Why is there less MemFree than there used to be? It perturbed a test,
so I've just been bisecting linux-next, and now find the offender went
upstream yesterday.
Commit 93278814d3 "mm: fix division by 0 in percpu_pagelist_fraction()"
mistakenly initialized percpu_pagelist_fraction to the sysctl's minimum 8,
which leaves 1/8th of memory on percpu lists (on each cpu??); but most of
us expect it to be left unset at 0 (and it's not then used as a divisor).
MemTotal: 8061476kB 8061476kB 8061476kB 8061476kB 8061476kB 8061476kB
Repetitive test with percpu_pagelist_fraction 8:
MemFree: 6948420kB 6237172kB 6949696kB 6840692kB 6949048kB 6862984kB
Same test with percpu_pagelist_fraction back to 0:
MemFree: 7945000kB 7944908kB 7948568kB 7949060kB 7948796kB 7948812kB
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
[ We really should fix the crazy sysctl interface too, but that's a
separate thing - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton.
* emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (8 patches)
MAINTAINERS: add maintainer for LED subsystem
mm: nobootmem: fix sign extend problem in __free_pages_memory()
drivers/leds: correct __devexit annotations
memcg: free spare array to avoid memory leak
namespaces, pid_ns: fix leakage on fork() failure
hugetlb: prevent BUG_ON in hugetlb_fault() -> hugetlb_cow()
mm: fix division by 0 in percpu_pagelist_fraction()
proc/pid/pagemap: correctly report non-present ptes and holes between vmas
Commit 66aebce747 ("hugetlb: fix race condition in hugetlb_fault()")
added code to avoid a race condition by elevating the page refcount in
hugetlb_fault() while calling hugetlb_cow().
However, one code path in hugetlb_cow() includes an assertion that the
page count is 1, whereas it may now also have the value 2 in this path.
The consensus is that this BUG_ON has served its purpose, so rather than
extending it to cover both cases, we just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.0.29+, 3.2.16+, 3.3.3+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
percpu_pagelist_fraction_sysctl_handler() has only considered -EINVAL as
a possible error from proc_dointvec_minmax().
If any other error is returned, it would proceed to divide by zero since
percpu_pagelist_fraction wasn't getting initialized at any point. For
example, writing 0 bytes into the proc file would trigger the issue.
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Kmemleak tracks the percpu allocations via a specific API and the
originally allocated areas must be removed from kmemleak (via
kmemleak_free). The code was already doing this for SMP systems.
Reported-by: Sami Liedes <sami.liedes@iki.fi>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
pcpu_embed_first_chunk() allocates memory for each node, copies percpu
data and frees unused portions of it before proceeding to the next
group. This assumes that allocations for different nodes doesn't
overlap; however, depending on memory topology, the bootmem allocator
may end up allocating memory from a different node than the requested
one which may overlap with the portion freed from one of the previous
percpu areas. This leads to percpu groups for different nodes
overlapping which is a serious bug.
This patch separates out copy & partial free from the allocation loop
such that all allocations are complete before partial frees happen.
This also fixes overlapping frees which could happen on allocation
failure path - out_free_areas path frees whole groups but the groups
could have portions freed at that point.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: "Pavel V. Panteleev" <pp_84@mail.ru>
Tested-by: "Pavel V. Panteleev" <pp_84@mail.ru>
LKML-Reference: <E1SNhwY-0007ui-V7.pp_84-mail-ru@f220.mail.ru>
Pull two percpu fixes from Tejun Heo:
"One adds missing KERN_CONT on split printk()s and the other makes
the percpu allocator avoid using PMD_SIZE as atom_size on x86_32.
Using PMD_SIZE led to vmalloc area exhaustion on certain
configurations (x86_32 android) and the only cost of using PAGE_SIZE
instead is static percpu area not being aligned to large page
mapping."
* 'for-3.4-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
percpu, x86: don't use PMD_SIZE as embedded atom_size on 32bit
percpu: use KERN_CONT in pcpu_dump_alloc_info()
Merge fixes from Andrew Morton:
"13 fixes. The acerhdf patches aren't (really) fixes. But they've
been stuck in my tree for up to two years, sent to Matthew multiple
times and the developers are unhappy."
