The iteration of the ftrace function list and the call to
ftrace_match_record() need to be protected by the ftrace_lock.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Both __trace_add_new_event() and __trace_early_add_new_event() do
basically the same thing, except that __trace_add_new_event() does
a little more.
Instead of having duplicate code between the two functions, add
a helper function trace_create_new_event() that both can use.
This will help against having bugs fixed in one function but not
the other.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Modify soft-mode flag only if no other soft-mode referrer
(currently only the ftrace triggers) by using a reference
counter in each ftrace_event_file.
Without this fix, adding and removing several different
enable/disable_event triggers on the same event clear
soft-mode bit from the ftrace_event_file. This also
happens with a typo of glob on setting triggers.
e.g.
# echo vfs_symlink:enable_event:net:netif_rx > set_ftrace_filter
# cat events/net/netif_rx/enable
0*
# echo typo_func:enable_event:net:netif_rx > set_ftrace_filter
# cat events/net/netif_rx/enable
0
# cat set_ftrace_filter
#### all functions enabled ####
vfs_symlink:enable_event:net:netif_rx:unlimited
As above, we still have a trigger, but soft-mode is gone.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130509054429.30398.7464.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>
Cc: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cleanup regex_lock and ftrace_lock locking points around
ftrace_ops hash update code.
The new rule is that regex_lock protects ops->*_hash
read-update-write code for each ftrace_ops. Usually,
hash update is done by following sequence.
1. allocate a new local hash and copy the original hash.
2. update the local hash.
3. move(actually, copy) back the local hash to ftrace_ops.
4. update ftrace entries if needed.
5. release the local hash.
This makes regex_lock protect #1-#4, and ftrace_lock
to protect #3, #4 and adding and removing ftrace_ops from the
ftrace_ops_list. The ftrace_lock protects #3 as well because
the move functions update the entries too.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130509054421.30398.83411.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fix a deadlock on ftrace_regex_lock which happens when setting
an enable_event trigger on dynamic kprobe event as below.
----
sh-2.05b# echo p vfs_symlink > kprobe_events
sh-2.05b# echo vfs_symlink:enable_event:kprobes:p_vfs_symlink_0 > set_ftrace_filter
=============================================
[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
3.9.0+ #35 Not tainted
---------------------------------------------
sh/72 is trying to acquire lock:
(ftrace_regex_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff810ba6c1>] ftrace_set_hash+0x81/0x1f0
but task is already holding lock:
(ftrace_regex_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff810b7cbd>] ftrace_regex_write.isra.29.part.30+0x3d/0x220
other info that might help us debug this:
Possible unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0
----
lock(ftrace_regex_lock);
lock(ftrace_regex_lock);
*** DEADLOCK ***
----
To fix that, this introduces a finer regex_lock for each ftrace_ops.
ftrace_regex_lock is too big of a lock which protects all
filter/notrace_hash operations, but it doesn't need to be a global
lock after supporting multiple ftrace_ops because each ftrace_ops
has its own filter/notrace_hash.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130509054417.30398.84254.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
[ Added initialization flag and automate mutex initialization for
non ftrace.c ftrace_probes. ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As ftrace_regex_write() reads the result of ftrace_process_regex()
which can sometimes return a positive number, only consider a
failure if the return is negative. Otherwise, it will skip possible
other registered probes and by returning a positive number that
wasn't read, it will confuse the user processes doing the writing.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
register_ftrace_function_probe() returns the number of functions
it registered, which can be zero, it can also return a negative number
if something went wrong. But event_enable_func() only checks for
the case that it didn't register anything, it needs to also check
for the case that something went wrong and return that error code
as well.
Added some comments about the code as well, to make it more
understandable.
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Return 0 instead of the number of activated ftrace function probes if
event_enable_func succeeded and return an error code if it failed or
did not register any functions. But it currently returns the number
of registered functions and if it didn't register anything, it returns 0,
but that is considered success.
