vm_map_ram() has a fragmentation problem when it cannot purge a
chunk(ie, 4M address space) if there is a pinning object in that
addresss space. So it could consume all VMALLOC address space easily.
We can fix the fragmentation problem by using vmap instead of
vm_map_ram() but vmap() is known to be slow compared to vm_map_ram().
Minchan said vm_map_ram is 5 times faster than vmap in his tests. So I
thought we should fix fragment problem of vm_map_ram because our
proprietary GPU driver has used it heavily.
On second thought, it's not an easy because we should reuse freed space
for solving the problem and it could make more IPI and bitmap operation
for searching hole. It could mitigate API's goal which is very fast
mapping. And even fragmentation problem wouldn't show in 64 bit
machine.
Another option is that the user should separate long-life and short-life
object and use vmap for long-life but vm_map_ram for short-life. If we
inform the user about the characteristic of vm_map_ram the user can
choose one according to the page lifetime.
Let's add some notice messages to user.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment text]
Signed-off-by: Gioh Kim <gioh.kim@lge.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To increase compiler portability there is <linux/compiler.h> which
provides convenience macros for various gcc constructs. Eg: __weak for
__attribute__((weak)). I've replaced all instances of gcc attributes with
the right macro in the memory management (/mm) subsystem.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: while-we're-there consistency tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Gideon Israel Dsouza <gidisrael@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Revert commit ece86e222d, which was intended as a small performance
improvement.
Despite the claim that the patch doesn't introduce any functional
changes in fact it does.
The "no page" path behaves different now. Originally, vmalloc_to_page
might return NULL under some conditions, with new implementation it
returns pfn_to_page(0) which is not the same as NULL.
Simple test shows the difference.
test.c
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
int __init myi(void)
{
struct page *p;
void *v;
v = vmalloc(PAGE_SIZE);
/* trigger the "no page" path in vmalloc_to_page*/
vfree(v);
p = vmalloc_to_page(v);
pr_err("expected val = NULL, returned val = %p", p);
return -EBUSY;
}
void __exit mye(void)
{
}
module_init(myi)
module_exit(mye)
Before interchange:
expected val = NULL, returned val = (null)
After interchange:
expected val = NULL, returned val = c7ebe000
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Murzin <murzin.v@gmail.com>
Cc: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently we are implementing vmalloc_to_pfn() as a wrapper around
vmalloc_to_page(), which is implemented as follow:
1. walks the page talbes to generates the corresponding pfn,
2. then converts the pfn to struct page,
3. returns it.
And vmalloc_to_pfn() re-wraps vmalloc_to_page() to get the pfn.
This seems too circuitous, so this patch reverses the way: implement
vmalloc_to_page() as a wrapper around vmalloc_to_pfn(). This makes
vmalloc_to_pfn() and vmalloc_to_page() slightly more efficient.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@gmail.com>
Cc: Vladimir Murzin <murzin.v@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 248ac0e194 ("mm/vmalloc: remove guard page from between vmap
blocks") had the side effect of making vmap_area.va_end member point to
the next vmap_area.va_start. This was creating an artificial reference
to vmalloc'ed objects and kmemleak was rarely reporting vmalloc() leaks.
This patch marks the vmap_area containing pointers explicitly and
reduces the min ref_count to 2 as vm_struct still contains a reference
to the vmalloc'ed object. The kmemleak add_scan_area() function has
been improved to allow a SIZE_MAX argument covering the rest of the
object (for simpler calling sites).
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There is a race window between vmap_area tear down and show vmap_area
information.
A B
remove_vm_area
spin_lock(&vmap_area_lock);
va->vm = NULL;
va->flags &= ~VM_VM_AREA;
spin_unlock(&vmap_area_lock);
spin_lock(&vmap_area_lock);
if (va->flags & (VM_LAZY_FREE | VM_LAZY_FREEZING))
return 0;
if (!(va->flags & VM_VM_AREA)) {
seq_printf(m, "0x%pK-0x%pK %7ld vm_map_ram\n",
(void *)va->va_start, (void *)va->va_end,
va->va_end - va->va_start);
return 0;
}
free_unmap_vmap_area(va);
flush_cache_vunmap
free_unmap_vmap_area_noflush
unmap_vmap_area
free_vmap_area_noflush
va->flags |= VM_LAZY_FREE
The assumption !VM_VM_AREA represents vm_map_ram allocation is
introduced by d4033afdf8 ("mm, vmalloc: iterate vmap_area_list,
instead of vmlist, in vmallocinfo()").
However, !VM_VM_AREA also represents vmap_area is being tear down in
race window mentioned above. This patch fix it by don't dump any
information for !VM_VM_AREA case and also remove (VM_LAZY_FREE |
VM_LAZY_FREEING) check since they are not possible for !VM_VM_AREA case.
Suggested-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mitsuo Hayasaka <mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@hitachi.com>
Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.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>
When searching a vmap area in the vmalloc space, we use (addr + size -
1) to check if the value is less than addr, which is an overflow. But
we assign (addr + size) to vmap_area->va_end.
So if we come across the below case:
(addr + size - 1) : not overflow
(addr + size) : overflow
we will assign an overflow value (e.g 0) to vmap_area->va_end, And this
will trigger BUG in __insert_vmap_area, causing system panic.
So using (addr + size) to check the overflow should be the correct
behaviour, not (addr + size - 1).
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reported-by: Ghennadi Procopciuc <unix140@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Daniel Baluta <dbaluta@ixiacom.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We should check the VM_UNITIALIZED flag in s_show(). If this flag is
set, that said, the vm_struct is not fully initialized. So it is
unnecessary to try to show the information contained in vm_struct.
We checked this flag in show_numa_info(), but I think it's better to
check it earlier.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
VM_UNLIST was used to indicate that the vm_struct is not listed in
vmlist.
But after commit 4341fa4547 ("mm, vmalloc: remove list management of
vmlist after initializing vmalloc"), the meaning of this flag changed.
It now means the vm_struct is not fully initialized. So renaming it to
VM_UNINITIALIZED seems more reasonable.
Also change clear_vm_unlist to clear_vm_uninitialized_flag.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Use goto to jump to the fail label to give a failure message before
returning NULL. This makes the failure handling in this function
consistent.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Space in a vmap block that was once allocated is considered dirty and
not made available for allocation again before the whole block is
recycled. The result is that free space within a vmap block is always
contiguous.
So if a vmap block has enough free space for allocation, the allocation
is impossible to fail. Thus, the fragmented block purging was never
invoked from vb_alloc(). So remove this dead code.
[ Same patches also sent by:
Chanho Min <chanho.min@lge.com>
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
but git doesn't do "multiple authors" ]
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
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>
