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Linus Torvalds 6c0f568e84 Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:

 - a few misc things

 - Andy's "ambient capabilities"

 - fs/nofity updates

 - the ocfs2 queue

 - kernel/watchdog.c updates and feature work.

 - some of MM.  Includes Andrea's userfaultfd feature.

[ Hadn't noticed that userfaultfd was 'default y' when applying the
  patches, so that got fixed in this merge instead.  We do _not_ mark
  new features that nobody uses yet 'default y'   - Linus ]

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (118 commits)
  mm/hugetlb.c: make vma_has_reserves() return bool
  mm/madvise.c: make madvise_behaviour_valid() return bool
  mm/memory.c: make tlb_next_batch() return bool
  mm/dmapool.c: change is_page_busy() return from int to bool
  mm: remove struct node_active_region
  mremap: simplify the "overlap" check in mremap_to()
  mremap: don't do uneccesary checks if new_len == old_len
  mremap: don't do mm_populate(new_addr) on failure
  mm: move ->mremap() from file_operations to vm_operations_struct
  mremap: don't leak new_vma if f_op->mremap() fails
  mm/hugetlb.c: make vma_shareable() return bool
  mm: make GUP handle pfn mapping unless FOLL_GET is requested
  mm: fix status code which move_pages() returns for zero page
  mm: memcontrol: bring back the VM_BUG_ON() in mem_cgroup_swapout()
  genalloc: add support of multiple gen_pools per device
  genalloc: add name arg to gen_pool_get() and devm_gen_pool_create()
  mm/memblock: WARN_ON when nid differs from overlap region
  Documentation/features/vm: add feature description and arch support status for batched TLB flush after unmap
  mm: defer flush of writable TLB entries
  mm: send one IPI per CPU to TLB flush all entries after unmapping pages
  ...
2015-09-05 14:27:38 -07:00
Eric Dumazet c821990610 task_work: remove fifo ordering guarantee
In commit f341861fb0 ("task_work: add a scheduling point in
task_work_run()") I fixed a latency problem adding a cond_resched()
call.

Later, commit ac3d0da8f3 added yet another loop to reverse a list,
bringing back the latency spike :

I've seen in some cases this loop taking 275 ms, if for example a
process with 2,000,000 files is killed.

We could add yet another cond_resched() in the reverse loop, or we
can simply remove the reversal, as I do not think anything
would depend on order of task_work_add() submitted works.

Fixes: ac3d0da8f3 ("task_work: Make task_work_add() lockless")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-05 13:46:58 -07:00
Nicholas Krause 559ec2f8fd mm/hugetlb.c: make vma_has_reserves() return bool
This makes vma_has_reserves() return bool due to this particular function
only returning either one or zero as its return value.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Nicholas Krause 1ecef9ed0f mm/madvise.c: make madvise_behaviour_valid() return bool
This makes the madvise_bahaviour_valid() function return bool due to
this particular function always returning the value of either one or
zero as its return value.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Nicholas Krause ca1d6c7d9d mm/memory.c: make tlb_next_batch() return bool
This makes the tlb_next_batch() bool due to this particular function only
ever returning either one or zero as its return value.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Nicholas Krause d9e7e37b4d mm/dmapool.c: change is_page_busy() return from int to bool
This makes the function is_page_busy() return bool rather then an int now
due to this particular function's single return statement only ever
evaulating to either one or zero.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
minkyung88.kim 4e6dab4233 mm: remove struct node_active_region
struct node_active_region is not used anymore.  Remove it.

Signed-off-by: minkyung88.kim <minkyung88.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 9943242ca4 mremap: simplify the "overlap" check in mremap_to()
Minor, but this check is overcomplicated.  Two half-intervals do NOT
overlap if END1 <= START2 || END2 <= START1, mremap_to() just needs to
negate this check.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 1d39168697 mremap: don't do uneccesary checks if new_len == old_len
The "new_len > old_len" branch in vma_to_resize() looks very confusing.
It only covers the VM_DONTEXPAND/pgoff checks but everything below is
equally unneeded if new_len == old_len.