* emailed from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (13 patches)
mm: fix NULL ptr dereference in move_pages
mm: fix NULL ptr dereference in migrate_pages
revert "proc: clear_refs: do not clear reserved pages"
drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1307.c: fix BUG shown with lock debugging enabled
arch/arm/mach-ux500/mbox-db5500.c: world-writable sysfs fifo file
hugetlbfs: lockdep annotate root inode properly
acerhdf: lowered default temp fanon/fanoff values
acerhdf: add support for new hardware
acerhdf: add support for Aspire 1410 BIOS v1.3314
fs/buffer.c: remove BUG() in possible but rare condition
mm: fix up the vmscan stat in vmstat
epoll: clear the tfile_check_list on -ELOOP
mm/hugetlb: fix warning in alloc_huge_page/dequeue_huge_page_vma
The "pgsteal" stat is confusing because it counts both direct reclaim as
well as background reclaim. However, we have "kswapd_steal" which also
counts background reclaim value.
This patch fixes it and also makes it match the existng "pgscan_" stats.
Test:
pgsteal_kswapd_dma32 447623
pgsteal_kswapd_normal 42272677
pgsteal_kswapd_movable 0
pgsteal_direct_dma32 2801
pgsteal_direct_normal 44353270
pgsteal_direct_movable 0
Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix a gcc warning (and bug?) introduced in cc9a6c877 ("cpuset: mm: reduce
large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3")
Local variable "page" can be uninitialized if the nodemask from vma policy
does not intersects with nodemask from cpuset. Even if it doesn't happens
it is better to initialize this variable explicitly than to introduce
a kernel oops in a weird corner case.
mm/hugetlb.c: In function `alloc_huge_page':
mm/hugetlb.c:1135:5: warning: `page' may be used uninitialized in this function
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
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>
None of the callsites actually need the page_cgroup descriptor
themselves, so just pass the page and do the look up in there.
We already had two bugs (6568d4a 'mm: memcg: update the correct soft
limit tree during migration' and 'memcg: fix Bad page state after
replace_page_cache') where the passed page and pc were not referring
to the same page frame.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The comments above __alloc_bootmem_node() claim that the code will
first try the allocation using 'goal' and if that fails it will
try again but with the 'goal' requirement dropped.
Unfortunately, this is not what the code does, so fix it to do so.
This is important for nobootmem conversions to architectures such
as sparc where MAX_DMA_ADDRESS is infinity.
On such architectures all of the allocations done by generic spots,
such as the sparse-vmemmap implementation, will pass in:
__pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS)
as the goal, and with the limit given as "-1" this will always fail
unless we add the appropriate fallback logic here.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mel reports a BUG_ON(slot == NULL) in radix_tree_tag_set() on s390
3.0.13: called from __set_page_dirty_nobuffers() when page_remove_rmap()
tries to transfer dirty flag from s390 storage key to struct page and
radix_tree.
That would be because of reclaim's shrink_page_list() calling
add_to_swap() on this page at the same time: first PageSwapCache is set
(causing page_mapping(page) to appear as &swapper_space), then
page->private set, then tree_lock taken, then page inserted into
radix_tree - so there's an interval before taking the lock when the
radix_tree slot is empty.
We could fix this by moving __add_to_swap_cache()'s spin_lock_irq up
before the SetPageSwapCache. But a better fix is simply to do what's
five years overdue: Ken Chen introduced __set_page_dirty_no_writeback()
(if !PageDirty TestSetPageDirty) for tmpfs to skip all the radix_tree
overhead, and swap is just the same - it ignores the radix_tree tag, and
does not participate in dirty page accounting, so should be using
__set_page_dirty_no_writeback() too.
s390 testing now confirms that this does indeed fix the problem.
Reported-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This continues the theme started with vm_brk() and vm_munmap():
vm_mmap() does the same thing as do_mmap(), but additionally does the
required VM locking.
This uninlines (and rewrites it to be clearer) do_mmap(), which sadly
duplicates it in mm/mmap.c and mm/nommu.c. But that way we don't have
to export our internal do_mmap_pgoff() function.
Some day we hopefully don't have to export do_mmap() either, if all
modular users can become the simpler vm_mmap() instead. We're actually
very close to that already, with the notable exception of the (broken)
use in i810, and a couple of stragglers in binfmt_elf.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Like the vm_brk() function, this is the same as "do_munmap()", except it
does the VM locking for the caller.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It does the same thing as "do_brk()", except it handles the VM locking
too.
It turns out that all external callers want that anyway, so we can make
do_brk() static to just mm/mmap.c while at it.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit 24aa07882b ("memblock, x86: Replace memblock_x86_reserve/
free_range() with generic ones") replaced x86 specific memblock
operations with the generic ones; unfortunately, it lost zero length
operation handling in the process making the kernel panic if somebody
tries to reserve zero length area.
There isn't much to be gained by being cranky to zero length operations
and panicking is almost the worst response. Drop the BUG_ON() in
memblock_reserve() and update memblock_add_region/isolate_range() so
that all zero length operations are handled as noops.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Valere Monseur <valere.monseur@ymail.com>
Bisected-by: Joseph Freeman <jfree143dev@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Joseph Freeman <jfree143dev@gmail.com>
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43098
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
My 9ce70c0240 "memcg: fix deadlock by inverting lrucare nesting" put a
nasty little bug into v3.3's version of mem_cgroup_replace_page_cache(),
sometimes used for FUSE. Replacing __mem_cgroup_commit_charge_lrucare()
by __mem_cgroup_commit_charge(), I used the "pc" pointer set up earlier:
but it's for oldpage, and needs now to be for newpage. Once oldpage was
freed, its PageCgroupUsed bit (cleared above but set again here) caused
"Bad page state" messages - and perhaps worse, being missed from newpage.
(I didn't find this by using FUSE, but in reusing the function for tmpfs.)
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [v3.3 only]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This reverts commit c38446cc65.
Before the commit, the code makes senses to me but not after the commit.
The "nr_reclaimed" is the number of pages reclaimed by scanning through
the memcg's lru lists. The "nr_to_reclaim" is the target value for the
whole function. For example, we like to early break the reclaim if
reclaimed 32 pages under direct reclaim (not DEF_PRIORITY).
After the reverted commit, the target "nr_to_reclaim" is decremented each
time by "nr_reclaimed" but we still use it to compare the "nr_reclaimed".
It just doesn't make sense to me...
Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The race is as follows:
Suppose a multi-threaded task forks a new process (on cpu A), thus
bumping up the ref count on all the pages. While the fork is occurring
(and thus we have marked all the PTEs as read-only), another thread in
the original process (on cpu B) tries to write to a huge page, taking an
access violation from the write-protect and calling hugetlb_cow(). Now,
suppose the fork() fails. It will undo the COW and decrement the ref
count on the pages, so the ref count on the huge page drops back to 1.
Meanwhile hugetlb_cow() also decrements the ref count by one on the
original page, since the original address space doesn't need it any
more, having copied a new page to replace the original page. This
leaves the ref count at zero, and when we call unlock_page(), we panic.
fork on CPU A fault on CPU B
============= ==============
...
down_write(&parent->mmap_sem);
down_write_nested(&child->mmap_sem);
...
while duplicating vmas
if error
break;
...
up_write(&child->mmap_sem);
up_write(&parent->mmap_sem); ...
down_read(&parent->mmap_sem);
...
lock_page(page);
handle COW
page_mapcount(old_page) == 2
alloc and prepare new_page
...
handle error
page_remove_rmap(page);
put_page(page);
...
fold new_page into pte
page_remove_rmap(page);
put_page(page);
...
oops ==> unlock_page(page);
up_read(&parent->mmap_sem);
The solution is to take an extra reference to the page while we are
holding the lock on it.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
