Zram has lived in staging for a LONG LONG time and have been
fixed/improved by many contributors so code is clean and stable now. Of
course, there are lots of product using zram in real practice.
The major TV companys have used zram as swap since two years ago and
recently our production team released android smart phone with zram
which is used as swap, too and recently Android Kitkat start to use zram
for small memory smart phone. And there was a report Google released
their ChromeOS with zram, too and cyanogenmod have been used zram long
time ago. And I heard some disto have used zram block device for tmpfs.
In addition, I saw many report from many other peoples. For example,
Lubuntu start to use it.
The benefit of zram is very clear. With my experience, one of the
benefit was to remove jitter of video application with backgroud memory
pressure. It would be effect of efficient memory usage by compression
but more issue is whether swap is there or not in the system. Recent
mobile platforms have used JAVA so there are many anonymous pages. But
embedded system normally are reluctant to use eMMC or SDCard as swap
because there is wear-leveling and latency issues so if we do not use
swap, it means we can't reclaim anoymous pages and at last, we could
encounter OOM kill. :(
Although we have real storage as swap, it was a problem, too. Because
it sometime ends up making system very unresponsible caused by slow swap
storage performance.
Quote from Luigi on Google
"Since Chrome OS was mentioned: the main reason why we don't use swap
to a disk (rotating or SSD) is because it doesn't degrade gracefully
and leads to a bad interactive experience. Generally we prefer to
manage RAM at a higher level, by transparently killing and restarting
processes. But we noticed that zram is fast enough to be competitive
with the latter, and it lets us make more efficient use of the
available RAM. " and he announced.
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg57717.html
Other uses case is to use zram for block device. Zram is block device
so anyone can format the block device and mount on it so some guys on
the internet start zram as /var/tmp.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-838198-start-0.html
Let's promote zram and enhance/maintain it instead of removing.
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch moves zsmalloc under mm directory.
Before that, description will explain why we have needed custom
allocator.
Zsmalloc is a new slab-based memory allocator for storing compressed
pages. It is designed for low fragmentation and high allocation success
rate on large object, but <= PAGE_SIZE allocations.
zsmalloc differs from the kernel slab allocator in two primary ways to
achieve these design goals.
zsmalloc never requires high order page allocations to back slabs, or
"size classes" in zsmalloc terms. Instead it allows multiple
single-order pages to be stitched together into a "zspage" which backs
the slab. This allows for higher allocation success rate under memory
pressure.
Also, zsmalloc allows objects to span page boundaries within the zspage.
This allows for lower fragmentation than could be had with the kernel
slab allocator for objects between PAGE_SIZE/2 and PAGE_SIZE. With the
kernel slab allocator, if a page compresses to 60% of it original size,
the memory savings gained through compression is lost in fragmentation
because another object of the same size can't be stored in the leftover
space.
This ability to span pages results in zsmalloc allocations not being
directly addressable by the user. The user is given an
non-dereferencable handle in response to an allocation request. That
handle must be mapped, using zs_map_object(), which returns a pointer to
the mapped region that can be used. The mapping is necessary since the
object data may reside in two different noncontigious pages.
The zsmalloc fulfills the allocation needs for zram perfectly
[sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com: borrow Seth's quote]
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently we kfree the container of the device which failed to register.
This is wrong as the last reference is not given up with a put_device
call. Also, now that we have put_device() callen, we no longer need the
kfree as the new_ld->dev.release function will take care of kfreeing the
associated memory.
Signed-off-by: Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com>
Acked-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Now we have memblock_virt_alloc_low to replace original bootmem api in
swiotlb.
But we should not use BOOTMEM_LOW_LIMIT for arch that does not support
CONFIG_NOBOOTMEM, as old api take 0.
| #define alloc_bootmem_low(x) \
| __alloc_bootmem_low(x, SMP_CACHE_BYTES, 0)
|#define alloc_bootmem_low_pages_nopanic(x) \
| __alloc_bootmem_low_nopanic(x, PAGE_SIZE, 0)
and we have
#define BOOTMEM_LOW_LIMIT __pa(MAX_DMA_ADDRESS)
for CONFIG_NOBOOTMEM.
Restore goal to 0 to fix ia64 crash, that Tony found.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull block IO driver changes from Jens Axboe:
- bcache update from Kent Overstreet.