This also fixes the return value. As if it succeeds, it returns the
number of functions that were enabled, which is returned back to
the user in ftrace_regex_write (the write() return code). If only
one function is enabled, then the return code of the write is one,
and this can confuse the user program in thinking it only wrote 1
byte.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130509054413.30398.55650.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
[ Rewrote change log to reflect that this fixes two bugs - SR ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As the wake up logic for waiters on the buffer has been moved
from the tracing code to the ring buffer, it requires also adding
IRQ_WORK as the wake up code is performed via irq_work.
This fixes compile breakage when a user of the ring buffer is selected
but tracing and irq_work are not.
Link http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130503115332.GT8356@rric.localhost
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reported-by: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
During the 3.10 merge, a conflict happened and the resolution was
almost, but not quite, correct. An if statement was reversed.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[ Duh. That was just silly of me - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Merge second batch of fixes from Andrew Morton:
- various misc bits
- some printk updates
- a new "SRAM" driver.
- MAINTAINERS updates
- the backlight driver queue
- checkpatch updates
- a few init/ changes
- a huge number of drivers/rtc changes
- fatfs updates
- some lib/idr.c work
- some renaming of the random driver interfaces
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (285 commits)
net: rename random32 to prandom
net/core: remove duplicate statements by do-while loop
net/core: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
net/netfilter: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
net/sched: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
net/sunrpc: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
scsi: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
lguest: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
uwb: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
video/uvesafb: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
mmc: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
drbd: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
kernel/: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
mm/: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
lib/: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
x86: rename random32() to prandom_u32()
x86: pageattr-test: remove srandom32 call
uuid: use prandom_bytes()
raid6test: use prandom_bytes()
sctp: convert sctp_assoc_set_id() to use idr_alloc_cyclic()
...
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
- Fixes and a lot of cleanups. Locking cleanup is finally complete.
cgroup_mutex is no longer exposed to individual controlelrs which
used to cause nasty deadlock issues. Li fixed and cleaned up quite a
bit including long standing ones like racy cgroup_path().
- device cgroup now supports proper hierarchy thanks to Aristeu.
- perf_event cgroup now supports proper hierarchy.
- A new mount option "__DEVEL__sane_behavior" is added. As indicated
by the name, this option is to be used for development only at this
point and generates a warning message when used. Unfortunately,
cgroup interface currently has too many brekages and inconsistencies
to implement a consistent and unified hierarchy on top. The new flag
is used to collect the behavior changes which are necessary to
implement consistent unified hierarchy. It's likely that this flag
won't be used verbatim when it becomes ready but will be enabled
implicitly along with unified hierarchy.
The option currently disables some of broken behaviors in cgroup core
and also .use_hierarchy switch in memcg (will be routed through -mm),
which can be used to make very unusual hierarchy where nesting is
partially honored. It will also be used to implement hierarchy
support for blk-throttle which would be impossible otherwise without
introducing a full separate set of control knobs.
This is essentially versioning of interface which isn't very nice but
at this point I can't see any other options which would allow keeping
the interface the same while moving towards hierarchy behavior which
is at least somewhat sane. The planned unified hierarchy is likely
to require some level of adaptation from userland anyway, so I think
it'd be best to take the chance and update the interface such that
it's supportable in the long term.
Maintaining the existing interface does complicate cgroup core but
shouldn't put too much strain on individual controllers and I think
it'd be manageable for the foreseeable future. Maybe we'll be able
to drop it in a decade.
Fix up conflicts (including a semantic one adding a new #include to ppc
that was uncovered by header the file changes) as per Tejun.
* 'for-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (45 commits)
cpuset: fix compile warning when CONFIG_SMP=n
cpuset: fix cpu hotplug vs rebuild_sched_domains() race
cpuset: use rebuild_sched_domains() in cpuset_hotplug_workfn()
cgroup: restore the call to eventfd->poll()
cgroup: fix use-after-free when umounting cgroupfs
cgroup: fix broken file xattrs
devcg: remove parent_cgroup.
memcg: force use_hierarchy if sane_behavior
cgroup: remove cgrp->top_cgroup
cgroup: introduce sane_behavior mount option
move cgroupfs_root to include/linux/cgroup.h
cgroup: convert cgroupfs_root flag bits to masks and add CGRP_ prefix
cgroup: make cgroup_path() not print double slashes
Revert "cgroup: remove bind() method from cgroup_subsys."
perf: make perf_event cgroup hierarchical
cgroup: implement cgroup_is_descendant()
cgroup: make sure parent won't be destroyed before its children
cgroup: remove bind() method from cgroup_subsys.
devcg: remove broken_hierarchy tag
cgroup: remove cgroup_lock_is_held()
...
Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
"A lot of activities on workqueue side this time. The changes achieve
the followings.
- WQ_UNBOUND workqueues - the workqueues which are per-cpu - are
updated to be able to interface with multiple backend worker pools.
This involved a lot of churning but the end result seems actually
neater as unbound workqueues are now a lot closer to per-cpu ones.
- The ability to interface with multiple backend worker pools are
used to implement unbound workqueues with custom attributes.
Currently the supported attributes are the nice level and CPU
affinity. It may be expanded to include cgroup association in
future. The attributes can be specified either by calling
apply_workqueue_attrs() or through /sys/bus/workqueue/WQ_NAME/* if
the workqueue in question is exported through sysfs.
The backend worker pools are keyed by the actual attributes and
shared by any workqueues which share the same attributes. When
attributes of a workqueue are changed, the workqueue binds to the
worker pool with the specified attributes while leaving the work
items which are already executing in its previous worker pools
alone.
This allows converting custom worker pool implementations which
want worker attribute tuning to use workqueues. The writeback pool
is already converted in block tree and there are a couple others
are likely to follow including btrfs io workers.
- WQ_UNBOUND's ability to bind to multiple worker pools is also used
to make it NUMA-aware. Because there's no association between work
item issuer and the specific worker assigned to execute it, before
this change, using unbound workqueue led to unnecessary cross-node
bouncing and it couldn't be helped by autonuma as it requires tasks
to have implicit node affinity and workers are assigned randomly.
After these changes, an unbound workqueue now binds to multiple
NUMA-affine worker pools so that queued work items are executed in
the same node. This is turned on by default but can be disabled
system-wide or for individual workqueues.
Crypto was requesting NUMA affinity as encrypting data across
different nodes can contribute noticeable overhead and doing it
per-cpu was too limiting for certain cases and IO throughput could
be bottlenecked by one CPU being fully occupied while others have
idle cycles.
While the new features required a lot of changes including
restructuring locking, it didn't complicate the execution paths much.
The unbound workqueue handling is now closer to per-cpu ones and the
new features are implemented by simply associating a workqueue with
different sets of backend worker pools without changing queue,
execution or flush paths.
As such, even though the amount of change is very high, I feel
relatively safe in that it isn't likely to cause subtle issues with
basic correctness of work item execution and handling. If something
is wrong, it's likely to show up as being associated with worker pools
with the wrong attributes or OOPS while workqueue attributes are being
changed or during CPU hotplug.
While this creates more backend worker pools, it doesn't add too many
more workers unless, of course, there are many workqueues with unique
combinations of attributes. Assuming everything else is the same,
NUMA awareness costs an extra worker pool per NUMA node with online
CPUs.
There are also a couple things which are being routed outside the
workqueue tree.
- block tree pulled in workqueue for-3.10 so that writeback worker
pool can be converted to unbound workqueue with sysfs control
exposed. This simplifies the code, makes writeback workers
NUMA-aware and allows tuning nice level and CPU affinity via sysfs.
- The conversion to workqueue means that there's no 1:1 association
between a specific worker, which makes writeback folks unhappy as
they want to be able to tell which filesystem caused a problem from
backtrace on systems with many filesystems mounted. This is
resolved by allowing work items to set debug info string which is
printed when the task is dumped. As this change involves unifying
implementations of dump_stack() and friends in arch codes, it's
being routed through Andrew's -mm tree."