Change this code to return if "new_len == old_len", new_len < old_len is
not possible, otherwise the code below is wrong anyway.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov d456fb9e52 mremap: don't do mm_populate(new_addr) on failure
move_vma() sets *locked even if move_page_tables() or ->mremap() fails,
change sys_mremap() to check "ret & ~PAGE_MASK".

I think we should simply remove the VM_LOCKED code in move_vma(), that is
why this patch doesn't change move_vma().  But this needs more cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 5477e70a64 mm: move ->mremap() from file_operations to vm_operations_struct
vma->vm_ops->mremap() looks more natural and clean in move_vma(), and this
way ->mremap() can have more users.  Say, vdso.

While at it, s/aio_ring_remap/aio_ring_mremap/.

Note: this is the minimal change before ->mremap() finds another user in
file_operations; this method should have more arguments, and it can be
used to kill arch_remap().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov df1eab303c mremap: don't leak new_vma if f_op->mremap() fails
move_vma() can't just return if f_op->mremap() fails, we should unmap the
new vma like we do if move_page_tables() fails.  To avoid the code
duplication this patch moves the "move entries back" under the new "if
(err)" branch.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Kirill Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Nicholas Krause 31aafb45f4 mm/hugetlb.c: make vma_shareable() return bool
This makes vma_shareable() return bool now due to this particular function
only ever returning either one or zero as its return value.

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Kirill A. Shutemov 1027e4436b mm: make GUP handle pfn mapping unless FOLL_GET is requested
With DAX, pfn mapping becoming more common.  The patch adjusts GUP code to
cover pfn mapping for cases when we don't need struct page to proceed.

To make it possible, let's change follow_page() code to return -EEXIST
error code if proper page table entry exists, but no corresponding struct
page.  __get_user_page() would ignore the error code and move to the next
page frame.

The immediate effect of the change is working MAP_POPULATE and mlock() on
DAX mappings.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arm64 build]
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Kirill A. Shutemov d899844e9c mm: fix status code which move_pages() returns for zero page
The manpage for move_pages(2) specifies that status code for zero page is
supposed to be -EFAULT.  Currently kernel return -ENOENT in this case.

follow_page() can do it for us, if we would ask for FOLL_DUMP.  The use of
FOLL_DUMP also means that the upper layer page tables pages are no longer
allocated.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior ce9ce6659a mm: memcontrol: bring back the VM_BUG_ON() in mem_cgroup_swapout()
Clark stumbled over a VM_BUG_ON() in -RT which was then was removed by
Johannes in commit f371763a79 ("mm: memcontrol: fix false-positive
VM_BUG_ON() on -rt").  The comment before that patch was a tiny bit better
than it is now.  While the patch claimed to fix a false-postive on -RT
this was not the case.  None of the -RT folks ACKed it and it was not a
false positive report.  That was a *real* problem.

This patch updates the comment that is improper because it refers to
"disabled preemption" as a consequence of that lock being taken.  A
spin_lock() disables preemption, true, but in this case the code relies on
the fact that the lock _also_ disables interrupts once it is acquired.
And this is the important detail (which was checked the VM_BUG_ON()) which
needs to be pointed out.  This is the hint one needs while looking at the
code.  It was explained by Johannes on the list that the per-CPU variables
are protected by local_irq_save().  The BUG_ON() was helpful.  This code
has been workarounded in -RT in the meantime.  I wouldn't mind running
into more of those if the code in question uses *special* kind of locking
since now there is no verification (in terms of lockdep or BUG_ON()) and
therefore I bring the VM_BUG_ON() check back in.