- two bcache fixes from Nicholas Swenson.
- cciss pci init error fix from Andrew.
- underflow fix in the parallel IDE pg_write code from Dan Carpenter.
I'm sure the 1 (or 0) users of that are now happy.
- two PCI related fixes for sx8 from Jingoo Han.
- floppy init fix for first block read from Jiri Kosina.
- pktcdvd error return miss fix from Julia Lawall.
- removal of IRQF_SHARED from the SEGA Dreamcast CD-ROM code from
Michael Opdenacker.
- comment typo fix for the loop driver from Olaf Hering.
- potential oops fix for null_blk from Raghavendra K T.
- two fixes from Sam Bradshaw (Micron) for the mtip32xx driver, fixing
an OOM problem and a problem with handling security locked conditions
* 'for-3.14/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (47 commits)
mg_disk: Spelling s/finised/finished/
null_blk: Null pointer deference problem in alloc_page_buffers
mtip32xx: Correctly handle security locked condition
mtip32xx: Make SGL container per-command to eliminate high order dma allocation
drivers/block/loop.c: fix comment typo in loop_config_discard
drivers/block/cciss.c:cciss_init_one(): use proper errnos
drivers/block/paride/pg.c: underflow bug in pg_write()
drivers/block/sx8.c: remove unnecessary pci_set_drvdata()
drivers/block/sx8.c: use module_pci_driver()
floppy: bail out in open() if drive is not responding to block0 read
bcache: Fix auxiliary search trees for key size > cacheline size
bcache: Don't return -EINTR when insert finished
bcache: Improve bucket_prio() calculation
bcache: Add bch_bkey_equal_header()
bcache: update bch_bkey_try_merge
bcache: Move insert_fixup() to btree_keys_ops
bcache: Convert sorting to btree_keys
bcache: Convert debug code to btree_keys
bcache: Convert btree_iter to struct btree_keys
bcache: Refactor bset_tree sysfs stats
...
Pull core block IO changes from Jens Axboe:
"The major piece in here is the immutable bio_ve series from Kent, the
rest is fairly minor. It was supposed to go in last round, but
various issues pushed it to this release instead. The pull request
contains:
- Various smaller blk-mq fixes from different folks. Nothing major
here, just minor fixes and cleanups.
- Fix for a memory leak in the error path in the block ioctl code
from Christian Engelmayer.
- Header export fix from CaiZhiyong.
- Finally the immutable biovec changes from Kent Overstreet. This
enables some nice future work on making arbitrarily sized bios
possible, and splitting more efficient. Related fixes to immutable
bio_vecs:
- dm-cache immutable fixup from Mike Snitzer.
- btrfs immutable fixup from Muthu Kumar.
- bio-integrity fix from Nic Bellinger, which is also going to stable"
* 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (44 commits)
xtensa: fixup simdisk driver to work with immutable bio_vecs
block/blk-mq-cpu.c: use hotcpu_notifier()
blk-mq: for_each_* macro correctness
block: Fix memory leak in rw_copy_check_uvector() handling
bio-integrity: Fix bio_integrity_verify segment start bug
block: remove unrelated header files and export symbol
blk-mq: uses page->list incorrectly
blk-mq: use __smp_call_function_single directly
btrfs: fix missing increment of bi_remaining
Revert "block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set"
block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set
blk-mq: fix initializing request's start time
block: blk-mq: don't export blk_mq_free_queue()
block: blk-mq: make blk_sync_queue support mq
block: blk-mq: support draining mq queue
dm cache: increment bi_remaining when bi_end_io is restored
block: fixup for generic bio chaining
block: Really silence spurious compiler warnings
block: Silence spurious compiler warnings
block: Kill bio_pair_split()
...
Pull nfsd updates from Bruce Fields:
- Handle some loose ends from the vfs read delegation support.
(For example nfsd can stop breaking leases on its own in a
fewer places where it can now depend on the vfs to.)
- Make life a little easier for NFSv4-only configurations
(thanks to Kinglong Mee).
- Fix some gss-proxy problems (thanks Jeff Layton).