* 'for-3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (84 commits)
workqueue: use kmem_cache_free() instead of kfree()
workqueue: avoid false negative WARN_ON() in destroy_workqueue()
workqueue: update sysfs interface to reflect NUMA awareness and a kernel param to disable NUMA affinity
workqueue: implement NUMA affinity for unbound workqueues
workqueue: introduce put_pwq_unlocked()
workqueue: introduce numa_pwq_tbl_install()
workqueue: use NUMA-aware allocation for pool_workqueues
workqueue: break init_and_link_pwq() into two functions and introduce alloc_unbound_pwq()
workqueue: map an unbound workqueues to multiple per-node pool_workqueues
workqueue: move hot fields of workqueue_struct to the end
workqueue: make workqueue->name[] fixed len
workqueue: add workqueue->unbound_attrs
workqueue: determine NUMA node of workers accourding to the allowed cpumask
workqueue: drop 'H' from kworker names of unbound worker pools
workqueue: add wq_numa_tbl_len and wq_numa_possible_cpumask[]
workqueue: move pwq_pool_locking outside of get/put_unbound_pool()
workqueue: fix memory leak in apply_workqueue_attrs()
workqueue: fix unbound workqueue attrs hashing / comparison
workqueue: fix race condition in unbound workqueue free path
workqueue: remove pwq_lock which is no longer used
...
Pull async update from Tejun Heo:
"This contains three cleanup patches for async from Lai. All three
patches are essentially cosmetic."
* 'for-3.10-async' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
async: rename and redefine async_func_ptr
async: remove unused @node from struct async_domain
async: simplify lowest_in_progress()
The early console implementations are the same all over the place. Move
the print function to kernel/printk and get rid of the copies.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: arch/mips/kernel/early_printk.c needs kernel.h for va_list]
[paul.gortmaker@windriver.com: sh4: make the bios early console support depend on EARLY_PRINTK]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 7ff9554bb5 ("printk: convert byte-buffer to variable-length
record buffer") removed start and end parameters from
call_console_drivers, but those parameters still exist in
include/trace/events/printk.h.
Without start and end parameters handling, printk tracing became more
simple as: trace_console(text, len);
Signed-off-by: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Merge first batch of fixes from Andrew Morton:
- A couple of kthread changes
- A few minor audit patches
- A number of fbdev patches. Florian remains AWOL so I'm picking up
some of these.
- A few kbuild things
- ocfs2 updates
- Almost all of the MM queue
(And in the meantime, I already have the second big batch from Andrew
pending in my mailbox ;^)
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (149 commits)
memcg: take reference before releasing rcu_read_lock
mem hotunplug: fix kfree() of bootmem memory
mmKconfig: add an option to disable bounce
mm, nobootmem: do memset() after memblock_reserve()
mm, nobootmem: clean-up of free_low_memory_core_early()
fs/buffer.c: remove unnecessary init operation after allocating buffer_head.
numa, cpu hotplug: change links of CPU and node when changing node number by onlining CPU
mm: fix memory_hotplug.c printk format warning
mm: swap: mark swap pages writeback before queueing for direct IO
swap: redirty page if page write fails on swap file
mm, memcg: give exiting processes access to memory reserves
thp: fix huge zero page logic for page with pfn == 0
memcg: avoid accessing memcg after releasing reference
fs: fix fsync() error reporting
memblock: fix missing comment of memblock_insert_region()
mm: Remove unused parameter of pages_correctly_reserved()
firmware, memmap: fix firmware_map_entry leak
mm/vmstat: add note on safety of drain_zonestat
mm: thp: add split tail pages to shrink page list in page reclaim
mm: allow for outstanding swap writeback accounting
...
When hot removing memory presented at boot time, following messages are shown:
kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:3409!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in: ebtable_nat ebtables xt_CHECKSUM iptable_mangle bridge stp llc ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler sunrpc ipt_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 iptable_filter ip_tables ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 xt_state nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables binfmt_misc vfat fat dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod vhost_net macvtap macvlan tun uinput iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support coretemp kvm_intel kvm crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel microcode pcspkr sg i2c_i801 lpc_ich mfd_core igb i2c_algo_bit i2c_core e1000e ptp pps_core tpm_infineon ioatdma dca sr_mod cdrom sd_mod crc_t10dif usb_storage megaraid_sas lpfc scsi_transport_fc scsi_tgt scsi_mod
CPU 0
Pid: 5091, comm: kworker/0:2 Tainted: G W 3.9.0-rc6+ #15
RIP: kfree+0x232/0x240
Process kworker/0:2 (pid: 5091, threadinfo ffff88084678c000, task ffff88083928ca80)
Call Trace:
__release_region+0xd4/0xe0
__remove_pages+0x52/0x110
arch_remove_memory+0x89/0xd0
remove_memory+0xc4/0x100
acpi_memory_device_remove+0x6d/0xb1
acpi_device_remove+0x89/0xab
__device_release_driver+0x7c/0xf0
device_release_driver+0x2f/0x50
acpi_bus_device_detach+0x6c/0x70
acpi_ns_walk_namespace+0x11a/0x250
acpi_walk_namespace+0xee/0x137
acpi_bus_trim+0x33/0x7a
acpi_bus_hot_remove_device+0xc4/0x1a1
acpi_os_execute_deferred+0x27/0x34
process_one_work+0x1f7/0x590
worker_thread+0x11a/0x370
kthread+0xee/0x100
ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
RIP [<ffffffff811c41d2>] kfree+0x232/0x240
RSP <ffff88084678d968>
The reason why the messages are shown is to release a resource
structure, allocated by bootmem, by kfree(). So when we release a
resource structure, we should check whether it is allocated by bootmem
or not.
But even if we know a resource structure is allocated by bootmem, we
cannot release it since SLxB cannot treat it. So for reusing a resource
structure, this patch remembers it by using bootmem_resource as follows:
When releasing a resource structure by free_resource(), free_resource()
checks whether the resource structure is allocated by bootmem or not.
If it is allocated by bootmem, free_resource() adds it to
bootmem_resource. If it is not allocated by bootmem, free_resource()
release it by kfree().
And when getting a new resource structure by get_resource(),
get_resource() checks whether bootmem_resource has released resource
structures or not. If there is a released resource structure,
get_resource() returns it. If there is not a releaed resource
structure, get_resource() returns new resource structure allocated by
kzalloc().
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/get_resource/alloc_resource/]
Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.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>
Add release_mem_region_adjustable(), which releases a requested region
from a currently busy memory resource. This interface adjusts the
matched memory resource accordingly even if the requested region does
not match exactly but still fits into.
This new interface is intended for memory hot-delete. During bootup,
memory resources are inserted from the boot descriptor table, such as
EFI Memory Table and e820. Each memory resource entry usually covers
the whole contigous memory range. Memory hot-delete request, on the
other hand, may target to a particular range of memory resource, and its
size can be much smaller than the whole contiguous memory. Since the
existing release interfaces like __release_region() require a requested
region to be exactly matched to a resource entry, they do not allow a
partial resource to be released.
This new interface is restrictive (i.e. release under certain
conditions), which is consistent with other release interfaces,
__release_region() and __release_resource(). Additional release
conditions, such as an overlapping region to a resource entry, can be
supported after they are confirmed as valid cases.
There is no change to the existing interfaces since their restriction is
valid for I/O resources.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use GFP_ATOMIC under write_lock()]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: switch back to GFP_KERNEL, less buggily]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded and wrong kfree(), per Toshi]
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Reviewed-by : Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Cc: T Makphaibulchoke <tmac@hp.com>
Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add an admin_reserve_kbytes knob to allow admins to change the hardcoded
memory reserve to something other than 3%, which may be multiple
gigabytes on large memory systems. Only about 8MB is necessary to
enable recovery in the default mode, and only a few hundred MB are
required even when overcommit is disabled.
This affects OVERCOMMIT_GUESS and OVERCOMMIT_NEVER.
admin_reserve_kbytes is initialized to min(3% free pages, 8MB)
I arrived at 8MB by summing the RSS of sshd or login, bash, and top.
Please see first patch in this series for full background, motivation,
testing, and full changelog.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make init_admin_reserve() static]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Shewmaker <agshew@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>