BMC/Intel-BMC/linux.git/include/linux/mm.h, branch dev-4.7

mm: remove gup_flags FOLL_WRITE games from __get_user_pages()

2016-10-20T08:02:21+00:00

commit 19be0eaffa3ac7d8eb6784ad9bdbc7d67ed8e619 upstream. This is an ancient bug that was actually attempted to be fixed once (badly) by me eleven years ago in commit 4ceb5db9757a ("Fix get_user_pages() race for write access") but that was then undone due to problems on s390 by commit f33ea7f404e5 ("fix get_user_pages bug"). In the meantime, the s390 situation has long been fixed, and we can now fix it by checking the pte_dirty() bit properly (and do it better). The s390 dirty bit was implemented in abf09bed3cce ("s390/mm: implement software dirty bits") which made it into v3.9. Earlier kernels will have to look at the page state itself. Also, the VM has become more scalable, and what used a purely theoretical race back then has become easier to trigger. To fix it, we introduce a new internal FOLL_COW flag to mark the "yes, we already did a COW" rather than play racy games with FOLL_WRITE that is very fundamental, and then use the pte dirty flag to validate that the FOLL_COW flag is still valid. Reported-and-tested-by: Phil "not Paul" Oester Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Willy Tarreau Cc: Nick Piggin Cc: Greg Thelen Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm: introduce get_task_exe_file

2016-09-24T08:09:28+00:00

commit cd81a9170e69e018bbaba547c1fd85a585f5697a upstream. For more convenient access if one has a pointer to the task. As a minor nit take advantage of the fact that only task lock + rcu are needed to safely grab ->exe_file. This saves mm refcount dance. Use the helper in proc_exe_link. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov Acked-by: Richard Guy Briggs Signed-off-by: Paul Moore Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "mm: make faultaround produce old ptes"

2016-06-25T00:23:52+00:00

This reverts commit 5c0a85fad949212b3e059692deecdeed74ae7ec7. The commit causes ~6% regression in unixbench. Let's revert it for now and consider other solution for reclaim problem later. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465893750-44080-2-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Reported-by: "Huang, Ying" Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Minchan Kim Cc: Vinayak Menon Cc: Dave Hansen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: remove more IS_ERR_VALUE abuses

2016-05-27T22:57:31+00:00

The do_brk() and vm_brk() return value was "unsigned long" and returned the starting address on success, and an error value on failure. The reasons are entirely historical, and go back to it basically behaving like the mmap() interface does. However, nobody actually wanted that interface, and it causes totally pointless IS_ERR_VALUE() confusion. What every single caller actually wants is just the simpler integer return of zero for success and negative error number on failure. So just convert to that much clearer and more common calling convention, and get rid of all the IS_ERR_VALUE() uses wrt vm_brk(). Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'dax-locking-for-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

2016-05-27T03:00:28+00:00

Pull DAX locking updates from Ross Zwisler: "Filesystem DAX locking for 4.7 - We use a bit in an exceptional radix tree entry as a lock bit and use it similarly to how page lock is used for normal faults. This fixes races between hole instantiation and read faults of the same index. - Filesystem DAX PMD faults are disabled, and will be re-enabled when PMD locking is implemented" * tag 'dax-locking-for-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: dax: Remove i_mmap_lock protection dax: Use radix tree entry lock to protect cow faults dax: New fault locking dax: Allow DAX code to replace exceptional entries dax: Define DAX lock bit for radix tree exceptional entry dax: Make huge page handling depend of CONFIG_BROKEN dax: Fix condition for filling of PMD holes

mm: make vm_brk killable

2016-05-24T00:04:14+00:00

Now that all the callers handle vm_brk failure we can change it wait for mmap_sem killable to help oom_reaper to not get blocked just because vm_brk gets blocked behind mmap_sem readers. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: make vm_mmap killable

2016-05-24T00:04:14+00:00

All the callers of vm_mmap seem to check for the failure already and bail out in one way or another on the error which means that we can change it to use killable version of vm_mmap_pgoff and return -EINTR if the current task gets killed while waiting for mmap_sem. This also means that vm_mmap_pgoff can be killable by default and drop the additional parameter. This will help in the OOM conditions when the oom victim might be stuck waiting for the mmap_sem for write which in turn can block oom_reaper which relies on the mmap_sem for read to make a forward progress and reclaim the address space of the victim. Please note that load_elf_binary is ignoring vm_mmap error for current->personality & MMAP_PAGE_ZERO case but that shouldn't be a problem because the address is not used anywhere and we never return to the userspace if we got killed. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Al Viro Cc: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: page_is_guard(): return false when page_ext arrays are not allocated yet