- miscellaneous bug fixes and cleanup
* 'for-3.14' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (38 commits)
nfsd: consider CLAIM_FH when handing out delegation
nfsd4: fix delegation-unlink/rename race
nfsd4: delay setting current_fh in open
nfsd4: minor nfs4_setlease cleanup
gss_krb5: use lcm from kernel lib
nfsd4: decrease nfsd4_encode_fattr stack usage
nfsd: fix encode_entryplus_baggage stack usage
nfsd4: simplify xdr encoding of nfsv4 names
nfsd4: encode_rdattr_error cleanup
nfsd4: nfsd4_encode_fattr cleanup
minor svcauth_gss.c cleanup
nfsd4: better VERIFY comment
nfsd4: break only delegations when appropriate
NFSD: Fix a memory leak in nfsd4_create_session
sunrpc: get rid of use_gssp_lock
sunrpc: fix potential race between setting use_gss_proxy and the upcall rpc_clnt
sunrpc: don't wait for write before allowing reads from use-gss-proxy file
nfsd: get rid of unused function definition
Define op_iattr for nfsd4_open instead using macro
NFSD: fix compile warning without CONFIG_NFSD_V3
...
Fix
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c: In function 'ipmi_parisc_probe':
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c:2752:2: error: 'rv' undeclared (first use in this function)
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c:2752:2: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
Introduced by commit d02b3709ff ("ipmi: Cleanup error return")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Chris Mason reported a NULL pointer derefernence in generic_getxattr()
that was due to sb->s_xattr being NULL.
The reason is that the nfs #ifdef's for ACL support were misplaced, and
the nfs3 inode operations had the xattr operation pointers set up, even
though xattrs were not actually supported. As a result, the xattr code
was being called without the infrastructure having been set up.
Move the #ifdef's appropriately.
Reported-and-tested-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit dd78b97367 ("x86, boot: Move CPU
flags out of cpucheck") introduced ambiguous inline asm in the
has_eflag() function. In 16-bit mode want the instruction to be
'pushfl', but we just say 'pushf' and hope the compiler does what we
wanted.
When building with 'clang -m16', it won't, because clang doesn't use
the horrid '.code16gcc' hack that even 'gcc -m16' uses internally.
Say what we mean and don't make the compiler make assumptions.
[ hpa: ideally we would be able to use the gcc %zN construct here, but
that is broken for 64-bit integers in gcc < 4.5.
The code with plain "pushf/popf" is fine for 32- or 64-bit mode, but
not for 16-bit mode; in 16-bit mode those are 16-bit instructions in
.code16 mode, and 32-bit instructions in .code16gcc mode. ]
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1391079628.26079.82.camel@shinybook.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
So any FIQ handling is superfluous at the moment. The functions to
disable/enable FIQs is kept around if ever someone needs them in the
future, but existing calling sites including arch_cpu_idle_prepare()
may go for now.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
On ARM, address size can be 32 bits or 64 bits (if CONFIG_ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT
is enabled).
We can't assume that the grant frame base address will always fits in an
unsigned long. Use phys_addr_t instead of unsigned long as argument for
gnttab_setup_auto_xlat_frames.
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
The use of phys_to_machine and machine_to_phys in the phys<=>bus conversions
causes us to lose the top bits of the DMA address if the size of a DMA address is not the same as the size of the phyiscal address.
This can happen in practice on ARM where foreign pages can be above 4GB even
though the local kernel does not have LPAE page tables enabled (which is
totally reasonable if the guest does not itself have >4GB of RAM). In this
case the kernel still maps the foreign pages at a phys addr below 4G (as it
must) but the resulting DMA address (returned by the grant map operation) is
much higher.
This is analogous to a hardware device which has its view of RAM mapped up
high for some reason.
This patch makes I/O to foreign pages (specifically blkif) work on 32-bit ARM
systems with more than 4GB of RAM.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Event channels driver needs to be initialized very early. Until now, Xen
initialization was done after all CPUs was bring up.
We can safely move the initialization to an early initcall.
Also use a cpu notifier to:
- Register the VCPU when the CPU is prepared
- Enable event channel IRQ when the CPU is running
Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Minchan Kim
Roman Gushchin
Christoph Hellwig
Levente Kurusa
Yinghai Lu
Linus Torvalds
Geert Uytterhoeven
Peter Rosin
David Woodhouse
Nicolas Pitre
Julien Grall
Ian Campbell