The two functions after the comment could also have a "local_irq_save()"
dance around them in order to serialize access to the per-CPU variables.
This has been avoided because the interrupts should be off.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Vladimir Zapolskiy c98c36355d genalloc: add support of multiple gen_pools per device
This change fills devm_gen_pool_create()/gen_pool_get() "name" argument
stub with contents and extends of_gen_pool_get() functionality on this
basis.

If there is no associated platform device with a device node passed to
of_gen_pool_get(), the function attempts to get a label property or device
node name (= repeats MTD OF partition standard) and seeks for a named
gen_pool registered by device of the parent device node.

The main idea of the change is to allow registration of independent
gen_pools under the same umbrella device, say "partitions" on "storage
device", the original functionality of one "partition" per "storage
device" is untouched.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix constness in devres_find()]
[dan.carpenter@oracle.com: freeing const data pointers]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>
Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Cc: Sascha Hauer <kernel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Vladimir Zapolskiy 7385817359 genalloc: add name arg to gen_pool_get() and devm_gen_pool_create()
This change modifies gen_pool_get() and devm_gen_pool_create() client
interfaces adding one more argument "name" of a gen_pool object.

Due to implementation gen_pool_get() is capable to retrieve only one
gen_pool associated with a device even if multiple gen_pools are created,
fortunately right at the moment it is sufficient for the clients, hence
provide NULL as a valid argument on both producer devm_gen_pool_create()
and consumer gen_pool_get() sides.

Because only one created gen_pool per device is addressable, explicitly
add a restriction to devm_gen_pool_create() to create only one gen_pool
per device, this implies two possible error codes returned by the
function, account it on client side (only misc/sram).  This completes
client side changes related to genalloc updates.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: gen_pool_get() cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>
Cc: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Cc: Sascha Hauer <kernel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Wei Yang c0a2949883 mm/memblock: WARN_ON when nid differs from overlap region
Each memblock_region has nid to indicates the Node ID of this range.  For
the overlap case, memblock_add_range() inserts the lower part and leave
the upper part as indicated in the overlapped region.

If the nid of the new range differs from the overlapped region, the
information recorded is not correct.

This patch adds a WARN_ON when the nid of the new range differs from the
overlapped region.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Mel Gorman c7e1e3ccfb Documentation/features/vm: add feature description and arch support status for batched TLB flush after unmap
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Mel Gorman d950c9477d mm: defer flush of writable TLB entries
If a PTE is unmapped and it's dirty then it was writable recently.  Due to
deferred TLB flushing, it's best to assume a writable TLB cache entry
exists.  With that assumption, the TLB must be flushed before any IO can
start or the page is freed to avoid lost writes or data corruption.  This
patch defers flushing of potentially writable TLBs as long as possible.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Mel Gorman 72b252aed5 mm: send one IPI per CPU to TLB flush all entries after unmapping pages
An IPI is sent to flush remote TLBs when a page is unmapped that was
potentially accesssed by other CPUs.  There are many circumstances where
this happens but the obvious one is kswapd reclaiming pages belonging to a
running process as kswapd and the task are likely running on separate
CPUs.

On small machines, this is not a significant problem but as machine gets
larger with more cores and more memory, the cost of these IPIs can be
high.  This patch uses a simple structure that tracks CPUs that
potentially have TLB entries for pages being unmapped.  When the unmapping
is complete, the full TLB is flushed on the assumption that a refill cost
is lower than flushing individual entries.

Architectures wishing to do this must give the following guarantee.

        If a clean page is unmapped and not immediately flushed, the
        architecture must guarantee that a write to that linear address
        from a CPU with a cached TLB entry will trap a page fault.

This is essentially what the kernel already depends on but the window is
much larger with this patch applied and is worth highlighting.  The
architecture should consider whether the cost of the full TLB flush is
higher than sending an IPI to flush each individual entry.  An additional
architecture helper called flush_tlb_local is required.  It's a trivial
wrapper with some accounting in the x86 case.

The impact of this patch depends on the workload as measuring any benefit
requires both mapped pages co-located on the LRU and memory pressure.  The
case with the biggest impact is multiple processes reading mapped pages
taken from the vm-scalability test suite.  The test case uses NR_CPU
readers of mapped files that consume 10*RAM.

Linear mapped reader on a 4-node machine with 64G RAM and 48 CPUs

                                           4.2.0-rc1          4.2.0-rc1
                                             vanilla       flushfull-v7
Ops lru-file-mmap-read-elapsed      159.62 (  0.00%)   120.68 ( 24.40%)
Ops lru-file-mmap-read-time_range    30.59 (  0.00%)     2.80 ( 90.85%)
Ops lru-file-mmap-read-time_stddv     6.70 (  0.00%)     0.64 ( 90.38%)

           4.2.0-rc1    4.2.0-rc1
             vanilla flushfull-v7
User          581.00       611.43
System       5804.93      4111.76
Elapsed       161.03       122.12

This is showing that the readers completed 24.40% faster with 29% less
system CPU time.  From vmstats, it is known that the vanilla kernel was
interrupted roughly 900K times per second during the steady phase of the
test and the patched kernel was interrupts 180K times per second.

The impact is lower on a single socket machine.

                                           4.2.0-rc1          4.2.0-rc1
                                             vanilla       flushfull-v7
Ops lru-file-mmap-read-elapsed       25.33 (  0.00%)    20.38 ( 19.54%)
Ops lru-file-mmap-read-time_range     0.91 (  0.00%)     1.44 (-58.24%)
Ops lru-file-mmap-read-time_stddv     0.28 (  0.00%)     0.47 (-65.34%)

           4.2.0-rc1    4.2.0-rc1
             vanilla flushfull-v7
User           58.09        57.64
System        111.82        76.56
Elapsed        27.29        22.55

It's still a noticeable improvement with vmstat showing interrupts went
from roughly 500K per second to 45K per second.

The patch will have no impact on workloads with no memory pressure or have
relatively few mapped pages.  It will have an unpredictable impact on the
workload running on the CPU being flushed as it'll depend on how many TLB
entries need to be refilled and how long that takes.  Worst case, the TLB
will be completely cleared of active entries when the target PFNs were not
resident at all.

[sasha.levin@oracle.com: trace tlb flush after disabling preemption in try_to_unmap_flush]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Mel Gorman 5b74283ab2 x86, mm: trace when an IPI is about to be sent
When unmapping pages it is necessary to flush the TLB.  If that page was
accessed by another CPU then an IPI is used to flush the remote CPU.  That
is a lot of IPIs if kswapd is scanning and unmapping >100K pages per
second.

There already is a window between when a page is unmapped and when it is
TLB flushed.  This series increases the window so multiple pages can be
flushed using a single IPI.  This should be safe or the kernel is hosed
already.

Patch 1 simply made the rest of the series easier to write as ftrace
        could identify all the senders of TLB flush IPIS.

Patch 2 tracks what CPUs potentially map a PFN and then sends an IPI
        to flush the entire TLB.

Patch 3 tracks when there potentially are writable TLB entries that
        need to be batched differently

Patch 4 increases SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX to further batch flushes

The performance impact is documented in the changelogs but in the optimistic
case on a 4-socket machine the full series reduces interrupts from 900K
interrupts/second to 60K interrupts/second.

This patch (of 4):

It is easy to trace when an IPI is received to flush a TLB but harder to
detect what event sent it.  This patch makes it easy to identify the
source of IPIs being transmitted for TLB flushes on x86.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Andrea Arcangeli c47174fc36 userfaultfd: selftest
This test allocates two virtual areas and bounces the physical memory
across the two virtual areas using only userfaultfd.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@samsung.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Andrea Arcangeli 2c5b7e1be7 userfaultfd: avoid missing wakeups during refile in userfaultfd_read
During the refile in userfaultfd_read both waitqueues could look empty to
the lockless wake_userfault().  Use a seqcount to prevent this false
negative that could leave an userfault blocked.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00