2016-05-21T00:58:30+00:00

When enabling the below kernel configs: CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION CONFIG_DEBUG_VM kernel bootup may fail due to the following oops: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: [] free_pcppages_bulk+0x2d2/0x8d0 PGD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC Modules linked in: CPU: 11 PID: 106 Comm: pgdatinit1 Not tainted 4.6.0-rc5-next-20160427 #26 Hardware name: Intel Corporation S5520HC/S5520HC, BIOS S5500.86B.01.10.0025.030220091519 03/02/2009 task: ffff88017c080040 ti: ffff88017c084000 task.ti: ffff88017c084000 RIP: 0010:[] [] free_pcppages_bulk+0x2d2/0x8d0 RSP: 0000:ffff88017c087c48 EFLAGS: 00010046 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000001 RDX: 0000000000000980 RSI: 0000000000000080 RDI: 0000000000660401 RBP: ffff88017c087cd0 R08: 0000000000000401 R09: 0000000000000009 R10: ffff88017c080040 R11: 000000000000000a R12: 0000000000000400 R13: ffffea0019810000 R14: ffffea0019810040 R15: ffff88066cfe6080 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88066cd40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000002406000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Call Trace: free_hot_cold_page+0x192/0x1d0 __free_pages+0x5c/0x90 __free_pages_boot_core+0x11a/0x14e deferred_free_range+0x50/0x62 deferred_init_memmap+0x220/0x3c3 kthread+0xf8/0x110 ret_from_fork+0x22/0x40 Code: 49 89 d4 48 c1 e0 06 49 01 c5 e9 de fe ff ff 4c 89 f7 44 89 4d b8 4c 89 45 c0 44 89 5d c8 48 89 4d d0 e8 62 c7 07 00 48 8b 4d d0 <48> 8b 00 44 8b 5d c8 4c 8b 45 c0 44 8b 4d b8 a8 02 0f 84 05 ff RIP [] free_pcppages_bulk+0x2d2/0x8d0 RSP CR2: 0000000000000000 The problem is lookup_page_ext() returns NULL then page_is_guard() tried to access it in page freeing. page_is_guard() depends on PAGE_EXT_DEBUG_GUARD bit of page extension flag, but freeing page might reach here before the page_ext arrays are allocated when feeding a range of pages to the allocator for the first time during bootup or memory hotplug. When it returns NULL, page_is_guard() should just return false instead of checking PAGE_EXT_DEBUG_GUARD unconditionally. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463610225-29060-1-git-send-email-yang.shi@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Yang Shi Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: make faultaround produce old ptes

2016-05-21T00:58:30+00:00

Currently, faultaround code produces young pte. This can screw up vmscan behaviour[1], as it makes vmscan think that these pages are hot and not push them out on first round. During sparse file access faultaround gets more pages mapped and all of them are young. Under memory pressure, this makes vmscan swap out anon pages instead, or to drop other page cache pages which otherwise stay resident. Modify faultaround to produce old ptes, so they can easily be reclaimed under memory pressure. This can to some extend defeat the purpose of faultaround on machines without hardware accessed bit as it will not help us with reducing the number of minor page faults. We may want to disable faultaround on such machines altogether, but that's subject for separate patchset. Minchan: "I tested 512M mmap sequential word read test on non-HW access bit system (i.e., ARM) and confirmed it doesn't increase minor fault any more. old: 4096 fault_around minor fault: 131291 elapsed time: 6747645 usec new: 65536 fault_around minor fault: 131291 elapsed time: 6709263 usec 0.56% benefit" [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1460992636-711-1-git-send-email-vinmenon@codeaurora.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463488366-47723-1-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Minchan Kim Tested-by: Minchan Kim Acked-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Vinayak Menon Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: use phys_addr_t for reserve_bootmem_region() arguments

2016-05-21T00:58:30+00:00

Since commit 92923ca3aace ("mm: meminit: only set page reserved in the memblock region") the reserved bit is set on reserved memblock regions. However start and end address are passed as unsigned long. This is only 32bit on i386, so it can end up marking the wrong pages reserved for ranges at 4GB and above. This was observed on a 32bit Xen dom0 which was booted with initial memory set to a value below 4G but allowing to balloon in memory (dom0_mem=1024M for example). This would define a reserved bootmem region for the additional memory (for example on a 8GB system there was a reverved region covering the 4GB-8GB range). But since the addresses were passed on as unsigned long, this was actually marking all pages from 0 to 4GB as reserved. Fixes: 92923ca3aacef63 ("mm: meminit: only set page reserved in the memblock region") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463491221-10573-1-git-send-email-stefan.bader@canonical.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader Cc: [4.2+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds