of the cpuset.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix layout]
[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: Define stub numa_random() for !NUMA configuration]
[mhocko@suse.cz: Make it arch independent]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix CONFIG_NUMA=y, MAX_NUMNODES>1 build]
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:43 -07:00
Michal Hocko 8521fc50d4 memcg: get rid of percpu_charge_mutex lock
percpu_charge_mutex protects from multiple simultaneous per-cpu charge
caches draining because we might end up having too many work items.  At
least this was the case until commit 26fe616844 ("memcg: fix percpu
cached charge draining frequency") when we introduced a more targeted
draining for async mode.

Now that also sync draining is targeted we can safely remove mutex
because we will not send more work than the current number of CPUs.
FLUSHING_CACHED_CHARGE protects from sending the same work multiple
times and stock->nr_pages == 0 protects from pointless sending a work if
there is obviously nothing to be done.  This is of course racy but we
can live with it as the race window is really small (we would have to
see FLUSHING_CACHED_CHARGE cleared while nr_pages would be still
non-zero).

The only remaining place where we can race is synchronous mode when we
rely on FLUSHING_CACHED_CHARGE test which might have been set by other
drainer on the same group but we should wait in that case as well.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.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>
2011-07-26 16:49:43 -07:00
Michal Hocko 3e92041d68 memcg: add mem_cgroup_same_or_subtree() helper
We are checking whether a given two groups are same or at least in the
same subtree of a hierarchy at several places.  Let's make a helper for
it to make code easier to read.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:43 -07:00
Michal Hocko d38144b7a5 memcg: unify sync and async per-cpu charge cache draining
Currently we have two ways how to drain per-CPU caches for charges.
drain_all_stock_sync will synchronously drain all caches while
drain_all_stock_async will asynchronously drain only those that refer to
a given memory cgroup or its subtree in hierarchy.  Targeted async
draining has been introduced by 26fe6168 (memcg: fix percpu cached
charge draining frequency) to reduce the cpu workers number.

sync draining is currently triggered only from mem_cgroup_force_empty
which is triggered only by userspace (mem_cgroup_force_empty_write) or
when a cgroup is removed (mem_cgroup_pre_destroy).  Although these are
not usually frequent operations it still makes some sense to do targeted
draining as well, especially if the box has many CPUs.

This patch unifies both methods to use the single code (drain_all_stock)
which relies on the original async implementation and just adds
flush_work to wait on all caches that are still under work for the sync
mode.  We are using FLUSHING_CACHED_CHARGE bit check to prevent from
waiting on a work that we haven't triggered.  Please note that both sync
and async functions are currently protected by percpu_charge_mutex so we
cannot race with other drainers.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:42 -07:00
Michal Hocko d1a05b6973 memcg: do not try to drain per-cpu caches without pages
drain_all_stock_async tries to optimize a work to be done on the work
queue by excluding any work for the current CPU because it assumes that
the context we are called from already tried to charge from that cache
and it's failed so it must be empty already.

While the assumption is correct we can optimize it even more by checking
the current number of pages in the cache.  This will also reduce a work
on other CPUs with an empty stock.

For the current CPU we can simply call drain_local_stock rather than
deferring it to the work queue.

[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: use drain_local_stock for current CPU optimization]
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
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>
2011-07-26 16:49:42 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 82f9d486e5 memcg: add memory.vmscan_stat
The commit log of 0ae5e89c60 ("memcg: count the soft_limit reclaim
in...") says it adds scanning stats to memory.stat file.  But it doesn't
because we considered we needed to make a concensus for such new APIs.

This patch is a trial to add memory.scan_stat. This shows
  - the number of scanned pages(total, anon, file)
  - the number of rotated pages(total, anon, file)
  - the number of freed pages(total, anon, file)
  - the number of elaplsed time (including sleep/pause time)

  for both of direct/soft reclaim.

The biggest difference with oringinal Ying's one is that this file
can be reset by some write, as

  # echo 0 ...../memory.scan_stat

Example of output is here. This is a result after make -j 6 kernel
under 300M limit.

  [kamezawa@bluextal ~]$ cat /cgroup/memory/A/memory.scan_stat
  [kamezawa@bluextal ~]$ cat /cgroup/memory/A/memory.vmscan_stat
  scanned_pages_by_limit 9471864
  scanned_anon_pages_by_limit 6640629
  scanned_file_pages_by_limit 2831235
  rotated_pages_by_limit 4243974
  rotated_anon_pages_by_limit 3971968
  rotated_file_pages_by_limit 272006
  freed_pages_by_limit 2318492
  freed_anon_pages_by_limit 962052
  freed_file_pages_by_limit 1356440
  elapsed_ns_by_limit 351386416101
  scanned_pages_by_system 0
  scanned_anon_pages_by_system 0
  scanned_file_pages_by_system 0
  rotated_pages_by_system 0
  rotated_anon_pages_by_system 0
  rotated_file_pages_by_system 0
  freed_pages_by_system 0
  freed_anon_pages_by_system 0
  freed_file_pages_by_system 0
  elapsed_ns_by_system 0
  scanned_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 9471864
  scanned_anon_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 6640629
  scanned_file_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 2831235
  rotated_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 4243974
  rotated_anon_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 3971968
  rotated_file_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 272006
  freed_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 2318492
  freed_anon_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 962052
  freed_file_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 1356440
  elapsed_ns_by_limit_under_hierarchy 351386416101
  scanned_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0
  scanned_anon_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0
  scanned_file_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0
  rotated_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0
  rotated_anon_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0
  rotated_file_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0
  freed_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0
  freed_anon_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0
  freed_file_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0
  elapsed_ns_by_system_under_hierarchy 0

total_xxxx is for hierarchy management.

This will be useful for further memcg developments and need to be
developped before we do some complicated rework on LRU/softlimit
management.

This patch adds a new struct memcg_scanrecord into scan_control struct.
sc->nr_scanned at el is not designed for exporting information.  For
example, nr_scanned is reset frequentrly and incremented +2 at scanning
mapped pages.

To avoid complexity, I added a new param in scan_control which is for
exporting scanning score.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:42 -07:00
Daisuke Nishimura 108b6a7846 memcg: fix behavior of mem_cgroup_resize_limit()
Commit 22a668d7c3 ("memcg: fix behavior under memory.limit equals to
memsw.limit") introduced "memsw_is_minimum" flag, which becomes true
when mem_limit == memsw_limit.  The flag is checked at the beginning of
reclaim, and "noswap" is set if the flag is true, because using swap is
meaningless in this case.

This works well in most cases, but when we try to shrink mem_limit,
which is the same as memsw_limit now, we might fail to shrink mem_limit
because swap doesn't used.

This patch fixes this behavior by:
 - check MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_SHRINK at the begining of reclaim
 - If it is set, don't set "noswap" flag even if memsw_is_minimum is true.

Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:42 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 4508378b95 memcg: fix vmscan count in small memcgs
Commit 246e87a939 ("memcg: fix get_scan_count() for small targets")
fixes the memcg/kswapd behavior against small targets and prevent vmscan
priority too high.

But the implementation is too naive and adds another problem to small
memcg.  It always force scan to 32 pages of file/anon and doesn't handle
swappiness and other rotate_info.  It makes vmscan to scan anon LRU
regardless of swappiness and make reclaim bad.  This patch fixes it by
adjusting scanning count with regard to swappiness at el.

At a test "cat 1G file under 300M limit." (swappiness=20)
 before patch
        scanned_pages_by_limit 360919
        scanned_anon_pages_by_limit 180469
        scanned_file_pages_by_limit 180450
        rotated_pages_by_limit 31
        rotated_anon_pages_by_limit 25
        rotated_file_pages_by_limit 6
        freed_pages_by_limit 180458
        freed_anon_pages_by_limit 19
        freed_file_pages_by_limit 180439
        elapsed_ns_by_limit 429758872
 after patch
        scanned_pages_by_limit 180674
        scanned_anon_pages_by_limit 24
        scanned_file_pages_by_limit 180650
        rotated_pages_by_limit 35
        rotated_anon_pages_by_limit 24
        rotated_file_pages_by_limit 11
        freed_pages_by_limit 180634
        freed_anon_pages_by_limit 0
        freed_file_pages_by_limit 180634
        elapsed_ns_by_limit 367119089
        scanned_pages_by_system 0

the numbers of scanning anon are decreased(as expected), and elapsed time
reduced. By this patch, small memcgs will work better.
(*) Because the amount of file-cache is much bigger than anon,
    recalaim_stat's rotate-scan counter make scanning files more.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-26 16:49:42 -07:00
Michal Hocko 1af8efe965 memcg: change memcg_oom_mutex to spinlock
memcg_oom_mutex is used to protect memcg OOM path and eventfd interface
for oom_control.  None of the critical sections which it protects sleep
(eventfd_signal works from atomic context and the rest are simple linked
list resp.  oom_lock atomic operations).

Mutex is also too heavyweight for those code paths because it triggers a
lot of scheduling.  It also makes makes convoying effects more visible
when we have a big number of oom killing because we take the lock
mutliple times during mem_cgroup_handle_oom so we have multiple places
where many processes can sleep.

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.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>
2011-07-26 16:49:42 -07:00